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In the video, Ramasamy, 45, an award-winning urologist, described his accusers as “disgruntled members of the university community.” Records show the University of Miami employed him from 2015 to 2024.

Ramasamy was the director of the Reproductive Urology Fellowship program at the Miller School of Medicine and an assistant professor of urology from 2015 to 2020, and he was a professor from 2020 to 2024, according to the warrant.

“The three victims were not the only former students/employees of [Ramasamy] to make such a claim against him,” a detective wrote, according to a statement of facts in support of an Oct. 20 warrant for Ramasamy’s arrest.

A Miami detective, who reported interviewing six victims and moving forward with three cases, described the victims as men aged 28, 37, and 40, according to the arrest warrant.

The detective described the 28-year-old man as a student who viewed Ramasamy as a mentor. The 37-year-old man had a brother who was Ramasamy’s student, according to the warrant. The 40-year-old man was a surgical resident while Ramasamy was his supervising attending physician.

In 2024, Ramasamy moved to the United Arab Emirates to work as a consultant urologist at the Jumeirah American Clinic in Dubai, according to the warrant.

In the video, Ramasamy said he learned about the extradition charges a few months ago. The detective accused him of performing unnecessary examinations to abuse the men, records show.

“I never sexually assaulted anyone,” Ramasamy said in the video after he surrendered to deputies at Miami International Airport on Thursday.

Ramasamy appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer, who ordered him to stay away from the three victims, set his bond at $120,000 bond, and ordered house arrest with a GPS monitor, according to court records.

Court records show Ramasamy’s arraignment is at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Tany Brinkley is presiding over the case.

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Ricardo Contreras lost a leg and injured both hands while trying to dig his way out of the rubble. Karina Bechara spent 23 hours with her legs crushed beneath household furniture.

Now, both are beginning a recovery process that could take up to a year, while holding on to the hope that they will walk again.

“It was hard, very hard. It was a shocking blow,” Contreras said in Spanish.

Bechara said a piece of furniture weighing about 200 kilograms, or 440 pounds, fell on her feet.

At Ortoprotécnica, an orthopedic clinic and workshop, the demand for prosthetics has surged. Bianca Dámaso, an orthopedic specialist there, estimates as many as 200 people lost limbs in the disaster.

“They lost their house, they lost their jobs in many cases, they lost their family, and also part of their body,” Dámaso said.

For many patients, getting a prosthetic is just the start. The process can take up to a year, and some are not expected to begin trying on their new limbs until the coming weeks.

Knowing they will eventually have prosthetics is already giving some patients hope, Dámaso said.

“It’s something that gives them a peace in the mind,” she said.

Contreras says he is determined to keep moving forward.

“Every day, I tell myself, I can do this. I’m going to keep working. I’m going to keep studying,” he said in Spanish.

Dámaso is also trying to focus on what comes next.

“If crying could give me my legs back, I would cry 24 hours a day,” she said.

“Life gives us opportunities, and this is a new opportunity for me,” she said.

Contreras faces another loss. He also lost both of his parents, who were in the same apartment with him.

For survivors like him, another hurdle is the cost of prosthetic limbs. Several charities and foundations have come together to help cover those expenses.

On Friday, Meliza Campos-Sanchez made heart gestures to tearful relatives who were in the courtroom to support her after Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detectives viewed her Instagram posts as evidence of crimes.

One of the girls told a detective that “she and her sister were present and witnessed their mother burn a shirt. As a result, it started a fire while the victims were inside the residence,” a detective wrote, according to an arrest report.

Campos-Sanchez’s husband told deputies that he had been staying with his parents, and he took custody of their daughters while his wife, who had threatened self-harm, was at the hospital on Sunday, according to a deputy’s arrest report.

Deputies arrested Campos-Sanchez at 1:40 a.m. on Monday at the HCA Florida Kendall Hospital’s emergency room, and corrections booked her shortly after 4:45 a.m. on Monday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she remained on Friday evening, records show.

Campos-Sanchez, who was born in Cuba, faced four charges in two pending felony cases in Miami-Dade, and she had a hold by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to court and inmate records.

In the case of the pouring wax, Campos-Sanchez faced two counts of child neglect with no great bodily harm, and one count of child abuse with no great bodily harm.

In the case of the fire that prompted fire rescue personnel to respond to her home, Campos-Sanchez faced a charge of first-degree arson.

A judge ordered Campos-Sanchez to stay away from her daughters and to undergo two mental health evaluations. Court records show Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carlos Humberto Gamez was set to preside over the cases. Her next hearing is at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

Officers responded to the 1700 block of Southwest 87th Avenue after receiving a report of a shooting involving a man and a dog.

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Miramar Police Department Chief Delrish Moss told Local 10 News that the dog was attacking the man, who initially tried to kick the animal off him. When the dog continued attacking, the man pulled out a gun and shot the dog, killing it, he said.

Moss clarified that the dog was not a loose animal. He said it belonged to a friend of the man who was attacked.

A woman also went to the hospital because she “wasn’t feeling well,” according to authorities.

Authorities said that woman was transported to a nearby hospital.

Police said no criminal charges are expected at this time.

Without going into detail, the PWHL issued a statement saying the trophy “did not arrive as expected at its latest stop,” and added "we are working closely with the shipping company to locate it.”

The trophy was supposed to be shipped to Lethbridge, Alberta, to spend the day with Victoire forward Dara Greig, a person with knowledge of the plans told the AP on the condition of anonymity because those details were not revealed by the league. The container arrived, but without the Walter Cup inside, leading to Greig postponing her day with the trophy on Thursday, which included a public event at the city’s VisitLethbridge.com Arena on Thursday.

It’s unclear where the Walter Cup was last seen. And unlike the NHL and the Stanley Cup, the PWHL does not have a person dedicated to travel with its trophy when it goes on the road to be with players.

The missing Walter Cup in question is not the one presented to teams on the ice upon winning the championship. That one is permanently housed at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

The missing version is instead a close replica issued to championship-winning teams to keep for themselves.

The replica, like the original trophy, is made of sterling silver and designed by Tiffany & Co. It weighs about 35 pounds (16 kilograms) and measures about 24 inches (61 centimeters) in height and 13 inches (33 centimeters) wide.

The cup rests on two rods, resembling hockey sticks. On the cup are engraved six W’s representing the league’s six original franchises. The base of the cup represents a puck on which the championship teams are etched.

Montreal clinched the cup by defeating Ottawa in Game 4 of a best-of-five series in May to become the PWHL’s first Canadian team to win title. Minnesota won the PWHL’s first two championships.

The trophy is named after PWHL founder and primary financier Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter and his wife Kimbra.

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And signs of this new reality can already be seen here in South Florida.

At lunch hour, a popular Haitian restaurant is quiet. The staff won’t come out of the kitchen. Outside, the strip mall parking lot and a nearby bus stop are also quiet.

All signs of a community slowly vanishing.

Johana Jacob says her salon has been like this for weeks.

“I have a lot of clients that don’t come anymore because, you know, they’re scared.”

The first deportation flight following the end of temporary protected status for Haitians landed in Haiti Thursday with more than 160 people.

The plane landed in Cap-Haitien instead of Port-au-Prince International Airport. The U.S. government currently has a ban on U.S. commercial flights to Haiti’s capital because of ongoing gang violence.

“It’s a very stressful situation,” said Pastor Adenet Medacier, whom we met at the Sant La Haitian community center.

He was picking up flyers with information for dozens of church members. He wants them prepared for what may be inevitable.

The flyers include information about what people should do if they receive a visit from ICE.

Medacier says some are being advised to put someone else’s name in their bank account.

Asked whether that makes it harder for law enforcement or ICE to do its job, he said they are not trying to interfere with ICE operations.

“We are not interfering with ICE or their operation. We are not. But what we are doing is what the Bible recommends. We have to help those who are in need.”

Back at Jacob’s salon, she’s concerned for her community and for her bottom line.

“I’m a little bit scared. The only thing I know is that God will take care of us.”

DHS has maintained it will continue to be out in communities like Little Haiti enforcing immigration law.

Moody, who was appointed to the Senate last year after Marco Rubio left the seat to become secretary of state, appeared at a Miami-Dade Republican event in Doral on Friday but did not take questions afterward.

Speaking briefly before the event, Moody focused on Nixon’s affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America and described her campaign message in two words: “Stop socialism.”

“She is a supporter and member of the DSA which is a party that has a very radical agenda,” Moody said. “I don’t think anyone thought that somebody who supported socialism would ever be on the ballot in Florida.”

Moody also was asked whether she would debate Nixon on WPLG Local 10.

“Oh my gosh, I think our teams will probably meet and discuss all of that,” Moody said.

Nixon, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is pitching a different message as Democrats seek to compete in a state where Republicans have dominated statewide elections.

“I am looking forward to expanding this big tent of the Democratic Party,” Nixon said.

In an interview with Local 10 News on Wednesday, Nixon was asked how she plans to persuade moderate Democrats to support her in November.

“Folks can just look at my track record,” Nixon said.

Nixon also addressed her recent affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families Party.

“The reason I recently joined DSA and the working families party is because they are organizations that want to put power back in the hands of the people,” Nixon said.

The contest will give Florida voters a choice between Moody, a former state attorney general who was appointed to the Senate, and Nixon, who is seeking to put Democrats back in contention for a statewide Senate seat.

The election will also determine who serves the remainder of Rubio’s vacated Senate term.

In France, a second-half double from Amine Gouiri set Marseille on its way to a 4-0 victory over Strasbourg on the first night of this season’s Ligue 1 action.

Elsewhere in Europe, Real Betis beat Real Sociedad 1-0 in the Spanish league while fan trouble overshadowed the first round of the German Cup.

Arsenal sweeps Coventry aside in Premier League opener

Newcomer Christos Tzolis helped set up two goals as defending champion Arsenal opened the Premier League season by dismantling promoted Coventry 3-0 to spoil the visitor’s long-awaited return to the top flight.

After ending a 22-year wait for the Premier League title, Arsenal showed why it’s favored to repeat as champion by completely dominating Frank Lampard’s side in a game that was one-sided from start to finish.

Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard scored for the Gunners, who spurned chances to pad the scoreline even further.

For Coventry, it was a rude welcome back to the Premier League after a 25-year absence. Having won the second-tier Championship last season by a wide margin, Lampard’s side simply looked outmatched as it was repeatedly taken apart by the marauding Gunners.

Gouiri leads Marseille to dominant win over Strasbourg

Gouiri, who scored eight goals in 22 league matches last season, has been linked with a move to Everton in recent days, but the speculation clearly did not hinder his concentration in the Ligue 1 opener.

He slotted home from close range a minute after the break and then doubled his tally from the penalty spot midway through the second half, just minutes after Strasbourg was reduced to 10 men following Samir El Mourabet's dismissal for a bad tackle.

Keyliane Abdallah added a third in the 89th minute before Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg completed the scoring in stoppage time to give new Marseille coach Bruno Génésio the perfect start to the season.

Rodrigo Riquelme gives Real Betis a winning start in Spain

Betis kicked off its La Liga campaign with a 1-0 win over Real Sociedad in Seville.

Riquelme’s volleyed goal after 63 minutes separated two evenly matched teams and extended Betis’ unbeaten home run in Friday night games to 18.

The win takes the Seville club into joint second place in La Liga, one of four teams on three points, behind Alaves, which has four.

It’s a stuttering start to the league season in Spain, with some teams having played twice before others have even kicked off their campaign.

Rowdy fans and startling scoreline in the German Cup

Police had to intervene in the German Cup match between Waldhof Mannheim and Kaiserslautern as fans threw flares and other objects and some Mannheim supporters invaded the pitch. The trouble started as the game was heading into extra time with the score tied at 0-0.

The match was halted for nearly 30 minutes as officers in riot gear and mounted police pushed fans back into the stands before the players could return.

Ibrahim Kanate scored in the last minute of extra time, giving second-division Kaiserslautern a 1-0 win to advance to the second round.

Eintracht Frankfurt cruised into the second round of the competition with a staggering 11-0 win away at fifth-tier St. Tönis. Ten of the goals came before half time, three of them from Jonathan Burkardt.

Karlsruhe beat Munster 2-1 and Dženan Pejčinović scored a hattrick as VfB Stuttgart beat Hansa Rostock 4-0 away from home.

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Shortly after 7:40 p.m. on Thursday, deputies found a man who was wounded in the abdomen behind a counter at the Marathon gas station at 220 South Dixie Highway, according to the report.

Zalim Bacchus, who had a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol, “had his hands raised and sponaenously uttered, ‘I shot him,’” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

The victim told deputies that after Bacchus used the restroom, he was “concealing a bottle of Sprite,” so he locked him inside the store and confronted him, according to the arrest report.

“Bacchus pulled a gun on him and fired at him,” a deputy wrote, according to the report.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue personnel took the victim to Broward Health North in Pompano Beach, and his condition was critical but stable, according to the report.

Broward corrections booked Bacchus on Friday morning at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, according to county inmate records.

Bacchus, of Pompano Beach, faced a charge of aggravated battery, a first-degree felony, and Broward County Circuit Judge Michael Lynch was set to preside over the capital case, according to county court records.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases who wants to remain anonymous to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

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

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Messi slapped the Union's Quinn Sullivan on the back of the neck as the two exchanged words Wednesday night. Messi scored his first goal since the death of his father, Jorge Messi, and added an assist.

Sullivan also was involved in the fracas that led to Fray's fine. After Sullivan lost his footing dribbling into the penalty area, he got tangled with Fray, who then grabbed his neck. Sullivan jumped up and tackled Fray.

Minnesota United FC defender Anthony Markanich was fined for embellishment in the second half of a 2-1 loss to Atlanta United on Wednesday.

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The letter gave the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress until the end of business Friday to issue the retraction or face a $5 billion lawsuit. The center declined.

The nonprofit's president and chief executive, Neera Tanden, said in a statement that the lawsuit “is a transparent attempt to silence us. We will neither cower nor bend in the face of it.”

The report, published July 13, criticized the administration for taking credit for a historic drop in violent crime at a time when that decline was already underway. The analysis concluded that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard “had no measurable effect on violent crime trends.”

Tanden said the work was based on the nonprofit's analysis of crime data and its findings were simply "inconvenient to the Trump administration.”

In the letter, sent Monday and first reported by The New York Times, Trump attorney Alejandro Brito said the center should “immediately retract the false, malicious, and defamatory statements made about President Trump.”

Brito highlighted several examples of statements in the report that drew objections from Trump. One read, “In an effort to falsely claim his policies have reduced crime, the president is exploiting the fact that violent crime and murder were already declining in the cities his administration targeted with these extreme interventions.”

Brito wrote that failure to retract the report will leave Trump no choice but to seek remedies for the “overwhelming financial and reputational harm that Defendants have caused him to suffer.” Attempts to reach Brito on Friday were unsuccessful.

The nonprofit's general counsel, Kevin Metz, said in a letter responding to the threat that the defamation allegation "is utterly absurd: truth is not and cannot be defamation. The legal standards here are clear, well-established, and speech-protective.”

Threatening lawsuits against perceived enemies or over media coverage he doesn't like is part of a well-worn playbook for Trump. At the beginning of his second term, he threatened numerous legal firms with cutting off access to the federal government unless they capitulated to his various demands, which some did.

Kevin Goldberg, a First Amendment expert at the Freedom Forum, said such threats from Trump are done “for the purpose of trying to push someone into submission rather than actually on the merits of compensating Donald Trump for any harm that might have been caused.”

En el video, Ramasamy, de 45 años, un urólogo galardonado, describió a sus acusadores como “miembros descontentos de la comunidad universitaria”.

La Universidad de Miami lo empleó de 2015 a 2024. Fue director del programa de becas de Urología Reproductiva de la Escuela de Medicina Miller y profesor asistente de urología de 2015 a 2020, y fue profesor de urología de 2020 a 2024, según la orden judicial.

“Las tres víctimas no fueron los únicos ex estudiantes/empleados de [Ramasamy] que hicieron una acusación de este tipo en su contra”, escribió un detective, según una declaración de hechos en respaldo de una orden del 20 de octubre para el arresto de Ramasamy.

Un detective de Miami, quien reportó haber entrevistado a seis víctimas y seguir adelante con tres casos, describió a las víctimas como hombres de 28, 37 y 40 años, según la orden de arresto.

“Nunca agredí sexualmente a nadie”, dijo Ramasamy en el video después de entregarse a los agentes en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami el jueves.

El detective describió al hombre de 28 años como un estudiante que veía a Ramasamy como un mentor. El hombre de 37 años tenía un hermano que era estudiante de Ramasamy, según la orden. El hombre de 40 años era residente de cirugía mientras Ramasamy era el médico supervisor a cargo.

En 2024, Ramasamy se mudó a los Emiratos Árabes Unidos para trabajar como urólogo consultor en Jumeirah American Clinic en Dubái, según la orden.

Ramasamy compareció ante la jueza del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade Mindy S. Glazer, quien le ordenó mantenerse alejado de las tres víctimas, fijó su fianza en $120,000 USD y ordenó arresto domiciliario con un monitor GPS, según los registros judiciales.

Los registros judiciales muestran que la lectura de cargos de Ramasamy está programada para las 9 a.m. del martes. La jueza del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade Tany Brinkley preside el caso.

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Lamb was convicted of second-degree murder, false imprisonment and altering, destroying, concealing or removing physical evidence, according to prosecutors. The jury deliberated for less than two hours.

The woman who was killed was Nadyne Marie Tillman.

Lamb, of Key Largo, faces up to life in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 9.

The case began April 7, 2025, when the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said they launched a missing-person investigation after Tillman’s family became concerned that they had not heard from her. Her vehicle was found at a Key Largo resort.

Investigators said they eventually searched a room where Lamb had been staying. A detective opened a closet containing an air conditioning handler and found Tillman’s body concealed underneath it.

According to prosecutors, Lamb told investigators he had contacted Tillman through an escort website and agreed to pay her $200 for sexual services. He said she tried to leave, but he blocked the door with his body.

Lamb admitted striking her during the confrontation. He later discovered she was not breathing and put her body in the closet, prosecutors said.

A medical examiner determined that Tillman died from blunt-force injuries to her head and neck, including fractures to her cervical vertebrae, according to investigators.

Authorities said instead of calling 911, Lamb told investigators he cleaned blood and other bodily fluids from the room using towels and linens. He then moved and concealed the body and packed soiled linens, Tillman’s cellphone and other belongings into three trash bags.

They said Lamb moved to another room at the resort the next morning, leaving the body behind.

Hotel staff later found the three bags and threw them away before realizing they could be evidence. By the time investigators learned about the bags, the resort’s dumpster had been emptied and the items could not be recovered.

Authorities said Lamb was arrested the day after the body was discovered. Investigators confirmed that they found Tillman’s credit card hidden inside his wallet.

Chief Assistant State Attorney Joseph Mansfield said the verdict brought accountability in “a brutal and tragic case.”

Lamb is scheduled to return to court for sentencing at 10 a.m. Oct. 9.

Lamb fue declarado culpable de asesinato en segundo grado, privación ilegal de la libertad y alteración, destrucción, ocultamiento o eliminación de evidencia física, según los fiscales. El jurado deliberó durante menos de dos horas.

La mujer que murió fue Nadyne Marie Tillman.

Lamb, de Key Largo, enfrenta hasta cadena perpetua. Está previsto que sea sentenciado el 9 de octubre.

El caso comenzó el 7 de abril de 2025, cuando la Oficina del Sheriff del condado Monroe dijo que inició una investigación por persona desaparecida después de que la familia de Tillman se preocupara porque no había tenido noticias de ella. Su vehículo fue encontrado en un resort de Key Largo.

Los investigadores dijeron que finalmente registraron una habitación donde Lamb se había estado hospedando. Un detective abrió un clóset que contenía una unidad de aire acondicionado y encontró el cuerpo de Tillman oculto debajo de ella.

Según los fiscales, Lamb dijo a los investigadores que había contactado a Tillman a través de un sitio web de acompañantes y acordó pagarle $200 USD por servicios sexuales. Dijo que ella intentó irse, pero él bloqueó la puerta con su cuerpo.

Lamb admitió haberla golpeado durante el enfrentamiento. Más tarde descubrió que no respiraba y colocó su cuerpo en el clóset, dijeron los fiscales.

Un médico forense determinó que Tillman murió por lesiones causadas por golpes contundentes en la cabeza y el cuello, incluidas fracturas en las vértebras cervicales, según los investigadores.

Las autoridades dijeron que, en lugar de llamar al 911, Lamb contó a los investigadores que limpió sangre y otros fluidos corporales de la habitación usando toallas y ropa de cama. Luego movió y ocultó el cuerpo y colocó ropa de cama sucia, el teléfono celular de Tillman y otras pertenencias en tres bolsas de basura.

Dijeron que Lamb se trasladó a otra habitación del resort a la mañana siguiente, dejando el cuerpo atrás.

El personal del hotel encontró posteriormente las tres bolsas y las tiró sin darse cuenta de que podían ser evidencia. Para cuando los investigadores se enteraron de las bolsas, el contenedor de basura del resort ya había sido vaciado y los artículos no pudieron ser recuperados.

Las autoridades dijeron que Lamb fue arrestado al día siguiente de que se descubriera el cuerpo. Los investigadores confirmaron que encontraron la tarjeta de crédito de Tillman escondida dentro de su billetera.

El fiscal estatal adjunto jefe Joseph Mansfield dijo que el veredicto estableció responsabilidades en “un caso brutal y trágico”.

Está previsto que Lamb regrese a la corte para recibir sentencia a las 10 a.m. del 9 de octubre.

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The video shows officers arriving at Town Center Park shortly before 9 p.m. on Saturday and speaking with the boy after a witness alerted them that he was alone.

According to an arrest report, the child told a witness that his mother had left him at the park, he was scared and he had not eaten since breakfast.

The witness told police the boy had been alone for nearly an hour, the report states.

Officers said they spoke with the boy, who told them his mother had left him to get food with a friend, police said. The boy also told officers he was scared and did not want to leave with a stranger, they said.

As officers searched the area for the boy’s mother, 41-year-old Elena Sexton, police said she eventually walked back to the park.

According to the arrest report, Sexton told officers she had parked at a nearby shopping plaza at 17000 Collins Ave. and walked back to get some toys.

Police said Sexton told them she then saw a friend who asked her to sit and have food, and she did so while leaving her son at the park.

The video shows the boy with officers as darkness falls and later shows police taking Sexton into custody.

Jail records show Sexton, who is from Corpus Christi, Texas, was arrested Saturday on a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm.

The Florida Department of Children and Families was contacted, and the boy is now living with Sexton’s mother, authorities confirmed.

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The National Hurricane Center added two more lemons over the subtropical Atlantic to their tropical outlook map since Thursday.

One system is a decidedly non-tropical low-pressure system along a cold front way out over the far northeastern Atlantic and closer to Europe than to the Americas. It could take on some subtropical or even tropical characteristics over the record- to near-record warm waters west of Portugal, but the upshot regardless will be high surf, blustery weather, and periods of heavy rain to parts of Portugal and northern Spain Sunday into early Monday local time.

Meanwhile a weak and disorganized area of low pressure hundreds of miles southeast of Bermuda over the middle subtropical Atlantic has been given a 20% chance of developing, mainly early next week as it moves generally northward into the north Atlantic. It’s unlikely we see significant development as the system moves near or east of Newfoundland and Atlantic Canada by next Tuesday into Wednesday.

