De acuerdo con el reporte, Younes Bekkali, de 38 años, originario de Marruecos y residente de Miami, fue arrestado el sábado, dos días después del presunto enfrentamiento.

Según el reporte, los agentes acudieron al Palmetto Expressway cerca de la avenida 74 del noroeste alrededor de las 5:37 a.m. del jueves tras un choque en el que se vieron involucrados varios vehículos.

Al llegar, los agentes hablaron con un bombero de servicio que llevaba puesto su uniforme completo.

El bombero les dijo a los investigadores que estaba dirigiendo el tráfico cuando vio a un Dodge Challenger morado que intentaba esquivar la zona restringida del accidente. Según el reporte, el vehículo estaba registrado a nombre de Bekkali.

El bombero movió un camión de MDFR para bloquear el tráfico y proteger al personal que trabajaba en la escena. Luego se bajó del camión y, con señales de mano, le indicó a Bekkali que tomara una ruta alterna, según el reporte.

Los investigadores afirmaron que Bekkali ignoró las instrucciones y, en cambio, aceleró el Challenger y atropelló al bombero, que recibió el impacto en las piernas y salió despedido varios pies hacia atrás.

Según los investigadores, Bekkali se bajó entonces del auto y empujó al bombero varias veces por el pecho antes de volver a subirse al vehículo y huir hacia el norte por el Palmetto Expressway desde la avenida 74 del noroeste.

De acuerdo con el reporte, Bekkali fue localizado y arrestado el sábado, y luego llevado a la estación del Distrito Midwest de MDSO.

Después de que le leyeran sus derechos Miranda, Bekkali ofreció lo que los investigadores describieron como una “declaración interesada” y negó haber participado en el incidente, informaron las autoridades.

Luego fue trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde fue procesado por cargos de agresión agravada con arma mortal contra un bombero, agresión física contra un bombero y desobedecer a un bombero.

Hasta la mañana del martes, Bekkali permanecía detenido sin fianza en el Metrowest Detention Center.

El accidente se reportó en la zona de Miramar Parkway y South Douglas Road.

Según la policía de Miramar, las jóvenes, de 15, 16 y 17 años, cruzaban la intersección por un paso peatonal señalizado cuando las impactó un Dodge Challenger que se dirigía hacia el norte.

Las adolescentes, que según la policía son estudiantes de Miramar High School, fueron llevadas a un hospital de la zona para recibir tratamiento por heridas que no ponen en peligro su vida.

De acuerdo con las autoridades, dos de ellas sufrieron heridas leves y la tercera podría tener lesiones más serias, aunque tampoco se teme por su vida.

La policía indicó que ha estado revisando las cámaras de vigilancia de la zona y no cree que la velocidad haya sido un factor.

“Un auto, a la velocidad que vaya, es un arma de 2,000 libras”, dijo el jefe de la policía de Miramar, Delrish Moss.

Los agentes confirmaron que el conductor se quedó en el lugar tras el accidente.

“El conductor dice que tenía la luz verde, y las muchachas dicen que tenían la señal para cruzar. Eso todavía está por determinarse”, dijo Moss. “Vamos a tener que revisar las cámaras de la zona y los ciclos de los semáforos. Una de las cosas para las que los ven tomando medidas es el factor de arrastre”.

Moss afirmó que, en cualquier caso, el incidente sirve como recordatorio para que conductores y peatones se mantengan alerta, sobre todo a esta hora del día.

“Esto tiene que ser más seguro para estos muchachos”, dijo Mcgarney Bowman, dueño de un restaurante cercano. “La escuela secundaria está ahí mismo”.

“Gracias a Dios esta noche regresan a sus casas y van a estar bien”, dijo Sael Valcourt, estudiante de Miramar High School.

The sixth-ranked Noskova, who claimed her first Grand Slam title at the All England Club this year, served an ace on her first match point to beat Katie Boulter 6-2, 7-6 (3) and seal the Czechs' place spot in the final four.

In all, Noskova produced 15 aces to Boulter’s four.

Earlier, Bouzkova beat Sonay Kartal 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4.

Karolina Muchova, who was beaten by Noskova in the all-Czech Wimbledon final, was slated to play a decisive doubles match with partner Katerina Siniakova but that wasn’t necessary in the best-of-three series.

Siniakova is ranked No. 1 in doubles.

Czechia, formerly known as the Czech Republic, stands second all time with 11 titles in the competition previously called Fed Cup. The United States, which did not qualify for the finals, has won a record 18 titles.

In the semifinals, Czechia will face either Spain or Kazakhstan, which play Wednesday.

The other quarterfinals feature two-time defending champion Italy vs. China and Ukraine vs. Belgium.

Davis Cup Final 8 draw

In the draw for the Davis Cup Final 8, South Korea was drawn to play against three-time defending champion Italy after becoming the first Asian nation to qualify under the new format.

Spain, the 2025 runner-up, drew Austria.

Czechia — which eliminated the 32-time champion United States in the final qualifying round — will face 2022 champion Canada; and Alexander Zverev’s Germany faces Britain.

The Final 8 is scheduled for Bologna, Italy, Nov. 24-29.

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The man who died was identified by authorities Tuesday as Julmice Belone, of Fort Lauderdale.

According to BSO, someone called 911 at approximately 3:28 a.m. Sunday to report a shooting near the 3100 block of Northwest 37th Street.

Deputies responded and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. Deputies immediately rendered aid before Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel transported him to a local hospital for treatment, authorities confirmed.

According to deputies, they learned a short time later that a second shooting victim, later identified as Belone, had been taken to an area hospital in a private vehicle.

Belone was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to BSO.

BSO’s Crime Scene and Homicide units responded to the scene to investigate.

Detectives said their preliminary investigation revealed the shooting happened during a verbal altercation at a house party.

According to BSO, a third person involved told detectives he was attempting to deescalate the situation and that the shooting was in self-defense. That person also sustained minor injuries, authorities confirmed.

Investigators said the shooter remained at the scene and was detained for questioning before later being released.

BSO officials said detectives will present the case to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office for review once their investigation is complete.

The identities of the other people involved in the shooting have not been released.

Miami-Dade deputies said Myrthland Ince, 33, and Romario Stewart, 32, are among “several subjects” who “have been identified to be targeting Sam’s Club and Walmart stores across South Florida in order to purchase large amounts of perishable items” using compromised food stamp and NationsBenefits cards.

The two men, listed in an arrest report as living together in Hallandale Beach, each face a dozen felony charges.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies were surveilling the Sam’s Club at 8425 NW 13th Terrace in Doral on Monday alongside Walmart investigators when Ince and Stewart walked in.

Deputies said Stewart “was recognized from previous fraudulent transactions.”

Authorities said the two men proceeded to go on a shopping spree, grabbing $500 worth of Tide detergent, 18 cans of Café Bustelo worth a little less than $370 and a singular can of Members Mark cashews worth about $14.

But that wasn’t all. The real motherlode, according to the MDSO report, was of Spam: Seventy bulk-sized cans of the classic lunch meat, worth nearly $1,800. Their total bill came out to $2,704.59, the report states.

Authorities said the duo went to the self-checkout machines and paid for the items using stolen information from 10 NationsBenefits accounts.

Deputies said they detained the two after they left the store. Ince, they said, had six debit cards re-encoded with the stolen NationsBenefits information, while Stewart had four.

Both men now face 10 identity theft charges, as well as one count each of grand theft and public assistance fraud.

Records show Ince was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $35,000 bond.

Stewart, meanwhile, was at TGK with a bond listed as “to be set.”

Both men also have magistrate holds, jail records show.

The agreement, which officials descibed as the largest worker settlement in city history, also requires the company to submit to a new monitoring system to ensure compliance with delivery worker pay laws in the city.

In a statement, DoorDash admitted errors, saying: “Simply put, we screwed up.”

“While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay. We pride ourselves on operational excellence at DoorDash – and this was not excellent, nor was it acceptable. Dashers should be paid in full, on time, every time. We are sorry to the Dashers we let down,” the company said.

Most of the settlement will be returned to more than 260,000 workers who were underpaid, not paid or paid late for deliveries by DoorDash, according to City Hall. The company will also pay about $16 million in civil penalties and other costs to the city.

“When a worker earns a wage, they deserve to be paid that wage – not tomorrow, not after a lawsuit, but on time and in full,” Mamdani said in a statement. “DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 workers, and today we are getting that money back."

DoorDash said many of the errors in payment were caused by “technical bugs or happened in complicated situations,” such as deliveries that went outside city boundaries, had multiple pickup or drop-off spots or included deliveries that were cancelled or partially completed.

Last year, the company agreed to pay almost $17 million to settle claims that it unfairly used customer tips to subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York, rather than allowing drivers to keep the tips on top of their guaranteed pay.

The crash was reported in the area of Miramar Parkway and South Douglas Road.

According to Miramar police, the girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, were crossing the intersection within a marked crosswalk when they were struck by a Dodge Challenger that was heading north.

The teens, who police said are students at Miramar High School, were taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

According to authorities, two of the teens had minor injuries and the third might have more severe injuries, although they are still non-life-threatening.

Police said they have been checking surveillance cameras in the area and do not believe that speed was a factor.

“A car traveling at any rate of speed is a 2,000-pound weapon,” Miramar police Chief Delrish Moss said.

The driver remained at the scene after the crash, officers confirmed.

“The driver is saying he had the green light, the young ladies are saying ‘we had the crossing sign.’ Those things are yet to be determined,” Moss said. “We’re gonna have to check cameras in the area, we’re gonna have to check the lighting cycles. One of the things that you see them doing measurements for is drag factor.”

Moss said regardless, the incident is a reminder to drivers and pedestrians to stay alert, especially during this time of day.

“It needs to be safer for these kids,” Mcgarney Bowman, who owns a nearby restaurant, said. “The high school’s right there.”

“Thank God they’re going back home tonight, and they’re gonna be OK,” Miramar High School student Sael Valcourt said.

In a statement, the U.S. Air Base Spangdahlem said that the pilot ejected and was receiving medical care. The air base did not give any further details.

The local German district, where Spangdahlem is located, had said earlier that fire and emergency teams responded to the incident. Local authorities said they were unable to provide any further information about the accident.

Spangdahlem is home to an F-16 fighter jet squadron with about 20 aircraft, the German news agency dpa reported.

The squadron, which supports U.S. Air Force and NATO missions worldwide, is the centerpiece of the air base. The base has about 5,000 military and civilian employees, plus their family members, according to the latest figures. The U.S. air base also employs between 700 and 800 Germans.

The U.S. Air Force has maintained a presence in Spangdahlem since the mid-1950s. Along with Ramstein near Kaiserslautern in southwestern Germany, Spangdahlem Air Base is considered one of the most important airfields for the U.S. military in the region.

Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive in an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, on Aug. 16. Her on-and-off boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were at the home.

According to a statement from the Greenville County Coroner’s Office, a combination of fentanyl and its chemical byproduct, as well as the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam, a muscle relaxer and a drug used to treat major depression and other serious mental health disorders, was found in Panettiere's system.

The office did not include further details from the autopsy report in its initial release.

Asked for comment on the coroner's report, Kasey Kitchen, a publicist for the family, told The Associated Press that “the investigation is still ongoing and the case is complex."

Greenville Police confirmed Tuesday that their investigation into Panettiere's death is continuing.

Paramedics responded to Panettiere's apartment last month after a 911 call and performed CPR and other advanced resuscitation efforts for more than 40 minutes before she was declared dead. An autopsy found no signs of trauma that could have contributed to her death, Greenville County Coroner Mike Ellis said in a statement.

The police report released after her death listed medications Panettiere was taking, but the drug names were redacted.

Panettiere’s early fame brought success and struggle

Panettiere soared to fame in the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville.” In her memoir “This Is Me,” released in May, Panettiere described lifelong scars from her early fame and acknowledged being addicted to alcohol and enduring postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya, with Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko in 2014.

She also endured family struggles and tragedy. Her parents’ marriage was strained and eventually ended. Her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who was also an actor, died of a heart condition in 2023, at age 28.

Panettiere also talked about her long relationship with Brian Hickerson and allegations that the aspiring actor physically abused her.

He was charged in 2020 with multiple counts of felony abuse, and he pleaded no contest to two counts of injuring a spouse or partner and served a short time in jail due to the case. He was sentenced to four years of probation and anger management and Alcoholics Anonymous sessions.

Hickerson completed the terms and recently asked a judge to reduce his conviction to misdemeanors; that request was denied.

Panettiere was one of two children born to Skip Panettiere, a former New York City fire captain, and Lesley Vogel, a former soap opera star. She acted in commercials and soap operas, including as the ever-troubled Lizzie Spaulding on “Guiding Light.” In “This Is Me,” she wrote that the traumas her character endured, from being kidnapped to killing her mother’s boyfriend, led her to associate “catastrophe with adoration.”

She then played a cheerleader with supernatural powers in “Heroes,” which propelled her to fame in 2006.

By 2015, Panettiere was playing a brash country upstart opposite Connie Britton on “Nashville,” which aired on ABC for four seasons before being canceled and revived on CMT. She did her own singing in the show, which scored some hits on country charts, spawned U.S. tours and earned Panettiere two supporting actress Golden Globe nominations.

But she also said she was in a horrible cycle of using alcohol and drugs to battle depression and anxiety and had to find a way out of the darkness. She entered rehab while filming the show.

“I was the one who put myself in the first treatment center. I was drowning,” she said in a 2023 interview with Women’s Health magazine.

Stewart last got a technical foul in 2017 and now has three in her career after she was called for one in the waning minutes of the Liberty game on Monday night.

Stewart was upset that the officials didn't call a foul when she drove to the basket and Angel Reese stole the ball out of her hands with just under 2 minutes left in the game. Replays showed that Reese slapped Stewart's wrist.

“That absolutely was for the no-call,” Stewart said on why she got the technical foul.

Stewart had 27 points and 14 rebounds in the defeat, which ended the Liberty's chances of getting homecourt in the opening round of the playoffs that begin Sunday.

Stewart, who is second in the league in free throw attempts per game, said on the way out of the news conference that Reese should pay the fine that comes with the technical foul.

The two teams will play again on Wednesday in the regular-season finale.

The Liberty honored Stewart, along with the other six women's FIBA World Cup players on their roster. Stewart earned MVP of that tournament earlier this month, helping the U.S. win a fifth consecutive gold medal.

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Officially, Polo strengthened 110 mph between 8 AM ET Monday and 8 AM ET Tuesday, an extreme rate only matched or exceeded once – by Hurricane Patricia in 2015 – in the reliable records for the eastern Pacific (since around 1970).

Polo also marks a record-tying 3^rd Category 5 hurricane this season for the eastern Pacific. Only the 2018, 2002, and 1994 eastern Pacific hurricane seasons have had as many Category 5 hurricanes in a single season.

At extreme intensities like Polo, hurricanes are prone to fluctuations up and down, but Polo should stay near or at Category 5 intensity for the next day or two as it sits in a pristine environment.

The good news is the catastrophic core of Polo will remain well off the coast of Mexico this week, but heavy rains from the hurricane’s outer bands could produce flash flooding and mudslides for coastal areas of southwest Mexico through Thursday, including across parts of coastal Guerrero and Michoacán.

Mostly sleepy Atlantic

Fay has breathed its dying breath over the open northeastern Atlantic and its leftover swirl of low-level clouds will spin harmlessly over the open Atlantic for the remainder of the week.

A disturbance forecast to move off the coast of Africa on Wednesday has a low shot at developing, but will lift quickly northward and shouldn’t amount to very much regardless.

Otherwise we’ll continue to watch the development of a coastal storm/nor’easter off the Eastern Seaboard later this week. Most models suggest it stays non-tropical, but there’s an outside chance it transitions into a subtropical or tropical system as it loiters along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast this weekend into early next week.

For now, NHC isn’t mentioning it in its tropical weather outlook and regardless, the impacts shouldn’t change appreciably for coastal areas affected by repeated rounds of tidal flooding, gusty winds exceeding 45 mph, and periods of heavy rain.

Lucia Báez-Geller, a former Miami-Dade County School Board member, is challenging Republican Florida Rep. Fabián Basabe, the incumbent, a former reality TV star who was found liable after two men accused him of sexual battery.

“I have made a lot of really powerful enemies,” Basabe, 48, said without naming them. “This has been lawfare, which is the new campaign today, right? I mean, you want to get somebody out of the way, you don’t need bullets anymore. You just need character assassination.”

In July, a Leon County jury awarded Nicolas Frevola, Basabe’s former aide, and Jacob Cutbirth, a former intern, $450,000 in damages after finding Basabe liable for sexually harassing, battering, and defaming them.

“I think the residents of 106 are ready to turn the page on all the chaos, all the confusion, all the scandals,” said Báez-Geller, a former Miami Beach Senior High School teacher.

The swing district has a large share of registered voters who are not affiliated with the Republican or Democratic parties.

Related link: Map of the district

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Two restaurants, Kelly’s Cajun Grill and Danny’s Pizza Miami Style, were recently ordered shut after inspectors found rodent activity.

At Kelly’s, inspectors found dozens of rodent droppings throughout the kitchen, including around the handwashing sink, ice machine, kitchen floor and food-storage areas. Inspectors also found a mold-like buildup inside the ice machine, food being held at improper temperatures and other violations.

And this isn’t the first time Kelly’s has been shut down over rodents. The restaurant was also ordered shut in July for rodent issues. It was ordered shut again on Sept. 21, with 18 violations cited.

At Danny’s Pizza Miami Style, inspectors found more than 20 rodent droppings behind chest freezers, along with droppings under the three-compartment sink. Inspectors also found a hole in a wall and food being held at an unsafe temperature. The restaurant was ordered shut on Sept. 21.

Local 10 News has reached out to Westland Mall management for comment.

**KELLY’S CAJUN GRILL

WESTLAND MALL

HIALEAH

ORDERED SHUT 9/21

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 7/20/26 (RODENT ISSUES)

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 6 rodent droppings next to hand wash sink. Observed 4 rodent droppings on top of soda syrup case next to ice machine. Observed approximately +17 rodent droppings on floor at kitchen area, and approximately +20 rodent droppings under and next to ice machine at kitchen area. Observed 3 rodent droppings on top of seasoning containers at dry storage area.”

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed crispy chicken (47F - Cold Holding) on preparation table at kitchen, as per operator less than 1 hour. Repeat Violation.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed a hole on wall next to 3 compartment sink.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed breaded fish fillets (128F - Hot Holding) on steam table at front counter, as per operator less than 1 hour”

“Food manager certification expired.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed cooked chicken prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Repeat Violation.”

“Required employee training expired for all employees.”

**DANNY’S PIZZA MIAMI STYLE

WESTLAND MALL

HIALEAH

ORDERED SHUT 9/21

7 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately +20 rodent droppings behind chest freezers at kitchen area. Observed 2 rodent droppings under 3 compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed hole on wall next to kitchen door entrance.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked spaghetti (112F - Hot Holding) on stove, as per operator less than 1 hour.”

According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, Donald Eliam Centena, of Miami, was arrested Aug. 31 in connection with the shooting that occurred on June 14.

Online jail records show he was booked into the Metrowest Detention Center last Friday.

According to the arrest report, police responded at about 11:11 p.m. on June 14 to the area of 675 SW Third St. following a report of a teen who had been shot.

An officer found the victim and applied a tourniquet to his left leg, the report stated.

Police said the victim initially told officers he had been walking near Riverside Park with another teenage boy and two girls when two masked males approached him and said, “Yo, yo.”

He said he turned around and saw one of them holding a handgun equipped with a green laser. The victim began running before feeling his left leg getting hot, according to the report.

First responders from Miami Fire Rescue transported him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

Investigators recovered three 9 mm spent shell casings from the roadway in front of 660 SW Third St. and found a small amount of the victim’s blood in the roadway in front of 675 SW Third St., police said.

According to the report, during an interview at the hospital early the following morning, the victim told detectives he had spent the day at Bayside with his girlfriend, another victim and another girl before the group walked from Brickell to Riverside Park.

The victim said that while they were walking past Ada Merritt K-8 Center, two masked males yelled, “Yo, yo.”

He turned around, saw a firearm with a green laser and ran, according to the report. The victim said he heard about four gunshots before feeling a burning sensation in his left leg.

He then went into a nearby corner store and called his mother.

At the time, the victim told investigators he did not know who the two males were and believed they may have intended to rob him and the other victim for their clothing.

Police said surveillance video showed the two victims and two girls walking down the road at about 10:58 p.m. when Centena and another suspect ran toward them. According to the report, the video showed Centena opening fire.

According to the report, detectives interviewed the second victim a week later, who said two males approached the first victim and then began shooting at him.

After the first victim ran, Centena allegedly pointed the gun at the second victim and threatened him in Spanish, according to the report. Centena and the other suspect then ran away, police said.

Later that night, detectives interviewed the shooting victim again.

This time, the victim told investigators he wanted to be “more truthful” with them, the report stated.

According to the report, the victim said he had been affiliated with a gang called “Little Havana Taliban,” or “LHT,” and believed Centena was associated with a rival gang known as “APK.”

The victim said he had only seen Centena once before and that a friend later called and told him Centena was the person who shot at him.

On Aug. 31, detectives interviewed a witness who said she had spent the day with Centena, the second suspect and another female friend, authorities said.

The witness said that after she and her friend briefly went inside her home, they came back outside and saw Centena and the other suspect sprinting toward the rear of her apartment while wearing masks.

According to the report, the witness approached them and saw both males removing guns from their waistbands, unloading them and putting the ammunition into their pockets.

She said Centena then asked whether there were cameras in the area, and she told him there were cameras at the school.

The group later got into a white SUV, according to the report.

While inside the vehicle, the witness said she noticed the other suspect’s hand was bleeding and asked the two what they had done.

According to the arrest report, both responded, “We shot at them b****es,” and told her they shot the victim, who’s part of the LHT gang, in the leg.

Later that night, detectives showed the witness a sequential photo lineup.

Police said the witness identified Centena as the person who told her in Spanish, “I hit him with the bullet.”

According to the report, Centena was arrested on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a minor/unauthorized alien.

As of Tuesday morning, the Nicaraguan national remained jailed. Online jail records show that his bond had not yet been set.

According to an article by the Wall Street Journal, wealthy and influential Cuban-Americans with ties to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been meeting in lawyer offices and hotel conference rooms to plan for a “post-communist” Cuba if the regime were to fall soon.

The “change” model seems to first attempt to stabilize Cuba by restructuring the economy that could possibly lead to a new form of government.

Many of these individuals are planning to personally play a role in rebuilding Cuba. These individuals run wealthy businesses. However, for the most part, the opposition groups in South Florida have been left out of these conversations or any role they might play in the future of Cuba.

Sept. 21: Cuba’s leadership continue to blame their problems on everybody else except themselves

Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio made a surreal statement yesterday, claiming that everyone at the top of the Cuban government leadership get, on average, two hours of electricity per day.

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We know that most of Cuba’s inner circle of power have generators or solar panels that provide them electricity around the clock each day.

What Fernandez de Cossio does not admit is that the electrical problem has been caused by the Cuban government not being able to fix the outdated electrical plans that are the cause of the problem.

Sept. 18: Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar breaks with Trump over immigration policy

After supporting President Donald Trump’s policy on immigration, Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar issued a video yesterday criticizing Trump.

The Department of Homeland Security was quickly to react and say that the Trump administration will continue enforcing the policy.

We need to ask ourselves whether Salazar’s change of heart has to do more with political survival since she faces a tough race in the midterm elections this coming November from well known South Floridian Eliott Rodriguez (D).

Sept. 17: Cuba is not Venezuela

A new poll recently done by FIU, inside Venezuela and Cuba, show how different the situations are for U.S. foreign policy.

The poll shows that 90% of Venezuelans want free and democratic elections this year, which I do not believe the current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez will agree to. I’m also sure that she will use Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan of “stabilization, recovery, and transition phase” to say that the first stage has not been fully accomplished. There was no timetable put on the plan.

The case of Cuba is very different. The population wants their economic and social needs met before political reforms, which goes to my argument that Cuba has a very short history of democratic governments.

So to remind our local members of Congress. To say that “we must return Cuba to democracy” will not happen anytime soon.

Sept. 16: Rubio’s latest actions on Cuba

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently sent more humanitarian aid to Cuba, and it is being distributed by the non-governmental organization (NGO) associated with the Catholic Church, Caritas of Cuba.

At the same time, Rubio warned international banks and businesses not to collaborate with any Cuban business entities that have been sanctioned by the U.S.

Secretary Rubio also called for the Cuban government to change and become a democracy.

By now, we should understand that changing governments like Cuba, which have been under totalitarian control, is not easy and will take time. Especially countries like Cuba that, in their political history, have had unsustainable democratic governments.

Sept. 15: Cuba becomes a betting market for U.S. prediction markets

Cuba has become a betting market in the USA.

The betting site Polymarket shows how people in the U.S. are betting on everything from the removal of Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel from power to when and if the U.S. will invade Cuba or make an economic agreement with Cuba.

The last prediction is whether the U.S. will go and get indicted Cuban leader Raúl Castro.

Sept. 10: Russia denies Cuba full membership in BRICS

BRICS is an organization of 11 emerging economies around the world. The organization works to influence their global importance and reshape economic governance.

The membership includes Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Partner nations include Belarus, Cuba, Nigeria and Thailand.

The Russians turned down Cuba for full membership into the organization because of Cuba’s poor economic conditions and poor predictions by economists moving forward.

Sept. 9: Cuba and the U.S. stuck in diplomatic rhetoric

Cuba’s Brigadier General Emir Mesa Corona, who is in charge of personal security at the Ministry of Interior, sent a strong message to the U.S. not to even think of trying to kidnap Raul Castro or anyone in Cuba’s government or they will face serious consequences.

At the same time, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla admitted that backroom negotiations with the U.S. continue but the U.S. will not soften their positions. Cuba wants the economic embargo lifted while the U.S. wants regime change.

Sept. 8: Blind passion for Cuban politics leads to a political circus between Miami, Havana and DC

As a little boy growing up in Miami, I remember when every presidential candidate from both political parties would come to campaign in Miami and promised that if elected, they would work to see a “Free Cuba.” They would end their speeches with “Viva Cuba Libre.” Local politicians representing different municipalities in Miami-Dade would talk about U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba like they controlled it, and yet, they had nothing to do with it within their scope of responsibilities. But it got them the votes they needed to be elected and remain in power, while political leaders in Cuba continued to blame everything wrong on the island on the U.S. economic embargo, or as they call it, “the blockade.”

On Jan. 3, the U.S. military captured Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela with the assistance of their current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez and brought him to the U.S. to face justice. Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump announced that Cuba would be next.

The Trump administration began to sanction Cuban organizations and individuals of the government in an attempt to squeeze them out of power. So far, they are still in power. The Cuban government began to prepare for a U.S. invasion. To this date, it has not happened and probably never will.

On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department indicted Raul Castro for the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996 in a theater-like political rally at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. So far nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen. There is no Delcy Rodriguez in Cuba. A week ago, many media outlets across Miami reported, based on sources from inside the island, that Raul Castro was gravely ill. This past weekend, Raul reappeared surrounded by Cuba’s military elite.

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the three Cuban-American members of Congress from South Florida had announced that by the end of 2026, Cuba would fall. Now it has been pushed back to 2029. Furthermore, Rubio recently said that the problem in dealing with Cuba is the Helms-Burton Law (Senator Jesse Helms and Richard Burton, both Republicans) that was enacted by Congress in 1996, also with the hard work of the late Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

The three Cuban-American members of Congress made it clear that the goal was to return Cuba to democracy. What democracy? Cuba did not have a democratic government before Fidel Castro took power. How much do they really know about Cuban history? Or is it just a play on words and empty promises?

So as time passes each day, the Cuban-American community is beginning to ask itself, what is really going on in D.C.?

It would not surprise me that in the near future the Trump organizations would negotiate to buy the empty Melia Hotels in Cuba and put the Trump name on them. After all, we now own a big chunk of Venezuelan oil and there was no regime change as promised.

Will we ever learn? How much longer are we going to be blind by our passion?

Sept 6: Raul Castro makes public appearance

After much speculation about Cuba’s Raul Castro being close to death, the Cuban leader showed up at a military event yesterday accompanied by his grandson, Raulito, and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Sept 3: Raul Castro stable, according to sources

Sources in Cuba say Raul Castro, 95, is stable despite reports about his declining health. According to sources, retired General Abelardo Colome Ibarra, known as “ El Fury,” is currently in worse condition. Colome Ibarra was head of the Ministry of the Interior and highly respected by the Castro brothers and the Cuban military.

Sept 3: President Trump’s hands are tied with regard to Cuba, Rubio says

After months of saying Cuba would be next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that the president’s hands are tied because of the Helms Burton Law which requires no normalization between the U.S. and Cuba unless there is regime change and a move towards a democratic government.

Even if Raul Castro was to die in the near future, I do not expect regime change.

Only the U.S. can change the Helms-Burton Law and I don’t expect that to happen anytime in the near future or after the mid-term elections.

Sept. 2: Children in Cuba start new school year amid more challenges than any other year before

Children in Cuba started the new school year Tuesday facing a lack of supplies, books, uniforms and teachers, and buildings that are falling apart, along with a lack of food to feed the children.

According to the Cuban minister of education, this will be a very challenging year unlike any others.

Cuban education was once one of the big accomplishments of the revolution. However, it was also used to indoctrinate the students in an ideology that no one on the island nation believes anymore.

Sept. 1: Raul Castro hospitalized, sources say

Reliable sources inside Cuba have informed me this afternoon that Raul Castro has been hospitalized. We need to be careful and not to over speculate what might happen until further notice.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

The highest rain chance peaks today, and we will see fewer and fewer storms as the week goes on. A front will move across Florida and stall out nearby over the weekend. This will help usher in some drier air and potentially slightly lower humidity by Sunday and Monday. Stay tuned on that one.

Dr. Vincent Brown was a leader or supervisor in the killing of a young woman and her baby, three household members and a taxi driver who was stoned to death, prosecutor Jane Stansfield said in Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Brown, 65, who was formerly known as Vincent Bajinya, is the first person to be charged in the U.K. for taking part in the ethnic genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed. He is charged with one count of conduct ancillary to genocide and six counts of conduct ancillary to murder as a crime against humanity. U.K. law allows British prosecutors to bring charges for some international offenses, including genocide and crimes against humanity, regardless of where they were committed.

Brown denied playing any role in the killings when interviewed by police in 2020, a year after Metropolitan Police war crimes investigators began looking into the case at the request of the Rwandan government, prosecutors said.

Defense lawyer Sam Blom-Cooper said in court that Brown wants to clear his name.

