Agents took Joseph Samuel Doria into custody on Saturday. Records show he’s set to appear in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Monday morning, his 28th birthday.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Doria had been referred to secondary inspection at the port’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection checkpoint after getting off the Regal Princess.

Customs officers searching Doria’s cellphone found “multiple images and videos” in Doria’s “Recently Deleted” folder depicting girls as young as toddlers being raped and sexually abused, the complaint states.

Authorities said Doria admitted to viewing the videos, saying he’s done so since he was 13. They said he also admitted to distributing the illicit material online and having a device back home that contains “a minimum of 100 videos and images” of child sexual abuse material.

Agents arrested Doria on charges related to the possession and transportation of child sexual abuse material.

As of Monday, records show he was being held in the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail facility on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service.

Extreme feels-like temperatures, heat stress days and tropical nights have all become dramatically more frequent, long and severe over the past six decades as the planet's warming intensifies — a result of the burning of fossil fuels coal, oil and gas — according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday.

The researchers went beyond just temperature, which is frequently studied, and used feels-like temperatures, to understand more of the impact on people. They assessed heat stress on individual humans, influenced by temperature, humidity, wind speed and more. They used what’s called the Universal Thermal Climate Index to analyze those factors and model the human body’s response to the environment.

The combination of heat and humidity can be dangerous for humans, because humidity impacts how sweat evaporates, and that's a cooling mechanism. Heat waves that are humid can be more fatal than dry heat waves as humans don't cool down as easily.

Heat stress is worsening in already-warm regions, and beyond

Past studies have looked at the extent to which human-driven climate change has sent temperatures soaring, especially in recent years. One study says people globally suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat in 2024. Some research says that the world is on track to add nearly two months of superhot days each year by the end of the century.

Here, researchers looked at heat stress at three levels: strong (index temperatures of greater than or equal to 32 degrees Celsius, or 89.6 degrees Fahrenheit); very strong (index temperatures of greater than or equal to 38 degrees Celsius, or 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit); and extreme (index temperatures of greater than or equal to 46 degrees Celsius, or 114.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

Places that might see around 50 more days per year of at least strong heat stress compared with the 1970s include parts of Southern Africa, such as in Namibia and Angola; Eastern Africa, including parts of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda; and parts of Mexico and Central America.

In Southern Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey, some areas will see up to 40 additional days with strong heat stress compared with the 1970s. Much of Southern Europe is seeing almost a full month of additional strong heat stress days from decades ago.

In the U.S., much of the country sees 15 or more days of at least strong heat stress, and southern parts, including Texas and Florida, are seeing close to 25 or more days with very strong heat stress.

Those heat stress seasons are also lasting longer.

The study’s lead author Rebecca Emerton, also a senior scientist at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom, said it was striking “to see heat stress not only intensifying in those places that we already consider as being hot or used to experiencing heat waves ... but also to see this, we call it, expanding footprint of heat stress expanding into regions where it’s historically been rare or non-existent.”

According to the study, the feels-like temperatures on the ten warmest nights of each year have also increased faster — 0.32 degrees Celsius (0.58 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade — than the ten warmest days, 0.27 degrees Celsius (0.49 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade.

For tropical nights, the researchers considered minimum temperature of 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit). This means people might not be recovering properly from daytime heat in the overnight hours.

And now, one billion more people face at least one day of extreme heat stress each year than they did in the 1970s.

The future impact depends on action

The world has known that adding heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests will warm the globe, said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center on Cape Cod, who was not involved in the research.

“This study adds stark details about increasing dangers to billions of humans,” Francis said. “This analysis shows not only is temperature rising, but so is humidity, which makes high temperatures more deadly because our body’s air conditioning system — sweating — struggles to keep up.”

Emerton says the work highlights the urgent need to mitigate future warming and ensure adaptation strategies, heat health action plans, early warning systems and climate risk assessments are in place.

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Pino, de 55 años, está acusado de homicidio culposo y homicidio con embarcación.

Los fiscales acusan a Pino, quien entonces tenía 52 años, de ser temerario cuando perdió el control de su bote Robalo de 29 pies en las primeras horas de la tarde del 4 de septiembre de 2022 y lo estrelló contra un marcador de canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, matando a Lucy Fernandez. Otras dos jóvenes resultaron gravemente heridas, incluida Katerina Puig, de 17 años, quien quedó permanentemente discapacitada.

Las adolescentes estaban en su bote celebrando el cumpleaños número 18 de su hija.

Los argumentos de apertura comenzaron con los fiscales diciendo que la colisión de Pino contra un marcador de canal ocurrió como resultado de negligencia criminal y temeridad.

“Lucy está muerta porque el acusado no hizo las cosas más básicas que exigen las reglas del agua”, dijo la fiscal estatal adjunta Laura Adams a los miembros del jurado.

Los de la defensa argumentan que el choque fue un mero accidente.

“El estado admite que esta no era la intención de George. Él no tenía la intención de que nadie saliera herido”, dijo el abogado de Pino, Howard Srebnick, a los jurados durante los argumentos de apertura. “Su propia hija, su propia esposa, su propio cuerpo estaban en ese bote”.

La apertura de la defensa fue interrumpida luego de que Pino se quebrara durante varios minutos frente a los jurados; los procedimientos se detuvieron y continuaron al día siguiente.

A lo largo del juicio, los jurados escucharon a algunas de las 12 mujeres jóvenes, todas adolescentes en ese momento, que estaban a bordo del bote de Pino.

“Lo primero que vi cuando abrí los ojos fue a George, y pensé que estaba muerto”, testificó Claudia Portocarrero. “Lo recuerdo, tenía sangre en la cabeza”.

Algunas testificaron sobre el alcohol que George Pino y su esposa, Cecilia Pino, proporcionaron, así como sobre el choque en sí, pero dijeron que no vieron al propio George Pino consumiendo bebidas alcohólicas.

El padre de Fernandez recordó la pesadilla viviente por la que pasaron él y su esposa. El padre de Puig también habló sobre cómo el choque afectó a su hija.

Los jurados realizaron una visita de campo a una instalación de la Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission en North Miami para ver el bote dañado y observaron imágenes de cámaras corporales de la respuesta al choque y del interrogatorio a Pino.

Pero el juicio no estuvo exento de momentos de conflicto.

La jueza Marisa Tinkler Mendez emitió una advertencia a Pino y a su familia por abrazarse frente a los jurados.

Un tenso intercambio entre Adams y Pino también llamó la atención de la jueza después de que Adams mencionara que, según los informes, Pino estaba murmurando: “Pasa, pasa, pasa”, durante un testimonio.

“Lo siento. ¿Tiene algo que quiera decirme?”, le preguntó Adams a Pino. “¿Por qué me está mirando fijamente?”.

Pino negó estar mirándola fijamente.

En otro momento, los abogados de Pino le dijeron a Tinkler Mendez que hubo “algo así como una mirada desafiante” entre Adams y su cliente, seguido de Adams “rodando los ojos” hacia Pino.

Cecilia Pino subió al estrado dos veces durante el juicio, relatando las desgarradoras secuelas del choque frente a Cutter Bank.

“She died because your husband crashed into that channel marker, right?”, le preguntó Adams durante su primera aparición en el estrado.

“She died because there was an accident”, testificó Cecilia Pino.

Cecilia Pino se quebró al subir al estrado por segunda vez, testificando: “Recuerdo haber preguntado otra vez: ‘¿Quién falta? ¿Quién falta?’. Y ahí fue cuando me dijeron que Lucy había desaparecido”.

George Pino no testificó en su juicio.

Los jurados recibirán instrucciones sobre la ley antes de comenzar sus deliberaciones.

De ser declarado culpable, Pino enfrenta entre 11 y 30 años de prisión.

Fiscalía y defensa presentan argumentos finales en juicio contra George Pino

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El magnate inmobiliario de Miami se enfrenta a una pena máxima de tres décadas de cárcel por la muerte de una adolescente.

The victims were identified as Esther Liontos, 58, and Roger Arredondo Gonzalez, 61.

Authorities have not disclosed how the two were killed, but confirmed that one person was detained for questioning.

According to MDSO, deputies were called to a home, located in the 26100 block of Southwest 209th Avenue, shortly after 8:30 a.m. Friday after receiving a report about an unconscious woman.

When deputies arrived, they found Liontos lying on the ground outside the home, authorities said.

She was pronounced dead at the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel.

Deputies said they found Arredondo Gonzalez lying on the ground nearby. He too was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities confirmed that a man was detained for questioning to determine whether he had any involvement in the homicide.

Detectives have not disclosed what that man said to them, but no arrests have been made at this time.

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

El análisis de las precipitaciones de los últimos siete días, fundamentado en los registros del Centro Climático Regional de las Altas Llanuras, expone acumulaciones de lluvia que superaron entre cuatro y ocho veces los parámetros habituales para esta época del año. Diversas zonas de la costa central del Golfo, incluyendo el sureste de Luisiana y el sur de Misisipi, experimentaron una de las semanas más lluviosas de las que se tenga constancia en un mes de junio. Esta descarga pluvial catapultó al área metropolitana de Nueva Orleans a registrar el tercer junio más húmedo en sus 80 años de historial estadístico oficial, superado únicamente por los acumulados de los años 2001 y 1987. El temporal provocó el desbordamiento de ríos, inundaciones en centenares de viviendas y obligó a operativos de rescate en comunidades vulnerables, además de cobrarse la vida de un trabajador de mantenimiento vial en Misisipi.

Para beneplácito de los residentes de Texas, Luisiana y la costa de Misisipi, cuyos suelos terminaron completamente saturados por el diluvio tropical de la semana pasada, la naturaleza cerrará el flujo de humedad esta semana. Un sistema de alta presión tomará el control de la región meteorológica, abriendo paso a las temperaturas más elevadas en lo que va del año. Las autoridades emitieron alertas por calor extremo debido a índices de sensación térmica proyectados a rozar los 110 grados Fahrenheit en sectores de Luisiana, con advertencias adicionales extendidas hacia el sur profundo del país.

Este cambio radical responde a un freno atmosférico doble que paralizará la actividad ciclónica en la cuenca del Atlántico durante el cierre de junio y los primeros días de julio. Mientras el fenómeno de El Niño intensifica su calentamiento en las aguas del Pacífico ecuatorial oriental, su acoplamiento con la atmósfera está alterando los patrones de circulación global. Este proceso genera corrientes de aire descendente sobre el norte del océano Índico y el Atlántico tropical, lo que destruye las probabilidades de desarrollo ciclónico.

A este factor se le suma el arribo del polvo del Sahara, cuya temporada alcanza su punto máximo en las próximas semanas. Un enorme manto de aire seco y polvoriento avanza hacia el oeste a través de la cuenca atlántica, según las imágenes de satélite en color real de la Oficina Nacional de Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica. La combinación de una cizalladura del viento excepcionalmente fuerte impulsada por El Niño y estas nubes de polvo continental garantizará una calma absoluta en el Atlántico tropical durante las próximas semanas. Los meteorólogos del Centro Nacional de Huracanesestiman que cualquier amenaza ciclónica potencial en julio tendría que originarse cerca de las costas de Estados Unidos, donde los efectos desfavorables de El Niño son menos notorios, por lo que junio se despedirá sin mayores sobresaltos meteorológicos en la región.

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According to the Los Angeles Times, Carvalho resigned Sunday evening.

“Placing students first has always guided my work,” Carvalho wrote in his resignation letter. “Because I believe our schools must remain focused on students and learning without distraction, I am resigning as Superintendent of LAUSD effective today, June 21, 2026.”

The school board confirmed that it received a letter of resignation from Carvalho, noting that his resignation took effect on Sunday.

“The Board remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring stability, continuity, and continued progress through strong leadership,” the school board said in a statement. “Our focus remains unchanged: providing every student with a high-quality education, supporting our dedicated workforce, and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve.”

The school said Andrés Chait would remain acting superintendent “until a permanent decision is made.”

The LA Times reported that it’s unclear whether Carvalho negotiated a settlement with the district as his “contract sets a minimum of a 12-month payout were the district to terminate his employment without cause.”

Following the Feb. 25 raid, the district said in a statement that it “is cooperating with the investigation and we do not have further information at this time.” The FBI also searched a third location Southwest Ranches.

Rukelt Dalberis, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, confirmed that agents were at the properties to serve warrants but declined to comment further because affidavits laying out details for the basis for the searches were under seal.

According to the LA Times, law enforcement sources later confirmed that the investigation was “tied at least in part to Carvalho’s interaction with a subcontractor that brought a failed AI chatbot venture to the district.”

Through attorneys, Carvalho issued a public statement after the raids, claiming that he committed no wrongdoing.

Before taking the helm of the Los Angeles district in 2022, Carvalho oversaw Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Florida’s largest school district, from 2008 to 2021. During his tenure, he was credited with improving graduation rates and academic performance. The national superintendents association named him Superintendent of the Year in 2014, and Spain knighted the Portugal-born administrator in 2021 for his work in expanding Spanish-language programs for Miami-Dade County schools.

In California, Carvalho has stood out as a harsh critic of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, especially following raids in Los Angeles last year. When its 500,000 students returned to classes in the fall, Carvalho urged immigration authorities not to conduct enforcement activity within a two-block radius of schools.

Carvalho arrived in Los Angeles at a critical moment, as the district found itself flush with funding from state and federal COVID-19 relief money but still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic, including learning losses and declining enrollment. He previously sparred with Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over his order that schools not require masks during the pandemic.

Officials with the Miami-Dade school system have not confirmed whether the FBI or other federal agencies have contacted them regarding Carvalho.

A spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Public Schools told Local 10 News in February that they were aware of the investigation and “have no comment” at this time.

The Feb. 25 search was the second time in a week that the Justice Department had taken action against the LA school district. On Feb. 19, the Trump administration joined a lawsuit alleging that the district discriminates against white students under its decades-old desegregation policy.

De acuerdo con el diario Los Angeles Times, Carvalho presentó su dimisión el domingo por la noche. En su carta de renuncia, el funcionario luso-estadounidense justificó su salida afirmando que busca evitar distracciones para que los planteles educativos sigan enfocados en los estudiantes y el aprendizaje. La junta escolar ratificó que la renuncia se hizo efectiva de inmediato y designó a Andrés Chait como superintendente interino.

El diario californiano reportó que la pesquisa federal está vinculada, al menos en parte, con la interacción de Carvalho y un subcontratista que proveyó un fallido proyecto de chatbot con inteligencia artificial al distrito. El pasado 25 de febrero, agentes federales ejecutaron órdenes de registro tanto en su vivienda como en una propiedad ubicada en Southwest Ranches, Florida. Carvalho ha defendido públicamente su inocencia a través de sus abogados.

Antes de asumir el liderazgo del distrito de Los Ángeles en 2022, Carvalho dirigió el sistema escolar de Miami-Dadede 2008 a 2021, el más grande de Florida, donde cosechó reconocimiento nacional e internacional por elevar las tasas de graduación. Hasta el momento, las autoridades escolares de Miami-Dade no han confirmado si el Departamento de Justicia de EE. UU. las ha contactado en relación con este caso, según reportó Local 10 News.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal wasn't completed.

May and the Wolverines won the NCAA championship with a 69-63 victory over UConn in April to wrap up a 34-3 season. They opened the NCAA Tournament by becoming the first team ever to score at least 90 points in five consecutive games.

That came three years after May led Florida Atlantic to its only Final Four appearance. The Owls returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2024 before May was hired by Michigan.

The 49-year-old May replaces Jason Kidd, who was let go two weeks after Masai Ujiri was hired as president of basketball operations and alternate governor of the Mavericks.

He comes to the NBA with a chance to mold 2025 No. 1 overall draft pick and reigning Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg. Veteran star Kyrie Irving is also on the roster for now after missing the entire 2025-26 season following an ACL year in March of last year.

May began his college coaching career as an assistant at Murray State in 2005-06. He then served on staffs at UAB, Louisiana Tech and Florida before getting his first head coaching job at Florida Atlantic.

The Owls went 35-4 during their dream season in 2022-23, which ended with a 72-71 loss to San Diego State in the national semifinals after Lamont Butler hit a buzzer-beating shot for the Aztecs.

“I was a fan of Dusty’s when he was at FAU,” said Yaxel Lendeborg, who played for May at Michigan and is widely expected to be a lottery pick in the first round of Tuesday’s NBA draft. “And now, after playing for him, I’m a bigger fan. I have so much respect for Dusty May, I can’t even tell you.”

Lendeborg said at last month’s draft combine that he felt like May ran Michigan’s program like an NBA program in many ways.

“He taught us a lot of things that are being used in the NBA now,” Lendeborg said. “A lot of schemes, a lot of switching and stuff. And his offense was very much a pro-style offense. We played fast-paced, physical, all of that. ... I’ve gained so much knowledge from him as far as those actions and just those little communication keys.”

May’s rise in coaching has been meteoric, particularly after the last four seasons.

He took over at Florida Atlantic in 2018 and had four consecutive seasons of finishing just over .500 — before striking gold in the 2022-23 season, going 35-4 and taking the Owls on that improbable Final Four run.

He went 25-9 at FAU the following season, then went to Michigan and brought the Wolverines back to prominence. Michigan went 27-10 two seasons ago before the run to the championship.

May’s record in his last four college seasons was 124-26, an .827 winning percentage that was third best in all of major college men’s basketball over that span behind Houston’s Kelvin Sampson (.861) and Duke’s Jon Scheyer (.832).

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Mercifully for areas in Texas, Louisiana, and coastal Mississippi saturated with tropical rains last week, Mother Nature will turn off the tropical spigot this week, as high pressure takes over and ushers in the hottest temperatures of the year so far. Already heat advisories are in effect today across parts of southern Louisiana in anticipation of feels-like temperatures approaching 110 degrees, with additional heat advisories expected this week across the Deep South.

The one-two punch that’ll shut down the Atlantic to close out June

We started reading the stormy tea leaves of mid-June – brought on by the active phase of the Madden-Julian Oscillation or MJO – way back on the second day of the hurricane season. While El Niño was heating up in the eastern Pacific, the Gulf and western Caribbean showed signs of punching through – at least briefly – as the upper-level wind configuration opened a narrow lane for tropical mischief.

Now that we’re on the other side of Arthur and its remnants, the tropical Atlantic is about to get pummeled by the one-two punch of El Niño and continent-sized plumes of Saharan dust, coming as dust season peaks for the end of June and beginning of July.

The warming of the ocean waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific that define El Niño takes time to link up with the atmosphere and begin affecting the circulation patterns that ultimately dampen Atlantic tropical activity. We’re seeing that atmospheric coupling beginning now, with rising air dominating the Pacific and sinking air over the North Indian Ocean torpedoing development odds through the tropical Atlantic.

A ribbon of exceptionally strong wind shear stretching clear through the tropical belt of the Atlantic basin will mean tropical tumbleweeds for the foreseeable future.

Even into July, any tropical threats will probably originate closer to the U.S. and around the southeastern U.S. coastline where the effects of El Niño are less noticeable. But for now, the triggers we’d look to closer to home – like unusually strong cold fronts or large thunderstorm complexes moving off the mainland – aren’t in the cards, and June should close with little fanfare across the Atlantic.

But in his first press conference last Wednesday, new chair Kevin Warsh began to reverse some of those steps. Warsh, like many economists, thinks the financial markets have become too dependent on Fed guidance, and that such direction is more effective in financial crises or economic downturns.

Warsh's changes to the Fed's communications represent something of a return to former chair Alan Greenspan's circumspect approach. Greenspan died at 100 on Monday. He is the only former chair Warsh praised at his swearing-in last month.

As chair, Warsh has rapidly delivered on his promise to slash the Fed's communications. He sharply cut the central bank's post-meeting statement and underscored at the press conference the removal of the guidance it formerly gave to financial markets about the Fed's next interest-rate moves. Yet such an approach carries the risk of more violent swings in stock and bond prices, analysts say, and ultimately could lead to higher interest rates for consumers and businesses.

“Forward guidance in general has served to suppress volatility and anchor market expectations,” said George Pearkes, global macro strategist at Bespoke Investment Group. “And that has led to lower borrowing rates, relative to alternatives.”

Still, the impact on consumers is likely to be modest, Pearkes added, with mortgage rates perhaps a quarter-point higher than they would be otherwise.

Warsh may be headed back to 1990s

Such swings could be a sign of things to come. Previous chairs have signaled the Fed's next moves clearly enough that financial markets have largely anticipated the central bank's actions. But Warsh appears to be following Greenspan, whose oracular comments often kept investors guessing.

Yet Greenspan, who served as chair from 1987 to 2005, also ushered in several changes that made the Fed more transparent. He began the practice of issuing statements after each Fed meeting to announce its interest-rate decision. He also began publicly releasing the minutes of each meeting and the full transcripts, after a five-year delay, though those moves came in response to pressure from Congress.

The first statement was issued Feb. 4, 1994, and said the Fed would increase its key rate for the first time in five years. The move caught investors off-guard and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 2.4% that day.

The paring back of Fed communications is part of a larger package of potential reforms to the central bank's operations that Warsh signaled Wednesday. He announced that the Fed will set up five task forces to examine the Fed's communications, its balance sheet, how it analyzes and gathers economic data, the impact of AI on productivity and jobs, and the frameworks it uses to analyze inflation.

Warsh said the communications task force would consider changes to the quarterly economic projections the Fed issues as well as look at other recent innovations, including press conferences. Former chair Ben Bernanke was the first to hold them, though he did so only after every other Fed meeting. Warsh's predecessor, Jerome Powell, shifted to holding them after every meeting.

Such steps were a sharp contrast with the 1990s, when Greenspan never explained a Fed decision, on the record, to reporters. Warsh could ultimately dial back some of the Fed's increased transparency.

“This is a big change in how the Fed has conducted itself since the (2008-2009) global financial crisis,” Matthew Luzzetti, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank, said. "Since then there has been a one-way train to greater communication, more transparency, and more forward guidance. Warsh has now put that train in reverse.”

Fed chairs have seen benefits to forward guidance

Previous Fed chairs, starting with Bernanke, have seen a clear benefit to more communication: It helps guide the markets in the direction the Fed wants. Fed officials control a short-term interest rate, but the rates that affect the economy — such as the yield on the 10-year Treasury — are heavily influenced by investors' expectations for inflation and economic growth. By telegraphing their next moves, policymakers can cause those longer-term rates to change even before the Fed adjusts its own benchmark rate.

Yet Warsh's view is that financial markets have become too dependent on Fed guidance. Instead, he wants investors to gauge where the Fed may move next by examining economic data and making their own judgments, which the Fed can then consider as part of their assessments of where the economy is headed.

“Financial market prices are probably the most important source of information to guide central bankers,” Warsh said at Wednesday's news conference.

Guidance can help with unexpected events

David Andolfatto, an economics professor at the University of Miami and former economist at the St. Louis Fed, said he agreed with Warsh that forward guidance has flaws. It can be easily upended by unexpected events, he said, such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine or the Iran war.

But the chair should set out guidelines for how the Fed will react to unexpected events, Andolfatto said, or to challenges such as the persistent inflation it is grappling with now, yet Warsh so far hasn't done so.

“I’m with him on dispensing with forward guidance, but you have to replace it with a contingency plan,” Andolfatto said. “It's not enough to say, trust me, we'll keep inflation at target.”

Ironically, Warsh's decision to drop forward guidance may empower the other 18 members of the Fed's rate-setting committee, Pearkes said. Those officials — six members of the Fed's governing board, plus the presidents of the 12 regional Fed banks — frequently give public speeches, and their remarks will get even more attention as financial markets seek clues about what the Fed may do next.

A big challenge to Warsh's approach will come if there is a sharp financial downturn or economic crisis, as occurred during the COVID pandemic. In those circumstances, economists said, forward guidance can play an important role calming markets.

“Whether it will stand the test of time and he will behave this way for five years is a very different question, but one that we're going to have to wait for events to unfold to get an answer to," Pearkes said.

Los agentes de la DEA monitorearon repetidamente envíos de pastillas de fentanilo —pero no las incautaron— mientras fiscales federales buscaban presentar casos penales más grandes contra traficantes de un opioide sintético que la Casa Blanca designó el año pasado como un “arma de destrucción masiva”.

Sin embargo, agentes y expertos señalaron que la táctica equivalía a una apuesta con la seguridad pública que potencialmente puso en peligro a comunidades en Albuquerque y sus alrededores y pudo haber violado normas del Departamento de Justicia destinadas a proteger al público.

“Envenenamos a nuestra comunidad para armar casos”, declaró a AP el agente especial de la DEA David Howell en una serie de entrevistas en Nuevo México. “Por nuestra propia ceguera deliberada, podemos decir: ‘En realidad no sabemos qué pasó con las drogas’. Pero al 100% hicimos que muriera gente”.

La DEA ha sostenido desde hace tiempo que no es posible incautar cada envío de cada droga. Pero la estrategia de permitir que cantidades asombrosas de analgésicos falsificados llegaran a las calles dejó atónitos a varios agentes veteranos que hablaron con AP.

Eliminar de las calles el fentanilo ilícito, fabricado en su mayoría en laboratorios mexicanos, se convirtió en la máxima prioridad de la DEA durante la última década, a medida que aumentaban las muertes por sobredosis. Al mismo tiempo, su letalidad —unos pocos miligramos pueden matar al adulto promedio— trastocó tácticas probadas que se habían usado para combatir drogas como la cocaína y la heroína. Esos métodos han incluido permitir que se completen transacciones de drogas para que los agentes puedan seguir los narcóticos a través de la cadena de suministro. El fentanilo, sin embargo, es tan peligroso que el Departamento de Justicia elaboró directrices para los agentes en esas circunstancias, alentándolos a incautar el opioide siempre que fuera “practicable”.

Albuquerque, que tiene un vecindario tan asediado por las drogas que se conoce como “War Zone”, y otras regiones de Nuevo México siguen en el epicentro de la epidemia de fentanilo. Mientras las muertes por sobredosis a nivel nacional cayeron 14% el año pasado, datos del gobierno muestran que Nuevo México registró un aumento de 21%.

Alex Uballez, quien se desempeñó como fiscal federal de Estados Unidos en Nuevo México desde 2022 hasta el año pasado, indicó que en ocasiones las autoridades permitieron que envíos de drogas no fueran incautados como parte de un esfuerzo más amplio para reunir inteligencia y construir casos contra grandes traficantes. Explicó que el enfoque reflejaba los recursos limitados de su oficina y su convicción de que procesar a organizaciones más grandes puede tener un impacto mayor que interceptar cada transacción de drogas sospechosa.

El año pasado, la DEA registró en Albuquerque el mayor decomiso de fentanilo en su historia.

“Vale la pena atrapar a los peces más grandes”, manifestó Uballez, “y eso salvará más vidas”.

La DEA afirmó en un comunicado que “las decisiones de investigación en cuestión fueron legales, razonables dadas las circunstancias y coherentes con las directrices del Departamento”.

“Las descripciones públicas que sugieren que la DEA permitió a sabiendas que el fentanilo llegara a las comunidades son falsas y tergiversan fundamentalmente los hechos”, escribió en un correo electrónico la portavoz de la DEA Amanda Wozniak. Señaló que las investigaciones involucraron escuchas telefónicas autorizadas por un tribunal “en las que agentes y fiscales realizaron vigilancia en tiempo real, recopilación de inteligencia y análisis operativo dirigidos a organizaciones de narcotráfico de mayor escala”.

Inteligencia precisa

En algunos casos, la DEA contaba con inteligencia tan detallada sobre las entregas de drogas que los agentes pudieron contabilizar cantidades exactas de pastillas, según informes revisados por AP.

Los agentes, por ejemplo, descifraron conversaciones codificadas por teléfonos celulares y vigilaron de cerca una transacción en un parque de casas móviles en Albuquerque en junio de 2023, de acuerdo con un informe de 66 páginas revisado por AP. Los agentes escribieron en el informe que los traficantes entregaron 74.000 pastillas como parte de ese acuerdo, una cifra que los fiscales federales confirmaron posteriormente en un escrito judicial.

Días antes, mostró otro informe de la DEA, los investigadores observaron a la misma red de distribución entregar un neumático de repuesto que ocultaba otro presunto envío de fentanilo que, de manera similar, no fue incautado.

“No hicimos nada, solo sentarnos y mirar”, expresó Howell, quien presentó una denuncia oficial como denunciante en 2023 para llamar la atención sobre lo que consideraba una táctica que ponía en riesgo la seguridad pública.

Pasaron meses antes de que las autoridades federales desmantelaran a los traficantes, y Howell, quien participó en la vigilancia, afirmó que hoy las autoridades no pueden dar cuenta de los envíos no incautados.

“Es indignante poner en riesgo tantas vidas con la esperanza de armar un gran caso”, sostuvo Tristan Leavitt, presidente de Empower Oversight, un grupo de defensa de denunciantes que ha pedido al Comité Judicial del Senado y a la Oficina del Inspector General del Departamento de Justicia que investiguen las afirmaciones de Howell.

Un exsupervisor de la DEA, que habló bajo condición de anonimato por temor a represalias, dijo que él y sus colegas de Albuquerque permitieron que “millones” de pastillas no fueran incautadas durante una investigación multiestatal el año pasado.

Howell informó en sus revelaciones como denunciante que los agentes en ese caso permitieron la entrega de al menos 1,8 millones de pastillas de fentanilo.

Esa investigación, contaron a AP el exsupervisor y Howell, culminó en el mayor decomiso de fentanilo en la historia de la DEA, una operación anunciada en mayo de 2025 por la entonces secretaria de Justicia Pam Bondi que resultó en la incautación de más de 3 millones de pastillas.

“La cantidad que finalmente incautamos estaba llegando a las calles cada mes mientras ese caso seguía en curso”, apuntó el exsupervisor, y añadió que la DEA podría haber desmantelado la organización seis meses antes.

La fiscalía federal en Albuquerque no respondió preguntas sobre los envíos de fentanilo no incautados pero, en un comunicado a AP, indicó que la “conducta” que Howell sacó a la luz ocurrió durante la administración anterior.

“La dirección actual de esta oficina está enfocada en investigar y procesar agresivamente el tráfico de fentanilo y desarticular las organizaciones criminales responsables de distribuir estas drogas”, escribió en un correo electrónico Tessa DuBerry, portavoz de la oficina.

Uballez, el exfiscal federal, sostuvo que los conteos estimados de pastillas “basados en llamadas telefónicas interceptadas no son confiables”.

“No creo que se pueda negar que se ‘deje pasar’ la droga”, comentó, en referencia a la táctica policial de permitir que el contrabando no sea incautado para avanzar una investigación. “Cuánto y con qué frecuencia —y con qué certeza— es increíblemente difícil de responder en retrospectiva”.

Incautar o no incautar

A medida que las sobredosis de fentanilo se convirtieron en una epidemia durante la última década, el Departamento de Justicia elaboró un manual interno para combatir la droga más mortífera que haya cruzado la frontera mexicana. El plan coincidió con una campaña de difusión que advirtió a los estadounidenses que “Una pastilla puede matar”, un esfuerzo de la DEA para destacar los peligros únicos del fentanilo.

Adoptados en 2017, los “Protocolos de fentanilo” instaban a los agentes a “incautar o impedir de otro modo la distribución” de fentanilo “tan pronto como sea practicable”. Las normas, que no se habían hecho públicas anteriormente, señalaban que “proteger la seguridad pública es primordial”, independientemente de si las incautaciones comprometen las investigaciones.

El Departamento de Justicia reescribió las normas en 2024 para otorgar a las fuerzas del orden mayor discrecionalidad en esos casos. Los protocolos actualizados indican que los investigadores “pueden ejercer discreción al determinar si tomar medidas para impedir el tráfico de fentanilo”, equilibrando los riesgos para la seguridad pública frente a “los beneficios que se lograrían al preservar la investigación”.

La DEA rara vez habla de la táctica de permitir que las drogas no sean incautadas. Su manual para agentes describe retirar drogas de la calle como “el curso de acción habitual”, pero añade que “puede haber casos en los que los objetivos de la investigación se logren mejor al no hacerlo”.

La agencia ha utilizado durante mucho tiempo “entregas controladas” en las que una vigilancia constante de las drogas —y a menudo su sustitución por narcóticos falsos— va seguida de una operación para detener a los implicados y recuperarlas, según agentes actuales y anteriores.

