The major human rights funder pledged Wednesday to strengthen interfaith partnerships and protect those facing heightened threats in response to the rising levels of hate against both Jewish and Muslim communities, coinciding with the Israel-Hamas war and the current fragile ceasefire.

Last year saw the highest level of deadly violence against Jews worldwide in over three decades, according to an annual study released last month by Tel Aviv University, including the December shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Meanwhile, anti-Muslim rhetoric has intensified against the backdrop of the Iran war, with one congressional Republican saying Muslims “ don't belong in American society.”

“The deep injustices occurring in the Middle East are fueling indiscriminate prejudice, dehumanization, and violence directed against both Muslims and Jews," Open Society Foundations President Binaifer Nowrojee said in a statement. "Entire communities cannot be targeted simply because of their religion. Bigotry and intolerance in any form must be called out and confronted.”

The announcement marks the foundations' most visible campaign since last fall's reports that the U.S. Department of Justice was considering possible charges against Open Society Foundations. President Donald Trump specifically named Soros as he ordered the FBI to crack down on what he called “left-wing terrorism” — an accusation that OSF has denied in statements emphasizing their mission to strengthen democracy.

Alex Soros, who took over leadership of his father’s foundations in late 2022, noted that “discrimination and hate” aren’t abstract concepts for him as the son of a Holocaust survivor and husband to a Muslim American. The foundation added that George Soros, who holds significant influence as a liberal megadonor with vast financial investments and philanthropic ties, is frequently targeted by conservative conspiracy theories that twist those powerful connections into antisemitic tropes about behind-the-scenes puppet masters.

“At a moment like this we need to stand together and act,” Alex Soros said in a pretaped video posted on social media. “This investment is about keeping people safe and pushing back against hate.”

The commitment is aimed broadly at expanding education on forms of discrimination, supporting cross-community leaders who build trust and safeguarding free speech rights to lawful expression. The foundations have already selected some grantees and are inviting other nonprofits to apply for funding. Recipients include the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Nexus Project. Shoulder to Shoulder, a multifaith alliance that prepares religious leaders to address anti-Muslim discrimination, is among those leading the work on Islamophobia.

Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, welcomed the strategy to tackle both matters together. The grant will allow JCPA to build upon its solidarity work with Muslim and Arab American communities, Spitalnick said, which have deepened since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. She pointed to a fellowship and a Capitol Hill discussion on Jewish-Muslim solidarity that were both launched with the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

She emphasized that hate is interconnected. The normalization of Islamophobia, racism and broader anti-democratic extremism creates the conditions for antisemitism to flourish, she said.

“We need funders and others to recognize that treating any of these issues in silos doesn’t get at the root cause, doesn’t get at the broader resiliency we need right now," Spitalnick said. "The fact that Jewish safety requires Muslim safety, that Muslim safety requires Jewish safety.”

The Soros' announcement did not say how the foundations will define antisemitism — a point of contention on college campuses and in state legislatures where debates have raged over whether criticism of Israel amounts to hatred of Jewish people. The shortlist of Open Society grantees suggests a more nuanced definition than the Anti-Defamation League, which releases an annual audit of antisemitic incidents in the United States. The ADL holds that vilifying Zionism, or the movement to establish and maintain a Jewish state in Israel, is a form of antisemitism.

In contrast, the Nexus Project promotes definitions of antisemitism that do not include opposition to the Israeli state's policies. Similarly, as the National Education Association weighed a resolution prohibiting the use of the ADL's educational resources, Spitalnick emphasized that “one does not need to align with the ADL on every issue.”

Andrés Spokoiny, the president and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network, estimated that the philanthropic sector has dedicated hundreds of thousands of dollars to countering antisemitism — regardless of its definition. Other high-profile efforts include the $25 million “Stand Up to Jewish Hate” ad campaign launched by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft in March 2023 through his Foundation to Combat Antisemitism.

But the persistence of antisemitism has left some members of Spokoiny's group questioning their approaches.

“There's a lot of perplexity around what actually works,” he said. “So many funders are very frustrated.”

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Random House told The Associated Press that it had acquired a “Godfather” novel authorized by the estate of Mario Puzo and written by bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. “Connie” is scheduled for a fall 2027 release and will center on the Corleone family member played by Talia Shire, sister of director Francis Ford Coppola, in the three “Godfather” films.

“Connie” is the third “Godfather” book approved by the estate and the first written by a woman.

“'Connie' is a novel about how a woman works to forge her own way in a world that’s already decided who she is, what she’s about, and how she should be treated,” Trigiani said in a statement Wednesday. “People underestimated Don Vito Corleone and Michael Corleone at their peril. The same will be true for Connie Corleone.”

Paramount Pictures, which produced the “Godfather” movies,” holds the film rights. Additional details were not immediately available.

Puzo, whose blockbuster 1969 novel “The Godfather,” provided the basis and title for the first film, died in 1999 and his estate has since battled with Paramount over who controls rights to the Corleone characters. In 2012, the movie studio sued to block publication of Ed Falco’s “The Family Corleone.” After the estate countersued, the two sides agreed to a settlement that allowed the estate to continue initiating book projects and awarded film rights to Paramount.

The final release of the original “Godfather” trilogy, “The Godfather Part III,” came out in 1990. The films all starred Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, Connie's brother, with other actors appearing in at least one movie including Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton. The “Godfather” saga has earned more than $400 million worldwide and won nine Academy Awards, two of them to Puzo in the 1970s for best adapted screenplay.

Trigiani, a million-selling author who wrote of her own Italian roots in the novel “The Shoemaker's Wife,” is also known for such favorites as “Lucia, Lucia” and “The Queen of the Big Time.” According to Random House, the Puzo estate “sought out” Trigiani after she published a Substack essay lamenting how little was known about the Corleone women.

“We had been looking for someone to retell the story from a new perspective,” Anthony Puzo, the author's son and executor, said in a statement. “Adriana was knocked out when I told her that the character of Vito Corleone (played in the films by Brando and De Niro) was actually based on my grandmother. We talked about how the women ran both of our families, but behind the scenes. Adriana’s vision for Connie’s life blew us all away. I’m very pleased and excited to have her on board.”

The plan to hold the votes Wednesday, shared exclusively with The Associated Press, is tied to rule changes or regulatory rollbacks by the CFPB since the Republican administration took over the bureau in February 2025. The bureau has rescinded 67 policies under its acting director, Russell Vought, who is also President Donald Trump’s budget director. Vought has publicly said that his goal is to effectively dismantle the agency. The series of votes is meant to highlight the dozens of rules and regulations that have been impacted by Vought and the White House.

Under the Congressional Review Act, senators can file what are known as Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to overturn recently finalized federal regulations. While none of the resolutions is expected to pass, Democrats are using the votes to highlight their election year message on the economy.

Democrats are expected to propose 20 resolutions that target policy changes involving debt collection, buy now-pay later firms, overdraft fees and other consumer finance issues.

The move is being led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee. Warren proposed the creation of the CFPB in 2007, when she was a professor at Harvard Law School, and she is considered Congress’ biggest advocate for it.

“Today, we are going to hear from 20 senators about how the Trump administration has hurt American families by rolling back commonsense CFPB rules — and how Congress can make them right,” Warren will say in a planned speech on the Senate floor Wednesday.

The Congressional Review Act allows Congress an opportunity to overturn rules issued by federal agencies once those rules are finalized. The 1996 law was used sparingly in its first two decades, but its use increased during Trump’s first term, when a Republican-controlled Congress overturned more than a dozen rules finalized during President Barack Obama’s Democratic administration. Democrats, in turn, used the law in 2021 to overturn several Trump-era policies.

In an election year, those votes could be used as ammunition against vulnerable GOP senators up for reelection, including Susan Collins of Maine, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and John Cornyn of Texas.

“I urge my Republican colleagues to listen with open ears and cast their votes on behalf of the consumers they were elected to represent,” Warren says.

The CFPB has been largely inoperable in Trump’s second term. The bulk of the bureau’s staff remains under orders not to work, and much of the CFPB’s business these days is to unwind previous work the bureau did under President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and in Trump’s first term. The bureau’s operating budget is expected to shrink as well after Trump’s big tax and spending cuts law reduced the amount of money the bureau receives from the Federal Reserve.

Congress created the CFPB in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession, designed to operate as an independent financial regulator with broad enforcement authority over consumer financial products and services. The bureau estimated in 2024 that it had returned $17.5 billion to American consumers and had imposed $4 billion in fines and penalties against financial companies.

Polling over the years has shown consistent bipartisan support from voters for the CFPB and its mission. A March survey conducted by the bipartisan polling firms Lake Research Partners and Chesapeake Beach Consulting found that more than 8 in 10 Americans — including majorities of Republicans — said they supported the agency’s role in regulating banks and other financial services companies.

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Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report from Washington.

They were seen focusing on a home in the area of Northeast First Court and 76th Street.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, BSO and the Fort Lauderdale Police Department were conducting a joint criminal investigation in the area.

It’s unclear what the officers were searching for, but it did require some digging.

Authorities were seen literally unearthing mounds of dirt, and they appeared to be sifting through it.

Since the investigation is active and ongoing, BSO officials said they could not provide any additional information.

Law enforcement left the area around 8 p.m.

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After nearly eight hours of discussion and motions to amend, the Broward County School Board voted Tuesday to go ahead with a new organizational chart that would lay off about 300 staff members in various roles and eliminate 700 vacant positions.

Those moves would save the district more than $50 million.

“It’s a massive amount of layoffs,” said District 2 Board Member Rebecca Thompson. “No one‘s ever going to be completely happy, but I think at the end of the day, we made a plan that’s going to make us a more stable school system.”

District 6 Board Member Adam Cervera was one of two members to vote against it.

“This is going to affect our students, unfortunately, I believe in a very negative way,” he said.

Some of the positions cut include social workers, student support instruction specialists and mental health professionals.

“People that have direct interaction with our students on a day-to-day basis, as opposed to starting from the top, in this district, and getting rid of some of the bloat,” said Cervera.

Superintendent Howard Hepburn said the approved plan also includes substantial cuts to higher level positions.

“The highest percentage of cuts proportionally were actually central office personnel, especially directors and above our senior level positions, that was 16%,” said Hepburn.

He says those in eliminated positions could still fill other vacancies within the district, such as classroom teachers and other positions with high turnover.

“We want to make sure we prioritize our support to make sure any staff that’s impacted is transitioned well,” Hepburn said.

Some board members expressed relief to now being able to move on to other district challenges, like getting students back in public schools.

“I just want it to be within our consciousness that we are equally focusing on increasing student enrollment,” District 5 Board Member Jeff Holness said.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the shooting was reported at 3:53 p.m. in the area of Southwest 102nd Avenue and West Circle Plaza in the county’s unincorporated West Perrine area.

“According to investigators, the mother heard a loud popping sound from inside the residence and found her son suffering from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to his upper extremity,” MDSO officials said in a news release.

Detectives later confirmed that the boy had shot himself in the shoulder.

They said the boy’s mother drove him to Jackson South Medical Center and he was then airlifted to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital.

The boy is in stable condition, authorities said.

Authorities have not said whether the boy’s mother will be facing any charges.

Police officers accused Victoria Roman, who works as a graphic designer, of sharing an image of a victim on Nov. 19 on Instagram, according to an arrest warrant.

According to an email sent to Local 10 News by a man who identified himself as Roman’s husband, she is accused of “giving someone a breast” in the photo.

Roman surrendered to police officers on Thursday in Davie, and corrections booked her at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, records show.

Roman, of Miramar, appeared in bond court on Friday morning. A judge ordered her to stay away from devices with internet access.

Roman faced four counts of promotion of altered sexual depiction. Her bond was set at $60,000.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

Useful links

• The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center
• The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s cyber tip line

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article stated that Roman faced charges in a “fake porn” case, however records show she is facing four counts of “promotion of altered sexual depiction.”

On the last Friday of every month, Calle Ocho transforms into a celebration of music, dancing, art and culture for Viernes Culturales — a monthly event designed to bring people together while keeping the neighborhood’s identity alive.

“We are having a wonderful time. We are old people but we are enjoying life,” said Elena Estopinai, who visits Viernes Culturales.

Estopinai said the city of Hialeah buses her group to the event every month from a community center.

“Things are less expensive. That’s a big plus. And we can sing, dance and enjoy the friendship,” she said.

“Viernes Culturales is the one event that unites us all,” said Viernes Culturales interim Director Denise Galvez Turros.

Galvez Turros said the monthly gathering is rooted in connection through culture — bringing awareness to the area, its rich history and the ongoing effort to protect it. The event has long brought together the neighborhoods surrounding Little Havana, connecting not just Cuban communities, but people and traditions from across Latin America and beyond — reflected in the food, art and music on display.

“Developers are calling it West Brickell. We’re like, ‘No, this is Little Havana and what unites us is the neighbors and the businesses that care about that. That care about preserving the community,’” said Galvez Turros. “We decided we’re gonna do this. We’re gonna make sure to give first dibs to the local artists -- the local residents of the neighborhood, so that they can show their artistry.”

The plaza outside Domino Park fills with live music, dancing, local vendors and artists during the event.

Annie M, of Futurama Gallery, said the neighborhood’s roots are personal to many who participate.

“I was born and raised in this area. I went to school around here. It’s my home. It’s the heart -- you know what I mean?” Annie M said.

Viernes Culturales also features a free monthly walking history tour focused on the neighborhood’s landmarks, stories and cultural significance.

Organizers said the tours help younger generations stay connected to Little Havana’s identity and traditions.

“We’re sharing those stories. Making people care,” Galvez Turros said. “The next generation -- my children, my grandchildren -- are gonna care because of those stories we share and that only happens because of Viernes Culturales.”

To submit an idea for What Connects Us, email whatconnectsus@wplg.com.

The Ursa Major sank on Dec. 23, 2024, between Spain and Algeria while allegedly on a journey from St. Petersburg to Russia's eastern port of Vladivostok. Two crew members were lost while 14 other people were saved by Spanish rescue craft.

In a written response to opposition lawmakers, the Spanish government wrote that the ship’s captain “confessed” that the ship was carrying “components for two nuclear reactors similar to those used in submarines.”

The response was included in a document registered by the Spanish parliament on Feb. 23 and was first reported by CNN on Tuesday. The document has been seen by The Associated Press.

At the time of the sinking, the Russian state-owned ship owner, Oboronlogistika, said that the Ursa Major was sabotaged. It said three powerful explosions damaged the boat just above the water line in what the company described as a “terrorist attack.”

Oboronlogistika was established under Russia’s defense ministry and placed under U.S. and European Union sanctions for its ties to Russia’s military.

According to the document, the boat's manifest said the boat was carrying 129 containers, two large cranes and “two well covers.”

Officials said that when questioned upon rescue by the Harbor Master in Cartagena, Spain, the boat captain revealed that the well covers were nuclear components. He added that the boat was not carrying nuclear fuel.

Spanish authorities said they were not able to search the ship to confirm the information during the rescue operation which focused on saving the crew and searching for the two missing members. The wreck rests at 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) deep.

The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in several areas in southern Lebanon, hours after telling residents of six southern villages to evacuate.

Lebanon and Israel are scheduled to hold another round of direct talks in Washington on Thursday as the Trump administration pushes for a breakthrough between the two neighbors that have been at a state of war since Israel was created in 1948.

The Health Ministry confirmed in a statement the three strikes, but didn't detail the number of people in each vehicle.

Two of Wednesday’s drone attacks hit a highway linking Beirut with the southern port city of Sidon, while a third, reported the state-run National news agency, struck the town of Saadiyat, near the busy freeway. A fourth strike on Sidon’s northern entrance happened in the early afternoon, hitting a car, according to state media.

An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of three people killed in two of the strikes near the coastal towns of Barja and Jiyeh.

In southern Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes were reported in different towns and villages while Hezbollah claimed launching more attacks on Israel as both sides keep exchanging fire despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that went into effect on April 17.

The latest Israel-Hezbollah war started on March 2, when the Lebanese militant group fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the United States and Israel attacked Iran.

Lebanese Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine told reporters Tuesday that since the ceasefire went into effect, 380 people have been killed and 1,122 have been wounded. That brings the toll since the war began to 2,882 killed and 8,786 wounded.

Aim for hybrids with the shortest payback periods

New hybrids typically cost more than similar gas-only vehicles, so aim for a hybrid that doesn’t cost much more than its non-hybrid sibling. With this strategy, you will offset the price difference more quickly with the fuel savings a hybrid provides. For example, the SE hybrid version of the 2026 Hyundai Santa Fe, which is one of Hyundai’s three-row SUVs, costs just $1,350 more than the regular Santa Fe. According to the EPA, the hybrid version can save you $850 a year in fuel costs compared to the regular Santa Fe if you drive 15,000 miles a year. So, depending on how much you drive, the fuel savings could cover the extra cost in less than two years.

The Ford Maverick, which is Ford’s compact pickup, and the Lexus NX small luxury SUV are two other models that will pay you back quicker than most if you get the hybrid version. In contrast, some hybrids may take several years to recoup their extra cost. For example, a hybrid version of the Honda Civic costs $2,700 more than a comparable non-hybrid Civic, and the EPA estimates that you’ll save just $450 a year by getting the hybrid.

To find out how long it will take to recover the extra cost of the hybrid you want, visit the EPA’s mpg comparison tool. But if the hybrid you want isn’t there, you can find out for yourself by comparing the price difference between the hybrid you want and the non-hybrid version of it. Then, compare the estimated annual fuel cost of each by entering the vehicles in the EPA’s fuel economy website.

Find models that are mpg standouts

If you aren’t worried about price differences and just want to start saving money on gas, focus on getting a vehicle with high fuel economy estimates. The 2026 Toyota RAV4 is a great choice for a small SUV because it comes exclusively as a hybrid and gets up to an EPA-estimated 43 mpg combined.

Want something smaller than a RAV4? The Kia Niro delivers up to 53 mpg. And what if you want the most efficient hybrid for 2026? The answer is something you’ve probably heard of: the Toyota Prius. A 2026 Prius can get up to an EPA-estimated 57 mpg combined.

Go used or certified pre-owned for a better deal

If you’re OK with a used hybrid, then you can potentially avoid the hybrid price premium entirely. A hybrid model that has more miles or is a year or two older can cost the same or less than a comparable non-hybrid. To help offset the higher mileage or age, aim for a certified pre-owned hybrid because it typically includes an additional warranty.

In some cases, you might be able to find a hybrid that’s priced the same as a non-hybrid regardless of age or mileage if it’s been on the dealership lot for an extended time. Dealerships tend to discount vehicles that aren’t selling quickly to move inventory.

New three-row hybrid SUVs can save you more

Hybrid-powered three-row SUVs are a great choice if you’ve got a large family and want to save on gas. There are also more hybrid models on the market than ever before. The all-new 2026 Hyundai Palisade Hybrid SEL, for example, can save you up to $1,100 a year versus the non-hybrid version, assuming you drive 15,000 miles a year. With savings like that, you recoup the extra cost in about two years. The Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid is another roomy three-row SUV that could pay for itself in about two years.

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Saving money is just one of the advantages of owning a hybrid. Many hybrids are also more powerful than non-hybrids and deliver a smoother driving experience. They also produce lower emissions and have less brake wear because of their regenerative braking system.

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This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds.

Michael Cantu is a contributor at Edmunds.

Major donors aren’t giving. Liberal influencers are publicly questioning Martin's refusal to release an internal report on the party's failures. And Democratic operatives have begun informal discussions about recruiting a new chair, even as most believe that Martin's job isn't in serious jeopardy ahead of the midterm elections.

Amanda Litman, who leads the Democratic-allied organization Run For Something, said she's been approached by senior strategists in recent days gauging her interest in replacing Martin. She declined but said many in the party have lost faith in the DNC leader.

“I think it’s a really hard job, and also Ken is not doing it very well,” Litman told The Associated Press. “I honestly think he’s going to have a hard time rebuilding trust.”

Part of the challenge for those Democrats frustrated with Martin, she said, “is that there’s not really an alternative.”

The criticism has gotten to Martin, said two people who insisted on anonymity to describe private conversations. They said he's become increasingly paranoid, even inside party headquarters in Washington, where he did not install his own team after taking over last year.

Martin tries to press forward

The handwringing comes in spite of the Democratic Party's undeniable success in the vast majority of elections under Martin's leadership, which coincides with Republican President Donald Trump's return to the White House. Democrats over the last year have dominated races for governor and special elections for state legislative and congressional seats. They've also won campaigns for state supreme court, county executive and even county sheriff.

Less than six months before the 2026 midterm elections, however, the concern over Martin's leadership is, at best, an unwanted distraction for a party desperate to break the Republican Party's grip on power in Washington. And, at worst, the conflict will make it harder for Democrats to win in November, while undermining faith in the DNC as it coordinates the party's next presidential nomination process.

Martin declined to comment for this article. He has sought to avoid media interviews over the last week, preferring to keep his head down while focusing on improving the DNC's financial health and scouting potential sites for the presidential convention in 2028.

While in Denver, for example, Martin hosted a crowded fundraising event before three private one-on-one donor meetings in between calls to more donors in other cities.

Former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, whom Martin replaced, said he’s upset and frustrated by those in his party who are publicly challenging Martin's leadership. Harrison was especially angry with Democratic operatives from the podcast “Pod Save America,” who pressed Martin during a recent episode about why he reneged on a promise to release a post-2024 election autopsy.

Even Martin's close allies described the interview as a cringeworthy moment for the first-term chair.

“Am I happy with everything that goes on in the party? No. Am I happy with leadership that sometimes you get? No. But do you see me going out at this juncture trying to make that case? This is not the moment for that,” Harrison said. “We have to be as strong as we possibly can going into November, because we have to win. Once we win, we can fight like hell.”

Asked if he thought Martin's job was at risk, Harrison said, “I don't think so.”

Martin's gamble

Martin is leaning into a 50-state spending strategy that his supporters privately acknowledge is risky.

The DNC each month is distributing $1 million among party organizations in every state and key U.S. territories, besides allocating $5,000 more per month to nearly two dozen Republican-controlled states, to help build party infrastructure.

The investments are overwhelmingly popular with local leaders even as the DNC struggles financially.

The national party reported $22.1 million cash on hand with $18.4 million in debt at the end of March, according to its most recent federal filing. The Republican National Committee, by contrast, reported $116.8 million in the bank with zero debt.

Despite the criticism, DNC national finance co-chair Chris Lowe said the cash disparity is the result of an intentional strategy Martin outlined when running for chair and has executed since taking over the building.

“We made a conscious decision to spend money,” Lowe said. “His view, and I would agree with this view, is the best way to position ourselves for the presidential (election) in ’28 is not just to amass a bunch of money, it’s to have a history of winning elections all across the country up and down the ballot. And that’s what we’ve done.”

Lowe notes that Martin raised more money in his first year as chair than anyone else in an equivalent year when the Democrats did not have the White House. And in 2026 so far, he said, the committee has exceeded its big-dollar fundraising targets every month.

DNC member Michael Kapp, a vocal Martin ally from California, said that he'd “love to have big donors come on board” but that the committee's bank account isn't what matters most.

“Republicans can brag about having more money but they’re not spending it, and they’re not winning,” Kapp said. “At the end of the day the scoreboard matters more than the spreadsheet.”

The secret autopsy

Beyond fundraising, the furor around Martin's leadership centers on his refusal to release the DNC's internal study of the 2024 election — known inside the DNC as the “after-action report” — despite his past promises to do so on his first day as chair.

Kapp, as is the case with many of Martin's allies, said “it's certainly something that should be made public,” but he's willing to accept Martin's argument that it's too close to the November midterm elections to release the autopsy now.

“I know there are lessons to be learned from that,” he said of the report. “I trust Ken. I’ve known the man for 10 years. But at this point, when we’re six, seven months away from the midterms, we need to be focused on the midterms.”

Martin has been aggressively courting big-dollar donors, despite their demonstrated reluctance to give to the committee. He acknowledged pressure related to the autopsy in some of the conversations and indicated changes could be coming soon, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions but not authorized to share them.

As Martin looks ahead to 2028, when the DNC is tasked with building out the political infrastructure for the party's next presidential nominee, some presidential prospects are approaching the intraparty conflict with caution.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who is expected to launch a presidential bid, did not answer directly when asked whether Martin should continue to lead the DNC.

“Ken and I work well together. And I say that being somebody who wasn’t originally on board,” Beshear said. “But he made an effort to reach out to me. And, listen, I want to work with whoever’s there. We need a healthy DNC. We need it to work.”

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AP writer Joey Cappelletti in Washington contributed.

The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius is listed on Oceanwide Expeditions' website as scheduled to depart on a cruise later in May that would take it to the Arctic for a series of cruises throughout the summer. Three of the ship’s passengers died in an outbreak that was first confirmed earlier this month while the vessel was in the Atlantic.

In all, there have been nine confirmed and two suspected cases in the outbreak.

More than 120 people — all passengers and some of the crew — were evacuated from the Hondius in Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday and Monday and are now in isolation in several countries. Asked on Monday whether it would amend its cruising schedule due to the outbreak, Oceanwide Expeditions said it did not “foresee changes to our operations” — which included a new cruise beginning May 29.

But on Wednesday, the company told AP it expected “clarity on whether the vessel will sail and the sailing schedule by the end of this week.”

Cruise ship to be disinfected in Rotterdam

The ship is now sailing to the Dutch port of Rotterdam with 25 crew, two health workers and the body of one of the passengers who died on board. None is showing symptoms, and the vessel is expected to arrive on May 17 or 18, Oceanwide Expeditions said in a press release Tuesday.

Once there, the Hondius will “undergo a thorough cleaning and disinfection process,” the company said. “The specific protocols are currently being finalized” in cooperation with health authorities, it said in its statement.

Asked about the disinfection procedure, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment told the AP Tuesday the vessel “will be cleaned and disinfected. We are currently working on the protocol on how to do this,” and no further details could be shared.

The hantavirus outbreak aboard the Hondius is the first known case on a cruise ship.

The virus usually spreads from rodent droppings and is not easily transmitted between people, though the Andes virus detected on the Hondius may be able to spread between people in rare cases.

Responding to a question about whether the disinfection procedure might now alter the ship’s cruising schedule, Oceanwide Expeditions told AP it was following official guidelines and “currently awaiting further information on how to proceed.”

It added: “We expect clarity on whether the vessel will sail and the sailing schedule by the end of this week. ... A ship cannot sail without official authorization.”

Hondius was scheduled for cruises starting later this month

According to the company’s website, the Hondius was scheduled to begin a new cruise May 29 from Keflavik, Iceland.

Asked whether it had received any cancellation or rebooking requests by customers scheduled on cruises on the Hondius, Oceanwide said Monday it was “not providing commentary on commercial matters at this time as we are focused on safety, disembarkation procedures, and coordination with authorities.”

Experts say future passengers are likely safe

How long the hantavirus lives on surfaces is highly variable, experts said, potentially extending from days to weeks depending on how cold it is or the presence of sunlight. But based on circumstances known about the outbreak so far, basic sanitation should suffice, they said.

Normal disinfectants and ultraviolet light are enough to kill the virus, said Erik Hill, a virologist at Seton Hall University. Someone would need to be exposed to a large enough dose of the virus to get sick, he explained, which is why people cleaning rodent droppings in an enclosed space are most at risk. The virus won’t survive very well on touch surfaces, he added.

Hantavirus “is not the concern on cruise ships,” Hill said. He and other experts say more contagious bugs, like measles or the norovirus, are much larger threats on cruises.

Dr. Max Brito, vice president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, said that “with proper disinfection and sterilization practices, I think it should be OK to go back to operations within a reasonable time.”

But the experts could not say definitively what that time frame would be because of all the variables involved.

Oceanwide Expeditions says it has no indication of any rodents on board, and it operates under strict hygiene and safety protocols.

Based on the hypothesis that the first patients were exposed on land and reports that ship officials did not find rodents aboard, the risk to those on the next cruise should be low, Brito said.

“I don’t want to say that it’s a one-off but, as it’s shaping up to be, it’s a very specific outbreak and it’s probably not so easy to reproduce in the same way,” he said.

Much is still unknown about the hantavirus

Despite years of research, many questions have yet to be answered about the hantavirus, including exactly how it spreads, how long it can survive outside a host, and why it can be mild for some people and severe for others.

There is no specific treatment or cure, but early medical attention can increase the chance of survival. The Andes virus can have an incubation period of up to eight weeks, and a mortality rate of up to 50%, according to the World Health Organization.

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Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece, and public health reporter Shastri reported from Milwaukee.

“Russia continues its strikes and is doing so brazenly — deliberately targeting our railway infrastructure and civilian sites in our cities,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X.