Another defense attorney, Frank Brazell, told The Associated Press that Brown has always maintained his innocence “in the face of manifestly fabricated evidence against him” and has urged U.K. authorities to prosecute him, because he believes he'll get a fair trial here.

Brown didn't enter a plea and only spoke to confirm his identity. He was released on 25,000-pound ($33,400) bail and ordered to appear next at London's Central Criminal Court on Oct. 9.

Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said that the prosecution marked a long-overdue step toward accountability following the seven-year investigation.

The allegations span several days in April 1994 when Brown worked as head of the department of family health at the National Office of Population.

Brown led a group to a house in the Rugenge district of Kigali on April 8 and ordered the shootings of Dominique Mukurarinda, Immaculee Mukankusi and Gerase Rurangirwa, Stansfield said.

He ordered the killings of Charlotte Kamaguja and her infant son Olivier Tuyishime on April 10, prosecutors said. He directed the group that stoned cabbie Leandre Mbogoye between April 9 and 11, authorities said.

Brown is originally from Kigali and lives in London, where he once worked for a charity assisting refugee nurses and midwives seeking to work in Britain. He's believed to have entered the U.K. as an asylum-seeker in 1998, former Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama told the AP in 2006.

Brown changed his name when granted U.K. citizenship in 2004, an attorney for him said at the time.

Police said they were continuing to investigate several other Rwandan genocide suspects living in Britain. Cmdr. Helen Flanagan, head of counterterrorism policing, said that the case shows that the U.K. isn't a safe haven for international crime suspects.

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Khaled Kazziha contributed to this report from Nairobi, Kenya.

The report states that Younes Bekkali, 38, who is originally from Morocco, but is currently living in Miami, was arrested Saturday, two days after the alleged confrontation.

According to the report, deputies responded to the Palmetto Expressway near Northwest 74th Avenue at about 5:37 a.m. Thursday following a multi-vehicle crash.

When deputies arrived, they spoke with an on-duty firefighter who was wearing his full uniform.

The firefighter told investigators he was directing traffic when he saw a purple Dodge Challenger attempting to bypass the restricted crash scene. According to the report, the vehicle was registered to Bekkali.

The firefighter repositioned an MDFR engine to block traffic and protect personnel working at the scene before getting out of the truck and using hand signals to instruct Bekkali to take an alternate route, the report states.

Investigators said Bekkali disregarded those instructions and instead accelerated the Challenger, striking the firefighter in the legs and knocking him back several feet.

Investigators said Bekkali then got out of the car and pushed the firefighter multiple times in the chest before getting back into the vehicle and fleeing northbound on the Palmetto Expressway from Northwest 74th Avenue.

According to the report, Bekkali was located and arrested Saturday before being taken to the MDSO Midwest District station.

After being read his Miranda rights, Bekkali provided what investigators described as a “self-serving statement” and denied being involved in the incident, authorities said.

He was then transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he was booked on charges of aggravated battery on a firefighter with a deadly weapon, battery on a firefighter and failure to obey a firefighter.

As of Tuesday morning, Bekkali was being held at the Metrowest Detention Center without bond.

Wine sales have decreased by more than 20% over a five-year period, causing prices paid for grapes to drop and prompting California growers to take roughly a quarter of the state's vineyards out of production. Many growers are having to decide whether to harvest at a loss, leave grapes on the vine or replace vineyards with crops more in demand such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios and olives.

Third-generation grower Bill Berryhill said it means another year of losing money and wasting hundreds of tons of healthy grapes.

“It’s just sickening,” said Berryhill, standing in a vineyard of unsold merlot grapes. “You raise a beautiful crop, and it’s really a nice vintage this year, and you drop it on the ground. It’s sad. All your work is just down the toilet.”

Berryhill, who owns Berryhill Family Vineyards near Lodi in the San Joaquin Valley, said he can’t find buyers for grapes grown on 200 of his 500 acres (202 hectares). He plans to remove 50 acres (20 hectares) of vineyards when the harvest season is over.

“I will lose money for sure. It’s just a matter of how much,” Berryhill, 68, said. “This has been a big loser for three years now.”

Grape growers take vineyards out of production

At its peak during the pandemic, California had almost 600,000 acres (242,811 hectares) of vineyards, but farmers have removed or stopped actively growing wine grapes on roughly 25% of that land, said Jeff Bitter, president of Allied Grape Growers, which represents about 500 farmers statewide.

This year, about half of California’s wine grape crop entered the harvest season without contracts with buyers, compared with 70 to 80% with contracts in a typical year, Bitter said.

If they’re lucky, growers can sell their uncontracted grapes at a loss to buyers making concentrated syrup.

Even as growers have abandoned or removed tens of thousands of acres of vineyards in California in recent years, too many grapes are still being produced, Bitter said.

“The market is just so depressed that it’s difficult to grow them profitably,” he said. “Demand is not going up. It’s still continuing to decline.”

Kyle Collins, a Lodi-based operations manager with Allied Grape Growers, recently examined ripe grapes in a petite verdot vineyard in Lodi, one of California’s most productive wine regions.

“Unfortunately, we do not have a buyer for these grapes,” Collins said. “That’s unfortunately a reality for not just this vineyard but a lot of us around here.”

Besides hurting vineyards, the drop in sales has hit local businesses and workers, he said.

“That’s not getting into the pockets of the people doing the field labor, the farmworkers,” Collins said. “It does have a trickle effect in the economy.”

Wine sales fall after years of growth

The downturn is a dramatic shift for the wine industry in California, which produces more than 80% of U.S. wine due to its unique geography and Mediterranean climate. For decades, California’s wine industry grew steadily as Americans, particularly baby boomers, developed a taste for cabernet, zinfandel, chardonnay and other varietals.

The most famous wine regions such as Napa and Sonoma Valley produced premium vintages while the Central Valley grew grapes for less expensive labels.

Wine sales peaked during the pandemic in 2021 when restaurants were closed and social gatherings restricted. People stocked up on wine and drank more at home.

But over the past five years, wine sales have declined sharply, and they’re expected to fall further this year.

In the U.S., sales of wine cases declined 23% from 427 million in 2020 to 329 million in 2025, while total wine spending fell 22% from $94 billion to $74 billion, according to First Citizens Bank, formerly Silicon Valley Bank, which produces an annual State of the Wine Industry Report.

Wine industry faces more competition, tariffs and changing tastes

California can’t export its excess inventory because wine consumption is down globally and it’s more expensive to produce in the U.S. than countries such as Argentina and Australia, Bitter said. In 2025, global wine consumption declined 2.7% from 2024 and 14% from 2018, with sharp declines in Europe and China, according to the International Organization of Vine and Wine.

There are a variety of forces driving the decline in wine sales. Baby boomers are aging out of the market while young people are drinking less alcohol due to health and financial concerns. Wine faces competition from craft beer, liquor and canned cocktails as well as cannabis.

“The kids just aren’t drinking as much,” Berryhill said. “And it’s not just wine, it’s whiskey and beer and everything. And then you’ve also got the competition with all the seltzers.”

Tariffs have reduced exports, particularly to Canada, which was the largest foreign buyer of American wine.

“The next step in the healing process is not only balancing supply and demand, but now actually figuring out what it is that the other consumers want,” said Rob McMillan, chief wine strategist at First Citizens Bank.

The industry hopes the market will bottom out soon. Meanwhile, growers are absorbing heavy losses trying to hang on.

Berryhill, whose grandfather started growing grapes nearly 100 years ago, doesn’t plan to give up on wine even though it’s costing him.

“I love growing grapes. It’s in the blood,” Berryhill said. “Because I love them, I can weather this and I’ll fight through it.”

The games taking place on Sunday and Oct. 4 — both on neutral territory — are going ahead following a request by the Football Association of Ireland that UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, suspend the Israel Football Association in protest of Israel’s military action in Gaza. It was rejected by UEFA.

Campaigners stepped up their attempts to get the Ireland team to not play the first match between the teams in Hungary, with a group gathering outside the team’s hotel in Dublin on Monday evening.

More than 160 Irish sportspeople have signed an open letter issued by the Irish Sport for Palestine Group, urging the FAI to reconsider its decision to go ahead with the fixtures and saying: “With this moment you have an opportunity to do the right thing.”

After announcing his squad, Ireland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson said: “Without going into individuals, none of us feel comfortable playing in these games but once we have decided to play them, we all stick together and play as one.”

Hallgrimsson, who is from Iceland, also was asked about how his players would stay focused on the games. He answered: “We’re not playing with genocide, we’re playing against genocide. We’re playing against Israel, we’re not playing with Israel.”

Israel has denied deliberately targeting civilians and pushed back on accusations, including from rights groups, that it committed genocide in Gaza.

Israel has come under genocide accusations repeatedly since launching the war in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The International Court of Justice is hearing an ongoing genocide case against Israel filed by South Africa.

On Monday, the Israel FA responded to Hallgrimsson’s comments with a post on social media that read: “We have contributed to the world and humanity in countless fields, earning an impressive number of Nobel Prizes along the way.

“Unfortunately, we have not yet found a cure for stupidity, ignorance and hypocrisy displayed by (Hallgrimsson). We’re not playing with ignorance, hypocrisy and stupidity, we’re playing against the coach who embodies them.”

An October 2025 ceasefire reduced the intensity of the fighting, but Israel has continued to carry out strikes, killing over 1,375 people since the agreement went into effect, according to local health officials.

The nearly three-year Israel-Hamas war has killed more than 73,821 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and international organizations. It does not distinguish between civilians and militants, but says women and children make up around half the toll.

Why Ireland is playing the games

The calls from back home for Ireland to boycott the matches against Israel have been loud.

In a May friendly against Qatar, Irish activists hurled tennis balls onto the pitch in protest. The balls had “Stop the Game” written on them, referring to the upcoming Nations League matches.

The FAI has argued that boycotting the games could damage its chances of qualifying for the 2028 European Championship, which Ireland is co-hosting with Britain, and that it would proceed with the fixtures in order to avoid “significant and lasting harm.”

Sunday’s game will be staged in Debrecen, Hungary, and the reverse game — a “home” match for Ireland — will be behind closed doors in Bačka Topola, northern Serbia.

Ireland opted to stage the game in neutral territory because of what the FAI described as “operational challenges” that could arise if it was played in Dublin.

Israel has had to relocate, often to Hungary, for its home games for security reasons since October 2023, with UEFA having ruled the country cannot host international matches because of the war.

No tickets for either match will be made available to Irish fans.

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The charges were filed Sept. 8 and stem from an alleged incident in May 2025.

Peters has denied the allegations through his attorney.

The social media personality has gained attention online for “looksmaxxing,” a trend in which people take sometimes extreme measures in an effort to enhance their physical appearance.

Peters also has ties to South Florida.

He is connected to the Bacará Club, a creator-focused nightlife venue in South Beach.

In March, Peters was arrested in Fort Lauderdale on a battery warrant.

A month later, in April, he was hospitalized in Miami following a suspected drug overdose that occurred during one of his livestreams.

The Massachusetts criminal case remains pending, and according to various news outlets, is tied to a civil lawsuit that was filed earlier this year in Florida.

In a letter sent Tuesday, Curtis called on the committee to subpoena Trump Jr. over his business dealings, relationships with foreign individuals and entities, gifts or other benefits he has received and any instances in which his relationship to President Donald Trump, a Republican, “was invoked or understood to provide value.” Curtis called for the same scrutiny of Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, a Democrat.

“The country should not have to accept one standard for the family of a Republican president and another for the family of a Democratic president,” Curtis wrote in the letter addressed to GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the committee, and Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the committee.

The letter comes as a few Republicans have shown a growing willingness to criticize Trump after largely avoiding public breaks with the president during much of his second term. The unpopular war in Iran, high gas prices and mounting concerns about the GOP’s prospects in November’s midterm elections have brought increased scrutiny of the president from within his own party.

The Trumps say it was a generous gift from a dear friend

ProPublica first reported last week that Umar Kremlev, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, helped pay to rent a private island and for a fireworks show when Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson were married in the Bahamas in May.

In a subsequent post on her Instagram page signed by the couple, Bettina Trump wrote that Kremlev, head of the International Boxing Association, was a “dear friend” who “very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding.”

The president, who did not attend his son's wedding, defended Kremlev's involvement but said the money would be paid back.

Curtis calls the funding ‘corruption’

Curtis, first elected to the Senate in 2024, vowed upon taking office not to shy away from disagreeing with Trump. He has publicly broken with the president several times since, including rejecting Trump’s calls to eliminate the Senate filibuster. In a July Wall Street Journal op-ed, Curtis wrote that “under no circumstance” would he support efforts to end or alter the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to advance most legislation in the 100-member chamber.

Curtis' criticism involving Trump’s son goes beyond those policy disagreements. Curtis last Friday called the gift “corruption” and vowed to say more in the coming days.

“A Russian oligarch paid for a lavish wedding after-party for Donald Trump Jr., which to me just stinks. It’s corruption. I don’t like it,” Curtis said in a video posted on social media.

On Tuesday, Curtis wrote on social media that Republicans “nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships” and that they “should not unplug it now.”

Any congressional committee can launch an investigation at any time. In 2017, Grassley led a Senate Judiciary Committee investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, including a meeting that Trump Jr. held with Russians in 2016. The panel has also conducted multiple investigations of Hunter Biden.

Clare Slattery, a spokesperson for the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirmed that the committee had received Curtis’ letter but indicated that a hearing before the end of the year would be difficult, citing the limited Senate schedule and the amount of time it takes to prepare for an investigative hearing. She did not say whether the committee will investigate.

Republicans investigated the Bidens

Grassley worked alongside House Republicans in 2023 and 2024 to investigate whether Hunter Biden used his father’s name and political position to benefit his business dealings with foreign interests. The Biden family dismissed the investigations as politically motivated and denied any wrongdoing.

The GOP effort culminated in a report accusing Joe Biden of participating in a conspiracy to use his public office to enrich his family. But the House never voted on articles of impeachment against him.

“‘Trust us’ was not enough then, and it is not enough now,” Curtis wrote.

Democrats have foreshadowed plans to investigate Trump and his family if they win control of Congress in November, with particular scrutiny on the family’s financial interests. Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement that the revelations surrounding Trump Jr.'s wedding “may be the most serious allegation against you to date.”

The Commerce Ministry and other authorities jointly announced the new regulations ahead of this week's meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. The additions bring the number of chemicals under such controls to 18.

The U.S. has called China the world's largest producer of many of the precursor chemicals used in the illicit production of fentanyl, methamphetamine and other deadly synthetic drugs. It has urged Beijing to take more aggressive action to reduce the flow of unregulated precursor chemicals.

In November 2025, Beijing announced export restrictions on 13 “drug-making” chemicals to the U.S., Canada and Mexico, including chemicals used to produce the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the U.S. every year. In May, China added three additional types of fentanyl-related precursors to the list. The measures followed meetings between Xi and Trump in South Korea in October 2025 and Beijing in May.

China faced a fentanyl-related tariff imposed by the U.S. Beijing then issued a report in March 2025 detailing its efforts to control the illegal trade in fentanyl. Its foreign minister also blasted the U.S. for responding to Beijing’s goodwill with tariffs. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the tariff in February.

According to an arrest report, Ismel Baro-Rodriguez, of southwest Miami-Dade, was arrested Saturday on a charge of aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm.

Deputies said they were dispatched to the area of 26601 S. Dixie Highway at about 8:40 a.m. Saturday after receiving a report that a woman had fallen from a moving vehicle.

When a deputy arrived, he found the woman lying face down in the roadway, the report stated.

According to the report, the victim was transported to Jackson South Medical Center in critical condition. She was in a coma and considered brain dead at the time the arrest report was written, authorities said.

According to the report, investigators reviewed surveillance video from the scene that they said showed Baro-Rodriguez and the victim arriving at the location.

Moments later, the woman was seen on the trunk of the vehicle, according to the report.

Investigators said the vehicle then accelerated at a high rate of speed, causing the woman to fall off and strike her head on the concrete.

The driver then fled in the vehicle in a southeastern direction, the report stated.

Investigators said they later located the vehicle at Baro-Rodriguez’s home, where he was detained.

Baro-Rodriguez was transported to the MDSO South District station. According to the arrest report, after being read his Miranda rights, he provided investigators with a full confession.

Baro-Rodriguez was arrested and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

As of Tuesday morning, the Cuban national was being held at the Metrowest Detention Center on the aggravated battery charge as well as on an immigration hold.

Hundreds of flights were canceled throughout the U.S. Northeast on Monday, including more than 600 into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport, as the outage hit every major airport in the New York City area. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also said in an online post that “it will take some time to clear all existing delays” despite the repairs.

The Newark airport showed about 40 delays and nearly 60 cancellations early Tuesday, according to Flightaware.com, a global flight tracking and aviation data site.

The primary communications line at the Federal Aviation Administration facility in Philadelphia had failed earlier Monday, while the backup fiber optic line was inadvertently severed by railroad construction workers. The failures left controllers without radar or communications for hours.

The outage brought commercial air traffic to a near-standstill at Newark for much of the day, with no commercial flights landing at the airport from about 9:40 a.m. to just after 5:20 p.m. local time, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.

More than 200 flights into and out of Philadelphia International Airport were also canceled, while disruptions hit LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York. Flights had resumed by Monday evening.

Some airlines were allowing customers to change flights without charge. The FAA advised travelers to check the status of their flights before heading to the airport.

The outage occurred just as President Donald Trump and numerous foreign leaders were flying into New York City for the U.N. General Assembly. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney missed an event Monday on the sidelines of the General Assembly because of the flight disruptions, but his office said he had arrived in New York by Monday night.

The technical problems stem from the same FAA facility in Philadelphia that caused numerous disruptions at the Newark airport last spring.

Regional control centers like these have two lines that carry radar and communications data in and out: the primary and the backup. The FAA said a circuit on the primary failed Monday morning, and when the system tried to switch to the backup, workers discovered that the fiber optic line had been cut.

Earlier in the day, Duffy said an Amtrak construction crew was to blame. Amtrak, however, pointed to a New Jersey Transit construction crew that was working in the area between Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey.

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AP reporters Rio Yamat and Jessica Hill contributed to this report from Las Vegas.

The Zidane era starting for France at Turkey and Germany under Klopp in the Netherlands highlight the Nations League program filling the first four-game, two-weekend break on the FIFA international calendar where coaches are the fresh attraction as much as their players.

Thomas Tuchel is a third Champions League winner among the 54 European national teams in action, with his England hosting Spain on Saturday in what was so close to being the World Cup final in July.

Spain coach Luis de la Fuente — with a fresh contract extension through 2032 — is the current king of international coaches as a low-key hire in 2022 promoted from within the federation who then won European and world titles at the first attempt.

Not bad for a 65-year-old who coached the grand total of 11 first-team club games in his career, all in the Spanish second tier, 15 years ago for Alavés.

New FIFA-backed calendar for early season international break

This break from club soccer in the European fall for national teams is the first in the reshaped international match calendar managed by FIFA. That schedule mandates when clubs must release players to national teams.

Club leaders had for years wanted fewer but longer international breaks to limit disruption in their seasons and ensure players from outside Europe made fewer long-haul flights to represent their country.

FIFA pushed the idea in 2021 in its failed plan to play World Cups every two years instead of four. In 2023, FIFA approved combining two-game breaks in September and October into a single block of four.

Zidane’s patient wait to coach France

Zidane was an elegant, all-time great player and then a dominant coach. He won three straight Champions League titles in his first 2½-year spell at Real Madrid into 2018.

He finally got to succeed former club and country teammate Didier Deschamps, and greatness is expected from Zidane’s mentoring of a richly talented Les Bleus squad captained by Kylian Mbappé.

“I’ve waited five years for this chance, so that’s why I’m a bit emotional,” the 54-year-old Zidane said in July after getting the job that seemed destined since his second Madrid spell ended in 2021.

Zidane inherits a team stopped twice with ease at the semifinals by De la Fuente’s Spain in the past two tournaments.

France did beat Spain in the 2021 Nations League final. The path back starts Friday against Turkey at Izmit then three days later in Brussels against Belgium. Italy and Belgium then come to Stade de France.

Klopp waving the flag for a Germany united

Klopp was denied a first Champions League with Liverpool in 2018 by Zidane’s Madrid hat trick in Kyiv. The title arrived one year later against Tottenham.

Two years after leaving Anfield, Klopp takes over a Germany team seeming in need of his refreshed energy and inspiration. Germany last won a World Cup knockout game in the 2014 final and has not reached a Euros final since 2008.

Klopp made a big impact announcing his first squad: picking 44 players — two groups to play two games each — and wearing a cap with a slogan designed to reclaim the national flag from far-right politics.

The Klopp era starts at neighboring Netherlands on Thursday, hosting Greece in Augsburg and Serbia in Munich, then going to Greece on Oct. 4.

Tuchel 2.0 for England looks beyond World Cup semifinal loss

The other German star coach in play this week, Tuchel, had England within 10 minutes of reaching a first World Cup final in 60 years.

He claimed last week “99.9%” of fans don’t focus on his choice of substitutions and tactics to defend a one-goal lead late in the semifinal that Argentina won 2-1. Still, it’s a memory seared into the Three Lions’ national soccer story.

Tuchel can start shaping a new narrative at Wembley on Saturday against World Cup winner Spain. Their group also includes Croatia and the Czech Republic.

Ronaldo’s Portugal career goes on and finally faces Haaland

Any doubt 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo would continue with Portugal after another World Cup elimination should have ended before the tournament was done. The federation hired a new coach in 72-year-old Jorge Jesus, whose previous job was leading Ronaldo and Al Nassr to a Saudi league title in May.

Ronaldo was duly named in the first Jesus squad last week, looking to add to 233 national team games and 146 goals.

Portugal is the Nations League champion and starts its defense Thursday hosting Wales.

It should be a first Erling Haaland vs. Ronaldo meeting Sunday in Oslo. Only one of Ronaldo’s 233 Portugal games was against Norway, in 2011 when Haaland was aged 10. Now 26, Haaland already has 62 goals for Norway, including seven in just five games at the World Cup.

New coaching eras for World Cup teams

Scotland now has a Belgian coach (Sebastian Pocognoli ), Belgium a Dutch coach ( Mark van Bommel ), and the Netherlands a Spanish coach (Xavi Hernández).

Xavi has replaced Ronald Koeman for the second time in their careers, having followed the Dutch great into the Barcelona dugout in 2021. Xavi now leads the team he helped beat in the 2010 World Cup final.

Italy has not been a World Cup team for 12 years but looked back at its European Championship title win in 2021 to hire Roberto Mancini for a second time.

Nations League format leading to Final Four

The 16 top-ranked teams play in four round-robin groups through November. The top two in each group advance to quarterfinals played over two legs in March.

A Final Four mini-tournament from June 9-13 will be hosted by one of the semifinalists.

A further 16 teams play in each of the second-tier League B and third-tier League C, with six low-ranked teams in League D. Russia is still banned from international soccer.

The final standings will help some teams enter qualifying playoffs in March 2028 for that year's European Championship.

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The conflict between the United States and Iran, the latest fighting in Yemen, and Israel’s wars with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon are expected to be high on the agenda.

President Donald Trump, who has struggled to find an endgame to the Iran war after more than six months, is set to meet with Gulf Arab leaders but not with Israel's prime minister.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Full coverage is available here.

Iran's president says Iranians wary of more talks

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian struck a defiant note as he boarded a plane from Tehran to New York for the General Assembly, accusing the U.S. of doing “everything they can to block every possible route in order to force our nation and our people to surrender, because they were unable to do that through military means.”

Pezeshkian added that Iran is wary of another round of talks, having twice been attacked by the U.S. and Israel during active negotiations.

Gulf states call on Iran to halt attacks

The regional Gulf Cooperation Council on Tuesday called for Iran and its allied groups to cease their attacks on Arab Gulf states and allow free transit through two crucial maritime checkpoints, according to a statement from the Gulf Cooperation Council.

Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi, the council's head, said disruptions to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait have rattled oil markets and supply chains worldwide, triggering “worldwide fallout.”

Iran has said it attacked U.S. bases in the region as part of its response to the U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic.

AlBudaiwi made the comments in a meeting with Swiss officials on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

Trump is expected to meet representatives from the council on Tuesday in New York.

Netanyahu is not expected to meet with Trump while in New York

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who launched the Iran war along with the U.S. on Feb. 28, is also heading to New York for a brief trip, but is not expected to meet with Trump.

Netanyahu will be in New York for less than 24 hours, during which time Trump is scheduled to be in Washington for a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Netanyahu is up for reelection at the end of October. In the past, he has boasted of his close ties with Trump, but that relationship appears to be deteriorating as the war drags on. A meeting with Trump could have bolstered Netanyahu’s image ahead of the vote.

Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N. on Thursday is expected to garner protests, both inside and outside of the U.N.

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani reiterated calls in media interviews for the federal government to arrest Netanyahu while he is visiting New York. An arrest is unlikely since the U.S. and Israel are not members of the International Criminal Court and Trump has put sanctions on court staffers in a campaign to dismantle it. Netanyahu accused Mamdani of “inciting violence against New York Jews.”

6 killed in strikes in a Yemen port city controlled by Houthis

The Houthi-run Health Ministry in Yemen said at least six people, including two children and a woman, were killed in airstrikes Tuesday in the port city of Mokha, which the Iranian-backed Houthis captured earlier this month. The strikes came hours after the internationally recognized government accused the Houthis of attacking an open public market in the province of Lahj, close to the epicenter of fighting on the western coast.

Fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed forces has reignited Yemen's civil war and led to attacks on Saudi Arabia.

The foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. called on Iran to stop supporting the Houthis.

“Their reprehensible actions constitute a dangerous pattern of escalation that risks further exacerbating the conflict, undermining international trade and creating global economic instability,” the ministers said ahead of the U.N. General Assembly.

US and Iraq discuss efforts to disarm Iraqi militias

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed Baghdad’s efforts to disarm the country’s network of militias on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

Al-Zaidi’s office said Tuesday that he had “reiterated the government’s determination to fulfill its sovereign responsibilities and move forward with measures to ensure that all arms remain under state authority.”

The U.S. State Department said that Rubio and al-Zaidi had “agreed on the importance of Iraq dismantling terrorist militias, preventing attacks from Iraqi territory, and fully exercising its sovereignty.”

Al-Zaidi initially set Sept. 30 as the deadline for non-state groups to disarm, but has since pushed the deadline after some of the country’s most powerful Iran-backed militias announced they have no plans to give up their arms.

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Surveillance video shows Josuan Delgado and Brian Lores stealing at 12:15 p.m. on Aug. 26, from the Publix Supermarket at 1657 North Hiatus Road, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

Surveillance videos also showed Delgado and Lores, both 23, stealing about $30,660 worth of LEGO toys from several Target stores in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, according to law enforcement.

Inmate records show Miami-Dade corrections had been holding Delgado, a felon with 2025 convictions, and Lores since Sept. 10. They were both at the Metrowest Detention Center on Monday afternoon.

MIAMI-DADE CASES

There were three cases in August and three in September in Miami, Miami Lakes, Westchester, Aventura, and Kendall West. These involved more than $15,250 of stolen LEGO toys, according to Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies.

Deputies accused Lores and Delgado of stealing about $2,660 in toys on Aug. 5 at 7795 SW 40 St., in Westchester, and returning to steal about $3,070 in toys on Aug. 16 from the same store.

Lores and Delgado stole about $1,170 in toys on Aug. 19 at 15005 SW 88 St., in Kendall West, and about $4,090 on Sept. 6, at 5601 NW 183 St., in Miami Lakes, according to MDSO deputies.

Lores and Delgado stole about $3,760 in toys on Sept. 9 at 21265 Biscayne Boulevard in Aventura, according to a deputy’s arrest report.

Miami police officers accused Lores and Delgado of stealing about $3,290 in toys on Sept. 4 at 3825 NW Seventh St., near the West Flagler area.

MIAMI-DADE CHARGES

As of Monday, Miami-Dade prosecutors had filed three felony cases against Lores and two felony cases against Delgado, also known as Josuan Delagdogordillo, records show.

On Sept. 11, prosecutors filed third-degree grand theft charges against Lores and Delgado in the Sept. 4 case with MPD, and retail theft charges against both in the Aug. 6 case with MDSO.

On Sept. 18, prosecutors filed a third-degree grand theft charge against Lores in a case with MDSO.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carmen Cabarga was set to preside over the new cases.

MIAMI-DADE CONVICTIONS

Last year, Delgado had two cases with the Hialeah Police Department and the MDSO.

In the MDSO case, Delgado was convicted of fleeing and eluding police felony, a reckless driving misdemeanor, and a tag misdemeanor charge.

In the HPD case, Delgado was convicted of a felony charge of uttering a forged instrument.

In both cases, Cabarga sentenced Delgado to a two-year probation that was supposed to end on Oct. 22, 2027.

Related story: 2 men accused in $30K Target theft spree involving Lego sets across Miami-Dade, Broward counties

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Harris, the first Black person to serve as vice president, is appearing at events in Detroit aimed at building support among Black voters. She will attend a roundtable on Black maternal health with El-Sayed and appear separately at an event hosted by the Detroit chapter of the NAACP, according to her spokesperson.

Her visit comes at a pivotal time in the closely watched Senate race between El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman. If Democrats hold Michigan’s Senate seat, they'd still need to win four more currently held by the GOP if they are to win control of the 100-member chamber in November. If Rogers wins, their challenge would be even greater.

Rogers has been campaigning in Detroit, a predominantly Black city where his campaign is optimistic he can pick up support from voters hesitant to support El-Sayed. Voters in Wayne County, home to Detroit, supported Rep. Haley Stevens over El-Sayed in the August Democratic primary, favoring the more establishment-aligned Democrat who worked in President Barack Obama's administration. The stops with Harris, who made history as the nation's first Black woman to be a major-party presidential nominee, come as El-Sayed is trying to win over voters in the Democratic stronghold.

The race is also seen as a referendum on the viability of a progressive platform on a national level. El-Sayed is running to the left of the Democratic Party establishment, including advocating for universal healthcare and opposing U.S. arms sales to Israel.

Harris’ own relationship with the progressive wing of her party has been strained in the past, particularly as she courted moderate Republican voters during her last presidential campaign, against Republican Donald Trump. Some within her party objected to her support for Israel during the war in Gaza, an issue that has divided Democrats and contributed to Harris’ 2024 loss in Michigan, which has a sizable Arab American population.

El-Sayed is an outspoken critic of Israel who has described the war as a genocide against Palestinians, an accusation rejected by Israel. Some Democratic Jewish voters are supporting Rogers because of El-Sayed's stance. He has apologized for some past controversial comments and said he is committed to Jewish safety.

