Cuba’s Chargé d’Affaires in Washington, D.C., Lianys Torres Rivera, gave an interview to Reuters and said that, given the lack of progress in conversations with the U.S., the Cuban military has begun preparations for a possible U.S. intervention.

Cuba fully understands that, if such an intervention were to come, it would not be an invasion as many expect, but rather an aerial drone and missile attack. According to military experts and sources at the Pentagon, such an attack could take less than forty-eight hours to neutralize Cuba’s military.

The U.S. military has also incorporated preparations and contingency plans to deal with Cuban drones if any were launched against the U.S. mainland. My own personal belief is that Cuba would first target the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, which is located very close to one of Cuba’s main military installations near Santiago de Cuba.

Oct. 5: Cuba will not negotiate regime change with U.S.

Over the weekend, Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, made it very clear that Cuba will not negotiate regime change with the U.S. In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Cuban government that if they don’t change their regime, the consequences would be worse.

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This leaves the U.S. with limited options moving forward. 1) Wait until Raul Castro dies and see what happens. 2) Strengthen the opposition inside the island. 3)Take military action against the island nation.

None of these options lead to a clear and quick path to a quick change in their system of government. A military invasion of Cuba by the U.S. could lead to a prolonged stay on the island until some form of government can be established from within the island and with the support from the Cuban exile community. However, there are some in the exile opposition that consider themselves possible leaders in a free Cuba, which could further complicate things.

Lastly, the extended war with Iran and the mid-term election results in the U.S. could also complicate what the U.S. does with Cuba.

Oct. 2: Who is driving U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba?

In the last several months, we have witnessed Secretary of State Marco Rubio continuing to sanction top officials of the Cuban government and their organizations, trying to force them to change or come to the table and negotiate with the U.S.

On the other hand, we just learned that the White House authorized a sale of 3.2 million barrels of oil to Cuba supposedly going to Cuba’s private sector. Are you kidding?

When dealing with Venezuela and Cuba, Trump has clearly shown that making money is more important than regime change in these two countries.

Oct. 1: Robberies and delinquencies increase in Cuba

According to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (14yMedio), this past Monday a bank was robbed in Lawton, Cuba in the middle of a major power failure.

The robbers got away with the money that was to be paid the next day to people who had retired. At the same time, many solar panels that have been installed around Cuba to help with the growing electrical shortages are being stolen at night by robbers.

The Cuban government is concerned that as socio-economic conditions continue to get worse on the island nation, these practices will increase. So far, no one has been caught.

The case is prompting the Florida Department of Health and mosquito control to place traps in areas with a high density of mosquitoes.

Those traps will then allow officials to test the species, and to also test for dengue, west Nile, malaria and other mosquito born viruses.

Mosquito control has also responded to more house calls where residents are asking their areas be sprayed.

Health officials say the symptoms of dengue can present as a flu-like illness, with severe muscle aches, joint pain, fever and sometimes a rash. Medical experts say dengue will appear within 14 days of being bitten.

Local 10 spoke with infectious disease expert Dr. Aileen Marty about what to look for if you feel you have been infected and how some cases can be severe or fatal.

“In addition to the symptoms you had before, you can get damage to vital organs, not just your lungs, but your liver, other organs could be severely affected and it can be fatal,” she said.

Even more concerning is that there is no specific dengue antiviral available at this time, though there are medications to treat the symptoms to get past the infection.

So what can you do to protect yourself? Wear protective clothing, use mosquito repellant and drain any standing water from around your homes.

El dinero, que también servirá para apoyar la balanza de pagos según la entidad monetaria, forma parte de los 1.900 millones de dólares acordados en julio por el gobierno del presidente conservador R odrigo Paz con el FMI para respaldar su programa de reformas económicas encaminado a enfrentar la peor crisis económica del país en 40 años.

A finales de junio, el gobierno aplicó un sistema flotant e en el que el precio del dólar dependerá de la oferta y la demanda. Con la medida se busca estabilizar el cambio del boliviano por el dólar que hace casi dos años se disparó a casi el triple de su precio en un mercado paralelo.

El analista económico Gonzalo Chávez expresó que el primer desembolso alivia la liquidez, pero no resuelve la escasez estructural de divisas. Agregó, por otra parte, que el programa puede ayudar a movilizar recursos adicionales del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el Banco Mundial, entre otros organismos internacionales.

Mientras tanto hace dos semanas se retiró el 100% de la subvención al diésel, cuyo precio ahora fluctuará según el mercado internacional. Por su parte, la gasolina mantendrá el subsidio hasta fin de año y se definirán nuevas medidas en enero del próximo año. Los ajustes han generado rechazo en diferentes sectores que han anunciado protestas.

Nearly $12 million worth of ads have already aired, according to AdImpact, as part of the $20 million the Homeland Security Department tapped for the contract.

But Trump’s plan to pay for the ads with MAGA Inc. doesn’t mean there’s any reimbursement coming, said a White House official who was not authorized to talk publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration for not repaying the money and said he believes the president’s plan for covering future costs represents illegal coordination with his super PAC.

“Trump must return this money to the American people and there must be a full investigation into this gross waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars,” Schumer told The Associated Press.

The four ads, which began airing in late September, glorify Trump and echo his political messaging going into the midterms. One features a clip of Trump talking about the threat of communism and another is a replay of an ad from his last presidential campaign.

Republicans and Democrats alike have said the ads aren't an appropriate use of U.S. government money. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, said they shouldn't be paid for with taxpayer dollars.

Legal experts said the ads might even violate federal statutes, including a law against congressionally appropriated money being used for “publicity or propaganda” and another limiting the partisan political activities of government employees.

The White House has defended the ads as public service announcements similar to what past administrations have done to promote policies. Trump on Monday posted on his Truth Social platform calling the ads “positive promotion for our Great U.S.A.” while also promising to pay for them with “money I raised for MAGA Inc.”

That is Trump’s political war chest, which had amassed more than $400 million by the end of July. Trump has begun to tap it to boost Republican candidates around the country in the midterm elections.

After a tumultuous, roughly yearlong process, Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday. And beyond Hollywood, the mega merger brings two titans of the American TV news landscape — CBS and CNN — under the same roof.

On the eve of the deal's completion, Skydance confirmed that CNN's Mark Thompson will stay on as editor-in-chief of the network — separate from CBS, where Bari Weiss remains at the helm. But how the combined company's news operations will look farther down the road are yet to be seen.

Politics are also top of mind. The billionaire family of Skydance CEO David Ellison has a cozy relationship with President Donald Trump — who has been far from shy about targeting coverage he deems unfavorable from both CNN and CBS. Last month, his administration moved to bar CNN from the White House. And the network's new ownership arrives as coverage ramps up less than a month ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Ellison has pledged to maintain editorial independence. Under a recent settlement with states that challenged the merger, the company agreed to establish new monitoring of CBS and CNN by forming a “News Editorial Independence Board” within 180 days of completing its Warner acquisition.

Still, Skydance's corporate leaders are to choose who sits on this board. And critics are bracing for potentially deepening editorial turmoil.

CNN's editor-in-chief remains in top spot

Skydance announced on Monday that Thompson — who has been CNN's chair and CEO since 2023 — would continue to lead the network. In a memo to staff published by Business Insider and other outlets, Thompson said he had “real confidence” Ellison and other Skydance leaders “will fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood for.”

Thompson acknowledged that all the specifics of how CNN would operate have yet to be finalized — but said he planned to lead the network “as an independent Editor-in-Chief with the same responsibilities and prerogatives that I have now.”

Paramount-owned CBS News and its hallmark “60 Minutes” program have already seen editorial turmoil since coming under Skydance ownership last year. For critics of those changes, news of Thompson staying at CNN marked a meaningful safeguard — but some experts cautioned that time will tell.

“Both CNN and CBS News will ultimately sit under the same corporate ownership, and ownership can exert influence in ways that are much more subtle than directly telling an editor what stories to cover," said J. Christopher Hamilton, an associate professor at Syracuse University. Decisions about everything from budgets to personnel "can gradually affect the editorial character of a news organization.”

The long-term question “is whether that independence remains intact when it becomes costly or uncomfortable for the parent company,” he said.

New editorial monitoring

According to court documents, the new editorial independence body will include five “active or retired” journalists with at least 10 years of experience.

Still, those members will be appointed by and report to the combined company's board of directors. Ellison is remaining chairman of what is now the combined Skydance.

“This board, while it is termed independent, it is going to be filled with members appointed by Paramount,” said Megan Duncan, an associate professor of journalism at Virginia Tech's School of Communication. She predicts that will “lessen the teeth of this board."

The settlement outlines some additional criteria for board members, including that no more than two members be affiliated with the same political party, and that no government employees be appointed to the board or have oversight over who is on it.

According to court documents, the responsibilities of the board include establishing a set of “guiding editorial principles” based on CBS and CNN's standards and practices, resolving “any disputes” between both employees at the two networks and corporate management and “monitoring adherence to ethical journalism” overall for coverage across the U.S. specifically.

Members are to serve for terms of three years, although the board of the combined Paramount-Warner can still remove them for cause.

‘Disappointed that we could not do more’

Top state prosecutors like California Attorney General Rob Bonta — who led the coalition of 12 states that initially sought to block the Paramount-Warner merger — said when announcing the deal on Sept. 21 that the board will help “ensure independent, objective, fact-based reporting at CBS News and CNN."

Still, others wished the settlement could've gone further, including Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who wanted a full divestiture of CNN and CBS and said he was “deeply disappointed that we could not do more.”

Meanwhile, while joining the rest of the states in the wider settlement, Colorado and Washington notably declined to sign off on the proposed editorial board terms.

As part of a separate settlement with Hollywood writers, the Writers Guild of America said that Paramount had also agreed to prohibit writer layoffs at CBS News Broadcast for the next five years.

Ellison, meanwhile, previously promised that editorial independence “will absolutely be maintained” under Paramount ownership.

“It’s maintained at CBS. It’ll be maintained at CNN,” Ellison told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” in March, while noting that his company wants to speak to “the 70%” of viewers who he said identify as center-left or center-right. And in an August opt-ed published by the New York Times amid the height of Paramount's antitrust battle with 12 states, he reiterated that “our journalists will continue to answer to the facts and to all the people they serve — not to any party or cause.”

Trump and CNN

Last month, Trump barred CNN — as well as Politico and MS NOW — from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage and “fake news.” All three outlets have since filed a joint lawsuit, and are continuing to fight their case in court.

CNN has long attracted ire from the Republican president, and members of his administration have also made their opinions clear about the network's future ownership. Shortly after Trump joined Israel to launch the war against Iran earlier this year, for example, the White House attacked CNN for its coverage — and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters that “the sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”

CBS has faced its own attacks from Trump. Skydance’s 2025 acquisition of Paramount was approved by the Federal Communications Commission just weeks after the company agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit over editing at the network's “60 Minutes” program.

It's one of a series of events Trump is holding across the country to showcase investments in factories, as high gasoline prices from the Iran war and persistently elevated inflation have damaged the president’s approval ratings on the economy. The president is trying to rally Republican voters with less than a month before the midterm elections on Nov. 3.

This event, though, is in the solidly blue state of Maryland — and Democratic Gov. Wes Moore won't be there. The feud threatened to overshadow the announcement.

Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the governor, said Moore was blocked from speaking at the event. A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, said Moore had been invited to attend the event — as a guest. Moore, who is seeking reelection, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2028.

Moore in a statement said the project could potentially create “the most jobs in Maryland in history.” The new facility is expected to create 3,100 direct jobs with several thousand more indirect jobs being supported.

“Governor Moore has always said he will work with anyone when it comes to delivering for Marylanders but bow to no one when it comes to standing up for them,” Moussa said.

Moore's speaking slot aside, Marlon Humphrey, a star cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens, was among those invited to celebrate the announcement with Trump. The president plans to attend Saturday's big college football matchup between Alabama and Georgia, after attending Texas at Tennessee late last month.

The $3.7 billion covers “the cost of standing up the facility, building the workforce, filling it with modern technology and other capabilities required to do the work that we will be tasked with,” Chris Brose, Anduril’s president and chief strategy officer, said on a conference call with reporters organized by the White House.

Administration officials on the call said he government would commit $2.9 billion to the project by purchasing what the factory in Baltimore County, Maryland, produces. The Trump administration is trying to revive America’s shipbuilding capabilities for national security and economic reasons.

The site at Sparrows Point, Maryland, formerly housed a steel mill for Bethlehem Steel that closed in 2012.

Brose said Anduril would take advantage of “manufacturing revolutions” in the aerospace and other sectors, along with software, to change how factory production would occur.

The U.S. has 26 Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines and expects to add two more to its fleet in the spring, according to an official on the call. That official spoke anonymously as a condition set by the White House.

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AP writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report.

Harry Moon, the president of NSU, recently reported that one of the seven students named in a Sept. 16 civil lawsuit alleging that a 20-year-old sophomore was raped at a fraternity house in Ithaca, New York, was admitted to NSU in Davie.

“At the time of admission, the university was not aware of allegations subsequently reported in media,” Moon recently wrote in a letter to students on Oct. 4. “Once we learned of the reported incident, we acted immediately on behalf of the safety and well-being of our students and the NSU community.”

Moon did not identify the NSU student, who had allegedly been a member of Chi Phi fraternity’s Xi chapter and was a suspect of the alleged gang rape on Oct. 19-20, 2024, in the 100 block of Edgermoor Lane in Ithaca.

The victim sought help on Oct. 22, 2024, at Cornell Health, with a urinary tract infection that she had contracted in a “traumatic way,” and on Nov. 7 at a hospital in Ithaca to request a rape kit, according to the civil lawsuit.

The students in the fraternity were temporarily suspended from Cornell after the woman reported the rape to the Cornell University Police Department on Nov. 8, 2024, according to the civil lawsuit, which refers to the victim as Jane Doe and accuses Cornell of negligence.

“I was super drunk ... I was being hit ... physically hit very, very hard ... I can say with 100% confidence I was raped,” Jane Doe told police, according to a transcript of an interview by Cornell University PD that started on Nov. 14, 2024, and was published by CBS News New York on Sept. 30.

No one was charged with a crime. Cornell expelled two of the seven students after a Title IX investigation, The New York Times reported on Oct. 3. The public civil litigation recently prompted a Tompkins County grand jury’s review.

“It can take years of therapy and healing for victims of sexual assaults to fully process and understand what happened to them. Seeking justice sometimes requires us to reconsider or reopen cases when we are provided with additional evidence,” Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten wrote in a statement on Sept. 28.

On Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced she had removed Van Houten from the case and named James as the special prosecutor to investigate, present evidence to a grand jury, and “prosecute any” offenses.

“Because this matter involves federal law regarding an individual student, the university is legally restricted by federal regulations that limit what the university can share,” Moon wrote in the recent letter to NSU students.

In 2022, an Instagram page celebrating students of the NSU University School, the private high school at 3375 SW 75 Ave., in Davie, featured one of the suspects as a 2023 graduate who had been admitted to Cornell to study biological sciences.

In the civil lawsuit, Jane Doe accused the student of sending a message to the “Chi Phi Actives” Snapchat group chat announcing that there was “Free Pu---” and “in doing so ... organized and encouraged” the alleged gang rape. The NYTimes identified the student as one of the two who were expelled from Cornell.

“The university continues to monitor the situation and will remain vigilant. As a result of actions we have taken, we are not aware of any current threat to the university community with regard to the matter,” Moon wrote in the letter to NSU students.

Mars Rivera was among the NSU students who said they felt uneasy about what was not included in Moon’s letter.

“Obviously, it doesn’t say if he’s been removed or if he’s still here or any of that,” Rivera told Local 10 News.

If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual assault, support is available 24/7 at the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.

Lawyers for the friends said they intend to file several more defamation claims this week against content creators and have previously indicated their intent to sue the Rev. Al Sharpton and “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin for comments they made while discussing Wells' death.

The fathers of the three friends, who are under 21 and considered minors under Mississippi law, filed the federal lawsuit Monday on their behalf.

The lawsuit alleges Owens defamed the three friends after posting on X: “ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!!” Owens' post also linked to an Instagram video, which theorized the three friends killed Wells and tampered with his phone, according to the lawsuit. The post was made days after a Mississippi grand jury declined to recommend charges in Wells’ death.

Owens has 1.2 million followers on X and had previously pledged $25,000 to a reward fund for information leading to an arrest and conviction in Wells' death.

“Not only is he defaming them, he’s basically saying to the mob, get your pitchforks, get your torches,” said Edward Paltzik, a defamation and media attorney representing the three friends.

The Associated Press attempted to contact Owens through social media and SMAC Entertainment, which, according to its website, manages Owens, but did not immediately receive a response.

The three were part of a group of 30 friends, including Wells, who rode to Horn Island on three boats on the Fourth of July. Wells' friends said Wells did not return to the mainland with them, choosing instead to stay behind to talk with a girl, a claim his family has disputed. His body was found two days later off the island's coast.

Both state and independent autopsies have not determined Wells' cause of death, though the grand jury found his death was “consistent with drowning.” Wells' family and their lawyers disputed the grand jury's findings, pointing to unexplained bruising on the back of his head and noting that his airways and stomach were devoid of water.

Images showing Wells with white friends the day he went missing fueled online speculation that racial dynamics played a role in his death.

Two of the three friends who are suing Owens were singled out online in part because they appear in a photo with Wells and one other friend on a boat, which was circulated on social media after his disappearance. The third called Wells’ mother and the U.S. Coast Guard to report Wells missing.

“Artists With Autism” turns creative talent into real-world opportunity, and artwork into independence.

Despite some major setbacks in recent months, the group’s vision and its mission hasn’t changed.

“The main focus was helping them become independent as artists,” founder Cynthia Kaegi said. “To learn skills that were marketable — for hoping that they could get a job.”

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Kaegi launched the non-profit, noting her son’s artistic passions and wanting more opportunity for those on the autism spectrum.

The group was born in 2012 and opened a gallery and training space at Festival Marketplace in Pompano Beach, until warehouse redevelopment forced them out, with no home base.

“We need to find a new home right away and a new gallery to show our art —as well as sell them,” said local artist, Joseph Michael Vidal.

The group kept going though — taking its mission to local art markets, events and pop-up galleries across South Florida.

The Plunge Beach Resort’s gallery, which regularly features local artists, invited the group to share and showcase their work in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea — through its Plunge into the Arts program.

“This is a perfect opportunity where people who don’t usually have interaction with people with autism, that they can meet them and talk to them, and they can admire what their talents are, because when you’ve met one person with autism, that’s one person with autism. They are all different and and that’s why it’s called a spectrum,” Kaegi said.

Artists With Autism is looking for businesses or organizations that may be able to sponsor or provide a permanent space. The group is also seeking additional art markets and community events where artists can display their work.

To get involved or find art/events, click here.

The organization is encouraging more artists with autism to get involved as it expands — building bridges with new audiences.

“It’s a good thing to show that everyone has a great talent,” said Vidal.

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

Only one family member of those killed in an Iranian drone strike March 1 on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait confirmed to The Associated Press that they planned to attend Tuesday's reception with Trump and the first lady. Troops who survived the attack have raised questions about why they were stationed at a site that didn’t have sufficient air protection and was viewed as a likely target.

The war, launched Feb. 28, has claimed the lives of 19 U.S. troops and wounded more than 800 others. The annual gathering honors Gold Star Mother’s and Family’s Day, which falls on the last weekend of September.

The White House said this year’s reception honors nearly 40 fallen service members from conflicts dating to the Vietnam War. Trump was expected to deliver remarks followed by a candle-lighting ceremony and a musical performance that included a rendition of “America the Beautiful.”

Families are still waiting for answers about what happened in the March 1 strike

Gold Star families have expressed frustration over the lack of information from the Pentagon about the strike in Kuwait.

“There are questions about what happened before the attack, what information was available, what decisions were made, and what happened in the moments leading up to six American soldiers losing their lives,” Joey Amor — whose 39-year-old wife, Master Sgt. Nicole M. Amor, was among those killed — said in a public Facebook statement Monday. “I am done asking quietly. Today, I am asking the American people to stand with these six families and demand transparency.”

U.S. soldiers wounded in the attack told the AP of the unheeded concerns they raised about the threat and that the military medical system failed them in the weeks that followed. The AP’s account of the March 1 attack is based on interviews with 13 soldiers.

The Army declined to comment on the AP’s reporting on the Port Shuaiba strike, saying it had not yet briefed the families of those killed on the outcome of its investigation into the attack, which was completed in June. The Army has said it is still redacting sensitive information before releasing the findings. The Pentagon also declined to comment.

Honoring soldiers who died in combat can be a powerful recognition of their service that cuts across politics, said John Thompson, a former Army sergeant and founder of Salute to the Fallen, an Iowa organization that supports veteran mental health, suicide prevention and funeral expenses.

He said several families told him they could not go because they did not receive enough notice about the event.

At least two families say they did not receive an invitation

The White House began sending out invitations to Gold Star families — the military’s designation for relatives of troops killed while on active duty — about two weeks ago, according to several families who said they received phone calls and emailed invitations.

“What they’ve told me is there has been a lot of confusion around this event, and they weren’t given the details in time,” Thompson said, adding that some were also not in a position to pay for the trip.

At least two said they did not receive an invite, though there can be hurdles to tracking down families' personal information.

Some Gold Star families say they are grateful for how the Trump administration and military have honored their loved one’s sacrifice. Other families say the way the White House has handled the reception is the latest indication that the administration does not respect the price they have paid.

In the early days of the war, Trump described it as a “little excursion." On Sept. 4, he called the conflict “small potatoes.”

The widow of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, who died in the March 1 attack, said she and her two children were not invited.

Tina Marzan said that in the immediate aftermath of her husband’s death, she told federal officials she did not want to be contacted after receiving multiple calls. But she had hoped they would have tried to reach her or others in her family for an event like this, she said.

“We should be there,” Tina Marzan told the AP. “I mean, that’s not a question.”

The White House said it does not contact people who request not to be contacted.

Some family members of soldiers who were killed in the war have not taken issue with Trump's remarks.

Donna Burhans, the mother of Maj. Cody Khork, who was one of those killed at Port Shuaiba, said she did not receive an invitation but would not have attended because it's too painful. She has described herself as a “big fan” of Trump after meeting him during the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base.

“I just can’t keep going thru (sic) this over and over,” she told the AP in a text message.

The White House said it attempted to send invitations to Khork's family members.

The spouse of Maj. Alex Klinner, an airman who was killed in an Iran-related combat operation this summer, said receiving less than two weeks’ notice did not give her enough time to arrange for overnight care for her three young children.

In a text message, Libby Klinner said she would not have gone anyway, adding, “I have no interest in supporting an administration that has been so reckless with the lives of our service members."

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Brook reported from New Orleans, and Watson from San Diego. Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed in Wake Forest, North Carolina, Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, and Collin Binkley in Washington contributed to this report.

Delvis Jesus Gonzalez, de 50 años, fue detenido en su casa. La policía de Miami dijo que revisó videos de vigilancia y lo identificó como el hombre que presuntamente se llevó el vehículo.

Según la policía, una mujer estaba en un juego de béisbol cerca de la cuadra 2200 de Northwest 11th Court, en el barrio Allapattah de Miami. Mientras tanto, una persona conocida suya dormía en su carro.

Según el informe de arresto, la mujer regresó al lugar donde había estacionado su Volkswagen y descubrió que no estaba.

La mujer llamó a la policía. Un testigo que recorría la zona encontró el carro cerca de Northwest 22nd Place y la calle 7, según el informe. La persona seguía dormida en el asiento trasero.

Los agentes revisaron entonces videos de vigilancia de un restaurante cercano.

El informe indica que en el video se ve a un hombre bajarse del carro por el lado del conductor. Los agentes identificaron a Gonzalez porque ya habían tenido contacto con él antes.

Luego, la policía fue a la casa de Gonzalez, donde lo encontró y lo detuvo, según el informe.

Ya detenido, Gonzalez “les dijo espontáneamente a los agentes que se llevó el carro porque lo dejaron prendido”, señala el informe.

Los detectives dijeron que después entrevistaron a una mujer. Ella reportó que del carro faltaban una billetera negra, la llave electrónica y una tarjeta de crédito.

La policía dijo que recorrió la zona y encontró el carro abandonado. A pocos pies de distancia aparecieron varias tarjetas de crédito.

Según el informe, más tarde le leyeron a Gonzalez sus derechos Miranda y renunció a ellos. Luego dio lo que el informe describe como “una confesión completa de su participación en el secuestro”, pero después se negó a seguir hablando.

Su confesión no aparece en el informe de arresto que se hizo público.

Según los registros, en ese caso Gonzalez enfrenta tres cargos:

• secuestro
• allanamiento de una vivienda ocupada
• hurto mayor de vehículo

Local 10 News obtuvo un segundo informe de arresto sobre Gonzalez. Describe otro presunto robo, esta vez en un edificio de apartamentos.

Según ese informe, el 5 de octubre los agentes recorrían la zona por el caso del carro robado. Fuera del apartamento de Gonzalez encontraron un paquete de Amazon abierto.

La policía contactó al residente. Él revisó su cuenta de Amazon y confirmó que el paquete se había entregado a las 5:10 a.m. del 4 de octubre.

Luego, el residente revisó las cámaras de seguridad, según el informe. Las imágenes presuntamente muestran a Gonzalez entrar al edificio entre las 5:30 y las 6 a.m., tomar el paquete y marcharse.

El paquete contenía cartuchos para una pluma de microagujas, valorados en $26.99, indica el informe.

El informe también señala que a Gonzalez ya se le había prohibido formalmente la entrada a ese edificio.

Gonzalez fue llevado al Jackson Memorial Hospital para recibir atención médica. Según el informe, después iba a ser trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Según los registros, en el segundo caso Gonzalez enfrenta cargos de allanamiento de una estructura ocupada y de hurto menor con dos o más condenas previas.

Hasta la tarde del martes, Gonzalez seguía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

In a message on X, the Colombian leader said his government will provide economic support to the families of the 17 Colombian suspects, who are expected to face trial in Florida. He also said he had ordered Colombia’s ministries of justice and defense to provide them with legal support.

“The innocent cannot pay for crimes committed by sinners,” de la Espriella wrote. “I want to know exactly what happened and for the responsibility of each individual to be cleared up.”

At least 22 Colombian veterans, working for a Florida security contractor, are believed to have been involved in a July 2021 raid on the home of Moïse that resulted in his assassination.

Three Colombians were killed in clashes after the killing, while the other 17 were arrested in Haiti. Another Colombian veteran, Mario Antonio Palacios, escaped from Haiti but was later extradited to Florida, where he was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping.

In May, an additional four defendants, including a Venezuelan American businessman and a Haitian-American citizen, were convicted of financing and organizing the plot to kill Moïse, whose assassination has been followed by years of political instability and gang violence in the poor Caribbean nation.

The 17 Colombians now held in Florida are among 30 people charged in federal court in the U.S. with crimes in connection with the assassination, including a former Haitian official currently on trial.

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. say South Florida served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to oust Moïse and replace him with someone of the conspirators’ choosing.

During hearings with judges in Haiti, some of the Colombian suspects said they had been deceived by recruiters, who lured them to Haiti by telling them they would be providing security for politicians in that country.

The Colombian suspects have also claimed they were tortured in Haitian prisons and were forced to sign legal document s in a language they did not understand.

“I am absolutely happy that someone finally listens to us,” said Milena Carmona, the wife of Colombian suspect Jheyner Carmona. “We have evidence that shows that they were taken to Haiti to be used as scapegoats” for Moïse’s assassination.

De la Espriella, who was sworn into office in August, has portrayed himself as a staunch supporter of Colombia’s armed forces.

In his message on X, he backed the Colombian veterans now being held in Florida.

“I am not the kind of president who abandons his heroes when they face difficulties,” de la Espriella said, pledging his government's support for their legal defense "so that this situation can be cleared up.”

De la Espriella’s comments mark a significant shift in the Colombian government’s approach to the suspects.

Last year, former President Gustavo Petro apologized to Haiti’s government for the alleged involvement of the Colombian veterans in the assassination.

“I ask for forgiveness, because some white Colombians came here to kill the president of Haiti,” Petro said at the time while visiting the Caribbean nation.

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Barkov was hurt in the Panthers' overtime loss at San Jose on Thursday. It appeared his left knee — not the knee that needed to be surgically rebuilt last year — buckled on the play, and the Finnish captain immediately left the ice in obvious discomfort.

The timetable would suggest that Barkov will probably be out somewhere between 20 and 25 games before he could return.

“That’s our best window,” Maurice said. “Could be a little less, could be a little more. But we think six to eight (weeks) is the right rehab time.”

Florida plays at Los Angeles on Tuesday to end a season-opening four-game road trip. Maurice revealed the timetable after the Panthers' morning skate in advance of that game.

The Panthers placed Barkov on long-term injured reserve over the weekend, after it became clear his absence would last longer than 10 games. The Panthers weighed multiple options on how to proceed and Barkov saw team doctors Monday before a final plan was agreed upon.

Barkov was injured 20 minutes into the team’s first training camp practice for the 2025-26 season and missed the entire campaign, one of many injury issues that played a role in Florida going from a back-to-back Stanley Cup champion to a team that missed the playoffs.

If there is a silver lining, it’s that Florida is well-versed in how to play without Barkov — who isn’t just the team captain, but is generally considered to be the team’s best player.

“If he hadn’t been injured last year we would have thought, ‘Gee, six to eight weeks is a long time,’” Maurice said. “I think last year was six to eight months, so we’re taking it.”

Over his most recent 10 seasons — excluding when he missed last season — Barkov had 722 points, 485 hits and 463 blocked shots. No other NHL player reached those numbers in all three categories over those years; Toronto’s Auston Matthews and Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele were the only others with at least 700 points, 400 hits and 400 blocks in that span.

And the Panthers were clearly breathing a sigh of relief knowing that he will be back this season.

“It’s good for everything, maybe most importantly for Barky,” Maurice said. “He’s our captain and we miss him and he feels it when he’s not around. So, he’s probably the happiest of all of us.”

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A federal criminal complaint obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday states that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers pulled Alberto Hernandez Castillo, 40, aside after he arrived on a World Atlantic Airlines flight from Havana on Sunday.

Agents said Hernandez Castillo, a Cuban national and legal permanent U.S. resident, claimed to have nothing to declare and said he was on the island to visit family.

“During the interview, CBP officers observed an unexplained bulge on the front of (his) pelvis/waist area and noted that he appeared nervous,” a Homeland Security Investigations special agent wrote in the complaint.

That, the agent wrote, led the officers to give him a pat-down.

“The pat-down revealed that Hernandez Castillo was concealing six cylindrical clear plastic containers, each wrapped in tape with some black meshed material affixed near the openings,” the agent wrote. “The tubes were then sewn into (his) underwear. Each tube contained live birds.”

Ten live birds, in fact.

Authorities said they found eight yellow-faced grassquits and two blue grosbeaks. The two species are commonly found in the illegal bird trade.

According to the complaint, Hernandez Castillo claimed the birds were for “personal use” and then invoked his right to remain silent. Agents said there’s no evidence he ever submitted the proper paperwork for their importation.

Records show he appeared in Miami federal court on Monday and was subsequently released on a $25,000 personal surety bond.

He faces a charge of smuggling goods into the United States.

A man arrested on the same charge in a similar case in San Diego faced up to 20 years in prison, federal prosecutors noted in 2025.

He said Barkov will undergo non-surgical rehabilitation.

Maurice described the six-to-eight-week timeline as the team’s “best window,” while cautioning that the recovery could take a little less or a little more time.

BREAKING: Barkov (lower body) out 6-8 weeks.

Non-surgical rehab.

Maurice: “That’s our best window. Could be a little less, could be a little more.”

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The Panthers had previously placed Barkov on long-term injured reserve, also known as LTIR, which he suffered during Thursday night’s 4-3 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks.

Barkov’s left leg appeared to buckle while he was battling for the puck along the boards during the second period. He left the ice under his own power but did not return.

The injury is not related to the right knee injury that sidelined Barkov for the entire 2025-26 season, Maurice said after the game. Barkov underwent surgery last season after tearing the ACL and MCL in his right knee during training camp.

The 31-year-old Finnish center had only recently returned to game action and was playing his second game of the season when he suffered the latest injury.

The Panthers’ decision to place Barkov on LTIR meant he would have to miss at least 10 games and 24 days under NHL rules. At the time, the team had not publicly announced a specific diagnosis or recovery timeline, although ESPN’s Emily Kaplan initially reported that sources indicated there was optimism the injury would not be season-ending.