The overnight strikes targeted Ukraine's residential and railway infrastructure in the central Dnipro and northeastern Kharkiv regions, port infrastructure in the southern Odesa region, and energy facilities in the central Poltava region, according to Zelenskyy. On Tuesday, he said, 14 regions came under attack throughout the day.

“It is important to support Ukraine and not remain silent about Russia’s war. Every time the war disappears from the top of the news, it encourages Russia to become even more savage,” Zelenskyy said, in an apparent reference to world attention being gripped by the Iran war.

Moscow’s attacks on its neighbor are unrelenting, even as Ukraine is emboldened by its recent military accomplishments and as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin claim — without providing evidence — that the war could be approaching the end.

Trump and Putin talk of a possible end to the war

Trump said Tuesday said he believes Moscow and Kyiv will soon reach a deal to end fighting.

“The end of the war in Ukraine I really think is getting very close,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House for a summit in Beijing. “Believe it or not, it’s getting closer.”

Putin said in a speech last weekend that his invasion of Ukraine is possibly “coming to an end.”

Neither leader elaborated on what persuaded them about the possibility of peace in Europe’s longest conflict since World War II. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts over the past year to end the war have fizzled after making no progress on key issues, such as whether Russia gets to keep Ukrainian land and what can be done to deter Russia from invading again.

Meanwhile, European governments are assessing the merits of opening talks with Putin. Europe has for years tried to isolate the Russian leader and punished his country with international sanctions.

War appears to shift in Ukraine's favor

The correlation of forces in the war has shifted in recent months. Ukraine has gone from pleading for international help with its defense to offering foreign countries expertise on how to counter attacks, thanks to its domestically developed drone technology.

Ukraine’s long-range drone and missile attacks have disrupted energy facilities and manufacturing deep inside Russia, with three Russian regions reporting strikes Wednesday. The Russian Defense Ministry said that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 286 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, the illegally annexed Crimea peninsula, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea.

On the 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line, the advance of Russia’s bigger and better-equipped army has been slowing every month since last October, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

Russia’s spring offensive has floundered, with Russian forces recording a net loss of territory last month for the first time since 2024, the Washington-based think tank said.

“Not only are Ukrainian defensive lines holding, but Ukrainian forces have managed to contest the tactical initiative in several areas of the front line even as Russia continues to lose disproportionate amounts of manpower to achieve minimal gains,” the ISW said Tuesday.

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Hatton reported from Lisbon, Portugal.

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Nissan Motor Corp., based in the port city of Yokohama, reported a 533 billion yen ($3.4 billion) loss, smaller than the 670.9 billion yen in red ink racked up the previous fiscal year.

Nissan’s annual sales fell 5% to 12 trillion yen ($76 billion.)

Chief Executive Ivan Espinosa said Nissan was making steady progress and seeing “clear signs” of a turnaround.

“We have moved beyond recovery and are entering a phase of growth,” he said. “We will build on this momentum through disciplined cost management and faster product execution, driving sales and profitability.”

On a quarterly basis, Nissan had a net loss of 282.9 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in the January-March period, compared to the 676 billion yen loss the same period a year ago.

Quarterly sales declined nearly 2% to 3.43 trillion yen ($22 billion).

Nissan said it was working on cost cuts and other efforts to become more profitable. It said it managed to record a better-than-expected operating profit and expects better results for the current year with upcoming model launches.

Nissan, which makes the Altima sedan, Pathfinder sport utility vehicle, Leaf EV and Infiniti luxury models, sold 3.15 million vehicles globally during the fiscal year ended March 31.

Despite the positive spin the executives tried to put on their revival plan, the automaker’s financials are in their worst shape in years. Nissan is slashing thousands of jobs and has sold its headquarters building.

Nissan said it expects to revert into the black for the fiscal year through March 2027, eking out a 20 billion yen ($127 million) profit.

Japanese automakers have all struggled amid powerful competition from the newer Chinese makers, now dominating Asian markets.

There were talks in recent years for Nissan to merge some operations with Japanese rival Honda Motor Co., which has also been struggling, but those talks collapsed. Although a merger is out, there may be limited cooperative partnerships.

Nissan stocks, which have zigzagged over the past year, finished 4% higher.

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But this is the Stanley Cup playoffs and toughness is asked of all the players.

Dorofeyev took a hard shot off his right knee in the second period Tuesday night, forcing him to leave the ice for a few minutes. But Dorofeyev, who earlier had a power-play goal, scored at 4:10 of overtime to give Vegas a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks, moving the Golden Knights a victory away from advancing to the Western Conference final.

“I just blocked a shot,” said Dorofeyev, who has seven goals this postseason. “It’s kind of a (lousy) part of my job, but it hurts more when I miss it. I just had to get myself together and get back on the ice.”

Game 6 of the second-round series is Thursday night at Anaheim.

The Golden Knights can reach the conference final for the first time since winning the Stanley Cup in 2023. Anaheim, making its first playoff appearance in eight years, will try force a Game 7 back in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Tomas Hertl had gone 29 games going back to the regular season without a goal, but now has two in two games. He also had the primary assist on Dorofeyev’s power-play goal in the first period.

Jack Eichel had two assists, including the primary one on the winner.

Carter Hart stopped 34 shots, two nights after allowing four goals on 23 shots in a 4-3 loss in Anaheim. Hart bounced back from a similar situation in the opening series, allowing four goals on 12 shots in Game 3 at Utah before winning five of his next six starts.

“We have all the faith in the world in Carter,” said Vegas defenseman Rasmus Andersson, who disputed the notion Hart was coming off a down performance. “I look at the Utah series and he was really good there, and he stole a couple of games for us. ... But every time you lose a game in the playoffs, it’s about how you bounce back. I thought all 20 guys who played tonight bounced back and Carter led that.”

Ducks defenseman Olen Zellweger scored his first career playoff goal from the left circle to tie it at 2 with 3:05 left in regulation. Beckett Sennecke extended his goals streak to four games with a power-play score. Mason McTavish and Cutter Gauthier each has two assists and Lukas Dostal made 29 saves.

“I know this group’s going to bounce back,” Zellweger said. “We have all playoffs long.”

Ducks center Ryan Poehling was helped off the ice after being checked hard into the boards by Vegas defenseman Brayden McNabb nearly midway through the first period. McNabb received a five-minute major for interference and was sent to the dressing room with a game misconduct, costing the Golden Knights a first-pair blue liner.

Golden Knights coach John Tortorella said he wouldn’t address whether the officials made the right call to make that a major penalty and eject McNabb, but quickly questioned why there wasn’t call when Vegas defenseman Dylan Coghlan was hit at the end of regulation.

“I just don’t get it,” Tortorella said.

The Ducks got a goal off the McNabb-induced power play when Sennecke scored off a rebound. Dorofeyev answered after taking the puck from Chris Kreider, shifting to the slot and snapping a shot past Dostal.

Hertl’s rebound goal at 4:48 of the third period nearly stood up before Zellweger took advantage of extended offensive zone time to force extra play.

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Prosecutors are asking for 2 1/2 years in prison for 56-year-old Erik Fleming, one of five people who pleaded guilty in connection with the actor's 2023 death in the Jacuzzi of his Los Angeles home. Fleming connected Perry to Jasveen Sangha, the convicted drug dealer who prosecutors called “The Ketamine Queen.” She was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison.

Defense lawyers are asking for a sentence of three months in prison and nine months in a residential drug treatment facility, saying in a sentencing memo that Fleming “has gone to extreme lengths to atone for his criminal conduct.”

Fleming gave up Sangha to investigators as soon as they contacted him and in August 2024 became the first defendant to plead guilty, admitting to one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death. That was before arrests in the case were even announced.

He will be the fourth defendant in the case to be sentenced in the Los Angeles federal courtroom of Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett. It will be his first court appearance since his role became public knowledge.

Prosecutors said in their sentencing memo that while Fleming's exceptional cooperation should bring a lighter sentence, his role as a drug counselor who “deliberately undertook to sell illegal street drugs to a victim who had a public, well-documented battle with drug addiction” should count against him, even if Perry wasn't one of his regular clients.

Perry had been receiving ketamine treatments for depression — an increasingly common off-label use.

A few weeks before his death, Perry was seeking more of the drug than he could get through doctors and asked a friend to help him get more. She was in a treatment facility, so introduced Perry to Fleming. He was a former film and television producer whose career had been ravaged by addiction. He got sober and became a drug counselor, but had relapsed after the 2023 death of a beloved stepmother who had rescued him from a traumatic childhood, his lawyers said.

Fleming would get ketamine from Sangha, mark up the price to make a profit, and deliver it to Perry's house where he sold it to the actor's live-in personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa.

“I procured ketamine for Matthew Perry because I wanted the money and because I thought I was doing a favor for a friend,” Fleming said in a letter to the court. “I never contemplated the worst possible outcome. This grievous failure will haunt me forever.”

His deliveries included 25 vials for $6,000 four days before Perry's death.

Iwamasa would inject Perry from that batch on Oct. 28, 2023, and hours later he found the actor dead. A medical examiner's report found that Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine, a surgical anesthetic, and drowning was a secondary cause.

Fleming can technically get 25 years in prison, but it's very unlikely it will be anywhere near that much.

His lawyers say he has undergone a “transformative” rehabilitation since Perry's death.

“I will accept my punishment with humility and spend the rest of my life working to become worthy of forgiveness,” Fleming's letter said.

Iwamasa is the last defendant to be sentenced in two weeks.

Perry, who died at 54, became one of the biggest stars of his generation as Chandler Bing on “Friends,” NBC’s culture-changing sitcom that ran from 1994 to 2004.

An auction of his valuables including “Friends” memorabilia will go to benefit the foundation founded in his name soon after his death.

The princess, commonly known as Kate, will travel to Reggio Emilia in northern Italy to learn about its child-centered approach to early education, which has become a focal point for educators around the world. The trip is part of what her office called an international “fact-finding mission” to explore different approaches to supporting young children and their carers.

The choice of destination for Kate’s first trip abroad since her 2024 cancer diagnosis is no coincidence as early years development is the signature cause of the mother of three who will one day be queen.

“She wants to make a point that she is going to keep making this her cause," said Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine.

The Reggio Emilia approach is based on the idea that young children have many different ways of thinking, understanding and expressing themselves, and that teachers need to work with their students to help them learn.

The visit will highlight the idea that the environment and human relationships that surround children are crucial to laying the foundations for a resilient and healthy future, Kensington Palace said in a statement.

“The Reggio Emilia approach clearly suits the narrative at the start of international operations,’’ Little said.

The visit is part of her work with the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, which she founded in 2021 to increase public understanding of the importance of supporting children in the first five years of life.

One of Britain’s most popular royals, the Princess of Wales has proved to be adept at focusing attention on matters she cares about.

When Kate announced that she had completed chemotherapy treatment in a soft-focus, Insta-ready video, she ventured into realms not previously inhabited by the royal family, whose members traditionally shied away from talking about their health.

And she did it in a new way, using social media to share the fact that for all her wealth and privilege, her life had been upended by cancer, like so many others.

Then, later, when she announced she was in remission, she spent the day supporting other cancer patients at the hospital where she received treatment.

In a statement on social media, she offered her thanks to everyone who helped her and her husband, Prince William, as they navigated the ups and downs of treatment and recovery. She hugged patients at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London and described her own treatment as “exceptional.”

“It is a relief to now be in remission and I remain focused on recovery," the princess, now 44, wrote in a note signed with her initial, C. “As anyone who has experienced a cancer diagnosis will know, it takes time to adjust to a new normal."

Her new normal involves becoming the go-to advocate for early years education, which refers to the learning and development of children from birth to five years of age.

There’s lots to do in Britain, where advocates say there aren’t enough spaces to go around and many teachers don’t have the training they need.

Edoardo Masset, associate research director at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said Kate’s focus on early childhood development is important because it brings attention to an issue that really matters to children.

“This relationship between early years education and success later in life is supported not only by strong theoretical arguments, but also by a large body of evidence on the effectiveness of programs for preschool children,’’ Masset said in a blog post.

In a speech to lawmakers laced with all the pomp that accompanies the ceremonial opening of Parliament, the king said the U.K.'s economic, energy and national security would be tested as it deals with the fallout from the wars in Iran and Ukraine.

Planned measures include controlling the cost of living, strengthening ties with the European Union and making it easier to build new energy infrastructure.

And pledging action on antisemitism following a run of attacks on the Jewish community in recent months, King Charles said the government would “defend the British values” of decency and tolerance.

The question is whether Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be around to implement the measures in the speech and, even if he remains in post, whether he will have the authority to push his proposals through.

The embattled prime minister has been urged to set a timetable for his departure by more than a fifth of the Labour Party's lawmakers in the House of Commons. Some junior ministers have quit the government in protest, but no one has yet challenged Starmer directly.

Starmer on the ropes

Early on Wednesday, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who is one of those widely tipped to be interested in succeeding Starmer, had a meeting with the prime minister that lasted less than 20 minutes. Streeting did not speak to reporters on his way in or out of 10 Downing Street but the BBC and the Times of London reported that he could resign and launch a leadership challenge as soon as Thursday.

The King's Speech represents Starmer's latest effort to save his premiership after Labour suffered huge losses in local and regional elections last week. If those results were repeated in a national election that has to be held by 2029, the party would be overwhelmingly ejected from power.

Labour was squeezed from the right and the left, losing votes to both anti-immigrant Reform UK and the Green Party, as well as nationalist parties in Scotland and Wales.

After the speech, Streeting made no mention of a leadership bid but said he was focused on his job. The planned health bill in the coming parliamentary session will “boost the impact of our investment and modernization” in the state-run National Health Service, he said.

“Lots done, lots to do,” he said on social media.

Labour secured a landslide election victory in 2024, driving the Conservatives from power after 14 years, but since then the party’s popularity has plunged and Starmer is getting much of the blame. The reasons include a series of policy missteps, a struggling British economy, a perceived lack of vision on the prime minister’s part and questions over his judgment. Starmer’s choice of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington despite ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has continued to haunt him.

Starmer, who has insisted he has no intention to stand down, has his supporters within the party. More than 100 lawmakers have signed a letter saying it is “no time” for a leadership contest.

“We should let him get on with doing his job, because he is a serious politician and these are very, very serious times,” Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn told Sky News.

Historic power collides with modern reality

The King’s Speech, which is written by the government, merges the historic power and grandeur of Britain with the reality of the modern United Kingdom, a mid-sized country with an underfunded military, rising debt and waning international influence.

The speech is the focal point of a day of ceremony and tradition that has been followed since 1852, with elements of the program dating to the 16th century. The state opening of Parliament uses carefully choreographed pageantry to showcase Britain’s evolution from an absolute monarchy to a parliamentary democracy where real power is vested in the elected House of Commons.

At the heart of the government's agenda is to bolster the country’s “economic security, energy security, our defense and national security.”

The king, who made the short journey from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament in a horse-drawn carriage, also said the government will “defend the British values of decency, tolerance and respect for difference under our common flag” and said urgent action would be taken to tackle antisemitism.

King Charles III's brief visit to Parliament

During his speech which he delivered seated next to Queen Camilla, the king donned the Imperial State Crown and robe of state.

Once they were seated, a Lords official called Black Rod, named for the ebony rod he or she carries, went to the House of Commons to summon the chamber’s members. The doors to the Commons chamber were slammed in Black Rod’s face to symbolize the chamber’s independence from the monarchy, and they aren’t opened until Black Rod strikes the doors three times.

Once members of the Commons crowded into the Lords’ chamber, the king delivered the speech.

After the speech was read, the royal couple left and the two houses of Parliament begin several days of debate on its contents.

Prices for food eaten at home rose 2.9% in April compared to the same month a year earlier, according to government figures released Tuesday. That was the highest year-over-year inflation rate for the category since August 2023.

Prices at restaurants, fast-food chains and other places to get prepared meals also increased, putting overall food prices up 3.2% in the last year, the Labor Department’s consumer price index showed.

Fuel prices have soared while the Iran war prevents cargo ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital corridor for global oil supplies. Diesel fuel powers fishing boats, tractors and the trucks that ship 83% of U.S. agricultural products. As of Tuesday, the average price per gallon was up 61% from a year ago, according to AAA.

The meat, produce and dry goods vendors that supply Sparrow Market, a small independent grocer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, all added fuel surcharges to their deliveries in recent weeks, owner Raymond Campise said. Wholesale prices for meat, produce and some other products also have gone up, he said.

“For independent markets operating on narrow margins, even small increases can have a major impact,” Campise said.

The full impact of rising energy costs on food likely has not hit retail grocery prices yet in the U.S., according to Purdue University economists Ken Foster and Bernhard Dalheimer. Higher costs to produce, process, store and transport food can take three to six months to show up on supermarket shelves, where prices typically fall slowly once increased, they said.

“Most of what we’re seeing now in the food price chain probably predates the conflict," Foster, a professor of agricultural economics, said. "We’re cautiously waiting to see what the June numbers and the May numbers might show as they come out in terms of ... the extent to which energy shocks in the Strait of Hormuz and shipping blockades and so forth are going to impact food prices.”

The consumer price index measures changes in what people in U.S. cities paid at retail stores for meat, bread, milk, produce and other grocery staples. Over the last 20 years, grocery prices increased an average of 2.6%, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Prices for perishable and refrigerated products tend to increase faster than prices for packaged goods when energy is an issue. Consumers paid 6.5% more for fresh fruit and vegetables in U.S. cities last month than they did in April 2025, and 8.8% more for meat, the Labor Department reported.

But U.S. trade policies and extreme weather also have weighed on U.S. food prices in the last year. In July 2025, the Trump administration imposed a 17% duty on fresh tomatoes imported from Mexico; consumer prices rose 40% in the 12 months before April.

Dry weather in the Western U.S. has been one of many factors pushing up beef prices, which in April were 15% higher year-over-year. Coffee prices were up 18.5%, partly due to drought and other weather conditions that have hurt global coffee production in recent years.

“Today's CPI showed that food prices have been rising 3.2 percent in the past year, but the story behind that number is more complicated than just an energy shock,” said Dalheimer, an assistant professor of macroeconomics and trade in Purdue’s Department of Agricultural Economics.

Prices for some foods remained more or less flat or declined over 12 months. Milk and chicken dipped slightly. Butter cost 5.8% less in April than it did a year earlier. Egg prices fell 39% as farmers rebuilt flocks that were decimated by an ongoing bird flu outbreak.

Food prices and broader inflation are likely to feature prominently in November's midterm elections. During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump often cited the prices of bacon, cereal, crackers and other groceries as reasons why voters should return him to the White House.

Some food producers say they're struggling now because of higher fuel costs. The Southern Shrimp Alliance, which represents shrimpers in eight states, said some boats haven't left the dock this spring because they can't catch enough shrimp to compensate for the cost of diesel.

Fuel typically makes up 30% to 50% of the costs for U.S. shrimpers, but because they supply only 6% of the shrimp that Americans consume, they have limited ability to raise prices or add surcharges for fuel, the organization said.

Higher fuel prices may also be impacting food costs in other ways. Part of April's 5% annual increase in prices for nonalcoholic beverages may be due to the petroleum derivative that goes into making plastic bottles, Foster said.

“It’s possible some of that’s starting to seep down the supply chain and get into those prices,” he said.

Over the next year or more, Americans could also see higher food prices due to spiking fertilizer costs, since around 30% of the world's fertilizer travels through the Strait of Hormuz.

Fertilizer costs are less of an issue for U.S. farmers this year, since many already had fertilizer supplies in place before the war began, according to Foster. But the effects could become more noticeable next year if the war drags on, he said.

“I expect the Iran conflict to impact the coming years’ food prices through a couple of channels. One, the energy costs and transportation handling. The other would be through packaging costs,” Foster said. “If the conflict were to last longer, then we might see more coming online as fertilizer prices start to impact longer-term planting decisions and cropping decisions.”

“When we’re talking about Asian Americans or Asian people in the U.S., oftentimes it’s people who might look like you and me, and maybe not people who look like (New York City Mayor) Zohran Mamdani," Yi told The Associated Press. “Why is that when this term is supposed to be so capacious and so inclusive?”

So Yi, who is Korean American, was beyond excited when approached to helm a new HBO documentary dedicated to AAPI identity and community.

Timed for release during AAPI Heritage Month, “The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas” drops Wednesday on HBO Max. It's the latest in “The List Series” created by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. The franchise has previously produced documentaries on prominent Black, Latino and LGBTQ+ Americans.

In the documentary, Yi captures no-frills, intimate interviews conducted by journalist Jada Yuan with 15 people of AAPI heritage across industries. They include TV broadcaster Connie Chung, Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth and “Basement Bhangra” creator DJ Rekha. Actors Sandra Oh, Kumail Nanjiani and Bowen Yang — who are sometimes more associated with comical roles — also shared their thoughts about identity and belonging.

“When talking to people who are professionally funny, oftentimes they’re really comfortable not being funny,” in unscripted conversation, Yi said. “I appreciated that chance to get a little bit deeper into some of their stories.”

Stars say talking about growing up AAPI on camera was cathartic

Yia Vang, chef and owner of Vinai, a popular Hmong restaurant in Minneapolis, filmed his “A List” interview three years ago. Since then he's been featured in various cooking and lifestyle shows. Vang, who was born in a Thai refugee camp until his family settled in Wisconsin when he was 4, likened the experience of being interviewed on camera to a confessional.

Vang tearfully recounts to viewers how his desire to not be “the weird kid” drove him to throw out school lunches of sticky rice and fermented vegetables packed by his mother. He did not expect to get emotional but the memory sparked a core life lesson.

“I will never, ever try to be ‘cool,’” Vang said. “That’s why I guess I get so intense about like how we do our food here. Not because I’m chasing perfection or some kind of award, but I just want to make sure I stay true to the integrity that they (my parents) laid before me.”

In what Vang calls “full-circle redemption,” those dishes he used to throw out are now on his restaurant's menu.

Last month, Vang got a taste of reactions to the documentary back home at a Milwaukee Film Festival screening. He definitely was not seen as the weird guy.

“The audience really connected because I’m a Wisconsin boy,” Vang said. A few approached him just to say “It's so awesome to see a Midwest kid in there.”

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders still struggle for visibility

Asian Americans make up one of the fastest growing U.S. populations. Still, adults in the U.S. have a harder time recognizing the influence of AAPI people than people from other racial groups, according to a new survey by The Asian American Foundation.

The annual Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the United States, or STAATUS, Index, done in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, found 4 in 10 U.S. adults cannot think of a single, famous Asian American; Jackie Chan, who is not American, was among the most frequently named. About half were unable to name examples of famous Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

“It’s an indication of just how for most of America — and our data shows this as well — people get most of their information about Asian Americans not so much from direct contacts, but from the media,” said Norman Chen, CEO of The Asian American Foundation.

Chen recently attended a screening of “The A List.” He applauded the breadth of personal stories Yi and his team curated. It's a film he's not sure would have gotten made a decade ago. So, it was gratifying to see how moved the audience was by stories recounted by celebrities and everyday people.

“Even people that we don’t know have such powerful stories to show you the depth and richness of our community and the struggles that we’ve had to go through in multiple generations,” Chen said.

Working on a film about identity as the political climate changed

When Yi and the crew started working on the documentary, Vice President Kamala Harris was running against Donald Trump for president. Now under a Republican Trump administration that vehemently opposes diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Yi acknowledges how the documentary might come off as inherently political.

“What I’ve certainly seen during the stretch of time — just speaking for myself — is just how quickly things can backslide and how quickly people can be erased,” Yi said. “We literally have people being disappeared on the streets and we literally have histories being erased.”

He is especially gratified that some of the documentary's older participants related to historical events such as a story told by activist Kathy Masaoka, whose mother was held in Japanese American incarceration camps. Yi hopes people recognize the struggles AAPI people have endured in the past and present while building community.

“We can really move forward from this moment in terms of rebuilding and reclaiming and taking up space with confidence and hope again,” Yi said.

Kouri Richins was convicted in March of aggravated murder for lacing her husband's cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl at their home near Park City in 2022.

Prosecutors said Richins, a 35-year-old real estate agent with a house-flipping business, was millions in debt and planning a future with another man. She had opened numerous life insurance policies on her husband Eric Richins without his knowledge and falsely believed she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million after he died.

Jurors in Park City also found Richins guilty of four other felonies, including attempted murder for trying to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich.

Her case captivated true-crime enthusiasts when she was arrested in 2023 while promoting her children’s book “Are You with Me?” about a boy coping with the death of his father.

Richins faces several decades to life in prison at her sentencing hearing Wednesday, which falls on the day her husband would have turned 44. Her lawyers declined to comment before the hearing.

Eric Richins' sister, Amy Richins, said after the verdict that she was “just very happy that we got justice for my brother” and could now focus solely on supporting his sons, who were ages 9, 7 and 5 when their father died.

Richins' sons say they are afraid of their mother

In a memo filed by prosecutors ahead of the hearing, the sons told the judge they would feel unsafe if their mother was ever released from prison.

“I’m afraid if she gets out, she will come after me and my brothers, my whole family,” said the oldest boy, who is now 13. “I think she would come and take us and not do good things to us, like hurt us.”

The middle child, now 11, said he is sad that his dad won't be present for major milestones. With his mother behind bars, he said he can “live a happy and successful life without fear of (her) hurting me or anyone I love.”

The youngest said he would be ”so scared” if his mother was released.

Possible sentences by charge

Judges in Utah typically impose sentences as a broad range rather than a fixed number of years.

The most serious charge, aggravated murder, is punishable by 25 years to life in prison, or a life sentence without parole. Prosecutors did not push for the death penalty.

Prison time for the attempted aggravated murder charge depends on the severity of the bodily injury that occurred. After taking a bite of the sandwich his wife left for him, Eric Richins broke out in hives, injected himself with his son’s EpiPen, drank a bottle of Benadryl and passed out, prosecutors said. Depending on the judge's assessment, Kouri Richins could face 15 years to life, 6 years to life or 5 years to life for that charge.

Two counts of insurance fraud, second-degree felonies, each carry a 1-15 year sentence, and a third-degree felony forgery charge is punishable by 0-5 years in prison.

Judge Richard Mrazik has discretion to decide whether Richins' prison sentences for each count will overlap or stack up. Prosecutors have asked for no overlap and urged the judge to give her life without parole.

Richins also faces more than two dozen money-related criminal charges in a separate case that has not yet gone to trial.

Trial cut short by defense team

The trial was scheduled for five weeks but ended early when Richins waived her right to testify, and her legal team rested its case without calling any witnesses. Her attorneys said they were confident that prosecutors had not produced enough evidence to convict her of murder.

The jury deliberated for just under three hours before finding her guilty of all counts.

Throughout the trial, prosecutors portrayed the mother of three as a money-hungry killer. They showed the jury text messages between Richins and her lover in which she fantasized about leaving her husband and gaining millions in a divorce. Prosecutors also displayed the internet search history from Richins’ phone, which included queries about the lethal dose of fentanyl, luxury prisons and how poisoning is marked on a death certificate.

The defense argued that Eric Richins was addicted to painkillers. Prosecutors countered by showing police body camera footage from the night of his death in which Kouri Richins tells an officer that her husband had no history of illicit drug use.

Defense attorneys also argued that the prosecution’s star witness, a housekeeper who claimed to have sold Kouri Richins fentanyl on multiple occasions, was motivated to lie for legal protection. The housekeeper was granted immunity for her cooperation in the case.

Pratt is casting himself as a hero in his latest venture, a bid to be mayor of Los Angeles, in which he's promising to rid the nation's second most populous city of disorder and dysfunction.

Originally greeted with bemusement, Pratt is now upending the race with early voting underway ahead of the June 2 election. The Republican is riding a wave of buzz fueled by viral videos taking aim at incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, Gov. Gavin Newsom and others.

Pratt's goal is to turn the chatter into a ticket to a November runoff against Bass, a Democrat who is struggling to recover from a widely panned response to devastating wildfires last year.

He would face long odds in a city that last elected a Republican mayor in 1997. But during last week's debate, Pratt was one of only three candidates onstage, alongside Bass and progressive City Council member Nithya Raman.

“As crazy as this will sound, I’m the adult in the room,” Pratt said.

A populist campaign against liberal governance

Pratt and his supporters are making a populist appeal to voters, emphasizing day-to-day concerns about life in Los Angeles and leaning on visceral imagery of drug use and homeless encampments from the grittier corners of the city of nearly 4 million.

He blames the city's Democratic leaders and pledges to “stop these corrupt politicians from destroying our city.” He advocates a hard line against homelessness, pledging to eliminate encampments and pursue criminal investigations of nonprofit organizations that serve people living on the streets.

“These people do not want a bed,” he said in last week's debate. “They want fentanyl or meth.”