En entrevistas, varios agentes actuales y anteriores compararon la decisión de permitir que el fentanilo llegara a las calles con la infame “Operación Fast and Furious”, un escándalo de 2011 en el que compradores falsos introdujeron de contrabando unas 2.000 armas de asalto a México con la intención de rastrearlas hasta líderes de cárteles.

La Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco, Armas de Fuego y Explosivos recibió duras críticas bipartidistas después de que dos de esas armas aparecieran en la escena del tiroteo fatal de un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza, y el Departamento de Justicia prohibió explícitamente a los agentes permitir que se traficaran armas de fuego.

Dar la voz de alarma

Howell se inquietó tanto por la falta de incautaciones de fentanilo por parte de su agencia que comenzó a señalar muertes por sobredosis que podrían haber sido causadas por las mismas pastillas que la DEA permitió que fluyeran hacia los distribuidores. Uno de esos casos incluyó a un niño de 15 meses que murió después de ingerir residuos de fentanilo quemado el año pasado en Española, un pueblo de Nuevo México devastado por la pobreza y la adicción.

Howell, quien se incorporó a la DEA hace 19 años tras una década en la Marina, llevó sus acusaciones a la Oficina del Asesor Especial de Estados Unidos. La agencia, encargada de proteger a los denunciantes, determinó inicialmente que existía una “probabilidad sustancial de irregularidades” y pidió al Departamento de Justicia que investigara.

A inicios de 2024, Howell dijo a la Oficina de Responsabilidad Profesional del Departamento de Justicia que agentes de la DEA habían observado —pero no incautado— entregas separadas de 150.000 y 50.000 pastillas de fentanilo.

La DEA y los fiscales federales, añadió, “se están colocando en una posición precaria en la que no podrán demostrar que el fentanilo que pudieron haber detenido no resultó en la muerte de una persona”.

La Oficina de Responsabilidad Profesional del Departamento de Justicia determinó en 2024 que la DEA y la fiscalía federal habían tomado decisiones razonables al decidir permitir que las drogas no fueran incautadas y que su inacción no representó un “peligro específico para la salud pública”.

La Oficina del Asesor Especial, que según críticos rara vez cuestiona las conclusiones de las agencias, consideró razonable el informe del Departamento de Justicia.

Howell, mientras tanto, pagó un precio por hacer sus denuncias. La DEA lo relegó a tareas de escritorio durante más de un año y redujo sus evaluaciones de desempeño, según Howell y registros de la DEA. Los registros internos también muestran que los fiscales le prohibieron testificar en un tribunal federal, citando su “patrón de negarse a acatar” advertencias para permitir que las drogas no fueran incautadas durante investigaciones de largo plazo.

Al señalar la propia campaña “Una pastilla puede matar” de la DEA, agentes actuales y anteriores dijeron que no podían entender la conclusión del organismo de supervisión de que las tácticas no habían puesto al público en peligro. Indicaron que la droga es tan peligrosa que debe manipularse en un laboratorio especializado.

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Goodman reportó desde Miami.

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

The International Tennis Integrity Agency made the announcement, saying that Vondrousova refused a test in December, and that the decision was reached by an independent tribunal.

Vondrousova became Wimbledon’s first unseeded female champion when she beat Ons Jabeur in the 2023 title match. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 6 that year.

The 26-year-old Vondrousova detailed her reaction to the missed test in an Instagram post in April.

“It is very tough for me to talk about this, but I want to be transparent with you about my mental health,” Vondrousova said. “The recent doping control incident happened because I reached a breaking point after months of physical and mental stress.”

The ITIA said Vondrousova “did not submit a sample when notified by a Doping Control Officer (DCO) during an out-of-competition test attempt at her home at around 8 p.m. on 3 December 2025.”

Vondrousova was represented by Los Angeles-based lawyer Howard Jacobs, a specialist in doping rules cases. Jacobs helped two-time Grand Slam singles champion Halep win an appeal case in 2024 at CAS against a four-year ban for doping.

Vondrousova becomes the latest high-profile tennis player involved in a doping case after Halep, Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek.

Vondrousova’s ban expires June 21, 2030. She can appeal the decision to the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Wimbledon starts next week.

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And is a wine named SEX too provocative or not provocative enough?

Absurd as they may sound, these are the questions haunting wine marketers grappling with slumping sales and increasingly elusive drinkers. How consumers -- especially younger drinkers -- answer them will determine whether an industry long defined by fuddy-duddy pretense can find its footing in 2026 and beyond.

“That self-important way that wine can refer to itself — we’re really trying to tip that on its head,” said Helen Kurtz, chief of marketing for The Wine Group, which hopes that offerings such as its easy-drinking Cupcake Vineyards wines can attract a generation that came of age on Frappuccinos and gas station BuzzBallz.

“It’s about being less serious about ourselves, because that’s what this consumer is demanding,” she said.

By which she means partnering the company’s MD 20/20 (yes, it’s a wine) with World Wrestling Entertainment matches (“Mad Dog Enters the Ring”), and launching the aptly named Fuel by Franzia line of boxed wine beverages for NASCAR (“Full Throttle Flavor”).

Alcohol consumption has dropped

It’s a fresh lesson on the importance of finding your customer rather than hoping they find you. Because almost across the board, alcohol consumption is down, a trend that accelerated post-pandemic. A host of factors is at play, including aging Boomers seeking healthier lifestyles, Gen Z’s gravitation to low- and no-alcohol beverages, and widening availability of alternatives such as marijuana.

Each segment of the alcohol industry -- valued at around $560 billion in the U.S. -- is responding differently. Hard liquor, for example, has found a rare growth category in ready-to-drink canned cocktails. But the wine industry faces its own constellation of challenges, many of its own making.

For anyone new to wine -- particularly much-coveted 20-somethings -- finding one’s way can be daunting, something of a Château du Stuffy effect.

“You’ve got a bunch of things, what you might call friction points, with wine, that are particularly salient to younger consumers,” including cost and drinkability, said Christian Miller, director of research for the Wine Market Council.

A pretentious image keeps some customers away

Wine, from the labels to the language used to describe it, historically has leaned pricy and pretentious (looking at you, “notes of asphalt and barnyard”). Wine trends also have favored boozy and bracing styles, a hard sell for folks used to sipping hard seltzers at the club.

Fewer than a third of Gen-Z households own a corkscrew, according to a trends report by the British household products company Lakeland. Even simply trying a wine comes with a gatekeeper: Hard liquor is easy to sample at a bar or as single-shot nips; most wine requires a full-bottle commitment.

A cadre of wineries has begun pushing the bounds of wine culture by ditching the fussy façade in favor of a sassy vibe and accessible language. Price matters, too (the sweet spot seems to be the $8 to $20 a bottle range), but not nearly so much as the message.

It's about using contemporary communication to pitch "something that’s been made for centuries,” said Charles Smith, founder of House of Smith, the company behind younger, shopper-friendly brands such as Kung Fu Girl Riesling and SEX Rosé. “My mantra is always to communicate the language of wine to everyone because not everyone speaks wine. The wine should be a reflection of the consumer who is going to buy it.”

Can tie-ins to pop culture make wine more relatable?

Bogle Family Wine Collection has leaned in with its Juggernaut Wines. Adorned with almost graphically violent labels showcasing alpha predators -- a shark, a grizzly, an orca, a lion and some sort of particularly angry bird of prey -- the bottles are a far cry from the placid villas and languorous ladies plastered across so many wines.

The other side of it is getting those bottles into spaces not traditionally associated with wine, said Jessica LaBounty, the company’s marketing director. For two years, Juggernaut has announced “Adventure awaits” as it sponsored the grueling Tough Mudder races. They’ve also done placements at zoos that host nights where people can name dead rodents and insects after former partners and feed them to the animals. Cheers…?

And this year, it’s Discovery network’s Shark Week. Juggernaut's chardonnay label sports an especially snappish great white and “just the right amount of bite.”

“The viewer base of Shark Week lines up really, really nicely with who we know our consumer to be," LaBounty said. "It’s another way to meet them where they are already versus kind of asking them to come to us.”

Learning to speak Gen Z is key

The goal is to bridge a generational divide in which wine got lost. Younger drinkers don’t and won’t talk about wine the way older drinkers do. To point, there's a clever social media meme about a Millennial marketing team pitching wine vs. a Gen-Z social media team. The Millennial effort goes on at length about terroir and full-bodied flavors. Gen-Z’s pitch? “it’s giving… yummy”.

Vibe is everything for Bread & Butter Wines, with the tagline, “Don’t overthink it.” As in, pair their red blend with a candy charcuterie board. Or their pinot noir with a Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich. Want fries with that? Try their prosecco.

“The No. 1 goal is to disrupt the shelf because it is so crowded,” said Caitlin Ward, brand and digital marketing director. “Sassiness is a way to do that.”

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J.M. Hirsch is a longtime food writer who was food editor of The Associated Press for nearly a decade until 2016.

Amid economic uncertainty, geopolitical tensions and a sweltering Milan Fashion Week, designers largely stripped things back for next summer, embracing clean lines and pared-down looks. Prada led the way, with co-creative directors Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons arguing for simplicity and familiar clothes reimagined through proportion and fabrication.

That didn’t mean dressing for the heat was straightforward. Milan’s runways were filled with leather and knits for the next summer season, suggesting that fashion’s elite may need generous air-conditioning, mountain escapes or higher latitudes to wear some of the looks.

Key trends from Milan Fashion Week menswear Spring-Summer 2027 collections that closed on Monday include the embrace of luxury materials, sartorial ventilation and lighter tailoring, while a few defiantly chose bling over restraint.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the season was persistence of leather.

Prada’s leather combinations were inspired by the universality of jeans, featuring slim five-pocket pants matched with cropped flat-pocketed jackets that functioned as shirts. Other designers used woven and perforated techniques to make leather more breathable, even as temperatures climbed.

In Milan, luxury and practicality were often in tension.

The return of the body

After years of oversized silhouettes, menswear is once again embracing the body.

Designers broadly agreed that a well-dressed man still wears a suit. The challenge was how to survive the heat. The response was ventilation, with dress shirts left unbuttoned. Some were rendered transparent. Or they were simply done away with.

Long trousers remained dominant, but there was a shift toward closer-to-the-body dressing. Dolce & Gabbana pushed the idea furthest with microshorts that showcased muscular legs, while some brands exposed torsos.

Suiting for a hotter planet

Tailoring remained central to Milan collections, but in lighter, more relaxed forms.

Designers softened construction, opened necklines and experimented with fabrics and construction that allowed more airflow. The result was tailoring designed for rising temperatures without abandoning formality.

The message from Milan was clear: the suit isn’t going anywhere, but it is adapting.

Of course, restraint is not for everyone

While much of Milan embraced restraint, some designers doubled down on decoration.

Philipp Plein presented a crystal-encrusted denim ensemble that takes days of handwork to complete. Dolce & Gabbana also leaned into embellishment, including beaded accents that recalled coral.

If Prada’s vision was reduction, these designers unapologetically offered maximalism and glamour.

New voices get room to shine

A lighter Milan calendar created opportunities for emerging designers to gain attention alongside the industry’s biggest names.

Martin Quad made his Milan debut with unusual tailoring tricks that got him noticed in his native Copenhagen, while Domenico Orefice embraced leather and richly woven textiles for his co-ed collection.

Japanese designer Shinya Kozuka made his Milan debut with one of the most poetic and summery collections of the season, epitomized by bare-chested model in a billowing sheer coat in teal worn baggy white trousers.

Pino, 55, is charged with manslaughter and vessel homicide.

Prosecutors accuse Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of his 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Lucy Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig, who was left permanently disabled.

The teens were on his boat celebrating his daughter’s 18th birthday.

Opening statements began with prosecutors saying Pino’s allision with a channel marker happened as a result of criminal negligence and recklessness.

“Lucy is dead because the defendant failed to do the most basic things that rules of the water require,” Assistant State Attorney Laura Adams told jurors.

Defense attorneys argue the crash was a mere accident.

“The state admits this was not George’s intention. He did not intend for anybody to be hurt,” Pino’s attorney, Howard Srebnick, told jurors during opening statements. “His own daughter, his own wife, his own body was on that boat.”

Defense openings were interrupted after Pino broke down for several minutes in front of jurors; the proceedings were halted and continued the next day.

Over the course of the trial, jurors heard from some of the 12 young women, all teenagers at the time, who were on board Pino’s boat.

“The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was George, and I thought he was dead,” Claudia Portocarrero testified. “I remember him, he had blood on his head.”

Some testified about the alcohol that George Pino and his wife, Cecilia Pino, provided, as well as the crash itself, but said they did not see George Pino drinking alcohol himself.

Fernandez’s father recalled the living nightmare he and his wife went through. Puig’s father also talked about how the crash affected his daughter.

Jurors took a field trip to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission facility in North Miami to see the damaged boat and watched body camera footage from the crash response and Pino’s questioning.

But the trial was not without its moments of conflict.

Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez issued a warning to Pino and his family for hugging in front of jurors.

A tense exchange between Adams and Pino also drew the judge’s attention after Adams brought up that Pino was reportedly muttering, “It happens, it happens, it happens,” during testimony.

“I’m sorry. Do you have something you want to say to me?” Adams asked Pino. “Why are you staring at me?”

Pino denied staring at her.

In another moment, Pino’s attorneys told Tinkler Mendez that there was “something of a stare down” between Adams and their client, followed by Adams “rolling her eyes” at Pino.

Cecilia Pino took the stand twice during the trial, recounting the harrowing aftermath of the crash off Cutter Bank.

“She died because your husband crashed into that channel marker, right?” Adams asked her during her first appearance on the stand.

“She died because there was an accident,” Cecilia Pino testified.

Cecilia Pino broke down when taking the stand for the second time, testifying, “I remember asking again, ‘Who is missing? Who is missing?’ And that’s when they told me that Lucy was missing.”

George Pino did not testify in his trial.

Jurors will be instructed on the law before beginning their deliberations.

If convicted, Pino faces anywhere between 11 to 30 years in prison.

Argentina vs. Austria, a Group J match, is at 1 p.m.

France vs. Iraq, a Group I match, is at 5 p.m.

Norway vs. Senegal, a Group I match, is at 8 p.m.

Jordan vs. Algeria, a Group J match, is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 8 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 11 a.m. on June 22 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 1 p.m. Argentina vs. Austria match.

Related list: Track teams advancing to Round of 32

Group-stage progress

Group H: Spain leads with 4 points

Group G: Egypt leads with 4 points

Group F: The Netherlands gets 3 points

Group E: Germany advances to Round of 32

Group D: U.S. advances to Round of 32

Group C: Brazil eliminates Haiti

Group B: Canada and Switzerland tie for 1st place

Group A: Mexico advances to Round of 32

Group K: Colombia gets 3 points

Group J: Austria and Argentina each get 3 points

Group I: France and Norway each get 3 points

Tournament’s schedule

June 23: There are four matches: The Group K, Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Ghana, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Panama vs. Croatia, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Congo, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 24: There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 4 p.m. on June 24 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 6 p.m. Scotland vs. Brazil match.

June 25: There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 26: There are six matcuphes: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 27: There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 7:30 p.m. on June 27. Parking is free. Broward County is offering free Express bus transportation from the arena to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens, to FIFA World Cup ticket holders.

Round of 32 begins

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

Miami watch party: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Round of 16 begins

July 4: There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 5: There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens for the last day from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 6: There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

Quarterfinals begin

July 9: There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 5 p.m. on July 11. Parking is free.

Semifinals begin

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 14 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

July 15: There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 15 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

Finals begin

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 5 p.m. bronze final.

Sunrise ride to stadium: The Amerant Bank Arena has free parking for FIFA World Cup ticket holders who ride Broward County’s free Express bus transportation to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens.

July 19: The final match is at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 3 p.m. final.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders for the final on July 19. Parking is free.

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JUNE 26: DAY 3

New Zealand vs. Belgium is at 11 p.m. in Vancouver, Canada.

Egypt vs. Iran is at 11 p.m. in Seattle, Washington.

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JUNE 21: DAY 2

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The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict. The three liberal justices dissented.

Prosecutors had been preparing to try the man, Pedro Hernandez, for a third time. His first trial ended in a mistrial.

The unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed Hernandez’ murder and kidnapping conviction in the second trial because of how the judge had answered a question from jurors.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had called the basis for overturning the conviction “a slender reed” that essentially ignored a five-month-long trial with 66 witnesses.

The justices agreed, in an unsigned opinion, that federal courts should not second-guess state courts under a 1996 federal law that was intended to reduce federal court oversight of state criminal trials.

“The Second Circuit exceeded its authority in holding that Hernandez is entitled to relief,” the justices wrote.

Hernandez, 64, has been serving a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

Bragg hailed the high court’s decision. “This office has remained steadfast in its pursuit of justice for Etan and the Patz family and will continue to stand by this important conviction,” Bragg, a Democrat, said in a statement.

Hernandez’ lawyers said they were “terribly disappointed” by the ruling. “We firmly believe that an innocent man is in jail for a crime that he did not commit,” attorneys Harvey Fishbein and Alice Fontier said.

Hernandez admitted to the crime under police questioning, but his lawyers say he confessed falsely because of a mental illness that sometimes made him hallucinate. They emphasized that the admission came after police queried him for about seven hours before reading him his rights and recording the interview. Hernandez then repeated his confession on tape, at least twice.

Etan vanished while walking to his downtown Manhattan school bus stop on May 25, 1979. Hernandez worked at a nearby convenience shop at the time, but the Maple Shade, New Jersey, resident didn’t become a suspect until 2012.

Etan was among the first missing children ever to appear on milk cartons, and the anniversary of his disappearance became National Missing Children’s Day.

Hernandez already has been tried twice. A jury deadlocked in 2015, and then a different panel of jurors convicted him at a 2017 retrial.

During deliberations, the 2017 jurors asked a complicated question: If they decided Hernandez didn’t confess voluntarily when he hadn’t been read his rights yet, must they disregard his other confessions? The then-judge responded simply, “the answer is no.” The jury went on to convict.

In overturning that verdict, the appeals court said the jury’s question should have gotten a more fulsome answer, including the possibility of discounting all the confessions.

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Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report from New York.

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JUNE 26: DAY 3

Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia is at 8 p.m.

Uruguay vs. Spain is at 8 p.m.

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Uruguay and Cape Verde each get 1 point

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Spain gets 3 points

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The shooting happened near the intersection of Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 86th Street, according to the Miami Shores Police Department.

“You don’t want to see this in your neighborhood,” said Juanita Dawsey, who reported hearing the gunshots.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took the wounded man to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, according to police.

Before the shooting, the man had “two large-edged weapons” and caused “a disturbance” at the Tropical Chevrolet in Miami Shores, according to police.

Police officers responded to the full-service auto dealership shortly after 2:10 p.m. at 8880 Biscayne Boulevard, but the man had left, according to police.

A Miami Police Department cruiser was parked at the scene of the police shooting, where there was an abandoned black book bag and bullet casings.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating the police shooting.

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Then came this spring’s historic and devastating floods across northern Michigan — in some areas, for the first time anyone can remember — swamping homes, pushing dams to the brink of failure and washing out roadways. Dozens of counties were under a state of emergency.

Black Lake was so high that floating ice broke apart decks and crashed through windows.

“We’ve never seen anything like that. Never,” said Solum, who experienced flooding often when he lived in Houston. Knee-high floodwater forced them to tear out flooring, drywall, furniture, bedding and appliances.

Across Michigan, thousands were left without financial protection after record April rains fell on top of record March snowfall. Worse, many had no idea they were at risk despite years of increasingly heavy precipitation.

Their experience exposes vulnerabilities across the country, experts say, because flood plain maps don’t cover all areas. What's more, the federal government's mapping method is arguably outdated and does not account for actual risks as climate change increases the odds of more extreme weather.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency develops and updates maps that determine who's in a flood plain and must buy insurance, and to help communities plan. But it hasn’t developed maps in many less-populated areas, including some Michigan counties that experienced unprecedented flooding.

Black Lake, for example, straddles two counties — Cheboygan, which has a 2012 FEMA flood plain map, and Presque Isle, where most areas have never been mapped. The longtime summer and retiree destination is ringed by small cabins and some larger homes.

Another issue: FEMA’s maps are based on risks of rivers, streams and other waterways overflowing their banks. But they don’t account for flooding caused strictly from increasingly heavy rainfall that overwhelms stormwater infrastructure in urban areas and inundates rural towns where there's nowhere for the water to go.

First Street, a company that researches the financial implications of climate change, found more than twice the number of properties at significant flood risk nationwide after incorporating that rainfall data into its own models and by mapping the whole country, including smaller streams that FEMA does not.

That includes four times more properties in Michigan.

“I couldn’t believe it when we first started building our model how different we were from FEMA,” said Jeremy Porter, chief economist at First Street, who says federal maps are “missing a whole source of flooding.”

FEMA uses that extra rainfall data to help set insurance rates, experts said. But it's unclear whether it's proceeding with an effort to incorporate it into flood plain mapping.

The General Accounting Office, a federal watchdog agency, raised concerns five years ago that FEMA’s flood hazard maps didn't reflect the best available climate science or heavy rainfall.

FEMA declined an interview request, but said in a statement that 95% of the U.S. population lives in areas with maps, which are “snapshots in time.” It did not respond to questions about whether this year’s flooding adds urgency to mapping less-populated areas or whether it's updating its mapping methods.

Climate change sets the stage for devastating floods

Michigan experienced “truly a monumental flood” that in many areas exceeded what is known as a 100-year flood, meaning it has a 1% chance of occurring in any given year, said Matthew Occhipinti, the state's National Flood Insurance Program coordinator.

But it wasn’t a fluke, experts said.

A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture for longer periods, which can lead to heavy rain or snow when enough builds up. And this spring, an “extraordinarily warm” Gulf of Mexico set the stage for both snow and rain in the upper Midwest, said Richard Rood, a University of Michigan climate scientist.

A massive March snowstorm dumped up to 2-4 feet (61-122 centimeters) across northern Michigan. Then April’s record rainfall created more runoff than waterways, dams and culverts could handle.

“We call these storms historic; that is only true compared to the past,” said Rood, adding that Michigan and neighboring Wisconsin experienced their wettest March 1-April 15 period on record. “I think it is more appropriate to consider it typical of the climate of the future.”

That's why it's important to update flood maps and for communities to be prepared, experts said.

“You should never be lulled into complacency that, ‘Oh geez we just had the big flood so we’re good for another 100 years or another 500 years,’” said Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers. “Mother Nature does not obey statistical averages.”

FEMA mapping progress is slow in rural areas

FEMA has been working to update existing flood plain maps — some that were decades old — but has made little progress creating new ones in rural areas where development could occur, despite a 2012 congressional mandate, Berginnis said.

The agency has historically prioritized places with the greatest population and risk, which makes sense due to budget constraints, Berginnis said, but also leaves about two-thirds of the country’s streams, rivers and coastlines unmapped. Some of those areas are unpopulated federal land that likely won't be mapped.

His organization estimates it would cost $4 billion to $12 billion to fully map the country, but FEMA has never had the funding to do so, he said.

Flood plain managers worry the agency could fall even further behind due to significant staffing losses under the Trump administration.

FEMA lost close to 20% of its total workforce in 2025, according to a General Accounting Office report. That includes about 25% of its permanent and most senior staff, said Christopher Currie, who audits FEMA for the GAO.

“We're very concerned,” said Currie, adding that FEMA was chronically understaffed even before Trump's second term. Now it would have to divert resources from many programs, including mapping, to respond to multiple disasters.

Some communities don't understand their risks

Getting accurate flood-risk information to communities is a challenge even beyond flood plain mapping.

Communities must participate in the National Flood Insurance Program before homeowners can buy policies underwritten by FEMA and sold by private companies. But many — including several hundred in Michigan, Occhipinti said — have never joined.

Communities can participate without a map. But experts say those that haven’t might never have experienced damaging floods or don’t understand the insurance program.

They also might not realize they have an elevated risk if they rely on FEMA’s National Risk Index, a separate tool from mapping. The index gives one score for a community’s overall risk of any type of natural disaster, and assumes there are no flood risks if the community doesn't have a flood plain map, said Berginnis.

That means a community with a low score might actually have elevated flood risks, he said, which “gives people the absolute wrong sense of security.”

But even program participation doesn’t guarantee homeowners get accurate information.

Diane Peterman, who evacuated as her crawlspace filled with floodwater, said she tried buying insurance three times but was told she couldn’t, even though her township participates in the National Flood Insurance Program.

“They said, ‘You’re not in a flood zone’ and I said, ‘But I live on a lake,’” said Peterman, who later learned that her neighbor had insurance.

In Michigan, an average policy costs about $1,000 for $250,000 in coverage, though that rate can vary widely based on factors such as home value and location, Occhipinti said. Some companies will sell private flood insurance, though it’s rare, he said.

Berginnis said homeowners and communities should seek information beyond what FEMA provides.

“FEMA flood maps should always be the beginning of the journey and not the end,” he said. “Maybe states and communities need to step up and lead a little bit more.”

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La votación se produce mientras el distrito enfrenta una nueva realidad: por primera vez en generaciones, hay más cupos escolares que estudiantes. Los líderes del distrito citaron la disminución de la matrícula y cambios demográficos como razones por las que no tuvieron otra opción que reevaluar cómo se utilizan algunos edificios escolares.

“Nunca es una decisión fácil consolidar escuelas, pero cuando se hace correctamente beneficia a nuestros estudiantes”, dijo Robert Alonso, de la Junta Escolar de Miami-Dade del Distrito 4.

Nueve escuelas están programadas para cerrar y/o ser reutilizadas, incluyendo Miami Springs Middle School, Richmond Heights Middle y Lorna Smith Elementary, entre otras.

“No estamos viendo que esos números lleguen, también hemos visto una disminución en la tasa de natalidad, simplemente no estamos viendo tantos estudiantes dentro de nuestras comunidades”, dijo Alonso.

Pero padres y activistas comunitarios que hablaron en la reunión del miércoles dijeron que los cambios en la política de inmigración son en parte responsables de la disminución en la matrícula.

“También quiero instar a la junta a reconocer cómo las preocupaciones sobre la aplicación de leyes de inmigración han impactado la matrícula escolar en nuestro distrito”, dijo la activista comunitaria Luna Plaza.

Otros advirtieron que los cierres tienen consecuencias más allá de los números.

“El cierre de escuelas afecta mucho más que las cifras de matrícula, afecta a las familias, los negocios locales, los valores de propiedad y la estabilidad general de nuestras comunidades”, dijo la activista comunitaria Cassie Creed.

Aun así, hubo quienes se opusieron a los cierres, señalando que esas escuelas forman parte del tejido de su comunidad. Pero los líderes del distrito dicen que los cambios solo pueden beneficiar a los estudiantes y prometieron no dejar a ninguna comunidad sin los recursos que necesita.

“Nunca vamos a dejar a una comunidad desatendida o sin los recursos que va a necesitar, nuestro objetivo es proporcionar la mejor educación que puedan recibir”, dijo Alonso.

Los estudiantes de las escuelas cerradas se unirán a otras que continúan operando mientras el distrito consolida edificios e instalaciones, y los líderes dicen que la medida es necesaria para mantener la calidad.

“Es algo que tenemos que hacer para continuar brindando a nuestros estudiantes los mejores servicios y las mejores instalaciones”, dijo Alonso.

En cuanto a qué pasará con las propiedades ahora vacías, el distrito indicó que variará caso por caso.

A continuación la lista de cierres:

Región Norte:

• Parkway Elementary• Rainbow Park Elementary

Región Central:

• Lenora B. Smith Elementary• Miami Springs Middle• Phillis Wheatley Elementary

Región Sur:

• Mandarin Lakes K-8 Academy• Pine Villa Elementary• Richmond Heights Middle• Robert Russa Moton Elementary

A continuación las combinaciones:

Región Central:

• Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School y Lenora B. Smith Elementary School se combinarán para convertirse en un centro K-8.• Miami Springs Middle School y Miami Springs Senior High School se combinarán para convertirse en una escuela 6-12.

Región Sur:

• Arthur & Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts y Pine Villa Elementary School se combinarán para convertirse en una escuela K-12.• Richmond Heights Middle y BioTech 9-12 se combinarán para convertirse en una escuela 6-12.

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The vote comes as the district faces a new reality -- for the first time in generations, there are more school seats than actual students. District leaders cited declining enrollment and changing demographics as reasons they had no choice but to re-evaluate how some school buildings are being utilized.

“It is never an easy decision to consolidate schools, but when done properly it benefits our students,” said school board member Robert Alonso, who represents District 4.

Nine schools are set to be closed and/or repurposed, including Miami Springs Middle School, Richmond Heights Middle and Lorna Smith Elementary, among others.

“We’re not seeing those numbers coming in. We have also seen a decline in birth rate. We are just not seeing that many students within our communities,” Alonso said.

Parents and community activists who spoke out at Wednesday’s school board meeting say changes in immigration policy are partially to blame for the drop in enrollment.

“I also want to urge the board to recognize how concerns around immigration enforcement have impacted school enrollment in our district,” said community activist Luna Plaza.

Others warned the closures carry consequences beyond just numbers.

“School closures affect far more than enrollment numbers -- they affect families, local businesses, property values and the overall stability of our communities,” said community activist Cassie Creed.

There were also those who pushed back on the closures themselves, saying those schools make up the fabric of their community. But district leaders say the changes will benefit students, and they pledged not to leave any community without the resources it needs.

“We are never going to leave a community that is going to be underserved or not having the resources that they are going to need -- our goal is to provide the best education that they can receive,” Alonso said.

Students from closed schools will join others that continue to operate as the district consolidates buildings and facilities, with leaders saying the move is necessary to maintain quality.

“It’s something that we have to do in order to continue to provide our students with the best services out there and the best facilities,” Alonso said.

As for what happens to the now-vacant properties, the district says that will vary on a case-by-case basis.

Below is a list of the closures:

North Region:

• Parkway Elementary

• Rainbow Park Elementary

Central Region:

• Lenora B. Smith Elementary

• Miami Springs Middle

• Phillis Wheatley Elementary

South Region:

• Mandarin Lakes K-8 Academy

• Pine Villa Elementary

• Richmond Heights Middle

• Robert Russa Moton Elementary

Below are the combinations:

Central Region:

• Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School and Lenora B. Smith Elementary School will combine to become a K-8 Center.

• Miami Springs Middle School and Miami Springs Senior High School will combine to become a 6-12 School.

South Region:

• Arthur & Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts and Pine Villa Elementary School will combine to become a K-12 School.

• Richmond Heights Middle and BioTech 9-12 will combine to become a 6-12 School.

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A south-east wind direction has helped push the smoke and haze from the brush fires more inland so air quality has improved for much of Broward County, but there is an air quality alert in effect for Miami-Dade until 3 p.m.

The fire dubbed “Quarry 2,” east of Krome Avenue, has been the most widespread, burning 19,018 acres so far. It is 97% contained, while the Well fire, near Northwest 122nd Avenue, has burned 2,749 acres. It is 85% contained.

No road closures are currently in effect due to the wildfires.

Airboat operators, meanwhile, told Local 10 News Monday that water levels are now too low to reach some of the burned areas.

The low water comes after months of wildfire activity across west Miami-Dade and the Everglades.

In April, the Highway 41 fire burned more than 9,000 acres along the Tamiami Trail.

Last week, the Quarry 2 fire grew west of Doral, and the Well fire ignited a day later nearby, burning nearly 3,000 acres.

As of this weekend, crews were still working to contain the Corrections fire in west Miami-Dade.

Back in April, Local 10 was able to ride through some of the areas impacted by the Highway 41 fire.

From the airboat, you could see miles of charred sawgrass and blackened vegetation.

On Monday, operators said some of those areas are too shallow to reach.

Firefighters have repeatedly pointed to dry conditions as a challenge in recent weeks. And those who spend their days in the Everglades say they’re seeing the effects firsthand.

For now, the same dry conditions that helped fuel recent fires are now making some of those areas impossible to reach -- a reminder that in the Everglades too much fire often starts with too little water.