That optimism was confirmed Tuesday with the six-to-eight-week recovery estimate.

Maurice said the six-to-eight-week estimate represents the team’s best expectation for Barkov’s return, leaving open the possibility that he could return sooner or require additional time to recover.

The Florida Panthers will face the Los Angeles Kings at the Crypto.com Arena at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday.

En un informe de arresto, la policía de Doral identificó al sospechoso como Juan Leonel Jimenez Silva. Es originario de Venezuela y vive en el noroeste de Miami-Dade.

Según el informe, la investigación comenzó cuando un ciudadano creó un perfil en internet y se hizo pasar por un muchacho de 15 años. La policía recalcó que esta persona no actuaba por orden del Departamento de Policía de Doral ni de ninguna otra agencia del orden.

De acuerdo con la policía, el ciudadano usaba la aplicación de citas Grindr el jueves pasado. Alrededor de las 8 p.m., Jimenez Silva contactó la cuenta.

Los investigadores dijeron que poco después la conversación pasó a WhatsApp. Allí, la persona le dijo a Jimenez Silva que tenía 15 años.

Según la policía, Jimenez Silva siguió comunicándose con él aun después de conocer la supuesta edad.

El informe indica que la conversación se volvió sexual. Jimenez Silva presuntamente envió imágenes y mensajes sexualmente explícitos al “adolescente”. La policía añadió que también le pidió fotos desnudo y le habló de actos sexuales.

Los investigadores dijeron que Jimenez Silva insistió varias veces en conocerlo en persona. También lo invitó a su casa y le dio su dirección.

Finalmente, ambos acordaron reunirse en BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse, cerca del Miami International Mall, según el informe.

Confrontado en un restaurante de Doral

La policía dijo que Jimenez Silva llegó al restaurante creyendo que vería al joven de 15 años. En cambio, se encontró con dos hombres adultos.

Según el informe, uno de ellos se había hecho pasar por el adolescente y el otro grababa el encuentro.

Dentro del restaurante, los hombres le preguntaron a Jimenez Silva por qué había ido a encontrarse con el supuesto menor, indicó la policía.

De acuerdo con los investigadores, Jimenez Silva salió del restaurante y cruzó corriendo el estacionamiento. Luego se subió a una SUV Toyota blanca registrada a su nombre y se marchó.

Al día siguiente, los dos hombres fueron al Departamento de Policía de Doral, según el informe. Allí entregaron declaraciones juradas, capturas de pantalla de la conversación de WhatsApp y el video de la confrontación en el restaurante.

La policía dijo que ambos también identificaron a Jimenez Silva en una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfico.

Arrestado días después

Jimenez Silva fue detenido el lunes por la noche en su casa.

Según los investigadores, le leyeron sus derechos Miranda y aceptó hablar con los detectives. Admitió que la conversación comenzó en Grindr y luego pasó a WhatsApp.

De acuerdo con la policía, Jimenez Silva dijo que al principio no creyó estar haciendo nada malo, porque los usuarios de Grindr deben ser adultos. Sin embargo, reconoció que la persona le dijo que tenía 15 años al comienzo de la conversación por WhatsApp, señala el informe.

La policía indicó que Jimenez Silva dijo sentirse atraído por el supuesto adolescente y que le parecía mayor de 15 años.

Según el informe de arresto, Jimenez Silva confirmó que la cuenta de WhatsApp era suya. También reconoció haber enviado los mensajes e imágenes sexuales que describieron los investigadores. La policía añadió que identificó dos selfis suyas en las que aparece vestido y confirmó haber enviado cuatro imágenes de actividad sexual.

Finalmente, Jimenez Silva fue arrestado por cuatro cargos:

• transmisión electrónica de material dañino para un menor
• uso de una computadora para viajar a encontrarse con un menor
• uso de una computadora para seducir, solicitar o atraer a un menor a cometer actos sexuales
• intento de agresión lasciva contra un menor

Hasta la mañana del martes, Jimenez Silva seguía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Según los registros de la cárcel, el venezolano tiene una retención migratoria y por eso no puede salir bajo fianza.

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Olvin Cabrera Valladares loved soccer and was a student at Miami’s Citrus Grove K-8 Center. His mother told Local 10 News the 13-year-old died last week after a freak accident at a Miami park.

“He was my baby, my youngest, just 13 years old. He had his whole life ahead of him,” said Valladares. “He just wanted to play, and sadly, it was playing that took his life.”

On the morning of Sept. 25, Olvin was supposed to be at school.

Instead, his mom says he rode his scooter 2 miles south to Shenandoah Park, located at 1800 SW 21st Ave. She says she learned what happened next from a man who came to the park later that day with his kids and discovered Olvin stuck inside the slide.

“He told me he pulled on him, but he was caught on a screw,” she said. “He pulled again, and my son fell out. His arm was inside of his shirt, and his collar was tight around his neck.”

The slide is lined with screws.

The ones Local 10 News could observe with our camera were flat, but the witness told Olvin’s mother he was hanging in the middle of the tube by his T-shirt collar, which became caught on a screw and choked him.

After being rushed to the hospital, Olvin was placed on life support.

One week later, he was declared brain dead.

“As a mother, it’s very hard to lose a son,” said Valladares. “I never thought I would lose my son.”

The day Olvin was found, the city of Miami closed the park for what it called a “non-criminal investigation.”

Sky 10 flew over the scene and could see a playground surrounded by yellow tape.

Neither the Miami Police Department nor the city have confirmed the alleged chain of events.

It’s unclear whether the slide was inspected or repaired after the incident, but by the next day, the park was back open and the slide was back in use.

“I have a message for parents,” said Valladares. “Be careful taking your children to these parks. Look at the tragedy that happened to my son.”

Local 10 News reached out to Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins, Miami Commissioner Rolando Escalona and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department for a comment or an interview.

A city spokesperson responded via email, saying, “Our deepest condolences are with the child’s family and loved ones. This matter is under active investigation, and the City is working diligently to gather all the facts and bring closure to the family. To protect the integrity of that process, we are unable to comment further at this time.”

Olvin’s mother is trying to raise money to pay for his unexpected funeral and has started a GoFundMe page.

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department lawyers will “provide direct legal advice and counsel” to unaccompanied migrant children, according to an announcement in the Federal Register signed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The decision, announced last week without fanfare, offered no details beyond that broad mandate.

Health and Human Services said in a statement that its Unaccompanied Alien Children Legal Representation Division will work under its general counsel's direction toward “safely reuniting these children with their families and ensuring they have the legal support they need.”

“This new division will give the Department an additional mechanism to provide these children direct legal support while dedicated public servants work around the clock to safely reunify them with their families,” the department told The Associated Press in a brief statement. It didn't answer additional questions, including whether it would continue to contract with nongovernmental groups for legal representation or when its new legal division is expected to be fully operational.

The move appears to lay the groundwork for one of the biggest changes since guaranteed free legal representation for unaccompanied migrant children was introduced in 2008. It comes after the administration cut ties with the Acacia Center for Justice, a nongovernmental organization that managed 24,000 cases and held a contract to provide representation through a vast network of legal service providers.

The change means migrant children will not have an independent representative to advocate for them who doesn't have a conflict of interest, said Shaina Aber, the Acacia Center's executive director.

“Placing children’s legal representation and services inside of the same agency that holds children in federal immigration custody is an unprecedented step that does not meet basic standards of independence of counsel,” Aber said. It “will only give HHS new opportunities to forsake children’s rights and well-being.”

Wendy Young, president of Kids in Need of Defense, a nonprofit that provides free legal representation and social services to unaccompanied children, called the creation of the new in-house HHS legal team “part of a pattern of attacks that this administration has engaged in, in terms of undermining zealous representation of unaccompanied children in their immigration proceedings.”

The new division will work independently from other government agencies that deal with the minors, including the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for the custody and care of the children who arrive in the U.S. without a parent or legal guardian.

There is some precedent for government-paid attorneys defending clients against government prosecutors in civilian and military courts, but as criminal defense lawyers and not in immigration court.

But Young noted that the child's lawyer, the judge, and government attorneys seeking deportation will all be federal employees. Judges are appointed by the Justice Department and prosecutors work at the Department of Homeland Security.

“A government attorney who’s employed by the government most likely would be coached and encouraged to take the position of encouraging the child to agree to voluntary departure and to leave the United States rather than to present a full representation of the facts of their case,” Young said.

Amid the uncertainty, children have been going to their court hearings without legal representation lately, according to advocates.

Americans for Immigrant Justice, another nonprofit that provides free legal representation to unaccompanied immigrant children, said it has been challenging to secure lawyers for the minors since the government suspended funding to legal aid organizations on July 31 through Acacia.

Sui Chung, the group's executive director, said the need for legal representation exceeds the available resources.

“To deny legal counsel to the most vulnerable among us — children who have already fled trauma — is a fundamental breakdown of the fairness our Constitution promises," Chung said. “Children deserve our strongest protection."

The government recently awarded a contract to another organization, Our Rescue, with a potential value of up to $244 million. The transition to Our Rescue, which has been challenged by Acacia, has led to short-term arrangements, including a temporary contract with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

Speaking Tuesday at preseason ACC basketball media days, Phillips touted the health and financial gains for the league while also saying schools “need direct access to state their case” when it comes to the proposed law to reform college athletics. The U.S. Senate has approved a version of the measure and sent it to the House.

The presidents and chancellors of Clemson, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina sent a letter last week to House leaders seeking to increase the bill's membership cap for conferences from 20 to 22 schools. They also requested removing a requirement for a school to be independent for three years before joining another league.

Tomahawk Nation, a site covering Florida State athletics, was first to obtain a copy of the letter. A North Carolina spokesman confirmed its authenticity when contacted by The Associated Press.

“We'll concontinue to stay in contact with all the schools,” Phillips said. “My job is, again, to facilitate those conversations. And at the end of the day, the people that have written the bill and are in charge of the bill, they can do what they think they should based on the information that they’re getting.”

FSU and Clemson filed lawsuits against the ACC in 2023 and 2024, respectively, to challenge the league's ability to levy hundreds of millions in exit fees to leave the conference. The league countersued. The parties ultimately settled the case in early 2025 with a deal that revised long-term exit costs while also revamping the league's revenue-distribution model as a way for schools generating the highest TV ratings to earn more money.

That's been part of a series of changes by the league to bolster the financial picture while facing a growing gap behind the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences, though still finishing ahead of the Big 12 among the Power Four.

Still, that legal settlement helped make the 2030-31 a significant marker. The ACC's exit fee will decline each year before leveling off around $75 million per school that season, while media deals for other leagues are expiring around that time to create at least the potential for another wave of broad realignment.

“I’ve been very consistent about I have always tried to make sure that this was a conference that people wanted to be in, and I’m really proud of what we’ve done,” Phillips said. “We’re as healthy as we’ve ever been."

Phillips declined to discuss “hypotheticals” when asked whether he was concerned about whether this was a sign of multiple schools intending to leave.

“The conference is in a good place,” he said. "Healthy, functioning, achieving at a high level. We’ll see where all this takes us. So you have to be ready. You have to be ready for anything. But I feel good about where we’re at, and we’ll see what this bill ends up doing.”

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Opa-locka police identified the suspect in an arrest report as Arlande Delius Sylvestre.

According to the arrest report, officers responded to a home in reference to a reported battery with injuries at approximately 5:40 a.m. Monday.

When officers arrived, they found the victim with visible injuries to his forehead and other parts of his body, police said. Officers searched the surrounding area but did not find Sylvestre, who the victim said had fled on foot before police arrived.

The victim told investigators that he had been sleeping on a couch inside the home when the smell of smoke woke him.

According to the report, the victim saw Sylvestre setting the couch on fire and yelled at him.

Police said Sylvestre then struck the victim in the forehead with a machete, causing a deep cut.

The victim told police Sylvestre then got on top of him, pinned him against the couch and grabbed one of his arms while repeatedly striking him with the machete.

During the attack, Sylvestre allegedly yelled, “I’m going to kill you!”

The victim fought back and was eventually able to break free, according to the report. Police said Sylvestre chased him while still armed with the machete and attempted to strike him again.

The victim managed to get away and call 911 as Sylvestre fled the scene, according to police.

The report states that Sylvestre returned to the scene with the machete before officers arrived and again confronted and chased the victim.

The victim fled because he feared he would be injured again, according to the report.

He described the machete to investigators as approximately 24 inches long and black and blue with lettering on it. Police said the victim’s injuries were consistent with being caused by a machete.

The arrest report also states that Sylvestre is subject to a non-expiring protection order issued in January 2024 involving his girlfriend after he allegedly stabbed her. Police said that after leaving the scene Monday, Sylvestre called his girlfriend and located her in person, violating that protection order.

Police said Sylvestre was read his Miranda rights and invoked his right to remain silent.

He was arrested and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center where he was booked on charges of arson, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault and violation of an injunction.

A motive for the alleged attack is unclear.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Sylvestre remained at TGK. Online jail records listed his total bond as “to be set.”

A statement shared by his family on his official Instagram account confirmed Jackson died Monday, three days after his 70th birthday. No cause of death was provided.

“Freddie was more than a legendary voice. He was a kind, generous soul who loved his fans, his family, his friends, and his music with everything he had. For decades he gave us the songs that became the soundtrack to our love stories, our celebrations, and our most treasured memories. That gift will live on forever,” the statement read.

“To everyone who ever sang along, danced, or felt something when Freddie took the stage: thank you. You were family to him, and he carried your love with him always,” it continued.

Details regarding arrangements will be announced in the coming days.

Jackson was born and raised in Harlem, where he learned all about soul music and sang gospel at White Rock Baptist Church. He started his career in the New York club scene, eventually making his way out West with the band Mystic Merlin in the late '70s. He soon returned to New York and released his debut album, “Rock Me Tonight,” in 1985. His distinctive voice proved to be his superpower: The album, which was quickly certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, also led to his two career Grammy nominations. Those were for best new artist and best male R&B vocal performance for the single “You Are My Lady.”

“Rock Me Tonight” also created a new R&B superstar: Jackson became a mainstay of those Billboard charts and a fixture of contemporary urban radio play throughout the ’80s and early '90s.

His sophomore album, 1987's “Just Like the First Time,” was also certified platinum.

Jackson shared his kidney disease diagnosis in 2024

In 2024, Jackson revealed he had been diagnosed with kidney disease in a video shared to his social media accounts.

“This journey has had its challenges but I’ve decided to face it with openness and resilience,” he said in the clip. “It’s important to me that I share this with you, not just as a part of my personal story, but as a way to make a positive difference.”

At the time, Jackson also revealed he had partnered with the National Kidney Foundation to raise awareness of the disease.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1 in 7 American adults has chronic kidney disease. As many as 9 in 10 don’t know they have it.

Chronic kidney disease is a condition where the kidneys are damaged and struggle to filter blood. As a result, excess waste and fluids remain and can lead to other health issues, such as heart disease.

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Delvis Jesus Gonzalez, 50, was taken into custody at his home after Miami police said they reviewed surveillance video and identified him as the person who allegedly drove away in the vehicle.

Police said the incident happened while a woman was attending a baseball game near the 2200 block of Northwest 11th Court in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood, while a person she knew slept in her car.

According to the arrest report, the woman returned to her parked Volkswagen and discovered that it was missing.

The woman called police, and a witness canvassing the area located the car near Northwest 22nd Place and Seventh Street, where the person was still sleeping in the back seat, according to the report.

Officers then reviewed surveillance video from a nearby restaurant.

The report states that police identified Gonzalez in the video as he exited the car from the driver’s seat, based on a prior interaction with him.

Police then went to Gonzalez’s home, where they found him and took him into custody, according to the report.

While in custody, Gonzalez “spontaneously stated to the officers that he took the car because they left it running,” the report states.

Detectives said they later interviewed a woman who reported that a black wallet, car key fob and credit card were missing from the car.

Police said they searched the area, located the abandoned car, and found several credit cards a few feet away from its location.

According to the report, Gonzalez was later read his Miranda rights, waived them and gave what the report describes as “a full confession of his involvement in the kidnapping” before later refusing to continue talking.

His confession wasn’t included in his publicly released arrest report.

Records show Gonzalez is facing one count each of kidnapping, burglary of an occupied dwelling and grand theft of a vehicle in that case.

A second arrest report obtained by Local 10 News involving Gonzalez describes a separate alleged theft at an apartment building.

According to that report, officers were canvassing the area on Oct. 5 in connection with the vehicle theft case when they found an opened Amazon package outside of Gonzalez’s apartment.

Police contacted the resident, who checked his Amazon account and confirmed the package had been delivered at 5:10 a.m. Oct. 4.

The resident then reviewed surveillance footage, which allegedly showed Gonzalez entering the building between 5:30 and 6 a.m., taking the package and leaving, according to the report.

The package contained microneedling pen cartridges valued at $26.99, the report states.

The report also states that Gonzalez had previously been issued a trespass warning for the building.

Gonzalez was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for medical treatment and was expected to be taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center afterward, according to the report.

In the second case, Gonzalez is facing charges of burglary of an occupied structure and a petit theft charge involving two or more prior convictions, records show.

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

Local 10 News obtuvo el martes una denuncia penal federal sobre el caso. Según el documento, agentes de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza (CBP) llamaron aparte a Alberto Hernandez Castillo, de 40 años. Había llegado el domingo en un vuelo de World Atlantic Airlines procedente de La Habana.

Según los agentes, Hernandez Castillo es ciudadano cubano y residente permanente legal de EE.UU. Afirmó que no tenía nada que declarar y que había ido a la isla a visitar a su familia.

“Durante la entrevista, los agentes de CBP observaron un bulto inexplicable en la parte delantera de (su) pelvis o cintura y notaron que parecía nervioso”. Así lo escribió en la denuncia un agente especial de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional (HSI).

Según el agente, eso llevó a los oficiales a cachearlo.

“El cacheo reveló que Hernandez Castillo ocultaba seis recipientes cilíndricos de plástico transparente, cada uno envuelto en cinta adhesiva y con una malla negra cerca de las aberturas”, escribió el agente. “Los tubos estaban cosidos a (su) ropa interior. Cada tubo contenía pájaros vivos”.

En total, eran 10 pájaros vivos.

Las autoridades dijeron que encontraron ocho tomeguines de la tierra y dos azulejos. Ambas especies aparecen con frecuencia en el tráfico ilegal de aves.

Según la denuncia, Hernandez Castillo dijo que los pájaros eran para “uso personal” y luego se acogió a su derecho a guardar silencio. Los agentes dijeron que no hay pruebas de que haya presentado los documentos necesarios para importarlos.

Según los registros, compareció el lunes ante un tribunal federal en Miami. Después quedó en libertad bajo una fianza personal de $25,000.

Enfrenta un cargo de contrabando de mercancías hacia Estados Unidos.

En 2025, fiscales federales señalaron que un hombre arrestado por el mismo cargo en un caso similar en San Diego se exponía a hasta 20 años de prisión.

On Tuesday, the 39-year-old Messi is set to bid farewell to international soccer after 21 years, 125 goals, two Copa América titles and a World Cup championship. What would otherwise be an unremarkable friendly match against the West African nation of Benin has become the moment that this soccer-crazed country has long dreaded.

“It feels like an era is ending, knowing he won’t play for the national team anymore,” said Valentino Ruso, 17, who was hanging out with friends in a Buenos Aires park on Tuesday. “I’m sad. I think everyone is upset today. He will be missed.”

Argentines have had an intense, often unforgiving relationship with the shy boy who left his hometown of Rosario at 13 for the youth academy of Spanish club Barcelona. As he grew into a global icon of near-mythical stature, his compatriots adored and abused him, doubted his commitment and accused him of indifference to his own country.

But as he prepares to say goodbye to the national team, his devotion to Argentina is no longer in question. Nor is Argentina’s devotion to its most famous export whose triumphs have served as reminders of national greatness through years of political and economic instability.

“Argentines often say, ‘Thank God I was born at a time when I could experience the miracle of watching Messi play,’” said Andrés Rabinovich, a University of Chicago scholar who has researched soccer’s role in Argentine culture. “It’s hard living in Argentina. Soccer is often one of the few things that offer you some respite, some joy.”

For years, Argentines had debated when and how Messi should leave the international stage — though he'll continue to play for MLS team Inter Miami. His Aug. 31 announcement that he'd be retiring from the national team, weeks after Argentina’s loss to Spain in the World Cup final, prompted an outpouring of gratitude and grief.

“I don’t know if there has ever been a love story between a player and a country as great as the one you built,” his teammate Rodrigo De Paul wrote on Instagram.

The Argentine soccer federation has turned Tuesday’s game — Messi’s 208th — into a national homage dubbed “the last tango.” Some 85,000 tickets to Buenos Aires’ largest stadium sold out in 90 minutes, and members of Argentina’s 2022 World Cup-winning squad and their families were invited back to join the tribute.

Winning over his own

During the 2000s and 2010s, Messi amassed trophies with his club and won diehard fans from Barcelona to Bangladesh. Yet a major championship for his own country eluded him.

Where the world saw a supernatural talent, some at home saw an outsider who had never played professionally in Argentina and could not deliver when it mattered most to the nation. Argentine crowds chanted “Diego, Diego,” invoking Diego Maradona, the larger-than-life hero of Argentina’s 1986 World Cup victory — and reminding Messi of the standard he had yet to meet. Messi’s quiet reserve, so at odds with Maradona’s defiant swagger, fueled doubts about his patriotism.

After Argentina lost a third consecutive final in 2016, Messi briefly quit the national team.

“There’s some resentment by the people that stay in Argentina for those who leave, this sense of, ‘They think they’re better than us,’” said Rabinovich, adding that he identifies with Messi as a fellow teenage migrant, having moved to Canada during Argentina's 2001 economic crisis, around the time Messi left for Europe. “The old-school Argentines would say, ‘Diego is the Argentine. Messi is soft, a little Spanish boy.’”

The turning point came in 2021, when Argentina beat Brazil to win the Copa América, South America’s championship, for the first time in 28 years. Messi collapsed to the turf as his teammates, delirious, ran to hug him. The player long accused of feeling too little could not stop sobbing.

“Winning clearly disarmed his critics. That’s how soccer works in Argentina,” said Diego Murzi, a sports sociologist at Conicet, Argentina’s national scientific research council. “Criticism of things off the field goes hand in hand with defeats on it.”

The World Cup victory the following year in Qatar sealed his place as a national hero. Messi had delivered the one prize that had eluded him, and millions of Argentines poured into the streets in collective ecstasy, his name in their chants and his No. 10 on their backs.

“I’ll never forget it. I’d never experienced anything like that, being out there with everyone, celebrating together,” said Antonia Correa, 70, a kiosk owner recalling that day as she waited for a bus in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. “We saw that he wasn’t just an extraordinary player, but an excellent human being.”

In recent weeks, newspapers have hummed with nostalgic tributes and murals celebrating Messi have sprung up across the country. La Nación, a leading Argentine daily newspaper, released “Immortal,” a documentary chronicling his final World Cup run, and published a 196-page special edition devoted to his career. A giant replica of his No. 10 Argentina jersey, emblazoned with the word “Gracias,” was unfurled Monday across a main plaza in his home city of Rosario. And in Patagonia, a 26-meter (85-foot), 70-ton statue of Messi kneeling with the World Cup trophy has towered over passing motorists since June.

A jersey without an heir

Across Argentina, fans who grew up watching Messi as their parents watched Maradona now carry him on their skin, in tattoos of him kissing the World Cup trophy. It was easy to believe the world’s greatest player would always be one of their own. Now even Messi’s No. 10 shirt has no designated heir, with coach Lionel Scaloni saying the decision would wait until after his final match.

“I don’t think we’ll have somebody like him again, somebody with that sort of enduring power,” said Pablo Brescia, a University of South Florida professor who writes about Argentine culture and soccer. “Like Maradona, he’ll be unique — a figure that can’t be repeated.”

Messi will continue playing for Inter Miami, where his contract runs through the 2028 season. But the charged ritual of watching him carry Argentina’s hopes and anxieties into every match is ending.

“Watching Messi play, you felt anything could happen,” Murzi said. "I’ve seen him do things that I don’t think I’ll ever see another player do.”

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En un informe de arresto, la policía de Opa-locka identificó al sospechoso como Arlande Delius Sylvestre.

Según el informe, los agentes acudieron a una vivienda alrededor de las 5:40 a.m. del lunes. Habían recibido un reporte de agresión con lesiones.

Al llegar, encontraron a la víctima con heridas visibles en la frente y en otras partes del cuerpo, dijo la policía. Los agentes recorrieron la zona, pero no encontraron a Sylvestre. Según la víctima, había huido a pie antes de que llegara la policía.

La víctima les contó a los investigadores que dormía en un sofá dentro de la casa cuando la despertó el olor a humo.

Según el informe, vio a Sylvestre prendiéndole fuego al sofá y le gritó.

La policía dijo que Sylvestre entonces le dio un machetazo en la frente que le causó una herida profunda.

La víctima contó que Sylvestre se le subió encima, lo inmovilizó contra el sofá y le agarró un brazo mientras lo golpeaba una y otra vez con el machete.

Durante el ataque, Sylvestre presuntamente le gritó: “¡Te voy a matar!”.

La víctima se defendió y logró zafarse, según el informe. La policía dijo que Sylvestre lo persiguió con el machete en la mano e intentó golpearlo de nuevo.

Según la policía, la víctima logró escapar y llamar al 911 mientras Sylvestre huía.

El informe indica que Sylvestre regresó al lugar con el machete antes de que llegaran los agentes. Volvió a enfrentar a la víctima y a perseguirla.

La víctima huyó por miedo a que lo hiriera otra vez, según el informe.

Describió el machete como de unas 24 pulgadas de largo, negro y azul, con letras. Según la policía, las heridas de la víctima coincidían con las de un machete.

El informe también señala que Sylvestre tiene una orden de protección permanente a favor de su novia, emitida en enero de 2024. La orden se dictó después de que presuntamente la apuñalara. La policía dijo que, tras irse del lugar el lunes, Sylvestre llamó a su novia y fue a buscarla en persona, con lo que violó esa orden.

Según la policía, a Sylvestre le leyeron sus derechos Miranda y se acogió a su derecho a guardar silencio.

Fue arrestado y trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Allí quedó registrado con cuatro cargos:

• incendio provocado
• agresión agravada con arma mortal
• asalto agravado
• violación de una orden de protección

Se desconoce el motivo del presunto ataque.

Hasta la tarde del martes, Sylvestre seguía en el TGK. Según los registros de la cárcel, su fianza total figuraba como “por determinar”.

Harry Moon, presidente de NSU, informó recientemente que NSU admitió en su campus de Davie a uno de los siete estudiantes nombrados en una demanda civil presentada el 16 de septiembre. Según la demanda, una estudiante de segundo año, de 20 años, fue violada en una casa de fraternidad en Ithaca, Nueva York.

“Cuando fue admitido, la universidad no tenía conocimiento de las acusaciones que luego salieron en los medios”, escribió Moon recientemente en una carta a los estudiantes. “En cuanto supimos del presunto incidente, actuamos de inmediato para proteger la seguridad y el bienestar de nuestros estudiantes y de la comunidad de NSU”.

Moon no identificó al estudiante de NSU. Según la información disponible, era miembro del capítulo Xi de la fraternidad Chi Phi. Además, es uno de los sospechosos de la presunta violación, ocurrida entre el 19 y el 20 de octubre de 2024 en la cuadra 100 de Edgermoor Lane, en Ithaca.

La mujer denunció la violación ante el Departamento de Policía de Cornell University el 8 de noviembre de 2024. Después de eso, Cornell suspendió temporalmente a los estudiantes de la fraternidad, según la demanda civil. La demanda identifica a la víctima como Jane Doe y acusa a Cornell de negligencia.

Cornell expulsó a dos de los siete estudiantes tras una investigación bajo el Título IX, informó el lunes The New York Times. El litigio civil, de carácter público, llevó recientemente a un gran jurado del condado de Tompkins a revisar el caso.

“Las víctimas de agresión sexual pueden necesitar años de terapia y sanación para procesar y entender por completo lo que les pasó. Buscar justicia a veces nos obliga a reconsiderar o reabrir casos cuando recibimos nuevas pruebas”. Así lo escribió el fiscal del condado de Tompkins, Matthew Van Houten, en un comunicado del 28 de septiembre.

El viernes, la gobernadora de Nueva York, Kathy Hochul, anunció que había apartado a Van Houten del caso. En su lugar nombró a James como fiscal especial para investigar, presentar pruebas ante un gran jurado y “procesar cualquier” delito.

“Como este asunto involucra leyes federales sobre un estudiante en particular, las normas federales limitan legalmente lo que la universidad puede divulgar”, escribió Moon en la carta a los estudiantes de NSU.

Entre los estudiantes de NSU que dijeron sentirse inquietos por la carta de Moon estaba Mars Rivera.

“Obviamente, no dice si lo sacaron, si sigue aquí ni nada de eso”, dijo Rivera a Local 10 News.

Otros videos captaron el sonido de una docena de disparos. También muestran a dos hombres saltando por una ventana del tercer piso de Aliro, en el 14040 de Biscayne Boulevard. Al parecer, uno de ellos dejó caer dinero en efectivo al suelo mientras huía.

Horas después del tiroteo y el secuestro en Aliro, un capitán encontró el cuerpo de Eddrick Malik Bethune a un lado de la carretera, según los detectives de la Oficina del Sheriff. Estaba en la zona de la calle 216 y la avenida 189 del suroeste, en Redlands.

Según el Departamento de Policía de North Miami, un herido llegó a un hospital cercano después del tiroteo en Aliro. Los detectives de homicidios de la Oficina del Sheriff dijeron que no han podido hablar con él debido a “su estado de salud”.

Los detectives también investigaban el incendio intencional de un vehículo en el sur de Miami-Dade, relacionado con el caso del asesinato.

El detective J. Rodriguez pidió a cualquier persona con información sobre el caso que llame al 305-471-2400.

Los detectives también pidieron a quien tenga información sobre este u otros casos que llame a Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477 para mantener el anonimato.

U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan did not immediately rule on ABC’s request for a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Federal Communications Commission from conducting its early review, which it said was unconstitutional, a violation of free speech and a retaliation for content President Donald Trump dislikes.

A government attorney argued that, as a procedural matter, the court doesn’t have jurisdiction over ABC’s case because it belongs in a different venue. The government also challenged the network’s First Amendment arguments, and said ABC had failed to show it suffered irreparable harm.

A ruling was not expected until at least mid-October. After extensively questioning both sides, she asked them to submit brief additional arguments by Oct. 9, for the government, and Oct. 14, for ABC.

ABC and its parent company, Disney, sued the FCC and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr in August, several months after the commission ordered eight ABC-owned stations to submit renewal applications for their broadcast licenses years ahead of schedule.

The case is one of several ongoing legal battles between Trump’s Republican administration and news outlets — including The Associated Press — over their coverage and access to the executive branch since Trump returned to the White House for a second term.

At Tuesday's two-hour hearing, ABC attorney Beth Wilkinson harkened back to the French Revolution to illustrate what she called the chilling effect that the renewal process was having on the network. It was, she said, like having one's “head on the guillotine,” forced to wonder “if anything we say is going to make it come down.”

“Our editorial decisions are being affected right now,” Wilkinson said, noting that the U.S. midterm elections are fast approaching. “We are watching everything that we do.”

She reiterated the First Amendment argument ABC has been making since the beginning — that it was being targeted for its content. “President Donald Trump has made his stance clear over and over again,” Wilkinson said. “What he says is because of that content, because of that speech, ABC should lose its license.

“These are blatant violations of the U.S. Constitution,” she said, calling it a threat not just to ABC but to all broadcast media.

Dimitar Georgiev-Remmel, the Department of Justice attorney, explicitly rejected the guillotine analogy.

Georgiev-Remmel argued that the court lacked jurisdiction, but that even if it decided it had jurisdiction, a preliminary injunction should still be denied. He said ABC had not established a likelihood of success on the merits of the case, and also had not established irreparable harm, because the network’s eight licenses remain valid.

Issuing a preliminary injunction at ABC’s request would mean “allowing them to sidestep” the path that Congress has set up for regulatory action appeals, Georgiev-Remmel said.

Asked by the judge what irreparable harm ABC had suffered, Wilkinson answered: “The irreparable injury is the chill, and the threat of retaliation for First Amendment speech and editorial decisions ABC makes every day.”