Harris’ visit to Michigan also comes as questions swirl about her intentions to run for president in 2028. Harris has not commented on her plans but is also stopping in Nevada and Georgia, two other important states on the political map. Michigan will be the fifth state to vote in the Democratic presidential primary.

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Rep. Robert Garcia, Rep. Bennie Thompson and Rep. Maxwell Frost shared photographs from the report, showing dirty and overflowing restrooms, along with detainees they say are forced to sleep on the concrete floor or in chains.

The report also states, “Whistleblowers warn that, among other abuses, ICE is detaining people, including men, women, families, and elderly people with chronic medical conditions for days to weeks in abusive and life-threatening conditions, including overcrowded cells, prolonged shackling, inadequate access to medical care and hygiene, insufficient food, and limited to no legal access.”

Garcia is the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

He released a statement, which read:

“The Trump Administration is trying to cover up these disgusting and unsafe conditions and escape accountability, while countless lives are put in danger. ICE must immediately put an end to this inhumane treatment and give us answers on this horrific situation.”

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz made a surprise visit to the Miramar facility in July and said she saw detainees in conditions she wouldn’t wish upon her worst enemies.

“Halloween Wars” kicked off its “Back From the Dead” season with 10 bakers vying for the title of champion and a prize $25,000.

One of the bakers is from right here in South Florida.

Local 10’s Jason Carter caught up with Miami chef Marian Mulero to get the lowdown on competition in the kitchen, and their full conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

The decision announced late Monday by District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath, who has overseen the investigation into Nolan Wells’ death, comes after months of intense speculation about how he went missing from the bustling party and why the friends who ferried Wells to Horn Island left without him.

The grand jury found no evidence of criminal conduct and said that based on various factors, including the position and condition of Wells' body when found, his death was “consistent with drowning.” It also noted that examinations of his body by the Mississippi medical examiner’s office and an independent forensic pathologist hired by Wells’ family found the cause and manner of death to be undetermined.

“If credible evidence comes to light in the future that suggests Mr. Wells’ death was non-accidental, this matter should be represented to the Jackson County Grand Jury for further consideration,” the grand jury’s report said.

During its investigation into whether crimes were committed, the grand jury issued 132 subpoenas and heard from 43 witnesses through direct testimony, sworn statements and recorded interviews, according to the report. It weighed evidence, including cellphone data and forensic reports, videos and GPS data.

Teen's family is upset with the investigation findings

Lawyers for Wells’ family, including civil rights attorney Ben Crump, said the grand jury’s report leaves more questions than answers and accused the district attorney of ending the investigation despite not determining what caused blunt force trauma to the back of Wells’ head and body.

They also renewed their request that the U.S. Department of Justice conduct an independent investigation, and called on McIlrath to release the investigation file and the medical examiner's full autopsy report.

“Today, the State of Mississippi is attempting to close the chapter on Nolan Wells’ death without getting to the truth,” Crump said in a statement.

Crump, Wells' family and the NAACP were expected to hold a news conference Tuesday.

Prosecutor defends the probe and condemns ‘false narratives’

In a 15-minute video posted Monday on social media, McIlrath expressed frustration about inaccurate speculation by some members of the public about what happened to Wells. She also said lawyers for Wells' family told her office last month that their own investigation found no evidence of crimes.

“What I cannot accept, what I cannot ignore, is that false narratives that Nolan’s death was somehow racially motivated, and that this is a case of another young Black man denied justice by a racist, corrupt system, were perpetuated and allowed to spread. There is not a shred of evidence to support these narratives,” she said.

Wells disappeared while celebrating the Fourth of July with friends on Horn Island. His body was discovered on the island’s northwestern tip two days after he was last seen.

Shortly after Wells was found dead, Jackson County sheriff’s officials said investigators didn't suspect foul play, sparking widespread concerns about whether law enforcement would conduct a thorough investigation in a state with a brutal history of racism and civil rights violations. McIlrath repeatedly promised a fair and thorough investigation into his death.

Questions remain about friends' actions

Wells’ parents and their lawyers voiced suspicions after Wells’ friends left the island without him, saying he wanted to stay behind and talk to a girl. Wells’ phone was on the boat that took him to the island, which was later towed partway back to the mainland after taking on water.

Crump and Wells’ parents have cast doubt on why a teenager would choose to stay on an island without his phone. They also speculated that messages on his phone had been tampered with and alleged his friends were reluctant to turn over his phone and keys. Lawyers for Wells’ friends said the friends are cooperating with authorities.

The grand jury said it was given a report from Crump’s experts on the contents of Wells’ phone. While the specific contents weren't detailed in the grand jury's redacted report, the panel noted that Crump’s team didn't turn over anything that indicated there were criminal actions related to Nolan’s death.

The grand jury report said that it wasn't unusual or suspicious for people to return from the island on boats they didn't take to get there. And it noted that Wells’ phone wasn't the only one to travel back to the mainland without its owner that day.

Grand jury responds to speculation about the case

The panel also said public attacks on the boat passengers and Wells’ family and friends “are malicious, false, and have no truth in fact or evidence.”

A witness testified to the grand jury that he saw Wells slip awkwardly off the side of a boat around 3:30 p.m. on July 4, but that Wells continued to socialize after the fall and didn't appear injured, the report said. The panel said it couldn't determine whether the fall caused the bruising on Wells' body.

The grand jury also debunked public assertions that Wells was the only Black person on Horn Island on July 4.

“These false assertions have led to misidentification, speculation and rumors concerning the death of Mr. Wells,” it said.

The report concluded with the panel expressing sympathy for Wells’ family. “The evidence received in this matter convinced the Grand Jury of Mr. Wells’ outstanding character,” it said.

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Chinese 13-year-old Yu Zidi did not swim on Tuesday after winning gold the first two days in the 200-meter butterfly and the 200 individual medley. She will swim the 400 IM on Wednesday, her last individual event.

China won 28 gold medals in swimming three years ago at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, and seems on target to break that mark. Three more days remain.

Peng Xuwei took the women's 200 backstroke (2 minutes, 5.77 seconds) and teammate Zhang Zhanshuo won the men's 1,500 free (14:42.42). The other two Chinese gold medalist were Li Bingjie in the women's 400 free (4:02.71), and the men's 4x100 medley relay (3:27.89).

That time not far off the world record held by the United States (3:26.78).

The non-Chinese winners on Tuesday were Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong in the women's 100 free (52.45), and Japan's Yumeki Kojima in the 400 IM (4:07.02).

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Authorities said the bodies were discovered inside a home located at 8330 Pine Drive.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, a 911 call came in at 7:12 a.m. from someone who reported that two people had been found unresponsive inside the home.

The address is located within the campus of Children’s Harbor, which provides transitional housing for young adults aging out of foster care.

Children’s Harbor President Theresa Kennedy told Local 10 News’ Liane Morejon that the unit in question does not belong to the company and is owned and managed by the city of Pembroke Pines.

According to BSO, officers with the Pembroke Pines Police Department arrived to the unit and found two people, who were pronounced dead at the scene.

Pembroke Pines police requested assistance from BSO, which is now leading the investigation.

BSO officials described the deaths as an isolated incident and added that there are no threats to the community at this time.

A neighbor told Local 10 News they heard gunshots overnight.

“I just heard ‘boom, boom, boom,’ and I thought, ‘Well, that’s not thunder,’” said Nori Selina. “I came out at 7 (a.m.) and police said two people were inside deceased.”

Authorities have yet to release the identities of the people who were found dead.

“It’s two people -- the guy just comes outside and smokes cigarettes,” said Selina. “They just said hi -- no problems before. This is crazy.”

Local 10 has also reached out to the city manager of Pembroke Pines for more information.

Su muerte y las preguntas que la rodean condensan un gran obstáculo para que el presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva venza al senador Flávio Bolsonaro en las elecciones nacionales de octubre.

El aumento de la violencia y las críticas a la respuesta del gobierno podrían afectar a Lula en su estado bastión, donde obtuvo el 72% de los votos en la segunda vuelta de 2022 frente al entonces presidente Jair Bolsonaro.

El presidente, de 80 años, necesita mantener una amplia ventaja entre los 11 millones de baianos —como se llama a los residentes del estado— para derrotar al hijo de su predecesor, el senador Flávio Bolsonaro. El exsindicalista aparece en las encuestas por debajo de sus resultados de hace cuatro años en Bahía, y la seguridad pública aparece como la razón principal.

Aun así, la campaña del presidente confía en el atractivo de sus programas sociales emblemáticos entre los baianos para volver a ganar por un margen amplio.

Preguntas en torno al asesinato de Júnior

Nacido y criado en la colorida capital de Bahía, Júnior murió tras desangrarse durante horas en una casa abandonada de una favela, con un disparo que le atravesó la arteria braquial, cerca de la axila.

Agentes de la policía del estado de Bahía presentes en el lugar afirmaron que quedó atrapado en un tiroteo entre facciones rivales y sospechan que estaba implicado. Su familia sostuvo que no tenía vínculos con bandas y que, en cambio, fue asesinado al azar por fuerzas estatales durante una redada sorpresa no provocada.

“Mi confianza hoy está solo en Dios, en mis oraciones... No puedo decir que me sienta protegida (por la policía)", dijo Magnólia Nascimento, hermana de Júnior. "Me duele decirlo, pero muchas veces, al final, ellos son los criminales”. Añadió que espera que el próximo presidente mejore la seguridad pública y frene la expansión de las bandas, como han prometido Lula y el senador Bolsonaro.

Tanto los policías entrevistados por The Associated Press como la familia de Júnior coinciden en que su estado, Bahía, nunca había sido tan violento: cinco de las 10 ciudades más mortíferas del país están allí, según la organización sin fines de lucro Foro Brasileño de Seguridad Pública. Salvador es la capital estatal más mortífera del país, con casi 53 muertes violentas por cada 100.000 habitantes, de acuerdo con los datos más recientes de 2024.

Algunos votantes culpan a la migración de bandas criminales nacionales hacia Bahía. Otros apuntan al Partido de los Trabajadores de Lula, que gobierna el estado —y, por lo tanto, a la policía local— desde 2006. Sostienen que no han logrado que la policía sea menos letal ni detener el flujo de drogas y armas, y que no han invertido lo suficiente en educación.

Lula ha intentado reforzar sus credenciales en materia de seguridad con la promesa de crear un ministerio de seguridad pública y dedicar más recursos federales a combatir la violencia si es reelegido.

El senador Bolsonaro ha hecho campaña con una postura de mano dura contra el crimen, incluida la construcción de enormes prisiones en todo el país inspiradas en el modelo del presidente salvadoreño Nayib Bukele, aunque no ha abordado directamente la violencia en Bahía.

Al ser consultado sobre la crisis de violencia en su bastión en una entrevista periodística el 31 de agosto, un día después de que mataran a Júnior, Lula respondió: “No sean injustos con Bahía”.

“Ningún gobernador ha resuelto la situación de la seguridad pública”, agregó Lula.

Las muertes violentas ya forman parte de la vida en Bahía

Los baianos presencian tragedias como la de Júnior a diario a través de populares programas de noticias afines a la policía local, que muestran escenas sangrientas de crímenes, detenciones y videos de tiroteos. Los presentadores y reporteros a menudo se burlan de los activistas de derechos humanos, a quienes retratan como indulgentes con el delito. Uno es famoso por tocar una armónica para celebrar muertes a manos de la policía.

El Comando Vermelho, con base en Río de Janeiro, domina las zonas más pobres de Bahía con grafitis de “CV”, sus iniciales en portugués, y se enfrenta a su principal rival, el Bando de Malucos, una banda local vinculada al mayor sindicato criminal de Brasil, el Primer Comando de la Capital (PCC).

El gobierno de Trump designó a estos grupos como organizaciones terroristas a principios de este año, una medida que Lula criticó por considerarla una interferencia electoral destinada a impulsar al senador Bolsonaro. Analistas señalan que estas bandas pasaron la última década expandiéndose hacia Bahía para aprovechar lucrativos mercados de exportación de drogas en Europa y Asia, a medida que Brasil desarrolló más puertos y aeropuertos.

“Todo estado que se convierte en un puesto comercial estratégico para el tráfico queda desgarrado por el crimen organizado. Por eso se ven esos estados con cifras de violencia en aumento”, explicó Maria Isabel Couto, directora de datos y transparencia de Fogo Cruzado, una organización sin fines de lucro que monitorea la violencia en Brasil.

“Eso no significa que sean estados violentos; son golpeados por esos grupos y también por la reacción de la policía en muchos casos”, apuntó.

Lula lidera con la asistencia social, pero a sus partidarios les preocupa la violencia

Lula o sus aliados han ganado todas las elecciones en el estado desde 2002.

En 2022, Lula obtuvo más de 6 millones de votos en Bahía, frente a los 2,3 millones de Jair Bolsonaro, una victoria impulsada por el recuerdo de sus programas sociales. Ese resultado fue vital para su ajustada victoria nacional por 2,1 millones de votos.

Desde entonces, Lula ha ampliado la asistencia social en Bahía, incluido su programa emblemático Bolsa Família, aumentando los beneficios de 58.000 millones de reales (11.300 millones de dólares) bajo Bolsonaro en 2022 a 87.200 millones de reales (17.000 millones de dólares) el año pasado, según cifras del gobierno. Esta semana incrementó los beneficios de la iniciativa en un 15%, una medida que algunos críticos dijeron que busca elevar su popularidad antes de las elecciones.

Sin embargo, el aumento del crimen ha generado tensión política.

La profesora de educación física Tiali Doria, una firme partidaria de Lula, observa que los votantes más pobres ahora esperan estrategias claras de seguridad pública, en particular para abordar la violencia policial.

“En las regiones más pobres, la policía te pone contra la pared, no te dice buenas noches, no te pregunta quién eres y te trata como sospechoso”, comentó Doria tras un mitin de Lula en el centro, cerca de puntos críticos del narcotráfico.

El senador Bolsonaro, en cambio, casi no ha hecho campaña en la ciudad. Más que conquistar a los votantes de Lula, la clave podría ser la participación. Algunos baianos necesitan buenas razones para salir de casa en la primera vuelta el 4 de octubre —y, posiblemente, en una segunda vuelta el 25 de octubre— para votar otra vez por el presidente.

“Voté por Lula la última vez, pero ahora no estoy convencida”, comentó Jane Souza, dueña de un puesto de comida en el centro histórico de Salvador, que mencionó tanto la violencia como la economía.

“Pero creo que Flávio Bolsonaro sólo quiere sacar a su padre de la cárcel”, añadió.

Algunos partidarios de Lula se mantienen fieles

Aun así, muchos simpatizantes de Lula se niegan a asociar el aumento de la violencia con el veterano líder. Una de ellos es la hermana de Júnior.

Nascimento, que recibe pagos de Bolsa Família de unos 116 dólares al mes, hizo un curso patrocinado por el gobierno para convertirse en enfermera. Por otra iniciativa gubernamental, por fin está obteniendo su licencia de conducir.

“Estoy usando los recursos de mi gobierno para poder levantarme”, afirmó Nascimento. “Voto por Lula porque voto por Lula”.

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Police officers responded at about 5 a.m. on Monday to a home at 4606 NW 5th Ave., according to Officer Kenia Fallat, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department.

“The individual was pronounced deceased on scene by Miami Fire Rescue. One person is currently being questioned in connection with the incident,” Fallat wrote in a statement.

The shooter reported firing at an intruder. A crime scene forensics van was parked on Northwest Fifth Avenue, between 46th and 47th streets.

Detectives 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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Online voting began Tuesday for Fat Bear Week, the annual contest that pits the rotund residents of Katmai National Park and Preserve against each other for the title of most oversized ursine.

Last year's winner, Chunk — known officially as Bear 32 — is hungry for a repeat. Chunk's weight in 2025 was estimated at 1,200 pounds, which gave him a narrow victory. This year he's back and facing corpulent competition like Gully — aka Bear 903 — the offspring of two-time champion Grazer.

The contest, which is in its 12th year, celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, which extends from the state’s southwest corner toward the Aleutian Islands. Fat Bear Week was started in 2014 as an interactive way to inform the public about brown bears, the coastal cousins of grizzlies.

The event this year features 16 bears facing off in a single-elimination, bracket-style tournament. All voting is done online at www.fatbearweek.org, with the winner declared Sept. 29. The public can watch the bears on explore.org’s livestream cameras before deciding on their favorite.

“Fat bears are successful bears,” the nonprofit's website says. They gorge on the abundant salmon that return to the Brooks River starting in late June in order to accumulate fat reserves, sometimes chomping the fish in midair as they make their way upstream to spawn.

Adult male brown bears typically weigh 600 to 900 pounds (about 270 to 410 kilograms) in midsummer. By the time they are ready to hibernate after feasting on migrating and spawning salmon — each eats as many as 30 fish per day — large males can weigh well over 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms). Females are about one-third smaller. During winter hibernation, the bears do not eat or drink and lose one-third of their body weight.

Voters in the online contest can review before-and-after photos of the bears, lean at the start of summer and fattened at the end. The bears are not actually weighed — imagine that process — and some fans choose their favorite based on their looks or backstory.

To be featured in the contest, the bears must frequent the area around the river.

The live cameras at Brooks Falls captured the moments in 2024 when mother bear 128 Grazer's cub slipped over the waterfall and floated into the fishing spot occupied by Chunk, who attacked and injured the cub. Grazer fought Chunk, but the cub ultimately died. After the dramatic fight, voting fans handed Grazer a victory over Chunk. Then Chunk returned in 2025 to take the title.

La tormenta tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 257 km/h (160 mph), informó el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos en Miami. Se considera que las tormentas alcanzan categoría 5 si tienen vientos que superan los 250 km/h (157 mph).

Polo se desplazaba hacia el este a 9 km/h (casi 6 mph) y se pronosticó que giraría bruscamente hacia el noroeste y el oeste-noroeste. En esa trayectoria, Polo rozaría la costa mexicana durante unos días sin tocar tierra directamente.

Se emitió un aviso de tormenta tropical para parte de la costa desde el sur de Manzanillo, en el estado de Colima, hasta Tecpan de Galeana, en el estado de Guerrero, lo que significa que eran posibles condiciones de tormenta tropical en el área dentro de dos días. Polo se ubicaba a unos 530 kilómetros (330 millas) al sur-sureste de Manzanillo a última hora del lunes.

Se esperaban lluvias intensas con potencial de inundaciones y deslaves para las zonas costeras de los estados de Guerrero y Michoacán hasta el jueves. Podrían registrarse cantidades menores de lluvia en porciones costeras de los estados de Oaxaca, Colima y Jalisco.

Más al oeste, en el océano Pacífico, la tormenta tropical Odalys estaba lejos de tierra, pero se esperaba que se convirtiera en huracán a mediados de semana. Odalys tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 85 km/h (50 mph) el lunes.

En el océano Atlántico, la tormenta tropical Fay se había debilitado a 65 km/h (40 mph) al suroeste de las Azores y se pronosticó que se convertiría en remanente a última hora del martes.

Aún no se han formado huracanes en el Atlántico este año, y este año ha establecido un récord por el mayor tiempo que ha transcurrido desde el inicio de una temporada sin un huracán. Los efectos de El Niño de este año sofocan las tormentas antes de que ganen fuerza.

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The ongoing exchange of daily aerial attacks, while positions on the battlefield’s front line barely change, provided a backdrop to the visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States.

Zelenskyy was due to meet other world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. The Ukrainian leader is hoping to recruit their help to end Russia’s more than 4½-year-old full-scale invasion of his country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin isn't due to attend the annual event.

The war, which Western officials say has killed more than 500,000 Russian troops, has had global repercussions. Western analysts estimate that Ukraine has recorded more than 500,000 military casualties, including up to 140,000 deaths.

The repeated attacks on Russian refineries, following Moscow’s strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, have caused international shortages of diesel and price spikes, according to Trump. However, the global crunch also came after the Iran war led to curtailed oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

Zelenskyy also wants help to ensure the flow of Ukrainian grain and other farm products to world markets through the Black Sea. Russian attacks on cargo vessels have severely disrupted Kyiv’s exports, hurting its economy and threatening global supplies.

Russia and Ukraine have in recent years accounted for around 30% of the world’s wheat exports and 12% of corn exports, most of it shipped through the Black Sea. But last month, attacks slashed both countries’ agricultural exports by two-thirds, Thomas de Waal of the Brussels-based think tank Carnegie Europe said in a report Tuesday.

“The lack of that grain in world markets puts several African countries at risk of famine, while world cereal prices, already pushed up by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, could rise even higher,” it said.

Zelenskyy takes de-escalation proposals to New York

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that his country would provide Ukraine with more radars to help protect its power grid.

He said on social media that he discussed with Trump the possibility of a truce between Moscow and Kyiv on strikes on energy infrastructure and a “moratorium” on Black Sea attacks.

Zelenskyy began his New York visit by meeting with U.S. senators, thanking them for what he called strong bipartisan support for Ukraine and for recently passing a tougher Russian sanctions bill that Trump has signed into law.

Peace and security will be closer once the bill is fully implemented, he said.

Zelenskyy said on social media that he briefed senators on his proposals for de-escalation measures that he intends to discuss with Trump later Tuesday.

In Kyiv, Iryna Panina, 36, woke around 2 a.m. Tuesday as a jet-powered Russian drone approached her home. It blew out a window and left her apartment covered in wreckage.

She said she has lost hope in leaders' peace efforts.

“As an ordinary person just trying to live and survive each day, I find it hard to believe they fully understand what’s actually happening, how hard it is, and how much ordinary people are suffering,” she told The Associated Press.

Zelenskyy also plans to again press Trump to send more U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems that Kyiv desperately needs to stop Russia’s ballistic missiles.

Ukrainian special forces say they hit a Russian refinery

Ukraine said that it struck the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Samara, southeast of Moscow, in an overnight attack.

Several drones hit their targets, sparking a large fire at the facility, according to a statement from Ukrainian special forces.

The refinery, owned by Rosneft, is a key fuel supplier for central Russia, producing gasoline, diesel, fuel oil and other petroleum products, the statement said. Ukraine said that it struck the same refinery last June.

One person was killed and four others were wounded in the Samara attack, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. He said that “the enemy targeted industrial facilities,” but didn’t specify which ones.

The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday said that its forces downed 297 Ukrainian drones over 14 Russian regions overnight, as well as the illegally annexed Crimean Peninsula.

Russia says it struck missile plant and ammunition factory

Russia’s overnight attack on Ukraine included anti-ship missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and more than 200 drones, Ukraine’s air force said.

The strikes killed four people in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, said Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration. A drone also killed a woman in the northern Sumy region, local police said.

The strikes across Ukrainian regions damaged homes, businesses and storage facilities, wounding at least five people, authorities said. Five people were wounded in the capital, Kyiv, according to officials.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that its forces struck metallurgical and chemical industries, the fuel and energy sector, and the military-industrial complex, as well as port infrastructure facilities in four regions of Ukraine.

They included a Fire Point plant in Kyiv producing components for long-range cruise missiles and a tobacco factory in the central Poltava region used to make small arms ammunition, it said.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted Tuesday, ″we just agreed on a free trade deal,″ but EU officials later clarified that it was a preliminary agreement, and that a full deal would take further negotiations.

The EU's top trade negotiator, Maroš Šefčovič, said he and Philippine Trade Secretary María Cristina Aldeguer-Roque have been negotiating a deal aimed at boosting the nearly 30 billion euros (around $35 billion) of annual trade between the 27-nation EU and the Southeast Asian nation of 115 million people.

Šefčovič said it would create “a modern, forward-looking partnership between the EU and the Philippines, one that will open new opportunities for our exporters and investors, strengthen our supply chains and deepen bilateral economic ties for years to come.”

He said he expects it to be finalized within a year or two. Parliaments on both sides will also need to ratify it.

EU-Philippine trade is dominated by electronics, with the EU exporting aircraft, pork and pharmaceuticals while importing semiconductors, integrated circuits and industrial machinery made in the Philippines.

The EU has sought growth and stability through new trade links from Australia to Argentina as the bloc itself is beset by a geopolitical maelstrom, including conflicts in the Middle East and the war in Ukraine that have throttled traditional sources of energy.

The Philippines has already reached deals with two other ASEAN members, Vietnam and Singapore. The European Commission is also negotiating separate deals with Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, while a broader free trade agreement between the EU and ASEAN remains a long-term goal.

Moscow, Beijing and Washington all pose their own kind of challenges to the EU: hybrid attacks that officials across the EU blame on Russia; China's gargantuan trade imbalance and a near-monopoly over critical mineral supplies; and a Trump administration critical of European policies on defense, migration, and technology regulation.

The EU deal with the Philippines roughly tracks with the “ middle powers ” strategy laid out at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Last week, he was the guest of honor in the European Parliament in Strasbourg at the annual State of the European Union speech by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

She said then that the EU would forge a new kind of “ associate membership ” for Canada.

“In this new world, we must urgently reimagine our partnerships,” von der Leyen said during her speech.

And at the same time, nations around the world have sought out the EU to weather “sudden changes very often on the fundamental principles of how trade is being done,” said Šefčovič, the trade negotiator.

“My phone was ringing all the time,” he said. “When the world goes in such turbulence and turmoil, you work closely with your friends and close partners."

El informe del Grupo de Expertos en Derechos Humanos sobre Nicaragua de la ONU fue la más reciente condena al gobierno de los copresidentes Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo, que ha aplastado la disidencia desde las protestas masivas de 2018 y recientemente anuló las elecciones.

“Un Estado que recurre a la desaparición forzada y permite que personas mueran bajo su custodia no cumple con los estándares mínimos de derechos humanos exigidos para una gobernanza democrática creíble” indicó Jan-Michael Simon, presidente del grupo.

El informe detalló inconsistencias en el relato del gobierno sobre la muerte bajo custodia del líder indígena miskito Brooklyn Rivera, quien estuvo encarcelado durante 32 meses con casi ningún contacto con su familia antes de morir en mayo.

El comunicado oficial tras su muerte la vinculó con complicaciones posteriores a una infección previa de COVID-19, algo que nunca se había mencionado en comunicados anteriores. Una evaluación independiente de Physicians for Human Rights indicó que la explicación “no era médicamente coherente”.

Esa evaluación también concluyó “tanto el momento en que se manifestaron las enfermedades como el tipo de microorganismos identificados indican que las infecciones se contrajeron durante la privación de libertad o en el hospital, y no en la comunidad”.

Las declaraciones en torno a su muerte no pudieron verificarse de manera independiente porque no se ordenó ninguna investigación independiente ni una autopsia, señaló el informe. Sus autores instaron al gobierno a entregar el cuerpo de Rivera a su familia para un entierro conforme a las tradiciones miskitas.

Murillo sostuvo que Rivera recibió atención médica y apoyo familiar durante toda su enfermedad. El gobierno no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios adicionales.

El informe también detalló las fallas en la atención en las muertes de Humberto Ortega, hermano distanciado de Ortega; del exguerrillero sandinista Hugo Torres, y del abogado Carlos Cárdenas Zepeda.

Los expertos documentaron la desaparición de al menos 161 personas desde 2018. El reporte instó al gobierno a divulgar información sobre 29 personas cuyo paradero sigue siendo desconocido y a liberar a cualquiera que esté detenido por motivos políticos.

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It’s a baptism of fire for the neophyte leader, who has gone from mayor of the northwest England city of Manchester to leader of a G7 country in a matter of weeks.

He will urge Trump to step up U.S. support for Ukraine and hopes to avoid U.S. criticism of the U.K.’s decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

He also will try to send a message that Britain can play a key role in solving the world’s biggest challenges, from conflict in the Middle East to the dizzying evolution of artificial intelligence. And he will attempt to turn the page on a decade of Brexit-driven discord with the U.K.’s European neighbors.

As he flew to New York for the annual gathering of world leaders, Burnham announced he had authorized limited military support for Saudi Arabia to repel attacks from Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. A Royal Air Force plane will refuel Saudi jets engaged in “defensive” action to shoot down Houthi missiles, he said.

Burnham said he would raise with Trump ways to end the on-off war between the U.S. and Iran, which has choked off oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz and sent global fuel prices soaring. Houthi attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure are making the problem worse while rendering Burnham’s pledge to ease cost of living pressure for British voters even harder.

“We want to see an end to the conflict as quickly as possible and we stand ready to play our part,” Burnham said.

He also will urge the U.S. president to provide air-defense missiles to Ukraine ahead of another winter of Russian attacks.

Burnham told reporters he would try to find “common ground” with Trump, who has called the center-left U.K. leader “a nice guy” but “unfortunately” a liberal.

The prime minister said he and Trump had “found a connection” in two phone calls since Burnham took office in July.

Burnham plans to strike a note of “hope” in his speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday evening, despite warning the world faces “dark clouds of instability.”

Burnham said he would focus on AI, arguing it’s possible to be “clear-eyed” about both the benefits and risks of the technology. He will argue the U.K. is well placed to be an “honest broker” in seeking global agreement to guide its development, because London has good relations with both the U.S. and Europe and “a strong dialogue” with China.

He also will say Britain is moving on from the tumultuous decade since the U.K.’s 2016 decision to leave the European Union. He suggested Brexit was a point at which the country took a wrong turn, fueled by misinformation.

The policy of Burnham's Labour Party government is to seek closer relations with the EU without reversing the decision to leave the now 27-nation bloc. Burnham hinted that he could go further at the next national election, which is due by 2029.

He told reporters that in the past decade, Britain had experienced “the turbulence that comes when outside actors seek to manipulate, distort facts, influence the British democratic process.”

“Going into the next decade we need to be clear-eyed about that and stronger and more on the front foot about challenging that,” he said.

“We can be hopeful about where we’re going,” Burnham added. “We can draw a line under the last decade and say, ‘This next one’s going to be different.’”

El Niño forma parte de un ciclo climático natural de calentamiento de las temperaturas oceánicas, pero se espera que el de este año alcance nuevos extremos de sequía, olas de calor, inundaciones y otras alteraciones relacionadas con el clima en Sudamérica, África y Asia.

El Sudeste Asiático es una de las regiones más vulnerables del mundo al clima. Ya está afectado por una crisis energética desencadenada por la guerra en Irán. El Niño está avivando incendios forestales en tierras agrícolas, agotando los suministros de agua de grandes ciudades y perjudicando las capturas de pescado en la región.

Los gobiernos asiáticos, que han recurrido a sus reservas financieras para mitigar los efectos indirectos de la guerra —como el aumento de los costos de la energía y la escasez de suministros de fertilizantes— tienen menos capacidad para hacer frente al El Niño que se intensifica este año, que se espera alcance su apogeo para diciembre.

El fenómeno podría amplificar otras crisis en el sudeste asiático, según Paul Teng, del Instituto ISEAS-Yusof Ishak de Singapur. “El Niño sólo está agravando todos los demás problemas que vemos”, señaló.