Pratt announced his campaign in January at an event marking the one-year anniversary of the deadly Palisades Fire, which destroyed his home and thousands of others.

In an ad released late last month, Pratt stands in cozy neighborhoods where Bass and Raman live. He contrasts them with an Airstream trailer parked on a flattened lot, where he says he's living after his house was destroyed.

“They let my home burn down," Pratt says in the ad. “I know what the consequences of failed leadership are.”

Over the past week, a series of viral videos created with artificial intelligence have portrayed Pratt as the city's savior from hapless Democrats and violent socialists.

In one, Pratt is portrayed as Batman saving a dystopian Los Angeles from Bass, portrayed as a villainous Joker.

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and onetime Republican presidential candidate, called it “maybe the best political ad of the year” in a post on X.

That video and others were shared on social media by filmmaker Charles Curran, and Pratt has reposted them from his own accounts. Curran did not respond to an email and direct messages on X.

“He’s playing on the most powerful emotion, which is anger, and LA voters are angry right now,” said Matt Klink, a Republican strategist based in Los Angeles.

A background in reality TV

Pratt, 43, is well-versed in the art of generating buzz and entertainment.

He first rose to prominence in 2007 as Heidi Montag's boyfriend on “The Hills,” a hit reality series built around the lives of young women as they navigated young adulthood in Southern California. He was portrayed as driving a wedge between Montag and her roommate, Lauren Conrad, leading to the disintegration of their friendship.

He went on to marry Montag, and they have two children together. They have appeared on a variety of other scripted and reality television series since “The Hills” ended in 2010, and each has more than 1 million followers in their social media accounts.

Pratt points to a 2013 political science degree from the University of Southern California as evidence of his readiness to lead a massive city.

His campaign did not respond to interview requests.

Bass seeks a second term

Bass, the first Black woman to lead Los Angeles, is a wounded incumbent continuing to deal with fallout from the wildfires and general frustration with City Hall.

She was in Ghana on a diplomatic mission when the fires began tearing through her city, prompting a fierce backlash, and her administration was accused of watering down an after-action report by the fire department, which she denies.

Still, Bass has much of the Democratic establishment firmly behind her, including most of the city's powerful labor movement. A group of unions is funding an advertising campaign attacking Pratt in terms that seem calibrated to increase his appeal to Republicans and help lift him ahead of Bass's progressive challengers, a potential bet that he might be easier to defeat in November.

The rising attention on Pratt shakes up a race that, until recently, was shaping up to pit Bass against a rival to her left rather than her right.

“I feel like he’s exploiting the grief of people in the Palisades, and I think that’s reprehensible. That’s the main thing. And I think he is about his own celebrity. He’s famous now again,” Bass told Fox News last week.

Pratt has run a fun and imaginative campaign that has effectively parlayed his celebrity into attention, the lifeblood of politics, just as Donald Trump and Arnold Schwarzenegger did before him, said Michael Trujillo, a Los Angeles-based Democratic strategist. He said that has put him in a strong position to get through the first round of voting and face Bass one-on-one in the runoff.

But eventually, Pratt will have to face a stark reality as a Republican — Los Angeles is an overwhelmingly Democratic city.

“Not to diminish the creativity and imagination that they’re putting into their campaign, but they’re going to run into a big math problem,” Trujillo said.

Tokyo-based Calbee Inc., which makes potato chips and cereal, said what’s inside remains the same. Calbee's popular snacks are available in Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores and shipped to the United States, China and Australia.

“This measure is intended to help maintain a stable supply of products,” it said in a statement this week.

The change on 14 products in its lineup will start May 25, limiting ink colors to just two, the company said, noting it was necessary to respond flexibly to changing geopolitical conditions.

How long the change might last remains unclear, according to Calbee, founded in 1949. The Calbee group employs more than 5,000 people.

The move is the latest as companies grapple with spiking prices and shortages of oil and other products caused by the war in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Japan, which relies almost entirely on imports for its oil, has so far ridden out the worries relatively calmly, as the government has worked to allay such fears by noting the nation’s oil reserves.

But it's still facing a squeeze on naphtha, an oil-derived product that's used in items like plastics and ink.

There’s no mistaking the stark change in the chip’s packaging.

Calbee’s lightly salted chips, known as “usu shio,” originally came in a bright-orange bag with an image of yellow chips and a potato-man mascot wearing a hat.

The new packaging just has monochrome lettering.

The company, which also makes shrimp chips, or “kappa ebisen,” had just announced an ambitious growth strategy in March.

“Calbee will continue to respond flexibly and promptly to changes in its operating environment, including geopolitical risks, and remains committed to maintaining a stable supply of safe, high‑quality products,” it said. “We ask for your understanding.”

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At 22 years old, Wembanyama is the third-youngest player in NBA history to post that stat line in a playoff game, trailing only Magic Johnson (20) and Luka Doncic (21).

“I was fresh, feeling good,” Wembanyama said. “Honestly, it’s hard to tell. It was just Game 5. Obviously, I’m going to be excited (and) to have butterflies. So, excitement is not something abnormal at this point in the playoffs.”

Keldon Johnson had 21 points, De'Aaron Fox added 18 and Stephon Castle had 17 as San Antonio moved a game away from the Western Conference finals. The Spurs can advance to face Oklahoma City with a victory in Game 6 on Friday in Minneapolis.

Anthony Edwards, who was limited to eight points in the first half, finished with 20 points for Minnesota. Julius Randle and Jaden McDaniels added 17 points apiece.

Wembanyama returned after being ejected early in the second quarter of Minnesota's 114-109 victory Sunday during Game 4 in Minneapolis. Wembanyama received a Flagrant 2 foul after elbowing Naz Reid in the throat.

Both teams continued to hammer each other, with Reid receiving a technical foul for pushing Wembanyama in the back on a Minnesota free throw with 2:24 left in the first half.

“I felt like, to start the game, we knew it was going to be physical,” Castle said. “So, just making that a point of emphasis and trying to keep them off the offensive glass. I feel like we started the game off well and that’s where our runs came from. But obviously they’re a good team. They’re going to go on their own run. So, just try not to hang our head when that does happen and be able to respond and spark another run for ourselves.”

The foul by Reid fired up Wembanyama, not that he needed any additional motivation.

Wembanyama was 6 for 8 from the field and 2 for 3 on 3-pointers in scoring 18 points in the opening quarter.

“I think it’s super important for us the way we start the game, because it sets the tone," Wembanyama said, “Now the challenge is to do it for 48 minutes.”

The Timberwolves opened the third quarter on a 14-2 run to tie the game at 61 after trailing by 18 points in the first half. Minnesota tipped away three attempted alley-oop passes to Wembanyama before they reached the 7-foot-4 post.

The Spurs recaptured a double-digit lead in the third spurred by Johnson's block on Rudy Gobert's attempted dunk followed by his short jumper after bodying Edwards under the rim.

“We went away from what was working," Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said. "Our defense just cratered. We gave up 30 points, I think, in the last six minutes of the third quarter. A lot of it was just ball contain, ball contain stuff.”

San Antonio held its opponent under 100 points for the fifth time in 10 games this postseason.

“I thought we did a good job of having resistance early in the clock," Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. "They’ve shown as the series has gone on, they’ve tried to play faster at times and they’re tough when they get downhill. I think when we’ve had better starting spots, more connectivity at the start of possessions, I think it’s really helped us be on a string and be organized and connected defensively.”

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According to the Pembroke Pines Police Department, the incident happened on the afternoon of March 15 at the Walmart at 151 SW 184th Ave., just off Pines Boulevard.

Police said the girl, whose age wasn’t specified, was walking alone in the lot at around 1:20 p.m. “when the suspect approached her and grabbed her buttocks.”

He then drove away in what police described as a newer-model white Lexus TX.

Anyone who recognizes the man is asked to call PPPD Sgt. Jason Palant at 954-743-1654.

Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.2%, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.3%. Futures for the technology-heavy Nasdaq jumped 0.7%.

Intel rose 3.1% after a 6.8% decline on Tuesday, while Micron clawed back all of its 3.6% loss from a day earlier, jumping more than 5% before markets opened. The artificial intelligence boom has sent both chipmakers soaring this year, with Intel shares more than tripling and Micron shares more than doubling.

Qualcomm also rebounded Wednesday, gaining 4% after a steep 11.5% drop a day earlier.

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to meet with President Xi Jinping. Aside from discussions about Iran, the two leaders are expected to discuss trade and artificial intelligence.

Prominent U.S. executives from Big Tech and other industries will join Trump on his trip to China, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, according to a White House official.

On Wedneday, oil prices flipped between small gains as losses as uncertainty about a potential diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and the U.S. remained uncertain.

“Corporate earnings and AI momentum are acting as the market’s primary shock absorbers, but the road is getting significantly rougher,” said Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade.

“With oil prices becoming entrenched at elevated levels and a diplomatic breakthrough between the U.S. and Iran remaining elusive, the easy bullish narrative is becoming much harder to maintain.”

The price for a barrel of Brent crude inched down 46 cents to $101.72. Brent crude, the international standard, slipped 17 cents to $107.60 a barrel. Prices were around $79 before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.

The war has essentially shut the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers, keeping them stuck in the Persian Gulf instead of delivering crude to customers worldwide.

The resulting leap for crude oil prices, with Brent up from roughly $70 per barrel before the war, caused inflation in the United States to worsen last month by more than economists expected, the government reported Tuesday. In another discouraging signal, price increases accelerated by more in April than economists expected even after excluding gasoline and food costs.

The Fed has paused any interest rate cuts so far this year, as it waits to see how high inflation will go because of the war with Iran and Trump's tariffs. That’s because lower rates can worsen inflation even while boosting the broader economy.

Traders still largely expect the Fed to keep its main interest rate steady this year, but they’re now betting on a better than 1-in-3 chance that it could hike rates by December, according to CME Group. Higher rates tend to push down on stock prices, while also slowing the economy.

Elsewhere, in Europe at midday, France's CAC 40 rose 0.4%, while the German DAX added 0.6%. Britain's FTSE 100 was little changed.

In Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 edged up 0.8% to finish at 63,272.11.

South Korea's Kospi index surged 2.6% to 7,844.01, recouping recent losses. The Kospi sank 2.3% earlier in the week from an all-time high after a senior figure in the administration suggested the government may redistribute windfall AI profits from companies to citizens. Analysts said some investors were snatching the shares that got sold as the actual impact of the remarks was still unclear.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.5% to 8,630.40. The Hang Seng gained 0.2% to 26,388.44, while the Shanghai Composite rose 0.7% to 4,242.57.

Investigators said 15-year-old Zimar Buwell was last seen around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday near Racquet Club Road before leaving in an unknown direction.

Buwell is described by officials as 6-feet tall, weighing around 110 pounds.

He was last seen wearing a blue shirt and shorts with black Nike shoes and socks.

Anyone who thinks they’ve seen him is urged to contact the Broward Sheriff’s Office at 954-764-4357.

South Florida’s Haitian community is a very proud one.

There are several gatherings and events planned throughout the month to recognize Haitian heritage.

Someone who knows quite a bit about that is Miami Gardens Councilwoman Linda Julien.

Julian was the first Haitian-American councilwoman to be elected in Miami Gardens.

She joined Local 10 News to discuss Haitian Heritage Month, the events around town and what it means to her. Her full conversation with Local 10’s Calvin Hughes can be seen at the top of this page.

Alligator Alcatraz was opened during the summer of 2025 in the heart of the Florida Everglades, built on the tarmac and land surrounding the massive Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.

The center has reportedly cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

According to the NYT report, officials at the Department of Homeland Security have concluded that it is too expensive to keep operating the detention center.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has been spending more than $1 million per day to run Alligator Alcatraz.

Per the report, vendors who service the center were told that detainees would be moved from the facility by the start of June, and that the center would be broken down over the following weeks.

As of last month, the center held nearly 1,400 detainees, all of whom are men, according to data from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

DeSantis has said from the start that the federal government would pay for the facility but Florida has yet to receive the $608 million federal reimbursement to run the center over the past year.

The Florida Division of Emergency Management released a statement, which read:

“As Governor DeSantis stated last week, the South Florida detention facility was always intended to serve as a temporary facility to support ongoing illegal immigration enforcement and detention operations. If federal operational needs evolve and the Department of Homeland Security implements alternative plans for the South Florida detention facility, the state will pivot accordingly.”

The struggling Los Angeles Dodgers superstar hit just his second home run in his last 24 games — an opposite field solo shot to left-center in a 6-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night. It ended an 11-game homerless streak, which tied his longest as a Dodger.

Ohtani looked skyward as he crossed the plate.

“Relief, he smiled, he laughed,” manager Dave Roberts said. “He's going to feel good about the offensive side tonight to then refocus for tomorrow to pitch and now he's got something to build on come Friday.”

Ohtani finished the game going 2 for 4 with two runs, an RBI and a walk. The rest of the team was 2 for 25 with four walks. He has seven home runs on the season and is batting .240.

“I thought tonight was a really good night,” Roberts said. “He can hopefully take that momentum from tonight and then be building on that through Anaheim and San Diego.”

Roberts said after the game that Ohtani won't be in the lineup as the designated hitter Wednesday when he also starts against the Giants. Earlier, Roberts said he was giving Ohtani a day from hitting Thursday, although he would be available late if the outcome hangs in the balance.

“It might just be a good thing to take a little bit of a load off of his plate offensively,” Roberts said before the game. “I just can’t take for granted what’s on his plate and so I’m trying to be sensitive.”

As Ohtani goes, so have the Dodgers (24-18). They remained a half-game behind NL West-leading San Diego despite their fourth loss in a row. Andy Pages (.318 average) and Max Muncy (.272) have been LA's best hitters so far, while the rest of the lineup is struggling, including Freddie Freeman (.276) and Kyle Tucker (.253).

“When your best player is doing what he's capable of doing, it just adds that energy into the dugout, frees guys up a little bit to do something too,” Roberts said. “When he's doing well, he's slugging, so those are runs.”

Ohtani is in his first full season as a two-way player for the Dodgers. Coming off two major right elbow surgeries, he was limited to the DH role in 2024, when he created the 50/50 club, with 54 home runs and 59 stolen bases, was named NL MVP and the Dodgers won the World Series.

Last year, Ohtani didn't return to the mound until midseason. He wasn't built up to pitching six innings until September and offensively, he hit 55 home runs and had 20 stolen bases. He repeated as NL MVP and the Dodgers won the World Series again.

This season, he has had no innings restrictions on the mound, where he's been dominant. The right-hander is 2-2 with a 0.97 ERA to go with 42 strikeouts and 37 innings pitched over six starts. He's allowed just four earned runs and 21 hits.

“He's still calibrating on this kind of newfound two-way player,” Roberts said.

Roberts has said Ohtani is willing to do whatever the team needs, but at the same time, the manager knows the team's most valuable asset needs to be protected from himself.

“He’s always going to want to do more,” Roberts said. “He has that sense of responsibility to his teammates that he wants to be out there on both ways. I've learned that I have to be proactive and take it out of his hands.”

Roberts has seen enough to decide that taking the bat out of Ohtani's hands might help him reset.

“When the quality of at-bats starts to go down consistently, I think that’s a sign that there needs to be a break because you’re just not able to stay within your game plan and then the chase starts to spike,” he said. “The fatigue is bleeding into the mechanics. Most players get that towards the end of the summer. Now I'm learning managing Shohei it’s probably showing itself a little earlier as far as the tax on pitching and all that comes with it to the hitting, too.”

Ohtani isn't used to not hitting; he's had just three games so far this season in which he wasn't the DH. Roberts suggested he show up late on Thursday.

The Dodgers knew in spring training that having Ohtani return to being a full-time two-way player for the first time since 2023 with the Los Angeles Angels would be challenging.

“It definitely feels sustainable,” Roberts said. “I wouldn’t say it’s more difficult. I think that we all came in knowing that we had to read and react, it was going to be fluid. It should be. It’s very unique.”

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The reigning National League Cy Young winner carried a no-hitter into the seventh while retiring 18 of the first 19 batters he faced. Colorado's Mickey Moniak broke up the no-hit bid when he dumped a single into left-center field with one out in the seventh. Skenes (6-2) retired Hunter Goodman and TJ Rumfield to end the threat.

Skenes returned for the eighth, giving up a one-out double to Troy Johnston before getting a flyout and a ground ball. The 23-year-old received a standing ovation on his way back to the dugout after throwing out Ezequiel Tovar to end the eighth. Skenes tipped his cap before making his way down the dugout steps after finishing with a season-high 10 strikeouts and lowering his ERA to 1.98.

Six days after allowing two hits over eight shutout innings in a victory over Arizona, Skenes was perhaps even better against Colorado. He struck out the first six Rockies who came to the plate, the second time in his three-year career he has fanned that many hitters to start the game.

Colorado's Willi Castro ended that run when he laid down a bunt with the first pitch of the third inning. The ball went right back to Skenes, who scooped it up and easily tossed to first as the PNC Park booed.

Skenes kept on rolling, his only hiccup coming in the fifth when he hit Johnston in the left foot on a 2-1 pitch with two out. Johnston was promptly thrown out trying to steak second base to end the inning.

Though Skenes threw 68 of his 98 pitches for strikes, he didn't come back on in the ninth in search of his first career shutout. There were brief chants of “We Want Paul! We Want Paul!” when reliever Gregory Soto came on. Soto allowed a a two-out RBI-double by Goodman but recovered for his fourth save.

Oneil Cruz had three hits for the Pirates. Nick Gonzales added two hits, including an RBI-single off Michael Lorenzen (2-5) in the first that gave Skenes all the offense he would need.

Up next

The series continues Wednesday, with Jose Quintana (1-2, 3.90 ERA) set to start for Colorado against Mitch Keller (4-1, 2.87).

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Diego Fernandez-Delgado suffered a heart attack after getting a flat tire and running out of phone battery near the 5900 block of South Flamingo Road. He later said he prayed for help.

“God didn’t send angels with wings. He sent those boys,” Fernandez-Delgado’s son Cristian said in a statement.

Three Cooper City High School students, 16-year-old Logan Royer, 16-year-old Cody Magrone, and 17-year-old Brody Murray, were at McDonald’s at 5986 S. Flamingo Road.

The boys saw Fernandez-Delgado from a distance and decided to walk over to help him.

“We were just out fishing and we stopped to get a bite to eat,” said Magrone. “We saw him on the side of the road and we were like let’s go help him.”

Fernandez-Delgado complained of difficulty breathing and chest pains. One of the boys decided to call 911, follow instructions, and wait for fire rescue.

Fire rescue personnel took Fernandez Delgado to Memorial Hospital West. He underwent several procedures and was released to go home.

Cooper City officials presented the teens with a proclamation on Tuesday evening, and they got a standing ovation.

“It doesn’t hurt to stop and help someone out,” said Royer. “It can go a long way and it’s just very good.”

In China's rigidly hierarchical world of diplomacy, protocol and ceremony carry weight. The reception of Trump is shaping up to be warm and designed to flatter him, indicative of Beijing's tactical approach to a U.S. leader known for his love for pomp, but it is unlikely to top the “state visit plus" extravaganza President Xi Jinping extended to Trump in 2017.

“That reflects greater Chinese confidence in their position, greater skepticism of Trump, and the awkwardness of the current relationship,” said Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and an assistant professor of security studies at Georgetown University.

In the past nine years, the China-U.S. relationship has shifted from engagement to competition and has dipped to a low point during the COVID-19 pandemic and trade wars.

Experts say China's economic clout and its ability to leverage its dominance in the global supply chain have allowed the Chinese leadership to negotiate from a position of strength and led to a more pragmatic China policy by the Trump administration. And now the war with Iran, which has left the Strait of Hormuz blocked and rattled the global economy, has given Xi an upper hand coming into the summit.

The war, which began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, delayed Trump's visit, initially scheduled for the end of March. Now, Trump is going to Beijing for a shorter stay than in 2017, and without first lady Melania Trump.

“The context for this visit is wholly different,” said Danny Russel, a former senior U.S. diplomat, who does not expect Beijing to outdo itself this time in receiving Trump. “The schedule has been compressed to basically one day and stripped down to the basics.”

China will roll out the red carpet

But the U.S. holds a special place in China's foreign relations, and China will shower Trump with plenty of ceremonial pomp because Beijing sees it as a diplomatic tool, Russel said.

If the 2017 trip is any indication, Trump can expect to walk down from Air Force One along a red-carpet stairway with golden edging and be greeted by a warm crowd.

At a formal welcome ceremony the next day, he will be greeted by Xi and other Chinese officials, whose rank could be telling. Trump is then expected to inspect military honor guards, lined up precisely by height, their eyes closely tracking him and Xi as the two leaders walk down the red carpet. And he will likely receive a 21-gun salute.

“It’s no secret to any government that President Trump responds positively to flattery and spectacle,” Russel said. “The pomp and pageantry is designed both to flatter Trump and to pacify him, making him more amenable to Chinese asks and reducing the risk of an embarrassing public confrontation.”

Xi also will offer something extra, as he did during past visits by American presidents. In 2014, it was an evening stroll with former President Barack Obama in the leadership compound of Zhongnanhai. In 2017, he hosted a private dinner for Trump at the Palace Museum, on the grounds of the former imperial palace.

This time, the special relationship between the Chinese and American leaders will play out at the Temple of Heaven, a former imperial site, in front of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, an iconic, blue-tiled building known for its circular design and a triple-gabled roof. The White House says Xi will accompany Trump on a tour of the World Heritage site, where Chinese emperors once prayed for bumper harvests.

The entire park is closed on Wednesday and Thursday, while the main attractions, including the hall and the Echo Wall, were closed on Tuesday for “the maintenance of ancient architecture,” park management said.

This is unusual. The park was not closed for the prime ministers of Britain or Spain when they visited the Palace Museum and the Summer Palace in Beijing, respectively, earlier this year. And Xi didn’t accompany them.

But it is not 2017 anymore

Beijing declared Trump’s first presidential trip to China to be a “state visit plus,” and it is the only one China has held for any foreign leader. The trip was full of unprecedented arrangements.

Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, gave Trump and the first lady a tour of the Palace Museum, where they chatted over afternoon tea and watched a traditional opera performance at a royal theater that had not seen a show for a century. They also dined there — a first for any foreign leader.

During the formal welcome ceremony the next day, “The Stars and Stripes Forever” was played as the presidents inspected Chinese military guards, an unusual choice intended to impress Trump.

Trump, who often boasts of his good relationship with Xi, still harkens back to that visit nearly nine years ago.

“You know, last time I went to China, President Xi, he treated me so well, he gave me a display,” Trump said in February. “I never saw so many soldiers, all the same height, exactly the same height within a quarter of an inch.”

How China treats Trump this time will offer clues about the dynamics of the relationship, said Doshi, who served on former President Joe Biden's National Security Council and helped plan his summits with Xi in 2022 and 2023.

“China uses diplomatic protocol as a method of signaling favor or disfavor. That is why we should pay close attention to how President Trump is received,” Doshi said.

A tres días de que se cumpla el plazo que establecieron las autoridades electorales para anunciar quiénes serán los dos candidatos que disputarán la segunda vuelta presidencial —programada para el 7 de junio—, el fiscal general Tomás Gálvez dijo en conferencia de prensa — por el aniversario de la fiscalía — que Sánchez está beneficiado por la presunción de inocencia, pero que esta condición cambiaría si es condenado en un juicio.

“Él hace su vida normal, sigue como candidato, sigue su actividad política sin ningún problema, ahora si concluyera el juicio y lo condenan, ahí sí ya es otra cosa”, dijo Gálvez de forma escueta en referencia al candidato Sánchez del partido “Juntos por el Perú”. No se sabe cuándo podría iniciarse el juicio.

Juntos por el Perú fue fundado en 2017 como una coalición de partidos de izquierda. La acusación fiscal presuntamente encontró inconsistencias en los informes financieros de la agrupación entre 2018 y 2020 cuando se realizaron comicios regionales, municipales y legislativos en los que participó.

Según los argumentos fiscales, Sánchez y su hermano menor William habrían recibido más de 59.000 dólares en aportes de los integrantes de la agrupación para actividades partidarias, pero que no fueron declarados en informes financieros ante las autoridades electorales.

La defensa de Sánchez, Carlos García, negó el martes las acusaciones de la fiscalía. El abogado indicó a la radio local RPP que la responsabilidad que le atribuye la fiscalía no alcanza a su patrocinado porque los informes financieros de un partido político son elaborados por el tesorero de la agrupación.

Sánchez y el candidato ultraconservador Rafael López Aliaga se disputan voto a voto su pase al balotaje del 7 de junio para disputar la presidencia con la conservadora Keiko Fujimori, según el lento conteo oficial electoral.

Según las autoridades electorales, contabilizadas el 99,8% de las actas de votación presidencial, Keiko Fujimori, del partido Fuerza Popular, lideraba el martes el conteo de votos con 17,17%, seguida de Sánchez con 12,01% y López Aliaga, de Renovación Popular, con 11,91%.

The 76ers were easily ousted by the New York Knicks to end Morey's sixth season in charge, and the organization quickly decided that someone else would lead the basketball operations department.

Sixers managing partner Josh Harris said in a statement that he and Morey had spoken and decided it was time for a fresh start.

Bob Myers, the former Golden State Warriors general manager, will lead the search for Morey's replacement and will oversee the department in the interim.

“To our fans, your frustration and disappointment are understandable and warranted,” Harris said. “We have fallen well short of our own expectations and failed to deliver in the way this city deserves. That bothers me deeply and I have confidence in Bob to establish a path forward for our franchise.”

The Sixers went 270-212 in the regular season under Morey but just 28-26 in the postseason, failing to advance past the second round. They returned to the playoffs this season after missing them for the only time in Morey's tenure in 2024-25, when they went 24-58.

Myers built the Golden State teams that won NBA championships in 2015, ’17, ’18 and ’22. He worked as a commentator at ESPN after leaving the Warriors before joining Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment in October 2025 as president of sports.

Morey joined the 76ers in 2020 after 14 seasons with the Houston Rockets, including 13 as their general manager. The Rockets made the playoffs in his final eight seasons and he was voted the NBA's executive of the year in 2018 after Houston went 65-17 and reached the Western Conference finals.

In 2019, he sent a tweet in support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, angering Chinese officials and wrecking the NBA's lucrative relationship with the country. The Rockets had previously enjoyed enormous popularity in China after drafting Yao Ming with the No. 1 pick in 2002.

Morey, best known for his analytical approach — he has an MBA from MIT and serves as the co-chair of the school’s annual Sports Analytics Conference — failed to build a title contender around oft-injured center Joel Embiid. He acquired James Harden, his former star in Houston, and later added another high-priced veteran in Paul George.

He did well with recent draft choices Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe, last year's No. 3 pick. But he also made a heavily criticized deal this season when he sent Jared McCain, a 2024 first-round pick, to Oklahoma City. McCain averaged 11.5 points in the defending champion Thunder's second-round sweep of the Lakers.

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The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner tipped his cap, then disappeared from view for a quick debrief with Pirates manager Don Kelly.

Sure, the competitor in Skenes wanted the opportunity to go back out for the ninth in search for the first complete game victory of his big league career. The remarkably mature 23-year-old who is constantly trying to keep things in perspective knew better.

His first pitch of the eighth, a fastball, hit just 93.7 mph, pedestrian by his standards.

So Skenes told Kelly he was done after 98 pitches and eight innings of two-hit brilliance and the chance for that elusive shutout had to wait. Skenes quietly gave way to Gregory Soto, who got the final three outs of a 3-1 win over Colorado that pushed Skenes' record to 6-2 and whittled his ERA to 1.98.

“It’s a long season,” Skenes said. "That was start nine out of 32, 33 and then hopefully eight or nine more after that. So, just got to see the big picture.”

One that seems to be growing ever brighter for Skenes. Two years and a day after his electric major league debut, Skenes is somehow surpassing the outsized expectations that followed him to Pittsburgh.

Consider this: Skenes took a no-hitter into the seventh inning against the Rockies, the third time in his last four starts he hasn't allowed a hit until the fifth or later.

Colorado spent six innings flailing away against Skenes before Mickey Moniak's sinking line-drive single to left-center with one out in the seventh. Pirates centerfielder Oneil Cruz stretched out every inch of his 6-foot-7 frame to make the grab, only to see it bounce a foot or two in front of his glove.

“I ran so hard that I’ll tell you right now, I would not run after my kids like that,” Cruz said afterward with a laugh.

And while the Pirates remain without a no-hitter since Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon teamed for a 10-inning masterpiece in July 1997 — nearly five years before Skenes was born — there's a growing sense that it's not a matter of ‘if’ Skenes will make history, but when.