In its lawsuit, ABC had asked the judge to temporarily prohibit the FCC from taking any further action related to its license renewal proceedings. ABC also sought to prohibit the commission from trying to coerce or threaten the network to alter its “exercise of editorial discretion.”

“The First Amendment demands an immediate end to the Commission’s retaliatory campaign,” ABC attorneys wrote.

Carr, a Trump ally, ordered the early review of the stations’ licenses in April — just after a joke by ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel infuriated Trump, who called for the comedian's firing.

ABC also had been fighting Carr’s efforts to make the morning talk show “The View” subject to equal-time rules. Carr defended his agency’s actions against ABC by saying broadcasters have a duty to “operate in the public interest.”

Government attorneys urged the court to dismiss ABC’s lawsuit, accusing the network of trying to prematurely ward off scrutiny by federal regulators.

“To foreclose the Commission from using all the tools at its disposal to investigate whether Plaintiffs are meeting their statutory and regulatory duties would seriously harm both the government and the public,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.

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

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Noveck reported from New York, and Boone from Boise, Idaho.

Tuesday's announcement by the National Book Foundation of five nominees in each of five competitive categories has at least one notable omission: Marlon James' “The Disappearers,” a Booker Prize finalist praised by The New York Times as among the century's best releases. James' novel, centered around the vicious beating of a group of gay men in Jamaica in the 1980s, had been on the National Book Awards fiction longlist of 10 released last month.

Winners, each of whom receive $10,000, will be revealed during a Nov. 18 dinner ceremony in Manhattan. Honorary medals will be presented to Salman Rushdie and Perri Klass.

Danticat's “Dèy” and Luiselli's “Beginning Middle End” are fiction finalists in a category of wide-ranging characters, subjects and locations. Danticat's story of a mass shooting attack and its aftermath takes place in Miami, Haiti and Brooklyn, while Hannah Lillith Assadi's “Paradiso 17” follows the worldwide journey of an exiled Palestinian. Luiselli's family narrative spans generations and continents and Julián Delgado Lopera's “Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You” is set in Colombia. In Morgan Thomas' “Mad Eden,” a transgender healthcare worker in Florida struggles for stability in an unfriendly world.

Knausgaard, the Norwegian author with a wide international following, is a finalist in the translation category for “The School of Night,” translated by Martin Aitken. Other nominees include Vicente Luis Mora's “Centroeuropa,” translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery; Intan Paramaditha's “Night of a Thousand Hells,” translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao; Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's “Pure Men,” translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud; and Samar Yazbek's “Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza,” translated from the Arabic by Leri Price.

In nonfiction, Colin Asher is a finalist for “The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music,” Abdelrahman ElGendy for “Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming,” Camonghne Felix for “Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom,” Sara Nović for “Mother Tongue” and Joseph Osmundson for “Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood.”

David Levithan, a finalist for young people's literature, is among a small circle of book editors who also have accomplished careers as authors, including Jenny Jackson at Alfred A. Knopf and Jill Bialosky at W.W. Norton & Company. Levithan is an editorial director at Scholastic and a prolific writer nominated this year for “The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America,” a collaboration with Gabriel Duckels.

The other young people's literature finalists are Elana K. Arnold's “Holloway,” Tae Keller's “When Tomorrow Burns,” Keala Kendall's “That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic” and Julian Randall's “Shook.”

In poetry, the nominees are Victoria Chang's “Tree of Knowledge,” Carolina Ebeid's “Hide,” Brenda Hillman's “Still House in the Desert: An eco-contemplation,” Fady Joudah's “Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza” and Susan Stewart's “Bramble.”

Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force, said in a letter posted on social media Tuesday that episodes like these "demand we pause for reflection” and that serving on the Japanese island “comes with responsibility."

The arrest of the Marine has renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island and the rise in military-related crime. The killing could also complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to strengthen the Japanese military on Okinawa and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region.

“We live, work, and socialize alongside the people of Okinawa; their home is our home,” Watson wrote. “Every interaction with our neighbors either builds or undermines the trust that is essential to our team. When that trust is damaged, it affects the strength of our alliance and the security of this region. Accordingly, we will take time to think hard about discipline, standards and our alliance responsibilities.”

The 48-hour pause will last from Wednesday through Friday. Service members will receive training on standards, discipline and “our responsibilities as members of the Okinawan community.” Restricting the ability of troops to leave military bases and interact with the local community is a common response by military leaders to major crimes.

Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at Futenma Air Station, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the island’s capital city, Naha, early Saturday and stealing her wallet and backpack. He has denied the allegations, according to Japanese media. Ballard is from Ohio, the Marine Corps said.

Security camera footage showed a man entering the hotel with the woman and later leaving alone.

Ballard was arrested when a patrolling officer saw him walking later Saturday in an entertainment district in Okinawa City, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) northeast of Naha. His shaved head and the tattoos on his arms matched those of the man in security footage, Kyodo News agency reported.

“I must say, discipline and troop education are not working at all,” Kenji Higa, who lives in Okinawa City, told the Okinawa Times. He was referring to the U.S. military’s measures taken in response to past criminal cases.

People in Okinawa have long opposed the heavy U.S. military presence on the island, but some have come to see its strategic value due to what is widely viewed as a growing threat from China.

Okinawa was under U.S. occupation from World War II until 1972. Today the U.S. population on the island is nearly 80,000, with nearly 30,000 being active duty troops from all four branches of the armed forces, though the Marines make up the bulk of the forces.

There has been anger over increasing crime linked to the U.S. military. The number of such criminal cases rose to 101 last year from about 40 in 2020, according to police.

After the 1995 rape of a 12-year-old girl by three U.S. service members, huge crowds protested the U.S. troop presence on Okinawa. There was also anger over the rape of a teenage girl by a U.S. service member in 2024 and the delayed disclosure of the crime.

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Associated Press writers Konstantin Toropin in Washington and Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.

Guojun Xuan, 66, and his wife, Silvia Zhang, 39, face several counts of child abuse, as well as conspiracy to commit child abuse, accessory after the fact, and dissuading a witness, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said.

“This case is unprecedented. It is horrific,” Hochman said during a news conference Tuesday morning. “The physical abuse, beating and punishment that these very young children received is despicable.”

Prosecutors are seeking $100 million bail for the couple because of the serious nature of the charges and because they are flight risks, Hochman said. They were scheduled to be arraigned at the Pasadena courthouse later Tuesday.

Fifteen children were removed from the couple’s opulent home in Arcadia last year after an allegation of abuse, and another six living elsewhere were also located. They ranged in age from 2 months to 13 years, with most between 1 and 3. Police believe Zhang gave birth to one or two of the children while the rest were carried and delivered by surrogates.

Hochman said the couple set up a surrogacy agency that they operated from their home and used that agency to hire surrogates throughout the U.S.

“The house could only be described as a house of horrors for these incredible young children,” Hochman said.

Prosecutor says videos show nannies and Xuan abusing children

Zhang and Xuan were first arrested in May 2025 after a hospital reported that their 2-month-old infant had a traumatic head injury, the result of a nanny at the home violently shaking the baby, according to Arcadia police.

Arcadia police did not file charges at the time, saying they needed to complete the investigation.

Hochman said the couple set up three rooms they called learning centers, where the children spent several hours a day sitting at desks under the supervision of nannies.

Through an extensive surveillance system including motion-activated cameras, the couple watched as the nannies subjected the children to physical abuse including daily beatings, he said.

In one video, Xuan enters one of the rooms and tells a nanny to strike a child harder, and in another he joins the nanny in hitting the child, Hochman said.

He said the nannies were told “not to leave any physical marks on the children,” and when police arrived to investigate in May 2025, the couple told the children to deny they had been beaten.

After examining the surveillance footage, police issued an arrest warrant for Chunmei Li, the nanny seen hurting the 2-month-old infant, but she could not be found.

Hochman said “there will be a reckoning” for the defendants, one of whom faces more than 17 years in prison if convicted.

Prosecutor says motive for discipline remains under investigation

When asked about the couple’s motivation, Hochman said that was part of the ongoing investigation, as was the parentage of each child.

Mitchell Krems, Xuan’s attorney, previously told ABC7 that Xuan’s goal was to raise children who become productive adults.

“The reason he has all these children is because he wants them to contribute to society. He is not a man who is self-indulgent,” Krems said. “Some who are wealthy might spend on jewelry or cars, but he is actually spending his resources to help his children become educated so that they can be the philosophers, the physicians, the researchers and the inventors that help society.”

Krems did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on Tuesday’s arrests.

Surrogates say they were misled

Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman agrees to carry and deliver a child for another person or couple, often after an embryo transfer.

There is no comprehensive federal law regulating surrogacy, leaving most rules to the states.

California is considered a “surrogacy-friendly state” because it has clear laws governing the process. Both sides are required to have lawyers, and there must be a written, notarized contract before an embryo transfer takes place.

Investigators have said they were looking into whether the couple had misled surrogates around the country and that at least eight women came forward to say they were aggressively pursued by the couple to serve as surrogates.

The women, many of whom were first-time surrogates, say they were given misleading or incomplete information about the couple’s family situation and intentions.

At least one, Kayla Elliott, is now trying to get custody of a baby she birthed for the couple.

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Marcelo reported from New York City.

“Sam spent eleven of his fifteen seasons in a Cleveland uniform as one of the game’s most feared hurlers. A strikeout king. He was a cherished member of our Alumni Ambassador program and loved sharing stories with our fans when he visited Progressive Field. Most importantly, Sam’s life was a story of redemption,” Guardians senior vice president of public affairs Bob DiBiasio said in a statement.

McDowell's baseball career and post-career sobriety served as the inspiration for the Sam Malone character from the iconic television sitcom “Cheers.”

McDowell had a 15-year career in the major leagues from 1961-74, including 11 in Cleveland. The left-hander had a 141-134 record in 425 games, including 346 starts. He had 2,453 strikeouts, 103 complete games and 23 shutouts. McDowell also pitched for San Francisco, the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh.

In 1965, McDowell went 17-11 and led the American League in ERA (2.18) and strikeouts (325). He was 20-12 in 1970 and led the AL in both strikeouts (304) and walks (131). Cleveland traded him to San Francisco after the 1971 season.

McDowell's 9.21 strikeouts per nine innings remains a Cleveland franchise record and his 2,159 strikeouts with the club are second. He was inducted in the franchise's hall of fame in 2006.

McDowell said in his 2022 autobiography that he attempted suicide in 1963, but survived because when he pulled the trigger it was on the lone dead shell among live rounds in the chamber. He quit drinking in 1980 and went on to earn an associate’s degree in sports psychology and addictions from the University of Pittsburgh after entering rehab.

He was certified as a counselor two years later and was a recovery consultant for the Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.). He was recognized with the B.A.T Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.

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Sally Yates, who was a deputy attorney general in the Obama administration, will spearhead the review, the trustees said. The assessment is to include how the Ivy League university investigates reports of sexual assault and sexual harassment, how the disciplinary process works, campus police responses and more.

“It is imperative that Cornell be willing to examine itself with the same rigor we expect of others," trustee Chair Anne Meinig Smalling said in a statement.

The announcement comes after days of outrage and a large protest over Cornell’s response to a complaint from a woman known publicly only as Jane Doe. She told campus police in November 2024 that, a few weeks earlier, she had been sexually assaulted by multiple Chi Phi fraternity brothers after being pressured into drinking and taking drugs.

No criminal charges have been filed. The Chi Phi chapter at Cornell was shut down, and the Ivy League university has said it expelled some students and suspended others.

Yates will look at how the woman's complaint was addressed and at the oversight of fraternities, sororities and other campus groups, Cornell said.

The woman sued the university, seven former students, the fraternity and others last month.

Lawyers for two of the former students denied they participated in a sexual assault. Attempts by The Associated Press to reach the other men or their representatives have been unsuccessful. Court records show that during an investigation that Cornell conducted under the federal Title IX law, some of the accused students contended that the sexual activity was consensual.

The lawsuit put a new, nationwide spotlight on the allegations and how the campus police, university and local prosecutor had reacted.

New York’s attorney general is now conducting a criminal investigation, and the state’s governor called for an independent review of Cornell’s handling of the matter — the review that Yates now will lead.

Cornell students, professors and others thronged a campus plaza Monday to protest the university’s response to sexual assault complaints and demand more accountability, greater transparency, an overhaul of the disciplinary process, and other changes.

Yates had a decades-long career at the Justice Department, serving for years as the top federal prosecutor in Atlanta and later as a deputy attorney general.

She achieved particular prominence in January 2017 when, as acting attorney general in the early days of the Trump administration, she directed Justice Department attorneys not to defend the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration ban. She was swiftly fired, with Trump accusing her of betrayal and insubordination.

Yates also generated headlines when it emerged that, in a conversation days before her departure, she had expressed alarm to the Trump White House about contacts that Trump’s new national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had had with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition period. Flynn later was fired.

Yates has been in private practice since her departure from the Justice Department. Her practice at the King & Spalding law firm includes conducting independent investigations for outside organizations and companies.

She led a high-profile inquiry into alleged abuse and misconduct, including claims of harassment and coercion, at the National Women’s Soccer League. The investigation concluded in 2022 with a finding of systemic abuse.

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The league on Monday suspended line judge Jeff Seeman for two games for swearing at Arizona’s Trey McBride and referee Adrian Hill for one game for yelling and gesturing at Minnesota’s Eric Wilson.

"NFL officials have a responsibility to conduct themselves professionally on the field, and the actions in these incidents fell short of that standard," Referees Association executive director Scott Green said in a statement. “Accountability matters, but that should not result in discipline that is excessive or inconsistent with established precedent.”

Seeman was caught on camera cursing at McBride during the Cardinals’ loss at the New York Giants. Hill yelled at Eric Wilson and pointed for him to get away after the Vikings linebacker tried to help him to his feet after a collision knocked him over.

“Officials are routinely subjected to highly charged interactions and, at times, verbal abuse from players and coaches," Green said. “While that never excuses misconduct by an official, it shouldn’t be dismissed as simply part of the game. The League expects the highest level of professionalism from its officials, and it should demand the same from everyone on the field.”

The NFLRA said it would meet with the league's officiating department to discuss disciplinary standards and with Players Association leadership to address on-field conduct and the growing levels of confrontations between players and officials.

“We will defend the principle that discipline must be fair, consistent and proportionate," Green said. “Holding officials accountable while ignoring or minimizing the conduct directed at them is neither fair nor an effective way to address this issue.”

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According to the Miami Police Department, officers responded to the area of Northwest Seventh Avenue and Northwest Seventh Street at approximately 4 a.m. after receiving reports of a man down in the roadway.

When officers arrived, Miami Fire Rescue medics were already transporting the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was initially listed in critical condition, authorities confirmed. The victim later died from his injuries.

“Our detectives are reviewing cameras in the area,” Officer Mike Vega said. “They’re talking to witnesses, there was a Good Samaritan that was traveling southbound, saw a body in the middle of the street and stopped to render aid, and also contacted police.”

A preliminary investigation determined that the victim had been riding a scooter when he was struck by a vehicle whose driver fled the scene, police said.

“This is advice to people that are driving and either hit a person, hit something, and they get scared because they don’t have insurance, or they don’t have a driver’s license, or they don’t have the registration with them. If you don’t have all these things, stay on the scene, do the right thing, and then eventually, all you’re going to get is a ticket or a citation,” Vega said. “But in this case, since the driver fled the scene, now he’s facing a more serious charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.”

Police have not released additional information about the vehicle or driver involved.

The investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Miami Police Department or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

“Yes, he did,” Umar Kremlev told an International Boxing Association press conference in Istanbul on Tuesday. “He did repay the money I spent on the present.” Still, he said he felt the repayment was unnecessary.

“Frankly speaking, I do not understand why he decided to do so,” he went on. “There are all kinds of events organized by all kinds of people. It is as if I invite you to come and visit my country house. Would you expect me to issue an invoice to them afterward?" Speaking through an interpreter, he said that would be "ridiculous.”

ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative website, reported last month that Kremlev, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, “footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses” when Trump Jr. married socialite Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas in May. That included paying to rent one of two private islands where the three-day party was held.

In a subsequent post on her Instagram page signed by the couple, Bettina Trump wrote that they had been married “surrounded ONLY by our family,” but that Kremlev, head of the boxing association, was a “dear friend” who “very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding.”

President Donald Trump, who did not attend the nuptials, previously defended the arrangement but told reporters that the money would be paid back.

“It’s totally allowed," he said. “But, as I understand it, he paid them back.”

“That’s very common,” he added, “I’ve given wedding parties to numerous people.”

Kremlev, who was recently honored with the Order of Friendship by Putin, also played down the significance, saying the celebration was “a shared event" and "people blew it out of proportion.”

“I mean, why can’t we be friends? We are just friends,” he went on. “We are simply friends and what unites us is love for sports."

The focus on Kremlev comes as Russia remains at war with Ukraine following its invasion in 2022 and as Trump has failed to broker a promised peace deal between the nations.

Trump Jr. has previously been scrutinized over his ties to Russia. During the 2016 campaign, his meeting with a Russian attorney in Trump Tower to discuss potentially incriminating information about his father's then-Democratic opponent was a critical element of investigations into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to meddle in the election to help Trump win.

Reed hasn't been on a Ryder Cup team since those 2018 matches, another debacle for the U.S. team that ended with Reed telling The New York Times he should have been partners with Jordan Spieth and Furyk should not have benched him twice that week.

Reed, among the first to defect to LIV Golf in 2022, chose not to renew his LIV contract this year and leads the European tour points list, assuring him a return to the PGA Tour next year.

“We are going to put the best 12 guys, the best team of 12, on this team,” Furyk said from Adare Manor during a news conference with European captain Luke Donald to mark the matches being one year away. “If Patrick Reed is one of those, that's great. It's been a long time since he's been in our team room.”

Steve Stricker left Reed off the team for the 2021 Ryder Cup the Americans won at Whistling Straits. He was not seriously considered for the Rome matches in 2023 or the Bethpage Black matches in 2025, even though he had top-5 finishes at the Masters both those years.

Furyk already has changed U.S. qualifying for Adare Manor so that no one begins earning points until the 2027 season. Reed, who is No. 29 in the world ranking as he closes out his European tour schedule, could be eligible for signature events if he's in the top 30 at the time of those events.

His last time in the U.S. team room was at Royal Melbourne in 2019 for the Presidents Cup, where he was heckled by the Australian gallery a week after he was penalized in the Bahamas for improving his lie in a sandy waste area.

Six players qualify and Furyk will have six captain's picks for the Sept. 17-19 matches.

“Patrick and I will have that conversation," Furyk said. “And I'm looking forward to welcoming our best team of 12.”

Furyk's more immediate concern was finding a solution for the recent trend of abysmal U.S. play in foursomes. The Americans have been outgained 26-8 in foursomes in the last two Ryder Cups and Presidents Cups. The deficit is 13-3 to Europe in the Ryder Cup.

They have been blanked in three sessions — the opening session at Marco Simone in 2023, and each of the last two times in the Presidents Cup.

“I know those numbers very, very well. I’ve lived them the last four,” Furyk said. "It's not an anomaly. There's some issues — we understand that. I plan on making some changes. As captains, we need to do a better job, not only put the folks into good pairings in good positions, but I don’t think we are preparing for those matches in a proper way.

“And I promise you, we will be prepared,” he said. “I'm going to ask this team to do more than any other United States team has in the past. We’ll be prepared. We’ll be ready to go in that format, and hopefully we can showcase our talent. We have too much depth to have that poor record in alternate shot.”

Furyk said he will ask prospective players to go to Adare Manor next summer around the two-week stretch of the Scottish Open and British Open.

He was in a tough spot as 2018 captain for the Ryder Cup at Le Golf National. The course was set up tight with deep rough. Some players suited for the course were not in great form. Tiger Woods had just won the Tour Championship and Bryson DeChambeau won two playoff events. They combined to go 0-7-0 for the week.

Donald returns as captain for the third time, bidding to become the first captain in Ryder Cup history to lead three teams to victory.

“I have zero complacency about how strong the U.S. are going to be. They always are. On paper, they tend to be stronger than us through the world rankings,” Donald said. "Obviously we have a great record at home, but again, zero complacency. I’ve seen what Jim has been doing behind the scenes, changing the stats, changing the qualification system. He is very, very motivated to come here and put up a good fight.

“Certainly I’m just as motivated to sort of keep finding those edges for my team.”

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The original deadline was Sept. 30, but the U.S. Department of Education extended it to give borrowers more time to enroll. The rate reduction will last through June 2028.

Borrowers who currently use auto pay already receive an interest-rate discount of 0.25%, so the new reduction takes off just 0.75%.

This temporary benefit is meant to support borrowers, along with those who are returning to repayment, and ensure they can stay on top of the new Repayment Assistance Plan that requires on-time payments, according to the Education Department.

The interest reduction can benefit borrowers who have large balances and are on fixed payments, said Lesley J. Turner, associate professor of public policy at the University of Chicago.

“For a limited time, borrowers are now able to get a full percentage point reduction in their interest rate if they sign up for auto debit," Turner said. “So this is a quadrupling of the earlier benefit. It’s a pretty big benefit, especially for borrowers who have large balances.”

Since the interest reduction was announced this summer, nearly 2 million borrowers have enrolled in auto pay.

Around 9 million Americans are in default on their federal student loans as of June, according to the Education Department. Hundreds of thousands more are behind on loan payments and at risk of default this year.

If you're looking to enroll your student loans in auto pay, here's what you need to know:

If you're new to auto pay, enroll by the end of the year

In order to get the 1% interest reduction, you must enroll in auto pay by Dec. 31.

First, log in to your student loan servicer account and select auto pay. You'll need to enter your bank information to automatically withdraw the monthly payment from your checking or savings account.

Even without the rate reduction, auto pay is a good way to stay on top of your student loans, Turner said.

“We all know life gets busy and if you have to log in every month and manually make your payment there may be a chance that you forget and then you end up having your loans go delinquent," she said.

If you're already enrolled, you already have the reduction

Borrowers who were enrolled in auto pay before the announcement in July have had their interest rate automatically reduced by 1%, according to the Education Department.

If you're currently in default, consolidate your loans

If your student loans are in default, you must log in to studentaid.gov and consolidate your eligible loans in order to sign up for auto pay.

Involuntary collections on federal student loans remain on hold. The Trump administration announced earlier this year that it is delaying plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments. Borrowers are considered in default when they are at least 270 days behind on payments.

The online application for loan consolidation is available at studentaid.gov/loan-consolidation. If you have multiple federal student loans, you can combine them into a single loan with a fixed interest rate and a single monthly payment. The consolidation process typically takes around 60 days to complete. You can only consolidate your loans once.

If your student loans are in default, you can also contact your loan holder to apply for a loan rehabilitation program. Through this program, borrowers are enrolled in a reduced payment plan and, after five successful payments, wage garnishment ends.

Borrowers can find more information about loan rehabilitation here.

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He came with the Everglades Trust, which endorsed his plans for Everglades restoration.

He said he remembered what happened on Florida’s West Coast, where he lives: blue-green algal blooms along the Caloosahatchee in 2014.

“You finish the work. You finish the projects,” Donalds said. “You make sure that the work that we’ve been planning ― and, by the way, Everglades restoration is something that was planned back in 2000 ― the execution is happening now. You execute the work plan. You do that.”

He and the Everglades Trust said water mismanagement was the reason behind the past blooms.

Local 10 News asked him about Democratic challenger David Jolly’s visit to South Florida in Coconut Creek on Monday, where he said he would not debate Donalds ahead of the election.

Jolly said, “Well, you can’t really debate a liar. I think what we learned from Donald Trump is they can repeat the same lies a dozen times, and in some circles of the world, it becomes the truth.”

Donalds said he was willing to debate Jolly anytime.

“David Jolly’s a fraud,” Donalds said. “He knows if he is on a debate stage with me, that fraud will be exposed to the people of Florida, so he hides. This guy’s been on every side of politics the last 10 years.”

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Videos also captured the sound of about a dozen gunshots fired, and two men jumping out of a third-floor window at Aliro, at 14040 Biscayne Boulevard. One of the men appeared to have dropped cash on the floor as he ran away.

Hours after the shooting and abduction at Aliro, a captain found Eddrick Malik Bethune dead on the side of the road in the area of Southwest 216th Street and 189th Avenue, in Redlands, according to MDSO detectives.

A wounded victim arrived at a nearby hospital after the shooting at Alir, according to the North Miami Police Department. MDSO homicide detectives reported not being able to speak to the wounded victim because of “his medical status.”

Detectives were also investigating a vehicle arson in southern Miami-Dade that was related to the murder investigation.

Detective J. Rodriguez asked anyone with information about the case to call 305-471-2400.

Detectives also asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which first reported the news, said Franchione’s family confirmed his death Tuesday, adding that he battled cancer for a decade. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and 2021, but it had been in remission. Family friends said the cancer returned earlier this year and Franchione recently went into hospice, the newspaper reported.

Franchione worked his way up the college football coaching ranks during a career that spanned more than 30 years. Beginning as an assistant at Kansas State in 1978, he coached at New Mexico, TCU, Alabama, Texas A&M and Texas State.

He compiled a 213-135-2 record before stepping down from Texas State in 2015 and retiring from coaching. Franchione led his teams to nine conference championships, nine bowl games, four NAIA playoff games and one NCAA Division II playoff appearance.

“TCU mourns alongside the Franchione family at the passing of ‘Coach Fran,’” TCU athletic director Mike Buddie said in a statement. “Our fortunes as a department would not be what they are today without the efforts of Coach Franchione, his staff, and players. Beyond his talent as a football coach, he was a beloved father, mentor, and friend to so many. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Kim, and the entire Franchione family.”

TCU was coming off a 1-10 season when Franchione left New Mexico after six years to take over the Horned Frogs, who in his debut season in 1999 had a 7-5 record capped by a Sun Bowl win over Southern California. With future Pro Football Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson, TCU finished tied atop the Western Athletic Conference standings each of the next two seasons, going 8-4 with another bowl win in 1999 before a 10-1 regular season in 2000 that led to him being hired by Alabama.

Franchione was replaced at TCU by his defensive coordinator, Gary Patterson, who had winning records in 15 of his 22 seasons as head coach and six times was top 10 in the final AP Top 25 poll. That included an undefeated 13-0 season in 2010 when the Frogs finished second after a win over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.

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Authorities said Yansel Hernandez, 34, and Rene Quintana, 31, were taken into custody on Friday and the victim was rescued on Saturday.

Court documents in the case were made public on Tuesday. The two men face kidnapping conspiracy charges.

The kidnapping

Authorities said the kidnapping took place just before noon last Tuesday after the victim made a purchase at Pinch A Penny Pool Patio Spa at 11035 Bird Road in Miami-Dade’s unincorporated Westchester area.

According to a federal criminal complaint, surveillance video showed a gray sedan arriving shortly after the victim. Authorities said video showed the victim walking out of the store and the sedan leaving the lot ― but the victim’s truck was left behind.

Authorities said a license plate reader on Bird Road captured a gray Chrysler 200 traveling about a half mile west of the store about two minutes after the kidnapping.

Calls and text messages

Later that evening, agents said the victim’s son received a call from a blocked number with garbled audio, but in which he could hear a man, speaking in a hurried tone and referencing the words “$3 million,” “dad” and “child.”

According to the complaint, the victim’s son then began receiving text messages from various phone numbers.

Authorities said eight minutes later, the victim received a Spanish-language text message stating that the texter “had” the victim. According to the complaint, the texter “also referred to a 15-year debt.”

Just after 8:15 p.m., authorities said the victim’s son received a text from a phone with a 615 area code, which requested $3 million and stated that the texter “knew (the victim’s) businesses, properties, and family members.” According to the complaint, the texter also told the victim’s son “he would be contacted within 48 hours to meet in West Palm Beach.”

A third text message, sent on Thursday, stated that “because (the victim’s son) contacted the police,” the ransom was now $4 million and “that the (victim) loves (him) and knows the money can be obtained,” agents said.

According to the complaint, the victim’s son was told he “must arrive in a blue Hyundai to deliver the money in West Palm Beach.” Agents said the victim’s son owns a blue Hyundai.

On Thursday evening, agents said the victim’s son received a call from a number agents were later able to trace, in which the caller made a “demand for money” in Spanish and said that the victim’s son would receive a “proof of life” of his father, so long as he “had the money.”

Tracing the phones

Investigators said they were eventually able to trace two of the numbers to the purchase of burner phones at a Walmart at 9300 NW 77th Ave. in Hialeah Gardens on June 30 and July 1.

According to the complaint, surveillance video showed three men arriving in a black Honda Accord on June 30; one of them went into Walmart to buy one of the phones with cash, while the other two visited a nearby pizza shop.

Investigators said they were able to obtain a receipt from the pizza shop showing a purchase tied to a man named “Rene” with a phone number that led investigators to Quintana.

According to the complaint, cellphone data placed both Quintana and Hernandez near the Pinch A Penny at the time of the kidnapping and showed the two were communicating with one another in the days leading up to the crime, including calling each other the day before.

Surveillance, arrests and rescue

Investigators said they surveilled Quintana’s home on Friday and saw a second gray Honda Accord ― which was registered to a person who had left the country before the kidnapping and which had been seen parked at Quintana’s home on Wednesday ― circling the block.

“Law enforcement followed the Honda through the surrounding neighborhood,” an FBI agent wrote in the complaint. “Law enforcement confirmed the vehicle was occupied by two Hispanic males. The vehicle stopped and the occupants exited the vehicle. While setting up a perimeter to find the occupants of the vehicle, law enforcement observed Hernandez and Quintana walking on foot.”

Authorities said they searched the two after taking them into custody and did not find any cellphones.

Federal investigators said a search of Quintana’s bag had a “SIM card holder with a phone number” and what was described in the complaint as a “receipt” ― though a photo attached in the complaint shows what appears to be the back of a Powerball ticket or play slip ― with the phone number used to make Thursday’s ransom call written on it.

Agents said law enforcement officers “rescued” the victim the next day, though they did not say where they found him.

Records show Hernandez and Quintana were being held in the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami as of Tuesday morning.

The online federal court docket did not list any upcoming hearings.

If convicted of conspiracy to kidnap, each man could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Other highlights include Kubrick’s director’s chair, the matching blue dresses worn by the twin girls in “The Shining,” costumes used in “Eyes Wide Shut” and Kubrick's annotated scripts for several of his films, Bonhams said.

“We are proud to be able to share with you some of the items from this unique collection, which we hope will find new homes and be cherished until it is time to pass them on to the next generation of film lovers,” the director's stepdaughter, Katherina Kubrick, said in a statement.

The star item is the original “Star Child” prop, which appears as a glowing fetus in the final scene of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Bonhams said that it's expected to fetch up to 800,000 pounds ($1.06 million).

The axe in “The Shining” — used by Jack Nicholson as he delivered his famous line “Here’s Johnny!” — is estimated to sell for 30,000 to 50,000 pounds ($39,851 to $66,410).

The auction will take place in London in February, and will be preceded by a free public exhibition.

Claire died Monday, on his 91st birthday, in Pasadena, the team announced Tuesday. Claire had entered hospice care recently.

In January 2015, at age 80, Claire was diagnosed with squamous cell skin cancer on his lip. He had the cells removed, but the cancer later returned in his jaw and again in his neck. He had surgery to remove a nerve on the left side of his face along with several lymph nodes. He underwent radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy as part of his 11-year journey with cancer.

He would jog regularly during his years on the road as the Dodgers general manager and said he was diligent about wearing sun screen except on his lips.

“Fred brought many victories and Dodger legends to our franchise, as well as the 1988 World Series title,” team president and CEO Stan Kasten said in a statement, “and we are forever grateful for his leadership during such a memorable era.”

From sports writing to public relations

Claire was covering the Dodgers during spring training in Florida for the Long Beach Press-Telegram in 1969 when one of the team’s public relations assistants was fired.

He expressed interest in the job and was hired that July. He was promoted to vice president of public relations and promotions in 1975.

During his tenure, Claire was instrumental in creating the Dodger Blue branding and Think Blue campaign. The club drew 3.3 million fans in 1978, the first MLB team to exceed 3 million. He also hired announcer Ross Porter, who worked for the team from 1977 until being let go in 2004.

In 1976, Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday ran over and saved an American flag from being burned on the Dodger Stadium field by two spectators. Claire directed the message board operator to type the words: “Rick Monday......You Made a Great Play” on the board.