Ramiro Valdes, one of the original Comandantes of the Cuban Revolution, died in Cuba Sunday at the age of 94. He was the founder of the Ministry of the Interior, known for its repressive measures against the Cuban people. Valdes is credited for killing numerous Cubans who opposed the regime from the early days of the revolution. Most recently, he was responsible for training the security police in Venezuela.

June 19 update: Cuba approves 176 new economic measures

The National Assembly of the Cuban government approved 176 new economic measures Thursday to help jumpstart their moribund economy. Similar economic reforms were introduced when Raul Castro took over power from his brother, Fidel, but they failed because the government’s infrastructure could not implement them. Are these measures in time to save Cuba from a total economic disaster? Many economists even inside the island have come out and said that they are a bit too late.

On Thursday, the European Parliament approved a resolution sanctioning Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and the leaders of the Cuban economic military conglomerate, GAESA. Finally, it suspended the existing agreement between the EU and Cuba.

June 17 update: Can President Trump afford another conflict?

Now that the U.S. and Iran have reached an agreement to stop the war, can President Donald Trump politically afford another conflict? This time it will be with Cuba -- a nation that will offer little military resistance to the U.S., but can also be a political trap for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s future run for the U.S. presidency.

June 11 update: Rubio announces sanctioning of CUPET:

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday afternoon the sanctioning of Cuba’s oil and gas company, Union Cuba Petroleo (CUPET). This company had been confiscated from American owners at the start of the revolution.

This is a sign that Cuba’s government has not shown any willingness to negotiate with the U.S. This action further chokes the regime who is running out of options as the socio-economic problems get worse each day that passes.

June 10 update: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visits Guantanamo Bay for operational briefings

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Wednesday to receive updates and operational briefings on the base’s mission, according to the Pentagon.

According to Reuters, Hegseth flew into the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, marking the latest visit by a senior American official to the communist-led island as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to increase pressure on the Cuban government.

His trip comes less than two weeks after General Francis Donovan, the top U.S. military commander for Latin America, visited Guantanamo Bay and held discussions with a senior Cuban military official near the base’s perimeter.

Hegseth is the third high-ranking U.S. official to visit Cuba in recent months, highlighting Washington’s continued focus on the island amid ongoing tensions between the two countries.

June 8 update: What will be brought up during any future negotiations?

One of the issues that will certainly come up during any future negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba will be the 5,913 American companies, as well as Cuban-American properties, that were confiscated by the Cuban Revolution in the early 1960’s.

According to Mauricio Tamargo, former chairman of the Foreign Claims Office in the U.S. Department of Justice, the estimated values of these properties are in the billions.

June 3 update: Raúl Castro turns 95

Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, turns 95 years old Wednesday under the shadow of a criminal indictment from the U.S. and an uncertain future for Cuba with the legacy of his brother, Fidel Castro, on his shoulders.

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June 1 update: Looking to the future: Should Cuban Americans invest in Cuba?

A few months ago, Cuba’s Vice Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, who is the grand-nephew of Raúl Castro, invited Cuban Americans in exile to invest in Cuba.

In 2019, the Cuban government amended their constitution to allow foreign investment. However, they did not change their laws to protect the investments.

Therefore, the risks to invest in Cuba remain greater than the opportunities.

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.

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Pino, 55, is facing charges in connection with a September 2022 boat crash that killed 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez off Boca Chita Key. The crash seriously injured another 17-year-old, Katerina Puig.

Opening statements began with prosecutors saying Pino’s allision with a channel marker happened as a result of criminal negligence and recklessness.

“Lucy is dead because the defendant failed to do the most basic things that rules of the water require,” Assistant State Attorney Laura Adams told jurors.

Defense attorneys argue the crash was a mere accident.

“The state admits this was not George’s intention. He did not intend for anybody to be hurt,” Pino’s attorney, Howard Srebnick, told jurors during opening statements. “His own daughter, his own wife, his own body was on that boat.”

Defense openings were interrupted after Pino broke down for several minutes in front of jurors; the proceedings were halted and continued the next day.

Over the course of the trial, jurors heard from some of the 12 young women, all teenagers at the time, who were on board Pino’s boat, part of a celebration for his daughter’s 18th birthday.

“The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was George, and I thought he was dead,” Claudia Portocarrero testified. “I remember him, he had blood on his head.”

Some testified about the alcohol that George Pino and his wife, Cecilia Pino, provided, as well as the crash itself.

Fernandez’s father recalled the living nightmare he and his wife went through. Puig’s father also talked about how the crash affected his daughter.

Jurors took a field trip to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission facility in North Miami to see the damaged 29-foot Robalo and watched body camera footage from the crash response and Pino’s questioning.

But the trial was not without its moments of conflict.

Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez issued a warning to Pino and his family for hugging in front of jurors.

A tense exchange between Adams and Pino also drew the judge’s attention after Adams brought up that Pino was reportedly muttering, “It happens, it happens, it happens,” during testimony.

“I’m sorry. Do you have something you want to say to me?” Adams asked Pino. “Why are you staring at me?”

Pino denied staring at her.

In another moment, Pino’s attorneys told Tinkler Mendez that there was “something of a stare down” between Adams and their client, followed by Adams “rolling her eyes” at Pino.

Cecilia Pino took the stand twice during the trial, recounting the harrowing aftermath of the crash off Cutter Bank.

“She died because your husband crashed into that channel marker, right?” Adams asked her during her first appearance on the stand.

“She died because there was an accident,” Cecilia Pino testified.

Cecilia Pino broke down when taking the stand for the second time, testifying, “I remember asking again, ‘Who is missing? Who is missing?’ And that’s when they told me that Lucy was missing.”

Jurors will be instructed on the law before beginning their deliberations.

If convicted, Pino faces anywhere between 11 to 30 years in prison.

A friend who did mountain rescue told Blea to download a free app called Watch Duty. On the app, he could see the fire's perimeter, track evacuation orders and read updates about the emergency response. “It influenced me to leave the home sooner than later,” said Blea, who left with his wife and son that evening, before the Eaton Fire destroyed their home.

Blea was one of more than 2.5 million people who used Watch Duty to track fires burning across Los Angeles County that week. The information was collected, vetted and disseminated by about two dozen Watch Duty staff and over 100 volunteers who monitored emergency radio traffic, aircraft reports and local agency communications.

The service proved vital, said David Hertz, a Malibu resident and captain of his community’s fire brigade, especially when some areas received little-to-no warning about the Eaton and Palisades fires that killed 31 people. “It’s like a democratization of data that empowers people."

This month, Watch Duty began helping people track another deadly and destructive climate hazard: flooding.

The expansion comes as peak flash flood season begins in the U.S. and nearly one year after last July’s deadly Texas floods that killed more than 130 people, prompting outcry over why Texas Hill Country residents and visitors didn’t receive better communication about the impending danger.

“This is painful that this keeps happening,” said John Mills, CEO and co-founder of the donor-supported nonprofit behind the app. “We’re not spreading enough information fast enough on as many channels as humanly possible.”

Mills built the app after his own close calls

Mills founded Watch Duty in 2021 after not receiving official alerts or evacuation instructions when a fire burned near his Northern California home.

It’s a problem seen in many recent disasters. While the U.S. has systems for sending alerts by text, radio, and other means, the process to issue a specific warning or evacuation order can get tangled in bureaucracy and often depends on humans making difficult decisions under pressure.

Often the information people need to understand their risk is out there, Mills said, but it is hard to find and use. “The systems are really struggling to meet people where they are."

On fire days, Mills found himself relying on volunteer radio operators who monitored scanners during emergencies and posted updates on social media. The posts helped, but social media had downsides — including how misinformation and unrelated content could drown out life-or-death updates.

A software engineer and entrepreneur, Mills recruited some of those volunteers and fellow engineers to build an answer. He made Watch Duty a nonprofit, which has helped build trust with its more than 20 million users. It received nearly $6 million in grants and donations in 2025.

Watch Duty puts emergency information in one place

Watch Duty now has about 300 volunteer “reporters" who collate and vet information from radio scanners, cameras, satellites, user-generated content and public announcements. Information is available in five languages and pushed out through maps, text feeds, and push notifications that can sound even when phones are silenced.

“You’re not going to have to go to multiple other entities, to the weather service, emergency management website, county website,” said Watch Duty meteorologist Pete Curran. “It’s in one place, in plain language, and it's going to wake you up if you're asleep."

Watch Duty can sometimes push out information faster than local agencies in part because its reporters have only one role to fill, said Curran, a retired firefighter. “Our only responsibility is to watch and listen. We’re not in charge of the incident.”

The nonprofit took on flooding next because of its widespread impact. “We are seeing crazy rainfall in places that it’s not normal for them,” said Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, U.S. Fire Administrator under President Joe Biden and longtime data scientist who is now a Watch Duty board member. “Maybe it’s never happened before, but it’s happening now, so you need to be aware.”

The app pulls weather modeling and other data from the National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Geologic Survey. Users can view NWS flood warnings and watches, river gauge levels, and notices of possible dam or levee failures.

Users can also better understand their risk ahead of time. They can see whether they're in a FEMA-designated flood area, or what levels on a river gauge would indicate danger, and customize notifications to be alerted if a gauge reached a certain height.

Preparation and redundancy enhance safety

Despite Watch Duty's explosive growth, a phone app can't solve all the challenges with informing the public during emergencies.

“I love seeing products like this come out, but one thing we know to be true in the Texas floods, is a warning is only as good as the knowledge to do something about it,” said Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers.

The ASFPM recommends knowing how to reach an evacuation zone and not just having an emergency plan, but practicing it. “One of the massive failures is not knowing what to do,” said Berginnis.

The national infrastructure for monitoring weather and alerting the public is also at risk from past and proposed funding cuts to federal agencies and local emergency warning systems. “At the end of the day, if you want eyes and ears out there, you've got to pay for it,” said Berginnis.

Mills stressed Watch Duty is not meant to replace the work of weather and emergency agencies. “We need National Weather Service, we need fire service, we need all this infrastructure to operate.” He said users should still enroll in their local alerting system.

And of course, a phone app is only helpful to those who download it, and who have cell coverage to use it.

“You have to have redundancy,” said Berginnis, adding that an inexpensive NOAA weather radio can fill in when other systems fail. "Sometimes we get so focused on tech, we forget the easy stuff.”

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De la Espriella, a defense attorney who campaigned as the law-and-order candidate “El Tigre,” or “The Tiger,” and José Manuel Restrepo, a former finance minister and the vice president-elect, celebrated in Barranquilla.

“He Won, BIG,” Trump wrote on Truth Social about De la Espriella on Sunday night.

About 41 million Colombians were eligible to vote, 26.3 million cast their ballots in the runoff election, including 12.9 million who voted for De la Espriella, according to Colombia’s National Registry.

With 99.99% of the polling stations’ ballots tallied, 49.66% voted for De La Espriella, 47, and 48.7% for Cepeda, 63, according to the runoff election’s results released by Colombia’s National Registry on Sunday.

As Colombian judges scrutinized the preliminary results of the runoff presidential election, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Iván Cepeda, the left-wing presidential candidate, did not recognize the results.

“As of today, there is no elected president until the electoral commissions deliver their results,” Petro wrote in a statement released on X on Sunday night. “As I said this morning, I will accept the result that the judges declare because that is what the law orders.”

Once Colombia’s independent electoral authorities review and announce the legally binding result, De La Espriella plans to be sworn into office for his four-year term as the country’s 48th president on Aug. 7.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement saying he had also congratulated De la Espriella during a conversation over the phone.

“The Trump Administration looks forward to working closely with your incoming administration to advance regional security cooperation, end illegal immigration to the United States, and strengthen our economic ties,” Rubio wrote to De La Espriella on X. “Colombia’s best days are ahead.”

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El tiroteo ocurrió cerca de la intersección de Biscayne Boulevard y la calle 86 del noreste, de acuerdo con el Departamento de Policía de Miami Shores. El personal de Rescate de Bomberos de Miami-Dade trasladó al herido al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Hospital Jackson Memorial.

Antes de los disparos, el sospechoso portaba “dos armas de filo grande” y causó “un disturbio” en el concesionario Tropical Chevrolet en Miami Shores, detalló la policía. Los agentes habían acudido al establecimiento, ubicado en el 8880 de Biscayne Boulevard, poco después de las 2:10 p.m., pero el individuo ya se había retirado del lugar.

Una patrulla del Departamento de Policía de Miami se encontraba estacionada en la escena del tiroteo, donde quedaron abandonados casquillos de bala y una mochila negra. El Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida asumió la investigación del incidente.

De la Espriella, un abogado defensor de 47 años que basó su propuesta política en el orden público bajo el apodo de “El Tigre”, celebró la victoria en Barranquilla junto a José Manuel Restrepo, exministro de Hacienda y vicepresidente electo de la coalición opositora Defensores de la Patria. “Ganó en GRANDE”, escribió Trump el domingo por la noche a través de su plataforma Truth Socialal referirse al triunfo del candidato derechista, consolidando un drástico giro político en la nación andina.

Cerca de 41 millones de colombianos estaban habilitados para votar, y 26.3 millones acudieron a las urnas en esta histórica segunda vuelta electoral, registrando una participación del 64.1%. De ellos, 12.9 millones respaldaron a De la Espriella, de acuerdo con los datos consolidados de la Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil de Colombia. Con el 99.99% de las mesas escrutadas en el conteo preliminar del domingo, De la Espriella obtuvo el 49.66% de los sufragios, mientras que su rival de izquierda, el senador Iván Cepeda, de 63 años, alcanzó el 48.7%, una diferencia estrecha de apenas 252,000 votos que refleja la profunda polarización del país.

Mientras los jueces de las comisiones escrutadoras examinan estos resultados preliminares para el conteo oficial y definitivo, el actual presidente colombiano, Gustavo Petro, y el candidato Iván Cepeda se negaron a reconocer el desenlace de inmediato.

“Al día de hoy no hay presidente electo hasta que las comisiones escrutadoras entreguen sus resultados”, manifestó Petro en un comunicado emitido en la red social X.

El mandatario añadió que acatará el dictamen final de los jueces conforme a la ley. Una vez que las autoridades electorales independientes confirmen el veredicto definitivo, De la Espriella tiene previsto asumir el cargo el próximo 7 de agosto como el presidente número 48 de la nación para un mandato de cuatro años.

Por su parte, el secretario de Estado de EE. UU., Marco Rubio, emitió una declaración informando que también se comunicó telefónicamente con De la Espriella para expresarle sus parabienes y delinear la agenda bilateral inmediata.

“La administración Trump espera trabajar de cerca con su próximo gobierno para avanzar en la cooperación de seguridad regional, frenar la inmigración ilegal hacia Estados Unidos y fortalecer nuestros lazos económicos”, publicó Rubio en X, concluyendo que los mejores días de Colombia están por venir.

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El estrecho conteo preliminar desató tensiones políticas en Bogotá luego de que el presidente Gustavo Petro congelara el reconocimiento de los resultados oficiales del domingo.

Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

“To me he was my husband, who shaped my life from our very first date in 1984," Mitchell wrote. "He had ‘irrational exuberance’ for baseball, the Washington Commanders, tennis, golf, and music, especially jazz. He will be remembered for his brilliance and his kindness. Being his life partner was the joy of my life.”

The Fed said Greenspan helped to cement the Fed as a trusted institution during a time of economic uncertainty.

“Under his leadership, the Federal Reserve achieved a sustained era of price stability that supported economic growth and helped anchor the public’s confidence in the institution,” the Fed said in a statement Monday. “He brought rigorous analytical discipline to monetary policymaking and helped establish the credibility that remains one of the Federal Reserve’s most important assets.”

Greenspan was hailed as "Maestro'' — before crisis hit

In 18 1/2 years at the Fed, Greenspan presided over a breathtaking surge in stock prices and a 10-year economic boom that started in March 1991. He was celebrated as “Maestro’’ and “Oracle’’ — an economic virtuoso whose every utterance was dissected for clues on where interest rates and the economy were headed.

The intense scrutiny of Greenspan’s intentions gave birth to new Fed folklore: the “Briefcase Indicator.” A stuffed briefcase carried into Fed meetings implied changes might be afoot because Greenspan carried with him charts and research to make his point.

But his reputation began to suffer almost as soon as he left the Fed in 2006. American housing prices tumbled rapidly, meaning huge losses on banks that had bet heavily on real estate. The growing financial crisis pushed the U.S. economy into the Great Recession of 2007-2009 — the deepest downturn since the 1930s.

Critics blamed the devastation on Greenspan’s easy money policies and his support for deregulated financial markets. Greenspan himself later admitted “I made a mistake’’ in assuming that banks could essentially regulate themselves.

The crisis in the U.S. rapidly spread overseas, leading to a debt crisis for nations in Europe. China also engineered a massive government stimulus package to stabilize its economy.

Greenspan became the authoritative voice on the US economy

For almost two decades, it seemed that Greenspan could do no wrong. Not only in the United States but across the world, he was regarded with a mixture of reverence and awe. Many openly dreaded the day when he would leave the Fed.

Investors hung on his sometimes inscrutable observations. In the most well-known such remark, Greenspan sent financial markets reeling on Dec. 5, 1996, when he suggested with just two words — “irrational exuberance” — that stock prices were too high.

Mindful of his power to move markets, Greenspan typically resorted to obfuscation. At times, he even joked about his habit of doing so. “I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant,” Greenspan once told a befuddled congressional committee.

A protégé is born

Born in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, the young Greenspan was a math whiz who was trotted out by his mother to show off for visitors.

“I was a prop at parties,’’ he said in a 2007 interview with PBS NewsHour. A Julliard School dropout, he worked as a professional musician in his teens, playing clarinet and saxophone alongside the future jazz great Stan Getz. It was a humbling experience that persuaded the young Greenspan to seek another line of work.

He pursued undergraduate and graduate study in economics at New York University, eventually earning a doctorate there. For most of three decades, he ran an economic consulting firm. During the 1950s, he became a disciple of the libertarian philosopher Ayn Rand, who stuck him with the nickname the “Undertaker’’ for his dark clothes and quiet bearing. When Greenspan was sworn in as President Gerald Ford’s chief economic adviser in 1974, Rand stood beside him.

An early trial for a new Fed chair

President Ronald Reagan tapped Greenspan to run the Fed in 1987. He was tested almost immediately. On Oct. 19, 1987, which came to be known as “Black Monday,” the stock market suffered the worst one-day percentage loss in American history just two months into his term. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 22.6% for reasons that remain opaque to this day.

Greenspan was credited for helping restore stability. He assured Wall Street that the Fed would supply as much money to the financial system as was needed to restore calm. Stocks recovered, and the American economy emerged unscathed by the market crash.

Greenspan’s crisis management skills were tested again in 1997 and 1998, when a financial crisis in Asia threatened to spread economic devastation around the globe. Under Greenspan, the Fed arranged an emergency loan to Thailand and persuaded U.S. banks to roll over short-term loans to a teetering South Korea.

During his tenure at the Fed, Greenspan drew praise for presiding over what was at the time the longest economic expansion in American history. (It was later surpassed by a 128-month expansion that ran from June 2009 through February 2020.) During Greenspan's tenure at the Fed, the nation’s unemployment rate briefly dropped below 4% for the first time since 1970.

And inflation, which had bedeviled the United States and much of the global economy during the 1970s, was remarkably dormant during Greenspan’s chairmanship, something many economists thought impossible for so long a period.

During the long boom, Greenspan argued that improvements in technology had made the economy so efficient that it could run faster and at lower rates of unemployment, without unleashing inflation. As a consequence, the theory went, the Fed could keep interest rates low even when the economy was roaring.

A passion for numbers and life

As Fed chair, Greenspan relished poring over obscure economic data, from monthly boxcar loadings to steel production, all in a bid to assess where the economy was going. He would often phone economists at other government agencies to discuss details. He would rise early each morning for a two-hour soak in his bathtub, time that he used to review statistics and Fed staff memos.

Improbably, Greenspan also made the gossip pages as an unlikely ladies’ man. He dated the television journalist Barbara Walters and later married Mitchell after a 12-year courtship. They had no children.

Greenspan dated Walters while working as an adviser to President Gerald Ford. According to a biography of Greenspan, “The Man Who Knew” by Sebastian Mallaby, when Ford read a newspaper item about the pair, he cut it out and sent it to his chief of staff, Dick Cheney, with a note that said, “I don’t believe it.”

A strong faith in self-regulating markets is challenged

All along, Greenspan held fast to the belief that financial markets could largely regulate themselves. With officials from President Bill Clinton’s White House, he helped block efforts by Brooksley Born, the nation’s top commodities regulator, to bring federal oversight in the late 1990s to the shadowy market in over-the-counter derivatives. The derivatives allowed speculators to make bets on everything from the price of oil to high-risk mortgages.

Eventually, history would vindicate Born, not the Maestro.

The low interest rates Greenspan had engineered helped swell housing prices into a dangerous bubble. And the financial deregulation he supported allowed banks and other financial firms to pile up huge risks, often hidden from government supervision. Bad derivatives bets helped sink insurance giant American International Group, which required a $180 billion taxpayer bailout.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which was assigned to investigate the debacle by Congress, concluded:

“More than 30 years of deregulation and reliance on self-regulation by financial institutions, championed by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and others ... had stripped away key safeguards, which could have helped avoid catastrophe."

Life after the Fed

In the years after stepping down as Fed chairman in 2006 just shy of his 80th birthday, Greenspan kept busy doing what he loved to do most — following the economic data. He ran his own consulting firm, Greenspan Associates, through which he dispensed advice to Wall Street clients and collected handsome speaking fees.

He kept up a busy schedule well into his 90s, writing his memoir and two other books on the economy, as well as opining on the latest economic developments on television news shows.

He also signed onto opinion articles and statements defending the Federal Reserve’s political independence from President Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks. In January 2026 he signed a statement criticizing the Trump administration’s investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell. The statement, which was also signed by two other former Fed chairs and five former Treasury secretaries, called the investigation “an unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine” the Fed’s independence and warned it would have “highly negative consequences for inflation.”

Greenspan’s tenure as Fed chairman — from August 1987 through January 2006 — was just five months shy of the longest Fed chairman’s tenure. That distinction belonged to William McChesney Martin, who served from 1951 until early 1970.

In his 2013 book “The Map and the Territory,’’ Greenspan defended himself against critics who assigned him significant blame for the 2008 financial meltdown. He argued that traditional economic forecasting was no match for the irrational risk-taking that can feed catastrophic price bubbles.

“Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds,” Greenspan said in a 2013 interview with The Associated Press. “Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked.”

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AP Economics Writers Martin Crutsinger contributed to this report.

At 87 years old, Karp has become an unlikely relationship guru, sharing decades of dating experiences, lessons and laughter in his book, Senior Dating: An Exposé of the Early Bird Special. Part memoir, part dating diary and part encouragement for those hesitant to put themselves back out there, the book chronicles Karp’s journey through love, loss and finding happiness later in life.

Karp’s story begins in the 1960s.

“Well, I was a social young man. When I was a kid, I was out there,” Karp said. “I got married. I was about 26.”

That marriage lasted 27 years before coming to an end, prompting a major life change.

“After 27 years, marriage kind of dissipated,” he said. “And I decided to come to Florida.”

The move from the Northeast to the Sunshine State opened the door to a new chapter — and a new dating scene.

Karp quickly discovered that South Florida offered plenty of opportunities to meet people.

“I found that there were a lot more women out there than guys,” he said. “So I had no competition.”

After his first marriage, Karp entered another long-term relationship. The couple spent 20 years together before she passed away. The loss was devastating, and healing took time.

Still, Karp refused to give up on companionship.

“I started slowly, but gradually I started to go out a lot,” he said.

Eventually, his persistence paid off.

“Finally, I met the lady, Zoe, that I’ve been with for about four years,” Karp said. “And we have a happy life.”

Before finding Zoe, however, Karp accumulated plenty of stories from the dating world — many of which made their way into his book.

The pages are filled with tales of online dating mishaps, awkward dinners, speed-dating disasters and encounters that simply didn’t go as planned. While some readers ask whether the stories are fictional, Karp says most of them are rooted in reality.

“People say, ‘Is this book fiction?’” he said. “I said, ‘Well, it’s fiction and nonfiction.’ I mean, probably 95% of it is real. I use different names. I don’t want to be sued by anybody.”

Rather than serving as a step-by-step dating guide, Karp hopes the book inspires readers to remain optimistic and open-minded, regardless of age.

For him, age is simply a matter of perspective.

“You just have to do it,” Karp said. “You can’t say, ‘Oh, my husband died. I have to wear a black dress for the rest of my life.’ That doesn’t make sense. You want to do it, you got to do it.”

His experiences demonstrate that while dating may look different as people grow older, the desire for connection never disappears. Neither does the opportunity to find it.

Karp is already researching his next book, continuing a journey that proves life still has new chapters to write — no matter your age.

Senior Dating: An Exposé of the Early Bird Special is available for purchase on Amazon by clicking here.

La dirección del viento desde el sureste ha ayudado a empujar el humo y la neblina hacia el interior del territorio, lo que mejoró las condiciones atmosféricas en gran parte del condado de Broward; sin embargo, Miami-Dade mantiene el aviso de alerta hasta las 3 p.m.

El incendio denominado “Quarry 2”, ubicado al este de Krome Avenue, ha sido el más extenso tras arrasar 19,018 acres hasta el momento y se encuentra contenido en un 97%.

Por su parte, el incendio “Well Fire”, cerca de Northwest 122nd Avenue, ha devorado 2,749 acres y registra un 85% de contención.

Actualmente no se reportan cierres de carreteras a causa de estos incendios forestales.

Alberto Carvalho denied any wrongdoing earlier this year and had asked to be reinstated as head of the nation's second-largest district.

The FBI served search warrants on Feb. 25 at his home and the LA Unified School District’s headquarters. Two days later, the district’s Board of Education voted unanimously to place him on leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

In its statement released early Monday, the Board acknowledged it received a letter of resignation from Carvalho. The resignation was effective as of Sunday.

“The Board remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring stability, continuity, and continued progress through strong leadership. Our focus remains unchanged: providing every student with a high-quality education, supporting our dedicated workforce, and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve,” it said in the statement.

It said that Andrés Chait, who has been acting superintendent, will remain in that position until a permanent decision is made.

Authorities have not provided details of the nature of the investigation involving the district, which serves more than 500,000 students, nor have they accused Carvalho of any crimes.

The FBI also searched a third location near Miami. The Miami Herald reported the Florida property belonged to Debra Kerr, who previously worked with AllHere, an education technology company that had a contract with Los Angeles schools before it collapsed and its leader was indicted for fraud.

In 2024, Carvalho heavily touted a deal with AllHere for an AI chatbot named “Ed” designed to help students. But about three months after unveiling the technology and paying the company $3 million, the district dropped its dealings with AllHere, which collapsed into bankruptcy. Months later, founder Joanna Smith-Griffin was charged with securities and wire fraud, along with identity theft.

At the time, Carvalho denied personal involvement in the selection of AllHere, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“Mr. Carvalho respects the rule of law and the investigative process and has always acted in the best interests of students and within the bounds of the law,” a statement provided by Holland & Knight, the law firm representing him, had said. “While the government’s investigation remains ongoing, no evidence has been presented by prosecutors supporting any allegation that Mr. Carvalho violated federal law.”

An email seeking comment was sent to the law firm Monday.

Following the search of school headquarters, LA Unified said it was cooperating with investigators and had no further information.

Carvalho became superintendent for LA in 2022. He previously led the public schools in Miami.

The 2026 midterm contests in Maryland take place under the shadow of the 2028 elections. Moore is running for reelection amid speculation that he also has his eye on a possible presidential campaign. Meanwhile, the contested primaries in all eight of Maryland’s congressional districts could be the last held under the current set of boundaries, as state lawmakers consider entering the national mid-decade redistricting fray with a map that could eliminate the state’s lone Republican congressional seat in time for the 2028 elections.

At the top of the ballot, Moore and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller face a primary challenge from Eric Felber and his running mate, LaTrece Hawkins Lytes. In Maryland, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run on the same ticket. Felber is a physician who unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin in the 8th Congressional District primary in 2024.

The Democratic ticket will face the winners of a nine-way Republican primary field that includes former state Del. Dan Cox and his running mate, Rob Krop. Cox lost to Moore in the 2022 general election for governor and ran unsuccessfully in 2024 for the 6th Congressional District Republican nomination.

In the 5th Congressional District, 24 contenders seek the Democratic nomination to replace former Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who is retiring after 23 terms. Among those running are former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, health care business executive Quincy Bareebe, Prince George’s County state Del. Adrian Boafo, Prince George’s County Councilwoman Wala Blegay and former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn.

Bareebe led the field in fundraising as of early June, followed by Dunn. Boafo has endorsements from Hoyer, Moore and Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks.

Dunn served at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters supporting President Donald Trump attacked the complex in an attempt to block certification of his 2020 presidential election defeat. Dunn ran in the 3rd Congressional District in 2024, placing second in the 22-candidate Democratic primary.

The district includes all of Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s County in southern Maryland, but the bulk of voters come from parts of Anne Arundel County and heavily Democratic Prince George’s County.

U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney seeks a second term in the 6th Congressional District but first must clear a strong Democratic primary challenge from the man she replaced, former U.S. Rep. David Trone, who has loaned his campaign $25 million from his personal fortune. Trone gave up the seat for an unsuccessful 2024 U.S. Senate primary bid where he spent $63 million of his own money to place second behind Alsobrooks, who went on to win the seat.

A majority of voters in the 6th District come from Democratic leaning Frederick County and heavily Democratic Montgomery County, but the district also includes all of Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties in heavily Republican western Maryland.

Moore and his allies in the state Legislature attempted to redraw the state’s congressional districts in response to new Trump-backed maps in several Republican-controlled states, but the measure was blocked in mid-April by Democratic state Senate President Bill Ferguson, who said the plan put existing Democratic seats at risk.

But in the wake of an April U.S. Supreme Court decision that prompted some Republican-controlled southern states to eliminate several Democratic-held majority-Black districts, Ferguson said in a statement that “Maryland must respond as the ground shifts under us.” The Legislature may take up the measure again ahead of the 2028 election in the form of a state constitutional amendment that could go before voters as early as November.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for governor, U.S. House, state Senate, state House and local offices in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

Who gets to vote?

Voters registered with a political party may participate only in their own party’s primary. Democrats may not vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may not participate in either primary.

How many voters are there?

As of May 31, there were about 4.6 million registered voters in Maryland. That includes about 2.2 million active registered Democrats, about 1 million active registered Republicans and about 1 million active voters not affiliated with any party. There are an additional 250,000 inactive registered voters that the state does not break down by party.

How many people actually vote?

About 671,000 registered Democrats and about 295,000 registered Republicans cast ballots in the 2022 primaries for governor. That was about 16% and 7% of registered voters at the time.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 60% of Democratic primary votes and about 37% of Republican primary votes in the 2022 primaries were cast early in-person or by mail.

As of Wednesday, about 228,000 Democratic primary ballots and about 67,000 Republican primary ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

The first vote reports of the night tend to be from early voting and mail ballots cast before Election Day.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2022 primary, the AP first reported results at 8:42 p.m. ET, or 42 minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 4:15 a.m. ET with about 56% of total votes counted.

In Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, the two most populous in the state, the first votes were reported at 9:05 p.m. ET. The last election night update from Montgomery County was at 2:25 a.m. ET with about half the vote counted and from Prince George’s at 3:05 p.m. ET with about 59% counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

Recounts in Maryland are not automatic. A losing candidate may request and pay for a recount if the vote margin between the top two candidates is 5% or less of the total votes cast for those two candidates. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 133 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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The new congressional boundaries could result in an additional Democratic seat, as Republicans try to retain a slim U.S. House majority in a midterm election environment where the president’s party typically loses seats in Congress.

The state adopted the new map over the objections of the Republican-controlled Legislature after a Utah court invalidated lawmakers’ 2021 plan, which divided the Democratic stronghold of Salt Lake City among four Republican-dominated congressional districts. The court ruled that the Republican lawmakers’ map violated a voter-backed 2018 measure designed to reduce partisanship in redistricting.