Kelly turned to pitching coach Bill Murphy at one point as Skenes was retiring 18 of his first 19 hitters and admitted he felt like he was enduring a flashback of sorts to his time as a player in Detroit in the early 2010s, when it seemed like Tigers ace Justin Verlander could do no wrong.

“You were shocked when he gave up a hit,” Kelly said. “And Paul is on that type of run right now. Just the way that he’s throwing the ball, the command in the zone too, and then to be able to mix it up with all of his pitches. Impressive to watch."

The rookie whose fastball would hit triple-digits with ease has dialed back a bit on the velocity, focusing more on placement and a deep repertoire that keeps opponents off balance. By his count there are seven different pitches he can call upon at any time.

Nearly all of them were working against Colorado. Skenes struck out his first six batters. Willi Castro tried to break Skenes' rhythm by laying down a bunt to lead off the third.

The ball bounced right back to Skenes, who tossed it to first and said “nice bunt” to no one in particular as the PNC Park crowd booed the attempt.

Skenes didn't boo. He just thought “it was kind of funny" and then went back to work while becoming the first Pirates pitcher since 1961 to have consecutive starts of eight innings or more while allowing two hits without issuing a walk.

It's heady territory to be clear. Not that Skenes wants to talk about it. He prefers to bury himself in the process and let the results speak for themselves.

“He’ll tinker with stuff. Wind up. Stretch. Pitches. Pitch grips,” Kelly said. “It’s just really, honestly, the way he goes about it every day, whether it’s with the actual pitching or his conditioning, the way he gets after in the weight room. It’s amazing to watch.”

And he's still just getting started. Skenes doesn't turn 24 until later this month. His next turn in the rotation comes on Sunday when Philadelphia visits. When his towering No. 30 takes the hill against the Phillies, what happened on Tuesday night against the Rockies won't matter. No one knows that better than Skenes.

“Every start is new,” he said. "And you can get humbled real quick.”

Getting hit, however, is another matter entirely.

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The way the U.S. views Taiwan under the “One China” policy recognizes the Chinese position that Taiwan is part of China, while still allowing for informal U.S. relations with the self-governing island.

It is intended to be vague -- built on what's become known as strategic ambiguity. That is, the U.S. has agreed to ensure Taiwan has the resources to defend itself if China attempts to force a unilateral change, without saying how far it will go militarily to counter Beijing.

As assistant U.S. defense secretary Joseph Nye said in 1995 to Chinese officials wondering how the U.S. would react to a Taiwan crisis: “We don’t know, and you don’t know.”

“The idea was, stick to the very careful language that’s been crafted and don’t vary,” said Mike McCurry, former White House press secretary under Bill Clinton. “Because there are too many people listening and paying attention.”

Carefully balanced to protect Taiwan’s security and sovereignty without promising too much but also not irking Beijing, the policy could again be pushed into the spotlight during President Donald Trump’s visit to China this week. In the past, some U.S. officials have flubbed it, requiring swift diplomatic cleanup.

“It’s the precision of the words,” said John Kirby, who served across multiple Democratic administrations as a spokesman at the State Department and Pentagon and at President Joe Biden’s White House. “They just have to be so extraordinarily precise when you’re talking about Taiwan because, quite frankly, the stakes are enormously high.”

A look at how the Taiwan policy has tripped up presidents:

Biden went too far repeatedly

He suggested four times that the U.S. would intervene militarily if China were to invade Taiwan, forcing White House officials to clarify that he wasn't undoing decades of precedent.

During an August 2021 ABC News interview, Biden talked about a U.S. commitment to respond militarily if NATO allies were attacked and added, “Same with Taiwan.” The White House later said that U.S. policy toward Taiwan hadn't changed.

Biden said during a CNN forum that October that the U.S. was committed to defending Taiwan should China attack, resulting in similar White House backtracking.

In a May 2022 news conference in Tokyo, Biden said “yes” when asked if he was willing to use the military to defend Taiwan. “That’s the commitment we made,” he added, forcing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to reaffirm U.S. commitment to the “One China” policy.

And Biden suggested similarly during a September 2022 interview with CBS' “60 Minutes,” prompting more White House clarifications.

Trump's first administration had flubs

Trump was president-elect in 2016 when he took a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen — likely the first president to do so since the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with the island in 1979. He later scoffed at the hubbub, posting: “Interesting how the U.S. sells Taiwan billions of dollars of military equipment but I should not accept a congratulatory call.”

The following year, the Trump White House issued a statement about a meeting in Germany between Xi and Trump that described Xi as president of the Republic of China, the formal name for Taiwan — not the correct People’s Republic of China. The event's White House transcript was later altered to fix the mistake.

“There is a lot of difficulty to navigate a lot of these concepts. However, the reason why that is the case — a lot of misunderstanding and misspeaking — is because those concepts are conceptual traps set up by China,” said Miles Yu, who was principal China policy adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during Trump’s first administration. “You cannot explain something that’s unexplainable.”

Yu, now a senior fellow and director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute, has advocated for more firmly stating the U.S. commitment to defending Taiwan. He said the concept of a “One China” policy or a “One China” principle, as Beijing calls its insistence that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, was “completely of Chinese making.”

“No one inside the Chinese high command has ever believed there is any ambiguity as to America’s resolve to defend Taiwan,” Yu said.

Instead, he said, the U.S. has long adhered to plans to defend Taiwan in proportion to Chinese threats, as evidenced by Washington repeatedly mobilizing forces to the Taiwan Strait over the years amid heightened tensions.

Today, the Trump White House says there's been no change in policy but scoffs at the idea of verbal gymnastics required in stating it, noting that Trump has approved major arms sales to Taiwan over the years.

The policy was always hard to articulate

After the Chinese civil war ended in 1949, Washington recognized Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists as China’s leaders, even after that government fled from Beijing to Taiwan. But, under an agreement with Beijing beginning in 1979 with Jimmy Carter, the U.S. began adhering to the “One China” policy.

Carter’s administration spent months in secret negotiations with China to reach the agreement. Yet Carter later said that it “does nothing to prevent” a future president or Congress from “even going to war” to protect Taiwan.

Bill Clinton, during a 1998 roundtable in Shanghai, said he supported the “three no’s”: The U.S. not supporting Taiwan independence; not supporting the “two Chinas” idea, which would be a separate China and Taiwan; and not backing Taiwan’s admittance into international organizations.

But the following year, Clinton said, “You know what I’ve done in the past,” seeming to point to previous U.S. military interventions and suggesting he could do something similar involving Taiwan.

During a 2001 interview with The Associated Press, George W. Bush was asked whether the U.S. might use military force to counter a Chinese attack on Taiwan and answered, “It’s certainly an option.” Bush later told CNN that didn’t mean the U.S. was toughening its stance, saying, “I have said that I will do what it takes to help Taiwan defend itself.”

Five years later, during a state visit to Washington by then-Chinese President Hu Jintao, Bush's White House announcer mistakenly said the national anthem of the Republic of China would be played, instead of the People’s Republic of China. The correct anthem was ultimately played.

Some stayed on message

In 1989, George H.W. Bush said during a banquet in China that while the U.S. adheres to “the bedrock principle that there is but one China, we have found ways to address Taiwan constructively without rancor.”

During a 2014 joint news conference in Beijing with Xi, Barack Obama said, “We encourage further progress by both sides of the Taiwan Strait towards building ties, reducing tensions and promoting stability on the basis of dignity and respect.”

Still, getting it right can be tricky.

“Anybody who has been at the State Department, the Pentagon or even the White House podium can tell you: When the issue of Taiwan came up, you went to your notes,” Kirby said. “You didn’t freelance it.”

Yet Kirby recalled that he “got cocky once and didn't,” mischaracterizing the policy and causing “a little kerfuffle.”

Any big error usually first draws complaints from U.S. policy officials, Kirby said, who aren't shy with their displeasure: “You’ll be highly encouraged to make a statement correcting it right away.”

The meat of the summit won't happen until Thursday, when the leaders hold bilateral talks and a formal banquet. But the Chinese offered Trump a pomp-filled welcome, literally rolling out the red carpet for him after Air Force One landed in the Chinese capital.

The president was greeted by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng; Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to Washington; Ma Zhaoxu, executive vice minister of foreign affairs; as well as the U.S. envoy to Beijing, David Perdue, according to the White House. The welcoming ceremony included a military honor guard, a military band and some 300 Chinese youths waving Chinese and American flags and chanting, “Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!” as Trump made his way to his waiting limousine.

“We're the two superpowers,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House on Tuesday for the long flight to Beijing. “We're the strongest nation on Earth in terms of military. China’s considered second.”

While Trump likes to project a sense of strength, the visit occurs at a delicate moment for his presidency as his popularity at home has been weighed down by the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran and rising inflation as a consequence of that conflict. The Republican president is seeking a win by signing deals with China to buy more American soybeans, beef and aircraft, saying he'll be talking with Xi about trade “more than anything else.”

The Trump administration hopes to begin the process of establishing a Board of Trade with China to address differences between the countries. The board could help prevent the trade war ignited last year after Trump's tariff hikes, an action China countered through its control of rare earth minerals. That led to a one-year truce last October.

But Trump is visiting Beijing when Iran continues to dominate his domestic agenda. The war has led to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, stranding oil and natural gas tankers and causing energy prices to spike to levels that could sabotage global economic growth. The U.S. president declared that Xi didn’t need to assist in resolving the conflict, even though Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was in Beijing last week.

“We have a lot of things to discuss. I wouldn’t say Iran is one of them, to be honest with you, because we have Iran very much under control," Trump told reporters Tuesday.

Taiwan high on the agenda

The status of Taiwan also will be a major topic as China is displeased with U.S. plans to sell weapons to the self-governing island that the Chinese government claims as part of its own territory.

Trump told reporters Monday that he would be discussing with Xi an $11 billion weapons package for Taiwan that the U.S. administration authorized in December but has not yet begun fulfilling. The arms package is the largest ever approved for Taiwan.

But the U.S. leader has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan, an approach that’s raising questions about whether Trump could be open to dialing back support for the island democracy.

At the same time, Taiwan — as the world's leading chipmaker — has become essential for the development of AI, with the U.S. importing more goods so far this year from Taiwan than China. Trump has sought to use Biden-era programs and his own deals to bring more chipmaking to America.

The Chinese Communist Party's news outlet, People's Daily, published a strongly worded editorial ahead of Trump's arrival underscoring that Taiwan is “the first red line that cannot be crossed in China-U.S. relations” and is “the biggest point of risk” between the two nations.

Trump says relationship with Xi is on solid footing

Trump was already portraying the trip as a success before he even left White House grounds. He openly mused about Xi's planned reciprocal visit to the U.S. later this year, lamenting that the White House ballroom under construction would not be completed in time to properly fete the Chinese leader.

“We’re going to have a great relationship for many, many decades to come,” Trump said of the U.S. and China.

Trump embarked on Air Force One for the big meeting with a coterie of aides, family members and business world titans, including Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Tesla and SpaceX's Elon Musk. While en route to Beijing, he posted on social media that his "first request" to Xi during the visit will be to ask the Chinese leader to bolster the presence of U.S. firms in China.

“I will be asking President Xi, a Leader of extraordinary distinction, to ‘open up’ China so that these brilliant people can work their magic, and help bring the People’s Republic to an even higher level!” wrote Trump, who is expected to receive a formal ceremonial greeting when he arrives in the Chinese capital on Wednesday evening.

Despite Trump’s outward confidence, China appears to be entering the meeting from “a much stronger place," said Scott Kennedy, a senior adviser on Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

China would like to reduce tech restrictions on accessing computer chips and find ways to reduce tariffs, among other goals.

“But even if they don’t get much on any of those things, as long as there’s not a blow-up in the meeting and President Trump doesn’t go away and look to re-escalate, China basically comes out stronger,” Kennedy said.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met on Wednesday to discuss economic and trade issues at Incheon International Airport, just west of the South Korean capital Seoul, according to the Chinese state run Xinhua News Agency.

Trump wants 3-way nuclear arms deal

Trump also intends to raise the idea of the U.S., China and Russia signing a pact that would set limits on the nuclear weapons each nation keeps in its arsenal, according to a senior Trump administration official who briefed reporters ahead of the trip. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.

China has previously been cool to entering such a pact. Beijing's arsenal, according to Pentagon estimates, exceeds more than 600 operational nuclear warheads and is far from parity with the U.S. and Russia, which each are estimated to have more than 5,000 nuclear warheads.

The last nuclear arms pact, known as the New START treaty, between Russia and the United States expired in February, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century. As the treaty was set to expire, Trump rejected a call by Russia to extend the two-country deal for another year and called for “a new, improved, and modernized” deal that includes China.

The Pentagon estimates China has more than 600 operational nuclear warheads and will have over 1,000 by 2030.

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Boak reported from Washington. Huizhong Wu in Bangkok, Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and Kanis Leung in Hong Kong contributed reporting.

El primer ministro en funciones, Philip Davis, y su Partido Liberal Progresista (PLP) buscan un segundo mandato consecutivo. Davis disolvió el Parlamento el 8 de abril y convocó elecciones anticipadas.

El principal partido de oposición, el Movimiento Nacional Libre (FNM, por sus siglas en inglés), está encabezado ahora por Michael Pintard, quien asumió el liderazgo tras la derrota del partido en las elecciones generales de septiembre de 2021.

El doctor Hubert Minnis, ex primer ministro y exlíder del FNM, también se postula como candidato independiente.

El objetivo de la votación es determinar quién formará el próximo gobierno, ya que el partido político que obtenga la mayoría de los 41 escaños legislativos se convertirá en el partido gobernante.

La campaña en las semanas previas al día de las elecciones se centró en varios temas clave, entre ellos, el estado del sistema público de salud, la tasa de criminalidad del país, el costo de vida para los bahameños y las preocupaciones sobre inmigración.

El PLP ha buscado recordar sus logros a los votantes desde que asumió el cargo en 2021; por su parte, el FNM ha prometido corregir lo que, según afirma, los actuales gobernantes hicieron mal.

La Coalición de Independientes (COI, por sus siglas en inglés), que ha surgido como una alternativa a los dos principales partidos políticos, ha intentado informar a los bahameños sobre lo que ocurre en la sociedad y sacar a la luz cualquier corrupción en el gobierno, según el líder del organismo, Lincoln Bain.

“Creemos que los bahameños están listos para algo diferente”, declaró Bain el martes a The Associated Press. “La gente quiere un cambio”.

Observadores electorales internacionales han llegado a Bahamas, que tiene una población de más de 300.000 habitantes, para supervisar el proceso electoral. La Mancomunidad de Naciones, la Organización de los Estados Americanos y el bloque comercial regional CARICOM confirmaron el envío de observadores.

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Richins, 35, faces several decades to life in prison on five felony convictions, including aggravated murder.

Prosecutors said she laced her husband Eric Richins’ cocktail with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022 at their home near the ski town of Park City. She then published a children’s book about a boy coping with the death of his father shortly before her arrest in 2023.

Richins' attorneys declined to comment Tuesday before her sentencing hearing, which falls on the day her husband would have turned 44.

The statements from their sons, who were ages 9, 7 and 5 when their father died, came in a memo from prosecutors urging Judge Richard Mrazik to sentence Richins to life without parole.

The oldest child, now 13, said he wants the court to know that he does not miss his mom.

“I’m afraid if she gets out, she will come after me and my brothers, my whole family," he said. “I think she would come and take us and not do good things to us, like hurt us.”

Prosecutors allege that the boy suffered emotional and physical abuse from his mother, which they say is supported by findings from the Utah Division of Child and Family Services that are contained in a sealed court document. Agency officials could not comment on the allegations, as most records concerning minors are heavily protected, spokesperson Josh Loftin said.

Richins was a real estate agent with a house-flipping business who was millions in debt and planning a future with another man, prosecutors said. She had opened numerous life insurance policies on her husband without his knowledge and falsely believed she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million after he died.

Her aggravated murder conviction alone is punishable either by a range of 25 years to life in prison, or a life sentence without parole. Prosecutors did not push for the death penalty.

Jurors also found Richins guilty of other felonies, including insurance fraud, forgery and attempted murder for trying to poison her husband weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day with a fentanyl-laced sandwich that made him black out.

The Richins' middle child, now 11, refuted his mother's claim that she slept in his bedroom with him on the night of his father's death. He recalled unusual circumstances from that night, like being put to bed early without a bath, his parents' bedroom being locked and the television blaring from inside. The boy said his mother yelled at him to go away after he used a broom to try to reach a key to their bedroom, where Richins later told a 911 operator she found her husband cold to the touch.

The 11-year-old told the judge he is sad that his dad can no longer take him camping and fishing, coach him in sports or be present for major milestones. Like his older brother, he said he would feel unsafe if his mom wasn't behind bars.

“With (her) in jail, I will be able to continue to feel safe and live a happy and successful life without fear of (her) hurting me or anyone I love,” his statement read.

The youngest son said he feels “hateful and ashamed” when people talk about his mom because “she took away my dad.” He said he would be ”so scared" if his mother got out of prison.

“Once she is gone I will feel happy and I will feel safer and relaxed and trust people more,” said the boy, whose current age was not included in the memo.

Richins also faces more than two dozen money-related criminal charges in a separate case that has not yet gone to trial.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because no resolution has been announced. ESPN first reported that the investigation had concluded.

Antetokounmpo left a March 15 victory over the Indiana Pacers early after an awkward landing on a dunk, and he didn’t play again the rest of the season due to what Bucks officials described as a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise. Antetokounmpo said in the last few weeks of the season that he was healthy and wanted to play.

“I did what I was supposed to do,” Antetokounmpo said after the Bucks’ final game of the season. “I wasn’t able to come on the court now. Who has that say? It comes from above. I thought I had control. OK, if I’m healthy, I’m going to play. This just shows me that not just me, players in general, don’t have no control. No, I didn’t feel like I had control.”

The NBA had announced on April 4 that an investigation into the dispute was ongoing. The National Basketball Players Association had referenced Antetokounmpo while issuing a statement in late March recommending anti-tanking measures.

“The Player Participation Policy was designed by the league to hold teams accountable and ensure that when an All-Star like Giannis Antetokounmpo is healthy and ready to play, he is on the court,” the union had said in its statement. “Unfortunately, anti-tanking policies are only as effective as their enforcement; fans, broadcast partners, and the integrity of the game itself will continue to suffer as long as ownership goes unchecked. We look forward to collaborating with the NBA on meaningful new proposals that will directly address and discourage tanking.”

Antetokounmpo had two extended absences due to calf strains this season and played a career-low 36 games as the Bucks went 32-50 to snap a string of nine straight playoff appearances. Doc Rivers stepped down as coach the day after the Bucks’ final game.

Antetokounmpo has spent his entire 13-year career in Milwaukee and led the 2020-21 Bucks to the franchise’s first title since 1971. But the nine-time All-NBA forward’s future with the Bucks is uncertain.

The Bucks can offer Antetokounmpo a four-year, $275 million contract extension in October. If Antetokounmpo doesn’t sign, he could become a free agent after next season. Or the Bucks could decide to trade him beforehand.

Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam said last week at new coach Taylor Jenkins’ introductory news conference that he’d like the matter settled before the June 23-24 draft.

“Giannis has brought Milwaukee its second championship and the first in 50 years,” Haslam said. “He’s a phenomenal player. He’s a phenomenal person. He’s arguably one of the best basketball players in the world and we will do what’s best for Giannis and what’s best for the organization. We don’t know whether Giannis will stay with us or not, but we’ll work through that with Giannis in the coming weeks.”

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Roza said Brunel, who died in 2022, secured a talent U.S. visa in less than six months, and she traveled to New York, where the agency said she owed $10,000.

“Less than a month after I arrived to the United States, my agency sent me to the home of a sex offender,” Roza said about her first meeting with Jeffrey Epstein, who she said sexually abused her for three years.

Roza testified on Tuesday during the House Oversight Committee Democrats’ shadow field hearing at West Palm Beach City Hall. She said the agency moved her to Miami, and she was abused in Palm Beach.

Epstein “spoke of his arrest like it was a game, bragging about girls visiting his cell and his friendships with authorities,” Roza said, adding he raped her while he was on house arrest in 2009.

Through tears, Roza said she was re-victimized when her name was mentioned over 500 times in the Department of Justice’s records release.

“While the rich and powerful remained protected by redaction, my name was exposed to the world,” Roza said.

Survivors Jena-Lisa Jones, Dani Bensky, Courtney Wild, and Maria Farmer also testified during the hearing.

In a video, Farmer said she was living in New York when she reported Epstein’s abuse to the FBI in 1996. She said she talked to FBI agents again in 2006.

“The government offered Epstein a sweetheart deal,” Farmer said about former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta’s non-prosecution agreement.

Wild said Epstein sexually abused her from when she was 14 years old until she was 17 in Palm Beach, and the deal included her case.

“I was homeless. My parents had addiction problems. He preyed. He knew what he was doing,” Wild said, adding that Epstein’s attorneys portrayed her as an “underage prostitute” after she reported the abuse.

Wild said prosecutors did not notify her of the non-prosecution agreement. It wasn’t until years later, she said, that she was able to read the records.

“It seemed like they had forgotten that there were 40 of us kids who had been abused by him,” Wild said

Virginia Giuffre’s brother and sister-in-law, Sky and Amanda Roberts, and attorneys Spencer Kuvin and Lauren Hersh also testified.

“She believed accountability should reach everyone involved — no matter their status,” Sky Roberts said about Giuffre.

The survivors demanded that lawmakers work on stronger legislation to protect victims’ rights and pass Virginia’s Law to eliminate statutes of limitations for civil claims brought by adult victims.

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., presided over the hearing.

“This cover-up must end,” Garcia said.

U.S. Reps. Lois Frankel, Ayanna Pressley, Melanie Stansbury, Emily Randall, Maxwell Frost, Dave Min, Summer Lee, Wesley Bell, Jasmine Crockett, Yassamin Ansari, James Walkinshaw, Suhas Subramanyam, and Raja Krishnamoorthi also participated.

“We have to do everything in our power to block a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell,” Krishnamoorthi said about the sex offender sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in Epstein’s crimes.

Epstein died in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. The Medical Examiner’s office ruled he died of suicide by hanging.

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Collins spent 13 years as a player in the league for six different franchises. He revealed in 2013 that he was gay, an announcement that came toward the end of his playing career.

Collins had been diagnosed with Stage 4 glioblastoma, which has an extremely low survival rate. He was 47.

“Jason changed lives in unexpected ways and was an inspiration to all who knew him and to those who admired him from afar," Collins' family said in a statement released through the NBA. "We are grateful for the outpouring of love and prayers over the past eight months and for the exceptional medical care Jason received from his doctors and nurses. Our family will miss him dearly.”

Just last week, Collins received the inaugural Bill Walton Global Champion Award at the Green Sports Alliance Summit. He was too ill to attend and his twin brother, former NBA player Jarron Collins, accepted for him.

“I told my brother this before I came here: He’s the bravest, strongest man I’ve ever known,” Jarron Collins said while accepting that award.

Jason Collins averaged 3.6 points and 3.7 rebounds in his career. He helped the New Jersey Nets reach two NBA Finals and in his best season averaged 6.4 points and 6.1 rebounds for them in 2004-05.

“Jason Collins’ impact and influence extended far beyond basketball as he helped make the NBA, WNBA and larger sports community more inclusive and welcoming for future generations,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “He exemplified outstanding leadership and professionalism throughout his 13-year NBA career and in his dedicated work as an NBA Cares Ambassador. Jason will be remembered not only for breaking barriers, but also for the kindness and humanity that defined his life and touched so many others.

“On behalf of the NBA, I send my heartfelt condolences to Jason’s husband, Brunson, and his family, friends and colleagues across our leagues.”

Jason Collins spent the bulk of his career with the Nets, and also played for Atlanta, Boston, Memphis, Minnesota and Washington.

“This one hurts,” Dallas coach Jason Kidd, a former teammate and coach of Collins, wrote on X. “Jason Collins was a pioneer. He had courage like you’ve never seen. He was an incredible teammate. And having him in Brooklyn at the start of my coaching journey meant so much. Those who knew him were blessed to call him a friend. You are already missed my brother. Rest in power.”

Jason Collins revealed his sexuality in a first-person account for Sports Illustrated in April 2013. He was a free agent at the time, said he wanted to keep playing, and went on to play in 22 games with Brooklyn the following season.

“If I had my way, someone else would have already done this,” he wrote at that time. “Nobody has, which is why I’m raising my hand.”

His decision was widely lauded, with star players such as Kobe Bryant quickly speaking out in support of Collins. There was even support from the White House and then-former President Bill Clinton — whose daughter, Chelsea, went to Stanford with Collins. At Stanford, Collins was roommates with someone who was part of another American political dynasty, that being Joe Kennedy III, who spent eight years in Congress representing Massachusetts.

Collins, in the piece for Sports Illustrated, wrote that he realized he needed to go public about his sexuality when Kennedy walked in Boston’s gay pride parade in 2012 — but Collins couldn’t do the same.

Until then, Collins kept his feelings about gay rights close to the vest. He wore jersey No. 98 for the majority of his final three playing stints with Boston, Washington and Brooklyn — a nod to the year that Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming, was killed. He also wore 46 in one game for the Nets, since it was the only jersey the team had available when he signed.

Tributes poured in Tuesday from around basketball and beyond. The Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights advocacy group, released a statement that said in part, “stepping forward as he did boldly changed the conversation. He was and will always be a legend for the LGBTQ+ community.”

Added Arn Tellem, the agent who represented Collins: “Representing Jason Collins was one of the great honors and privileges of my life — not only as an agent, but as a counselor and confidant. ... The courage he showed changed lives and transcended our game. His impact reached far beyond basketball.”

A moment of silence was held Tuesday before the Minnesota at San Antonio playoff game, in tribute to both Collins and Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke — whose death was announced Tuesday as well. The Spurs lauded Collins not just for breaking barriers, but for “his bravery and kindness.”

Collins made nearly 61% of his shots in his career at Stanford, which remains a school record. He was an honorable mention selection for The Associated Press' All-America team in 2001, a few months before the Houston Rockets took him with the 18th pick in that year's NBA draft.

“It’s a sad day for all of us associated with Stanford basketball when we lose one of the program’s greats," former Stanford coach Mike Montgomery said. “We all have great memories of Jason and the kind of person he was. It’s hard to separate Jarron and Jason because they thought so alike, but even though he was an identical twin, Jason was unique in his own way. The impact he had on Stanford was immense, as he could match up against anyone in the country because he was big, smart, strong and skilled, all while being a very bright and nice person.”

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Now, he is one of 18 Americans under observation at specialized healthcare facilities designed to treat people with dangerous infectious diseases after three people died and others were sickened by a hantavirus outbreak aboard the ship.

Rosmarin, 30, said he expects to spend 42 days at the National Quarantine Unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Fourteen other American passengers from the ship are also there. Another who tested positive for the virus is in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit. Two were being monitored in the serious communicable disease unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

Public health officials have said the risk of the virus spreading from passengers into the general public is very low and that healthy people are being quarantined as a precaution.

Rosmarin, a content creator and photographer from Boston, told The Associated Press he intends to make the best of his isolation.

His room is more like a small hotel suite. He has a closet, smart TV, bathroom, small refrigerator, bed, chair and stationary bike. He has windows, but he keeps the blinds closed from peering media.

“It's a very nice room,” Rosmarin said. “I already ordered a mattress pad, new pillows. I think, for now, my plan is to take it one day at a time and that's the best I can do.”

On Tuesday, he received a special treat that he posted to social media.

Nurses at the facility brought him an iced horchata with oat milk and vanilla cold foam. “This is everything I needed, right now. Wow!” Rosmarin said into the camera.

Life in quarantine

Hantavirus usually spreads from rodent droppings and is not easily transmitted between people. But the Andes virus detected in the cruise ship outbreak may be able to spread between people in rare cases. Symptoms usually show between one and eight weeks after exposure.

“I never got sick,” Rosmarin said Tuesday.

Eleven people who were aboard the MV Hondius fell ill, with at least nine confirmed cases. Three people on the cruise died, including a Dutch couple that health officials believe were the first exposed to the virus while visiting South America.

The last remaining passengers on the ship disembarked Monday and boarded flights to more than 20 countries to enter quarantine.

The quarantine and biocontainment units in Omaha are specialized facilities created to monitor people exposed to serious illnesses. The biocontainment unit is used for treating people who are ill with highly infectious diseases.

Outside of doctors, who wear full personal protection equipment that include gowns and masks when they come into his room, Rosmarin can't receive visitors. Most nurses don't come into his room even when it is time for meals.

“I open the door with a mask on and they kind of put the food toward me and I grab it on the tray,” he said.