Becoming Dodgers GM after a scandal

In April 1987, a public relations firestorm occurred over comments 70-year-old general manager Al Campanis made on ABC’s “Nightline.”

Campanis, who was white, was asked by host Ted Koppel about the lack of Black people in significant positions of authority in baseball.

“I truly believe they may not have some of the necessities to be, let’s say, a field manager, or perhaps, a general manager,” Campanis said. “Why are Black people not good swimmers? Because they don’t have buoyancy.”

Campanis had agreed to the interview without telling anyone in the Dodgers organization. Claire awoke the next day to a story about Campanis’ comments in the newspaper.

“I couldn’t believe what I was reading,” he wrote in his 2004 memoir.

Campanis had been Jackie Robinson’s roommate when the two were in the minor leagues in 1946, and he tutored Robinson in transitioning from shortstop to second base. Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

“Those who knew Al expressed shock. There had never been a hint of bigotry in anything he had ever said or done,” Claire wrote. “In my view, what Al had attempted to do that night was to defend his beloved game of baseball in an area where there was no defense.”

Campanis was fired after two decades as GM. Team owner Peter O’Malley handed control of one of the most storied teams in baseball to Claire. He accepted on the condition that he would have total and complete responsibility for baseball operations.

Claire wasn’t intimidated, either, having been involved in discussions regarding free agents, arbitration and team payroll since becoming a team vice president in 1975.

In Claire’s first full season as GM, the Dodgers finished with a 73-89 record in 1987. O’Malley informed Claire he was considering bringing in a more experienced person for the job. He called the New York Mets and asked for permission to speak to Joe McIlvaine, but was denied. O’Malley decided to stick with Claire.

“Fred was a talented team player and everyone in the organization enjoyed working with him,” O’Malley said in a statement.

Winning 1988 World Series

In January 1988, Claire signed Kirk Gibson and the outfielder made a huge difference in the Dodgers winning the World Series in five games over the heavily favored Oakland Athletics that fall. An injured Gibson hobbled to the plate as a pinch-hitter in the bottom of the ninth inning with the Dodgers trailing 4-3 in Game 1. He launched a two-strike, two-run homer — one of the most dramatic moments in baseball history — off closer Dennis Eckersley into the right field seats to win the game, 5-4.

Claire was named baseball’s executive of the year, an award previously won by such Dodger greats as Larry MacPhail, Branch Rickey, Walter O’Malley and Buzzie Bavasi.

The Dodgers returned to the playoffs just twice over the next decade, losing in the first round both times. It would be another 32 years before the Dodgers won the World Series again.

Good trades and bad ones, too

Among the trades that Claire was most proud of during his tenure as GM were those that brought John Shelby, Tim Belcher, Alfredo Griffin, Jay Howell, Jesse Orosco and John Tudor to Los Angeles — all of which had a connection with the 1988 World Series championship. He also traded for future Hall of Famer Eddie Murray in 1988 and again in 1997.

Two trades that Claire regretted were sending pitcher Pedro Martinez to the Montreal Expos and acquiring Eric Davis from Cincinnati. Martinez went on to win three Cy Young Awards with the Boston Red Sox, while Davis played two injury-plagued seasons in Los Angeles.

Dodgers sold, Piazza traded behind Claire’s back

The O’Malley family sold the team to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Entertainment Group in March 1998.

Two months later, future Hall of Fame catcher and fan favorite Mike Piazza was traded to the Florida Marlins in a stunning seven-player deal struck without Claire’s knowledge. It was pulled off by Fox television executive Chase Carey, who Claire said, was pursuing a regional TV sports channel in Florida and wanted the Marlins to be part of it.

“The seven-player trade was, first and foremost, a television deal. The new team owner simply did not understand the structure of a baseball team and the importance of a franchise player,” Claire wrote. “My reaction to the trade cost me my position with the Dodgers.”

Claire, along with manager Bill Russell, was fired by Fox on June 21, 1998, the same day Campanis died. Former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda took over as interim GM.

Claire never took another full-time job in baseball but stayed connected with the sport through a column and radio show for MLB.com, as a consultant for sports-related companies and by co-founding a baseball analytics company. He taught sports business courses at Caltech, the University of Southern California and Long Beach State.

Love of baseball began as a kid in Ohio

Born Fredic Marston Claire on Oct. 5, 1935, in Jamestown, Ohio, he cultivated his love of baseball while attending Cincinnati Reds games with his family at Crosley Field. He moved to Torrance, California, at age 15. He graduated from Torrance High, where he played junior varsity baseball and basketball. He graduated from San Jose State University with a journalism degree.

His first job out of college was as a sports writer for the Whittier Daily News at $65 a week. During his time with the Progress-Bulletin in Pomona, he wrote the game story on the Dodgers winning Game 3 of the 1959 World Series against the Chicago White Sox, the team’s first World Series win after moving to Los Angeles.

He later covered the then-California Angels for the Long Beach Press-Telegram and became the paper’s beat writer for the Dodgers in 1969.

He is survived by wife Sheryl and children Jeff, Jennifer and Kim.

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The attorneys for David Hearn said in a letter to the inspectors general for the departments of Justice and Interior that “incompetence and misconduct" were committed by government officials operating under pressure from President Donald Trump, and that watchdog investigations were needed “to determine what happened inside their agencies that led to the shocking and indefensible treatment” of their client.

The letter was filed days after a District of Columbia judge permanently dismissed the case, ending a brief prosecution derided by defense lawyers and other critics as an abuse of government power pushed by a president who insisted vandalism, not human error, was to blame for damage at the landmark. The request indicates that Hearn's lawyers see an additional need for accountability even after the dismissal of the legal proceedings.

“In light of these findings and the government’s own admissions, a critical purpose of the requested investigations is to collect the facts — through witness interviews and the collection and analysis of electronic media and documents — necessary to hold accountable the individuals and groups who failed Mr. Hearn, the criminal justice system, and the public,” the lawyers wrote.

“These events," they said, "demand accountability and full and unconstrained investigations by your offices.”

The Justice Department inspector general's office declined to comment on whether it would act on the lawyers' request. A phone message seeking comment with the Interior Department's inspector general's office was not immediately returned.

Defense lawyers say prosecutors ignored exculpatory evidence

D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman on Thursday dismissed the case against Hearn with “prejudice,” which would block U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office from refiling the felony charge against him. He said the decision was warranted by the case's “exceptional circumstances” and agreed with defense attorneys that the government “shot first and asked questions later” by charging Hearn in a "lightning-fast indictment process.”

Pirro moved to dismiss the case in July weeks after it was brought, saying newly produced evidence from the Interior Department showed Hearn was not responsible for damage to the pool’s lining. She attributed the damage instead to a botched installation by a contractor as well as a rush to complete the project in time for this summer’s America 250 celebration in Washington.

But Hearn's lawyers say in their letter that the evidence that established their client's innocence had been in the Justice Department's possession for weeks and was “simply ignored.” They asked the department's inspector general to investigate why prosecutors “rushed to indict” under what they said was political pressure from Trump, who had launched a massive renovation project before the anniversary celebrations and later accused Pirro of having “choked” and “folded like an umbrella" when she dismissed the case.

The attorneys also called on the watchdog to investigate, among other things, whether prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory information in their possession and prosecutors relied on a grand jury witness who presented an unsupported figure on monetary damages to the pool; whether comments Pirro made at the indictment press conference violated Justice Department policy; and whether Pirro also violated policy by approaching and questioning a defense expert.

“The record reflects an indictment obtained through unusual haste and a prosecution shaped from the outset by political pressure and built on an inadequate investigation," they said, adding, “The sprint to charge Mr. Hearn mirrored the rushed renovation itself, which the President had publicly committed to completing by a fixed deadline.”

Pirro's office did not return an email seeking comment.

Questions are also raised about the Interior Department

Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish, ninth, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee says on its website.

He has said he was on a bike ride on June 19 when he reached in to examine the pool’s newly peeled coating and briefly touched a chunk attached to the side of the pool. But he said he obeyed a park worker’s command to let go of it. He was nonetheless stopped by police officers, arrested and detained for nearly five hours.

He was indicted on one count of property destruction, a charge carrying a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

His lawyers questioned whether prosecutors properly presented the grand jury with adequate evidence to support the charge and the amount of damage alleged by the government.

They say prosecutors failed to “critically examine” allegations of a supposedly key witness whose claims about her interactions with Hearn were contradicted by video evidence, and withheld from the defense team body-worn camera recordings and other evidence.

And they also challenge Pirro herself over her actions, saying she approached a defense expert at the pool on July 17 and asked about his conclusions and the results of his work. No report of that interaction has been produced to defense lawyers, they say.

“A U.S. Attorney who personally interrogates a represented defendant’s testifying expert, in the field, surrounded by her own staff and without notice to counsel, is not gathering evidence — she is testing how the defense intends to prove its case, and doing so in a setting that essentially held the expert captive,” the letter states.

The letter also urges the Interior Department's inspector general to investigate questions including who made the decision “to proceed with an unqualified contractor;" why work on the pool proceeded despite known risks; why the department relied on National Guardsmen to detain Hearn; and why officials made “publicly defamatory” statements even after learning of the dismissal of the case.

Asked for comment, the Interior Department said that “Mr. Hearn admitted to officers that he was tampering with the Reflecting Pool.” His lawyers said in response that Hearn “has never used the word ‘tampering.’ He touched the loose liner in the Reflecting Pool. Big Difference.”

La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Monroe identificó al sospechoso como Anley Olicier.

Según la oficina del sheriff, Olicier enfrenta cargos de allanamiento de morada con arma, robo y obstrucción de la justicia.

Los agentes dijeron que el hecho ocurrió el 21 de septiembre en una casa de West Circle Drive, en Saddlebunch Keys.

Alrededor de las 8:43 p.m., la oficina del sheriff recibió una llamada al 911 que se cortó y envió agentes al lugar.

Según los investigadores, Olicier entró a la casa con un cuchillo de cocina y una espátula. Las autoridades dijeron que se negó a irse cuando la mujer le pidió que saliera.

La oficina del sheriff indicó que Olicier le quitó el teléfono a la mujer mientras ella llamaba al 911. La mujer gritó para alertar a los operadores mientras forcejeaba con él por el aparato, dijeron las autoridades.

Durante el enfrentamiento, la mujer golpeó a Olicier varias veces, incluso con una barra de cortina de baño, indicaron los agentes. Al final logró recuperar su teléfono.

De acuerdo con la oficina del sheriff, las lesiones de la mujer coincidían con su versión de los hechos. No se reportaron heridas que pusieran en peligro su vida.

Las autoridades obtuvieron órdenes de arresto contra Olicier, quien fue ingresado en la cárcel el lunes.

“Era mi bebé, el más pequeño, con apenas 13 años. Tenía toda la vida por delante”, dijo Valladares. “Solo quería jugar y, por desgracia, jugando perdió la vida”.

La mañana del 25 de septiembre, Olvin debía estar en la escuela.

En cambio, según su madre, se fue en su scooter unas 2 millas al sur, hasta el Shenandoah Park, ubicado en el 1800 SW 21st Ave. Ella cuenta que supo lo que pasó después por un hombre que llegó más tarde ese día al parque con sus hijos. Fue él quien encontró a Olvin atrapado dentro del tobogán.

“Me dijo que lo jaló, pero estaba enganchado en un tornillo”, contó. “Volvió a jalarlo y mi hijo cayó. Tenía el brazo metido dentro de la camiseta y la camiseta le apretaba el cuello”.

El tobogán tiene tornillos a lo largo de todo el tubo.

Los que Local 10 News pudo ver con su cámara estaban planos. Sin embargo, el testigo le dijo a la madre de Olvin que el joven colgaba en medio del tubo por el cuello de la camiseta. Según su relato, la prenda se enganchó en un tornillo y lo asfixió.

Olvin fue trasladado de urgencia al hospital, donde lo conectaron a soporte vital.

Una semana después, fue declarado con muerte cerebral.

“Como madre, es muy duro perder a un hijo”, dijo Valladares. “Nunca pensé que iba a perder a mi hijo”.

El día en que encontraron a Olvin, la ciudad de Miami cerró el parque por lo que describió como una “investigación no criminal”.

Sky 10 sobrevoló el lugar y captó un área de juegos rodeada de cinta amarilla.

Ni el Departamento de Policía de Miami ni la ciudad han confirmado la secuencia de hechos que relata la familia.

No está claro si el tobogán fue inspeccionado o reparado después del incidente. Pero al día siguiente el parque ya había reabierto y el tobogán volvía a usarse.

“Tengo un mensaje para los padres”, dijo Valladares. “Tengan cuidado cuando lleven a sus hijos a estos parques. Miren la tragedia que le pasó a mi hijo”.

Local 10 News pidió comentarios o una entrevista a la alcaldesa de Miami, Eileen Higgins, al comisionado de Miami Rolando Escalona y al Departamento de Parques y Recreación de la ciudad.

Un portavoz de la ciudad respondió por correo electrónico: “El asunto está bajo investigación y la ciudad no puede hacer más comentarios”.

La madre de Olvin intenta recaudar dinero para cubrir los gastos de un funeral para el que la familia no estaba preparada, y abrió una página de GoFundMe.

But last week the leader of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement threw his support behind an unlikely industry: artificial intelligence.

At a MAHA summit featuring AI and Silicon Valley executives, Kennedy declared that the technology would free Americans from “medical tyranny” by allowing them to “fact check their own medical advice.”

“We’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us: ‘Trust the experts,’” Kennedy told the invite-only audience.

Some prominent MAHA voices quickly criticized Kennedy’s embrace of AI, saying the movement's leaders are increasingly cozying up to the corporate interests they once scrutinized.

At the same time, medical experts say Kennedy’s vision of AI as a check against the medical establishment is fundamentally flawed.

“He obviously doesn’t understand how AI works,” said Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a cancer specialist and bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. “AI aggregates the information we have in the medical literature and in case studies. And that means what you’re actually getting is medical expertise.”

Both OpenAI and Anthropic offer health-focused chatbots that can analyze users' medical records and answer their healthcare questions. Their models are trained on thousands of peer-reviewed medical papers and professional guidelines and incorporate feedback from doctors.

“He wants AI to mimic what he says,” Emanuel said. “But that’s not what good AI is going to do.”

HHS spokesperson Emily Hilliard said Emanuel was describing “one narrow use” of the technology.

Kennedy wants to give Americans more control of their own health data by using AI “to help them understand it, interrogate it, compare it with the evidence, and make better decisions with their doctors,” Hilliard said. The technology will help doctors work faster, giving them “more time to treat and care for patients,” she added.

MAHA leader defends corporate sponsorships

OpenAI and Anthropic were among the sponsors of last week’s MAHA Summit. So were more than a dozen other companies with pending business before the U.S. government, including developers of psychedelic drugs, fitness wearables and an experimental cancer test.

Sponsors paid up to $300,000 and many received speaking slots on panels that included some of the administration’s top health officials, including Dr. Mehmet Oz of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

“It was classic pay-to-play,” said Dr. Robert Malone, a vaccine researcher who has questioned the safety of mRNA shots and recently served on a federal vaccine panel under Kennedy.

Malone and other figures in the MAHA movement say the summit showed how big companies are replacing the “MAHA moms” and other grassroots activists who originally powered the movement.

“There was no representation of people that have been at the core of MAHA and its creation, whether it be physicians or patients or patient advocates,” Malone said.

The summit was organized by MAHA Center Inc., one of a number of nongovernment groups run by Kennedy associates that are dedicated to promoting his agenda. Others include the MAHA Institute, a think tank, and MAHA PAC, a political fundraising operation.

Tony Lyons, a publisher who runs the MAHA Center, MAHA PAC and several related groups, addressed criticisms about corporate sponsorships at a reception ahead of the summit.

“The truth is we’re trying to build the biggest movement we can possibly build to actually get things done,” Lyons said.

The Trump administration has embraced AI

Kennedy's alliance with Silicon Valley is consistent with broader efforts across the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump has vigorously resisted efforts to bring greater oversight to AI companies, who have helped drive the stock market to record highs. One of Trump’s first actions after returning to the White House was revoking a Biden administration executive order on AI oversight. It took the administration more than 16 months to replace it with its own order.

In recent weeks, Trump announced a move to let the AI industry police itself, tried to rebrand the technology as “super intelligence” and brushed aside bipartisan concerns about the impacts of data centers on nearby residents.

Meanwhile, Dr. Oz and other administration officials have touted AI as the answer to a litany of U.S. health problems, including rising medical costs, healthcare fraud, physician shortages and the shuttering of rural hospitals.

Medicare officials have been in discussions with several medical chatbot companies, including one behind a Utah program that provides AI-enabled refills of prescriptions.

The remarks from Kennedy and other officials last week reflect a “techno-utopian” view of AI’s potential benefits, says Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law School bioethics expert.

Cohen notes that much of RFK’s agenda over the past year has focused on trying to curb food industry practices he views as harmful to consumers, including the use of artificial colors and undeclared chemical additives. Given Kennedy's skepticism of “big food,” Cohen said he was surprised the health secretary didn't see “the risk that market incentives may diverge from the public good.”

Some of the most prominent MAHA organizations are actively organizing against AI interests.

For example, Moms Across America operates local and national campaigns warning against pollution, water use and electricity costs associated with data center construction. The group was founded by Zen Honeycutt, a former staffer for Kennedy’s presidential campaign.

Moms Across America did not respond to a request for comment.

It's not yet clear how AI will integrate into US healthcare

AI experts don’t dispute that the technology will fundamentally change how doctors and patients approach medical decisions.

Kennedy is correct when he says AI will empower patients with more insights about their health, says Dr. Robert Wachter, a medical technology expert at University of California, San Francisco. But AI adoption is likely to further bolster the recommendations of medical professionals, rather than the contrarian views often favored by Kennedy, according to Wachter.

“Democratization is good,” Wachter said. “But that means disseminating the best science we have, which generally means science created by people who know what they’re talking about.”

Experts disagree over how soon AI may be able to take over decision-making from physicians.

Several recent studies have found that AI alone outperformed doctors working alone or doctors working with AI on critical decisions. But those studies generally presented AI with detailed, written scenarios to solve — the equivalent of a medical exam.

When researchers looked at how patients interact with AI in real-time they found a number of problems: People often don’t provide enough information for the AI to correctly diagnose their medical issue and chatbots often respond with a combination of good and bad advice.

“We need to figure out in real life: Do these things actually work?” Wachter said. “What actually happens when they’re used in circumstances where people are under stress or don’t know how to interpret the outputs?”

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El Arapiuns desemboca en el Tapajós, uno de los principales afluentes del río Amazonas, a través de vías fluviales tan vastas que navegar por ellas puede sentirse como cruzar mar abierto. Sin embargo, durante una sequía histórica en 2024, los habitantes de Nova Sociedade tuvieron que caminar hasta 20 kilómetros (12,4 millas) en busca de agua.

“Al amanecer, empezaba nuestra lucha. Niños cargando agua, ancianos cargando agua. Todos sufrimos”, relató Tiago Silva, líder indígena arapium de Nova Sociedade.

Dos años después, la comunidad está mejor preparada para El Niño de este año, el fenómeno climático natural que eleva las temperaturas globales y puede agravar la sequía en el Amazonas.

Nova Sociedade instaló paneles solares en junio para alimentar bombas de agua que llenan tanques de almacenamiento y proporcionan agua limpia a las 36 familias del poblado. La organización sin fines de lucro Saude e Alegria, con sede en el Amazonas, proporcionó el sistema y ha equipado a otras 29 comunidades con tecnología similar ante otra posible sequía.

Antes de que llegara la energía solar, Nova Sociedade dependía de generadores diésel para contar con electricidad básica. El combustible es costoso y contaminante, y los generadores ofrecen energía limitada y poco confiable.

En todo el Amazonas, la expansión de la energía solar no vinculada a compañías de servicios públicos está ayudando a comunidades remotas a reducir su dependencia del diésel, al tiempo que mejora el acceso a agua limpia y a electricidad en hogares, escuelas y centros de salud.

El mes pasado, cada hogar de Nova Sociedade recibió su propio sistema de energía solar donado por Schneider Electric a través de Saude e Alegria. Los kits, fáciles de instalar, incluyen baterías para alimentar luces por la noche y suficiente electricidad para cargar teléfonos y otros dispositivos pequeños.

“Esta tecnología usa la fuerza del sol y puede reemplazar otras formas de generar electricidad que a menudo requieren talar el bosque o quemar combustible, precisamente las prácticas que impulsan el calentamiento global”, explicó Caetano Scannavino, ambientalista y director de Saude e Alegria, a los residentes mientras recibían los kits solares. Advirtió también que probablemente llegue otra sequía severa en octubre y noviembre.

Mientras los líderes comunitarios llamaban a los jefes de hogar, los residentes se levantaban sonriendo para recoger sus kits.

Algunos describieron la tecnología como una bendición. Mujeres artesanas señalaron que una mejor iluminación les permitirá seguir tejiendo joyería tradicional y canastas después del atardecer, ampliando las horas que pueden dedicar a producir una importante fuente de ingresos.

La mayoría de quienes aún no tienen electricidad vive en el Amazonas

Nova Sociedade ilustra cómo la energía solar fuera de la red está cambiando la vida diaria en comunidades amazónicas aisladas. Más allá de proporcionar agua y electricidad en los hogares, la tecnología está respaldando cada vez más a escuelas, centros de salud y negocios locales.

Según datos oficiales, el número de sistemas instalados en zonas remotas del Amazonas aumentó de apenas 105 en 2020 a más de 11.000 en 2022. Para 2026, había superado los 100.000.

“Es justo decir que casi todos estos son instalaciones solares”, afirmó Fabio Galdino dos Santos, investigador del Instituto de Energía y Medio Ambiente, o IEMA, una organización brasileña sin fines de lucro enfocada en energía sostenible.

Más del 99% de los 214 millones de habitantes de Brasil tenía acceso a electricidad según el censo de 2022. La mayoría de quienes aún no cuentan con energía vive en el Amazonas, donde el aislamiento y los altos costos de infraestructura han dificultado la electrificación. Alrededor de 1 millón de personas en la región todavía carece de acceso a electricidad, de acuerdo con el IEMA.

Muchas comunidades desvinculadas han dependido durante mucho tiempo de generadores diésel costosos y contaminantes. En Nova Sociedade, comprar combustible requiere un viaje en bote de casi tres horas hasta Santarém, la ciudad más cercana.

Incluso cuando hay combustible disponible, la electricidad es limitada. Por lo general, los generadores se apagan poco después de las 10 de la noche y a menudo no tienen capacidad suficiente para hacer funcionar refrigeradores. Las temperaturas allí superan con regularidad los 35 grados Celsius (95 grados Fahrenheit).

Mejor atención médica y escuelas más silenciosas

En todo el Amazonas, iniciativas públicas y filantrópicas están ampliando el acceso a la electricidad, a menudo priorizando infraestructura que sirve a comunidades enteras.

En una clínica de salud pública en Ana, otra comunidad a lo largo del río Arapiuns, paneles solares instalados recientemente permiten al personal refrigerar vacunas, realizar consultas de telemedicina y operar equipos médicos básicos, incluidos nebulizadores, que son esenciales cuando el humo de los incendios forestales cubre la región.

En Surucuá, una comunidad a orillas del río Tapajós, la llegada de la energía solar se nota sobre todo en el silencio.

Hasta el año pasado, la escuela São Benedito, que atiende a los 116 estudiantes de la comunidad, dependía únicamente de un ruidoso generador diésel.

“Hoy, lo único que se escucha son los niños y los pájaros", comenta Rosenilce Cruz, directora de la escuela. "No podíamos trabajar al aire libre porque el generador era demasiado ruidoso. Ahora, los niños pueden leer afuera. Podemos realizar proyectos allí, y se escucha perfectamente tanto a los niños como al maestro”.

El suministro limitado de electricidad también dejaba las aulas con poca luz e impedía que la escuela usara refrigeradores. Luego, el gobierno municipal de Santarém renovó la escuela e instaló paneles solares.

“Hoy, las comidas de nuestros niños ya no se basan en alimentos enlatados, sino en fuentes frescas de proteína. Ahora tenemos un lugar para almacenar esa comida porque hay electricidad las 24 horas del día”, añadió Cruz.

La energía solar también empieza a respaldar a negocios locales. En el vecino estado de Amazonas, una planta de procesamiento de açaí en la comunidad de Bela Conquista, un poblado remoto a lo largo del río Solimões, recientemente dejó de depender de electricidad generada con diésel.

La energía diésel limitaba la producción y hacía que la fruta cosechada se echara a perder. La Fundación para la Sostenibilidad del Amazonas instaló un sistema solar con baterías en alianza con la Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet y el Ministerio de Minas y Energía de Brasil. Los socios planean desarrollar 20 proyectos piloto durante los próximos dos o tres años, apoyando negocios de pesca sostenible, agricultura y procesamiento de frutas.

El Amazonas, la selva tropical más grande del mundo, es vital para el clima global. Almacena enormes cantidades de carbono, y la humedad de sus árboles regula las temperaturas y moldea el clima en Sudamérica y más allá.

Proteger los territorios indígenas y tradicionales es una de las formas más efectivas de preservar la selva. Según MapBiomas, una organización que monitorea el uso del suelo, más del 80% de las áreas protegidas en el Amazonas brasileño —incluidos 330 territorios indígenas— no registró deforestación en la primera mitad de este año.

Fortalecer a esas comunidades tradicionales, incluidas las que ahora funcionan con energía solar, podría ayudar a mantener el bosque en pie, sostuvo Lázaro Silva, profesor de ingeniería y coordinador del laboratorio de energía renovable de la Universidad Federal del Oeste de Pará, en Santarém.

Silva y sus estudiantes han instalado 40 sistemas solares en 27 comunidades remotas del Amazonas desde 2022.

“Estas comunidades han demostrado un nivel de organización que las hace más resilientes, ayudándolas a reconocer su papel protagónico en la protección del bosque”, expresó.

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Según las autoridades, la jueza federal de distrito Melissa Damian sentenció a Michael Ridley, de 34 años y residente de Fort Lauderdale. Ridley se había declarado culpable de tres delitos:

• posesión de armas siendo un delincuente convicto
• intento de obtener contrabando mientras estaba encarcelado
• conspiración para poseer una sustancia controlada con intención de distribuirla

De acuerdo con la fiscalía, Ridley era uno de los líderes de los Eastside Gangsta Bloods (EGB), un grupo vinculado a la United Blood Nation.

Los fiscales dijeron que el caso comenzó el 12 de junio de 2025. Ese día, Ridley publicó en redes sociales un video en el que aparecía con dos pistolas en un campo de tiro.

La publicación incluía la sigla “TTB”, también conocida como “train to bag”. Según el comunicado del Departamento de Justicia, las autoridades la asocian con deshacerse del cuerpo de una víctima de homicidio.

Los investigadores dijeron que Ridley fue arrestado el 23 de julio de 2025. Llevaba un arma que había sido reportada como robada y un cargador extendido.

Tras su arresto, Ridley quedó bajo custodia federal en dos centros de detención del condado de Broward mientras esperaba el juicio, indicaron.

Según la fiscalía, Ridley siguió dirigiendo actividades delictivas desde la cárcel.

Los investigadores dijeron que trabajó con personas de afuera, entre ellas otros pandilleros, para meter drogas sintéticas en la cárcel. Las drogas llegaban disfrazadas de correspondencia legal dirigida a él.

Los fiscales explicaron que el método, conocido a veces como “paper dope”, consiste en empapar hojas de papel con drogas sintéticas en forma líquida.

La Oficina de Campo del FBI en Miami investigó el caso con ayuda de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Broward, señalaron.

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Regina Deshazior was convicted of leaving the scene of a crash involving death after she struck a man on March 15, 2023, at Northwest 22 Avenue and 79 St., in Gladeview. She started her probation sentence last year, according to court records.

Deshazior “confessed ... she panicked and fled the scene of the crash because her driver’s license was suspended,” a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy wrote, according to the report of her arrest on March 18, 2023.

On Monday, police officers arrested Deshazior, who lives in Overtown, at 4:20 p.m. at Burger King, at 3601 NW 27 Ave., in Miami’s Allapattah, according to a Miami Police Department officer’s arrest report.

DTiQ, a loss prevention contractor that operates software to detect inconsistencies at Burger King restaurants, “flagged” some of Deshazior’s transactions at the restaurant in Allapattah, according to the police report.

“The inconsistencies were verified through store video surveillance,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Burger King’s asset protection staff investigated the reports by DTiQ and identified 215 “fraudulent” transactions by Deshazior that represented a “loss” of about $770, according to the police officer’s report.

“She admitted to committing the theft,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Deshazior shortly after 7:30 p.m. on Monday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Deshazior appeared in Miami-Dade bond court on Tuesday morning. She faced a charge of organized fraud involving an aggregate value of less than $20,000, a third-degree felony, according to Miami-Dade court records.

A judge ordered Deshazior to stay away from the restaurant and set her bond at $2,500. She had a hold because of her probation for the fatal hit-and-run crash, which was set to end on Dec. 17, 2032, court records show.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Jason Bloch was presiding over both cases.

Regina Deshazior fue declarada culpable de abandonar la escena de un accidente con víctima mortal. El 15 de marzo de 2023 atropelló a un hombre en la avenida 22 y la calle 79 del noroeste, en Gladeview. Según registros judiciales, comenzó a cumplir su probatoria el año pasado.

Deshazior “confesó... que entró en pánico y huyó del lugar del choque porque tenía la licencia de conducir suspendida”. Así lo escribió un agente de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, según el informe de su arresto del 18 de marzo de 2023.

El lunes, agentes de policía arrestaron a Deshazior, residente de Overtown, a las 4:20 p.m. Fue en el Burger King ubicado en el 3601 NW 27 Ave., en Allapattah, según el informe de arresto de un agente del Departamento de Policía de Miami.

DTiQ es una empresa contratista de prevención de pérdidas. Opera un software que detecta irregularidades en los restaurantes Burger King. Según el informe policial, el sistema “marcó” algunas de las transacciones de Deshazior en el local de Allapattah.

“Las irregularidades se confirmaron con los videos de vigilancia del local”, escribió un agente, según el informe de arresto.

El personal de protección de activos de Burger King investigó los reportes de DTiQ. Identificó 215 transacciones “fraudulentas” hechas por Deshazior, que representaron una “pérdida” de unos $770, según el informe del agente.

“Admitió haber cometido el robo”, escribió un agente, según el informe de arresto.

El Departamento de Corrección de Miami-Dade ingresó a Deshazior poco después de las 7:30 p.m. del lunes en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, cerca de Doral, según los registros de reclusos.

Deshazior compareció el martes por la mañana ante el tribunal de fianzas de Miami-Dade. Según registros judiciales, enfrenta un cargo de fraude organizado por un valor total de menos de $20,000. Es un delito grave de tercer grado.

Un juez le ordenó mantenerse alejada del restaurante y fijó su fianza en $2,500. Sin embargo, seguía retenida por la probatoria del choque fatal, que debía terminar el 17 de diciembre de 2032, según registros judiciales.

El juez de circuito del condado Miami-Dade Jason Bloch preside ambos casos.

Authorities said Michael Ridley, 34, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Melissa Damian after pleading guilty to being a convicted felon in possession of guns, attempting to obtain contraband while incarcerated and conspiring to possess a controlled substance with the intent to distribute it.

Prosecutors said Ridley was a leader of the Eastside Gangsta Bloods, or EGB, a group associated with the United Blood Nation.

They said the case began after Ridley posted a video on social media on June 12, 2025, showing him with two handguns at a shooting range.

The post included the phrase “TTB,” also known as “train to bag,” which authorities said referred to a term associated with disposing of a homicide victim’s body, the DOJ news release states.

Investigators said Ridley was arrested July 23, 2025, while possessing a gun that had previously been reported stolen, along with an extended magazine.

They said after his arrest, Ridley was held as a federal detainee at two facilities in Broward County while awaiting trial.

Prosecutors said Ridley continued directing criminal activity from jail.

Investigators said he worked with people outside the facility, including other gang members, in an effort to bring synthetic drugs into the jail disguised as legal mail addressed to him.

The method, sometimes called “paper dope,” involves soaking sheets of paper in liquid synthetic drugs, prosecutors said.

They said the FBI’s Miami Field Office investigated the case with assistance from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

Busch died in May from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis, according to the former NASCAR star’s death certificate.