Models waffle on development in the eastern Atlantic next week

Forecast models continue to waffle from run-to-run on development odds for a tropical wave that’ll be rolling off Africa into the eastern Atlantic early next week.

Although the development signal has persisted for late next week in the eastern Atlantic, it’s less pronounced than in earlier runs. Google’s DeepMind 1,000-member ensemble has been especially jumpy from run-to-run, but other modeling camps like the European model ensembles have been more consistent with its development signal for later next week.

NHC hasn’t yet introduced the disturbance in its outlook, but we’ll probably see another lemon added over the weekend if trends persist.

Either way, this will have plenty of hurdles ahead given the nagging wind shear draped across the central Atlantic and isn’t anything for us stateside to be concerned with for next week.

Future Moke to slide south of Hawaii, but bring big rains to the Big Island

Yesterday morning we discussed the disturbance dubbed Invest 90E well southeast of Hawaii that was later upgraded to Tropical Depression Two-C Thursday.

The system remained disorganized Friday morning but is forecast to organize into Tropical Storm Moke by later on Friday. Over the past 24 hours, models have shifted noticeably southward, a positive trend that ensures the center of future Moke will pass 100-200 miles comfortably to the south of Hawaii.

Models have also trended way down in their intensity forecasts and show future Moke struggling as a low to mid-tier tropical storm through the weekend.

Regardless, the system’s outer circulation will enhance heavy rains on Maui and east-facing slopes of the Big Island, where up to 15 inches of rain will be possible, with the heaviest rains occurring from Sunday through next Tuesday local time. Although totals will be much lower than what Lala brought last weekend, the rains will compound rapid runoff issues with already-swollen rivers and streams.

A Flood Watch is in effect from Saturday through Monday afternoon for the windward and southeast side of the Big Island.

El video muestra a los agentes llegando a Town Center Park poco antes de las 9 p.m. del sábado y hablando con el niño después de que un testigo les alertara que estaba solo.

Según un reporte de arresto, el niño le dijo a un testigo que su madre lo había dejado en el parque, que tenía miedo y que no había comido desde el desayuno.

El testigo dijo a la policía que el niño había estado solo durante casi una hora, señala el reporte.

Los agentes dijeron que hablaron con el niño, quien les contó que su madre lo había dejado para ir a buscar comida con un amigo, informó la policía. El niño también dijo a los agentes que tenía miedo y que no quería irse con un extraño, indicaron.

Mientras los agentes buscaban en el área a la madre del niño, Elena Sexton, de 41 años, la policía dijo que finalmente regresó caminando al parque.

Según el reporte de arresto, Sexton dijo a los agentes que había estacionado en una plaza comercial cercana en 17000 Collins Ave. y que había regresado caminando para buscar algunos juguetes.

La policía dijo que Sexton les contó que luego vio a un amigo que le pidió que se sentara a comer, y ella lo hizo mientras dejaba a su hijo en el parque.

El video muestra al niño con los agentes mientras cae la noche y posteriormente muestra a la policía deteniendo a Sexton.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Sexton, quien es de Corpus Christi, Texas, fue arrestada el sábado por un cargo de negligencia infantil sin causar lesiones corporales graves.

El Departamento de Niños y Familias de Florida fue contactado, y el niño ahora vive con la madre de Sexton, confirmaron las autoridades.

It will be DeRozan's fifth team in his 18th season for a six-time All-Star looking for his first championship. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the agreement hasn't been announced.

The addition of DeRozan gives the Nuggets a veteran backcourt presence after sending young, versatile wing Peyton Watson to Cleveland as part of a four-team trade. The 23-year-old Watson started a career-high 40 games last season and averaged career bests in points (14.6), rebounds (4.9) and assists (2.1). He missed the first-round series with a hamstring injury as the Nuggets were eliminated by Minnesota. Aaron Gordon also was hampered by calf tightness in the series.

Bringing in a veteran like DeRozan may go a long way in showing All-NBA center Nikola Jokic the team is committed to staying competitive. Last month, Jokic reiterated his desire to remain with Denver. He held off signing his contract extension until next summer when he can sign a five-year supermax contract that would be worth around $350 million.

The Nuggets won their first NBA title in 2023, but have been eliminated early in the last three postseasons. They signed forward/center Marvin Bagley III this summer and brought back forward Spencer Jones by matching the Oklahoma City Thunder’s offer sheet.

It's a deal that pushed Denver into the second apron. Crossing into that territory makes roster construction increasingly difficult.

DeRozan, the ninth overall pick by Toronto in 2009, spent his first nine seasons with the Raptors, only to get traded to San Antonio for Kawhi Leonard as his former team won the title in Leonard's only season in 2018-19.

The 37-year-old DeRozan spent three seasons with the Spurs and three with Chicago before joining Sacramento the past two seasons. He was part of sign-and-trade deals in the moves to the Bulls and Kings.

DeRozan averaged 18.4 points last season, ending a 12-year run of averaging at least 20 points per game. He has had just two winning seasons since going to the playoffs his last five years with the Raptors. DeRozan made the postseason once with Chicago.

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Sacco, a longtime Massachusetts charter fishing boat captain, saw the giant fin break the surface, and at first he thought he was dealing with an enormous shark.

“Then I got a better look at it and thought, dang, that thing's pointed,” he said. “But that's too big for a marlin.”

He was wrong. Sacco and his client Walter Chapman landed what they and others believe is the largest Atlantic blue marlin ever caught off the U.S. East Coast on Wednesday. The massive billfish, more than 11 feet (335 cm) in length, weighed 1,260 pounds (571.5 kilograms) when they got it back to land in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

That was just 142 pounds (64.4 kilograms) shy of the world record for an Atlantic blue marlin, caught off Brazil in 1992, according to records kept by the International Game Fish Association.

To catch such a huge fish off New England might be even more remarkable, said Walt Golet, director of the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab and an associate professor at the university's marine sciences school. The water is too cold for them in the Northeast most of the year, making the window to catch a big one very narrow.

The fish’s head was on its way to the UMaine lab to determine its age, said Golet, who speculated that it could be in the range of 25 to 30 years.

“I don’t suspect there will be a whole lot of blue marlin caught in the Atlantic in general that are going to top 1,200 pounds for the next several years,” he said.

On the day of the catch, Sacco's charter boat, Castafari, was fishing Atlantis Canyon, an underwater canyon on the edge of the continental shelf about 100 miles (160 kilometers) off Cape Cod. The highly migratory blue marlin is a seasonal visitor to the area, Golet said.

The battle with the marlin took about three hours and was fought on rod and reel by Chapman. Sacco said his role for most of the adventure was to “drive the bus around and yell at people.” He added that the fish left a couple of holes in the boat's transom with its bill that he considers “war marks.”

Chapman, a retiree and lifelong fisherman from Plymouth, said the meat of the fish was divided among about a dozen people, and he's currently looking up recipes for what to do with it. He said the marlin is unquestionably the biggest fish he's ever fought on a line, and some of it's probably destined for fish chowder.

“I wasn't going to eat a 1,200 pound fish all by myself,” Chapman said.

When the boat returned to the docks, a crowd was waiting, and weighing the fish became a brief spectacle. Onlooker Katie Curran of Falmouth said it was spectacular.

“People fish their entire lives and never come close to a catch like this,” Curran said. “Hats off to Captain Damon Sacco and the crew on the catch of a lifetime.”

El viernes destituyó a su ministro de Economía después de que recibiera la desaprobación de la Asamblea Legislativa, mientras que un asesor fue detenido por el presunto intento de feminicidio a su expareja.

Su principal aliado en el Congreso se alejó, fracturando el apoyo a su agenda mientras lucha por sacar a Bolivia de casi dos décadas de gobierno socialista de partido único. Un repentino aumento en el precio del combustible amenazó con reavivar el descontento popular.

“No son tiempos fáciles para el país”, admitió Paz el jueves. Pero tras un vertiginoso ascenso al poder el año pasado, Paz ha pasado sus nueve meses en el cargo acostumbrándose a las dificultades. Sin embargo, los analistas afirman que los últimos reveses podrían representar su mayor desafío hasta la fecha.

Aquí un breve resumen de los contratiempos sufridos por el gobierno esta semana:

Destitución de ministro de Economía

El viernes, mediante un decreto, Paz destituyó a su ministro de Economía, José Gabriel Espinoza —artífice de la reforma de libre mercado de su gobierno— días después de que el Congreso votara a favor de su salida y en medio de una denuncia por supuestamente declarar por un valor menor la compra de un auto de lujo.

Los legisladores aprovecharon el escándalo en torno a la compra del auto de lujo por parte de Espinoza y su ausencia en una audiencia parlamentaria sobre economía para canalizar su creciente frustración por la persistente inflación en Bolivia y la escasez persistente de combustible y divisas.

La fiscalía abrió una investigación penal por las acusaciones de que Espinoza falsificó documentos y ocultó sus ingresos en relación con la compra de un Audi Q4 por 5.000 dólares, un precio muy inferior al del mercado. Espinoza atribuyó la discrepancia a un error administrativo y negó haber cometido irregularidad alguna.

El gobierno de Paz criticó en un principio la votación del Congreso por considerarla inconstitucional e insistió en que Espinoza permanecería en el cargo. Sin embargo, pronto rectificó, evidenciando su debilidad en el Congreso después de que Samuel Doria Medina, el líder del partido de centroderecha Unidad Nacional, un aliado legislativo clave, se alejó de él la semana pasada debido a su dependencia de los decretos presidenciales.

La destitución de Espinoza deja al plan de rescate económico de Paz sin su principal estratega, justo cuando necesita que el Congreso apruebe un acuerdo de 1.900 millones de dólares con el Fondo Monetario Internacional, desbloqueé un préstamo de 200 millones de dólares del Banco Mundial y apruebe la legislación para introducir dólares en Bolivia, en medio del creciente descontento por las consecuencias de su ajuste fiscal.

Paz nombró en su lugar de forma interina a Óscar Mario Justiniano, quien ocupa la cartera de Producción Sostenible, Medio Ambiente y Agua.

Tras recortar drásticamente los generosos subsidios a los combustibles que mantenía desde hacía tiempo el año pasado, elevando los precios para los bolivianos de a pie, esta semana aumentó el precio del diése l para compras al por mayor en un 84%, lo que enfureció a los agricultores y provocó llamados a una huelga general.

“Ha logrado algunas victorias con el acuerdo con el FMI, al menos en principio, y con otros préstamos multilaterales”, dijo Casey Cagley, asesor sénior de Red Telescope Global, una firma de asesoría estratégica con sede en Seattle, que estudia Bolivia. “Pero eso no se ha traducido en ayuda para la asequibilidad ni en ninguna reforma significativa”.

“A medida que estos problemas se acumulan, se aisla cada vez más”,agregó el experto. “La deserción de aliados del gobierno y la salida de miembros del gabinete le dificultarán cada vez más afrontar este tipo de crisis en el futuro”.

Asesor argentino detenido

El martes, en un suceso que generó alto revuelo, la policía detuvo al consultor político argentino Fernando Cerimedo, con estrecho vínculo con el presidente Paz. La fiscalía lo acusó de estar presuntamente implicado en un ataque a tiros contra su expareja, la abogada boliviana Nadia Beller, registrado en la ciudad oriental de Santa Cruz la noche anterior.

Desde su cama de hospital, Beller, de 33 años, lo acusó de orquestar el ataque para silenciarla porque ella conocía la supuesta corrupción dentro del gobierno de Paz.

Cerimedo, quien ha dirigido la estrategia digital de líderes conservadores en toda Latinoamérica, incluyendo al presidente argentino Javier Milei y al expresidente brasileño Jair Bolsonaro, negó su participación en el ataque.

Un informe médico que Beller compartió con The Associated Press documentaba heridas en el pecho, el brazo, el cuello y los hombros, incluyendo una fractura que requirió cirugía, y señalaba que tenía entre cuatro y seis semanas de embarazo.

Posteriormente, Beller publicó fotos de cajones repletos de dinero en efectivo que, según ella, pertenecían a Cerimedo, y el caso se convirtió en un escándalo aún mayor sobre el influyente, aunque extraoficial, papel de Cerimedo y las acusaciones de enriquecimiento ilícito.

“El caso Cerimedo y Beller se ha convertido en un punto de inflexión para este gobierno”, dijo la analista política Verónica Rocha. “Su alcance y el nivel de indignación que ha generado lo diferencian de las crisis anteriores”.

Ante esta situación, Rocha consideró que el mandatario debe dar un cambio de rumbo y rendir un informe transparente a la sociedad para recuperar la confianza ciudadana.

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DeBre reportó desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The State Department laid out its plans to transfer $725 million as part of its dues to the regular U.N. budget and $125 million toward U.N. peacekeeping operations in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to notifications sent to lawmakers this month and obtained by The Associated Press.

The U.S. is behind on about $5 billion in dues related to its U.N. membership, with more than $2 billion owed toward the regular budget and $3 billion for peacekeeping operations, the United Nations says.

In February, the Trump administration made a single payment of $160 million shortly after U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the institution was facing “imminent financial collapse” unless its financial rules were overhauled or all 193 member nations paid their dues, a message clearly directed at the United States.

President Donald Trump and his allies have spent the past year and a half demanding drastic changes across the U.N., alarming many humanitarian workers and leading to severe reductions in programs and services.

Trump has publicly called out the world body for not living up to its potential. His administration did not pay anything to the United Nations in 2025, and it has withdrawn from U.N. organizations, including the World Health Organization and the cultural agency UNESCO, while pulling funding from dozens of others.

The notices sent Aug. 4 — first reported by Reuters — received some initial pushback from Republicans on Capitol Hill who argued that the appropriations do not fully address the administration’s concerns about what it claims is bloated U.N. staffing and ideological positions that run counter to Trump’s anti-woke agenda.

In particular, a GOP congressional aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because lawmakers have not yet decided how or if to respond to the notifications, said the notifications did not appear to be strong enough on the withholding of U.S. assistance to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

The U.S. mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Amiri reported from New York.

Los agentes acudieron a la cuadra 1700 de Southwest 87th Avenue después de recibir un reporte de una balacera que involucraba a un hombre y un perro.

La policía informó que el hombre abrió fuego contra el perro para protegerse de un ataque. No se esperan cargos criminales en este momento.

Una mujer también fue trasladada a un hospital por razones no relacionadas con la balacera, confirmó la policía.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles sobre el incidente.

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It takes preparation, consistency, teamwork, and a commitment to doing things right every single day.

On Friday, we’re giving a well-deserved “Clean Plate” shout-out to these establishments.

Thank you for taking food safety seriously and for giving your customers something to feel good about.

It’s hard to do and when you do it, you deserve some serious kudos!

**JW MARRIOTT POOL BAR 1109 BRICKELL AVE MIAMI 8/17

**PHO NGUYEN VIETNAMESE NOODLE HOUSE 10820 PINES BLVD. PEMBROKE PINES 8/14

**NRG COFFEE SHOP 4053 SW 152ND ST. WESTCHESTER 8/14

**PANDA EXPRESS 18050 NW 57TH AVE. HIALEAH 8/14

**TACO BELL 4870 NW 183RD ST. (MIAMI GARDENS DR.) MIAMI GARDENS 8/14

**WENDY’S 697 NW 37TH AVE. MIAMI 8/14

**KENDALL ICE ARENA 10355 HAMMOCKS BLVD. WEST KENDALL 8/13

**MAMACITA’S MEXICAN BAR & GRILL 508 N. BROADWALK HOLLYWOOD 8/13

**EVERGLADES SAFARI RESTAURANT 26700 SW 8TH ST. SOUTH-MIAMI DADE/REDLAND 8/12

**SUBWAY 12800 PINES BLVD. PEMBROKE PINES 8/12

**EMACK & BOLIO’S 10350 PINES BLVD. PEMBROKE PINES 8/12

**GALLERYONE DOUBLE TREE SUITES BANQUET KITCHEN 2670 EAST SUNRISE BLVD. FORT LAUDERDALE 8/12

**BURGERS & BEERS 2031 WILTON DRIVE WILTON MANORS 8/12

**DOMINOS 2454 SHERIDAN ST. HOLLYWOOD 8/12

**PIU ARGENTINIAN ICE CREAM 6310 GRIFFIN ROAD DAVIE 8/12

**RECOVECO 6000 SW 74TH ST. SOUTH MIAMI 8/11

**PALM BISTRO JOHN KNOX VILLAGE 700 SW 4TH ST. POMPANO BEACH 8/11

**WENDY’S 2370 SW 8TH ST. MIAMI 8/10

**MCDONALDS 7995 WEST FLAGLER ST. WESTCHESTER 8/7

**WENDY’S 16601 NW 57TH AVE. HIALEAH 8/6

**WHIT’S FROZEN CUSTARD 4850 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY LIGHTHOUSE POINT 8/5

**CHIPOTLE 2110 SOUTH UNIVERSITY DR. DAVIE 8/5

**PANERA BREAD 1729 EAST HALLANDALE BEACH BLVD. HALLANDALE BEACH 8/5

**ARIELA’S DELICIOUS PIZZA 3330 GRIFFIN ROAD DANIA BEACH 8/3

**BAMBOO KITCHEN 3322 GRIFFIN ROAD DANIA BEACH 8/3

**TRUE MADE METHOD(CATERING) SUNRISE 8/3

Se necesita preparación, constancia, trabajo en equipo y el compromiso de hacer las cosas bien todos los días.

Este viernes, damos un merecido reconocimiento de “Clean Plate” a estos establecimientos.

Gracias por tomarse en serio la seguridad alimentaria y por darles a sus clientes un motivo para sentirse tranquilos.

¡Es difícil lograrlo y, cuando lo hacen, merecen un gran reconocimiento!

**JW MARRIOTT POOL BAR 1109 BRICKELL AVE MIAMI 8/17

**PHO NGUYEN VIETNAMESE NOODLE HOUSE 10820 PINES BLVD. PEMBROKE PINES 8/14

**NRG COFFEE SHOP 4053 SW 152ND ST. WESTCHESTER 8/14

**PANDA EXPRESS 18050 NW 57TH AVE. HIALEAH 8/14

**TACO BELL 4870 NW 183RD ST. (MIAMI GARDENS DR.) MIAMI GARDENS 8/14

**WENDY’S 697 NW 37TH AVE. MIAMI 8/14

**KENDALL ICE ARENA 10355 HAMMOCKS BLVD. WEST KENDALL 8/13

**MAMACITA’S MEXICAN BAR & GRILL 508 N. BROADWALK HOLLYWOOD 8/13

**EVERGLADES SAFARI RESTAURANT 26700 SW 8TH ST. SOUTH-MIAMI DADE/REDLAND 8/12

**SUBWAY 12800 PINES BLVD. PEMBROKE PINES 8/12

**EMACK & BOLIO’S 10350 PINES BLVD. PEMBROKE PINES 8/12

**GALLERYONE DOUBLE TREE SUITES BANQUET KITCHEN 2670 EAST SUNRISE BLVD. FORT LAUDERDALE 8/12

**BURGERS & BEERS 2031 WILTON DRIVE WILTON MANORS 8/12

**DOMINOS 2454 SHERIDAN ST. HOLLYWOOD 8/12

**PIU ARGENTINIAN ICE CREAM 6310 GRIFFIN ROAD DAVIE 8/12

**RECOVECO 6000 SW 74TH ST. SOUTH MIAMI 8/11

**PALM BISTRO JOHN KNOX VILLAGE 700 SW 4TH ST. POMPANO BEACH 8/11

**WENDY’S 2370 SW 8TH ST. MIAMI 8/10

**MCDONALDS 7995 WEST FLAGLER ST. WESTCHESTER 8/7

**WENDY’S 16601 NW 57TH AVE. HIALEAH 8/6

**WHIT’S FROZEN CUSTARD 4850 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY LIGHTHOUSE POINT 8/5

**CHIPOTLE 2110 SOUTH UNIVERSITY DR. DAVIE 8/5

**PANERA BREAD 1729 EAST HALLANDALE BEACH BLVD. HALLANDALE BEACH 8/5

**ARIELA’S DELICIOUS PIZZA 3330 GRIFFIN ROAD DANIA BEACH 8/3

**BAMBOO KITCHEN 3322 GRIFFIN ROAD DANIA BEACH 8/3

**TRUE MADE METHOD(CATERING) SUNRISE 8/3

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Thompson will need to clear waivers before he can officially sign with Miami.

Thompson, 36, was owed $17.5 million for the 2026-27 season. The Mavericks had been looking for a trade involving the veteran guard, but the two sides ultimately agreed to end his contract through a buyout, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.

The move would bring the sharpshooter to Miami after two seasons in Dallas.

During his time with the Mavericks, he appeared in 141 games, including 80 starts, and averaged 12.9 points per game while shooting 38.7% from three-point range.

Thompson entered the NBA in 2011 after the Golden State Warriors selected him 11th overall. He spent 13 seasons with Golden State, winning four NBA championships and earning five All-Star selections.

It’s been an eventful offseason for the Miami Heat who previously added Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis in a trade with the Milwaukee Bucks, along with Tim Hardaway Jr., to team with center Bam Adebayo.

The majority of Miami’s games this season, at least 68, will be airing on Local 10 News.

WPLG Local 10 and the Heat announced a newly expanded media rights agreement, making Local 10 the home of HEAT basketball across South Florida! CLICK HERE for more information on how to watch!

Heat fans can also call 786-777-4375 for more information on how to purchase tickets for the 2026-2027 season.

Thompson tendrá que superar el proceso de waivers antes de poder firmar oficialmente con Miami.

A Thompson, de 36 años, se le debían $17.5 millones USD para la temporada 2026-27. Los Mavericks habían estado buscando un intercambio que involucrara al veterano escolta, pero ambas partes finalmente acordaron poner fin a su contrato mediante una rescisión, según Shams Charania de ESPN.

La movida llevaría al especialista en tiros de larga distancia a Miami después de dos temporadas en Dallas.

Durante su tiempo con los Mavericks, participó en 141 partidos, incluidos 80 como titular, y promedió 12.9 puntos por partido mientras lanzaba para un 38.7% desde la línea de tres puntos.

Thompson llegó a la NBA en 2011 después de que los Golden State Warriors lo seleccionaran con la 11.ª selección general. Pasó 13 temporadas con Golden State, ganó cuatro campeonatos de la NBA y fue seleccionado cinco veces al Juego de Estrellas.

Ha sido una temporada baja llena de movimientos para el Miami Heat, que previamente incorporó a Giannis Antetokounmpo y Bobby Portis en un intercambio con los Milwaukee Bucks, además de Tim Hardaway Jr., para formar equipo con el centro Bam Adebayo.

La mayoría de los partidos de Miami esta temporada, al menos 68, serán transmitidos por Local 10 News.

WPLG Local 10 y el Heat anunciaron un nuevo acuerdo ampliado de derechos de transmisión, convirtiendo a Local 10 en el hogar del baloncesto del HEAT en todo el sur de Florida. ¡HAGA CLIC AQUÍ para obtener más información sobre cómo ver los partidos!

Los fanáticos del Heat también pueden llamar al 786-777-4375 para obtener más información sobre cómo comprar boletos para la temporada 2026-2027.

El FDLE anunció el jueves el arresto de Pearlandria Boujolly. Está acusada de un cargo de homicidio involuntario agravado de un menor de 18 años.