The Utah Supreme Court upheld the lower court ruling in February, and a Republican measure backed by President Donald Trump to repeal the 2018 anti-gerrymandering law failed to make the November ballot. The reshuffling of seats in Utah comes as Republicans are set to make gains from mid-decade redistricting efforts in several states at Trump’s urging.

In the newly drawn Salt Lake City-based 1st Congressional District, former Salt Lake City mayor and former Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams looks to return to Congress in a district more favorable than the one he represented for one term at the end of the last decade. He faces state Sen. Nate Blouin, tax attorney Michael Farrell and former American Heart Association lobbyist and former TikTok and Meta policy analyst Liban Mohamed. At the start of June, McAdams had almost triple Blouin’s overall fundraising haul and dwarfed the rest of the field combined in cash available.

Republican Riley Owen is running unopposed. Had this district been in effect in the 2024 presidential election, former Vice President Kamala Harris would have carried it with 60% of the vote.

The new 2nd Congressional District in northwest Utah is the least changed of the state’s four districts. It tracks closely with the current 1st Congressional District. Republican U.S. Rep. Blake Moore, who currently represents the 1st District, is running for a fourth term, but he faces a tough primary against state Rep. Karianne Lisonbee. At the April state party convention, Lisonbee defeated Moore by an almost two-to-one margin in a nomination vote among delegates, but Moore secured a spot in the primary through a signature petition. Lisonbee has criticized Moore for co-chairing the “Better Boundaries” committee that helped pass the 2018 redistricting law that many state Republicans blame for costing them a seat in Congress.

In the massive new 3rd Congressional District spanning southern and eastern Utah, Republican U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy faces a primary challenge from former state Rep. Phil Lyman in her bid for a second full term. Maloy currently represents the 2nd Congressional District, which overlaps with the new 3rd District in southwest Utah, but the bulk of the new district along the Colorado border will be new territory. Maloy narrowly won the nomination vote at the April state convention over Lyman after two rounds of voting, but not by enough to keep Lyman off the primary ballot.

In the new 4th Congressional District, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kennedy is unopposed for renomination. The district overlaps mostly with Maloy’s current 2nd District on the western side of the state, not the eastern half that he’s represented since 2025.

Republican U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens of the current 4th District in the heart of Utah opted not to seek reelection.

Trump has endorsed all three incumbents seeking reelection.

About half of Utah’s 29 state Senate seats and all 75 state House seats are up for election in 2026. Republicans hold overwhelming supermajorities in both chambers.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 8 p.m. MT, which is 10 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. House, state Senate, state House and state Board of Education.

Who gets to vote?

Any registered voter may participate in the Democratic primary regardless of party registration. Only registered Republicans may vote in the Republican primary. Eligible voters may register in-person at the polls during the early voting period or on Election Day. Voters who are not affiliated with any political party may affiliate with the Republican Party at the polls on Election Day and vote in the Republican primary.

How many voters are there?

As of June 16, there were about 2.1 million registered voters in Utah, including about 1 million registered Republicans, about 297,000 registered Democrats and about 622,000 voters not affiliated with any party.

How many people actually vote?

Roughly 427,000 votes were cast in the 2024 Republican state primary. Total votes in Democratic primaries ranged from about 68,000 in the 2024 presidential primary to about 221,000 in the 2020 presidential primary.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

Elections in Utah are conducted predominantly by mail.

As of Thursday, about 163,000 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s primaries, including about 127,000 from Republicans, about 32,000 from Democrats and about 2,900 from unaffiliated voters.

When are early and absentee votes released?

Most counties tend to release a significant amount of early in-person and mail results in the 1st vote update of the night. But in about two-thirds of counties, advance voting results are released along with results from in-person Election Day voting.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2024 state primary, the AP first reported results at 10:03 p.m. ET, or three minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 2:07 a.m. ET with about 74% of total votes counted. The tally surpassed 90% of the vote counted by June 27 at 6:32 p.m. ET, two days after Election Day.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

Recounts are automatic in Utah only in the event of a tie vote. A losing candidate may request a recount if the vote margin is 0.25% of the total vote or less. In elections with fewer than 400 total votes cast, recounts may be requested if the winning margin is one vote. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 133 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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The Republican gubernatorial runoff features two-term Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson, son of Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson. President Donald Trump announced Friday he was endorsing both Evette and Wilson in the runoff.

“I can’t hurt one of them by only Endorsing the other,” he said in a Friday evening social media post. Trump had endorsed Evette in the primary over Wilson and five other candidates.

Trump’s picks have had a strong record at the ballot box in 2026, although some recent contests have shown that the president’s backing is not a guarantee of victory. The president’s picks for Iowa governor and Georgia governor lost their nomination bids, while his pick for Oklahoma governor was forced to a runoff after placing second in the June 16 primary.

Evette had Trump's endorsement for the primary but also failed to win the nomination outright. She received 28.9% of the primary vote, narrowly outperforming Wilson, who received 26.1%. U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman placed third with 17.1%.

Evette’s best showing was in the Pee Dee region to the northeast along the North Carolina border and the Atlantic Ocean. The region was a strong area for Trump in 2024 and comprised about 15% of the total primary vote. Wilson’s strongest area was in the central core of the state, where Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris ran about even in 2024. The area includes Richland County, home to the state capital of Columbia, and reaches southwest to the Georgia border to include several of the state’s majority Black counties. Collectively, the area made up about 19% of the total primary vote.

A key battleground in the runoff will be the Upcountry region that includes some of the state’s most populous counties, including Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson. Evette was the top vote-getter in this area, although the margin between first-place Evette and third-place Norman was less than 2 percentage points.

The eventual Republican nominee will face Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson, who won the nomination outright in the primary. Democrats last won the governorship in 1998.

The winner in November will succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, who has endorsed Evette. Regardless of party, his replacement will likely play a key role in the early stages of the 2028 presidential race, with the state expected to once again hold critical first-in-the-South presidential primaries.

Placing a distant fifth in the gubernatorial primary was U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, a one-time staunch Trump ally who broke with the president in calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Both the Republican and Democratic primaries to replace her in the 1st Congressional District were forced to a runoff.

The Republican finalists are Charleston County Councilwoman Jenny Costa Honeycutt and state Rep. Mark Smith. The Democratic finalists are former Hilton Head Island general counsel and U.S. Coast Guard veteran Mac Deford and retired Navy Vice Admiral and former Navy Reserve Chief Nancy Lacore. Honeycutt had a 4-point lead over Smith in the Republican primary, while Lacore outperformed Deford by nearly 8 points in the Democratic primary.

Trump carried the 1st District in 2024 with about 56%, compared to about 43% for Harris.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 7 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in primary runoffs for U.S. House, governor, attorney general, agriculture commissioner and state House.

Who gets to vote?

Voters who cast a ballot in a partisan primary on June 9 may only vote in the runoff of the same party as they did in the primary. In other words, Democratic primary voters may not vote in a Republican primary runoff or vice versa. Registered voters who did not participate in a party primary on June 9 may vote in the runoff for either party.

How many voters are there?

As of Saturday, there were about 3.4 million registered voters in South Carolina. Voters in South Carolina do not register by party.

How many people actually vote?

About 473,000 voters cast ballots in the June 9 Republican primary for governor.

The total number of voters in a runoff tends to be smaller than in the preceding primary. In the last Republican primary runoff for governor in 2018, the number of voters fell about 7% from the primary. The drop-off was about 14% in the 2010 Republican gubernatorial runoff.

The two statewide primary runoffs in 2022 had much starker drops. The number of Republican runoff voters for state school superintendent fell by 47% compared to the primary. Total voters in the Democratic U.S. Senate runoff was 74% less than in the primary.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 52% of the Democratic primary vote and about 29% of the Republican primary vote in the June 9 primaries was cast early in-person or by mail.

As of Wednesday, halfway through the state's two-day early voting period, about 37,000 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

Nearly all of South Carolina’s 46 counties release all or almost all of their early in-person and mail voting results in the first vote update of the night, usually before releasing any results from in-person Election Day voting.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the June 9 primary, the AP first reported results at 7:20 p.m. ET, or 20 minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 12:19 a.m. ET with about 99.9% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

In South Carolina, recounts are automatic if the margin between the winning and losing candidates is 1% of the total vote or less. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 133 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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One incumbent who is not up for election but has emerged as a key figure in the campaign is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is looking to shape the city's congressional delegation through a series of endorsements, including for challengers to two Democratic incumbents.

New York is expected to play a key role in deciding control of the chamber in November.

In New York City, competitive primaries in traditionally safe Democratic seats could help define the party’s identity in the Empire State and beyond.

In the 10th Congressional District in Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, two-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Golden faces a strong challenge from former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who has endorsements from Mamdani and Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. Mamdani and Lander are former mayoral campaign rivals.

In the 13th Congressional District in Upper Manhattan and parts of the Bronx, five-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat faces three primary challengers, including doctoral student and political organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier, who also has Mamdani's backing.

In the 7th Congressional District straddling Brooklyn and Queens, retiring 17-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez has endorsed Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, but he faces a tough race against state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, who has endorsements from Mamdani and Sanders.

In Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District, eight Democrats are running to succeed retiring Democratic U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler. The top contenders include state Assemblymen Alex Bores and Micah Lasher, attorney, Donald Trump critic and former Republican George Conway, and Kennedy family scion Jack Schlossberg. Conway leads the field in fundraising, but Lasher boasts endorsements from Nadler, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and former independent New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

North of the city in the 17th Congressional District, five Democrats hope to unseat two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, who is unopposed for the nomination. The field includes former White House counterterrorism official and Army combat veteran Cait Conley, Rockland County Legislator Beth Davidson and Tarrytown Village Trustee Effie Phillips-Staley. Conley leads in fundraising and available cash as of early June, followed by Davidson, with Phillips-Staley a distant third.

This swing district in the northern suburbs of New York City is among the top seats Democrats hope to flip. Democrat Kamala Harris narrowly carried the district in 2024. Her strongest showing was in Westchester County, the largest of the district’s four counties and the closest to New York City. Trump carried Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties with double-digit leads.

On Long Island, vulnerable Democratic freshmen Reps. Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen are defending their seats in the 3rd and 4th Congressional Districts, respectively. Both face contested primaries.

In the massive 21st Congressional District in upstate New York, Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik is not seeking a seventh term following her aborted run for governor and her withdrawn nomination for United Nations Ambassador. State Assemblyman Robert Smullen has the backing of local party officials to replace her, while business owner Anthony Constantino has an endorsement from Trump.

The only statewide contest at stake on Tuesday is the Democratic primary for state comptroller, where the five-term incumbent, Tom DiNapoli, faces his first-ever primary challenge after almost 20 years in office.

Hochul and state Attorney General Letitia James are running for reelection, but they are unopposed for their party’s nominations and do not appear on primary ballots, as is the case for their Republican opponents, Bruce Blakeman and Saritha Komatireddy. Under New York election law, primaries are not held in contests where only one candidate seeks the nomination.

Voters will also decide contested primaries for state Senate and state Assembly. All 63 state Senate and 150 state Assembly seats are up for election in 2026. Democrats hold about 2-to-1 majorities over Republicans in both chambers.

Here are some of the key facts about the election and data points the AP Decision Team will monitor as the votes are tallied:

When do polls close?

Polls close at 9 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. House, state comptroller, state Senate and state Assembly.

Who gets to vote?

Voters registered with a political party may participate only in their own party’s primary. Democrats may not vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may not participate in either primary.

How many voters are there?

As of Feb. 20, there were about 13.4 million registered voters in New York, including about 6.4 million registered Democrats, about 3 million registered Republicans and about 3.4 million voters not affiliated with any party.

How many people actually vote?

About 899,000 Democratic primary votes and about 451,000 Republican primary votes were cast in the 2022 primaries for governor.

How much of the vote is cast early or by absentee ballot?

About 20% of the 2022 primary vote was cast early in-person or by mail. The figure rose to about 39% in the 2024 presidential primaries.

As of Wednesday, about 107,000 ballots had already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

New York counties and New York City tend to release all or almost all of their results from early voting and most of their results from mail voting in the first vote update of the night, usually before any results from in-person Election Day voting are released.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2022 primary, the AP first reported results at 9:04 p.m. ET, or four minutes after polls closed. The last vote update of the night was at 3:11 a.m. ET with about 95% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

The AP does not make projections and will declare a winner only when it’s determined there is no scenario that would allow a trailing candidate to close the gap. If a race has not been called, the AP will continue to cover any newsworthy developments, such as candidate concessions or declarations of victory. In doing so, the AP will make clear that it has not yet declared a winner and explain why.

How do recounts work?

In New York, an automatic recount is triggered in races where more than 1 million votes are cast if the margin of victory is less than 5,000 votes. For smaller races, the automatic recount is triggered if the margin of victory is 20 votes or less or 0.5% or less of the total votes cast. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 133 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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L’Équipe also apologized to Doku in a statement late Sunday and said the comments by France Pierron did not represent its values.

Pierron described childbirth as “a disgusting moment, excuse me, where the dad is useless” when taking part in the television show “L’Équipe de Choc” on Friday.

“There are hundreds of footballers who would kill to be in your place,” she said on the show, reacting to Doku’s comments in the United States.

Doku’s wife Shireen is due to give birth to their son in early July when Belgium hopes to be playing in the knockout rounds of the World Cup.

“No one wants to miss a birth,” said the 24-year-old Doku, who is a star in the Belgium squad and plays for Manchester City.

Pierron questioned Doku’s priorities as he was “living a childhood dream. It might never happen again in your life.”

It was unclear if Pierron would be part of Monday’s scheduled broadcast of the talk show on the cable channel run by the storied daily sports newspaper.

Doku received support from England forward Ollie Watkins, who was asked about the family choices facing players.

“He said it only happens once, your first child. Welcoming them to the world is a blessing,” Watkins said during a news conference at the England training camp.

“Someone labeled it disgusting. And I think for a start that’s not a way to label a birth. I don’t think it’s anyone else’s business what he gets up to after training,” Watkins said.

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Russia has pounded civilian areas of Ukraine with drones and missiles since it launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, with a United Nations tally saying more than 16,000 civilians have died in the war. U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to stop the fighting.

The Sumy attack hit a home and killed a 36-year-old man, his 13-year-old son and a 73-year-old woman who was the mother of the man’s partner, according to Oleh Hryhorov, the head of the regional military administration. The man’s partner and 10-year-old son were wounded, he said.

“Their home was destroyed,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X. “An ordinary home — not a military target whatsoever.”

Monthly civilian casualties in Ukraine are highest in 4 years

The number of civilian casualties in Russian attacks has jumped recently, according to the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, as Moscow’s forces struggle to gain momentum on the battlefield.

At least 274 civilians were killed and 1,763 injured in Ukraine in May — the highest monthly total of civilian casualties since April 2022, it said earlier this month. Most casualties are in cities far from the front line, it said.

A Russian nighttime drone strike also killed a woman and wounded three people, including an 11-year-old boy, in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, regional head Ivan Fedorov said.

In total, Russia launched 88 long-range attack drones and one ballistic missile overnight, Ukraine’s air force said, with air defenses shooting down or jamming 79 of the drones.

Ukraine, meanwhile, fired many more drones toward Russia and territories it controls, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, as Kyiv sustained its long-range campaign against oil facilities, military transport and infrastructure.

The campaign's success has prompted Russian-held Crimea to halt civilian gasoline sales. Also, all summer camps in illegally annexed Crimea on Monday stopped accepting children and new bookings until Sept. 1 for security reasons, the Russian-installed governor of the occupied peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov, said.

Ukrainian cruise missiles target a Russian electronics plant

The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday its forces intercepted 301 Ukrainian drones during the night over multiple Russian regions, the Crimea peninsula, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that 84 Ukrainian drones targeting the Russian capital were shot down.

He didn’t say whether the attack caused any damage, but all four Moscow airports temporarily halted flights in the wake of the attack.

Also, some residential buildings were evacuated in Russia’s Vladimir region east of Moscow and the Tula region south of the capital as a result of the attack, local authorities reported.

Air defenses also intercepted several aerial targets over the city of Voronezh in southwestern Russia, Gov. Alexander Gusev said.

An industrial plant that he didn’t name sustained unspecified damage and three people were injured, Gusev said.

Ukraine's General Staff said it used high-precision, air-launched cruise missiles to hit a Voronezh factory that produces electronic parts for Russian missile and air defense systems. It described the strikes as “successful,” without elaborating.

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The French state already has a 50% stake in KNDS, which was formed in 2015 with the merger of Germany's Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and France's Nexter. The other half is held by the German family behind Krauss-Maffei Wegmann.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, KNDS had 4.4 billion euros ($5 billion) in revenue last year and more than 11,000 employees.

European countries are moving to ramp up their defense spending and production and boost their military ranks as they contend with Russia’s war in Ukraine and concerns about the United States’ unpredictability.

The German government said its planned stake “will secure long-term influence on a company that is strategically significant for European security and defense capability.” It added in a statement that “national industrial value creation, as well as technological sovereignty and the protection of security interests and key technologies in Germany" also will be strengthened.

A separate joint statement said that the German and French governments have reached an agreement on the strategy and governance of KNDS, “of which they intend to become joint shareholders through transactions aiming at equal shareholding levels for both countries.”

It didn't specify when that will happen or what level the countries' stakes will ultimately settle at, but said the accord paves the way for a possible IPO of KNDS in the near future.

The two governments said their agreement “reflects the shared determination of France and Germany to strengthen Europe’s industrial and defense capabilities, support their armed forces, and strengthen European sovereignty over the long term.”

Beside the tanks, KNDS' products also include Puma infantry fighting vehicles and Boxer and Dingo armored personnel carriers.

El servicio meteorológico nacional, Meteo France, indicó que la mayor parte del país —el más grande de la Unión Europea y el segundo más poblado— está entrando en lo que se describe como una “meseta” de condiciones implacables de ola de calor, que según los pronósticos no empezaría a remitir antes del viernes, como muy pronto.

Varias localidades del oeste y el centro de Francia vivieron su noche más calurosa jamás registrada de domingo a lunes, indicó Meteo France. El importante puerto de Saint-Nazaire en la costa atlántica, batió su récord con una mínima nocturna de 23,2 ºC (73,8 ºF).

París soportó su noche más calurosa para un mes de junio, sin bajar de los 24,2 ºC (75,5 ºF), medio grado más que el récord anterior de 2017. El servicio meteorológico advirtió de noches aún más calurosas.

“Esto continuará hasta el final de la semana, con niveles de calor nunca antes registrados en más de tres cuartas partes del país el miércoles y el jueves”.

La ola de calor también empeoró la calidad del aire en la capital francesa, ya que provoca la formación de ozono que atrapa la contaminación. La agencia de monitoreo de la calidad del aire en la región de París indicó que era probable que los contaminantes superaran el umbral recomendado.

En un país sin aire acondicionado generalizado, personas, empresas y servicios intentaron adaptarse lo mejor posible. El ministro de Educación señaló que cientos de escuelas cerraron el lunes y que muchos cientos más cancelarían algunas clases.

Los avisos en la red de transporte de París instaban a los viajeros a hidratarse. Especialistas médicos acudieron a los medios para advertir sobre el cóctel potencialmente mortal de beber alcohol con calor extremo. Las autoridades endurecieron las medidas contra el consumo de alcohol en espacios públicos. Se reportaron varios ahogamientos mientras la gente buscaba alivio en los ríos, pese a las advertencias sobre las corrientes y otros peligros.

El cambio climático provocado por el ser humano está vinculado al aumento de los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos, y las proyecciones de la agencia climática de la ONU señalan que los próximos cinco años deberían pulverizar más récords de calor.

Una franja cada vez mayor de Francia, que el lunes se extendió a más de la mitad de sus regiones, estaba bajo “alerta roja” por calor, y se prevé que áreas más amplias sufran máximas que superen los 40 ºC y noches que no bajen de los 20 ºC.

En el Reino Unido, la oficina meteorológica también emitió una advertencia de “calor extremo” para gran parte del sur de Inglaterra y zonas de Gales desde el lunes hasta el jueves. Indicó que las temperaturas podrían alcanzar los 38 ºC (100 ºF). El récord actual para un día de junio es de 35,6 ºC (96 ºF), registrado en 1976.

En los últimos cuatro años, más de 200.000 personas en toda Europa murieron por causas relacionadas con el calor, y la mayoría de las muertes eran evitables, informó este mes la oficina para Europa de la Organización Mundial de la Salud. Se esperan más temperaturas por encima de lo normal este verano, lo que puede provocar agotamiento por calor y golpes de calor potencialmente mortales.

La quema de gasolina, petróleo y carbón, además de la deforestación, los incendios forestales y muchos tipos de fábricas, liberan gases que atrapan el calor y causan el cambio climático. Europa es el continente que se calienta más rápido del mundo, con temperaturas que aumentan al doble de velocidad que el promedio mundial desde la década de 1980, según el Servicio de Cambio Climático Copernicus de la Unión Europea.

La agencia de monitoreo de la UE encontró que, en Europa y a nivel mundial, 2024 fue el año más caluroso registrado y el continente experimentó su segunda cifra más alta de días de “estrés térmico”. Los científicos advierten que el cambio climático está exacerbando la frecuencia e intensidad del calor y la sequedad, especialmente en el sureste de Europa, lo que hace a la región más vulnerable a los impactos en la salud y a los incendios forestales

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He said he was stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party but would remain caretaker prime minister until a new head is chosen by the party.

Andy Burnham, who won a special parliamentary election last week, confirmed that he will run to succeed Starmer.

Starmer won a landslide victory in the 2024 general election, but a series of missteps badly damaged his credibility.

His resignation comes the day before Britain marks the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the European Union, a decision that still roils the country’s economy and politics.

Here's the latest:

Loud cheers as Burnham is sworn in as lawmaker

Andy Burnham has been sworn in as a lawmaker in Parliament.

Loud cheers broke out among lawmakers in the House of Commons as Burnham returned to Parliament after nearly a decade as mayor of Greater Manchester.

European Commission president looks forward to stable relations with the UK

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Starmer “did a true reset built on trust, without any question.”

Speaking on the eve of Brexit's 10th anniversary of Britain’s departure from the EU, von der Leyen said: “I’m looking forward to resuming a strong and stable relationship with the people of the United Kingdom.”

Burnham greeted by media frenzy as he arrives at London train station

About 50 journalists and photographers waited to greet Burnham as he arrived at London’s Euston station by train from Manchester, ahead of being sworn in as a lawmaker at Westminster.

The former mayor of Greater Manchester told reporters that his “priority” for the day was to be officially sworn in as a lawmaker.

“It’s been very kind of sad for me today to leave Greater Manchester. The people have been brilliant to me over the last few years. I’ve loved every minute of the role,” he said.

Britain and Labour Party would benefit if Burnham faces a challenge for the prime minister post

A leadership contest would strengthen Britain’s new government because it would give front-runner Andy Burnham the chance to lay out his policies before becoming prime minister, said Victoria Honeyman, a professor of politics at Leeds University.

Burnham arrived in London on Monday to take up his seat in Parliament following a special election victory last week.

“If you are Andy Burnham, you want a bit of a proper contest because these kinds of show contests where it’s basically all decided are not necessarily good for anybody,” Honeyman said. “It isn’t good for the country because it doesn’t really kind of wrinkle out all of the issues that people want to talk about. You don’t really get a very good view of the individuals that are competing for the role.”

But Burnham won’t want the contest to be “too bruising,” she said, “because you don’t want the party to be criticized too massively publicly, and you want to be able to present yourself as being unified, which is very difficult if it’s quite a vicious battle.”

Why is Andy Burnham the front-runner to succeed Starmer?

Because many people see him as the best person to defeat the anti-immigrant Reform Party at the next election, according to Olivia O’Sullivan, the director of the UK in the World Program at the Chatham House think tank.

Burnham’s greatest asset is that he appeals to Labour Party lawmakers who were frustrated by the way Starmer has governed, O’Sullivan said. The hope is that he will set out a “clearer vision” and connect with voters in parts of the country that are in danger of turning to the Reform Party, she said.

Burnham was elected to Parliament last week after decisively defeating a Reform candidate in a special election.

“He won a very strong majority in precisely the type of area, the type of constituency that the Labour Party is worried it’s losing,” O’Sullivan said. “So it may be that a lot of his appeal is centered in the fact that he seems to connect better with those voters and offer a clearer vision. But it’s absolutely correct that that is not the same thing as offering a radically different set of policies or even a particularly clear policy program.”

Ukrainian President thanks Starmer

“Keir, thank you for all our cooperation, your support, and the joint decisions that have helped make our Europe and our protection of life stronger," Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X.

"Here in Ukraine, we deeply value Britain, and every meeting and every conversation we have had has always been filled with real substance ... I wish the United Kingdom and all British people every success as well as realisation of your national goals. We have confidence in Britain.

Keir, you are always a welcome guest in Ukraine.”

Reform UK leader calls for a general election

Nigel Farage, who leads the anti-immigration party, wrote on X that “Reform demands an election, and we are ready to deliver radical change.”

“If Labour thinks it can shove another professional politician into No 10, it has another thing coming,” he said.

Farage said Labour has betrayed voters’ trust, citing the Starmer government’s unpopular welfare and tax policies and illegal immigration as examples of the party’s failings.

Britain’s next national election doesn’t have to be held until 2029. British politics allows parties to change leaders midterm without the need for a general election.

EU Council president praises Starmer's role in EU-UK relations

António Costa said on Monday that Starmer helped turn “a new page” in EU-UK relations 10 years after Brexit.

“We turned a new page in EU-UK relations,” Costa said in a social media post. “The EU is committed to continued cooperation in this spirit.”

Starmer was seen as repairing relations with Brussels following Brexit and had helped schedule an EU-UK summit for July 22.

But on Monday, the European Commission said they were reassessing that plan.

Norwegian prime minister thanks Starmer for a ‘strong and close partnership’

“I respect the decision he has made,” Jonas Gahr Støre, a fellow center-left leader, said in a statement.

“The United Kingdom is Norway’s close ally in Europe, and over the past two years our countries have grown even closer through important agreements," he said.

Støre added: “We have worked closely together to strengthen security cooperation in Europe and to support Ukraine.”

Burnham says the country expects ‘stability and seriousness’

In a post on X, Andy Burnham thanked Starmer for his service and leadership.

He said Starmer’s decision to step down “marks the beginning of a transition and it is important that this process is conducted in an orderly and responsible way. I will put myself forward as part of this process.”

“The country expects stability, seriousness and a continued focus on the issues that matter most and that is what it will get.”

He added: “People want to see progress on economic growth, cost of living, public services, housing and opportunities for the next generation. Political change should never distract from the responsibility to improve people’s lives.”

Andy Burnham will run to succeed Starmer

Former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham confirms he will run to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour leader and prime minister.

Wes Streeting, considered another leading contender, said he will back Burnham. That makes it more likely that Burnham will be selected without a leadership contest.

Liberal Democrats say ‘merry-go-round of prime ministers’ needs to change

Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Leader, said Starmer’s replacement would have to change “our broken politics.”

“The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of prime ministers while nothing really changes for them,” he said. “This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in No. 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country.”

Zack Polanski, who leads the Green Party, echoed that the U.K. needs a “bold change of direction.”

Referring to former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, who many expect to become the next Labour leader, Polanski said: “The time for half measures and sticking plasters is long gone — if he becomes the next PM, Burnham must be bold or he will be bust.”

German leader calls Starmer a reliable partner

“The German government has always had in Keir Starmer a reliable and close partner in foreign policy questions, particularly regarding Ukraine,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s spokesperson, Stefan Kornelius, told reporters. He declined to comment on the “internal motives in Britain.”

He said the government believes a meeting that Merz plans to host in Berlin Wednesday of the so-called “E5” — Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Poland — will go ahead as planned despite Starmer’s announcement. The meeting is meant as part of preparations for the upcoming NATO summit.

Some key quotes from Starmer’s resignation speech

"Walking up this street two years ago was the proudest moment of my life. A new Labour government. The first in 14 years. A page in our country’s history turned after years of disappointment and despair. ... The chance to change the lives of millions of people for the better. That’s what I came into politics for. The journey to that point was not easy."

“The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election. I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question. And I accept that answer with good grace."

“Every decision I’ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.

“I will remain in post as Prime Minister until the contest is complete. And I will do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power.”

The curious sign of the lion and the unicorn

Starmer stood behind a lectern featuring a crest with a lion and a unicorn.

One is not a native of the U.K. and the other is mythical.

Both have shared the distinction of being part of the royal coat of arms since the 17th century.

The lion, although never living in the wild of England, is its national animal. The unicorn, though fictional, is Scotland’s official animal.

The two became part of the crest when the two crowns were united in 1603, when King James I ascended the throne in England; he was already King James VI in Scotland.

Starmer is the sixth prime minister in 10 turbulent years of UK politics

When he was elected in 2024 in a landslide victory for Labour, Starmer pledged to steady the ship and end years of political chaos under his successors, the Conservative Party.

Starmer had succeeded Rishi Sunak, who held the top job from 2022 to 2024.

Before Sunak, Liz Truss lasted only 45 days. Truss followed three other Conservative prime ministers: Boris Johnson (2019-2022), Theresa May (2016-2019), and David Cameron (2010-2016.)

Formal contest to replace Starmer will begin in early July and could end in days

Starmer said Monday that nominations will open on July 9 and close when Parliament breaks up for its summer recess, which is scheduled to begin July 16. The contest will be open to members of Parliament from the ruling Labour Party.

Former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is the leading candidate to replace Starmer. The question now is whether anyone will challenge him.

If there is no challenge, Burnham could become Labour leader and thus prime minister soon after nominations close. Even if there is a contest, Starmer said a successor would be selected by Sept. 1.

EU leader praises Starmer

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Starmer’s legacy after news of his resignation in a post online on Monday.

“It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years,” she said on X. “European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you. Thank you, dear Keir.”

The prime minister's speech ends on an emotional note

Starmer’s voice choked with emotion near the end of the brief statement.

“The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election,” Starmer said. “I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace.”

Starmer resigns

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party.

Starmer says he will remain caretaker prime minister until a new Labour leader is chosen in the next few weeks.

Starmer made the announcement after facing growing pressure to hand over to a new leader who can try and revive the government’s flagging fortunes. He has been in office since leading Labour to a landslide election victory in July 2024. In those two years, his popularity and that of the party have plummeted.

As Starmer spoke, protesters sing

As Starmer began his speech, protesters nearby played the EU anthem, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”

Expectations of a resignation

Expectation is building that U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will set out a timetable for his resignation, conceding to pressure from his Labour Party to hand over the reins of power.

If he does, Starmer will be the sixth prime minister in a decade to stand outside 10 Downing Street and announce a premature departure.

Starmer spent the weekend pondering his future following the victory of intraparty rival Andy Burnham in a special election for a seat in Parliament. Burnham, until last week the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, ran with the aim of challenging Starmer for leadership of the party and the country.

Burnham is due to be sworn in as a member of Parliament on Monday.

The national weather service, Meteo France, said that most of the country — the largest in the European Union and the second most populous — is entering what it described as a “plateau” of unrelenting heat-wave conditions that isn't forecast to start easing before Friday.

Human-caused climate change is tied to increasing extreme weather, and U.N. climate agency projections say the next five years should shatter more heat records.

Multiple towns in western and central France, including the major Atlantic port of Saint-Nazaire, experienced their hottest night ever Sunday to Monday, with an overnight low of 23.2 C (73.8 F), Meteo France said.

Paris baked through its hottest night for June, not getting below 24.2 C (75.5 F) — a half-degree hotter than the previous record from 2017.

The weather service warned of even hotter nights: “This will continue through the end of the week, with heat levels never before recorded across more than three-quarters of the country on Wednesday and Thursday.”

The heat wave also worsened air quality in the French capital as it causes the formation of ozone that traps pollution. The air quality monitoring agency in the Paris region said pollutants were likely to exceed the recommended threshold.

In a country without widespread air-conditioning, people, businesses and services tried to adapt. Hundreds of schools were closed on Monday and many hundreds more canceled some classes, the education minister said.

Broadcasts on the Paris transport network urged commuters to hydrate. Medical specialists took to the airwaves to warn of the potentially deadly cocktail of drinking alcohol in extreme heat. Authorities cracked down on alcohol consumption in public.