CMS said the event will allow the NASCAR community to come together to celebrate Busch through stories, memories, iconic moments and the lasting impact he made on the sport and at the 1 1/2-mile track oval. Busch’s widow, Samantha, will be a part of the program, along with team owner Joe Gibbs and Cup Series drivers Christopher Bell, Noah Gragson, Daniel Suárez, Kyle Larson and Austin Dillon.

The ceremony, which is free to fans, will conclude with a performance by country musician Cole Swindell.

“I have so many great stories with Kyle," said Suárez, who drives for Spire Motorsports. “He went from being an idol to being a mentor to being a teammate and then he became a friend.”

Busch was a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and the winningest driver at Charlotte Motor Speedway across all three series. His 69 Truck Series victories remain the most in series history and drivers say that his legacy extends far beyond the record book.

Suárez recalled that Busch helped him navigate his rookie season and regularly gave him advice on the phone.

When Suárez passed Busch to win his first NASCAR race in Michigan in 2016, Busch was one of the first to meet him in victory lane and offer a congratulatory hug.

“He said, ‘Hey, no more calls anymore,’” Suárez recalled. "And I thought that was very funny. I know he was joking, but sometimes he was being real. So that was, that’s something I always loved about Kyle, that he was funny. But he was very straightforward, and I really love that.”

Trucks Series driver Layne Riggs, who races for Front Row Motorsports, said Busch is on the “pedestal” of racing.

“Everybody wants to be him,” Riggs said. "Everybody wants to have the stats, the wins that he had, and we know we’ll never have a chance to do that. But he’s always going to be the goal. That’s what we always shoot and strive for and he was always the mentor and the person that we all looked up to. We’re all going to miss him dearly and can’t wait to see the tribute.”

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The next name on the list is Isaias (pronounced ees-ah-EE-ahs).

While the exact details and nature of the threat later this week still need to be ironed out, the odds of a stronger and more coherent tropical system continue to rise and interests from Louisiana through Florida’s Big Bend should check back frequently on the forecasts this week.

At a minimum, a heavy rain and flash flood threat is all but baked in across a wide swath of the northern Gulf and into the Deep South, where double-digit rainfall totals are possible later this week and into the upcoming holiday weekend.

For now, the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center (WPC) is forecasting a slight risk of flash flooding (flood threat level 2 of 4) for most of the southeast U.S. from North Florida westward to Louisiana this weekend.

It wouldn’t be surprising to see these flood threat levels increase for areas closer to the coast as confidence in the forecast grows tomorrow and Thursday.

92L’s early clues

Invest 92L had a healthy collection of showers and thunderstorms wrapping around its developing center early Tuesday as it organized only about 100 miles east of Tampico, Mexico, over the southwestern Gulf.

A buoy located about 125 miles east of 92L’s estimated center found lowering pressures down to about 1008 millibars Tuesday morning, a meaningful fall relative to surrounding stations and an indication that 92L is becoming better organized.

As we discussed in Monday’s newsletter, this early organization is critical to the system’s future, with a better-formed and stronger system over the next few days feeling the tug of higher-up jet stream winds which would whisk it farther northeast (toward Alabama or Florida rather than Louisiana) and position it in a more conducive environment for continued strengthening.

This is generally what the AI models have been advertising, with Google DeepMind’s ensemble system continuing to favor a stronger track toward South Alabama or the western Florida Panhandle.

On the other hand, the traditional physics-based European model keeps 92L (future Isaias?) weaker initially, which takes it on a slower track northward toward Louisiana, battling a less conducive configuration of upper-level winds on approach to the northern Gulf in the vicinity of southern Louisiana by this weekend.

Will we see a hurricane threat to the northern Gulf later this week?

It’s certainly possible that 92L clears the bar and becomes the first hurricane (and latest first hurricane on record) of the Atlantic hurricane season as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast later this week.

While at the pre-genesis stage – that is before a bona fide tropical depression or tropical storm has formed – we should take intensity guidance with a healthy dose of skepticism, our most reliable consensus aids – those like HCCA (the HFIP Corrected Consensus Approach) that blend our best-performing models and correct for their biases – suggest this is at least a borderline hurricane by Friday as it closes in on the northern Gulf.

It’s worth noting that the early morning cycle of Google’s DeepMind 1,000-member ensemble put the odds of 92L peaking as a hurricane at north of 80%, with about 40% of the ensembles climbing to Category 3 or stronger (see earlier plot). As we’ve discussed in previous newsletters, we should be a little wary of DeepMind’s intensity guidance before we have a defined depression or storm, but it’s a noticeable uptick from earlier cycles from one of our better performing models.

That said, by the time the system reaches the coast, it could be feeling the toll of strong jet stream winds advancing quickly from the west which might weaken it as it moves ashore but would also act to widen the heavy rainfall footprint and flood threat well inland across the southern U.S.

We’ll also need to monitor for the possibility of severe weather (severe thunderstorms and tornadoes) later this week into this weekend along the northern Gulf.

Bottom line

Based on current trends, there’s a growing threat of a strong tropical storm or hurricane approaching the north-central or northeast Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle by Friday into the weekend.

It’s too early to know how strong the system will be once it moves ashore, but model guidance right now ranges from a tropical storm to a low-end hurricane.

Regardless of development, a widespread heavy rain event will accompany the system across much of the southeast U.S. this weekend, with especially high rainfall totals nearing or eclipsing double digits along and to the east of where the system moves inland. The heaviest rain should begin in earnest for coastal areas on Friday and extend inland through the weekend.

In the short-term, we’ll be watching to see how organized 92L gets over the next 24 to 36 hours, with faster organization favoring a stronger storm a little farther east later this week.

El próximo nombre de la lista es Isaias.

Todavía hay que precisar los detalles y el alcance de la amenaza. Pero las probabilidades de que se forme un sistema tropical más fuerte y mejor definido siguen aumentando. Quienes estén entre Luisiana y la región del Big Bend de Florida deben revisar los pronósticos con frecuencia esta semana.

Como mínimo, es prácticamente un hecho que habrá lluvias intensas y riesgo de inundaciones repentinas. La amenaza abarca una amplia franja del norte del Golfo y del Sur Profundo. Allí podrían acumularse 10 pulgadas de lluvia o más entre finales de esta semana y el fin de semana largo del feriado.

Por ahora, el Centro de Predicción del Tiempo (WPC) del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología pronostica un riesgo leve de inundaciones repentinas (nivel 2 de 4) para este fin de semana. Ese riesgo abarca la mayor parte del sureste de EE.UU., desde el norte de Florida hasta Luisiana.

No sería raro que ese nivel de riesgo suba en las zonas más cercanas a la costa, a medida que el pronóstico gane certeza el miércoles y el jueves.

Las primeras señales del 92L

El martes temprano, el Invest 92L tenía un buen conjunto de aguaceros y tormentas eléctricas alrededor de su centro en formación. Se organizaba sobre el suroeste del Golfo, a apenas unas 100 millas al este de Tampico, México.

Una boya ubicada unas 125 millas al este del centro estimado del 92L registró el martes por la mañana una presión de unos 1008 milibares. Es una caída importante frente a las estaciones cercanas y una señal de que el sistema se organiza mejor.

Como explicamos en el boletín del lunes, esta organización temprana será clave para el futuro del sistema. Un sistema mejor formado y más fuerte en los próximos días sentiría el empuje de los vientos de la corriente en chorro en niveles altos. Ese empuje lo llevaría más hacia el noreste, rumbo a Alabama o Florida y no a Luisiana. Además, lo ubicaría en un entorno más favorable para seguir fortaleciéndose.

Eso es, en general, lo que vienen anticipando los modelos de inteligencia artificial. El sistema de ensambles de Google DeepMind sigue favoreciendo un ciclón más fuerte con trayectoria hacia el sur de Alabama o el oeste del Panhandle de Florida.

En cambio, el modelo europeo tradicional, basado en la física, mantiene al 92L (¿el futuro Isaias?) más débil al principio. Eso lo llevaría más despacio hacia el norte, en dirección a Luisiana. En su camino enfrentaría vientos en altura menos favorables al acercarse al norte del Golfo, cerca del sur de Luisiana, este fin de semana.

¿Habrá amenaza de huracán en el norte del Golfo esta semana?

Es muy posible que el 92L alcance la categoría de huracán al acercarse a la costa norte del Golfo a finales de semana. Sería el primer huracán de la temporada atlántica y el primero en formarse tan tarde desde que hay registros.

En la etapa previa a su formación, es decir, antes de que exista una depresión o tormenta tropical como tal, conviene tomar con bastante cautela los pronósticos de intensidad. Aun así, nuestras herramientas de consenso más confiables apuntan a que sería al menos un huracán en el límite de esa categoría para el viernes, al acercarse al norte del Golfo. Entre ellas está el HCCA (HFIP Corrected Consensus Approach), que combina los modelos de mejor desempeño y corrige sus sesgos.

Vale la pena destacar el ciclo de la madrugada del conjunto de 1,000 miembros de Google DeepMind. Situó en más del 80% la probabilidad de que el 92L alcance su punto máximo como huracán. Además, cerca del 40% de los miembros lo llevaron a categoría 3 o superior. Como hemos dicho en boletines anteriores, hay que desconfiar un poco de los pronósticos de intensidad de DeepMind mientras no exista una depresión o tormenta definida. Pero se trata de un aumento notable respecto a ciclos anteriores en uno de nuestros modelos más confiables.

Dicho esto, al llegar a la costa el sistema podría resentir los fuertes vientos de la corriente en chorro que avanzan rápido desde el oeste. Esos vientos podrían debilitarlo al tocar tierra. Sin embargo, también ampliarían la zona de lluvias intensas y el riesgo de inundaciones, que llegarían bastante tierra adentro en el sur de EE.UU.

También habrá que vigilar la posibilidad de tiempo severo, con tormentas eléctricas fuertes y tornados, en el norte del Golfo entre finales de esta semana y el fin de semana.

En resumen

Según las tendencias actuales, crece la amenaza de una tormenta tropical fuerte o un huracán. Podría acercarse a la costa centro-norte o noreste del Golfo, entre Luisiana y el Panhandle de Florida, entre el viernes y el fin de semana.

Es muy pronto para saber qué tan fuerte llegará el sistema a tierra. Por ahora, los modelos van desde una tormenta tropical hasta un huracán de baja categoría.

Se desarrolle o no, el sistema traerá lluvias intensas y generalizadas a gran parte del sureste de EE.UU. este fin de semana. Los acumulados más altos, cercanos o superiores a 10 pulgadas, se esperan en la zona por donde toque tierra y al este de ella. Las lluvias más fuertes comenzarían el viernes en las zonas costeras y se extenderían tierra adentro durante el fin de semana.

A corto plazo, estaremos atentos a cuánto se organiza el 92L en las próximas 24 a 36 horas. Una organización más rápida favorecería una tormenta más fuerte, con trayectoria un poco más al este a finales de semana.

One thing he was sure of, though, was that he wanted to let his “clubs do the talking” and earn his way back instead of having a spot given to him.

And in a “huge year” on the European tour, Reed is closer to completing his comeback and achieving his goal.

“The biggest thing for me at the start of the year when I decided not to re-sign with LIV was to try to make my way back to the PGA Tour," he said Tuesday ahead of this week’s Spanish Open in Madrid. "The way to do that I felt was to try to play our way on.

“To be able to have the start of the season I did and to basically earn my way back to the PGA Tour meant a lot to me.”

The 36-year-old American split victories in Dubai and Qatar with a runner-up finish in Bahrain in February. He enters the final stretch of the year leading Rory McIlroy in the season-long Race to Dubai. The leading 10 players from the European tour not already exempt earn PGA Tour cards for 2027.

“This was a huge year to me,” Reed said. “Not just for my career, but also for my family, because I had to go earn my spot back, and to be able to go out there and earn it back and play the way I’ve been playing, means a lot. And to hopefully play well these last couple of events, and hopefully hold everyone off and win the Race to Dubai would mean a lot.”

Excited by Race to Dubai

The 2018 Masters champion said the “only way” back for LIV players to the PGA Tour should be on merit through results.

“I’m a firm believer that if you earn your right to play somewhere you should be able to play, but you have to earn it," he said. "You have to go out there and do the work, you know, go out there and not only just work hard but also play well.

“I’ve always wanted to earn my spot rather than having a spot given. Those guys on LIV, there are pathways to whether it’s to here on the DP (European tour), whether it’s to the PGA Tour. ... I feel like that’s the only way that you should be able to get back is by going out there and letting the clubs do the talking.”

Reed is part of a strong field in Spain, returning to action after withdrawing from the BMW PGA Championship with a hand injury and pulling out of the French Open. He is trying to become the second American to win the Race to Dubai, after Collin Morikawa in 2021.

“It’s one of those things that I’ve always prided myself as being that American that likes to play around the world," he said. "To have the opportunity to come over here, not only just play on this tour, but also to have a chance to win the Race to Dubai, it would mean a lot.”

Reed said it was Gary Player who advised him, in one of the first times that they met, to play more abroad.

“He told me, ‘Well, if you want to be a worldwide player, you’ve got to go out and play outside of not just the PGA Tour, you've got to play elsewhere,'" Reed said. “And once I got the opportunity to come over and play, I really enjoyed it and hopefully, hopefully, I can bring more Americans over and more of the top players to come out and play around the world, help grow the game.”

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The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as Anley Olicier.

According to the sheriff’s office, Olicier faces charges of armed burglary, robbery and obstructing justice.

Deputies said the incident happened Sept. 21 at a home on West Circle Drive in the Saddlebunch Keys.

The sheriff’s office responded at approximately 8:43 p.m. after receiving a 911 hang-up call.

According to investigators, Olicier broke into the woman’s home using a kitchen knife and a putty knife. Authorities said he refused to leave after the woman told him to get out.

The sheriff’s office said Olicier grabbed the woman’s phone while she was calling 911. The woman screamed in an effort to alert 911 dispatchers as she and Olicier struggled over the phone, authorities said.

During the confrontation, the woman struck Olicier multiple times, including with a shower rod, deputies said, adding that she was eventually able to get her phone back.

According to the sheriff’s office, the woman suffered injuries that were consistent with her account of what happened. No life-threatening injuries were reported.

Authorities obtained warrants for Olicier’s arrest, and he was booked into jail Monday.

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Jail records show Diego Alfredo Medina Acosta, 37, of West Miami, was arrested Monday by the Coral Gables Police Department and faces one count of first-degree grand theft of $100,000 or less.

The investigation began after police said they responded to the Biltmore Hotel, located at 1200 Anastasia Ave., on Sept. 16 in reference to a suspected employee theft.

During a follow-up investigation on Oct. 5, an officer spoke with the hotel’s director of security and its head chef, according to the report.

They reported that numerous food products were missing from the hotel’s kitchen and storage areas and identified Medina Acosta as the suspected employee, according to police.

The head chef told investigators that the kitchen maintains an Excel inventory log that is updated every Sunday. Through the inventory process, he noticed “significant quantities of food were unaccounted for,” the report states.

Police said the missing items included 192 lobster tails valued at $6,525, 116.7 pounds of pork belly valued at $637.18, 30 center-cut snapper portions valued at $273, 11 quantities of cleaned calamari valued at $137.40, raw shrimp valued at $89.30, Argentine chorizo sausage valued at $54.28, gnocchi valued at $39.88 and a can of coconut milk valued at $98.32.

The total value of the reported missing property was approximately $7,854.36, according to the arrest report.

Investigators said they also reviewed surveillance video showing Medina Acosta arriving at the hotel before his scheduled work hours and entering areas where the missing food was stored.

He was also “routinely observed entering and exiting the hotel through different entrances and exits” rather than using the designated employee entrance, the report states.

Police said in one instance, surveillance video showed Medina Acosta removing a cart containing a large quantity of lobster from a storage area. When he returned the cart, some of the lobster that had previously been visible on the bottom of the cart was no longer there, according to the report.

Investigators later interviewed Medina Acosta after reading him his Miranda rights.

Medina Acosta told investigators that he would clock in before his scheduled shift “because he wanted to get a head start on his work,” according to the report.

However, hotel personnel told police employees were not permitted to clock in and begin working before their scheduled shifts, the report states.

Medina Acosta also said that after being at work for about 10 minutes, he would leave the hotel and return home to drop off dirty laundry before coming back to work, the report states.

When questioned about the surveillance video showing him removing the lobster cart, Medina said he had removed the lobster “in order to allow it to thaw.”

However, when investigators asked why he returned the cart to the storage area and why some of the lobster that had previously been visible was no longer there, Medina Acosta was “unable to provide a direct explanation,” according to the report.

Medina Acosta resigned from the hotel before management could terminate him in connection with the investigation, the report states.

Investigators said the head chef told them that after Medina Acosta left the hotel, the kitchen began having substantially more food remaining at the end of its inventory periods compared with the shortages that had previously been documented.

As of Tuesday morning, the Uruguayan national was being held on an immigration hold at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. His bond amount was listed as “to be set.”

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Doral police identified the suspect in an arrest report as Juan Leonel Jimenez Silva, who is from Venezuela but is currently living in northwest Miami-Dade.

According to the arrest report, the investigation began after a private citizen created an online persona posing as a 15-year-old boy. Police emphasized that the citizen was not acting at the direction of the Doral Police Department or any other law enforcement agency.

The citizen was using the Grindr dating app at about 8 p.m. last Thursday when Jimenez Silva contacted the account, according to police.

Investigators said the conversation moved to WhatsApp shortly afterward, where the person told Jimenez Silva that he was 15 years old.

Police said Jimenez Silva continued communicating with the person after learning the purported age.

According to the report, the conversation became sexual, with Jimenez Silva allegedly sending sexually explicit images and messages to the “teen.” Police said he also asked the person for nude photographs and discussed sexual acts.

Investigators said Jimenez Silva repeatedly expressed interest in meeting the person, invited him to his home and provided his home address.

The two eventually agreed to meet at BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse near Miami International Mall, according to the report.

Confronted at Doral restaurant

Police said Jimenez Silva arrived at the restaurant believing he was meeting the 15-year-old, but instead encountered two adult men.

According to the report, one of the men had been posing as the teenager while the other was recording the encounter.

The men confronted Jimenez Silva inside the restaurant about why he had come to meet the purported teenager, police said.

Investigators said Jimenez Silva then left the restaurant, ran through the parking lot, got into a white Toyota SUV registered to him and drove away.

The following day, the two men went to the Doral Police Department and provided sworn statements, screenshots of the WhatsApp conversation and a recording of the confrontation at the restaurant, according to the report.

Police said both men also identified Jimenez Silva in a photographic lineup.

Arrested days later

Jimenez Silva was taken into custody Monday night at his home.

Investigators said he agreed to speak with detectives after being read his Miranda rights and admitted that the conversation began on Grindr before moving to WhatsApp.

According to police, Jimenez Silva told investigators that he initially did not believe he was doing anything wrong because Grindr users are required to be adults. However, he acknowledged that the person told him early in their WhatsApp conversation that he was 15, the report states.

Police said Jimenez Silva told investigators he was attracted to the purported teenager and believed the person appeared older than 15.

According to the arrest report, Jimenez Silva confirmed that the WhatsApp account belonged to him and acknowledged sending the sexual messages and images described by investigators. Police said he also identified two clothed selfies of himself and confirmed sending four images depicting sexual activity.

Jimenez Silva was ultimately arrested on charges of electronic transmission of material harmful to a minor; using a computer to travel to meet a minor; using a computer to seduce, solicit or lure a child to engage in sexual conduct and attempted lewd and lascivious assault on a child.

As of Tuesday morning, Jimenez Silva remained held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Online jail records show the Venezuelan national has an immigration hold, and is therefore unable to bond out of jail.

La Union Restaurant, en Margate, acumuló 44 violaciones, y The Knife Steak House, en Doral, 38. En varios locales hubo problemas de cucarachas. Entre ellos está Sawa, en Coral Gables, que ya había sido clausurado por el mismo motivo en 2018 y 2019.

Según los registros de la cárcel, el Departamento de Policía de Coral Gables arrestó el lunes a Diego Alfredo Medina Acosta, de 37 años y residente de West Miami. Enfrenta un cargo de hurto mayor en primer grado por $100,000 o menos.

La investigación comenzó el 16 de septiembre, cuando la policía acudió al Biltmore Hotel por un posible robo de un empleado. El hotel está en el 1200 de Anastasia Ave.

Según el informe, en una investigación de seguimiento el 5 de octubre, un agente habló con el director de seguridad y con el jefe de cocina del hotel.

Ambos reportaron que faltaban numerosos productos en la cocina y en los almacenes del hotel. También señalaron a Medina Acosta como el empleado sospechoso, de acuerdo con la policía.

El jefe de cocina explicó que la cocina lleva un inventario en Excel que se actualiza cada domingo. Al revisarlo, notó que “faltaban cantidades importantes de comida”, indica el informe.

La policía dijo que entre los artículos desaparecidos había:

• 192 colas de langosta valoradas en $6,525
• 116.7 libras de panceta de cerdo por $637.18
• 30 porciones de filete de pargo por $273
• 11 unidades de calamar limpio por $137.40
• camarones crudos por $89.30
• chorizo argentino por $54.28
• ñoquis por $39.88
• una lata de leche de coco por $98.32

El valor total de lo reportado fue de aproximadamente $7,854.36, según el informe de arresto.

Los investigadores también revisaron videos de vigilancia. En ellos se ve a Medina Acosta llegar al hotel antes de su horario y entrar a las áreas donde se guardaba la comida que faltaba.

Además, “se le veía con frecuencia entrar y salir del hotel por distintas puertas” en lugar de usar la entrada designada para empleados, señala el informe.

Según la policía, en una ocasión las cámaras captaron a Medina Acosta sacando de un almacén un carrito con una gran cantidad de langosta. Cuando lo devolvió, ya no estaba parte de la langosta que antes se veía en la parte de abajo del carrito, indica el informe.

Más tarde, los investigadores le leyeron sus derechos Miranda y lo entrevistaron.

Medina Acosta dijo que marcaba su entrada antes de su turno “porque quería adelantar trabajo”, según el informe.

Sin embargo, el personal del hotel le explicó a la policía que los empleados no podían marcar entrada ni empezar a trabajar antes de su turno, añade el informe.

Medina Acosta también dijo que unos 10 minutos después de llegar salía del hotel. Según su versión, iba a su casa a dejar ropa sucia y luego regresaba al trabajo, de acuerdo con el informe.

Le preguntaron por el video en el que aparece sacando el carrito de langosta. Medina respondió que lo había hecho “para que se descongelara”.

Pero los investigadores le preguntaron por qué devolvió el carrito al almacén y por qué faltaba parte de la langosta que antes se veía. Medina Acosta “no pudo dar una explicación directa”, según el informe.

Medina Acosta renunció antes de que la gerencia pudiera despedirlo por la investigación, indica el informe.

Según los investigadores, el jefe de cocina les contó que tras la salida de Medina Acosta cambió la situación. Desde entonces, la cocina terminaba cada período de inventario con mucha más comida que en los meses de faltantes.

Hasta la mañana del martes, el ciudadano uruguayo seguía en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una retención migratoria. Su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

San Francisco led the major leagues with 2,379 days on the injured list and 44 IL placements, according to Major League Baseball. After topping the big leagues in lost days in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the Dodgers were second with 2,318.

Cleveland had the fewest days at 470.

MLB's overall IL days increased to 47,699 days from 44,372 last year and 43,253 in 2024. Placements rose to 854 from 826 last year.

Giants players with lengthy IL stays included right-handers Hayden Birdsong, Randy Rodríguez and Roman Wick (187 days each), José Buttó (179), Joel Peguero (160) and Jason Foley (109), outfielder Harrison Bader (140) and left-hander Matt Gage (101).

Los Angeles had 34 IL placements, down from 37 placements and 2,585 days in 2025 before the Dodgers got healthier for the postseason and won their second straight World Series title. They totaled 2,465 days in 2024 and 2,219 in 2023.

Detroit was third at 2,216 days, followed by Toronto (2,206), the Chicago Cubs (2,160) and Boston (2,009).

Others below 1,000 days in addition to the Guardians were St. Louis (606), Pittsburgh (768) and Philadelphia (809).

San Francisco had the biggest increase at 1,630 days, followed by the Chicago Cubs (1,080), Colorado (707 to 1,873) and Toronto (698 to 2,206).

Cleveland experienced the largest drop at 1,041 days, ahead of the New York Mets (651 to 1,628), Houston (624 to 1,686), Cincinnati (574 to 1,105) and Pittsburgh (567 to 768).

The Guardians had the fewest IL placements with 14. St. Louis had 16, Washington 18 and Philadelphia 19.

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“Are you aware you are currently under arrest for the murder of Gladys, Julia, Daniela?” Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Detective Juan Carlos Chaidez asked.

“Yes,” Sierra said. “I tied her hands behind her back.”

The 42-year-old already pleaded guilty in connection with the killings. A Miami-Dade jury is deciding whether life or death is an appropriate punishment.

“You tied her wrists together?” Chaidez asked.

“Yeah, with white nylon rope,” Sierra said.

Sierra delivered heart-wrenching details about the horrific way he said he killed his estranged wife, Gladys Machado.

“A plastic shopping bag?” Chaidez asked. “Yeah,” Sierra said. “And you place it over her face?” Chaidez asked. “Yeah,” Sierra said.

“I was devastated because of what I had done, so I was crying,” Sierra said.

Sierra also described killing Machado’s two young daughters, 6-year-old Julia Padrino and 3-year-old Daniela Padrino.

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“She saw that her mom was dead and she started crying and screaming,” Sierra said. “I grabbed the Sedano’s bag and I put it over her face.”

He said, “I went to the kids’ room, and Daniela was sleeping, and I sat on top of her and did the same thing.”

He said he used a yellow Sedano’s plastic bag to kill them.

“And then, I don’t know, I went crazy,” Sierra said.

Sierra also described violating the bodies of Machado and Julia, delivering the account in a matter-of-fact tone that belied the brutality of the grim murders.

He explained how he worked to cover it up. “Can you tell me what areas of the house you mopped?” Chaidez asked.

“The master room, the closet, the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room, (inaudible) to the family room,” Sierra said.

Sierra said the violence that November day started after they left the mall.

“I was furious,” Sierra said.

“At Mall of the Americas, what did you do there?” Chaidez asked.

“We got an ice cream for the kids,” Sierra said.

He said he became jealous when Machado received a phone call.

“You got into an argument with her because she received a phone call from another man?” Chaidez asked. “Yeah,” Sierra said.

Prosecutors said Sierra kidnapped them at knifepoint and took them to the home where, days later, a neighbor who noticed the smell of decomposition found the three bodies in a master bedroom closet.

“You exit the home through what door?” Chaidez asked. “The front door,” Sierra said.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Joyce Brenner questioned Chaidez about his calm approach during the interview.

“You kept this whole thing as calm as you possibly could so you could build a rapport with Mr. Sierra so you could get at the truth, right?” Brenner asked.

“I already had a rapport with Mr. Sierra from our first interaction and our second interaction,” Chaidez said. “His behavior when it came to his wife’s infidelity and affairs, I thought he was a bit too calm and relaxed for his responses. I am not saying someone wouldn’t have a problem with their wife having an affair, but the way he was reacting to those questions didn’t sit right with me.”

On redirect, lead prosecutor Abbe Rifkin asked what prompted Sierra to stop providing the same false information.

“When he was confronted about the DNA evidence found on the victims,” Chaidez said.

Chaidez also described Sierra’s demeanor when he was confronted with that evidence.

“When he was confronted with that information, he clasped his hands, he stared down at the table for several seconds, he began to shake or quiver, and that is when he said something to the effect of, ‘I am going to tell you what happened,’ and all that,” Chaidez said.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said on social media Tuesday that the president's comments have been misunderstood and misrepresented in a “media freakout” that is “not rooted in reality.”

Trump was discussing the Iran war and the resulting high gas prices that have become a midterm liability for Republicans during his remarks in Nebraska when he mentioned the possibility of an Iranian attack on U.S. soil.

“It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” he said of the war and its economic fallout. “They can take out a city. Let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.”

The commentary, including Trump's casual mention of the two California cities, was delivered in the familiar meandering style that he uses at campaign rallies, when he speaks for extended periods — often an hour or more — and is only occasionally following prepared remarks on a teleprompter.

Critics, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, seized on his statements. The governor, a Democrat who could run for president in 2028, called Trump “deranged and dangerous” for, in Newsom's framing, “saying our foreign enemies should ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego.”

Cheung, in his response Tuesday, said it was obvious that Trump was not calling for such an attack.

“The media freakout over President Trump’s comments is not rooted in reality,” he said. “He was clearly stating U.S. cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped. America is safer because of the President.”

Cheung added that Iran “has no nuclear, no navy, no air force, and no money.”

Still, at least one Republican politician shared Newsom’s interpretation.

“As a Navy veteran, I served to protect Americans, not write off American cities as an acceptable price of war,” Jim Desmond, the Republican congressional nominee in a metro San Diego district, wrote on social media, adding that “no American family should ever be treated as collateral damage.”

Trump has often criticized U.S. cities as he campaigns, especially the largest areas that lean heavily Democratic. At a recent North Carolina rally, he described the state's cities as “blood-soaked killing fields.” North Carolina's violent crime rate ranks in the middle third of states, according to FBI statistics.

Iran has said that it’s not pursuing nuclear weapons, but has enriched uranium to near-weapons-grade levels that have no civilian purpose.

One restaurant had a staggering 44 violations, while another had 38.

And there were roach problems at several locations including Sawa in Coral Gables, which was ordered shut for the third time after inspectors found live and dead roaches in the kitchen.

Below is a list of places and some of their violations.

**SAWA

360 SAN LORENZO AVE (MERRICK PARK)

CORAL GABLES

ORDERED SHUT 10/5

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 9/18/19 (ROACH ISSUE)

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 12/19/18(ROACH ISSUE)

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 2 live roaches on prep counter crawling under rice cooker. Observed 2 live roaches in gaskets at standing reach in cooler unit next to ware washing area. Observed 1 live roach under reach in cooler unit at coffee area of kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 4 dead roaches at corner prep area floor where sushi rice is stored. Observed approximately 11 dead roaches between cooling units and wall mounted shelves. Observed 1 dead roach under three compartment sink.”

“Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Observed 2 strawberries in container with mold like growth.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling and vents throughout kitchen soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed flip top cooler handle and lid detached from cooler.”

“Interior of refrigerator or freezer in disrepair/has exposed insulation. Observed at standing reach in cooler next to dish washing area. Repeat Violation.”

“Unclean building components, attachments or fixtures. Observed hood filters at cook line soiled with grease build up Repeat Violation.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish bearing a label indicating that it is to remain frozen until time of use no longer frozen and not removed from reduced oxygen package. See stop sale. Observed 2 packages of minced tuna at reach in cooler still in packaging thawing.”

“Operating with an expired Division of Hotels and Restaurants license.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish bearing a label indicating that it is to remain frozen until time of use no longer frozen and not removed from reduced oxygen package. See stop sale. Observed 2 packages of minced tuna at reach in cooler still in packaging thawing.”

**THE KNIFE STEAK HOUSE

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL MALL

1455 NW 107TH AVE

DORAL

ORDERED SHUT 10/5

38 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 20 plus live roaches crawling at dishwasher machine electric box at kitchen area.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed soiled walls all over kitchen cooking area and ware washing.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed can opener blade soiled, also mixer heavily soiled.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed at several spot at kitchen prep and cook line area.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed all throughout the establishment including dining room area.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Observed at cook line area.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor under equipment heavily soiled with old rotten cardboard boxes and a mold like substance under equipment use to hold food to buffet line. Observed soiled floor all throughout the ware washing and cooking area.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed bucket with eggs and mayo stored on the floor at walk in cooler.”

“Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris.”

“Displayed food not properly protected from contamination. Observed croutons and chips at salad bar uncovered exposed to contamination.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed soiled gaskets at all reach in coolers units, also heavily soiled equipment under buffet line with presence of substance like mold, all rotten cardboard boxes. Observed walk in cooler fan dusted.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed Grill Station: provolone (93/95F - Hot Holding); cooked sweet potatoes (103/112/91F - Hot Holding); sausages (125/117/132F - Hot Holding); blood sausage (108F - Hot Holding); grilled chicken (131/116F - Hot Holding); beef ribs (153F - Hot Holding); pork ribs (123/108/99F - Hot Holding) at grill station area, also sweet breads (84F - Hot Holding); tripe (83F - Hot Holding); beef (91F - Hot Holding); sausage (88F - Hot Holding); beef steaks (87/86/84F - Hot Holding) at holding station at cook line. As per management all products less than four hours, staff was instructed to move to the cooler or back to grill station to bring products into compliance.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked pork (78F - Cold Holding); beef (75F - Cold Holding); raw beef (48F - Cold Holding); grilled chicken (69F - Cold Holding); sausage (56F - Cold Holding) at small reach in cooler unit.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed some cooked at establishment food at walk in cooler not dated, as per staff for less than 7 days as per staff.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed walk in cooler door in disrepair.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Observed employees at cook line and not hair restraint.”