Según el FDLE, la investigación comenzó el 3 de enero, cuando la policía de Miami y paramédicos de Miami Fire Rescue respondieron aproximadamente a las 3:50 a.m. a un reporte de un niño pequeño que no respondía.

El niño fue trasladado al Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde fue declarado muerto poco después.

Una autopsia realizada por el Departamento del Médico Forense del Condado Miami-Dade encontró fentanilo y una cantidad mínima de cocaína en la sangre del niño, según el FDLE.

Investigadores dicen que dejaron drogas en una habitación sin llave

Investigadores del FDLE dijeron que habían dejado narcóticos dentro de una habitación sin llave en la vivienda donde fue encontrada la víctima.

Los investigadores determinaron que el niño ingirió accidentalmente una pequeña cantidad de las drogas que estaban en esa habitación.

Según el FDLE, Boujolly no estaba dentro de la vivienda cuando el niño consumió las drogas.

La investigación involucró al Grupo de Trabajo South Florida State Assistance for Fentanyl Eradication, o S.A.F.E., del FDLE y al Departamento de Policía de Miami.

“Cuando los efectos mortales del fentanilo golpean a nuestras comunidades, especialmente a nuestros niños, el FDLE y nuestros socios estamos más motivados que nunca a utilizar todos los recursos de investigación disponibles para responsabilizar a todos los involucrados”, dijo Michael Stein, agente especial a cargo del FDLE en Miami.

El jefe de la Policía de Miami, Edwin Lopez, calificó la muerte de la víctima como “una tragedia desgarradora y completamente prevenible”.

“Este arresto envía un mensaje claro: hay cero tolerancia para la negligencia que pone en riesgo la vida de un niño inocente”, dijo Lopez.

La fiscal estatal de Miami-Dade, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, también se refirió al arresto y lo calificó como “un día desgarrador cuando un niño pierde la vida dentro de su propio hogar debido a la imprudencia de uno de sus padres y a drogas peligrosas dejadas al alcance”.

Arrestan a mujer meses después de la muerte del niño

El FDLE dijo que agentes del Grupo de Trabajo S.A.F.E. del sur de Florida y la policía de Miami arrestaron a Boujolly en su vivienda de Miami-Dade el jueves.

Luego fue trasladada al Centro de Detención Turner Guilford Knight.

El FDLE indicó que podrían presentarse cargos adicionales.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Boujolly permanecía detenida en TGK con una fianza de $55,000 USD. Los registros de la cárcel en línea muestran que enfrenta un cargo de uso fraudulento de una tarjeta de crédito en un caso separado.

After ending a 22-year wait for the Premier League title, Arsenal showed why it’s favored to repeat as champion by completely dominating Frank Lampard’s side in a game that was one-sided from start to finish.

Kai Havertz, Bukayo Saka and captain Martin Odegaard scored for the Gunners, who spurned chances to pad the scoreline even further.

“The perfect start,” Odegaard said.

For Coventry, it was a rude welcome back to the Premier League after a 25-year absence. Having won the second-tier Championship last season by a wide margin, Lampard’s side simply looked outmatched as it was repeatedly taken apart by a marauding Arsenal.

Tzolis was the only summer signing to start for the host but the left winger showed he could give this attack an added dimension by helping to set up both opening goals.

First he stole possession to feed defender Riccardo Calafiori, who squared the ball for Havertz to slot home in the 15th minute. The Greece international then sent a cross in from the left that goalkeeper Carl Rushworth managed to only push into the path of Saka, who scored into an empty net in the 23rd.

(asterisk)Amazing, he played a brilliant game," Odegaard said of Tzolis. "He has been brilliant all preseason. He’s so lively, it’s hard to defend him. He’s a really intelligent player, he always looks up and finds the right pass.”

Odegaard added the third shortly after the break after his scuffed shot looped in out of reach of Rushworth. The Arsenal captain gave an apologetic shrug as a celebration.

"It was not the best finish but I was there,” Odegaard said.

At the other end, the only time Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya was troubled was when a speculative overhead kick from Loum Tchaouna from outside the box sailed just high of the bar in the 42nd. The visitor's only effort on target came in the 86th, when Jack Rudoni managed only a weak header straight at Raya.

Arsenal introduced its latest signing, England defender Ezri Konsa, before kickoff after he completed a move from Aston Villa earlier Friday.

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Work wanted by the White House was taking precedence, including repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three officials from the park service and Interior Department who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.

The reflecting pool repairs and other projects tied to President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 initiative landed on a separate list for White House priorities, the documents show. Many of the administration-backed projects have advanced, though the reflecting pool repairs were botched.

Meanwhile, almost all of about 1,500 maintenance and other projects on the low priority list as of last month are expected to go undone, the officials said. That will worsen a repair backlog at national parks that doubled over the last decade to more than $24 billion even as visitor numbers surged.

The shelved projects, many already approved, span more than 200 sites and range from roof repairs at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, to computer upgrades at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and bulk purchases of toilet paper and garbage bags at Yellowstone National Park.

Because of their low priority designation and with the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30, it's unknown when they will move forward unless park staff can find a workaround, two of the officials said.

Park service employees “were told to not expect anything on the low priority list to be contracted,” one of the officials said.

“The first priority was White House priorities," the official said. “Anywhere that is 250th-related they would have been diverting resources, some it probably planned but a lot of it pushed by the administration."

The Interior Department said many entries on the low priority list had been “mis-prioritized and were corrected.” It declined to say how many or which ones, or how much parks are spending on projects outside Washington. Agency officials declined to answer questions about the reflecting pool.

Congress has pushed to fix maintenance backlog

The park service has a third list for “high priority" projects that includes more than 2,000 items, many with contracts awarded or in process, the documents show.

“In any year, the National Park Service must prioritize projects most in need,” Interior spokesperson Katie Martin wrote in a statement. “The National Park Service has not only been focused on beautifying the district for the 250th celebrations in our nation’s capital but has also been working on many deferred maintenance projects throughout the country."

The 1,500 low priority projects had a combined cost estimate of more than $400 million.

Maine Independent Sen. Angus King, the ranking member of the Senate's National Parks Subcommittee, said the administration’s pursuits around Washington “are more aesthetic than strictly necessary,” even as they siphon resources from sites elsewhere in the U.S.

“I don’t object to setting priorities,” King said in an interview. “I object to the White House priority list being tacked onto the top of that pyramid.”

He added it could lead to “the deterioration of America’s gems” as things like sanitation upgrades and basic maintenance don't happen.

Congress during both Democratic and Republican presidencies has pushed to address the backlog. The bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act in 2020 included $6.5 billion for maintenance and repairs through 2025. A legislative extension is pending.

Testing the park service's mission

The priority designations came from park service headquarters in Washington, according to documents obtained by AP and one of the unnamed officials.

The park service appears to be moving forward on at least $80 million in White House priorities, including $52 million awarded, the documents indicate. Much of that work was championed by Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, such as the reflecting pool repairs and the rehabilitation of other parks in the capital with an eye toward the 250th celebrations.

Trump announced his plans to paint the Reflecting Pool blue in April, aiming to address longstanding problems at the site before July 4. But the $16 million initiative faced immediate problems, including peeling sealant and a fierce return of green algae.

Not all of the administration's priorities advanced: A $70 million line item for “turf maintenance” over five years at parks in the Washington, D.C., area is among more than $80 million in work marked as “canceled” in the Interior Department data.

The park service’s mission has been tested under Trump as its employees navigate new realities. It lost at least one-quarter of its permanent workforce under Trump.

Remaining employees have been ordered to revise exhibits that Trump said advanced “improper ideology,” and demolish the East Wing of the White House, which is under park stewardship, for the creation of a ballroom. Trump also reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah as Republicans reshape public lands management.

Contracting officers in short supply

Pressure to deliver on administration demands for Freedom 250 was compounded by staffing cuts that made it harder to execute contracts, the unnamed officials said.

Prior to Trump’s second term, the parks had 275 contracting officers. They've since been consolidated into the Interior Department, which nevertheless saw its contracting workforce drop more than 20%, public records show.

About $140 million has been obligated or spent by the park service in Washington, D.C., this year, according to public data. That includes the reflecting pool work and the rehabilitation of fountains across the district.

Interior spokesperson Martin said the Trump administration is eyeing different revenue sources for maintenance including endowments and park pass sales.

Those sales rose more than $2 million, to $16.7 million, in the first quarter of 2026 compared to a year earlier, she said.

Moke se ubicaba a unos 1.060 kilómetros (660 millas) al sureste de Hilo y se desplazaba hacia el oeste-noroeste a 15 km/h (9 mph). Los vientos máximos sostenidos eran de alrededor de 75 km/h (45 mph), según un aviso del centro de huracanes con sede en Miami.

Al igual que con el huracán Lala, se espera que la Isla Grande vuelva a llevarse la peor parte de la tormenta. Lala azotó Hawai el fin de semana pasado sin tocar tierra, derribó árboles y dejó carreteras cubiertas de lodo y rocas.

Se prevé que la lluvia y los vientos fuertes de Moke azoten la Isla Grande a última hora del sábado, y que la tormenta continúe desplazándose hacia el oeste a través de las islas hasta las primeras horas del martes, dijo Casey Oswant, meteoróloga del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional en Honolulu.

“Todavía habrá impactos, especialmente en los lados de barlovento y del sureste de la Isla Grande, pero probablemente será un poco más limitado que lo que vimos con Lala”, señaló.

La costa noreste de la Isla Grande registró las lluvias más intensas provocadas por Lala, con 1,1 metros (43,54 pulgadas), según el servicio meteorológico. Las inundaciones resultantes arrancaron decenas de viviendas de sus cimientos y dañaron carreteras y puentes. Unos 11.630 clientes en la Isla Grande seguían sin electricidad el viernes, de acuerdo con poweroutage.us.

Los pronósticos de lluvia para este fin de semana en los lados sureste y de barlovento de la Isla Grande eran de 13 a 25 centímetros (5 a 10 pulgadas), con cantidades aisladas de hasta 38 centímetros (15 pulgadas), indicó Oswant. En el resto de la cadena de islas, se esperaban de 2 a 5 centímetros (1 a 2 pulgadas) de lluvia, aunque en varias partes del este de Maui podrían registrarse hasta 10 centímetros (4 pulgadas), agregó.

No había vigilancias ni advertencias costeras vigentes el viernes por la mañana, pero se instó a la población a seguir de cerca el avance de la tormenta. Según el Centro Nacional de Huracanes, las precipitaciones tienen el potencial de provocar peligrosas corrientes de resaca, inundaciones que ponen en riesgo la vida y deslizamientos de lodo, especialmente en zonas empinadas y en lugares donde el suelo sigue saturado tras el paso de Lala.

El gobernador de Hawai, Josh Green, y otros funcionarios estatales ofrecieron una conferencia de prensa el jueves por la tarde para informar sobre el avance de la recuperación tras Lala e instar a la gente a prepararse para la próxima tormenta.

Las autoridades exhortaron a quienes tienen pocas provisiones de emergencia a reabastecerse con hasta 14 días de alimentos, medicamentos y otros artículos esenciales, y a vigilar de cerca el avance de la tormenta.

“Definitivamente, hay tensión en el ambiente” ante la idea de más lluvia en comunidades que las aguas de la inundación convirtieron en ríos, señaló Tiffany Edwards Hunt, una maestra que vive en Keaau, en el lado este de la Isla Grande. “Hubo algunas zonas que quedaron completamente arrasadas”.

La empresa de servicios públicos Hawaiian Electric dijo que espera restablecer el suministro eléctrico a casi todos los clientes afectados en la Isla Grande, excepto en ciertas zonas remotas y gravemente dañadas.

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“We get to race at a lot of cool cities, but this one is by far the best that we've ever had, and I can say that very truthfully," Kyle Kirkwood said Friday. "Going by the Capitol building, the views here, all the architecture of all the buildings around here, all the museums, it's stuff that you dream of.

"It's a serious honor and privilege.”

This weekend's Freedom 250 Grand Prix is the second big sporting event staged by President Donald Trump in Washington as part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration. The first was a UFC fight card on the White House’s South Lawn in June.

IndyCar racing — an open-wheel counterpart to NASCAR — doesn’t have quite the same association with the right-wing “manosphere” or the MAGA movement, but series owner Roger Penske received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump in 2019 and led the effort to put together this race in the District of Columbia.

For the drivers, it’s a welcome moment in the spotlight.

“What’s been the coolest part of this week? Honestly, the media covering us,” Kirkwood said. “It’s cool to see IndyCar in this light. We don’t get these opportunities very often outside of the Indy 500, and to have an event that is sought after as much as the 500 is something that’s special.”

Washington has little history with high-level motorsports. In 2002, the parking lot at RFK Stadium on the city's east side was transformed into a course for an American Le Mans Series event.

The Freedom 250 is downtown in one of D.C.'s prime tourist areas. If you're not in a race car, it's not the greatest weekend to be driving around the area given all the road closures, but if the weather holds up, the setting has the potential to be spectacular.

“As a boy from the Netherlands that just got his green card, it is really cool,” said Rinus VeeKay, who has six top-10 finishes this season. “We didn't get too much U.S. history in school ... but learning so much about it here, seeing all the monuments and museums and just how every building kind of has a special purpose here around the city, is very cool. Getting to see the White House, this is stuff you see in movies.”

The White House is not part of the D.C. course, although after Turn 1, the track does include a lengthy straightaway along Pennsylvania Avenue, heading northwest away from the Capitol. Then there's a sharp left turn between the National Archives and the main Justice Department building, followed by a couple quick 90-degree turns as the track navigates the city's grid system.

After a straightaway takes drivers across the National Mall, they turn left onto Independence Avenue, passing the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum. and the Eisenhower Memorial before heading north on 3rd Street to the finish line, which is just west of the Capitol.

“I think it's more exciting when you actually get on the grounds and see what you're about to do. I mean, when is this ever going to happen again?" said Josef Newgarden, a driver for Team Penske. “I hope it's great visibility. That's probably the biggest thing that it could bring to us — is visibility to people that aren't maybe as familiar with IndyCar racing."

IndyCar practice and qualifying are scheduled for Saturday, along with an IROC race. The IndyCar race is Sunday and set for 250 miles (147 laps) — the second-longest street circuit race in IndyCar history.

The 1.7-mile track includes seven turns in all. The Air & Space Museum and National Gallery of Art are both inside the course's perimeter, with a fan zone between them. The track is shorter and has fewer turns than several others on the IndyCar schedule, but it's not much different from the 1.6-mile, nine-turn circuit used in downtown Detroit.

“It’s short and snappy, but you know what? We don't know. We haven't driven on it yet," driver Marcus Armstrong said. “We'll find out tomorrow. It might even be wet tomorrow. There's a lot of crosswalks, a lot of paint on the track, so that could be super slippery.”

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Thompson intends to sign with the Miami Heat once he clears waivers, according to a person familiar with the five-time All-Star’s plans. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday because Thompson has yet to reveal that detail publicly. Assuming he is not claimed by another club, Thompson may be able to sign with the Heat as early as Sunday.

The buyout announcement comes after the Mavericks missed the playoffs in both of Thompson’s seasons, which came after Doncic led Dallas to the NBA Finals in 2024.

Thompson joined Dallas in a sign-and-trade with Golden State, giving the Mavericks one of the league's all-time great 3-point shooters to complement Doncic and another high-scoring guard in Kyrie Irving.

But the high hopes for that threesome imploded after the Mavericks sent Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for the oft-injured Anthony Davis in a deal before the trade deadline in 2025. Irving tore the ACL in his left knee a month later and hasn't played since. Davis was traded to the Washington Wizards just before the February trade deadline last season.

The Doncic trade ended up derailing the franchise, although Dallas overcame steep odds to win the draft lottery a few months later. With the No. 1 overall pick, the Mavericks selected Duke star freshman Cooper Flagg, who ended up winning Rookie of the Year and giving the franchise new hope.

The addition of Flagg helped led to Thompson coming off the bench in most games for the first time since his rookie year with Golden State.

The buyout of Thompson is the latest in a major retooling of the Dallas roster. His departure leaves just five players from opening day two years ago, along a new front office in president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri and general manager Mike Schmitz and a new coach in Dusty May, who replaced Jason Kidd.

Thompson won four NBA titles alongside Stephen Curry and Draymond Green with the Warriors. The 36-year-old spent his first 13 seasons with Golden State, although he missed two entire seasons with knee and Achilles injuries.

The five-time All-Star averaged 12.9 points and shot 39% from 3-point range in his two years with the Mavericks. His career marks are 19.6 points per game and 41% shooting from beyond the arc.

Thompson passed Damian Lillard for fourth place on the career 3-point list in January. He has 2,899 3-pointers, trailing Curry, James Harden and Ray Allen.

Thompson missed the playoffs just twice in the 11 seasons he played for the Warriors. He matched that number in his only two seasons with Dallas.

“Klay is one of the great players and competitors of his generation, and we are grateful for everything he brought to the Mavericks organization,” Ujiri said. “We have tremendous respect for Klay and all that he has accomplished throughout his career.”

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A group of Make America Healthy Again activists signed a joint letter asking President Donald Trump on Friday to “reject” coal-powered data centers.

In the letter, the 199 activists suggested that the U.S. can be a world leader in artificial intelligence “without asking children to carry more mercury in their bodies, more soot in their lungs, more heavy metals in their soil and food, or more contamination in their water.”

The activists asked Trump to “require transparent review of data-center siting and power sourcing.” The letter comes as Republican candidates face an electorate with concerns about data centers.

 “I think we should be eliminating these sweetheart tax deals that are giving our money away to these giant data center companies,” James Talrico, a Democratic candidate in Texas, told CNN.

On Wednesday, Trump said the data-center industry just needed “a little help” with public relations.

“If I were a governor or mayor, I would want that plant in my community ... and if you don’t take it, you’re going to be left behind because there are plenty of places that want it,” Trump said.

Last year, Trump signed an executive order showing his support of “America’s beautiful clean coal industry. In January, Trump declared a national energy emergency. In June, his administration announced a commitment to “reinvigorating” the industry.

In May, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida Senate Bill 484 into state law to stop public utilities from shifting the cost of data centers onto residential and small business customers. The law went into effect in July.

Trump asked electricity companies to sign a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from the cost of data centers. The White House reported that at least 55 utilities and 27 data center developers joined the pledge.

Texas is pausing the approval of new data centers. New York is introducing a one-year moratorium. Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers recently called for a one-year moratorium in Michigan.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democratic presidential hopeful, signed an executive order with several new regulations.

“If a local community doesn’t approve a project, the state won’t approve it either,” Shapiro said.

The Make America Great Again’s MAHA activists also sent copies of the letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Trump said in a social media post that Martin is leaving his role as the Justice Department's pardon attorney to “fight Legal Battles” surrounding this year's midterm elections and the 2028 presidential election.

“I know he will do an outstanding job, ensure Free, Fair, and Honest Elections, and strongly advance our Constitutional Rights,” Trump wrote.

Martin has been a controversial Trump administration figure since his appointment last year as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, where he oversaw the dismissal of Jan. 6 cases after Trump's sweeping pardons. Trump later pulled Martin's nomination for the job over bipartisan concerns about his lack of prosecutorial experience and support for rioters who violently attacked the Capitol.

He then moved to Justice Department headquarters as pardon attorney and director of a group tasked with scrutinizing actions by President Joe Biden's administration that Republicans say unfairly targeted conservatives. Then-Attorney General Pam Bondi also named him a special attorney to help conduct mortgage fraud investigations into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

He often raised eyebrows during his tenure. In one instance, while conducting his mortgage fraud investigation into James, he sent her a letter urging her to resign from office “as an act of good faith.” He also posed for photos outside her Brooklyn home.

The Justice Department's case against James was dismissed after the judge found that another prosecutor who brought the charges was illegally appointed.

Martin was later sidelined amid clashes with Justice Department leadership and was removed as head of the “Weaponization Working Group,” though he kept his title as pardon attorney.

In a social media post Friday, Attorney General Todd Blanche called Martin a “patriot who loves this nation.” Martin didn't immediately respond to a message Friday, but on his X account he reposted Trump's announcement with the message: “Proud to serve. Fight Fight Fight.”

Before his nomination as D.C. U.S. attorney, Martin was a leader of Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement. He spoke at a rally in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol and later served on the board of a nonprofit that raised money to support Capitol riot defendants and their families.

Trump’s post is the latest sign of his obsession with voting in the upcoming midterm elections, which will determine control of the U.S. House and Senate for the final two years of his presidency.

His administration has fixated on messaging around noncitizen voting, a rare problem that Trump falsely insists is a widespread source of fraud. His Department of Justice has been trying to gather detailed state voter data to hunt for noncitizens, and he has been pushing Congress to pass a bill that would require documentary proof of citizenship to vote in time for the November elections.

The FBI has obtained voting records or election equipment from the most populous counties in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia and Michigan without saying what it was searching for. Trump also has issued two executive orders seeking to take control of certain election operations, even though the Constitution grants states and Congress the authority to determine election rules.

Democratic state officials have been raising alarms about the possibility of the administration deploying federal immigration agents to polling places or ordering the military to voting locations or election offices, although administration officials have said they have no such plans.

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The FDLE announced the arrest of Pearlandria Boujolly on Thursday. She is charged with one count of aggravated manslaughter of a child under 18 years old.

According to the arrest warrant, four children ranging in age from 1 to 8 years old were inside the home at the time of the incident. State investigators said the children were exposed to drugs and that three unsecured guns were also inside the home.

According to the FDLE, the investigation began Jan. 3, when Miami police and Miami Fire Rescue medics responded at approximately 3:50 a.m. to a report of an unresponsive toddler at Boujolly’s home off Northwest 91st Street near 22nd Avenue.

The child was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later, authorities confirmed.

An autopsy conducted by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Department found fentanyl and a trace amount of cocaine in the child’s blood, according to the FDLE.

Investigators say drugs were left in unlocked room

FDLE investigators said narcotics had been left inside an unlocked room at the home where the victim was found.

Investigators determined the toddler accidentally ingested a small amount of the drugs in that room.

According to the FDLE, Boujolly was not inside the home when the child consumed the drugs.

Investigators said a Ring camera captured the moments when the 18-month-old consumed the drugs before becoming unresponsive.

The prosecutor told the judge during Friday’s bond hearing that the children appeared to have been unsupervised and had access to narcotics and guns.

The investigation involved the FDLE’s South Florida State Assistance for Fentanyl Eradication, or S.A.F.E., Task Force and the Miami Police Department.

“When the deadly effects of fentanyl hit our communities, especially our children, FDLE and our partners are motivated, more than ever, to use every investigative resource available to hold everyone involved accountable,” FDLE Miami Special Agent in Charge Michael Stein said.

Miami Police Chief Edwin Lopez called the victim’s death “a heartbreaking and entirely preventable tragedy.”

“This arrest sends a clear message: there is zero tolerance for negligence that puts an innocent child’s life at risk,” Lopez said. “Parents need to be aware of what they leave accessible to children. Obviously, drugs are illegal but the death to an 18-month-old should be an alert to everyone in our community.”

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle also addressed the arrest, calling it “a heartbreaking day when a child loses their life inside their own home due to a parent’s recklessness and dangerous drugs left out in the open.”

Arrest made months after child’s death

The FDLE said South Florida S.A.F.E. Task Force agents and Miami police arrested Boujolly at her Miami-Dade home on Thursday.