El Niño extremo puede amenazar la seguridad alimentaria mundial

Durante los años de El Niño, las temperaturas de la superficie del mar en el océano Pacífico son más cálidas de lo habitual. Esto ocurre cada pocos años y a menudo altera los patrones meteorológicos globales.

Este año, los mares ya están más calientes que el promedio y los océanos del mundo alcanzaron nuevos récords de temperatura en agosto a medida que el clima se calienta, señaló Kareff Rafisura, jefa de la División de Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres de la Comisión Económica y Social de las Naciones Unidas para Asia y el Pacífico.

Este El Niño en intensificación podría ser el “más fuerte que se recuerde”, según el servicio nacional de meteorología y clima del Reino Unido. De forma similar, la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica de Estados Unidos indicó que hay un 69% de probabilidad de que este sea el El Niño más fuerte registrado desde que comenzaron los registros en 1950.

El impacto de El Niño se sentirá de manera distinta según la región, pero se espera que ponga en riesgo la seguridad alimentaria en todo el mundo. Podría empujar al menos a 49 millones de personas más a una inseguridad alimentaria aguda para finales de 2027, de acuerdo con el Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas.

El problema será más grave en partes de Centroamérica y el sur de África, con efectos significativos también previstos en el este de África y el sur y sudeste de Asia, advirtió la agencia alimentaria.

El Niño ya está golpeando partes de Asia

En el sudeste asiático, los incendios forestales están arrasando bosques y turberas en Indonesia, levantando columnas de neblina tóxica. El nivel de agua de un importante embalse que abastece a la bulliciosa capital, Yakarta —la metrópolis más grande del mundo— está bajando centímetro a centímetro.

A medida que el lago se seca, han emergido las ruinas de una de 11 aldeas que habían quedado inundadas por el embalse, mientras crece la alarma por la necesidad de fuentes alternativas de agua para la ciudad de 42 millones de habitantes.

“Hubiera preferido no mudarme. Aquí había muchas oportunidades para ganarse la vida”, comentó Hussen, que sólo usa un nombre, mientras transportaba a personas a través del embalse en retroceso.

Esto es sólo el comienzo, afirmó Erma Yulihastin, del Centro de Investigación sobre Clima y Atmósfera de Indonesia, quien advirtió que El Niño apenas ha iniciado su “superfase”.

Los caladeros del sudeste asiático se preparan para la sequía

Menos lluvias y temperaturas más altas están presionando a los caladeros de pesca del sudeste asiático, una fuente esencial de proteína.

Es un problema apremiante a lo largo del Mekong, una cuenca fluvial que atraviesa seis naciones y está siendo alterada por la minería y la construcción de represas hidroeléctricas.

"Es un golpe tras otro. Si el río no tiene un respiro, llegaremos a un punto en el que ya no podrá sostener a la gente como siempre lo ha hecho”, dijo Zeb Hogan, de la Universidad de Nevada, Reno, quien dirige el proyecto de investigación y conservación Wonders of the Mekong.

Los caudales más bajos son especialmente duros para las comunidades a lo largo del Mekong que dependen de niveles de agua previsibles para la pesca y la agricultura, indicó Kongmeng Ly, de la Comisión del Río Mekong, un grupo intergubernamental de Camboya, Laos, Tailandia y Vietnam.

Los suministros de arroz y aceite de palma están en riesgo

La temporada de lluvias del sudeste asiático suele ir de junio a octubre, cuando las precipitaciones normalmente reponen los embalses, refrescan ciudades sobrecalentadas y suministran agua para el riego antes de la siguiente temporada de siembra.

La sequía podría obligar a los agricultores a retrasar la siembra, reducir la superficie cultivada o cambiar completamente de cultivo, dijo Rafisura, de la ONU. “La agricultura está definitivamente en la primera línea”, afirmó.

Los recortes en cultivos básicos como el arroz y el aceite de palma pueden tener impactos globales. Los tres principales exportadores mundiales de arroz —India, Vietnam y Tailandia— están entre las naciones con más probabilidades de verse duramente afectadas por El Niño este año.

Al norte de la capital tailandesa, Bangkok, los arroceros como Boonmark Marksuuk, de 55 años, ya enfrentan decisiones difíciles. Además del combustible y los fertilizantes más caros por la guerra, pasa la mayor parte de sus días bombeando agua a sus arrozales porque ya no confía en la lluvia.

El Niño también se cierne sobre Indonesia y Malasia, proveedores de alrededor del 85% del aceite de palma del mundo, que se usa en todo, desde galletas y lápiz labial hasta pasta de dientes y detergente para la ropa.

El primer ministro de Malasia ha ordenado a su Ministerio de Agricultura y Seguridad Alimentaria que encuentre maneras de mitigar el impacto de El Niño, que se prevé golpee con más fuerza a Malasia en noviembre.

En Indonesia, los agricultores dependen de la lluvia para disolver los fertilizantes en el suelo y evitar quemar las plantas, explicó Eddy Martono, presidente de la Asociación Indonesia de Aceite de Palma.

“Si no llueve, todos definitivamente dejarán de fertilizar”, lo que perjudicará la producción nacional, sostuvo.

Aunque el impacto económico total de un El Niño extremo es difícil de calcular, las pérdidas de eventos pasados han alcanzado billones de dólares, según Global Investment Research de HSBC, que advierte que las cifras podrían ser aún mayores esta vez.

Analistas del banco de inversión Goldman Sachs estiman que este El Niño podría elevar los precios mundiales de las materias primas alimentarias en más de un 15%.

“Lo que ocurra con la agricultura realmente determina si la gente se mantiene por debajo o apenas por encima de la línea de pobreza”, dijo Rafisura. “Volviendo al sudeste asiático, lo que ocurra aquí, el grado en que los países puedan proteger los niveles de producción, tendrá impactos globales”.

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It's a long shot. However, a version of the sport — let's call it “MMA Light” — is being contested at the two-week Asian Games. The campaign to get the sport into the Brisbane Olympics in 2032 is being led by Chinese billionaire Gordon Tang.

“We have developed a rule set specifically focused on the safety and well-being of athletes, and aligned with Olympic values,” Tang said. “The debut of MMA at the Asian Games is an important step in that journey.”

Tang heads the Federation of International Mixed Martial Arts, one of many groups lobbying to represent a very fractured global sport.

The cage must go for any chance of IOC approval

Removing the cage is a must for any chance to gain entry. But cage or no cage, it's a rough road to get the approval of the International Olympic Committee.

“We think without the cage we will have a better alignment with the Olympic values and hopefully recognition from the IOC,” Galastein Tan, the director general of the FIMMA, told The Associated Press.

First, the IOC would have to approve a governing body of the sport — there are many — and then Brisbane organizers would have to put it on their schedule.

So far the Australians have not announced what sports they might add and, of course, it's too late to get into the Los Angeles Games in 2028.

The IOC, in an email to The Associated Press, clarified that as of now “mixed martial arts does not meet ... eligibility criteria” for the Olympics.

The top issue is the sport's violent image. The IOC has had issues with violence depicted in esports, so that rub is clear.

This version at the Asian Games looks more like judo or boxing, set on an open mat. No wire cage. Both men and women fight, and there are two styles — traditional with more grappling and modern with more striking.

Safety measures include: no elbows can be thrown; contestants wear small gloves and shin pads; no knees or kicks to the head are allowed when a fighter is on the ground.

“It takes time to change a perception,” Tan said. “We hope to be able to share that there is a new from of MMA, and this form is more aligned with the Olympics.”

Moving MMA into the ‘normal’ range of sports

Alex Engelhardt, the executive vice president of FIMMA, suggested this was an attempt to bring MMA into the “normal” range of sports and concentrate less on spectacle.

“It's very challenging in the sense that the whole mind set in the sport is so focused on promotions,” Engelhardt said. He might have been referring to a UFC fight three months ago on the grounds of the White House.

Tan argues that MMA could be a draw for the IOC as it tries to stay relevant with new sports. MMA is popular, youth oriented, and would not require any unique venue construction. It could share venues with other combat sports.

However, that could be a negative. MMA is yet another combat sports and the Olympics already have boxing, wrestling, judo and taekwondo.

“MMA is popular globally, able to engage the fans at a gut level and attract fans at a youth level,” Tan replied.

The FIMMA also has an influential president in Tang, a Chinese billionaire property developer who seems to know his way around the IOC. His biography, offered by FIMMA, lists him with “more than a decade of senior roles within the Olympic Movement.”

He is also a vice president of the Olympic Council of Asia.

Tang lauded the sport as having a “strong place in the Olympic movement because it brings together athletes from different martial arts backgrounds.”

Tan said Tang had already talked with IOC President Kirsty Coventry, and also met her this week at the Asian Games.

“I would like to say we are not in the preliminary stage (with the IOC)” Tan said. “We are in advanced stages.”

“There will be different fans,” Tan added. “Those who love MMA in a cage and fans who love MMA in the open field of play. Not that one is wrong or one is the right way. For us we are very clear that the focus is for the sport to be in the Olympics.”

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Alibaba’s announcement came as U.S. AI leaders, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, are warning that China's development of AI poses a threat to the United States and calling for an overall slowdown on development of the technology.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington on Wednesday for a state visit and meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, at which AI, trade and tariffs are expected to be discussed.

At its annual flagship conference in Hangzhou, Alibaba rolled out a new AI chip and described its plans for the next generation of its AI model.

CEO Eddie Wu said the new Zhenwu V900 chip is the “most powerful AI chip in China today” and can deliver three times the performance of the company's previous generation Zhenwu M890 chip.

Such chips power frontier AI model training and “inference,” a term for the calculations a trained AI uses to deliver responses to users. Alibaba's Zhenwu chips are used in its data centers, providing computing to the company and its cloud clients.

Alibaba also said it plans to train a new AI model at the scale of five to 10 trillion parameters, a measure of an AI's learning capacity, bringing it closer to the most advanced models from the U.S. Its latest Qwen3.8-Max model, the most powerful of its Qwen AI series models, has 2.4 trillion parameters.

Chinese AI company Moonshot says that its Kimi K3, released in July, is the world's largest open model with 2.8 trillion parameters.

Alibaba also highlighted plans to expand the data centers that power its cloud computing business, citing “exponentially” rising demand for AI computing. The company said it expects to have over 20 gigawatts' worth of computing by 2032.

SpaceX has approximately 1.4 gigawatts of AI computing capacity as of mid-this year and says it aims to reach over 10 gigawatts in 2027.

Recent Chinese advancements in AI are giving Beijing more leverage in its upcoming talks with Washington, some analysts believe, as China steps up its self-reliance push even as U.S.-led export restrictions have barred it from accessing some of the world’s most cutting-edge technologies, including AI chips and chipmaking machines.

Open Chinese models, which are often more affordable than cutting-edge closed models from leading U.S. AI labs, have also been making inroads globally, including in the U.S.

Chinese technology giant Huawei last week also unveiled new chip technologies as it looks to challenge global leaders like Nvidia. Frontier AI model training in China often rely on Nvidia chips, analysts said, but Chinese-designed chips are gaining ground as Nvidia has been blocked from selling some of its most powerful AI chips to China.

“Using extra computing power to make up for chip limits helps China stay strong locally,” said Neil Shah, vice president of Counterpoint Research, a technology market research firm based in Hong Kong.

Counterpoint senior analyst Parv Sharma added that how much the AI and chipmaking gap between China and the U.S. narrows will also depend on other factors including China’s ability to advance chip foundries that manufacture them, not just chip design capabilities.

Alibaba is “mobilizing every resource” to meet customers’ demand for AI, CEO Wu said in his speech Tuesday.

Global shortages across the AI data center supply chain, for example, “are currently limiting the speed at which we can scale our compute infrastructure” for AI, he added.

Wu also likened AI growth to the industrial revolution and said “machine intelligence” will rapidly outgrow human thinking capacity.

While “machine intelligence today is not a substitute for human intelligence,” he predicted that, eventually, machines will be able to produce over 1,000 times more “thinking” than all of humanity combined, up from less than 3% currently.

The report from the U.N. Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua was the latest condemnation of the government of co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which has crushed dissent since 2018 mass protests and recently canceled elections.

“A State that resorts to enforced disappearance and allows persons to die in its custody falls short of the minimum human rights standards required for credible democratic governance,” said Jan-Michael Simon, the group's chair.

The report detailed inconsistencies in the government’s account of the in-custody death of Indigenous Miskito leader Brooklyn Rivera, who was imprisoned for 32 months with almost no contact with his family before he died in May.

The official statement after his death linked it to complications following a previous COVID-19 infection, which previous statements in the days before never mentioned. An independent assessment from Physicians for Human Rights said the explanation was “not medically coherent.”

Its assessment also found that the “timing of the illness and the pattern of organisms identified both point to the infections having been acquired in custody or in hospital, rather than in the community.”

The statements around his death could not be independently verified because no independent investigation or autopsy was ordered, the report said. Its authors called on the government to release Rivera’s body to his family for a burial under Miskito traditions.

Murillo said Rivera received medical care and family support throughout his illness. The government did not respond to a request for additional comment.

The report also detailed the failures of care in the deaths of Ortega’s estranged brother Humberto Ortega, former Sandinista guerrilla fighter Hugo Torres and lawyer Carlos Cárdenas Zepeda.

The experts documented the disappearance of at least 161 people since 2018. It called on the government to release information on 29 people whose whereabouts remain unknown and to release anyone detained on political grounds.

Gloriavale, a conservative Christian sect, is based on a sprawling ranch on New Zealand’s South Island, where about 600 people live on land owned by the Christian Church Community Trust and work as volunteers at the trust’s businesses.

The government’s Charities Registration Board said Tuesday that the group’s charitable status will be revoked for three years beginning Sept. 23.

Funds provided by Gloriavale’s trust allowed the group “to operate in ways found to be unlawful and inconsistent with the wellbeing of trust beneficiaries,” the charities board said in a statement.

Calls to remove the group’s charitable status grew after the former leader Howard Temple was convicted in 2025 of sexually abusing girls and women aged between 9 and 20 over a period of two decades.

Temple's conviction followed a landmark 2022 court ruling that former members had been unpaid employees of the trust’s businesses, not volunteers. Children as young as 6 labored full-time, while workers faced harsh and sometimes dangerous conditions, forced labor, deprivation of food and public shaming, the employment court found.

The charities board cited the employment court ruling and referenced the non-reporting of sexual offenses against a child at Gloriavale’s school, which is owned by the trust.

The group can appeal the decision of the charities board. A Gloriavale spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Stripping a religious group of charity status is unusual

New Zealand trusts formed by religious groups are rarely stripped of charity status because of organizational practices rather than administrative reasons or problems with financial returns.

“The Board recognises the right of the community to exist as a religious minority within a free and democratic society” Charities Registration Board chair Jane Wrightson said in a statement. “The Board regulates the Trust, not the community, and this decision does not determine the future operation of this religious community.”

Objections from the trust included the historical nature of the wrongdoing and the consequences of the decision for hundreds of people, including “children, the elderly and the infirm,” the charities board said.

The trust made “significant changes” in recent years, including governance and safeguarding reforms. However, the “seriousness, scale and duration” of the misconduct meant deregistration was in the public interest, the board said.

The decision came weeks after New Zealand's Ministry of Education said it had revoked the registration of the sect’s school and was pursuing plans to close it over fears for the physical and emotional safety of the students. The school with about 80 students remains open while legal processes continue.

Impact of taxes on Gloriavale remain unclear

Gloriavale has for decades been a subject of fascination and concern in New Zealand. Founded in the 1970s, the sect is mostly isolated from the outside world.

Members share all money, live in buildings owned by the trust, don’t speak to relatives who leave the group and work or study within the commune. Women and girls wear navy-colored, ankle-length dresses with white headdresses. Adherents are required to have large families and only men can serve in leadership roles.

The sect attracted attention during a broader official inquiry into decades of abuse at New Zealand’s state and religious institutions. The final report, published in 2024, found Gloriavale had for decades prohibited members from reporting crimes to outside authorities and included former members’ descriptions of physical and sexual abuse.

The trust’s money comes from its businesses, including large-scale farming and a charter flights company, and from government funding for its school and daycare centers. The future impact of the group's loss of charitable status, which also rescinds tax-exempt privileges, is unclear.

Gloriavale's latest financial returns, filed in July 2025, listed one full-time employee of the trust and 23 volunteers. The trust’s assets totaled 50 million New Zealand dollars ($29 million), according to the document.

Temple, Gloriavale's former leader and a previous charity trustee, also was banned from charity governance posts for five years, the board said. The 85-year-old's prison sentence for sexual offenses was overturned in March and he is serving home detention.

It had maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (257 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Polo was moving east at 6 mph (10 kph) and was forecast to sharply turn northwest and west-northwest. On that path, Polo would skirt the Mexican coast for a few days without directly making landfall.

A tropical storm watch was issued for part of the coast south of Manzanillo in Colima state to Tecpan de Galeana in Guerrero state, meaning tropical storm conditions were possible in the area within two days. Polo was centered about 360 miles (579 kilometers) south-southeast of Manzanillo.

Heavy rain with the potential for flooding and landslides was forecast for coastal Guerrero and Michoacán states through Thursday. Smaller amounts of rain were possible in coastal portions of Oaxaca, Colima and Jalisco states.

Category 5 is the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson scale, reflecting that the storm’s maximum sustained winds exceed 157 mph (253 kph).

Farther west in the Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Odalys was far from land but expected to become a hurricane by midweek. Odalys had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (105 kph) on Tuesday.

In the Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Storm Fay had weakened to 40 mph (65 kph) southwest of the Azores and was forecast to be a remnant low by late Tuesday.

No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year, and this year has set a record for the longest a season has begun without a hurricane. The effects of this year’s El Nino crush storms before they get going.

Three of the wounded were in critical condition and receiving intensive care, Education Minister Mustafa Ciftci said. One person had been discharged from the hospital.

The shooting occurred outside a vocational and technical high school in the Turgutlu district of Manisa province, the governor’s office said. Police and medical teams were sent to the scene.

HaberTurk news channel said the assailant was a 15-year-old student at the school. The report added that he arrived at the scene armed with a shotgun and fired randomly near the school before trying to flee the scene on foot.

The assailant took the gun from his grandparents' house, Ciftci said.

The motive of the attack was not known, according to Justice Minister Akin Gurlek, who said two chief prosecutors were appointed to investigate the shooting, including claims that the student was bullied at the school.

The assailant's parents and grandfather, who owned the gun, were taken into custody as part of the investigation, Gurlek said.

Security camera video showed the alleged attacker walking down a street carrying a weapon. Another video showed him running down a street, still carrying the weapon.

Anxious parents rushed to the school and confrontations broke out between them and police who blocked the entrance to the building, Cumhuriyet newspaper reported.

The attack came months after Turkey was shocked by two school shootings this year. The government increased security at educational facilities at the start of the academic year last week.

In April, 16 people, mostly students, were wounded when a former student opened fire at a high school in Sanliurfa province in Turkey's southeast. The assailant later killed himself.

The next day, a 14-year-old student opened fire on two classrooms at his school in nearby Kahramanmaras province, killing eight students and a teacher and wounding 13 others. The attacker was killed by police.

The meeting is scheduled for Sunday in Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites. Some survivors’ groups have criticized the decision to select individuals rather than representatives of established organizations.

The seven survivors said in a joint statement last week that they don't claim to represent all survivors.

“Engaging in dialogue does not mean endorsing,” they said. “Being received does not mean abandoning our demands.”

“Each of us is taking part in this meeting in our own name, free to express our own views, convictions and choices,” the survivors said.

The French Bishops’ Conference said that the group includes people who were abused as minors or adults in Catholic schools, parishes and religious congregations.

France’s Catholic Church has begun to reckon with abuse

In recent years, the French Catholic Church has established an independent compensation system for survivors and acknowledged the institution’s history of abuse.

A 2021 report estimated that 330,000 children in France had been sexually abused over seven decades by priests, other clergy members, church workers and volunteers.

One participant says he was abused at the private Catholic school Notre-Dame de Bétharram in southwestern France, where allegations span more than five decades.

Another was abused by Bernard Preynat, a priest who acknowledged sexually abusing at least 75 boys over several decades.

Preynat was sentenced in 2020 to five years in prison in one of France’s most prominent clergy abuse cases to reach trial.

Another participant is among those who have accused Abbé Pierre, a nationally revered priest and humanitarian who died in 2007, of sexually assaulting women.

Survivors say the church still has a long way to go

Several survivors called on the Vatican to take further action against clergy sexual abuse as the Independent National Authority for Recognition and Reparation, or INIRR, said Tuesday that 1,969 people abused as children had come forward over the past five years. The independent body is handling a wide-ranging reparations program involving financial compensation.

“I’m satisfied that survivors’ voices will be heard” by Leo, said Eric, 55, who was raped by a priest when he was between ages 8 and 14. “People are speaking out more freely, but there is still work to be done when it comes to listening to them.”

“What I’d say to the Holy Father is: ‘Keep learning and keep listening. You’re on the right track, but you’re not there yet,’” said Eric, who didn't want his last name to be public.

Cécile Reneaume, 34, who was abused as a young child by the leader of a Catholic community, who has since died, also received reparations through INIRR.

“There is still an enormous amount of work to be done ... We are only at the beginning,” she said, suggesting reviewing “how sexuality is taught in seminaries” and taking care “not to ordain certain priests too quickly.”

The Associated Press doesn't name victims of sexual assault or abuse unless they come forward publicly or give their consent to be identified.

Marie Derain de Vaucresson, the head of INIRR, called Sunday's meeting “a missed opportunity,” saying she had hoped the message to the pope would be delivered in “a more collective way.”

“I think that in France, that collective voice already exists,” she said. “I would also like him (Leo) to speak out strongly on this issue.”

“Now the ball is in the institutions’ court,” she said.

Critics question the selection process

Charles Mercier, professor of history and sociology of Catholicism at the Paris-based École Pratique des Hautes Études, or EPHE, said that the main criticism concerns the group meeting with Leo “not being chosen by the victims but by the bishops and the institutions.”

That has left some advocates who have fought for survivors’ rights feeling they “are not recognized by the church,” he said.

Following the 2021 reckoning over the extent of sexual abuse, “bishops begged for pardon to the victims. And now they give the impression that they want to turn the page,” Mercier said.

Church leaders appear to be saying that “we have dealt with this crisis and now we are building the future,” he said.

Alain Esquerre, a spokesperson for a group of Bétharram school survivors, said that words of compassion are “no longer enough” and called for a concrete plan to combat abuse.

“Receiving survivors’ groups would carry far too much symbolic and political weight, and it would require concrete action to be taken,” Esquerre said. “Because what we want is to move beyond simply hearing survivors’ testimony and potentially providing them with financial compensation.”

During a visit to Spain in June, Leo met in Madrid with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse and vowed to consider their suggestions for improving the church’s response to the crisis, according to the Vatican.

In Lourdes, the facade of a basilica features mosaics by the Rev. Marko Rupnik that were recently covered entirely. Rupnik is on trial in a Vatican court on accusations of psychological, spiritual and sexual abuse involving more than two dozen women dating back to the 1990s.

Activists demand broader action

Last week, child protection activists protested near the home of Jacques Delfosse, a former Catholic priest suspected of sexually assaulting dozens of children.

Protesters denounced what they described as authorities’ failure to act against Delfosse, who served in northern France and the Paris region from 1964 until the 2000s.

Delfosse was convicted in 2007 of raping two girls younger than 15 during school holiday camps in the 1980s.

He was dismissed from the clerical state in 2025 after media reports prompted dozens to come forward with allegations. The Lille prosecutor’s office opened an investigation in August into the new allegations.

Arnaud Gallais, 45, president of the child protection group Mouv’Enfants, called on President Emmanuel Macron to raise the case during his meeting with Leo on Friday. He also urged the Lille diocese and the Vatican to open their archives.

Denouncing an “unbearable” denial of justice, Gallais cited a report by the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children, or CIIVISE, stating that only 3% of rapes and sexual assaults committed against children each year in France result in a conviction.

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Jeffrey Schaeffer and Alexander Turnbull contributed to this report.

No regrets. No second-guesses. No mea culpas following his fourth-quarter decisions that perhaps cost the Jets their first 2-0 start in 11 years.

The Jets had a fourth-and-1 from the 50-yard line with 1:20 left in regulation and Glenn went for it. Braelon Allen was stuffed for no gain, turning the ball over on downs and giving the Packers time and good field position with the game tied at 17.

“Man, we were going to try to win the game,” Glenn said. “Listen, I do not regret that decision, not one bit.”

After Christian Watson was tackled following a completed pass, the Packers faced fourth-and-5 from the Jets 45 with 1:05 left. Glenn declined to call a timeout — he had two left — and instead Green Bay let the clock wind down. The Packers were called for delay of game, resulting in a 10-second runoff, and then took a timeout for a Hail Mary try with 2 seconds remaining. Glenn finally called a timeout to set up the defense, which sacked Jordan Love to send the game to overtime.

Packers coach Matt LaFleur was perplexed by Glenn’s decision.

“Oh yeah, I was (surprised),” LaFleur said. “I was really confused by that, and that’s why we called a timeout and tried a Hail Mary.”

The Packers won 20-17 in overtime.

Glenn's steadfastness isn't quite the famous “No Ragrets” line from the 2013 comedy film “We’re the Millers,” but on Monday you can bet plenty of Jets fans could relate to the scene in which character Scottie P. proudly sports a large chest tattoo with the word “Regrets” misspelled as “Ragrets," and explains he has none.

Glenn doubling down also was reminiscent of Nathaniel Hackett famously insisting he had done the right thing in his Denver debut by settling for a 64-yard field goal attempt after crossing midfield in the waning seconds in Seattle.

That head-scratcher turned his head coaching debut into a dud and ruined Russell Wilson’s homecoming.

Oh no!

Tom Brady left a lot of opponents cursing while he was winning seven Super Bowls during an unparalleled playing career that should land him in Canton, Ohio, in 2028.

He blurted out a profanity when watching a replay of Jayden Daniels' gruesome elbow injury Sunday.

“Oh (shoot!)” Brady said. “Excuse me, was not expecting that.”

On Monday night, another quarterback icon, Peyton Manning, had a toned-down reaction when New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart injured his left knee against the Los Angeles Rams.

“Oh no!” Manning said. “Oh no! No, no, no, no, no! That is not what we want to see. Gosh!"

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When goal-scoring midfielder Caroline Weir joined Lyon from Real Madrid in the offseason, she understood how much that loss hurt.

“Everyone that was here last season knows what it took to get there. Obviously the disappointment of that final, I know the players felt that,” Weir told The Associated Press in an interview at the club’s training ground on Monday.

“I’m a new player, I’m here to learn from the players who have that experience. Also the coach (Jonatan Giráldez) has been there and done it.”

The Women's Champions League begins Tuesday and sees 18 teams competing over six match days in the league phase, with the top four advancing to the quarterfinals and the clubs finishing between fifth and 12th entering knockout-phase playoffs.

After shrugging off a minor muscle injury, Weir could make her Lyon debut at Swiss club Servette on Wednesday.

“It starts now,” the 31-year-old Weir said. “It’s exciting that the games are coming a little bit quicker.”

Prolific goal scorer in Spain

She scored freely in Spain — 20 goals overall last season and 28 during the 2022-23 campaign — and is aware what makes Barca tick.

Painfully so, since Barca crushed Madrid 12-2 on aggregate in last season's quarterfinals. Weir played in the first leg, a 6-2 home loss.

“We all know how good they are on the ball,” she said.

The last five women’s Ballon d’Or awards have been split by Barca players Alexia Putellas and Aitana Bonmati.

“Their mentality, they’ve gained so much experience of winning and I think that tells in their performances,” Weir said of Putellas and Bonmati. “Physically (too), I think that sometimes gets overlooked with the Barcelona team, if you look at their players individually, whether that be speed, strength.”

Barren Champions League run for Lyon

Barca’s first Champions League title in 2021 ended Lyon’s run of five in a row and, although Lyon won the competition the following year, it has not done so since. Barca has reached the past six finals, winning four.

Weir hopes she can help her club improve in key moments under the guidance of Giráldez, who previously guided Barca to two Champions League titles.

“The coach has been very clear with me about his expectations and what he likes of me as a player — impact the game in the final third (of the pitch),” she explained. “If that’s scoring goals or assisting, that’s where I judge my seasons. At the end of the season, I will look at that impact, especially in big games.”

While Weir’s scoring rate has increased, including 10 goals in six games for Scotland this year, she also has a more rounded game.

“I was mainly at Manchester City in my time in England. There I learned a lot tactically and then, moving to Spain, I was given quite a free role at Real Madrid which I really enjoyed,” Weir said. “The biggest challenge is to adapt (and) I’m excited to play in a different league.”

Kang's influence

One of the factors in Weir joining Lyon was Michele Kang, the club president.

The American businesswoman, who has dedicated herself to growing women's soccer, also owns Washington Spirit in the National Women’s Soccer League and London City Lionesses.

“Just the way she speaks about the game, I think it’s really inspiring,” Weir said. “She wants equal opportunities and I think (Lyon's) a really cool club to be at. It was a factor in my decision. She is backing us all the way.”

In May last year, OL Féminin became OL Lyonnes. Kang told The AP that the name change was about creating “ our own identity as a woman’s team.”

While Kang’s strong commitment led her to finance a new female-specific training campus for the club, other women's teams are not as fortunate and some have even folded.

Weir says improving “sustainability” is crucial.

“The ceiling has been raised a lot but I think we need to keep raising. The lower levels, the access, the facilities. Grassroots level through to the lower tiers of football in all countries,” she said. “Also, (more) women in coaching roles in football, women in decision-making roles, there’s a way to go there.”

From carefree days to Scotland captain

Growing up in the city of Dunfermline, Weir always had a ball by her side.

“Loving it, enjoying it, going down to training on the local playing fields and being the only girl, scoring goals,” she said. “I always had a ball with me, whether that was by myself kicking it against a wall, or in school, or with the boys’ team I played for, from age five to 10.”

Now she is Scotland's captain, calling it the “biggest honor” of her career, and is desperate to lead her nation at next year’s World Cup.

“I feel responsibility. We are obviously going into playoffs next month,” she said. “Reaching a major tournament is top of the priorities, alongside the Champions League.” ___

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Neither expects any grand bargain, but the leaders are expected to play nice in their third meeting since Trump returned to the White House to try to steady fragile ties. That is despite the world’s two largest economies seeking the upper hand on AI developments and trade, while pushing for leverage in persistent hot spots like Iran and Taiwan.

“The fact that they are meeting, and there’s dialogue occurring and building that relationship, is probably as important as outcomes from the meeting,” said Sen. Steve Daines, a Montana Republican who advises Trump on China and recently traveled there to lay groundwork for the summit.

