The locations, which will have collection bins, are in Miramar, Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Lauderhill, Cooper City, Sunrise, and Hollywood.

The county is asking the public for donations of non-perishable food, shovels, face masks with respirators, hygiene products, pet food, pet crates, sleeping bags, air mattresses, first-aid kits, backpacks, tarps, flashlights, and batteries.

The county will not be accepting donations of clothes or linens. Here is the list of locations and hours of operation:

MIRAMAR

• Miramar Branch Library and Education Center, at 2050 Civic Center Place, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Saturday.

COCONUT CREEK

• North Regional/Broward College Library, at 1100 Coconut Creek Boulevard, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.
• Tradewinds Park & Stables, at 3600 West Sample Road, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

CORAL SPRINGS

• Northwest Regional Library, at 3151 North University Drive, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.

PEMBROKE PINES

• South Regional/Broward County Library at 7300 Pines Boulevard, opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.
• Southwest Regional Library, at 16835 Sheridan St., opens from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.

PLANTATION

• West Regional Library at 8601 West Broward Boulevard, from Monday to Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Thursday to Sunday.

COOPER CITY

• Brian Piccolo Park, at 9501 Sheridan St., opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

LAUDERHILL

• Central Broward Park & Broward County Stadium at 3700 NW 11 Place, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

SUNRISE

• Markham Park at 16001 West State Road 84, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

HOLLYWOOD

• T.Y. Park, at 3300 North Park Road, opens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

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According to the SAO, Lyle, 20, was arrested on charges of fleeing and eluding at a high speed and reckless driving.

He was released the same day as his arrest after posting a $55,000 bond, prosecutors said.

A spokesperson for the University of Miami told Local 10 News in an email, “We are aware of an incident involving student-athlete Jordan Lyle. As due legal process runs its course, we will have no further comment at this time.”

The Fort Lauderdale native got the start at running back in the 2025 season opening win against Notre Dame, but he wouldn’t make it through the entire game after suffering a leg injury that eventually sidelined him for most of the season.

In the six games he played, Lyle carried the ball 35 times for 108 yards and scored his lone touchdown of the season against Stanford.

Despite the injury and being part of a crowded running back room with Mark Fletcher Jr., Marty Brown and Girard Pringle Jr., Lyle decided to return to the Hurricanes and compete for his spot.

No other details about his arrest were immediately released.

La policía de Wilton Manors dijo que los agentes fueron llamados a Manor Grove Apartments por un robo a mano armada.

La situación se intensificó cuando la persona de interés se negó a salir de su unidad.

Vecinos dijeron que observaron mientras agentes de la policía de Wilton Manors y Fort Lauderdale rodeaban el edificio.

“He vivido aquí unos 8 años. Fue bastante angustiante verlo, sin duda”, dijo un vecino.

Alex Dorsey, un vecino, dijo que un trabajador de Amazon había llegado para entregar un paquete y tomarle una foto antes de recoger nuevamente el paquete.

“El trabajador de Amazon vino a entregar un paquete”, dijo Dorsey. “Tomó una foto del paquete y luego procedió a recogerlo inmediatamente después. Al vecino no le gustó, esto es Florida, salió con un arma, ya sabes”.

Otro vecino, Paul Baker, compartió un video de un hombre que dijo era su vecino. En un clip, se puede ver a un hombre caminando afuera con un arma de fuego en la mano. Más tarde, se puede escuchar a la policía diciéndole que se rindiera pacíficamente.

Baker dijo que estaba sorprendido por lo ocurrido.

“No podía creerlo. Es un tipo muy amable. Siempre ha sido muy amigable conmigo”, dijo Baker.

La policía arrestó al hombre y lo acusó de agresión agravada con un arma de fuego.

“Me alegra que todo se haya resuelto”, dijo Yarden Ben-David, productor ejecutivo de WPLG.

They say that landed Lianne Quintero, 30, behind bars on two felony charges on Thursday.

As authorities crack down on fake permits, authorities said they uncovered evidence that Quintero had provided the note and paid $250 for a placard at the Kendall Auto Tag agency, located at 13710 SW 56th St., on May 21, 2025.

But the doctor who supposedly signed the note saying that Quintero had a “permanent disability that limits or impairs her ability to walk 200 feet without stopping to rest” had died on May 5, they said, “prior to the completion of fraudulent form.”

“The uncovered documents proved that the physician could not have completed the application for the defendants disabled person permit,” a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report states.

Additionally, deputies said the doctor’s purported signature on the parking placard application did not match the one on his driver’s license.

Authorities said went they went to Quintero’s home in the county’s rural Redland area, they told her they were there because of her placard, to which she replied, “I have a placard but do not use it.”

They said she then “voluntarily” gave up the placard and later admitted to the scheme, acknowledging that she is not disabled.

Deputies arrested Quintero on charges of providing a false statement on a handicapped permit application and uttering forged instruments.

As of Friday afternoon, records show she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.

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The female joey was born to first-time parents Gordon, an 8.5-year-old male from the Los Angeles Zoo, and Adelaid, a 9.5-year-old female from Brookfield Zoo. She is estimated to have been born Jan. 19, according to Zoo Miami ambassador Ron Magill.

Magill said southern hairy-nosed wombats are the smallest of the three wombat species and are native to Australia. They typically weigh between 45 and 65 pounds and are known for their powerful claws, which they use to dig extensive underground burrows.

He said like other marsupials, wombats raise their young in a pouch. A wombat’s pouch opens toward the rear, which helps keep dirt out while the mother digs.

The joey has recently started emerging from her mother’s pouch, giving visitors their first glimpses of Zoo Miami’s historic new arrival.

La cría hembra es hija de Gordon, un macho de 8,5 años procedente del zoológico de Los Ángeles, y de Adelaid, una hembra de 9,5 años procedente del zoológico de Brookfield, ambos padres primerizos. Se estima que nació el 19 de enero, según Ron Magill, embajador del Zoo Miami.

Magill explicó que los wombats de nariz peluda del sur son la más pequeña de las tres especies de wombats y son originarios de Australia. Suelen pesar entre 45 y 65 libras y son conocidos por sus poderosas garras, que utilizan para excavar extensas madrigueras subterráneas.

Comentó que, al igual que otros marsupiales, los wombats crían a sus crías en una bolsa. La bolsa de un wombat se abre hacia atrás, lo que ayuda a mantener la suciedad fuera mientras la madre excava.

La cría ha empezado recientemente a asomar la cabeza fuera de la bolsa de su madre, lo que ha permitido a los visitantes echar un primer vistazo a la histórica nueva llegada al Zoo de Miami.

House Majority PAC’s move is expected to raise the group’s campaign advertising in the Cleveland area to roughly $7 million, the group announced in an email obtained by The Associated Press.

Miller’s decision to press on even after calls from within his own party to step aside also prompted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ main campaign arm, this week to move Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter on to the group’s list of priority candidates.

The House Ethics Committee said last week it had opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Miller. The embattled Ohio congressman also last week spoke with Trump, who did not suggest he exit the race but suggested it would be difficult.

President Donald Trump won Ohio’s 7th District in 2024 by 11 percentage points, though Democrats see the swath of suburban Cleveland and rural northeast Ohio as within reach in light of the renewed accusations from Moreno, the daughter of Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno.

Miller, whose deadline to drop from the race passed Monday, has denied the abuse claims and said he would inject $1 million of his own into his campaign.

Officials with the National Republican Congressional Committee, the GOP's House campaign arm, said Friday they would support Miller's reelection campaign.

The Cuban government has realized that efforts to attract investment from U.S. and Cuban-American businesses have largely failed because of the many sanctions imposed by the United States and the fact that the risks still outweigh the opportunities.

However, the Cuban government is trying very hard to attract companies from around the world to take over many operations and businesses in Cuba. With many European hoteliers and other companies having recently left Cuba, it will still be a challenge to attract new investors.

One thing these companies should keep in mind before starting operations in Cuba is that they could be operating in properties that were confiscated by the Cuban government in the early 1960s. They could potentially face legal challenges in the future as a result.

For American companies alone, there are 5,913 businesses and properties that were confiscated and registered with the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

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Aug. 13: Fidel Castro’s 100th birthday prompts reflection on his legacy in Cuba

Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro, a man whose narcissistic personality took control of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista on Jan. 1, 1959. He made promises to the Cuban people that he later betrayed for his own selfish ambitions and thirst for power.

At his trial on Oct. 16, 1953, following the failed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, he famously said, “History will absolve me.”

In the end, history will judge him as a ruthless dictator who destroyed Cuba, impoverished its people and inflicted tremendous suffering on an entire nation.

Aug. 12: Cuba poses a tough foreign policy challenge for Rubio

“Who is on first, what is on second, I don’t know is on third.”

The famous comedy routine by Abbott and Costello can be compared to the Trump administration’s foreign policy strategies these days. Diplomatic negotiations are complex and complicated, especially when dealing with countries, governments, and individuals with whom the United States has not had good relationships.

Reliable sources tell me there are tremendous differences between the staffs at the White House and the Department of State over how to handle negotiations involving Ukraine, Russia, Israel-Gaza, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba. It does not help when those negotiating on behalf of the United States have limited to no diplomatic experience.

For now, let’s stay within the area of expertise: Cuba. While President Trump thinks Cuba can be resolved in two months, Secretary of State Marco Rubio knows very well, as does his senior staff, that negotiating with Cuba is not easy.

The Cuban government is willing to continue introducing cosmetic changes to its moribund economy without relinquishing political control. The United States can continue to sanction everyone on the island, and the Cuban government could not care less. All the while, the people of Cuba continue to suffer tremendous hardships. Yet the people are unlikely to turn against the government. The consequence of doing so can mean spending years in jail.

Meanwhile, in Miami, the guessing game continues over who will replace Raúl Castro when he dies, along with preparations for possible transition plans for Cuba. A transition to a democratic system of government in Cuba will take time. A civil society cannot be built overnight. It is also important to remember that Cuba did not have a democratic government before 1959.

For Rubio, expectations from the Cuban American community are high. Yet most in the community understand that it will not be easy to get the Cuban government to make political changes short of a U.S. military invasion. However, Rubio needs a win, especially if he is considering another presidential run. The failures of the Trump administration’s foreign policies around the world could affect Rubio’s future presidential campaign.

So, what will be Rubio’s next step on Cuba? The clock is ticking.

Aug. 10: Will the cat catch the mouse this time?

While U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues to put pressure on the Cuban government to change, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel went on Cuban television this past weekend and announced to the Cuban people that the government was making major “transformational changes” to the economy.

Díaz-Canel also told the Cuban people that it would take time and patience -- two things the Cuban people do not have anymore. Díaz-Canel went on to say that the benefits of these changes will begin to show by 2029.

Sources in Washington, D.C. have told me that the Trump administration is looking to see if there is someone in the Cuban government, like Delcy Rodriguez in Venezuela, to hand over Raul Castro or even take over the current government and be willing to negotiate with the U.S.

The Miami Herald reported this weekend that General Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casas, currently the Cuban Minister of the Interior, may be acceptable to the U.S. General Casas is considered a hardliner and therefore unlikely to break with the Cuban leadership.

As I have said before, the case of Venezuela is quite different than Cuba. While Raul Castro is alive, I believe the Cuban government will continue in power and make promises to the Cuban people they cannot keep.

Aug. 8: Cuban opposition leader says Cuba’s transformation must include those on the island

According to Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer, any plans to transform Cuba must include Cubans on the island.

But do Cubans on the island have the capacity and capabilities to participate in such a process? After living for almost 68 years under a totalitarian system that has shaped the population’s personal values and attitudes, it could take time not only to change it but, more importantly, to sustain those changes.

Democracies are not built in one day. It will take time and patience. Let’s also remember that before the Cuban Revolution, Cuba had a dictatorship under Batista.

Aug 6: US announces new set of economic sanctions against Cuba; 2 of Cuba’s top generals also sanctioned

The U.S. State Department announced a new set of economic sanctions against Cuba on Thursday. At the same time, two of Cuba’s top generals were also sanctioned, Alvaro Lopez Miera, Minister of Defense; and General Roberto Sotolongo, head of the armed forces.

Aug. 5: CIA Task Force on Cuba created, per report

The New York Times has reported the creation of a CIA Task Force on Cuba with the purpose of putting additional pressure on the Cuban government to make political and economic changes to their system.

This news will probably be received by Cuba as an additional threat by the U.S.

Aug. 5: Cuban president confirms ongoing conservations between Havana, US

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed today that there are ongoing conversations between Havana and DC for the purpose of avoiding a military confrontation and trying to find solutions to the issues between both nations.

The Cuban government understands that they are running out of options and most likely will need to reach an agreement with the U.S. Will it include regime change?

Aug. 3 update: Rubio speaks about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the US

This past weekend, in an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio spoke about Cuba’s ongoing espionage activities in the U.S.

Rubio went on to say that Cuban spies continue to infiltrate the U.S. government, financial institutions, organizations, and academic institutions. Rubio claimed that Cuba continues to be a national security threat to the U.S.

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

El gobierno cubano se ha dado cuenta de que los esfuerzos para atraer inversiones de empresas estadounidenses y de cubano-estadounidenses han fracasado en gran medida debido a las numerosas sanciones impuestas por Estados Unidos y al hecho de que los riesgos aún superan las oportunidades.

Sin embargo, el gobierno cubano está tratando con mucho empeño de atraer empresas de todo el mundo para que se hagan cargo de muchas operaciones y negocios en Cuba. Con muchos hoteleros europeos y otras empresas que recientemente han abandonado Cuba, seguirá siendo un desafío atraer nuevos inversionistas.

Una cosa que estas empresas deberían tener en cuenta antes de comenzar operaciones en Cuba es que podrían estar operando en propiedades que fueron confiscadas por el gobierno cubano a principios de la década de 1960. Como resultado, podrían enfrentar posibles desafíos legales en el futuro.

Solo para las empresas estadounidenses, hay 5,913 negocios y propiedades que fueron confiscados y registrados ante el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos.

13 de agosto: El centenario del nacimiento de Fidel Castro genera reflexión sobre su legado en Cuba

El jueves se cumple el centenario del nacimiento de Fidel Castro, un hombre cuya personalidad narcisista tomó el control de Cuba después de derrocar a Fulgencio Batista el 1 de enero de 1959. Hizo promesas al pueblo cubano que posteriormente traicionó por sus propias ambiciones egoístas y sed de poder.

En su juicio del 16 de octubre de 1953, tras el fallido ataque contra los cuarteles militares de Moncada en Santiago de Cuba, dijo la famosa frase: “La historia me absolverá”.

Al final, la historia lo juzgará como un dictador despiadado que destruyó Cuba, empobreció a su pueblo e infligió un sufrimiento tremendo a toda una nación.

12 de agosto: Cuba representa un difícil desafío de política exterior para Rubio

“Quién va primero, quién va segundo, No Sé va tercero”.

La famosa rutina cómica de Abbott y Costello puede compararse con las estrategias de política exterior de la administración Trump en estos días. Las negociaciones diplomáticas son complejas y complicadas, especialmente cuando se trata de países, gobiernos e individuos con los que Estados Unidos no ha tenido buenas relaciones.

Fuentes confiables me dicen que existen enormes diferencias entre los equipos de la Casa Blanca y el Departamento de Estado sobre cómo manejar las negociaciones relacionadas con Ucrania, Rusia, Israel-Gaza, Irán, Venezuela y Cuba. No ayuda que quienes negocian en nombre de Estados Unidos tengan poca o ninguna experiencia diplomática.

Por ahora, mantengámonos dentro del área de experiencia: Cuba. Mientras el presidente Trump piensa que Cuba puede resolverse en dos meses, el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio sabe muy bien, al igual que su equipo de alto nivel, que negociar con Cuba no es fácil.

El gobierno cubano está dispuesto a continuar introduciendo cambios cosméticos en su moribunda economía sin renunciar al control político. Estados Unidos puede continuar sancionando a todos en la isla, y al gobierno cubano no podría importarle menos. Mientras tanto, el pueblo de Cuba continúa sufriendo enormes dificultades. Sin embargo, es poco probable que el pueblo se vuelva contra el gobierno. La consecuencia de hacerlo puede significar pasar años en prisión.

Mientras tanto, en Miami, continúa el juego de adivinanzas sobre quién reemplazará a Raúl Castro cuando muera, junto con los preparativos para posibles planes de transición para Cuba. Una transición hacia un sistema democrático de gobierno en Cuba tomará tiempo. Una sociedad civil no puede construirse de la noche a la mañana. También es importante recordar que Cuba no tenía un gobierno democrático antes de 1959.

Para Rubio, las expectativas de la comunidad cubanoamericana son altas. Sin embargo, la mayoría de la comunidad entiende que no será fácil lograr que el gobierno cubano realice cambios políticos, salvo mediante una invasión militar estadounidense. Sin embargo, Rubio necesita una victoria, especialmente si está considerando otra candidatura presidencial. Los fracasos de las políticas exteriores de la administración Trump en todo el mundo podrían afectar la futura campaña presidencial de Rubio.

Entonces, ¿cuál será el próximo paso de Rubio sobre Cuba? El reloj está corriendo.

10 de agosto: ¿Atrapará el gato al ratón esta vez?

Mientras el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, continúa presionando al gobierno cubano para que cambie, el presidente cubano Miguel Díaz-Canel apareció en la televisión cubana este pasado fin de semana y anunció al pueblo cubano que el gobierno estaba realizando importantes “cambios transformadores” en la economía.

Díaz-Canel también dijo al pueblo cubano que se necesitarían tiempo y paciencia, dos cosas que el pueblo cubano ya no tiene. Díaz-Canel continuó diciendo que los beneficios de estos cambios comenzarán a verse para 2029.

Fuentes en Washington, D.C., me han dicho que la administración del presidente Trump está buscando determinar si hay alguien en el gobierno cubano, como Delcy Rodríguez en Venezuela, que entregue a Raúl Castro o incluso asuma el control del actual gobierno y esté dispuesto a negociar con Estados Unidos.

El Miami Herald reportó este fin de semana que el general Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, actual ministro del Interior de Cuba, podría ser aceptable para Estados Unidos. El general Casas es considerado de línea dura y, por lo tanto, es poco probable que rompa con el liderazgo cubano.

Como he dicho antes, el caso de Venezuela es bastante diferente al de Cuba. Mientras Raúl Castro esté vivo, creo que el gobierno cubano continuará en el poder y hará promesas al pueblo cubano que no puede cumplir.

8 de agosto: Líder opositor cubano dice que la transformación de Cuba debe incluir a quienes están en la isla

Según el líder opositor cubano José Daniel Ferrer, cualquier plan para transformar Cuba debe incluir a los cubanos que están en la isla.

Pero, ¿tienen los cubanos en la isla la capacidad y las herramientas para participar en un proceso de este tipo? Después de vivir durante casi 68 años bajo un sistema totalitario que ha moldeado los valores y las actitudes personales de la población, podría tomar tiempo no solo cambiarlo sino, más importante aún, mantener esos cambios.

Las democracias no se construyen en un día. Se necesitará tiempo y paciencia. Recordemos también que antes de la Revolución Cubana, Cuba tuvo una dictadura bajo Batista.

6 de agosto: Estados Unidos anuncia un nuevo paquete de sanciones económicas contra Cuba; también sanciona a dos de los principales generales cubanos

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos anunció el jueves un nuevo paquete de sanciones económicas contra Cuba. Al mismo tiempo, también fueron sancionados dos de los principales generales de Cuba: Álvaro López Miera, ministro de Defensa, y el general Roberto Sotolongo, jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas.

5 de agosto: Según informe, la CIA crea grupo de trabajo sobre Cuba

The New York Times informó sobre la creación de un grupo de trabajo de la CIA sobre Cuba con el propósito de ejercer mayor presión sobre el gobierno cubano para que implemente cambios políticos y económicos en su sistema.

Esta noticia probablemente será recibida por Cuba como una amenaza adicional por parte de Estados Unidos.

5 de agosto: Presidente cubano confirma conversaciones en curso entre La Habana y Estados Unidos

El presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, confirmó hoy que existen conversaciones en curso entre La Habana y Washington con el propósito de evitar una confrontación militar y tratar de encontrar soluciones a los problemas entre ambas naciones.

El gobierno cubano entiende que se está quedando sin opciones y que, muy probablemente, necesitará llegar a un acuerdo con Estados Unidos. ¿Incluirá un cambio de régimen?

Actualización del 3 de agosto: Rubio habla sobre las actividades de espionaje de Cuba en Estados Unidos

El pasado fin de semana, en una entrevista con Fox News, el secretario de Estado y asesor de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, habló sobre las actividades de espionaje que Cuba continúa realizando en Estados Unidos.

Rubio afirmó que espías cubanos continúan infiltrándose en el gobierno de Estados Unidos, instituciones financieras, organizaciones e instituciones académicas. También sostuvo que Cuba sigue representando una amenaza para la seguridad nacional de Estados Unidos.

El Dr. Andy S. Gómez es el analista de Cuba de Local 10. Gómez es considerado uno de los principales especialistas sobre Cuba. Trabajó durante 32 años en el ámbito de la educación superior antes de retirarse de la Universidad de Miami en 2012.

While discussions between Iran and Oman, as well as between Iran and Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar, persist at an uneven and unpredictable pace, the U.S. administration quietly has expanded its outreach to include perhaps unlikely interlocutors in Europe.

Just this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met in person in Washington with the foreign minister of Austria on Tuesday and held a call with the foreign minister of Greece on Wednesday.

Those interactions were not notable beyond the normal course of relations between the U.S. and two close European allies. The official State Department readouts of the discussions were bland and vague and did not mention Iran by name as a topic of conversation.

But it then emerged that both foreign ministers — almost immediately after their talks with Rubio — spoke Thursday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

The apparent new tack to break the negotiation logjam comes as the U.S. and Iran are both pushing for control of the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial oil shipping corridor. President Donald Trump faces little wiggle room in his next steps as the economic fallout from the war and dwindling stockpiles of key weapons pose political problems for Republicans ahead of November’s midterm congressional elections.

A desperate push is on to break the diplomatic logjam between the US and Iran

The entry by Austria and Greece is likely less of a formal mediation attempt, analysts say, and more reflective of a desperate push to halt the conflict because of the impact it has on an increasing number of countries, beyond those in the Middle East.

“Everyone is just urging both sides to stop this reckless game of chicken,” said Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group.

It also shows how much Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced countries, which otherwise were neutral bystanders to the larger conflict, to exercise any diplomatic sway they may have on their Iranian and American counterparts to kick-start a lasting resolution.

Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, warned that any efforts by Greece, Austria or any other non-mediating country could prove to be futile.

“While the calls to both sides may entail encouraging both Iran and the U.S. back to the negotiating table, such efforts fall short of mediation, which is a very complex endeavor and requires trust to be built by the mediator with both sides," Yacoubian said.

She added that it’s not something that any country can “just jump into.”

Rubio discussed Iran with his Austrian and Greek counterparts

The State Department said Friday that it could not comment on the timing of calls by other countries' foreign ministers and maintained that Rubio had made no requests of either to get in touch with Iran or pass messages to Araghchi.

One European diplomat, who was briefed on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity to detail sensitive diplomatic conversations, said the timing of the calls was not an accident.

The State Department did allow, however, that Iran had been a topic of conversation in Rubio's discussions, which occurred as Trump is facing serious political headwinds over a war for which he has offered shifting objectives.

No longer purely about making Iran incapable of producing a nuclear weapon, the immediate goal has become reopening the Strait of Hormuz, where a fifth of the world's oil usually passes through and which was open before the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28.

“That’s goal number one: keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country,” Vice President JD Vance said in an interview Thursday on Fox News Channel. But he did not say anything about the strait being open and toll-free for transiting ships, as he had in the past.

The second goal, Vance said, is to ensure that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon.

The two European countries have key connections to the war's fallout

Austria and Greece may not be obvious choices to assist on the Iran portfolio, but Vienna is home to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which will play a key role in any resolution to the Iran’s nuclear program, and hosted the final negotiations that resulted in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Greece is a major maritime nation in the Mediterranean and has significant shipping interests in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.

In statements from the Austrian, Greek and Iranian foreign ministries, it was clear that Iran had been a top topic in all of the conversations this week.

The Greek foreign ministry said Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis had been briefed by Araghchi on “regional developments, and in particular on the ongoing talks regarding the Strait of Hormuz.” It said Gerapetritis “underlined the importance of freedom of navigation and maritime security.”

The Austrian foreign ministry offered Austria’s services as a venue for further potential talks with Iran and said Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger had stressed to Araghchi “the urgency of restoring stability in the region through serious diplomatic efforts.”

“There can be no military solution,” it said. “A diplomatic solution remains possible. Our priority is to safeguard freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.”

Iran’s foreign ministry, expectedly, took a different tack in explaining the calls.

It said Friday that in Araghchi’s calls with his European counterparts they discussed “mechanisms for the future management of the Strait of Hormuz,” which he said had been disrupted by the “unlawful aggression by the United States and the Israeli regime against Iran.”

In both calls, he accused the U.S. of violating the interim deal signed by both sides in June to end the immediate hostilities and begin broader talks to end the war.

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Amiri reported from New York. Associated Press writers Derek Gatopolous in Athens and Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw, Poland, contributed to this report.

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The solution came through a collaboration between Local 10 investigative reporter Jeff Weinsier and Community Relations Director Mayte Padron as part of Local 10’s Good News South Florida initiative.

For Angine Moss, founder and CEO of Hosanna 4 Youth, the act of kindness was another example of something good emerging from a difficult situation.

“Do you believe that even a wrong done to you would work out for good?” Moss said. “That’s the story of my life.”

Moss, a sexual abuse survivor, founded Hosanna 4 Youth nearly two decades ago after deciding to use her own experiences to help others overcome trauma.

“In the midst of all of that, there was that voice that said, ‘You can’t be the only one,’” she said.

The organization’s name comes from the Hebrew word “Hosanna,” meaning “save us.”

“Hosanna 4 Youth is a platform for those who have been impacted by incest, molestation, rape, human trafficking and domestic violence,” Moss said.

The nonprofit in West Park develops individualized plans for survivors based on their circumstances and needs. More than 2,000 families have walked through its doors seeking assistance over the years.

But in March, one of those doors was badly damaged.

Video captured a man repeatedly throwing a brick at the building’s impact-glass door. The man told police he was trying to get a fire extinguisher to help people involved in a nearby car crash.

Weinsier previously reported on the incident and questioned how someone standing outside the building would have known a fire extinguisher was inside.

Following an investigation, police determined there was no criminal intent, leaving Hosanna 4 Youth responsible for the damage.

“I am so frustrated that I was told nothing can be done,” Moss said.

The nonprofit was then faced with an estimated $2,500 repair bill — money Moss worried would have to come at the expense of the people her organization serves.

“How is Hosanna going to pay for this $2,500 door without taking it from our clients or our service to our clients?” she said.

That’s when Weinsier reached out to Padron to see whether Good News South Florida could help.

Padron contacted Tat Granata, owner and president of Safeguard Impact, who immediately agreed to step in.

“Something bad happened, but I think she’s going to be really happy with how everything turns out,” Granata said.

Crews replaced the shattered door with a new solid door, complete with a new lockset, relieving the nonprofit of the expense.

“My heart is full right now,” Moss said after seeing the finished work.

For Moss, the gesture transformed what had been a source of frustration into another chapter in the organization’s mission of helping people move forward after difficult experiences.

“I can’t thank Jeff enough. I can’t thank you enough,” she said. “This is ‘Good News.’”

Those interested in learning more about Hosanna 4 Youth can visit hosanna4youth.org.

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La solución llegó a través de una colaboración entre el reportero de investigación de Local 10 Jeff Weinsier y la directora de Relaciones Comunitarias Mayte Padron como parte de la iniciativa Good News South Florida de Local 10.

Para Angine Moss, fundadora y directora ejecutiva de Hosanna 4 Youth, el acto de bondad fue otro ejemplo de cómo algo bueno puede surgir de una situación difícil.

“¿Crees que incluso algo malo que te hagan puede terminar resultando para bien?”, dijo Moss. “Esa es la historia de mi vida”.

Moss, sobreviviente de abuso sexual, fundó Hosanna 4 Youth hace casi dos décadas después de decidir utilizar sus propias experiencias para ayudar a otros a superar el trauma.

“En medio de todo eso, hubo una voz que dijo: ‘No puedes ser la única’”, dijo.

El nombre de la organización proviene de la palabra hebrea “Hosanna”, que significa “sálvanos”.

“Hosanna 4 Youth es una plataforma para quienes han sido afectados por incesto, abuso sexual, violación, trata de personas y violencia doméstica”, dijo Moss.

La organización sin fines de lucro en West Park desarrolla planes individualizados para sobrevivientes según sus circunstancias y necesidades. Más de 2,000 familias han atravesado sus puertas en busca de ayuda a lo largo de los años.

Pero en marzo, una de esas puertas quedó gravemente dañada.

Un video captó a un hombre arrojando repetidamente un ladrillo contra la puerta de vidrio resistente a impactos del edificio. El hombre dijo a la policía que intentaba conseguir un extintor para ayudar a las personas involucradas en un accidente automovilístico ocurrido cerca.

Weinsier informó anteriormente sobre el incidente y cuestionó cómo alguien que estaba afuera del edificio habría sabido que había un extintor en el interior.

Tras una investigación, la policía determinó que no hubo intención criminal, dejando a Hosanna 4 Youth responsable de los daños.

“Estoy muy frustrada porque me dijeron que no se puede hacer nada”, dijo Moss.

La organización sin fines de lucro entonces tuvo que enfrentar una factura de reparación estimada en $2,500 USD, dinero que a Moss le preocupaba que tuviera que salir de los recursos destinados a las personas a las que sirve su organización.

“¿Cómo va Hosanna a pagar esta puerta de $2,500 USD sin quitarle ese dinero a nuestros clientes o a nuestro servicio para nuestros clientes?”, dijo.

Fue entonces cuando Weinsier se comunicó con Padron para ver si Good News South Florida podía ayudar.

Padron se puso en contacto con Tat Granata, propietario y presidente de Safeguard Impact, quien aceptó de inmediato intervenir.

“Algo malo ocurrió, pero creo que ella estará muy feliz con cómo resultará todo”, dijo Granata.

Los trabajadores reemplazaron la puerta destrozada por una nueva puerta sólida, completa con un nuevo juego de cerradura, liberando a la organización sin fines de lucro del gasto.

“Mi corazón está lleno en este momento”, dijo Moss después de ver el trabajo terminado.

Para Moss, el gesto transformó lo que había sido una fuente de frustración en otro capítulo de la misión de la organización de ayudar a las personas a seguir adelante después de experiencias difíciles.

“No puedo agradecerle lo suficiente a Jeff. No puedo agradecerles lo suficiente”, dijo. “Esto es ‘Good News’”.

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In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment's length and even said that the more than 260-day deployment is “not nearly long enough.”

"That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it’s being replaced with another very similar ship,” Trump said when asked about the lengthy deployment.

The Lincoln has been supporting the U.S. war against Iran, and several Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Ruben Gallego of Arizona, are pressing for accountability from the Pentagon over conditions aboard the carrier, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said were “completely misrepresented.”

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment before being elected, took to social media to criticize Trump’s comments, saying on X that “President Trump does not care about our servicemembers or their families."

Extended deployments of carriers during the Iran conflict have raised concerns about the impact on service members who are away from home for long periods as well as the increasing strain on the ship and its equipment.

While hostilities between the U.S. and Iran have calmed in recent weeks, the Navy has reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and the Trump administration has offered no clarity on how it intends to wind down the war. Hegseth said that the U.S. military can maintain the blockage of Iranian ports “indefinitely.”

Another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, left port in Da Nang, Vietnam, last week, and is expected to replace the USS Lincoln, one of two aircraft carriers currently deployed in the Middle East.

After reports emerged that sailors on the Lincoln are struggling with mental health concerns, the Navy said it has “not observed an increase in suicidal ideations or attempts aboard the ship,” though officials have declined to provide data, citing operational security and patient privacy concerns.

A Navy official said that a sailor aboard the Lincoln went overboard in early August but that the person was quickly recovered, treated by the ship’s medical department and transferred off ship for follow-on care. The official would not say whether it was being considered a suicide attempt.

U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, has also pushed back on reports about poor conditions.

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Those two massive sociological forces had already joined up, Voltron-style, early in the 20th century with the development of the drive-in restaurant – that classic scene evocative of “Happy Days” where customers sat in their cars while servers (ideally on skates) brought out food that was consumed on site from window trays.

But the real innovation dates to the late 1940s and is the brainchild of either (depending on which source you trust) an In-N-Out Burger in California in 1948 or Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri in 1947. (In comparison, the first reported drive-thru in Europe didn’t open until 1985 in Dublin.)

By the mid 1960s, this had mushroomed into a robust American market, spawning imitators and innovators. Jack in the Box pioneered the drive-thru exclusive restaurant with no indoor seats and no parking — and a talking mechanical clown to take your order. In Western states, residents of a certain age will recall the Wienershnitzel chain with its distinctive A-frame structures specially built with a tunnel down the middle for cars.