She was then transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Detention Center.

The FDLE said additional charges may be forthcoming.

Boujolly appeared before a Miami-Dade judge in bond court Friday, where the judge ordered her held without bond. Online jail records show she faces a charge of fraudulent use of a credit card in a separate case.

We are in our typical rainy season pattern with showers and thunderstorms popping up in the afternoon. Some could contain frequent lightning, gusty winds, and heavy rain. This is much needed rain for the ongoing severe to extreme drought.

An estimated 33% of active duty personnel who said they experienced unwanted sexual contact in fiscal year 2025 reported it, compared with 25% in fiscal year 2023, the report said. The findings are based on confidential surveys taken every two years as well as sexual assault reports made to authorities.

“In other words, about 1 in 3 Service members reported experiencing their sexual assault to a Department authority,” the report said. “This estimate is up from the 1 in 4 Service members estimated to have reported experiencing sexual assault in FY 2023.”

The Pentagon says it estimates about 20,492 service members — 9,860 active duty women and 10,632 active duty men — said in the survey that they experienced unwanted sexual contact.

The report marks another year of improving trends in the effort to tackle sexual assault in the military. The Pentagon reports from the previous two years show drops in sexual assault reports as well as the number of service members who said they had experienced unwanted sexual contact. That followed almost a decade of rising numbers of reported assaults, though many say the numbers still are too high.

The Pentagon has faced persistent criticism and pressure from both Congress and outside advocacy groups to reduce sexual assaults and harassment in the military, which also can affect recruiting and retaining troops.

The Pentagon releases this report every year on the number of sexual assaults reported by or about troops. Because sexual assault is a highly underreported crime, the department does a confidential online survey every two years to get a clearer picture of the problem.

Defense officials have long argued that an increase in reported assaults is a positive trend because so many people are reluctant to report them, both in the military and in society as a whole. Greater reporting, they say, shows there is more confidence in the reporting system and greater comfort with the support for victims.

The number of reported sexual assaults dipped last year from the previous year. The Defense Department said it received a total of 7,998 reports of sexual assault in 2025, a decrease of 197 from 8,195 reports received in 2024.

The latest confidential survey found that unwanted sexual contact among active duty women decreased from an estimated 6.8% in 2023 to 4.3% last year. For men, the prevalence fell from an estimated 1.3% to 1%.

Sexual harassment of active duty women fell from an estimated 24.7% to 17.5% during that time, while it dropped from 5.8% to 4.4% for men, according to the survey.

However, the report noted that junior enlisted men and women and those younger than 24 “remained at greater risk of unwanted sexual contact compared to men and women of higher ranks and those over the age of 25.”

It says “preventing and responding to sexual assault is ... a readiness imperative” and that the Pentagon will “continue to strengthen efforts to deter and diminish harmful behaviors, provide timely and victim-centered care, and hold substantiated offenders appropriately accountable.”

While the latest Pentagon report suggests the military is making progress on changing the culture of sexual assault and its underreporting in the military, the new figures cover only the first several months of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s time leading the Pentagon.

Since his arrival, Hegseth has not shied away from firing top female leaders and instituting policies and reviews that suggest he may be looking to diminish the role that women can play in the military.

The dead, whose identities are unknown, were among the more than 90 migrants who lost their lives during Spain’s deadliest border crisis three weeks ago. Fueled by misinformation, poverty and a lack of opportunities, more than 72,000 people poured into Ceuta, a Spanish territory that neighbors Morocco.

At a Muslim cemetery in Ceuta, 18 migrants were laid to rest on Friday. An Islamic cleric read prayers and chants praising God while funeral workers worked quickly to lower the white body bags and cover them with soil. More migrants are expected to be buried soon.

The Moroccan Association for Human Rights, a left-leaning nongovernmental organization, called for the burials in Ceuta to be halted until every effort had been made to identify the bodies and repatriate them to Morocco, the country of origin for most of the migrants who made the perilous journey.

Many of those who died drowned or were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier near a border checkpoint.

In a statement, the NGO asked Morocco's foreign ministry to ensure that “the bodies are returned to the families so they can be buried with dignity.”

It called the burials in Ceuta a “new human tragedy,” adding to the “disaster of displacement and missing persons.”

A spokesperson for Ceuta’s city government said last week the paperwork to repatriate the bodies of the deceased was complete, but that Morocco’s government hadn't accepted it.

Morocco’s foreign ministry didn't respond to questions from The Associated Press about the burials that started on Friday in Ceuta or suggestions that Morocco is blocking the repatriation of identified migrant bodies.

While most of those who crossed into Ceuta in late July returned to Morocco almost immediately, local authorities say that up to 10,000 migrants — including women and children — could still be in the small Spanish city, prolonging a humanitarian crisis as authorities and locals struggle to shelter and attend to them. Spain's national government cites a lower figure of around 5,000 people.

Moroccan and Spanish authorities have blamed social media rumors and human smuggling networks for the deadly event, while migrants cited unemployment and low wages as reasons for why they made the journey.

All of those buried on Friday were men, said Said Mohammed, the cemetery’s acting manager. The graves were marked with numbered stones in case families claim the bodies in the future, he said.

Under Islamic custom, a body is placed in a grave facing Mecca, as was the case with the migrants buried in Ceuta. Just across the sea lay mainland Europe — their desired destination.

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Suman Naishadham reported from Madrid. Akram Oubachir contributed to this report from Casablanca, Morocco.

Monseñor Paolo Rocco Gualtieri atribuyó el cambio a los compromisos del sumo pontífice en Roma.

En una breve rueda de prensa en Lima tras el lanzamiento de la creación de un grupo de jóvenes voluntarios para la visita del papa, Gualtieri indicó que León XIV tiene “muchos compromisos en Roma, así que el 17 (de noviembre) tiene que estar allá”. No brindó más detalles.

Antes, durante la actividad con los jóvenes voluntarios, indicó que León XIV partirá de Perú la noche del 16 de noviembre en un viaje que empezará el 11 de ese mes y comprenderá a Argentina y Uruguay en su primera gira por Latinoamérica como pontífice.

A inicios de agosto el Vaticano anunció que el papa hará su primer viaje a Latinoamérica empezando en Uruguay, luego en Argentina y finalmente Perú. En Uruguay estará en Montevideo, Paysandú y Florida, mientras que en Argentina visitará Buenos Aires, Córdoba y Luján.

La visita es especialmente significativa por los vínculos de larga data de León XIV con Perú. El primer papa nacido en Estados Unidos pasó décadas allí como misionero y responsable de su Iglesia y se desempeñó como obispo de Chiclayo entre 2015 y 2023. Además, tiene la ciudadanía peruana.

Se espera que su regreso a Chiclayo, la diócesis que dirigió antes de su elección, sea uno de los momentos clave del viaje. En Perú también se anunció su presencia en Lima, Cusco y Pucallpa.

Robert Prevost dejó Perú en 2023 para asumir un puesto clave en el Vaticano tras el fin de las protestas en los Andes que exigían la renuncia de la entonces presidenta Dina Boluarte que dejaron 50 civiles asesinados por la fuerza pública. En su última intervención ante la prensa local, Prevost pidió a las autoridades políticas “aprender a escuchar mejor”.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority said Friday it is imposing a fine of 825 million euros ($964 million) because Uber violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The EU’s data privacy rules prohibit fully automated decision-making.

The authority also said Uber failed inform drivers about its automatic decision-making. The violations took place from 2018 to 2022, the agency said.

Uber said it disagreed with the decision and the fine and will file an appeal.

"The (Data Protection Authority) examined historic policies that were discontinued years ago. We take decisions that affect drivers' ability to earn extremely seriously and we’re fully committed to fair treatment. This includes human reviews, robust safeguards, and the opportunity for drivers to appeal our decisions if they believe we made a mistake,” the company said in a written statement.

This is the fourth time the authority has imposed a fine on Uber. The largest was in 2024, when Uber was hit with a 290 million euro ($324 million) fine for allegedly transferring personal details of European drivers to the United States without adequate protection.

The newspaper’s publisher, who announced his impending retirement days ago, was also dismissed.

Erik Slavin, editor-in-chief of the military newspaper that is partly funded by the Pentagon, told The Associated Press he was dismissed for insubordination after an interview he gave that objected to potential censorship by the U.S. military. He received a notice of separation, as did publisher Max Lederer — who had just announced his upcoming retirement — and Middle East reporter Lara Korte, Slavin said.

The moves come at a time when the Trump administration, in its second term, has been progressively combative toward the media — including sharply curtailing Pentagon access for the press corps that covers the Defense Department. Trump or other parts of the executive branch have also, in policy and in the courts, grappled with The Wall Street Journal,The Associated Press and The New York Times — in addition to using the FCC to target broadcast networks.

Slavin said he was being fired “for stating in a CBS interview that hypothetical censorship of news for service members would constitute a red line.” Korte participated in the same interview.

“I stand by the principle that Stars and Stripes must remain editorially independent, as required by law and by the department’s own policies,” Slavin said.

Media leaders are troubled

National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr. called the firing of Slavin “another brazen attempt by the Pentagon to dictate coverage of the military” and said it should be immediately reversed.

“Firing a newspaper editor after he publicly defended his newsroom’s editorial independence is deeply troubling, and it should concern every journalist and every member of the U.S. military who depends on independent reporting,” Schoeff said.

Neither Lederer nor Korte immediately responded to emailed requests for comment. Korte said on X: “Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes — not the Pentagon, not the administration, and not any policy maker.”

Earlier this week, longtime publisher Lederer announced his retirement effective at the end of September. He made his announcement a few weeks after the Pentagon installed a new deputy publisher, an active duty service member, under him at the newspaper without his prior knowledge. Three Democratic senators on Thursday wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, asking why the new deputy — Navy Capt. William Urban — had been installed.

The retirement of Lederer, who had been at Stars and Stripes for three decades and publisher since 2007, comes as Hegseth’s Pentagon has moved to exert editorial control and eliminate what it asserts are “woke distractions.”

“Stars and Stripes will be custom tailored to our warfighters,” Sean Parnell, Hegseth's spokesman, wrote in January on X. “It will focus on warfighting, weapons systems, fitness, lethality, survivability and ALL THINGS MILITARY. No more repurposed DC gossip columns; no more Associated Press reprints.”

In April, the Pentagon fired Jacqueline Smith, ombudsman for the newspaper, whose job had been to safeguard editorial independence.

Lederer, the second full-time civilian in the position, wrote in a staff memo this week that it had “become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization.”

Newly installed Pentagon leader outlines his plan

In a letter posted on Stars and Stripes, Urban wrote of his plans and said: “I understand that I am now part of a team, committed to editorially independent journalism that best serves our most important customer, which is our service members, their families, and our greater military community.”

“I am a media junkie who has served as a communication professional engaged in being a spokesman for some of the hardest Public Affairs assignments in the Navy and Department of War for more than 20 years,” he wrote.

It was unclear whether Urban, currently titled “military deputy to the publisher,” would now become head publisher. “I can’t comment on what my role will be in the future,” he told the AP.

In a telephone interview, Urban said Stars and Stripes has “a strong team of professional journalists that are focused on the mission of providing our military service members and their families the best possible product. That mission is going to continue. All of us in leadership will continue to advocate for … the best possible journalism going forward.”

He said he had no formal journalism experience but cited his years in public affairs and communications. He said he would be focused on expanding digital journalism at the paper, because the service members to which it caters are often young and are “digital natives.”

“I think we need to get better on the digital side,” he said, “to make sure that we are reaching as many service members as we possibly can and having the impact that we should be having.”

State officials announced the outbreak earlier this week, saying they documented more than three dozen cases in Minnesota and Wisconsin. On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency is aware of 55 cases nationally, including four people who have been hospitalized.

The CDC said cases are also reported in Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington.

Of 34 sick people interviewed, 26 reported eating alfalfa sprouts, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Food poisoning outbreaks tend to be defined by one type of germ, but this outbreak involves people with salmonella and different strains of E. coli.

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli — or STEC — can cause stomach cramps and bloody diarrhea. Infections can lead to a severe complication that involves acute kidney failure.

Salmonella poisoning can cause diarrhea, fever, severe vomiting, dehydration and stomach cramps.

Officials are linking cases to alfalfa sprouts produced by Everything Sprouts, a Minnesota grower, and sold under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands to restaurants and grocery stores. The company has yet to issue a recall, the FDA said.

Last year, the FDA sent a warning letter to Everything Sprouts, saying inspections the year before identified several points of concern, including a leaking roof that was dropping water onto bean sprouts and workers' smocks.

The Associated Press left messages for Everything Sprouts seeking comment.

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Miami police said officers responded to a report of a driver striking a pedestrian and then crashing into a wall.

An arrest report states that officers found a vehicle crashed into the side of a building at 4111 Southwest Fourth St. They said tire marks indicated the vehicle traveled over the sidewalk, through the grass, struck a small tree and then collided with the building.

Witnesses told police that the driver drove into the grass toward the building, exited the vehicle and struck the victim, who was on the ground, with multiple punches to the face, according to the report.

The report states that at least one witness told police the driver intentionally drove into the victim before the crashed into the wall.

Other witnesses said the victim then ran south in an attempt to flee, and the driver chased him toward apartment buildings, according to the report.

Officers later located both men near the 400 block of Southwest 42nd Avenue.

Police said the suspect, Ramon Antonio Osorio, matched the descriptions provided by witnesses.

They also confirmed that the victim was bleeding heavily from the mouth, had bruising to both elbows, and possible internal head and body injuries.

Miami Fire Rescue medics transported him to Coral Gables Hospital for treatment, according to the report.

After being read his Miranda rights, Osorio told officers that the victim was his friend and that they had been asleep in his vehicle, according to police.

Osorio said after waking up in his vehicle, he discovered that the victim and money from his crossbody bag were gone, according to the report.

Osorio, who is listed as homeless in his arrest report, told police he later found the victim counting a large amount of money on a sidewalk and became upset. He also admitted to repeatedly punching the victim in the face, the report states.

When asked whether he struck the victim with the vehicle or how the vehicle crashed into the building, Osorio invoked his rights and declined to answer further questions, according to police.

Police said a witness identified Osorio during a live show-up. They said at least one witness provided video footage that showed Osorio striking the victim while he was on the ground.

Osorio was taken into custody and transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for medical clearance before being taken to jail.

Jail records show Osorio is facing one count of aggravated battery.

As of Friday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. His bond was listed as “to be set.”

Rocha Moya anunció su regreso a la gobernación en un mensaje en su cuenta de X en el que sostuvo que la Fiscalía General de México indicó que “no existen los mínimos elementos de prueba que sustenten nuestra participación en conducta penal alguna, o sea, no he cometido ningún delito”.

Horas después, la Secretaría de Gobernación —el segundo cargo de relevancia en México después de la presidencia-- se distanció de la decisión de Rocha Moya al asegurar en un comunicado que su regreso a la gobernación de Sinaloa “responde exclusivamente a una determinación de carácter personal”.

En el escrito se señala que la Fiscalía General de México informó que “mantiene abiertas carpetas de investigación relacionadas con las diez personas señaladas por el Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos, entre ellas el gobernador de Sinaloa", dejando entrever una diferencia con lo que afirmó Rocha Moya de que el Ministerio Público determinó que no existían pruebas en su contra que respalden una conducta penal.

La reacción del gobierno mexicano se dio luego de las duras críticas que realizaron algunos opositores contra el regreso de Rocha Moya a su cargo.

“Hoy es un día de vergüenza nacional”, afirmó Jorge Álvarez Máynez, excandidato presidencial y dirigente del partido minoritario Movimiento Ciudadano, quien expresó en su cuenta de X que la decisión del gobernador es una “burla” al país. “Sin verdad, sin justicia, lo que queda es impunidad y la impunidad solamente va a traer más violencia, más indignación y más dolor para Sinaloa", agregó en un vídeo que publicó en las redes sociales.

El proceso contra el gobernador de Sinaloa desató una fuerte controversia en México que afectó al partido gobernante Morena y a la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum, quien salió en defensa de Rocha Moya y señaló a Estados Unidos de interferir en los asuntos internos de México.

“Hoy regreso al ejercicio de mi responsabilidad como gobernador de Sinaloa con la frente limpia y en alto y con la fuerza de la verdad de nuestro lado”, añadió el dirigente oficialista al asegurar que las “acusaciones falsas” que le hicieron tenían “motivaciones políticas e injerencistas de la ultraderecha nacional y extranjera”.

La fiscalía de Nueva York hizo pública a fines de abril una acusación por tráfico de drogas y tenencia ilícita de armas contra Rocha Moya y otros nueve funcionarios mexicanos entre los que se incluyen el alcalde de la ciudad de Culiacán —que también se separó temporalmente del cargo—, un senador oficialista, un fiscal y el exsecretario de Seguridad de Sinaloa, Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, quien semanas después se entregó a las autoridades estadounidenses.

En la acusación se señaló a los diez funcionarios activos y retirados de ayudar al Cártel de Sinaloa a introducir fentanilo, heroína, cocaína y metanfetamina a Estados Unidos.

La Fiscalía de Nueva York afirmó en un comunicado que el Cartel de Sinaloa “se habría aliado con políticos y agentes de las fuerzas del orden corruptos, incluidos los acusados, quienes han abusado de su autoridad en beneficio del cártel” y “han vendido sus cargos a cambio de sobornos cuantiosos”.

La Fiscalía General de México refutó la solicitud de detención de los funcionarios y pidió a Estados Unidos la entrega de pruebas, que hasta el momento no se ha concretado.

Desde septiembre de 2024 Sinaloa está sumido en una espiral de violencia por la encarnizada lucha que mantienen dos facciones del Cártel de Sinaloa que ha dejado centenares de muertos y desaparecidos. La pugna surgió a raíz de la detención y traslado a Estados Unidos en julio de ese año del histórico capo Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada quien señaló a Joaquín Guzmán López, hijo del excapo condenado Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, de secuestrarlo para entregarlo a las autoridades estadounidenses.

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Online jail records show Fiske Evariste Johnson, 57, was taken into custody by U.S. marshals on a bank robbery charge.

According to FBI Special Agent Willie Creech, the robbery occurred at about 4:20 p.m. on Aug. 13 at a Truist bank branch, located at 501 E. Las Olas Blvd.

Creech said the suspect implied that he had a gun on him before demanding money from a bank employee.

No injuries were reported.

Creech declined to confirm the amount of money taken during the robbery.

As of Friday afternoon, Johnson was being held at the Broward County Main Jail without bond.

Los registros de la cárcel en internet muestran que Fiske Evariste Johnson, de 57 años, fue detenido por alguaciles federales por un cargo de robo a banco.

Según el agente especial del FBI Willie Creech, el robo ocurrió alrededor de las 4:20 p.m. del 13 de agosto en una sucursal del banco Truist, ubicada en 501 E. Las Olas Blvd.

Creech dijo que el sospechoso insinuó que tenía un arma antes de exigir dinero a un empleado del banco.

No se reportaron personas heridas.

Creech se negó a confirmar la cantidad de dinero robada durante el asalto.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Johnson permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward sin derecho a fianza.

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Gutierrez, 32, had images showing the sex abuse of both boys and girls who appeared to be as young as 4 years old and as old as 8 years old, according to the MDSO detective’s arrest report.

Gutierrez “stated he created a Google account with the intent of obtaining content for pleasure,” and added that he focused on the images of child sex abuse “out of curiosity,” a detective wrote, according to the arrest report.

Gutierrez, who works as a barber, told detectives that he was able to get the images from a chat group on WhatsApp, according to the arrest report.

Gutierrez told detectives that he deleted the images after “he received a notification from Google that his account was flagged and shut down,” according to the arrest report.

Deputies arrested Gutierrez at 10:40 a.m. on Thursday at the apartment, according to the report. Corrections booked him at 4:05 p.m. at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Gutierrez faced six counts of possession of images depicting the sexual performance by a child. His bond was $45,000.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Jason Bloch was set to preside over the case.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

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The temporary order came hours before lower-court rulings would have forced a halt to aboveground construction of the project because Trump didn't get congressional approval.

It will remain in place until the Supreme Court issues a more durable decision, though the one-page document does not detail Roberts' reasoning or indicate when another ruling will be handed down. Roberts signed the order because he oversees emergency appeals of cases filed in the capital.

Trump thanked the high court and the chief justice during his remarks later Friday during a political appearance in South Carolina.

“When they say proceed, I think that's a good thing. That's a good thing,” Trump said.

Ballroom case tests the limits of presidential power

The case is coming before the nation’s highest court as Trump, a Republican, exercises unparalleled assertions of presidential power and increasingly seeks to mold the capital in his own image.

The administration has argued that the president has total authority to renovate the White House and other federal buildings as he sees fit and that the ballroom project must be completed due to national security concerns.

When Trump first announced the plans for a new ballroom, he did not emphasize national security. He said the project would be funded by private donations, including from himself.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that Trump has no unilateral authority to undertake the work, which has included demolishing the East Wing. Lawyers for the preservation group accused the White House of trying to “outrun the courts” by accelerating construction.

A spokesperson for the trust said Friday that the order from Roberts is not a final decision and the group is awaiting further action. The full Supreme Court will likely weigh in next on whether construction can continue for the potentially long duration of the lawsuit.

Trump said his administration is grateful for Friday's decision, writing in a social media post that the project is “under budget and ahead of schedule.”

While litigation plays out, the ballroom is going up quickly

The Trump administration says 65% of the work has already been completed on the planned 90,000-square-foot (8,400-square-meter) ballroom, where the East Wing stood before the president ordered its demolition.

Crews are working 20 hours a day, seven days a week, on the project, where about $200 million in private donations has been spent or committed, according to court documents filed by the Justice Department.

The work has proceeded against the backdrop of the litigation winding through the courts.

In April, a district court judge ordered a stop to the aboveground construction of the planned ballroom. That ruling was briefly suspended, then upheld by an appeals court panel. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington allowed work to continue only belowground on bunkers and military installations. Leon was nominated by President George W. Bush, a Republican.

Leon's decision was upheld by an appeals court panel, as two judges appointed by Democratic presidents found the project was for Congress to decide and “not a matter for Executive self-help.” A third judge, appointed by Trump, found that the preservationist group challenging the project had no legal standing to sue.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer picked up on that argument, calling the decision halting the work “extraordinary and unlawful.” He said the completion of the project was “vitally required by national security.”

The Trump administration has scored a series of victories on the Supreme Court's emergency docket, though the justices have ruled against some of the president’s signature policies after fuller review.

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The U.S. carmaker is recalling about 2.98 million China-made and imported EVs including Model 3, Model Y, Model X and Model S over door handle safety risks, according to China’s State Administration for Market Regulation.

The recall, the largest this year according to Chinese media, comes a few months after Chinese authorities said in February that starting next year, it would be banning hidden car door handles that are commonly seen on Tesla electric vehicles and many Chinese EV models.

China has stepped up scrutiny recently on hidden, or flush, car door handles following EV accidents in the country and elsewhere, in which cars’ hidden electronic doors failed and trapped people inside.

In a notice on the Chinese regulator’s website, it cited safety risk. In extreme situations, such as a severe collision that causes an electrical system failure, the car handles could hinder car users from quickly opening the doors to escape, or prevent rescuers outside the car from gaining access, the notice said.

Some experts in the industry said the automakers should value safety over design.