Cui Tiankai, a former Chinese ambassador to the U.S., said at a recent forum in Beijing that there are “always problems, sometimes very big problems" between the two countries, but "we'll make our best efforts to maintain overall stability.”

Trump and Xi shifted away from sky-high tariffs, but the competition is still intense

Xi's visit to Washington, which begins Wednesday, is his first in 10 years. He and Trump are meeting after their countries climbed down from last year's intense trade war, where they traded tit-for-tat sky-high tariffs that threatened the global economy. China also choked off its world-leading supplies of critical minerals needed in products from electric cars to fighter jets.

The U.S. is not only trying to balance trade but also maintain its tech dominance to protect national security and global leadership. China, which has amassed tremendous economic, technological and military power over the past several years to close gaps with the U.S., is seeking to solidify its place in the global order.

The stability both sides are seeking is “for deeply competitive reasons,” said Evan Medeiros, a senior adviser at The Asia Group consultancy. “This is basically two geopolitical strongmen circling each other on the playground, trying to determine what their next move may be.”

The countries appeared to be entering a “new normal” of “overall stability” despite blacklisting each other's companies and restricting the flow of high-tech products, said Da Wei, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

The leaders now should produce deals that their governments can carry out, he said, noting that “we need to move fast.”

The AI race could strain any cooperation on the technology's advance

Developing AI technology has emerged as a key battleground, with both sides showing little interest in slowing down despite warnings from tech CEOs about threats that rogue AI could pose to humanity. “Whoever wins AI wins,” Trump has repeatedly said.

He claimed on social media Monday that the U.S. is leading over China and that he was “not going to stifle Growth, of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution, or the Internet, itself.”

China cannot afford to lose either. In a rare, blunt essay, Chen Yixin, head of China's Ministry of State Security, warned that AI poses a direct threat to Communist Party rule if foreign and hostile forces achieve superior capabilities.

The U.S. is already restricting exports of the most powerful AI chips to China and has accused Chinese developers of tapping into American AI models at an industrial scale to extract their capabilities.

Beijing says the practice, known as distillation, is widely used, including by American companies, and has criticized the U.S. for trying to monopolize the industry.

Beijing also is upset about U.S. efforts to build an alliance that excludes China, so it is seeking to craft new global AI guardrails by appealing to developing nations.

However, the U.S. and China are taking a small step to cooperate on AI.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday after meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York that the U.S. has proposed a new “notification mechanism” for AI incidents that could affect national security.

“We think that just like any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the No. 1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important," Bessent said.

US and China have turned to targeted ways to compete instead of high tariffs

While the U.S. and China have refrained from taking broad, punitive actions that would break their trade truce, they still are blacklisting individual companies and banning specific products.

“What we’ve seen is kind of testing and probing by both sides to understand what can be done competitively, while still keeping that leader-level rapprochement on track,” said Mira Rapp-Hooper, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Asia Policy Studies.

The U.S. has recently targeted Chinese telecommunications and surveillance equipment, companies accused of using forced labor in the ethnic region of Xinjiang, as well as China's advanced robots and drones. The Pentagon also has barred Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and other major Chinese businesses from receiving U.S. defense contracts.

Beijing responded with export controls on drones and related technologies as well as blacklisting six U.S. companies over their support for the punitive measures tied to Xinjiang.

Iran, Taiwan and tariffs are persistent issues

After the Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs on trade partners this year, the administration has been trying to impose them in other ways.

The White House in July rolled out a 12.5% tariff on imports from 60 trading partners, including China, ostensibly for failing to do enough to prevent the import of goods produced by forced labor. The U.S. is planning an additional 7.5% tariff on China, accusing it of producing far more goods than it can reasonably consume.

Analysts say the tariff levels are now acceptable to both sides, but any significant uptick could rekindle tensions.

The Trump administration, however, has launched a campaign to isolate Iran from its remaining economic partners, but Beijing has insisted on its right to trade with Tehran.

So far, the Trump administration has done little to punish China, partly to avoid jeopardizing the leaders' summit. But Washington also is losing leverage because China — Iran's biggest oil buyer and its largest trading partner — has been building up a way to make payments outside the U.S.-led financial system, said Alicia Garcia Herrero, an Asia-Pacific economist at the French investment bank Natixis.

Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own territory, also remains one of the thorniest issues in U.S.-China relations. Trump paused a large weapons package to Taiwan following his May trip to Beijing, but the U.S. is obligated by a domestic law to provide it with sufficient hardware and technology for self-defense.

Analysts say Xi will most likely press Trump to further delay arms sales to sow doubts in Taiwan about Washington's commitment.

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Castillo reported from Beijing.

The president started his address ticking off progress — including adding private sector jobs, stemming illegal migration and curbing crime before turning to a fulsome defense of his decision to start a war with Iran.

“The terrorist regime is behaving badly, not because they are strong and confident, but because they are weak and desperate," Trump said. "If we stand united, we will soon see a world free of the last 51 year menace of Iranian terror.”

Trump also accused Iran of stalling to make a deal to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate an endgame to the war until after the midterm elections in the United States. He insisted the tactic would have no effect on how he approaches the conflict.

“I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran," Trump said. "It doesn’t even enter my mind.”

Most of Iran's delegation walked out of the chamber as Trump railed against the Islamic Republic.

As he arrived at the U.N., Trump briefly spoke to reporters, telling them it was an honor to address the world body before his attention suddenly shifted to his resentments with the news media.

Trump over the weekend announced a White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, claiming that their coverage of his presidency was biased. The news outlets have filed a lawsuit to restore their access to White House grounds. Trump snapped at a CNN reporter in the U.N. scrum.

“I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me,” Trump said. “You shouldn’t be here."

After his speech to the annual gathering of world leaders, Trump is expected to hold talks with new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and a more informal meeting with Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to the White House.

He's also set to meet with leaders and senior officials from Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates — to discuss the way ahead with the war in Iran and growing concern about recent Iran-backed rebel attacks on Saudi Arabia. Trump also plans to take part in an event on the Shield of Americas, an initiative Trump launched with Latin American countries earlier this year focused on combatting violent cartels.

The visit to the U.N. comes when Trump's foreign policy approach — particularly his decision to start a war with Iran — has become a drag on his fellow Republicans' hopes of retaining control of both chambers of Congress during the coming midterm elections. Nevertheless, Trump is making the case in his address that the world is better off for his leadership.

“As president of the most extraordinary nation in history," Trump said. "I have no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day. I do not believe in letting problems fester."

Iran war looms large

In last year's address at the U.N., Trump claimed the U.S. had “demolished” Iran's nuclear capabilities after he ordered the June 2025 bombardment of three key facilities.

He returned to the General Assembly nearing the seven-month mark of a new war against Iran that he insists is necessary to address a nuclear threat posed by Iran.

The war has grown more complicated even though strikes by the United States and Israel have killed much of Iran's top leadership and destroyed its air force and navy, while a U.S. blockade of Iranian oil has left Tehran in economic shambles.

The energy market continues to be spooked by the war and oil prices remain elevated. Saudi Arabia earlier this month shuttered a key pipeline that acted as a relief valve for oil blocked in the Gulf. The kingdom made the move after the pipeline came under attack by Iran-backed militants in Iraq.

At the same time, territorial grabs by the Yemen-based Houthi rebels, another Iranian-backed group, near the Bab al-Mandab Strait has now made it treacherous for oil carriers to use that Red Sea shipping lane.

But Trump insisted anew that the elevated oil prices are a transitory problem that will fade one the war ends.

“Oil prices will come plummeting down even lower than they were at the start of the conflict,” Trump said. "And they were very low in the United States. They were really low.”

Majed al-Ansari, chief spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, said Monday that Qatar and other mediators are trying to penetrate a “deep deficit of trust” between the U.S. and Iran and get the sides back to negotiations.

“Either we sign a deal now or sign a deal 10 months away," said said al-Ansari, speaking at the Concordia Annual Summit, a global affairs forum taking place during the U.N.’s high-level week. "The only difference is the number of dead and destruction that we see.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Trump is open to meeting with Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, while he’s in New York for the General Assembly.

“This is a president that will meet with anybody for the most part, because he believes that engaging with people is important if you’re going to solve problems,” Rubio said on NBC’s “Today” show. “It doesn’t mean you’re going to end up agreeing with them, but it’s important."

The administration will sign a Greenland deal

At last year's General Assembly, Trump touted his record as a peacemaker and claimed that “everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize” for his administration's efforts mediating several conflicts around the globe.

This year, Trump is set to sign an agreement on the sidelines of the General Assembly with Danish and Greenlandic leaders that aims to set the pathway for the expansion of the U.S. military's footprint on Greenland.

The deal, announced last week, came together after Trump repeatedly threatened to “take over” Greenland, a territory of NATO-ally Denmark, by military force if necessary. Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will immediately begin the process of developing a larger military presence in Greenland including “building two very major military bases.”

Under the deal, Greenland remains Denmark's territory.

Trump's frustration with Russia-Ukraine war mounts

The president could also touch on Russia's continuing war against Ukraine during the address — a conflict that during his 2024 campaign he predicted would be resolved on Day One of his second term.

The president has routinely expressed frustration about the conflict. He hasn't obscured that his patience is being tested by Ukraine's targeting of Russia's diesel refineries — an issue that's added to oil markets' volatility — and Russia's targeting of Ukraine's energy grid.

Trump last week asserted that he got the two sides to agree to not target each other's energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy, who is scheduled to meet with Trump on Tuesday afternoon, said he was willing to go along with Trump's plan if Russia abided by it. Russia said it could only go along with Trump's energy truce proposal if Western energy sanctions on Moscow were lifted first.

The two sides have continued carrying out strikes on refineries and other energy infrastructure.

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In “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” Charles Spencer alleges that he argued with the then-Prince Charles over palace plans for Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, to walk behind their mother's coffin during her 1997 funeral procession.

Spencer says he told Charles that Diana, who was killed in a car crash in Paris at the age of 36, would not have wanted her boys to undergo the ordeal. He claims the prince “went ballistic” during the argument, and told him: "Rest assured, we’ll forget her soon enough." Spencer also accuses Charles of having “contempt” for his ex-wife and of sounding “elated” after her death.

After excerpts of the book were published last week, Buckingham Palace responded with a strongly worded statement that's rare by the measured standards of the royal household.

“His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss,” it said.

Spencer has stood by his claims, insisting to the BBC that he is telling the truth. On the royal rebuttal, he asked: “Is he furious or is he embarrassed?”

War of words draws renewed attention to Charles and Diana’s stormy history

Charles, then 32, married 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer in a lavish ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1981. The couple divorced in 1996, and a decade later Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, now Queen Camilla.

Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer, has long clashed with the royals over their treatment of his older sister.

Tensions between the palace and the Spencer family following her death were dramatized in the film “The Queen” and the Netflix series “The Crown.”

In a searing eulogy at his sister’s funeral, Spencer vowed that her “blood family” would carry on her “imaginative and loving” legacy in raising her two sons. The speech was widely considered a swipe at the royals.

At the time, many in Britain and beyond felt Queen Elizabeth II and her kin were too slow to acknowledge the global outpouring of grief over Diana’s death and that the monarchy was deeply out of touch with the public mood.

Diana tried to break off engagement to Charles and back out of wedding

After days of news stories that pitted one Charles against another, the book landed in shops with a new offering of salacious allegations.

Spencer says his sister tried to break off her engagement after discovering Prince Charles had bought a bracelet for Camilla. She also tried to back out of the wedding, telling her father it was clear Charles didn’t love her.

“My father was appalled and said it was impossible to pull out of such an enormous commitment at that point,” Spencer wrote.

Diana had suicidal thoughts and more than once drove to the famous chalk cliffs at Beachy Head on the south coast of England and considered “ending it all,” her brother said.

Spencer, like his nephew Prince Harry, holds the press responsible for the car crash that killed Diana, saying the paparazzi were the “leading cause of her death.”

‘Swan Song’ is in ample supply and offered at half price

The book was prominently displayed in windows and stacked on tables in London bookshops. The 28-pound ($37.43) hardback was offered Tuesday at half price in some shops and early sales were not brisk.

Mary Scheible, a retired pharmacist visiting from Atlanta, said she couldn’t wait to get back to her hotel to start reading it.

Scheible was married the same year as Diana and Charles and has always been fascinated with the princess’s story.

“I wanted to see her brother’s side of the story and what he had to say,” Scheible said. “I’d really like to read the book in its entirety and see if what’s being said is really what he’s trying to convey in the book or not.”

The Telegraph gave the book a two-star review (out of five) and called it a “monument" to Spencer's ego and not a book about his sister.

The Times of London said it went beyond defending Diana to launch a "Shakespearean blood feud between two aristocratic houses — a Montague-versus-Capulet drama played out in Barbour jackets and tweed where an ‘ancient grudge’ becomes ‘new mutiny.’”

After broadcaster Piers Morgan threatened to sue over allegations of what he called “examples of brazen falsity,” Spencer apologized for getting at least one of his facts wrong. But he reiterated that Morgan was surly when Spencer told him he was not welcome at his sister's funeral.

Morgan said he still planned to sue to have the “lies” removed from the book.

Charles Spencer says press treatment of Harry echoes that of his mother

The royals have spent decades putting that period of crisis behind them. The warmer, more personable approach of William and Harry — and, in recent years, the king — is a legacy of that time.

In his book, Spencer also criticized the royals for what he described as a “lack of obvious care” for the then 12-year-old Harry.

He recounted how “tiny, and slight, and bereft” his nephew looked after the funeral. “He needed Diana’s hugs, of course, and they would forever be denied him,” he wrote. “But instead of calm and nurture, he was allowed to spin out of control.”

Some critics have questioned why Spencer felt the need to revisit the pain and trauma 30 years on.

The aristocrat said he wanted to write down his own thoughts and memories about Diana, “once and for all, rather than having the discomfort of again reading the opinions of others, many of which are based on untruths.”

Asked if the relationship between the press and Harry and his wife, Meghan, mirrors the way the media treated his sister, Spencer told the BBC: “(Diana) was really brought low by all that criticism. I suppose it's a pity when I see echoes of that now.”

Penguin Press said the book will be published globally and translated into 12 languages.

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The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in morning trading and sitting 0.4% below its all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 220 points, or 0.4%, as of 10:45 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was adding 0.3% to its own record.

Stocks got some help after the price for a barrel of Brent crude fell 0.7% to $99.68. It’s come down from nearly $110 last week, though it’s still much more expensive than the $72 it was fetching before the war with Iran began. It’s been swinging with uncertainty about when the war will allow crude to freely flow again from the Middle East to customers worldwide.

The past week’s fall for oil prices has pulled Treasury yields down in the bond market, which has eased some of the pressure on the stock market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury topped 5% last week for the first time since 2023, and high yields slow the economy by making it more expensive for everyone to borrow money.

The 10-year yield edged down to 4.95% from 4.96% late Monday, though it also remains far above where it was before the war with Iran began, 3.97%.

On Wall Street, stocks of companies with big fuel bills rose because lower oil prices could mean less pressure on costs for not only themselves but also for their customers. Cruise operator Carnival climbed 1.5%, and American Airlines added 0.5%, though both pared their gains after oil prices trimmed their deepest losses from the morning.

AutoZone rose 5.2% after the retailer reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected, though its revenue fell short. CEO Phil Daniele said the auto parts seller faced “a difficult selling environment” in the first two months of the quarter, but it improved afterward and “we feel we are well positioned for sales growth” in its upcoming fiscal year.

At Thor Industries, which sells recreational vehicles, the mood was more muted. CEO Bob Martin said expensive fuel, high interest rates and still-high inflation are stretching its customers’ budgets, and business “never reached the inflection point many in the industry expected” in its latest fiscal year.

Its stock rose 2.2%, though, after it delivered a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected.

Such strong profit reports are one of the main reasons the U.S. stock market has reached the brink of its all-time high despite high oil prices and jitters about whether stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry shot too high.

Many companies are close to closing the books on their third quarter of the year, which ends with September. And analysts are forecasting companies in the S&P 500 will report overall growth of nearly 29% for the quarter from a year earlier, according to FactSet.

If they’re right, it would be the third straight quarter of growth better than 25% for the index. And stock prices tend to follow the track of corporate profits over the long term.

On Holding’s stock that trades in the United States jumped 12.4% after the Swiss sneaker and sportswear company unveiled its financial goals for upcoming years. It also approved a plan to buy back up to $1 billion of its stock through 2029. Such purchases send cash directly to investors and boost the company’s per-share performance.

On the losing end of Wall Street were several stocks of companies in the oil and gas industry, which were hurt by the drop in crude prices. ConocoPhillips fell 0.7%.

Banks also dropped, continuing their weak run since last week, when the Federal Reserve raised the overnight interest rate that it controls for the first time in three years. When the spread narrows between short-term interest rates and longer ones, banks come under pressure because they make profit off the difference.

JPMorgan Chase fell 3.7% and was the single heaviest weight on the S&P 500.

In stock markets abroad, indexes ticked higher across much of Europe and Asia.

Stocks rose 0.2% in Hong Kong and 0.1% in Shanghai after Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies, including what it said was China’s most powerful AI chip. That comes just days ahead of a meeting between Chinese and U.S. leaders at which competition to lead on AI technology is expected to be a major theme.

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And after New York lost Jaxson Dart on the opening drive, it didn't stand a chance.

Adams made eight catches for 195 yards and hauled in two of Stafford’s four touchdown passes, and the Rams welcomed Aaron Donald back to the NFL with a 28-6 victory Monday night.

Stafford passed for 327 yards for the Rams (1-1), who capitalized after the Giants (1-1) lost Dart to a left knee injury on their seventh snap. Los Angeles outgained New York with 481 yards to 182, even overcoming two turnovers in a swagger-restoring blowout.

“This team, we got to the confidence level that we're at because of the work we put in, and we're not going to put any governors on what we can do here,” said Adams, who had the fourth-highest yardage total of his 13-year career. “If you're trying to be great, be a Super Bowl-caliber team, you've got to hold yourself to a high standard. We can do even a little bit better than what we did, but this is on track with what we're capable of.”

The Rams played without injured All-Pros Puka Nacua and Myles Garrett, but Stafford and Adams were in top form while the preseason Super Bowl favorites rebounded competently from last week’s 27-7 debacle of a Week 1 loss to the 49ers.

Adams’ catches and yards receiving were both his best performances in a Rams uniform, while league MVP Stafford moved into sixth in NFL history with his 426th career TD pass, topping Philip Rivers when Adams adroitly tracked down an 11-yard fade in the third quarter.

Adams was extraordinary in the second game of his 13th NFL season. He made a two-handed grab high above his head before taking it for a 31-yard touchdown on the Rams’ second possession, and he made a 64-yard catch on their third drive to set up Kyren Williams’ 10-yard TD catch.

“(Adams) was special, and it showed all night,” coach Sean McVay said. “I thought he made some great plays, but you can see there's a lot of trust he and Matthew have. It's only going to continue to build, and I was really happy for him.”

Jameis Winston went 11 of 27 for 111 yards with an interception in place of Dart, who left the field shakily after taking a huge hit from Byron Young and Josaiah Stewart. The second-year quarterback, who looked great in last week's win over Dallas, watched the second half in a track suit.

After his first loss with the Giants, coach John Harbaugh wouldn't confirm Dart's injury is a sprained knee ligament, but said it's “in the neighborhood of it.”

“It's tough to come in, (but Winston) executed and he operated well,” Harbaugh said. “But as a group, as a team, we just didn't do what we needed to do to even have a chance to win the game. We didn't play up to that level across the board.”

Winston and the Giants’ offense couldn’t get much going after Dart’s exit. Winston threw an end-zone interception to Trent McDuffie in the second quarter, and New York managed only a field goal after Jevon Holland forced and recovered a fumble at the Los Angeles 11 right before halftime, with Donald stuffing Najee Harris on a classic third-down tackle.

“No excuses,” said running back Cam Skattebo, who managed only 36 yards on 12 carries. “They outperformed us, they out-executed us, and we just need to go back to the film room and fix some things.”

Stafford put it away on a scoring pass to Terrance Ferguson with 8:57 to play.

AD's return

The night was also a milestone for Donald, who had three tackles for the Rams while completing his comeback with his first NFL game action in 32 months. The three-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year, who skipped the Week 1 trip to Melbourne, got wild cheers from Rams fans at every opportunity at SoFi Stadium.

“It felt really good to be back, coming out, being embraced how I was,” Donald said. “I think the defense played great. Felt like we played how we're supposed to play.”

Injuries

Giants pass rusher Brian Burns went down with what looked like a serious left ankle injury in the fourth quarter, but he turned down a cart ride postgame, saying he felt surprisingly good. ... WR Malik Nabers missed time in the first half while popping his dislocated shoulder back into place, but returned to play. He'll have an X-ray Tuesday, as will Dart. ... Rams RB Ronnie Rivers injured his calf.

Up next

Giants: Host Tennessee on Sunday.

Rams: At Denver on Sunday night.

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Joseph Badio, a former Haiti Ministry of Justice employee, was brought into the Florida court in a wheelchair. The hearing happened a day after he and 17 others described as Colombian mercenaries were flown to the United States from Haiti, where they had been in custody.

They’re among 30 people charged in the indictment, including Christian Sanon, a Palm Beach County, Florida, resident and dual Haitian-American citizen who was already preparing to face trial next week. Authorities said he aspired to be Haiti’s president.

Although the actual charges against Sanon remain the same, his attorney said details from the new indictment, which was filed Aug. 27 and unsealed this past weekend, could affect his case.

“We are evaluating our next steps given the surprising new indictment on the eve of our trial scheduled for Monday,” defense attorney Zeljka Bozanic said in an email.

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, U.S. authorities have alleged. At least nine people so far have been convicted at trial or through guilty pleas.

Moïse was “assassinated by individuals seeking to profit from illicit financial opportunities and business contracts,” U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones said.

Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, when about two dozen foreign mercenaries, mostly from Colombia, attacked his home near Port-au-Prince.

In 2025, justice officials in Haiti asked the U.S. and Canada for help after a local court of appeals ordered a new investigation into Moïse’s killing, the third inquiry of its kind since he was shot 12 times at his private residence. His wife, Martine, also was injured in the attack.

The previous investigations were stalled because Haitian judges kept resigning from the case, fearing for their lives, and gangs seized control of the downtown Port-au-Prince courthouse where the judges were interrogating suspects.

Any proceedings in Haiti “continue to face significant difficulties,” the Ministry of Justice and Public Security said Sunday.

The indictment says Badio, who is charged with conspiracy, posed as a U.S. drug agent and participated in Moïse’s killing. A lawyer appointed to temporarily represent him could not immediately be reached for comment.

Badio once worked in the government’s anti-corruption unit until he was fired for alleged ethics violations weeks before the assassination.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid assigned lawyers and set additional court dates during a series of brief dialogues with each of the 18 defendants.

The scheme to kill Moïse included paying mercenaries with money obtained from U.S. government programs that were intended to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the indictment says.

Haiti has not had a president in the five years since Moïse’s death. It has instead been overwhelmed by gang violence: More than 3,000 people were killed this year by June and about 1.5 million people were displaced, according to the U.N.

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It happened Monday afternoon near the intersection of Griffin Road and Davie Road.

Police said the officer involved in the crash sustained minor injuries.

The officer was taken to a local area hospital for treatment.

Traffic unit investigators said they are looking into the circumstances that led up to the crash.

Coach John Harbaugh would not confirm reports that Dart sprained his MCL, choosing to wait for further testing.

“That's in the neighborhood of it, I would say,” Harbaugh said. “We'll get an MRI (on Tuesday) and have a real good feel for it, and give you more information from there.”

The Giants also saw top pass rusher Brian Burns sprain his left ankle and left tackle Andrew Thomas sustain an apparent lower-body injury in the fourth quarter. Wide receiver Malik Nabers had to pop his right shoulder back into place after dislocating it on the second-to-last play of the first quarter.

“But that's just part of football,” Burns said. “Guys go down every day, and it’s always next guy up. That’s why you try to develop a culture where you don’t slack off in production with the guys that’s behind.”

Even with that mentality, the Giants were never able to get back on track after Dart was hurt less than four minutes into the game while being pressured on third-and-8. Rams linebacker Byron Young hit Dart from the quarterback's right side, sending him into linebacker Josaiah Stewart, who undercut Dart's legs, resulting in a hard fall. Dart was eventually able to walk gingerly to the sideline under his own power, and he went into the medical tent for further evaluation before walking to the locker room.

Jameis Winston replaced Dart on the ensuing Giants drive.

Dart, who was 3-of-5 passing for 20 yards, spent the second half on the sideline in street clothes.

“Any time your quarterback goes down, obviously that's a gut punch to the team, right?” said Winston, who was 11 of 27 for 111 yards with one interception.

The body blows kept on coming.

Nabers was injured jockeying with Rams cornerback Trent McDuffie when he was targeted on a first-down pass. Nabers immediately grabbed his right shoulder and ran to the sideline, where he was clearly in pain. He was able to return on the next series, finishing with one reception for 1 yard on four targets, while clearly laboring at times.

“Nah, I ain't gonna make no excuse for anything that happened in the game,” said Nabers, who indicated he would undergo X-rays on Tuesday. “Yeah, I'm battling through injuries, but it doesn't make a difference on how the performance was.”

Burns got stepped on by Rams center Coleman Shelton but shook off a cart ride back to the locker room when the game ended. He would not speculate on his chances of playing against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.

“I've dealt with this,” Burns said. “It just depends on how fast you can get the swelling and inflammation out. So I'm just going to do everything possible to get it as tamed as I can.”

The Giants had to navigate the absences of many of these same players last season. Dart sustained a concussion in Week 10 against the Bears during his rookie campaign, and Nabers missed most of the year with a torn ACL in his right knee.

But the enthusiasm of Harbaugh's victorious debut against the Cowboys now gives way to the likelihood Winston will be running New York's offense for the near future. An 11-year veteran who was drafted first overall in 2015, Winston started two games and appeared in three for the Giants in 2025, throwing for 567 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.

Harbaugh said the Giants can't get discouraged by their change in fortune.

“All around the league, everybody deals with it,” he said. “This is football. This is the NFL. This is what you do. So our task is not to lament it.”

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Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputies reported that the dogs living at Leslie Torres’s home on Aug. 22 were neglected, suffered from urine scalding, and flea infestations.

On Monday, the 11 dogs were recovering and up for adoption at Furry Friends, a nonprofit no-kill rescue organization in Jupiter. Torres faced 11 felony animal cruelty charges.

“It’s really heartbreaking to hear when they’re in conditions like this ... What usually happens in situations like that is dehydration, sickness, dogs in those situations tend to generate a lot of fear,” said Nick Ferola, an adoption counselor at Furry Friends.

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The goal, he told The Associated Press, would be to first halt advances in North Korea's nuclear and missile capabilities, before then rolling back its arsenal and ultimately moving toward dismantlement. Political and economic concessions would be offered for each progression forward.

It’s an approach that may face an uphill battle as North Korea steadfastly refuses to engage in diplomacy over weapons it sees as the only security guarantee for the survival of its authoritarian leadership. The North has recently ramped up weapons testing activities, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent push to resume diplomacy.

Lee will advance his plan during this week’s U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York, saying that both Seoul and Washington are willing to reengage with Pyongyang.

“To change the direction of a moving vehicle, it must be brought to a halt first,” Lee told the AP in written responses to questions before his departure Monday for the United States. “A phased approach of stopping, reduction and dismantlement is a practical way of effectively resolving the North Korean nuclear issue."

Lee will make a speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.

Lee advocates step-by-step North Korean nuclear disarmament

North Korea's evolving nuclear program has raised questions about whether its nuclear disarmament can be achieved in a single step — or at all. Trump said last month that North Korea has 57 nuclear weapons, while some experts say the North has more than 100 warheads.

Many have pushed for efforts to convince North Korea to disarm in phases in return for economic and political benefits.

“Given the extent to which North Korea’s nuclear and missile capabilities have advanced, it is not a realistic solution to wait until complete denuclearization can be achieved all at once,” Lee said. “This is because, in the interim, North Korea’s nuclear capabilities will continue to advance, escalating the threat.”

Lee recently pushed for talks to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, through which he said ways to curb North Korea's nuclear program could be explored.

Some are worried that Lee's approach would result in North Korea refusing to fully abandon its nuclear program after winning what it wants — like sanctions relief.

To prevent that, Lee said negotiators would need to show North Korea that “moving toward stable and lasting peace is a realistic and feasible path to a secure and prosperous future.”

South Korea, U.S. want resumption of talks with North Korea

Whatever approach is taken, it's far from certain whether North Korea will return to talks anytime soon.

When Trump, citing a “very good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, scaled back a major military exercise with South Korea last month, North Korea dismissed the U.S. president's move, saying that just cutting parts of the drill won't change its provocative nature.

Pyongyang has since performed three rounds of weapons launches and repeatedly criticized what it called U.S. hostility. Experts say North Korea likely wants bigger U.S. concessions.

Lee, who hopes a resumption of Trump-Kim diplomacy would lead to reopening dialogue between the two Koreas, called Trump’s action “a deliberate step to send a clear message that the United States has no hostile intent toward North Korea.” He said that both South Korea and the United States “remain open to engaging in dialogue with North Korea without preconditions.”

“What is needed now is a political decision at the leaders’ level. The two leaders should build trust and work together to identify a common ground, face-to-face,” Lee said.

Lee intends to strengthen ties with U.S.

Trump's social media post on the exercise's downsizing came without prior consultation with South Korea. It also mentioned what Trump called Lee's refusal to join the United States in the “denuclearization” of Iran. This raised worries about the U.S.-South Korea alliance.

Lee acknowledged that Trump's decision came “somewhat unexpectedly.” But Lee said that Trump expressed his commitment to creating conditions that would lead to dialogue and that he wants to reduce confrontation on the Korean Peninsula.

Lee said that the strategic interests of South Korea and the United States are deeply intertwined across a wide range of areas and that he intends to build a more mutually beneficial partnership during the rest of Trump's term. For example, Lee said that planned cooperation in shipbuilding won't only revitalize U.S. shipbuilding and naval power, but also create new growth opportunities for South Korean businesses.

Lee said Friday that he won't let his military be drawn into the Iran war. He said that his government was considering expanding the operations of a naval unit deployed in the Gulf of Aden to protect South Korean vessels and oil shipping routes. Lee was expected to meet with Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

Lee refrains from stating a definite view on Kim's daughter

Asked about the prominent teenage daughter of the 42-year-old North Korean leader, Lee said that his government has taken note of “her rising status” and is keeping all possibilities open.

“However, I believe we have to be careful about expressing a definite view at this stage,” he said.