Once people began to get sick on the ship, passengers were also advised to stay in their cabins as much as possible.

“I left the cabin about 15 minutes each day to refill my water, get fresh air and grab food for breakfast and lunch," he said, adding that passengers practiced social distancing and masked up.

Penguins, seals and albatross

Rosmarin began traveling the world in 2022 after quitting his job as a media buyer. He has an influencer partnership with the ship's operator. The company covered the cost of his trip, which included stops at remote islands in the South Atlantic, including South Georgia Island.

“We saw a king penguin colony — the largest in the world, 300,000 to 500,000,” Rosmarin said. “We got to see gentoo penguins, fur seals, elephant seals, chinstrap penguins, albatross.”

Rosmarin described the MV Hondius as an expedition vessel and not a cruise ship. Since passengers and crew would be disembarking on islands, some with fragile ecosystems, biosecurity measures were in place, he said.

“An expedition vessel is much cleaner than any cruise ship you’re ever going to go on,” Rosmarin added. “For South Georgia, there were the strictest biosecurity measures. We have to sit down in the lounge pulling fuzz out of our jackets. A little pebble in your shoe, it needs to come out.”

Those precautions, though, were meant to protect the environment from passengers, rather than the other way around.

His planned trip of five weeks stretched to six because he couldn't get off the ship once the outbreak was discovered.

“We didn't really know it was the hantavirus until the night we were supposed to disembark,” Rosmarin said.

Waiting for Rosmarin back home in Boston is his fiance. The couple plans to marry next year. “I think he tried to be calm for me, but I think he was also very scared,” Rosmarin said Tuesday.

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Roselaine Jean-Pierre, de 67 años, formó parte de las dos docenas de personas que se reunieron en una intersección de Cité Soleil, sosteniendo ramas de árboles y exigiendo que la policía intervenga en la zona, aun cuando se escuchaban disparos en las inmediaciones.

“No hice nada para merecer esto”, dijo Jean-Pierre, quien huyó de su casa el domingo y ahora duerme en las calles de Puerto Príncipe, la capital.

Algunos de los manifestantes dijeron que vieron a personas ser asesinadas durante el fin de semana en Cité Soleil, donde también se podían observar autos quemados y vacas muertas. Las autoridades haitianas no han divulgado información sobre víctimas.

“Sé de siete personas que han sido asesinadas, y también de personas que han recibido disparos”, señaló Michel-Ange Toussaint, quien regresó brevemente a su casa en Cité Soleil para recoger algo de ropa.

Indicó que los ataques contra civiles comenzaron el domingo alrededor de las 6 de la tarde, lo que hizo que muchas personas huyeran de la zona en busca de seguridad. “Fueron nuestros propios pies los que nos salvaron”, señaló.

Las pandillas han tomado el control de Puerto Príncipe tras asesinato del presidente Jovenel Moïse en julio de 2021 en su casa. La policía afirma que las pandillas controlan alrededor del 70% de la capital y que los grupos delictivos han ampliado sus actividades —que incluyen saqueos, secuestros, agresiones sexuales y violaciones— hacia el interior del país. Haití no ha tenido presidente desde el magnicidio.

En un comunicado difundido el lunes, el grupo humanitario Médicos Sin Fronteras anunció la evacuación de su hospital en Cité Soleil tras los intensos enfrentamientos del domingo.

El Centre Hospitalier de Fontaine, otro hospital que opera en Cité Soleil, dijo el martes que también había suspendido sus operaciones debido al estallido de violencia que comenzó el domingo, y que tuvo que evacuar a todos sus pacientes hospitalizados, incluidos 11 recién nacidos.

En abril llegaron a Haití las primeras tropas extranjeras vinculadas a una fuerza de la ONU para ayudar a contener la violencia en curso.

El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU aprobó a finales de septiembre un plan para autorizar una fuerza de 5.550 integrantes, que aún no ha llegado por completo a la nación insular. Hasta ahora se ha desplegado un número desconocido de tropas de Chad.

En un informe publicado este año por la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones se concluyó que la violencia de las pandillas ha desplazado a más de 1,4 millones de personas en Haití, y que aproximadamente 200.000 de ellas viven ahora en sitios hacinados y con financiación insuficiente en la capital del país.

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Trump said he would have a “long talk” about Iran with Chinese President Xi Jinping but said trade would be a bigger focus. As he left for the summit, Trump again threatened Iran if its leaders don’t reach an agreement on its nuclear program.

“We have Iran very much under control,” Trump said. “We’re either going to make a deal or they’re going to be decimated. One way or the other, we win.”

Iranian state media quoted the country’s foreign ministry as calling “baseless” the allegation by Kuwait, which came under attack by Iran in the war and during the shaky ceasefire that is still holding. But the allegation and ongoing attacks in the region have threatened to reignite open warfare.

The narrow Strait of Hormuz remains in Iran’s chokehold, the U.S. is maintaining a blockade against Iran and negotiations between the two countries appear at a standstill.

“True peace cannot be built with a literature of humiliation, threats, and coercive score-settling,” Kazem Gharibabadi, an Iranian diplomat, said Tuesday on X.

With the risk of the conflict breaking out again, Israel has sent Iron Dome air-defense weapons and personnel to operate them to the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. ambassador to Israel said.

It was the first publicly acknowledged deployment of Israel’s military to the Emirates — home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai — and underlined the growing relationship between Israel and the UAE.

Also very late on Tuesday night, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook parts of Iran, followed by several aftershocks, according to Iranian state media. Witnesses felt the temblor in the capital of Tehran, where some people sought refuge in the streets. Iranian state TV said there were no reports of casualties.

Kuwait alleges Iran planned attack

Kuwait said a paramilitary Revolutionary Guard team tried to infiltrate Bubiyan Island in the northwest corner of the Persian Gulf near Iraq and Iran on May 1.

Four men were detained and two escaped when Kuwait’s forces disrupted the attack, it said.

A statement that Iranian media attributed to the foreign ministry in Tehran said four officers on a “conventional maritime patrol mission” had entered Kuwait’s waters because of “a disruption in the navigation system.” It denied any hostile intent and called for the men’s release.

Bubiyan Island is home to Mubarak Al Kabeer Port, which is under construction as part of a Chinese plan to build infrastructure across the world. It also came under Iranian attack during the war.

Kuwait provided no reason for why it delayed linking the attack to Iran after initially announcing it on May 3 without any details. Trump is traveling this week to China for a summit where Iran will likely be a main topic. Beijing long has been a buyer of sanctioned Iranian crude oil and has been hurt by the strait’s closure, which has sparked a global energy crisis.

Huckabee says Israel deployed to UAE

U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee revealed at a conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, that Israel has sent Iron Dome air-defense to the UAE.

The United Arab Emirates diplomatically recognized Israel in 2020. That drew criticism from Iran, long Israel’s main regional enemy. Iran didn’t immediately respond to Huckabee’s remarks, though it has repeatedly suggested over the years that Israel maintained a military and intelligence presence in the Emirates.

The Israeli military declined to comment on Huckabee’s statement about the Iron Dome while the UAE didn’t immediately respond.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, was quoted as making comments similar to Huckabee’s during an event at the Israeli mission — suggesting the release of the information was intentional, likely with the Emiratis’ and Israelis’ blessing.

The UAE has faced Iranian missile and drone fire even after the ceasefire was reached last month. It has been trying to signal to nervous investors and the public that it remains open for business and safe.

Hegseth tells Congress: ‘We control the strait’

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told members of Congress Tuesday that the military has plenty of bombs and missiles despite concerns about its stockpiles.

He also maintained that the U.S. is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, even as Iranian attacks — and threats — have disrupted the shipment of oil and other products through the vital waterway.

“Ultimately we control the strait, because nothing’s going in that we don’t allow to go in,” said Hegseth, who faced tough questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers who oversee defense spending.

Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, asked what the Trump administration’s strategy is for reopening the waterway. “Your average American is seeing this at the gas pump every single day as the cost of gas continues to rise,” Coons said.

Hegseth avoided specifics about the next steps in Iran. The Pentagon’s top budget official told Congress that the cost of the war is close to $29 billion so far — that’s up from an estimate of $25 billion just two weeks ago.

Norway has some 25 stranded vessels

One of Norway’s top diplomats met Tuesday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran, pressing for the need to open the strait.

Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Kravik stressed that the attacks on commercial shipping and obstruction of the passageway must end, his minister, Espen Barth Eide, said in an email.

Kravik said Iran’s actions affecting third-party countries are “completely unacceptable” and noted that Norway has some 25 vessels stranded, according to Eide.

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The pilot had declared an emergency and then communication with the aircraft was lost, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority in the Bahamas said in a media post. The U.S. Coast Guard and multiple Bahamian agencies were involved in the ensuing search and rescue.

The aircraft crashed about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Florida’s Vero Beach Regional Airport at around 12:05 p.m., the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.

The plane took off from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas and was headed to Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, also in the Bahamas.

The U.S. Coast Guard launched a C-27 aircraft to look for the downed Beechcraft 300 King Air turboprop plane. The rescued passengers were brought in for medical evaluations, the Coast Guard said.

The cause of the crash remains unknown. The FAA said it will investigate.

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Vast crowds in downtown Buenos Aires marched toward the government headquarters to denounce budget shortfalls eroding the financial foundation of the country's higher education. Argentina's public university system, a cornerstone of its well-educated workforce cherished by its large middle class, has been tuition-free since 1949 and produced five Nobel Prize laureates.

Congress passed a law last year to fund universities’ operational costs and raise teacher salaries in line with high inflation. But the government has not implemented it as it challenges the legislation in court.

Like his powerful backer and ally U.S. President Donald Trump, Milei routinely attacks university campuses as bastions of “woke” indoctrination. He has slashed public education funding as part of his plan to take a chain saw to state funding in a sharp break from what he describes as decades of reckless spending that spawned corruption under his left-leaning predecessors.

Tuesday's protest gathered people of all ages and political persuasions as Milei faces declining approval ratings over slumping economic activity, falling wages and climbing unemployment. A recent series of corruption scandals has also struck a nerve, with fallout particularly growing from an investigation into lavish spending by Milei’s close ally, Cabinet chief Manuel Adorni, that appears inconsistent with his modest public salary and declared assets.

“How much does Adorni cost us?” read one of several student protest signs alluding to the alleged misuse of public funds.

Milei's undersecretary for university policies, Alejandro Álvarez, criticized Tuesday's march as “completely political" and said the government had compensated universities for higher operating costs — marginal increases that unions have rejected as insufficient.

In seeking to annul the legislation, Milei's administration argues that it fails to specify how the state will supply the mandatory funding increases in a time of harsh fiscal austerity. The case is expected to go to the Supreme Court. Student protesters on Tuesday called on the nation's highest court to “listen to the outcry throughout the country's public squares.”

Since Milei took power in late 2023, university professors’ paychecks have declined by roughly 33% after accounting for stubborn inflation, according to the main teachers’ federation.

The rector of the prestigious University of Buenos Aires, Ricardo Gelpi, said the steep losses in purchasing power has driven at least 580 research professors in the engineering and science departments to ditch the public system for private universities or other better-paying jobs.

“It’s very clear this government is determined to defund public education,” said Sol Muñíz, 24, a law student at the University of Buenos Aires at the march. “University is a source of pride for us. It is the best thing we have.”

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Yusiel Lopez Insua, 46, is set to take a plea deal in July and will not go to trial, his defense said during a federal court proceeding on Tuesday.

“The case will be worked out,” said Walter Reynoso, Insua’s defense attorney. “My client will not put the families through a trial and expose them to relive this terrible tragedy.”

Lopez Insua has been charged with seaman’s manslaughter in connection with the July 28, 2025 collision off Hibiscus Island that killed three children aboard a youth sailing camp vessel — Mila Yankelevich, 7, Erin Ko Han, 13, and Arielle Buchman, 10.

A 19-year-old camp counselor and two children, one of whom was identified as Calena Areyan Gruber, 7, survived.

Federal prosecutors allege Lopez Insua was operating a tug pushing a construction barge when it struck the stalled sailboat in Biscayne Bay. Investigators said the sailboat had lost wind and drifted into the barge’s path.

Authorities have said Lopez Insua was using his cellphone around the time of the crash and that data “indicated activity on internet marketplaces, including at the time when the collision occurred.”

Prosecutors also allege the tugboat’s pilothouse view was obstructed by a deckhouse and crane on the barge, and that the vessel lacked adequate lookout systems such as cameras or radar.

“INSUA’s cellular telephone was unlocked during the transit time leading up to the collision and indicated activity on internet marketplaces, including at the time when the collision occurred,” according to an indictment obtained by Local 10 News.

Court filings previously stated Lopez Insua had operated the vessel for years and had prior “near-misses” in the same area.

The crash is also the subject of at least one lawsuit in Miami-Dade County court.

BSO has patrolled Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport since 1996. Several Florida airports, including those in Tampa, Sarasota and Fort Myers, have in-house police departments.

A company contracted by the county tells commissioners that airports that have their own departments have more control over day to day operations and it is financially feasible, but many more studies need to be done.

“No one is criticizing the job they’re doing,” Broward Mayor Mark Bogen said. “What we want to do is (ask), ‘Can we save money?’ ‘Can we have better control of the money and provide the public with the same security that they deserve?’”

Bogen said BSO’s budget at the airport is bloated.

Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony took to social media after reviewing the report.

“I’m not going to jump out and make any statement or opinion, so everybody take a deep breath,” he said in a video. “It’s about what is academically sound ― to make a safe decision where you don’t compromise public safety.”

The county has also floated removing the fire department from Tony’s purview and returning it to commissioners.

Regarding FLL policing, Bogen said, “The sheriff understands this is about cost and he actually said on his Instagram, kudos to us, the Broward (commission), for doing our due diligence.”

“So we’re doing our due diligence,” he said.

Besides policing the airport and Port Everglades, most of BSO’s patrol work is done in cities that choose to contract with it, unlike most large Florida sheriff’s offices, which have heavily-populated unincorporated areas to patrol by default.

Two cities have recently moved away from BSO: Pembroke Park launched a police department in 2022, while Deerfield Beach leaders recently voted to reinstate their police and fire departments, which were folded into BSO in 1990 and 2011, respectively.

Prior to Tony’s tenure, BSO lost two other policing contracts: Lauderhill restarted its own police department in 1994 and Southwest Ranches switched from BSO to contracting with the Davie Police Department in 2014. In the interim, several cities disbanded their police forces in favor of BSO.

That includes Pompano Beach, where officials are still mulling whether to bring back its own police department, which was disbanded in favor of BSO in 1999. It still has an in-house fire department.

The idea to replace BSO at FLL is not new: An audit a few years back also recommended starting an in-house police force.

The conversations remain in their early stages.

Slowik described Willis as a “really talented individual” capable of making throws all over the field while also creating plays with his legs.

“What I’ve enjoyed the most so far is getting to know him,” Slowik said. “The person is really fun to be around. He’s really energetic. He infuses everybody with a lot of energy.”

Willis, who was acquired this offseason after revitalizing his career as a backup with the Green Bay Packers, is trying to earn the trust of his coaches and teammates as he tries to earn the team’s starting quarterback job.

Slowik said the offensive staff is currently focused more on fundamentals than scheme installation during the early stages of organized team activities.

“It’s always a balance,” Slowik said of building an offense. “We have some core beliefs and fundamentals that we really want to make sure we do.”

Slowik emphasized his desire to keep defenses off balance through a physical rushing attack and varied offensive looks.

“I believe in running the football,” he said. “There’s a lot of different ways to attack people.”

Much of Tuesday’s session centered on Miami’s revamped offensive line, including first round offensive lineman Kadyn Proctor, who will start off playing left guard. Slowik repeatedly highlighted Proctor’s rare combination of size and athleticism.

“He might be one of the biggest individuals I’ve ever seen in my life,” Slowik said with a laugh. “His legs are bigger than me.”

The coordinator added that Proctor’s footwork and movement skills could allow him to play multiple positions along the line while staying on the left side.

Miami also hopes Willis’ mobility paired with running back De’Von Achane can create problems for opposing defenses.

“Anytime you have a quarterback who has the ability to run, it makes it 11 versus 11, as opposed to 11 on 10,” Slowik said. “It’s definitely a weapon and it’s a threat.”

Slowik also addressed the departure of receiver Jaylen Waddle, who was traded to the Denver Broncos earlier this offseason.

“Having Jaylen Waddle here was awesome. I enjoyed working with him,” Slowik said. “I think he’s going to tear it up in Denver, but I’m really locked in on who’s on our current roster.”

Willis is set to throw to a wide receiver room that includes Tutu Atwell, Jalen Tolbert, Malik Washington and rookie third-round pick Caleb Douglas. The Dolphins are also hoping to get contributions from another third-round receiver, Chris Bell, who participated in stretches before working out on the side during drills at the Dolphins’ rookie minicamp.

As Miami continues offseason practices, Slowik said the coaching staff is evaluating how to maximize the strengths of both veterans and rookies while refining fundamentals before training camp begins.

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He’s spent decades making us laugh, but Monday night the tables were turned.

Hart stepped into the line of fire for a night of brutal honesty and below-the-belt punchlines.

From the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, the Roast of Kevin Hart saw a sold out crowd experience endless jokes as one of the most influential comics in the biz got roasted by who’s who in comedy and Hollywood.

Local 10’s Jason Carter was there to capture the energy of the night from the red carpet to the show itself.

Among those in attendance was Tiffany Haddish, who praised Kevin for instilling a rock solid work ethic in her, Jennifer Lopez, Jay Shetty and John Stamos.

Stamos said he couldn’t wait to show Hart some love, as the pair go way back.

There was also a surprise appearance by Katt Williams, whose set reportedly stole the show and left no one, including Hart, unscathed.

Ha pasado décadas haciéndonos reír, pero el lunes por la noche los papeles se invirtieron.

Hart se puso en la línea de fuego para una noche de honestidad brutal y bromas subidas de tono.

Desde el Kia Forum en Los Ángeles, el Roast de Kevin Hart reunió a una multitud con entradas agotadas que disfrutó de interminables chistes mientras uno de los comediantes más influyentes del negocio era objeto de burlas por parte de figuras destacadas de la comedia y Hollywood.

Jason Carter, de Local 10, estuvo allí para capturar la energía de la noche desde la alfombra roja hasta el espectáculo.

Entre los asistentes estuvo Tiffany Haddish, quien elogió a Kevin por inculcarle una ética de trabajo sólida, además de Jennifer Lopez, Jay Shetty y John Stamos.

Stamos dijo que no podía esperar para demostrarle cariño a Hart, ya que ambos se conocen desde hace mucho tiempo.

También hubo una aparición sorpresa de Katt Williams, cuya presentación supuestamente se robó el espectáculo y no dejó a nadie, incluido Hart, sin recibir críticas.

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The “Understanding Fatherhood for Dads and Partners” class, offered at Memorial Hospital West, is designed to help men feel more confident as they prepare for a newborn.

Charley Naranjo, a paramedic and instructor for the class, said many expectant fathers come in with similar concerns.

“These dads, they might have some anxiety about the unknowns,” Naranjo said. “We talk about how to understand what fatherhood is.”

He said the class focuses on practical preparation.

“It’s more about giving them tools to handle pregnancy, what to expect before birth, during, and after,” Naranjo said.

Adolfo Ortega, a certified surgical technologist who also teaches the course, said many fathers are worried about handling newborns safely.

“They’re, I think, mostly worried about hurting the child and how to handle a baby that is so tender,” Ortega said.

The class includes hands-on training using infant mannequins.

“We actually have babies that are props, and we go through how to swaddle them, how to put a diaper on, and how to maneuver them,” Ortega said.

He added that hospital staff emphasize safe sleep practices.

“We only swaddle here at the hospital, not at home,” Ortega said.

When asked why, Ortega explained the safety concerns.

“It’s only recommended here because it’s a controlled environment,” he said. “At home, babies sometimes get their arms out and may cover their faces.”

He said the goal is to reduce risks such as sudden infant death syndrome.

“We try to avoid any risk of sudden infant death syndrome,” Ortega said.

Beyond newborn care, instructors said the class also addresses emotional and mental health challenges for new fathers.

“We also talk about some of the problems that can arise with their mental health,” Naranjo said.

He noted that while postpartum depression is often associated with mothers, fathers can experience it as well.

“There’s always a focus on maternal postpartum depression,” Naranjo said. “But now they’re doing more studies on fathers.”

He said some fathers may show stress in different ways.

“Sometimes that shows postpartum stress by gambling, working excessive hours, feeling like they don’t want to be with the family, or not showing much input in caregiving,” he said.

One expectant father, Fabian Maya, said he is preparing for his first child with his wife.

“We actually got married at church,” Maya said. So when he brought us together and we got married back in September, we became pregnant the same weekend, and right now we are 28 weeks along. I’m very excited to be a father."

Maya said his wife encouraged him to take the class.

“I said a hundred percent,” he said. “It never hurts to learn something new, especially when you’re going into an area you don’t fully know.”

He said the first trimester was overwhelming.

“The first trimester was very overwhelming because a lot of things were unexpected,” Maya said. “But I think I’ve improved.”

Instructors said the goal is to help fathers feel confident in their role.

“Dad is the Superman of the child’s life,” Ortega said. “That is going to be portrayed differently than the maternal way of a mom caring for a child.”

Naranjo added that perfection is not the expectation.

“It might not be perfect. It might not be the way the spouse wants it to be done, but they’re helping,” he said.

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La clase “Understanding Fatherhood for Dads and Partners”, ofrecida en Memorial Hospital West, está diseñada para ayudar a los hombres a sentirse más seguros mientras se preparan para la llegada de un recién nacido.

Charley Naranjo, paramédico e instructor del curso, dijo que muchos futuros padres llegan con preocupaciones similares.

“Estos padres pueden tener ansiedad sobre lo desconocido”, dijo Naranjo. “Hablamos sobre cómo entender qué es la paternidad”.

Indicó que la clase se enfoca en preparación práctica.

“Se trata más de darles herramientas para manejar el embarazo, qué esperar antes del nacimiento, durante y después”, dijo Naranjo.

Adolfo Ortega, tecnólogo quirúrgico certificado que también imparte el curso, dijo que muchos padres temen lastimar a los recién nacidos.

“Creo que lo que más les preocupa es lastimar al bebé y cómo manejar a un recién nacido tan delicado”, dijo Ortega.

La clase incluye entrenamiento práctico utilizando muñecos de bebés.

“Tenemos bebés de práctica y enseñamos cómo envolverlos, cómo ponerles un pañal y cómo moverlos”, dijo Ortega.

Agregó que el personal del hospital enfatiza las prácticas seguras para dormir.

“Aquí en el hospital sí envolvemos a los bebés, pero no en casa”, dijo Ortega.

Cuando se le preguntó por qué, Ortega explicó las preocupaciones de seguridad.

“Solo se recomienda aquí porque es un ambiente controlado”, dijo. “En casa, los bebés a veces sacan los brazos y podrían cubrirse la cara”.

Dijo que el objetivo es reducir riesgos como el síndrome de muerte súbita infantil.

“Tratamos de evitar cualquier riesgo de síndrome de muerte súbita infantil”, dijo Ortega.

Además del cuidado del recién nacido, los instructores dijeron que la clase también aborda desafíos emocionales y de salud mental para los nuevos padres.

“También hablamos sobre algunos de los problemas que pueden surgir con su salud mental”, dijo Naranjo.

Indicó que aunque la depresión posparto suele asociarse con las madres, los padres también pueden experimentarla.

“Siempre hay un enfoque en la depresión posparto materna”, dijo Naranjo. “Pero ahora se están realizando más estudios sobre los padres”.

Dijo que algunos padres pueden mostrar estrés de maneras diferentes.

“A veces eso se manifiesta como estrés posparto a través de apuestas, trabajar demasiadas horas, sentir que no quieren estar con la familia o no involucrarse mucho en el cuidado del bebé”, dijo.

Un futuro padre, Fabian Maya, dijo que se está preparando para su primer hijo junto a su esposa.

“Nos casamos en la iglesia”, dijo Maya. “Así que cuando Dios nos unió y nos casamos en septiembre, quedamos embarazados ese mismo fin de semana y ahora tenemos 28 semanas. Estoy muy emocionado de ser padre”.

Maya dijo que su esposa lo animó a tomar la clase.

“Dije cien por ciento”, afirmó. “Nunca está de más aprender algo nuevo, especialmente cuando entras en un área que no conoces completamente”.

Dijo que el primer trimestre fue abrumador.

“El primer trimestre fue muy abrumador porque muchas cosas fueron inesperadas”, dijo Maya. “Pero creo que he mejorado”.

Los instructores dijeron que el objetivo es ayudar a los padres a sentirse seguros en su rol.

“El papá es el Superman en la vida del niño”, dijo Ortega. “Eso se mostrará de manera diferente a la forma maternal en que una mamá cuida a un hijo”.

Naranjo agregó que no esperan perfección.

“Puede que no sea perfecto. Puede que no sea la forma en que la esposa quiere que se haga, pero están ayudando”, dijo.

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Ripley, then 45, was arrested in 2020 after her son, Alejandro, was found lifeless in a southwest Miami-Dade canal. The 9-year-old was non verbal and diagnosed with autism.

Investigators say Ripley, now 51, is the woman seen on video pushing the boy into the water ― an attempt that was interrupted, allegedly, when witnesses saw the boy splashing.

“The defendant made a story that the victim loved the water and fell in,” Assistant State Attorney Abbe Rifkin said.

Ripley is accused of finding a different canal and doing it again, later concocting a story about a robbery and abduction. The state says she confessed only after she was confronted with surveillance video.

The judge is considering a motion to suppress Ripley’s statements. The motion states that the way in which she was questioned by police, leading to that confession, was improper, through the use of implied promises, threats, and the exploitation of Ripley’s Christian beliefs.

“He asked Ms. Ripley if she believed in Jesus,” Ripley’s attorney, Karen Gottlieb, said. “And then he advises her that ‘right now she needs to pray’ because he doesn’t believe anything she says.”

Rifkin agreed with the judge’s characterization that the confession is “extraordinarily important” to the state’s case.

“I think I have a circumstantial case without the statement,” she said.

The judge said she would issue a written ruling by June 23. The trial is set for January 2027.

Ripley could be sentenced to death if convicted.

NYU Langone is the first hospital system to publicly acknowledge receiving a subpoena for such records as part of a federal criminal investigation. But the institution said in its statement Tuesday it was one of several that received a subpoena out of the Northern District of Texas on May 7. It said it was deciding on how to respond.

NYU Langone Health includes seven inpatient facilities and more than 300 locations in the New York City area and Florida. The hospital system said prosecutors want information on patients under 18 who received gender-affirming care from 2020 to 2026, as well as the names of the providers.

It is the latest move in the Trump administration's efforts to block care for transgender youths. NYU Langone had already announced earlier this year that it was ending such treatment for transgender kids amid funding threats from the federal government.

Last July, the Justice Department sent more than 20 civil subpoenas to doctors and clinics that provide gender care to minors, saying it was investigating “healthcare fraud, false statements and more.” Then-Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ was holding accountable “medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology.”

A federal judge in the Northern District of Texas recently sided with the Justice Department that Rhode Island Hospital in Providence must comply with one of those subpoenas, seeking records surrounding gender-affirming care provided to children.

The NYU Langone subpoena came up several times Tuesday during a federal court hearing in Providence on those records. An attorney for the Justice Department declined to disclose when exactly the grand jury had convened, saying that they could only speak to what had been publicly reported.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy then ordered the DOJ to provide the attorneys in the Rhode Island case with the affidavit related to the grand jury because it was now public.

Since the Justice Department issued the civil subpoenas last year, court documents show that at least seven federal courts have agreed to quash or limit the expansive subpoenas, which demanded that providers hand over the birth dates, Social Security numbers and addresses of patients who received transgender care.

As doctors and hospitals grapple with those subpoenas, 11 families this week filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to block the DOJ from obtaining the documents. The lawsuit, filed in Maryland’s federal court, is backed by families who have transgender children who have received care from hospitals across the U.S.

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it does not comment on grand jury investigations.

NYU Langone and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday.

LGBTQ+ groups condemned the latest federal requests for gender care information.

“We will not allow anti-trans extremists to turn our hospitals into hunting grounds,” Tyler Hack, executive director of the transgender rights group the Christopher Street Project in New York, said in a statement. “Playing political games to weaponize Americans’ private healthcare information is not just an attack on trans people — it is an attack on every single American who benefits from basic patient-provider privacy."

Ripley, entonces de 45 años, fue arrestada en 2020 después de que su hijo Alejandro fuera encontrado sin vida en un canal del suroeste de Miami-Dade. El niño de 9 años no era verbal y había sido diagnosticado con autismo.