Cui Dongshu, head of the China Passenger Car Association, called the recall “an inevitable step” in the development of the electric vehicle industry and said automakers were “being responsible” by moving toward a more reliable, “safety-first” approach.

“This represents, in part, the growing pains of the industry. At the same time, however, this move signifies a policy-driven safety upgrade,” said Cui.

Tesla will perform software updates on the vehicles to mitigate risks, the notice added. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

Xiaomi, the Beijing-based Chinese technology giant, is recalling more than 390,000 vehicles. Hangzhou-based Leapmotor is recalling over 370,000 cars. Other Chinese carmakers, including Geely and XPENG are also recalling some vehicles.

The reasons given in each case were similar, mostly relating to issues with their car door handles.

A report published by the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, said the large-scale recall “serves as a unified safety upgrade” for existing vehicle models ahead of the 2027 implementation of the ban on hidden car door handles.

“For the rapidly evolving NEV (new energy vehicle) industry, competition should be defined not only by the pace of technological innovation but also by the high standards set for safety,” the newspaper said.

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Fu Ting reported from Washington.

Gutierrez, de 32 años, tenía imágenes que mostraban el abuso sexual de niños y niñas que aparentaban tener entre 4 y 8 años, según el informe de arresto del detective de MDSO.

Gutierrez “declaró que creó una cuenta de Google con la intención de obtener contenido por placer” y agregó que se enfocó en las imágenes de abuso sexual infantil “por curiosidad”, escribió un detective, según el informe de arresto.

Gutierrez, quien trabaja como barbero, dijo a los detectives que pudo obtener las imágenes de un grupo de chat en WhatsApp, según el informe de arresto.

Gutierrez dijo a los detectives que eliminó las imágenes después de que “recibió una notificación de Google de que su cuenta había sido marcada y cerrada”, según el informe de arresto.

Agentes arrestaron a Gutierrez a las 10:40 a.m. del jueves en el apartamento, según el informe. El Departamento Penitenciario lo ingresó a las 4:05 p.m. en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según registros de reclusos.

Gutierrez enfrentaba seis cargos de posesión de imágenes que representan la actuación sexual de un menor. Su fianza fue fijada en $45,000 USD.

El juez de circuito del condado Miami-Dade Jason Bloch estaba asignado para presidir el caso.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News Mercedes Cevallos contribuyó a este informe.

In Miami-Dade County, the list of local elections includes a school board seat, judges, and mayoral elections in Palmetto Bay, South Miami, North Miami, and Sunny Isles Beach.

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In Monroe County, the local elections include Key West, Isla Morada, and Key Colony Beach.

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Durante la investigación, agentes detuvieron a Zalim Bacchus en la gasolinera Marathon, ubicada en 220 South Dixie Highway, después de encontrar a un hombre herido, según BSO.

Agentes reportaron que Bacchus y la víctima tuvieron “un altercado” antes de la balacera. Personal de Bomberos y Rescate de Pompano Beach también respondió. La víctima requirió hospitalización, según BSO.

El Departamento de Correcciones de Broward ingresó a Bacchus la mañana del viernes en la cárcel principal del condado Broward en Fort Lauderdale, según registros de reclusos.

Bacchus, de Pompano Beach, enfrentaba un cargo de agresión agravada, un delito grave de primer grado, y el juez de circuito del condado Broward Michael Lynch estaba asignado para presidir el caso, según registros judiciales del condado.

Detectives pidieron a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre este u otros casos y que desee permanecer en el anonimato que llame a Crime Stoppers del condado Broward al 954-493-8477.

The ban for Paredes — who grabbed Spain’s Eric Garcia by the throat and pushed Gavi to the ground — ranks with the FIFA sanctions for Uruguay forward Luis Suárez in 2014 as among the most severe in World Cup history.

Argentina defender Nahuel Molina was handed a seven-game ban while Thiago Almada was given a one-game suspension. FIFA imposed fines of $90,000 on Paredes and Molina, and $30,000 for Almada.

The ban for Paredes is effectively a one-year expulsion from the Argentina team as the FIFA calendar for national team schedules includes 10 games through June 2027.

All of those games could be friendlies with no competitive games currently scheduled.

Spain’s Gavi also banned for game vs England

Gavi also was banned for one game, which is a Nations League match for Spain against England at Wembley on Sept. 26.

An Argentina coach, Roberto Ayala, also got a three-game ban and $30,000 fine.

The Argentine Football Association was fined $110,000 for a range of incidents during the World Cup including players carrying a political banner about the Falkland Islands after the semifinal win against England, and discriminatory chants by fans.

AFA also was ordered by FIFA to spend $100,000 on anti-racism projects. Argentina received $34 million in World Cup prize money from FIFA.

Argentina expected to appeal

AFA can appeal the longer sanctions and fines to FIFA, and likely after at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

“The AFA legal department will, in a timely manner, request from FIFA the grounds for the reviewable rulings in order to file appeals with the governing body’s appeal committee, while retaining the future option of appealing to the CAS as a final recourse,” the federation said in a statement.

Suárez and Simunic cases

In 2014, Suárez was banned from all soccer for four months, including for his new club Barcelona, and eight more competition games for Uruguay for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini in a World Cup group stage game in Brazil.

Paredes’ 10-game ban equals that in 2013 for Josip Simunic of Croatia after winning a World Cup qualifying playoff. Simunic used a megaphone to lead fans chanting a slogan used by the country’s pro-Nazi regime during World War II.

The on-field clashes at last month’s final in East Rutherford, New Jersey — which were charged by FIFA as assault cases — came after Argentina lost a testy final to Spain where it was mostly outplayed and barely created a scoring chance.

Spain forward Ferran Torres scored the only goal in the second period of extra time, after Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez was sent off.

FIFA disciplinary judges also ordered Argentina to play its next home game in a stadium limited to 50% of capacity. FIFA deferred a second stadium sanction and a $100,000 for probationary periods.

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AP Sports Writers Ken Maguire in London and Carlos Rodriguez in Mexico City contributed to this report

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Los investigadores señalaron que detectives de la Unidad de Homicidios de Tráfico de la BSO acudieron a la intersección de Northeast 49th Street y North Federal Highway, a petición del Departamento de Policía de Lighthouse Point, para investigar el accidente entre un vehículo y un peatón que conducía un scooter.

La investigación preliminar reveló que el conductor del scooter cruzaba la intersección en dirección este cuando fue embestido por un Toyota Corolla gris que circulaba hacia el sur, según indicaron los detectives.

El conductor, Gustavo Méndez, residente de Boca Raton, abandonó el lugar tras el accidente, comunicaron las autoridades.

Informaron que el personal de emergencias médicas de Lighthouse Point Fire Rescue trasladó a la víctima al centro médico Broward Health North, donde posteriormente se confirmó su fallecimiento.

Los detectives indicaron que conforme avanzaba la investigación, localizaron a Méndez y al Toyota Corolla, por lo que procedieron al arresto en Boca Raton.

No se divulgó información adicional sobre la víctima en virtud de la Ley Marsy.

Las autoridades dijeron que la investigación sigue en curso.

U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury, in her Thursday decision, concluded that Michael Jeffries “clearly possesses a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings” and is a “reasonably intelligent person and skilled communicator” following his stay at a federal prison hospital in Butner, North Carolina.

The federal judge on Long Island, New York, said she reviewed testimony and written reports from medical experts and listened to hours of phone calls Jeffries made to his romantic partner, lawyers and others while in custody.

“His presentation and responses in evaluations following his commitment to Butner and his phone calls show that he understands the structure of the criminal legal system, courtroom procedures, the functions of the various participants, the nature and purpose of the proceedings, and key legal concepts,” Choudhury wrote.

Jeffries’ lawyer declined to comment.

“We do not comment on the Judge’s rulings,” Brian Bieber wrote in an email. “The case, and all related issues, will be tried inside the courtroom – not in the media.”

Jeffries, 82, is currently free on bond. He’s slated to go on trial in late October, alongside two co-defendants, his partner Matthew Smith and staffer James Jacobson. A pretrial hearing is slated for next Thursday.

Jeffries’ lawyers had argued that he required around-the-clock care to deal with the effects of Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia and a traumatic brain injury. They had medical experts testify in court that Jeffries’ cognitive issues were “progressive and incurable” and that he would not “regain his competency.”

That prompted Choudhury to order Jeffries to be hospitalized to see if his mental condition would improve. After spending about four months at Butner, federal prison officials in December deemed Jeffries mentally fit to stand trial.

Jeffries, Smith and Jacobson have pleaded not guilty to federal charges, including sex trafficking and interstate prostitution.

Prosecutors say the three used the promise of modeling jobs to lure men to drug-fueled sex parties in New York City, the Hamptons and other locations. The criminal case echoes sexual misconduct accusations made in a civil case and in the media in recent years.

Jeffries left Abercrombie in 2014 after more than two decades. He’s credited with transforming the New York retailer, originally founded to sell wilderness gear, into a mainstay of teen mall culture in the early 2000s with its preppy youth aesthetic and sexy marketing.

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According to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report, the passenger flew on an American Airlines flight from North Carolina to Miami on June 8.

After arriving at MIA, the passenger accidentally left behind a black leather crossbody bag valued at $260, investigators said.

The bag contained approximately $12,377.90 worth of valuables, including a Cartier Santos watch and AirPods, according to the report.

The passenger told investigators he was initially able to track his AirPods around Miami International Airport for several days using an app before the location stopped updating.

Then, on July 1, he discovered what he believed was his missing Cartier watch listed for sale on DannysVintageWatches.com, a New York-based website, according to the report.

Investigators said the passenger was able to identify the watch because of a distinctive gash on the upper-left portion of its bezel. He provided investigators with several photographs showing him wearing the watch with the same mark.

Detectives then began tracing how the watch ended up for sale.

According to the report, records obtained through an Aug. 7 subpoena showed that Danny’s Vintage Watches purchased the watch from Brickell Watches, a Miami-based broker.

A second subpoena showed Brickell Watches had acquired it from another Miami jewelry broker, Consistent Luxury LLC, the report stated.

According to the report, a representative for Consistent Luxury told investigators the watch had been purchased from Vera Jewelry, located at 12260 SW Eighth St.

The report states that records provided by Vera Jewelry showed the suspect, Carlos Elky Penton, 45, of Hialeah, had sold the watch there on June 11 — three days after the passenger left his bag behind — for $1,500, which investigators described as substantially below its fair market value.

Investigators determined that the suspect worked for Eulen at Miami International Airport. According to the arrest report, Eulen is contracted to service aircraft after passengers get off, and the company serviced the aircraft used for the passenger’s flight on June 8.

Deputies located Penton Thursday behind a residence in Hialeah and took him into custody.

After waiving his Miranda rights, the suspect told investigators he was not working on the day the bag went missing but said another Eulen employee had given him the watch, according to the report.

Investigators said he acknowledged that the watch did not belong to him and that he did not know its owner.

Penton was arrested on a charge of dealing in stolen property and was transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center for processing.

As of Friday afternoon, Penton remained held at TGK on a $7,500 bond.

It’s unclear whether the watch was ever returned to the victim.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el pasajero viajó en un vuelo de American Airlines desde Carolina del Norte a Miami el 8 de junio.

Después de llegar a MIA, el pasajero dejó accidentalmente una bolsa cruzada de cuero negro valorada en $260 USD, dijeron los investigadores.

La bolsa contenía aproximadamente $12,377.90 USD en objetos de valor, incluidos un reloj Cartier Santos y unos AirPods, según el informe.

El pasajero dijo a los investigadores que inicialmente pudo rastrear sus AirPods alrededor del Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami durante varios días mediante una aplicación antes de que la ubicación dejara de actualizarse.

Luego, el 1 de julio, descubrió lo que creía que era su reloj Cartier desaparecido anunciado a la venta en DannysVintageWatches.com, un sitio web con sede en Nueva York, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que el pasajero pudo identificar el reloj debido a una marca distintiva en la parte superior izquierda de su bisel. Proporcionó a los investigadores varias fotografías que lo mostraban usando el reloj con la misma marca.

Los detectives comenzaron entonces a rastrear cómo el reloj terminó a la venta.

Según el informe, los registros obtenidos mediante una citación del 7 de agosto mostraron que Danny’s Vintage Watches compró el reloj a Brickell Watches, un intermediario con sede en Miami.

Una segunda citación mostró que Brickell Watches lo había adquirido de otro intermediario de joyería de Miami, Consistent Luxury LLC, indicó el informe.

Según el informe, un representante de Consistent Luxury dijo a los investigadores que el reloj había sido comprado a Vera Jewelry, ubicada en 12260 SW Eighth St.

El informe señala que los registros proporcionados por Vera Jewelry mostraron que el sospechoso, Carlos Elky Penton, de 45 años y residente de Hialeah, había vendido el reloj allí el 11 de junio, tres días después de que el pasajero dejara su bolsa, por $1,500 USD, una cantidad que los investigadores describieron como sustancialmente inferior a su valor justo de mercado.

Los investigadores determinaron que el sospechoso trabajaba para Eulen en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami. Según el informe de arresto, Eulen tiene un contrato para prestar servicio a las aeronaves después de que los pasajeros desembarcan, y la compañía prestó servicio a la aeronave utilizada para el vuelo del pasajero el 8 de junio.

Agentes localizaron a Penton el jueves detrás de una residencia en Hialeah y lo detuvieron.

Después de renunciar a sus derechos Miranda, el sospechoso dijo a los investigadores que no estaba trabajando el día en que desapareció la bolsa, pero afirmó que otro empleado de Eulen le había dado el reloj, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que reconoció que el reloj no le pertenecía y que no conocía a su propietario.

Penton fue arrestado por un cargo de tráfico de propiedad robada y fue trasladado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight para ser procesado.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Penton permanecía detenido en TGK con una fianza de $7,500 USD.

No está claro si el reloj fue devuelto alguna vez a la víctima.

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Investigators said BSO Traffic Homicide Unit detectives responded to the intersection of Northeast 49th Street and North Federal Highway at the request of the Lighthouse Point Police Department to investigate the crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian riding a scooter.

The preliminary investigation found the scooter rider was crossing eastbound through the intersection when he was struck by a gray Toyota Corolla traveling southbound, according to detectives.

The driver, Gustavo Mendez, of Boca Raton, left the scene after the crash, authorities said.

They said Lighthouse Point Fire Rescue medics transported the victim to Broward Health North Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.

Detectives said that as the investigation continued, they located Mendez and the Toyota Corolla in Boca Raton.

Jail records show Mendez was arrested on Thursday on a charge of failure to stop and/or remain at the scene of a crash involving death.

As of Friday afternoon, he was being held at the Broward County Main Jail on a $50,000 bond. A judge also ordered him to surrender his passport, prohibited him from driving or leaving Broward or Palm Beach counties, and required him to wear a GPS monitor.

Additional information about the victim was withheld under Marsy’s Law.

She died Thursday at her home in Kent, Connecticut, Robert Johnson, manager of the property, told The Associated Press. The cause of her death was not disclosed. Johnson said she will be buried next to her late husband at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.

The daughter of a New York City lawyer, she met Henry Kissinger while working for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. The couple wed in 1974.

She was described by one profiler as a brainy, Blass-bedecked blonde. She was often seen at high fashion openings and was a strong presence on the New York philanthropy scene.

“Nancy Kissinger can pick up the phone and get right through to the CEO. Nobody keeps her waiting,” philanthropist Judy Peabody said after chairing a successful hospital charity event in 1989.

Michael Bloomberg — the billionaire founder of the Bloomberg financial-news empire, former New York City mayor and a friend of the Kissingers — said in a social media post that Nancy Kissinger “was a powerhouse of ideas and insights that she put to work throughout her life in government and philanthropy — and as Henry’s most valued and trusted advisor.”

He added, “She was the ultimate diplomat — as wise as she was discreet — and I know how completely Henry admired and loved her. Diana and I were fortunate to call her a dear friend, and to see their extraordinary partnership in action over the decades. We will miss her greatly.”

Nancy Kissinger made headlines in 1982 when she tried to throttle a woman who harassed her and her husband with insulting questions at Newark Airport. The couple was going to Boston, where Henry Kissinger was to undergo bypass surgery.

The woman, a leafleter for a group affiliated with politician Lyndon LaRouche, accused Nancy Kissinger of choking both her throat and her free-speech rights. Nancy Kissinger said she only wanted to protect her husband from upset.

A judge acquitted Nancy Kissinger of assault and called her behavior “a spontaneous and somewhat human reaction to an offensive question.”

The Kissingers met in the mid-1960s when he was a consultant for Rockefeller and she was on the staff of Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for America.

Henry Kissinger had joined the Nixon administration and was secretary of state when he and the former Nancy Sharon Maginnes married on March 30, 1974, in a civil ceremony in Arlington, Virginia.

After leaving Washington, they returned to New York and lived in homes in Manhattan and Kent, Connecticut.

The daughter of an Episcopalian Park Avenue lawyer, Nancy Kissinger grew up with two brothers and a horse on an estate in White Plains.

She attended Good Counsel Academy, a Catholic girls school in White Plains, and the exclusive Master's School in Dobbs Ferry, from which she graduated in 1951. She returned to the school to teach history for two years after graduating from Mount Holyoke in 1955.

Graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley followed before she went to work for Rockefeller.

The letter, signed by at least two former staffers from Kennedy's 2024 presidential campaign, marks the first major MAHA movement mobilization over fossil fuels and the latest in a series of rifts between the diverse group of activists and the Trump administration over environmental policy.

The letter to Trump, Kennedy and various other Cabinet officials, first obtained by The Associated Press, laments a 2025 executive order that aimed to boost coal to power data centers over pollution concerns and asks the administration to consider renewable options, including solar and geothermal energy.

“We understand the importance of American leadership in artificial intelligence, national security, innovation, and economic growth,” the letter reads. “But American AI leadership should not come at the cost of a more toxic burden for American children.”

In response, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers noted that greenhouse gas emissions dropped to a 30-year low during Trump's first term and said Trump “was given a mandate to roll back the radical climate policies that are burning a hole through taxpayers' wallets.”

The agencies receiving the letter didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Prominent MAHA figures behind the letter include Zen Honeycutt, a former Kennedy campaign staffer and founder of the advocacy group Moms Across America, and Charles Eisenstein, a former speechwriter on Kennedy's campaign. Honeycutt said she asked the Kennedy-aligned political action committee MAHA Action to sign onto the letter but did not receive a reply.

Although it may not reflect the views of all MAHA activists, the new line of criticism against one of the administration’s signature policies less than three months before November’s midterm elections could present another challenge for Republicans as they seek to win over the voting bloc in key races.

As health secretary, Kennedy has carried out several policy changes that cater to the MAHA movement, including attempting to scale back childhood vaccine recommendations, a central priority for some activists. He also has sought to remove artificial dyes from food and encouraged Americans to have healthy diets free of ultraprocessed foods.

But many in the MAHA movement, which Trump credits with helping him win back the White House two years ago, say they have grown frustrated with the administration over its embrace of pesticides such as glyphosate and its deregulatory environmental agenda. Some have said they plan to vote on issues over party this fall, raising the political stakes of their increasingly public tensions with the Republican administration.

As president, Trump has enthusiastically embraced what he calls “big, beautiful coal” despite outcry from environmentalists about planet-warming greenhouse gases and toxic chemicals released by coal-fired power plants.

His administration has moved to reverse tighter Biden-era standards on greenhouse gas emissions, which, in addition to their climate impacts, can harm brain development in children and increase rates of heart attacks in adults.

He also has been a vocal advocate for data centers, which power artificial intelligence and cloud computing, framing them as a necessary component of winning the AI race against China.

“If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center,” Trump said this week, “I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are just enormous.”

Data centers have become a political flashpoint in this year's elections. Voters across the political spectrum have criticized them for jacking up electricity bills, draining water supplies, and creating unhealthy amounts of air and noise pollution.

Friday's letter asks the administration to require transparent review of data center location and power sourcing decisions, and respect existing environmental review requirements in the permitting process.

Honeycutt said that after Trump's executive order last year, she researched the impact of coal ash on communities and was disturbed by what she found. She said she was also concerned about other aspects of data centers, including their land use and their effects on the people living near them.

“The data center push has been an overwhelmingly negative impact on our communities, and there are many in the MAHA movement that are extremely disappointed about that,” she said. “We vote for those who put health and safety first.”

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Con los primeros rayos del sol los equipos con gigantescos mecheros empezaron a inflar los 20 globos que llegaron de México y Brasil más los de Ecuador, que al elevarse se recortaban en el cielo azul profundo y en las cercanas montañas de los Andes.

El denominado Festival del Globo - Mitad del Mundo 2026 se realiza entre el 20 y 23 de agosto en las inmediaciones de ese pueblo ubicado apenas cuatro kilómetros al norte de la capital ecuatoriana.

“Estamos desde muy temprano”, dijo a The Associated Press Silvia Camilla, una turista colombiana que aseguró que el festival "está muy bonito, los globos están muy grandes y está todo muy organizado”.

En ese icónico lugar, al que miles de turistas llegan a diario, los visitantes pueden poner un pie en el Hemisferio Norte y otro en el Hemisferio Sur al posarse en el monumento a la Mitad del Mundo.

Esta es que quinta edición del festival, organizado por la gobernación de Pichincha.

Aprovechando las condiciones del clima más bien frío, ideal para elevar los globos, los pilotos ascendieron los dirigibles mientras la gente hacía fila para subir a las canastillas y contemplar el paisaje desde lo alto.

“Me encanta volar globos y que me inviten a volar en la mitad del mundo, latitud cero”, dijo a AP uno de los pilotos que llegó a Ecuador para el festival, el mexicano Cristian Valdés, mientras los globos pasaban en unos pocos minutos entre uno y otro hemisferio.

The person spoke Friday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details of the agreement — the second sale in the NBA this month — were not being publicized.

The Los Angeles Lakers were flipped by Mark Walter to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner at a $12.5 billion valuation in a deal struck last week.

Lore, a New York e-commerce entrepreneur, and partner Alex Rodriguez, the former Major League Baseball star, bought the NBA and WNBA clubs from Minnesota businessman Glen Taylor. That complicated and contentious process lasted more than four years until the $1.5 billion sale got league approval in June 2025.

Lore will retain a limited share and essentially swap roles with Stad, who is the founder of Dragoneer Investment group, a California-based firm focused on technology companies. Rodriguez will remain as a co-owner and continue as the most publicly visible owner of the pro basketball franchises.

Lore's decision to sell his majority stake stems from his focus on his food delivery startup Wonder, according to a second person with knowledge of the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity to the AP because those details were not being made public. Lore has started the process of taking Wonder public.

Lore, Rodriguez and Stad issued a joint statement Friday expressing their commitment to the current leadership in the organization including chief executive officer Matt Caldwell, Timberwolves president of basketball operations Tim Connelly, Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch, and Lynx president of basketball operations and head coach Cheryl Reeve.

“We have been working together for years with a shared goal of building the Timberwolves and Lynx into the best organization in basketball on and off the floor. Our priority is and always will be championships,” the owners said. “Our new agreement, pending league approval, is an evolution of the partnership we have built together and strengthening of our commitment to our team and our culture.”

The two teams currently play at Target Center, which opened in 1990 for the second season of the Timberwolves after they were granted an expansion franchise. Lore and Rodriguez have previously pledged a desire to keeping the teams in downtown Minneapolis, eventually in a new arena.