The innovation sparked unexpected knock-on developments. Restaurant menus shifted heavily toward sandwiches, fries, chicken strips and other portables that could be consumed on the go. The cars themselves adjusted over the years to accommodate larger and larger drink holders. What sociological (and nutritional) impact this has all had on the actual consumers would be the subject of a much longer essay.

The innovation hasn’t stopped. Modern drive-thrus have evolved into tightly coordinated multi-lane affairs. At Chick-fil-As around the country, actual humans with electronic tablets now stand – breathing in exhaust fumes all day – to ensure a seamless ordering process with no mechanical speaker garbles.

The drive-thru, with its distinctly American creative spelling, has become woven into the fabric of the culture. It has been enshrined in the Smithsonian Museum of American History and has played a memorable role in recent and successful Presidential campaigns.

As one historian put it, somewhat pointedly: “The drive-in was less a pure novelty than an expression of great American passions that go hand in hand: speed, efficiency and, sometimes, laziness.”

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The settlement, which still needs a judge's approval, came after the family filed a lawsuit against the city.

Police have said that Jazmir Tucker was carrying a loaded weapon when he was shot in November 2024. They said two officers heard gunshots, later spotted Tucker and ran after him before one fired multiple times.

Akron Mayor Shammas Malik said Officer Davon Fields was fired for multiple policy violations, including failing to properly provide medical aid and violating the department’s policy for body-worn cameras. The mayor also cited other issues related to a separate criminal allegation involving Fields.

“The loss of life and the circumstances in this case were absolutely tragic, with enormous human and financial costs,” Malik said in a statement. "We have a responsibility to make policy changes that reduce the likelihood of cases like this happening in the future.”

The head of Akron's police union called the firing unjust and said the officer was being used as a “political scapegoat.” The union plans to fight the firing, said Brian Lucey, president of the local Fraternal Order of Police.

A grand jury decided against indicting the officer nearly a year ago.

Weeks after the shooting, Akron's mayor said the bodycam video of the shooting raised questions, including why officers didn’t immediately turn on their cameras and why it took so long to provide first aid.

In the video, the shooting officer’s arms and long gun block his camera’s view, obscuring Tucker in the moments before he was shot. Another officer’s camera recorded police unzipping the jacket pocket of the wounded teenager and pulling out a handgun.

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Jose Divine Fernandes Correeia, 52, of Pembroke Pines, and Ruth Cristaldo, 53, were taken into custody while working their night shift at the UPS facility at 13350 NW 17th St. in Doral, according to an arrest report.

Jail records show both suspects are facing one count each of organized fraud of $50,000 or more and second-degree grand theft between $20,000 and $100,000.

Authorities said an investigation began after UPS security, who was working with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, received reports of missing electronics, including Apple and Samsung phones, tablets and laptops.

They said Cristaldo worked as an “Overgoods clerk” at the facility, while Fernandes Correeia was a “package handler.” Both worked the night reload shift.

According to an arrest report, investigators reviewed surveillance video and saw Fernandes Correeia targeting packages containing electronics, removing their original shipping labels and taking the items out of their boxes.

Deputies said Cristaldo would then place the items in new boxes and create new UPS shipping labels for them.

They said the newly packaged items were then placed in an unload area, where they would be processed and sent out for delivery the next morning.

On Tuesday, UPS security reviewed surveillance video and watched Fernandes Correeia selecting packages and removing their shipping labels before taking the items to Cristaldo, according to the report.

Investigators said they later found one of the packages and opened it, discovering 10 Apple MacBook laptops and three Bose headphones valued at about $10,000.

They said the package was addressed to Barnes & Noble and was scheduled for delivery on Wednesday. Investigators said that package was delivered.

The following day, investigators said they again watched the pair allegedly repackage electronics.

This time, they found a package containing 40 Apple iPhones, models 16 and 17, along with two Samsung Galaxy phones. The items were valued at about $45,000, according to the report.

That package was addressed to an Amazon-related business on Northwest 33rd Street and was scheduled for delivery on Thursday, the report states.

Authorities said UPS security intercepted that package from the driver before it was delivered.

Investigators said they reviewed internal records and determined Cristaldo had created more than 198 UPS shipping labels using her Overgoods login credentials since April 2025, according to the report.

They said the labels were allegedly used on packages sent to two addresses on Northwest 33rd Street in Miami. The report states they used several company names, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon, JC Electronics and JC Auto Parts.

UPS security also found at least 10 additional packages stashed around the Overgoods area that had not yet been labeled, according to the report.

Investigators said the two employees were involved in an ongoing scheme in which electronics were removed from their original shipping boxes, placed into new boxes and shipped using fraudulent labels.

The report states UPS security believes the total losses connected to the alleged scheme exceed $100,000.

Authorities said MDSO’s Organized Retail Crimes Squad arrested the two suspects Thursday while they were working at the Doral facility.

Local 10 has reached out to UPS for a statement on the arrests.

As of Friday afternoon, Fernandes Correeia and Cristaldo were being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where their bonds were listed as “to be set.”

Jose Divine Fernandes Correeia, de 52 años, de Pembroke Pines, y Ruth Cristaldo, de 53 años, fueron detenidos mientras trabajaban en su turno nocturno en la instalación de UPS ubicada en 13350 NW 17th St. en Doral, según un informe de arresto.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que ambos sospechosos enfrentan un cargo cada uno de fraude organizado de $50,000 USD o más y hurto mayor en segundo grado de entre $20,000 USD y $100,000 USD.

Las autoridades indicaron que una investigación comenzó después de que la seguridad de UPS, que trabajaba con la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, recibiera reportes de dispositivos electrónicos desaparecidos, incluidos teléfonos Apple y Samsung, tabletas y computadoras portátiles.

Dijeron que Cristaldo trabajaba como empleada de “Overgoods” en la instalación, mientras que Fernandes Correeia era “package handler”. Ambos trabajaban en el turno nocturno de recarga.

Según un informe de arresto, los investigadores revisaron videos de vigilancia y vieron a Fernandes Correeia seleccionar paquetes que contenían dispositivos electrónicos, retirar sus etiquetas de envío originales y sacar los artículos de sus cajas.

Los agentes dijeron que Cristaldo luego colocaba los artículos en cajas nuevas y creaba nuevas etiquetas de envío de UPS para ellos.

Dijeron que los artículos recién empacados eran colocados en un área de descarga, donde eran procesados y enviados para su entrega a la mañana siguiente.

El martes, la seguridad de UPS revisó videos de vigilancia y observó a Fernandes Correeia seleccionando paquetes y retirando sus etiquetas de envío antes de llevar los artículos a Cristaldo, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que posteriormente encontraron uno de los paquetes y lo abrieron, descubriendo 10 computadoras portátiles Apple MacBook y tres audífonos Bose valorados en aproximadamente $10,000 USD.

Dijeron que el paquete estaba dirigido a Barnes & Noble y tenía programada su entrega para el miércoles. Los investigadores dijeron que el paquete fue entregado.

Al día siguiente, los investigadores dijeron que nuevamente observaron a la pareja presuntamente volver a empacar dispositivos electrónicos.

Esta vez, encontraron un paquete que contenía 40 iPhones de Apple, modelos 16 y 17, junto con dos teléfonos Samsung Galaxy. Los artículos estaban valorados en aproximadamente $45,000 USD, según el informe.

El paquete estaba dirigido a una empresa relacionada con Amazon en Northwest 33rd Street y tenía programada su entrega para el jueves, señala el informe.

Las autoridades indicaron que la seguridad de UPS interceptó el paquete del conductor antes de que fuera entregado.

Los investigadores dijeron que revisaron registros internos y determinaron que Cristaldo había creado más de 198 etiquetas de envío de UPS utilizando sus credenciales de acceso de Overgoods desde abril de 2025, según el informe.

Dijeron que las etiquetas presuntamente fueron utilizadas en paquetes enviados a dos direcciones en Northwest 33rd Street en Miami. El informe señala que utilizaron varios nombres de empresas, incluidos Barnes & Noble, Amazon, JC Electronics y JC Auto Parts.

La seguridad de UPS también encontró al menos 10 paquetes adicionales escondidos alrededor del área de Overgoods que aún no habían sido etiquetados, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que los dos empleados estaban involucrados en un esquema en curso en el que los dispositivos electrónicos eran retirados de sus cajas de envío originales, colocados en cajas nuevas y enviados utilizando etiquetas fraudulentas.

El informe señala que la seguridad de UPS cree que las pérdidas totales relacionadas con el presunto esquema superan los $100,000 USD.

Las autoridades indicaron que la Unidad de Delitos de Venta Minorista Organizados de MDSO arrestó a los dos sospechosos el jueves mientras trabajaban en la instalación de Doral.

Local 10 se comunicó con UPS para solicitar una declaración sobre los arrestos.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Fernandes Correeia y Cristaldo permanecían detenidos en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, donde sus fianzas figuraban como “por determinar”.

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En julio, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump impuso aranceles a cientos de exportaciones brasileñas, algunos de hasta el 37,5%. El gobierno de Trump ha acusado a Brasil de prácticas comerciales desleales. Brasil niega las acusaciones e insiste en que tienen motivaciones políticas de cara a las elecciones de octubre.

Lula busca la reelección frente al senador Flávio Bolsonaro, un aliado de Trump que se reunió con funcionarios norteamericanos, incluido Trump, en Washington semanas antes de que el gobierno propusiera los aranceles a los productos brasileños.

“Ayer, invocamos la ley de reciprocidad para mostrar que no se nos puede tomar a la ligera", declaró Lula en una entrevista con podcasters brasileños. "Nos respetamos a nosotros mismos. Estoy muy tranquilo sabiendo lo que podría pasar, y estoy preparado para debatir la defensa de Brasil en cualquier parte del mundo”.

El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Brasil señaló en un comunicado a última hora del jueves que está solicitando consultas diplomáticas con sus homólogos de Estados Unidos sobre el asunto, como señal del objetivo de Lula de “privilegiar el diálogo y la negociación en sus relaciones internacionales”.

El inicio de los procedimientos no significa necesariamente que Brasil vaya a tomar represalias contra los aranceles de Estados Unidos.

“No quiero ninguna pelea con Estados Unidos", indicó Lula. "Lamentablemente, ellos están difundiendo falsedades”.

A principios de este mes, el Departamento de Estado revocó la visa de la embajadora de Brasil en Washington en represalia por la negativa del país sudamericano a otorgar visas a dos diplomáticos estadounidenses que buscaban visitar el país antes de las elecciones de octubre.

El gobierno de Estados Unidos también ha acusado a Brasil de retrasar la aprobación del candidato de Trump para embajador en Brasilia, mientras que funcionarios brasileños sostienen que Washington debió haber solicitado primero la aprobación del gobierno antes de presentar la nominación al Congreso, como exige el protocolo diplomático.

Dado que el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio revocó la visa de la embajadora brasileña en respuesta a las acciones de Lula, pero no ordenó su expulsión, funcionarios estadounidenses han dicho que el gobierno de Trump no quiere agravar la disputa.

Estos funcionarios, que hablaron bajo condición de anonimato para abordar deliberaciones internas del gobierno, han señalado en múltiples ocasiones que la respuesta limitada de Rubio fue diseñada intencionalmente para darle a Lula tiempo y margen para dar marcha atrás.

Al mismo tiempo, han indicado que Estados Unidos responderá con rapidez si el gobierno de Lula decide escalar el asunto, y que declarar a la embajadora brasileña “persona non grata” y expulsarla de Estados Unidos sería un siguiente paso lógico.

Lula dijo una vez más que Trump lo ha tratado bien, pero advirtió que cualquier gobierno extranjero “que venga aquí a entrometerse en las elecciones, perderá”.

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El corresponsal Matthew Lee contribuyó desde Washington.

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

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Surveillance video shows Anthony Governale and his neighbor arguing at Ten Museum Park at 1040 Biscayne Boulevard, and both walking out of the elevator on the 12th floor, according to the police report.

Governale was out on a felony bond after he was accused of resisting arrest, public intoxication, and screaming racial slurs in December at the Palm Tree Club in North Bay Village, records show.

On Thursday, Governale and his neighbor took their argument from the elevator and into the hallway, according to police.

The victim ”told [Governale] that if they couldn’t resolve the issue, they could physically fight,” a police officer wrote, according to the report.

The victim reported that Governale went into his unit, returned with the rifle, and pointed it at him, according to the police report.

Governale said “he never pointed his PCC rifle at the victim,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Police officers arrested Governale shortly after 8 p.m. on Thursday at Ten Museum Park, and corrections booked him shortly before midnight at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show.

Governale faced a charge of attempted aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His bond was $2,500.

Related report: Man accused of yelling racial slurs at Palm Tree Club in North Bay Village, assaulting police

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

Anthony Governale y su vecino discutían el jueves en un ascensor de Ten Museum Park, un edificio de gran altura con 200 unidades ubicado en 1040 Biscayne Boulevard, según un informe policial.

El video de vigilancia muestra a Governale y su vecino discutiendo en el ascensor y a ambos saliendo en el piso 12, donde la discusión continuó en el pasillo, según el informe policial.

“El luego dijo que le indicó a [Governale] que si no podían resolver el problema, podían pelear físicamente”, escribió un agente de policía, según el informe.

La víctima reportó que Governale entró a su unidad, regresó con el rifle y se lo apuntó, según el informe policial.

Governale dijo “que nunca apuntó su rifle PCC hacia la víctima”, escribió un agente de policía, según el informe de arresto.

Governale había quedado en libertad bajo fianza por un delito grave después de ser acusado de resistirse al arresto y gritar insultos raciales en diciembre en el Palm Tree Club en North Bay Village, muestran los registros.

Los agentes de policía arrestaron a Governale poco después de las 8 p.m. del jueves en Ten Museum Park, y los funcionarios penitenciarios lo ingresaron poco antes de la medianoche en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, muestran los registros.

Governale enfrentó un cargo de intento de agresión agravada con un arma mortal. Su fianza fue de $2,500 USD.

Informe relacionado: Hombre acusado de gritar insultos raciales en Palm Tree Club en North Bay Village y agredir a policías

In July, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on hundreds of Brazilian exports, with duties reaching up to 37.5% in some products. The Trump administration has accused Brazil of unfair trade practices, but Lula has denied the accusations, insisting they are politically motivated ahead of the October election.

Lula is seeking reelection against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a Trump ally who met with U.S. officials, including Trump, in Washington weeks before the administration proposed higher tariffs on Brazilian goods.

“Yesterday, we invoked the reciprocity law to show that we are not to be taken lightly," Lula said in an interview with Brazilian podcasters. “We respect ourselves. I am very calm knowing what could happen, and I am prepared to debate the defense of Brazil anywhere in the world.”

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Thursday it is requesting diplomatic consultations with its U.S. counterparts on the issue, as a sign of Lula's aim “to privilege dialogue and negotiation in its international relations.”

The beginning of the proceedings does not necessarily mean Brazil will retaliate against U.S. tariffs.

“I don’t want any fight with the United States," Lula said Friday. “Unfortunately, they are spreading falsehoods."

Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to Washington in retaliation for Brazil’s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of the October election.

The U.S. government also has accused Brazil of stalling approval of Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasilia, while Brazilian officials say the U.S. should have first sought the government’s approval before submitting the nomination to Congress, as diplomatic protocol requires.

Since U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked the Brazilian ambassador’s visa in response to Lula’s actions but did not order her expelled, U.S. officials have said the Trump administration does not want the dispute to escalate.

These officials, who have spoken on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations, have said on multiple occasions that Rubio’s limited response was intentionally designed to give Lula time and space to back down.

At the same time, they have said that the U.S. will respond quickly should Lula's government choose to escalate the matter and that declaring the Brazilian ambassador “persona non grata” and expelling her from the U.S. would be a logical next step.

Lula said once again Trump has treated him well, but warned any foreign governments “who come here to meddle in the election, will lose.”

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The nonpartisan race pits an incumbent touting academic gains against a former educator focused on equity, teacher pay and school safety.

Zeman is seeking to hold onto the seat he won in a runoff four years ago. He says the district has made significant academic progress during his first term.

“A year into my first four years we became an ‘A’ district. We’ve become an ‘A’ district for three years in a row,” Zeman said.

He also points to the number of students who have improved their academic performance.

“We’ve lifted over 25,000 students to above or at grade level that were below grade level before,” Zeman added.

Azim is running against Zeman. She is a former special education teacher and director who spent 14 years in education and previously served as dean of Renaissance Charter School.

Azim says Broward schools face inequities in everything from facilities and academic programs to discipline.

“We have an equitability crisis on Broward Schools where our students don’t all have the same access or equitability to the same facility, upkeep and maintenance, academic programs, and the way that the discipline is measured out is inequitable,” Azim said.

Teacher pay is another issue where the candidates say they want to see change.

Zeman has repeatedly called for higher salaries for teachers and says he would continue pushing for raises if reelected.

“We cannot underestimate the contribution that teachers make to the well-being of our community and to the economic vitality of Broward County,” Zeman said.

Azim also says she would fight for higher teacher pay. She is making school safety another key part of her campaign.

“And we need to have a comprehensive safety training program so that everybody, every employee in Broward Schools is prepared for the next critical day,” Azim said.

The School Board District 8 race is nonpartisan, so voters do not have to be registered with a political party to participate.

Election Day is Tuesday, Aug. 18.

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Fry finished third in a special primary held Tuesday, when Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman advanced to the Aug. 25 runoff. His backing follows that of other powerful Republicans who have supported Graham, including Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Trump, whose early endorsement helped propel his own congressional career.

“President Trump needs fighters and allies in the Senate who will show up every day and get results,” Fry said in a news release. “I believe Darline Graham will be exactly that.”

Graham's brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, died suddenly last month. Darline Graham, was appointed to serve out the remainder of his current term, then opted to run for the seat, winning the biggest share of votes but not the majority needed to avoid a runoff.

The special primary, which took place just a month after Lindsey Graham's death, meant a compressed and sometimes chaotic campaign for the 10 candidates who ran to replace him.

Much of the most heated rhetoric volleyed back and forth between Fry and a political action committee supporting Darline Graham, which ran ads pointing out that Trump — who initially said Fry would be an “outstanding” pick for the seat — passed him over to back Graham instead.

Graham's brother was a top Senate ally for Trump, to whom she has also closely tied herself in her campaign. Both Fry and Graham have often mentioned their humble origins as a touchpoint for understanding kitchen table issues, something Fry noted he had in common with Graham.

“Darline knows what it means to struggle, persevere, and keep fighting when life deals you a difficult hand," Fry said of the 62-year-old Graham, who had a hardscrabble upbringing and was ultimately adopted by her older brother after their parents died when she was young. “Those experiences shaped her, and I believe they give her a real understanding of the challenges families across South Carolina face.”

Trump had stumped for Fry in his first House campaign in 2022, when the state lawmaker ousted a five-term GOP congressman who had voted to impeach Trump a year earlier.

Matt Gorman, a GOP strategist and former senior adviser to Scott, suggested that Fry's endorsement of Graham was a political calculation for the 41-year-old, two-term congressman, who has seen the ramifications for some Republicans who have crossed Trump.

“Russell is a smart guy with a long career ahead of him," Gorman said. "It makes zero sense to get crosswise with either President Trump or Tim Scott. If he wants to, Fry will get another shot at the seat because Graham or Norman won’t be there multiple decades.”

The GOP runoff’s winner will face Democratic nominee Dr. Annie Andrews in November’s general election. No Democrat has won a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina in decades.

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Christaan Johnson, a convicted felon, was “holding a black handgun and a knife” when he showed up outside of his ex-girlfriend’s home, where his two children live, according to MDSO deputies.

It was 4:50 a.m. on Saturday, and Johnson, also known as Chris and Christian, confronted her “regarding issues involving his new relationship,” according to a MDSO deputy’s arrest report.

Johnson stabbed his ex-girlfriend in the back — which punctured her lung — and stabbed her buttocks and legs, according to deputies.

Johnson also struck his ex-girlfriend’s friend in the face with a gun after she came to her defense, according to the deputy’s report.

Court records show Johnson has convictions that include deriving support from prostitution and possession of a weapon by a felon.

Johnson also has a long arrest record in Miami-Dade, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in 2024, cocaine possession in 2004, and aggravated battery of a pregnant woman in 2000.

Deputies detained Johnson at about 1:10 p.m. on Thursday at the Northwest 20 Avenue and 76 Street in the Gladeview neighborhood, according to deputies.

Deputies arrested Johnson shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Doral, according to the arrest report.

Corrections booked Johnson at 3:40 p.m. on Thursday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Johnson faced five charges in two new domestic violence cases, according to court records. A bond court judge ordered his pre-trial detention.

In one case, Johnson faced charges of attempted murder, which had no bond, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, which had a $7,500 bond.

In the second case, Johnson faced charges of armed burglary with assault or battery, armed aggravated battery with great bodily harm, and strong-arm robbery. The first two charges had no bond. His bond on the third charge was $7,500.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Stuzin is set to preside over the cases.

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.

Christaan Johnson, un delincuente convicto, estaba “sosteniendo una pistola negra y un cuchillo” cuando apareció afuera de la casa de su ex novia, donde viven sus dos hijos, según agentes de la MDSO.

Eran las 4:50 a.m. del sábado, y Johnson, también conocido como Chris y Christian, la confrontó “por problemas relacionados con su nueva relación”, según el informe de arresto de un agente de la MDSO.

Johnson apuñaló a su ex novia en la espalda, lo que le perforó un pulmón, y la apuñaló en los glúteos y las piernas, según los agentes.

Johnson también golpeó en la cara con un arma a una amiga de su ex novia después de que ella acudiera en su defensa, según el informe del agente.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Johnson tiene condenas que incluyen obtener sustento de la prostitución y posesión de un arma por parte de un delincuente.

Johnson también tiene un largo historial de arrestos en Miami-Dade, incluidos agresión agravada con un arma mortal en 2024, posesión de cocaína en 2004 y agresión agravada contra una mujer embarazada en 2000.

Los agentes detuvieron a Johnson alrededor de la 1:10 p.m. del jueves en Northwest 20 Avenue y 76 Street, en el vecindario de Gladeview, según los agentes.

Los agentes arrestaron a Johnson poco antes de la 1:30 p.m. del jueves en la sede de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade en Doral, según el informe de arresto.

El personal de correcciones ingresó a Johnson a las 3:40 p.m. del jueves en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, cerca de Doral, según los registros de reclusos.

Johnson enfrentó cinco cargos en dos nuevos casos de violencia doméstica, según los registros judiciales. Un juez de fianzas ordenó que permaneciera detenido antes del juicio.

En un caso, Johnson enfrentó cargos de intento de asesinato, sin derecho a fianza, y agresión agravada con un arma mortal, con una fianza de $7,500 USD.

En el segundo caso, Johnson enfrentó cargos de allanamiento armado con agresión o golpes, agresión agravada armada con lesiones corporales graves y robo con violencia. Los dos primeros cargos no tenían derecho a fianza. Su fianza por el tercer cargo era de $7,500 USD.

La jueza de circuito del condado de Miami-Dade Laura Stuzin presidirá los casos.

Club owner Fenway Sports Group (FSG) said in a statement it entered into a “definitive agreement” for the sale to 1892 Holdings.

The investor group is led by Amit Bhatia, who is married to a daughter of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, and has taken a stake of more than 30% in the 20-time English champion, according to Sky News. The deal reportedly values Liverpool at around $6 billion.

Boston-based FSG paid 300 million pounds ($400 million) to take over Liverpool in 2010 and also owns the Boston Red Sox. FSG said in July that it had been approached by the Bhatia-led consortium regarding a “strategic minority investment” in the club.

“As we considered this opportunity, it became clear that Amit and the consortium shared our long-term philosophy and appreciation for what makes Liverpool special,” FSG president Mike Gordon said in the statement.

It marks the first foray into soccer by Bezos, who, according to Forbes, is the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth of around $280 billion. He founded Amazon in 1994 and has been executive chairman since 2021.

Saverin is a Brazilian businessman worth around $36 billion, according to Forbes.

Bhatia, a British-Indian entrepreneur, was the co-owner of second-tier English team Queens Park Rangers for 18 years before stepping down recently.

“We are making this investment because we believe deeply in Liverpool and its leadership, and we look forward to supporting the club’s continued success for years to come,” Bhatia said in the statement.

Under the leadership of FSG and its principal owner John Henry, Liverpool ended a 30-year wait to be English champion in 2020 and added another Premier League title last year. That tied Manchester United on 20 English top-flight league championships.

The club was European champion for a sixth time — a record for an English team — in 2019.

The Premier League is one of the biggest competitions in sports, with its teams now largely owned by oil-rich gulf states or private equity.

Can Liverpool now start spending heavily?

Liverpool now has three of the richest people in the world as minority owners.

That doesn’t mean, however, that the club can simply start spending recklessly in the transfer market on new players.

That’s because the Premier League has financial rules in place to protect the competitive balance of the competition and ensure the financial sustainability of clubs.

In broad terms, a club’s on-pitch spending is related to 85% of its “football-related revenue and net profit/loss from player sales,” the Premier League says.

Instead, the difference will come in how Liverpool — already one of the top teams in world soccer — is marketed more around the world under Bezos and Saverin, especially.

The deal is likely to bring more commercial revenue into the club, thereby improving its profits.

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Vergara, que lleva 20 años tomando fotografías para la AP, hizo una pausa en su trabajo esta semana para reflexionar sobre cómo desempeñó su labor en medio de peligros físicos y emocionales —y sobre cómo abordó el equilibrio que exige narrar una tragedia. Vergara habló el jueves cuando fotografiaba la actividad en un centro de acopio de ayuda en Bogotá para las víctimas del reciente terremoto en Pereira.

Comparó la destrucción allí con lo que presenció tras los sismos que sacudieron Venezuela a finales de junio. Vergara señaló que el impacto en Venezuela fue mayor, con el derrumbe de edificios de apartamentos más altos y un mayor número de muertos.

Imágenes de La Guaira, Venezuela, muestran edificios colapsados, equipos de rescate buscando entre los escombros y familiares llorando a sus seres queridos. Vergara recuerda haber caminado por calles llenas de polvo y con olor a descomposición al tiempo que los rescatistas trabajaban en condiciones difíciles.

En Pereira, Colombia, Vergara documentó los esfuerzos de rescate tras el sismo del 10 de agosto, incluido el momento en que la sobreviviente Daniela Largos Sanchez fue sacada de entre los escombros al día siguiente. Vergara afirma que gran parte de los daños afectó a edificios más bajos, de uno a tres niveles.

Para Vergara, algunos de los momentos más poderosos llegan cuando los rescatistas encuentran a alguien con vida. Afirma que son los instantes que más espera captar con su cámara.

Estas son algunas de sus reflexiones desde la zona del sismo —y algunas de sus imágenes recientes.

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Comparando los dos sismos

“Ahora que estuve en Pereira (Colombia), las casas que se dañaron eran de un piso, dos pisos, tres pisos; a comparación de Venezuela, que eran edificios mucho más altos. Mucha gente vivía en edificios de vivienda pública y la cantidad de muertos fue mucho mayor que en Colombia”.

Cómo fue estar en el lugar

“Hace menos de dos meses estuve en el terremoto de Venezuela. Al caminar por esas calles de La Guaira, el olor a descomposición era una cosa fuertísima. El polvo en el aire, el calor, hicieron mucho más dramático el rescate de los seres que se encontraban bajo los escombros”.

Cómo respetar a los afectados

“¿Qué fotografía busco yo como reportero durante un terremoto o una situación de semejante calamidad? Mostrar con mucha sensibilidad la situación que está ocurriendo en ese momento".

Documentar momentos de alegría en medio de las lágrimas

“El mensaje más importante es un rescate con vida. Ver a alguien con vida durante un terremoto le produce una alegría inmensa a la gente. Cuando un grupo de rescate, bomberos, Defensa Civil o incluso voluntarios rescatan a una persona con vida, todo el mundo se abraza de alegría. Y esa es la felicidad que yo busco con una fotografía cubriendo un terremoto”.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the theft occurred July 31 at the American Airlines baggage claim area.

Deputies said surveillance video shows James Dickson Silk, of Miami, walking to Carousel 26 and standing near the end of the carousel belt.

When the same bag came around, Silk grabbed it and then walked to the men’s restroom on the third floor, where he remained for a while, the report stated.

According to the report, Silk eventually exited the bathroom and left the terminal via the MIA Mover.

Deputies said Silk was spotted loitering in the same baggage claim area on Thursday and was taken into custody.

They said he was still in possession of the luggage he had stolen and provided a full confession to the theft, claiming that he had lost his lease, had been living inside the airport and stole the luggage to make himself appear more like a passenger.

According to the arrest report, Silk claimed that he didn’t remove any property from the bag but would have done so if he needed clothing.

Silk was arrested on a third-degree grand theft charge.

Records show he was previously arrested on May 31 on the same charge for allegedly stealing a backpack from a guest at the Element Brickell hotel.

About $4,000 worth of items were inside the backpack, authorities said.

As of Friday afternoon, Silk was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He is not allowed to post bond at this time as online jail records show he was out on felony bond at the time of his arrest.

Según las autoridades, un hombre de 41 años fue arrestado el jueves acusado de robar el equipaje de un pasajero en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami, que contenía artículos valorados en unos $9,000 USD.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el robo ocurrió el 31 de julio en el área de reclamo de equipaje de American Airlines.

Los agentes dijeron que un video de vigilancia muestra a James Dickson Silk, de Miami, caminando hacia la banda 26 y parándose cerca del extremo de la cinta transportadora.

Cuando la misma maleta volvió a pasar, Silk la tomó y luego caminó hasta el baño de hombres del tercer piso, donde permaneció durante un tiempo, según el informe.

Según el informe, Silk finalmente salió del baño y abandonó la terminal a través del MIA Mover.

Los agentes dijeron que Silk fue visto merodeando en la misma área de reclamo de equipaje el jueves y fue detenido.

Dijeron que todavía tenía en su poder el equipaje que había robado y que confesó plenamente el robo, alegando que había perdido su contrato de arrendamiento, había estado viviendo dentro del aeropuerto y robó el equipaje para aparentar más ser un pasajero.

Según el informe de arresto, Silk afirmó que no sacó ninguna propiedad de la maleta, pero que lo habría hecho si hubiera necesitado ropa.

Silk fue arrestado por un cargo de robo mayor en tercer grado.

Los registros muestran que anteriormente fue arrestado el 31 de mayo por el mismo cargo por presuntamente robar una mochila de un huésped del hotel Element Brickell.

Las autoridades dijeron que dentro de la mochila había artículos valorados en unos $4,000 USD.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Silk permanecía detenido en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. No se le permite pagar una fianza en este momento, ya que los registros de la cárcel en línea muestran que estaba en libertad bajo fianza por un delito grave al momento de su arresto.

The team announced Friday that the ceremony will take place following the Feb. 28 game at Target Center against the Celtics, who retired Garnett's jersey in 2022.

Garnett will become just the second player in the 37-year history of the franchise to have his number retired, following the late Malik Sealy, a close friend and teammate of Garnett's who died in a car crash in 2000.

Garnett had a falling out with former Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor, but the club under new ownership made amends and hired him last year as a team ambassador. He made his first appearance at Target Center in April during the Minnesota's final game of the 2025-26 regular season.

Garnett won the NBA MVP award for the 2003-04 season while leading the Timberwolves to the Western Conference finals. After playing the first 12 years of his career for Minnesota, he was traded to the Celtics in 2007 and won an NBA title with them in his first year. He returned to Minnesota in 2015 and played his last of 21 seasons in the league there.

Garnett is the all-time Timberwolves leader in numerous statistical categories, including points, rebounds, blocks, assists and steals.

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López Beltrán announced the visa revocation in a letter to Trump posted on Instagram on Thursday, saying U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Under Secretary Christopher Landau “ordered the withdrawal of my permission to enter the United States,” despite having “no evidence against me regarding any immoral or criminal act.”

The U.S. government has not publicly disclosed the reason for the visa revocation, and it was not clear from López Beltrán's post what kind of a visa was revoked.

A U.S. Embassy spokesperson in Mexico, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly, told The Associated Press on Friday that visa records are confidential under U.S. law and declined to comment on the individual case.

Washington’s decision comes less than four months after another setback for Mexico's ruling party, Morena, when federal prosecutors in New York brought a case against 10 current and former Mexican officials, including Sinaloa Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya of the ruling party, over alleged links to drug trafficking.

Addressing the visa revocations of Mexican politicians at her morning news conference Friday, Sheinbaum urged the United States to provide evidence of any allegations against them but said the issue would not lead to a conflict with Washington.

“All we ask for is respect,” she said.

López Beltrán — known as Andy — was one of his father’s closest aides before his 2018 presidential victory. Local media reported that he managed his father’s private schedule and oversaw Morena’s activities in Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico.

For much of López Obrador’s six-year presidency, from 2018 to 2024, López Beltrán, the second of his four children, stayed out of party politics and focused on a chocolate business. But in September 2024, weeks before his father left office, he was elected Morena’s secretary of organization.

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Monique Jonell Williams, 18, and the two 16-year-olds were taken into custody on Thursday.

According to the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department, the theft happened at The Brand Original, located at 18090 Collins Ave., just before 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

An SIBPD arrest report states that one of the teens entered the store at around 12:20 p.m., “canvassed” it, then came back along with Williams and the other teen about five minutes later.