Los investigadores dicen que Ripley, ahora de 51 años, es la mujer que aparece en video empujando al niño al agua, un intento que fue interrumpido supuestamente cuando testigos vieron al menor salpicando.

“La acusada inventó una historia de que la víctima amaba el agua y cayó al canal”, dijo la fiscal adjunta Abbe Rifkin.

Ripley está acusada de encontrar un canal diferente y hacerlo nuevamente, para luego inventar una historia sobre un robo y secuestro. El estado dice que ella confesó solo después de que fue confrontada con videos de vigilancia.

La jueza está considerando una moción para excluir las declaraciones de Ripley. La moción sostiene que la manera en que fue interrogada por la Policía, lo que llevó a la confesión, fue inapropiada, mediante el uso de promesas implícitas, amenazas y la explotación de las creencias cristianas de Ripley.

“Le preguntó a la señora Ripley si creía en Jesús”, dijo la abogada de Ripley, Karen Gottlieb. “Y luego le aconsejó que ‘ahora mismo necesitaba rezar’ porque él no creía nada de lo que ella decía”.

Rifkin estuvo de acuerdo con la caracterización de la jueza de que la confesión es “extraordinariamente importante” para el caso del estado.

“Creo que tengo un caso circunstancial incluso sin la declaración”, dijo.

La jueza indicó que emitirá una decisión por escrito antes del 23 de junio. El juicio está programado para enero de 2027.

Ripley podría ser condenada a muerte si es declarada culpable.

In a heated second leg that saw both coaches square up to each other at one point, Southampton rallied for a 2-1 victory at its home stadium at St. Mary's and seal a win on aggregate by the same score. The decisive goal — scored by Shea Charles when his cross curled into the bottom corner — came with four minutes left of extra time.

The two games were played under a cloud, with Southampton having been charged by the English Football League with a breach of its regulations following accusations that unauthorized filming of Middlesbrough’s training took place last week.

The EFL requested that an independent disciplinary commission undertake a hearing “at the earliest opportunity” but Southampton asked for more time to complete an internal review into the issue, meaning any punishment would likely be meted out before the playoff final with Hull on May 23.

That final is the richest one-off game in world soccer, with the winner assured a windfall of at least 200 million pounds ($270 million) in future earnings via things like prize money and broadcast revenue in the Premier League.

Tensions between Southampton and Middlesbrough boiled over at the end of the first half when the respective coaches — Tonda Eckert and Kim Hellberg — got in each other's faces on the touchline while being spoken to by the referee. After the first leg, which finished 0-0, Hellberg said he “couldn’t believe my eyes or ears” when he heard about the spying allegations and accused Southampton of trying to “cheat.”

Following another first-half exchange — between Middlesbrough's Luke Ayling and Southampton’s Taylor Harwood-Bellis — the BBC and Sky Sports reported that Ayling accused Harwood-Bellis of using discriminatory language.

Southampton is seeking an immediate return to the Premier League after relegation last season. Before that, it was in the top flight from 2012-23.

Hull was last in the Premier League in 2017.

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Runner-up to Rory McIlroy at the Masters. Playoff loss to Matt Fitzpatrick at the RBC Heritage. Runner-up (by six shots) to Cameron Young at Doral.

“Last week my wife was like, ‘Hey, Scottie. You’re like the first guy in PGA Tour history to have three solo runner-ups in a row.' I'm like, ‘Yeah, it’s probably because the guy that was playing that good figured out a way to win one of those,'” Scheffler said Tuesday.

It hasn't put much of a dent in his confidence going into the second major of the year. Scheffler is fierce when it comes to competition, hates losing even in friendly matches with his caddie and still has come to appreciate that winning isn't always easy.

He has a firm hold on the No. 1 world ranking — he is approaching three straight years at the top of golf — despite not winning since his season debut in the California desert.

“You know you're playing good golf, and you'd love to get some wins,” he said. “Finishing second hurts, but I think when you reflect and you're looking at things to work on, there's a lot less to clean up when you're finishing second than there is when you're finishing 30th.”

Not that he has a lot of experience with the latter — Scheffler hasn't finished 30th or worse since August 2024.

To end that run of silver medal this week at Aronimink would allow him to join Brooks Koepka (2018-19) and Tiger Woods (1999-00 and 2006-07) as the only players to win back-to-back in the PGA Championship in stroke play.

In his way is a course has plenty of room off the tee and little room for error when it comes to hitting the correct spot on the large, severely contoured greens.

He also faces the strongest field of the four majors, with 98 of the top 100 in the world, which includes the last three players to beat him — McIlroy (No. 2), Young (No. 3) and Fitzpatrick (No. 4).

McIlroy came up to Aronimink two weeks ago for a peek at the course he had not played since the BMW Championship in 2018, when it was so soft and mushy from rain that the event couldn't finish until Monday. The hope this week is for minimal rain and firm, dry conditions.

“For the most part, it should be a bit drier, which really brings out the character of the greens,” McIlroy said. “The greens seem to be the big defense and the big talking point of the golf course.”

McIlroy had his practice round cut short on Tuesday with a blister on his right toe that was causing some discomfort last week at the Truist Championship.

Not since Jordan Spieth in 2015 has anyone captured the first two majors of the season, and McIlroy has a chance to do that. The majors have become his focus of late, especially now that he finally has the career Grand Slam from winning the Masters a year ago.

McIlroy and Spieth are in the same group when the PGA Championship begins Thursday, along with Jon Rahm of LIV Golf. Spieth lacks only the PGA Championship to complete the career slam.

For all the talk about bunker complexes that seem to line every landing area — there are 20 bunkers on the 11th hole alone — players have been talking about the greens all week, particularly if the rain holds off and the course gets firm.

“Greens are diabolical. Should be a really good test,” Xander Schauffele said. "You can make it as easy or difficult on yourself as you’d like. If you get aggressive to certain pins and short-side yourself, you’re going to hit it to 20 or 30 feet at best, just based on how fast and firm it is and how much it runs away from you. But at the same time, there's certain pockets where ... you can hit a really good shot and get rewarded for it.

“The greens are definitely the thing to prepare for this tournament. I think it will be fun to watch.”

Scheffler and McIlroy have combined to win four of the last five majors — McIlroy at Augusta National the last two times, Scheffler at the PGA Championship and British Open last year.

Scheffler is more about precision, though he certainly has enough length. McIlroy feasts on wider fairways as one of the best drivers of the ball. Aronimink could test a little of each, though McIlroy was more concerned about the second shot.

“I think in this day and age I’m not sure if it’s going to test all aspects of your bag,” McIlroy said. "Strategy off the tee is pretty nonexistent. It's basically bash driver down there and then figure it out from there. ... When these traditional golf courses take a lot of trees out, it makes strategy not as much of a concern off the tee.

“But the greens are the main focus this week, and I think getting yourself in the right sections of the greens, making sure you leave yourself below the hole for the most part. That’s the key.”

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El acuerdo, que ahora está ante el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea, ha enfrentado la oposición de agricultores europeos y de grupos ambientalistas preocupados por la competencia desleal, las amenazas a sus medios de vida, las presiones sobre los precios y las normas ambientales.

El Ministerio de Agricultura de Brasil indicó en un comunicado que la decisión de Europa fue recibida “con sorpresa” y añadió que el gobierno del país sudamericano intentará revertirla. Medios brasileños informaron que la UE sostuvo que no había recibido pruebas de que los productos de origen animal de Brasil y de otros países estuvieran libres de sustancias antimicrobianas utilizadas para estimular el crecimiento de los animales.

El jefe de misión de Brasil ante la UE se reunirá el miércoles con las autoridades del bloque responsables de los productos de origen animal “para pedir explicaciones sobre la decisión”, señaló el ministerio.

Según la asociación para productos de origen animal del gobierno brasileño, los países de la UE fueron el tercer mayor destino de la carne de res de Brasil en 2025, después de Estados Unidos y China.

El acuerdo de libre comercio UE-Mercosur entró en vigor el 1 de mayo. Fue firmado el 17 de enero en una reunión del grupo sudamericano, que incluye, entre otros países, a Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay y Uruguay.

La presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen, ha puesto en vigor provisionalmente el acuerdo, eludiendo en la práctica al Parlamento Europeo, donde está siendo impugnado ahora por legisladores de la UE ante el poder judicial del bloque. El acuerdo se detendrá si el organismo europeo falla en su contra.

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Researchers and supporters of the change said the old name, often shortened to PCOS, is inaccurate. It reduced a complex hormonal or endocrine disorder to a misunderstanding about cysts and a focus on ovaries, contributing to missed diagnoses and inadequate treatment, said the Endocrine Society, a global group of physicians and scientists.

“The thought behind that is that one, there’s no cysts in the ovary, so it’s very confusing,” said Dr. Melanie Cree, one of the authors of the Lancet article and a pediatric endocrinology expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz. “The hope was that with a more comprehensive and accurate name change, that it would start to enable and push better care.”

The name change – made after 14 years of collaboration between experts and patients – was published in The Lancet on Tuesday.

Now PCOS is called PMOS

The condition is characterized by fluctuations in hormones that can affect weight, metabolic and mental health, the reproductive system and the skin.

It is associated with metabolic syndrome, a group of health conditions that increases your risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, Dr. Sarah Hutto with the University of Minnesota Medical School said in an online article put out by the university.

No one knows exactly what causes the condition, but there’s evidence that genetics and obesity play roles, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

What are the symptoms of PMOS?

Symptoms vary, which can make it tough for doctors to diagnose.

It is associated with irregular menstrual cycles and excess production of a group of hormones known as androgens, which can cause acne and hair growth or thinning. It may also cause follicles on the ovaries, although not abnormal cysts. But not all of these findings are required for the diagnosis.

To make the diagnosis in teens, Cree said, the patient has to have both irregular periods and signs of high androgens. This can include high blood levels of the hormones or symptoms such as severe acne or chest hair.

PMOS is associated with infertility problems

Cleveland Clinic experts say it is the most common cause of female infertility, because not ovulating frequently can result in not being able to conceive.

Having the condition may also increase your risk of certain pregnancy complications, such as gestational diabetes or preterm birth. Still, most people with the condition can successfully carry a pregnancy.

How PMOS can be treated

Cree says the No. 1 treatment is lifestyle changes, such as eating less processed food, exercising and getting a good night's sleep.

“We’re not trying to be judgmental. There is science to back this up,” she said. “So in PMOS, there is too much of the hormone insulin in many women, and that insulin confuses the ovary to make too much testosterone. And it’s the high testosterone that is causing all the symptoms.”

Other treatments include insulin-sensitizing medicines such as Metformin, medications that block androgens and hormonal birth control.

But Hutto stresses that management of the condition should be individualized to address specific symptoms and concerns. For example, those who plan to get pregnant may want to focus on fertility treatments while others may be more interested in options like hormonal birth control.

How will the name change help?

Researchers and doctors are spreading the word about the name change to their peers at meetings and through medical societies and other means. They hope it raises awareness about the reality of the condition and how they can best help patients.

“I’m very excited about the name change,” Cree said, “as are the majority of my colleagues.”

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You'll have to wait until Feb. 7, 2027, when the 69th annual ceremony once again airs live from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, it was announced Tuesday during the Disney Upfront presentation in New York.

The 2027 Grammys will also have a new broadcasting home: ABC. Back in 2024 the network and the Recording Academy announced a 10-year deal beginning next year.

That moves the show from CBS, which has aired the Grammys since 1973.

It also means next year ABC will be home to three major events: the Grammys, the Oscars and the Super Bowl.

Nominations will be announced Nov. 16, with eligible albums having been released between Aug. 31, 2025, and Aug. 28, 2026.

That means blockbusters like Justin Bieber's “Swag ll,” Taylor Swift's “The Life of a Showgirl,” Rosalía's “Lux,” Bruno Mars' “The Romantic,” and Harry Styles' “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” may be competing.

Olivia Rodrigo's forthcoming third record, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” will also be eligible.

The first round of voting takes place Oct. 12 through Oct. 22, followed by final round between Dec. 10 and Jan. 7.

“The Grammys are all about celebrating the music that moves the world, and this moment is built on exactly that,” Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason jr. said in a statement. “This is an exciting time for us as an organization — a new home and a bold new chapter for the Grammy Awards. We’re just getting started and the best is yet to come.”

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With the 2026 NFL season set to begin Wednesday, Sept. 9 at Lumen Field - home of the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks - the full Dolphins schedule, including dates and times, will be released Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.

The NFL will announce its international games Wednesday at 9 a.m. ET on NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football.”

Coming off a 7-10 finish in 2025, the Dolphins enter the new season following the firings of general manager Chris Grier and head coach Mike McDaniel.

In their place, the franchise turns to general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and head coach Jeff Hafley to guide a new era in Miami as the team looks to rebound.

The first full Sunday of the season will be Sept. 13.

As of Tuesday, the Dolphins are slated to host eight home games at Hard Rock Stadium and play nine road games.

Miami will face several high-profile quarterbacks during the season, including Drake Maye of the New England Patriots, who appeared in the Super Bowl a season ago but fell short in the title game; Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills, who has a 14-3 all time-record (including playoffs) against the Dolphins; Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers, who previously played under Sullivan and Hafley; Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, a three-time Super Bowl champion and two-time NFL MVP; Justin Herbert of the Los Angeles Chargers, with McDaniel now serving as the offensive coordinator; and Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Based on opponents’ winning percentages in 2025, the Dolphins will have the second-toughest schedule in 2026 (.542), trailing only the Chicago Bears (.550).

Con la temporada 2026 de la NFL programada para comenzar el miércoles 9 de septiembre en Lumen Field, hogar de los campeones defensores del Super Bowl, los Seattle Seahawks, el calendario completo de los Dolphins, incluidas fechas y horarios, será divulgado el jueves a las 8 p.m. ET.

La NFL anunciará sus partidos internacionales el miércoles a las 9 a.m. ET en el programa “Good Morning Football” de NFL Network.

Tras terminar con marca de 7-10 en 2025, los Dolphins entran en la nueva temporada luego de los despidos del gerente general Chris Grier y del entrenador en jefe Mike McDaniel.

En su lugar, la franquicia apuesta por el gerente general Jon-Eric Sullivan y el entrenador en jefe Jeff Hafley para liderar una nueva era en Miami mientras el equipo busca recuperarse.

El primer domingo completo de la temporada será el 13 de septiembre.

Hasta el martes, los Dolphins tienen programados ocho partidos en casa en el Hard Rock Stadium y nueve como visitantes.

Miami enfrentará a varios mariscales de campo de alto perfil durante la temporada, incluidos Drake Maye de los New England Patriots, quien apareció en el Super Bowl la temporada pasada pero perdió el juego por el campeonato; Josh Allen de los Buffalo Bills, quien tiene récord histórico de 14-3 contra los Dolphins, incluidos playoffs; Jordan Love de los Green Bay Packers, quien anteriormente jugó bajo las órdenes de Sullivan y Hafley; Patrick Mahomes de los Kansas City Chiefs, tres veces campeón del Super Bowl y dos veces Jugador Más Valioso de la NFL; Justin Herbert de Los Angeles Chargers, con McDaniel ahora desempeñándose como coordinador ofensivo; y Joe Burrow de los Cincinnati Bengals.

Basado en el porcentaje de victorias de sus oponentes en 2025, los Dolphins tendrán el segundo calendario más difícil en 2026 (.542), solo detrás de los Chicago Bears (.550).

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The suspect was identified in an arrest report from the Miami Shores Police Department as 40-year-old Sary Katiana Gomez, of Kendall.

The report states that the investigation began on April 29 after police responded to three package theft incidents across the west side, mid-zone and northeastern areas of the city.

Investigators said surveillance video from two of the thefts showed Gomez approaching homes while carrying a package, appearing to stage a delivery photo before removing packages that had already been delivered to the homes.

In another case, detectives said she was seen driving slowly past a victim’s home before returning through an alley adjacent to the property.

They said Gomez approached the porch carrying a small package, placed it near the delivered item, appeared to take a photograph, and then left with the victim’s package, valued at about $233.

Gomez’s arrest report states that additional surveillance video showed her walking to another home carrying an Amazon package, placing it on top of a previously delivered package, appearing to take a photo and then leaving with both items. Police said that package was valued at about $40.

Detectives said they also observed her leaving the area in a black Hyundai with distinctive “spiderweb-style rims.”

According to the report, an automated license plate reader later identified a vehicle matching the description bearing a Florida tag that had also been linked to another theft investigation in Sunny Isles Beach.

Investigators said law enforcement databases and previous traffic stops helped identify Gomez as the driver.

Detectives said her driver’s license photo matched the woman seen in the surveillance footage and displayed the same tattoo observed in the videos.

They said officers received an automated alert on May 8 indicating the vehicle was traveling southbound on Biscayne Boulevard near Northeast 105th Street. Officers then conducted a traffic stop in the 10300 block of Biscayne Boulevard.

Authorities said a records check revealed Gomez’s license was suspended. Investigators also discovered she had an “active county pickup-only warrant.”

After being advised of her Miranda rights, Gomez admitted she was the woman seen in the videos but denied stealing packages, telling detectives she “worked part-time delivering packages,” according to the report.

Jail records show Gomez faces two counts of third-degree grand theft from a dwelling or curtilage. As of Tuesday afternoon, Morejon was no longer listed in online Miami-Dade inmate records.

La sospechosa fue identificada en un reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami Shores como Sary Katiana Gomez, de 40 años y residente de Kendall.

El reporte indica que la investigación comenzó el 29 de abril después de que la Policía respondiera a tres incidentes de robo de paquetes en las áreas oeste, central y noreste de la ciudad.

Los investigadores dijeron que videos de vigilancia de dos de los robos mostraban a Gomez acercándose a las viviendas mientras cargaba un paquete, aparentando tomar una foto de entrega antes de retirar paquetes que ya habían sido entregados en las residencias.

En otro caso, los detectives dijeron que se le vio conduciendo lentamente frente a la vivienda de una víctima antes de regresar por un callejón adyacente a la propiedad.

Indicaron que Gomez se acercó al porche llevando un paquete pequeño, lo colocó cerca del paquete ya entregado, aparentó tomar una fotografía y luego se fue con el paquete de la víctima, valorado en aproximadamente $233 USD.

El reporte de arresto de Gomez indica que videos adicionales de vigilancia la mostraban caminando hacia otra vivienda cargando un paquete de Amazon, colocándolo encima de un paquete previamente entregado, aparentando tomar una foto y luego retirándose con ambos artículos. La Policía indicó que ese paquete estaba valorado en aproximadamente $40 USD.

Los detectives dijeron que también la observaron salir del área en un Hyundai negro con distintivos “aros estilo telaraña”.

Según el reporte, un lector automático de placas posteriormente identificó un vehículo que coincidía con la descripción y tenía una matrícula de Florida que también había sido vinculada a otra investigación de robo en Sunny Isles Beach.

Los investigadores dijeron que bases de datos policiales y detenciones de tránsito previas ayudaron a identificar a Gomez como la conductora.

Los detectives indicaron que la foto de la licencia de conducir de Gomez coincidía con la mujer vista en los videos de vigilancia y mostraba el mismo tatuaje observado en las grabaciones.

Indicaron que los agentes recibieron una alerta automática el 8 de mayo indicando que el vehículo circulaba hacia el sur por Biscayne Boulevard cerca de Northeast 105th Street. Los agentes posteriormente realizaron una parada de tránsito en la cuadra 10300 de Biscayne Boulevard.

Las autoridades dijeron que una revisión de registros reveló que la licencia de Gomez estaba suspendida. Los investigadores también descubrieron que tenía una “orden activa de recogida del condado”.

Tras ser informada de sus derechos Miranda, Gomez admitió que era la mujer vista en los videos, pero negó haber robado paquetes, diciéndoles a los detectives que “trabajaba medio tiempo entregando paquetes”, según el reporte.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Gomez enfrenta dos cargos de hurto mayor en tercer grado en una vivienda o propiedad residencial. Hasta la tarde del martes, Gomez ya no aparecía en los registros de reclusos de Miami-Dade en línea.

Roza contó que Brunel consiguió una visa estadounidense en menos de seis meses y que viajó a Nueva York, donde descubrió que le debía 10.000 dólares a la agencia de modelos.

“Menos de un mes después de mi llegada a Estados Unidos, mi agencia me envió a la casa de un delincuente sexual”, dijo Roza sobre su primer encuentro con Jeffrey Epstein, quien, según ella, abusó sexualmente de ella durante tres años.

Roza testificó el martes durante la audiencia paralela organizada por los demócratas del Comité de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes en el Ayuntamiento de West Palm Beach. Declaró que la agencia la trasladó a Miami y que sufrió abusos en Palm Beach.

Entre lágrimas, Roza dijo que fue revictimizada cuando su nombre fue mencionado más de 500 veces en la publicación de los registros del Departamento de Justicia.

“Mientras que los ricos y poderosos permanecían protegidos mediante la censura, mi nombre quedó expuesto al mundo”, dijo Roza.

Las sobrevivientes Jena-Lisa Jones , Dani Bensky , Courtney Wild y Maria Farmer también testificaron durante la audiencia. Exigieron que los legisladores trabajaran en una legislación más estricta para proteger los derechos de las víctimas .

En un video, Farmer dijo que vivía en Nueva York cuando denunció los abusos de Epstein al FBI en 1996. Añadió que volvió a hablar con agentes del FBI en 2006.

“El gobierno le ofreció a Epstein un trato de favor”, dijo Farmer sobre el acuerdo de no enjuiciamiento del exfiscal estadounidense Alexander Acosta.

Wild declaró que denunció a Epstein por abusar sexualmente de ella desde que tenía 14 años hasta los 17 en Palm Beach, y que el acuerdo incluyó su caso.

“Parecía que se habían olvidado de que éramos 40 niños los que habíamos sufrido abusos por su parte”, dijo Wild .

El hermano y la cuñada de Virginia Giuffre , Sky y Amanda Roberts, así como los abogados Spencer Kuvin y Lauren Hersh, también prestaron declaración.

“Ella creía que la rendición de cuentas debía llegar a todos los involucrados, sin importar su estatus”, dijo Sky Roberts .

El representante Robert Garcia , demócrata por California y miembro de mayor rango del Comité de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes , presidió la audiencia.

“Este encubrimiento debe terminar”, dijo García.

También participaron los representantes estadounidenses Lois Frankel , Ayanna Pressley, Melanie Stansbury, Emily Randall, Yassamin Ansari, James Walkinshaw, Suhas Subramanyam y Raja Krishnamoorthi.

“Tenemos que hacer todo lo que esté a nuestro alcance para impedir el indulto de Ghislaine Maxwell”, dijo Krishnamoorthi sobre la delincuente sexual condenada a 20 años de prisión.

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Obama lunched with Talarico and Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the nominee running to unseat Texas' Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, at a taco shop in Austin. The visit was meant to give the candidates a boost from one of the more liked figures in the Democratic Party.

Obama has been highlighting younger leaders in the party, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who he joined recently in the Bronx to promote free child care.

The former president first mentioned Talarico months ago on a podcast, saying he was “terrific, really talented young man," and he also called Hinojosa in March to congratulate her on the campaign, she said in a Facebook post.

Talarico's campaign has garnered national attention with his progressive, Christian platform. He will face either Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton or the incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, who are are battling it out in a Republican primary runoff election on May 26.

El programa permite destinar 11.000 millones de reales (2.000 millones de dólares) al gasto en seguridad pública, un ámbito en el que Lula ha sido un blanco frecuente de sus rivales políticos.

El programa incluye reforzar la lucha contra el tráfico de armas, atacar las finanzas de las organizaciones criminales, elevar la calidad de las investigaciones de homicidios e invertir en el sistema penitenciario del país. Cerca de 1.000 millones de reales brasileños (190 millones de dólares) de la iniciativa se invertirán hasta diciembre, informó el gobierno de Brasil.

El programa permite la compra de drones, escáneres corporales, detectores de metales, bloqueadores de señal de telefonía celular, máquinas de rayos X, sistemas de audio y video, radar, equipos de rastreo de ADN y vehículos, entre otras cosas. Sus principales objetivos son dos bandas criminales: el Primer Comando de la Capital, o PCC, y el Comando Vermelho, conocido como CV.

Lula, quien se postulará a un cuarto mandato como presidente, afirmó, durante el lanzamiento del programa en el palacio presidencial en Brasilia, que habló sobre asuntos de seguridad pública con el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, durante su visita a Washington la semana pasada.

“Le dije que teníamos propuestas de asfixia financiera (de las bandas criminales), de combate al lavado de dinero. Algunas de las armas (usadas en Brasil) vienen de Estados Unidos”, manifestó el presidente brasileño. “Le dije que, si quiere formar parte de esto, hay espacio. Pero tendrá que trabajar de acuerdo con las decisiones del gobierno de Brasil y de la policía de Brasil”.

Aliados del presidente brasileño en el Congreso señalaron que gobernadores de la oposición, que están a cargo de la policía local, se muestran reticentes a utilizar fondos de la iniciativa lanzada el martes.

El senador Flávio Bolsonaro y el exgobernador del estado de Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado, han hecho campaña durante años con una postura de mano dura contra el crimen, que también incluye críticas al Partido de los Trabajadores de Lula por supuestamente ser demasiado blando en materia de seguridad pública.

Lula no abordó esas críticas durante el lanzamiento del programa, pero el vicepresidente Geraldo Alckmin arremetió contra el expresidente Jair Bolsonaro, quien eligió a su propio hijo como candidato presidencial.

“La única política de seguridad en la presidencia anterior fue distribuir armas, permitir armas”, dijo Alckmin. “Y esas terminan con los criminales, con el crimen organizado. Es la policía la que debe poder portar armas”.

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El incidente ocurrió en el área de Southwest 102nd Avenue y West Circle Plaza, en la zona no incorporada de West Perrine.

Según funcionarios de rescate, un menor herido fue trasladado al Jackson South Medical Center y posteriormente fue transportado en helicóptero al HCA Florida Kendall Hospital.

Las autoridades aún no han confirmado detalles sobre la balacera ni han informado si buscan sospechosos o personas de interés.

Esta es una noticia en desarrollo que será actualizada a medida que se divulgue nueva información.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Pembroke Pines, el incidente ocurrió la tarde del 15 de marzo en el Walmart ubicado en 151 SW 184th Ave., justo al lado de Pines Boulevard.

La Policía indicó que la menor, cuya edad no fue especificada, caminaba sola en el estacionamiento alrededor de la 1:20 p.m. “cuando el sospechoso se acercó y le tocó los glúteos”.

Posteriormente, el hombre huyó en lo que la Policía describió como un Lexus TX blanco de modelo reciente.

Cualquier persona que reconozca al hombre debe llamar al sargento Jason Palant de la Policía de Pembroke Pines al 954-743-1654.

Secret Service Director Sean Curran attended the closed-door party lunch and talked through the request as a number of Republicans have questioned it in recent days. According to a handout he gave to senators obtained by The Associated Press, the $220 million would go to harden the ballroom addition, including “bulletproof glass, drone detection technologies, chemical and other threat filtration and detection systems and a host of other national security functions.”

The rest of the money would go for other security improvements, according to the document, including $180 million for a new, “long overdue” White House visitors screening facility and $175 million for “investments to train USSS agents in the modern threat environment.”

The Secret Service request comes after a man was charged with trying to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents Association dinner last month. Trump has said repeatedly that the ballroom construction would be paid for with $400 million in private funds, but the White House hadn’t previously disclosed the budget for security costs.

Republican senators have said they are supportive of a boost in security for the president, but several said that Curran's breakdown was too vague — and they want to know more about how the money would be spent.

“I want more information,” said Florida Sen. Rick Scott, a close ally of the president. “I ran companies, okay? If somebody came to me and said they were going to spend a billion dollars on something, I’d get more detail.”

GOP pushback could endanger immigration enforcement funding

Republicans have added the security money to a partisan spending bill that would restore funding for immigration enforcement agencies after Democrats have blocked that funding since February. But questions within the party about the White House funding proposal could jeopardize the legislation, which GOP leaders are trying to pass without Democratic votes.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, questioned why all of the security improvements weren’t in Trump’s budget released by the White House earlier this year. She said she asked for “a lot more data" in the meeting.

Indiana Sen. Todd Young said he could be supportive of "a certain measure of ballroom funding, which I think is defensible, but they need to go back and get us more detail about how exactly they arrived at the figures.”

The information provided to the senators was “broad categories,” Young said.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Monday, ahead of the meeting, that he believes the funding should be private. “That’s still my preference,” Paul said, adding that Congress had also increased the Secret Service budget after another attempted assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, during the 2024 campaign.