The Lynx were added to the WNBA as an expansion club in 1999 and have won four championships, with a healthy lead on the rest of the league this season behind star Napheesa Collier and rookie Olivia Miles.

The Timberwolves have never won a title or reached the NBA Finals, with an eight-year run of making the playoffs behind star forward Kevin Garnett their only period of sustained success until recently.

Since drafting Anthony Edwards with the first overall pick in the 2020 draft, hiring Finch in 2021 and Connelly in 2022, the Timberwolves have grown into one of the league's best teams. They reached the Western Conference Finals in 2024 and 2025 and were ousted in the second round by the San Antonio Spurs last season. They acquired point guard LaMelo Ball in one of the NBA's biggest summer trades.

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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) just came out with their economic performance indicators for 2026. It predicts that Cuba’s economy will slow down 10.3%, which is the worse performance in all of Latin America.

How much more will the Cuban people be able to take is anybody’s guess.

Aug. 20: Cuba’s president says health system on verge of total collapse

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel admitted earlier this week that the health system, one of the so-called “great accomplishments” of the Cuban revolution, is on the verge of total collapse. There are thousands of Cubans on the island waiting for surgeries that cannot be performed due to the lack of doctors, medicines, equipment and poor hospital conditions.

For years, Cuba has been sending medical brigades around the world to help pay-off their debt and export the ideals of their revolution. The U.S. government has accused Cuba of human trafficking for these actions.

Aug. 18: Trump’s Cuba strategy: Is there really a plan?

Does the Trump administration really have a plan for Cuba?

After months of rhetorical back-and-forth, you begin to wonder whether the Trump administration really knows what to do with Cuba. We keep hearing that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was given the responsibility to deal with Cuba and the rest of Latin America, which he knows extremely well. But from what I hear, White House senior staff keeps getting in the way.

Continuing to sanction operations and individuals in Cuba will not bring down the government. Now we hear from Secretary Rubio and members of our Cuban-American congressional delegation that the target date has been moved back, and they hope that by 2029, changes in Cuba will have taken place, which is absolutely ridiculous.

Aug. 14: Cuba turns to global investors as US sanctions and property claims raise risks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I was at the hospital. I was there all day, hoping, praying, hoping for a turnaround,” Busch said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show on Friday.

“I said, ‘I got you man. Come on, I got you. I got you. Come on, be strong,’” an emotional Busch added, before a brief pause. “It just wasn’t fair.”

The interview marked Busch’s first comments since Kyle Busch died on May 21 after severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming complications. Busch’s death at the age of 41 devastated the racing community and one of NASCAR’s most accomplished families. The borthers were born in Las Vegas.

Kyle Busch won Cup Series championships in 2015 and 2019 for Joe Gibbs Racing, and holds the record in winning 234 combined races across NASCAR’s top three national series. His older brother was a Cup champion in 2004 and inducted this year into the Hall of Fame.

In the interview, Busch outlined how his brother became increasingly ill while practicing in a simulator on May 20. Asked by his crew chief whether he was OK, Busch responded no and he was taken to a hospital by ambulance.

Kyle Busch initially believed he was dealing with a sinus cold while racing at Watkins Glen, New York, on May 10. He continued competing, including winning a Truck Series race at Dover, Delaware, less than a week before he died. Kurt Busch said their father, Tom Busch, chose not to be at the hospital in order to “remember him the way he wanted to remember him.”

“There is no book, there is no outline on what we’re supposed to do right now,” Kurt Busch said, before recalling the on-track chemistry he had with his brother.

“Him and I were carbon copies of each other. We could speak on track without saying a word,” he said. “I miss the words we never spoke to each other, and the vibe that we had on track.”

Busch said he’s now mentoring his nephew, Kyle’s 11-year-old son Brexton, who has taken up racing.

“He’s a prodigy,” Busch said. “He can be a big start in the world of motorsports. He’s 11, but he’s already racing like an 18-year-old.”

As for his brother’s legacy, Busch said the achievements speak for themselves.

“It’s already there. Winningest driver in NASCAR history in all the series,” Busch said.

“The tenacity that he had. It was every day, 24-7, to help people in the latter part of his career, to be a great father like he was,” he added. “It will all shine as time puts different things in spotlights.”

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According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the shooting was reported just before 10:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 200 block of Southwest First Terrace.

Deputies said they responded to the scene and discovered that a man, later identified as Maurice Wright Jr., 31, had been shot inside an apartment.

He was pronounced dead at the scene by Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue medics.

After Wednesday night’s shooting, Wright’s family members broke down in tears at the crime scene when detectives told them he had died.

According to deputies, the woman who shot Wright was detained for questioning and claimed that she shot him in self-defense while protecting herself from a physical attack.

Detectives said the woman, whose identity has not been released, was released after being questioned.

The woman’s neighbor, Marcelle Thomas, said the woman had been through a difficult relationship with Wright.

Thomas said she had heard Wright was abusive toward the woman and her children.

“What I heard is that the dude was abusing her, abusing the 4-year-old and tried to abuse the 11-year-old,” Thomas said.

According to Thomas, the woman was Wright’s ex, but he found out where she lived.

He said neighbors would hear them fighting inside her apartment.

“So she had to do what she had to to defend her and her daughter, and she did that,” Thomas said.

A maintenance worker at the apartment building told Local 10 that the woman is a “nice girl.”

Thomas said Wright had previously been jailed in connection with the killing of his father.

Local 10 covered that incident in 2022, when Miami-Dade County sheriff’s deputies used an explosive tactical breach to take Wright into custody at a motel.

Wright was accused of killing his father with an assault rifle and was charged with second-degree murder.

After detectives complete their investigation into Wednesday’s shooting, they will present the case to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office for review.

Detectives have not said what led up to the alleged physical attack that preceded the shooting.

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According to police, officers and a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crew responded to the beach near the 1800 block of South Ocean Drive where medics performed “life-saving measures” on the victim before transporting him to a nearby hospital, where he died.

Police said it appears the victim was diving before he lost consciousness in the water.

Detectives said foul play is not suspected, however the circumstances surrounding the death remain under investigation.

The victim’s identity is being withheld from police as they work to notify his next of kin.

Beef prices have climbed to record highs amid a drop in the number of U.S. cattle, consistent consumer demand and limits on cattle from Mexico, where the animals are facing a flesh-eating pest. The U.S. president has also imposed 50% tariffs on Brazil, a major beef exporter.

Trump remains under pressure to cut costs and address affordability issues ahead of November’s midterms. But ranchers, normally some of the president’s biggest supporters, are enjoying some rare profitable years and worry cheap beef imports will reduce cattle prices — and with it, the incentive to increase herd sizes.

“We all want lower grocery prices, but as I’ve said for months, we cannot do it at the expense of American producers,” Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., said in a statement. “Flooding the market with foreign beef hurts our livestock industry and undermines the long-term solution: growing the U.S. cattle herd to meet demand.”

When asked by reporters Friday evening about criticism of the deal, Trump said, “I love the ranchers; they’ve done a fantastic job. But they admit that we need a little help, and, in order to get the prices down, so that’s what we’re doing.”

Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said in a social media post just hours after Trump announced the deal that the president's “heart is in the right place,” but importing beef will “harm our ranching families who feed the nation.”

And Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., said that while he appreciates the administration's focus on grocery prices, “short term policy shifts do not equal long term solutions.”

The deal, Trump said, allows up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported into the U.S. for the next 90 days without activating an “out of quota” tariff, which is a tax that goes into effect once a certain quantity of that product enters the country.

The president said on social media that he had committed to ensuring the imported beef would be sold at 25% below current market rates, making it cheaper for American consumers. Trump didn't specify which countries would import the beef while speaking to reporters Friday, but said “there are a few” and that they'll send the “highest quality beef.” A White House official said the deal is with foreign beef exporters who have agreed to the discount on beef.

“You don’t put America first by putting U.S. cattle producers last,” U.S. Cattlemen's Association President Justin Tupper said in a statement. “This move will weaken our markets and gamble with food safety in the process.”

The president's announcement and other market interventions sacrifice “long-term stability for short term messaging,” Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said in a statement.

Glynn Tonsor, a professor at Kansas State University who focuses on the cattle and beef industry, said he would like to see more details about the latest deal but that his immediate assessment was that it wouldn't have a big effect on prices.

That’s because 300,000 metric tons amounts to roughly 3% of what Americans eat yearly, he said. “The relative magnitude we are talking about is pretty small.”

David Anderson, professor of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University, said he was skeptical other countries could redirect so much beef to the U.S. in such a short time period.

“Is that even achievable?” he questioned in a phone interview.

The White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a plan that has yet to be finalized, said the beef in question is lean beef trimmings that are used for ground beef production. Trump plans to sign an executive order formalizing the directive within two weeks, the official said. The administration made a push last year to buy more beef from Argentina to try to bring down prices.

The president said Friday that his plan would help grow the U.S. cattle supply, which is the smallest it's been in decades. Some ranchers and experts said the opposite effect was more likely.

“Imports have been a major contributor to the decline in the U.S. cattle inventory,” said Bill Bullard, the CEO of the R-CALF USA, which represents independent cattle producers. “Using more imports today will exacerbate that decline and will prevent herd expansion.”

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Associated Press writers Sarah Raza in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta contributed to this report.

The shopping mall strikes, plus two other separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, left a total of 21 people dead across Ukraine on Friday, authorities said.

Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who described the attack as a double-tap strike, in which an initial wave of drones hit the area, followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded.

“Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. In a video address several hours later, he said Ukraine would respond to the shopping mall attack.

Oleksandr Hanzha, who heads the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said Friday evening that the attack on the mall killed at least 15 people and injured 130, including 23 children.

Kryvyi Rih has been hit multiple times during the more than 4-year-old war, with one of the deadliest occurring in April 2025, when 20 people, including nine children, were killed.

Russia exploits Ukraine’s shortage of defensive systems

Earlier on Friday, a Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region killed two women, aged 73 and 66, and wounded two others, said regional head Oleh Syniehubov.

Another Russian attack on Friday evening killed four people, including three children, in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region, emergency services said.

Ukraine shot down or suppressed 107 out of 135 drones launched by Russia overnight, according to a statement from Ukraine’s air force on Telegram.

Friday’s attacks came just 24 hours after Russia pounded the capital of Kyiv with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that killed 16 people.

Large-scale Russian strikes have become a regular occurrence this summer. Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people, and nine were killed in the city two days before that. The United Nations said last week that Kyiv was one of the hardest hit cities in July, with at least 54 civilians killed and 202 injured.

Moscow’s forces have recently intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.

Ukrainian drones hit Russian oil refinery

A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded four others when a car was struck Friday in Russia’s Belgorod region near the village of Razumnoye, local officials said, adding that two of the injured were in serious condition.

Earlier, Zelenskyy said a separate Ukrainian drone attack hit an oil refinery in Perm, more than 1,600 kilometers (about 995 miles) from his country’s border. Also struck was the Marinovka military airfield in Russia’s Volgograd region, he said.

The Russian online news outlet Astra reported that the Ukrainian drone had set ablaze a Lukoil-operated oil refinery in Perm. Local officials said damage was recorded at an unidentified “industrial facility.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses overnight intercepted 325 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regions, as well as Crimea. The peninsula was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014.

Later Friday, it said its defenses shot down another 211 drones.

Long-range strikes between Russia and Ukraine have escalated as troops continually fail to make significant battlefield progress, analysts say. Troop movements along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line in eastern and southern Ukraine are severely restricted by large numbers of drones and ground robots that threaten infantry and vehicles.

In the past year, Ukraine has devised and deployed domestically produced long-range drones for strikes deep inside Russia, capturing the attention of governments and defense manufacturers around the world.

Officials in Kyiv aim to make the Russian public feel the war’s consequences and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into negotiating a peace settlement. Putin has so far shown no sign he intends to stop the invasion.

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The transition from a highly structured military career to civilian life was difficult for the married father of five. But with help from a South Florida veterans program, McCartney found a new mission — one that traded his military uniform for turntables and a classroom.

“My name is Scott McCartney. Also known as DJ Smoove The Rough,” he said.

Today, McCartney is sharing his passion for music with the next generation as a professor at Miami Dade College.

A difficult transition from military life

Before becoming DJ Smoove, McCartney spent nearly 30 years in the Coast Guard, with his service taking him around the world.

“I went as far as Australia, Alaska. Many places in the states, Washington D.C., Florida, of course. Miami, here,” he said.

McCartney ultimately retired at the rank of commander.

“I did very well in the Coast Guard,” he said. “I retired as an O5, which is a commander.”

But retirement brought uncertainty. McCartney suddenly found himself without the structure of military life or a full-time salary.

“My family was behind me, but I really had a difficult time,” McCartney said. “I had a hard time.”

Eventually, he realized he needed assistance navigating the transition.

“I realized I needed help,” he said. “I needed help with the transition.”

McCartney found that support through United Way Miami Mission United, which connects veterans and their families with free essential services.

Vanessa Benavides, vice president of community impact for United Way Miami, said McCartney initially came to the organization seeking employment assistance.

“He came to us specifically for employment services,” Benavides said.

The organization helped McCartney strengthen his resume and rebuild his confidence.

“And that helped open doors and opportunities for him,” Benavides said.

From ‘Commander McCartney’ to ‘Professor Smoove’

One of those opportunities led McCartney to Miami Dade College.

There, he created a curriculum that became the first three-credit DJing college course in the nation, which he now teaches.

McCartney’s military background still influences his teaching style.

Student Omar Sanchez Zelaya, who goes by “Meezy Magic,” said McCartney expects his students to be punctual and prepared.

“This is like DJ Boot Camp,” Sanchez Zelaya joked.

McCartney admits it can sometimes be difficult to leave the commander behind when he enters the classroom.

“My wife always tells me, ‘Tone it down, tone it down. Be more Professor Smoove than Commander McCartney,’” he said.

For students like Amanda O’Connor, who goes by “Sirene Clover,” McCartney’s class has helped uncover abilities she didn’t realize she had.

“I didn’t think that I was musically inclined,” O’Connor said. “Turns out that I am, and I learned that through this class.”

Turning the highs and lows into something good

McCartney’s journey has also included a commitment to education.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and two master’s degrees, one in multimedia journalism and another in telecommunications management.

And he isn’t finished.

In September, McCartney is expected to earn his third master’s degree, this time in music production.

After experiencing both the highs and lows that came with leaving the military and building a new career, McCartney now looks back on the journey with gratitude — and a nod to his DJ name.

“It’s also been an enjoyable road,” he said. “And, it’s also been a SMOOVE road. Smoove the Rough.”

For McCartney, a difficult transition ultimately became an opportunity to find a new purpose — using music and education to help his students discover their own.

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La transición de una carrera militar altamente estructurada a la vida civil fue difícil para este padre casado de cinco hijos. Pero con la ayuda de un programa para veteranos del sur de Florida, McCartney encontró una nueva misión: cambiar su uniforme militar por tocadiscos y un aula.

“Me llamo Scott McCartney. También conocido como DJ Smoove The Rough”, dijo.

En la actualidad, McCartney comparte su pasión por la música con la próxima generación como profesor en el Miami Dade College.

Una difícil transición de la vida militar a la vida civil.

Antes de convertirse en DJ Smoove, McCartney pasó casi 30 años en la Guardia Costera, un servicio que le llevó a recorrer el mundo.

“Viajé hasta Australia, Alaska. Muchos lugares en Estados Unidos, Washington D.C., Florida, por supuesto. Miami, aquí”, dijo.

Finalmente, McCartney se retiró con el rango de comandante.

“Me fue muy bien en la Guardia Costera”, dijo. “Me retiré con el rango de O5, que es el de comandante”.

Pero la jubilación trajo consigo incertidumbre. De repente, McCartney se encontró sin la estructura de la vida militar ni un salario a tiempo completo.

“Mi familia me apoyó, pero realmente lo pasé mal”, dijo McCartney. “Lo pasé muy mal”.

Finalmente, se dio cuenta de que necesitaba ayuda para afrontar la transición.

“Me di cuenta de que necesitaba ayuda”, dijo. “Necesitaba ayuda con la transición”.

McCartney encontró ese apoyo a través de United Way Miami Mission United, que conecta a los veteranos y sus familias con servicios esenciales gratuitos.

Vanessa Benavides, vicepresidenta de impacto comunitario de United Way Miami, dijo que McCartney inicialmente acudió a la organización en busca de ayuda para encontrar empleo.

“Vino a nosotros específicamente para solicitar servicios de empleo”, dijo Benavides.

La organización ayudó a McCartney a fortalecer su currículum y a recuperar la confianza en sí mismo.

“Y eso le ayudó a abrir puertas y oportunidades”, dijo Benavides.

De ‘Comandante McCartney’ a ‘Profesor Smoove’

Una de esas oportunidades llevó a McCartney al Miami Dade College.

Allí creó un programa de estudios que se convirtió en el primer curso universitario de DJ de tres créditos del país, el cual imparte actualmente.

Su formación militar sigue influyendo en su estilo de enseñanza.

El estudiante Omar Sánchez Zelaya, conocido como “Meezy Magic”, dijo que McCartney espera que sus alumnos sean puntuales y estén preparados.

“Esto es como un campamento de entrenamiento para DJs”, bromeó Sánchez Zelaya.

McCartney admite que a veces puede ser difícil dejar atrás al comandante cuando entra en el aula.

“Mi esposa siempre me dice: ‘Baja el tono, baja el tono. Sé más el Profesor Smoove que el Comandante McCartney’”, dijo.

Para estudiantes como Amanda O’Connor, conocida como “Sirene Clover”, la clase de McCartney ha ayudado a descubrir habilidades que no sabía que tenía.

“No creía tener aptitudes musicales”, dijo O’Connor. “Resulta que sí las tengo, y lo descubrí gracias a esta clase”.

Convertir los altibajos en algo bueno.

La trayectoria de McCartney también ha incluido un compromiso con la educación.

Posee una licenciatura en ingeniería eléctrica y dos maestrías, una en periodismo multimedia y otra en gestión de telecomunicaciones.

Y aún no ha terminado.

En septiembre, se espera que McCartney obtenga su tercer máster, esta vez en producción musical.

Tras experimentar tanto los altibajos que supuso dejar el ejército y construir una nueva carrera, McCartney ahora rememora ese camino con gratitud, y haciendo un guiño a su nombre artístico como DJ.

“También ha sido un camino agradable”, dijo. “Y, además, ha sido un camino de SMOOVE. Suavizar lo áspero”.

Para McCartney, una transición difícil se convirtió finalmente en una oportunidad para encontrar un nuevo propósito: utilizar la música y la educación para ayudar a sus alumnos a descubrir el suyo propio.

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Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said Jacob Johnson was arrested Thursday after investigators linked him to the armed robbery that they say occurred on July 31.

Deputies said they were called at about 7:15 p.m. that night to an apartment building near the 3100 block of Northwest 77th Street in the county’s Westgate area after the victim, who lives in the same apartment building as Johnson, reported that a man entered his vehicle, pointed a gun at his head and demanded his valuables.

Johnson entered through the left rear passenger door while the victim was sitting in his vehicle, according to the report.

The report states that Johnson pulled out a “two-tone revolver with a silver frame and black grip” and pressed it against the victim’s head.

Deputies said Johnson then pulled a 10-karat yellow gold Cuban-link chain from the victim’s neck while keeping the gun pressed against his temple.

They said the victim told deputies he feared for his life and felt as though he was being suffocated.

Deputies said the victim also surrendered two 10-karat yellow gold Cuban-link bracelets and a yellow gold ring depicting Our Lady of Charity to the suspect.

They said the victim estimated the jewelry that was stolen from him was worth about $113,000.

After the robbery, Johnson fled on foot toward a nearby parking garage, according to the report. The report states that the victim used his cellphone to record video of Johnson as he ran away.

Investigators said the victim believed Johnson lived in the apartment building because he saw him use a key fob to enter a secured door.

Investigators reviewed records associated with residents of the building and identified Johnson as a “person of interest,” according to the report.

The report states that apartment management staff were shown images and video of the suspect. One staff member “immediately recognized the depicted individual” and referred to him as “Mr. Jacob,” deputies said.

Surveillance footage from the building also appeared to corroborate the victim’s account, according to the report.

The footage showed Johnson leaving his apartment on the third floor just before 7 p.m. wearing clothing consistent with what the suspect was wearing in the victim’s video and photographs, the report stated.

Deputies said shortly after the robbery was reported, Johnson was seen returning to his apartment.

The victim was later shown a photographic lineup and identified Johnson as the person who robbed him, the report states.

Investigators also found that Johnson had five previous felony convictions. His most recent conviction was a 2018 Palm Beach County case involving possession of cocaine, according to the report.

Because of those prior felony convictions, Johnson was prohibited from possessing a gun or ammunition, deputies said.

They said a search warrant was conducted around 6:55 a.m. Thursday at Johnson’s home before he was taken into custody without incident and transported to MDSO headquarters.

During a post-Miranda interview, Johnson admitted to being involved in the robbery, according to the report. However, he told investigators the handgun he used was a “fictitious replica cap gun,” deputies said.

Jail records show Johnson is facing one count each of armed robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon, first-degree grand theft while armed, illegal possession of a weapon as a post-convicted felon and armed burglary.

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

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade dijeron que Jacob Johnson fue arrestado el jueves después de que los investigadores lo vincularan con el robo a mano armada que, según ellos, ocurrió el 31 de julio.

Agentes dijeron que fueron llamados alrededor de las 7:15 p.m. de esa noche a un edificio de apartamentos cerca de la cuadra 3100 de Northwest 77th Street, en el área de Westgate del condado, después de que la víctima, que vive en el mismo edificio de apartamentos que Johnson, reportara que un hombre entró en su vehículo, le apuntó con un arma a la cabeza y le exigió sus objetos de valor.

Johnson entró por la puerta trasera izquierda del lado del pasajero mientras la víctima estaba sentada en su vehículo, según el reporte.

El reporte indica que Johnson sacó un “revólver de dos tonos con armazón plateado y empuñadura negra” y lo presionó contra la cabeza de la víctima.

Agentes dijeron que Johnson luego arrancó del cuello de la víctima una cadena cubana de oro amarillo de 10 quilates mientras mantenía el arma presionada contra su sien.

Dijeron que la víctima contó a los agentes que temió por su vida y sintió como si se estuviera asfixiando.

Agentes dijeron que la víctima también entregó al sospechoso dos pulseras cubanas de oro amarillo de 10 quilates y un anillo de oro amarillo con la imagen de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad.

Dijeron que la víctima estimó que las joyas que le robaron tenían un valor aproximado de $113,000 USD.

Después del robo, Johnson huyó a pie hacia un estacionamiento cercano, según el reporte. El reporte indica que la víctima utilizó su teléfono celular para grabar un video de Johnson mientras huía.

Los investigadores dijeron que la víctima creía que Johnson vivía en el edificio de apartamentos porque lo vio utilizar un llavero electrónico para entrar por una puerta con acceso restringido.

Los investigadores revisaron los registros relacionados con los residentes del edificio e identificaron a Johnson como una “persona de interés”, según el reporte.

El reporte indica que al personal administrativo del edificio de apartamentos se le mostraron imágenes y un video del sospechoso. Un miembro del personal “reconoció inmediatamente al individuo que aparecía en las imágenes” y se refirió a él como “Sr. Jacob”, dijeron agentes.