**SUSHI SAKE SUNSET

9565 SUNSET DR.

KENDALL

ORDERED SHUT 10/5

14 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed 20 live flies landing and crawling inside bag of onions underneath prep table across cook line. Observed 10 live flies flying and landing on top of rice cookers with rice inside and on wall on prep table next to cook line. Observed 25 live flies flying and landing on trays of soy sauce and eel sauce, on boxes of single service cups in wait station area next to walk in cooler. Observed 5 live flies flying and landing on clean bowls and equipment under prep table next to cook line. Observed 5 live flies landing on top of squeeze bottles of soy sauce and oil under prep table across cook line. Observed 6 live flies flying and landing on top of clean cutting board in kitchen area. Observed 15 live flies flying and landing on vegetable chopper and sanitizer bucket on prep table underneath dish machine. Observed 10+ live flies in dry storage area flying and landing on top of bags of rice and sugar. Observed 10 live flies flying in bar area, landing on beer taps, liquor bottles, and on top of garnish containers. Observed 8 live flies flying and landing on top of container of lychees at bar area. Observed 1 live fly inside container of lychees at bar area.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Live, small flying insects found. Observed 20 live flies landing and crawling inside bag of onions underneath prep table across cook line. Observed 1 live fly inside container of lychees at bar area.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed garlic butter (44F - Cold Holding) at cook line, as per operator for less than 1 hour. Repeat Violation.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed chef put on pair of gloves and begin to prepare customer order without first washing hands.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed interior of ice machine soiled.”

**LA UNION RESTAURANT

SUN PLAZA

998 SOUTH STATE ROAD 7

MARGATE

ORDERED SHUT 10/5

44 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Approximately 7 live roaches crawling on wall and shelves around 3 compartment sink.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Approximately 1 dead roach in bucket inside hand washing sink. Approximately 6 dead roaches on floor around hot water heater. Approximately 1 dead roach on side of Reach in cooler at dish washing area. Discussed with operator to clean and sanitize areas.”

“Roach excrement and/or droppings present. At dish washing area buildup of roach excrement along shelves and wall.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Approximately 7 small live flying insects by back door landing on old equipment. Approximately 5 small live flying insects landing on walls surrounding hot water heater. Approximately 25 small live flying insects landing on dirty and clean dishes at dish washing area. Approximately 4 small live flying insects on walls in women& men’s restroom. Approximately 25 small live flying insects landing on walls in dining room behind reach in coolers where large puddle of water is on floor.”

“Objectionable odors in bathroom or other areas of the establishment. In bathroom strong odor of urine, discussed with operator to clean and sanitize bathroom.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Sides of cooking equipment soiled with thick build up of grease and food debris, discussed with operator to clean and sanitize.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin.”

“Food stored on floor. In dish washing area bucket of raw chicken stored on floor.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. In reach in cooler at front counter milk (51F - Cold Holding) per server milk held in unit for unknown amount of time see stop sale. In walk in cooler pork tamales (48F - Cold Holding); cheese (48F - Cold Holding); pasteurized eggs (50F - Cold Holding); coleslaw (51F - Cold Holding); sliced ham (48F - Cold Holding); cooked beans (49F - Cold Holding) per chef products not portioned or prepared today and held in cooler for more than 6 hours, see stop sale.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food thawed in an improper manner. Frozen Raw chicken thawing at room temperature, discussed with operator who moved product to walk in cooler to thaw.”

“Food being cooled by nonapproved method as evidenced by inadequate rate of cooling during time of inspection. In walk in cooler plastic wrapped pan of marinated portioned steak (52F - Cooling) at 10:20 per operator since 7:00 to 53F at 10:40, at this current rate of cooling product will not reach 41F within 4 hours, discussed with operator who moved product to reach in freezer.”

“Food manager certification expired.”

“No hot running water at three-compartment sink. Hot water maximum temperature 81F discussed with operator who used lighter to reignite hot water heater, at retest hot water reached 104F. Repeat Violation.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation.”

“Employee cracked raw shell eggs and then handled ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment or utensils without washing hands. Employee cracked raw shell eggs and after without washing hands employee handled plate and utensils assembly meal, discussed with operator employee washed hands.”

“Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Employee handled container of raw chicken and without washing hands employee handled clean plates and utensils, discussed with employee who washed hands.”

“Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Employee pulled up pants and after without washing hands resumed cooking eggs, discussed with employee who washed hands.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. In reach in cooler raw shell eggs stored above cooked plantains, discussed with operator who corrected storage of products.”

“Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit based upon minimum required cooking temperature. In walk in cooler raw chicken stored above raw steak, discussed with operator who corrected storage of products.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. In customer dining area large puddle of standing water behind reach in coolers, discussed with operator to clean and sanitize area.”

“Floor tiles missing and/or in disrepair. Throughout kitchen multiple floor tiles missing and in disrepair with food and standing water, discussed with operator to repair. Repeat Violation.”

“Required employee training expired for all employees.”

Storms will be even more widespread tomorrow and could develop at any point in the day. Expect more of the same on Thursday as we will firmly be in a wet weather pattern.

Time was scarce, so the chance to make wontons with her became special mother-daughter moments for us. She always had all the fillings ready to go — my favorite was and still is pork, shrimp and vegetables. I’d carefully scoop a bit of filling onto the wonton wrapper and do my best to fold it as neatly as possible.

Years later, I’ve continued the tradition with my own children, and together as a family we make Popo’s wontons (“Popo” is the Chinese word for “maternal grandmother”). Just as it was for my mother and me, making wontons gives me and my kids the opportunity to escape the chaos of daily life and bond while we fold 34 together.

It also gives me the chance to share more about our heritage. For example, the Chinese revere wealth (like most people!). Wontons are a symbol for gold — when folding, your goal is to create a wonton shaped like a Chinese gold ingot. I suppose that’s one way of getting rich. My kids thought it was the silliest, most fun thing to eat “gold.”

Popo's Wontons

Servings: Makes about 60

Ingredients

1 (3-inch) nob peeled ginger, minced

½ pound large (31 to 40) raw shrimp, shelled and deveined

2 tablespoons cornstarch, divided

2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided

1 pound frozen shepherd’s purse, defrosted (or 2 bunches fresh watercress)

2 tablespoons light soy sauce

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

½ teaspoon ground white pepper

1 pound ground meat (pork, turkey or chicken)

1 large egg

2 (12-ounce) packages square, thin wonton wrappers (you won’t use them all)

Directions

In a small bowl, soak the ginger in ¼ cup of water for 15 minutes.

Rinse the shrimp with cold water. Drain them and place in a medium bowl with 1 tablespoon of the cornstarch, massaging it gently into the shrimp to further clean them. Rinse the shrimp again with clean, cold water. Drain them, then toss with ½ teaspoon of the salt. Finely chop the shrimp. Set aside.

Rinse the defrosted shepherd’s purse with cold water, then squeeze out the excess water. Finely chop the greens, then toss them with ½ teaspoon of the salt. Set aside. (If using watercress, boil 2 bunches for 3 minutes, then drain and rinse with cold water. Squeeze out the excess water and finely chop.)

Remove the ginger from the water and squeeze it over the water to retain as much of the ginger-scented soaking water as possible. Discard the ginger, keeping only the ginger water.

In a medium nonreactive bowl, combine the ginger water, soy sauce, the remaining 1½ teaspoons of salt, oil, the remaining 1 tablespoon of cornstarch, and the white pepper. Add the ground meat and thoroughly mix it with the seasoning. Add the shrimp and greens and mix everything together. Allow it to marinate, covered in the refrigerator, for 30 minutes. Take a small piece and cook the meat mixture in boiling water until the meat floats, about 3 minutes. Taste it to see if it’s seasoned well. If not, then add another teaspoon of salt to the meat and mix well.

In a small bowl, whisk the egg so that it can be used to seal the wonton skins.

Fan the stack of skins out to create a pinwheel of skins. This separates the skins, making them easier to pick up. Take one wonton skin and place a dollop of meat mixture (about ½ tablespoon) in the center.

Using the tip of a butter knife dipped in the egg, brush the top and side edges of the skin. Fold the square in half and gently press edges together. The wonton is now a rectangle. Brush the bottom corners with egg. Holding the rectangle in your palm, bend the left and right corners together toward the center of the wonton. Squeeze the corners together to seal.

On a tray or plate lined with parchment paper, place the wontons in rows with a bit of separation between them so that they do not stick together. Make sure the tray or plate will fit in your freezer. Once the tray is full, freeze the wontons until the skin feels solid and frozen, about 1 hour. You can then place the wontons in a plastic freezer bag without worrying about them sticking together. Place the bag immediately back into the freezer to further freeze the wontons. Remember to write a date on the bags. They will keep for 3 to 4 months.

If you’re starting with fresh wontons, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Leave enough room in the pot for 1 to 2 cups of additional water. Add the wontons. When the water boils again, add ½ cup cold water. When the water boils again, add another ½ cup of cold water. When wontons float to the top, they are done. Adding cold water in steps like this keeps the skin of the wontons from overcooking and becoming too soft.

With frozen wontons, repeat the above, but add ½ cup cold water one more time because the frozen meat needs a bit longer to cook through.

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Ming-Na Wen is an actor and author of the cookbook “Have You Eaten Yet: Family Recipes From a Restaurant Daughter."

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Excerpted from “Have You Eaten Yet? Family Recipes From a Restaurant Daughter.” Copyright 2026 by Ming-Na Wen. Reproduced by permission of Simon Element, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved.

“Whenever anyone comes to the house, it’s always, ‘Have you eaten yet?’” Wen told The Associated Press. “So that was how I came up with the title, because I wanted that as a greeting for my fans.”

Wen, who found fame in the 1993 film adaptation of Amy Tan's novel “The Joy Luck Club” and went on to star in “Mulan,” is wading into the cookbook market. “Have You Eaten Yet? Family Recipes From a Restaurant Daughter,” out Tuesday, is sprinkled with Chinese and Western recipes and first-person anecdotes.

The recipes parallel Wen's evolution from immigrant kid helping out at her parents' restaurant to working actor cooking for her own children.

For generations of Asian Americans, Wen became an icon for validating the bicultural experience as June in “The Joy Luck Club.” The first big studio feature with an all-Asian cast was praised for depicting Chinese characters and Chinese food in a non-demeaning way.

Despite being more prevalent now than ever, Chinese cuisine is still at times stereotyped or devalued. Wen might be an ideal ambassador to share experiences of growing up eating Chinese and American food.

“I didn’t want it to just be about Chinese food,” said Wen, 62. “I wanted it to be about the Asian American experience.”

The cookbook is a way to honor her family

The idea for a cookbook began with Wen's Instagram cooking videos, posted from her Los Angeles home. Fans urged “The Mandalorian” star to write a cookbook, but she didn't feel qualified — until she learned there are “many celebrities who would write a book who didn't cook, which to me was such a no-no.”

“It took a couple of years before my literary agent came up with this wonderful idea that we write the cookbook as my journey through food,” Wen said.

She ended up whittling a list of a hundred recipes down to 70. Among those that made the cut are Popo's (Cantonese for grandmother) Wontons, and Chestnut Chicken, both reminiscent of her childhood in Hong Kong.

She also wanted to honor her stepfather, or “Chef Baba (Cantonese for father),” who taught her to cook Western dishes he had learned cooking in the army. He could pivot from making clam chowder to winter melon soup.

At age 7, Wen rode in an airplane for the first time when her stepfather sponsored her, her mother and brother to come to the U.S. They lived in New York City for three years before moving to Pittsburgh. There, her parents opened the Chinatown Inn restaurant. A good “restaurant daughter,” Wen helped set tables, wash dishes and other tasks.

“Being a restaurant kid was something that I sort of was either embarrassed about or rejected or didn’t like because it took time away from hanging out with my friends,” Wen said. “Looking back … it makes me so much more aware of how much that restaurant’s given and provided for my family and for shaping who I am.”

Having to cook far from home reawakened old skills

It wasn't until the Carnegie Mellon University alum moved to New York to pursue acting that she found she had a knack for cooking. She was on a shoestring budget, and the necessity of cooking awoke all those kitchen-prep skills she had seen as a child.

“It’s interesting how all those things that I observed growing up became second nature when I did start cooking, like really feverishly,” Wen said.

She went from making ramen and eggs to Cornish game hens with Chinese plum sauce.

Wen kept up cooking even after scoring a part on “As the World Turns” in 1988, making her the first Asian American actor on contract with a soap.

The cookbook has compelled her to revisit dishes she made back then, as well as those from Chinatown Inn, which her brother and sister-in-law run today. She felt like a “mad chemist” at times since her family cooks on instinct, not written recipes.

“The egg rolls — my brother was just like, ‘OK, these are the ingredients.’ I’m like, ‘Well, how much to how much? He’s like, 'I don’t know,’” Wen said. “I had to measure and measure and remeasure and taste-test and taste-test until I got it right.”

By all means, get a wok

Nowadays, cookbooks on Asian cuisine make up a crowded field, including niche volumes, such as vegan or noodle dishes, or ones influenced by a region of the U.S.

“In a weird way, my cookbook is going back to the basics, and yet expanding on it through other foods that people are familiar with,” Wen said.

She is eager for readers to try more challenging recipes like wontons and “lion’s head,” meatballs with napa cabbage. Wen also cannot recommend a wok enough.

“If there was ever an apocalyptic situation in L.A. and I have to leave with some essentials, I would grab my wok and my spatula, because you can cook anything in a wok,” she said.

Eddie Lin, a Los Angeles-based food writer and past “MasterChef” TV judge, was also a production assistant on “The Joy Luck Club.” Chinese food was “all over the place” in many big scenes, he recalls. So, he sees it as a nice full-circle moment that Wen is again bringing attention to the Asian American experience.

Her cookbook will stick out, he thinks, because she is willing to be so personal.

“I feel that Ming-Na’s book is probably her story on a plate or in a bowl,” Lin said.

Despite the popularity of Asian foods, there are still instances of ugly stereotypes on social media that have resulted in real harm to a restaurant's reputation.

“It does irk me quite a bit,” Wen said. “I know how difficult it is to keep a restaurant afloat, especially these days. All we can do is just ignore the negative, ignore the toxic and just try to find joy and harmony. Food is the universal love language. So, I will go with that thought instead.”

The ski racer from Colorado announced her strategy Tuesday in what she describes as a season of "exploration.” It's part of her plan to push herself coming off a season where she won her second Olympic gold in slalom at the Milan Cortina Games and earned her ninth World Cup season title in the discipline.

The season kicks off on Oct. 24 with a giant slalom race in Soelden, Austria. Shiffrin said her first slalom race is expected to be in Killington, Vermont, over Thanksgiving weekend and she will proceed from there.

“I’m not trying to do less because I care less. I’m trying to do something different because I still care SO much,” the 31-year-old Shiffrin said in a statement. ”The joy for me has never been about medals or records.

"This season is an exploration. We’re calling it the exploration season.”

Shiffrin won her sixth overall World Cup title by 87 points over Emma Aicher of Germany. Shiffrin also won the crystal globe in the slalom by beating Camille Rast of Switzerland.

In the giant slalom standings Shiffrin was fourth, while winding up outside the top 30 in the super-G. Her last World Cup win in the super-G, an event that blends the speed of a downhill with the turns of a GS, was in December 2022. She won a downhill event in 2023.

“Racing slalom underprepared would be like jumping into a giant blender and just trying to avoid the blades,” Shiffrin said. "I’m trying a little bit more to live in the gratitude of it and ski because I want to ski. ... I’m not looking for less commitment. I’m not looking for actually even less effort.”

She added: “I feel ambitious. I still feel competitive. I feel like I have a desire to ski fast. I feel like those things haven’t changed. I’m really just giving myself permission to be curious about where that takes me, and that’s the exploration.”

Shiffrin also plans to continue to work on her podcast, “What’s the Point with Mikaela Shiffrin.”

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Eddrick Malik Bethune vanished after a shooting shortly after midnight on Sunday at Aliro, an apartment complex at 14040 Biscayne Boulevard, according to detectives.

Cellphone video shows two men beating someone before throwing him in the backseat of a gray car.

The car then drives away with its door still open.

Before all that took place, another video captured the moments when about a dozen shots ran out at the apartment complex.

A shooting victim arrived at a nearby hospital shortly afterward, police said.

“Due to his medical status, detectives have not been able to speak with this person to determine his involvement, if any,” an MDSO spokesperson told Local 10 News.

A witness’s video showed two men jumping from a third-floor window after the shooting.

The MDSO captain found Bethune’s body at about 7:25 a.m. on Sunday outside of plant nurseries in the area of Southwest 216th Street and 189th Avenue, according to detectives.

Near Bethune’s body, deputies also found a sports utility vehicle that had been set on fire.

Detective J. Rodriguez asked anyone with information about the case to call 305-471-2400.

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The Arapiuns flows into the Tapajos, one of the Amazon River’s major tributaries, across waterways so vast that navigating them can feel like crossing the open sea. Yet during a historic drought in 2024, Nova Sociedade’s residents had to walk as far as 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in search of water.

“At daybreak, our struggle would begin,” said Tiago Silva, an Arapium Indigenous community leader in Nova Sociedade. “Children carrying water, elderly people carrying water. We all suffered.”

Two years later, the community is better prepared for this year’s El Niño, the naturally occurring climate phenomenon that raises global temperatures and can worsen drought in the Amazon.

In June, Nova Sociedade installed solar panels to power water pumps that fill storage tanks and provide clean water to all 36 families in the village. The Amazon-based nonprofit Saude e Alegria provided the system and has equipped 29 other communities with similar technology ahead of another possible severe drought.

Before solar power arrived, Nova Sociedade relied on diesel generators for basic electricity. Fuel is costly and polluting, and the generators provide limited, unreliable power.

Across the Amazon, the spread of off-grid solar power, closed systems not connected to utility companies, is helping remote communities reduce their reliance on diesel while improving access to clean water and electricity in homes, schools and health centers.

Last month, each Nova Sociedade household received its own solar-power system donated by Schneider Electric through Saude e Alegria. The easy-to-install kits include batteries to power lights at night and enough electricity to charge phones and other small devices.

“This technology uses the power of the sun and can replace other ways of generating electricity that often require clearing the forest or burning fuel, the very practices driving global warming,” Caetano Scannavino, an environmentalist and manager of Saude e Alegria, told residents as they received the solar kits. Scannavino also warned of another severe drought likely coming in October and November.

As community leaders called chiefs of households, residents rose smiling to collect their kits.

Some described the technology as a blessing. Women artisans said better lighting would allow them to continue weaving traditional jewelry and baskets after sunset, extending the hours they can spend producing an important source of income.

Most of those still without power live in the Amazon

Nova Sociedade illustrates how off-grid solar power is changing daily life in isolated Amazon communities. Beyond providing water and household electricity, the technology is increasingly supporting schools, health centers and local businesses.

According to official data, the number of off-grid systems installed in remote areas of the Amazon rose from just 105 in 2020 to more than 11,000 in 2022. By 2026, it had exceeded 100,000.

“It’s fair to say that nearly all of these are solar installations,” said Fabio Galdino dos Santos, a researcher at the Institute for Energy and Environment, or IEMA, a Brazilian nonprofit focused on sustainable energy.

More than 99% of Brazil’s 214 million residents had electricity access as of the 2022 census. Most of those still without power live in the Amazon, where isolation and high infrastructure costs have hindered electrification. About 1 million people in the region still lack access to electricity, according to IEMA.

Many off-grid communities have long relied on costly, polluting diesel generators. In Nova Sociedade, buying fuel requires a nearly three-hour boat trip to Santarem, the nearest city.

Even when fuel is available, electricity is limited. Generators typically shut down shortly after 10 p.m. and often lack enough capacity to run refrigerators. Temperatures there regularly exceed 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).

Better healthcare and quieter schools

Across the Amazon, government-backed and philanthropic initiatives are expanding access to electricity, often prioritizing infrastructure that serves entire communities.

At a public health clinic in Ana, another riverine community along the Arapiuns River, newly installed solar panels allow staff to refrigerate vaccines, conduct telemedicine appointments and operate basic medical equipment, including nebulizers, which are essential when wildfire smoke covers the region.

In Surucua, a community along the Tapajos River, the arrival of solar power is most noticeable in the silence.

Until last year, Sao Benedito School, which serves all 116 of the community’s students, relied solely on a noisy diesel generator.

“Today, all you hear are the children and the birds,” said Rosenilce Cruz, the school principal. “We couldn’t work outdoors because the generator was so loud. Now, the children can read outside. We can carry out projects there, and you can hear both the children and the teacher perfectly.”

The limited electricity supply also left classrooms dim and prevented the school from using refrigerators. Then the Santarem city government renovated the school and installed solar panels.

“Today, our children’s meals are no longer based on canned foods but on fresh sources of protein. We now have a place to store that food because electricity is available 24 hours a day,” Cruz added.

Solar power is also beginning to support local businesses. In neighboring Amazonas state, an acai processing facility in the Bela Conquista community, a remote village along the Solimoes River, recently shifted away from diesel-generated electricity.

Diesel power constrained production and left harvested fruit to spoil. The Foundation for Amazon Sustainability installed a solar-and-battery system in partnership with the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet and Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. The partners plan to develop 20 pilot projects over the next two to three years, supporting sustainable fishing, agriculture and fruit-processing businesses.

The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, is vital to the global climate. It stores vast amounts of carbon, and moisture from its trees regulates temperatures and shapes weather across South America and beyond.

Protecting Indigenous and traditional territories is one of the most effective ways to preserve the rainforest. According to MapBiomas, an organization tracking land use, more than 80% of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon — including 330 Indigenous territories — recorded no deforestation in the first half of this year.

Strengthening such traditional communities, including those now powered by solar energy, could help keep the forest standing, said Lázaro Silva, an engineering professor and coordinator of the renewable energy laboratory at the Federal University of Western Para, in Santarem.

Silva and his students have installed 40 solar systems across 27 remote communities in the Amazon since 2022.

“These communities have demonstrated a level of organization that makes them more resilient, helping them acknowledge their leading role in protecting the forest,” he said.

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The agreement announced Tuesday means a shift to the streaming services that have come to utterly dominate the prestige categories at the Emmys.

The show has aired on one of the four broadcast networks every year since 1955. NBC was first to air it nationally, and was the last to host it last month. For the past three decades it has been in a yearly rotation between ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC in what was known as the “Wheel Deal.”

Having a single, long-term home starting with next September's 79th Primetime Emmy Awards may be the biggest change.

“Continuity is a big part of what we're looking for because the rotating part of it basically meant in many ways that we were starting over every year,” Cris Abrego, chairman of the Television Academy, told The Associated Press. “With one partner over six years, we can really learn together and build from year to year together.”

The Emmys will continue to air free of charge as it always has, a demand the Academy made from the start to its suitors. No Prime Video subscription will be required to watch.

The move echoes the Oscars’ deal announced in December sending them to YouTube and ending their own, just-as-long relationship with broadcast networks. But unlike that agreement, announced in 2025 and starting in 2029, this one is effective immediately.

“We’re on the clock, we gotta get rolling,” Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, told the AP.

Nearly all awards shows have seen steep drops in viewership in a more segmented culture, and the Emmys have consistently lagged behind the Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes even as the acclaim for the shows they honor has grown. At its peak, the show drew more than 20 million viewers. The figure now hovers around 7 million.

Both the Academy and Amazon said Prime Video might be in a position to change that as a place where so much of the Emmys programming can be viewed, whether it's a Prime production or a streaming partnership. The biggest winners at the last two Emmys, “Widow's Bay” and “The Studio,” can both be watched on Prime Video through its partnership with Apple TV.

“I think we’re going to be able to increase the viewership over time on this show, age it down, actually bring in a younger audience, which I think is a catalyst to growing,” Hopkins said. “We will have the opportunity throughout the year to be promoting Emmy nominees to our customers as a way of saying ‘Hey, watch these shows, but also watch the Emmys.’”

Abrego said this approach, and Prime Video's role as a television hub, was a major consideration in taking the show there.

“They really support all television,” he said. “We want reach, we want access, and we felt Amazon was in line with that.”

And while Abrego acknowledged the significance of the move to streaming and its implications, he said the content is far more important than how it's delivered.

“The Academy has never defined television by how it reaches your screen or even which screen it reaches,” he said. “The goal is to consistently want to recognize excellence wherever it comes from.”

Live events on Amazon have not been a novelty for a long time. It's been nearly a decade since it first aired an NFL game and many other major sports and other events have followed.

“We look at our service as something that’s a hybrid between live and on-demand, and we’ve made live a real priority,” Hopkins said.

Football has always been a problem for the Emmys. Its time slots on Sunday or Monday nights in September nearly always lead to a clash with the rating monolith of the NFL.

This year’s show was trounced by the first Monday Night Football game of the year between the Kansas City Chiefs and Denver Broncos on ESPN.

The ceremony will stay in September in 2027, but that doesn't mean it is set for the run of the agreement.

“We had conversations with Amazon, if we wanted to change that date moving forward with time, we could explore it and we would be open to it,” Abrego said, acknowledging that it would have repercussions with deadlines and voting.

And Paramount closed its $81 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, the companies announced Tuesday — forming a new Hollywood giant now called Skydance that brings two of America’s oldest moviemaking studios together along with streaming services, CNN and CBS. Many industry figures warned the merger would lead to American voices being silenced, but Trump promoted it while attacking network reporting.

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Trump says the Reflecting Pool will be filled with water again soon and he will visit

The president told reporters as he prepared to leave the White House on Tuesday that work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is almost complete and it would be refilled with water soon. The pool is undergoing a second round of repairs after a first round was botched.

Trump claimed vandalism was behind the botched job. The Justice Department charged a former Olympian with intentionally damaging the pool, but then abruptly dropped the case after determining he was not responsible and instead it was caused by a botched installation by a contractor and a rush to complete the job.

Still, Trump on Tuesday repeated his unfounded claims that the pool had been vandalized.

Trump says he’s happy Paramount-Warner Bros merger has closed

The president says the combined entertainment firm will be is “going to be a great company.”

Paramount completed its takeover of rival Warner Bros on Tuesday, bringing the empire under control of billionaire David Ellison, the son of Trump donor Larry Ellison.

“That’s a great merger. I’m glad they let it go,” Trump said before leaving the White House for a speech in Maryland.

Rubio arrives in Greece ahead of speech on democracy

The U.S. secretary of state arrived in Athens late Tuesday, the second leg of a three-nation tour of NATO allies to discuss deepening economic, energy and security ties.

The trip follows a stop in Iceland where he sought to reassure the island nation that President Donald Trump does not have designs on the country.

Rubio will meet top Greek officials on Wednesday before delivering what the State Department is billing as a major speech on democracy near the ruins of the Acropolis, a widely recognizable symbol of ancient Greece and the creation of the concept of popular participatory government.

The Trump administration has repeatedly called out countries in Europe for backsliding on democratic principles by stifling the free speech of conservatives and falling short on commitments to international partners like the United States. But, many of those countries have rejected the complaints and accused the U.S. under Trump of being guilty of similar behavior.

Trump ties student demonstrations in France to immigration policy

The protests are about deteriorating conditions in French high schools.

“What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration,” Trump posted on his social media site. “This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!”

The U.S. president has long criticized immigration policies in Europe, offering vague assertions that the quality of life in many countries would improve with stricter laws.

The French protesters are focused on dilapidated buildings, teacher shortages and inequalities between schools, not religion or immigration policy.

Trump’s midterm campaign travel blitz may take him to South Carolina

There are tentative plans for the president to travel in the coming weeks to South Carolina, where Republican Darline Graham is trying to win a full term to her brother Lindsey Graham’s seat.

The trip was confirmed by a person familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Trump hasn’t committed to reimbursing taxpayer funds spent on ads, White House official says

When Trump pledged to secure outside funding for an ad campaign that has drawn backlash for using taxpayer dollars to glorify his presidency, he wasn’t committing to reimburse any already-spent dollars, a White House official clarified Tuesday.

Trump on Monday evening posted on his Truth Social platform saying he plans to use his MAGA Inc. super PAC to cover the cost of the ads going forward. That post was not referring to reimbursement, said the White House official, on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the spending.

Money from the Department of Homeland Security was tapped to award a $20 million contract for the ads, which promote Trump and echo his political messaging ahead of the midterms.

AdImpact, which tracks media spending, said more than $11 million has been spent on airing the ads so far.

Senate Leadership Fund putting $5M behind Darline Graham in South Carolina

The super PAC supporting Republicans in Senate races still projects confidence about the interim senator’s bid to win a full term in her late brother Lindsey Graham’s seat.

The money, according to a person familiar with the plans and not authorized to speak about them publicly, is intended as an insurance policy to shore up Darline Graham in her general election against Democrat Annie Andrews.

The move, first reported by Axios, comes several days after news that SLF was pulling back in North Carolina and pouring money into Kansas, as Republicans’ plan to maintain their majority has become a defensive fight ahead of November’s midterms.

Trump rallied with Graham days before she won a GOP runoff in the Senate race and is expected to return to South Carolina in the coming weeks.

Inspector general investigations sought in Reflecting Pool investigation

Lawyers for a former Olympian the Justice Department charged with intentionally damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, only to abruptly drop the case after determining he was not responsible, urged two government watchdogs on Tuesday to examine what they say was a flawed investigation and prosecution.

The attorneys for David Hearn said in a letter to the inspectors general for the departments of Justice and Interior that “incompetence and misconduct” were committed by government officials operating under pressure from President Donald Trump, and that watchdog investigations were needed “to determine what happened inside their agencies that led to the shocking and indefensible treatment” of their client.

The letter was filed days after a District of Columbia judge permanently dismissed the case, ending a brief prosecution derided by defense lawyers and other critics as an abuse of government power pushed by a president who insisted vandalism, not human error, was to blame for damage at the landmark.

White House clarifies Trump’s comments about Iran attacking US cities

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said Tuesday that the president’s comments have been misunderstood and misrepresented in a “media freakout.”

Trump was discussing the Iran war and the resulting high gas prices Monday night when he mentioned the possibility of an Iranian attack. “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” Trump said. “They can take out a city. Let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.”

“He was clearly stating U.S. cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped. America is safer because of the President,” Cheung said on social media.

At least one Republican running for Congress sees it differently, saying “no American family should ever be treated as collateral damage.”

“As a Navy veteran, I served to protect Americans, not write off American cities as an acceptable price of war,” posted Jim Desmond, a GOP nominee in San Diego.

US military cancels off-base privileges in Okinawa after Marine accused of strangling woman in Japan

The U.S. military in Okinawa, Japan, is pausing all operations and halting off-base privileges for two days and ordering training for troops after a Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a Japanese woman.

Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force, said the case demands “we pause for reflection” and that serving on Okinawa “comes with responsibility.”

The 48-hour pause, which is standard after such incidents, halts operations Wednesday through Friday, also bans drinking alcohol on and off base. Service members will receive training on standards, discipline and “our responsibilities as members of the Okinawan community.”

Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, has denied allegations that he strangled Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel early Saturday, according to Japanese media.

Filmmaker: Israel needed US technology and military funding to destroy Gaza

The Associated Press also has reported on Israel’s use of AI models developed by U.S. tech giants in the war in Gaza and its occupation of the West Bank, part of a package that won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Microsoft later reduced the Israeli military’s access to its products.

The film’s Israeli directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, want Americans to see the film and to understand their government’s role. An academic study found that the Biden and Trump administrations provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel in the first two years of the war.

“Much of what is being described was done with American taxpayer money,” Abraham said.

Israel’s military has ‘categorically’ denied the filmmakers’ findings

The military threatened to track down the soldiers who describe alleged atrocities in the documentary. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “NAZA” is antisemitic, and a Cabinet minister threatened to strip the filmmakers of their citizenship.

The documentary is based on interviews with over 100 confidential sources, in collaboration with The Guardian. Soldiers describe using an AI tool to create tens of thousands of targets with Hamas connections across the crowded Gaza strip. One soldier said approval was given to target a single militant even though the operation anticipated 500 civilian deaths.