South Korea's spy agency has repeatedly described her as Kim's likely heir. Some experts disagree with that view, citing North Korea's male-dominated power hierarchy.

Facing intense scrutiny and criticism following the failure of the “ FIFA Forward Enterprise ” (FFE) project, Infantino sent a letter on Monday outlining this proposal to all FIFA Council members and the 211 member associations ahead of the next FIFA Council meeting scheduled for Oct. 15.

“I will ask the Council whether it wishes to commission an external, independent assessment of FIFA’s current governance framework for major strategic initiatives and to recommend potential improvements,” Infantino stated in his letter, which was seen by The Associated Press.

“I will propose that the Council establish a direct, structured, and time-bound consultation with the confederations and member associations on how to further strengthen FIFA’s decision-making processes,” he added.

Backlash over private investors plan

Under the FIFA Forward Enterprise concept, private investors would have purchased shares in the World Cup and other competitions.

However, the project leaked publicly sooner than Infantino had anticipated, sparking sharp criticism and creating a rift among member associations. Some of the most high-profile members — including several from European soccer body UEFA — withdrew their support for Infantino.

“The proposal entered the public domain before FIFA’s planned institutional process had been completed and before it could be presented in full to the Council and the member associations. I recognize that, without full context, this caused concern and created the impression that decisions had already been taken. They had not,” Infantino said in the letter.

Legal pressure, strategic ambitions

The fallout has escalated beyond internal disagreement. Last month, UEFA started drafting criminal charges against Infantino in U.S. courts regarding the FFE plan, requesting the release of all relevant documents.

Despite the controversy, Infantino continues to champion the goal of generating more revenue for world football’s governing body.

“Withdrawing this proposal does not diminish our ambition or our responsibility to reinvest a greater share of the fruits of FIFA’s success into football. We will continue to explore sustainable ways to increase FIFA’s resources,” Infantino added. “What changes is not the ambition, but the strength of the process.”

This governance crisis comes at a crucial political time for FIFA’s leadership. In March 2027, the 56-year-old FIFA chief will run for office for a fourth time, while any prospective rivals have until Nov. 18 to submit a candidate to challenge him.

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Sen. Clemente Castañeda of the Movimiento Ciudadano party put forward the proposal, backed by representatives from other party leaderships, including Ignacio Mier of the ruling Morena party.

Castañeda stated that the initiative is critical for “expressly incorporating sporting merit among the obligations that national sports associations must observe” and ensuring promotion and relegation are enshrined in Mexican law.

“When they closed off the possibility of promotion, they didn’t just change a sporting rule; they also restricted a path for players, staff, and sports projects to grow in a country that needs to open up opportunities,” Castañeda said.

The senator said that they invited the president of the Liga MX, Francisco Iturbide, and the commissioner of the Mexican football, Mikel Arriola, and they declined.

The Associated Press contacted the Mexican Federation for comment but did not receive a response.

Broken promises and second-division Issues

Owners of Mexican top-flight teams eliminated promotion and relegation in April 2020, citing financial difficulties among second-division clubs that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Under the original plan, the suspension was set for five years, with the system scheduled for reinstatement last year so that a team could earn promotion and another face relegation at the end of the most recent season in May of this year.

However, reinstatement never materialized. Starting last year, several second-division clubs began protesting to demand that authorities honor the agreement. At the time, the Mexican Football Federation stated that returning to the system was impossible because the necessary economic conditions did not yet exist.

“The whole pandemic thing was a sham; they always knew they were going to permanently shut down promotion and relegation,” said Alberto Castellanos, president of U. de G., one of the protesting teams.

High barriers and disillusioned investors

Liga MX imposed stringent requirements on second-division teams, mandating a certification process before they could aspire to play in the top tier. These rules included a venue capacity requirement of 30,000 seats — a standard not even met by all active first-division clubs.

The elimination of promotion directly impacted new investors in Mexican soccer. Cancún FC was acquired in 2022 by an investment group led by figures like former Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow on the premise that promotion would return.

“When we bought the team, we saw great potential — potential that often even Mexicans don’t see—but the current system fosters mediocrity; it’s very sad,” said Giovani Solazzi, the team’s president.

Facing pushback from certain second-division owners, Mexican soccer authorities completely removed the promotion and relegation system from the regulations this year. Neither the Federation nor Liga MX provided an explanation for the decision.

Top-flight perspective and public outcry

The owner of Club América — one of Mexico’s most powerful clubs and arguably its most influential decision-maker — stated last month that he supports reinstating the system, provided the right conditions are met.

“I am in favor of promotion and relegation. Everyone makes comparisons, pointing out that it exists in Spain, England, or Portugal; however, those countries have very solid second divisions, whereas here, we haven’t managed to build that kind of solid second-division league,” he said.

Once promotion was officially scrapped, widespread protests broke out during second-division matches. Players responded on the pitch by standing motionless after the opening whistle or passing the ball passively without attacking.

“I arrived in Mexico on June 8 under the premise that there would be promotion — joining Morelia, a team contending for promotion —- but then we were notified that it wasn’t happening,” said Spanish goalkeeper Roberto Galán. “That’s why we protested and the clubs were sanctioned, but the protests will continue because we have the right to make our voices heard.”

Fan groups have also shown up at stadiums wearing protest shirts to voice their discontent.

And last week, Mexico’s National Antitrust Commission (CNA) launched an investigation into potential monopolistic practices in the Mexican league centering on the absence of a promotion and relegation system.

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The tackle for loss was vintage AD, and it was the biggest highlight of the 35-year-old star's successful return to the Los Angeles Rams after a 2 1/2-year retirement. Donald is officially back on the Rams' defensive line, and they celebrated with a 28-6 victory over New York.

Rams fans let Donald know how much they appreciated his decision all night — but particularly after he swallowed up Harris to force a field goal at a vulnerable moment for Los Angeles' defense.

“It felt good,” Donald said with a grin. “It would have felt better if I’d been able to slam him. ... I felt the love. I felt it when I made that little tackle for loss and heard the fans say, ‘Hey, Aaron!’ or whatever."

The three-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year made three tackles during his first NFL game action in 32 months, taking regular snaps on the defensive line all night at SoFi Stadium. He saw fewer double-teams than he normally faced during his first 10 years in the league, and he regretted the minor technique mistakes that prevented him from making more of those opportunities.

Donald was pleased overall with his return, even though he gave an exaggerated wince as he took the postgame podium.

“I’m just a little sore,” he said with a grin. “Man, just two padded practices, and then a game!”

“The game wasn't really as fast as I thought,” Donald added. “It was more me, calming myself down. Overrunning stuff, or my feet not being on the ground where they're supposed to be, not trusting my eyes, little stuff like that.”

Donald felt some similarities to 2017 and 2018, when he held out of training camp and the preseason in a contract dispute with the Rams. When the holdouts ended, his famed technique wasn't pinpoint-perfect.

“It was the same way when I came back," he said. "It took a couple of games to get going. But it's a little different: I ain't played in two years, so I've got to watch the film and see what I did good, what I did wrong.”

Donald remained a popular figure in Los Angeles during his retirement, and fans were eager to celebrate his return. He was introduced last in the Rams’ pregame starting lineup, setting off frenzied roars throughout the SoFi stands as he sprinted onto the field through a corridor of hyped teammates.

“I was so juiced,” NFL MVP Matthew Stafford said. “He came running out of the tunnel, and I couldn't control myself. I was freaking hyped up, man. I'm sure you all were in there, but man, the fans were happy to see him back, and we all were, too. Just the human being, the player, all of it combined, what he brings to our team, into our locker room, is unmatched — and really to the city, which I thought was amazing. I thought it was a great reception for him tonight.”

Many fans sported his No. 99 jersey or held up signs welcoming him back. Donald huddled with his wife and children on the field while the Rams warmed up, and he even stopped to autograph a sign held by a young fan declaring: “The Beast Is Back!”

Donald retired in March 2024 after a 10-year career spent entirely with the Rams in St. Louis and Los Angeles. Along with his three Player of the Year awards, he was an eight-time All-Pro and a 10-time Pro Bowl selection who had 111 sacks — an extraordinary number for an interior lineman — and won a Super Bowl ring.

Donald began to entertain the notion of a comeback after the arrival of Myles Garrett, a two-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year after setting the league's single-season sacks record with 23 last season for Cleveland.

Donald couldn't resist the chance to team up with one of his few contemporary peers in defensive line play — but that connection likely will have to wait for a month. After a zero-tackle debut in Australia in which he clearly wasn't at his best, Garrett had surgery on his knee last week, and he will miss at least the next four games while on the injured list.

The Rams' defense improved sharply from Week 1 with Donald in the lineup, although everybody realized the injury absence of Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart was the biggest reason. Los Angeles allowed just 182 yards — a paltry 3.3 per play — and kept New York out of the end zone.

Donald contributed, but he wants to do more. He lamented a few rushes that got “a little too high” — a key for an undersized lineman who built a stellar career on winning leverage battles with strength and technique.

“I had some 1-on-1s, (but) I've just got to win them a little faster," Donald said. “I popped up, got a little high, got too excited. Hopefully we keep getting blocked like that, and we'll get going. I'm not worried about it.”

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The president, appearing with Mamdani after their meeting, reminisced about his previous visits to the official residence of the city's mayors and recalled “great ones and some not so great ones” who have led the city in the past.

"Hopefully you're going to be a great one," he said, giving Mamdani a pat on the back. “And you're off to a start.”

The meeting was the latest cordial encounter between the Republican president and a democratic socialist mayor, who have struck up a surprisingly warm relationship despite their lack of political overlap, and have tried to find common ground in helping the city they both love.

With scores of world leaders arriving in the city for the United Nations General Assembly, there Trump stood beside Mamdani on the lawn of the custard-yellow mayoral mansion in Manhattan.

“I have a lot of meetings right now, very important meetings with heads of different countries, but this is like a little bit of old home week for me,” Trump said, adding “We've done so many things from the beautiful home or house or building standing right behind me.”

Trump and Mamdani told reporters they discussed a potential housing project in the borough of Queens and how to make New York more affordable for the working class.

They have met at least twice previously and have appeared to maintain some level of contact with one another, though the mayor stays tightlipped about any ongoing conversations with the president.

The pair of polarizing leaders first gathered in the Oval Office shortly after Mamdani’s election victory last year for a surprisingly cordial confab that centered on ways to help their shared hometown, a detente that came after months of verbal sparring.

A few months later in February, Mamdani again took a quick jaunt to Washington to present Trump with a mock New York Daily News front page that said “Trump to City: Let’s Build,” as he pitched new housing investments in the city.

As they did after their first Oval Office meeting, Trump and Mamdani acknowledged their political and policy differences while standing side by side.

Mamdani was asked about Trump's decision to bar certain news outlets from the White House, with the mayor saying it was important that those networks, and others, be present for the Gracie Mansion event. Trump then defended his restrictions on the news organizations whose coverage he called biased.

“It’s interesting because they said they were gonna boycott me. But they never boycott me,” the president said, before adding, “I think that these outlets have an obligation to be fair.”

Trump's previous visits to Gracie Mansion included attending the 2003 wedding of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a 2007 book party for former Democratic U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel.

After Trump left, Mamdani returned to the lawn to answer a few more questions, telling reporters that he and the president have sharp disagreements but that the relationship has endured nevertheless.

“I will continue to have conversations with the president, and frankly, anyone who can deliver relief to the people of this city,” Mamdani said.

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U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. declined the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction to prevent the parcel exchange, saying they failed to prove it would worsen ecological risks to a Gulf Coast region already transformed by billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket operations.

In June, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved moving forward with the deal with SpaceX, which would surrender 683 acres (276 hectares) the company owns in exchange for the federal land in the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The 103,000-acre (41,700-hectare) refuge spans four counties along the Texas border and is home to animal habitats and historical landmarks.

Maps show the land SpaceX would acquire would be closer to the company's launchpad near the U.S.-Mexico border.

The swap amounts to a gift of public lands to SpaceX, “clearing the way for bulldozers to tear into this wildlife refuge as soon as next week and turn a public treasure into a private payday,” said Laiken Jordahl, a spokesperson with the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the lawsuit alongside other opponents including tribal groups. Jordahl said Monday that the litigation will continue even as the exchange goes forward.

“This court order is not the final word. These lands hold incredible spiritual, historical and conservation value for the people and wildlife of South Texas. We won’t stop fighting to keep this irreplaceable public wildlife refuge safe from SpaceX bulldozers,” Jordahl said in a statement.

The lawsuit asks the federal court to halt the exchange, which has worried SpaceX opponents in the area who have long criticized the company's expanding footprint over lost access to beaches and concerns over exploding rockets.

The Fish and Wildlife Service didn’t respond to a request for comment on Monday’s decision. Previously, a spokesperson had said the agency does not comment on ongoing litigation.

The agency issued a final environmental assessment report in June that determined the exchange would cause no significant impact to the area. The report said the federal government believed the acquisition would represent a “net conservation benefit” and provide “substantial long-term conservation value and improving landscape-scale habitat connectivity across refuges in South Texas.”

The judge said that the plaintiffs offered “relatively weak” evidence of environmental harm.

“While they rightfully argue that the preservation of wildlife and historical lands furthers the public interest, they present no evidence demonstrating that the Property will suffer aesthetic, environmental, cultural, or historical degradation during the pendency of this lawsuit,” Rodriguez wrote in his ruling.

In addition, the judge said a preliminary injunction would result in modifications to SpaceX’s development plans, “placing additional hardship on the company’s ability to meet milestones and contractual obligations.”

SpaceX did not return an email seeking comment on the judge's ruling.

The space exploration company first broke ground in Texas more than a decade ago and has expanded rapidly, so much that SpaceX employees last year voted to incorporate their own local government called Starbase.

Tuesday will offer more of the same: soaking storms, particularly during the afternoon. Localized flooding will continue to be the main concern.

Temperatures are expected to be near seasonable, lows in the mid and upper 70s, highs in the upper 80s to 90°F.

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Ultimately Fay fell just short of the 74 mph hurricane threshold, topping out as a 70 mph tropical storm Sunday night before quickly crumbling to a curtain of wind shear early Monday.

Fay was poorly forecast or missed entirely by our major forecast models late last week. Models mostly keyed in on the disturbance designated Invest 98L over the central Atlantic last week – which we discussed in detail in this newsletter much of last week – while either downplaying or overlooking the potential development of the low-pressure system that became Fay southwest of the Azores.

The National Hurricane Center didn’t first include the disturbance in its outlook until Friday morning – only 24 hours before it formed – and with low odds that sharply rose during the day Friday.

Fay finds a window

Fay formed almost as far north and east as we’ve recorded an Atlantic named storm in September, in a part of the basin that’s historically hostile to tropical development this time of year.

But waters in the area where Fay formed are at record warmth for the time of year and, with a narrow window of light upper-level winds, Fay made the most of its short stint as a tropical system.

Forecast models historically struggle with initially non-tropical systems like Fay that form in the far corners of the North Atlantic and outside of the traditional tropical belt. Back in September 2012, the system that was forecast to top out as a 40 mph Tropical Storm Michael over the open middle Atlantic became 115 mph Category 3 major Hurricane Michael (different from 2018’s catastrophic Hurricane Michael that struck the Florida panhandle) less than three days later.

It’s a good reminder that while hurricane forecasts are one of the best success stories in all of predictive sciences, forecast models can still miss in dramatic fashion, especially for unconventional situations or during seasons that don’t behave like others in the historical record.

Upcoming nor’easter with a small chance of turning tropical

An area of low pressure that’s expected to develop along a stalled cold front over the western Atlantic later this week will drift westward toward the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. as it strengthens into the weekend.

While the exact track of the low-pressure is still uncertain, the difference in high pressure over Central Canada and the intensifying low to the southeast over the western Atlantic will crank up winds and whip up seas along the Eastern Seaboard from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to New England from Thursday through Saturday. This could produce a prolonged nor’easter-like event for the region, with strong, gusty winds above 40 mph, multiple cycles of coastal flooding, coastal erosion, and periods of heavy rain depending on the eventual track of the low-pressure system.

For now, the system looks to stay non-tropical, but there’s a small chance (~20% chance) its core warms enough so that it transitions to a tropical system later this week into the weekend. Both the AI models and traditional, physics-based models agree on this low probability scenario so it’s something to follow. Regardless, it shouldn’t appreciably change the impacts expected for the coast later this week.

El representante Robert Garcia, el representante Bennie Thompson y el representante Maxwell Frost compartieron fotografías del informe que muestran baños sucios y desbordados, junto con detenidos que, según ellos, son obligados a dormir en el piso de concreto o encadenados.

El informe también afirma: “Los denunciantes advierten que, entre otros abusos, ICE está deteniendo a personas, incluidos hombres, mujeres, familias y personas de edad avanzada con enfermedades crónicas, durante días o semanas en condiciones abusivas y potencialmente mortales, incluidas celdas abarrotadas, uso prolongado de grilletes, acceso inadecuado a atención médica e higiene, alimentos insuficientes y acceso legal limitado o inexistente”.

Garcia es el miembro demócrata de mayor rango del Comité de Supervisión y Reforma Gubernamental de la Cámara de Representantes.

Garcia emitió un comunicado que decía:

“La Administración Trump está tratando de encubrir estas condiciones repugnantes e inseguras y evadir la rendición de cuentas, mientras innumerables vidas son puestas en peligro. ICE debe poner fin inmediatamente a este trato inhumano y darnos respuestas sobre esta horrible situación”.

La representante Debbie Wasserman Schultz realizó una visita sorpresa a la instalación de Miramar en julio y dijo que vio a detenidos en condiciones que no le desearía ni a sus peores enemigos.

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The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help identifying the man, who was captured on surveillance video behind the Sunshine Flea Market on Aug. 25.

“Several months ago, we started hearing rumblings that there may be somebody out there killing community cats,” said Jan Steele with Palm Beach Animal Care & Control.

At first, animal control officials needed evidence.

That came last month when a cat was brought in dead from a gunshot wound, which was confirmed during a necropsy.

“Not long after that, we had another cat in the general vicinity that was shot and this time the cat was alive,” Steele said.

Surveillance video captures man near cat colony

Surveillance video from behind the Sunshine Flea Market shows a man wearing a blue shirt and jeans riding into the area on a bicycle.

The man appears to be wearing a spotlight on his head and holding what appears to be a gun.

“We see a cat run past, we know that there are cats in that green swale area and we know he was shooting in that area,” Steele said.

People who feed cats in the area said there is an established community cat colony behind the flea market.

Gabriella Gluck, with Furry Friends Humane, said the intentional nature of the attacks is particularly concerning.

“Someone who is intentionally going out and harming animals or having malice towards animals -- it’s very disturbing, it’s sad, we want to make sure it doesn’t happen to another animal,” Gluck said.

Cat undergoes emergency amputation

Furry Friends Humane took in the black cat that survived the shooting and named her Zoe.

The gunshot shattered her shoulder, requiring emergency surgery to amputate her front left limb.

Lacey Wiles, who is fostering Zoe, said the circumstances surrounding the shooting make the case especially shocking.

“This was not protecting your property, this wasn’t protecting another animal, a pet of your own. This was absolutely nothing of that nature. This was just seeking out an animal with intent to harm and that’s what I think makes this so shocking,” Wiles said.

Zoe, an outdoor community cat, must now adjust to living inside because of her amputation.

“Zoe obviously has come in to us injured and she is an outside community cat, so her entire world has just changed because now due to the amputation, she’s no longer an animal we would consider able to thrive and live her life outside,” Wiles said.

Wiles is now working to socialize Zoe, who is unfamiliar with humans and living within four walls.

Reward increases to $10,000

Authorities and animal advocates hope someone will recognize the man seen in the surveillance video.

Furry Friends Humane said an outpouring of support from the community helped increase the reward for information to $10,000.

“After we posted that video, we got so much community support that some of our longtime donors reached out and said, ‘Hey, we want to help,’ and we were actually able to double the reward to $10,000,” Gluck said.

Officials are also urging people not to use artificial intelligence filters to alter the surveillance images. According to authorities, online efforts using AI filters have impeded the investigation and wasted time and resources.

Investigators believe there may be more victims.

“We know that there were more, we just don’t have the proof of how many more,” Steele said.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone who recognizes the man captured on surveillance video to come forward.

“Because we want every animal in Palm Beach County to live a humane and loving life, it’s really important for us to catch whoever is doing this,” Steele said.

Anyone who recognizes the man in the surveillance video is asked to contact PBSO’s Animal Crimes Unit at animalcruelty@pbso.org or the PBCACC at https://secure.co.palm-beach.fl.us/PSD.ACC.AnimalCruelty/.

La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Palm Beach está pidiendo la ayuda del público para identificar al hombre, quien fue captado en un video de vigilancia detrás del Sunshine Flea Market el 25 de agosto.

“Hace varios meses, comenzamos a escuchar rumores de que podría haber alguien matando gatos comunitarios”, dijo Jan Steele, de Palm Beach Animal Care & Control.

Al principio, los funcionarios de control de animales necesitaban pruebas.

Estas llegaron el mes pasado cuando un gato fue llevado muerto por una herida de bala, lo cual fue confirmado durante una necropsia.

“No mucho después de eso, tuvimos otro gato en los alrededores al que le dispararon y esta vez el gato estaba vivo”, dijo Steele.

Video de vigilancia capta a hombre cerca de colonia de gatos

Un video de vigilancia de la parte trasera del Sunshine Flea Market muestra a un hombre vestido con una camisa azul y jeans entrando al área en una bicicleta.

El hombre parece llevar una luz en la cabeza y sostener lo que parece ser un arma.

“Vemos a un gato pasar corriendo, sabemos que hay gatos en esa zona verde de drenaje y sabemos que él estaba disparando en esa área”, dijo Steele.

Personas que alimentan a los gatos en el área dijeron que existe una colonia establecida de gatos comunitarios detrás del mercado de pulgas.

Gabriella Gluck, de Furry Friends Humane, dijo que la naturaleza intencional de los ataques es particularmente preocupante.

“Alguien que intencionalmente sale a lastimar animales o tiene malicia hacia los animales, es muy perturbador, es triste, queremos asegurarnos de que no le suceda a otro animal”, dijo Gluck.

Gata es sometida a amputación de emergencia

Furry Friends Humane recibió a la gata negra que sobrevivió al disparo y la llamó Zoe.

El disparo le destrozó el hombro, lo que requirió una cirugía de emergencia para amputarle la extremidad delantera izquierda.

Lacey Wiles, quien tiene a Zoe bajo cuidado temporal, dijo que las circunstancias en torno al disparo hacen que el caso sea especialmente impactante.

“Esto no fue para proteger su propiedad, esto no fue para proteger a otro animal, una mascota propia. Esto no fue absolutamente nada de esa naturaleza. Esto fue simplemente buscar a un animal con la intención de hacerle daño y eso es lo que creo que hace que esto sea tan impactante”, dijo Wiles.

Zoe, una gata comunitaria que vivía al aire libre, ahora debe adaptarse a vivir dentro de una vivienda debido a su amputación.

“Zoe obviamente llegó a nosotros herida y es una gata comunitaria que vive al aire libre, así que todo su mundo acaba de cambiar porque ahora, debido a la amputación, ya no es un animal que consideraríamos capaz de prosperar y vivir su vida al aire libre”, dijo Wiles.

Wiles ahora trabaja para socializar a Zoe, quien no está familiarizada con los humanos ni con vivir entre cuatro paredes.

Recompensa aumenta a $10,000 USD

Las autoridades y defensores de los animales esperan que alguien reconozca al hombre visto en el video de vigilancia.

Furry Friends Humane dijo que una gran muestra de apoyo de la comunidad ayudó a aumentar a $10,000 USD la recompensa por información.

“Después de que publicamos ese video, recibimos tanto apoyo de la comunidad que algunos de nuestros donantes de muchos años se comunicaron y dijeron, “Oigan, queremos ayudar”, y de hecho pudimos duplicar la recompensa a $10,000 USD”, dijo Gluck.

Los funcionarios también instan a las personas a no utilizar filtros de inteligencia artificial para alterar las imágenes de vigilancia. Según las autoridades, los esfuerzos en internet utilizando filtros de IA han obstaculizado la investigación y desperdiciado tiempo y recursos.

Los investigadores creen que podría haber más víctimas.

“Sabemos que hubo más, simplemente no tenemos pruebas de cuántas más”, dijo Steele.

La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Palm Beach está pidiendo a cualquier persona que reconozca al hombre captado en el video de vigilancia que se presente.

“Debido a que queremos que todos los animales en el condado Palm Beach tengan una vida humana y llena de cariño, es realmente importante para nosotros atrapar a quien esté haciendo esto”, dijo Steele.

A cualquier persona que reconozca al hombre en el video de vigilancia se le pide que se comunique con la Unidad de Delitos contra Animales de la PBSO en animalcruelty@pbso.org o con PBCACC en https://secure.co.palm-beach.fl.us/PSD.ACC.AnimalCruelty/.

A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Missouri should use the new Republican-drawn U.S. House districts in the November election, just as the state did in its August primary. To revert to its prior districts for the general election would violate the U.S. Constitution, the appeals judges said.

The appeals panel directed a lower court judge to issue a permanent injunction against using anything other than the map favored by Trump. But the ruling has no immediate impact. That’s because the panel also ordered the judge to delay the effect of the order for one week to allow time for an appeal. The judge quickly did so.

Opponents of the new map said Monday that they will file an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court already has twice sided against the Trump-backed map. Earlier this month, it blocked enforcement of a lower court order favoring the new map pending a potential appeal and eventual decision by the high court.

Missouri currently is set to run its November election with the same congressional districts it used in 2024 and 2022, following prior decisions by both the Missouri Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Appeals panel ruling comes amid absentee voting

Local elections officials already have sent absentee ballots to overseas citizens and military voters using the 2022 districts. State law requires absentee ballots to be available to all other voters by Tuesday.

Local elections officials theoretically could scramble to change ballots again and could send replacements for ones already distributed. But if voters already have cast an absentee ballot, they cannot change their vote — even if the district boundaries have changed.

Miller County Clerk Clinton Jenkins said he mailed an absentee ballot Friday to a Missouri voter living in Australia and also sent ballots to other overseas voters. But he suggested that other people “wait a little deeper into the absentee period, just in case” the congressional district boundaries get swapped again.

To try to change districts at this late date would be “practically impossible” and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, the Missouri Association of County Clerks and Election Authorities had told appeals judges in a legal filing.

But an attorney representing Republicans who sued — including U.S. Rep. Bob Onder and state Sen. Rick Brattin, a congressional candidate — suggested during arguments last Thursday that there still is time to revert to the Trump-backed map.

The appeals panel agreed, pointing to other cases in which courts have ordered changes after absentee ballots already had been distributed to overseas citizens and military voters.

The group People Not Politicians, which spearheaded a referendum petition to put the new map to a statewide vote on the November ballot, said it will appeal the latest decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Ballots have been printed, and Missourians have already voted. Thousands more will vote before this order seeks to take effect,” Richard von Glahn, executive director of People Not Politicians Missouri, said in a statement. “Officials should stop wasting taxpayers’ money on pointless legal action and instead focus on administering our elections.”

Court ruling highlights constitutional conflict

The 8th Circuit decision puts the federal court at odds with Missouri's top court.

“The Constitution does not permit Missouri to use a different congressional district map in the November 2026 general election than it used in the August 2026 primary election,” the appeals panel wrote in its decision.

The panel consists of Judge James Loken, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush, and two appointees of Trump — Judges David Stras and Justin Smith. Prior to his June appointment, Smith was an attorney who represented Trump as he unsuccessfully appealed a $5 million jury verdict in a lawsuit filed by the writer E. Jean Carroll to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Earlier this month, the Missouri Supreme Court said the state forbids the use of districts passed last September because opponents submitted thousands of petition signatures in December calling for a statewide vote on the new districts.

Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins waited until August — on the same day that the primary was held under the new districts — to reject the petition. He asserted that referendum petitions aren’t allowed for congressional redistricting.

The Missouri Supreme Court reversed Hoskins’ finding, ruling that the state must use the districts approved in 2022 for the November election. The high court then temporarily held Hoskins in contempt when he directed local election officials to use the 2025 map after a federal district court order favoring it.

Missouri's redistricting targets Kansas City

The new congressional map backed by Trump significantly reshapes a Kansas City-based district held by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. Republicans hope the map could help them win seven of the state’s eight House seats — one more than they currently hold.

Cleaver was unopposed in the Democratic primary, and Brattin won a multi-way Republican primary. Brattin praised Monday's appeals panel decision, saying that switching districts after the primary “defies common sense and undermines the entire electoral process.”

About 59% of the 5th District's potential voters are new under the revised map, which also changes several other districts. All told, more than a million potential Missouri voters, or nearly 1 in 4 voters statewide, are affected by the redistricting, according to an Associated Press estimate.

Missouri’s redistricting battle has been the longest and most complex among roughly a dozen states that sought to change their U.S. House districts over the past year. Districts are usually redrawn at the start of each decade, after a census. But Trump spurred a spate of mid-decade redistricting last year when he urged Republican-led states to redraw districts to gain an edge in the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

There was that one loss in Australia when the matches were so late in the year that the U.S. players spent most of their time online shopping for the holidays until they realized they were in a hole so deep there was no way out except to suffer a big loss.

That was 26 years ago. Three of the 24 players in this Presidents Cup weren't even born the last time — the only time — the Internationals won.

Should anyone expect Medinah to be different?

“It's the elephant in the room you have to address,” U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker said. “Just because these last teams have been successful doesn't mean we're going to be successful. We have to reset the bar for our team, tell them we have a standard to play to and we're 0-0. These 12 guys have accomplished nothing. We're going to hammer that into them.”

Each edition of the Presidents Cup brings new hope for the Internationals, a team that draws players from every continent except Europe. The depth favors the Americans, with all but two of their players inside the top 25 in the world ranking.

The exceptions are Patrick Cantlay (No. 28), who has proven to be their best clutch player in these team competitions; and Jackson Koivun, the 21-year-old who three months ago was helping Auburn to another NCAA title.

Koivun, the No. 1 amateur in the world, won in his third start on the PGA Tour as a pro and Snedeker found him too compelling to pass up. Koivun becomes the first player since Jordan Spieth in 2013 to start a year without a PGA Tour card and end it with the Presidents Cup.

The thinking was similar to when Europe chose Ludvig Aberg, who went from college to the Ryder Cup without ever having played in a major. Europe figured he would be part of every team for years to come and it was good to give him a taste.

Snedeker bristled at the idea that the Presidents Cup would be a good experience for Koivun for the Ryder Cup in 2027 and beyond.