Police said one of the teens grabbed the $16,000 Hermes Birkin handbag off the shelf and got into a black Cadillac CT4 with Louisiana tags and took off.

After putting out a be-on-the-lookout notice, authorities said Fort Lauderdale police spotted the sedan at a Wawa gas station at 2620 W. Broward Blvd. on Thursday afternoon.

Authorities said they saw the trio change vehicles and get into a gray Tesla, which officers pulled over nearby at Northwest Fourth Street and 27th Avenue.

They said all three later “confessed to the theft, pointing themselves out in the CCTV (footage) obtained from the scene.”

As of Friday morning, Williams was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond. Jail information wasn’t immediately available for the teenagers.

Monique Jonell Williams, de 18 años, y los dos jóvenes de 16 años fueron detenidos el jueves.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Sunny Isles Beach, el robo ocurrió en The Brand Original, ubicada en 18090 Collins Ave., poco antes de las 12:30 p.m. del miércoles.

Un informe de arresto del SIBPD señala que uno de los adolescentes entró a la tienda alrededor de las 12:20 p.m., la “recorrió”, y luego regresó junto con Williams y el otro adolescente unos cinco minutos después.

La policía dijo que uno de los adolescentes tomó el bolso Hermes Birkin de $16,000 USD del estante, se subió a un Cadillac CT4 negro con placas de Louisiana y huyó.

Después de emitir una alerta para localizar el vehículo, las autoridades dijeron que la policía de Fort Lauderdale vio el sedán en una gasolinera Wawa ubicada en 2620 W. Broward Blvd. la tarde del jueves.

Las autoridades dijeron que vieron al trío cambiar de vehículo y subir a un Tesla gris, que los agentes detuvieron cerca de Northwest Fourth Street y 27th Avenue.

Dijeron que los tres posteriormente “confesaron el robo, señalándose a sí mismos en las imágenes de CCTV obtenidas de la escena”.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Williams permanecía detenida en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center con una fianza de $2,500 USD. La información de la cárcel sobre los adolescentes no estaba disponible de inmediato.

Lawrence Mayor Brian DePena was charged Friday with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.

DePena, 61, is accused obtaining a COVID-19 small-business loan worth $1.5 million for his tire sales business. Rather than using the money for the business, DePena allegedly spent more than $880,000 to pay off high-interest mortgages on various businesses and put $90,000 into his mayoral campaign fund ahead of the 2021 election. DePena has been mayor since 2021 and previously served on the Lawrence City Council.

Ted Docks, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Division, accused DePena of “cashing in on a public health crisis and blatantly defrauding a government program meant to keep businesses afloat during the pandemic.”

“When elected officials misuse federal funds for personal gain, they’re breaking the trust of their constituents — and breaking the law,” Docks said in a statement. “Together, with our partners, the FBI will continue to doggedly pursue anyone who defrauds the federal government. You’ll be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and that ‘easy money’ won’t seem so easy after all.”

DePena made an initial appearance in federal court in Boston Friday afternoon. DePena was released after agreeing to several conditions, including turning over his passport and not seeking any loans without court approval.

After leaving court, DePena's lawyer Carlos Apostle repeatedly responded with “no comment” to questions. DePena, who is a citizen of the United States and Dominican Republic, responded with “God bless” when asked if he would resign. He made no other comments.

In 2020 and 2021, DePena obtained a government disaster loan for Tenares Tire Services Inc., a tire sales and automotive services in Lawrence. During the pandemic, the Small Business Administration offered loans to qualified business that were suffering financial losses.

He used a loan of $150,000 for the business. A year later, prosecutors say, DePena's mayoral campaign was running short of cash, he owed back taxes and was under pressure to pay back high-interest loans on several of his properties in Lawrence. He then requested several increases to the government loan and allegedly used $1.5 million to cover those expenses unrelated to his tire business.

If convicted on the wire fraud charge, DePena faces up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. He faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 if convicted on the money laudering charge.

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Broward jail records show that Detective Shmueal Mauda, 36, was jailed on an out-of-state hold on five counts of identity theft. According to Friday morning court proceedings, the charges stem from a sealed case out of Washington state.

Further details weren’t immediately available as of Friday morning.

Davie police also arrested a co-defendant, Elisha Mauda, 39. It wasn’t immediately how the detective may be related to him.

In a brief statement, an MSPD spokesperson said that the agency was aware of Shmueal Mauda’s arrest and was “fully cooperating with its law enforcement partners.”

It said Mauda, also known as Sam Mauda, was relieved of duty without pay.

For their part, Davie police said, “This is an ongoing, active investigation so we have no further information to release at this time.”

Los registros de la cárcel de Broward muestran que el detective Shmueal Mauda, de 36 años, fue encarcelado bajo una retención de otro estado por cinco cargos de robo de identidad. Según los procedimientos judiciales del viernes por la mañana, los cargos se derivan de un caso sellado de Washington.

No había más detalles disponibles de inmediato hasta la mañana del viernes.

La policía de Davie también arrestó a un coacusado, Elisha Mauda, de 39 años. No estaba claro de inmediato qué relación podría tener el detective con él.

En un breve comunicado, un portavoz del MSPD dijo que la agencia estaba al tanto del arresto de Shmueal Mauda y estaba “cooperando plenamente con sus socios de las fuerzas del orden”.

La agencia dijo que Mauda, también conocido como Sam Mauda, fue relevado de sus funciones sin goce de sueldo.

Por su parte, la policía de Davie dijo: “Esta es una investigación activa y en curso, por lo que no tenemos más información que divulgar en este momento”.

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Hollywood police said Gracie Jai Tellez, 20, and Robert Lee Ingram, 22, were arrested shortly after 2 p.m. last Friday in Jacksonville, Florida, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Jail records show they are both facing charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child and neglect of a child causing great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement.

The charges stem from the death of their 7-week-old daughter, who was found unresponsive at the family’s home in the 2200 block of Farragut Street in Hollywood on Oct. 14, 2025, investigators said.

According to an arrest affidavit, Tellez called 911 at about 11:54 a.m. after the girl appeared “non-responsive, pale and cold to the touch.” Officers said they arrived and performed CPR on the girl until Hollywood Fire Rescue medics took over.

Police said the girl was transported as a trauma alert to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, where she was eventually placed on life support.

They said the parents initially told investigators the girl had been fed a bottle, fallen asleep and been placed in a bassinet. Authorities said the parents claimed they checked on the girl shortly afterward and found her cold and unresponsive.

The affidavit states that the girl had been considered healthy before the incident. Medical records reviewed by detectives showed no previous injuries or significant health concerns, and she had been seen by a pediatrician on Oct. 8, 2025, where she was reportedly in good health.

But medical testing soon revealed severe injuries.

According to the affidavit, doctors found a diffuse anoxic brain injury, bleeding in both eyes, retinal detachments and fractures to the back of the skull.

The affidavit states that doctors told investigators the injuries were consistent with “non-accidental head trauma,” including blunt-force trauma and acceleration/deceleration forces applied to the girl’s head and body, which the affidavit described as “violent shaking.”

A Broward County medical examiner later determined the girl’s cause of death was “complications of blunt head trauma” and classified the manner of death as homicide, according to the affidavit.

The girl was declared brain dead on Oct. 18, 2025. She remained on a ventilator until her organs could be procured for transplant on Oct. 22, 2025.

The investigation continued for months.

Detectives said obtained search warrants for the parents’ cellphones and reviewed forensic downloads of the devices. The affidavit says both parents had told investigators they sometimes used FaceTime between their phones as a makeshift baby monitor while the girl slept.

However, investigators said the phone records did not support that account.

Instead, detectives said they found the phones were used extensively to play Call of Duty and watch YouTube during the overnight hours and the morning before the girl was found unresponsive.

According to the affidavit, Ingram’s phone was used to play Call of Duty from about 5:12 a.m. to 8:39 a.m. and again from 10:33 a.m. to 11:49 a.m. — just before the baby was found unresponsive.

Tellez’s phone also showed extended periods of Call of Duty use, including from about 10:38 a.m. until 11:52 a.m. The 911 call was made from her phone at about 11:53 a.m.

“These forensic downloads show the information provided by Gracie Tellez and Robert Ingram was not truthful,” the affidavit states.

Investigators also noted that Ingram gave detectives multiple different accounts of the hours leading up to the girl’s injuries. They said his descriptions differed regarding when the baby was fed, when she slept and how many times she was taken in and out of the bassinet.

Investigators said during a later reenactment at the home, Ingram again provided a different timeline.

The affidavit states that neither parent could provide an explanation for how the girl suffered her fatal injuries.

Police said the medical examiner’s investigation also found skull fractures in both sides of the back of the girl’s skull, along with hemorrhages along her spine.

According to the affidavit, the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office later determined that the girl was well-developed and well-nourished for her age and did not show signs of malnutrition.

Investigators ultimately concluded there was probable cause to believe both parents had failed to provide the care and supervision necessary for their daughter and that their “culpable negligence” contributed to her death.

The affidavit states that the girl was in the care of both parents when her injuries occurred and that investigators found it unlikely they would not have seen or heard the event that caused the injuries given the size and layout of the residence.

Hollywood police spokeswoman Deanna Bettineschi said the agency’s investigation led to the arrest warrants for both parents.

As of Friday morning, Tellez was being held without bond at the Broward Sheriff’s Office North Broward Bureau, while Ingram was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pero las pruebas médicas pronto revelaron lesiones graves.

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

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

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

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

La investigación continuó durante meses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Wilton Manors police said officers were called to the Manor Grove Apartments for an armed robbery.

Police said the situation escalated when the person of interest refused to leave his unit.

Neighbors said they watched as Wilton Manors and Fort Lauderdale police officers surrounded the building.

“I’ve lived here about 8 years. It was pretty nerve-racking to see, for sure,” one neighbor said.

Alex Dorsey, a neighbor, said an Amazon worker had come to drop off a package and take a photo of it before picking up the package again.

“Amazon worker came to drop off a package,” Dorsey said. “Take a picture of the package then proceeded to pick up the package right afterwards. Neighbor wasn’t having it, it’s Florida, came out with a gun, you know.”

Another neighbor, Paul Baker, shared video of a man he said was his neighbor. In one clip, a man can be seen walking outside with a firearm in his hand. Later, police can be heard telling him to surrender peacefully.

Baker said he was surprised by what happened.

“I couldn’t believe it. He’s such a nice guy. He’s always been very friendly to me,” Baker said.

Police arrested the man, whom they later identified as 57-year-old George Manuel Mandes, on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm and improper exhibition of a firearm.

“I’m just glad that it was all resolved,” said Yarden Ben-David, a WPLG executive producer, who lives nearby.

Sly moved into the Kapuzinerkloster, a Capuchin monastery about 1,550 feet (470 meters) above sea level, 7 1/2 weeks ahead of the Aug. 4 opening of Romeo Castellucci’s new Salzburg Festival production timed for the 800th anniversary year of St. Francis’ death.

Sly climbs the steps from the city center or walks up a road several times daily and sleeps without air conditioning in a summer of record European heat waves.

“Just being here has been extremely important because I’m going to Lauds every morning,” the 37-year-old Canadian bass-baritone said in a reference to Franciscan morning prayers.

“I’ve taken on all these habits that they have here and now I long for it," he said in an interview with The Associated Press outside the monastery on the morning after the first performance. "It’s weird. I’m excited to come back to the monastery and be present for Vespers or for the Eucharist Mass.”

Messiaen, a prolific 20th century French composer, spent nearly a decade creating his only opera, which premiered in 1983, nine years before his death.

His score for the 6-hour, 20-minute, eight-tableaux opus (including a pair of one-hour intermissions) depicts episodes in St. Francis' spiritual journey, including his encounter with a leper and his sermon to birds. The score calls for two raised percussion sections on either side of the stage and three ondes Martenots. The electronic instruments figure prominently in the 45-minute “Sermon to the Birds,” the sixth tableau, reflecting Messiaen's devotion to his Catholic faith.

Conductor Maxime Pascal leads 120 musicians and a chorus of 90 in six performances through Aug. 23. A second conductor in the pit waves a baton capped by a white light, signaling percussion beats at odds with the other instruments’ markings.

“It’s 2,500 pages of music, sometimes very, very complex,” Pascal said. “There is never one transition. It’s a succession of infinity of moments and so each moment, it can be short or long, but each moment is like a work by itself.”

The staging features a peacock, sheep and baking bread

Castellucci’s production features a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog, a female peacock and seven sheep who romp across the stage near the end as the roof opens at the Felsenreitschule, a 1,400-seat theater built in the Mönchsberg rock quarry and famous for its appearance in the film “The Sound of Music.”

In the Franciscan tradition of bread for the poor, a pair of MIWE four-level ovens are moved on stage and bake 33 sourdough loaves, their aroma wafting through the audience. Each oven weighs 2,650 pounds (1,200 kilos). The bread is later made available to the backstage crew.

“In the New Testament, often there’s quotes of Jesus saying that the kingdom of God is like yeast,” Sly said.

José van Dam originated the title role at the Paris Opéra, with Seiji Ozawa conducting. Peter Sellars directed a 1992 Salzburg production starring van Dam with Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

“Messiaen had these pictures of colors and dimensions of time and space. Pretty exhilarating,” said Sellars, who first heard the music when Ozawa conducted three tableaux in concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1986.

“Most opera is about stabbing the girl in the back," Sellars told the AP. "This is just about what are the revelations in your life, what are the moments when you have another idea of how to live and what it means to be human and what it means to be part of nature.”

Performing the opera for the first time, the Vienna Philharmonic started with five rehearsals back home followed by 12 more in Salzburg. The orchestra is known for Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Strauss, not contemporary compositions.

“It’s very important for an orchestra today to play also modern music,” said double bassist Michael Bladerer, the Vienna Philharmonic’s general manager.

Large orchestra and chorus make performances rare

There has been just one major U.S. staged production, by the San Francisco Opera in 2002 starring Willard White with Donald Runnicles conducting. Then-general director Pamela Rosenberg believed the city named after St. Francis should stage the portrayal of him.

“It’s one of the two or three most compelling pieces of the second half of the last century,” she said. “For me it was almost distressing — being dramatic — that it hadn’t been shown in the Western hemisphere yet.”

“He’s just so unique,” she added of Messiaen. “In spite of being part of the spectral music movement, he wasn’t continuing the footsteps of anyone with his musical language and he really created something that had an enormous artistic impetus in the music world.”

White, now 79, sings the shorter role of Frère Bernard in the new production and was able to pass on his experience to Sly.

“It was partly technical but it’s also a mindset,” White said. “I basically said that in this life we got to go from one moment to the next and in the acceptance of the moment that we’re in it actually guides us to the approach of the next moment.”

Soprano Lauranne Oliva (The Angel), tenor Sean Panikkar (The Leper) and baritone Russell Braun (Frère Léon) are part of a standout cast dominated by Sly’s quivering, self-mutilating performance as he gets smothered with dirt and blood.

Pascal thinks Messiaen chose St. Francis as a subject because of their mutual interest in birds and faith, then created the opera as a synthesis of his use of orchestral color.

“Messiaen was convinced while composing the work that it would be his last work," Pascal said. "He thought it was his swan song.”

Según la Fiscalía, Lyle, de 20 años, fue detenido acusado de huida y evasión a alta velocidad, así como de conducción temeraria.

Fue puesto en libertad el mismo día de su detención tras pagar una fianza de 55 000 dólares, según informaron los fiscales.

Un portavoz de la Universidad de Miami declaró a Local 10 News en un correo electrónico: «Estamos al corriente de un incidente en el que se ha visto involucrado el estudiante-deportista Jordan Lyle. Mientras el proceso legal sigue su curso, no haremos más comentarios por el momento».

Este jugador, natural de Fort Lauderdale, fue titular como running back en la victoria inaugural de la temporada 2025 contra Notre Dame, pero no pudo completar el partido tras sufrir una lesión en la pierna que acabó dejándolo fuera de juego durante la mayor parte de la temporada.

En los seis partidos que disputó, Lyle corrió con el balón 35 veces para un total de 108 yardas y anotó su único touchdown de la temporada contra Stanford.

A pesar de la lesión y de formar parte de una plantilla de corredores muy concurrida en la que también figuran Mark Fletcher Jr., Marty Brown y Girard Pringle Jr., Lyle decidió volver a los Hurricanes y competir por su puesto.

No se han dado a conocer de inmediato más detalles sobre su detención.

The Department of Defense Education Activity operates about 160 schools across 11 countries and educates roughly 70,000 students who are children of active-duty military or civilian service members. Conservatives have eyed the schools — which, unlike most public schools, are run by the federal government — as a testing ground for reshaping education.

The Western civilization course planned for this fall will use a textbook published by Encounter Books, a conservative publishing house. Titled "The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom," it includes suggested lesson plans created in partnership with Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Michigan.

Historians and educators who reviewed excerpts of the text told The Associated Press it depicts points throughout history in misleading ways, representing Western civilization and Christianity as one and the same and casting Islam as a threat to both.

“You’ve got to wonder a bit whether Western civilization is a Trojan horse for classical Christian education,” said Phil Gorski, a historical sociology professor at Yale University.

The course is part of a wider reshaping of the Defense Department's schools. They have begun hiring classical learning teachers, and the department has brought in new academic chiefs with ties to classical learning charter schools and to Republican-led efforts to promote more patriotic and civic education.

In a written statement, the Pentagon said it “remains committed to providing all of its military-connected students with the best possible education and opportunities.” It did not respond directly to a series of questions about the textbook and the broader push for classical learning.

Classical education broadly refers to a teaching style built on the liberal arts, with an emphasis on critical thinking and citizenship. Students are taught to imitate the rhetoric and style of great thinkers and writers. Critics have argued the movement focuses too heavily on foundational texts from Greek, Roman and other Western writers.

Conservatives see classical learning as an antidote to unflattering depictions of US history

Conservative politicians have embraced classical learning, especially as the Trump administration and Republican-led states have pushed schools to emphasize patriotism and put boundaries around how they teach unflattering parts of American history.

In his writing and public remarks since before becoming defense secretary, Hegseth has advocated for parents to embrace classical Christian education.

In his 2022 book “Battle for the American Mind,” Hegseth, a former Fox News host, describes a history of progressives working to remove God and religion from public and private schools.

Many classical Christian schools focus on reclaiming Western civilization from external threats. But across the broader field of classical education — including secular private schools — the field is increasingly split on this point, said Susan Wise Bauer, the author of a popular classical homeschooling program.

“Whenever you have a system of education where that is the impulse, ... 'This is us, and they are them over there,'” she said, “then the idea of a shared literary heritage becomes a weapon.”

Textbook casts Western civilization as under threat

In the Pentagon's system, high school students can take the new course, Western Civilization to 1500, to fulfill a world history graduation requirement, according to a news release. The course is offered through the department's virtual school.

In the textbook’s introduction, the authors write: “When citizens of Western countries are utterly ignorant of history, as most now are, they are left unarmed against the general hostility to their own tradition that has become so destructive a force in contemporary culture."

The book describes Islam as inherently more violent than Christianity.

In a section titled “Holy War and Martyrdom in Battle,” the book describes wars fought by Christians, such as the Crusades, as intended to defend and protect other Christians. Islam, in contrast, glorifies violence and war, the book says, invoking the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and 9/11.

Matthew Gabriele, a history and religion professor at Virginia Tech, said the book's description of the Crusades and the conflicts with the Islamic world strips out important details and context to depict Islam as an aggressive religious tradition and downplays the religious motivations and violence of the Christian church.

The book's publisher, Roger Kimball, said it was peer-reviewed by 15 experts. “As the proud publisher of this incomparable work, I stand behind it in every detail,” he said.

One of the book's co-authors, Harvard emeritus professor James Hankins, said the text does not attempt to characterize Christianity and Western civilization as one. Segments of the book acknowledge the West’s cultural debts to the Islamic world, said Hankins, who now teaches at the University of Florida's Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, a conservative-backed project to teach Western civilization.

The Trump administration aligned the military’s education system with its political vision

President Donald Trump's administration also has moved to align the military's education apparatus with its broader vision for American schools. Admissions offices at U.S. military academies now accept the Classical Learning Test, a college entrance exam that positions itself as a classical alternative to the SAT. And last year, the ACLU sued the defense school system over its decision to ban hundreds of books that covered topics like race, gender and democracy.

In March, the department abruptly changed the leadership of Department of Defense Education Activity schools, replacing Beth Schiavino-Narvaez with Paul Craft as director. In a news release at the time, Hegseth described Craft as the right leader to reorient the school system "toward patriotic values and classical learning.”

The Pentagon also replaced the education activity's chief academic officer, hiring Tiffany Hoben, who previously worked in the Florida Department of Education under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. In Florida, she oversaw the rollout of a civics curriculum that was criticized for claiming America's founders did not intend for a full separation of church and state.

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Si un restaurante acumula 30 o más infracciones en una sola inspección, creemos que eso merece una mirada más detenida.

Los registros estatales muestran que los inspectores encontraron superficies en contacto con alimentos con crecimiento similar al moho, moho creciendo en los alimentos, moscas vivas posándose sobre los alimentos, cucarachas, carne cruda almacenada encima de alimentos cocidos y alimentos potencialmente peligrosos a temperaturas en las que las bacterias pueden multiplicarse. En un restaurante, los inspectores encontraron alimentos cocidos mantenidos a una temperatura de apenas 87 grados, mientras que otro tenía carne, queso y salsa a una temperatura superior a la segura para mantenerlos fríos durante más de cuatro horas.

Estos restaurantes pudieron haber permanecido abiertos, pero más de 30 infracciones representan muchos problemas en un lugar donde las personas confían en que la cocina mantenga sus alimentos seguros.

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“Se observó que el establecimiento operaba y atendía a clientes sin licencia.”

“Se observó aproximadamente 1 insecto volador posándose sobre jamón rebanado y cerdo rebanado dentro del refrigerador de acceso directo junto a la máquina de hielo en el mostrador delantero. También se observaron aproximadamente 6 insectos voladores volando en la cocina trasera sobre las mesas de preparación y los equipos limpios. También se observó 1 insecto volador posándose sobre un recipiente metálico limpio en un estante frente al horno grande en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó carne de cerdo cruda y carne de res cruda almacenadas sobre cerdo cocido en un estante dentro del refrigerador de acceso peatonal frente al fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina. También se observaron huevos de cáscara crudos almacenados sobre carne de res cocida en un estante dentro del refrigerador de acceso peatonal frente al fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó carne de res cruda almacenada sobre carne de cerdo cruda en un estante dentro del refrigerador de acceso peatonal frente al fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó que la leche dentro del refrigerador de acceso directo junto a la máquina de hielo en el mostrador delantero no tenía fecha.”

“Se observó una cucaracha arrastrándose por el piso debajo del fregadero para lavarse las manos junto al fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó aproximadamente 1 insecto volador posándose sobre jamón rebanado y cerdo rebanado dentro del refrigerador de acceso directo junto a la máquina de hielo en el mostrador delantero.”

“Jamón rebanado (52F - mantenimiento en frío); cerdo rebanado (52F - mantenimiento en frío) dentro de la unidad de mantenimiento en frío en el mostrador delantero junto a la estación de sándwiches. Según el operador, por menos de 1 hora.”

“Chuletas de cerdo (125F - mantenimiento en caliente) dentro de la mesa de vapor en el mostrador delantero. Según el operador, por menos de 2 horas. También se observó arroz (122F - mantenimiento en caliente); guiso de pollo (114F - mantenimiento en caliente) dentro del equipo de mantenimiento junto al horno en el área de la cocina trasera. Según el operador, por menos de 2 horas. También se observaron cebollas cocidas (103F - mantenimiento en caliente) en un estante sobre la estufa frente a la máquina lavavajillas en el área de la cocina. Según el empleado, por menos de 1 hora. También se observaron frijoles negros (87F - mantenimiento en caliente); sopa de pollo (91F - mantenimiento en caliente) sobre una mesa de preparación frente al horno grande en el área de la cocina trasera. Según el operador, por menos de 2 horas.”

“Se observó en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó un abrelatas sucio sobre las mesas de preparación junto al congelador de alimentos del mar en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observaron residuos de alimentos dentro del fregadero para lavarse las manos en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó que no había un kit de prueba de cloro disponible al momento de la inspección.”

“Se observó frente a la unidad de mantenimiento en caliente de panceta de cerdo en el mostrador delantero.”

“Se observó un gran contenedor de envío almacenado detrás de la propiedad, lleno de equipos de restaurante.”

“Se observó el interior sucio de la máquina de hielo en el mostrador delantero.”

“Se observó en el piso junto a la freidora en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observaron el techo y las rejillas de ventilación sucios, con acumulación de polvo y grasa en toda el área de la cocina y el área de almacenamiento trasera. También se observó el techo sucio, con acumulación de grasa sobre la prensa de parrilla en el mostrador delantero.”

“Se observaron espátulas limpias entre la pared y el fregadero de tres compartimentos frente al refrigerador de acceso peatonal en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observaron varias tablas de cortar con ranuras sobre las mesas de preparación en toda el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó 1 cucaracha muerta debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina. También se observaron aproximadamente 3 cucarachas muertas en la trampa debajo del congelador de acceso directo ubicado frente a la unidad de hielo en el área de la cocina. También se observó aproximadamente 1 cucaracha muerta debajo del estante ubicado afuera de la oficina en el área del salón de descanso.”

“Se observaron varios empleados participando en la preparación de alimentos sin protección para el cabello en toda el área de la cocina.”

“Se observaron varios recipientes de alimentos almacenados en el piso dentro del refrigerador de acceso peatonal frente al fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó acumulación de grasa en las paredes de toda el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó dentro del refrigerador de acceso directo en el salón de descanso.”

“Se observó una cuchara para hielo almacenada sobre un recipiente sucio junto a la máquina de hielo ubicada junto al salón de descanso en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó que el mango de la cuchara para azúcar tocaba el azúcar dentro del recipiente en el estante de almacenamiento trasero frente al refrigerador de acceso peatonal en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó el interior sucio del microondas sobre la parrilla de preparación en el área de la cocina. También se observó el interior sucio del horno junto a la máquina lavavajillas en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó que no había termómetro ambiental dentro de los refrigeradores de acceso peatonal en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó que no había bandeja de goteo en los sistemas de campana en toda el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó una junta sucia con una sustancia similar al moho debajo de las máquinas tostadoras en el mostrador delantero. También se observó el orificio de la boquilla del fregadero de tres compartimentos con acumulación de una sustancia similar al moho en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó que no había rejilla en el ventilador sobre la puerta trasera junto a la freidora en el área de la cocina trasera.”

“Se observaron varios artículos de un solo servicio reutilizados debajo de la mesa de preparación junto al fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observaron utensilios limpios almacenados en posición vertical dentro de un recipiente junto a la parrilla frente a la máquina lavavajillas en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó en toda el área de la cocina.”

“Se observaron estantes de los refrigeradores de acceso peatonal con acumulación de óxido en el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó acumulación de grasa en las paredes de toda el área de la cocina.”

“Se observó un paño húmedo para limpiar sobre las mesas de preparación en toda el área de la cocina, no almacenado en una solución desinfectante.”

“Se observó que el recipiente de azúcar no estaba identificado debajo del mostrador junto a la unidad de helado en el mostrador delantero.”

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12715 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY

PINECREST

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 8/4

SE ENCONTRARON 31 INFRACCIONES

“Se utilizaron recipientes que no son aptos para alimentos para almacenar alimentos, en contacto directo con los alimentos. Se observaron panecillos almacenados en una bolsa negra de basura.”

“Se emitió una orden de suspensión de venta para alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad debido a abuso de temperatura. Se observó un refrigerador de acceso directo al otro lado de la oficina con una temperatura ambiental de 50F; los siguientes alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad estaban almacenados allí durante más de 4 horas: queso mozzarella (56F - mantenimiento en frío); pimientos asados (57F - mantenimiento en frío); salsa (55F - mantenimiento en frío); giardiniera (55F - mantenimiento en frío).”

“Alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad mantenidos en frío a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observó un refrigerador de acceso directo al otro lado de la oficina con una temperatura ambiental de 50F; los siguientes alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad estaban almacenados allí durante más de 4 horas: queso mozzarella (56F - mantenimiento en frío); pimientos asados (57F - mantenimiento en frío); salsa (55F - mantenimiento en frío); giardiniera (55F - mantenimiento en frío).”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con residuos de alimentos, sustancia similar al moho o mucosidad. Se observaron rejillas para alimentos secos y vajilla sucias.”

“Óxido superficial que no forma picaduras en equipos en contacto con alimentos. Se observó en rejillas para alimentos secos y vajilla.”

“Se utilizó una brocha para untar que no es apta para alimentos. Se observó en el área de lavado de utensilios.”

“Acumulación de residuos de alimentos/suciedad en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Se observaron las manijas de las puertas del microondas y del refrigerador sucias.”

“El techo/losetas del techo muestran daños o están deteriorados. Se observó en todo el establecimiento.”

“Techo/losetas del techo/rejillas de ventilación sucios con acumulación de residuos de alimentos, grasa, polvo o sustancia similar al moho. Se observó en todo el establecimiento.”

“Se utilizó un paño como superficie en contacto con alimentos. Se observó debajo del aceite de ajo y los condimentos.”

“El equipo de mantenimiento en frío no está en buenas condiciones de funcionamiento. No almacene alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad en esta unidad hasta que sea reparada. Se observó un refrigerador de acceso directo al otro lado de la oficina con una temperatura ambiental de 50F; los siguientes alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad estaban almacenados allí durante más de 4 horas: queso mozzarella (56F - mantenimiento en frío); pimientos asados (57F - mantenimiento en frío); salsa (55F - mantenimiento en frío); giardineira (55F - mantenimiento en frío).”

“El moldeado de unión entre el piso y la pared está roto o falta. Se observó en el baño.”

“Los alimentos personales de los empleados no estaban debidamente identificados y separados de los alimentos que se servirán al público. Se observaron alimentos de empleados en el refrigerador encima del queso mozzarella.”

“La puerta exterior tiene un espacio en el umbral que se abre hacia el exterior. Se observó en la puerta trasera.”

“Piso sucio/con acumulación de residuos. Se observó en todo el establecimiento.”

“Faltan losetas del piso y/o están deterioradas. Se observó el piso en mal estado.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso. Se observaron cajas de harina, azúcar, refrescos y agua en el piso.”

“Agujero u otro daño en la pared. Se observó debajo de la parte superior del mostrador delantero.”

“Acumulación de hielo en el congelador de acceso directo y/o congelador de acceso peatonal. Se observó en varios congeladores.”

“El interior del horno/microondas tiene acumulación de sustancia negra/grasa/residuos de alimentos. Se observó el interior del microondas sucio.”

“Protector de luz dañado/deteriorado. Se observó afuera del baño y en el área de lavado de utensilios.”

“No había colocado un letrero sobre la maniobra de Heimlich/atragantamiento. No se observó un cartel sobre atragantamiento.”

“No había disponible una copia del informe de inspección más reciente. No se observó ninguna copia.”

“No había un letrero de lavado de manos en un fregadero para lavarse las manos utilizado por empleados de alimentos. Se observó en el fregadero para lavarse las manos.”

“Superficie que no está en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, residuos de alimentos, suciedad, mucosidad o polvo. Se observaron juntas sucias en varios refrigeradores. Se observó el exterior de la mayoría de los equipos de la cocina sucio.”

“El interior/los estantes del refrigerador de acceso directo tienen acumulación de residuos de suciedad. Se observó en varios refrigeradores.”

“Los estantes del refrigerador de acceso directo tienen óxido que ha formado picaduras en la superficie. Se observó en el refrigerador de acceso directo.”

“Artículos de un solo servicio almacenados de manera inadecuada. Se observaron cajas de pizza en el piso del área del vestíbulo.”

“Alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad descongelados de manera inadecuada. Se observó pollo en agua estancada en el fregadero triple.”

“Los estantes del refrigerador/congelador de acceso peatonal tienen óxido que ha formado picaduras en la superficie. Se observó en el refrigerador de acceso peatonal.”

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos y/o polvo. Se observó en todo el establecimiento.”

**SABOR PERU

2927 BISCAYNE BLVD.

MIAMI

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 8/12

SE ENCONTRARON 31 INFRACCIONES

“Acumulación de sustancia similar al moho negro/verde en el interior de la máquina de hielo/depósito. Junto al mostrador delantero.”

“Se utilizó un tazón u otro recipiente sin mango para servir alimentos. Se observó un tazón sin mango almacenado dentro del recipiente de arroz. El empleado lo retiró.”

“Techo/losetas del techo/rejillas de ventilación sucios con acumulación de residuos de alimentos, grasa, polvo o sustancia similar al moho. Se observaron rejillas sucias sobre el fregadero de tres compartimentos y la cocina y el área de preparación.”

“Equipos/vajilla/utensilios limpios almacenados junto al fregadero para lavarse las manos/fregadero de preparación de alimentos, expuestos a salpicaduras. Se observó un fregadero doble en el área de preparación junto a la estación de café sin protección contra salpicaduras.”