In a lengthy rebuttal, Israel’s military said targeting orders “explicitly, comprehensively and clearly distinguish” between militants and civilians and that it strives to minimize civilian harm “to the greatest extent feasible.”

Israel has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, in response to the killing of some 1,200 people and the abduction of 251 others in Israel by Hamas-led militants on Oct. 7, 2023.

Israeli documentary ‘NAZA’ stirs Gaza debate ahead of US elections

The opening in U.S. theaters of the “NAZA” documentary, in which Israeli military insiders describe what they say was the reckless killing of civilians in Gaza, is likely to rekindle the searing debate over America’s military support for Israel ahead of congressional elections.

Israel’s wartime conduct has sparked global outrage, as have the billions of dollars in American military support provided by the Biden and Trump administrations. The war has bitterly divided Democrats and some Republicans.

The film received a record 25-minute standing ovation when it debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The backlash in Israel, which holds its own elections at the end of this month, has been just as thunderous.

“NAZA,” the Hebrew acronym for collateral damage, contends that Israel used artificial intelligence and other sophisticated systems to kill suspected militants in strikes the military knew would kill large numbers of civilians.

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Democrat responds to Arkansas governor’s Medicaid moocher ad

Despite the welfare queen trope, there are more white Americans than Black Americans using social service programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps. The persistent right-wing rhetoric about Black Americans and public assistance often ignores how generations of structural racism have produced economic disparities that contribute to their disproportionate participation in these programs.

The bigger question, Arkansas Democratic congressional candidate Chris Jones said, is not race but “why so many people who are working hard still struggle to afford groceries, housing, health care and the basic necessities of life.”

Jones, who is Black, grew up in a family relying on food stamps. A welfare recipient is not “looking for a way out of work,” but “for a way forward,” he told AP in a statement.

Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white

A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard-issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid: No more could able-bodied people lounge around while receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare, she said — they needed to work.

But the decision to portray an unemployed moocher as a young, white, cheeseball-chomping gamer named Brad has upset some commentators who said the video should have featured a Black woman instead.

“Republicans don’t have the balls to do this ad with ‘Shaniqua’ as the villain,” posted Matt Walsh, a conservative writer.

Sean Davis, co-founder of the Federalist website, wrote that “our government has systematically discriminated against white men for decades now, and yet now has the audacity to dishonestly mock young white men as welfare queens.”

In fact, when it comes to Medicaid expansion in Arkansas, the state says about 60% of recipients are white and around 18% are Black.

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U.S. trade deficit hits 17-month high on AI investment boom

The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services widened to $105.6 billion in August, biggest gap between what America imports and what it exports since March 2025, as booming investment in artificial intelligence drew in foreign computer chips and equipment.

The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that the August trade gap was up from $92.8 billion in July. President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs – import taxes – in an attempt to reduce the longstanding U.S. trade deficit.

So far this year, the U.S. trade deficit is down nearly 20% from January-August 2025. But the gap hit bottom at $52.9 billion in April before heading up as the AI investment surge sharply increased imports. Semiconductor imports, for instance, jumped 18% in August and are up 84% this year compared to January-August 2025.

Many Hollywood stars lobbied against the merger, but Trump cheered it

Thousands of movie stars, writers, directors and other professionals announced their “unequivocal opposition” to the Paramount-Warner merger in an open letter that warned of fewer jobs and “less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world.” Sally Field said while accepting her Emmy award that “unique storytelling matters” and “we can’t let those voices be silenced, or compromised or merged.”

But Tom Cruise and James Cameron were among those backing the merger as David Ellison reiterated his commitment to filmmaking and said CNN would maintain editorial independence.

Trump has regularly attacked CNN’s reporting, attempting to bar the outlet from the White House altogether. Days after Paramount launched its hostile bid for Warner, the president said that CNN spread “poison and lies” and added that “it’s imperative that CNN be sold.” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters after the launch of the Iran war that “the sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”

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A new Hollywood giant: Skydance completes its $81B takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

Paramount closed its $81 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, the companies announced Tuesday — forming a new Hollywood giant now called Skydance.

The merger promoted by the Trump administration brings two of America’s oldest moviemaking studios together — along with HBO Max, titles ranging from “Harry Potter” to “Sinners” and even networks like CNN will soon find themselves under the same roof as Paramount+, CBS and the likes of “Top Gun” and “The Godfather.”

“Today is a historic day, not just for Skydance but for our entire industry,” CEO David Ellison, who will lead the company alongside his new co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, said in a statement.

Taxpayers have paid some $11m for ads Trump says he’ll tap super PAC to cover

The government-funded television ads glorifying the president that have drawn a sharp bipartisan backlash have cost more than $11 million in federal money as of Tuesday, according to estimates from AdImpact, which tracks media spending.

Trump said Monday night he would stop using taxpayer funds to pay for the ads, instead tapping MAGA Inc, his super PAC, to cover the costs going forward. The president provided no details on whether taxpayers would be reimbursed for ads that already aired, nor how he would go about having his political organization pay for such future advertising.

The ads were slated to cost up to $20 million, with money coming from the Department of Homeland Security.

The White House has defended the ads as public service announcements.

Expert cast doubt on effectiveness of Trump’s order on diesel prices

AAA says the average price of diesel gas in the United States Tuesday is $6.32 a gallon. That’s below diesel’s all-time record of $6.53 in September, but still far above the $3.68 a gallon it was a year ago, before Trump launched his war on Iran.

Trump signed an executive order at his Nebraska rally Monday night that he claimed would bring down sky-high diesel prices by allowing anyone to purchase red-dyed diesel tax-free. Diesel fuel prices have spiked due to the war in Iran, but dyed diesel fuel is cheaper because it’s exempt from federal and state excise taxes. Trump called his order an “unprecedented step to bring down costs” amid escalating pressure to address surging prices ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

But Patrick De Haan of GasBuddy, which monitors national gasoline and diesel prices, noted ahead of Trump’s order that it won’t help farmers, who already use red-dyed diesel. “Taxes aren’t the problem, supply is,” De Haan wrote on X.

Trump draws cheers, then criticism for musing about Iran taking out US cities

During his rally Monday night in Nebraska, Trump was going through his usual insistence that gas prices are only temporarily high and worth it as part of his war on Iran.

Then he added a new wrinkle, floating the idea that Tehran could “take out” two major American cities.

“They could take out a city,” he said. "Let ‘em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego.”

He continued as the crowd laughed and cheered: “This is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who may run for president in 2028, answered on X, calling Trump “deranged and dangerous.”

Trump has a history of denigrating U.S. cities, especially the largest ones that lean heavily Democratic. Los Angeles was among the cities where Trump deployed federal military personnel for what he said was a crackdown on crime, despite local authorities not wanting the troops.

At a recent North Carolina campaign rally, Trump said the state’s cities are “blood-soaked killing fields.” North Carolina’s violent crime rate ranks in the middle third of states, according to FBI statistics.

Cold War memories stir Rubio in Iceland as he hails diplomacy for conflict resolution

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the role of diplomacy in resolving conflicts as he began a three-nation tour of NATO allies in Iceland, where concerns over the Trump administration’s often brusque approach to traditional friends and partners have stirred unease.

Rubio met Tuesday with Iceland’s minister for foreign affairs, Thorgerdur Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, at Reykjavik’s Hofdi House, the site of the 1986 summit between former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that is widely regarded as the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

“The house symbolizes diplomacy’s role in ending the Cold War and defeating communism,” Rubio posted on social media after the talks that took place just days before the 40th anniversary of the landmark Oct 11-12 meeting.

Despite an agreement signed last month between the U.S., Denmark and Greenland that eased fears of Trump taking over Greenland. Iceland has been uneasy about Trump’s intentions toward it after posting a map showing the colors of the U.S. flag sprawling across all of North America and including Iceland and Greenland.

Republicans return to tough-on-crime message ahead of difficult midterm elections

Political advertising warns about Democratic plots to defund the police. Campaign events feature law enforcement unions and tough talk about law and order. Stump speeches boast about record low levels of violent crime.

From coast to coast, Republicans are focusing on public disorder, illegal immigration and violent crime in midterm campaigns as voters sour on their party’s handling of the cost of living and the war with Iran.

The messaging reflects a belief that lawlessness is safer political ground in the midterms despite Donald Trump’s own criminal record for paying hush money to a porn star, making him the only president to be convicted of a felony. Democrats have tried to counter the attacks by recruiting candidates with law enforcement backgrounds and emphasizing their own anti-crime plans, but Republicans believe it’s a rare opportunity to go on the offensive in an otherwise challenging year.

Trump returned to the topic on Monday night in Nebraska, warning about how the country used to be before he returned to the White House.

“We had a border with people pouring in, crime like nobody’s ever seen,” he said.

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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan

Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

The U.S. military has not carried out the death penalty since 1961. The Army secretary will decide a time and place for the execution, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote in a post on X.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted “Allahu akbar” — Arabic for “God is great!” — and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 injured.

He said it was an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims and made almost no effort to defend himself at trial. He told jurors that evidence would show he was the shooter and described himself as a soldier who had “switched sides.”

Trump’s approval triggers a series of procedural steps toward carrying out the execution, but Hasan could put them on hold — potentially for years — with a habeas corpus appeal in the civilian federal court system, according to an article published in May in the magazine Army Lawyer.

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Trump criticizes election officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County over error affecting 3,000 ballots

Trump on Monday criticized election officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County after about 3,000 ballots were mistakenly mailed early to voters.

The miscue, blamed on a vendor error, would have no effect on the voters who received the ballots, the county recorder’s office said. Maricopa County has about 2.5 million registered voters.

The president, as he typically does ahead of an election, has been ramping up his rhetoric around voting as Election Day draws near in this year’s midterm elections, with control of Congress at stake.

His latest comments referred to a vendor error that came to light over the weekend. The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, which is run by Republican Recorder Justin Heap, said Sunday that Runbeck Election Services told the office that it “mistakenly mailed 3,126 early ballots the previous day,” six days before they were scheduled to be sent to voters for this year’s midterm elections.

The ballots were mailed to the correct voters, are still valid and can be completed and returned normally by those voters, the recorder’s office said in a statement.

Jeff Ellington, president and CEO of Runbeck Election Services, said Monday that Maricopa County was not at fault in the snafu.

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Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads that sparked backlash for glorifying him

President Donald Trump said Monday that he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements glorifying himself, which sparked a major backlash, and instead tap his super PAC to cover costs going forward.

In a post on his social media site, Trump defended the ads, which cost at least $1.5 million in federal funds and have drawn intense criticism. Trump said they were “positive promotion for our Great U.S.A.”

“This is a rather standard thing to do,” the president wrote, while blaming intense criticism for using taxpayer funds on the ads on the “Radical Left.” But the president added that he’d “decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc.”

That is Trump’s political war chest, which had amassed more than $400 million by the end of July. Trump has begun to tap it to boost Republican candidates around the country ahead of midterm elections.

Trump provided no details on reimbursing taxpayers for ads that already aired, nor how he would go about having his political organization pay for such future advertising.

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The merger brings two of America’s oldest moviemaking studios together under a new name: Skydance. The deal, which followed a tumultuous, roughly yearlong fight, further concentrates power in an industry already run by just a handful of major players.

HBO Max, titles ranging from “Harry Potter” to “Sinners” and networks such as CNN now find themselves under the same roof as Paramount+, CBS and the likes of “Top Gun” and “The Godfather.” All are under the helm of billionaire David Ellison and his new co-CEO Ynon Kreiz.

“Today is a historic day, not just for Skydance but for our entire industry,” Ellison said in a statement. “We couldn’t be more excited to get to work.”

Including billions of dollars in debt, the Warner acquisition amounts to nearly $111 billion.

Ellison’s Skydance bought Paramount for $8 billion last year before setting its sights on Warner. What followed was one of the biggest tie-ups ever in the media and entertainment industry.

Netflix gets into a bidding war with Paramount for Warner

The early days of Paramount's quest for Warner turned into a messy bidding war.

Months after disclosing it was open to selling all or part of its business, Warner initially struck a studio and streaming deal with Netflix in December.

But Paramount said it also had made offers that Warner management “never engaged meaningfully” with. It soon launched a hostile counterbid.

The Hollywood giants spent much of early 2026 in a heated back-and-forth over who had a stronger offer, with Warner leadership repeatedly backing Netflix as its preferred suitor. But Netflix bowed out after Paramount eventually upped its offer to buy all of Warner for $31 per share.

Warner and Paramount inked a mutual merger agreement in late February.

Hollywood stars made their thoughts known

Hollywood was closely watching the fight over Warner's future. From awards shows to online petitions, A-list celebrities and other creatives made their voices known.

In April, thousands of movie stars, writers, directors and other professionals announced their “unequivocal opposition” to the Paramount-Warner merger. An open letter — which was signed by long-outspoken critics of the deal like Jane Fonda and Mark Ruffalo, as well as Hollywood heavyweights from Denis Villeneuve to J.J. Abrams — warned of fewer jobs and “less choice for audiences in the United States and around the world.”

Others lined up to back Paramount as Ellison reiterated his commitments to the movies. At CinemaCon, the company debuted a glossy mini movie about the studio directed by Jon M. Chu and narrated by Tom Cruise — who ended the spot atop the iconic Paramount water tower, with the words “the future is paramount and the future looks pretty great from here.” Director James Cameron also doubled down on his support of Ellison.

The prospect of a new Warner owner also loomed over awards season, from #BlockTheMerger pins to more subtle nods in acceptance speeches. When accepting her Emmy last month, “Remarkably Bright Creatures” actor Sally Field — who also signed the open letter in opposition to the Paramount-Warner deal — stressed that “unique storytelling matters” and “we can’t let those voices be silenced, or compromised or merged.”

Many industry critics were also outspoken when Netflix's studio and streaming deal was on the table, with a particular focus on the future of movies staying in theaters.

Trump has attacked CNN

President Donald Trump has regularly attacked reporting he deems unfavorable at CNN (most recently attempting to bar the outlet from the White House altogether). Over the course of the Warner buyout, his administration chimed in about hopes for a new owner.

Days after Paramount launched its hostile bid for Warner last year, Trump said that CNN spread “poison and lies,” adding that “I think the people who have run CNN for the last long period of time are a disgrace” and “it’s imperative that CNN be sold.”

The White House took aim again at CNN in March, over the network's coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters that “the sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.”

Ellison has said editorial independence will be maintained at CNN. Skydance is retaining Mark Thompson as CNN’s editor-in-chief.

Under a settlement finalized last month with states that had sued over the takeover, the company agreed to form a “News Editorial Independence Board.”

Critics point to turmoil already seen at CBS under Skydance ownership and aren’t convinced this new body will move the needle much, because Ellison is set to have ample oversight over appointments.

Trump has continued to criticize CBS coverage under Skydance ownership. Still, the president has held a long relationship with the Ellison family.

Paramount's chief reportedly hosted a dinner in Washington in Trump’s honor in April, on the same day Warner shareholders gave their green light for the merger. In June, just two days after the Justice Department said it wouldn't intervene in the deal, Ellison attended an Ultimate Fighting Championship match on the White House lawn for Trump’s 80th birthday (streamed by Paramount+).

3 Gulf countries helped back the deal

To help fund its Warner buyout, Paramount racked up billions of dollars in financial backing from three Gulf countries: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The Federal Communications Commission approved the company’s request for sizable indirect ownership from those foreign investors.

Paramount previously disclosed it expected those funds to indirectly own nearly 50% of equity interests — but no voting rights — of Skydance. But the company asked for clearance of up to 100% to account for potential future investments, which the FCC granted, citing in part that access to more capital would strengthen the broadcast industry and was therefore “in the public interest.”

The FCC’s sole Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez, and other critics have called the move alarming and unprecedented. They argue that amount of money opens the door to behind-the-scenes influence.

Legal fights stalled the deal

Paramount cleared antitrust hurdles for its Warner acquisition from the Justice Department and regulators worldwide over the summer.

But in July, Democratic attorneys general from 12 states — led by California's Rob Bonta — sued to block the merger, alleging the combined company would “extinguish competition” and lead to fewer choices for consumers, particularly movie theatergoers and cable customers across the U.S.

The Writers Guild of America followed suit.

Settlements emerged in September. The states' terms, eventually approved by a judge, include pledges from the company to increase film production in the U.S. over the next five years, commit millions of dollars to a fund aimed at supporting workers displaced by the merger and again establish new editorial monitoring of CNN and CBS.

Critics said the remedies were too weak, but the settlements cleared the way for the deal to close.

On Tuesday, Winfrey announced that she had chosen Amanda Rizkalla's “Hungered,” which came out in May. Winfrey said in a statement that the 28-year-old Rizkalla had written a “riveting novel” about “families who live outside the margins, living unhoused” and “their hopes, dreams, and the perseverance it takes to face another day.”

Rizkalla, a Los Angeles native who now lives in the Bay Area, was an undergraduate student at Stanford University and received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Like so many authors since Winfrey launched her club 30 years ago, she learned she had been selected after receiving a surprise call from Winfrey herself.

“I was so stunned I could hardly believe it was real, and there are still moments where it all feels like one big daydream,” Rizkalla said in a statement.

The Oprah Podcast conversation with Rizkalla can be seen on Winfrey's YouTube channel and through other outlets.

The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, which has been used by American planes to strike Iran during this year's war.

Police have released few details of their investigation into an incident that sparked speculation and concern — and was followed days later by the removal of U.S. bombers from the base.

Five British men in their 20s were detained near the perimeter of the base in the early hours of Sept. 27, and a 25-year-old British-Iranian man was arrested in London on Thursday. All six have been released on bail under investigation.

Counter Terrorism Policing said a British national was detained Tuesday in the Westminster area of central London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.

Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said detectives “remain committed to investigating all possible angles.”

“We’re acutely aware of the public interest in this investigation, and we are working around the clock, and at pace, to identify the motivation behind events in Gloucestershire," she said.

Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swooped on the rural area late at night. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans linked to the five suspects, but no explosives.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the United Kingdom saw “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident, without saying why or what the nature of the suspected plot was.

Iran has denied involvement, but it has previously said it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target.

The U.K.-owned base has been used by American B-1 and B-52 bombers during the ongoing Iran war. The British government allowed the U.S. military to use RAF Fairford for what it called defensive strikes on Iranian missiles and their launch sites following Iranian attacks on U.K. interests and Britain’s allies in the Gulf.

The United States moved its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford on Sunday, and the Pentagon said all American bombers at the facility had been redeployed to their home bases in the U.S.

It's unclear whether the move is connected to the arrests. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that he didn’t want to tempt “the enemy” by having the bombers there.

“We had a threat, and if we’re going to be threatened, we would just move them, and that sort of alleviates that,” he said in Washington. He said that the people who made the threat “would be linked to Iran,” but he didn’t offer details.

British officials have declined to comment on reports that the bombers were moved because of fears of a drone attack on the base.

The prime minister's spokesman, Tom Wells, said Monday he was "not going to comment on foreign nations’ military operations.” But he insisted that RAF Fairford is safe.

The mysterious incident near the base came at a time of heightened tensions around the threat from hostile states, with British security services saying Russia and Iran have both used proxies to commit crimes on U.K. soil. British officials have said the number of national security cases involving activity by hostile states, including Iran, increased by 50% in the six months to December 2025.

U.K. officials also say proxies linked to Iran have been behind a string of arsons and other attacks in the U.K. and other countries, many of them targeting the Jewish community and intended to sow fear. They have previously warned that Tehran could expand its targets in the U.K. if conflicts in the Middle East continue.

The U.N. health agency said Tuesday that it has been in contact with Russian authorities following reports of the death last week of a woman who worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East.

The case and the investigation, led by Russian officials, have revived memories of the COVID-19 pandemic and allegations the coronavirus may have emerged at a Chinese lab. WHO has not provided a definitive answer to how the pandemic began.

“There is currently no indication that we are dealing with anything similar to the pandemic," WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told The Associated Press, referring to the woman's illness.

Here's what to know about the case and how experts are mobilizing after her death:

Pneumonic plague is a form of the disease that affects the lungs

The incubation period for pneumonic plague — which means lung-based, and is the most virulent form of the disease — can be as short as 24 hours, according to WHO. It’s a less common but severe form that can spread between people through respiratory particles.

If untreated, the illness can be fatal, but recovery rates are high if detected and treated in time, WHO says.

Symptoms include shortness of breath and coughing, often involving the coughing up of blood.

The more common form of plague — bubonic plague — is caused by the bite of an infected flea, and can develop into open sores filled with pus.

Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that is mostly caused by viruses or bacteria, and is spread generally through contact with infected people or from airborne droplets. WHO says pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death in children worldwide.

What Russian officials are saying about the case

Through an international health alert system, Russian health officials on Tuesday said a full range of preventive measures had been carried out — including tracing of the deceased woman's contacts, medical monitoring and lab tests.

“Test results showed no presence of dangerous infectious disease pathogens in any of the contacts,” said the note from Russian authorities, which was relayed to The Associated Press by WHO.

"Based on available data, laboratory test results, and health status, medical monitoring for 100% of the contacts has now been concluded," it said. “The epidemiological situation is stable and remains under monitoring.”

The woman died at a hospital in Shelekhov, a town just outside the city of Irkutsk, and its mayor said the hospital was placed under quarantine. The top officials from Russia’s national public health watchdog traveled to the region Friday.

On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov advised the public to follow official statements from the watchdog agency, Rospotrebnadzor, rather than “rumors or speculation.”

WHO has mobilized its own experts to look into the case

Lindmeier, the WHO spokesman, told a U.N. briefing Tuesday that the institute where the woman worked “studies dangerous pathogens,” including plague in a part of Siberia where the disease "occurs naturally in wild animals.”

He said Russian officials have not yet asked for WHO experts to deploy to Russia, where authorities are "looking into whether pneumonic plague caused her death.”

Russian authorities later told WHO that no case of plague has been recorded in Irkutsk, Lindmeier said.

“According to the authorities, the woman’s illness initially presented as a typical acute respiratory viral infection," he said. “No case of plague or other high threat pathogen has been found."

Trump and Rubio comment on the case

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he was watching the situation with concern and that the United States would be willing to help, though he said he had not spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the case.

Asked about Trump’s remarks, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said Tuesday that “it is always very good when mutual assistance is offered.” He wouldn’t elaborate further, deferring to Rospotrebnadzor.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Russian authorities to share more information.

“Maybe there’s nothing there. Maybe it’s bigger than we thought. We don’t know,” he said at a news conference in Iceland.

“We encourage Russia to be more transparent and share more information with the world,” Rubio said, adding this has so far been “quite limited, but hopefully that will change in the next few hours and days.”

Ian Jones, professor of virology at the University of Reading, said that “plague carries a huge history and is still present in many parts of the world, including Russia,” although because of modern living conditions and antibiotics, its potential was limited.

Dr. Glenn Wortmann, at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, said the bacteria that cause plague don't “travel very far” and a person would “really need to be face-to-face” with an infected person to get pneumonic plague.

“The chance of this spreading widely in Russia and then extending here to the U.S. will not happen, not with this type of bacteria, because it’s not spread easily and we have antibiotics to stop it from spreading,” he added.

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Associated Press writers Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia, and Matthew Lee in Reykjavik, Iceland, contributed to this report.

The government is moving to vacate a preliminary injunction put in place by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis preventing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from detaining and deporting Ábrego Garcia to the West African country of Liberia. His legal team is seeking to make the injunction permanent. The judge left previous orders in place last December and ordered him released from custody.

Abrego Garcia was in the courtroom Tuesday but Judge Xinis never took the bench. Instead attorneys for both sides left the courtroom about five minutes before the hearing was supposed to begin. They held a 15-minute conference and then the hearing was canceled. No announcement was made in court as to why the hearing was canceled.

The Salvadoran national’s case became a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to an African country as proposed by Department of Homeland Security officials.

Ábrego Garcia argued that if he were to be deported, it should be to Costa Rica, which had previously agreed to accept him. But Todd Lyons, the former acting director of ICE, said in a March 2026 memo that deporting Ábrego Garcia to Costa Rica would be “prejudicial to the United States," because the U.S. had expended resources and political capital negotiating with Liberia to accept third-country nationals.

The push for deportation to Liberia continued even after the U.S. signed an agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries.

“The government is leading the same rodeo as many times before. Sending Kilmar to Costa Rica is on the table. However, the government continues to punish him for pursuing his constitutional rights and seeks to ship him to Liberia," said Jossie Flor Sapunar, the national communications director for We Are CASA, an activist group that has supported Ábrego Garcia and his family and intends to be at the courthouse. “Kilmar has become an international symbol of due process, a symbol which the Trump administration wants to silence.”

Supporters of Abrego Garcia gathered outside the courthouse in the Washington, D.C., suburbs Tuesday, some wearing green vests that said “CASA."

Nadine Seiler, 61, held a banner supporting Ábrego Garcia while a choir sang “We Shall Not be Moved.” Seiler said she immigrated from Trinidad nearly 39 years ago.

“I’m an immigrant. I have come to represent for my immigrant community," said Seiler. She said Abrego Garcia said months ago that he was willing to leave the country, but the government hasn't agreed. “It’s not about policy. It’s about cruelty.”

She added in an email that the family deserves privacy, either at home in Maryland or in Costa Rica.

Ábrego Garcia, 31, has an American wife and child and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager. In 2019, an immigration judge ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador because he faced danger there from a gang that had threatened his family.

He was arrested in Baltimore in March 2025 after picking up his then-5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother’s house, according to court papers.

Ábrego Garcia was then sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT, which activists say is rife with abuses and where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside. ICE officials admitted in court filings that his deportation there was an “administrative error.”

Facing public pressure and a court order, President Donald Trump's Republican administration brought him back in June 2025, but only after securing an indictment charging him with human smuggling in Tennessee. A federal judge dismissed that case in May 2026, finding that the Justice Department’s pursuit of criminal charges was designed to punish Ábrego Garcia for challenging his deportation. The government is appealing.

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Santana reported from Washington.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Miami, los agentes llegaron alrededor de las 4 a.m. a la zona de la avenida 7 y la calle 7 del noroeste. Habían recibido reportes de un hombre tendido en la calle.

Cuando llegaron, los paramédicos de Miami Fire Rescue ya llevaban a la víctima a un hospital, donde ingresó en estado crítico, confirmaron las autoridades. El hombre murió más tarde a causa de sus heridas.

Según la policía, una investigación preliminar determinó que el hombre iba en scooter cuando lo impactó un vehículo. El conductor huyó del lugar.

La policía no ha divulgado más información sobre el vehículo ni sobre el conductor.

La investigación continúa.

Cualquier persona con información puede comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Miami o con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

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Video shows a dark-colored SUV that crashed into the valet ramp at Oceanside Plaza Condominium.

The building is located at 5555 Collins Ave. on Mid-Beach.

Following the crash, the SUV could be seen wedged in the concrete of the ramp and hanging off the side.

According to authorities, a senior couple was inside the SUV at the time of the crash, but no major injuries were reported.

Police said one of them “mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake, causing the vehicle to strike a structural column of the condominium building.”

Both “sustained minor injuries and were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center as a precaution due to their age,” police said.

Dubbed “Operation Pink Panther,” police said the investigation resulted in the seizure of more than 70 pounds of illegal drugs and nearly $50,000 in suspected drug proceeds.

Police said the case began as a narcotics investigation in 2025 when detectives “infiltrated a private WhatsApp group used to advertise and sell wholesale quantities of narcotics.”

Determining there was a larger distribution network operating throughout the county, detectives said they found another WhatsApp group which featured a Pink Panther logo in April. That group chat, investigators said, “was being used to arrange narcotics transactions.”

Police said four people were arrested in the operation, and they were identified as Jhon Ramirez, 39, Santiago Lujan, 25, Cesar Suppa, 30, and Matias Serrano, 29.

Body camera footage showing how the suspects were apprehended was among the information released by authorities on Monday.

“‘Operation Pink Panther’ involves multiple subjects with one ringleader, and not only targeted nightclubs in the EDM space within Miami Beach, but they also targeted visitors, residents, and others who would purchase from them,” said Miami Beach Police Public Information Officer Christopher Bess.

The drugs seized included cocaine, mushrooms, ketamine, LSD, and meth, police said.

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According to the Florida Department of Health in Broward County, the case of dengue was locally-acquired.

The DOH in Broward County, along with Broward County Mosquito Control, said Monday that they, “are coordinating surveillance, prevention, and control efforts.”

Broward County officials said they have sprayed the area where the case was located, but they wouldn’t disclose a location.

“Dengue can present as a flu-like illness with severe muscle aches and joint pain, fever, and sometimes a rash,” the FDOH stated in a news release. “Usually, there are no respiratory symptoms. Symptoms of dengue will appear within 14 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. Dengue fever is not contagious but is transmitted by the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito.”

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Late Friday night, Shaquille Palmer turned himself in at the Miramar Police Department.

Body camera footage of his arrest was obtained by Local 10 News, which shows him being escorted out of the lobby in handcuffs and walked outside.

Palmer, 33, of Oakland Park, is accused of stealing more than $250,000 in pricey handbags from the woman he worked for, social media influencer Stormy Wellington.

Initially, authorities arrested the wrong person in the case.

When the mugshot of the alleged suspect was released, Wellington told Local 10 News that wasn’t the person who stole from her.

“That’s not the gentleman,” she said. “They arrested the wrong guy.”

That person was released, leading to a manhunt on Friday that ended later that evening when Palmer walked into the Miramar police headquarters.

He explained his side to investigators, but that body camera footage has not been released.

Palmer appeared in court over the weekend and was granted a $150,000 bond. As of Monday afternoon, he remained behind bars at the Broward Main Jail.

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The “Cornell 7″ are a group of Chi Phi fraternity members at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who are accused of drugging and gang-raping a female student in 2024.

One of them, according to Local 10 News sources, attended prep school at NSU University School before going to Cornell and then coming to NSU.

In a letter to NSU students, faculty and staff, President and CEO Harry Moon confirmed the allegations “may involve a student who later transferred to NSU.”

“At the time of admission, the university was not aware of allegations subsequently reported in media,” Moon said in a statement Monday. “Once we learned of the reported incident, we acted immediately on behalf of the safety and well-being of our students and the NSU community. Because this matter involves federal law regarding an individual student, the university is legally restricted by federal regulations that limit what the university can share.”

Moon did not name the student involved, but added in his statement that the university is monitoring the situation and will stay vigilant while making it clear that he is not aware of any current threat to the university’s community.

Some students on campus Monday told Local 10 News they were frustrated that the president didn’t confirm whether the student was expelled or suspended.

They said they want to know for sure that he’s gone.

“Obviously, it doesn’t say if he’s been removed or if he’s still here or any of that,” said NSU student Mars Rivera.

In the Cornell case, the woman known as Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit against the men, her sorority and Cornell University last month, among others, sparking a nationwide conversation about sexual assault, campus safety and institutional accountability.

The number of petitions asking the justices to intervene quickly has skyrocketed during President Donald Trump's second administration, putting the court at the center of hotly debated issues such as the Republican president's new ballroom construction and his proposed restrictions on mail ballots in the midterm elections.

The number of emergency applications now rivals the annual tally of cases the justices consider with full briefing and oral arguments, Alito wrote in a new book released Tuesday.

The justice told The Associated Press in a rare interview that the rhetoric about the court from Trump and his administration doesn't sit well with him.

“I personally am not pleased with that," he said. “Everybody in this country has the right to criticize what we do. The substance of their criticism can be quite harsh. If we deserve it, then that’s fine. But rhetoric is a different story."

Alito spoke in connection with his first book, “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of The Constitution, The Court and Our Country.”

Coming 20 years after he was confirmed to the court after his nomination by President George W. Bush, a Republican, the book is a collection of speeches the 76-year-old has given over the years on religious liberty, his judicial philosophy and constitutional rights.

Alito calls it ‘offensive’ to cast his opinions as MAGA

Alito is perhaps best known for writing the decision that reversed Roe v. Wade and ended abortion as a nationwide right, and he has been one of the most consistent members of the court’s conservative bloc. He’s also voted in favor of some of Trump’s signature policies, even those the rest of the conservative wing has struck down. But he rejects the idea that his decisions are in the “Make America Great Again” camp.

“It’s offensive," he said. “I honestly try to decide every single case on the merits, every single application on the merit. And that’s true whether the president is Donald Trump or Joe Biden or Barack Obama or anybody else.”