“Our job as captain and vice captains for the Presidents Cup it put the best 12 players on the field,” Snedeker said. “To sit there and think this is a training session is laughable. I've worked 14 months for this opportunity. I'm not going to put somebody in a situation that's not going to help our team win. I feel he gives us a better chance to win.”

The highest-ranked player for Geoff Ogilvy's team is Si Woo Kim, who rose to No. 14 in the world by becoming the first player to earn $10 million in a PGA Tour season without winning. Among the four rookies on his team is 39-year-old Ryan Fox, the New Zealander who showed his mettle when he won the British Open with a birdie on the last hole.

And then there's Adam Scott, who ties a Presidents Cup record held by Phil Mickelson by playing for the 12th time. The Australian has yet to be on the winning side. His debut in 2003 was in South Africa when it ended in a tie.

“I've been given another chance. It might be the last one,” the 46-year-old Scott said. “I'm more excited this year than previously.”

The biggest hurdle for Ogilvy, the 2006 U.S. Open champion, and his International team is history. It came down to the final match in South Korea in 2015, and in Virginia in 2005. Far too often it has been an American runaway.

“Clearly winning something for the first time — the first time in a very long time — it's probably more difficult than if you're winning all the time,” Ogilvy said. “But we're getting closer all the time.”

Perhaps one advantage for the Internationals is playing at Medinah. They have never won on American soil, but it was Ogilvy's design company (OCM) that was chosen to renovate the course.

Nine players this week were at Medinah for the 2019 BMW Championship. Snedeker and three of his assistants were at the 2012 Ryder Cup. But this is an entirely different Medinah, and no one knows it better than the guy who designed it.

“We have an advantage right now,” Ogilvy said two weeks ago when he announced his captain's picks. "By the time we get to Thursday morning, I think the advantage will be gone. Professional golfers are very good at learning a golf course.

“Hopefully there will be a little advantage. The boys will get a little shot of confidence because their captain built the course,” he said. “It could be more psychological than real. But we'll see.”

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In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy's lawyer asked the court to question juror Michael Desronvil about his alleged use of a cellphone during deliberations, his truthfulness on a questionnaire that prospective jurors filled out before the trial began and his truthfulness when jurors were questioned by the judge a day before the trial ended.

Among other things, lawyer Kevin Reddington asked the court to obtain a record of any calls or texts Desronvil made between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on each day the jury deliberated. Phone use during deliberations is prohibited in the state.

The judge declared a mistrial Sept. 4 after the jury insisted it couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict, despite days of trying. Eleven of 12 jurors were ready to clear Clancy of criminal responsibility, with the majority feeling that she was in the grip of a rare condition called postpartum psychosis when she strangled her kids.

But Desronvil sided with the prosecutors, who had argued that Clancy knew what she was doing.

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Desronvil hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with his service on the jury, though some other jurors complained that he was inflexible in his opinion that Clancy was guilty. In a statement released by his lawyer last week, Desronvil said he “didn’t have any doubts.”

Prosecutors have yet to say whether they plan on putting Clancy on trial again. She remains charged with murder and is in a psychiatric hospital until her case is resolved.

In another motion on Monday, another lawyer for Clancy, Martin Weinberg, asked the judge to take the unusual step of dismissing the criminal case, rather than putting on a new trial, on the grounds that a mistrial shouldn't have been declared in the first place.

Weinberg argued that the judge should have replaced Desronvil with an alternate during the deliberations after the jury foreperson complained he was refusing to listen to the law on reasonable doubt.

“Contrary to the court’s stated belief at the time, it did have viable choices other than declaring a mistrial,” Weinberg wrote.

A spokesperson for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz would not comment on the motions.

At the trial, jurors heard from psychologists and clinicians who treated Clancy for several months before the killings, when she was suffering from worsening mental health problems that emerged after the birth of her youngest child. She was released from a psychiatric hospital less than three weeks before she killed her children.

Miami Fire Rescue informó que sus equipos fueron enviados alrededor de la 1:52 a.m. a la cuadra 3700 de Northwest 23rd Court tras recibir un reporte sobre una persona con una “aparente herida de bala”.

El adolescente fue trasladado al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en “estado extremadamente crítico”.

El joven murió posteriormente a causa de sus heridas la noche del sábado.

Las autoridades informaron que una mujer de 45 años también fue trasladada al Jackson Memorial Hospital para ser evaluada. Miami Fire Rescue indicó que no presentaba lesiones reportadas.

La policía cerró Northwest 23rd Court cerca de 38th Street mientras agentes y detectives investigaban. Varias patrullas de la Policía de Miami podían verse en el lugar con las luces de emergencia encendidas, mientras cinta policial rodeaba una vivienda en la que los investigadores parecían estar concentrando su atención.

Investigadores de la escena del crimen también fueron vistos entrando y saliendo del área con equipo. En el lugar también se observó una bolsa transparente para evidencias que contenía lo que parecía ser un arma de fuego.

Vecinos dijeron a Local 10 News que escucharon múltiples disparos, seguidos de gritos y del sonido de personas corriendo por la zona.

Un vecino dijo haber escuchado unos siete disparos. Otro señaló que las cámaras de seguridad habían captado actividad en el área, pero posteriormente afirmó que las imágenes habían sido eliminadas y que no podía compartirlas.

La investigación continuaba activa la noche del sábado y la policía no había revelado de inmediato más detalles sobre lo que provocó el tiroteo.

Burnham told reporters as he flew to the United Nations General Assembly in New York that he had agreed the Royal Air Force will provide air-to-air refueling of Saudi planes. The agreement is for a matter of weeks, but Burnham said it will be kept under review.

The conflict between the Houthis and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government has reignited, with the Houthis aiming missile and drone strikes at Saudi Arabia, including one that targeted Riyadh on Saturday before being intercepted. The Houthis also declared a blockade on Saudi shipping in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea, attacking Saudi-linked vessels and oil facilities inside the kingdom, the world’s top oil exporter.

The Houthis advanced inside Yemen earlier this month, seizing the crucial port city of Mokha and key Red Sea islands allowing them to better monitor shipping traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb, through which some 12% of world trade normally passes.

Burnham said he was “acting to secure the interests of Britain and the wider region" at a moment when Saudi Arabia is facing attacks and it is critical to keep passages for oil open.

Britain has condemned the Houthi attacks and said the U.K. will “work with partners to support regional stability, protect civilians and support humanitarian access.”

U.K. officials had previously declined to comment on “operational matters” but noted that Britain and Saudi Arabia have a close defense partnership.

The U.S., which bombed the Houthis under the Biden and Trump administrations, has shown no interest in getting involved militarily this time around.

U.K. officials say the agreement will start in the coming days, and involve one RAF Voyager refueling Saudi planes on “defensive” missions.

The Associated Press reported last week that Saudi Arabia has asked its allies, including France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt to deploy air-defense support to the region to help defend against missiles and drones fired by Houthis and other Iran-backed groups on the kingdom.

Las autoridades dijeron que dos personas fueron encontradas muertas dentro de una vivienda ubicada en 8330 Pine Drive.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, se recibió una llamada al 911 a las 7:12 a.m. reportando que dos personas habían sido encontradas inconscientes en la vivienda.

La dirección está ubicada dentro del campus de Children”s Harbor, que proporciona vivienda de transición para adultos jóvenes que dejan el sistema de cuidado de crianza.

La presidenta de Children”s Harbor, Theresa Kennedy, dijo por teléfono a Liane Morejon de Local 10 News que la unidad en cuestión no pertenece a la compañía y es propiedad y está administrada por la ciudad de Pembroke Pines.

Según la BSO, agentes del Departamento de Policía de Pembroke Pines llegaron a la unidad y encontraron a dos personas que fueron declaradas muertas.

La policía de Pembroke Pines solicitó asistencia de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, que ahora está a cargo de la investigación.

La BSO describió la investigación como un incidente aislado y agregó que no existen amenazas para la comunidad en este momento.

Un vecino dijo a Local 10 News que escuchó disparos durante la noche.

“Solo escuché boom boom boom y pensé, “Bueno, eso no es un trueno””, dijo Nori Selina. “Salí a las 7 y la policía dijo que dos personas estaban muertas adentro”.

Las autoridades aún no han divulgado las identidades de las personas que fueron encontradas muertas.

“Son dos personas, el hombre solo sale y fuma cigarrillos”, dijo Selina. “Solo decían hola, no había problemas antes. Esto es una locura”.

Local 10 también se comunicó con el administrador de la ciudad de Pembroke Pines para obtener más información.

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Miami Fire Rescue officials said crews were dispatched at about 1:52 a.m. Saturday to the 3700 block of Northwest 23rd Court for a report of a person with an “alleged gunshot wound.”

They said the boy was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in “extremely critical condition.”

The boy died from his injuries Saturday night.

Authorities said a 45-year-old woman was also transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for evaluation, but first responders said she had no reported injuries.

On Sunday, Local 10’s Bridgette Matter caught up with a man who witnessed the shooting.

The man, who cannot speak because of a medical condition, showed Matter where the shooting took place and confirmed the teenagers were drinking in the backyard of a home.

He claims someone started shooting and pointed to multiple bullet holes in a nearby fence.

He became emotional while trying to describe the tragedy he witnessed.

Police closed Northwest 23rd Court near 38th Street as officers and detectives investigated. Several Miami police cruisers were spotted at the scene with emergency lights flashing, while police tape surrounded a home investigators appeared to be focusing on.

Crime scene investigators were also seen entering and leaving the area with equipment. A clear evidence bag containing what appeared to be a gun was also visible at the scene.

Neighbors told Local 10 News they heard multiple gunshots followed by yelling and the sound of people running through the area.

One neighbor said he heard about seven gunshots. Another said security-camera footage captured activity in the area, but he later claimed that footage had been deleted and could not be shared.

The investigation remains active, though police have not released additional details about what led to the shooting.

Anyone with information on the shooting is urged to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

El Congreso está debatiendo cómo se distribuirá el presupuesto general estatal para 2027 propuesto por el gobierno de De la Espriella que incluye recortes para el tribunal y el Ministerio de las Culturas, entre otros.

“Es asfixia”: reclama el tribunal

Alejandro Ramelli, presidente de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), como se denomina el tribunal, dijo a la prensa que el gobierno pretende desfinanciarlo para dejarlo inoperante en la práctica.

“Claro que hay una desfinanciación, claro que hay una asfixia... quieren dejar un cascarón vacío, que no funcione para nada", advirtió Ramelli.

La JEP juzga los crímenes de guerra y lesa humanidad cometidos en cinco décadas de conflicto interno con la guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), disuelta hace una década tras firmar un acuerdo de paz. También juzga a exmilitares y civiles que cometieron crímenes.

De la Espriella, quien dijo durante la campaña que haría todo lo que estuviera a su alcance para desmontar el tribunal, apoya una iniciativa de un congresista oficialista para quitarle 100.000 millones de pesos (31,6 millones de dólares) y trasladarlos a la justicia ordinaria alegando que el tribunal tiene suficiente presupuesto para operar por lo que considera un acto de “responsabilidad fiscal” la transferencia.

El presidente del tribunal advirtió que con esta medida Colombia “desconoce un acuerdo internacional” con la Corte Penal Internacional con la que se comprometió a no cerrar la JEP, no modificarla, ni desfinanciarla.

“No es un problema sólo económico... nosotros seguiremos trabajando con lo que tengamos, pero no vamos a poder seguir dando resultados, eso va a ser imposible y sería un grave error histórico”, aseguró Ramelli al sostener que se afectaría el derecho de las víctimas a la justicia.

El presidente del tribunal resaltó los resultados de la JEP, incluida la imputación el lunes a cinco excomandantes guerrilleros acusados de abuso sexual y violencia de género, así como el cumplimiento de sanciones restaurativas —que incluyen buscar desaparecidos— con las que fueron sentenciados los miembros de la última cúpula de las FARC por miles de secuestros.

Las sanciones, en su mayoría, no implican la cárcel sino la participación de los condenados en proyectos que buscan reparar el daño causado, lo que para algunos sectores críticos es sinónimo de impunidad.

“Se precariza la cultura”, advierten artistas

También el lunes cerca de 250 artistas protestaron en Bogotá frente a las instalaciones del Ministerio de las Culturas por considerar que el gobierno los está desfinanciando.

Duvan Prado, un actor de 36 años, dijo a The Associated Press que los artistas exigen que se instale una mesa de diálogo para discutir con el gobierno las “decisiones arbitrarias” que “precarizan la cultura”.

“Bajar el presupuesto en más del 30% es directamente afectar los procesos que se han venido desarrollando... por más de 27 años, eliminando el Programa Nacional de Estímulos, además de los reconocimientos y premios que se daban a artistas”, explicó Prado, quien considera que los ha afectado el “desorden administrativo” que venía desde el gobierno anterior.

La ministra del área, Paola Holguín, dijo que el país enfrenta restricciones fiscales por lo que defendió el recorte de presupuesto e indicó que hay un “rezago” de pagos pendientes que agrava la situación.

Yasmín Piedrahíta, una gestora cultural que participó en la protesta, advirtió que el actual gobierno pretende “acabar con el Ministerio de Cultura y disolverlo en otros tantos ministerios más”, como parte de su plan de austeridad.

Estados Unidos bloqueó la venta de armas al país centroamericano en 1978 debido a las masacres que ocurrieron contra la población civil. Los informes de la verdad responsabilizaron al ejército y a grupos paramilitares del 97% de las muertes durante el conflicto (1960-1996).

El presidente guatemalteco Bernardo Arévalo asistió a la entrega del armamento y refirió en conferencia de prensa que “las razones por las que se decretó el embargo de venta de material militar en su momento fue por violaciones a los derechos humanos que eran cometidos en el marco del enfrentamiento armado".

Aseguró que el país ha venido reconstruyendo su democracia y que en ese marco las fuerzas armadas han pasado por un proceso de "redefinición, reconversión y transformación”.

“El ejército de hoy es fundamentalmente distinto del ejército de 1978”, dijo Arévalo y afirmó que “esas condiciones ya estaban superadas”.

El ministro de Defensa, Henry Sáenz, explicó que la decisión de Estados Unidos de venderle armas al ejército guatemalteco era el resultado de la confianza ganada como país y que las armas serían usadas para el combate contra el narcotráfico, especialmente en el departamento de Petén, fronterizo con México, una zona tomada por el crimen organizado, según las autoridades.

El armamento consiste en fusiles M4, el mismo que utilizan los marines estadounidenses, armas de alta gama que tiene un alcance de 600 metros con ráfagas de 700 a 905 disparos por minuto, según los expertos.

En diciembre de 2025 varios militares resultaron heridos en un estallido de violencia entre dos comunidades en el occidente de Guatemala, que incluyó un ataque a un destacamento militar y una comisaría.

En mayo pasado, el ejército repelió un ataque en la frontera con Honduras, donde varios hombres armados que se desplazaban en vehículos todo terreno intentaron ingresar al territorio guatemalteco en el municipio de Esquipulas, del departamento de Chiquimula, pero fueron repelidos tras un intercambio de disparos.

Mientras que en agosto, el Grupo de trabajo de Naciones Unidas sobre desapariciones forzadas pidió al gobierno guatemalteco que su ejército tuviera más apertura de sus archivos sobre lo ocurrido durante la guerra, así como a no realizar construcciones en sus instalaciones porque víctimas del conflicto habían denunciado que allí habían fosas clandestinas.

On Monday, the issue headed for the courts as CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued the administration over being barred from the White House and, they contend, denied their First Amendment rights. CNN was banned from its scheduled pool duty for the day — and the pool announced that it was canceling its coverage of Trump.

“Effective today, there would be no network pool coverage of the president's events,” the television pool of five broadcasters wrote in an email to its subscribers. "This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.”

But the pool is a proxy for the wider fight over whether the president, or anyone, can control the content of news reports — a type of free speech, pillar of American democracy. The developments marked an extraordinary escalation in Trump's ongoing efforts — from the courts to the Pentagon to the White House — to restrict news reporters and outlets that he finds insufficiently supportive.

Again and again during Trump’s second presidential term, his irritation has focused on the rotating group of reporters who cover the president as representatives of the larger press corps. The practice ensures coverage can be disseminated broadly since not all journalists can be with the president at any given time due to space constraints.

But the pool also is an institution steeped in tradition and anchored in the Constitution's guarantee of a free press. The relationship between elected American leaders and the journalists who hold them accountable is designed to be adversarial. That's essential for knowing what the president and his administration are — or are not — doing in the United States' name, with taxpayer money.

Here's a look at various aspects of the White House pool.

There may be constitutional issues at play

CNN is one of the major news networks, including ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC, that are part of a TV pool managed by the networks' editorial leaders. The networks rotate coverage of presidential events. On Friday, Trump said he was barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage and “fake news,” and threatened that more such media bans could be coming.

Reporters from all three were denied entrance to the White House grounds the next day. On Monday, the three outlets said they've notified the administration that they will file a lawsuit saying their First Amendment rights had been violated. The complaint also contends that the abrupt confiscation of access violated the networks' Fifth Amendment right to due process.

Also Monday, CNN was scheduled to travel with the president to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, but a scheduling email from the White House did not name the network. A responding email from the pool said there would be no replacement for CNN — pushback to any notion that the White House can decide who is in the pool and who is out.

The pool follows the president

The First Amendment to the Bill of Rights states that the government “shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” The Trump administration has long insisted that nobody has the right to ask the president questions, especially in the White House — and that goes for members of the pool, whom the president routinely insults in personal terms.

The White House press pool is group of news outlets that ideally are almost everywhere the president goes: in the Oval Office, at state dinners, on Air Force One, in the motorcade, and when the president goes golfing or biking. It is also always on standby in case something happens in the world about which the president needs to speak to the nation.

Last year, the Trump White House upended a decades-long tradition of an independent association of journalists selecting members of the pool. The White House now picks and chooses which members of the media make up the pool, and they almost always select journalists who are outwardly favorable to Trump as part of the mix.

The pool distributes in-person reports and imagery to the broader corps covering the president. When a “pooled” event is over, the print, television and radio poolers share written notes, video and audio with everyone else who is interested.

Traditionally, the White House press pool represents every media format and daily includes The Associated Press and other wire-service writers, the AP and other outlets' photographers, a television crew, a radio correspondent and writers for print and online publications.

The pool was in President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas when he was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. That allowed for firsthand accounts of the event as conspiracy theories spread, an example of why independent reporting is critical to understanding what is happening around the president.

Presidents and reporters have an inherently adversarial relationship

Trump is famous for courting reporters even as he publicly criticizes them. And he’s not the first to try to go around traditional outlets.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had his fireside chats over the radio as some of the nation’s biggest newspapers took issue with government expansion under the New Deal. More recently, television and social media have provided similar workarounds.

In 1798, John Adams signed the Sedition Act, which made it a crime for citizens to “print, utter, or publish ... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing” about the government and used it to jail journalists, according to the National Archives. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson threatened to end presidential briefings with reporters, resulting in the creation of what became the White House Correspondents’ Association that exists today.

Stanley Shew-A-Tjon, 76, and his wife are raising their four grandchildren in a two-bedroom house. With two adults and four children in the home, he said covering basic expenses has become difficult.

“Two adults and four grandchildren in a 2-bedroom house. We’re trying to get out, but it’s not easy because we are both retired living on a fixed income,” Shew-A-Tjon said.

Their grocery bill has also climbed, going from about $250 a month for him and his wife to more than $600, he said.

That’s why Shew-A-Tjon visits The Pantry of Broward every month.

“When I was informed about The Pantry, it was a blessing, because they do provide necessary things,” he said.

The Pantry of Broward opened in 2008 with a focus on serving seniors. The organization serves about 600 seniors each month.

“From North to South, we take care of everyone who needs to be able to supplement their income by way of our food help,” said Maureen Luna, CEO of The Pantry of Broward.

Shew-A-Tjon’s story is shared by other grandparents raising grandchildren. Thomasina Smith-Brown adopted three grandchildren and also relies on the pantry.

“They saved us — literally saved us — from being hungry,” Smith-Brown said.

The pantry provides a variety of food, including fresh and shelf-stable items.

“I can make an eggplant lasagna and have a salad with it,” Smith-Brown said.

She said she didn’t expect the variety of food available.

“They provide so many different varieties of food that we didn’t expect to be that blessed and it has been a real, real blessing,” she said.

The Pantry of Broward recently received boxes of fresh and shelf-stable food from Publix as part of the annual Food for Thought program, which raises awareness about hunger in South Florida.

“We have bread. We have produce. We have everything that’s going to go right into the box and right into the community and help The Pantry of Broward serve the residents here,” said Lindsey Willis, a Publix media relations manager.

The pantry also relies on partnerships to continue providing food to the community.

“The partnerships with people like Publix and others are absolutely crucial to our success,” Luna said. “We are here all year long and we could use help.”

The Pantry of Broward also delivers groceries to seniors who cannot physically pick up their food.

The nonprofit is also building a 90-unit senior housing development called The Lofts in Fort Lauderdale’s historic Sistrunk District. The pantry will be located on the first floor of the building, which is slated to open in early 2028.

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According to the Hallandale Beach Police Department, officers responded to the 200 block of 11th Avenue on Saturday morning in regard to incident that occurred the night before.

Upon arrival, officers said they met with the victim who told them they met the suspect at a night club and the two traveled together to an address in Hallandale Beach where the alleged crimes occurred.

Investigators said they were able to identify Bar Alon as the suspect in the case.

Alon is now facing three charges of sexual battery on a victim 18 years or older by a person 18 years or older and an additional charge for cocaine possession.

As of Monday afternoon, he was being held at the North Broward Bureau jail without bond.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach, agentes acudieron a la cuadra 200 de 11th Avenue el sábado por la mañana en relación con un incidente ocurrido la noche anterior.

Al llegar, los agentes dijeron que se reunieron con la víctima, quien les dijo que conoció al sospechoso en un club nocturno y que ambos viajaron juntos a una dirección en Hallandale Beach, donde ocurrieron los presuntos delitos.

Los investigadores dijeron que pudieron identificar a Bar Alon como el sospechoso en el caso.

Alon ahora enfrenta tres cargos de agresión sexual contra una víctima de 18 años o más por parte de una persona de 18 años o más y un cargo adicional por posesión de cocaína.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, permanecía detenido en la cárcel North Broward Bureau sin derecho a fianza.

The Dodgers are once again among the best teams in the big leagues, and they'll have several challengers in October, including the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays. All three teams could finish the regular season with 100 wins or more. Los Angeles is rolling even though four-time MVP Shohei Ohtani’s health is a concern.

The New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves have also clinched spots in the postseason. Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, a three-time AL MVP, is dealing with a right calf strain that will keep him on the injured list until at least the final day of the regular season this Sunday.

While the 12-team playoff field appears mostly set, there are a few long-shot contenders for the postseason, and specific matchups are in flux.

Here's some of what to watch as the season comes to a close.

Here's who can clinch a playoff spot Monday

No team can clinch a playoff spot on Monday, with most of the league getting a day off.

There was one important game in the American League, where the Toronto Blue Jays lost 4-3 in Baltimore to the Orioles. The Blue Jays fell 3 1/2 games behind the Chicago White Sox for the final AL wild card. Baltimore is 4 1/2 games behind. Both the Blue Jays and Orioles can be eliminated as soon as Tuesday.

AL race is murky while NL is more defined

There's quite a bit of mediocrity in the AL Central and West divisions this season, which has led to some fascinating pennant races and could lead to a sub-.500 team making the postseason.

The Cleveland Guardians (81-75) have a narrow advantage over the Chicago White Sox (80-76) in the AL Central while the Texas Rangers (78-78) are just ahead of the Houston Astros (77-79) in the AL West.

Over in the National League, the playoff bracket is close to set.

The Chicago Cubs (87-69), San Diego Padres (87-69) and Philadelphia Phillies (86-70) are jockeying for position in the wild-card race but will almost certainly make the postseason. The only team within shouting distance is the Arizona Diamondbacks (82-74), who are four games back.

MVP races, stats to watch

MLB's major awards probably won't have much drama this season.

Both MVP races have strong favorites with Chicago's Pete Crow-Armstrong running away with the NL honor while Houston's Yordan Alvarez is the probable choice in the AL, though Tampa Bay's Junior Caminero has also had a fantastic season. Alvarez still has a shot at a rare Triple Crown. He leads the AL in batting average at .313 but his 40 homers are one behind Caminero and his 99 RBIs are nine back of Baltimore's Pete Alonso.

For the Cy Young Award, Milwaukee flame thrower Jacob Misiorowski and New York ace Cam Schlittler are the favorites in the NL and AL, respectively.

The Rookie of the Year races also look set with Cincinnati's Sal Stewart and his 110-RBI season the leader in the NL and Detroit's Kevin McGonigle the favorite in the AL.

What is the MLB playoff format?

There are 12 teams that qualify for MLB’s postseason, including six teams from both the AL and NL. The three division winners in each league get seeds No. 1 through No. 3, ranked by win-loss record. Then the three wild-card teams get seeds No. 4 through No. 6, also ranked by win-loss record.

The top two teams with the best record in both the AL and NL automatically advance to the Division Series. The other eight teams play in the Wild Card Series, which is a best-of-three format beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 30. In both the AL and NL, the No. 6 seed will travel to face the No. 3 seed while the No. 5 seed goes to No. 4. The higher seed hosts all three games.

The winners then advance to the best-of-five Division Series, followed by the best-of-seven League Championship Series and a best-of-seven World Series between the winners of the AL and NL.

What is the MLB postseason schedule?

Wild Card Round: Sept. 29-Oct. 1 (NBC/Peacock)

Division Series: Oct. 3-10 (AL on TBS, NL on FOX/FS1)

Championship Series: Oct. 11-20 (AL on TBS, NL on FOX/FS1)

World Series: Oct. 23-31 (FOX)

Who are the favorites to win the World Series?

The Dodgers (+220) are the favorites to capture a third straight World Series title while the Brewers (+600), Yankees (+800) and Rays (+800) are viewed as the top contenders.

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Commanders coach Dan Quinn said he might have an update on Daniels on Thursday or Friday but declined to share a timeline for the quarterback's return to play.

“He had imaging done (on Monday),” Quinn said. “He’ll see specialists early this week, Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll go through the process from there. ... Until we go through that process, I’d be guessing to give you any (timeline).”

The injury during Sunday's loss at Dallas came on a broken play at the end of the first half. Daniels took a snap under center, and left guard Chris Paul stepped on the quarterback's foot as he backed away from the line of scrimmage. Daniels used his non-throwing arm to brace his fall and perhaps keep the play going, but in doing so he injured the elbow.

“The freak ones like this, it’s hard to explain,” Quinn said. “I loved everything about the first half, how he was playing, what we did. ... Total surprise to see it.”

A similar thing happened last November, when Daniels used his left arm to brace himself and dislocated his elbow against Seattle. He returned from that injury just over a month later, only to aggravate the problem and miss the rest of the season.

Quinn said Monday there was no discussion of Daniels undergoing surgery when he first sustained the injury last year, or of him wearing a protective brace.

“Hindsight is awesome,” Quinn said. “I wish we had it on all things.”

The Commanders now turn to the veteran Mariota, who is set to start Sunday's home opener against Seattle. Quinn said he and general manager Adam Peters have not discussed adding another veteran to the quarterback room. Rookie seventh-round pick Athan Kaliakmanis has served as the emergency No. 3 QB in Washington's first two games.

Mariota made eight starts for Washington in 2025 with Daniels sidelined, going 2-6. The veteran completed 11 of 16 passes for 111 yards and a touchdown during Sunday's 37-20 loss to the Cowboys.

“There’s nobody easier to rally around than (Mariota),” Quinn said. “When you ask anybody on our team who some of our greatest leaders are, whether it’s on or off the field, Marcus is somebody that constantly comes up.”

Quinn later said he doesn't anticipate new offensive coordinator David Blough needing to change his system much with Mariota taking over.

“The biggest thing is: What do you want to feature with Marcus that you didn’t with Jayden?” Quinn said. “It won’t be exactly the same, but fortunately there will be a lot of similarities.”

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Sarah Santiago, 17, is charged as an adult with three counts of murder by aiding and abetting and one count of conspiracy. Prosecutors say she helped California teens Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, who shot and killed three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego on May 18 before killing themselves.

Prosecutors in North Carolina allege Santiago agreed in advance to record and distribute a livestream of the attack made by the shooters and to disseminate their white-supremacist writings. She is also accused of buying a patch bearing a white-supremacist symbol and sending it to one of the gunmen to wear during the attack.

But prosecutors have yet to provide information about how or on what dates Santiago allegedly communicated with the shooters, or give details about the alleged agreement to record and disseminate the livestream, her attorney, Alan Doorasamy, said during a court hearing Monday.

Doorasamy filed a formal request for the information — known as a “bill of particulars” — on Friday, and the judge scheduled a hearing Wednesday on the motion. The motion does not seek to force the prosecutor's office to turn over actual evidence, but rather to provide more information clarifying the allegations against Santiago.

Prosecutors have not yet responded to Doorasamy's request. The Forsyth County District Attorney's Office did not immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.

“She needs to know why she was arrested," Doorasamy told The Associated Press in comments outside the courthouse Monday. “She's a child. Of course she's very scared and she's worried, but she's done nothing wrong."

Santiago was arrested late last month and is being held without bail. Under North Carolina law, the aiding-and-abetting charges — in the event of a conviction — carry the same penalties as if the defendant had committed the attack.

Clark, 17, and Vazquez, 18, stormed the Islamic Center on May 18 before being driven back outside by a security guard who exchanged gunfire with them as he initiated a lockdown, helping to protect 140 children just steps away.

The pair killed the guard, Amin Abdullah, and two other men before taking their own lives in a nearby vehicle. They left behind rambling writings full of vitriol against a wide range of people, and cited the shooter who killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, as one of the models for their violence.

Clark and Vazquez also planned subsequent attacks on two other targets: a Jewish temple and Black students at a high school, authorities said. Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill credited the guard and other victims at the mosque with saving countless lives.

In a written statement, the Vazquez family said Caleb Vazquez was on the autism spectrum and had grown to resent parts of his identity. The family said it believed those factors, combined with exposure to hateful rhetoric online, contributed to his radicalization.

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El informe es el primer vistazo íntimo a las vidas de los deportados, quienes han rechazado hablar extensamente con periodistas porque temen por su seguridad. La violencia de las pandillas está en aumento y el hambre y la pobreza se agravan.

Estados Unidos ha deportado a más de 470 personas a Haití desde julio, entre ellas, varias que perdieron el Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS, por sus siglas en inglés), que les había permitido vivir y trabajar legalmente en Estados Unidos.