“Was it spent wisely? Do they really need more at this time?” Paul asked.

Secret Service cites 'evolving threats' in funding request

Beyond the White House improvements, the Secret Service said it is requesting $175 million for “enhancements for protectee security,” $150 million for “evolving threats and technology,” including countering drones and airspace incursions, and $100 million for security at high-profile “events of national significance.”

The budget bill introduced by Republicans last week has far less detail. It would designate the money for Secret Service “security adjustments and upgrades” related to the ballroom project, “including above-ground and below-ground security features." But it specifies that the money may not be used for non-security elements.

The White House has said in court documents that the East Wing project would be “heavily fortified,” including bomb shelters, military installations and a medical facility underneath the ballroom.

Democrats push back

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats will push the Senate parliamentarian to strike the security money from the bill. Under the rules for budget reconciliation, the complicated process that Republicans are using to pass the immigration enforcement money, the parliamentarian must review the text and can rule certain provisions in or out.

“Americans want lower costs, not a gold-plated ballroom for our billionaire president,” Schumer said.

If the security money stays in the bill, Democrats plan to offer amendments on the Senate floor that force Republicans to vote on it. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, said that she will offer two amendments to redirect the $1 billion to money for a criminal justice program or law enforcement officers' benefits.

There are also concerns about the money in the House, where Republicans have not introduced their own version of the bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., also attended the GOP lunch on Tuesday.

“We're waiting on the Senate product,” Johnson told reporters later in the day when asked if the security funding was proving to be a hard sell with House Republicans. “They're working through all that, and then we'll see what bill we get."

If doubts about the proposal persist, Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota suggested the security plan could potentially be pared down, punting some of the request to future annual spending bills.

Still, Rounds said it’s possible Republicans will approve the entire request once they have more details, so it gets done quickly.

“I think as more of the information begins to come out, I think people are going to feel a lot more comfortable with what they are requesting,” Rounds said.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has backed the legislation, arguing that the Senate should pass it now, “given the obstruction that the Democrats have posed and their unwillingness to fund law enforcement.”

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This story has been updated to correct the last name of the Secret Service director. It is Curran, not Callan.

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Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Stephen Groves contributed to this report.

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“We gave our attorney $25,000 to spend to seek additional outside counsel expertise,” said Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen.

That money was approved for outside legal counsel to determine whether purchasing the building is feasible or even possible.

This decision comes after the major airline went bankrupt and shut down.

“Anything in bankruptcy, you’ve got to go through bankruptcy court,” said Bogen. “It takes a while, but it is worth it if we can save hundreds of millions of dollars.”

While plans are already in the works to move out of the current building ― that county commissioners say is outdated ― and construct a new 14-story government center, it won’t be cheap.

The price tag is upwards of $663 million, and that doesn’t include a proposed childcare center, which would raise the estimated cost by $15.4 million.

“It is not easy buying a building out of bankruptcy, it is not easy dealing with that, but it’s also not easy building a building from scratch, or else we would’ve done it,” said Broward Commissioner Michael Udine. “I just think we owe it to taxpayers to look at these opportunities.”

To construct the new building would take an estimated two years for design and permitting and another three years for construction.

“Le dimos a nuestro abogado $25,000 USD para buscar asesoría legal externa adicional”, dijo el alcalde del condado Broward, Mark Bogen.

Ese dinero fue aprobado para asesoría legal externa con el fin de determinar si la compra del edificio es viable o incluso posible.

Esta decisión surge después de que la importante aerolínea se declarara en bancarrota y cerrara operaciones.

“Cualquier cosa relacionada con bancarrota tiene que pasar por la corte de bancarrota”, dijo Bogen. “Toma tiempo, pero vale la pena si podemos ahorrar cientos de millones de dólares”.

Aunque ya existen planes para abandonar el edificio actual —que los comisionados del condado consideran obsoleto— y construir un nuevo centro gubernamental de 14 pisos, el proyecto no será barato.

El costo supera los $663 millones USD, y eso no incluye un centro de cuido infantil propuesto, que aumentaría el costo estimado en $15.4 millones USD.

“No es fácil comprar un edificio en bancarrota, no es fácil lidiar con eso, pero tampoco es fácil construir un edificio desde cero, o ya lo habríamos hecho”, dijo el comisionado de Broward Michael Udine. “Creo que le debemos a los contribuyentes analizar estas oportunidades”.

Construir el nuevo edificio tomaría un estimado de dos años para diseño y permisos y otros tres años para la construcción.

O’Brien hosted the last two Oscar ceremonies to positive reviews. Earlier this year, in his opening monologue, he said he was “honored to be the last human host of the Academy Awards … Next year it’s going to be a Waymo in a tux.”

He’ll be surrounded by a familiar team, as well, with the return of Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan as the show’s executive producers.

Film academy leaders Bill Kramer and Lynette Howell Taylor said in a joint statement, “They are an incredible team and have produced such captivating, entertaining and heartfelt shows over the last two years,” adding that they’re looking forward to “Conan superbly leading the celebration with his brilliance and humor.”

After several years of ratings increases, including a post-pandemic high of 19.7 million viewers who tuned in for O’Brien’s inaugural year as host, when “Anora” swept the awards, the show took a dip in viewership this year, when “One Battle After Another” was crowned best picture. Engagement for the Oscars rose by other metrics, though. Social media engagement during the broadcast went up by over 42% this year.

“Conan has created remarkable energy around ‘The Oscars,’” Craig Erwich, the president of Disney’s Television Group, said in a statement. “His singular comedic voice makes Hollywood’s biggest night one of the most entertaining celebrations of the year. We’re proud to welcome him back and look forward to what he and the producing team deliver next.”

The 99th Oscars will be broadcast live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 14, 2027. It will be the penultimate ceremony at the Hollywood location and on broadcast television. In 2029, the show moves to YouTube, and downtown Los Angeles for its 101st awards.

General manager Rob Pelinka and coach JJ Redick affirmed their desire to keep James in a Lakers uniform on Tuesday. James' eighth season with the club ended Monday night with a heartbreaking 115-110 loss and a second-round sweep at the hands of the powerhouse champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

The 41-year-old James just completed his unprecedented 23rd NBA season, and he says he doesn't know whether he'll keep going.

"Any team, including ours, would love to have LeBron James on their roster,” Pelinka said. “That’s a blessing in itself, just with what he does.”

The top scorer in league history is an unrestricted free agent this offseason, so James can choose his destination if he postpones retirement for another year — although not every team has the payroll flexibility to pay him something near his worth. The Lakers have significant salary cap room and many decisions to make, but they're hoping James will choose to remain a part of their attempt to build a championship-contending roster around Luka Doncic.

“He’s given so much to his teammates, to this organization, and the thing we want to do more than anything else is honor him back," Pelinka said.

Pelinka spoke repeatedly of his desire to “honor” James' decision process. That means waiting until James tells them what's happening, and the Lakers appear to be content to wait for weeks to come.

“The first order of business there is allowing him to spend the time he needs to decide what his next steps are,” Pelinka said. “Does he want to play another year in the NBA? That’ll be (determined through) family time, I think, time with his inner circle, and we just want to honor that for him.”

James is eight seasons into his longest continuous stint with one team, and his family is happily settled in Los Angeles, where he has won a championship and set multiple NBA career records. What's more, his 21-year-old son, Bronny, is two seasons into a career as a backup guard with the Lakers, allowing LeBron to play alongside his son — most notably in several significant stretches together in these playoffs.

James missed 22 games this season because of injuries, and he scored a career-low 20.9 points per game while frequently serving as the Lakers' third offensive option behind Doncic and Austin Reaves — filling that role for the first time in his basketball life, he said with a laugh. But James seemed to thrive in that secondary playmaking role, particularly when Los Angeles was playing its best basketball in March.

The Lakers won 53 games and the Pacific Division title despite losing Doncic for the season and Reaves for nearly a month to injuries in the same game April 2. While the season ended with a four-game sweep at the hands of the strong favorites to win the NBA title, the Lakers are headed into the offseason with optimism about their ability to get even better next season — particularly if James sticks around.

But Pelinka also made it clear that the Lakers are building around the 27-year-old Doncic, who won the NBA scoring title and appeared to be ramping up for a formidable playoff run before a hamstring strain sidelined him.

“The archetype of the roster that we want is going to be retrofitted around Luka and the things he needs,” Pelinka said. ”Clearly he’s that leader and player for the future that we want to build the right way around.”

The Lakers' largest offseason transaction is likely to be a new contract for Reaves, the former undrafted free agent who has become one of the NBA's most prolific scorers in five seasons with Los Angeles. Reaves is expected to decline his player option for next season, and Pelinka confirmed that both sides expect the guard to sign a massive deal to stay with the Lakers.

“He started his journey here as a Laker and has made it very clear to us that he wants his journey to continue as a Laker, and we feel the same way,” Pelinka said. “We want his odyssey to continue to unfold in the purple and gold. Both sides have made it abundantly clear that we want to work something out.”

The Lakers' other unrestricted free agents including forward Rui Hachimura, who likely earned a big payday with his strong postseason play after long stretches of offensive passivity in the regular season; shooting guard Luke Kennard, a late-season trade pickup who made big contributions while Reaves was injured; and backup center Jaxson Hayes.

Starting center Deandre Ayton has an $8.1 million player option, and he said Monday that he hasn't even begun to think about whether to pick it up. Marcus Smart, another big-time playoff contributor, has a $5.4 million player option that he seems likely to decline for a bigger deal.

“Being here in LA, the crowd and everybody has been amazing,” Ayton said. “I wouldn't change it for nothing, to be honest.”

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According to an arrest report, the incident happened on May 2 at Bora Bora Market, located at 3296 Palm Ave. in Hialeah.

Hialeah police identified the suspect as 50-year-old Alejandro Izaguirre, of Miami’s West Little River neighborhood.

Officers responded to the market around 3:15 p.m. in reference to a grand theft and criminal mischief investigation.

A Bora Bora employee told police that he reviewed surveillance footage and saw an unknown man damaging a slot machine with what appeared to be a metal rod.

According to investigators, surveillance video footage shows the suspect entering the business around 1:30 p.m. to play the slot machine before later leaving and returning to his vehicle.

Police said the man was then seen opening the trunk and driver-side door before returning to the market carrying the metal object.

They said the suspect then broke the slot machine, causing more than $1,000 in damage, and removed about $2,000 in cash before fleeing in a vehicle.

The victim told police the suspect had visited the business before and may have been named Alejandro, according to the report.

The report states that an officer reviewing the surveillance footage on Monday recognized the suspect as Alejandro Menendez Izaguirre, whom the officer had previously arrested in connection with a similar incident last year.

Investigators later responded to Izaguirre’s home and took him into custody.

According to the report, while officers were at the home, Izaguirre spontaneously told his girlfriend “it was because of the slot machines” after she asked why he was being arrested.

Jail records show Izaguirre is facing one count each of third-degree grand theft and criminal mischief causing $1,000 or more in damage.

As of Tuesday, his bond was listed as “to be set” in online Miami-Dade inmate records. Additionally, the Cuban national remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an immigration hold.

The U.S. men open at SoFi Stadium (to be known as Los Angeles Stadium) against Paraguay on June 12, the first of eight matches to be played at the NFL stadium in Inglewood.

The field was all dirt on Tuesday.

That changes Wednesday, when sod arrives after a 1,600-mile trip in refrigerated trucks from Washington state. It’ll be installed over two days.

“This surface is the players’ stage,” said Otto Benedict, senior vice president of facilities and campus operation for SoFi Stadium.

Construction on the field began April 13 after the stadium hosted a Monster Jam event in which 12,000-pound trucks competed in racing, skills and freestyle competitions.

The stadium modified the field shared by the NFL's Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers in two phases. Auxiliary space and wider dimensions were created by removing corner seats to meet FIFA specifications, and a sophisticated irrigation system was installed to maintain the grass.

"To be the place where the energy first ignites, where the home crowd gets to set the tone for the rest of the tournament is a responsibility we don’t take lightly,” Benedict said.

Construction, landscape, grass and engineering crews were applauded by local World Cup organizers and community ambassador Magic Johnson, who pointed out his suite where he'll be watching.

"When you think about the financial impact it's going to have on Los Angeles, it's going to be amazing,” said Johnson, who is a co-owner of LAFC in Major League Soccer and the Washington Spirit of the National Women's Soccer League.

Already coming down was signage advertising the stadium's usual sponsors.

Tours of the stadium during the tournament are being sold for $86.50. Still available are premium seating, suites and hospitality packages.

Fans can choose from a variety of food and drink options. Among the items on display Tuesday was salsa verde aguachile with lime marinated shrimp, kettle cooked crispy pickles, stone fruit panzanella, spiced lamb rack, smoked salmon mousse, petite beef burgers, tune poke and aged ribeye cap with bordelaise and mashed potatoes.

Desserts include a World Cup trophy made of chocolate mousse, raspberry, chocolate crunch and chocolate sponge and a soccer ball filled with vanilla mousse, peach, strawberry crunch and vanilla sponge.

Metro debuted special edition TAP cards featuring three FIFA-themed designs, 17 country-specific designs, four FIFA collector cards, including a light-up card, and a collector's box.

“We want to provide a system that is safe, fast and fun,” Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins said.

Metro is working with 11 other transit lines in the region to offer direct-to-stadium bus service for $3.75 roundtrip from 15 park-and-ride lots in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Reserved parking lots range in price from $55 to more than $100. Fans can access 300 dedicated buses to every match in an effort to avoid disrupting service to Metro's regular riders.

The official FIFA Fan Festival will be held June 11-14 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with big screens showing games. Ten fan zones around Los Angeles County will host activities and watch parties.

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Tras casi ocho horas de discusión y mociones para modificar la propuesta, la Junta Escolar del Condado Broward votó a favor de avanzar con un nuevo organigrama que despedirá a aproximadamente 300 empleados en varios cargos y eliminará 700 puestos vacantes.

Esas medidas le ahorrarían al distrito más de $50 millones USD.

“Es una cantidad masiva de despidos”, dijo la miembro de la Junta del Distrito 2, Rebecca Thompson. “Nadie va a estar completamente feliz, pero creo que al final del día elaboramos un plan que hará que nuestro sistema escolar sea más estable”.

El miembro de la Junta del Distrito 6, Adam Cervera, fue uno de los dos integrantes que votaron en contra.

“Esto va a afectar a nuestros estudiantes, desafortunadamente, creo que de una manera muy negativa”, dijo.

Algunos de los puestos eliminados incluyen trabajadores sociales, especialistas en instrucción de apoyo estudiantil y profesionales de salud mental.

“Personas que tienen interacción directa con nuestros estudiantes día a día, en lugar de comenzar desde arriba en este distrito y eliminar parte del exceso administrativo”, dijo SOMEONE.

El superintendente Howard Hepburn dijo que el plan aprobado también incluye recortes significativos en puestos de alto nivel.

“El porcentaje más alto de recortes proporcionalmente fue en realidad el personal de la oficina central, especialmente directores y puestos superiores de alto nivel, eso fue un 16%”, dijo Hepburn.

Indicó que quienes ocupaban puestos eliminados aún podrían cubrir otras vacantes dentro del distrito, como maestros de aula y otros cargos con alta rotación.

“Queremos asegurarnos de priorizar nuestro apoyo para garantizar que cualquier empleado afectado tenga una buena transición”, dijo Hepburn.

Algunos miembros de la junta expresaron alivio por poder avanzar ahora hacia otros desafíos del distrito, como lograr que más estudiantes regresen a las escuelas públicas.

“Solo quiero que tengamos presente que estamos enfocándonos igualmente en aumentar la matrícula estudiantil”, dijo el miembro de la Junta del Distrito 5, Jeff Holness.

The report, titled “Silenced No More,” was published Tuesday by the Civil Commission, an independent group that documents and researches gender-based violence by Hamas after its 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.

The report details a two-year investigation that drew on more than 400 testimonies and nearly 2,000 hours of visual analysis documenting 13 patterns of violence, including gang rape, sexual torture and forced nudity.

“Our findings demonstrate that it was a deliberate tactic within the broader architecture of the terror inflicted on victims and hostages,” said Cochav Elkayam-Levy, founder and chair of the commission and lead author of the report.

Sexual violence has been heavily politicized since the war in Gaza began, with each side trying to discredit the other’s accusations.

Israel has pointed to incidents during the Oct. 7 attacks and to treatment of hostages to highlight what it says is Hamas’ savagery and to justify its wartime goal of preventing any repeated threat from Gaza. The Israeli government has accused the international community of ignoring or playing down evidence of sexual violence, alleging anti-Israel bias.

The report's findings could not be independently verified by The Associated Press, and critics have challenged some of Elkayam-Levy’s previous research. A number of prominent figures, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rahm Emanuel and Facebook pioneer Sheryl Sandberg, have endorsed her work.

The United Nations says it has found “ reasonable grounds ” to believe that Hamas militants committed rape and other sexual violence during their rampage. The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has said he had reason to believe that three key Hamas leaders bore responsibility for “rape and other acts of sexual violence as crimes against humanity.”

Human rights groups and Palestinians rounded up by Israel after the attacks have also shared detailed testimonies of sexual violence and torture in Israeli prisons.

In March, Israel dropped charges against five soldiers who had been accused of beating and sodomizing a Palestinian detainee in an alleged assault partially caught on camera. Hard-line politicians, who had angrily protested the charges, hailed the decision to dismiss the charges, while human rights groups said it illustrated Israel's unwillingness to investigate abuses.

Israel's government and Hamas did not immediately respond to requests from AP for comment.

The commission — composed of a team of researchers, lawyers and trauma experts — collected digital materials, conducted interviews and filmed testimonies. It also cross-referenced information using independent data sources, it said.

The report said Hamas and its collaborators primarily targeted women and hostages but that children also were subjected to violence and abuse.

In one example, it said two returning young hostages were forced to perform “sexual acts on one another," such as taking off their clothes while their captors touched their private parts.

It said sexual torture was used to maximize pain and suffering, with survivors enduring burning, mutilation and forced insertion of objects. Victims were sometimes found handcuffed or bound. Armed groups also recorded acts of abuse and killing and circulated footage through social media, the report said.

The report documented assaults at multiple sites, including the Nova Music festival, where hundreds were killed and others taken hostage. The AP previously found evidence that sexual assault was part of Hamas’ atrocities-filled rampage on Oct. 7, including a witness account by a man at the festival who said he heard a woman screaming for help and shouting, “They’re raping me, they’re raping me!”

Hostages also were subjected to sexual harassment and assault, some for months at a time, according to the report.

Some released hostages have spoken out about being sexually assaulted in captivity. In an interview with Israeli media, Romi Gonen said she was repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed by three men.

Another hostage, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, told the New York Times he was sexually abused by one of his captors and threatened with death if he said anything.

Here are five things that happened on Cannes' opening day:

Peter Jackson received an honorary Palme d'Or

The French Riviera festival began with a tribute to Jackson, handing the “Lord of the Rings” filmmaker an honorary Palme d’Or. He was introduced by Elijah Wood, who played Frodo Baggins in the films.

“I’ve never figured out why I’m getting a Palme d’Or. I’m not a Palme d’Or sorta guy,” said the shaggy-haired New Zealand filmmaker.

Jackson was then serenaded with a rendition of the Beatles’ “Get Back,” a nod to his lauded 2021 documentary. The director sat stage right mouthing the lyrics.

Jane Fonda and Gong Li declared the festival open

The task of declaring the festival officially open fell to the 88-year-old Fonda and Gong, the Chinese-Singaporean actor.

“Cinema has always been an act of resistance,” said Fonda.

Politics dominated the jury introduction

At the introduction of the jury that will decide the Palme d’Or — Cannes’ top honor — jury members spoke bluntly about holding a film festival during a time of geopolitical conflict.

Paul Laverty, the Scottish screenwriter known for his films with director Ken Loach, pointed toward this year’s Cannes poster, of “Thelma and Louise,” while discussing attending Cannes during what he called “genocide in Gaza.”

Quoting “King Lear,” he said: “Madmen lead the blind.”

“Cannes has a wonderful poster,” said Laverty. “Isn’t it fascinating to see some of them like Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo blacklisted because of their views in opposing the murder of women and children in Gaza? Shame on Hollywood people who do that.”

The nine-member jury is being presided over by Park Chan-wook, the South Korean filmmaker of “Oldboy” and “No Other Choice,” who said that politics and cinema go hand in hand.

“Art and politics are not concepts that are in conflict with each other,” said Park. “One cannot disqualify a film on the pretext that it has a political message. Just as one cannot reject a film because it would not be political enough.”

Other jury members include Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga and Demi Moore, who two years ago was celebrated in Cannes for her comeback performance in “The Substance.”

James Franco turned up on the red carpet

Cannes has sometimes been known for hosting personalities that find a less welcome reception in Hollywood. Three years ago, the festival famously opened with the Johnny Depp film “Jeanne du Barry.”

On Tuesday, James Franco was an unexpected guest at the opening ceremony. The 48-year-old actor also appeared in Cannes in 2024.

In 2021, Franco and his co-defendants agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging he intimidated students at an acting and film school he founded into gratuitous and exploitative sexual situations.

Guillermo del Toro presented a restored ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

Twenty years after Guillermo del Toro premiered his lauded fable, “Pan's Labyrinth,” he returned to Cannes on Tuesday to screen a 4K restoration of it. The filmmaker said the movie, about a young girl and fascist captain in 1940s Spain, remains timely.

“We are, unfortunately, in times that make this movie more pertinent than ever because they tell us everything is useless to resist, that art can be done with a —-ing app,” said del Toro.

The unlikely pair came together Tuesday not for a most unusual duet, but instead to praise ongoing efforts to find new homes for roughly 1,500 beagles purchased from dog breeder and research facility Ridglan Farms outside of Madison.

Forget Black Sabbath’s anti-war anthem “War Pigs.” This day was all about the dogs — more specifically, the beagles.

“It was so profound to be able to hold each of these dogs in our arms and be able to assure them that their new life was starting,” Gibson said. “Today was a very emotional day.”

Gibson and Butler pet the beagles taken from research facility

Both Gibson and Butler held beagles from Ridglan Farms that had been transported from the facility to the humane society on Tuesday.

“They’ve never let me down,” Butler said of his pet dogs at the Dane County Humane Society, which is working to find new homes for 500 beagles. “They’re always loving.”

As they and others spoke in the humane society's barn, beagles from Ridglan Farms sat in the arms of volunteers as they waited to be seen by veterinarians for a health check, vaccinations and other care.

Beagles bought following violent clash with police

The Washington, D.C.-based Center for a Humane Economy and Florida's Big Dog Ranch Rescue, which both oppose using animals in research, struck the deal last month to buy the dogs for an undisclosed amount from Ridglan Farms.

The deal was announced just days after a violent clash between animal welfare advocates and police outside of the Ridglan Farms facility. Police used tear gas and pepper spray to turn back activists who said they were there to take the dogs. Protesters also broke into the facility in March and took 30 dogs.

Numerous groups are working to transfer the 1,500 dogs bought from Ridglan to facilities where they will get veterinary care and be prepared for transport to shelters around the country, where they will eventually be put up for adoption.

Demand is high to adopt the beagles

More than 1,300 people have expressed interest to the Dane County Humane Society alone in adopting the dogs, said Amy Good, the society's director of marketing.

“It’s not a tough sell to get beagles into homes," said Wayne Pacelle, president of the Center for a Humane Economy. "The response across the nation has been overwhelming.”

The first 1,000 dogs were removed earlier this month and are in temporary shelters with agencies partnering with Big Dog Ranch Rescue. The Dane County Humane Society began receiving the remaining 500 dogs this week.

Ridglan Farms agreed in October to give up its state breeding license as of July 1 as part of a deal to avoid prosecution on felony animal mistreatment charges. The firm has denied mistreating animals, but a special prosecutor determined that Ridglan Farms was performing eye procedures that violated state veterinary standards.

Butler, who said he has five dogs and five cats at home, called it a historic day for the end of experimenting on animals.

“This is just the beginning,” he said.

Gibson, who released her debut album at age 16 in 1987, said she planned on fostering and possibly adopting one of the beagles she met on Tuesday.

“This little guy was the last one put in my arms, and I couldn’t put him back in a cage,” she said, holding the beagle as she spoke.

Asked whether they will ever work together on a song about dogs, Butler and Gibson chuckled.

“Maybe,” Butler said with a smile and a beagle still on his lap.

“I will not be tarnished by baseless allegations and fraudulent statements from the media,” Patel told Sen. Chris Van Hollen during a testy exchange that began when the Maryland Democrat confronted him about a recent article in The Atlantic magazine that painted an unflattering portrait of his leadership of the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency.

Patel has filed a $250 million lawsuit over the story. The Atlantic has said it stands by its reporting and would vigorously defend against the “meritless lawsuit.”

Patel shouted over Van Hollen and sought to turn the tables by accusing him of “slinging margaritas on the taxpayer dime” in El Salvador, a reference to a visit the Democrat paid last year to Kilmar Abrego Garcia while he was jailed there following his mistaken deportation to the country.

“The only person who has been drinking during the day on the taxpayer dime was you,” Patel said.

“Director Patel, come on,” Van Hollen said. “These are serious allegations that were made against you.”

He at one point asked Patel if he was willing to take a test meant to measure whether an individual has a drinking problem, prompting Patel to shoot back, “I’ll take any test you’re willing to take.”

The senator called Patel's claims of margaritas in El Salvador “provably false.” After last year's meeting, Van Hollen publicly accused El Salvador’s government of having misrepresented the nature of his encounter with Abrego Garcia, saying officials there had staged the meeting with drinks appearing to be alcohol and angled to set the meeting by a hotel pool.

The testy exchange occurred at an annual Senate subcommittee budget hearing featuring Patel and other senior law enforcement leaders. The director used the forum to tout what he described as major crime-fighting achievements since he took the position and received a friendly reception from Republican senators who praised his leadership.

Democrats, by contrast, pressed Patel on headline-generating travel that has blended his professional duties with private leisure — including a trip to the Winter Olympics in Italy, where he partied with the U.S. men's hockey team after their gold medal win — as well as the mass terminations of agents who worked on investigations into President Donald Trump.

“You attended the Olympics in Milan,” said Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat. “How much did your trip cost and to what extent did that help you carry out your mission as director of the FBI?”

Patel responded that the FBI was responsible for security at the Olympics and asserted that his trip to Italy helped facilitate the transfer of a Chinese cybercriminal to U.S. custody, who had been detained by Italian authorities.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request by one of Trump's lawyers that it let the president delay the payment to E. Jean Carroll, though it required that Trump post a $7.4 million bond to cover any additional interest costs, a request Carroll's attorney had made.

The appeals court late last month refused Trump’s request for a rare meeting of the full 2nd Circuit to hear an appeal of a three-judge panel’s affirmance of the January 2024 verdict.

Afterward, Trump attorney Justin D. Smith asked the 2nd Circuit to stay the effect of its decision upholding the award so that Trump would not be forced to pay the judgment before the high court has a chance to consider an appeal.

Smith said last week there was a “fair prospect” that the Supreme Court will find in favor of Trump, who has called Carroll’s claims first made publicly in 2019 that she was sexually attacked by Trump in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in spring 1996 a “made up scam.”

The $83 million award to Carroll, 82, came from a jury that briefly heard Trump testify and observed his animated behavior for several days.

In upholding the verdict, a 2nd Circuit panel wrote last September that Trump continued his attacks against Carroll for at least five years, making them “more extreme and frequent as the trial approached.”

“He also continued these same attacks during the trial itself,” the appeals court said. “In one such statement, issued two days into the trial, Trump proclaimed that he would continue to defame Carroll ‘a thousand times.’ ”

The jury had been instructed to accept the findings of a jury that in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding Trump sexually abused her in the department store and then defamed her after she published her account of it in a 2019 memoir.

Trump is challenging the $83 million award on several grounds, asserting “absolute immunity” for comments he made while president as he disavowed knowing Carroll and attacked her motivations, saying they were politically driven or arose from a desire to promote her memoir.

The 29-year-old Clarke was found dead Monday at a home in the Los Angeles area and emergency personnel who responded to the scene found drug paraphernalia in the home, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because those details were not released publicly.

Neither the Grizzlies nor Clarke's agency, Priority Sports, provided any details about the cause of Clarke's death.

“We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Brandon Clarke. Brandon was an outstanding teammate and an even better person whose impact on the organization and the greater Memphis community will not be forgotten," read a statement from the Grizzlies.

His agents wrote on social media that they were “beyond devastated.”

“He was so loved by all of us here and everyone whose life he touched,” read the statement from Priority Sports. “He was the gentlest soul who was the first to be there for all of his friends and family.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed sympathies to Clarke’s family and friends and the Grizzlies organization.