Multiple drownings were reported as people sought relief in rivers, despite warnings about currents and other dangers.

A growing swath of France, spreading on Monday to more than half its regions, was under a “red alert” for heat, with larger areas forecast to suffer highs past 40 C and nights not dropping below 20 C.

In the United Kingdom, the weather office issued a rare “red” weather warning for Wednesday and Thursday. It said temperatures could exceed 37 C (99 F) in the shade, and could rise to 40 C, in parts of England and Wales.

The Met Office said that as well as a risk to health, extreme temperatures could cause heat-sensitive equipment to fail, including power and mobile phone services.

Over the last four years, more than 200,000 people across Europe died from heat-related causes, and most of those were preventable, the World Health Organization’s Europe office said this month. The above-average temperatures can cause heat exhaustion and life-threatening heat stroke.

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, with temperatures increasing at twice the speed as the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

The EU monitoring agency found that in Europe and globally, 2024 was the hottest year on record and the continent experienced its second-highest number of “heat stress” days.

Scientists warn that climate change is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of heat and dryness, especially in southeastern Europe, making the region more vulnerable to health impacts and wildfires.

The burning of gasoline, oil and coal, plus deforestation, wildfires and many kinds of factories, release heat-trapping gasses that cause climate change.

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Associated Press writer Samuel Petrequin in Paris contributed to this report.

A total of 100 people have recovered in the outbreak concentrated in the Ituri province since it was declared on May 15, Congo’s Ministry of Health said Sunday. At least 365 patients are in hospitals or in isolation, it said.

The Ebola outbreak caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no vaccines or treatment, was the worst ever in its first month. Officials admit there could be far more cases they still don’t know about and that the peak of the outbreak is still ahead.

Contact tracing remains a key issue for local authorities, who have only achieved a 55% coverage rate, the ministry said.

“If you want to control an outbreak, especially Ebola outbreak, you must know the index case. We don’t have confidence on when this outbreak started,” the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director-General Dr. Jean Kaseya told The Associated Press last week.

Officials also are yet to identify the patient zero and trace more than 35,000 people who have come in contact with infected individuals as of last week, authorities said.

That’s partly because eastern Congo is also battling ongoing violence from rebels. In Ituri, attacks by the Islamic State group-backed Allied Democratic Force have cut off access to many villages and forced people to flee their homes, including those sheltering in overcrowded camps and others constantly on the move.

More than a month into the outbreak, officials believe the disease continues to outpace response efforts and no one knows its true scale.

Displaced persons at risk as unexplained deaths reported in a camp

At the Kigonze displacement camp in Bunia, the capital of Ituri province, camp officials said Friday that 10 people had died last week in unusual circumstances, raising the fear of a possible outbreak in the camp of over 20,000 displaced people.

There had been no Ebola case confirmed at the site, camp officials said, but added that the death rate was unprecedented and called for investigation.

The U.N. refugee agency has said at least 2 million people forcibly displaced from their homes, including over 320,000 refugees, live in areas at risk of Ebola in Congo.

In a statement on Friday, the agency said it was “deeply concerned by the accelerating spread” of the virus and “the growing risks it poses to displaced communities across the region.”

“If a disease or epidemic were to spread among the thousands of people living at this (Kigonze) site, it would be a real catastrophe given our already very precarious living conditions,” said Charité Banza, a civil society leader in Ituri.

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Canadian Secretary of State (Defense Procurement) Stephen Fuhr signed the first phase of a pact to provide early warning radar coverage from the Canada-United States border into the Arctic.

“What this really means is that Australia and Canada are now partners in terms of the future development of the Over-the-Horizon Radar,” Marles told reporters at the Australian Parliament House in the capital Canberra.

“There is now a very strategic dimension to the relationship,” Marles added.

Fuhr said the two British Commonwealth countries, both of which are partners in the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance that also includes the United States, Britain and New Zealand, had “stood shoulder-to-shoulder for generations.”

“As the world adjusts to its new strategic and economic realities, I can’t think of a stronger partner to work with more than Australia,” Fuhr said at a joint press conference with Marles.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced he’d chosen Australia’s radar system over comparable U.S. technology shortly after he came to power last year.

In March, Carney became the first Canadian prime minister to visit Australia in 12 years.

During the visit, Carney and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese agreed to increase cooperation on defense technologies, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.

BAE Systems Australia said in a statement it will support both governments in developing the Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar.

The Australian system, developed over 40 years, works by refracting high-frequency electromagnetic waves off the ionosphere to detect distant objects that are invisible to conventional radars because of Earth's curvature.

The deal is Australia’s largest ever defense export. Australia’s previous record defense export was a $700 million deal signed in 2024 to provide Germany with 100 Australian-made Boxer heavy weapon carrier vehicles.

The business leaders were on different sides of the debate when Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016. But 10 years later they are both frustrated by Brexit.

A decade ago, backers promised that Brexit would be the key to a bright new future where, freed from the edicts of EU bureaucrats, Britain would regain control of its laws and its borders and the economy would boom. But the reality failed to live up to the hype as Britain struggled to adjust to life without unfettered access to the 27-nation free trade bloc and its market of 450 million people.

Economic growth is anemic, taxes are high, public services are creaking and successive governments have been unable to stem the flow of migrants who wash up on the English Channel coast in inflatable boats. As a result, it's not exactly a happy anniversary.

“No, it’s not delivered everything that was said it would deliver on the tin, but it is delivering,” Boyd told The Associated Press. “It’s very sluggish. You only need to look at the statistics to see that.”

Boyd, the managing director of REIDSteel, which employs about 130 people at a plant in Christchurch, England, still stands behind his decision to support Brexit, but blames lackluster results on politicians who weren’t committed to delivering. Britain has also experienced unexpected challenges over the past 10 years, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, Boyd said.

Economists see fundamental issues

The Brexit vote quickly increased costs for businesses as they prepared for an uncertain future during years of negotiation over the U.K.’s new relationship with the EU. Then, when Britain finally left the bloc on Jan. 31, 2020, new rules governing trade in goods and services made it more expensive and time-consuming to do business with European partners.

Creon Butler, who leads the global economy and finance program at Chatham House, a London-based think tank, said there were long-term consequences to leaving the European single market.

“Whatever was promised, whatever one hoped for, (you have) to accept that it has been a major loss of wealth and prosperity for us through the choice we made to leave,” he said.

“That’s a decision the British public have made, and they’re entitled to make it, but it does make us poorer,” he added.

By most measures, the British economy today is weaker than it would have been without Brexit, according to a recent report published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The report, compiled by researchers in Britain, Germany and the U.S., compares the performance of the U.K. economy to 33 other countries, including its European neighbors, the U.S., Canada and Japan.

Brexit has reduced Britain’s gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic output, by 6% to 8%, investment by 12% to 13% and productivity by 3% to 4%, the researchers concluded.

Carmakers had many challenges

Britain’s carmakers were early and outspoken opponents of Brexit, arguing that increased red tape surrounding shipments of parts and finished vehicles would damage an industry built on a network of interlinked factories in multiple European countries.

Those concerns reduced investment in the U.K. auto industry because international carmakers were less likely to see Britain as an attractive way into the European market. As a result, the industry is hoping that international trade deals will help boost demand for its products.

“We have been able to move with the times, so to speak, but undoubtedly it’s putting us at more cost into the industry, more pressure,” Hawes said.

Brexit supporters trumpeted the freedom to negotiate its own trade agreements as one of the primary benefits of leaving the EU, and Britain has since signed dozens of deals with countries ranging from Australia to India to the United States.

But EU countries still account for 41% of Britain’s exports and half its imports, according to the latest government figures.

During more than 50 years as a member of the EU and its predecessors, many British businesses also came to rely on Europe as a source of cheap labor, especially after the bloc’s eastward expansion in 2004.

That pipeline dried up after Brexit ended the free movement of labor, one of the bloc’s founding principals.

The owners of Britain’s curry restaurants, an integral part of communities from Aberdeen in Scotland to Aberystwyth in Wales, have been especially hard hit by the loss of Eastern European workers who went home rather than deal with burdensome new visa requirements. And they’re furious because the industry backed Brexit after assurances it would lead to more visas for South Asian cooks, something that hasn’t happened.

“We feel betrayed,″ said Oli Khan, president of the Bangladesh Caterers Association UK, who serves up tandoori lamb chops, vegetable biryani and chili paneer at his restaurant in Stevenage, north of London.

In an effort to mitigate some of the problems caused by Brexit, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has begun talks with the EU about rebuilding a closer relationship as he seeks to energize the country’s stagnant economy.

Starmer won't finish them, however. On Monday, he said he is stepping down.

Polls suggest frustration with Brexit is growing

Starmer’s move comes as a survey by the Ipsos polling firm, the Policy Institute at King’s College London and the think tank UK in a Changing Europe suggests that frustration with Brexit is growing.

The survey of 2,245 Britons aged 18 and older carried out in May, found that 48% said Brexit was going worse than they expected, up from 28% in March 2021. Some 9% said it was going better than expected and about one in three said it was going as expected.

But Boyd said the most important survey is still the one that took place on June 23, 2016, when 51.9% of those who cast ballots — or 17.4 million people — voted to leave EU.

He continues to believe that Britain has a brighter future outside the EU.

Brexit hasn’t delivered on its promise because politicians, large corporations and other entrenched interests worked to thwart the will of the people, Boyd said. This resulted in a Brexit deal that kept Britain too closely tied to the EU and unable to realize its potential as an entrepreneurial nation filled with creative, hardworking people, he said.

And there's no going back, he said.

“Imagine if we were to rejoin ... today. The conditions upon which we would be allowed back in would be akin to us re-boarding the Titanic on the condition that we surrender our life vests first,″ he said. “Need I say any more?”

Salah scored his 68th goal in international play, a total now just one goal shy of current Egypt coach Hossam Hassan’s career record for the Pharaohs, in a 3-1 World Cup victory Sunday night over New Zealand.

It was his third World Cup goal after he netted two at the 2018 tournament in Russia. Three goals at the World Cup gives the 34-year-old Salah the most ever for an Egyptian player.

Salah played for Liverpool for nine seasons, winning two Premier League titles and becoming the league's leading foreign goal scorer. But he had a dip in form this season and amid tensions, announced his contract with the squad would be ended a year early.

His departure from Anfield sparked discussion as to where the striker would be going next. For now, he plays for Egypt with his future plans still uncertain.

While between clubs, Mo Salah has etched his name further into the history books as the captain of the first Egyptian team to win a World Cup match.

“What happened today is history for us as Egyptians,” Salah said. “We see a lot of teams win games, but for us as Egyptian, it doesn’t happen often, first time in history.”

Fans would have to wait to see the Salah they grew to expect at Liverpool. He started slow in the first half, missing wide left on a direct free kick and watching New Zealand take an early lead, but he would not be denied for long.

Salah scored Sunday on a pass from Mostafa Ziko in the 67th minute. The ball slid underneath a defender and past New Zealand goalkeeper Max Crocombe to give the Pharaohs a 2-1 lead.

Salah wasn’t done adding to his resume quite yet, getting an assist in the 82nd minute on the Pharaohs’ final goal, his second assist of this game. He also had an assist on Egypt’s lone goal in its 1-1 draw against Belgium earlier in the tournament.

“He’s a good player,” New Zealand captain Chris Wood said. “You have to keep an eye on him.”

The four-time Premier League Golden Boot winner scored nine goals in 10 matches to qualify the Pharaohs for this World Cup. Salah became the career scoring leader in African World Cup qualifying history.

Salah should have his share of clubs interested in his talents after a strong start to the World Cup.

“Salah worked hard on the pitch,” Egypt manager Hossam Hassan said. “I am sure we are going to see more from him.”

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Connor Joyce is a student in the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.

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The S&P 500 slipped 0.3%, coming off its 11th winning week in the last 12, and pulled 1.7% below its all-time high set early this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 131 points, or 0.3%, as of 10:45 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1% lower.

In the oil market, prices eased following talks over the weekend between the United States and Iran on their war. U.S. Vice President JD Vance said they created a “good foundation for a successful final deal.”

An end to the war could clear the Strait of Hormuz for oil tankers and allow for the undisputed resumption of deliveries from the Persian Gulf. Iran’s military had said Saturday that it closed the Strait of Hormuz again, though U.S. Central Command has disputed that.

The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil fell 2.8% to $78.29, closer to its roughly $70 price from before the war. Benchmark U.S. crude oil fell 2.3% to $74.14 per barrel.

The lower oil prices, though, did not pull down Treasury yields in the bond market. Yields have been climbing because of speculation that the Federal Reserve may have to hike interest rates this year in order to keep a lid on inflation, which has been accelerating because of expensive oil caused by the Iran war. Economists expect a report on Thursday to show a measure of inflation for U.S. consumers sped up to 4.1% in May from 3.8% in April.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 4.49% from 4.46% late Thursday and from just 3.97% before the war.

Traders are betting on a nearly 90% chance the Fed will raise its federal funds rate at least once by the end of the year, with a small minority calling for four increases. That’s up from the 57% chance seen just a week ago, according to data from CME Group.

High yields in bond markets worldwide caused by worries about inflation have already been threatening to slow economies and undercut prices for all kinds of investments. High yields particularly hurt investments seen to be the most expensive, which raises the pressure on companies that have soared in the mania around artificial-intelligence technology.

SpaceX fell 10.4% to drop toward $165. It’s heading toward a third straight loss following a big three-day run since its ballyhooed debut on the U.S. stock market, when it initially sold its stock at $135 per share.

Elsewhere on Wall Street, AbbVie climbed 5.4% after saying it agreed to buy Apogee Therapeutics and its potential treatments for patients with dermatologic, respiratory and other related inflammatory and immunological diseases. Apogee Therapeutics soared 46.7% following the announcement of the deal, valued at roughly $10.9 billion.

In stock markets abroad, the United Kingdom’s FTSE 100 rose 0.6% after Keir Starmer said he was stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party and will leave office within weeks.

In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 jumped 1.5% and ended at another all-time high, led by AI stocks. South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.7% to its own record, helped by AI-related companies.

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AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Matt Ott and AP Senior Producer Mayuko Ono contributed to this report.

Problem is, the competition in the National League might be a little too stiff this year.

Ohtani is 7-2 with a 1.47 ERA so far this season. With the Los Angeles Dodgers nearly halfway through their schedule, he's made 12 starts and thrown 73 2/3 innings. His career highs in those categories are 28 and 166, back in 2022. That year he went 15-9 with a 2.33 ERA for the Los Angeles Angels and finished fourth in the American League Cy Young race.

Ohtani's hitting has always been more reliable than his pitching on a year-in, year-out basis. He didn't pitch at all in 2019 or 2024, and his teams have been careful with his workload. Even now, he's a few innings shy of qualifying for the ERA title, but with a mark that far below 2.00, he's clearly one of the game's top starters.

Still, he remains a long shot for the Cy Young according to oddsmakers. Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski (8-3, 1.45 in 15 starts) is the favorite, and Philadelphia's Cristopher Sánchez (9-3, 1.80) isn't far removed from throwing 50 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings.

Ohtani is a runaway favorite to win another MVP, of course. He isn't on pace for the eye-popping home run and stolen base stats he's produced in the past, but he leads the National League in on-base percentage, and when you factor in his pitching value it's hard to make a case for anyone else.

Trivia time

The very first Cy Young Award went to a member of the Dodgers, back in 1956 when there was one honor covering both leagues. Brooklyn's Don Newcombe won it. Since moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers have had seven pitchers win the Cy Young. Who were they?

Performance of the week

The first two cycles of the 2026 season took place this past week. Pete Crow-Armstrong completed the single-double-triple-homer set for the Chicago Cubs on Monday in a win over Colorado. Then Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies pulled it off Saturday during a rout of the New York Mets.

Crow-Armstrong did get picked off first immediately after the single that gave him the cycle — so give the slight edge to Harper here.

Honorable mention: Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies hit three home runs in the same game Harper hit for the cycle. The only other time two teammates pulled that off was June 3, 1932, when Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees hit four home runs and Tony Lazzeri hit for the cycle. The Yankees beat the Philadelphia Athletics 20-13 that day.

Comeback of the week

The Athletics overcame a seven-run, sixth-inning deficit to beat the Los Angeles Angels 12-11 in 10 innings on Friday night. It was a wild evening, with the A's taking a 4-0 lead before allowing 11 consecutive runs. The Angels had a win probability of 99% by the bottom of the seventh according to Baseball Savant.

The comeback began an inning earlier when Zack Gelof singled home a run to make it 11-5. With two outs in the seventh, Tyler Soderstrom walked and Jacob Wilson followed with a homer to cut the deficit to four. A two-run homer in the eighth by Max Muncy made it 11-9.

The A's were down to their last out when Jonah Heim hit a tying two-run homer in the ninth. After Muncy, the third baseman, threw a runner out at the plate in the top of the 10th, the Athletics won when Nick Kurtz drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom half.

The A's (38-40) are 1 1/2 games out of first place in the AL West despite what is now the worst run differential in the AL at minus-54.

Trivia answer

Sandy Koufax (three times), Clayton Kershaw (three times), Don Drysdale, Mike Marshall, Fernando Valenzuela, Orel Hershiser and Eric Gagne.

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Coming on board as strategic partners are the Detroit-based Ilitch Companies, and the Larry Tanenbaum-backed Toronto-based Kilmer Sports Ventures, the league announced Monday.

The two multi-sports-team-owning groups bring a wealth of financial backing, business connections and influence to a 12-team league that’s doubled in size since being established in June of 2023.

“This is the clearest signal of validation to the marketplace, to the players, to other owners, to media companies that we are cementing our reputation as one of the fastest-growing sports properties in the world,” PWHL advisory board member Stan Kasten told The Associated Press.

“These are serious, long-time experienced sports investors, and they are telling the world what they think about us,” he added “And that says much more than just them writing a check.”

With the additions, the PWHL’s existing centralized structure will remain in place, headed by founder and primary financial backers Mark and Kimbra Walter. The Walters, together with the PWHL’s advisory board, will continue overseeing operations, with the new partners providing expertise, relationships and perspective, the league said.

“Kimbra and I are incredibly proud of what the PWHL has accomplished in a short time, and are excited about what it can achieve moving forward,” said Walter, who’s holdings include baseball’s Dodgers and the NBA Lakers.

Post-Olympic boost continues

Kasten said adding investors is well ahead of schedule, and deemed timely entering Season 4 to support the momentum the PWHL gained coming out of the Milan Cortina Games.

The league registered growth in nearly every metric last season, with U.S. numbers spiking further following the Hilary Knight-led Team USA’s gold-medal victory in February. The league also expanded its North American footprint last month by adding teams in Detroit, Las Vegas, San Jose and Hamilton, Ontario.

“I want to hear the case for going slower, but I can’t imagine it,” Kasten said. “The reception of fans, of sponsors and other willing partners has allowed us to go faster.”

The Ilitch family’s holdings include the NHL Red Wings and baseball’s Tigers. The Ilitch’s influence was apparent last week, with a wide range of company employees involved in Detroit hosting the PWHL’s awards and draft.

“The PWHL’s rise has been one of the most compelling stories in professional sports, and we are proud to be part of that story,” said company CEO Chris Ilitch. “Investing in the PWHL means an opportunity to broaden the game’s reach, connect with new fans, and create pathways for athletes for generations to come."

Tanenbaum is chairman emeritus and maintains a personal stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, whose properties include the NHL Maple Leafs and NBA’s Raptors. Meantime, Kilmer Sports owns the WNBA's Toronto Tempo and France’s AS Saint-Etienne soccer team.

“What Mark Walter and PWHL senior leadership have built so quickly is incredible, and we’re honored to be part of this league and everything it stands for,” Tanenbaum said.

Salaries, for now, won't increase

The financial injection will not immediately translate into pay raises for players, because the PWHL has yet to turn a profit on the hundreds of millions of dollars Walter has already invested, Kasten said.

“When we are making money, that would be a great day for me and for the players,” he said. “We’re not there yet. I hope this gets us closer.”

The PWHL became the first professional women's league to open with a collective bargaining agreement in place, and running through 2031. Last season, 10 of 194 players had salaries topping $100,000, with the minimum at just over $37,000, according to the PWHL Players Association.

The PWHL has grown from a six-team league that launched on Jan. 1, 2024, with Toronto hosting the inaugural game at the 2,500-seat Mattamy Athletic Centre. Within five months, Toronto had relocated to its current home, the 8,500-plus seat Coca-Cola Coliseum — and after enjoying a regular-season game sellout at the Maple Leafs’ 19,200-capacity home.

Last season’s average attendance of 9,304 represented a 28% jump over 2024-25. The league also grew its corporate partnership base to 81, up from just over 50 a year earlier.

Still seeking U.S. broadcast partner

With 12 teams, the league is better positioned to attract a U.S. national broadcast partner. Last season, Scripps Sports aired numerous games, including the Walter Cup Finals, on ION, which reaches 126 million American households.

The PWHL is also poised to improve its existing broadcast deals in Canada once its current contracts expire after next season. One possibility is enhancing its agreement with CBC, with the national broadcaster ending its lengthy history of airing NHL games.

Kasten would only say, “stay tuned.”

“We didn't know what we had,” he added, reflecting on the PWHL's launch.

“We didn't have venues. We didn't have cities. We didn't have logos,” Kasten said. “We felt deeply that if we provided the environment for the greatest women's hockey players in the world to do what they do, that there would be a market for them. And that has been demonstrated in countless ways over and over.”

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The suspects, aged 14 and 15, were arrested. The suspects and the victims were students of the San Jose National High School in Tacloban city, where the mid-morning shooting happened, regional police chief Brig. Gen. Jason Capoy said.

An investigation was underway to determine the cause of the shooting in the government-run school, which has more than 1,500 students. Capoy said that the suspects, who were close friends, said in initial questioning that they were bullied in school. He did not elaborate.

They have no criminal records. One of the suspects got the 9 mm pistol he used in the attack from an aunt, a police officer, who was now being investigated. The other suspect used a cal. 38 revolver. They managed to bring the guns onto the campus because there was only one guard on duty at multiple entrances and exits, Capoy said.

“The suspects barged into two rooms because after the shooting in the first, the children scampered and the suspects apparently ran after some victims into another room,” Capoy told reporters.

Most of the dead and wounded were female students, he said. Police recovered at least 40 shell casings at the scene of the attack.

In a video posted online, students hiding under desks in a shut classroom can be heard screaming and weeping as gunshots are heard outside. Some called their mothers. Other videos show visibly terrified students streaming out of the school campus, some holding and embracing each other.

One of the suspects was arrested in the school after the attack but the second fled and hid in a house nearby. He was found by police who were alerted by residents, police said.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a thorough investigation of the shooting and asked law enforcers to boost security in all schools, workplaces and public areas, Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said.

“The president was saddened by this incident. Anybody, especially the parents of the victims, will feel sad and terrified,” Castro said.

The suspects were to be turned over to government welfare officers after the investigation since they are minors. The 14-year-old would be exempt from criminal prosecution under a 2006 Philippine law, which sets the minimum age of 15 for a minor to be criminally liable and only if authorities determine that a suspect was clearly aware of the crime that was committed and its repercussions.

The national police have urged the public to remain calm and cooperate with authorities by providing any information that may aid the ongoing investigation.

Crimes involving the use of firearms are prevalent in the Philippines, partly due to the proliferation of unlicensed firearms, but school shootings are relatively rare.

In 2022, a man armed with pistols opened fire at an upscale university in the Manila metropolitan area ahead of a graduation ceremony, killing a former Philippine town mayor with whom the suspect had a long-running feud, and two others in the brazen attack. The gunman was arrested.

So, perhaps it's only right that for Clark to sew up his latest, sweetest triumph, he had to rescue himself from a potentially history making collapse — and do it in front of a New York crowd that, for the most part, came out to Long Island to watch him fail.

Clark's second U.S. Open victory will be remembered as the one where he handled Shinnecock Hills and somehow salvaged a final-round Sunday that saw a six-shot lead at the start dwindle to a single, precious stroke by the end.

It will also be remembered for the cheers when he missed shots, and for a winning, tap-in putt on the 18th green that was greeted with an awkward dribble of applause — a strange reaction, especially given the hills Clark has had to climb to become a champion,.

“We've dealt with his anger issues since he was that high," said Clark's father, Randall, explaining the journey as he held his hand about hip high. "It's because golf is not a game of perfection. And he wants to be perfect."

Clark, 32, was open about his struggles at his last U.S. Open victory in 2023, explaining his mother's death 10 years earlier had left a scar and that the rage came out most viscerally in the aftermath of missed golf shots.

His felt like a simple tale about overcoming obstacles and personal growth.

But that journey is never truly finished.

His demons came back into full view a year ago when he smashed a locker at Oakmont after missing the cut at the U.S. Open. He has since apologized and the suits at Oakmont, appalled at first, have moved on, as well.

The fans in New York clearly haven't. It made for an awkward stroll across the course Sunday, where Clark was paired with top-ranked Scottie Scheffler.

Scheffler, trying to complete the career Grand Slam, likely would've been a fan favorite against anyone. No problem there, he said, but even he found himself cringing at the cheers ringing out when Clark missed shots, which happened a lot on a front nine in which he shot 38 and saw his lead shrink to one.

“You like seeing the fans cheer for you,” Scheffler said. “I think sometimes it can get a little too much when, you know, balls are kind of going off greens and you start hearing cheers. That felt a bit much to me.”

Clark's winning moment came on No. 16. Nursing the one-shot lead, he teed off into the deep fescue — a horrendous lie, according to caddie-turned-TV analyst Jim “Bones” Mackay. Clark made it look better than that, lashing into the fairway, then hitting an 8-iron that straightened out along the back of the green.

He nailed the 30-foot birdie putt — his longest make of the day — to give himself a two-shot lead over Sam Burns with two holes to play.

About a half-hour later, Clark two-putted from 50 feet on 18 to become a two-time winner instead of the player to blow the biggest 54-hole lead in U.S. Open history. The two-putt was reminiscent of the way he wrapped up his win three years ago at Los Angeles Country Club.

So much has changed since then.

“It’s been part of every question in every interview for the last 12 months," his dad said of the constant rehashing of the locker incident, all of which Clark has handled with patience. "I do think it's gone on too long.”

In response to Oakmont, Clark has paid for the repairs to the locker. He has given money to charity and participated in anger-management courses.

He did not feel much love on Long Island.

“A little disappointing,” said Randall Clark, who took a red-eye flight from Denver to be there for the win. “At the same time, he's a warrior. He 'bowed up and said ‘I’m going to figure this out and still get through.' It's too bad. We've seen this before in the New York area with the Ryder Cup."

But this was no Ryder Cup, the likes of which was marred by unruly behavior from the New York fans last year at Bethpage.

Clark conceded he heard it all and concluded, “man, they definitely don't want me to win.”

“It’s pretty rare in an open championship, or a major, to have fans kind of boo against your shots or cheer for bad shots,” he said.

All he could do, though, was turn to his caddie and laugh, especially when they heard from one of those rare fans who were actually pulling for him.

Now, the question is — will this show of grit in the face of adversity give Clark a fresh start? Or will it always be about the locker and some meltdown lurking around every corner?

“I sure hope it closes the door on it,” he said. "I figured in my mind that this would maybe be the last time just because it’s one year removed. I’ll probably always get (those questions). But I hope I don’t become the heel of the PGA.

“I guess if I am, any press is good press, right?”

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Lawyers for defendant Tyler Robinson have asked Judge Tony Graf to block the death penalty in the case, claiming the prosecutors' comments could sway potential jurors regarding his guilt.

But criminal law expert Paul Cassell said it would be extraordinary for Graf to grant the defense request. Their concerns could be addressed in other ways, such as more closely questioning jurors to ensure they aren't biased, the University of Utah law professor said.

“A standard defense attorney maneuver is to avoid talking about the guilt or innocence of your client. The theory is that as long as you're talking about anything other than whether the defendant is guilty, you're winning as a defense attorney,” Cassell said. “This seems to be an extreme example of that.”

Representatives of the Utah County Attorney's Office said they were compelled to speak publicly about the case following speculation in some media outlets.

The speculation began after the defense team publicly disclosed that initial tests were inconclusive to determine whether the bullet was fired from the suspected murder weapon.

Conjecture over the evidence in Kirk’s killing has fueled unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that there might have been a second shooter, or that his death was staged. The case has attracted enormous media attention and concerns from both sides about misinformation tainting the potential jury pool.

Robinson has not yet entered a plea. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty if he is convicted.

The 23-year-old from southwestern Utah is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk, a close ally of President Donald Trump who was shot in the neck while addressing a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University.

Judge Graf held a hearing last week over whether prosecutors should be held in contempt for their comments about the bullet.

Robinson’s attorneys accused prosecutors including Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard of trying to influence potential jurors by going on a “media tour" to talk about ballistics evidence in the case.

Ballard argued at the June 12 hearing that he didn’t speak to the media about case specifics, and he only remarked generally about how ballistics testing can be inconclusive.

The defense team also pointed to another Utah criminal case in which prosecutors were accused of contempt and suggested that one potential remedy would be to bar the state from seeking the death penalty.

While the judge in that earlier case disagreed that an order barring the death penalty was merited, Robinson’s attorneys noted that “the court did not conclude that such a remedy was beyond its authority where the facts support it.”

A key hearing in Robinson's case is scheduled for July 6-10, when prosecutors must show they have enough evidence to warrant a trial.

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Brown reported from Denver and Boone from Boise, Idaho. Associated Press reporter Hannah Schoenbaum contributed from Salt Lake City.

“The final deal is the house,” Vance told reporters after initial talks with Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. “We set the foundation. We haven’t built the house, but we’ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people.”

Vance and U.S. officials claimed progress on multiple fronts, including the establishment of “mechanisms” to ensure the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global energy shipments, stays open and that a ceasefire holds in the fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah and Israel went to war shortly after the outbreak of the wider conflict, with Hezbollah firing rockets and drones at civilian communities in northern Israel and Israel seizing large swaths of southern Lebanon. Iran has insisted that addressing the fighting in Lebanon is a critical component of any deal to end the wider conflict.

Iran noted “major progress” to end the fighting in Lebanon and called that the first real test of the negotiations.

In other developments, the U.S. Treasury issued a 60-day license waiving sanctions on Iranian oil as part of the interim agreement to end the war. Notably, the license allows Iranian oil to be imported into the U.S., which has not imported significant amounts of Iranian oil since the 1990s.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cited the “ongoing productive talks in Switzerland” in a post on X announcing the license, which will last through Aug. 21.

Trump was not in Switzerland but loomed large over talks

The mediation effort in Switzerland started Sunday and stretched into early Monday, and technical talks will continue this week.

President Donald Trump did not attend what was dubbed the “Lake Lucerne Summit,” but his presence certainly loomed large. The talks were jolted by statements from Trump, who, from thousands of miles away, fired off comments that offended the Iranians.

Iranian state media said talks had paused after the “publication of an insulting message by the U.S. President.” The negotiations later continued.

Vance pushed back against the notion that Trump's threats complicated the talks.

“No, they didn’t throw a wrench in the system," Vance said. He added, "Yes, they did threaten to walk out, or at least there were social media threats that they would walk out. But we were negotiating well past one in the morning yesterday, so they didn’t walk out.”

Vance floats unfreezing Iranian assets to purchase US goods

The vice president suggested that the U.S. could agree to unfreeze Iranian assets for purchases of U.S. soy, corn and wheat. He said Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and one of the lead U.S. negotiators, came up with the idea with officials from Qatar.

Vance said Qatar would have approval over the process, and Iranian money that would be accessible as sanctions were lifted would buy American products "for the benefit of the Iranian people.”

Iran, which has pressed for the unfreezing of billions of dollars in assets, has not commented on the idea. The assets have been made inaccessible over years of sanctions, banking restrictions and legal disputes imposed by the U.S. and international community on the Islamic Republic.

High-level talks have ended but technical talks continue

In a joint statement, mediators Pakistan and Qatar hailed what they called “encouraging progress.”

The interim deal to end the fighting in Iran, signed last week by the leaders of the U.S. and Iran, sets a 60-day period for negotiators on issues including the future of Tehran’s nuclear program amid concerns that Iran wants to use it for military purposes, a claim the country denies.