“Vasos, tazas, tazones, platos, ollas y sartenes limpios no almacenados invertidos o de manera protegida. Se observaron platos limpios junto al área de almacenamiento sin estar invertidos. El empleado los invirtió.”

“La tabla de cortar tiene marcas de cortes y ya no se puede limpiar adecuadamente. Se observó una tabla de cortar azul que ya no se puede limpiar adecuadamente en el área de preparación de ceviche.”

“Equipos y utensilios no secados adecuadamente al aire: apilamiento húmedo. Se observó apilamiento húmedo de platos y tazones limpios en el área de almacenamiento frente al fregadero de tres compartimentos.”

“Equipo en mal estado. Se observaron juntas rotas en el refrigerador de acceso directo a lo largo de la línea de cocina. Se observó el lavavajillas en mal estado junto al área de preparación.”

“El establecimiento cobra una propina automática sin divulgar debidamente la información en el menú y la cuenta. Se observó un cargo por tarjeta de crédito que no aparece en el menú.”

“La puerta exterior tiene un espacio en el umbral que se abre hacia el exterior.”

“Áreas del piso cubiertas con agua estancada. Se observó agua estancada en el piso junto a la cocina. Infracción repetida.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso. Se observó aceite de cocina almacenado en el piso junto al fregadero para lavarse las manos en el fregadero de tres compartimentos.”

“Agujero u otro daño en la pared. Se observó la pared dañada sobre el congelador blanco.”

“Dispositivo para el control de insectos instalado sobre el área de preparación de alimentos. Se observó el dispositivo de control de insectos almacenado sobre los utensilios junto al área de preparación.”

“No había un termómetro de temperatura ambiental ubicado de manera visible en la unidad de mantenimiento. Se observó en el refrigerador de acceso directo junto a la línea de cocina.”

“Superficie que no está en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, residuos de alimentos, suciedad, mucosidad o polvo. Se observaron las campanas sucias en la línea de cocina. Se observó la freidora muy sucia junto a la línea de cocina. Se observaron las juntas del refrigerador de acceso directo sucias en el área de preparación y la cocina. Infracción repetida.”

“El interior/los estantes del refrigerador de acceso directo tienen acumulación de residuos de suciedad. Se observó el fondo interior del refrigerador de acceso directo sucio a lo largo de la línea de cocina.”

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos y/o polvo. Se observó la pared sucia junto a la línea de cocina.”

“El empleado no se lavó las manos antes de ponerse guantes para iniciar una tarea relacionada con alimentos. Se observó al empleado ponerse guantes nuevos sin lavarse las manos. Se instruyó al empleado para que se lavara las manos correctamente.”

“Se utilizaron bolsas que no son aptas para alimentos en contacto directo con alimentos. Se observó pollo crudo y vegetales congelados almacenados dentro de bolsas que no son aptas para alimentos en el congelador blanco. Infracción repetida.”

“Alimentos de origen animal crudos almacenados sobre alimentos listos para consumir o no separados adecuadamente de estos. Se observó carne de res cruda almacenada sobre camarones cocidos en el refrigerador de acceso directo junto a la línea de cocina. El empleado los almacenó correctamente. Infracción repetida.”

“Se emitió una orden de suspensión de venta para alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad debido a abuso de temperatura. Alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad mantenidos en frío a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron frijoles rojos cocidos (55F - mantenimiento en frío) en el refrigerador de acceso directo junto al congelador blanco. Según el empleado, fueron preparados el día anterior.”

“Alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad mantenidos en frío a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron frijoles rojos cocidos (55F - mantenimiento en frío) en el refrigerador de acceso directo junto al congelador blanco. Según el empleado, fueron preparados el día anterior. El empleado los desechó. Infracción repetida.”

“Falta un interruptor de vacío en el grifo del fregadero para trapeadores o en el accesorio/divisor conectado al grifo del fregadero para trapeadores. Se observó una manguera conectada al fregadero para trapeadores.”

“El empleado no ha recibido capacitación adecuada relacionada con sus funciones asignadas, como lo demuestra su incapacidad para responder preguntas básicas de seguridad alimentaria. Se observó que el cocinero no pudo responder cuál es la temperatura mínima de cocción del pollo.”

“El establecimiento no tiene procedimientos escritos para que los empleados sigan en respuesta a un episodio de vómito o diarrea cuando el vómito o la diarrea son expulsados sobre superficies del establecimiento.”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con residuos de alimentos, sustancia similar al moho o mucosidad. Se observaron tablas de cortar en el área de preparación de ceviche.”

“Fregadero para lavarse las manos utilizado para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó a un empleado lavando un paño dentro del fregadero para lavarse las manos junto al fregadero de tres compartimentos.”

“No había un gerente de servicio de alimentos con certificación vigente en el lugar con cuatro o más empleados participando en la preparación/manipulación de alimentos. Se observó a más de 4 empleados manipulando alimentos sin un gerente en el lugar. Infracción repetida.”

“No se presentó ni aprobó una revisión del plan: se realizaron renovaciones o están en progreso. Se observó un contenedor exterior utilizado como almacenamiento seco con estantes. Se observaron bolsas de harina, cajas de artículos de un solo servicio, frijoles secos y recipientes de aceite de cocina almacenados dentro del contenedor exterior. Según el revisor del plan Robert “Duke” Ivers, el operador debe presentar los planos.”

“Los alimentos listos para consumir cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad, preparados en el establecimiento y almacenados durante más de 24 horas, no estaban debidamente marcados con la fecha. Se observaron frijoles rojos cocidos y vegetales cocidos almacenados dentro del refrigerador de acceso directo junto al congelador blanco sin fecha. Según se indicó, fueron cocinados el día anterior. El empleado etiquetó los vegetales cocidos como sopa.”

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**FRITANGA COQUITO

1255 WEST 46TH ST

HIALEAH

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 8/13

SE ENCONTRARON 29 INFRACCIONES

“Se utilizó un tazón u otro recipiente sin mango para servir alimentos. Se observó en el recipiente de arroz en el área de la cocina.”

“Acumulación de residuos de alimentos/suciedad en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Se observó la manija de la puerta del refrigerador de acceso peatonal sucia.”

“El cartón utilizado en el piso como medida antideslizante no se reemplazó todos los días o cuando está muy sucio, lo que ocurra primero. Se observó en el pasillo junto al refrigerador de acceso peatonal.”

“Falta una loseta del techo. Se observaron losetas del techo faltantes en el área de la cocina.”

“El piso no se limpió cuando había la menor cantidad de alimentos expuestos. Se observó en toda la cocina.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el piso. Se observó una bolsa de arroz almacenada en el piso del mostrador delantero; el operador la almacenó correctamente.”

“Utensilio en uso en alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura no es necesario para su seguridad no almacenado con el mango por encima de la parte superior del alimento dentro de un recipiente cerrado. Se observó en el recipiente de azúcar junto al fregadero de 3 compartimentos.”

“Dispositivo para el control de insectos instalado sobre el área de preparación de alimentos. Se observó almacenado sobre el microondas en el área de la cocina.”

“El interior del horno/microondas tiene acumulación de sustancia negra/grasa/residuos de alimentos.”

“No había disponible una copia del informe de inspección más reciente.”

“Superficie que no está en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, residuos de alimentos, suciedad, mucosidad o polvo. Se observaron recipientes blancos sucios en el área de la cocina.”

“Tapa del contenedor de basura abierta.”

“No se proporcionaron 10 pies-candela de iluminación a por lo menos 30 pulgadas del piso en el refrigerador de acceso peatonal.”

“Piso de concreto sin sellar en el área de preparación de alimentos, almacenamiento de alimentos, lavado de utensilios o baño. Se observó en el congelador de acceso peatonal.”

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, residuos de alimentos y/o polvo. Se observó una pared sucia en el área de preparación.”

“La solución desinfectante de cloro para los paños de limpieza no estaba en la concentración mínima adecuada. Se observó un cubo de desinfectante (cloro +100 ppm) junto al fregadero de 3 compartimentos.”

“Los recipientes de alimentos retirados de su envase original no estaban identificados con el nombre común. Se observaron recipientes de azúcar y sal sin identificar con el nombre común en el área de la cocina.”

“El empleado comenzó a trabajar con alimentos, manipular equipos o utensilios limpios, o tocar artículos de un solo servicio sin envolver sin lavarse primero las manos. Se instruyó al empleado sobre los procedimientos adecuados.”

“El empleado no se lavó las manos antes de ponerse guantes para iniciar una tarea relacionada con alimentos. Se instruyó al empleado sobre los procedimientos adecuados.”

“Alimentos con crecimiento similar al moho. Consulte la suspensión de venta. Se observó crecimiento similar al moho en dos bolsas de mozzarella rallada dentro del refrigerador de acceso directo en el mostrador delantero; el operador las desechó durante la inspección.”

“Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 8 moscas vivas en el área de la cocina, algunas posándose sobre repollos en la mesa de preparación en el área de la cocina. También se observaron 3 moscas muertas dentro del refrigerador de acceso directo junto a la máquina de café.”

“Se utilizaron bolsas que no son aptas para alimentos en contacto directo con alimentos. Se observó cerdo cocido almacenado en bolsas que no son aptas para alimentos.”

“Los huevos de cáscara no se almacenaron a una temperatura ambiental de 45 grados Fahrenheit o menos. Se observaron junto a la mesa de vapor; según el operador, por menos de 3 horas. El operador los trasladó al refrigerador de acceso peatonal.”

“Se emitió una orden de suspensión de venta debido a que los alimentos no estaban en condiciones saludables y adecuadas. Se observaron aproximadamente 8 moscas vivas en el área de la cocina, algunas posándose sobre repollos en la mesa de preparación en el área de la cocina.”

“Alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad mantenidos en frío a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observó leche (56F - mantenimiento en frío) en el refrigerador de acceso directo junto a la máquina de café; el operador la trasladó al refrigerador de acceso peatonal.

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“Alimentos cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad, distintos de asados de carne enteros, mantenidos en caliente a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit.”

“Se observó cerdo (126F - mantenimiento en caliente); arroz blanco (99F - mantenimiento en caliente); el operador procedió a recalentarlos.”

“Alimentos procesados comercialmente, listos para consumir, cuyo control de tiempo/temperatura es necesario para su seguridad, abiertos y almacenados durante más de 24 horas, no estaban debidamente marcados con la fecha después de abrirlos.”

“Se observó salsa de tomate procesada comercialmente sin fecha; según el operador, había sido abierta hacía más de 24 horas.”

“No se proporcionó un kit de prueba química al utilizar desinfectante en la máquina lavavajillas de tres compartimentos o para los paños de limpieza. Se observó que no había tiras de prueba de cloro disponibles.”

“No se proporcionaron toallas de papel ni un dispositivo mecánico para secarse las manos en el fregadero para lavarse las manos. Se observó en el área de la cocina; el operador las proporcionó durante la inspección.”

Tens of thousands of houses were damaged or destroyed, according to the government. Authorities have also reported damage to thousands of schools, medical facilities and community centers in more than 400 cities.

“There is no place to live, we lost everything,” Ebert Jonathan Morales, 38, told The Associated Press from a shelter in Cali, one of the hardest-hit cities along with Pereira, Manizales and Quibdo.

Morales is one of the 102,263 people whose lives have been upended by the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck the South American country Monday. The government says more than 280 people died, nearly 4,000 people were injured and hundreds remain missing. Private groups estimate the number of missing is in the thousands.

Morales said he, his wife and four children are trying to rebuild from scratch.

“The earthquake destroyed several neighborhoods in the city. Many houses were damaged, and buildings collapsed,” he said. “We are going to stay here until the government gives us some help, some support.”

The government focuses on providing shelter

The devastation has tested Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, who was inaugurated just days before the earthquake shook the country's west. De la Espriella acknowledged Thursday night that “the situation is complex” and announced a plan to partner with private companies to rebuild the nation, as well as subsidies for families who are homeless.

“We will not overcome this tragedy alone as a government,” he said. “We need the private sector to rebuild Colombia together.”

Monday’s earthquake was the most powerful to hit Colombia this century. Government aid has yet to arrive in some areas, where many people are relying on volunteers and neighbors for help.

“A neighbor is giving me shelter,” Olga Castro, a mother of five in Cali, told The Associated Press. “At least we survived, but right now we are practically on the street because we don’t have a home anymore.”

De la Espriella said national and international funds raised in response to the disaster will focus on the reconstruction of hospitals, schools, homes, roads and airports.

Rebuilding the country requires a “serious technical assessment” to determine which buildings can be used, which can be repaired and which must be demolished and rebuilt, said Yezid Alvarado Vargas, a professor in construction engineering at Javeriana University, in Bogota, Colombia.

“Before even discussing reconstruction, we must guarantee temporary housing, food, healthcare, continuity of basic services and economic support for families who lost their homes or livelihoods,” Alvarado said.

In Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, around 500 volunteers gathered at a reception center to sort food, toiletries and pet food before distributing the supplies in the most affected areas. From youngsters to the elderly, everyone diligently participated in the challenging relief efforts.

“We all have to help. Today is for you, tomorrow might be for me,” volunteer Jorge Muñoz, 85, told the AP. One of the oldest helpers at Bogotá's Vive Claro aid collection, Muñoz has witnessed the devastation caused by other earthquakes, including one in 1999 that killed more than 1,180 people.

National and international aid keeps coming

Local authorities opened schools, parks and public buildings as shelters, providing tents, mattresses and food to the displaced. In other parts of the hardest-hit cities, residents improvised shelters in the streets, while hundreds of volunteers rush to help those in greatest need, particularly in less accessible areas.

“These are isolated, neglected territories, historically lacking in institutional support, already plagued by violence, and now they are hit by an earthquake of this magnitude,” said María Mercedes Liévano, director of Save the Children in Colombia.

“It’s a crisis on top of a crisis, leaving the population in a situation of extreme vulnerability,” she added, citing communities including Buenaventura, the country’s main port, and Chocó, the earthquake’s epicenter.

De la Espriella visited several cities to track relief efforts and aid distribution, including Quibdó, in the Chocó region, and Pereira. Authorities are still waiting for tons of supplies and humanitarian aid from countries that have pledged their support, including Peru, China, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

Speaking to reporters in Quibdó, de la Espriella proposed implementing a Marshall Plan — the 1948 U.S. initiative that provided $13.3 billion to help European nations rebuild their economies after World War II.

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

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Suarez reported from Bogota, Colombia and Batschke reported from Santiago, Chile.

The forest gave way to giant holes gouged into the earth and filled with opaque, muddy water, gasoline and other chemicals glistening on the surface. Makeshift wooden mining platforms straddled the pools, surrounded by pumps and thick plastic tubes used to suck up and sift through sediment for tiny particles of gold.

As the troops closed in, several miners stood watching from a distance. The officer leading the patrol fired a warning shot into the air. Within seconds, they vanished into the forest.

The raid over several days this week was part of an intensified government campaign against illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, one of Peru’s most biodiverse regions, as authorities try to stop the activity from advancing into protected areas of the Amazon. Mining has stripped away vast areas of rainforest, leaving behind a scarred landscape of contaminated pools and altered rivers in the hunt for lucrative gold. Mercury used to separate gold from sediment has contaminated waterways, wildlife and people, including Indigenous communities that depend heavily on fish.

Behind them was a camp abandoned in haste. Crushed beer cans and empty liquor bottles littered the ground alongside mattresses, clothes and tools. That day’s lunch — rice and plantain — still sat in plastic containers. Freezers and fuel containers dotted the camp, alongside live chickens and guinea pigs kept for food.

The troops were one of eight patrols, flown by helicopter to separate points along the Malinowski River. The aircraft touched down only long enough to drop each group before lifting off and moving to the next site.

Illegal mining is advancing toward protected areas of the Amazon

Edy Reynaldo Dariquebe, an official with FENAMAD, an Indigenous federation representing communities in Peru’s Madre de Dios region, said criminal groups linked to illegal mining have been operating near or inside protected Indigenous communities. He said mining is destroying forests and contaminating rivers with mercury that accumulates in fish, spreading the impact to communities far from the mining sites.

Ronald Flores Yáñez, a deputy prosecutor for Peru’s Office of the Attorney General, said illegal mining has advanced close to military monitoring points and into protected areas.

“We can attest today that they have already entered the Tambopata National Reserve,” Flores told The Associated Press. “We are inside the reserve and around us we see dredges numbering in the hundreds.”

Illegal mining declined in parts of Madre de Dios after Peru launched a major military and police crackdown known as Operation Mercury in 2019. But miners have since moved back toward protected areas, prompting authorities to intensify operations.

Global Conservation, a U.S.-based nonprofit working with Peruvian authorities, said ongoing operations will combine satellite monitoring, aerial reconnaissance and law enforcement raids over the coming year to identify and dismantle illegal gold mining camps and equipment.

Destroying the motors hits miners where it hurts most

Before setting out Tuesday, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Renato Miranda told troops at a briefing that the mission’s objective was to “neutralize and dismantle” illegal mining activities. Once on the ground, that meant searching for anything that allowed the mines to function: pumps, batteries, fuel, dredging equipment and makeshift infrastructure.

“The most important thing is to destroy the main machinery,” Miranda said. “And the main machinery is the motors.”

The powerful engines are among the most valuable pieces of equipment at a mining site and a key economic pressure point for authorities trying to make it more expensive for miners to restart operations. Miranda said larger engines can cost around $30,000 to $45,000. He estimated that motors targeted in the raids can extract 30 to 50 grams of gold a day. At current gold prices, that would be worth about $4,000 to $7,000.

Miranda told AP the three-day operation destroyed 56 motors, 78 mining rafts and 13,751 gallons (52,050 liters) of fuel, with the destroyed material valued at more than 15 million soles ($4 million). On the ground, soldiers said they had destroyed around 115 motors over the previous three months during operations carried out nearly every week.

The remote sites give miners time to hear approaching boats or helicopters and flee, often hiding motors in sand, behind trees or in muddy pools to recover later. Specialized navy divers search the murky pools for submerged engines, entering water where mercury and other chemicals may be present. When they find one, they attach explosive charges and destroy it.

At one site, as troops prepared to leave, a soldier spotted disturbed sand and began digging. He uncovered a motor, threw it onto a pile with a mattress and chainsaw, doused it with gasoline and set it alight. A dog abandoned at the site fared better: soldiers took a liking to it, bringing it along for the rest of the day’s mission and eventually back to their military base.

Elsewhere, troops used dynamite-like explosives to destroy equipment and burned structures and supplies that could be used to keep the mining camps running.

A 10-minute boat ride away, another, larger camp offered a glimpse of daily life at the mining sites. A chest freezer was packed with meat, while wooden shelves held plates and coffee mugs. Several separate sleeping areas were strewn with personal belongings: a ledger filled with lists of needed supplies, freshly washed underwear hanging from string to dry, bottles of vitamins and even pills marketed as increasing penis size and sexual endurance. All was set alight by the troops. Before moving on, some of the soldiers cooked and ate food they found in the abandoned camp.

The expensive machinery and valuable gold contrasts with the precarious conditions of many living and working in the camps.

During the operation, another patrol encountered a woman with her 1-year-old child at a mining site. Flores told AP she had come to Madre de Dios from Cusco after failing to gain admission to university and, after being left by the father of her child, needed work. She responded to an advertisement seeking a cook and ended up preparing food for illegal miners.

Authorities say raids alone will not stop the mining

The destruction of machinery is intended to hit miners where it hurts most: the cost of restarting. But authorities themselves acknowledge that raids alone are not enough.

Miranda said that with gold prices high and mining highly profitable, operators can acquire another engine, rebuild their equipment and return to the same location or move elsewhere.

“Every day they are advancing more and more and more, and we are being very slow," said Flores, adding that their strategy needs to change.

Prosecutors, he said, are now pursuing two fronts: continuing operations against dredges, motors and other equipment while also following the money behind the mines — identifying the financiers who provide the capital for expensive machinery and tracing the profits generated by the gold.

That approach could be critical to breaking the cycle visible along the Malinowski River: authorities destroy equipment, leave and miners find the money and machinery to start again.

“These operations have to be permanent,” Flores said. ___

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Karyne David, who resides in the county’s West Little River neighborhood, was arrested Monday by the Miami Gardens Police Department following the overnight incident, according to an arrest report.

Jail records show he is facing two counts each of attempted premeditated murder with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault with a firearm and shooting or throwing a deadly missile.

Polic said the incident began with a domestic violence-related shooting reported Sunday night at a Miami Gardens home, where multiple rounds were fired into the occupied residence.

The arrest report details allegations involving David’s ex-girlfriend, who told investigators the couple had been dating for about a year before their relationship ended in April following “infidelity” issues.

According to the report, the woman said David continued contacting her from different phone numbers after their breakup, making threats and showing up unannounced at her home. She also told investigators that her car had been vandalized several times since June and that she believed David was responsible.

The woman provided investigators with messages between her and David from her cellphone, the report states.

Police said one of those messages from David to his ex-girlfriend stated, “Next time it will be worse so don’t be outside.”

Investigators said they also interviewed two people who were inside the home during the shooting. They said David’s ex-girlfriend told police that she was asleep in her mother’s room because she was already afraid following an earlier shooting at the home that night.

A second person inside the home told police she heard loud sounds striking the residence and attempted to look outside to determine what was happening, according to the report.

As part of the investigation, a MGPD Special Victims Unit detective was conducting surveillance in the area at about 4:15 a.m. Monday, the report states.

The responding detective told investigators he saw a Black Honda Accord parked near the home and later observed David standing in the roadway with a rifle, police said.

The detective told investigators he saw David shoulder the rifle, followed by a muzzle flash and several gunshots. Police said the detective then returned fire.

David then got into the Honda Accord and fled, prompting a pursuit involving the detective and other Miami Gardens officers, police said.

According to the report, the detective and other officers pursued the vehicle, which came to a stop near Northwest 107th Street and 17th Avenue in Opa-locka, where officers took David into custody.

After David’s arrest, a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit searched the area and located a Century Arms Draco rifle in the grass near where David was taken into custody, the report states.

Authorities said further testing determined the rifle was a match to shell casings recovered from both the Aug. 9 shooting and the shooting at the home.

Police said David was arrested and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

As of Friday morning, David remained in custody at TGK with his bond listed as “to be set.”

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting involving the Miami Gardens detective. No officers or detectives were injured during the shooting and subsequent pursuit, authorities said.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement Friday that the 2028 Midsummer Classic will be at Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. The 2007 game was played in the picturesque waterfront ballpark, featuring Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki's famous inside-the-park home run that bounced off the tricky wall in right-center field.

“With its passionate fanbase, world-class ballpark, and rich baseball history, San Francisco will be an outstanding host for All-Star Week, which culminates in one of Major League Baseball’s best traditions, the Midsummer Classic,” Manfred said in a statement. "We look forward to bringing the excitement of All-Star Week and the celebration of baseball to the Bay Area.”

This will mark another major sporting event for the Bay Area recently after the Super Bowl and World Cup this year and the NBA All-Star Game in February 2025.

The Giants will host the Midsummer Classic for a fourth time overall after Candlestick Park held the first All-Star Game of the 1961 season and also baseball's summer showcase in 1984.

Oracle Park is set to become the eighth active ballpark to hold the All-Star Game multiple times, joining Fenway Park in 1946, 1961 and 1999, Wrigley Field (1947, 1962, 1990), Angel Stadium (1967, 1989, 2010), Dodger Stadium (1980, 2022), Progressive Field (1997, 2019), Coors Field (1998, 2021) and T-Mobile Park (2001, 2023).

Giants President and CEO Larry Baer said the club is “incredibly honored” and expressed his gratitude.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to showcase our organization, our city, and the incredible passion of our fans on baseball’s biggest summer stage,” he said in a statement.

“Hosting the All-Star Game is more than celebrating the game’s brightest stars, it’s a chance to highlight the people, neighborhoods, and culture that make our community so special. Few cities offer the unique combination of sports, culture, innovation, entertainment, and natural beauty that defines San Francisco. We look forward to welcoming players, families, fans, and visitors from around the world for a week that will create lasting memories and have a meaningful impact throughout our region.”

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The Department of Defense Education Activity operates about 160 schools across 11 countries and educates roughly 70,000 students who are children of active-duty military or civilian service members. Conservatives have eyed the schools — which, unlike most public schools, are run by the federal government — as a testing ground for reshaping education.

The Western civilization course planned for this fall will use a textbook published by Encounter Books, a conservative publishing house. Titled "The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom," it includes suggested lesson plans created in partnership with Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian school in Michigan that has also developed influential materials for K-12 schools.

Historians and educators who reviewed excerpts of the text told The Associated Press it depicts points throughout history in misleading ways, representing Western civilization and Christianity as one and the same and casting Islam as a threat to both.

“You’ve got to wonder a bit whether Western civilization is a Trojan horse for classical Christian education,” said Phil Gorski, a historical sociology professor at Yale University.

The course is part of a wider reshaping of the Defense Department's schools. They have begun hiring classical learning teachers, and the department has brought in new academic chiefs with ties to classical learning charter schools and to Republican-led efforts to promote more patriotic education.

In a written statement, the Pentagon said it “remains committed to providing all of its military-connected students with the best possible education and opportunities.” It did not respond directly to a series of questions about the textbook and the broader push for classical learning.

Classical education broadly refers to a teaching style built on the liberal arts, with an emphasis on critical thinking and citizenship. Students are taught to imitate the rhetoric and style of great thinkers and writers. While some classical educators have pushed to incorporate diverse scholars, critics have argued the movement focuses too heavily on foundational texts from Greek, Roman and other Western writers and gives short shrift to achievements in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Conservatives see classical learning as an antidote to unflattering depictions of US history

Conservative politicians have embraced classical learning, especially as the Trump administration and Republican-led states have pushed schools to emphasize patriotism and put boundaries around how they teach unflattering parts of American history.

In his writing and public remarks since before becoming defense secretary, Hegseth has advocated for parents to embrace classical Christian education.

In his 2022 book “Battle for the American Mind,” Hegseth, a former Fox News host, describes a history of progressives working to remove God and religion from public and private schools. For parents, he writes, not sending their children to classical Christian schools would be to admit defeat.

“It is certainly not sustainable, merely passing the same losing hand to the next generation,” Hegseth writes. “With this approach, we lose. We lose America — and Western Civilization.”

Many classical Christian schools focus on reclaiming Western civilization from external threats. But across the broader field of classical education — including secular private schools — the field is increasingly split on this point, said Susan Wise Bauer, the author of a popular classical homeschooling program. She said there is a range of approaches on which texts are worth studying.

“Whenever you have a system of education where that is the impulse, ... 'This is us, and they are them over there,'” she said, “then the idea of a shared literary heritage becomes a weapon.”

Textbook casts Western civilization as under threat

In the Pentagon's system, high school students can take the new course, Western Civilization to 1500, to fulfill a world history graduation requirement, according to a news release. The course is offered through the department's virtual school.

In the textbook’s introduction, the authors write: “The dangers presented by the neglect of Western history are not trivial.”

“When citizens of Western countries are utterly ignorant of history, as most now are, they are left unarmed against the general hostility to their own tradition that has become so destructive a force in contemporary culture,” they write.

The idea that external forces will displace the dominant culture is a common right-wing political narrative, said Curtis Dozier, a professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College.

"It’s this right-wing idea that when immigrants come to a country, they care more about their own traditions and history and seek to replace the tradition of the place,” he said.

The textbook's authors credit early Christianity with promoting the idea that all people must be treated humanely. It argues that “Christian faith also supported a humane cosmopolitanism."

The book describes Islam as inherently more violent than Christianity. In a chapter on the Middle Ages, the text describes Arabs as resentful or bitter toward Christians and Jews.

In a section titled “Holy War and Martyrdom in Battle,” the book describes wars fought by Christians, such as the Crusades, as intended to defend and protect other Christians. Islam, in contrast, glorifies violence and war, the book says, invoking the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and 9/11.

“In recent decades, Islam as a religion has, understandably, aroused acute hostility from a great many non-Muslims around the world thanks to the behavior of radical Muslim terrorists. Sometimes referred to as Islamists, their atrocities have been applauded by depressingly large numbers of ordinary Muslims,” the book says.

Matthew Gabriele, a history and religion professor at Virginia Tech, said the book's description of the Crusades and the conflicts with the Islamic world strips out important details and context to depict Islam as an aggressive religious tradition and downplays the religious motivations and violence of the Christian church.

“It’s trying to make a contemporary political point by continuously referencing things that happened in the 21st century,” Gabriele said. “The fact that (the book) does this very selectively and only when it suits a particular political project suggests to me that this is not a scholarly history in any kind of real sense.”

The book's publisher, Roger Kimball, said it was peer-reviewed by 15 experts. “As the proud publisher of this incomparable work, I stand behind it in every detail,” he said.

One of the book's co-authors, Harvard emeritus professor James Hankins, said the text does not attempt to characterize Christianity and Western civilization as one. Segments of the book acknowledge the West’s cultural debts to the Islamic world, said Hankins, who now teaches at the University of Florida's Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, a conservative-backed project to teach Western civilization.

An emphasis on the study of Western civilization was standard until the 1970s, Hankins said. He criticized the move away from teaching it, noting that other countries such as China study their own civilization.

“Abandoning it has been foolish in my view, and is one cause of the growing cultural disorientation of the last couple of generations,” he said in an email. “People no longer know where they come from or where they belong in the story of our civilization.”

The Trump administration aligned the military’s education system with its political vision

In speeches and interviews, Hegseth has drawn a line from the country's founding to Western civilization and early Christianity, a religion he describes as under attack by outside forces. He often argues the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation and troops should embrace God.

At an event last September recognizing a civics education initiative, Hegseth emphasized the need to teach these values to children early on.

“That type of brilliance didn’t come out of thin air," he said of the Founding Fathers. “It was first inspired by God (and) inspired by an understanding of human history, an understanding of biblical history (and) an understanding of Western civilization philosophy and theology and civics poured into a generation of men and poured into an American experiment — it wasn’t an accident.”

President Donald Trump's administration also has moved to align the military's education apparatus with its broader vision for American schools. Admissions offices at U.S. military academies now accept the Classical Learning Test, a college entrance exam that positions itself as a classical alternative to the SAT. And last year, the ACLU sued the defense school system over its decision to ban hundreds of books that covered topics like race, gender and democracy.

In March, the department abruptly changed the leadership of Department of Defense Education Activity schools, replacing Beth Schiavino-Narvaez with Paul Craft as director. In a news release at the time, Hegseth described Craft as the right leader to reorient the school system "toward patriotic values and classical learning.”

The Pentagon also replaced the education activity's chief academic officer, hiring Tiffany Hoben, who previously worked in the Florida Department of Education under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. In Florida, she oversaw the rollout of a civics curriculum that was criticized for claiming America's founders did not intend for a full separation of church and state.

This summer, the department announced the hiring of Matthew Kirby as the system's Americas regional director. Kirby is the CEO of Liberty Classical Schools, an Atlanta-based network of charter schools.

In an all-hands meeting after his appointment, Craft described classical learning as a priority that came directly from Hegseth.

“He has tasked us with taking the best that we can from the lessons learned from classical learning in a private school setting to say, ‘How do we expose our kids to that in a public school setting like us?’” Craft said.

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Joining the S&P 500 is considered an achievement for a company because the index is a widely followed measure of the broader U.S. stock market’s health. A company is selected for the index based on several criteria that demonstrate stability, including market size and consistent profitability.

Reddit's stock surged nearly 14% around midday Friday.

Aside from status, inclusion means more investments. The index tracks 500 of the biggest U.S. stocks, and trillions of dollars in investments benchmark themselves against it. Those investments include mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. Essentially, those funds will have to buy the stock once it becomes part of the index that the fund is tracking or mimicking.

Investors are depending more than ever on funds that simply mimic indexes such as the S&P 500. It’s a lower-cost way to invest, allowing savers to keep more of their investments. Partly because of that, such index funds have usually proven to be better performers than funds that try to pick and choose individual stocks.

Reddit will join the benchmark index as of Tuesday. A stock must trade publicly for at least 12 months to join the S&P 500. The operator of the index, S&P Dow Jones Indices, stuck to that guideline recently when it declined to fast-track SpaceX into the index after the space exploration company's massive initial public offering in June.

Reddit's inclusion comes weeks after it posted strong financial results for the second quarter. That included its highest-ever quarterly revenue. The company has been posting profits almost every quarter since it went public in 2024.

Wall Street expects profits to more than double overall in 2026 on a surge in revenue.

Thompson, 50, was shot outside a New York City hotel on Dec. 4, 2024, as he walked to UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor conference. Mangione was arrested five days later at a McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 233 miles (375 kilometers) west of New York City.

Here is a timeline of key events:

2024

Nov. 24: A man prosecutors say is Mangione arrives in New York City on a Greyhound bus. He takes a taxi to the area of the New York Hilton Midtown, where Thompson is later shot, then goes to a hostel where he stays until the morning of the shooting. While checking in, prosecutors say, the man presents a fake New Jersey driver’s license bearing the name Mark Rosario.

Dec. 2: Thompson arrives in New York. He is staying at a hotel across the street from the Hilton.

Dec. 4: Thompson is shot and killed. The shooter, later identified by prosecutors as Mangione, waits in the area for about an hour before ambushing Thompson. He then flees through Central Park to upper Manhattan before taking the subway to Penn Station and boarding an Amtrak train to Philadelphia, police say. The shooting is captured on surveillance video.