Las imágenes de vigilancia del edificio también parecían corroborar el relato de la víctima, según el reporte.

Las imágenes mostraron a Johnson saliendo de su apartamento en el tercer piso poco antes de las 7 p.m. con ropa que coincidía con la que llevaba el sospechoso en el video y las fotografías de la víctima, indicó el reporte.

Agentes dijeron que poco después de que se reportara el robo, Johnson fue visto regresando a su apartamento.

Posteriormente, se le mostró a la víctima una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfica e identificó a Johnson como la persona que lo robó, indica el reporte.

Los investigadores también descubrieron que Johnson tenía cinco condenas previas por delitos graves. Su condena más reciente fue en un caso de 2018 en el condado Palm Beach relacionado con posesión de cocaína, según el reporte.

Debido a esas condenas previas por delitos graves, Johnson tenía prohibido poseer un arma de fuego o municiones, dijeron agentes.

Dijeron que alrededor de las 6:55 a.m. del jueves se ejecutó una orden de registro en la vivienda de Johnson antes de que fuera detenido sin incidentes y trasladado a la sede de MDSO.

Durante una entrevista posterior a la lectura de sus derechos Miranda, Johnson admitió estar involucrado en el robo, según el reporte. Sin embargo, dijo a los investigadores que la pistola que utilizó era una “réplica ficticia de una pistola de fulminantes”, dijeron agentes.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Johnson enfrenta un cargo de robo a mano armada con arma de fuego o arma mortal, un cargo de hurto mayor en primer grado mientras estaba armado, un cargo de posesión ilegal de un arma como ex convicto por un delito grave y un cargo de allanamiento armado.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “por determinar”.

Moke was located about 660 miles (1,060 kilometers) southeast of Hilo and was moving west-northwest at 9 mph (15 kph). Maximum sustained winds were around 45 mph (75 kph), according to an advisory from the Miami-based hurricane center.

Like with Hurricane Lala, the Big Island is again expected to bear the brunt of the storm. It battered Hawaii last weekend without making landfall, downing trees and leaving roads covered in mud and rocks.

Rain and heavy winds from Moke are expected to hit the Big Island late Saturday, with the storm continuing to move west across the islands through early Tuesday, said Casey Oswant, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu.

“There will still be impacts, especially to the windward and southeast sides of the Big Island, but it will probably be a little bit more limited than what we saw with Lala,” she said.

The northeast coast of the Big Island saw the heaviest rainfall from Lala, at 43.54 inches (1.1 meters), according to the weather service. The resulting flooding swept dozens of homes from their foundations and damaged roads and bridges. About 11,630 customers on the Big Island remained without power Friday, according to poweroutage.us.

Rainfall predictions for this weekend for the southeast and windward sides of the Big Island were 5 to 10 inches (13 to 25 centimeters) of rain, with isolated amounts up to 15 inches (38 centimeters), Oswant said. Across the rest of the island chain, 1 to 2 inches (2 to 5 centimeters) of rain was expected to fall, though parts of east Maui could see up to 4 inches (10 centimeters), she said.

There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect Friday morning, but people were urged to closely monitor the storm's progress. The rainfall has the potential to cause dangerous rip currents, life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in steep areas and places where the ground remains saturated in Lala's wake, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green and other state officials held a news conference Thursday afternoon to update Lala recovery progress and urge people to prepare for the next storm.

Officials urged people low on emergency supplies to restock up to 14 days of food, medicine and other essentials and closely monitor the storm’s progress.

“There’s definitely tension in the air” at the thought of more rain in communities that floodwaters turned into rivers, said Tiffany Edwards Hunt, a teacher living in Keaau, on the east side of the Big Island. “There were some areas that were completely washed out.”

The Hawaiian Electric utility said it expects nearly all affected customers on the Big Island to have power restored, except for certain remote and severely damaged areas.

El Centro Nacional de Huracanes añadió dos zonas de riesgo extremo más sobre el Atlántico subtropical a su mapa de pronóstico tropical desde el jueves.

Un sistema es una baja presión claramente no tropical situada a lo largo de un frente frío en el extremo noreste del Atlántico, más cerca de Europa que de América. Podría adquirir características subtropicales o incluso tropicales sobre las aguas cálidas, que registran temperaturas récord o casi récord, al oeste de Portugal, pero en cualquier caso, el resultado será fuerte oleaje, vientos fuertes y periodos de lluvias intensas en algunas zonas de Portugal y el norte de España desde el domingo hasta la madrugada del lunes, hora local.

Mientras tanto, una zona de baja presión débil y desorganizada, ubicada a cientos de millas al sureste de las Bermudas sobre el Atlántico subtropical medio, tiene un 20% de probabilidad de desarrollarse, principalmente a principios de la próxima semana, a medida que se desplaza generalmente hacia el norte en el Atlántico Norte. Es improbable que se produzca un desarrollo significativo, ya que el sistema se acercará o se acercará al este de Terranova y el Atlántico canadiense entre el martes y el miércoles de la próxima semana.

Los modelos muestran indecisión sobre el desarrollo en el Atlántico oriental la próxima semana.

Los modelos de pronóstico siguen mostrando indecisión de una ejecución a otra sobre las probabilidades de desarrollo de una onda tropical que se desplazará desde África hacia el Atlántico oriental a principios de la próxima semana.

Si bien la señal de desarrollo se mantiene para finales de la próxima semana en el Atlántico oriental, es menos pronunciada que en ejecuciones anteriores. El conjunto de 1000 miembros de DeepMind de Google ha mostrado una variabilidad notable entre ejecuciones, pero otros grupos de modelado, como los conjuntos de modelos europeos, han sido más consistentes con su señal de desarrollo para finales de la próxima semana.

El NHC aún no ha incluido la perturbación en su pronóstico, pero probablemente veremos otro cambio negativo durante el fin de semana si las tendencias persisten.

En cualquier caso, esto presentará numerosos obstáculos debido a la persistente cizalladura del viento que azota el Atlántico central, y no es algo que deba preocuparnos a quienes vivimos en Estados Unidos la próxima semana.

Se prevé que el futuro sistema Moke se desplace al sur de Hawái, pero provocará fuertes lluvias en la Isla Grande.

Ayer por la mañana hablamos de la perturbación denominada Invest 90E, situada al sureste de Hawái, que posteriormente fue elevada a la categoría de Depresión Tropical Dos-C el jueves.

El sistema permaneció desorganizado el viernes por la mañana, pero se prevé que se organice en la tormenta tropical Moke más tarde ese mismo día. En las últimas 24 horas, los modelos se han desplazado notablemente hacia el sur, una tendencia positiva que garantiza que el centro de la futura Moke pasará cómodamente entre 100 y 200 millas al sur de Hawái.

Los modelos también han mostrado una tendencia a la baja en sus pronósticos de intensidad y prevén que Moke se mantendrá como una tormenta tropical de nivel bajo a medio durante el fin de semana.

En cualquier caso, la circulación externa del sistema intensificará las fuertes lluvias en Maui y las laderas orientales de la Isla Grande, donde podrían caer hasta 38 centímetros de lluvia, con las precipitaciones más intensas desde el domingo hasta el próximo martes, hora local. Si bien las cantidades serán mucho menores que las que trajo Lala el fin de semana pasado, las lluvias agravarán los problemas de escorrentía en ríos y arroyos que ya se encuentran crecidos.

Se ha emitido una alerta por inundaciones desde el sábado hasta la tarde del lunes para la zona de barlovento y el lado sureste de la Isla Grande.

Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its final days. Closing arguments are expected next week.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her children Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were found in the basement of the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy jumped from a second-story window after strangling the children and remains paralyzed from the waist down.

Prosecutors argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, planned the killings.

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Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, hasn’t disputed that she killed the children but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.

He sought to bolster that defense by having the jury hear from more of Clancy’s family members, who detailed her worsening mental health and attempts to fix it through psychiatric treatment and medications before the January 2023 killings. The jury also heard from a psychologist and a hospital chaplain who met with Clancy after the killings.

The defense's final witness also testified at the trial of Texas mom Andrea Yates

For his final witness on Friday, Reddington called Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist and expert in filicide, or the killing of a child by a parent.

Resnick testified that Clancy was “clearly psychotic” on the day she killed her children and was not in control of her actions.

“It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings,” said Resnick, who testified for the defense in the 2006 trial of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001.

Resnick said he spent hours interviewing Clancy four months after the killings and believed she tended to minimize rather than exaggerate her symptoms. He said she suffered from severe depression, showed evidence consistent with bipolar disorder and reported hearing a voice commanding her to kill her children.

Resnick described several categories of filicide, including killings involving abuse. Others involve psychosis or what he calls “altruistic” filicide — a killing committed “out of love rather than hostility.” He said he found Clancy’s case involved both of the latter categories, but he didn’t find evidence of abuse.

Resnick said Clancy had a delusional belief that if social services took the children or if she killed herself, her children would suffer without her, and believed that they would be better off dying with her and going to heaven.

“She believed that she was doing what was right for her children,” he said.

Under cross-examination by prosecutor Jennifer Sprague, Resnick acknowledged that Clancy did not disclose thoughts of harming her children to medical providers who asked, but said that was “very common because people fear their children will be taken away.”

“So it’s better to kill them than have them taken away?” Sprague asked.

The judge struck the question.

Prosecutors say Clancy wasn't suffering from psychosis or bipolar disorder

Prosecutors argue that Clancy contrived to get her husband out of the house the day of the killings. They have attempted to show that while she was getting treatment for anxiety, insomnia and depression, she wasn't suffering from psychosis or bipolar disorder.

After the defense rested, prosecutors called forensic psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack as a rebuttal witness. Mack agreed that Clancy suffered from a major depressive episode but said he found no evidence of mania or hypomania to support a bipolar diagnosis — or of psychosis — leading up to the killings.

Mack said Clancy recounted the killings to him, saying she heard a loud male voice telling her to kill the children so she could kill herself. She recalled strangling the children and saying “go to God” as she did so, he told jurors.

Mack said Clancy was experiencing severe mental illness when she killed her children but that it was a continuation of the depression she had experienced for months in which she was able to control impulses and distinguish right from wrong.

He also said, “There’s no reason that psychosis in and of itself inhibits a person’s ability to know right from wrong.”

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Clancy’s first name was misspelled in the headline of an earlier version of this story. It has been corrected to Lindsay, instead of Lindsey.

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Deputies said the suspect, Baran Pourtahmazeb-Sasi, allegedly matched with the girl on the dating app Bumble on Aug. 7 through Vitaly, an online group whose members pose as underage individuals to identify people attempting to exploit or solicit minors for sex.

According to an arrest report, the conversation moved from Bumble to text messages on Aug. 9. Deputies said a Vitaly member who posed as the girl told Pourtahmazeb-Sasi that she was 15 years old and in high school.

Investigators said Pourtahmazeb-Sasi continued communicating with members of Vitaly who were posing as the girl and allegedly made sexual comments, including discussing oral sex and masturbation.

According to the report, Pourtahmazeb-Sasi also allegedly told the person posing as the girl that he could “help her” learn about sex or that she could research it online after she said she was a virgin.

The report states that Pourtahmazeb-Sasi sent a photograph of himself wearing a military uniform and told the person posing as the girl that he had previously served in the Army.

Deputies said he later arranged to meet the person posing as the girl at a BurgerFi in Delray Beach. According to the report, he allegedly said he wanted to perform oral sex and “make love to her.”

Authorities said Pourtahmazeb-Sasi continued communicating with the person posing as the girl and later sent a message saying he had awakened from a dream about kissing her.

They said the two then made plans to meet at a Dunkin’ in Pompano Beach.

At approximately 6 p.m. Tuesday, Pourtahmazeb-Sasi arrived at the Dunkin’, where he was met by members of Vitaly, according to investigators. The encounter was livestreamed on Kick, authorities said.

BSO deputies then took Pourtahmazeb-Sasi into custody, according to the report.

Jail records show he was arrested on charges including solicitation of a minor, traveling to meet a minor for sexual acts and harmful material involving a minor.

As of Friday morning, he was being held at the Broward County Main Jail, where his bond wasn’t immediately set.

Agentes dijeron que el sospechoso, Baran Pourtahmazeb-Sasi, presuntamente hizo “match” con la adolescente en la aplicación de citas Bumble el 7 de agosto a través de Vitaly, un grupo en línea cuyos miembros se hacen pasar por menores de edad para identificar a personas que intentan explotar o solicitar sexo a menores.

Según un reporte de arresto, la conversación pasó de Bumble a mensajes de texto el 9 de agosto. Agentes dijeron que un miembro de Vitaly que se hizo pasar por la adolescente le dijo a Pourtahmazeb-Sasi que tenía 15 años y que asistía a la escuela secundaria.

Los investigadores dijeron que Pourtahmazeb-Sasi continuó comunicándose con miembros de Vitaly que se hacían pasar por la adolescente y presuntamente hizo comentarios sexuales, incluyendo hablar sobre sexo oral y masturbación.

Según el reporte, Pourtahmazeb-Sasi también presuntamente le dijo a la persona que se hacía pasar por la adolescente que podía “ayudarla” a aprender sobre sexo o que podía investigarlo en línea después de que ella dijo que era virgen.

El reporte indica que Pourtahmazeb-Sasi envió una fotografía de sí mismo vistiendo un uniforme militar y le dijo a la persona que se hacía pasar por la adolescente que anteriormente había servido en el Ejército.

Agentes dijeron que posteriormente coordinó un encuentro con la persona que se hacía pasar por la adolescente en un BurgerFi en Delray Beach. Según el reporte, presuntamente dijo que quería practicarle sexo oral y “hacerle el amor”.

Las autoridades dijeron que Pourtahmazeb-Sasi continuó comunicándose con la persona que se hacía pasar por la adolescente y posteriormente envió un mensaje diciendo que se había despertado de un sueño en el que la besaba.

Dijeron que ambos hicieron planes para reunirse en un Dunkin” en Pompano Beach.

Aproximadamente a las 6 p.m. del martes, Pourtahmazeb-Sasi llegó al Dunkin”, donde fue recibido por miembros de Vitaly, según los investigadores. Las autoridades dijeron que el encuentro fue transmitido en vivo por Kick.

Agentes de BSO detuvieron entonces a Pourtahmazeb-Sasi, según el reporte.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que fue arrestado por cargos que incluyen solicitar a una menor, viajar para encontrarse con una menor para realizar actos sexuales y material perjudicial que involucra a una menor.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward, donde su fianza no había sido fijada de inmediato.

El impacto ocurrió alrededor de las 6 a.m. frente al marcador de milla 81 en Islamorada, cuando el grupo, encabezado por el capitán Richard Stanczyk de Stanz Fishing, se encontró con un aguacero mientras se dirigía a pescar en la bahía con clientes, uno de los cuales pidió ayuda posteriormente.

Las autoridades dijeron que la embarcación quedó inoperable después del impacto y un barco de remolque la llevó a Bud N’ Mary’s Marina, en 79851 Overseas Highway, donde los paramédicos trasladaron en helicóptero a Stanczyk, de 44 años, hacia Miami-Dade.

Su condición no se conocía de inmediato hasta finales de la mañana del jueves.

Según la policía, los agentes recibieron dos alertas de ShotSpotter alrededor de las 12:15 a.m. del viernes y establecieron un perímetro a lo largo de Northwest Seventh Avenue, entre las calles Northwest 52nd y Northwest 54th, mientras investigaban.

Cuando los agentes llegaron, continuaron escuchando disparos adicionales en el área, según la policía.

Posteriormente, los agentes hicieron contacto con una víctima que dijo a los investigadores que un hombre le había estado disparando.

La policía también encontró en la escena un vehículo que había sido alcanzado por múltiples disparos.

A pesar de los disparos, las autoridades indicaron que no se reportaron heridos.

La policía no ha divulgado información sobre un posible sospechoso ni sobre lo que pudo haber provocado la balacera.

La investigación continúa en curso.

Se pide a cualquier persona que tenga más información que llame al Departamento de Policía de Miami o a Crime Stoppers de Miami-Dade al 305-471-8477.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO), la balacera fue reportada alrededor de las 10:15 p.m. en la cuadra 200 de Southwest First Terrace.

La reportera de Local 10 News Jolena Esperto estuvo en el lugar la mañana del jueves y dijo que al parecer la balacera ocurrió dentro o fuera de una tienda de vapeo en la plaza comercial.

Las autoridades confirmaron que agentes de BSO y paramédicos de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue acudieron al área y encontraron a la víctima, quien había recibido disparos.

Los socorristas lo declararon muerto en el lugar.

Los agentes confirmaron que una persona fue detenida y que no había ninguna amenaza para la comunidad, sin embargo, no está claro si esa persona enfrentará cargos por la balacera.

La investigación continúa en curso.

Se pide a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre la balacera que llame a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

No act of Congress mandated the color, with its slight orange tint. Rather, a 1939 conference of transportation officials from all U.S. states (then 48) chose the shade for its visibility as one of the first safety standards. At their peak in the 1980s, the yellow buses took more than 60% of U.S. students to school.

The metal-bodied school bus got its start in rural America. Georgia car dealer Albert Luce designed it to carry cement workers, then marketed it to schools when the company turned it down.

It was impeccable timing as school districts replaced one-room neighborhood schoolhouses with larger ones much farther apart. That consolidation gave rise to the school bus.

“I don’t think you could’ve had one without the other,” says Matt Anderson, head transportation curator at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn, Michigan, which houses Luce’s 1927 bus.

Decades later, buses helped desegregate schools, hauling Black and white children across the country’s racial divide. The controversial practice has mostly ended, and in much of the United States, schools have grown more segregated, not less.

Carl Fisher drove a metal school bus for two-thirds of its nearly 100-year history. With 66 years behind the wheel, Fisher retired in 2012 as the longest-working driver, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. His first model was a Dodge truck that his dad’s friend converted, adding benches and small stools to haul 20 children in Pleasant Hope, Missouri.

“He put windows in it and everything, really made it nice,” Fisher says.

The basics became industry standard and more safety upgrades followed, including padded seats and a flip-out stop sign.

“It’s the safest form of on-road transportation per passenger, per mile, bar none — without seat belts,” says Brad Beauchamp, who is with the electric vehicles team at Blue Bird, the yellow school bus maker Luce reputedly named after the bird his wife spotted on a fence post.

Due to driver shortages and other factors, a yellow school bus is no longeravailable to take many students to school, putting pressure on families to figure out transportation.

Jim Oppegard, who drove kids for more than two decades in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, retired at 94 as the oldest school bus driver on record. It's rewarding work, he says.

“You’re helping the kids and helping the overall society,” he says. “You’re doing an important job.”

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A 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals halted, for now, a judge's order that would have granted thousands of athletes an extra season of eligibility. But it did nothing to resolve dozens of other lawsuits and court orders piling up across the country that allow players in the same situation to join teams for the upcoming season.

Virtually all these lawsuits involve players who graduated from high school in 2022, whose college eligibility ended last season and who were not included in the NCAA’s controversial new rule — less than two months old — that grants most Division I athletes five years of eligibility over five years but doesn't take effect until next season.

“There's a reason we saw so many state-court lawsuits filed" after the now-paused federal court ruling that came down July 31, said Sam Ehrlich, a former lawyer who now works at Boise State and operates the College Sports Litigation Tracker. “It was a ‘just in case.’ They did it just in case what we just saw happen actually happened.”

Among the many athletes watching this unfold and wondering where it winds up are defensive linemen Kellan Wyatt and Stephan Daley, both members of the national championship team at Indiana last season who decided to return after the lower-court decision. So are former Ole Miss starters Dae’Quan Wright, Zxavian Harris and Wydett Williams, who won a ruling from a Louisiana state court giving them another season of eligibility even though they had signed with NFL teams this summer.

While some players hope to land back at their schools, whatever the impact on the rosters, how that works isn’t at all clear in many cases. The judge in the case involving the Ole Miss players, for example, gave them a week to enter the transfer portal, which for football players is only open in January.

In appealing the state court cases, the NCAA is expected to invoke parts of Friday's ruling, which agreed with NCAA arguments that it was likely to win the case when it's heard in full — probably several months from now — and that the NCAA would suffer more harm than the players if the court didn't pause the order.

The NCAA can also take heart in an Ohio appeals court that paused a similar injunction involving Xavier basketball Filip Borovicanin and others.

But other than those two cases, Ehrlich said, judges across the country "are unanimous that the NCAA is in the wrong” on the five-year eligibility issue when it comes to the Class of 2022.

Plaintiffs' attorney Rob Shelquist issued a statement calling the appeals court ruling procedural and “not a decision on the merits of the athletes’ antitrust claims.”

“We are exploring every available option given the split in the panel’s ruling and remain committed to fighting for these college athletes whose opportunities and eligibility have been unfairly restricted,” he said.

The NCAA’s chief legal officer, Scott Bearby, sent a memo to schools telling them they would not be subject to NCAA punishment for allowing any player to compete between the time the July 31 ruling came down and Friday. But he reiterated that those players are no longer eligible.

Bearby also acknowledged that the NCAA would continue to defend lawsuits around the country — a signal that the NCAA knows Friday’s ruling offers no guarantees of an end to the roster chaos.

“If anything, I do wonder if there’s a part of the NCAA that’s, like, ‘Maybe we’d have been better off not getting the stay because, boy, there’s going to be a lot of lawsuits filed over the next couple of weeks,’” Ehrlich said.

Courts that go beyond filing emergency injunctions and take up the cases in their entirety will have to decide who suffers more harm: Is it players who can't play a fifth year and could lose educational and NIL opportunities? Or incoming freshmen who signed with the idea that they wouldn't be competing against a class of fifth-year seniors?

When the NCAA decided to have the rule kick in next year, it also grappled with that calculation, knowing it couldn't be perfectly fair.

“Fairness is in the eye of the beholder," the NCAA argued in its legal brief in the appeals case. “Countless student-athletes already on campuses, and schools who built their rosters in reliance on the rules the NCAA’s membership wrote and agreed to follow, do not believe it is fair for thousands of formerly ineligible athletes to return to competition at the start of the 2026–27 season."

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The Infowars founder can only be forced to pay about $6 million, the Texas Third Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous opinion, citing state laws that limit lawsuit damages.

The ruling does not affect a separate $1.25 billion judgment against Jones in Connecticut, where he was also found liable for defaming and causing emotional distress to relatives of the 20 first-graders and six educators killed in the Newtown shooting.

The punishing financial verdicts against Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, in recent years have forced him into bankruptcy, led to some of his personal property being put up for auction and led to him leaving his Infowars platform. For decades, he used the platform to push conspiracy theories about the United Nations, the federal government, gun control and more.

Sandy Hook families have yet to collect any money from Jones, who has waged lengthy appeals in state and bankruptcy courts as his company faces liquidation. He remains on air after moving onto new websites and streaming platforms.

Friday's ruling did not throw out the trial court's finding of defamation against Jones. Still, he called it "a gigantic victory for the First Amendment,” and said he will continue to appeal the case to the state Supreme Court to get the remaining damages thrown out.

“I got lawyers who are good constitutional lawyers and they are not backing down,” Jones said.

Jones has already tried to appeal the Connecticut judgment to the U.S. Supreme Court but was denied last year.

The decision by the Texas Third Court of Appeals left intact more than $4.1 million in compensatory damages awarded by a jury to Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis for defamation and emotional distress. But it slashed more than $45 million in additional punitive damages down to $1.5 million to comply with the state's $750,000 cap for each plaintiff.