Vance, who planned to return to Washington, said the technical talks are critical.

“We wanted to set up a structure for that so that you could have proper political oversight, but obviously, as much as this place is very beautiful, I can’t stay here for the next 60 days,” Vance told reporters.

U.S. envoys Kushner and Steve Witkoff are handling many of the technical details.

Meanwhile, investors absorbed the ups-and-downs of Trump’s strategy in Iran. Trading was mixed early Monday and oil prices edged lower on fresh optimism about the progress of the U.S.-Iran negotiations.

Vance warns about the perils of Iranian ‘trash talk’

Trump, over the weekend, made clear he was annoyed by Iran’s public commentary on the strait, which Iran’s military said it closed Saturday in response to continued fighting in Lebanon. U.S. Central Command has disputed that Iran closed the strait again.

Ahead of the talks, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had vowed to “never back down from the right to enrich uranium,” according to state media.

Trump on Sunday told Fox News in a phone interview that Pezeshkian should watch what he says and threatened to take over Iran, according to one of the news channel's correspondents.

Trump also posted on social media as negotiators worked: “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don’t, we’ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!”

Vance said the Iranians should have expected such a reaction from Trump.

“What we told the Iranians yesterday is when you guys engage in what us millennials might call trash talk, you can’t expect the President of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record,” Vance said.

Iranians agree there was progress on their top issue

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote on X that mediators delivered "major progress to end the Lebanon War.” But he said the first “real test” of negotiations would be whether the mechanism succeeds in halting the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

Neither Israel nor Hezbollah is a signatory to the U.S.-Iran deal.

A renewed ceasefire in Lebanon appeared to be holding, and Israel’s military said it would lift movement restrictions for residents near the Israel-Lebanon border on Monday.

Cautious calm continued Monday in Lebanon, with no Israeli strikes reported overnight. Hezbollah has not announced any attacks on Israeli forces since Saturday.

The lull in fighting in Lebanon is the longest since the latest Israel-Hezbollah war began on March 2.

“This region has been a basket case for a very long time," Vance said.

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Kim and Boak reported from Washington. Associated Press reporters Abby Sewell in Beirut, David Rising in Bangkok, Fatima Hussein in Washington, Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this story.

The races have become bellwethers of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's political clout, testing whether the young democratic socialist can leverage excitement he ignited last year to reshape the city's congressional delegation.

And he has been working hard to promote his slate of three House candidates, lending his star power to several campaign videos, along with hosting a rally with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders last week to boost his picks just before the election.

“The party of the past will not be what leads us into the future. We need a Democratic Party with backbone,” Mamdani said.

Meanwhile, in another closely watched race, Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, is hoping to ride his family ties and big social media following to a seat in Congress representing part of Manhattan.

But the Kennedy scion is facing strong opposition from Alex Bores, a state Assembly member at the center of a Silicon Valley spending war over his proposals to regulate artificial intelligence, and Micah Lasher, another state Assembly member who has deep experience in New York government and is backed by many of the state’s Democratic leaders. George Conway, an attorney who was once married to a top Trump adviser but later become one of the president’s critics, is also in the race.

In his campaign's closing stretch, Schlossberg rallied with David Letterman, former host of the “The Late Show with David Letterman.” His mother, Caroline Kennedy, cut a campaign ad for him. Lasher hit the street to meet voters. Bores releasing an ad about the dangers of AI and worked to highlight the millions of dollars that Big Tech players are spending to oppose his run.

Mamdani has not made an endorsement in that race.

Instead, he's focused on three other congressional contests, including two featuring embattled incumbents.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist whose campaign has been buoyed by the mayor’s support, is challenging U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who was the first Dominican American elected to Congress in a district that includes northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx.

Espaillat has drawn attention to inflammatory social media posts Avila Chevalier made in her 20s, attempting to portray her as an unserious candidate. Avila Chevalier, in a recent debate, said she regretted the posts and apologized for one crass post about former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Former city Comptroller Brad Lander got the mayor's endorsement in his attempt to unseat U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman, a fellow Democrat.

Lander, who appeared in the crowd at a joyous City Hall ceremony celebrating the Knick's NBA championship win on Thursday, has worked to play up his alliance with the mayor, while Goldman, who did not endorse Mamdani in his mayoral race, has tried to shift the conversation to his own productiveness in Congress.

Mamdani is also supporting Claire Valdez, a former state Assembly colleague and democratic socialist ally, in her bid to defeat Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in the race to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez.

Reynoso and Valdez are both progressives who share many similar views, though Valdez has framed herself as a potential Mamdani ally in Washington.

Starmer says he will remain caretaker prime minister until his Labour Party chooses a new leader — with expectations growing that it will be former Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.

Burnham confirmed on social media that “I will put myself forward as part of this process.” Former Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who was considered his main rival for the top job, said he will back Burnham.

It was Burnham's victory in a special parliamentary election last week that triggered Starmer's decision to resign, as Labour lawmakers flocked to the charismatic former mayor in the hope he can revive the party's fortunes. After nearly a decade as mayor of the northwestern city, Burnham returned Monday to Parliament, where he took the oath of office in the House of Commons.

Only members of Parliament are eligible for the party leadership.

Streeting's statement makes it more likely that Burnham will be selected without a leadership contest.

Britain’s next election does not have to be held until 2029. Asked if he would call an early vote if he becomes prime minister, Burnham said: “You’re jumping several hurdles ahead there.”

Starmer is the sixth prime minister in a decade to stand outside No. 10 Downing St., and announce a premature departure. His statement came the day before Britain marks the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the European Union, a decision that still roils the country’s economy and politics.

After weeks of insisting he would fight to keep his job, Starmer conceded to growing pressure to hand over to a new leader who can try and revive the government’s flagging fortunes. He led Labour to a landslide election victory in July 2024, but since then his popularity and that of the party have plummeted.

A new leader in place within weeks

Starmer made the announcement outside his official residence, where he delivered his first speech as prime minister two years ago. His voice choked with emotion near the end of the brief statement, which was watched by his staff, Cabinet ministers and scores of journalists.

“The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election,” Starmer said. “I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace.”

He said he spoke to King Charles III, Britain's constitutional monarch, to inform him of the decision.

Starmer spent the weekend pondering his future following Burnham's special election victory.

Starmer said nominations for a leadership contest will open July 9, and the new leader will be in place by the time Parliament returns from its summer break on Sept. 1.

If Burnham is the only candidate, the change could come by mid-July.

Starmer struggled to fulfill election pledges

Starmer has struggled to deliver promised economic growth, repair tattered public services and ease the cost of living. He has been hamstrung by repeated missteps, including his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, a scandal-tarnished friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as U.K. ambassador to the United States.

Labour is losing liberal voters to the growing Green Party and facing a rising Reform UK, the Nigel Farage -led anti-immigration party that consistently leads in nationwide opinion polls.

U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in even before an announcement, linking Starmer’s exit to two of the Republican leader's recurring grievances: immigration and renewable energy.

“Keir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. He failed badly on two very important subjects- IMMIGRATION AND ENERGY (OPEN NORTH SEA OIL!). I wish him well! President DJT,” Trump posted on his social media platform.

Starmer’s initially warm relationship with Trump has soured in recent months over issues including the Iran war, which the U.K. didn’t join.

Praised on the world stage

In contrast to missteps domestically, Starmer has won praise for his international role, notably in rallying European support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion, and working to mitigate the economic and political turmoil unleashed by the Iran conflict.

A NATO summit in Turkey next month may be his last foray on the world stage as Britain's leader.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, posting on X, thanked Starmer for his support and cooperation “that have helped make our Europe and our protection of life stronger.”

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen praised Starmer’s legacy.

“It can take many leaders years to grow into the statesman you became in just two years,” she said on X. “European and Ukrainian security is stronger because of you. Thank you, dear Keir.”

While many Labour lawmakers have rallied behind Burnham, some have said that Starmer had been treated unfairly. London legislator Neil Coyle railed on X against “the prospect of an utter stitch-up & the media circus being rewarded."

Many hope Burnham can connect with voters

Burnham is the front-runner to succeed Starmer because many people see him as the best person to defeat the anti-immigration Reform Party at the next election, said Olivia O’Sullivan, an analyst at London's Chatham House think tank.

Burnham appeals to Labour Party lawmakers who were frustrated by the way Starmer has governed, O’Sullivan said. Many hope that he will set out a “clearer vision” and connect with voters in parts of the country that are in danger of turning to Reform.

Still, O'Sullivan cautioned that may not translate into genuine change.

“It’s absolutely correct that that is not the same thing as offering a radically different set of policies or even a particularly clear policy program,” she said.

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De la Espriella, a business owner and lawyer who earned U.S. President Donald Trump’s endorsement despite never having run for office, led progressive lawmaker Iván Cepeda, taking 49.7% of the votes, with 99.9% of results released by electoral authorities. Cepeda, Petro’s ally, earned 48.7% support. Election officials have not formally announced a winner.

A victory by de la Espriella is expected to usher in policies that will reverse the agenda of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, including a controversial plan to hold parallel peace negotiations with illegal armed groups. Cepeda, Petro's protégé, had pledged to push forward that strategy and other social reforms if he won Sunday's vote.

The election was colored by people's fears of a renewed internal conflict.

“I will govern for all Colombians," de la Espriella, nicknamed “The Tiger,” told thousands of supporters as he stood behind bulletproof glass in the northern city of Barranquilla on Sunday night. But his conciliatory tone changed as he spoke.

“Pack your bags and prepare to exercise the opposition,” he added. “Make no mistake, Mr. Cepeda. You already know how fiercely the tiger roars.”

Progressive candidate calls count 'unofficial and nonbinding'

Meanwhile, Cepeda told supporters in the capital, Bogota, that his campaign considered the count “unofficial and non-binding” and that his team will challenge results from more than 30,000 voting stations. No recount has flipped the results of a presidential election in Colombian history.

“We will not allow democracy to be violated,” Cepeda said.

Petro also vowed to challenge the outcome. Sunday’s winner will begin a four-year term Aug. 7.

People in the western city of Cali protested hours after results became public. The vote count showed that the municipality that includes the city favored Cepeda with 59.64%.

Authorities there said demonstrators damaged a public transportation bus, several surveillance cameras and an ATM. They said four police officers were also injured and two demonstrators were arrested.

The two candidates pitched voters widely different strategies to prevent the South American country from experiencing the nonstop violence, such as car bombs, kidnappings, disappearances and forced displacements, that Colombians lived with in previous decades.

De la Espriella, 47, promised a heavy-handed approach to crime-fighting, including drug trafficking. He also said he plans to end Petro’s attempts to establish dialogues with multiple armed groups — an effort that has largely failed — and build mega-prisons, emulating Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's aggressive policies. Those tactics have lowered homicide rates in the Central American country but have fueled accusations of human rights abuses.

De la Espriella holds dual Colombian and U.S. citizenship. He's a Trump supporter and a member of the Republican Party.

“He Won, BIG!” Trump said on his social media platform.

‘It’s always the same violence'

Yolanda Hernández, who recycles trash for a living, voted for Petro in 2022, but cast her ballot for de la Espriella this time. While she acknowledged that Petro was unable to deliver on promises meant to help the poor because of congressional gridlock, she said Colombia cannot afford another four years under his vision for the country.

“We want change in Colombia because it’s always the same violence, always the same thing,” Hernández, 49, said. “(Petro) said he was going to lower the cost of services, that he was going to lower the price of food, and everything is more expensive.”

Will Freeman, a fellow for Latin American Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Sunday's result shows the country “has not shifted overwhelmingly or decisively” against Petro's project or for de la Espriella's outsider “iron fist showmanship.” Freeman added that the result also underscored Colombia's regional divisions.

“It’s regional not just ideological polarization; or rather, the two overlapping,” he said. “Ironically, de la Espriella's iron-fist message performed best in the core of the country, not the periphery, which bears the brunt of Colombia’s violence.”

Colombia’s illegal groups have more than 27,000 members.

Last year, authorities recorded 14,780 homicides, the most since at least 2015, driven by clashes among illegal armed groups. Among those killed was conservative presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe.

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There were 64,003 people in the stadium for the 2-2 draw between Cape Verde and Uruguay on Sunday night, none of them with a better how-they-got-there story than Ana Candida Evora — the mother of Vozinha, Cape Verde’s goalkeeper.

Evora arrived in Miami on Friday, reunited with her son over the weekend and watched Sunday’s game from a suite at Miami Stadium. Cape Verde’s storybook ride now has a chance of reaching the knockout stage, depending largely on how its group stage finale against Saudi Arabia goes.

Cape Verde is one of the absolute feel-good stories of the World Cup, a tiny island nation with two draws in its two matches to this point. Vozinha — whose name is Josimar José Évora Dias — had his mother in the stands Sunday; she was unable to attend Cape Verde’s opening draw against Spain because she couldn’t obtain a visa.

And even without a win — in fact, her 40-year-old son didn’t even make a save Sunday — her presence makes Cape Verde’s story even better. She waved her country’s flag when it was over, celebrating wildly as her son saluted fans from the field.

“We have a lot of people working very hard,” Vozinha said.

Goalkeepers don’t always have to make a save to be effective. Vozinha’s best two plays of the match might not even show up on a stat sheet — he was perfectly positioned on a pair of Uruguay scoring chances in the closing minutes, cutting down angles and forcing shooters to aim at tight spaces. Both shots sailed high, and Vozinha exhaled deeply both times.

“I want to thank all the fans, everyone who helped in the process, for the support you gave to the team, especially to Cabo Verde,” Evora said Sunday in remarks distributed by FIFA in a video message before the match. “We’re all rooting for Cabo Verde to play well, to shine on the pitch. The players need to have faith and everything will go well.

“Keep your heads held high, go onto that pitch, push for a goal and you’ll perform beautifully, my boys. A kiss for you, be strong and brave. Blue Sharks!”

The team is commonly called Tubarões Azuis in Portuguese, which translates to Blue Sharks.

Evora carried a Cabo Verde flag into the stadium Sunday, her son’s name and jersey number on the back of her shirt, and she was ushered into a suite to watch the contest. Vozinha heard roars from the fans — even with a mostly pro-Uruguay crowd — whenever he was shown on the video screens during warmups, and got perhaps the loudest ovation of any player when starters were introduced.

Evora’s visa issues — primarily raising the money needed for one — were worked out after the U.S. State Department, FIFA, U.S. lawmakers and Cape Verde’s soccer federation evidently combined efforts and cleared a path for Evora to come to Miami. She arrived Friday afternoon after more than 24 hours of travel from Cape Verde and was immediately surrounded by FIFA officials and volunteers as she made her way through the airport.

FIFA even hosted her briefly at the organization’s tournament headquarters in Florida over the weekend, officials said Sunday.

Vozinha had about 50,000 followers on Instagram as the World Cup was starting. He was up to 15 million followers by game time Sunday after he grabbed the world’s sporting attention by leading Cape Verde to a scoreless draw against Spain — one of the pretournament favorites to win the title.

That means he gained about 30 followers every second from the end of the Spain match to the start of the one against Uruguay.

He went viral after that match against Spain with tearful comments, wishing that his late grandparents could have seen him play in the World Cup and that his mother’s visa issues had been resolved in time to be there. That sparked an immediate effort to find ways for Evora to get to the U.S. for the tournament.

And the tie, combined with a story of a goalie and his mom, brought attention onto Cape Verde’s soccer team like never before. A showdown with the Saudis awaits Friday in Houston and it’s possible that, if Cape Verde advances, it could be back in Miami Gardens for a round-of-32 game — potentially against Lionel Messi and defending World Cup champion Argentina.

“When you dream of something, something can happen,” Cape Verde defender Pico Lopes said.

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Deputies and fire rescue personnel responded to the 8700 block of Griffin Road.

At least one person was injured and needed hospital attention, according to fire rescue personnel.

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The Commerce Ministry said that Chinese companies would be blocked from exporting “dual-use” items to the 10 companies, which include military drone makers and some involved in rare earth mining. Dual use refers to goods that can have military as well as non-military applications.

The ministry said the export ban was both to safeguard China’s national security and in response to what it called the U.S. government’s “wrongful expansion of its so-called List of Chinese Military Companies.”

George Chen, partner for Greater China at the advisory firm The Asia Group, said the ban was an unsurprising and proportionate response to the U.S. restrictions.

“Most of them are U.S. defense industry players or they have close connections with the U.S. government for contracts and other reasons,” he said. “Those companies are not going to do business in China, so the impact will be quite symbolic.”

Separately, the Finance Ministry said that government entities would be prohibited from buying products from 46 American companies including multiple units of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics. A brief statement did not give any reason for the prohibition.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Defense Department added several tech companies including Alibaba and Baidu to its list of firms that it says have links to the Chinese military. Baidu said the suggestion that it is a military company is “totally baseless.”

The designation prevents them from getting U.S. military contracts.

The Commerce Ministry said at the time that the American sanctions run counter to the consensus that Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump reached during Trump's visit to China in May.

In Monday's announcement, the ministry said that companies or individuals in third countries are prohibited from transferring dual-use items from China to the sanctioned American firms. It also said that Chinese companies could apply for export approval for goods that are “genuinely necessary.”

The 10 companies are AVEOX in Simi Valley, California; Red Cat Holdings and Teal Drones, both in South Salt Lake, Utah; IMSAR in Springville, Utah; Jaia Robotics in Bristol, Rhode Island; Ball Aerospace & Technologies in Broomfield, Colorado; Oshkosh Defense in Oshkosh, Wisconsin; L3Harris Maritime Services in Norfolk, Virginia; MP Materials in Las Vegas; and USA Rare Earth in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

The latest attack — which now number at more than 60 — brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to more than 210 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in early September.

It is unclear if the survivors of this strike were rescued. In this case, and the strike on June 16 that left two survivors, U.S. Central Command said that they notified the U.S. Coast Guard. The US Coast Guard said they suspended their search for survivors for the June 16 strike a day later with “no signs of survivors or debris” but had no comment on the current strike.

As with most of the military’s statements on strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, U.S. Southern Command said it targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.

A black and white video posted on X showed a boat speeding through the water before being struck by a visible projectile and then bursting into flames.

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal overdoses claiming American lives. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”

Critics of the strikes have questioned the overall legality as well as their effectiveness. Part of the argument has been that the fentanyl behind many fatal U.S. drug overdoses is typically trafficked over land from Mexico, where it is produced with chemicals imported from China and India.

On Thursday, U.S. lawmakers demanded that the Pentagon release “unedited video” of the very first strike that the military conducted after reports emerged that the U.S. chose to conduct a follow-up strike on survivors of its initial attack.

Two men on the boat initially survived the attack that killed nine others, and they were clinging to the wreckage when the vessel was struck again, killing them. The White House confirmed the follow-up strike, insisting it was done “in self-defense” to ensure the boat was destroyed and in accordance with the laws of armed conflict.

But some legal scholars said a second strike killing survivors would have been illegal under any circumstance, armed conflict or not.

The Pentagon’s watchdog said in May that it planned to look into whether the U.S. military followed an established targeting framework when carrying out the strikes. However, the evaluation is focused specifically on what’s known as the six-phase Joint Targeting Cycle and not on the legality of the strikes, the inspector general’s office said.

With 99.99% of polling stations, 49.66% of the votes were for De La Espriella, 47, and 48.7% of the votes were for Cepeda, 63, according to the Colombian National Registry’s latest report.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement congratulating De La Espriella, whom he described as Colombia’s new president-elect.

“The Trump Administration looks forward to working closely with your incoming administration to advance regional security cooperation, end illegal immigration to the United States, and strengthen our economic ties,” Rubio wrote to De La Espriella on X. “Colombia’s best days are ahead.”

El Tiempo, the newspaper with the largest circulation in the country, declared: “Abelardo de la Espriella, President of Colombia, after winning the preliminary count; the National Registry confirms the robustness of the results.”

Related story: Iván Cepeda reacts to ‘not official or binding’ preliminary vote count

There were more than 250 precincts for the Colombian diaspora worldwide. In South Florida, Colombian voters cast their ballots in Coral Gables, Kendall, Hialeah, Coral Springs, and Weston.

“From the United States Congress, we congratulate the next President of the sister Republic of Colombia,” U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez, a supporter of De La Espriella, wrote on X.

U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed De La Espriella, a defense attorney and businessman who campaigned as “The Tiger,” and who is a fan of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

“Today, democracy wins,” De La Espriella told reporters in Spanish after he voted in Barranquilla.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose four-year term ends on Aug. 7, endorsed Cepeda, a senator who is a political rival of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who served from 2002 to 2010.

“Let us vote with calm and serenity, and may democracy triumph,” Cepeda told reporters in Spanish after he voted in Bogotá.

Cepeda campaigned as the candidate who wants to protect the environment, continue negotiations for the surrender of armed groups, and prioritize welfare programs.

“Neither can be proclaimed president,” Petro wrote on X on Sunday evening. “It is the scrutiny that determines who is the president. I obey the judges. Calm among the citizenry, please. Reality gives us a country split down the middle, and foreign interference taking away our freedom.”

De La Espriella campaigned as the law-and-order candidate who wants to open mega prisons, cut corporate taxes, restart oil exploration and fracking, and cut social spending.

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, a supporter of De La Espriella, was in Barranquilla on Sunday.

“We want a prosperous Colombia,” Salazar told reporters in Spanish. She later wrote a congratulatory message on X:“Colombians wrote a new page in the history of their country and sent a clear message: freedom, security, and opportunities remain stronger than the ideas that have failed in our hemisphere. The best is yet to come.”

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize-winner María Corina Machado issued a congratulatory message to De La Espriella on X.“Colombia has spoken with strength, hope, and determination, reaffirming its commitment to freedom, democracy, and peace,” Machado wrote. “May God bless Colombia in this new stage. We know that we will have a great ally in the democratic transition of Venezuela.”

More than 41 million Colombians were eligible to vote, and over 26 million cast their ballots on Sunday, according to Colombian officials’ data.

“Congratulations to the Colombian people! Today they saved their country from a catastrophe,” U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart wrote on X.

The precincts in South Florida opened at 8 a.m. and closed at 4 p.m. Some voters carried flags, some wore their team’s yellow FIFA World Cup 2026 soccer jerseys, and some wore white to symbolize peace.

In Miami-Dade County, there were three precincts at the University of Miami’s Watsco Center, Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus gymnasium, and the Milander Center for Arts and Entertainment.

In Broward County, there were two precincts at Coral Springs High School and Cypress Bay High School’s gymnasium.

During the presidential election’s first round on May 31, De la Espriella had 43.73% of the votes when he qualified for the runoff against Cepeda, who had 40.91% of the votes. About 70% of the voters in the U.S. chose De La Espriella on May 31.

For information about the election’s results, visit this page.

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It began with Florida acquiring Tampa Bay’s first-round selection (previously acquired by Seattle) and a 2027 second-round selection (previously acquired by Seattle) from the Seattle Kraken in exchange for forward Mackie Samoskevich.

It ended with the Panthers finalizing a trade for forward Brady Tkachuk from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for three first-round draft picks and one second-round pick, allowing him to team up with his brother Matthew in Sunrise.

Ottawa receives Florida’s 2026 first-round pick (No. 9 overall), Tampa Bay’s 2026 first-round pick (No. 25 overall, previously acquired from Seattle by Florida), Florida’s 2027 second-round pick, and Florida’s 2029 first-round pick, which is top-10 protected.

“Brady is a dynamic competitor and one of the most physical and relentless forwards in the league,” Panthers President of Hockey Operations and general manager Bill Zito said Sunday.

“A proven leader and exactly the type of player we want in our locker room, he strives to make everyone around him better, both on and off the ice. We’re thrilled to welcome Brady to South Florida to join our group as we continue our pursuit of championship hockey,” Zito added.

Originally drafted by Ottawa in the first round (No. 4 overall) of the 2018 NHL Draft, Tkachuk, 26, played in 60 games last season with the Senators, recording 22 goals and 37 assists.

On the international stage, Brady, alongside Matthew, helped lead the United States to a gold medal at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina.

The 2025-26 season was one to forget for the Panthers, a season defined by injuries to key players - notably captain Aleksander Barkov - and missing the playoffs for the first time in the Paul Maurice era.

According to ESPN’s Emily Kaplan, “Tkachuk and the Senators had insisted that he was committed to the team, and he reiterated that sentiment as recently as April, when Ottawa’s season ended.”

“This was not a decision we took lightly, but ultimately, we did what we felt was best for the long-term future of our hockey club,” Ottawa general manager Steve Staios said in a press release.

Zito brought Matthew to Sunrise in a stunning trade in July 2022 from the Calgary Flames, and he guided the Panthers to consecutive Stanley Cup championships in 2023-24 and 2024-25.

When the 2026-27 season opens in October, the Panthers will aim for their third Stanley Cup in five seasons.

He quieted them with a 52-foot putt to tap-in range for his second U.S. Open title in four years, avoiding the worst collapse in tournament history after his six-stroke lead dwindled to one.

Oh, how this anybody-but-Wyndham crowd would've relished that.

New York loves a winner, but the one these fans really wanted to see on Sunday was Scottie Scheffler, who was chasing the career Grand Slam, or Sam Burns, who lost by a stroke. Not Clark.

Call it backlash for him damaging a locker in a fit of rage at Oakmont Country Club while missing the cut last year in the U.S. Open. Or for saying on TV that being surrounded by kids playing in the Masters Par 3 Contest was “great birth control." Or even for winning his first U.S. Open title in 2023 over fan favorites Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler.

Or maybe the folks spending their Father's Day at Shinnecock just wanted to see a little drama after Clark built leads of two, four and six strokes after each of the first three days.

“Man, they definitely didn’t want me to win,” Clark said.

On Saturday, he complained that fans had largely deserted the course by the time he was finishing his third round. On Sunday, he might’ve wished they had stayed home.

It's rare for a golfer in the lead at a major championship — or any golfer for that matter — to be the subject of such derision. It happened to McIlroy at the Ryder Cup last September at Bethpage Black, also on Long Island, but that was a team competition. McIlroy was the star of the winning European side and U.S. fans went overboard in letting him have it.

Clark said he tried to see himself in an “underdog” role on Sunday, as he did in 2023.

“Anytime someone said something negative to me, I replaced it with something positive,” Clark said. “Some of it’s self-deserved. I kind of brought it on myself, but I also get it, too. Scottie was going for the career Grand Slam, and it hasn’t happened very often.”

Even so, the animosity appeared to rattle Clark early in his round. He bogeyed the second, sixth and seventh holes as fans threw their support behind Scheffler. They cheered Clark's mistakes while showering Scheffler with affection — even serenading the four-time major champion, who turned 30 on Sunday, with “Happy Birthday."

It was “Get in the bunker!” for Clark and “We love you Scottie!” for Scheffler, who tied for fourth at even par.

“You like seeing the fans cheer for you. I think sometimes it can get a little too much when, you know, balls are kind of going off greens and you start hearing cheers,” Scheffler said. “That felt a bit much to me.”

Anti-Clark fans cheered when he flared a shot under a pair of trash containers on the fourth hole and again when his shot on the seventh hole landed in a bunker.

“Wyndham gonna lose 'em,” a man said as Clark walked to his ball on 10.

“Get in the fescue!” a fan yelled after he teed off on 13. When his second shot landed on a precarious part of the green, the crowd chanted “Go! Go! Go!” and gleefully roared as the golf ball rolled off the back.

Clark won over the crowd, at least for a moment, on the 16th hole — punching out from the tall grass and pumped his fist after nailing a 24-foot birdie putt to go to 5-under par. For the moment, he held a two-stroke lead and the crowd's hopes of a different winner were fading.

But the taunts returned on the next hole as Clark backed off of his 8-foot par putt and then missed it. As Clark walked to the 18th tee, scratching his head with his hat in hand, a fan in the grandstand sang “Under Pressure."

“Yeah, it was tough, but I’m proud of myself that I battled through,” Clark said. “I mean, things really could have gotten away from me. I stood tough. Yeah, I would have liked to have won by more, but as long as you win, it doesn’t matter.”

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Associated Press writers Doug Ferguson and Eddie Pells contributed to this report.

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With 99.99% of the precincts counted, 48.7% of the votes were for Cepeda and 49.66% were for Cepeda’s right-wing opponent, Abelardo de la Espriella, according to the Colombian National Registry.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose four-year term ends on Aug. 7, also contested the election results.

“Neither can be proclaimed president. It is the scrutiny that determines who is the president. I obey the judges. Calm among the citizenry, please,” Petro wrote on X. “Reality gives us a country split down the middle, and foreign interference taking away our freedom. A National Agreement is imposed if we want to maintain the Homeland and peace in the years to come.”

In Bogotá, Edwin Dario Camacho, of The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, was concerned.

“The message must always be one of unity — that once election day is over, the result must be respected," Camacho said in Spanish.

Sergio Fajardo, a former mayor of Medellin and a former presidential candidate, released a statement recognizing De La Espriella as the new president-elect.

“The voting outcome makes clear an indisputable reality: Colombia is deeply divided. Recognizing and accepting this reality is the first great responsibility of the president-elect,” Fajardo wrote on X. “This is the moment for leaders’ serenity, starting with President Petro, to call for common sense and prevent the division from turning into violence. It is also our collective responsibility to disarm spirits. The path to reconciliation must begin tonight.”

Cepeda, 63, a senator and human rights advocate, campaigned as the candidate who wants to protect the environment, continue negotiations for the surrender of armed groups, and prioritize welfare programs.

De La Espriella, 47, a defense attorney and businessman who campaigned as “The Tiger” with the endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump, declared his victory on Sunday.

Rosalina Prieto, who lives in Bogotá, said she voted for Cepeda because De La Priella is an outsider. Victor Hernandez, who also lives in Bogotá, said he voted for De La Espriella because he wants subsidies to end.

As the law-and-order candidate, De la Espriella said he wants to open mega prisons, cut corporate taxes, restart oil exploration and fracking, and cut the spending on the government’s social programs.

“Today, democracy wins,” De La Espriella told reporters in Spanish after he voted in Barranquilla.

More than 41 million Colombians were eligible to vote, and over 26 million cast their ballots on Sunday, according to the Colombian registry’s data on the election results.

During the presidential election’s first round on May 31, De la Espriella had 43.73% of the votes, and Cepeda had 40.91% of the votes. About 70% of the voters in the U.S. chose De La Espriella then.

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Torres contributed to this report from Miami.

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The crash happened in the 8100 block of Stirling Road.

Authorities said the victim, whose name was not publicly released, was trying to make a left turn into the Home Depot at University Creek Plaza when Joseph Anthony Ciavarella hit him or her.

Davie police said its investigators determined that Ciavarella was intoxicated and driving without his headlights at the time of the crash.

Authorities said they obtained an arrest warrant and took Ciavarella into custody on Friday.

He faces several charges, including DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide.

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Kimora McMinns was last seen at about 7 a.m. at the 6800 block of Southwest 17th Street, according to BSO deputies.

Kimora, who is about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 140 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes, and was wearing black shorts, a black shirt, pink sandals, and a black and purple bonnet, according to deputies.

Deputies asked anyone with information about Malaysia’s whereabouts to call Detective Chris Blankenship at 954-321-4268.

Related story: Teenage girl vanished 3 days ago in Tamarac, deputies say

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The victim was near the 4900 block of North State Road Seven, according to Claudinne Caro, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

“The preliminary information revealed a physical altercation occurred between two men,” Caro said in a statement.

There was blood on the floor at the 7-Eleven at 4999 West Commercial Boulevard.

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Tamarac Fire Rescue personnel responded after dispatch received a report at 1:55 p.m., according to Caro.

“Paramedics transported the man to a local hospital with serious injuries,” Caro said in a statement.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Amir Ayesh, 19, was arrested after two separate victims were sprayed with an unknown liquid on May 9 by Ayesh, who was passing by them in a black vehicle.

Detectives said the two incidents occurred within just minutes of each other in the area of Northeast 10th Avenue and 171st Street.

Authorities said Homeland Security Bureau detectives were able to link Ayesh to both incidents through surveillance video that showed him using a water gun to spray the victims from his car.

According to Detective Samantha Choon, an arrest warrant was signed on June 11, charging Ayesh with two counts of battery with prejudice, “a felony enhancement under Florida law.”