Dec. 5: In the days after the shooting, police release various images of the suspected shooter, including one showing his face as he checked into the hostel.

Dec. 6: Police find a backpack in Central Park that they say the shooter discarded as he fled. It contains Monopoly money and a black Tommy Hilfiger jacket.

Dec. 9: Altoona police are dispatched to a McDonald’s for a report of a man matching the description of the suspect in Thompson's killing. The man provides a fake ID and name, Mark Rosario, before identifying himself as Luigi Mangione. He is arrested. In his backpack, police find a 3D-printed pistol prosecutors say matches the one used to kill Thompson and a notebook that describes wanting to “wack” a health insurance executive.

Dec. 11: Mangione shouts about an “insult to the intelligence of the American people” and writhes in the grip of sheriff’s deputies as they lead him into an Altoona courthouse.

Dec. 17: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announces that Mangione has been indicted on state charges including murder as an act of terrorism, calling the killing “a frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation.”

Dec. 19: Mangione is extradited from Pennsylvania and flown to New York. He is led up a Manhattan pier by armed officers in a highly choreographed perp walk in front of news cameras. The mayor at the time, Eric Adams, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch look on. Mangione is taken to federal court, where he is charged with stalking and murder.

Dec. 23: Mangione is arraigned on state murder and terror charges. He pleads not guilty while his lawyer complains that the dueling federal and state prosecutions had turned him into a “human ping-pong ball.”

2025

April 1: Then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Mangione, calling Thompson's killing “a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America” and “an act of political violence.”

April 25: Mangione pleads not guilty to a federal murder charge as prosecutors formally declared their intent to seek the death penalty against him.

Sept. 16: The judge in the state case, Gregory Carro, throws out Mangione's terrorism charges, rejecting the prosecution’s theory that the killing was “intended to evoke terror.” The ruling eliminated the top two charges in Mangione’s state case, sparing him the possibility of a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Carro keeps other charges in place, including second-degree murder.

Dec. 1: A three-week evidentiary hearing kicks off in Mangione’s state case. Prosecutors call 17 witnesses, many of them police officers and other personnel involved in his arrest, and play body-camera footage of officers arresting Mangione and a 911 call from the McDonald's manager about a man resembling “the CEO shooter.” They also reveal notes about a “survival kit” and “intel checkin” and possible escape plans that they say Mangione had with him.

2026

Jan. 30: U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett bars federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against Mangione, dismissing a federal murder charge that enabled them to seek capital punishment. Garnett also rules that prosecutors can use evidence collected from Mangione’s backpack during his arrest.

Feb. 6: Mangione speaks out in court against the prospect of back-to-back trials, telling Carro: “It’s the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition.”

May 18: Carro rules that prosecutors in the state case can use the gun, notebook and other items that police found in Mangione’s backpack after his arrest. However, the judge bars items that officers took from the bag before Mangione was taken into custody, including a loaded gun magazine, cellphone, passport and wallet.

June 17: Carro discloses that Mangione plans to assert a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial, claiming he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance when he killed Thompson. The next day, Mangione's lawyers reverse course and tell Carro he wouldn't be pursuing a psychiatric defense.

Aug. 14: Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges and admits he targeted and killed Thompson. Prosecutors say they intend to seek a sentence of life in prison. Mangione's lawyers immediately file paperwork seeking to have the state murder case dismissed on double jeopardy grounds.

Karyne David, quien reside en el vecindario West Little River del condado, fue arrestado el lunes por el Departamento de Policía de Miami Gardens tras el incidente ocurrido durante la madrugada, según un informe de arresto.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta dos cargos de intento de asesinato premeditado con un arma mortal, agresión agravada con arma de fuego y disparar o lanzar un proyectil mortal.

La policía dijo que el incidente comenzó con una balacera relacionada con violencia doméstica reportada el domingo por la noche en una vivienda de Miami Gardens, donde se dispararon múltiples balas contra la residencia ocupada.

El informe de arresto detalla acusaciones relacionadas con la ex novia de David, quien dijo a los investigadores que la pareja había tenido una relación durante aproximadamente un año antes de que terminara en abril debido a problemas de “infidelidad”.

Según el informe, la mujer dijo que David continuó contactándola desde diferentes números telefónicos después de la ruptura, haciendo amenazas y apareciendo sin previo aviso en su casa. También dijo a los investigadores que su automóvil había sido vandalizado varias veces desde junio y que creía que David era responsable.

La mujer proporcionó a los investigadores mensajes entre ella y David desde su teléfono celular, según el informe.

La policía dijo que uno de esos mensajes de David a su ex novia decía: “La próxima vez será peor, así que no salgas”.

Los investigadores también dijeron que entrevistaron a dos personas que estaban dentro de la vivienda durante la balacera. Dijeron que la ex novia de David les contó a los policías que estaba dormida en la habitación de su madre porque ya tenía miedo después de una balacera anterior ocurrida en la vivienda esa misma noche.

Una segunda persona dentro de la vivienda dijo a la policía que escuchó fuertes sonidos que golpeaban la residencia e intentó mirar afuera para determinar qué estaba sucediendo, según el informe.

Como parte de la investigación, un detective de la Unidad de Víctimas Especiales de MGPD estaba realizando vigilancia en el área alrededor de las 4:15 a.m. del lunes, según el informe.

El detective que respondió dijo a los investigadores que vio un Honda Accord negro estacionado cerca de la vivienda y posteriormente observó a David parado en la calle con un rifle, según la policía.

El detective dijo a los investigadores que vio a David levantar el rifle, seguido de un destello del cañón y varios disparos. La policía dijo que el detective respondió al fuego.

David luego subió al Honda Accord y huyó, lo que provocó una persecución en la que participaron el detective y otros agentes de Miami Gardens, según la policía.

Según el informe, el detective y otros agentes siguieron el vehículo, que se detuvo cerca de Northwest 107th Street y 17th Avenue en Opa-locka, donde los agentes detuvieron a David.

Después del arresto de David, una unidad K-9 de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade registró el área y encontró un rifle Century Arms Draco en el césped cerca del lugar donde David fue detenido, según el informe.

Las autoridades dijeron que pruebas posteriores determinaron que el rifle coincidía con los casquillos recuperados tanto de la balacera del 9 de agosto como de la balacera en la vivienda.

La policía dijo que David fue arrestado y trasladado al Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, David permanecía detenido en TGK, con una fianza indicada como “por establecerse”.

El Departamento de Aplicación de la Ley de Florida está investigando la balacera en la que estuvo involucrado el detective de Miami Gardens. Ningún agente ni detective resultó herido durante la balacera y la posterior persecución, dijeron las autoridades.

If a restaurant racks up 30 or more violations in a single inspection, we think that deserves a closer look.

State records show inspectors found food-contact surfaces with mold-like growth, mold growing on food, live flies landing on food, roaches, raw meat stored above cooked food, and potentially dangerous foods sitting at temperatures where bacteria can multiply. At one restaurant, inspectors found cooked food being held as low as 87 degrees, while another had meat, cheese and salsa sitting above the safe cold-holding temperature for more than four hours.

These restaurants may have remained open, but 30-plus violations is a lot of problems in a place where people are trusting the kitchen to keep their food safe.

**TROPICAL RESTAURANT

652 EAST 9TH ST.

HIALEAH

INSPECTION DATE 8/7

40 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Observed establishment operating and serving customer without a license.”

“Observed approximately 1 flying insect landing on sliced ham and slice pork inside reach in cooler next to ice machine at front counter. Also observed approximately 6 flying insects flying in back kitchen above preparation tables and clean equipment’s. Also observed 1 flying insect landing on clean metal container on shelf in front of big oven at kitchen area.”

“Observed raw pork and raw beef stored over cooked pork on shelf inside walk in cooler in front of three compartment sink at kitchen area. Also observed raw shell eggs stored over cooked beef on shelf inside walk in cooler in front of three compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Observed raw beef stored over raw pork on shelf inside walk in cooler in front of three compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Observed no date marked on milk inside reach in cooler next to ice machine at front counter.”

“Observed roach crawling on the floor under hand wash sink next to three compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Observed approximately 1 flying insect landing on sliced ham and slice pork inside reach in cooler next to ice machine at front counter.”

“Sliced ham (52F - Cold Holding); Sliced pork (52F - Cold Holding) inside cold holding unit at front counter next to sandwich station. As per operator for less than 1 hour.”

“Pork chops (125F - Hot Holding) inside steam table at front counter. As per operator for less than 2 hours. Also observed Rice (122F - Hot Holding); Chicken stew (114F - Hot Holding) inside hold holding equipment next to oven at back kitchen area. As per operator for less than 2 hours. Also observed Cooked onions (103F - Hot Holding) in shelf over stove in front of dishwasher machine at kitchen area. As per employee for less than 1 hour. Also observed Black beans (87F - Hot Holding); Chicken Soup (91F - Hot Holding) over preparation table in front of big oven at back kitchen area. As per operator for less than 2 hours.”

“Observed at kitchen area.”

“Observed soiled can opener on preparation tables next to seafood chest freezer at kitchen area.”

“Observed food debris inside hand wash sink at kitchen area.”

“Observed no chlorine test kit available at the time of inspection.”

“Observed in front of pork belly hot holding unit at front counter.”

“Observed large shipping container stored behind property filled with restaurant equipment.”

“Observed ice machine interior soiled at front counter.”

“Observed in the floor next to fryer at kitchen area.”

“Observed ceiling and vents soiled with accumulation of dust and grease all around kitchen area and back storage area. Also observed ceiling soiled with accumulation of grease over grill press at front counter.”

“Observed clean spatulas between wall and three compartment sink in front of walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Observed several grooved cutting boards on top of preparation tables all around kitchen area.”

“Observed 1 dead roach under three compartment sink at kitchen area. Also observed approximately 3 dead roaches on trap under reach in freezer located in front of ice unit at kitchen area. Also observed approximately 1 dead roach under shelf located outside of office at break room area.”

“Observed several employees engaged in food preparation with no hair restraint all around kitchen area.”

“Observed several food container stored on the floor inside walk in cooler in front of three compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Observed accumulation of grease when the walls all around kitchen area.”

“Observed inside reach in cooler at break room.”

“Observed ice scoop stored over dirty container next to ice machine located next to break room at kitchen area.”

“Observed sugar scoop handle touching sugar inside container at back storage shelf in front of walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Observed microwave interior soiled over preparation grill at kitchen area. Also observed oven interior soiled next to dishwasher machine at kitchen area.”

“Observed no ambient thermometer inside walk in coolers at kitchen area.”

“Observed no drip tray on hood systems all around kitchen area.”

“Observed gasket soiled with mold like substance under toaster machines at front counter. Also observed three compartment sink nuzzle hole with accumulation of mold like substance at kitchen area.”

“Observed not screen on fan over the back door next to fryer at back kitchen area.”

“Observed several reuse single service under preparation table next to three compartment sink at kitchen area.”

“Observed clean utensils stored upright inside container next to grill in front of dishwasher machine at kitchen area.”

“Observed all around kitchen area.”

“Observed walk in coolers shelves with accumulation of rust at kitchen area.”

“Observed grease accumulation on the walls all around kitchen area.”

“Observed wet wiping cloth on top of preparation tables all around kitchen area not stored in sanitizing solution.”

“Observed sugar container not identified under counter next to ice cream unit at front counter.”

**MANHATTAN CHICAGO REAL PIZZA

12715 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY

PINECREST

INSPECTION DATE 8/4

31 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Nonfood-grade containers used for food storage - direct contact with food. Observed rolls stored in black garbage bag.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed reach in across office with ambient temp of 50F; the following TCS foods stored inside for more than 4 hours: mozzarella cheese (56F - Cold Holding); roasted peppers (57F - Cold Holding); salsa (55F - Cold Holding); giardiniera (55F - Cold Holding).”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed reach in across office with ambient temp of 50F; the following TCS foods stored inside for more than 4 hours: mozzarella cheese (56F - Cold Holding); roasted peppers (57F - Cold Holding); salsa (55F - Cold Holding); giardiniera (55F - Cold Holding).”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed soiled dry food and dish racks.”

“Non-pitting surface rust on food-contact equipment. Observed on dry food and dish racks.”

“Nonfood-grade basting brush used in food. Observed in ware wash area.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed microwave and cooler door handles soiled.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed throughout establishment.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed throughout establishment.”

“Cloth used as a food-contact surface. Observed under garlic oil and seasonings.”

“Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. Observed reach in across office with ambient temp of 50F; the following TCS foods stored inside for more than 4 hours: mozzarella cheese (56F - Cold Holding); roasted peppers (57F - Cold Holding); salsa (55F - Cold Holding); giardineira (55F - Cold Holding).”

“Cove molding at floor/wall juncture broken/missing. Observed in restroom.”

“Employee personal food not properly identified and segregated from food to be served to the public. Observed employee food in cooler above mozzarella cheese.”

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside. Observed at back door.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed throughout entire establishment.”

“Floor tiles missing and/or in disrepair. Observed floor in disrepair.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed cases of flour, sugar soda and water on floor.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed under front counter top.”

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer and/or walk-in freezer. Observed in multiple freezers.”

“Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris. Observed microwave interior soiled.”

“Light shield damaged/in disrepair. Observed outside of restroom and in ware wash.”

“No Heimlich maneuver/choking sign posted. Observed no choking poster.”

“No copy of latest inspection report available. Observed no copy.”

“No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Observed at hand sink.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed gaskets soiled in multiple coolers. Observed exterior of most equipment in kitchen soiled.”

“Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Observed in multiple coolers.”

“Reach-in cooler shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. Observed in reach in cooler.”

“Single-service articles improperly stored. Observed pizza boxes on floor of lobby area.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food thawed in an improper manner. Observed chicken in standing water at triple sink.”

“Walk-in cooler/freezer shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. Observed in walk in.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed throughout establishment.”

**SABOR PERU

2927 BISCAYNE BLVD.

MIAMI

INSPECTION DATE 8/12

31 VIOLATIONS FOUND

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

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Observed bowl no handle stored inside rice container. Employee removed.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed vents soiled above three compartment sink and kitchen and prep area.”

“Clean equipment/dishware/utensils stored next to handwash/food preparation sink exposed to splash. Observed double sink at prep area by coffee station no splash protected.”

“Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Observed clean plates by storage not inverted. Employee inverted.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Observed blue cutting board no longer cleanable at ceviche prep area.”

“Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. Observed wet nesting on clean plates bowls at storage across three compartment sink.”

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed reach in cooler gaskets torn across cook line. Observed dishwasher in disrepair by prep area.”

“Establishment charging automatic gratuity without properly disclosing the information on the menu and the bill. Observed charge fee for credits card not in the menu.”

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed floor standing water by kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed cooking oil stored on floor by hand sink at three compartment sink.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed wall above white chest freezer damaged.”

“Insect control device installed over food preparation area. Observed insect control device stored above utensils by prep area.”

“No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Observed reach in cooler by cook line.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed hoods soiled at cook line. Observed fryer heavily soiled by cook line. Observed reach in cooler gaskets soiled at prep area and kitchen. Repeat Violation.”

“Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Observed reach in cooler interior bottom soiled across cook line.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed wall soiled by cook line.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Observed employee put new gloves without wash hands. Coached employee to wash hands properly.”

“Nonfood-grade bags used in direct contact with food. Observed raw chicken and frozen vegetables stored inside Nonfood-grade bags at white chest freezer. Repeat Violation.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw beef stored above cooked shrimp at reach in cooler by cook line. Employee stored properly. Repeat Violation.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked red beans (55F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler by white freezer. As per employee prepared a day prior.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked red beans (55F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler by white freezer. As per employee prepared a day prior. Employee discarded. Repeat Violation.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet or on fitting/splitter added to mop sink faucet. Observed hose connected at mop sink.”

“Employee has not received adequate training related to their assigned duties as evidenced by the inability to answer basic food safety questions. Observed cook unable to answered the minimum cooking temperature of chicken.”

“Establishment has no written procedures for employees to follow in response to a vomiting or diarrheal event where the vomit or diarrhea is discharged onto surfaces in the establishment.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed cutting boards at ceviche prep area.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed employee washing a cloth inside hand sink by three compartment sink.”

“No currently certified food service manager on duty with four or more employees engaged in food preparation/handling. Observed more than 4 employees manipulating food no manager on site. Repeat Violation.”

“No plan review submitted and approved - renovations were made or are in progress. Observed outside container used as a dry storage with shelves. Observed flour bags, Single services boxes, dry beans and cooking oil containers stored inside outside container. As per plan reviewer Robert “Duke” Ivers, operator needs to submit plans.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed cooked red beans and cooked vegetables stored inside reach in cooler by white freezer not dated. As per cooked a day prior. Employee labeled cooked vegetables soup.”

HONORABLE MENTION

**FRITANGA COQUITO

1255 WEST 46TH ST

HIALEAH

INSPECTION DATE 8/13

29 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Observed on rice container at kitchen area.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed soiled walk in cooler door handle.”

“Cardboard used on floor as anti-slip measure not replaced every day or when heavily soiled, whichever comes first. Observed on hallway by walk in cooler.”

“Ceiling tile missing. Observed missing ceiling tiles at kitchen area.”

“Floor not cleaned when the least amount of food is exposed. Observed throughout kitchen.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed a bag of rice stored on floor at front counter, operator stored properly.”

“In-use utensil in non-time/temperature control for safety food not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. “Observed on sugar container next to 3 compartment sink.”

“Insect control device installed over food preparation area. Observed stored above microwave at kitchen area.”

“Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris.”

“No copy of latest inspection report available.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed soiled white bins containers at kitchen area.”

“Open dumpster lid.”

“Ten (10) foot-candles of light at least 30 inches from floor not provided in walk-in cooler.”

“Unsealed concrete floor in food preparation, food storage, ware washing area or bathroom. Observed at walk in freezer.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed soiled wall on preparation area.”

“Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. Observed Sanitizer Bucket (Chlorine +100ppm) next to 3 components sink.”

“Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Observed sugar and salt containers not identified with common name at kitchen area.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Coached employee on proper procedures.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Coached employee on proper procedures.”

“Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Observed mold like growth on two bag of shredded mozzarella inside reach in cooler at front counter, operator discarded during inspection.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 8 live flies at kitchen area, some landing on cabbages on preparation table at kitchen area. Also observed 3 dead flies inside reach in cooler next to coffee machine.”

“Nonfood-grade bags used in direct contact with food. Observed cooked pork stored on nonfood grade bags.”

“Shell eggs not stored at an ambient air temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit or less. Observed next to steam table, as per operator less than 3 hours. Operator moved to walk in cooler.”

“Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Observed approximately 8 live flies at kitchen area, some landing on cabbages on preparation table at kitchen area.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed milk (56F - Cold Holding) on reach in cooler next to coffee machine, operator moved to walk in cooler. **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“Observed pork (126F - Hot Holding); white rice (99F - Hot Holding) operator proceeded to reheated.”

“Commercially processed ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food opened and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked after opening.”

“Observed commercially processed tomato sauce not date marked, as per operator was opened more than 24 hours.”

“No chemical test kit provided when using sanitizer at three-compartment ware washing machine or wiping cloths. Observed no chlorine test strips available.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Observed at kitchen area, operator provided during inspection.”

Police said officers, paramedics and firefighters were at the scene near Wickford train station in Essex, about 30 miles east of London (48 kilometers), after receiving reports that the rear carriages of a train derailed. The carriages were in an “upright position," police said, and no injuries were reported.

National Rail said officials were working to understand what happened, and major disruptions to train services were expected through Friday afternoon.

The incident came less than 24 hours after a train from London to Eastbourne went off the tracks outside the southern English town of Lewes. Three carriages overturned, seriously injuring two people and causing minor injuries for 18 others.

All passengers were evacuated within about three hours, the transport police said.

The cause of the derailment is under investigation.

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

A rare direct hurricane threat for the Big Island

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

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

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

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

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

What’s in store for Hawai’i from Lala

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

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

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

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

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

Lukewarm Atlantic walks it back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Una advertencia de huracán está vigente para el condado de Hawái y la Isla Grande ante la expectativa de condiciones de huracán (vientos de 74 mph o más), mientras que el condado de Maui, incluidas las islas de Maui, Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi y Kahoʻolawe, está bajo vigilancia de tormenta tropical por la posibilidad de vientos de tormenta tropical (vientos de 39 mph o más) mientras Lala pasa al sur.

Una rara amenaza directa de huracán para la Isla Grande

Aunque el estado número 50 no es ajeno a los efectos de tormentas tropicales y huracanes, solo dos huracanes registrados (desde 1949), el huracán de categoría 4 Iniki en 1992 y el huracán de categoría 1 Dot en 1959, han pasado directamente sobre alguna de las principales islas de Hawái (ambos golpearon Kauaʻi, en el norte).

Solo otras tres tormentas tropicales registradas han pasado directamente sobre el estado: Iselle en 2014 y Darby en 2016 (ambas golpearon la Isla Grande) y Olivia en 2018, la única tormenta con nombre registrada que pasó directamente sobre Maui y Lanai.

Si el centro de Lala cruza la Isla Grande como huracán, sería el primer huracán registrado en cruzar la isla.

Incluso las tormentas tropicales y huracanes que no han golpeado directamente a Hawái han causado grandes problemas a lo largo de los años, especialmente debido a las fuertes lluvias provocadas por el terreno, causadas por los fuertes vientos que ascienden por las pronunciadas laderas montañosas del archipiélago.

El huracán Lane en agosto de 2018, cuyo centro pasó a 150 millas al oeste de la Isla Grande, dejó unas sorprendentes 58 pulgadas de lluvia en las zonas orientales de la Isla Grande, al noroeste de Hilo. Esta es la segunda mayor cantidad de lluvia registrada de un ciclón tropical en Estados Unidos, solo superada por el huracán Harvey en agosto y septiembre anteriores (2017), que dejó más de 60 pulgadas de lluvia en la región de Houston-Beaumont, en el sureste de Texas.

Lo que se espera de Lala en Hawái

El peligro más grave tierra adentro de Lala serán las fuertes lluvias, que podrían superar los dos pies en toda la Isla Grande, provocando inundaciones y deslizamientos de tierra potencialmente mortales, particularmente en zonas de terreno escarpado.

Aunque podrían caer hasta 8 pulgadas de lluvia en las otras islas principales este fin de semana, la Isla Grande y Maui recibirán la mayor parte de las fuertes lluvias, con acumulaciones generalizadas de 8 a 12 pulgadas y acumulaciones aisladas de más de 20 pulgadas en sus zonas más húmedas orientadas al viento, donde las pendientes pronunciadas miran hacia el este, en dirección a los vientos predominantes.

Mientras tanto, se esperan condiciones de huracán (vientos de 74 mph o más) desde las primeras horas del sábado en toda la Isla Grande, mientras que las condiciones de tormenta tropical (vientos de 39 a 73 mph) se extenderán al condado de Maui, incluidas Maui, Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi y Kahoʻolawe, más tarde el sábado, hora local. Los vientos en la parte superior de las laderas montañosas orientadas al este podrían ser hasta 30% más fuertes de lo que refleja el pronóstico del Centro Nacional de Huracanes, que estima únicamente los vientos en la superficie (por ejemplo, vientos de 75 mph en la superficie podrían alcanzar hasta 100 mph en elevaciones mayores).

Además, se pronostican condiciones marítimas y oleaje peligrosos, con olas grandes y rompientes de 15 pies o más, durante todo el fin de semana a lo largo de las costas orientadas al este de Hawái.

El oleaje seguirá elevado hasta principios de la próxima semana, pero las condiciones generalmente mejorarán en todo el archipiélago de islas para el lunes, cuando Lala se aleje.

Atlántico tibio da marcha atrás

Los modelos de pronóstico continúan reduciendo sus expectativas iniciales sobre dos sistemas que hemos estado siguiendo en las profundidades del Atlántico tropical, designados Invest 92L e Invest 94L.

Invest 92L, la perturbación más occidental, ubicada ahora a solo unas 350 millas al este de las islas más orientales del Caribe, que ayer tenía un 80% de probabilidades de desarrollo y estaba al borde de convertirse en la próxima tormenta con nombre del Atlántico, perdió fuerza el jueves al encontrarse con una fuerte cizalladura del viento inducida por El Niño. El NHC redujo rápidamente sus probabilidades de desarrollo del 80% el jueves por la mañana a un escaso 20% para el viernes por la mañana.

Aunque podría provocar periodos de fuertes lluvias y condiciones de tormenta mientras pasa por las islas este fin de semana, las probabilidades de desarrollo de 92L parecen desaparecer después de hoy, mientras se dirige directamente hacia la zona de mayor cizalladura del viento.

La perturbación al este de 92L, designada Invest 94L, también tenía dificultades a primera hora del viernes. Un ambiente seco y estable está limitando la organización de las tormentas eléctricas y este sistema todavía tiene trabajo por hacer antes de superar el obstáculo para su formación.

Como discutimos en boletines anteriores, este sistema durará más que 92L, pero está por verse si puede alcanzar suficiente organización para convertirse en una depresión tropical o una tormenta con nombre este fin de semana o a principios de la próxima semana.

En general, los modelos han continuado mostrando una tendencia contraria al desarrollo de 94L y nuestros dos sistemas de modelos con mejor desempeño, el europeo y DeepMind de Google, han reducido considerablemente sus probabilidades.

Monitorearemos las tendencias para las islas del noreste del Caribe más adelante la próxima semana, mientras 94L, o lo que se forme a partir de él, se desplaza cerca de las islas o al norte de ellas. Por ahora, sin embargo, nuestros modelos de pronóstico no sugieren una amenaza significativa para las islas la próxima semana.

“No hay dónde vivir, lo perdimos todo”, relató a The Associated Press Morales, de 38 años, en un refugio de Cali, una de las ciudades más afectadas por el sismo de magnitud 7,4 ocurrido el lunes con epicentro en el departamento de Chocó, en el noroeste del país, que cobró la vida de más de 285 personas.

Su casa quedó destruida: se agrietaron las paredes, se derrumbó el piso y se cayó el techo.

Morales es una de las más de 102.000 personas damnificados por el sismo de mayor magnitud registrado en el país en lo que va del siglo. El gobierno calcula que más de 12.800 viviendas quedaron destruidas y otras 73.400 afectadas.

Además de la búsqueda de sobrevivientes, que se dificulta con el paso de las horas, comienza otro desafío: reconstruir la vida de los damnificados como el país lo hizo en 1999 tras un sismo de similar magnitud.

Medidas excepcionales

El terremoto se convirtió en el primer gran desafío para el recién posesionado presidente Abelardo de la Espriella, quien declaró el desastre nacional y la emergencia económica para poder establecer impuestos temporales sin el aval del Congreso.

Los fondos nacionales e internacionales que se recauden irán al “Fondo Milagro”, como lo llamó el presidente, que se destinará a la construcción de hospitales, centros educativos, inmuebles, vías y aeropuertos.

Una estrategia similar fue usada en 1999 tras el terremoto de Armenia, en el oeste, cuando los recursos se concentraron en el Fondo para la Reconstrucción de la Región del Eje Cafetero.

Yezid Alvarado Vargas, doctor en Ingeniería de la Construcción y docente de la Universidad Javeriana, explicó a AP que Colombia debería “diagnosticar bien y reconstruir mejor” y que para eso se necesita saber el estado real de las edificaciones y en la reconstrucción "incorporar la información que nos deja este sismo". Entre ellas mencionó las condiciones “particulares del suelo y una revisión de la vulnerabilidad existente”, dado que Colombia llega al terremoto actual mejor preparada que en 1999.

De la Espriella prometió concentrar esfuerzos en reconstruir Chocó con un “Plan Marshall”, en referencia a la iniciativa patrocinada por Estados Unidos que ayudó a reactivar las economías de Europa occidental tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

“Tenemos que reconstruirlo; hay una gran labor por delante y estoy comprometido en ello”, dijo De la Espriella a la prensa el viernes tras llegar a Quibdó, la capital de Chocó.

Refugios y ayuda humanitaria

Morales aseguró que se quedará en uno de los refugios dispuestos en Cali para los damnificados “hasta que el gobierno nos dé una ayuda”. El presidente prometió subsidios de alquiler para quienes perdieron su vivienda y apoyo financiero.

“Hoy venimos donde están dando las donaciones. Nos han dado algo de alimentación, comida, ropitas”, relató a AP Olga Castro, una de las afectadas en Cali, junto a sus cinco hijos. “Por lo menos salimos con vida... una vecina me está dando posada y de ahi vamos a ver qué hacer”, explicó.

Las autoridades de los municipios afectados habilitaron colegios, parques y edificios públicos como refugios, los equiparon con carpas y colchonetas y ofrecen comida; pero en otros casos son los ciudadanos los que improvisan albergues en las calles.

María Mercedes Liévano, directora en el país de Save the Children, dijo a AP que las necesidades de los afectados son apremiantes, especialmente en los lugares de menor acceso como Buenaventura, el principal puerto del país, y Chocó.

“Son territorios aislados, abandonados, con debilidad de oferta institucional histórica, con temas de violencia y además les llega un terremoto de este tipo. Entonces es una crisis sobre una crisis que está dejando a las poblaciones en una situación de vulnerabilidad extrema”, explicó Liévano.

Esto, advirtió, se exacerba en la niñez que está bajo estrés tras el terremoto y que necesita apoyo socioemocional, luego de estar separados de sus familias o enterarse de que han muerto. Lo que se suma a la falta de acceso a la educación, dado que más de 2.200 centros educativos resultaron afectados, según cifras gubernamentales.

La ayuda también llegará a las zonas afectadas proveniente de los centros de acopio habilitadas en distintas ciudades como Bogotá. El viernes aproximadamente 500 voluntarios se juntaron en el centro Vive Claro para clasificar y embalar la ayuda.

Angélica Hernández, una voluntaria de 27 años, empacaba comida para perros y gatos que será enviada a Chocó, el epicentro del terremoto. “No sólo las personas fueron afectadas, también hay muchos animalitos que pues hasta perdieron sus familias, están perdidos y se necesita ayudar, porque ellos no tienen voz para hacerlo”, dijo a AP.

El sismo de magnitud 7,4 afectó una amplia franja del oeste de Colombia, desde centros urbanos como Cali y Pereira hasta zonas remotas y escarpadas del departamento del Chocó. Hasta la mañana del viernes, las autoridades habían confirmado más de 280 muertos, miles de heridos y más de 12.000 viviendas destruidas. Los equipos de respuesta han logrado rescatar a unas 350 personas, pero cientos siguen desaparecidas.

El presidente colombiano Abelardo de la Espriella ha prometido una respuesta gubernamental contundente. Pero, con tantas necesidades repartidas en un área tan extensa, los grupos de ayuda también desempeñarán papeles importantes para asistir a quienes necesitan refugio, suministros y apoyo económico.

Para Catalina Vargas, directora de CARE en Colombia, las labores institucionales no eliminan la necesidad humanitaria. Indicó que la zona más gravemente afectada, el Chocó, también es una de las partes más aisladas y desatendidas del país, por lo que, señaló, el acceso sigue siendo la limitación determinante.

Para quienes pueden ayudar, donar dinero en efectivo suele ser lo ideal para dar a los grupos flexibilidad y agilidad, señaló Abe Diaz, jefe de ayuda ante desastres de Amazon, que está proporcionando a sus socios los suministros solicitados.

Díaz resaltó que las donaciones de productos no solicitados abruman a las comunidades y obligan a los equipos de respuesta a desviar recursos de labores vitales sólo para clasificar y almacenar suministros no deseados.

A continuación, algunas organizaciones que están recaudando donaciones para la recuperación tras el sismo en Colombia, incluidos grupos de Estados Unidos que están respondiendo en el área y algunas organizaciones locales que aceptan fondos del exterior.

Grupos con sede en EEUU en el lugar

All Hands and Hearts ha proporcionado herramientas de búsqueda y rescate como martillos neumáticos y picos al cuerpo de bomberos de Pereira, además de mantas y suministros de rehidratación para los afectados. Enlace para donar.

CARE tiene una presencia de larga data en Colombia. Su apoyo inmediato se centrará en asistencia alimentaria mediante efectivo y vales, paquetes de suministros de emergencia y protección y apoyo emocional para las familias afectadas. Enlace para donar.

Direct Relief está financiando a personal médico de respuesta sobre el terreno y se prepara para entregar los medicamentos y suministros de atención sanitaria solicitados. Enlace para donar.

GEM se está uniendo a socios locales para proporcionar kits esenciales con alimentos, agua y artículos de higiene. Enlace para donar.

Operation Blessing está enfocando su respuesta inicial en proporcionar alimentos y agua, así como linternas solares, a las personas desplazadas. Enlace para donar.

Save the Children ha trabajado en Colombia durante más de 40 años y ha iniciado actividades de apoyo psicosocial y habilitado múltiples espacios amigables para la niñez en las zonas afectadas. Enlace para donar.

World Central Kitchen está proporcionando alimentos y agua a personas desplazadas, personal de primera respuesta y voluntarios, incluso en comunidades montañosas más remotas. Enlace para donar.