“We are devastated to learn of the passing of Brandon Clarke,” Silver said. “As one of the longest-tenured members of the Grizzlies, Brandon was a beloved teammate and leader who played the game with enormous passion and grit.”

Clarke was the 21st overall pick out of Gonzaga in the 2019 NBA draft by Oklahoma City, which dealt his rights to the Grizzlies.

He was fourth in the 2019-20 Rookie of the Year balloting — his Grizzlies’ teammate Ja Morant was the overwhelming winner of that award — and also was 11th in the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year voting for the 2021-22 season.

Clarke averaged 10.2 points and 5.5 rebounds in 309 career NBA games.

He averaged 16.9 points in his one season at Gonzaga, transferring there after starting his college career at San Jose State. At Gonzaga, he was a huge part of a team that also had Rui Hachimura — now with the Los Angeles Lakers — and went 33-4.

“He had such a kind, gentle and warm soul, and I will remember the great smile he had on his face whenever you were around him,” read a statement from Gonzaga and its coach, Mark Few. “BC was one of the most easygoing players we have ever had, and he was part of one of the greatest teams in our program’s history.”

Clarke was arrested April 1 in Arkansas for speeding and possession of a controlled substance that was reportedly kratom, an herbal supplement promoted as an alternative pain remedy that becomes illegal in Tennessee as of July 1. He was released on bond a day later.

Health officials have been warning about the risks of an opioid-related chemical known as 7-hydroxymitragynine and a component of kratom. The plant native to Southeast Asia has gained popularity in the U.S. as an unapproved treatment for pain, anxiety and drug dependence.

A federal report in 2019 found overdose deaths involving the herbal supplement kratom were more common than previously reported. Most who died had also taken heroin, fentanyl or others, though officials counted a few instances in which kratom was the only substance listed.

“love you broski. gone way too soon,” Morant wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday.

Clarke joined Morant on the NBA's All-Rookie team in 2020, and the Grizzlies gave him a multiyear contract extension in October 2022.

But injuries dogged him for more than three years. He tore his left Achilles tendon on March 3, 2023, in a loss to the Denver Nuggets in a showdown of what were then the top two teams in the Western Conference. Injuries limited him to 72 of a possible 246 games over the past three seasons, including only two this season.

“This is an incredible loss for the brotherhood," the National Basketball Players Association said. "We will remember Brandon not only for the immense joy he brought to so many throughout his career, but for the genuine friendships he built far beyond basketball.”

Clarke was under contract for the 2026-27 season with Memphis, which went 25-57 this season. The San Antonio Spurs paid tribute to Clarke with a moment of silence — both for him and former NBA player Jason Collins, whose death was announced Tuesday — before a playoff game Tuesday night.

Clarke's “leadership and passion earned him respect throughout the Memphis community and around the league,” the Spurs said.

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AP Sports Writers Teresa M. Walker and Anne M. Peterson contributed to this report

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An initial session of about two hours took place at the office of the Major League Baseball Players Association, a five-minute walk from Major League Baseball's headquarters in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The meeting lasted about two hours and was scheduled for initial presentations from each side on their view of the sport and its economics. No proposals were made.

Players who attended included Mets infielder Marcus Semien, a member of the union's eight-man executive subcommittee, along with Mets teammates Clay Holmes, David Peterson, Austin Slater and Sean Manaea. Several Detroit Tigers, who were in town to play the Mets, also were at the meeting and additional players joined via video conference.

“It’s the first one I’ve been at, so I don’t really have much to compare it to," Holmes said. "It was just kind of initial meetings, first time the sides were getting together and kind of sharing their thoughts on kind of where they thought things were at and what they thought was best for kind of the game moving forward.”

The sport's five-year labor contract expires Dec. 1, and baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has said repeatedly that management prefers offseason lockouts to in-season strikes, aiming to prevent the loss of regular-season games. Baseball has not lost regular-season games to a work stoppage since a 7 1/2-month strike in 1994-95 that caused the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years.

Talks for the last agreement began in April 2021 and ended with a deal on March 10, 2022 that preserved the 162-game schedule only after the sides bargained past several deadlines and Manfred announced the cancellation of 184 games, which were restored.

Bruce Meyer will lead negotiations for the union, as he did in 2021-22, but in his new role as interim union head. He moved up from deputy director in February after the forced resignation of Tony Clark, a former All-Star first baseman who took over following the death of Michael Weiner in 2013.

Deputy commissioner Dan Halem heads MLB's negotiations team, as he did in talks for the previous two agreements.

MLB and Meyer declined to comment on the session.

“I think just player engagement as a whole, it just seems like there’s a lot of it right now,” Holmes said. “Guys are wanting to hear and guys are wanting to be there and so, just to be able to kind of be there and pass along things that you may see or learn or just have conversations there.”

Some major league owners have said a salary cap system that also contains a floor is needed and would improve the sport. MLB, unlike the NFL, NBA and NHL, has not had a cap system, but since 2003 has had a luxury tax designed to slow spending.

“When I talk to the players, I don’t try to convince them that a salary cap system would be a good thing,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America last summer. “I identify a problem in the media business and explain to them that owners need to change to address that problem. I then identify a second problem that we need to work together and that is that there are fans in a lot of our markets who feel like we have a competitive balance problem."

Restraints had not appeared to have had much impact on the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets in recent years. The Dodgers shattered MLB's spending records with a combined $515 million in payroll and luxury tax last year en route to their second straight World Series title, according to final figures compiled by the commissioner’s office, and Los Angeles is projected for the highest total again in 2026. The ratio of the five highest spenders to the five lowest increased from 3.6 in 2021 to a record-high 4.7 last year.

The union maintains a cap system decreases spending on players, while management argues a cap and a floor would benefit most players.

Players increased their potential war chest of cash and investments ahead of collective bargaining to $415 million heading into 2026. MLB also has been accumulating cash ahead of bargaining, about $75 million per club in withheld central fund distributions.

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AP Baseball Writer Mike Fitzpatrick contributed to this report.

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Según agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, la balacera ocurrió alrededor de la 1 a.m. del viernes cerca de la cuadra 7900 de Southwest Seventh Court.

Los investigadores dijeron que O’Mari Doe, de 19 años, estaba dentro de un Ford Mustang 2020 cuando se desató la balacera. Los agentes indicaron que Doe sufrió múltiples heridas de bala y fue trasladado en helicóptero a Broward Health North, donde posteriormente fue declarado muerto.

Indicaron que una segunda víctima, Maurice Vorroto, de 20 años y residente de Coconut Creek, fue encontrada fuera del Mustang con una herida de bala. Las autoridades confirmaron que sus lesiones no ponían en peligro su vida.

Los agentes dijeron que Doe, Vorroto y otras dos víctimas estaban sentados dentro del Mustang cuando Aamir Dennard Adams, de 19 años, Anthony Adams, de 18, y dos menores de 15 y 16 años llegaron en un Honda Accord negro.

Según los investigadores, testigos dijeron a los detectives que los sospechosos salieron del vehículo armados con pistolas y dispararon múltiples veces contra el Mustang antes de huir del área.

Las autoridades posteriormente identificaron el vehículo sospechoso y emitieron una alerta para que otras agencias policiales estuvieran atentas.

Los investigadores dijeron que un agente de la Policía de Fort Lauderdale posteriormente vio el Honda Accord, lo que provocó una persecución que terminó cerca de la cuadra 900 de Southwest 13th Street en Fort Lauderdale después de que los sospechosos abandonaran el vehículo y huyeran.

Los detectives dijeron que los cuatro sospechosos fueron localizados y arrestados, y que se recuperaron armas dentro del vehículo.

Según la BSO, Aamir Adams, Anthony Adams y los dos menores, cuyos nombres no han sido divulgados, enfrentan cada uno un cargo de asesinato premeditado en primer grado y tres cargos de intento de asesinato en primer grado, además de intento criminal de solicitar o conspirar y resistirse a un agente sin violencia.

La investigación continúa en curso.

Según los agentes, la amenaza contra la escuela ubicada en 9401 Stirling Road fue recibida poco después de las 12:30 p.m.

Los agentes respondieron al campus para investigar la amenaza y también fue notificada la Unidad de Manejo de Amenazas de la agencia.

Los agentes dijeron que la escuela fue puesta bajo cierre preventivo como medida de precaución.

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Golden Tempo is the third Kentucky Derby winner over the past five years not in the Preakness Stakes, which for the sixth time in eight years will run without a Triple Crown contender.

While no decisions have been made, Maryland officials are considering shifting the Preakness from two weeks to three after the Derby, which always runs the first Saturday in May with the Belmont Stakes on the first Saturday in June — a five-week span that has been a mainstay since 1969, except for the 2020 pandemic when they were run out of order.

It's almost unheard of for elite thoroughbreds now to race that frequently. While momentum is building toward a change worthy of upending tradition, many at the height of the sport wonder if one additional week would even make a difference.

“It’s not enough, no,” trainer Brad Cox said. “A lot of the trainers that have the success at the top level with these 3-year-olds would tell you that you would like more than three weeks."

Anything more would require a massive undertaking involving stakeholders in multiple jurisdictions and media companies.

Changing the Triple Crown could be complicated

American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018 became the 12th and 13th horses to sweep all three races. The 2015 win ended a 37-year Triple Crown drought that was the longest in history.

The concern is less about whether a 3-year-old is good enough to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont and more about them not even getting the opportunity. Typically, the best horses go a month or more between races, including a grueling road just to get to Churchill Downs for the Derby.

“It’s pretty obvious that the horses benefit from more time in between races,” Chad Brown, five-time Eclipse Award-winner as trainer of the year, said. “They run a lot less than they used to over the course of time, when you study the history, and I guess we have to take a step back and look at what’s best — even if it’s an uncomfortable change.”

Brown, who has won the Preakness twice, agrees with Cox that three weeks is not enough but also said a small shift should come first.

The Maryland Jockey Club, which is taking over control of the Preakness from 1/ST Racing beginning next year, must first complete a media rights agreement that could play a big role in when the race is held. 1/ST Racing in 2023 broached the possibility of moving the Preakness back by two weeks, and while that never happened, new people in charge now have that control.

“We do have that luxury of just starting over and listening to all viewpoints, and ultimately we’re going to try to make the best decision we can for obviously the event and horse racing and the state of Maryland,” Maryland Jockey Club president and general manager Bill Knauf told The Associated Press this week. “We obviously recognize the history. We know what obviously has happened recently in terms of some of the Derby winners not being able to make it because of the timing. So, everything is going to be considered.”

Watching the developments keenly are officials in charge of the Belmont, which would likely need to shift in some way to avoid the same dilemma of another short turnaround. That decision is up to the New York Racing Association, and pushing the final Crown race back to, say, the July Fourth weekend is unlikely given the lack of fan interest in sports during the holiday.

NYRA spokesman Pat McKenna said: “We are always willing to engage with Churchill Downs and the Maryland Jockey Club to ensure the continued success of the Triple Crown.”

Horse welfare is the most important thing

It's not typically the fear of injury but rather performance concerns that keep owners and trainers from wanting to risk a two- or three-week turnaround.

“It’s not that the horses can’t do it,” said trainer Whit Beckman, who entered Ocelli in the Preakness after he finished third in the Derby. "These are very durable, resilient animals when they’re fit, when they’re happy, when they’re healthy, so it’s not necessarily a matter of they can’t do it. It’s just a matter of the opportunities nowadays just don’t seem to arise like this.”

Like Bill Mott with Derby champion Sovereignty last year, Cherie DeVaux is bypassing the Preakness with Golden Tempo to focus on the Belmont on June 6. The five-week gap paid off for Sovereignty, who won the Belmont, the Jim Dandy and the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York and is back racing as a 4-year-old.

“They obviously skipped the Preakness because it’s kind of tough for trainers and owners,” Cox said. "We sometimes get bashed about not having horses stay around at the age of 4, but you’ve got to manage them properly and manage them right in order to get some longevity out of them. And running them back in two weeks, demanding races, oftentimes that’s not going to lead to longevity.”

Sovereignty earned nearly $6 million, and his success will be worth even more in breeding.

There are many other factors to consider

Brown, whose opinion has evolved to embracing change, wants horse racing to figure out the reasons the race should get moved: based on more Derby horses in the Preakness, long-term health coming out of it and viewership.

"Are you looking for a little bit of all of it?” Brown said. “The industry needs to clearly define what their main objectives are before you move it and work backwards from there to see what date of this race is going to achieve those. ”

More Derby winners and horses in general going to the Preakness could restore the luster of the race and perhaps boost viewership and attendance, which last year was down 60% from pre-pandemic levels.

Television exposure is crucial, and Knauf expects resolution on a new media rights deal soon. Whether NBC Sports retains the rights or Fox Sports takes over, as it has the Belmont, could affect negotiations over spacing.

“There are a lot of factors, and certainly the media rights and broadcast partner, dependent on whatever events they already are showcasing on those weekends come in,” Knauf said. “We are trying to do the best that we can to obviously communicate with all of them, communicate eventually with partners in NYRA and Churchill as part of the Triple Crown.”

Knauf expects whatever strategy Maryland comes up with to be implemented as soon as 2027, when the Preakness returns to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore after a one-year stint at Laurel Park. That would be the start of a shift in racing that Brown considers inevitable.

“It’s not sustainable,” Brown said. “You can’t ignore the trend, and you can’t ignore the fact that horses in all different categories and class levels seem to appreciate more time in between their races, for whatever the reasons are. So, that’s the way we’re headed.”

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Some storms could be severe with damaging wind gusts and flooding. An isolated tornado and hail are also possible. The highest threat is from 4-9 p.m. After 9 p.m., lighter rain may linger in spots.

More showers and thunderstorms will likely develop on Wednesday, especially in the afternoon. It may not be as widespread as Tuesday, but an isolated storm still could be strong. High temperatures will be in the upper 80s. We will be drier to end the work week as temperatures warm back to 90 degrees again.

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According to deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the shooting occurred around 1 a.m. Friday near the 7900 block of Southwest Seventh Court.

Investigators said 19-year-old O’Mari Doe was inside a 2020 Ford Mustang when gunfire erupted. Deputies said Doe suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was airlifted to Broward Health North, where he was later pronounced dead.

They said a second victim, 20-year-old Maurice Vorroto, of Coconut Creek, was found outside the Mustang suffering from a gunshot wound. Authorities confirmed that his injuries were not life-threatening.

Deputies said Doe, Vorroto, and two other victims were sitting inside the Mustang when Aamir Dennard Adams, 19, Anthony Adams, 18, Romayne Smith, 16, and Amari Adams, 15, arrived in a black Honda Accord.

According to investigators, witnesses told detectives the suspects got out of the car armed with handguns and fired multiple shots into the Mustang before fleeing the area.

Authorities later identified the suspect vehicle and issued a be-on-the-lookout alert to surrounding law enforcement agencies.

Investigators said a Fort Lauderdale police officer later spotted the Honda Accord, prompting a pursuit that ended near the 900 block of Southwest 13th Street in Fort Lauderdale after the suspects bailed out of the vehicle.

Detectives said all four suspects were located and arrested, and guns were recovered from inside the car.

All four suspects each face one count of first-degree premeditated murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder, along with criminal attempt to solicit or conspire and resisting an officer without violence, according to BSO.

The investigation remains ongoing.

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According to deputies, the threat to the school at 9401 Stirling Road was received just after 12:30 p.m.

Deputies responded to the campus to investigate the threat and the agency’s Threat Management Unit was also notified.

Deputies said the school was placed on lockdown as a precaution, but the school district later confirmed that the “all clear” has since been given.

No other details were immediately released.

He had speaking lines — pulling off a “Saved by the Bell” joke — in Adam Sandler's “Happy Gilmore 2” and even snagged a bit part for his wife alongside him for a party scene in the recent Anne Hathaway movie “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”

There's something about sequels that fits McIlroy just fine these days.

No red carpet needed.

Try green jackets. Two of them, after he joined Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus as the only repeat winners of the Masters.

The 37-year-old McIlroy is living his best life ahead of this weekend's PGA Championship, feeling at ease as he navigates not only the pressures of trying to win another major, but time management that comes with outside opportunities, as well — running the gamut from movie cameos to schmoozing with the Kelce brothers on their podcast to a state dinner during the visit of King Charles III at the White House with President Donald Trump.

“Sometimes you have to enjoy the perks,” McIlroy said, “because I know that isn't going to last forever.”

McIlroy, winner of the 2012 and 2014 PGA Championships, even found time to squeeze in rounds two weeks ago at Aronimink Golf Club to get a feel for the course before the first round starts Thursday. McIlroy played his only rounds at the suburban Philadelphia course at the 2018 BMW Championship and found the early visits can sometimes give him a bit of an edge headed into otherwise unfamiliar courses for the bulk of the field.

“I definitely think courses we don’t see very often, whether it’s here or Shinnecock or Frisco, it certainly has benefited me over the years,” McIlroy said. “I remember the first time I did it for a major championship was Congressional in 2011 on the back of a recommendation from Jack Nicklaus. So, it’s helped me over the years.”

The advice from Nicklaus for the early trip to Congressional Country Club was a success — McIlroy won the 2011 U.S. Open by eight strokes.

McIlroy is trying to join Ben Hogan (1953), Arnold Palmer (1960), Jack Nicklaus (1972), Tiger Woods (2002) and Jordan Spieth (2015) as the only golfers to win the first two majors of the year in the modern rotation.

“Coming into this tournament feels a lot different than what it did last year,” McIlroy said. “I feel like I’ve got some nice clear road ahead to try to get some more of these majors.”

For as much has gone right for McIlroy — and at only 37, he shows no sign of slowing down — he's happy to admit when he gets something wrong.

LIV Golf had a seemingly endless supply of Saudi money that suddenly is coming to an end. The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia bankrolled LIV and seemingly had a deal in place to join commercial forces with the PGA Tour. The Saudis walked away from LIV and McIlroy admitted Tuesday at Aronimink that he never should have advocated for them to invest in the tour.

“I can admit when I’m wrong, and that was one that I did get wrong,” McIlroy said. “I think it was always a possibility to happen. I think everyone knows like with everything that’s happening in the Middle East, that had a lot to do; but whenever you have funding tied so much to the geopolitical landscape in the world, that’s a tricky road to navigate.”

McIlroy, the only European with the career Grand Slam, hasn't found much else to worry about this year.

He played last weekend at Quail Hollow (one of his favorite courses), making the Truist Championship his lone tournament since he won at Augusta.

“I need to take the time after the Masters to reset and decompress and get myself in the right mental space again to get myself up for this tournament and keep going for the U.S. Open and The Open Championship,” he said.

Scottie Scheffler is the betting favorite to win at Aronimink, followed by McIlroy.

After a career full of chasing, chasing, chasing and falling short at Augusta, McIlroy was about swallowed by the enormity last year of actually winning the Masters.

The fulfilment of a career Grand Slam left him wondering, what's next?

Turned out, the answer was as simple as winning Augusta again.

He now has six majors, tied with Nick Faldo, Lee Trevino and Phil Mickelson. The professional bucket list is about full — how about a gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics? — and the only real challenge is to see how high he can rise among the career major winners.

McIlroy's not even close to yelling, “Cut!” on his career. But if there are more film projects out there looking for an actor to play, well, give the Northern Irishman a shout.

“There’s going to be a day where I’m not sitting up here and I’m not competing for major championships and I’m not doing what I’m doing,” he said. “I guess while I’m doing it, I have to enjoy it, as well.”

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Velasco dijo durante la conferencia presidencial matutina que el Departamento de Estado no ha respondido la nota diplomática que envió hace casi dos semanas la cancillería mexicana sobre el proceso y las órdenes de detención con fines de extradición de Rocha Moya y nueve funcionarios activos y retirados, que desataron nuevas tensiones entre el gobierno de Claudia Sheinbaum y Washington.

La fiscalía de Nueva York hizo pública a fines de abril una acusación por tráfico de drogas y tenencia ilícita de armas contra Rocha Moya, el alcalde de la capital de Sinaloa, Juan de Dios Gámez —ambos del partido gobernante Morena— y otros ocho funcionarios mexicanos entre los que se incluye un senador oficialista y un vicefiscal.

En la acusación se los señala de ayudar a la facción del Cártel de Sinaloa conocida como “Los Chapitos”, integrada por los hijos del ex capo condenado Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a introducir fentanilo, heroína, cocaína y metanfetamina a Estados Unidos.

La Fiscalía General de México informó a inicios de mes que no ejecutaría las detenciones provisionales con fines de extradición de los funcionarios mexicanos dado que “no hay ningún motivo, no hay ningún fundamento, no hay ninguna evidencia” para esa medida.

Sheinbaum insistió el martes en que no hay pruebas suficientes para detener a Rocha Moya, quien tras el escándalo se separó temporalmente del cargo al igual que Gámez.

Esa postura fue ratificada por el secretario de Seguridad federal, Omar García Harfuch, quien negó que las autoridades mexicanas hayan detectado alguna conducta ilícita o iniciado una investigación contra el gobernador.

Tanto Rocha Moya, quien gobernó Sinaloa desde 2021, como los otros nueve involucrados en el caso han rechazado las acusaciones.

The nonpartisan CBO report, published Tuesday, is described as an analysis that reflects “one illustrative approach rather than an estimate of a specific Administration proposal.”

The futuristic system was ordered by Trump in an executive order during his first week in office. He said then that he expected the system to be “fully operational before the end of my term,” which wraps up in January 2029.

“Over the past 40 years, rather than lessening, the threat from next-generation strategic weapons has become more intense and complex with the development by peer and near-peer adversaries of next-generation delivery systems,” Trump said in his executive order, justifying the need for the missile defense system.

The CBO’s estimates are in part based on a lack of details from the Defense Department about what and how many systems will be deployed, “making it impossible to estimate the long term cost” of the Golden Dome system, the report says.

The concept for the missile system is at least partly inspired by Israel’s multitiered defenses, often collectively referred to as the “Iron Dome,” which played a key role in defending it from rocket and missile fire from Iran and allied militant groups as it prosecutes the war on Iran alongside the U.S.

The U.S. Golden Dome is envisioned to include ground- and space-based capabilities able to detect, intercept and stop missiles at all major stages of a potential attack.

Congress has already approved roughly $24 billion for the missile defense initiative through Republicans' massive tax and spending measure signed into law last summer.

Gen. Michael A. Guetlein, director of the Golden Dome project, testified last month about its costs. He told lawmakers that various groups estimating costs “just take the cost of a legacy system and they multiply it out and they get these really large numbers and they say, well, that must be it.

"That is not what Golden Dome is doing,” the U.S. Space Force general said. “We are laser focused on affordability.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., who requested the estimate from the CBO, said in response to the report that the missile defense project is “nothing more than a massive giveaway to defense contractors paid for entirely by working Americans.”

Last May, the president said the Golden Dome would cost $175 billion. The CBO last year estimated that just the space-based components of the Golden Dome could cost as much as $542 billion over the next 20 years.

Messi’s new contract includes $25 million in base salary and $28,333,333 in guaranteed compensation, the MLS Players Association said Tuesday in its first release of 2026 salaries. He earns more than the payrolls of 28 of the other 29 MLS teams.

Miami's $54.6 million payroll is more than $20 million higher than LAFC, which is second at $32.7 million, and nearly five times as much as Philadelphia's league-low $11.7 million. Miami's payroll is up from $46.8 million at the start of last season.

Toronto cut payroll to $21.4 million from $34.1 million at the start of 2025, and LAFC boosted its spending to $32.7 million from $22.4 million.

Total league compensation was $631 million and the average guaranteed compensation of $688,816 on April 16 was up 8.9% from $632,809 as of last Oct. 1.

Messi's initial MLS contract, agreed to in July 2023, included a $12 million base salary and annualized guaranteed compensation of $20,446,667. Messi agreed last October to a three-year contract through the 2028 season, then led the team to its first MLS title.

An attacker who turns 39 next month, Messi is captain of defending World Cup champion Argentina and is expected to play in his sixth World Cup. Messi has 59 goals in 64 regular-season games with Miami, including nine in 11 matches this season. He led MLS with 29 regular-season goals last season and won his second straight MVP award.

His salary figures are for his MLS contract and include any marketing bonus and agent’s fees but do not account for any additional agreements with the team or its affiliates, or for any performance bonuses.

Son is second at $10,368,750 in base salary and $11,152,852 in total compensation, the same as his figures last season. The 33-year-old winger joined LA last August.

Midfielder Rodrigo de Paul, who signed with Miami last summer, is third at $7,569,000 in salary and $9,688,320 in total compensation, followed by Atlanta winger Miguel Almirón ($6,056,000, $7,871,000), San Diego winger Hirving Lozano ($6 million, $9,333,333), New York Red Bulls winger Emil Forsberg ($5,405,000, $6,035,625), Nashville forward Sam Surridge ($5.27 million, $5,933,000), LA Galaxy midfielder Riqui Puig ($5,125,000, $5,792,188), Vancouver attacker Thomas Müller ($5,000,004, $5,152,504) and Chicago winger Jonathan Bamba ($5 million, $5,581,806).

Cincinnati defender Miles Robinson topped MLS players in contention for spots on the U.S. World Cup roster at $3.5 million in base salary and $3.95 million in total compensation, followed by New England goalkeeper Matt Turner ($1,776,136, $1,942,886), Seattle midfielder Cristian Roldan ($1,645,000, $1,766,000), Charlotte midfielder Tim Ream ($1 million, $1,127,750), Columbus goalkeeper Patrick Schulte ($900,000, $1,032,083), Columbus left back/winger Max Arfsten ($800,000, $895,000), New York City goalkeeper Matt Freese ($675,000, $795,833), Cincinnati goalkeeper Roman Celentano ($525,000, $574,000), Salt Lake midfielder Diego Luna ($450,000, $500,833), Vancouver midfielder Sebastian Berhalter ($480,000) and Chicago goalkeeper Chris Brady ($250,000, $348,333).

Newcomers to the league include Toronto forward Josh Sargent ($3.21 million, $5,265,667), San Jose forward Timo Werner ($3,738,872, $4,268,039), Salt Lake winger Morgan Guilavogui ($2.2 million, $2,225,500), Houston forward Guilherme ($1,528,572, $1,925,230), LAFC midfielder Stephen Eustáquio ($1.8 million), D.C. forward Louis Munteanu ($1.19 million, $1,634,100) and Minnesota midfielder James Rodríguez ($684,000).

MLS's median salary — the point an equal number of players earned above and below — rose 4.1% to $352,104 from $338,347 last fall. There were 133 players earning $1 million or more, up from 131 at the start of last season and 91 at the start of 2022.

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Esto debido a que la Policía acusa a Josh Koren, identificado por la cadena durante sus apariciones televisivas como fundador de Musketeer Capital Partners, de acosar a una mujer.

Koren, de 38 años y residente de South Beach, fue ingresado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight acusado de acoso agravado e invasión de propiedad privada.

Según un reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach, el inversionista, cuyo nombre completo es Joshua Chad Koren, llegó el lunes por la noche al apartamento de la mujer en West Avenue con “artículos extremadamente preocupantes” dentro de una bolsa: “dos vestidos nuevos, dos cuchillos plegables, una lata de gas pimienta y una pistola eléctrica (Sabre)”.

La Policía indicó que Koren ya había sido expulsado del edificio el jueves después de presentarse allí y “provocar una escena” al punto que una vecina de la mujer “estaba instalando un sistema de seguridad en su apartamento debido al comportamiento” de Koren.

Los investigadores dijeron que luego de que Koren llegara al edificio en su Porsche 911 Carrera azul poco antes de las 7 p.m. y la Policía fuera llamada por invasión de propiedad privada, un testigo se acercó a los agentes y les dijo que Koren “era el hombre que estaba acosando a la víctima”.

Según el reporte de la Policía de Miami Beach, Koren dijo a los agentes que estaba “visitando a su novia” y que se mudaría al apartamento de ella.

Las autoridades dijeron que entrevistaron a la víctima, quien indicó a los agentes que a Koren “se le ha dicho múltiples veces que la deje en paz, al punto que su lugar de trabajo le proporcionó documentación legal para que dejara de molestarla o comunicarse con ella”.

La Policía indicó que Koren “ha continuado acosando a la víctima desde múltiples números telefónicos dejando mensajes como si ambos fueran pareja cuando no lo son”.

Las autoridades dijeron que un registro del vehículo de Koren reveló los mencionados “artículos preocupantes”, los cuales él afirmó eran “regalos” para la mujer. La Policía indicó que él aseguró tener “todo el derecho” de estar en el edificio porque “su novia” vivía allí.

Tras su arresto, Koren permanecía detenido el martes en TGK con una fianza “pendiente por establecer”.