She said Ayesh was taken into custody Thursday in Plantation with assistance by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Plantation Police Department.

He was transported to the Broward County Main Jail and will eventually be transferred to Miami-Dade County.

“MDSO remains committed to investigating crimes that target individuals based on their race, religion, ethnicity, or other protected characteristics,” Choon said in an email to Local 10 News.

Ayesh’s arrest comes months after two other men were arrested for similar accusations.

In that case, Miami Beach police said Michael Dean Emerson, 19, of Coral Springs, and Dominic Angelo Martinez, 18, of Tamarac, used a water gun to spray a Jewish man on Mid-Beach in January.

Police said the duo targeted the victim because of his faith.

En una reñida votación superó en una segunda vuelta al progresista Iván Cepeda, aliado del presidente saliente Gustavo Petro, quien pidió el domingo esperar el escrutinio final antes de proclamar a un ganador.

Sin experiencia en política, el conservador decidió que su primera aspiración electoral fuera por el cargo más importante del país, convirtiéndose en la sorpresa de la primera vuelta al medirse con políticos experimentados, pero con el decidido apoyo del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump.

Para ello recogió miles de firmas de ciudadanos que apoyaron su candidatura por el movimiento Defensores de la Patria y rechazó el apoyo explícito de los partidos tradicionales.

Nació en Bogotá en 1978, pero se crió en la costa Caribe. Se casó con la empresaria Ana Lucía Pineda, con quien tiene cuatro hijos.

Apodado “El Tigre”, durante la campaña bautizó a sus simpatizantes como su “manada” y pedía que le pusieran “una raya”, en referencia a los votos. La ferocidad de ese felino es la que promete utilizar para combatir a los grupos armados ilegales y los narcotraficantes que azotan al país.

“Al narcoterrorismo, a quienes he sentenciado y los he declarado objetivo militar, los voy a acabar como unas cucarachas, como unas ratas”, aseguró De la Espriella en entrevista con The Associated Press en la recta final de la campaña.

De la Espriella, de 47 años, se hizo un nombre como abogado defendiendo clientes de alto perfil como el expresidente Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) y también polémicos como Alex Saab, un aliado cercano del derrocado presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro que enfrenta problemas con la justicia estadounidense y a quien dejó de representar hace aproximadamente siete años.

Simpatía por Bukele, Trump y Milei

Cuando señalan que su cuidada barba es similar a la del presidente Nayib Bukele, De la Espriella suele aclarar que la usa así por gusto desde mucho antes de que el salvadoreño se hiciera reconocido. Sin embargo, sí dice que construirá 10 “mega cárceles” al estilo de El Salvador, aunque reconoce que Colombia tiene un conflicto armado interno que no se resuelve del mismo modo.

“El Tigre” también simpatiza con el presidente argentino Javier Milei, quien en su campaña se identificó con un león, especialmente por algunos de sus manejos económicos. ”Estoy convencido de que un león en Argentina y un tigre en Colombia pueden ayudar a construir una Latinoamérica más fuerte”, dijo en un video en redes poco antes del balotaje.

Es ciudadano estadounidense y miembro del Partido Republicano, según dijo a la AP. Tras recibir el apoyo de Trump —que lo describió como un “líder inteligente, fuerte y duro”— De la Espriella aseguró que tienen valores compartidos y prometió fortalecer la relación bilateral y adherir a la política antidrogas de Trump, incluyendo los bombardeos a embarcaciones que presuntamente trafican drogas.

Petro ha tenido una relación tensa con el gobierno estadounidense desde la vuelta al poder de Trump por diferencias en temas de migración, seguridad regional y lucha antinarcóticos, la cual mejoró luego de un encuentro en la Casa Blanca en febrero.

Su postura crítica al gobierno de Petro le ha valido la simpatía de sectores opositores como la reserva militar y los uribistas —la corriente del expresidente Uribe— que ven en su figura la representación de los valores conservadores que defienden.

Denuncias en su contra

Cepeda lo denunció ante la fiscalía colombiana y la Corte Penal Internacional por sus presuntos vínculos con grupos paramilitares para que definan si era “financiador o cómplice” de los ilegales que combatían a las guerrillas de izquierda.

Cepeda señaló que De la Espriella habría creado y liderado una fundación que “múltiples jefes paramilitares indican como organización creada por las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia con fines políticos”.

De la Espriella rechazó haber apoyado ilegalmente a los paramilitares y dijo que lo que denunció Cepeda se basa en hechos que ya fueron investigados y cerrados. También ha defendido su participación en una fundación como parte de la comisión civil acompañante del proceso de paz que se llevó a cabo a inicios de los 2000 con los paramilitares.

En su campaña enfrentó críticas por comentarios a periodistas tildados de machistas, por decir que defendería la democracia “por la razón o por la fuerza” y declararse enemigo de los “señores de la izquierda” a quienes había que “destriparlos”. Luego matizó su discurso diciendo que se refería a una confrontación ideológica en el “marco de la ley”.

El abogado se precia de tener una vida lujosa y sosegada en Italia, donde vivía hasta antes de ser candidato, que cambió por “servirle a la patria” y que le ha costado vivir rodeado de escoltas y vestir chalecos antibalas por amenazas contra su vida denunciadas en la campaña.

The blast at the Ras Laffan industrial area could cause further chaos in global energy markets, as Qatar remains one of the world's top natural gas producers. Qatar shut down its production after Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz meant it couldn't get shipments out to clients.

With Iran loosening its grip as negotiations continue over a permanent end to the war, Qatar began work to try to restart its export terminal. That sparked the explosion and fire at the Barzan gas supply facility, state-run QatarEnergy said.

“I would like to emphasize that this was an accident and not sabotage or hostile in nature," Energy Minister Saad Sherida al-Kaabi told a news conference Monday afternoon in Doha, Qatar’s capital.

The minister gave the toll and said the dead came from India and Pakistan. The nationalities of the 66 injured included people from Qatar and a variety of African and Asian nations, al-Kaabi said.

The scale of the damage remains unknown.

The Barzan plant had a capacity of almost 1.4 billion standard cubic feet of sales gas per day, which Qatar used primarily for local electricity generation and to power its crucial water desalination plants in the desert reaches of the Arabian Peninsula.

Qatar owns nearly all of the plant, with a small share also held by ExxonMobil. The oil company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In March, an Iranian missile hit Ras Laffan, sparking a fire that caused “extensive” damage before it was extinguished, authorities said. Qatar had already halted production there because of Iranian attacks.

Qatar shares its massive offshore natural gas field in the Persian Gulf with Iran. That natural gas production has made Qatar wealthy. It has used that money to raise its profile worldwide through hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, creating the Al Jazeera news network and funding its work as an international mediator, including the talks in Switzerland between Iran and the United States.

Según la Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade, Amir Ayesh, de 19 años, fue arrestado tras rociar con un líquido desconocido a dos víctimas en incidentes separados el pasado 9 de mayo.

Ayesh agredió a las personas mientras pasaba junto a ellas a bordo de un vehículo negro. Los detectives detallaron que ambos ataques ocurrieron con pocos minutos de diferencia en la zona de la avenida 10 del noreste y la calle 171.

Las autoridades indicaron que los detectives de la Oficina de Seguridad Nacional lograron vincular a Ayesh con los dos casos gracias a las imágenes de vigilancia, las cuales revelaron que utilizó una pistola de agua para mojar a las víctimas desde su automóvil.

De acuerdo con la detective Samantha Choon, el 11 de junio se firmó una orden de arresto que acusa a Ayesh de dos cargos de agresión con prejuicio, lo que representa “un agravante por delito grave bajo la ley de Florida”.

Choon informó que Ayesh fue detenido el jueves en Plantation con el apoyo del Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida y la Policía de Plantation. El joven fue trasladado a la Cárcel Principal del Condado de Broward y posteriormente será transferido al Condado de Miami-Dade.

“La Oficina del Alguacil de Miami-Dade mantiene su compromiso de investigar los delitos que atentan contra las personas debido a su raza, religión, origen étnico u otras características protegidas”, expresó Choon en un correo electrónico enviado a Local 10 News.

El arresto de Ayesh ocurre meses después de la detención de otros dos jóvenes por acusaciones similares. En ese caso previo, la policía de Miami Beach señaló que Michael Dean Emerson, de 19 años y residente de Coral Springs, y Dominic Angelo Martinez, de 18 años y residente de Tamarac, utilizaron una pistola de agua para rociar a un hombre judío en Mid-Beach en enero. La policía afirmó que la dupla atacó a la víctima específicamente por su fe.

At the match’s conclusion, at least one attendee wearing a pre-revolutionary flag shirt was detained for trying to run onto the pitch. And afterward, though demonstrations were quieter than Monday’s, an Associated Press reporter observed a fan who got into a scuffle with protesters being loaded into an ambulance.

But before the match had even kicked off, U.S. Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said Sunday that the Iranians had “tried to get somebody in yesterday” who had direct ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. In a statement, the soccer federation vociferously pushed back.

“The claim that an official representative of the Iranian Football Federation attempted to board a flight to enter the United States yesterday and was prevented from doing so is an outright and undeniable lie,” the statement said.

Mullin told Fox News that most teams travel with around 120 people, but the U.S. had accepted 53 in Iran’s case. He said the rest of the people Iran had tried to secure visas for had “direct ties to the IRGC and aren’t their normal traveling group.” The federation called Mullin’s claims “completely unsupported by any evidence or documentation, but also represent a clear attempt to cover up discriminatory behavior and unreasonable restrictions.”

That statement echoed Iran’s complaints throughout the tournament that politics have infringed on soccer, even as U.S. Vice President JD Vance said there was an opportunity to “turn over a new leaf” with talks beginning in Switzerland on the interim deal to end the war. Iran’s players and coach have complained about shuttling to and from Mexico instead of Tucson, Arizona, and the barring of some officials and staff, and the federation has said it would pursue a complaint against FIFA.

Iranian national team player Alireza Jahanbakhsh said after the match that he doesn’t want to keep focusing on the challenging situation, and that players are now focused on recovery and preparing to travel to Seattle for the next game, against Egypt. He said he hopes the team can head there as soon as possible to adapt.

“We don’t ask for much. We just ask for the same procedure as for all the other 47 teams,” he said. “Hopefully we can bring everyone who is involved and help us with us.”

At the stadium near Los Angeles, fans wearing green-and-red scarves, stickers and T-shirts were mixed on the impact of the team’s shift to train across the border in Mexico. Some said the team was unfairly burdened, while others who followed the team to Tijuana were thrilled to get closer access to the players.

Shamira Ghaemmaghami, 66, of nearby Orange County, said she was supporting the players from her native Iran and also from Belgium. She said she respects the right of protesters to voice their opinions but feels sports should unite people, not separate them.

“Fighting over these things, sports and politics should not be mixed,” she said. “They worked so hard to get where they are, both sides, actually.”

Outside the stadium, a few hundred people demonstrated against Iran’s government. Aside from some verbal altercations and the scuffle after the match, the protests were smaller than at Iran’s first game and featured more security from the outset. Inside, some fans carried the red-and-green flags emblazoned with a golden lion and sun that predate the 1979 Islamic Revolution — a flag that seemed at least as visible as the official flag of Iran itself. They were also joined by a sizable crowd of Belgium fans wearing red and yellow and those donning jerseys from countries including Argentina, the U.S. and Mexico.

Gerald Martinez, 66, of Tucson, wore a green Iran scarf. While not Iranian, he and his son decided to support the team when they initially announced they’d be training in their hometown.

“I wish they were all here. I wish they were welcome,” Martinez said, adding he felt the team was suffering a disadvantage.

Stefan Arts, 42, traveled from Antwerp, Belgium, and said he’s met many people who were Iranian but supporting his country’s team instead. That’s how Arman Sharif, 40, of Los Angeles, feels. He was outside the stadium to protest and said he feels the players are allied with the government in Tehran.

“Whoever it is, we’re a fan of the opponents,” Sharif said.

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Associated Press reporters Ty ONeil, Gregory Bull and Andrew Dalton in Inglewood, California; Gabriela Aoun Angueira in San Diego and Thomas Strong in Washington contributed to this report.

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The match “is everything in our world for the moment,” Egypt coach Hossam Hassan said Saturday in comments translated from Arabic.

Their pursuit of history is part of a larger surge in African soccer’s global standing.

The expanded 48-team pool at this year’s tournament helped give African teams more representation and a chance to show they belong at the top level of international soccer. A record 10 teams are representing the continent at the World Cup, Egypt among them.

“The national squads of Africa have proven their great performance many times at the World Cup, including this one,” Hassan said.

At the 2022 World Cup, Morocco made a memorable run to the semifinals.

Other African teams have made their mark on this World Cup already, with Ghana and Ivory Coast winning their opening matches against Panama and Ecuador, respectively. Four African teams, including Egypt, played to a draw in their opening matches.

The Pharaohs’ 1-1 draw against Belgium gave them their first World Cup point since 1990. They carried a lead into halftime against Belgium, the first time they had done so at the World Cup. In fact, the match against Belgium was only the second time Egypt had ever had a lead against an opponent at all in the tournament.

Morocco staved off five-time champion Brazil, Congo escaped with a draw against Portugal and Cape Verde stunned tournament favorite Spain, holding it scoreless in a 0-0 draw.

From a continent on the rise, Egypt has emerged as a powerhouse. Seven-time winners of the Africa Cup of Nations, the Pharaohs want to demonstrate that their prowess extends outside of Africa at this year’s World Cup.

“We want to represent African football and Arab football,” said Hassan, Egypt’s all-time leading goal scorer and a key player for the Pharaohs at the 1990 World Cup.

Hassan’s experience helped propel an Egyptian squad headlined by stars Mo Salah and Omar Marmoush back into the tournament after missing out in 2022.

Salah sits two goals shy of matching his coach’s record. The squad also features a solid lineup of younger players, including 18-year-old Hamza Abdelkarim. Abdelkarim made his international debut with the senior team in a friendly against Russia just last month, the latest debutant in a new generation of African stars.

We want to live up to the aspirations of the Egyptian fans,” Hassan said. “I only think about bringing happiness to our fans.”

After New Zealand, the Pharaohs face Iran in Seattle for the last match in the group stage.

As Egypt closes in on history, the team plays for its fans and nation – and also for Africa.

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Connor Joyce is a student in the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.

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La víctima se encontraba cerca de la cuadra 4900 de North State Road Seven, detalló Claudinne Caro, portavoz de la Oficina del Alguacil de Broward. Había rastros de sangre en el suelo de la tienda de conveniencia 7-Eleven, ubicada en el 4999 de West Commercial Boulevard.

“La información preliminar reveló que ocurrió un altercado físico entre dos hombres”, explicó Caro en un comunicado oficial.

Agentes de la Oficina del Alguacil de Broward y personal de Rescate de Bomberos de Tamarac acudieron al lugar después de que la central de emergencias recibiera un reporte a la 1:55 p.m. Los paramédicos trasladaron al sujeto a un hospital local con heridas de gravedad.

The Panthers and Ottawa finalized a deal Sunday night, with Florida sending four draft picks to the Senators for Brady Tkachuk — the brother of Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk.

The picks were the No. 9 pick in this year’s draft, Tampa Bay’s first-round pick this year (acquired earlier Sunday in a trade Florida made sending Mackie Samoskevich to Seattle), the Panthers’ second-round pick in 2027 and their top 10-protected first-round pick in 2029. And that means Florida adds an elite player to its forward corps without losing any of its top seven scorers from this past season.

“Brady is a dynamic competitor and one of the most physical and relentless forwards in the league,” Panthers hockey operations president and general manager Bill Zito said. “A proven leader and exactly the type of player we want in our locker room, he strives to make everyone around him better both on and off the ice. We’re thrilled to welcome Brady to South Florida to join our group as we continue our pursuit of championship hockey.”

Brady Tkachuk has spent the entirety of his eight-year NHL career in Ottawa, and now he joins his brother, Olympic teammate and podcast co-host in Florida — the place where Matthew Tkachuk has spent the last four seasons, winning two Stanley Cups and getting to the final three times.

The Athletic was first to report the pending trade.

Brady Tkachuk has two seasons left on the seven-year, $57.56 million contract he signed in October 2021 when he also became Ottawa’s captain. As recently as late April, he bristled at conversation about his name being in trade rumors following a first-round playoff exit.

“This was not a decision we took lightly, but ultimately we did what we felt was best for the long-term future of our hockey club,” Senators general manager Steve Staios said Sunday. “We now possess cap space and draft capital and will be actively working to improve our roster.”

It’s a move that makes sense for so many reasons and has seemed almost inevitable.

Matthew Tkachuk and Brady Tkachuk reveled in the chance to play alongside one another for USA Hockey at the 4 Nations Face-Off in 2025 (winning silver) and the Milan Cortina Olympics this year (winning gold, the first for the American men’s program on the Olympic stage since the miracle in Lake Placid 46 years ago).

Their parents — their dad is NHL legend Keith Tkachuk — have a home in Florida and are regular attendees at Panthers games, and the USA Hockey ties means Brady Tkachuk already has relationships with many in the Florida organization. Zito had a role within USA Hockey during this past Olympic cycle and Panthers equipment manager Teddy Richards had a role with the 4 Nations and Milan Cortina teams as well.

Brady Tkachuk was Ottawa’s captain for the last five seasons, and he was — by far in some cases — their leader in countless categories over his eight years with the Senators. No player had more goals (213), points (463), power-play goals (62), shots (2,202), hits (1,921), winning goals (28), multigoal games (30) and penalty minutes (821) in his tenure with the club, which acquired him with the No. 4 pick in the 2018 draft.

And now, four years after landing Matthew Tkachuk, the Panthers have tapped into the Tkachuk family well of talent again.

It also adds another big name to the list of players that Florida has locked up for several seasons going forward, including Aleksander Barkov, Aaron Ekblad, Sam Reinhart, Sam Bennett, Carter Verhaeghe, Gustav Forsling, Anton Lundell and others. They’re all Stanley Cup winners, and now Brady Tkachuk would figure to have a real chance to get his name etched onto hockey’s chalice in the coming years as well.

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It was no problem for Heim, whose No. 67 Toyota inexplicably kept getting faster on the way to his first career Cup Series victory in only his 13th start.

The 23-year-old part-time driver from Marietta, Georgia, took a deep breath before the second half of the race and reminded himself that he had as much experience as the veterans on the 16-turn, 3.4-mile street course on Coronado Island, just south of downtown San Diego.

“I’m speechless,” Heim said. “Maybe I knocked some good into the car. I have no idea. I had high expectations coming into this race. I just reset and went after it.”

Heim, the 2024 truck series champion who will move full time into Cup next season with 23XI Racing, led the final three laps after snatching first from teammate Tyler Reddick.

“I was able to stick with him, and five to go came, and it was time to put some pressure on him and see if I could get him to make a mistake,” Heim said. “Sure enough, he did.”

Bubba Wallace finished second to deliver a 1-2 finish for 23XI Racing, the team co-owned by Denny Hamlin and NBA great Michael Jordan.

Reddick suffered a flat tire in the closing laps and fell to 25th, cutting his lead in the standings to eight points over Hamlin.

“To even have a shot at it at the end was really nice,” said Reddick, who started from the rear after unapproved adjustments to his No. 45 Toyota. “First and foremost, congratulations to Corey. I thought I was going to be able to hold him off there. It definitely stings. Really needed a good points day. Had another really bad one, so we’ll try and scrape together.”

It’s the second time in three years that an inaugural street race has produced a first-time winner in NASCAR’s premier series. Shane van Gisbergen won his Cup debut in the 2023 Chicago Street Race.

Heim became the third first-time winner in Cup this season, joining Ty Gibbs (Bristol) and Carson Hocevar (Talladega).

“Just crazy,” Heim said. “I hope I don’t wake up from this dream.”

His peers already think Heim’s for real.

“Awesome job by Corey Heim,” two-time Cup champion Kyle Larson said after finishing third. “That’s really cool. He’s a super talented race car driver, and it's neat to see somebody get their first win, especially at a challenging track like this.”

Zane Smith and AJ Allmendinger rounded out the top five.

Hamlin, the driver-owner who had won the past three races for Joe Gibbs Racing, finished 14th.

SVG stunner

Van Gisbergen finished 38th in his bid for an eighth road or street course victory (which will make him the active leader among Cup drivers).

After starting from the pole position, van Gisbergen was caught in a crash that started when Trackhouse Racing teammate Connor Zilisch and Austin Hill collided while battling for the lead on a Lap 32 restart. The nine-car incident caused a nine-minute red flag for wall repairs.

“I felt like I was giving Austin space, and the next thing, I was in the wall,” said Zilisch, who led the first eight laps of his Cup career in the highlight of a miserable rookie season. “Really unfortunate. I hate to end both days for both Shane and I. We had a really fast car today. I had a lot of fun. I really enjoyed just getting to race out front and lead laps.”

Driver swap

During the first caution, Christopher Bell was replaced in the No. 20 Toyota by Brent Crews, but the driver relief stint was short. Crews exited in last place after a gearbox problem on the 28th lap.

Bell is still recovering from a broken wrist in a June 7 crash at Michigan International Speedway and said getting out of the car was precautionary and not because of pain.

One more for Johnson

In his second and last Cup start of the 2026 season, Jimmie Johnson slammed a tire barrier after missing a chicane on the fifth lap and finished 28th.

The seven-time series champion said Saturday that he still plans on the 2027 Daytona 500 as his final start as a Cup driver, but he is open to racing in other series.

Up next

NASCAR will stay in California, heading north to Sonoma Raceway on June 28. Van Gisbergen dominated in winning on the road course last season, leading 97 of 110 laps from the pole position.

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He was that close to sinking a birdie putt on the 18th hole to tie leader Wyndham Clark at the U.S. Open and instead missed just right by a half-inch — maybe.

"I really thought I made that putt," Burns said after shooting a 67 Sunday to get to 3 under for the tournament and go into the clubhouse one stroke behind Clark. “It just didn't go in.”

Burns sat down in the scoring tent, let out an exasperated sigh and put his hands on his head. He could only watch as Clark birdied No. 16, bogeyed 17 and two-putted in on 18 to win by the single shot Burns did not make down the stretch.

"I felt like I was chasing all day," Burns said. “It's unfortunate I just came up one short.”

The heartbreak at Shinnecock Hills on Long Island came a year after Burns' miserable finish at the U.S. Open at Oakmont outside Pittsburgh. He led after two rounds, played in the final group Sunday and everything fell apart in the rain when he shot 78 to fall out of contention and into a tie for seventh.

Burns was brilliant Sunday in his bid for retribution. Entering the final round at even par, seven back of Clark, Burns birdied three of his first eight holes to move past Scottie Scheffler and others into second place.

“To start the day seven shots back, I knew it was going to take something really special,” Burns said. “I couldn’t have asked for a better start.”

Clark bogeying three of his first seven holes made it close, but Burns was never able to pull into a tie for first. Three-putting at No. 15 put him in a difficult spot, and he thought the back nine was playing difficult.

With Clark shooting the same back-nine 35, Burns felt differently following this loss than a year ago, saying, “The guy who played the best won.”

It just wasn't him.

“Last year at Oakmont, I felt like more I lost the golf tournament,” Burns said. "I certainly don’t feel that way today. I gave it my best, and I did everything I could to have a chance to win.”

When Burns was hitting balls on the driving range Sunday night, his dad, Tom came over with a fatherly message on Father's Day.

“He just said he was really proud,” Sam Burns said as he got choked up. “I think we both knew how special it could have been for Father’s Day. But I know he’s proud.”

Burns' wife, Caroline, is 37 weeks pregnant with the couple's second child, he said. Burns played with 2-year-old son Bear while waiting for Clark to finish and left the course with life perspective after another difficult defeat.

“It’s a crazy life we live sometimes,” Burns said. “As a competitor, you want to go out there and compete as hard as you can and try to win. But at the end of the day, when you’re off the golf course, it’s really not that important and family is a lot more important than golf.”

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But Scheffler never nailed down the other part — namely, applying any pressure of his own on the player who left the door open Sunday at the U.S. Open before sneaking away with the win.

While Clark hung on to beat Sam Burns by one shot and capture his second title in four years in the toughest test in golf, Scheffler will wait another year for a chance to fill that last hole on his Grand Slam resume.

“I felt close again,” Scheffler said. “It's just little things here and there.”

With Clark struggling most of the day, the world’s No. 1 player celebrated his 30th birthday by making a grand total of two birdies over a round of 1-over 71 at Shinnecock Hills. He actually beat Clark by two shots in their final-pairing showdown. But he came in trailing by six.

In a more telling sign of the opportunity he could not cash in on, Scheffler started as the best bet to reel in Clark among those jammed in a four-way tie for second heading into the round. He left in a three-way deadlock for fourth, passed up by Burns (67) and left behind by fellow birthday boy Tom Kim, who shot 70 and finished alone in third.

Scheffler's struggles were all part of a strange day and a strange vibe around Shinnecock. It was filled with lots of cheers for everything he did well, but also cheers for Clark's mishaps — the product of a New York crowd familiar with Clark's history of smashing a locker at Oakmont last year out of frustration.

"You like seeing the fans cheer for you," Scheffler said. “I think sometimes it can get a little too much when balls are kind of going off greens and you start hearing cheers. That felt a bit much to me.”

It never really led to momentum, though, for the Texan, who won the British Open last year and put himself in position to become the seventh player to complete the career Grand Slam. He'll have to wait until next year at Pebble Beach. On Sunday at Shinnecock, he spent most of the day stuck in neutral.

His chances to mount a comeback got delayed on the par-3 seventh, where he needed two shots from a bunker and a 15-foot putt just to save bogey. That kept him within four of Clark. But he never drew closer than three.

Scheffler's last, best chance might have been on the par-5 16th, when Clark teed off into the thick fescue and Scheffler was in perfect shape in the fairway. But Scheffler hit driver off the deck into the rough and Clark hit a fantastic shot back into the fairway. When Clark made birdie there to Scheffler's par, the lead was five and it was a two-man contest between Clark and Burns, who was playing three groups ahead.

"He showed what he’s made of there with a great birdie on 16," Scheffler said. “Wyndham has a pretty good -- I don’t know if 'escapability is the right word — but he’s, I would say, a very underrated scrambler.”

With the tip of his cap, Scheffler also gave a nod to reality: He lost this tournament over the first two and half days — or maybe even over the first nine holes, where he made the turn at 3 over after a three-putt from 30 feet for double-bogey on No. 8.

Two months ago, Scheffler overcame a similarly slow start at the Masters and made a Sunday charge to finish one shot shy of Rory McIlroy in what would have been an unprecedented comeback from 12 strokes down heading into the weekend.

This time, Scheffler was eight back of Clark after the first day.

“I’ve been pretty good in first rounds over the last few years, and for some reason, the sharpness just hasn’t been there early in tournaments,” Scheffler said. “I haven’t had those leads that I’ve needed in order to win tournaments. I’ve been playing catch-up all year.”

And so, Scheffler heads into the defense of his British title still with four majors to his name, but no U.S. Open. One thing those wins have in common: He has had at least a share of the lead heading into the final round of all of them.

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It ran about $30 for a rideshare to get to Hard Rock Stadium, dubbed “Miami Stadium” for the World Cup.

However, shuttle buses are free to verified ticket holders, and Local 10 News got to check them out on Sunday.

Local 10 News found hundreds at the Golden Glades Transit Station waiting for free shuttle service to the stadium, provided by Miami-Dade County.

“First of all, the traffic, then the money that you have to pay,” rider Vera Brito said. “So we took the train from West Palm here and then the shuttle.”

With expensive rideshares, the shuttle is an option many are excited for. Here is how it works: verified ticket holders show their QR code to staff and can board shuttles to and from the stadium.

Local 10 News hitched a ride to see it for ourselves. Onboard, we spoke with John Barrett, who is in town from Pittsburgh with his family celebrating Father’s Day.

He said when they found the shuttle option, they were all in.

“We’ve heard about it through the website from FIFA, and this was the best opportunity for us close to our hotel,” Barrett said.

It was a quick, smooth ride. There are several hubs available for fans: MLK Plaza Metrorail Station, Golden Glades, the Aventura Brightline station, and the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood.

Some locations even offer onsite parking.

For more information, visit the county’s website.

The tiny island nation that stunned tournament favorite Spain last week did it again against Uruguay — a two-time World Cup champion — on Sunday, coming from behind for a 2-2 draw.

Kevin Pina scored on a free kick for Cape Verde's first-ever goal in the World Cup, and Helio Varela scored the equalizer for what has become one of the most surprising teams of the expanded 48-team tournament — a club now with a legitimate chance of getting into the knockout stage.

“This is something we owe to other smaller national teams — teams that struggled to qualify for a world tournament,” Cape Verde coach Pedro Leitão Brito said through an interpreter, adding his entire squad believes it can continue its historic play and reach the knockout stage.

Cape Verde, which has two points in Group H along with Uruguay, faces Saudi Arabia in its final group match.

“We’re also here to show that a country may be small, may struggle financially," he added, "but if they are resilient, if they can endure struggle, they can also stand shoulder to shoulder with other major teams and with players who are on another level.”

The group of islands off Africa’s West coast have about 4,000 square kilometers of landmass and approximately a half million inhabitants, making Cape Verde the third-smallest nation by population to qualify for the World Cup.

Even as a large number of fans at Miami Stadium chanted for Uruguay throughout Sunday's match, Cape Verdean players seemed undaunted.

“Once you’re on the pitch, a lot of things become equal,” Leitão Brito said.

Cape Verdean fans who watched their squad pull off one of the stunners of the tournament last week by holding Spain to a scoreless draw continued their celebrations when Pina split Uruguay's wall and blasted a strike past diving goalie Fernando Muslera for a 1-0 lead in the 21st.

Maxi Araújo and Agustin Canobbio scored late first-half goals to put Uruguay ahead. But Varela, minutes after coming into the game in the second half, took advantage of a bad pass by Mathias Olivera and caught Muslera way off his line for a tying empty-net goal and his first international score.

“I had dreamed of this,” Varela said in a quote distributed by FIFA, “but I never imagined it would happen this way. Scoring my first goal for the national team on my World Cup debut is incredible. I have no words.”

Varela celebrated by hopping into his teammates' arms and flexing atop their shoulders as Muslera and other Uruguay players dropped their heads in disappointment.

“The result, I think, was quite deserved,” coach Marcelo Bielsa said afterward through an interpreter.

Uruguay failed to capitalize on numerous late chances to take the lead and settled for its second draw after a 1-1 finish against Saudi Arabia in its opener. La Celeste face Spain in their group stage finale, needing a positive result to have a chance at advancing.

“The organizational mistakes that were made — that a squad makes — they always fall upon the driver,” Bielsa added. “What I mean by that is the head coach. ... There is no magical recipe whatsoever to fix them. It goes without saying we paid a very high cost for those mistakes.”

It was another special moment for Cape Verde's Vozinha, who became one of the tournament's breakout stars after shutting down Spain. The 40-year-old goalie had his mother in the stands for Sunday's match; she was unable to attend Cape Verde’s opening draw against Spain because she couldn’t obtain a visa.

It was also the first World Cup match with two starting goalies aged 40-plus. Muslera, who made his 18th World Cup appearance, turned 40 on June 16.

Vozinha waved at the crowd after the final whistle as his teammates ran to a section of Cape Verdean fans, who cheered and danced on their way out of the stadium as if they were celebrating a victory.

“You show up, you believe, and we work very hard as a team,” said Cape Verde defender Stopira. “I think all the world can see we play, we play very good, and we also have quality in the team. So now it’s on to the next game, and to try to reach the next one.”

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No worries.

Forbes called on freshman Caden Glauber for the 29th time this season, and for the 29th time he's pitched, the Tar Heels won.

Their 6-2 victory over Oklahoma kept alive their pursuit of the school's first national championship in baseball. The winner-take-all Game 3 is Monday night.

“This is what it’s all about,” Forbes said. “This is why you work so hard — to play in a night game, national championship game. So we’re excited about that opportunity.”

Lynch and Glauber cooled off Oklahoma’s bats, Owen Hull and Cooper Nicholson homered, and North Carolina (54-13-1) bounced back from a 9-3 loss in Game 1.