Marc Anthony encabeza el domingo concierto benéfico para Colombia y Venezuela

Las estrellas de la música latina Marc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, Chayanne, Feid, Jay Wheeler y muchos más actuarán en un concierto benéfico internacional para Venezuela y Colombia el 16 de agosto a las 6:00 de la tarde, hora del este de Estados Unidos, en el Kaseya Center de Miami. Se transmitirá en vivo por Univision, ViX, WAPA y emisoras de radio de TelevisaUnivision, iHeartLatino y Venevision Play en Venezuela.

Los televidentes pueden donar escaneando los códigos QR en pantalla, enviando un mensaje de texto con la palabra UNIDOS al 707070 o visitando univision.org durante la transmisión. Los ingresos se destinarán a All Hands and Hearts, CARE, GEM, TECHO y World Central Kitchen.

Grupos con sede en Colombia que aceptan donaciones del exterior

Abaco Colombia, una asociación de 26 bancos de alimentos en todo Colombia, está distribuyendo comida a las familias afectadas en las regiones impactadas. Aceptan donaciones en línea, aunque el procesador de pagos requiere un número de pasaporte.

Equipos de la Cruz Roja Colombiana están realizando labores de búsqueda y rescate, ofreciendo atención médica y apoyo psicosocial, y cubriendo otras necesidades. Aceptan donaciones en línea, aunque el procesador de pagos requiere un número de pasaporte.

La Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia apoya iniciativas juveniles, nutrición y salud, y el fortalecimiento comunitario. Está ayudando a entregar suministros de socorro y alimentos a personas desplazadas en Pereira y otros lugares. Aceptan PayPal.

La Fundación Semillas de Oportunidades apoya a jóvenes a través del arte y el deporte desde su base en Quibdó, Chocó. Están apoyando a familias de jóvenes en todo el Chocó. Aceptan PayPal.

Manos Visibles, una red de organizaciones dedicada a la equidad racial y territorial, está colaborando con una escuela local de oficios con el objetivo de restaurar al menos 100 viviendas en la ciudad de Buenaventura. Aceptan donaciones en línea, aunque el procesador de pagos requiere un número de pasaporte.

Presentes Corporation, una organización de 43 años en Colombia enfocada en la resiliencia comunitaria, se está asociando con la organización sin fines de lucro Give to Colombia, con sede en Miami, para facilitar donaciones desde Estados Unidos. Su fondo Colombia Se Levanta acepta donaciones en línea.

Refugio Huellas de Amor en Pereira está apoyando a los animales rescatados que ya están bajo su cuidado, así como a otros animales afectados. Huellitas Callejeras Barranquilla está enviando veterinarios y suministros médicos a las zonas afectadas. Ambos aceptan PayPal.

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La periodista de The Associated Press Megan Janetsky contribuyó a este despacho desde Ciudad de México.

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La cobertura de The Associated Press sobre filantropía y organizaciones sin fines de lucro recibe apoyo a través de la colaboración de la AP con The Conversation US, con financiamiento de Lilly Endowment Inc. La AP es la única responsable de este contenido. Para toda la cobertura de filantropía de AP, visite https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy

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

Un terremoto de magnitud 7.4 sacudió Colombia el lunes. Terremotos de magnitud 7.2 y 7.5 azotaron Venezuela el 24 de junio.

Francine De La Rosa, miembro ejecutivo de GEM, se encontraba en el almacén de GEM en Doral, donde voluntarios recibieron un camión cargado de ayuda para el occidente de Colombia.

“Realmente necesitamos redoblar los esfuerzos porque se necesita mucha ayuda”, dijo De La Rosa.

GEM también anunció alianzas en Colombia con dos organizaciones sin fines de lucro: Motorrad Angels Foundation, una organización que viaja a zonas de difícil acceso, y Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Bogotá, fundada en 1975, con oficinas en Medellín y Córdoba.

Spence Taylor, miembro del equipo de GEM que vivió el terremoto del lunes en Bucaramanga, pasó aproximadamente un mes en el norte de Venezuela y estaba trabajando en la ciudad de Pereira, donde las autoridades reportaron 79 muertos.

“Una cosa que se ve aquí que es fundamentalmente diferente de Venezuela es que el pueblo colombiano y el gobierno son muy fuertes. La respuesta es realmente muy impresionante”, dijo Taylor a CNN. “Entonces, se ven muchos más primeros socorristas, se ve a personas llegando en masa desde las zonas que no fueron afectadas”.

Taylor dijo recientemente a CNN que GEM tenía equipos dirigiéndose a Chocó, una región empobrecida donde se encontraba el epicentro del terremoto, y que había un equipo de GEM en Cali, donde el alcalde reportó 74 muertos. Taylor dijo que los equipos estaban preparando kits familiares.

“Estamos haciendo todo lo posible para conseguirlos aquí en Colombia. Pero en este momento, yo diría a la diáspora colombiana que las donaciones en efectivo son muy útiles”, dijo Taylor a CNN.

El balance oficial del gobierno de Colombia había aumentado a al menos 239 muertos y 3,755 heridos.

El martes, la primera dama de Colombia, Ana Lucie Pineida, incluyó a GEM en Miami-Dade como un punto de entrega autorizado. El miércoles, el presidente de Colombia, Abelardo De La Espriella, pidió a los donantes actuar con cautela.

“Para quienes quieran ayudar mediante donaciones, existen canales oficiales y puntos de recolección y acopio; no donen a políticos que solo cometen el delito de recaudación ilegal de dinero, especialmente si están asociados con personas involucradas en escándalos de corrupción”, De La Espriella escribió en X en español. “Qué vergüenza que haya personas lucrándose de la tragedia; eso debe ser investigado”.

Representantes de GEM pidieron al público realizar donaciones en persona de equipos nuevos para acampar, artículos de higiene y kits de primeros auxilios con productos que no estén vencidos.

La ciudad de Pembroke Pines, en asociación con Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue, también está aceptando donaciones que serán entregadas a GEM.

Los puntos de entrega en Pembroke Pines son:

Estación 33 - 600 SW 72nd Ave.

Estación 69 - 9500 Pines Blvd.

Estación 89 - 13000 SW Pines Blvd.

Estación 99 - 16999 Pines Blvd.

Estación 79 - 19900 Pines Blvd.

Estación 101 - 6057 SW 198 Ter.

El almacén está aceptando donaciones de 9 a.m. a 5 p.m. en 1850 NW 84th Ave. en Doral. Para obtener más información sobre cómo donar o ser voluntario, visite esta página.

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“No, it's not going to be my biggest challenge,” Makhachev said. “He's just good, you know? I give him respect. He has good skills. But everybody knows my game.”

Fight fans know Makhachev as a two-division champion and reigning title holder at 170 pounds.

They might soon know Makhachev as the fighter with the longest winning streak in UFC history.

Makhachev can indeed topple Anderson Silva and set the UFC record for most consecutive wins at 17 should he defeat Machado Garry in the main event title fight at UFC 330 on Saturday night in Philadelphia.

Makhachev (28-1) has not lost since UFC 192 in 2015 and has gone on from that defeat to win the UFC lightweight title in 2022. He made four straight successful title defenses before he surrendered the title. Makhachev won the welterweight crown in his first attempt when he beat Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 322 in November 2025.

The win put Makhachev on par with Silva, a Hall of Famer who won a championship match in UFC's first Philadelphia show in 2009.

Makhachev joined a short list in UFC history — the company was founded in 1993 — of male fighters who won championships in two weight classes. The others: Henry Cejudo, Daniel Cormier, Randy Couture, Georges St-Pierre, B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Jon Jones, Alex Pereira and Ilia Topuria.

The 34-year-old Makhachev is smart enough to know that, even as a heavy betting favorite to defend his title, Machado Garry is more than “just good."

Machado Garry (17-1) just might be the biggest threat yet to end Makhachev's winning streak and walk out of Philadelphia as the new champion. His only career loss came in a 2024 decision, and he rebounded with two straight wins that thrust the Irishman into a title fight against Makhachev.

“For me to go out there against him, who many consider to be a generational talent, they're starting to talk about him in the GOAT conversation,” Machado Garry said, “for me to go out there and have that as the challenge that I have to go out there and beat to prove I'm not only the champion of the world, but I really truly am the best on the planet, that's what I want.”

Machado Garry lacks a finishing punch but has enough of a versatile skill set to win the bulk of his fights by decision. He is not the near the elite level of wrestler of Makhachev and has to stay on his feet to keep the fight in his favor. Machado Garry does have about 4 inches in height and reach to the challenger.

“He acts like he's a bad boy,” Makhachev said. “We will make him humble. We will make him a good guy.”

Mackenzie Dern defends 115-pound title against Gillian Robertson

Mackenzie Dern (16-5-0) is set for her first title defense after she won the vacant strawweight belt in her last fight at UFC 321.

She already had to make one adjustment as the champ.

“It's definitely a little bit different doing the faceoffs with the belt in my hand,” Dern said. “I'm like, how do I shake her hand? Just getting used to having the belt over my shoulder most of the week during fight week.”

Gillian Robertson (17-8) holds the record for the most UFC submission wins by a woman and has won five straight fights going back to 2024. Robertson has won five straight bouts and six of seven overall since returning to the strawweight division and she is tied with Amanda Nunes for the most overall finishes on the women’s side of the sport with 10.

New kind of Broad Street Bullies set to usher in UFC's return to Philadelphia

UFC is running only its third numbered card in Philadelphia.

UFC 101 was held in August 2009, and UFC 133 was in August 2011.

Justin Gaethje, who won the lightweight title in the main event of the June card at the South Lawn of the White House in front of President Donald Trump, beat Edson Barboza in a 2019 Fight Night event on ESPN.

Barboza is back on Saturday's 330 card and fights Esteban Ribovics in a lightweight bout.

Machado Garry thought his title fight deserved a location more associated with big-time UFC bouts such as Las Vegas. He came around to Philadelphia once he brushed up on the city's fight history — though boxing is more the name of the game, and the city boasts statues of Joe Frazier and the fictional Rocky Balboa.

“Philadelphia is going to have a special place in my heart come Saturday night for the rest of my life because it's where I'm going to win a world title,” Machado Garry said.

One fight of note on the main card includes Dustin Stoltzfus, a native of Amish country in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, taking on Mansur Abdul-Malik in a middleweight bout.

“I love this area,” Stoltzfus said. “Less Philadelphia. I'm more of a country bumpkin from Lancaster."

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Angeline Jean Elliott said she was in bed watching TV last week when she suddenly heard a “puff.”

She soon felt pain and heat in her left leg. Then she saw the blood.

Elliott had been shot, but she had no idea how the bullet got into her bedroom.

According to police, her neighbor was cleaning rust off a gun when it accidentally discharged. The bullet first went through a wall before entering Elliott’s home.

The bullet then struck a metal bedpost, slowing it down before eventually hitting Elliott in the leg.

Elliott underwent surgery Tuesday to remove the bullet.

Her neighbor ran over to help her after the shooting. Police classified the incident as an accidental shooting, and no charges were filed.

“I felt bad for him because he was crying,” Elliott said. “According to me, I thought that it wasn’t intentional.”

Elliott, who is a nurse, said she is grateful to be alive.

“Thank you, God and praise him, you know, forever,” she said.

Looking at the path the bullet took, Elliott said she considers herself lucky.

Angeline Jean Elliott dijo que estaba en la cama viendo televisión la semana pasada cuando de repente escuchó un “soplo”.

Pronto sintió dolor y calor en su pierna izquierda. Luego vio la sangre.

Elliott había recibido un disparo, pero no tenía idea de cómo la bala había entrado en su habitación.

Según la policía, su vecino estaba limpiando el óxido de un arma cuando esta se disparó accidentalmente. La bala primero atravesó una pared antes de entrar a la casa de Elliott.

La bala luego golpeó el poste metálico de la cama, lo que redujo su velocidad antes de finalmente impactar a Elliott en la pierna.

Elliott fue sometida a una cirugía el martes para retirar la bala.

Su vecino corrió a ayudarla después de la balacera. La policía clasificó el incidente como una balacera accidental y no se presentaron cargos.

“Me sentí mal por él porque estaba llorando”, dijo Elliott. “Según yo, pensé que no fue intencional”.

Elliott, quien es enfermera, dijo que está agradecida de estar viva.

“Gracias a Dios y alabado sea Él, ya sabes, por siempre”, dijo.

Al observar la trayectoria que tomó la bala, Elliott dijo que se considera afortunada.

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Attorney General James Uthmeier released a court-ordered rewrite Thursday, 10 days after Leon County Circuit Judge David Frank ruled that the original title and summary were biased, misleading and inaccurate.

First reported by the Tampa Bay Times, the new title, “Increased Homestead Exemption; Lower Cap on Increases in Non-Homestead Property Assessments,” replaces “Save Our Homes From Excessive Property Taxes,” which Frank called more of a political slogan than a neutral description.

The rewrite also removes claims that the amendment “benefits” taxpayers, “protects small businesses,” “ensures” core services and guarantees “fairness” for Florida residents.

Instead, it spells out the mechanics.

The measure would raise the homestead exemption for non-school taxes to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, with inflation adjustments after that. The old language only mentioned the $250,000 exemption, even though it would not take effect until the second year.

The rewrite also makes clear there is no required schedule to eliminate non-school homestead property taxes. Lawmakers would instead create a process allowing local governments to raise the exemption further, potentially up to a home’s full assessed value.

It also says the annual assessment-growth cap would drop from 10% to 5% for all non-homestead property, including rentals, vacation homes and commercial buildings, not just small businesses.

New Florida residents would receive the existing exemption after qualifying for homestead, but would not receive the larger exemption until their fifth year of claiming it.

Former Republican state Sen. Jeff Brandes, a plaintiff in one of the consolidated challenges, welcomed the rewrite.

“Finally, the practicing attorneys took control of the language,” Brandes said in a text. “The text is honest about what the amendment does. I hope Florida voters will dig deeper, ask hard questions, and understand the consequences before they decide the outcome.”

Opponents say the clearer language does not fix what they consider a flawed proposal.

“The revised ballot language in response to the court’s ruling more accurately represents the underlying policy for voters,” Florida Policy Institute CEO Sadaf Knight said. “However, the amendment’s harmful potential impacts remain the same.”

State analysts estimate the measure would eventually reduce recurring local property-tax revenue by nearly $12 billion annually. Opponents warn that could mean service cuts or higher taxes and fees elsewhere.

“The language on voters’ ballots may have changed, but Amendment 3 is still a scam and a tax shift,” said Jackson Peel, communications director for Save Our Services–No on 3.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, who pushed the proposal, argues homeowners need relief from rapidly rising local property-tax collections and local governments can rein in spending.

Amendment 3 needs at least 60% support to pass in November. If approved, it would take effect Jan. 1, 2027.

You can read the full amendment below:

Reportada primero por el Tampa Bay Times, la nuevo título, “Aumento de la exención de vivienda; menor límite a los aumentos en las tasaciones de propiedades sin vivienda”, reemplaza a “Salvemos nuestros hogares de los impuestos excesivos a la propiedad”, que Frank calificó más como un eslogan político que como una descripción neutral.

La nueva versión también elimina las afirmaciones de que la enmienda “beneficia” a los contribuyentes, “protege a las pequeñas empresas”, “garantiza” los servicios esenciales y garantiza la “equidad” para los residentes de Florida.

En cambio, detalla cómo funcionaría.

La medida elevaría la exención de vivienda para los impuestos que no son escolares a $150,000 USD en 2027 y a $250,000 USD en 2028, con ajustes por inflación después de eso. El texto anterior solo mencionaba la exención de $250,000 USD, aunque esta no entraría en vigor hasta el segundo año.

La nueva versión también deja claro que no existe un calendario obligatorio para eliminar los impuestos a la propiedad de viviendas que no sean escolares. En su lugar, los legisladores crearían un proceso que permitiría a los gobiernos locales aumentar aún más la exención, potencialmente hasta el valor total tasado de una vivienda.

También señala que el límite anual al crecimiento de las tasaciones bajaría del 10% al 5% para todas las propiedades que no sean viviendas, incluidos alquileres, casas de vacaciones y edificios comerciales, no solo pequeñas empresas.

Los nuevos residentes de Florida recibirían la exención existente después de calificar para la exención de vivienda, pero no recibirían la exención mayor hasta su quinto año de solicitarla.

El ex senador estatal republicano Jeff Brandes, uno de los demandantes en uno de los desafíos consolidados, recibió con beneplácito la nueva versión.

“Finalmente, los abogados en ejercicio tomaron el control del lenguaje”, dijo Brandes en un mensaje de texto. “El texto es honesto sobre lo que hace la enmienda. Espero que los votantes de Florida profundicen, hagan preguntas difíciles y entiendan las consecuencias antes de decidir el resultado”.

Los opositores dicen que un lenguaje más claro no soluciona lo que consideran una propuesta defectuosa.

“El lenguaje revisado de la boleta electoral, en respuesta al fallo de la corte, representa con mayor precisión la política subyacente para los votantes”, dijo Sadaf Knight, directora ejecutiva del Florida Policy Institute. “Sin embargo, los posibles impactos perjudiciales de la enmienda siguen siendo los mismos”.

Analistas estatales estiman que la medida eventualmente reduciría los ingresos recurrentes por impuestos locales a la propiedad en casi $12,000 millones USD anuales. Los opositores advierten que eso podría significar recortes en los servicios o impuestos y tarifas más altos en otros lugares.

“El lenguaje en las boletas de los votantes puede haber cambiado, pero la Enmienda 3 sigue siendo una estafa y un traslado de impuestos”, dijo Jackson Peel, director de comunicaciones de Save Our Services–No on 3.

El gobernador Ron DeSantis, quien impulsó la propuesta, sostiene que los propietarios necesitan alivio ante el rápido aumento de la recaudación de impuestos locales a la propiedad y que los gobiernos locales pueden controlar el gasto.

La Enmienda 3 necesita al menos 60% de apoyo para ser aprobada en noviembre. Si es aprobada, entraría en vigor el 1 de enero de 2027.

Puedes leer la enmienda completa a continuación:

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• ¡Un restaurante, 63 infracciones! No creerás lo que encontraron durante la inspección
• Jugador de Illinois gana $1,040 millones en Powerball; boleto vendido en Florida obtiene $1 millón

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• Atlantic looks to break its silence this week
• Miami fraudster flew to Phoenix to scam seniors, authorities say
• Rodents gnaw cabbage, roaches crawl on food prep tables; 13 businesses ordered shut
• Courtney Clenney pleads guilty to manslaughter for killing boyfriend in 2022
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• Illinois player wins $1.04 billion Powerball jackpot; Florida player wins $1 million

Even as the army took positions around him and the homes of two other families that settlers had blockaded for most of this week, the settlers remained close enough that Abu Rida feared they would again return after the army left and try to take over the home owned by his Palestinian American brother in Ohio.

“I just don’t know when this will end,” he said.

The standoff in Qusra entered a new stage Friday as activists marched toward the besieged homes to try and replenish the families' food and water supply. But Abu Rida said he was growing tired of the pattern, with Israeli forces removing the settlers, only for them to return and reestablish their positions after the troops withdrew.

“It’s like a kids’ game, like cat and mouse,” Ziv Stahl, the executive director of the Israeli rights group Yesh Din, said. “It’s clearly not a matter of capability but a matter of will.”

The siege of the homes is the latest episode in a wave of settler violence convulsing the occupied West Bank, which Israel seized in the 1967 Mideast war and which would make up the main part of a future Palestinian state. Israel's military said the village — roughly 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Palestinian city of Nablus — was a closed military zone.

They did not answer questions about the presence of the settlers. Both Israel’s military and Israel’s police both referred questions arrests in Qusra to the other.

The West Bank has become more dangerous for Palestinians as Israel, under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has approved more than 100 new settlements. Extremist settlers routinely enter Palestinian towns, clashing with villagers, burning homes, mosques and cars.

Netanyahu is courting blocs of ultranationalist voters ahead of what’s expected to be a difficult reelection campaign in October. He and members of his cabinet have largely dismissed concerns about settler violence as overblown and attributed it to fringe groups of a few hundred youths. Yet rights groups and Palestinians say the government's policies have made it more difficult to restrain settlers, who are rarely punished for attacks.

Qusra siege reflects broader violence

The standoff in Qusra began on Sunday when dozens of settlers arrived and blocked the doors to the three houses, preventing occupants from leaving, according to the families inside.

Israeli troops intervened multiple times and arrived in large numbers Thursday.

Abu Rida and his teenage son were temporarily moved by the army on Thursday but allowed to return hours later. He told his brother in Ohio that he planned on staying to defend the home.

For many, the scene unfolding in Qusra — now in its sixth day — reflected broader failures by Israeli authorities to curb the violence in the West Bank.

Itamar Weil, an Israeli human rights activist from the group Bnei Avraham, said the army had threatened to use tear gas against the activists and forced them to leave, even as settlers remained in the valley below Qusra.

“The army used to prevent settlers from carrying out this kind of violence,” he said. “Now, with a government that fully supports them, they’re not doing their job. They should be protecting both sides from violence, but instead they’re removing activists while barely doing anything about the settlers.”

Palestinian officials have reported 1,476 attacks by Israeli settlers in 2026, including several earlier instances in which settlers staged takeovers of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of other West Bank towns.

A total of 87 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank this year, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Health Ministry. Israel says some were involved in terrorism, which it defines broadly to include militancy and rock-throwing. Three Israelis were killed by Palestinians, including two in a July clash during which four Palestinians were also killed.

Katz strips army of enforcement power against settlers

Before calm was restored in Qusra, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Friday that he would transfer all enforcement powers against Israeli civilians in the West Bank from the army to Israel’s police.

“The (Israeli military’s) role is to fight Palestinian terrorism, focus on protecting the borders and settlements against threats, deal with the borders and the territory itself and security threats to the settlements and the State of Israel, and not chase after boys on the hills,” Katz said in a statement.

Historically, the army has been able to arrest Palestinians and bring those accused of crimes before military courts. But when it comes to Israeli civilians, in most circumstances it can only use temporary detention for those suspected of crimes, leaving arrests, investigations and prosecutions to police and civilian courts.

Katz’s move comes after he ended the use of administrative detention against Israeli civilians in November 2024. The military had used the policy as a tool to contain settler violence, allowing it to detain suspects without charge and remove them from the West Bank.

Much like with that move, rights groups said transferring all powers to the police was unlikely to restore order or ensure Palestinian safety.

Some 2.8 million Palestinians live under Israeli military rule in the West Bank alongside more than 560,000 Israeli civilians who live in settlements that the international community largely considers illegal and an obstacle to peace.

Though the Palestinian Authority exercises limited autonomy and policing power in the territory’s largest cities, agreements that date back to the 1990s give Israel security control over large swaths of the territory, including agricultural areas and communities such as Qusra.

Stahl, Yesh Din's executive director, said Katz's announcement wouldn't change or help stem the violence because police will still require army escorts to operate in Palestinian areas.

“Unless (Katz) means he’s going to apply Israeli law and have the police control the West Bank, the military is still the main body in charge,” she said.

And thus, “A Very Laufey Day” was born. Each year, the Grammy-winning singer curates itineraries for different locations across the globe for her listeners to follow. It's “anywhere I have been and loved,” she says. It allows them to live what she refers to as “a perfect day,” but also to connect with their community offline and in person. And as she approaches its fourth edition, it has only grown larger.

“It became much bigger than I anticipated, really,” she says. She sought to inspire her audience to find “third spaces,” and explore some of her favorite locales: museums, bookstores, cafes, concerts and the like, and foster community in the process. And each year, it has only grown bigger, with fans dressing up in their favorite Laufey-themed vintage fashions to celebrate the unofficial holiday.

And Aug. 23 will mark the fourth annual “A Very Laufey Day.”

“It is a fun puzzle every year,” she says.

‘A Very Laufey Day’ 2026

This year, “A Very Laufey Day” will include experiences in 75 cities across 25 countries, centering on the theme of “A Celebration of the Arts.”

Those include performances spanning symphony orchestras, ballet, jazz, opera and theater as well as events with libraries, bookstores, coffee shops, yogurt/ice cream shops and more. Her concert film “A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl” will be screened at select theaters. And she's partnered with many museums around the world, including New York City's Guggenheim, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, London's Tate Modern and National Gallery, Chile's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Seoul's Daelim Museum and more. At some participating businesses, fans will be able to acquire limited edition merchandise and Laufey-themed specialty drinks.

“This year it was really about focusing on the arts and culture and finding ways to bring this barrier of entry down between my audience — which is mostly Gen Z and Gen A — and these kind of so-called high cultural experiences,” she says. “Whether it’s going to see an orchestra show … museums or galleries, we really want to find ways to connect with those institutions.”

Some of these spaces can be intimidating for younger fans, and Laufey says this year was all about making these rooms, some of her favorites, inviting to her audience.

“It doesn’t have to be this scary thing. And so, I’ve kind of made it my life’s mission to make spaces like that fun and accessible,” she says.

Colón’s death was confirmed in statements by the World Boxing Council and the World Boxing Organization late Thursday.

In October 2015, Colón suffered a brain bleed in a light-middleweight fight against Terrel Williams in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Fairfax, Virginia.

Colón underwent surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and the WBC said he sustained “irreversible neurological damage” because of what the governing body described as “severe, illegal blows to the back of the head.”

He never fought again and was later pictured in a wheelchair. The WBC named him an honorary world champion.

“The ‘Champion of the Heart’ became a global symbol of resilience, faith, and dignity,” said the WBC, which added that the incident involving Colón inspired the governing body to reinforce its safety regulations and implement stricter medical protocols.

The WBC praised his family for its support in “one of the most moving and outstandingly brave battles for life the world has ever witnessed.”

The WBO described Colón as “a warrior until the very end” and said his “courage, strength and fighting spirit transcended the ring.”

“His greatest fight became a testament to resilience and the unwavering love of his family,” the WBO added.

Before the fight against Williams, Colón collected 16 straight wins, including 13 knockouts.

He lost by disqualification against Williams because his cornermen removed his gloves after the 10th round, believing the contest to be over.

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The season itself is in no danger; climate change, mainly caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal, is warming the weather year-round. Viewed this way, summer-like weather is ascendant. It's setting records across the globe — melting Arctic ice, driving droughts, intensifyingwildfires, spinning up storms and endangering millions of people who can't affordair conditioning, time off work or “coolcations.” The heat is so extreme in Asia that Japan has coined a new meteorological category for the danger: kokusho-bi — or “cruelly hot day.”

What seems as dead as the grass in England this year is the summertime ideal — lazy days, warm nights and escape, however temporary, from classes or parents or work or rules. During the Summer of '26, people are grieving that freedom. And perhaps, the versions of ourselves we become when our senses tell us that we are safe.

“I mourn for the way summer used to be,” author Debra Denker, who writes “cli-fi,” or climate fiction, wrote in an essay last month recalling leisurely days and July Fourth block parties of the 1960s. “Unless we change the trajectory we're on, today's children will never know the gentle and balmy summers of my childhood ... I feel sad that they may never know the truly carefree summers that the more privileged among us enjoyed.”

In 2026, summertime is a different kind of blast

No one needs meteorologists to confirm that this summer is different and our rituals are changing. Downwind from wildfires in North AmericaandEurope, the sky turns orange and the air tastes gritty. Life under Paris' famous gray rooftops can be deadly. Nights can be a sullen cycle of sleep, showering and opening a window — only to close it later to block out the urban noise.

Everywhere, life-giving sun hurts during much of the day. Checking the air quality index has become part of the act of stepping outside. We get things done earlier in the day and stay up later at night. And a full day at the beach — or an August holiday in Europe — is more a matter of risk management than it used to be.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Americans are more likely to say extreme heat has had either a “major impact” or “minor impact” on their travel or vacation plans, electricity bills, their sleep, their family’s outdoor activities and more parts of their day-to-day life than in July 2024. Research at Oxford University published in July found that the intense heat influences daily behavior globally, with such “everyday adaptations” to daily activities occurring across seven of the countries most at risk of heat waves: Brazil, France, India, Nigeria, Turkey, the U.S. and China.

For some, it's a summer of discontent

Amber Risebrow, a teacher in Britain’s Channel Islands, said she yearned for England’s idyllic warm season — that period when the sunlight lingers.

“I wanted the long light evenings and the sunshine and the not-dark-at-4pm of it all,” she posted recently on Instagram. “What I did not want was to feel like a rotisserie chicken every single time I stepped outside. Slowly rotating. Gently basting. Questioning my life choices by 10am.”

For those who care to look, the data is plentiful and the weight of it is moving toward hotter and stormier summers. This week alone, intense heat hammered the U.K. and France as temperatures soared toward 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). It was the fifth heat wave of the year in a region where air conditioning is sporadic at best. And the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever in July.

Globally so far, this is the third-hottest year, behind 2024 and 2025, climate statistics show.

But 2026 still has time to catch up. Thanks to the one-two punch of accelerated human-caused global warming and a supersized El Nino — a periodic warming of parts of the Pacific that leads to temperature variations around the globe — there’s an increasing chance that by the end of the year, 2026 could become the hottest year on record, scientists said.

“And it’s not just extreme heat,” the World Meteorological Organization’s Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva. “We’re also seeing extreme rainfall, tropical cyclones. So we’re not in holiday mode at all.”

Is summer an ‘outdated sham’?

Somewhere deep, there's a sense of acceptance that life-threatening, trip-canceling heat waves and their rippling effects aren't a one-off fluke. So management has ensued, with the hope that escaping hot weather might somehow allow the return of that summertime feeling — for now.

Advisories urging tourists to limit outdoor activity during peak heat hours have become a standard part of trip planning from Cambodia to Cambridge, England. Dog walking is becoming a dawn-or-dusk activity, with governments in high heat zones advising owners against midday walks. Employers and workers are adapting, with work hours especially for agricultural and construction workers shifting to the morning, and policies in some places allowing employees to work from home when the heat becomes extreme.

But home doesn't offer much solace for workers with no air conditioning. Only about 4% of British homes have “air-con,” compared to about 90% of American homes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

So achieving old-fashioned summertime bliss is, and perhaps always has been, mostly a matter of privilege.

In “An Open Letter to the Person Who Asked Me What I'm Doing For The Summer As If I Didn't Have to Work,” comedy writer Elizabeth Simone addressed the issue in the Weekly Humorist last year.

“You do know that summer vacation is an outdated sham, right?” she wrote. “Obviously it's because of what summer meant back when we were kids.”

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Trump’s solicitor general petitioned the high court to suspend last week’s decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Chief Justice John Roberts set a deadline of Tuesday for a response by plaintiffs challenging the ballroom project.

The divided appeals court panel ruled last week Trump must stop the White House ballroom’s construction because Congress has not approved the project. The panel’s majority said Trump doesn’t have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom where the White House’s East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall.

The lower court suspended its own ruling for two weeks to give Trump's Republican administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to rule on its stay petition before the appeals court panel’s decision takes effect on Aug. 21.

"This case involves an extraordinary and unlawful injunction that will halt the ongoing construction of the integrated military complex, including a totally secure ballroom space, at the East Wing of the White House, which is vitally required by national security,” Sauer wrote.

In April, a district court judge ordered a stop to aboveground construction of the planned ballroom. But the judge stressed that the White House was free to proceed with underground work, including the construction of any bunkers, military installations and medical facilities.

The D.C. Circuit panel’s 2-1 decision upheld an order to pause aboveground construction on the project, siding with historic preservationists who sued to stop construction of the ballroom.

“Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” wrote the majority's two judges, both appointed by Democratic presidents.

A third judge disagreed, finding that the preservationist group that challenged the project had no legal right to sue.

“The district court elevated the aesthetic displeasure of a single passerby over the government’s security interests in the ballroom,” wrote Judge Neomi Rao, who was appointed by Trump.

The Trump administration argues that the president, not Congress or the courts, has unimpeded authority to renovate the White House. The current state of the project, essentially an open construction site, makes it harder to protect the White House, the Justice Department contends.

The administration also says the National Trust for Historic Preservation does not have the legal right, or standing, to sue over the ballroom, which is part of Trump’s plans to quickly remake Washington. The solicitor general said the ballroom project “should be a matter for the President and the political process, not construction-by-injunction.”

In response to the petition, the trust accused the White House of trying to “outrun the courts" by accelerating construction work, pointing to the administration's plans to install 1 million pounds of rebar and pour another 3,000 cubic yards of concrete in the next week alone.

“The Administration’s transparent efforts to evade the rule of law, frustrate judicial review, and limit the availability of meaningful relief in the courts must stop here,” the plaintiffs said in a statement.

During an appeals court hearing in early June, an administration lawyer defended a broad view of presidential control over iconic public facilities. The government could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty and the White House, Justice Department lawyer Yaakov Roth said in response to a hypothetical question, and the descendants of immigrants who came through Ellis Island and the enslaved people who built the White House would not have standing to sue.

The D.C. Circuit panel upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who was nominated by Republican President George W. Bush. Leon concluded that a pause wouldn’t jeopardize national security. He also exempted any construction work that is necessary for the safety and security of the White House.

The ballroom has been under construction for 10 months. The administration says the work is roughly 65% finished.

“Given those developments, the injunction promises chaos in service of nothing,” Sauer wrote.