Trump, for his part, has cheered Alito as “one of the Greatest of All Time” even as he maligned justices whom he appointed as “unpatriotic” and “merely a shell of their original selves." Alito said the harsh rhetoric from across the spectrum doesn’t affect how the justices rule but does play a role in the public’s declining trust in the court.

“The terms used by presidents and by members of their administration, Cabinet officers, other high-ranking officers in describing the Supreme Court and their decisions, and sometimes individual justices, is far different from what we saw 15 years ago," Alito said.

Much of the president’s frustration has come after the court ruled against him on some of his central initiatives, including tariffs and birthright citizenship. Those decisions have been handed down after months of consideration, including oral arguments.

Surge in court's emergency decisions is likely ‘going to continue’

In emergency decisions, by contrast, the president has a much stronger track record of wins.

Typically made in days or weeks, emergency orders are designed to be temporary, lasting only as cases continue to play out in lower courts. But since that process can take years, those decisions can still have important real-world consequences.

Critics, including Alito's liberal-leaning colleague Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, have complained about the court's recent handling of the emergency docket and outlined proposed steps the justices could take.

Alito, though, said there's little the court can do to stem the tide. Presidents have increasingly used executive orders to enact their policies rather than passing laws through Congress, leading to lawsuits and “robust” decisions from lower-court judges that send a case quickly to the Supreme Court, he said.

“Unless something changes there, and I don’t foresee it right now, I’m afraid this is going to continue,” he said. “An application is something that I think we have to rule on."

Alito says recusal from climate change case wasn't required but a ‘judgment call’

Alito also detailed his decision to step away from hearing a climate change case that opened the term. Dozens of similar lawsuits have been filed on whether cities can sue oil and gas companies over damage linked to global warming. Billions of dollars could be at stake, a potentially serious threat to the industry, according to court documents.

Alito had faced calls to recuse himself because he owns stock in oil companies. He told the AP that the stock came from an inheritance his wife received from her father that she doesn’t want to sell.

He initially stayed on the case because he doesn't have stock in the companies involved, he said, adding that the court’s legal office agreed that he could hear the case under its ethics code.

But as he delved deeper into the substance of the case, he decided to step aside.

“This particular decision was a judgment call,” he said. “I gave it very, very serious consideration.”

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Unconfirmed media reports said a major fuel depot in the Moscow region was on fire after the attack that killed two people.

Ukraine’s domestically developed long-range drones and, increasingly, missiles have allowed Kyiv to hit Russian soil during the more than 4 ½ years since Moscow’s forces launched a full-scale invasion. It has hit targets as far east as the Urals and Siberia.

The bigger Russian military’s air superiority during the war has made aerial attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine routine.

Ukrainian officials are now bracing for what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Tuesday is an upcoming “massive” aerial attack by Russia.

“Today, we received updated intelligence on Russia’s preparations for a massive strike. We are preparing countermeasures,” Zelenskyy said on social media. “We set deadlines for a significant part of the tasks, and the highest-priority ones are already being implemented.”

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said last week that Kyiv estimates Russia is holding 600 ballistic missiles in reserve and can produce up to 140 ballistic missiles per month. Without ammunition for its U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems, which is in short supply, Ukraine is at the mercy of Russia's ballistic weapons.

Ukraine fires more than 700 drones toward the Moscow region

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 650 drones flew toward the capital region between Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Most were destroyed far away, and 105 were downed as they approached the city, he said.

Sobyanin later reported 68 more drones targeting Moscow were downed during daylight on Tuesday morning.

Ukraine has regularly targeted Russian oil refineries and storage depots, claiming last weekend that it had disabled 51% of Russia’s oil refining capacity. The claim could not be independently verified. Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that the attacks had cost Russia roughly 1% of its gross domestic product.

Russia has traditionally been the world’s third-largest producer of refined fuel products from crude oil, after the U.S. and China. The Kremlin has banned diesel exports due to the Ukrainian strikes, pushing global prices higher. That prompted U.S. President Donald Trump last month to urge Ukraine to stop hitting Russia’s refineries.

After hitting Kyiv bridges, Russia targets a bridge in southern Ukraine

After several days of targeting bridges in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as part of a campaign to make civilian life difficult, Russia attacked one of the bridges over the Dnipro River in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, according to Mykhailo Semikin, the regional military administration chief.

Traffic across the bridge was temporarily suspended, he said.

A nighttime Russian attack on a Zaporizhzhia residential building wounded five people and a daylight strike on a warehouse in the city caused a large fire, Semikin said.

Russian forces are also trying to choke shipping in Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea, denying Kyiv vital grain export revenue.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces overnight struck targets in Ukraine's southern Odesa region on the Black Sea coast with drones. An ammunition depot was hit, as were a bulk carrier in the Chornomorsk port carrying dual-use goods and port infrastructure in Izmail, the ministry said.

A Russian drone strike in the Black Sea hit a cargo ship flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, killing one person and wounding seven others, Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper said. The vessel was carrying rapeseed oil, he said.

Moscow warns against a bigger US presence in Lithuania

A senior Russian official criticized developments in Lithuania, saying they would escalate tensions in the region. The Baltic nation has offered to host a U.S. military base and the Lithuanian parliament is voting on a bill to allow the deployment of American nuclear weapons.

“If military infrastructure belonging to a key NATO member moves closer to our borders, then naturally, this can only be perceived as a step toward escalating tensions, just like the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of a neighboring state,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Trump said Monday he would consider establishing a permanent U.S. military base in Lithuania, one of three small Baltic states seen as particularly vulnerable to Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned last month that Moscow is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on European countries supporting Ukraine, which include Poland and Lithuania.

Meanwhile, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Tuesday his country will deploy Patriot air-defense systems and about 100 troops to Poland to help protect the airport in Rzeszow, which is the main logistics hub for military aid deliveries to Ukraine.

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AP reporter Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw, Poland contributed to this story.

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The friendly against Benin in Buenos Aires has been dubbed “The Night That No One Wants to End” as Messi plays for his country one last time.

The 39-year-old soccer icon announced his international retirement in the weeks following the World Cup final loss to Spain, saying, “The time has come.”

The Argentine Football Association tempted him to make one last appearance for “the farewell he deserves” and thousands of fans are expected to show their appreciation at Estadio Monumental.

AFA said the match will “transcend sports” and be “full of emotion.”

Messi posted on social media pictures of him arriving to join the national team for the last time and his final training sessions.

“Special moments I know I will miss,” he wrote.

Messi just fell short of winning back-to-back World Cups when defending champion Argentina was beaten by Spain 1-0 in the final in July in New Jersey.

He achieved his ultimate ambition of leading his country to victory four years earlier in Qatar — emulating fellow Argentine great Diego Maradona.

Messi has played 207 games for Argentina and finishes as its all-time leading scorer with 125 goals, 21 of them in World Cups. He appeared in a record-tying six World Cups along with his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo.

He briefly retired from Argentina duty in 2016 then enjoyed his most successful period with the national team, winning Copa Américas in 2021 and ’24, as well as the '22 World Cup.

He's continuing at club level with Inter Miami, and recently won the Campeones Cup, his fourth trophy with the team.

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They are now in a formal contest with five other bidders, including one that would take the Summer Games for the first time to Africa. The International Olympic Committee set an Oct. 31 deadline for late arrivals to the contest.

India and Qatar have long been seen as favored candidates in a hosting contest the IOC aims to decide in 2029 by a contested vote of its 100-plus members. Those members include Nita Ambani from India's richest family, and the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

South Africa, South Korea, Germany, Hungary and Turkey also are bidders in an open-ended process with the IOC that also lets them target future Summer Games in 2040 and 2044.

“But wherever the Games take place, one thing must never change: Athletes have to be at the heart of everything we do,” said IOC President Kirsty Coventry, a two-time swimming gold medalist.

The IOC also published a 30-page document on Tuesday to guide bidders over the next 2 1/2 years when key decisions will be taken by the Coventry-chaired IOC executive board. Its 15 members include NBA great Pau Gasol representing athletes.

Main cities of the seven bids

India’s bid plan centers on the city of Ahmedabad, which will host the multi-sport Commonwealth Games in 2030, and has the world’s largest cricket stadium which is named for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Qatar has hosted world championships in most top-tier Olympic sports, including soccer’s 2022 World Cup. Its bid could yet expand from Doha to send some events to Gulf neighbors.

A Qatar-hosted Olympics should require the Summer Games to move to later in the year from the July-August slot it has occupied at each edition from 2004 in Athens through 2032 in Brisbane.

A South Korean bid would be anchored in Seoul, which hosted the 1988 Summer Games, and spread across the country.

German Olympic officials last month picked Munich, which previously hosted in 1972.

South Africa’s bid shapes to be national and centered on Cape Town, and would be a first African host of the Summer Games since the modern Olympics was created in 1896.

Hungary and Turkey propose Budapest and Istanbul, respectively.

The key date is in March, the IOC said, when the board will approve a shortlist of candidates to develop detailed projects.

Campaign of 2 1/2 years to pick 2036 host

The 2029 target date for a contested vote is a return to the IOC’s previous long-time schedule and process to pick Summer Games hosts.

It is also later than seemed likely last year when Coventry was elected, and both India and Qatar seemed poised to push for a quick decision. They and other national Olympic officials promoted their bid plans in Paris during the 2024 Olympics.

Coventry’s first big decision on taking office in June 2025 was to pause the fast-track process, and more secretive one, which allowed Brisbane to be picked as the 2032 host fully 11 years in advance and without a contested vote.

IOC members want choice of candidates

IOC members stressed to Coventry they wanted to be more involved in the choice than was the case under her predecessor Thomas Bach, and to get a choice of multiple candidates on the ballot instead of simply confirming the board's preferred choice.

The invited group in the exclusive IOC membership club includes sports officials, current and retired athletes, members of royal families, politicians including former heads of states, business leaders and Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh.

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Police identified 39-year-old Luu Thanh Binh as the alleged leader of the network. He and 11 others were being investigated for theft, state media said Monday.

Investigators said Binh bought stolen cats, kept them at a facility in the city’s north and resold them for meat. He worked with suppliers who recruited others to ride motorcycles through residential neighborhoods between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m., hunting for cats and trapping four to 10 cats each night.

Eating dog and cat meat is not unique to Vietnam and has been practiced in parts of Asia, though it is not common practice. In Vietnam, cat meat traditionally is more commonly consumed in the north, among older generations.

The practice has declined with growing pet ownership and urbanization, and younger Vietnamese are more likely to regard dogs and cats as companion animals.

In 2024, more than 250,000 people signed a petition calling for an end to Vietnam’s dog and cat meat trade. The city of Hoi An also pledged in 2021 to end the sale and consumption of dog and cat meat.

Some believe eating cat meat brings good luck, though there is no scientific evidence for such claims.

Police raided the network on July 8 and found about 50 cats and dozens of traps, state media reported.

The suspects told investigators they had stolen and sold about 2,700 cats, the reports said. Police did not say how long the operation had been running.

Police returned 13 of the cats confiscated in the raid to their owners. A nonprofit animal rights group was caring for the others while authorities sought to identify their owners.

Under Vietnamese law, dogs and cats are considered private property, and stealing them is considered theft. Criminal prosecution generally applies when the value of the stolen property exceeds 2 million dong ($77).

In a separate raid in June, police reported they had rescued more than 400 cats. At least 40 were reunited with their owners, but dozens of dead cats were found packed in ice.

Israelis are readying to mark the third anniversary of the Palestinian militant Hamas group’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack as conflict in the Middle East has spread to include Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Full coverage is available here.

Saudis say 2 airports were hit

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said airports in the cities of Najran and Jizan were hit on Monday, damaging both facilities and leaving three lightly injured. The statement didn't say who was responsible, but followed an announcement by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels that they fired missiles and drones at the kingdom.

Houthi Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a statement on they had fired toward a third airport on Tuesday. The Associated Press could not confirm whether the Houthis had hit Abha International Airport. Saudi authorities did not immediately comment.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Tuesday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis toward Khamis Mushait, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia that’s home to a major Saudi military base.

Fighting in Yemen grinds on

The Houthis were fighting Tuesday around Dhubab, a strategic town in Yemen that its internationally recognized government had previously said it had retaken, a senior Yemeni military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen’s government have launched a military campaign to reclaim Houthi-controlled territory near the southern tip of the Red Sea to prevent disruptions to oil being exported out of the region.

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Tanker hit in Strait of Hormuz

An outbound tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an “unknown projectile” on Monday, the British military said in a late report Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or environmental impact.

Even as Iran has lost its near-complete chokehold on the strait, the ongoing risk of Iranian attacks keeps overall ship traffic well below prewar levels.

2 killed in Israeli strike in Gaza

Two Israeli airstrikes killed two people in Gaza City, health officials at the city’s Shifa Hospital said. Israel's military said it targeted militants in both strikes.

It was the latest deadly attack since a ceasefire nearly a year ago in the Israel-Hamas war triggered by the 2023 attack, when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people, most civilians, in southern Israel and abducted 251 others. More than 1,460 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records and is seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its toll but says women and children make up around half the dead.

Netanyahu warns of potential attack related to Israel's upcoming vote

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that Hamas could attack Israel in a bid to influence the outcome of the country's elections later this month. Netanyahu, who is locked in a tough battle for re-election, did not publicly provide evidence for the claim.

In recent days, Netanyahu's political opponents have pointed to the thwarted FlyDubai cockpit attack as the latest example of his government's failure to manage security threats.

AFP photojournalist says Israeli settlers beat him in olive harvest season attack

Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a veteran Palestinian photojournalist for Agence France-Presse, said he was filming the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Aqraba when he heard shooting by Israeli settlers. He said they later encircled him, took his camera as he was filming the attack and beat him, causing injuries that required hospitalization.

The Foreign Press Association, which represents international media in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, urged Israel to “investigate why soldiers present in the area did not intervene in this attack against clearly identified journalists.”

The Palestinian Authority said settlers in the area also shot one man in the leg and severely beat two others in the town south of Nablus. Israel’s military did not provide immediate comment.

Israel demolishes Palestinian apartments in east Jerusalem

Israeli authorities tore down a five-story building in east Jerusalem on Tuesday.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attended the demolition and said that Israeli authorities had demolished more than 10,000 structures built without permits over the past year and a half.

Palestinians say procuring construction permits is nearly impossible for them in east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in the 1967 Mideast war and is home to almost 400,000 Palestinians.

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Sinner has not played since July when he beat Alexander Zverev in the Wimbledon final. He withdrew from the U.S. Open because of a right knee injury.

“Me, together with the doctors, have decided that I need a course of treatment for my knee, which means that the 2026 season is officially over,” Sinner said on Tuesday in a video message on Instagram. “I also need to think about my long-term career so I will do everything possible to get back 100%.”

Sinner risks losing the No. 1 ranking while he’s out.

Sinner had already announced he would miss the upcoming Shanghai Masters. Now he’ll also miss the Paris Masters and the ATP Finals in November. Plus, he won’t be able to play for host and three-time defending champion Italy in the Davis Cup Final 8.

But if Sinner does return at the start of next year he could play the Australian Open — the next Grand Slam — which starts Jan. 17.

“On the advice of his medical team, Jannik Sinner will follow a course of treatment for inflammation in his knee,” a statement from Sinner’s management team said. “The decision has been made to have the treatment now to give Jannik the necessary time to recover before beginning preparations for 2027."

The 25-year-old Sinner has won five Grand Slam titles. He also had a 30-match winning streak this year before his meltdown in a second-round defeat at the French Open amid a Paris heat wave.

Carlos Alcaraz, Sinner's main rival, missed 4 ½ months this year due to a right wrist injury.

Meanwhile, Alexander Zverev won two of the four Grand Slam titles and is nearing the No. 1 ranking.

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The man had been residing in Congo for the past seven years and fell ill about a month ago. He was treated at various hospitals before traveling by road to Kampala, Uganda, where he boarded a flight to the Kenyan capital, arriving on Saturday afternoon, Health Minister Aden Duale said.

Health authorities in Kenya have placed the country’s border points on high alert and are monitoring for possible additional cases.

Duale said that the man had been isolated and treated at Nairobi Hospital, where he tested positive for the Ebola virus and died late Monday.

Ebola is highly contagious and spreads in the human population through contact with bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen, and with contaminated surfaces and materials such as bedding and clothing.

The current outbreak was declared in mid-May, months after it had been spreading in a remote part of eastern Congo. At least 8,400 cases have been recorded, including more than 4,000 deaths, according to government data, making it the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in history.

Kenya has never had an outbreak of Ebola, according to the Kenya Medical Research Institute.

The country hosts a United States-funded isolation center for American citizens exposed to Ebola to quarantine for 21 days before traveling back to the U.S. The isolation facility faced legal battles and deadly protests by locals who feared it was exposing them to the virus.

Dozens of contacts have either been identified or are being traced

Kenya is the fourth country to record an Ebola case in the current outbreak, which was declared in eastern Congo in mid-May. Uganda has recorded 20 cases and France one. Before Kenya reported its case, there had been no active cases outside Congo since Uganda declared its outbreak over in late August.

Duale said that 28 contacts of the man who had returned on Saturday, including family members and health workers who cared for the patient, had been identified. Another 23 passengers on the flight and four crew members, who traveled on the same plane from Uganda, were being traced.

The contacts will remain in isolation for 21 days and will be released after testing negative for the virus, said the ministry’s director-general, Dr. Patrick Amoth.

After the man arrived in Nairobi, his relatives later took him in a private vehicle to Nairobi Hospital, where he was immediately isolated. He will be buried within 24 hours in accordance with recommended public safety protocols.

The minister said that Kenya had tested 267 samples at five laboratories across the country since May before this first case was detected.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday commended the “rapid identification, isolation and testing of the patient” and said a high-level team had been dispatched to Kenya to offer support.

Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading quickly in difficult conditions

In Congo, where the outbreak has spread to seven provinces, conditions are difficult. Responders have faced attacks on health teams, misinformation about the virus, a failure by locals to report symptoms and rebel violence that has limited access to treatment centers.

While cases have slowed in Ituri province, the epicenter, the outbreak is spreading in emerging hot spots in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.

“It is like fighting a megafire. Multiple outbreaks are developing at the same time, with varying intensity and in different locations,” Stéphanie Hoffmann with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said in a statement.

The World Health Organization has warned that it could surpass the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which erupted more than a decade ago and killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa.

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As pupils blockaded high schools, large crowds waving flags and placards gathered in Marseille, Strasbourg and other cities. The demonstrations showed how protests that began at a high school in the Paris region in mid-September have grown into a nationwide movement — the latest of many that have marked Macron’s nearly decade-long tenure.

“We need to listen to them,” said Léa Monimart, an adult demonstrator in the northern city of Lille. “They are 17 years old; they are not completely clueless, and they know what they are talking about. It’s important to show that there are adults who support them.”

The Interior Ministry estimated that 266,000 people took part in demonstrations across the country on Tuesday, including 56,000 in Paris, where small groups of protesters clashed with riot officers at a city square at the end of a largely peaceful march.

Nearly 500 people were detained Tuesday, the ministry said. The widespread use of arrests, tear gas and riot-control weapons against teenagers is fueling defiance and angering some parents and teachers. Some student groups called for new protests Thursday.

Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the police response had been proportionate in “almost all cases” and that the protests had at times turned into riots, requiring police intervention.

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the government and school leaders must listen to students’ concerns and find solutions.

Questioned in parliament on Tuesday about the protest movement, Lecornu denounced “ultra violence” threatening schools. Responding to criticism of police tactics, he pledged that any “accidents” would be investigated and described allegations that the police are racist as a “lie.”

Class boycotts with police making thousands of arrests

More than two weeks of class boycotts and school blockades, and policing that has led to more than 6,500 arrests, mostly of minors, have become a flashpoint in the early days of the presidential election campaign.

Felix Barney, a university student, described the police response as disproportionate, saying it doesn't make “any sense to hit minors.”

“Riot police, batons, rubber bullets, tear gas,” said Aurélien Le Coq, a lawmaker with the far-left France Unbowed party. Its presidential candidate is strongly backing the protests.

The violence is “absolutely unbearable,” Le Coq said.

Nuñez defended police tactics despite a growing number of severe injuries blamed on officers’ riot-control weapons. In the latest case, a 15-year-old boy lost a hand Monday in an incident involving a police stun grenade. He said 715 officers had been injured.

The teenage protesters have struck a chord amid widespread discontent in France. Frustrations extend beyond immediate difficulties, such as fuel prices that have soared because of the Iran war, to broader concerns about constraints on public spending, rising poverty and wealth inequality under Macron, who can't run for a third consecutive term.

Against that backdrop, pupils’ complaints that education funding shortfalls are endangering their futures have found a sympathetic audience.

“You say ‘young people are the future,’ so listen to them,” read a handwritten placard attached to a metal barrier outside a Paris school.

Ministry offers online portal for complaints

At the Hélène Boucher lycée, or high school, in Paris' 20th district, protesters tipped over trash cans and bicycles onto their sides to create a makeshift barricade.

Like hundreds of others around the country, the school was closed. Authorities began shutting schools last week to take some steam out of the demonstrations after widespread damage to schools and mounting injuries among staff, students and police. Classes were totally or partially suspended on Tuesday at 891 schools, according to the Education Ministry.

Facing accusations that it was ignoring protesters, the ministry launched an online portal inviting high school students to anonymously describe the difficulties they face at school and the changes they want to see.

Student protests have drawn attention to rundown classrooms

At Hélène Boucher, parents and other adults positioned themselves on Tuesday between protesters and police keeping watch.

“They are our children. Teachers, parents, federations, we all share the same goal: the protection of children’s rights, and it is a legitimate right to demonstrate and to make demands,” said Emilia Sichili Suriam, who is a member of an association of parents.

Demonstrators have voiced a range of grievances, often centering on a lack of resources and opportunities for students in disadvantaged schools, despite the promise of France’s national motto: “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”

Students have drawn attention to rundown classrooms that lack basics such as desks and chairs, become sweltering in summer without air conditioning and, in some cases, are infested with rats. Other common complaints include staff shortages and exhausting workloads. French high school students’ compulsory classroom hours are among the highest in Europe.

Suzanne Nijdam, president of the federation of student associations, vowed that demonstrations would continue until authorities address the complaints.

“So, we really need to act now, and it’s in the government’s hands, to see these demands through to the end,” she said. “It’s a matter of political priority, a matter of prioritizing the youth and the future of our country.”

Neighboring Belgium is also seeing student protests. More than 30 were arrested Tuesday and several police injured in the eastern city of Liege, and smaller protests were held in Brussels and other cities.

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John Leicester, Mark Carlson and Sylvain Plazy in Lille, Jeffrey Schaeffer, Masha Macpherson and Catherine Gaschka in Paris, Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, and Lorne Cook in Brussels contributed to this report.

Gauff stopped a rally after electronic advertising boards lining the court flickered during a point late in the first set of her 7-5, 6-1 third-round victory over Sun, a 16-year-old who recently won the U.S. Open junior title.

“Hey everyone, you can dislike me or disagree about what happened without being racist,” Gauff, who is Black, said in a reply on X. “The amount of racist comments/dms I’ve received in the last few hours is insane. Lastly, I‘m not a cheater or a thief.”

Sun appeared about to win the point when Gauff stopped playing. The chair umpire then ordered the point to be replayed.

Gauff, a two-time Grand Slam champion ranked No. 4, went on to take control of the match on Monday.

“Xinran is (an) incredible talent and player, I apologized for the situation at the end of the match and she completely understood,” Gauff added in another post.

Sun, who was given a wild-card entry by tournament organizers and was making her WTA Tour debut, appeared distraught after the loss.

Gauff, who reached the fourth-round of Wimbledon as a 15-year-old in 2019, sympathized with Sun.

“I did not like to see her so emotional as I’ve been there and I really understand what it is like but this is just the beginning of an incredible career,” Gauff said. “It was an honor to share the court in front of her home crowd.”

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“It was a great surprise, and I obviously didn’t expect it,” Halzen said, speaking to the Nobel Physics Committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner.

Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S., said the work was a massive collaborative effort. He was working on a research proposal when the Nobel committee called just before lunchtime.

“I hope that this prize will help getting it approved,” he said to chuckles from the audience.

Halzen paved the way for a new kind of astronomy

Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with no electric charge and extraordinarily small mass, making them difficult to detect. Yet they are everywhere: They spew from stars like the sun, and trillions zip through our bodies every second.

Scientists cannot glimpse the mysterious ghost particles zooming around on their own, so they measure what happens when the particles collide with other bits of matter. Neutrinos bump into other particles only rarely, so scientists build large detectors to improve their odds of catching collisions.

Halzen had the idea to turn the vast Antarctic ice into such a detector. The Nobel committee said his work was instrumental to the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, which glimpsed the first high-energy neutrinos from faraway galaxies.

“This experiment in the Antarctic is a revolutionary way of understanding the universe that we didn’t have before,” said Michael Moloney, chief executive officer for the American Institute of Physics.

When a neutrino interacts with ice in the detector, it produces a flash of light that’s picked up by sensors. The transparent ice makes it easier for scientists to pick up on faint signals from the particles, and the sensors are buried about 8,200 feet (2,500 meters) deep to protect against interference from cosmic rays and radiation.

“People always thought this was a cute idea, right, but it would never work,” Halzen said at a news conference hosted by his university, which also operates the observatory. “The greatest surprise is that we did make it work.”

Neutrinos can help scientists understand the universe

The 82-year-old scientist helped pull back the curtain on an elusive crew of neutrinos that scientists say carry clues about the development of other galaxies and the universe as a whole.

“It’s all part of working out the story of where we are in the universe, what’s our place in the universe, how did our galaxy form?” said Jonathan Bagger, chief executive officer of the American Physical Society.

Supported by the National Science Foundation, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory involves more than 400 scientists in 14 countries.

“IceCube is like no other telescope in the world,” the university’s interim chancellor, Eric M. Wilcots, said in a news release. “And there is no other scientist quite like Francis Halzen, whose idea to create a neutrino detector under almost a mile of ice has led to a remarkable multinational and multi-institutional scientific collaboration and a fundamental shift in how we think about the universe.”

In a post on social media, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said Halzen is the 11th Belgian to win a Nobel Prize. De Wever called the award “impressive recognition for a lifetime dedicated to shedding light on the great mysteries of the cosmos through its smallest components.”

Prize money is about $1.2 million

Ellen Moons, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the award Tuesday in Stockholm. She is the first woman to head the prestigious academy and present the award.

The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), whether for an individual, a small group of laureates or an organization.

Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultrasensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.

The announcements of this year's prizes began Monday with the Nobel Prize in medicine being awarded to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.

This week's awards continue Wednesday with the chemistry prize and literature on Thursday. After Friday’s peace prize is awarded, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced Monday.

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On Monday night, he sent New York home in a huge playoff hole.

Palacios laced a two-run single to cap a four-run fifth inning that propelled the Tampa Bay Rays to a 5-2 victory and a 2-0 lead over the sloppy Yankees in their best-of-five AL Division Series.

“When I’m getting clutch hits, it doesn’t really matter who I’m playing against,” Palacios said. “But it’s very special to do this in a postseason against a team I grew up watching.”

The 29-year-old second baseman, who also doubled off Gerrit Cole in the series opener, came to bat with two outs in the fifth against left-handed reliever Brent Headrick.

With his parents in the stands and runners on second and third, Palacios got a green light from manager Kevin Cash on a 3-0 count and fouled off a 90 mph fastball. The left-handed hitter then fouled off three more pitches before lining a base hit to center field that gave Tampa Bay a 5-1 cushion.

“Probably the biggest hit in the game for us,” Cash said.

A fired-up Palacios gestured toward his teammates in the dugout as he celebrated at first base.

“If I got a green light with a 3-0,” Palacios said, “that means Cashy probably wants me swinging if it’s a pitch over the plate. Swung at one, missed it, and then just locked back in. Was able to relax myself and get a hit there.”

Game 3 is Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium, where the Rays will try for a series sweep.

It will be a homecoming of sorts for Palacios, who is playing in his first postseason. Palacios attended The Berkeley Carroll School in the New York City borough of Brooklyn and then Towson University in Maryland before getting selected by Cleveland in the third round of the 2018 amateur draft.

He was acquired by the St. Louis Cardinals for cash in June 2023 and then traded to Tampa Bay for reliever Andrew Kittredge in January 2024.

The 5-foot-8 Palacios batted .235 with 10 home runs, 57 RBIs and a .704 OPS in 124 games this season. He also stole 17 bases, and rewarded the AL East champion Rays for their confidence in him by hitting .283 with five homers, 18 RBIs, six steals and a .981 OPS over 20 games in September.

“Look, we’re seeing a healthy player. We’ve seen Richie in the past when, before his knee injuries, where he could really help us on both sides of the ball. There’s a lot of versatility there with outfield, infield. Really stayed in the infield throughout the course of this season,” Cash said.

“But, I mean, he seems as much as anybody in our lineup to really rise to the occasion when we need him to come through. He’s come through so many times for us.”

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The S&P 500 climbed 0.7% and is on track to finish the day above its record closing level set in August. Even with worries about war, high inflation and pressure from the bond market continuing to weigh on it, the backbone of many 401(k) accounts has soared 23% since hitting a bottom in late March.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 283 points, or 0.6%, with roughly an hour remaining in trading, while the Nasdaq composite was adding 0.6% to its own all-time high set the day before. The spurts for stock prices are helping investors feel better about their finances, or at least less bad, when Americans are generally feeling more discouraged about keeping up with the fast-rising cost of living.

Many of the fears that sent the U.S. stock market to its bottom in March, sparked by the war with Iran, have indeed come true. Oil prices have jumped, which has made inflation worse. That has helped crank yields higher in the bond market, which is threatening to slow the economy by making it more expensive for everyone to borrow money.

But despite all those challenges, one vital source of support has remained resolute for the U.S. stock market: the relentless ability for U.S. companies to make bigger profits.

Lamb Weston, which sells frozen fries and other potato products, said on Tuesday that its profit and revenue during its latest quarter topped its projections, for example. The results also beat analysts’ expectations, and its stock rallied 8.2%.

CEO Mike Smith said the company continues to deal with unexpected increases in freight and other expenses as inflation remains high. But the company nevertheless raised its forecast for an underlying measure of profit for its full fiscal year.

It's not just potato products proving to be more profitable. All kinds of companies are lining up to report soon how much profit they made from July through September, and expectations are high for strong growth. Delta Air Lines will report its third-quarter results on Friday, with several of the country’s biggest banks headlining the following week.

Analysts expect companies in the S&P 500 to deliver overall growth of nearly 30% in earnings per share from a year earlier, according to FactSet. If they’re correct, it would be the third straight quarter of growth better than 25%.

That's crucial because corporate profits are one of the big levers that help set prices for stocks, along with interest rates. At the moment, high bond yields are pushing downward on stock prices because they make investors less willing to pay high prices for investments that aren't bonds. But earnings are rising at the same time “to win the tug-of-war against yields” and keep the market high, according to strategists at Barclays Capital.

Bond yields worldwide offered some slack on Tuesday after falling back from their highest levels in years or even decades. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which is the focal point of the U.S. bond market, eased to 5.26% from 5.31% late Monday.

It fell after oil prices steadied themselves somewhat. The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, fell as low as $97.06 in the morning before pulling back to settle at $100.58. While that was up 0.3% from Monday's settlement price, it's still below the nearly $110 it was at a few weeks ago, and the easing removes some of the pressure from inflation.

On Wall Street, stocks involved in the artificial-intelligence frenzy have been behind much of the market's record-setting run, and Constellation Energy jumped 11.7% on Tuesday.

It announced a long-term deal to supply Google with about as much electricity as a new nuclear reactor makes. The boom in AI data centers has made not just electricity more in demand but also construction crews and materials throughout the economy.

Elsewhere on Wall Street, Option Care Health soared 32.9% after CD&R and McKesson said they’re buying the provider of infusion services. The two are paying $32.05 for each Option Care Health share, valuing it at roughly $5.8 billion.

CDR is a private investment firm. Shares of McKesson, the healthcare services company, added 1.2%.

They helped offset a drop for Stryker, which fell 2.2% after the medical technologies company said Kevin Lobo will step down as its chief executive at the end of the year. He's held the position since 2012 and will become Stryker's executive chairman. The company said its current chief operating officer, Spencer Stiles, will replace Lobo.

In stock markets abroad, indexes ticked higher in Europe as yields continue to swing in their bond markets amid concerns about high government debts and tight budgets.

In France, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in support of protests by students demanding more funding for schools.

In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.1%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng climbed 1%, but South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.9%.

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AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Matt Ott contributed to this report.

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