The Sooners (42-23) scored twice in the first inning and then had two hits and a total of five baserunners the rest of the way. Lynch injured his lower left side throwing his second pitch of the fifth. Glauber (12-0) came on and struck out the side and fanned a total of eight over five innings.

“When you play for the best team in college baseball, it’s pretty easy to go out there with the defense you have and the offense you have,” said Glauber, who has allowed one run in 10 1/3 CWS innings.

Glauber graduated from high school a year early and was 17 when he enrolled at Carolina last fall. He's the only pitcher in Division I with 12 wins and five saves and is pitching to a 2.05 ERA over 92 innings, with all but three of his appearances in relief.

He's been comfortable on stages big and small all season. Sunday he faced an OU team that had been averaging 9.4 runs per game in the postseason and 8.25 in the CWS.

“The preparation takes over the fear,” he said. “We work so hard on it. You know, you’ve got to have the right mindset, and you know that you’re made for the moment, whatever moment you’re in.”

The Sooners were held to their fewest runs since a May 19 loss to LSU. They hadn't been held scoreless over eight straight innings since a 3-0 loss to Southeastern Louisiana on March 17. Their four hits were their fewest since a March 19 loss to LSU.

“Obviously, tough loss today,” OU's Trey Gambill said. “But I don’t think we overly care. We know that we still have the opportunity to win the national championship. It’s going to be a fun atmosphere. We’re excited. Have a good meal tonight, good shower and be ready for tomorrow.”

OU freshman starter Xander Mercurius (1-3) struck out six of the first seven batters he faced but encountered trouble when Carolina's first two batters reached base in the third inning. Jake Schaffner pulled a ball into the right-field corner for a two-run triple and scored on a wild pitch to put the Tar Heels up 3-2. Mercurius began laboring in the third and left after Hull's second homer of the CWS and ninth of the season leading off the fifth.

“The trick in baseball is to not get away from your game plan and start trying to punch guys out,” OU coach Skip Johnson said, “and he kind of lost it a little bit. Instead of just trying to throw the ball to the target, he’s trying to punch people out.”

Nicholson's team-leading 16th homer, off Nate Smithburg in the seventh, made it 6-2.

Glauber walked consecutive batters with one out in the ninth. The game ended when Dasan Harris grounded to second and Gavin Gallaher turned an unassisted double play that was confirmed after Oklahoma challenged the call.

Johnson said Nick Wesloski (2-1) would start for the Sooners on Monday. Wesloski pitched 5 2/3 innings in an 11-4 win over Georgia last Wednesday. Forbes said he was undecided on a starter.

“It will be all hands on deck,” he said. “I feel like we’ve got about seven options to start tomorrow, and I like every one of them.”

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There were more than 250 precincts for the Colombian diaspora worldwide. In South Florida, Colombian voters cast their ballots in Coral Gables, Kendall, Hialeah, Coral Springs, and Weston.

U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed De La Espriella, 47, a defense attorney and businessman who campaigned as “The Tiger,” and who is a fan of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.

“Today, democracy wins,” De La Espriella told reporters in Spanish after he voted in Barranquilla.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose four-year term ends on Aug. 7, endorsed Cepeda, 63, a senator who is a political rival of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who served from 2002 to 2010.

“Let us vote with calm and serenity, and may democracy triumph,” Cepeda told reporters in Spanish after he voted in Bogotá.

The precincts in South Florida opened at 8 a.m. and closed at 4 p.m. Some voters carried flags, some wore their team’s yellow FIFA World Cup 2026 soccer jerseys, and some wore white to symbolize peace.

In Miami-Dade County, there were three precincts at the University of Miami’s Watsco Center, Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus gymnasium, and the Milander Center for Arts and Entertainment.

In Broward County, there were two precincts at Coral Springs High School and Cypress Bay High School’s gymnasium.

During the presidential election’s first round on May 31, De la Espriella had 43.73% of the votes when he qualified for the runoff against Cepeda, who had 40.91% of the votes. About 70% of the voters in the U.S. chose De La Espriella on May 31.

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The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating the incident between two commercial flights that happened Saturday at Boston Logan International Airport.

Todd Curtis, a former safety engineer at Boeing, estimated the distance between the two jetliners using Flightradar24, a website that tracks flights. Curtis now coproduces a podcast about flight safety issues.

“This is a significant incident,” Curtis said, adding that it was particularly concerning because it involved two professional airline crews.

He said federal aviation officials have been concerned about such runway incursions for a while now and will scrutinize Saturday’s close call.

Near-misses and runway incursions at U.S. airports will be the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation will seek ways to strengthen safety across the national airspace system.

The Delta flight from Dallas had to execute a go-around, or aborted landing, to avoid the American plane departing from an intersecting runway, according to the FAA and flight logs.

The crew of Delta flight 2351 coordinated with air traffic control to perform the go-around, an airline spokesperson said. The plane, which had 129 passengers and six crew members on board, landed safely and deplaned normally, according to the spokesperson.

Go-arounds are safe, routine procedures performed at the discretion of the pilot or air traffic controllers, according to the FAA.

Five strokes behind third-round leader Jing Yan and four back of Woad going into the day, the 4-foot-11 Yamashita shot an 8-under 64 to get to 17-under 271 at Blythefield Country Club.

“I didn’t think about like win today,” Yamashita said. “I just focused on playing just like every round. My putting was solid today and I was able to put together a really good round.”

The 24-year-old Japanese player birdied the par-5 18th in regulation and the playoff.

“I really didn’t expect like it’s going to be playoff, but once it did, I was able to reset mentally and focus on the task at hand,” Yamashita said. “I’m glad I was able to take advantage of the opportunity and turn it into a win.”

Woad had a 68, holing out from a bunker for birdie on the 17th before running into trouble on the 467-yard 18th.

“Felt like I hit an OK putt,” the 22-year-old English player said. “Obviously, lipped out on the high side.”

In the playoff, both players were in front of the green in two. Yamashita played first, hitting a flop shot to 3 feet. Woad then hit her pitch 10 feet past and missed the comebacker.

Yamashita won for the third time on the LPGA Tour after winning 13 times on the JLPGA. Last year, she won the Maybank Championship and major Women’s British Open and was the LPGA rookie of the year.

Wei-Ling Hsu (67) and Yan Liu (67) tied for third at 15 under. Minji Kang (66) and Cassie Porter (70) were 14 under. Yan had a 73 to tie for seventh at 13 under.

The major KPMG Women’s PGA Championship begins Thursday at Hazeltine in Minnesota.

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“If my grandmother had tires, she'd be a car,” Niemann said Sunday, after wrapping up a tournament sullied by an opening-round 11 on the par-4 sixth hole that featured two tee shots out of bounds and two penalty strokes for hurling his club in frustration.

Niemann shot 4-under 66 in the final round to finish at 1-over 281. It doesn't take heavy math to imagine the possibilities had he not shot 7-over par on one hole. More urgently, when he left the course, his 281 put him in a tie for seventh, which would earn him the invitation for next year that goes to the the top-10 finishers and ties.

His 66 paired with a 65 he shot in the second round, shortly after learning his 9 on No. 6 had been bumped up two shots for violating the code of conduct. It meant Niemann was a good bet to tie for the two best rounds of the tournament along with recording the single worst one-hole score of the four rounds.

“A good experience, a good test for myself," he said. "What happened on Thursday and coming back, I was pretty proud of” myself.

Niemann didn't try to deflect blame or suggest he didn't deserve the two-shot penalty for chucking the club after the two errant tee shots, then being rejected when he asked for relief from what he thought might be fire ants.

Play was called for the day shortly after that. Niemann completed his first round Friday morning, then learned about the penalty.

“I was not trying to offend anyone,” he said. “I was frustrated. I had my expectations, which are always super high. I was playing good golf. I knew it was going to be a tough week, a long week, a challenging week. ... I’m not happy doing that. I’m not proud about throwing a golf club.”

He did not want to delve into the debate about whether the USGA was too aggressive in docking him the two shots. Even though the course was virtually empty at the time, he did, in fact, throw the club.

He called his comeback story “something to learn from.”

Asked if there were lessons to be learned from his odyssey around Shinnecock Hills, he said: “Everyone just stop throwing clubs. Just behave.”

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Según los agentes de BSO, Kimora McMinns fue vista por última vez alrededor de las 7 a.m. en la cuadra 6800 de la Southwest 17th Street.

Kimora mide aproximadamente 5 pies con 4 pulgadas, pesa cerca de 140 libras, tiene cabello negro y ojos color café, y vestía pantalones cortos negros, camisa negra, sandalias rosadas y un gorro negro con morado, según las autoridades.

Los agentes pidieron a cualquier persona con información sobre el paradero de Kimora que llame al detective Chris Blankenship al 954-321-4268.

Las autoridades informaron que el Iron Fire, en el condado Juab, Utah, se detectó por primera vez el sábado y había calcinado 87 kilómetros cuadrados (34 millas cuadradas). El incendio, a unos 113 kilómetros (70 millas) al suroeste de Salt Lake City, obligó a evacuar Eureka, de alrededor de 1.000 habitantes, y a personas en un rancho cercano.

No se habían perdido viviendas, y UTAH Fire Info, una operación de múltiples agencias, indicó en una publicación en X que los bomberos llevaron a cabo con éxito una operación de contrafuego para proteger el pueblo.

Kelly Wickens, especialista en prevención de incendios de la División de Silvicultura, Incendios y Tierras Estatales de Utah, advirtió que el incendio seguía creciendo en medio de condiciones de sequía. Wickens señaló que el incendio fue provocado por actividad humana y continúa bajo investigación.

El gobernador de Utah, Spencer J. Cox, visitó el pueblo el domingo.

“Sabíamos que iba a haber un peligro extremo de incendios y, efectivamente, tuvimos múltiples incendios”, afirmó Cox.

El Iron Fire era uno de los seis incendios que ardían en Utah con distintos niveles de contención.

Un incendio forestal provocó evacuaciones durante el fin de semana cerca de Sedona, Arizona, y quemó alrededor de 120 hectáreas (300 acres) de terreno empinado y escabroso cerca de Oak Creek Canyon. Hasta la tarde del domingo, unos 300 efectivos de bomberos estaban combatiendo el incendio, que seguía sin contención. A los residentes evacuados previamente aún no se les permitía regresar a casa.

Gran parte del oeste de Estados Unidos, desde las Montañas Rocosas hasta la costa del Pacífico, registró temperaturas por encima del promedio este fin de semana, y se anticipaba un clima aún más caluroso para comienzos de esta semana. Las autoridades también advirtieron que el tiempo prolongado, seco y caluroso, junto con una humedad relativamente baja, incrementaba el riesgo de incendios.

Gran parte de Utah está experimentando una sequía severa a extrema, y partes de Arizona y Colorado atraviesan sequía severa, según el Monitor de Sequía de Estados Unidos. En Colorado, el extremo suroeste del estado estaba bajo una alerta de bandera roja emitida por el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional hasta el lunes, debido a vientos con ráfagas y baja humedad relativa.

El calor extremo cobró la vida de tres excursionistas en dos incidentes separados la semana pasada en el Gran Cañón. Se esperaba que las temperaturas subieran en el Suroeste el domingo, con un pronóstico de hasta 42,2 grados Celsius (108 grados Fahrenheit) en Carlsbad, Nuevo México.

Por su parte, el Servicio Forestal de Florida informó que equipos de bomberos de todo el estado casi habían contenido varios incendios de matorrales en el oeste del condado Miami-Dade, en Florida,

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The 17-year-old amateur surprised his father, Joe, on the 18th hole Sunday when his caddie brought Russell's clubs to him outside the ropes to carry them the rest of the way.

“It was kind of a fun Father’s Day gift,” Miles Russell said. “Kind of cool since it was my first one. Hopefully it’s something he’ll remember for a long time.”

Russell had Charlie Woods, Tiger Woods' son and his future teammate at Florida State, carrying the bag for him when he advanced to the U.S. Open through a 36-hole qualifying tournament earlier this month.

Ramon Bescansa was on the bag for Russell at Shinnecock Hills — but only for 71 1/2 holes.

As Russell walked toward the 18th green, Bescansa turned toward the ropes and found Joe Russell. He placed the bag down just inside the ropes and removed his caddie bib and handed it to Joe, who put it on.

According to the NBC broadcast, Miles Russell asked a USGA rules official in the morning if he would be allowed to make the switch and was given permission. Joe Russell was not aware of the plan.

Miles Russell smiled widely as his father caught up to him and they walked up to the green.

Russell tapped in for par to finish off an even-par 70 in the final round. After becoming the second-youngest male amateur since World War II to play the weekend at the U.S. Open, he finished at 7 over for the tournament while being paired the final two rounds with fellow amateur Jackson Koivun, who led Auburn to two NCAA championships and is about to turn pro.

“It was a pretty special week,” Russell said. “Just to be here was really special, and to make the cut was kind of bonus points. I didn’t quite have my best stuff the last two days, but still really cool. Just a great experience.”

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Group-stage progress

JUNE 21: DAY 3

Japan gets 3 points after 4-0 victory against Tunisia in Monterrey, Mexico

JUNE 20: DAY 2

The Netherlands gets 3 points

• Game analysis: Brobbey and Gakpo strike twice each as Netherlands routs Sweden 5-1 to lead Group F

JUNE 14: DAY 1

Netherlands and Japan each get 1 point

• Game analysis: Daichi Kamada’s late goal gives Japan a 2-2 draw with the Netherlands in World Cup opener for both
• FIFA game video: Netherlands’ Virgil van Dijk scores 
• FIFA game video: Japan’s Daichi Kamada scores

Sweden gets 3 points after opener

• Game analysis: Sweden gets 2 goals from Yasin Ayari and pounds Tunisia 5-1 to move atop World Cup Group F

The next matches

JUNE 25: DAY 4

Tunisia vs. The Netherlands at 7 p.m. in Kansas City, Missouri

Japan vs. Sweden at 7 p.m. in Arlington, Texas.

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Still, seeing the single-sentence announcement from The All England Club that the 23-time Grand Slam champion will play singles at Wimbledon was stunning nonetheless.

“Serena Williams (USA) receives the final ladies’ singles wild card,” read the key line in Sunday's announcement, which was issued eight days before the grass-court Grand Slam begins.

At age 44, Williams will actually play both singles and doubles at Wimbledon after already accepting a wild card for the doubles competition with older sister Venus.

“This is not a drill,” Wimbledon said on its social media accounts Sunday.

Commented the WTA Tour, “Name a more iconic return…we’ll wait.”

Wimbledon held open the eighth and final women's singles wild card spot until Williams made up her mind. As recently as earlier this week after losing a doubles match in Berlin, she appeared to be waffling over the decision.

“Oh my gosh, there are some left?” she replied when she was told there was still a wild card spot open. Wild cards are special invitations handed out by tournament organizers, which allow former champions and others access to the main draw without the necessary entry qualifications. But then she mused about her readiness for it.

“Do you think I’m ready for singles?” she asked a reporter and then turned to doubles partner Karolina Muchova to ask what she thought.

“I think I would be interested in it,” the Czech player responded.

“That’s the question of the hour, right?” Williams said. “I don’t know. I don’t know. I wonder why there’s — I don’t know.”

Well, now that Williams has made up her mind, the big remaining question is how she can physically handle singles play after so long.

Serena’s most-recent singles match was a loss to Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round of the 2022 U.S. Open. At the time, she said she didn’t want to use the word “retiring” and instead declared that she was “evolving” away from tennis. Her second daughter was born in 2023.

“Just finished a mean game of duck duck goose,” Williams said on X after the wild card announcement.

Of Williams' 23 Grand Slam titles in singles, seven have come at Wimbledon: in 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2016. She’s also won 14 Grand Slams in doubles, all with Venus, and six of them at Wimbledon.

Serena also swept the singles and doubles (with Venus) titles at the 2012 London Olympics, when the tennis competition was held on the hallowed grass of the All England Club.

At her last Wimbledon appearance in 2022, Serena was beaten in the opening round by 115th-ranked Harmony Tan in her first match since having to stop less than a set into her opening contest at the All England Club because of an injury the year before.

Serena won a doubles match with partner Victoria Mboko at Queen’s Club last week but then the pair had to withdraw after Mboko injured her knee in a singles match.

In another doubles match at the Berlin Open on Tuesday, Serena and Muchova were beaten by Giuliana Olmos and Erin Routliffe.

As of Sunday, Serena had not entered the singles draws of any grass-court tuneup tournaments before Wimbledon.

She will learn who her first-round opponent is on Friday when the singles draws for Wimbledon are held.

While she’s No. 593 in the doubles rankings courtesy of her victory last week, Serena has no singles ranking after being away for so long.

Iga Swiatek is the defending Wimbledon champion, while Aryna Sabalenka is ranked No. 1.

Because Serena has no ranking, she could potentially face Swiatek, Sabalenka or any other top-ranked player in the opening rounds.

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The Iron Fire in Utah’s Juab County was first detected Saturday and had blackened 34 square miles (87 square kilometers), authorities said. The fire about 70 miles (113 kilometers) southwest of Salt Lake City forced the evacuation of Eureka, population 1,000, and people at a nearby ranch.

No homes had been lost, and UTAH Fire Info, a multiagency operation, said in a post on X that firefighters conducted a successful backburn operation to protect the town.

Kelly Wickens, a fire prevention specialist with the Utah Division of Forestry Fire and State Lands, warned that the fire was continuing to grow amid drought conditions. Wickens said the fire was human-caused and remains under investigation.

Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox visited the town Sunday.

“We knew that there was going to be extreme fire danger, and sure enough we had multiple fires,” Cox said.

The Iron Fire was one of six fires burning in Utah at varying levels of containment.

A wildfire prompted evacuations over the weekend near Sedona, Arizona, burning about 300 acres (120 hectares) of steep and rugged terrain near Oak Creek Canyon. As of Sunday afternoon, about 300 fire personnel were fighting the blaze, which remained uncontained. Residents evacuated earlier were still not being allowed to return home.

Much of the Western U.S. from the Rockies to the Pacific coast saw above-average temperatures this weekend with even hotter weather anticipated for early this week. Officials warned that the prolonged dry, hot weather and relatively low humidity increased the risk of fire danger.

Much of Utah is experiencing severe to extreme drought, while parts of Arizona and Colorado are experiencing severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. In Colorado, the southwest corner of the state was under a red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service until Monday, due to gusty winds and low relative humidity.

Extreme heat claimed the lives of three hikers in two separate incidents last week in the Grand Canyon. Temperatures were expected to climb in the Southwest on Sunday, with a forecast of up to 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2 C) in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

Meanwhile, the Florida Forest Service said fire crews from across the state had nearly contained several brush fires in western Miami-Dade County in Florida,

Una nota oficial firmada del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) y el gobierno de la isla informaron del deceso sin ofrecer detalles de la muerte del dirigente, uno de los compañeros más destacados de Fidel y Raúl Castro desde el asalto al Cuartel Moncada en 1953 y una influyente figura de la historia revolucionaria en la nación caribeña.

Tampoco se indicó por lo pronto cómo se desarrollarán las exequias del veterano dirigente.

“Ramiro Valdés Menéndez es merecedor del respecto y la admiración del pueblo de Cuba por su entrega y probada lealtad a la causa revolucionaria”, expresó la información publicada por el portal oficial Cubadebate.

El presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel reaccionó inmediatamente en su cuenta personal en la red social X. “La partida física del comandante de la Revolución, Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, duele profundamente, como la de un padre. Así lo quise y respeté siempre. Así recordaré su apoyo y consejos, su discreta colaboración y ejemplar consagración al servicio de la Patria”, expresó.

“Cada acto de la vida del Comandante Ramiro estuvo signado por su fidelidad absoluta al liderazgo de Fidel y Raúl, a sus compañeros de lucha y al Programa del Moncada”, indicó el mandatario al recordar la participación iniciática de Valdés en el fallido asalto al fuerte militar que sin embargo fue el puntapié inicial de a revolución cubana.

Un hombre de poder

Valdés llegó a dirigir las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado y más tarde se volvió el tercer político más importante de la Cuba en la década pasada.

Su popularidad entre los cubanos y extranjeros obedecía tanto a haber sido de los pocos funcionarios que una vez caídos en desgracia por tener diferencia con el fallecido presidente Fidel Castro volvieron al poder; como por sus polémicas declaraciones sobre internet y las nuevas tecnologías en Cuba --donde estaban limitadas entonces-- considerándolas una suerte de bestias que debían ser dominadas pues sino podían convertirse en una fuente de exterminio para la humanidad.

“El potro salvaje puede y debe ser dominado, y las infocomunicaciones, puestas en función de la paz y desarrollo”, dijo Valdés sobre internet en un encuentro de expertos en febrero de 2007, cuando además era ministro de Informática y las Comunicaciones.

Pocas veces aparecía en público y nunca hablaba con la prensa.

Valdés fue una figura clave en la lucha revolucionaria y los primeros años del gobierno del presidente Fidel Castro, pero en 1986, tras una discusión cuando era ministro del Interior se alejó del poder por 17 años.

En 2003, de manera sorpresiva, Valdés fue reincorporado al Consejo de Estado de Cuba, el órgano ejecutivo gobernante de la isla, y en 2006, el presidente Raúl Castro, en su primera gran decisión tras el relevo de su convaleciente hermano Fidel, seleccionó a este hombre para que dirigiera el Ministerio de Informática y las Comunicaciones, pese a que entonces ya superaba los 70 años.

En 2009 recibió incluso un ascenso y se lo designó como vicepresidente del Consejo de Ministros, manteniéndose como titular de Comunicaciones, sin embargo en 2011 se lo liberó de esta tarea pero mantuvo el cargo de mayor rango que ocupó hasta 2019.

La resurrección política de Valdés se completó en 2011: justo antes de cumplir 79 años, fue elegido como el número tres en la dirección del Partido Comunista, sólo por debajo de Raúl y José Ramón Machado Ventura, otra histórica figura.

En 2019, bajo la renovación de cargos impuesta por la nueva Constitución, se convirtió en Vice Primer Ministro de la República de Cuba, un figura creada por esa Carta Magna.

Valdés Menéndez nació el 28 de abril de 1932 en la ciudad occidental de Artemisa, no lejos de La Habana.

Tenía apenas 21 años cuando fue reclutado para participar en el ataque que encabezó Fidel Castro en 1953 contra un cuartel militar —el Moncada— con el que inició una revolución que derrocaría al dictador Fulgencio Batista.

Valdés siguió en el terreno de combate bajo el liderazgo del legendario guerrillero Ernesto “Che” Guevara y se convirtió uno de los pocos rebeldes que poseían el título honorífico de Comandante de la Revolución. Valdés también fue un “Héroe de la República de Cuba”.

Después que el Partido Comunista de Cuba se fundó en 1965, Valdés fue nombrado miembro del Comité Central así como del más exclusivo Buró Político. Tuvo un asiento en el Consejo de Estado, el cuerpo ejecutivo de gobierno en Cuba.

El gobierno nunca explicó la decisión de separarlo del cargo en 1986 tras su pelea con Castro.

Valdés se ausentó de la vida pública hasta 1997, cuando encabezó una misión a Bolivia para encontrar y devolver a Cuba los restos de Guevara, asesinado en el país sudamericano tres décadas antes cuando intentaba iniciar una revolución.

His decision to join Inter Miami in 2023 has already been good for all parties, raising the profile of soccer in the United States, delivering titles for his club and writing a new chapter in his storied career.

But Argentina could be the biggest winner of all, with Messi arriving at what might be his last World Cup with his powers still at stratospheric levels aged 38.

“Leo will be the best for as long as he wants; he has been doing it every single match for the last 20 years,” said Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni.

Thierry Henry described him as “on the moon” after his hat trick in Argentina’s opening game against Algeria.

“Leo is just different. It’s just a different topic,” Henry told Fox Sports.

Messi scored his first hat trick at a World Cup and also moved level on 16 goals with Miroslav Klose as the leading scorer in tournament history.

“I tried to prepare myself in the best possible way to feel good physically, to feel useful, and to be able to help the group,” Messi said.

That’s an understatement.

Despite saying the last World Cup was likely his last, Messi is once again at the heart of the Argentina team, its biggest creative and attacking threat. At this stage of his career, that was far from guaranteed.

“We should be used to this, but if you ever needed any more confirmation that when it comes to Argentina, Messi is the system, he is the tactic, he’s the formation, he’s the identity and he is the heart,” Fox analyst Alexi Lalas said after the 3-0 win against Algeria. “It was something to behold.”

Messi has not lost his rhythm after US move

Messi left behind the intensity of European soccer to join Inter Miami in 2023, delivering a massive boost for Major League Soccer.

He said he wanted to “live football in another way” and while that included changes to his home life in the U.S., there was also a step down in the level of competition compared to Europe’s top leagues.

But at a time when top players are warning of burnout because of soccer’s increasingly congested calendar, Messi appears to be benefiting from making the move. He has played fewer games in the U.S. than at the height of his Barcelona career when he could play in excess of 50 a season. His performance at the start of this World Cup shows he hasn’t lost his sharpness even if he is not regularly facing the world’s top defenders in MLS.

“I love to play, to compete. And no matter where it is, today I find myself at another World Cup, which brings extra happiness, but I prepare myself just as I have done throughout my entire career,” he said.

Many people already rated the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner as the greatest soccer player of all time. But even past his peak years, he has hit new heights on the sport’s biggest stage.

His long-awaited World Cup triumph in 2022 came after his move away from Barcelona, where he was winning Champions League titles and setting scoring records, but repeatedly fell short with Argentina in international tournaments.

He was at Paris Saint-Germain when, as a 35-year-old and playing in his fifth World Cup, he finally managed to win the one trophy that had eluded him. Again, Argentina may have been the beneficiary of its icon taking a step down at club level.

While PSG hoped Messi’s arrival could deliver the Champions League, the domestic competition in France is not regarded as highly as Spain’s. Messi no longer faced such intense soccer on a weekly basis.

He went on to produce his finest form at a World Cup in 2022, scoring seven goals, including two in the final as Argentina beat France in a penalty shootout. He managed just one goal at the previous edition in Russia.

Messi is an inspiration for his teammates

He is back again four years later and looks like he is in the mood for more.

His Inter Miami teammate Rodrigo De Paul has spoken of the extra training both players had put in to ensure they were in peak condition for the tournament.

“We killed ourselves to, physically, arrive in the best way,” De Paul said.

Messi, meanwhile, has taken inspiration from Rafa Nadal after watching the Netflix docuseries on the tennis great’s drive to stay at the top of his game.

“I am very similar in that sense. I always want to feel good. As long as I can and I am well, I will be there,” Messi said.

For his teammates, he is simply the biggest inspiration.

“What Leo transmits is spectacular, it is hard to explain,” said Scaloni. “His teammates view him both as a God and as a kid from the neighborhood.

“Honestly, you just run out of words. Beyond the goals he scores, it is what he transmits—both to his teammates and to the fans. We will miss him.”

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“Why isn’t Governor Pritzker calling me for help. I could make Chicago a safe City in ONE MONTH, in ONE YEAR, it would be one of the safest!!!” Trump said in a Sunday morning Truth Social post.

The office of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender who has repeatedly rebuffed Trump's calls for a military intervention, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Under Trump, National Guard troops have been deployed on crime-fighting missions in Democrat-led cities including New Orleans, Washington, D.C. and Memphis, Tennessee.

While Chicago Police Department data shows a slight uptick in shooting incidents compared to the first half of last year, violent crime rates have generally dropped in the city over the past few years, in parallel with national trends.

Preliminary information shared by Chicago police indicate there have been at least two dozen shooting incidents since 5 p.m. on Friday. Those killed by gunfire include a 21-year-old shot in the chest Sunday, an 18-year-old shot in the armpit Saturday evening and a 50-year-old shot in the chest Friday.

At least 12 people in a crowd on a Chicago street suffered gunshot wounds Friday evening after an SUV pulled up and two people inside started shooting, police said.

The eight men and four women in the group ranged in age from 17 to 47. They were being treated at four hospitals. Police said another man suffered unknown injuries and refused medical treatment.

That shooting happened on Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. Earlier Friday, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to his presidential center on the South Side.

“What should have been a night of celebration and community reflection for Juneteenth was shattered by a horrific act of violence,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said in an X post Saturday. “My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their loved ones.”

“Violence has no place in our city, and those responsible will be held accountable," he said.

Other major U.S. cities experienced gun-related violence over the weekend. In Philadelphia, two people were killed and two others wounded following a shooting early Sunday morning, according to Fox-29. In Cincinnati, a shooting killed three people Saturday evening, WLWT reported. And police in Kansas City, Missouri say they are investigating a shooting Friday evening that left one dead and five wounded.

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Associated Press writer Jack Brook contributed from New Orleans.

Mona Khalil, who spent more than two decades protecting sea turtles along Lebanon’s coastline, was critically injured in the strike on her home in the village of Mansouri earlier this month and died of her wounds Friday. She was 76.

The Orange House, which Khalil helped build into a small conservation hub and ecotourism site in Mansouri, became a refuge for endangered loggerhead and green sea turtles and a training ground for volunteers documenting nesting activity along the coast.

News of her death triggered an outpouring of grief among environmentalists and those who volunteered and worked with her over the years.

Journalist and environmental activist Fadia Jomaa first met Khalil in 2016 while researching sea turtles in Lebanon and then decided to volunteer with her project.

For the volunteers, “this relationship didn’t stop at being a volunteering relationship — Mona became our mother,” Jomaa said.

Jomaa became one of Khalil’s closest collaborators, eventually helping manage the sea turtle conservation project with her. She also brought her own children to volunteer, introducing them to the work of protecting nesting turtles and hatchlings along Lebanon’s southern coast.

During the previous war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in 2024, Khalil initially refused to leave Al-Mansouri beach, Jomaa said. The Lebanese army ultimately persuaded her to evacuate for her safety. “She was the last one to leave the area,” Jomaa said.

“She had an awful time in Beirut,” Jomaa said, adding that Khalil longed to return to the south, to the Orange House and the beach she had spent years protecting.

Another Israel-Hezbollah war erupted in March. Hezbollah fired across the border into Israel on March 2, two days after Israel and the U.S. attacked its ally, Iran.

Khalil could have left Lebanon altogether. She held Dutch as well as Lebanese citizenship, having lived in the Netherlands before returning to Lebanon and settling in what had once been her grandmother’s home — the building that would later become known as the Orange House

But she refused to leave her home again.

“She said I am a civilian, I have no weapons, I will shut my door," Jomaa said.

On June 4, an Israeli strike hit her home. Khalil and her domestic worker were rushed to the hospital. It was not clear what the intended target of the strike was.

The Israeli military said in a statement that Khalil “was not a target of the IDF” and that “there is no known IDF strike in which she was injured,” but added that “strikes were conducted in the area after the IDF issued evacuation warnings.” It said it “deeply regrets any harm caused to civilians and remains committed to operating in accordance with international law.”

Khalil's condition initially appeared hopeful after surgery, Jomaa said, but she succumbed to her wounds two weeks later.

“It is a great loss for conservation, for the country, and for all of us who cared about the sea and the natural heritage of Lebanon,” said Johnny Baaklini, a former volunteer at the Orange House who worked closely with Khalil.

Like Jomaa, he recalled that Khalil “treated us, the conservation advocates, like her kids.”

“It feels impossible to describe the impact Mona personally had on me and on so many other young naturalists,” he said.

At the heart of Khalil’s work was a narrow stretch of coastline, Al-Mansouri beach in Tyre province. Each nesting season, she and volunteers would patrol the beach at night, marking fresh tracks in the sand and carefully relocating vulnerable nests away from human activity and coastal light pollution.

The Orange House also functioned as a small beachfront bed-and-breakfast.

During the summer nesting season, Khalil organized sea turtle hatchling viewings for visitors. Many families brought their children to watch the small miracle unfold.

These viewings typically took place at sunset, when volunteers would guide groups to the beach to observe hatchlings making their way from protected nests to the sea.

“She used to say, ‘My soul will stay here,’” Jomaa said, recalling conversations in which Khalil would point to an olive tree or a small hill overlooking Al-Mansouri beach. “She used to say, ‘This is where you will bury me.’”

Where Khalil will ultimately be buried remains uncertain and is tied to the security situation in the area, Jomaa said.