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Officials said they received a 911 call just before 8 a.m. about a vehicle rollover in the 700 block of Northeast Flagler Drive.

When crews arrived, they found two vehicles involved in the crash. One was on its side, while the other had come to rest against a building.

Two people suffered minor injuries, officials said. One person was transported to a hospital, while the other declined transportation.

A building inspector was called to the scene to check the structure for possible damage. No significant structural damage has been reported.

Officials have not said what led to the crash.

Las autoridades indicaron que recibieron una llamada al 911 poco antes de las 8 de la mañana en la que se alertaba de un vuelco de un vehículo en la manzana 700 de Northeast Flagler Drive.

Cuando los equipos de emergencia llegaron al lugar, encontraron dos vehículos implicados en el accidente. Uno estaba volcado, mientras que el otro había quedado apoyado contra un edificio.

Dos personas sufrieron heridas leves, según informaron las autoridades. Una de ellas fue trasladada al hospital, mientras que la otra rechazó el traslado.

Se llamó a un inspector de edificios al lugar para que comprobara si la estructura había sufrido daños. No se han registrado daños estructurales significativos.

Las autoridades no han revelado qué provocó el accidente.

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According to the sheriff’s office, Isabelle Johnson, 38, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Task Force at a house in Cottondale Thursday afternoon in connection with the killing of 43-year-old Jason Coulthart.

Authorities said Coulthart vanished on May 24 in Niceville, in Okaloosa County, and his body was discovered on June 25 in a shallow grave in Walton County.

“The arrest was the result of information developed by the Walton County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Unit on Johnson’s whereabouts,” the sheriff’s office posted on social media. “Johnson was brought to the Jackson County Jail and will be extradited to Walton County.”

Since Coulthart’s death, detectives have been searching for Johnson and released surveillance video showing her in Destin.

While Johnson faces a murder charge in connection with Coulthart’s death, several others have also been arrested in the case.

On June 26, detectives arrested Bobbi Wagstaff, 31, on charges of possession of a controlled substance and accessory to a capital felony after the fact.

On July 1, detectives arrested Martin Leaverton and Sandra Leaverton and accused them of helping Johnson. The Leavertons, both 63, each face a charge of accessory to a capital felony after the fact.

On July 10, detectives arrested Michael White and Kathleen Morris and accused them of helping Johnson hide until June 30 in Santa Rosa Beach.

Morris, 59, and White, 74, face charges of obstruction and accessory to a capital felony after the fact.

A motive for the killing remains unclear.

“The investigation on the circumstances landing Johnson in Cottondale is continuing,” the WCSO said. “Additional charges may be forthcoming.”

Según la oficina del sheriff, Isabelle Johnson, de 38 años, fue arrestada por el Grupo de Trabajo de los Alguaciles de Estados Unidos en una casa de Cottondale el jueves por la tarde en relación con la muerte de Jason Coulthart, de 43 años.

Las autoridades dijeron que Coulthart desapareció el 24 de mayo en Niceville, en el condado Okaloosa, y su cuerpo fue descubierto el 25 de junio en una tumba poco profunda en el condado Walton.

“El arresto fue resultado de información obtenida por la Unidad de Delitos Cibernéticos de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Walton sobre el paradero de Johnson”, publicó la oficina del sheriff en redes sociales. “Johnson fue trasladada a la cárcel del condado Jackson y será extraditada al condado Walton”.

Desde la muerte de Coulthart, los detectives han estado buscando a Johnson y difundieron un video de vigilancia que la muestra en Destin.

Aunque Johnson enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en relación con la muerte de Coulthart, varias otras personas también han sido arrestadas en el caso.

El 26 de junio, los detectives arrestaron a Bobbi Wagstaff, de 31 años, por cargos de posesión de una sustancia controlada y complicidad después de los hechos en un delito grave capital.

El 1 de julio, los detectives arrestaron a Martin Leaverton y Sandra Leaverton y los acusaron de ayudar a Johnson. Los Leaverton, ambos de 63 años, enfrentan cada uno un cargo de complicidad después de los hechos en un delito grave capital.

El 10 de julio, los detectives arrestaron a Michael White y Kathleen Morris y los acusaron de ayudar a Johnson a esconderse hasta el 30 de junio en Santa Rosa Beach.

Morris, de 59 años, y White, de 74, enfrentan cargos de obstrucción y complicidad después de los hechos en un delito grave capital.

El motivo del asesinato sigue sin estar claro.

“La investigación sobre las circunstancias que llevaron a Johnson a Cottondale continúa”, dijo la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Walton. “Podrían presentarse cargos adicionales”.

Earlier this month, The Associated Press highlighted Maisa Lopes Eliaser as one of dozens of spouses or parents of U.S. troops who had been detained after President Donald Trump’s administration rolled back protections for military families amid its push for mass deportations. Following the AP’s reporting, a group of Congressional Democrats launched an investigation into deportations of military service members and their families.

Eliaser was placed on a deportation flight Wednesday to her native Brazil when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on the plane received a phone call about her mid-flight, she told the AP. She said she was then asked by an ICE officer whether she wanted to continue on to Brazil or go back to the U.S.

“Who made the call? We don’t know,” said Eliaser’s husband, Army Staff Sgt. Alexis Jaramillo. “But someone made the phone call, and then she came back.”

While other detainees were led off the plane in Brazil, Eliaser stayed on board and returned to Louisiana. ICE officers told her that she was “famous” because there were videos about her case, she said.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

DHS previously told AP that Eliaser, 32, had been issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge on April 15, after overstaying the tourist visa she used to enter the U.S. in 2019.

Jaramillo, a 43-year-old aviation operations specialist who has served in the Army for more than a decade, took leave of his duties training soldiers in Fort Polk, Louisiana, to care for Eliaser's 5-year-old son after she was detained on July 8.

Jaramillo said Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a former Navy officer, also looked into his wife’s case. Kelly’s office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

“This family’s reunion is proof of what’s possible when people set politics aside and do right by those who serve,” Danitza James, who heads Repatriate Our Patriots, a nonprofit that supports military families facing deportation and helped with Eliaser’s case, said at a news conference. “We won’t stop until every military family facing detention gets the same chance at justice.”

Eliaser, who was detained in July while at an immigration appointment, has another appointment scheduled for Monday in an effort to reopen her case and advance her green card application. Jaramillo is a U.S. citizen and the couple have been married since 2024.

Jaramillo said he has been told that there will be no further issues with Eliaser’s case, but the couple is still concerned.

“We are really, really, really scared about it, but you know, we have to go,” Jaramillo said. “I told the person who gave me the appointment, ‘Hey sir, don’t play with me, I’ve been through a lot.’”

Eliaser said she is still struggling to sleep and is afraid she will be sent back to the detention facility, where she said she was treated like “an animal.”

“It felt like I was in a nightmare,” Eliaser said. “I could not believe what was happening until I returned to my house. Day by day, I’m trying to recover from this trauma.”

There have been similar interventions in other high-profile cases over the past year. Annie Ramos, 22, was detained by immigration authorities as her husband, an Army staff sergeant, was preparing to deploy. She was released after a public outcry. Around the same time, U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat and combat veteran, told the AP that she personally contacted DHS to call for the release of Deisy Rivera Ortega, the immigrant wife of an Army sergeant who did three tours in Afghanistan, after learning about her case from advocacy groups. She was eventually released from custody.

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El tiroteo ocurrió alrededor de las 2 a.m. del 10 de junio en la vivienda de Ashley Marie Hosendove, de 32 años, ubicada cerca de Northwest First Court y 16th Street. La mujer había sido arrestada inicialmente por un cargo no relacionado con el incidente.

Según el informe de arresto, la niña, identificada por un familiar como Janova Park, sufrió heridas de bala en el abdomen y el torso y fue trasladada de emergencia al HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, donde posteriormente murió.

Hosendove dijo a agentes de la Policía de Florida City que el hermano de Janova, de 4 años, fue quien apretó el gatillo, según el informe.

“Debido a que [Hosendove] no aseguró adecuadamente el arma de fuego y mostró una indiferencia consciente hacia el bienestar de sus hijos, lo que provocó la muerte de la víctima, fue acusada de un cargo de homicidio involuntario agravado de un menor y un cargo de negligencia culpable”, concluyó en el informe el detective Paulo Klimick Pereira, de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

Hasta la mañana del jueves, Hosendove, nacida en Carolina del Sur, permanecía detenida sin derecho a fianza en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según los registros carcelarios.

En un comunicado, su abogado, Chad Piotrowski, calificó el incidente como “una tragedia absolutamente desgarradora”.

“Una madre perdió a su hija”, señala el comunicado. “No hay nada que el sistema de justicia penal pueda hacerle a esta mujer que se acerque siquiera a lo que ya está viviendo”.

Piotrowski dijo que su firma actuó “rápidamente” para lograr la liberación de Hosendove y agregó que “mañana por la mañana presentaremos un acuerdo para que pueda regresar a casa con su familia”.

“También existen verdaderas cuestiones legales en este caso”, continuó. “Ella es propietaria legal de un arma. El arma de fuego estaba dentro de una cangurera que había sido colocada en un clóset. Abordaremos esos asuntos ante el tribunal, pero por ahora nuestro objetivo es lograr que esta madre regrese a casa y trabajar rápidamente para resolver el caso”.

The former LSU coach and athletic director passed away in a Baton Rouge hospital, LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette said.

The LSU Tigers, now synonymous with college baseball's elite and known for fielding numerous Major League Baseball prospects, had never won a national title when Bertman, a native of Miami, took over the program in 1983.

The College Baseball Hall of Famer's legacy now includes the current Alex Box Stadium, which opened in 2009, holds about 11,000 and routinely is filled to capacity. The field in the stadium was named for Bertman in 2013. The Tigers also have won three national championships under two of Bertman's successors, most recently in 2025.

Since 2013, the College Baseball Foundation's annual award for the nation's top coach has been named the Skip Bertman Coach of the Year Award. Bertman won it six times between 1986 and 2000.

Bertman coached a total of 18 seasons, retiring in 2001 with a record of 870-330-3 and 11 College World Series appearances. He then served as Athletic Director until 2008 and Athletic Director Emeritus after that, continuing to live in Baton Rouge, support the university and attend LSU events for the rest of his life.

Bertman coached the Tigers to their first five NCAA College World Series championships in 1991, ’93, ’96, ’97, ’00. His tenure as coach also included seven Southeastern Conference championships. His NCAA Tournament winning percentage of .754 is the highest in the history of the event.

Bertman also was head coach of the 1996 U.S. Olympic team, which at that time included only amateur players and won a bronze medal in Atlanta.

Bertman played baseball at Miami before going into coaching, starting at the high school level in Miami Beach. His final job before taking over at LSU was as an assistant at Miami under then coach Ron Fraser.

Bertman was preceded in death by his wife, Sandy, and daughter, Lisa.

Funeral arrangements were pending Friday.

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FHP officials said three southbound lanes were closed between Commercial Boulevard and Sunrise Boulevard as emergency crews responded to the scene.

Four patients were transported to hospitals, including one person who was taken as a trauma alert, authorities said.

An additional crash in the northbound lanes adjacent to the southbound incident blocked one lane and further slowed traffic Thursday night.

Tamarac Fire Rescue, Lauderhill Fire Rescue, Sunrise Fire Rescue and other emergency personnel responded to the scene.

Authorities have not yet released details about what led up to either crash.

Funcionarios de la FHP dijeron que tres carriles en dirección sur fueron cerrados entre Commercial Boulevard y Sunrise Boulevard mientras equipos de emergencia respondían a la escena.

Cuatro pacientes fueron trasladados a hospitales, incluida una persona que fue llevada como alerta de trauma, dijeron las autoridades.

Un accidente adicional en los carriles en dirección norte, junto al incidente en dirección sur, bloqueó un carril y ralentizó aún más el tráfico la noche del jueves.

Tamarac Fire Rescue, Lauderhill Fire Rescue, Sunrise Fire Rescue y otros equipos de emergencia respondieron a la escena.

Las autoridades aún no han divulgado detalles sobre lo que provocó ninguno de los dos accidentes.

Retail sales fell 0.6% last month, marking the biggest decrease since May 2025, compared with a revised gain of 0.2% in June, according to the Commerce Department data released Friday. Economists were projecting a small increase.

The decline followed a notable bump in spending in both April and May as Americans dipped into their government tax refunds.

The drop in spending for July, however, raised concern among some economists about the resiliency of consumers who have powered the economy forward despite nagging inflation and soaring gasoline prices. Yet, it may be too early to declare a retreat by one of the strongest and most consistent forces in the U.S. economy of late.

Still, the weak sales report follows unexpectedly sluggish jobs figures last week, and both suggest the economy could be slowing after strong consumer and business spending in the first half of the year.

Separately, consumers turned more pessimistic about the economy this month, likely driven by stubbornly high prices, according to the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday.

While most economists still expect solid economic growth in the July-September quarter, many have lowered their forecasts in the wake of the retail sales report.

Prices in July, which were not adjusted for inflation, were impacted by falling sales at gas stations. Fuel prices remained low until later in the month when evidence of a stalemate between the U.S. and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz began to grow. Business at gas stations fell 0.9% last month, according to the report.

Gas prices have been rising since the final week of July and ticked higher again overnight to $4.08 per gallon, up from $3.85 a month ago, according to motor club AAA. That's 92 cents more per gallon than Americans were paying last year at this time.

Gas prices typically begin to recede in August as the driving season comes to a close and the AAA said this week that the high cost of fuel for Americans this late in the year is unprecedented.

Excluding sales at gas stations and auto dealers, retail sales in July fell 0.2%.

Business at motor vehicle and parts dealers saw a 1.8% drop from a 1.9% increase in June, which was helped by auto makers' promotion incentives.

Electronics and appliance sales declined 0.5%. Online sales fell 2.2% from June when they were fueled by spending surrounding Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event that began in late June, earlier than previous years.

The drop in online sales weighed heavily on the so-called control group—which excludes food services, autos, building materials and gas station sales and is used to calculate economic growth. That figure fell 0.4% last month.

“American consumers are showing signs of fatigue, “ Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote Friday. “July retail sales were disappointing on all levels.”

But the weak sales seemed to be concentrated in a few areas.

Among some of the bright spots in the report: clothing and accessories stores, furniture and home furnishing stores as well as building material and garden supplies merchants all posted gains last month.

The data offers only a snapshot of consumer spending and doesn’t include activities like travel and hotel stays. But the lone services category – restaurants – registered a healthy 0.5% increase

“Though the latest numbers warrant a downgrade to the spending forecast, it’d be premature to write off the consumer,” Bernard Yaros, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics said.

He noted the job market is “broadly balanced,” and wealthy households, boosted by strong gains in the stock market, continue to spend.

New data this week showed that inflation declined slightly in July as gas and grocery prices slipped, though it is still rising more quickly than before the Iran war.

Consumer prices increased 3.4% in July from a year ago, down slightly from 3.5% in June, the Labor Department said Wednesday. Inflation had fallen to 2.4% before the Iran war. On a monthly basis, prices rose just 0.1% from June to July.

The modest decline marked the second straight decrease after sharply higher gas prices pushed inflation to 4.2% in May, a three-year high.

Given the volatile economic environment, economists are closely watching how families spend behind Christmas.

Shopping has been steady, though Americans have dialed in on sales as they grow more careful with their money.

Off-price retailers, consumer electronics and office supply retailers have had a “strong early start” to the back-to-school season, said Elizabeth Lafontaine, director of research at Placer.ai.

“Consumers have looked to take advantage of early deals to check off their lists,” Lafontaine said.

Walmart, Target and other retailers have been pushing discounts for the fall season, seeking to lure inflation-weary shoppers.

Target, for example, says that 95% of prices for school supplies are at or below last year’s levels.

Retailers begin reporting quarterly earnings next week.

Stephen Yalof, CEO of the outlet mall operator Tanger, noted an increase in foot traffic this summer because of the World Cup festivities.

More Americans were shopping too, Yalof said, because more people are vacationing close to home to save money.

“We’re rewarding with value, and we’re getting customers to come in … and shop more frequently,” Yalof told The Associated Press.

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“Jakey’s Army is not something to mess with,” said Karen Duque, the boy’s mother, after the statue was found.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded just after 1 p.m. Saturday to the park, located at the intersection of Northwest 154th Street and 89th Avenue, after receiving a report that the statue had been stolen.

Detectives with the agency’s General Investigations Unit said they took over the case and determined that the bronze statue, valued at approximately $8,000, had been removed by “unknown suspects.”

They said the statue remained missing for several days before investigators received information Wednesday about where it was located. With assistance from MDSO’s Robbery Intervention Detail Team, detectives were able to find and recover the statue, authorities said.

Investigators said they arrested 27-year-old Derick Coca on Thursday after he was caught attempting to move the statue to another location.

Officials also arrested 26-year-old Damian De Los Santos, who they said was connected to the theft.

MDSO detectives said they will continue investigating whether other people were involved in the theft.

The statue holds special significance for the Duque family and the Miami Lakes community. Jakey died at age 5 after battling a rare form of cancer.

His parents have said they wanted his memory to remain present in the community and for the statue to serve as a reminder of the young boy’s strength and courage.

“Faith is knowing that no matter what life throws at you, God is going to equip you with what you need,” said Duque. “And that’s what Jakey showed us.”

Neighbors said they were relieved when the statue was returned.

“It has just been a long few days knowing that someone had taken it, something that means a lot to the family and to our community,” neighbor Patty Becerra said.

Becerra said the statue also serves as a reminder of how fragile life can be.

“How life is so very fragile, so very fragile,” she said. “So I’m glad it’s back. It means a lot to all of us.”

MDSO officials shared photographs of the detectives who helped recover the statue alongside Jakey’s father and mother after its return.

Jail records show Coca and De Los Santos are facing one count each of third-degree grand theft.

As of Thursday, both suspects were being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on $2,500 bond.

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake affected a large swath of western Colombia, from urban centers like Cali and Pereira to remote and rugged areas in the department of Chocó. As of Friday morning, authorities had confirmed more than 280 dead, thousands injured and over 12,000 dwellings destroyed. Responders have managed to rescue about 350 people, but hundreds remain missing.

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has promised a robust governmental response. But with so much need spread across a large area, aid groups will also play important roles helping those needing shelter, supplies and economic assistance.

“Institutional capacity does not remove the humanitarian need,” said Catalina Vargas, Colombia country director for the humanitarian group CARE. “The most severely affected area, Chocó, is also one of the most isolated and underserved parts of the country, so access remains the binding constraint regardless of the strength of national institutions.”

For those who can help, giving cash is often ideal to give groups flexibility and agility, said Abe Diaz, head of disaster relief for Amazon, which is providing requested supplies to partners.

"Unrequested product donations overwhelm communities and force responders to divert resources from life-saving work just to sort and store unwanted supplies,” Diaz said.

Here are some organizations collecting donations for Colombia earthquake recovery, including U.S. groups responding on the ground and some local organizations accepting outside funds.

U.S.-based groups already on the ground

All Hands and Hearts has provided search and rescue tools like jackhammers and pickaxes to the Pereira fire department as well as blankets and rehydration supplies for those affected. Link to donate.

CARE has a longtime presence in Colombia. Its immediate support will focus on food assistance through cash and vouchers, emergency supply care packages, and protection and emotional support for affected families. Link to donate.

Direct Relief is funding medical responders on the ground and preparing to deliver requested medications and healthcare supplies. Link to donate.

GEM is joining with local partners to provide essential kits with food, water, and hygiene necessities. Link to donate.

Operation Blessing is focusing its initial response on providing food and water, as well as solar lanterns, to displaced people. Link to donate.

Save the Children has worked in Colombia for over 40 years and has begun psychosocial support activities and set up multiple child-friendly spaces in affected areas. Link to donate.

World Central Kitchen is providing food and water for displaced people, first responders and volunteers, including in more remote mountain communities. Link to donate.

Marc Anthony leads Sunday benefit concert for Colombia and Venezuela

Latin music stars Marc Anthony, Luis Fonsi, Chayanne, Feid, Jay Wheeler and many more will perform at an international benefit concert for Venezuela and Colombia on Aug. 16 at 6 p.m. EDT at Miami’s Kaseya Center. It will be carried live on Univision, ViX, WAPA and TelevisaUnivision radio stations, iHeartLatino and Venevision Play in Venezuela.

Viewers can donate by scanning onscreen QR codes, texting UNIDOS to 707070 or visiting univision.org during the broadcast. Proceeds will go to All Hands and Hearts, CARE, GEM, TECHO and World Central Kitchen.

Colombia-based groups accepting outside donations

Abaco Colombia, an association of 26 food banks across Colombia, is distributing food to affected families across the impacted regions. They accept online donations, though the payment processor requires a passport number.

Cruz Roja Colombiana teams are doing search and rescue, offering medical attention and psychosocial support, and filling other needs. They accept online donations, though the payment processor requires a passport number.

Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia supports youth initiatives, nutrition and health, and community building. It's helping deliver relief supplies and food to displaced people in Pereira and other locations. They accept PayPal.

Fundación Semillas de Oportunidades supports youth through art and sport from its base in Quibdó, Chocó. They are supporting families of young people across Chocó. They accept PayPal.

Manos Visibles, a network of organizations dedicated to racial and territorial equity, is collaborating with a local trade school with a goal to restore at least 100 homes in the city of Buenaventura. They accept online donations, though the payment processor requires a passport number.

Presentes Corporation, a 43-year-old organization in Colombia focused on community resilience, is partnering with the Miami-based nonprofit Give to Colombia to facilitate donations from the U.S. Their Colombia Se Levanta fund accepts online donations.

Refugio Huellas de Amor in Pereira is supporting rescue animals already in their care as well as other impacted animals. Huellitas Callejeras Barranquilla is sending vets and medical supplies to affected areas. Both accept PayPal.

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While the counting was suspended, riot police and army vehicles deployed to parts of the capital, Lusaka, including the main vote tallying center, though there were no immediate reports of any major unrest.

It was an unusual development for the southern African country of 22 million people, which has held largely peaceful elections since it returned to multiparty democracy in 1991.

“The violence is targeted at poll staff and in some instances has resulted in the theft of marked ballot papers in ballot boxes,” the Electoral Commission of Zambia said in a statement announcing vote counting had been halted.

It did not say who was responsible for the violence or the alleged theft of ballot papers.

Electoral commission head Mwangala Zaloumis later announced counting would start again and said the violence affected a small number of polling stations in Lusaka.

“Following a review of the security situation and consultations with the relevant law enforcement agencies, I’m pleased to inform you and to inform the nation that the security threat to the electoral process has been contained,” she said at a press briefing.

The main opposition candidate said his alliance of parties had “received deeply troubling reports from several parts of the country” and called into question the credibility of the vote.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, who ran for a second five-year term, called for Zambians to “remain peaceful, patient and patriotic as we await the official outcome from those entrusted with managing the vote” in a statement on X.

Thursday's election was seen as a test of Hichilema's economic recovery plan after the copper-rich nation was plunged into a debt crisis in 2020. Hichilema was elected in 2021 and oversaw the restructuring of Zambia's sovereign debt while reining in inflation and stabilizing the currency.

But critics say that economic stability has not trickled down to many people in Zambia, where poverty is widespread. The most prominent issues for the election were the high cost of living and electricity shortages.

Hichilema, 64, was one of 14 candidates in the presidential election, but his biggest challenge was thought to come from Brian Mundubile, a 55-year-old law graduate who emerged this year as the leader of an opposition alliance.

Zambians also voted for members of Parliament and local government councilors. About 8 million people were registered to vote at more than 13,500 polling stations.

On Friday, Mundubile said the suspension of the vote counting could lead to “an opportunity for interference with or manipulation of the results.”

“Put the records before the nation and allow every number to be reconciled. The people of Zambia voted. Their decision must be respected,” he said.

Mundubile said he had received information that members of the military had taken control of vote counting stations in at least one town and boxes containing ballots had been taken away from stations in other places, though he did not provide any evidence for those claims in a statement he made on video.

Zambia gained independence from Britain in 1964 and was a one-party state from 1973 to 1991. It has held largely peaceful votes and transfers of power between parties and political alliances since then.

However, there was some criticism of Hichilema ahead of this election by the opposition and independent rights groups, which said his government was squeezing dissent. Mundubile’s alliance accused the government of being behind a law enforcement agency raid on its offices days before the election and claimed the action was designed to hurt the alliance’s campaign.

Hichilema himself was once imprisoned on charges of treason when he was an opposition leader in 2017 during a bitter rivalry with then-President Edgar Lungu. He was held for four months after his motorcade did not give way to Lungu’s on a road and claimed he was tortured during his imprisonment.

Hichilema was released after international condemnation of the arrest and beat Lungu in an election in 2021.

Mundubile served in Lungu's government and rose to lead the opposition alliance challenging Hichilema after Lungu died last year.

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The 24-year-old Kolbe, who is white, spoke out Thursday after her semifinal heat in the 800 meters at Alexander Stadium.

“Let me say one thing. I read so many comments and I’m really happy about all the support we’re getting,” Kolbe began, speaking to German broadcaster ZDF.

“But I see some really unbelievable comments under some athletes, and I wish — we’re representing Germany here and getting support from everyone watching — but I expect a little more respect, and I’m delighted that so many people support me, but I don’t want to imagine what it would be like if I wasn’t as white as I am.”

Kolbe, who competed at the University of North Florida, finished sixth in her heat and didn't qualify for Thursday night's final.

“It’s important for me to say this,” Kolbe added, “and I expect everyone watching to give the respect due to celebrate the amazing achievements of our athletes.”

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A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck on Monday in Colombia. The 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes hit on June 24 in Venezuela.

Francine De La Rosa, a GEM executive member, was at the GEM warehouse in Doral, where volunteers received a truckload of aid for western Colombia.

“We really need to double up because a lot of help is needed,” De La Rosa said.

GEM also announced partnerships in Colombia with two nonprofits: Motorrad Angels Foundation, a nonprofit that travels to hard-to-reach areas, and Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, a Bogotá-based nonprofit founded in 1975 with offices in Medellin and Córdoba.

Spence Taylor, a GEM team member who experienced the earthquake on Monday in Bucaramanga, spent about a month in northern Venezuela, and he was working in the city of Pereira, where officials reported 79 dead.

“One thing that you see here that is fundamentally different from Venezuela is the Colombian people and the government is very strong. The response is actually very impressive,” Taylor told CNN. “So, you see a lot more first responders, you see people flooding in from the areas that weren’t affected.”

Taylor recently told CNN that GEM had teams going to Chocó, an impoverished region where the earthquake’s epicenter was, and there was a GEM team in Cali, where the mayor reported 74 dead. Taylor said teams were packing family kits.

“We are doing our best to source those here in Colombia. But right now, I would say to the Colombian diaspora, it is very helpful with cash donations,” Taylor told CNN.

The government’s official toll in Colombia had increased to at least 239 dead and 3,755 injured.

On Tuesday, Colombia’s first lady, Ana Lucie Pineida listed GEM in Miami-Dade as an authorized drop-off point. On Wednesday, Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella asked donors to exercise caution.

“For those who want to help by donating, there are official channels and collection and gathering points; do not donate to politicians who only commit the crime of illegal fundraising of money, especially if they come from being associated with people involved in corruption scandals,” De La Espriella wrote on X in Spanish. “What a shame that there are people profiting from the tragedy; that must be investigated.”

GEM representatives asked the public for in-person donations of new camping gear, hygiene supplies, and first-aid kits with items that are not expired.

The City of Pembroke Pines, in partnership with Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue, is also accepting donations that will be provided to GEM.

Drop-off locations in Pembroke Pines are:

Station 33 - 600 SW 72nd Ave.

Station 69 - 9500 Pines Blvd.

Station 89 - 13000 SW Pines Blvd.

Station 99 - 16999 Pines Blvd.

Station 79 - 19900 Pines Blvd.

Station 101 - 6057 SW 198 Ter.

You can also drop off donations directly at GEM’s warehouse from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1850 NW 84th Ave. in Doral. For more information about how to donate to GEM or volunteer in Doral, visit this page.

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Roughly 97 million people from the central Plains to the Southeast face heat advisories. Dangerous temperatures are expected in more than a dozen states in the Southern Plains and lower Mississippi Valley through Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.

Some places could hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius), forecasters said. But the combination of soaring temperatures and high humidity could make it feel as hot as 115 F (46 C) in portions of the Southeast.

That heat dome effect is created by high-pressure systems sitting above a region, trapping heat and humidity closer to the ground.

And there will be little nighttime relief, with overnight lows predicted to remain in the 70s in many places, forecasters said.

“The nighttime lows are not going to get below about 80 Fahrenheit for a lot of urban areas,” said meteorologist Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections. “So that's really going to bump up the mortality from this heat wave. It's going to be deadly because of all these factors: Long lasting, intense, and high humidity.”

People were urged to stay indoors when possible and keep hydrated.

Early days of the heat wave force workers to cope with risks

In Little Rock, Madi Ramos wore a large straw hat as she shoveled an irrigation ditch outside the state Capitol building on Thursday morning when temperatures had already reached 90 F (32 C).

“This heat is stronger than last year’s,” said Ramos, 21, who works with her stepfather at a landscaping company.

The forecast comes after July became the hottest month on record in the contiguous United States. Extreme heat events are increased and exacerbated by climate change, which comes from the burning of fuels like gasoline, oil and coal.

During a July heat wave, Ramos said she felt nauseous and had to pause for a break. One of her colleagues took three days off after falling ill from heat.

Ramos said she usually drinks seven to eight bottles of water that she sometimes mixes with electrolyte packets during her 12-hour outdoor shifts. She’s preparing for this week’s heat wave by wearing breathable clothing.

But sometimes the heat can be too much and, Ramos said, the company encourages her to take breaks.

“When I feel I can’t take it anymore, I take a break and then I come back,” Ramos said in Spanish.

Communities offer residents places to cool off or stay hydrated

When the heat gets oppressive, communities across the country typically offer public libraries, community centers and senior centers as air-conditioned places to cool down. Other places try to make sure residents are hydrated.

Donna Schillinger expected dozens of visitors to WayStation, a resource center in Rogers, Arkansas, as the heat wave lingers. The center had already provided bags filled with food and bottled water to nearly two dozen people by Thursday afternoon. Schillinger, the executive director of nonprofit Micah 6:8, said the center typically sees six people per day for to-go bags.

“Everybody is commenting about how hot it is outside,” Schillinger said. “I mean it’s just crazy hot.”

Heat arrives with a new school year and sports activities in full swing

The heat wave is coinciding with the start of the new school year in much of the country, forcing discussions about how to keep students comfortable on buses, in classrooms and even on school playground equipment.

In some school districts, parents are urged to send bottled water to school with their students. One Central Arkansas district implemented a policy this year mandating that students remain indoors, including during recess, when the heat index reaches 95 F (35 C).

Young athletes and professionals preparing for a new football season also are having to take precautions against overheating.

In South Carolina, where an extreme heat warning was in place, two school districts canceled a series of football scrimmages involving more than a dozen high schools Friday evening due to the forecast.

Nationwide, at least 58 players died from exertional heat stroke between 1992 and 2024, the latest year available, and thousands more are sickened each year, according to the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut. Most of the deaths involved younger athletes.

The institute is named after the Minnesota Vikings player who died of heat stroke in 2001, prompting changes in safety protocols.

Sweltering heat is ongoing in Europe

Hot weather is taking its toll abroad as well.

The United Kingdom recorded its hottest day of the year Thursday, coming during an excessively dry stretch that saw multiple fires break out as an intense stretch of sizzling weather continued to grip Europe.

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Las históricas temperaturas están vinculadas al cambio climático causado por el ser humano y están azotando países más preparados para largas temporadas de frío y mal equipados para este tipo de calor, con un acceso limitado al aire acondicionado.

Más evacuaciones en Francia cuando el fuego afecta más regiones

En Francia, que vive su año más seco jamás registrado, un nuevo fuego se propagó durante la noche por zonas boscosas en la región de Las Landas, en la costa suroccidental. Las llamas obligaron a evacuar a más de 500 personas en la localidad de Luglon y cientos de bomberos se desplegaban en la zona, indicó el viernes el gobierno regional.

Es uno de los varios focos que están arrasando bosques en todo el país esta semana, incluso en áreas del norte y en la Bretaña, normalmente más frescas y húmedas. Un histórico incendio calcinó bosques cerca de Burdeos el mes pasado y obligó a un cuarto de millón de personas a abandonar sus hogares.

Francia también ha apagado seis reactores nucleares en los últimos días debido al calor extremo y la sequía —y por la llegada de una masa de medusas a la costa frente a una central en el Canal de la Mancha—, informó la empresa de servicios públicos EDF. Grandes cantidades de medusas están apareciendo en muchas playas francesas debido a la temperatura inusualmente cálida del mar.

En un comunicado, la empresa señaló que los apagones tuvieron un impacto mínimo en la producción de electricidad de Francia. Aclaró que el clima extremo no plantea riesgos de seguridad para los propios reactores.