El principal aeropuerto internacional de Puerto Príncipe se considera demasiado peligroso debido a la persistente violencia de las pandillas, por lo que los vuelos de deportación aterrizan en la ciudad norteña de Cap-Haitien. El alcalde Michel Saint-Croix declaró a Human Rights Watch que la población de la ciudad se ha triplicado a más de 1 millón en los últimos dos años, tras recibir a deportados y a haitianos que huyen de la violencia en otras partes del país.

La llegada de los deportados ha tensionado los recursos, ya de por sí limitados. Funcionarios haitianos de migración indicaron que el gobierno de Estados Unidos les comunicó que planeaba enviar hasta dos vuelos de deportación por semana, cada uno con unas 200 personas, según el informe.

Los deportados comparten detalles de sus vidas

Human Rights Watch entrevistó a 44 deportados, así como a funcionarios haitianos e internacionales.

Los deportados relataron que pasaron horas sin comida ni agua y días sin bañarse ni cambiarse de ropa mientras estuvieron retenidos en centros de detención migratoria en Estados Unidos. Afirmaron que sus pertenencias, incluidos documentos oficiales y dinero, no les fueron devueltas cuando llegaron a Haití.

Hasta el momento, ni el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas ni el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos (ICE y DHS, respectivamente, por sus siglas en inglés) han respondido a una solicitud de comentarios.

El grupo defensor de derechos revisó las listas de pasajeros de dos vuelos de deportación en agosto. Ninguna de ellas contenía información sobre el estatus migratorio de los deportados ni los motivos de su expulsión.

La mayoría de los 44 deportados entrevistados dijo que había huido del deterioro de la seguridad y de las crisis humanitarias en Haití y se había establecido en estados de Estados Unidos, como Florida, Nueva York, Indiana y Ohio. Encontraron trabajo en sectores como la construcción, la atención médica y la fabricación.

Muchos dijeron que eran de Puerto Príncipe o de zonas aledañas, donde hombres armados controlan aproximadamente el 70% de la capital. Otros afirmaron que eran de la región de Artibonite, que está bajo ataque de pandillas violentas.

Los deportados vivieron en Estados Unidos entre dos y 14 años antes de ser enviados de regreso a Haití. Entre ellos había un hombre no identificado de 38 años que contó que había vivido en Florida desde diciembre de 2019 y que trabajó en el mismo hotel durante más de seis años.

Su esposa y su hijo de 5 años, quien es ciudadano de Estados Unidos, permanecen en Florida, según el informe.

“Trabajé para que él pudiera crecer sin el miedo, la violencia y la incertidumbre que yo había conocido en Haití”, dijo el hombre, según el informe.

Él y varios deportados más dijeron que tenían Estatus de Protección Temporal, aunque el grupo defensor de derechos señaló que no pudo verificar de manera independiente esas afirmaciones.

Una mujer de 47 años dijo que había vivido en Miami con su esposo, ciudadano de Estados Unidos, y que fue arrestada cuando acudió a una entrevista para solicitar la residencia permanente.

“Una vez detenidos, la mayoría de los entrevistados dijo que las autoridades no les permitieron contactar a sus abogados ni comparecer ante un juez de inmigración, mientras que muchos recibieron poca o ninguna información sobre sus solicitudes de asilo pendientes, los motivos de su detención o cómo podían impugnar su deportación”, indicó Human Rights Watch.

Otra deportada era una estudiante de auxiliar de enfermería de 24 años que solicitó asilo después de huir de Haití en 2023, tras el ataque de pandillas a su comunidad.

La violencia, el hambre y la pobreza persisten

Al menos 19.380 personas fueron reportadas como asesinadas en todo Haití entre enero de 2023 y junio de 2026, según las Naciones Unidas.

El hambre y la pobreza también se agravan mientras la policía haitiana y una misión respaldada por la ONU luchan por contener la violencia de las pandillas. Se espera que más de 253.000 niños de entre seis meses y 5 años sufran desnutrición aguda en los próximos meses, según un nuevo informe del gobierno de Haití y de agencias entre las que está la UNICEF.

“Estados Unidos está devolviendo a personas, algunas con solicitudes de asilo pendientes, a un país que no tiene la capacidad de protegerlas de la violencia, y mucho menos de ayudarlas a encontrar comida y refugio”, afirmó Nathalye Cotrino, investigadora principal para las Américas en Human Rights Watch. “El gobierno de Estados Unidos debería detener de inmediato estas expulsiones”.

A los deportados que llegan a Haití se les da una comida sencilla, una bebida y unos 77 dólares en efectivo.

“Después de registrarse, los deportados fueron abandonados a su suerte, y muchos no sabían qué hacer ni adónde ir después”, se indica en el informe.

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Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell confirmed Monday that Murray will be back in the starting lineup for the game against the Buccaneers, after Carson Wentz relieved him in the season opener against Green Bay and started in his place at Chicago on Sunday.

Murray’s debut for Minnesota on Sept. 13 lasted just 11 plays, before a hit to the side of his head from the lowered shoulder of Packers safety Javon Bullard forced him out of the game with a concussion.

Wentz helped the Vikings come back to beat the Packers 39-22 by closing that game with 29 consecutive points and made enough key throws to complement a dominant defense and a productive running game in the rain in a 9-3 win over the Bears. Wentz went 23 for 39 for 276 yards and three touchdowns over two games, taking six sacks with no turnovers.

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Hundreds of flights were canceled, including more than 600 into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport, as the outage hit every major airport in the New York City area. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also said in an online post that “it will take some time to clear all existing delays” despite the repairs.

The primary communications line at the Federal Aviation Administration facility in Philadelphia had failed earlier Monday, while the backup fiber optic line was inadvertently severed by railroad construction workers. The failures left controllers without radar or communications for hours.

The outage brought commercial air traffic to a near-standstill at Newark for much of the day, with no commercial flights landing at the airport from about 9:40 a.m. to just after 5:20 p.m. local time, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24.

More than 200 flights into and out of Philadelphia International Airport were also canceled, while disruptions hit LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York. By Monday evening, flights were resuming at those airports.

Some airlines were allowing customers to change flights without charge. The FAA advised travelers to check the status of their flights before heading to the airport.

The outage occurred just as President Donald Trump and numerous foreign leaders were flying into New York City for the U.N. General Assembly. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney missed an event Monday on the sidelines of the General Assembly because of the flight disruptions but his office said he had arrived in New York by Monday night.

Cindy Phan said her morning flight from Newark to Minneapolis was repeatedly delayed before she learned around 3 p.m. that it had been canceled and rescheduled for Tuesday, requiring her to find and pay for another night at a hotel.

“We could have had a whole day in New York,” Phan said, adding that she wanted to get home to her “two little Chihuahua babies.”

Shannon Franke and her husband took a connecting flight from Nashville to Chicago when they found out their final Southwest leg home to Philadelphia was canceled. They had gone to Nashville to see the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Tennessee Titans 24-20 on a touchdown in the last seconds Sunday.

Stuck in Chicago, Franke said, they lucked out finding a hotel room and decided to enjoy some deep-dish pizza.

“We’re just making the best of it,” Franke said. “If the Eagles would have lost ... it would have been so much worse.”

The technical problems stem from the same FAA facility in Philadelphia that caused numerous disruptions at the Newark airport last spring.

Regional control centers like these have two lines that carry radar and communications data in and out: the primary and the backup. The FAA said a circuit on the primary failed Monday morning, and when the system tried to switch to the backup, workers discovered that the fiber optic line had been cut.

Earlier in the day, Duffy said an Amtrak construction crew was to blame. Amtrak, however, pointed to a New Jersey Transit construction crew that was working in the area between Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey.

FAA administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters earlier the agency had focused on fixing the primary connection as soon as possible by installing a new circuit on the primary line, while also working to repair the backup fiber optic line. Verizon said at the time that its technicians were also working to restore service.

Bedford earlier described the fiber break as “massive,” saying it would take several hours to repair, according to a video posted online by a CBS reporter.

The primary circuit that failed is due to be replaced as part of a massive overhaul of the nation’s air traffic control system.

Also Monday, the FAA began testing a new computer system that uses AI to help predict schedule conflicts and weather issues to help air traffic controllers reroute traffic. But that system is initially being tested only in the Washington, D.C., area, so it did not appear to be linked to the outages.

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El Centro Nacional de Huracanes, con sede en Miami, indicó que Polo podría causar lluvias intensas, fuerte oleaje y vientos con fuerza de tormenta tropical en varias partes de México desde la noche del martes hasta primeras horas del miércoles.

El lunes, Polo se desplazaba hacia el este. Pero los meteorólogos señalaron en un aviso que, hacia la noche del martes, dará un “giro brusco” hacia el oeste-noroeste o noroeste. Se esperaba que el huracán avanzara a lo largo de la costa del oeste de México, pero que permaneciera mar adentro.

El centro de Polo se ubicaba a unos 467 kilómetros (290 millas) al sur-sureste de Manzanillo, México, y a 290 kilómetros (180 millas) al sur-suroeste de Zihuatanejo, México. Los vientos máximos sostenidos eran de 150 km/h (90 mph).

El pronóstico preveía de 10 a 20 centímetros (4 a 8 pulgadas) de lluvia, con acumulados aislados cercanos a 30 centímetros (12 pulgadas), en zonas costeras de los estados mexicanos de Guerrero y Michoacán hasta el jueves. Es posible que se produzcan inundaciones y deslaves.

Más al oeste en el océano Pacífico, la tormenta tropical Odalys estaba lejos de tierra, pero se prevé que se convierta en huracán a mediados de la semana.

Odalys registraba el lunes vientos máximos sostenidos de 85 km/h (50 mph). Se encontraba a poco más de 2.253 kilómetros (1.400 millas) al oeste-suroeste del extremo sur de la península mexicana de Baja California. Se movía hacia el noroeste a 13 km/h (8 mph).

En el océano Atlántico, la tormenta tropical Fay se debilitaba. Los vientos máximos bajaron a 75 km/h (45 mph) y Fay estaba a 720 kilómetros (445 millas) al suroeste de las Azores.

Aún no se han formado huracanes en el Atlántico en 2026, y este año ha establecido un récord por el periodo más largo en que una temporada ha comenzado sin un huracán. Los efectos de El Niño de este año aplastan las tormentas antes que despeguen.

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A light drizzle fell on the South Lawn as Trump used oversized gold scissors to cut a red, white and blue ribbon. He then exchanged handshakes with officials and some members of a construction crew wearing green smocks and hard hats — seeking to portray business as usual.

If he had words to mark the occasion, however, it was impossible to hear them over the noise of his waiting helicopter. Normally, TV network crews work to capture clearer audio.

Trump didn't answer reporters' shouted questions before climbing aboard Marine One on his way to New York. Instead, he wrote on his social media site, “We are just leaving the White House Lawn on the maiden voyage from the newly built, and very beautiful, Heliport!”

MS Now, Politico and CNN have sued after Trump announced Friday that he was banning them from covering the White House in a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage he finds objectionable.

CNN normally participates in a five-network rotation that provides pooled footage of daily events at the White House. When the network was barred from taking its assigned turn on Monday, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News agreed collectively to the extraordinary step of skipping Trump's helipad ceremony.

Trump has long crowed about how the new helipad — featuring extensive granite that he boasts will have a “million-year life,” as well as a large insignia reading the “Seal of the President of the United States” — would impress Chinese President Xi Jinping, who arrives Wednesday for a state visit.

He's been focused on wowing Xi even as he decried Democrats as communists in an attempt to help Republicans retain control of Congress in upcoming midterm elections. But his effort to curb access for media outlets to the White House has overshadowed Trump's pet building projects and Xi's visit.

Igniting constitutional questions over media access also eclipsed the reason Trump was lifting off from the helipad — the annual trip to attend the United Nations General Assembly beginning on Tuesday.

Speaking later to reporters in New York after meeting with the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, Trump tried again to shrug off the lack of network TV coverage of his movements.

“It’s interesting because they said they were gonna boycott me. But they never boycott me,” the president said, before adding, “I think that these outlets have an obligation to be fair.”

Whether Trump’s work will be long-lasting is unclear

The president has spent large swaths of his second term focused on building projects even as his administration struggles to find a way out of the ongoing war in Iran. Trump's approval ratings have sunk with only about six weeks before Election Day, where voters are increasingly worried about inflation and a potentially weakening economy.

His successor in the Oval Office could move to undo much of his renovation work at the White House. And, in line with Trump's assertions that the new helipad granite could last a million years, the president has made other grand pronouncements about his prowess with renovation projects that quickly fell flat.

He said the refurbishing of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool would last a century, only for the paint to fade and its liner to peel away in chunks just days after it was laid.

The helipad work began in June. Trump also ripped out the original Tennessee flagstone along the West Wing’s colonnade and replaced it with black granite. He similarly refurbished the traditional walkway from the White House’s diplomatic entrance with white granite, along with a portion of the asphalt driveway around the South Lawn.

Trump rushed to finish the project before Xi arrives and has argued that visiting dignitaries will be dazzled by the project — despite Marine One being the only aircraft that lands so close to the White House.

The president says the improvement was required since Vietnam War-era choppers that long had been used as Marine One are being replaced by modern ones that are too powerful to land on the White House lawn without damaging the lawn's grass. Trump has spent months repeatedly talking about grass as a way to promote his various building plans, even though many of the construction projects required ripping up turf.

Trump said in July that the helipad project would be privately funded and estimated its cost at up to $6 million. Additional changes, including extensive efforts to level the ground around the helipad, have made calculating the exact expenditure difficult.

Trump relishes the role of builder-in-chief

The once storied South Lawn has become a major construction site this year. In June, Trump erected a fighting cage and temporary arena for a UFC fight marking his 80th birthday. Then, crews got down to work on the helipad.

Trump says Sikorsky Aircraft — a subsidiary of defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin — would be paying for the helipad, since the company made the newer, larger helicopters. In his online post, Trump thanked Lockheed Martin's CEO.

Some of Trump’s projects have relied on public money, even when the president initially suggested otherwise.

When crews originally demolished the White House’s East Wing to make room for Trump’s $400 million ballroom, the president said it would be paid for by private donors. But his administration later sought $1 billion from Congress to make security improvements to the structure.

The pilots were the only people on board and were employed by the contract aircraft company Precision. One of the pilots was Greg King, who used to work for the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection and fought several wildland fires in that state before moving to Precision, said agency spokesperson Emery Johnson.

King's close relatives work at the agency and gave their permission to release his name, Johnson said. The identity of the second pilot has not yet been released.

At least 14 people have died while helping with wildfires in the U.S. this year, the most since 2022 when 25 deaths were recorded, according to government reports. In August, two helicopter pilots died while helping fight a fire in Utah and a helicopter pilot in Colorado crashed into a reservoir.

Details about the circumstances surrounding Sunday's crash were not immediately released. It will be investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.

The Super Puma helicopter had been using a water bucket to help suppress the fire when it went down near a lake, said Benjamin Cossel, a spokesperson with the Federal Complex Incident Management Team overseeing the firefighting response.

The Alaska forestry and fire agency called the deaths a devastating loss for the entire wildland firefighting community.

“Greg was a dedicated aviator and a dear friend to many of us. We are mourning both pilots who bravely supported firefighting efforts, and our hearts go out to their families,” the agency statement said.

Precision wrote on social media that the company was “struggling to find the words.”

“We ask for privacy and compassion for their families and our team as we grieve this tremendous loss,” the statement said.

Roughly 580 people are fighting the Dome Fire, which started Sept. 15 near Wawona, California, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. It's burning on about 4.7 square miles (12.3 square kilometers) and is about 15% contained.

The crash site was southeast of Ostrander Lake, which is roughly 7 miles (11 kilometers) northeast of Wawona and roughly 9 miles (14 kilometers) south of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan.

Other firefighters who have died this month include one in Oklahoma who suffered a medical emergency while fighting a wildfire, and another in Oregon who was hit by a tree that broke while he was cutting it in Mt. Hood National Forest.

Also in August, a wildfire officer was killed in Oklahoma after getting trapped while evacuating a burning building in a wildland fire; a firefighter died following a medical emergency during a wildfire in Minnesota; and a bulldozer operator got overrun by flames in Oregon.

In June, four firefighters got trapped in a fire in western Colorado. ___ Associated Press correspondent Matthew Brown contributed from Billings, Montana.

With Rivers now insisting that his Hall of Fame coaching career is over, the time seemed right for him to join NBC.

The network announced on Monday that Rivers will be an analyst on games this season across NBC, Peacock and NBCSN, along with the possibility for some studio work.

“I honestly can say I’m absolutely retired,” Rivers said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “I had a long run. It ended up in the (Naismith) Hall of Fame (earlier this year) and I am so thankful that I was able to coach and played as long as I did. For the first time, I can focus on giving TV my 100% attention, which I’m really looking forward to.

“I think I’ve always been pretty honest. I’ve always celebrated the game in general, but told the truth. I don’t think anyone has ever had a problem with honesty and the way you tell the truth. There are always times where you offend people because of the truth, but I’ve never really worried about that.”

Rivers is sixth on the NBA's career coaching list in wins (1,194) and games (2,059). In nine seasons with Boston, he led the Celtics to the NBA title in 2008 and returned to the finals two years later. Along with Boston and Orlando, Rivers coached the Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.

This will not mark the first time Rivers has worked with NBC. He was a studio analyst during the 2012 London Games and got to do other sports beside basketball, including handball.

“We couldn’t be happier to have him back on the NBC Sports team,” NBC sports executive producer and president Sam Flood said in a statement about Rivers. “Having led the Celtics to the 2008 NBA title with nearly four decades of NBA experience between coaching and playing, we are excited to add another Hall of Famer to our roster.”

Rivers was with Turner Sports for three years (1996-99) before beginning his coaching career with the Orlando Magic. He also had two stints with ESPN/ABC in 2003-04 and 2023. That included being on the top announcing team with Mike Breen and Doris Burke for the first couple months of the 2023-24 season before taking the Bucks job in January 2024.

“I don’t take a lot of breaks in my life. I’ve always been around the game and this is a way of keeping me there,” Rivers said. “When you think about it, I’ve played, I’ve coached, I’ve been in front office, I’ve done TV, I’ve done about everything you can do in our game. And that gives me an interesting perspective and hopefully I can share that with the viewers.”

Rivers also coached five players who became NBC analysts and played against Reggie Miller, NBC's lead analyst. Rivers, a point guard, played on four teams during his 12-year career.

He coached his son, Austin, and Jamal Crawford with the Clippers; Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady in Orlando; and Brian Scalabrine with Boston.

One of the funnier moments last season was Austin Rivers trying to interview his dad before a Milwaukee-Cleveland game.

“With this opportunity, one of the things I thought was I’d love to work with Austin. That would be a lot of fun to be able to work with him," Doc Rivers said. "It’s funny when you think about half the staff, I’ve either coached or been the father. I had a fight with Reggie, which is even funnier. So it’s pretty cool how connected I am to all the talent.”

NBC's coverage begins with three games on opening night, Oct. 20 — including Boston at Detroit and Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio. The marquee game that night will be the New York Knicks beginning their defense of the franchise's first NBA title since 1973 when they host Philadelphia in LeBron James' 76ers debut.

“When you add Giannis (Antetokounmpo) going to Miami, LeBron going to Philadelphia, Indiana getting healthy, Cleveland a whole year now with (James) Harden and (Donovan) Mitchell. The East is going to be rough this year. I mean, it’s very, very much top heavy in the East and it’ll be an interesting conference,” Rivers said. "The West, the top two teams are still the top two teams, San Antonio and Oklahoma. There’s two interesting teams. The Lakers, because they have Luka (Doncic) and Denver because they have (Nikola) Jokic, right? You can’t discount those teams.

"I think the much-watched team of the year will be Minnesota. It could go unbelievably well where (LaMelo) Ball and Ant (Anthony Edwards) figure it out and they play well or they could struggle. I mean, we just don’t know, but that’s a lot of talent on one team."

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Donalds, 46, is married to U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the Republican running for Florida governor with President Donald Trump’s endorsement.

“Here in South Florida, it’s not having enough seats for the demand for school choice, we’re heading that all over, but here it’s especially acute,” Erika Donalds, a mother of three, said. “The best schools have waitlists. Families feel like they don’t have enough transportation to access some of the other options.”

Madeline Pumariega, the president of Miami Dade College, helped to organize the event at CasaCuba, a restaurant at 5859 SW 73 St. Florida Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez was among the event’s guests.

Erika Donalds, a certified public accountant, is the founder and chair of the Education Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization, and Optima Ed, a Naples-based company that supports virtual reality in education.

Erika Donalds is also a member of Moms for Liberty, a far-right organization that supports parental rights in public education. She is set to speak at the Broward Women’s Republican Club’s ticketed event at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Jay’s Steakhouse, at 441 NE Third Ave., in Fort Lauderdale.

Byron Donalds is running against David Jolly, the Democrat who is campaigning for Florida governor. Jolly recently announced he doesn’t plan to debate his opponent.

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Donalds, de 46 años, está casada con el representante federal Byron Donalds, el republicano que se postula para gobernador de Florida con el respaldo del presidente Donald Trump.

“Aquí en el sur de Florida, no hay suficientes cupos para satisfacer la demanda de elección escolar, estamos escuchando eso en todas partes, pero aquí es especialmente grave”, dijo Erika Donalds, madre de tres hijos. “Las mejores escuelas tienen listas de espera. Las familias sienten que no tienen suficiente transporte para acceder a algunas de las otras opciones”.

Madeline Pumariega, presidenta de Miami Dade College, ayudó a organizar el evento en CasaCuba, un restaurante ubicado en 5859 SW 73 St. La senadora de Florida Ana Maria Rodriguez estuvo entre los invitados al evento.

Erika Donalds, contadora pública certificada, es fundadora y presidenta de Education Freedom Foundation, una organización sin fines de lucro, y de Optima Ed, una empresa con sede en Naples que apoya el uso de la realidad virtual en la educación.

Erika Donalds también es miembro de Moms for Liberty, una organización de extrema derecha que apoya los derechos de los padres en la educación pública. Está previsto que hable en un evento con entrada del Broward Women’s Republican Club a las 6:30 p.m. del miércoles en Jay’s Steakhouse, ubicado en 441 NE Third Ave., en Fort Lauderdale.

Byron Donalds se postula contra David Jolly, el demócrata que hace campaña para gobernador de Florida. Jolly anunció recientemente que no planea debatir con su oponente.

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“I just don’t see that you can finish outside the top 30 multiple times and have a shot,” Blaney said last week. “It’s just going to be too much to make up.”

Three days later, Blaney finished 33rd at Bristol Motor Speedway, the second consecutive finish outside the top 30 for the 2023 Cup Series champion. Blaney has plummeted from second to sixth in the standings since the Chase began, and his frustrations boiled over in a fight with Carson Hocevar, who bumped Blaney into a crash that ended a promising Bristol race after the Team Penske star led a race-high 202 laps.

“I understand why he’s upset,” Hocevar said. “That’s probably his championship. I’d probably be mad, too.”

During the playoff system that existed the past 12 seasons, Bristol was a cutoff race in which four drivers were eliminated from title contention, and the points were reset for the rest of the field.

In the Chase reintroduced by NASCAR this season, all 16 drivers remain mathematically eligible for the title but without a points reset — which leaves Blaney already on the fringe of contention.

He trails leader Kyle Larson by 51 points, which is more than double his deficit to open the Chase.

Meanwhile, Larson and Bristol winner Joey Logano are headed in the other direction by averaging more than 50 points per race since the Chase started.

Larson has erased a 55-point deficit to take a one-point lead on top-seeded Denny Hamlin heading into a stretch of three 1.5-mile ovals where Larson has excelled. He has three wins apiece at Kansas Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the next two tracks on the Cup circuit.

“It’s good, but there’s still so much racing left,” Larson said after a second at Bristol marked his third top five in a row (including a Gateway victory that snapped a 51-race win drought ). “Just got to keep having good consistent days. We’re going to some good tracks for us, but it could easily change a lot in the upcoming weeks. We’ve just got to keep plugging away.”

Logano, who started the Chase ranked ninth with a 65-point deficit, has surged to third and trails by 16 points.

“It was a big hole that we dug ourselves, and trying to make that up on the best teams, it’s really hard to do that,” Logano said. “We’ve done a tremendous job, but it goes to show how quickly it can go the other way. You’ve got to get hot at the right time and take advantage of the cars when you have them.”

Logano and crew chief Paul Wolfe set a weekly goal of averaging 40 points during the Chase to have a shot at winning the championship.

In the first iteration of the Chase from 2004-13, the 10 Cup champions averaged a seventh-place finish over the final 10 races. But with the 2017 introduction of stages, two predetermined sections during every race in which the top 10 are awarded points, there is a greater emphasis on running well from green to checkered flag.

Wolfe said the stage points make it possible to make up ground more quickly as Larson (38 stage points) and Logano (37) have shown in the past three races.

“When a team gets hot, and they’re able to win stages, run up front and win a race or two, you can close that gap pretty quick,” Wolfe said. “Maybe quicker than all of us anticipated when these playoffs started.”

Another way to close the gap is by winning. The value of a first-place finish was increased by 15 points this year, and the three Chase victories belong to three of the top four drivers in the standings (Larson, Logano and Darlington winner Christopher Bell).

“I think you’re going to have to win multiple races in the Chase to just keep up,” Blaney said.

Blaney and Hocevar won't be penalized for fight

NASCAR announced Monday afternoon that there would be no penalties for Blaney and Hocevar, but a further review will determine any punishment for crew members involved in the incident. Competition executives will meet Tuesday for a weekly postrace debrief that includes penalty discussions.

“We’re not going to encourage fighting, but what we are going to encourage is passion,” NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell said in an appearance on Kevin Harvick’s podcast Monday. “Blaney’s showing his passion, showing his fire.”

Hocevar said NASCAR would “lose ticket sales” if he was penalized for punching Blaney.

“I would have to think not,” he said. “I kind of have to defend myself at some point.”

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Jason Eaton faces up to life in prison in the November 2023 attack in Burlington, which paralyzed Hisham Awartani from the waist down and wounded his friends, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid.

The men, all 20 at the time, had been visiting Awartani’s grandmother for Thanksgiving. They were smoking cigarettes and speaking a mix of English and Arabic as they walked near the University of Vermont campus after dusk. Two of them were wearing traditional Palestinian scarves known as keffiyehs.

The jury deliberated for several hours before reaching its verdict after a weeklong trial that saw testimony from the three men, who recounted how their stroll ended in bloodshed, and defense and prosecution psychiatric experts who offered differing views of Eaton's mental health and criminal culpability.

Eaton, 51, stared ahead blankly as the verdict was read, standing alongside his lawyers — public defenders whom he tried to fire last week over his concerns that his defense hadn’t been “adequately presented.” Judge John Pacht, who blocked Eaton’s midtrial bid to act as his own lawyer, ordered him jailed pending sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled.

Awartani and Aliahmad watched from the front row of the courtroom gallery, smiling and hugging people around them.

“The verdict cannot undo what happened or erase the trauma our families still carry, but it affirms something fundamental: Jason Eaton is responsible for what he did,” Awartani’s mother, Elizabeth Price, told reporters afterward.

Eaton claimed he was acting on orders from the CIA and Mossad

Eaton had pleaded not guilty but did not dispute that he was the shooter. He claimed that the CIA and Mossad transmitted their orders via FM radio and that God was commanding him to protect his Jewish neighbors. His lawyers had urged jurors to find him not guilty by reason of insanity, an outcome that would’ve spared him from prison but could have required that he undergo mental health treatment.

Eaton's lawyers, Margaret Jansch and Joshua O’Hara, said he had struggled with mental health issues his whole life, including diagnoses of attention deficit, post-traumatic stress, bipolar, depression and borderline personality disorders, culminating in a psychotic break after losing his job at a credit union two weeks before the shooting.

Prosecutor Sarah George countered that Eaton was a narcissist but not legally insane. He had a grandiose sense of self-importance and lacked empathy but was fully aware of the criminality of his conduct, George said in a closing argument. He appeared nervous when police arrived at his door, repeatedly asked for a lawyer and hasn't claimed to have received any other messages directing his actions, she said.

Eaton told officers that he had a shotgun in his apartment, but didn't disclose that he had other weapons, including a Ruger .380-caliber handgun that was found in a bedroom dresser and that crime lab testing concluded was used in the shooting, said George, the Chittenden County state’s attorney.

Victim’s mother says Eaton should’ve been charged with hate crimes

The shooting, weeks after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, shook Burlington, and reverberated in the West Bank, where the three wounded men grew up and became friends as schoolmates in Ramallah before moving to the U.S. for college. It spawned calls for a hate crime investigation.

But no hate crime charges were filed as questions persisted about whether anti-Palestinian animus, an altered mental state or something else had compelled Eaton to open fire. After the verdict, Awartani’s mother said Eaton's hateful rhetoric, aired at the trial, had made it clear why he targeted her son.

Days after the shooting, George said in her closing argument, Eaton had told his lawyers that he wished Awartani’s grandmother had warned him that the men were “going to dress up like terrorists” and trek through his neighborhood.

“Or see, if grandma had said to them, you know, maybe now’s not a great time to wear that thing on your head," George said, paraphrasing Eaton's remarks. “You know, things are a little tense when you’ve got American hostages over in Palestine, and we’re trying to get them back."

“They were not the words of a man confused about who he shot or why,” Elizabeth Price said. “They were the words a man who saw three young men speaking the language of their childhood and wearing what made them feel closer to their far away families and homes and decided to kill them because of his own prejudices.”

Victims recounted how a peaceful walk ended in bloodshed

Awartani testified last week that he first noticed Eaton standing on a porch as they approached the apartment house where he lived. Within seconds, Awartani said, Eaton was off the porch and walking toward them. His face was expressionless and he didn’t say anything. As Eaton got to about 5 to 10 feet (1.5 to 3 meters) away, “he pulled out a handgun and started shooting at us,” Awartani said.

Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College near Philadelphia, said he fled and hid behind another home after seeing Aliahmad fall to the ground. He said he only realized later when he sat down that he had also been wounded.

Awartani, who was studying at Brown University in Rhode Island at the time, was shot in the chest and the bullet ricocheted off his scapula, causing paraplegia in his spinal cord. Aliahmad, who was a student at Trinity College in Connecticut, was struck in the collarbone, and Abdalhamid was shot in the right buttock.

Jacob Pyne, who lived in a different apartment in the same house as Eaton, testified that he heard four to six gunshots, followed by footsteps going up the stairs of the apartment house. He said he ran outside and heard two men speaking, one of whom was more vocal and yelling, “I’ve been shot, help me.” He then brought the men blankets and called 911.

Eaton didn't testify. In an opening statement last week, O’Hara told jurors that Eaton claimed he started receiving messages while listening to a local NPR affiliate. At first, the messages were encouraging and validating, the lawyer said, but subsequent messages turned dark, insisting that Eaton “has to go out and shoot somebody.”