Incendios en el Reino Unido en el día más caluroso en Londres

En Stourbridge, poblado en el centro de Inglaterra, donde el jueves se originó un enorme incendio, imágenes de televisión mostraron cómo el fuego devoraba viviendas, muchas de las cuales se quedaron sin tejado cuando las llamas ardían entre los muros carbonizados. Entre 20 y 30 casas quedaron completamente arrasadas, dijo a la BBC Cat Eccles, diputada por la localidad.

Una mujer que fue evacuada de su hogar en Stourbridge narró que la policía llamó a su puerta y la instó a marcharse de inmediato.

“Creían que el fuego estaba cambiando de dirección y no sabían en qué dirección iba” , contó Jane Baxter a BBC Radio. “Así que, literalmente, fue ‘agarra lo que necesites y sal corriendo’”.

Simon Tuhill, jefe del servicio de bomberos de West Midlands, anunció que se abrirá una investigación, pero se cree que el incendio comenzó en una zona de pasto antes de alcanzar las casas.

Diecinueve personas y seis bomberos fueron hospitalizados por inhalación de humo y otras lesiones derivadas de múltiples incendios forestales en la región de West Midlands. En la cercana localidad de Stoke-on-Trent, un hombre de 23 años y una mujer de 24 fueron detenidos el viernes bajo sospecha de haber provocado un gran incendio de vegetación que se propagó rápidamente.

La Met Office, la agencia meteorológica británica, reportó que el jueves se registraron 38,1 grados Celsius (100,6 grados Fahrenheit) en el oeste de Londres, en el que fue el día más caluroso del año. Aunque las temperaturas bajaron ligeramente el viernes, muchas partes del país han recibido poca o ninguna lluvia desde hace semanas. Este julio fue el más seco en Inglaterra y Gales desde que comenzaron los registros en 1836.

España traslada restos de reyes para evitar el fuego

Las autoridades españolas trasladaron el jueves por la noche los restos de tres reyes del siglo XI desde un monasterio en la región nororiental de Aragón, cerca de un incendio forestal activo.

Los restos fueron llevados a un museo a unos 80 kilómetros (50 millas) al sur del monasterio de San Juan de la Peña, del siglo X, que permanecía intacto el viernes, según las autoridades regionales.

Pinturas, objetos litúrgicos y la ropa de un destacado conde español del siglo XVIII estuvieron entre los otros artículos retirados del monasterio.

El incendio forestal aún no estaba contenido al mediodía del viernes, y unos 800 residentes fueron evacuados. Se espera que las temperaturas bajen ligeramente el sábado.

Un incendio forestal separado, mucho más grande, en el sur de España ha quemado más de 300 kilómetros cuadrados (120 millas cuadradas) en la provincia de Huelva, obligando también a evacuaciones.

Bomberos combaten las llamas en Alemania

Los cerca de 1.800 residentes de la aldea de Gey, en el estado alemán de Renania del Norte-Westfalia, fueron evacuados luego que un incendio forestal en el cercano bosque de Hürtgen amenazó con alcanzar sus viviendas. Cerca de 300 hectáreas (1,16 millas cuadradas) de bosque ardían el viernes por la mañana, de acuerdo con las autoridades locales.

La existencia de munición sin explotar de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el bosque obstaculizó las labores de extinción, reportó la agencia noticiosa alemana dpa.

El fuego avanzó hasta quedar a 300 metros (1.000 pies) de Gey, que se encuentra al borde del bosque cerca de la frontera con Bélgica. Las autoridades aún desconocen el origen del incendio.

Alemania ha establecido un nuevo récord de muertes relacionadas con el calor en lo que va de año, superando el nivel de 2018 para todo el año, afirmó el jueves el Instituto Robert Koch. Se estima que 12.500 personas murieron por causas relacionadas con el calor entre el 1 de enero y el 2 de agosto.

Fuego en Croacia deja 1 muerto y 14 hospitalizados

En Croacia, una persona murió y 14 personas fueron hospitalizadas —y siete de ellas seguían en estado crítico a primera hora del viernes— debido a un incendio desatado durante la noche cerca de la localidad costera de Omis que obligó a más de 1.000 personas a evacuar sus hogares. El cuerpo de la persona fue hallado cuando la policía registraba la zona calcinada.

El fuego comenzó a última hora del jueves en un suburbio de Omis y se propagó rápidamente debido al fuerte viento. Las autoridades marítimas regionales informaron que 194 personas, incluidos niños, fueron rescatadas del mar y de diversas embarcaciones cuando intentaban huir del fuego.

Los bomberos habían sofocado las llamas por la mañana y otros equipos en aviones se dirigían más al sur, hacia la península de Peljesac, donde se declaró otro incendio durante la noche.

Bomberos evitan que el mayor incendio de Albania llegue a viviendas

Albania lleva semanas combatiendo decenas de incendios forestales. El viernes, 11 de ellos todavía se mantenían activos en todo el país.

El más grande está en la zona de Gure-Lure, donde se ha controlado el perímetro más cercano a viviendas residenciales.

Tres personas han sido inculpadas por ese fuego, que envolvió el Parque Nacional de Lura. Se sospecha que no tomaron las medidas necesarias para proteger el territorio bajo su responsabilidad contra el fuego, de acuerdo con las autoridades.

Por otra parte, en el norte de Grecia, más de 300 turistas y residentes fueron evacuados por mar el jueves luego que un incendio arrasara un bosque de pinos y amenazara viviendas junto al mar, señalaron las autoridades.

Se prevé que Bélgica bata otro récord de calor

Bélgica espera alcanzar el viernes su temperatura más alta del verano llegando a los 37 grados Celsius (98,6 grados Fahrenheit) en la capital, Bruselas.

También se prevé que el mercurio alcance los 37 grados Celsius (98,6 Fahrenheit) en los vecinos Países Bajos. El país padece también una grave sequía, con escasez en algunas zonas, pero las autoridades holandesas han evitado declarar una crisis de agua, ya que se espera lluvia en los próximos días.

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Hui reportó desde Londres. Los periodistas de The Associated Press Stefanie Dazio en Berlín; Claudia Ciobanu en Varsovia, Polonia; Zana Cimili en Pristina, Kosovo; Jovana Gec en Belgrado, Serbia; Lorne Cook en Bruselas; y Suman Naishadham en Madrid contribuyeron a este despacho.

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A statement from the Italian Carabinieri’s art recovery squad said the artworks were discovered in the possession of one of the suspects during searches ordered by prosecutors in the Parma province and neighboring provinces. The five suspects detained are believed to belong to an organized crime group responsible for numerous thefts of homes, businesses and other properties. Police also recovered stolen goods worth tens of thousands of euros.

Meanwhile, Brazilian police said late Thursday they located eight stolen works by Matisse following an apartment raid outside Sao Paulo. There were no apparent links between the two thefts.

The three artworks recovered in Italy are “Fish,” a painting by Auguste Renoir, “Still Life with Cherries,” a pencil and watercolor by Paul Cézanne, and “Odalisque on the Terrace,” a color aqatint by Henri Matisse. Authorities said the Cézanne was valued at 6 million euros ($7 million), the Renoir at 3 million euros ($3.5 million), and the Matisse at 20,000 euros ($23,000).

The heist at the Magnani Rocca Foundation, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Parma, took place on the night of March 22-23, police said. Video distributed by authorities showed the thieves entering through a broken door window and then taking the three artworks down from adjacent walls before exiting and escaping through the gardens in a matter of minutes.

Investigators said they retrieved important evidence at the scene, including a pickaxe and fire extinguisher with their serial numbers removed. Forensic officers were able to reconstruct the serial numbers, which linked them to an apartment building accessible to one of the alleged members of the criminal gang.

The suspects were all born in Moldova and resided in the Parma area, authorities said.

Established in 1977, the foundation hosts the collection of art historian Luigi Magnani and includes works by Dürer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya and Monet.

The museum believes a structured and organized gang was responsible for the theft, which the alarm interrupted, local media reported.

The crime followed a series of high-profile heists at major European museums, including the theft in October of French crown jewels and other items valued at 88 million euros ($101 million) from the Louvre in Paris.

Brazilian police said the eight stolen works by Matisse were valued at more than 1 million reais ($193,000) and found in the city of São Bernardo do Campo, outside Sao Paulo.

Sao Paulo police said in a statement they arrested one man at the scene for allegedly holding the prints for another person who was taken into custody in April during an unrelated art theft probe.

The recovery of the artwork marks a major breakthrough in a case dating back to December 2025, when two intruders broke into São Paulo’s Mário de Andrade library. A total of 13 pieces of art and history were stolen. Five works by Brazilian artist Cândido Portinari are still missing.

Matisse (1869-1954) is one of the most celebrated artists of the colorful expressive style. Brazilian police recovered eight prints which are named “Le Clown,” “Le Cirque,” “Monsieur Loyal,” “Cauchemar de L’Eléphant Blanc,” “Le Codomas,” “La Nageuse Dans L’Aquarium,” “L’Avaleur de Sabres” and “Le Cowboy.” They were made for an artbook named “Jazz.”

Catania’s airport will remain closed until Saturday afternoon, which falls on the Ferragosto holiday that marks the height of the Italian summer holiday season when millions flock to the sea and mountains, deserting Italian cities.

While Etna’s activity often interrupts flights at the airport, located 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of the volcano, this is the longest emergency since 2002.

“Volcanic ash can be a great risk for aircraft,” said Boris Behncke, a researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology’s Etna Observatory. “It can be sucked into the motors, and force them to stall. This is why everyone is so very cautious with aircraft when there is a volcanic ash emission."

Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe. The latest activity has been unusual for its persistence and sustained ash emissions. Northerly winds have spread light amounts of ash to Malta and northern Africa.

“There have been many shorter interruptions — and stronger eruptions — over the past few decades, but this event is different because the ash emission from Etna’s summit has been much more persistent,” Behncke said.

The closure has forced planes to be rerouted to other airports on the island, which has pushed up taxi fares and car rental prices, according to the Corriere della Sera daily. The Codacons consumer association has announced it will file a complaint with Italy’s competition authority following complaints about price gouging.

The SAC airport operator said 36% of nearly 2,000 flights scheduled to arrive in Catania from Aug. 6-12 had been canceled, while more than 600 were diverted to Palermo, Trapani and Comiso in Sicily and Lamezia Terme in Calabria. Flights were able to depart Catania over the weekend, but the airport was officially closed to both incoming and outgoing flights Monday. Comiso also was briefly closed.

The Italian train company Trenitalia has added six trains along the Palermo-Messina-Catania route to help ease the travel pressure.

Italy's federation of travel agencies and tour operators has called for a task force to coordinate responses to disruptions caused by Mount Etna and said it would ask for a review of how airlines handled the cancellations and passenger assistance.

“Operators are working around the clock to provide assistance, cancellations and alternative travel arrangements, but they cannot bear the burden of structural shortcomings and the management responsibilities of others," FIAVET President Gian Mario Pilieri said in a statement.

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The attacks caused no casualties but underlined the dangers faced by vessels moving cargo through the critical waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open oceans, as Iran keeps a firm grip on the passage.

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

2 oil tankers hit by drones as they transited Strait of Hormuz

Two tankers owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil and gas company ADNOC were attacked Thursday evening while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the company said. It added that the attack caused no injuries and that “the situation has been brought under control.”

The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said two vessels were reported to have suffered minor damage when attacked by drones while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It did not identify them as the ADNOC ships, but it appeared to be the same incident.

The UAE's Foreign Ministry blamed the attacks on Iran and said they were a “flagrant violation” of the United Nations' principles of freedom of navigation.

“Targeting commercial shipping and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of economic coercion or blackmail represents acts of piracy by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the Foreign Ministry said.

There was no immediate response from Iran.

Activists bring food and water to Palestinians under siege by Israeli settlers

Activists from Israel and other countries marched through the occupied West Bank, bringing food and water to Palestinians who have been under siege by Israeli settlers for days.

Three Palestinian families in the town of Qusra have been unable to leave their homes for nearly a week after settlers surrounded the area. Israeli troops intervened multiple times, but the settlers have kept returning.

The standoff in the northern West Bank town of Qusra is the latest in a wave of settler violence in the territory, which Israel seized in the 1967 Mideast war and which would make up part of a future Palestinian state.

Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the army to prepare a plan to transfer power to the police to enforce civilian-related matters, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Yemen says it disrupted a Houthi attack as fighting continues

Yemen’s military said its forces thwarted Houthi attacks early Friday in southwestern Yemen amid ongoing fighting with the Iran-backed rebels.

Forces affiliated with Yemen’s internationally recognized government said in a statement that dozens of Houthis were killed and injured in fighting that disrupted plans to attack military reinforcements in Taiz province with drones, explosives and artillery.

The Associated Press was unable to independently verify that toll.

A fire broke out Friday at the port in Mokha, where Houthis launched missiles targeting the port’s infrastructure, according to a spokesman for Yemen’s joint military forces. The spokesman, Wadah al-Dubaish, could not immediately say if anyone was killed or wounded.

The Houthis said Friday they targeted Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, with a drone strike in the city of Najran near Yemen's border. There was no immediate comment from Aramco or Saudi Arabia.

Recent Houthi attacks on government-held areas across Yemen have raised fears that the country’s civil war could reignite and open another front in the Middle East.

Kushner will head to Middle East for talks on Gaza

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza after a deal recently announced by the Trump administration ran into Israeli opposition.

An official with the Board of Peace, the body Trump established to oversee the fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, said Kushner, board high representative Nickolay Mladenov, and executive board member and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would arrive in Israel on Sunday.

The group will then travel to Cairo, where meetings of a Palestinian technocratic group set to assume control of Gaza under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal have been taking place for the past several months, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because planning for details of the trip has not yet been finalized.

The trip was reported earlier by Axios.

— Matthew Lee in Washington

The Taliban regained control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, after it launched an offensive as the U.S. and other NATO troops withdrew from the country after two decades of war. The withdrawal led to chaotic scenes at and around Kabul’s airport with thousands wanting to leave.

“Thank God, the past five years have passed in safety,” said Mohammad Qasim, 30, reflecting on the anniversary that comes against a backdrop of economic hardship in a conflict-stricken country. “Our wish and hope from the government is to create job opportunities for the youth.”

“We, along with the entire nation, call upon the government to create employment opportunities for the youth and to encourage them to pursue education,” he added.

Taliban curbs women's rights despite pledge

Before the takeover, the Taliban stated that, upon assuming power, it would allow women access to education, employment and public participation, albeit in accordance with its interpretation of Islamic principles.

Soon after it seized power, the Taliban imposed an indefinite ban on girls’ education beyond the sixth grade and, a few months later, also banned higher education for women until “further notice.”

Women also were banned from entering gyms, parks and public baths, from taking part in sports and traveling to distant locations without a “mahram,” or male guardian.

Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has repeatedly said the administration is working to establish conditions under which girls and women can attend classrooms or university campuses in line with Islamic Sharia laws. The restrictions, nevertheless, remain in force.

While the U.N. has acknowledged that the country has become more stable since the takeover, it has warned that lasting stability cannot be possible unless the Taliban rulers — who remain isolated internationally — lift restrictions on women and girls, protect basic rights and address terrorism concerns.

“A reduction in conflict has brought tangible benefits for many Afghans and created opportunities to focus on recovery, development and regional economic cooperation,” the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, said in a statement ahead of the anniversary. It added, however, that the restrictions on women and girls impede Afghanistan’s recovery and its reintegration with the international community.

UN says Afghanistan in world's most severe women's rights crisis

In a statement this week, the U.N.'s agency on women’s rights, said Afghan women and girls are living under the world’s most severe restrictions, which not only violate their rights but also threaten the country’s social and economic future.

“Half a decade after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, Afghanistan has systematically dismantled the rights of half its population, making it a global outlier with no parallel in the modern world,” U.N. Women said.

“In the past year alone, this exclusion of women and girls from education, employment, public life, justice systems and healthcare has only intensified, entrenching what remains the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis,” it said.

Fazila Soroush, a 39-year-old Kabul-based entrepreneur and an advocate for women’s rights, said the government had “demonstrated its worth to the people through its actions in every area.”

“We consider it essential that the officials of the Islamic Emirate who had announced the closure of schools and universities until further notice, now make a clear and practical decision regarding this matter,” she said.

In the streets of Kabul, preparations for the anniversary celebrations were underway. Vendors sold the Taliban’s white with black scripted flags while painters were busy writing slogans in praise of Islamic laws on walls, including: “The Islamic system has been achieved at the cost of the martyrs’ blood” and “Our commitment stands firm: Consolidation and implementation of Islamic Sharia.”

Taliban says it brought security and stability

Molvi Hayatullah Mahajar Farahi, deputy minister in the Taliban government for broadcasting at the Ministry of Information and culture, said in the five years the administration has delivered security, stabilized the currency, improved infrastructure and formed industrial parks that have created jobs.

“Naturally, challenges and difficulties exist, yet we can highlight several accomplishments,” Farahi told The Associated Press.

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

“The Emirate continues its efforts to further organize and improve services for our citizens in the fields of education and other sectors,” he stated.

The deputy minister rejected a U.N. report that documented terrorist networks in Afghanistan, saying “these are merely enemy propaganda, spread to portray the country as unstable.”

Asked to comment about its international isolation, Farahi insisted the Taliban government was engaged with some 40 countries. The Taliban government currently is only formally recognized by Russia.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has fulfilled all the requirements necessary for official recognition. It is now up to the international community and others to step forward and take the appropriate action,” he said.

UN points at broader educational crisis

The bans have left an estimated 2.4 million girls excluded from secondary education, UNESCO, the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, said this week — a 200,000 increase from last year. The restrictions have reversed two decades of progress that Afghanistan had made in education, the agency said.

Pointing at a broader educational crisis, the agency said 53% of primary school-aged children are out of school. Schools lack basic infrastructure such as water, sanitation or heating, while natural disasters have also led to hundreds of school closures.

Meanwhile, the U.N. World Food Program said child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force cuts in food distributions and other support.

In Kabul, Dost Mohammad Khan expressed support for the Taliban administration, saying the past five years have brought stability. He said however, that the country needs trained professionals such as doctors and engineers, urging the authorities to keep “all sectors operational.”

“We also call upon the Islamic Emirate to permit women to attend school under the sharia dress code and we urge the public to heed the directives of the Emirate also,” said the 38-year-old.

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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey.

The strike came a day after the United Nations said July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since the weeks following Moscow's all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago.

At least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 wounded last month, the U.N. monitoring mission in Kyiv said, as Russia escalated its bombing of Ukrainian towns and cities. That was 70% higher than in July last year and 30% up on June of this year.

Overall, since Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, U.N. human rights monitors say the war has killed at least 16,874 civilians, including 820 children, and wounded 51,273, including 3,126 children.

“Every month this year the number of killed and injured civilians has increased. That trend accelerated sharply in July,” said Danielle Bell, head of the U.N. human rights monitoring mission in Kyiv. “The number of civilian casualties in July was the highest we documented in a single month since March 2022.”

The Russian strike in northern Ukraine’s Sumy region early Friday also wounded four other people, including the dead boy’s father and grandmother, who were hospitalized with severe burns, the regional military administration chief Oleh Hryhorov said.

Russia's top diplomat says Moscow will intensify its aerial attacks

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that Moscow is planning to escalate its strikes on Ukraine, even as U.S. diplomatic efforts to end the war are set to continue.

“We will use much harsher methods to destroy everything that feeds Kyiv’s war machine from the West,” Lavrov said in an interview with Russian state TV broadcast Friday, referring to military aid Kyiv receives from abroad.

Officials in Washington said last month that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s main envoys, would travel to Kyiv sometime in the future. No date for the trip is publicly known, as the U.S. focuses on the Iran war.

Zelenskyy has accepted an unconditional ceasefire demanded by Trump, but Putin has refused, demanding a comprehensive peace agreement first, and Lavrov said that position hasn’t changed.

“We will only stop when there’s a long-term, reliable and sustainable settlement,” he said.

Russian glide bombs hit residential areas near front line

In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a Russian glide bomb demolished six floors of a 10-story apartment block, killing one person and wounding 16 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Russia is launching around 220 glide bombs every day against settlements near the front line in eastern and southern Ukraine, Zelenskyy said in a social media post Friday.

Russian forces crush settlements with the brute force of 3,000-pound (1,300-kilo) glide bombs, artillery, missiles and drones, then send in infantry units to attack the exposed defenders. The tactic has rendered many towns and villages uninhabitable.

In addition, Russian forces struck two tugboats in the Black Sea that were escorting cargo ships carrying Western weapons for Ukraine, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said.

It also said that its drones overnight hit the railway station in Ukraine’s southern port of Izmail that it said is used for transporting military cargo and fuel for the Ukrainian armed forces.

In all, Russia attacked 12 Ukrainian regions overnight, wounding dozens of people, Zelenskyy said.

Ukrainian drones strike a major port north of Moscow

Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, extended their long-range strike campaign against Russian infrastructure, hitting the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region north of Moscow and starting a brief fire, its governor Alexander Drozdenko said.

Ust-Luga is one of Russia’s largest oil and gas export terminals located more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Ukraine.

It has been a frequent target of Ukrainian drone attacks this summer, as Kyiv seeks to undermine Russian oil exports that provide Moscow with vital revenue for its war effort.

Ukraine also launched another attack on the premises of Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, which Kyiv says helps supply the Russian military.

The attack damaged a wall of a Wildberries warehouse in the Tver region north of Moscow, the region’s acting governor, Vitaly Korolyov, said.

Wildberries reported “insignificant damage” and said the goods stored at the site were not damaged.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday its air defenses overnight intercepted 553 Ukrainian drones over 18 Russian regions, as well as occupied Crimea and the waters of the Azov and the Black seas.

NATO warplanes shoot down a drone over Latvia

NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace in the early hours of Friday, the Latvian army and an official for the military alliance said.

Latvian authorities did not say what the origin of the drone was, but said it had entered Latvia “as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare.”

Several drones have previously crossed the border into Latvia. Most of them are thought to be Ukrainian drones that strayed off course due to Russian electronic jamming.

Two Italian Eurofighter jets were scrambled to tackle the drone and one of them shot it down, NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said.

Two Turkish fighter jets were also deployed, she said.

Residents in five municipalities in eastern Latvia were warned about the threat to airspace and told to take shelter.

Another drone crashed in woodland in Romania 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from the border with Ukraine, the NATO member’s Defense Ministry said Friday.

Military radars did not detect the drone, which landed in eastern Tulcea County, because it was flying at a “very low” altitude, it said without providing details about the drone’s origin.

The ministry said later that another drone was found Friday in the village of Plauru, also in Tulcea County, which is situated across the Danube River from Ukraine’s port of Izmail. A specialist team was deployed to the area, which was secured, it added.

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Associated Press reporters Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw, Poland, Lorne Cook in Brussels and Stephen McGrath in Leamington Spa, England contributed to this report.

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Kevin Rideout “is in good health in the care of U.S. officials,” SIM International, an Evangelical mission organization, said in a statement.

He will soon be reunited with his extended family, the statement added.

Rideout was back in U.S. custody on Friday, the country’s President Donald Trump said in a post on social media.

“Kevin, the United States of America looks forward to welcoming you HOME. Glad to have helped!” Trump wrote.

Rideout was kidnapped in the West African country's capital, Niamey, on Oct. 21 by three armed individuals and was probably driven out of town, according to information provided by a security official at the time.

No armed group claimed responsibility for the abduction.

Niger has long faced attacks from armed groups including jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State organization.

The U.S. Embassy in Niamey issued a security alert a day after Rideout's kidnapping, warning that U.S. citizens “remain at a heightened risk of kidnapping throughout Niger, including in the capital city.”

Niger is ruled by a military junta that took power in 2023 after deposing the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. The new authorities ousted Western partners including the United States, which had soldiers in Niger, and forged a new security and diplomatic alliance with Russia.

In June, more than 30 people were killed when gunmen attacked the main airport in Niamey. It was the second attack this year at the airport, a strategic hub that serves as the ruling military’s command, hosting its air force base and most of its drones and aircraft. It’s also the headquarters of the regional alliance that brings together troops from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.

The violence is the latest sign of armed groups increasingly targeting cities and urban centers in Africa’s Sahel region.

La decisión de Washington se da a menos de cuatro meses de un duro golpe a Morena cuando la Fiscalía de Nueva York abrió un proceso contra 10 funcionarios mexicanos en actividad y retirados, entre ellos el gobernador oficialista del estado de Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, quien fue señalado por tráfico de drogas.

El retiro de la visa fue anunciado por López Beltrán en una carta dirigida a Trump publicada en su cuenta de Instagram, en la que afirmó que el secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, y el subsecretario, Christopher Landau, “han ordenado quitarme el permiso para ingresar a Estados Unidos”.

“Como es evidente, esta decisión es de carácter político, más bien politiquero y propagandístico... pues no existe ninguna razón que justifique tan arrogante proceder”, sostuvo el político, que hasta mayo se desempeñaba como secretario de organización de Morena. Dejó el cargo para competir por la candidatura del partido a diputado federal por el estado sureño de Tabasco.

No quedó claro en su publicación qué tipo de visa le ha sido revocada.

López Beltrán aseguró que Rubio y Landau “no cuentan con ninguna prueba contra mi persona acerca de algún acto inmoral o delictivo”. La medida “no es más que una burda y perversa canallada de estos funcionarios y otros halcones que, en sentido estricto, no son diplomáticos ni mucho menos políticos”, añadió.

El político pidió a Trump que diga si estaba enterado de la medida y que, en caso contrario, “¿por qué no destituye a Rubio y Landau así como a quienes son iguales a ellos y le están haciendo daño por estar llenos de resentimientos y de actitudes sectarias?”.

Un vocero de la embajada de Estados Unidos en México, que habló en condición de anonimato porque no está autorizado a hablar públicamente del caso, dijo el viernes a The Associated Press que los expedientes de visado son confidenciales, según la legislación estadounidense, y que no se puede comentar los detalles de los casos individuales.

La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum dijo el viernes en su conferencia matutina que la decisión “tiene un sentido político esencialmente”.

Ante los casos de los políticos mexicanos a los que les han retirado la visa estadounidense, la mandataria instó a Estados Unidos a que presente pruebas sobre los señalamientos contra esas personas, pero descartó que la medida vaya a generar un conflicto con Washington. “Lo único que pedimos es respeto”, sostuvo.

López Beltrán, quien es conocido como Andy, fue uno de los colaboradores más cercanos de su padre antes de ganar las elecciones en 2018 y llegó a gestionar su agenda privada y las relaciones de Morena en la capital mexicana y el Estado de México, de acuerdo con la prensa local.

Durante buena parte del sexenio de López Obrador (2018-2024), el segundo de sus cuatro hijos se distanció de partido y se dedicó a una empresa de chocolates. Pero en septiembre de 2024, semanas antes de que finalizara el mandato de su padre, fue elegido secretario de organización de Morena.

Otros políticos mexicanos sin visa y procesados

La gobernadora oficialista del estado de Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila, dijo en mayo que Estados Unidos le había retirado la visa de turista a ella y a su entonces esposo. En aquel momento, Ávila aseguró que desconocía los motivos detrás de la medida.

El alcalde de la ciudad fronteriza de Nogales, Juan Francisco Gim, y el congresista federal Mario López Hernández, del partido prooficialista Verde Ecologista de México, también han reconocido situaciones similares.

A estas acciones se sumó el proceso judicial contra Rocha Moya y otros nueve funcionarios mexicanos, incluidos el alcalde de la ciudad de Culiacán y un senador de Morena, acusados de cooperar con el Cártel de Sinaloa. Las autoridades estadounidenses solicitaron la detención preventiva de los 10 mexicanos para su extradición, pero Fiscalía General de México no atendió la solicitud y pidió más pruebas para procesarlos.

Rocha Moya abandonó temporalmente su cargo para facilitar la investigación, mientras el exsecretario de Seguridad del gobierno de Sinaloa, Gerardo Mérida, se entregó a mediados de mayo a las autoridades estadounidenses.

Este proceso desató fricciones entre el gobierno de Sheinbaum y Washington.

The historic temperatures are linked to human-caused climate change, and are hitting countries more used to long cold seasons and ill-equipped for this sort of heat, with limited air conditioning.

More evacuations in France as fire affects more regions

With France experiencing its driest year ever, a new fire raced through woodlands overnight in the Landes region on the southwest coast. The blaze forced more than 500 people to evacuate their homes in the town of Luglon as hundreds of firefighters deployed to the area, the regional administration said Friday.

It’s one of several fires scorching forests around France this week, including in normally cooler and wetter regions in the north and Brittany. A historic fire devoured forests near Bordeaux last month and pushed a quarter of a million people from their homes.

France also has shut down six nuclear reactors in recent days because of extreme heat and drought — and because a mass of jellyfish washed up outside one power plant on the English Channel coast, utility company EDF said. Large numbers of jellyfish are appearing on many French beaches in connection with unusually warm sea temperatures.

In a statement, the company said the shutdowns had minimal impact on France’s electricity production. It said extreme weather poses no safety risks to the reactors themselves.

UK wildfires come as London records its hottest day of the year

In the central English town of Stourbridge, where a huge blaze started Thursday, TV footage showed the fires consuming houses, with many left without roofs as flames burned inside the charred walls. About 20 to 30 homes were completely destroyed, Stourbridge lawmaker Cat Eccles told the BBC.

A woman who was evacuated from her Stourbridge home said police knocked on her door and urged her to leave immediately.

“They thought the fire was changing directions, and they didn’t know which direction it was going in,” Jane Baxter told BBC Radio. “So, it was literally ‘grab what you need and get out.’”

Simon Tuhill, chief fire officer of West Midlands Fire Service, said an investigation will be launched but the fire was believed to have started in the grassland before spreading to homes nearby.

Nineteen people and six firefighters were hospitalized for smoke inhalation and other injuries from multiple wildfires in the West Midlands region. In nearby Stoke-on-Trent, a 23-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman were arrested Friday on suspicion of arson over a large grass fire that spread quickly.

The Met Office, the official weather agency, said 38.1C (100.6 F) was recorded in west London on Thursday, marking the hottest day of the year. While temperatures cooled slightly on Friday, many parts of the country have seen little to no rain for weeks. This July has been the driest in England and Wales since records began in 1836.

Spain moves kings' remains to avoid fire

Spanish authorities on Thursday night transferred the remains of three 11th Century kings from a monastery in the northeastern Aragón region near an active wildfire.

The remains were taken to a museum about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the 10th-century San Juan de la Peña monastery, which remained unharmed Friday, according to regional authorities.

Paintings, liturgical objects and the clothes of a notable 18th-century Spanish count were among the other items removed from the monastery.

The wildfire was not yet contained midday Friday with some 800 residents evacuated. Temperatures were expected to cool slightly Saturday.

A separate, much larger wildfire in southern Spain has burned more than 300 square kilometers (120 square miles) in the province of Huelva, also forcing evacuations.

Firefighters battle forest fire in Germany

All 1,800 residents of the village of Gey in western Germany were evacuated after a wildfire with shifting winds in the nearby Hürtgen forest threatened to reach their homes. Nearly 300 hectares (1.16 square miles) of forest were ablaze on Friday morning, local authorities said.

Unexploded ordnance from World War II in the forest hampered firefighting efforts, German news agency dpa reported.

The fire advanced to within 300 meters (1,000 feet) of Gey, which sits on the edge of the forest near the Belgian border. The cause of the blaze remains unknown.

Germany has set a new record for heat-related deaths so far this year, surpassing the 2018 level for the entire year, the Robert Koch Institute said Thursday. An estimated 12,500 people died from heat-related causes between Jan. 1 and Aug. 2.

Fire in Croatia leaves 1 dead, 14 hospitalized

In Croatia, one person was killed and 14 people were hospitalized, of whom seven remained in life-threatening condition early Friday, from a fire that raged overnight by the coastal town of Omis and forced more than 1,000 people to evacuate their homes. The person's body was found as police combed through the burned-out area.

The fire erupted late Thursday in an Omis suburb and quickly spread because of strong wind. The regional maritime authorities said 194 people, including children, were plucked from the sea and from various boats as they tried to flee the fire.

Firefighters put out the blaze by Friday morning as other crews in planes headed further south toward the Peljesac peninsula, where another wildfire broke out overnight.

Firefighters keep Albania's largest wildfire from spreading to homes

Albania has been battling dozens of wildfires in recent weeks, with 11 active fires reported across the country Friday.

The largest fire is in the Gure-Lure area, where the perimeter near residential homes has been brought under control.

Three people have been prosecuted over that fire, which engulfed Lura National Park. They are suspected of failing to take measures to protect the territory from fire, authorities said.

Meanwhile, in northern Greece, more than 300 vacationers and residents were evacuated by sea Thursday after a wildfire swept through a pine forest and threatened seaside homes, authorities said.

Belgium expected to set another heat record

Belgium was expecting to hit its highest temperature of the summer on Friday, climbing to 37 C (98.6 F) in the capital, Brussels.

The mercury was also set to hit 37 C (98.6 F) in the neighboring Netherlands. The country is suffering from severe drought, with water shortages in some areas, but Dutch authorities have held off declaring a water crisis as rain is expected in the coming days.

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Hui reported from London. Stefanie Dazio in Berlin; Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw, Poland; Zana Cimili in Pristina, Kosovo; Jovana Gec in Belgrade, Serbia; Lorne Cook in Brussels; and Suman Naishadham in Madrid contributed to this report.