The court found Heslin and Lewis did not show evidence that the harassment following Jones’ hoax claims rose to a level that would allow them to exceed the cap. It also said the trial judge improperly allowed the parents to seek higher damages after trial.

Mark Bankston, an attorney for Heslin and Lewis in the Texas lawsuit, shrugged off the appeals court ruling as “irrelevant” given that Jones still faces massive financial judgments in Connecticut.

“The families care not at all about this irrelevant ruling which affects only two of the 19 claims they all share. Jones still faces over a billion dollars of liability, so this changes absolutely nothing. All it does is highlight the absurdity of Texas law,” Bankston said.

Newtown families harassed as Jones claimed the massacre was a hoax

Heslin and Lewis’s 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among those killed in the Sandy Hook attack. Their lawsuit against Jones and the 2022 verdict marked the first time he was held financially liable for peddling lies about the massacre, claiming it was faked by the government to tighten gun laws.

Jones portrayed the lawsuit as an attack on his First Amendment rights, but conceded during the trial that the shootings were “100% real” and that he was wrong to have lied about them.

At the Texas and Connecticut trials, victims’ relatives testified that Jones’ followers -- believing his claims that the shooting didn’t happen -- subjected them to death and rape threats, in-person harassment and abusive comments on social media. Jones argued there was no proof that linked him to those actions.

Heslin and Lewis told jurors that an apology wouldn’t suffice and initially called on them to make Jones pay more than $150 million for the years of suffering he has put them and other Sandy Hook families through.

Almost immediately after the punitive damages in Texas were announced, Jones' trial attorney predicted the award would be reduced to $1.5 million on appeal.

Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families in the Connecticut lawsuit, said Friday’s ruling has no bearing on the ongoing lower court proceedings in Texas involving the liquidation of Infowars’ parent company.

The Onion steps in to mock Jones and help frustrated families

Jones and his company have filed for bankruptcy, and those legal proceedings continue. The satirical website The Onion also moved to take over Jones' Infowars platforms and turn his bullhorn of conspiracy theories into parody sites.

Jones took Infowars off the air in April and moved to a new location, switching his shows to new websites and posting them on his personal X account. The Onion, meanwhile, has set up its own Infowars webpage on its website, running videos of shows parodying Jones.

A proposed licensing deal that would give The Onion temporary authority to use Infowars’ trademarks, copyrights and intellectual property has been put on hold because the liquidation proceedings have been stayed during Jones’ appeals.

In November 2024, the Chicago-based satirical outlet was named the winner of a bankruptcy court auction of the assets of Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, aimed at helping pay some of the defamation judgments. A federal judge overturned the auction results, citing problems with the process and The Onion’s bid.

___ This story has been corrected to show that Jones is still liable for $4.1 million in compensatory damages in addition to $1.5 million in punitive damages.

___ Dave Collins contributed from Hartford, Connecticut.

Wesam Hamada said her daughter Hind Rajab’s final pleas still haunt her.

“All I remember is her voice pleading, ‘Mama, I’m scared. Mama, I’m hungry. Mama, I’m hurt,’" she said. “Her voice keeps repeating in my ears.”

The widely publicized recording of Hind's January 2024 phone call with her mother and emergency dispatchers made her one of the Israel-Hamas war’s most prominent casualties.

Israel’s military this week admitted to firing at the family’s car as it fled an Israeli invasion and firing toward an ambulance dispatched to help them.

It said it would launch a criminal investigation into its troops’ conduct. All six people in the car and two paramedics were killed. But both Rajab’s family and emergency responders from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society doubt the Israeli investigation can deliver justice.

“Why did the investigation and the acknowledgment of the shooting at Hind’s car and at the paramedics come only after more than two years?” Hamada said in an interview with The Associated Press. “It’s an attempt to distract from what’s happening in Gaza and improve the (Israeli) army’s image to the world. That’s it."

A call to paramedics that was heard around the world

The story of their deaths drew international outcry after the Palestinian Red Crescent Society released recordings of Hind and her 15-year-old cousin Layan Hamada calling for help. It was further amplified by “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” a film that excerpted the recordings and was nominated for an Oscar.

On the recordings, as audible gunfire erupts around them, Hamada asks for help and tells Red Crescent dispatchers that her family had been killed. Seconds later, more gunshots are heard, and Layan’s screaming stops.

Ambulance dispatchers called back and found Hind on the other end of the line. She told them Layan was dead and Israeli tanks were advancing. The Red Crescent sent an ambulance and stayed in contact with Hind until the call dropped.

Hind and five relatives were found dead in the family car 12 days later. The two medics sent to rescue her were also found dead nearby, their ambulance blackened and destroyed.

Israel initially said its troops were not in the area. A U.N. commission of inquiry and an investigation by the research group Forensic Architecture found evidence placing Israeli forces near the car and attributed the attack to them.

Rana Al Faqih, a dispatcher who was in contact with Hind for more than three hours, said the day remains seared in her memory. She tried to calm Hind and eventually patched her mother onto the call.

“I couldn’t physically reach Hind, embrace her or help her feel safe,” she said in an interview at the Red Crescent headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank. “All I had was my voice. My voice was with her, and it might have comforted her.”

Advocates doubt an Israeli investigation can bring accountability

The investigation is one of two criminal probes the military announced Wednesday after reviewing roughly 150 incidents.

Military investigators will now take up the probes and present their findings to military prosecutors. The military advocate general can then decide to keep investigating, indict any soldiers or decline to charge them.

Israeli officials say the country’s justice system can address any violations by its troops. But such investigations rarely lead to indictments. Just 0.17% of incidents reviewed from 2014 and 2022 led to prosecution, according to an analysis by Israeli rights group Yesh Din.

The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation — which campaigns for the arrest of Israeli troops it accuses of war crimes — said in a statement on Wednesday that an Israeli military investigation “should not be mistaken for a genuine step toward justice.”

“Israel’s internal investigations into the criminal conduct of its own soldiers are fundamentally flawed and cannot be regarded as credible mechanisms of accountability,” it said.

A mother says her grief is not unique

The Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel and abducted 251 others. More than 73,400 people have been killed in the Israeli offensive since, according to the health ministry in Gaza.

The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants but says women and children constitute about half the deaths.

Hamada said her pain since the killing of Hind — who had wanted to become a doctor — was not unique.

“The pain is like the pain of every mother who has lost her child in Gaza,” she said. “You wish she were in front of you, growing up and fulfilling your dreams and her dreams, and then you lose her in the most horrific circumstances.”

__ Ibrahim Hazboun in Jerusalem, and Haitham Hamed in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed reporting.

Also, Turkey announced it is asking for an international warrant for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his role in stopping several boats trying to break a naval blockade of Gaza in May, and an Israeli human rights watchdog is warning that settler violence has expanded from rural to urban areas in the West Bank.

Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East on Friday. Full coverage can be found here.

Palestinian teen killed by Israeli settlers after rock-throwing incident

A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed and another man wounded by Israeli settler gunfire after rocks were thrown Friday in Sa’ir, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

The ministry identified the teenager as Karim Sanad Raja Shalaldeh. The teenager’s father told The Associated Press at the hospital that Israeli settlers had killed his son.

The Israeli military said soldiers were dispatched to Sa’ir after Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli civilians who were in the area without prior authorization. Some Israelis were injured and a security official opened fire.

Separately, the Palestinian General Authority for Civil Affairs informed the Health Ministry that 58-year-old Fathi Khazem was fatally shot by Israeli forces early Friday in Jenin.

An Israeli army official speaking on condition of anonymity in line with military rules said Khazem attempted to stab an Israeli soldier during an overnight operation. No Israeli soldiers were injured.

The Israeli official said Khazem was the father of Raed Khazem, who shot and killed three people in Tel Aviv in April 2022.

Violence has escalated in the West Bank where at least 87 Palestinians have been killed in almost 1,500 attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers this year, according to Palestinian officials. Three Israelis have been killed by Palestinians in 2026.

— By Koral Saeed in Herzliya, Israel.

Turkey seeks international warrant for Netanyahu over May blockade

Turkey is seeking an international warrant for Netanyahu's arrest over Israel’s interception of an international flotilla that attempted to break a naval blockade of Gaza.

The Interpol red notice sought against Netanyahu and one other Israeli national was tied to an Istanbul court case trying 35 defendants in absentia for alleged “genocide,” other crimes against humanity, torture, unlawful detention and hijacking, Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said in a statement posted on X.

The charges stem from the Israeli navy’s interception in May of several vessels in international waters off Cyprus days after the flotilla departed from the Turkish port of Marmaris. Some detained activists reported mistreatment.

Turkey is among the most vocal critics of Israel’s government.

Netanyahu responded on social media, calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an antisemitic dictator who has “massacred Kurds, harbors Hamas terrorists, occupies half of Cyprus, and jails record numbers of journalists and politicians who oppose him.”

“Erdogan’s pathetic attempt to intimidate the leaders and soldiers of Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East, will go nowhere,” Netanyahu said Friday.

Rights group says Israeli settler violence heads to established Palestinian cities

An Israeli group that collects information about potential human rights violations against Palestinians says reported incidents of Israeli settler violence have moved from the rural West Bank toward larger, more populated Palestinian cities and towns.

The establishment of new settlements and outposts throughout the West Bank has emboldened extremist settlers, who are now encroaching on larger communities that previously were far from the front lines of settler violence, Yesh Din said in its report released Friday titled “The Next Frontier.”

The uptick in violence corresponds with the Israeli government’s approval of new settlements and the expansion of outposts that it doesn’t authorize but often leaves in place, according to the report.

“As outposts advance deeper into Palestinian territory, violence, harassment and terror follow,” Yesh Din wrote.

Some 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli military rule in the West Bank alongside roughly 560,000 Israeli settlers.

Economic woes return to Lebanon

Lebanon’s economy is projected to contract 6.4% this year because the latest Israel-Hezbollah war reversed the economic recovery of the previous year, the World Bank said Friday.

The destruction from the war that started in March and related sharp drop in tourism reversed a 4.2% growth seen in 2025 in Lebanon's economy, the organization said.

The World Bank also predicts a sharp increase in inflation driven by supply disruptions, higher shipping costs, and rising oil prices, which will further reduce purchasing power.

Lebanon's economy has been in crisis since a 2019 banking collapse.

11 countries call Israeli airstrikes in Syria an extreme escalation

The foreign ministers of 11 countries are calling Israel’s airstrikes on a Syrian air base an extreme escalation.

The ministers of Turkey, Algeria, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and the Palestinian territories warned that attacks on Syria undermine its reconstruction efforts as well as its attempts to restore security, according to a joint statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

The Israeli strikes hit the Abu Duhur base early Tuesday, causing damage but no casualties. Netanyahu’s office said Israel targeted the base because Syria was about to breach an agreed “status quo in security matters” by allowing Turkish troops to deploy there.

Sinner beat Alexander Zverev last month for his second straight title at the All England Club, but then pulled out of the hard-court tournaments in Montreal and Cincinnati that serve as a warmup for the U.S. Open.

The 25-year-old Italian wrote Friday that he won't be ready when the main draw begins on Aug. 30.

“Even though I have been working hard with my team and my medical staff, we have now had to make the difficult decision that I will not be able to compete at the US Open this year,” Sinner wrote in a post on X.

“We have been back on court in Monte Carlo over the last couple of days and have realized that I still need more time to recover from my right knee issue. I’m obviously very sad and disappointed, as New York has a special place in my heart. I was very much looking forward to coming back and playing in the electric atmosphere in front of the great fans there.”

Sinner was the 2024 U.S. Open champion and lost to Carlos Alcaraz in last year's final.

Alcaraz posted on social media on Thursday that he would be ready to play in New York after he has been out of action since April because of a right wrist injury.

The rivalry between those two has dominated men's tennis in recent years, and they met in the last three Grand Slam finals in 2025. Alcaraz took the most recent one with his four-set victory in New York.

That ended Sinner's title reign after he beat Taylor Fritz in straight sets in the 2024 final.

Sinner is 44-3 with six titles this year. He had a stunning collapse at the French Open, blowing a two-set lead while struggling in the heat in his second-round match against Juan Manuel Cerundolo. He then sat out until Wimbledon, where his victory gave him five Grand Slam titles.

It will be the first time Sinner has missed a Grand Slam tournament since making his major debut at the U.S. Open in 2019.

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Officials said there were no reports of any serious injuries.

The National Weather Service said a trained spotter reported a tornado in Dover, Delaware, during Thursday's storms. Photos and video on social media show the roof of a motel being blown off and damage to other buildings along Route 13 northeast of downtown.

In Atlantic Beach on Long Island, images posted on social media show a large funnel cloud over the water and small buildings torn apart at a beach club. The weather service confirmed a tornado touched down on the shore, saying it started as a waterspout over the Atlantic Ocean.

Weather service crews were going to view the Delaware and Long Island damage on Friday to determine the strengths and paths of the tornadoes.

Dover Mayor Robin Christiansen said a state of emergency was lifted Friday morning to allow residents and businesses to resume normal activities. Police urged residents to be patient and set aside extra time for travel.

“There is still debris throughout the city, and crews will be out working on cleanup, repairs, and restoring services. You may encounter blocked lanes, utility crews, emergency personnel, and other delays,” police said on social media.

On Long Island, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said first responders rescued people trapped in their vehicles during flooding.

In other parts of New York, flooding caused part of the Long Island Expressway in Queens to close in both directions, according to New York City Emergency Management. Photos on social media showed lines of stopped cars as emergency crews traversed the water.

In Jersey City, New Jersey, emergency crews rescued 69 people trapped in cars that were overtaken by flash flooding, said Mayor James Solomon. Emergency crews used small inflatable boats to reach people who were stranded.

Según la policía, agentes y un equipo de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron al área de 1860 S. Ocean Drive, donde los paramédicos realizaron “medidas para salvarle la vida” a la víctima antes de trasladarla a un hospital cercano.

La policía no tenía de inmediato más información sobre el estado de la víctima.

Las circunstancias en torno al incidente en el que el hombre casi se ahogó continúan bajo investigación.

No se divulgaron de inmediato otros detalles.

In an Instagram post Thursday, the 39-year-old Simpson said she was diagnosed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC), a condition that triggered “dangerous heart rhythms that ultimately caused my heart to stop.”

She said the diagnosis means it would be dangerous to return to running.

“That chapter has ended,” she said. “Thankfully, my story hasn't.”

Simpson was pacing a group of girls in a mile run at an event in Raleigh, North Carolina, when she collapsed. She underwent CPR at the track and an automated external defibrillator was also used before medics rushed her to the hospital.

“You might be wondering what would be the right thing to say to me after an event like this,” she wrote. “Please do not say that you're sorry or that you feel bad for me. If it is true in your heart, please tell me you're glad that I'm here. That's how I feel — so glad that I'm still here.”

For about a decade beginning in 2007, Simpson was America's most successful women's 1,500-meter runner. She won worlds in 2011, finished second there twice and won Olympic bronze in Rio in 2016.

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Those losing coverage in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, include people who don't meet the tightening requirements to participate, and, advocates say, some who qualify for the help but are rejected because they miss deadlines or don't have the needed documentation handy. It's too early to tell exactly how many fall into each group.

It's also unclear how many have lost coverage because some state agencies that run the programs are overwhelmed trying to keep up with changes. That was the case in Arizona, which saw the nation's largest enrollment drop.

Tia Fields, who analyzes social safety net policies at the advocacy group Invest in Louisiana, said the main reason she's seeing people lose coverage is not failure to meet work requirements. “A lot of it is administrative paperwork,” she said.

Proponents of welfare reform hope the roll reductions are driven by people earning too much to keep qualifying — a sign that policy changes are behaving as intended for a program they assert is riddled with fraud.

“If there are people that are leaving the welfare rolls because they're working and they're moving forward,” said Rachel Sheffield, a research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, which pushed for stricter requirements for SNAP, “that would be a step forward.”

Arizona has had the steepest decline so far, with a 12-month drop of more than 50%, according to data compiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which runs SNAP. The decline was more than 20% in Georgia, Louisiana and Nevada — and in Florida, where the Department of Children and Families said in a statement that the decreasing number “is reflective of the state's strong focus on advancing opportunities for Floridians and their families to achieve economic self-sufficiency.”

Eligibility requirements are tightening

SNAP helps more than 1 in 10 people in the U.S. buy food. Most of the beneficiaries have incomes below the poverty line. The monthly benefit, which is delivered on debit cards that can be used only for groceries, is $344 per household on average.

Newly released federal data found SNAP enrollment fell from 42.2 million in May 2025 to 36.6 million in May, a drop of more than 13% in a year. The May data are preliminary and could be revised.

Since 2010, the average number of monthly beneficiaries has been below 40 million for only two years — 2019 and 2020. The rolls started dropping after a recent peak of 43.3 million in October 2024. They've fallen much faster since implementation began last year for Trump’s “one big beautiful bill,” which cut taxes and overhauled social safety net programs.

The expanded SNAP work requirement has now kicked in for most of the country, but it won’t begin in some places until next year.

Many adults 54 and younger without minor children have long been required to work to get SNAP benefits. The new law requires most people who previously had been exempt from requirements to either work, volunteer or go to school to get benefits. It now includes those ages 55 to 64, and those with children ages 14 to 17. Those 65 and older or with children younger than 14 remain exempt, as do those with health limitations. Some other groups that had been exempted from the requirement — including homeless people — no longer are.

In February, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the new requirements and other factors would push SNAP enrollment down over the next decade, falling below 34 million by 2036. But the nonpartisan office did not expect the drop to be as fast as it's been. By May, the number of people receiving the benefits was about as low as it was forecast to go in 2030.

Experts expect another impact when states are required to pay part of the cost of benefits if their rate of payment errors — when recipients receive more or less than they should — is above 6%. Advocates for recipients say states may deny benefits to some people entirely rather than risk errors.

The cost-sharing is scheduled to start in October 2027, though Congress has considered a delay.

Changes have been hard to implement in Arizona

In Arizona, enrollment plummeted by 55% from April 2025 to April 2026 — the biggest drop in the country, with more than 400,000 fewer people getting benefits now.

The state said the drop was driven largely by the state's own struggles putting new federal requirements in place.

“Implementing the federally mandated changes triggered unprecedented call volumes and administrative hurdles, including additional verification requirements, creating real barriers for applicants,” said Brett Bezio, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Economic Security.

Bezio said that hiring more staff members and introducing ways for people to submit their documents online have stemmed the enrollment drop in recent months as the state has reduced the chance for people who qualify to lose benefits.

In Phoenix, LaDiamond Lopez lost her benefits in January, with officials telling her she needed more documentation about her income and household — something that's needed for officials to determine whether enrollees meet work requirements.

She’s been skipping meals and some bill payments to ensure her children have enough to eat.

In her quest to be reinstated, she had previous employers sign forms confirming she no longer worked for them and added her children — ages 3 and 9 — to her apartment lease. She expected payments to resume in August, but she doesn’t know if they’ll last.

“I was approved at the end of May, but now they’re asking me for more documents,” she said. “It’s a panic.”

Other factors could be driving down enrollment

The Heritage Foundation's Sheffield says that some of the drop in SNAP use is likely a natural decline after peaks in the coronavirus pandemic era.

Paco Velez, the president and CEO of Feeding South Florida, said the 22% one-year enrollment drop in Florida is driven partly by immigrants who are in the U.S. legally but fear being targeted by Trump's immigration crackdown if they're seeking government benefits.

Invest in Louisiana's Fields said SNAP enrollment declines have broader consequences. For instance, children in households that receive the benefit can be automatically enrolled in free school lunch programs or in the SNAP for Women, Infants and Children program for low-income mothers, young children and expectant parents if they meet the other criteria.

“What happens when that child can’t pay for lunch?” she asked.

Some food banks have ramped up donations to try to meet a demand that they say has risen as SNAP rolls have declined. But that isn't expected to bridge the gap fully.

“We’re very worried about it because we know that no other organization or program can replicate the scale and success of SNAP,” said Carolyn Vega, a policy analyst at the advocacy group Share Our Strength. “We know that schools can’t fill this gap. We know that food banks can’t fill this gap.”

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Police Chief Tommy Alriksson told a news conference that the suspect had been arrested following the attack at the school in the central town of Fagersta, northwest of the capital, Stockholm.

Police confirmed that shots were fired during the arrest. It was not clear whether the suspect had been injured, but he was being held in custody — not treated in a hospital.

The attack took place at the Brinell School in Fagersta while classes were in session, with about 400 to 500 students, officials said. There was no immediate word on the attacker's possible motive.

“We have no reason at this time to believe that there are multiple perpetrators,” Alriksson said, adding that an investigation was continuing.

Sweden’s national police said investigators have already carried out two house searches in connection with the suspect. Many witnesses were expected to be interviewed as part of the investigation.

“That’s why we can’t give out too much information, because we don’t want to influence witnesses,” Alriksson said.

Vastmanland County, where the town is located, said the two seriously injured boys were between 12 and 17 years old, the TT news agency reported. It did not provide details about the dead person.

Police spokesperson Pelle Vamstad, quoted by TT, said an alarm was received in the early afternoon Friday. Police cordoned off a wide area around the school as part of their response. Several nearby schools had been locked down following the incident, and roadblocks were set up, authorities said.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, in a post earlier on the X social media platform, lamented the violence in Fagersta “right after the summer break.”

“We do not yet know what lies behind the act, but we know that the police are working very intensively,” he added. “Our thoughts are with all those affected.”

The Fagersta city government set up a crisis center in a sports hall near the school. The Vastmanland County government said “many people” were affected and that police, fire services, and healthcare workers were among those caring for them.

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The attack is the latest in a series of frequent and deadly aerial strikes targeting armed pro-democracy forces and ethnic armed groups in the country. The strikes often cause civilian casualties.

The attack occurred in Swel Le Oh village in Myaung township, about 75 kilometers (45 miles) west of Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, according to Nway Oo, a spokesperson for the Civil Defense and Security Organization of Myaung Township, or CDSOM.

Nway Oo said that 14 people, including three women, were killed and 20 others were wounded when a fighter jet dropped a bomb in the compound of the village’s monastery.

A villager who spoke on condition of anonymity, because he feared for his safety, also confirmed the death toll to The Associated Press. The villager said that the fighter jet dropped two bombs 15 minutes apart, with the second bomb damaging a house near the monastery where more than 100 people were on a weeklong retreat during Buddhist Lent.

The villager, whose mother-in-law was killed in the airstrike, said that people fled to a nearby community after cremating bodies of the victims.

BBC’s Burmese-Language service and Myanmar’s media outlets, including Myanmar Now, reported the death toll at between 10 and 14. They also posted photos and videos showing what they said was the aftermath of the strike, with images of bodies.

The military didn't immediately comment. In the past, the army has said that it only attacks legitimate targets of war, accusing the resistance forces of being terrorists.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, triggering a civil war. After peaceful demonstrations were put down with lethal force, many opponents of military rule took up arms, and large parts of the country are embroiled in conflict.

The military has increasingly used airstrikes to counter opposition forces, including the armed People’s Defense Forces in Sagaing region, a stronghold of armed resistance. The resistance has no effective defense against air attacks.

The monastery attack comes a week after the U.N.-established Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, or IIMM, said that it observed a notable escalation in aerial attacks by the military in the months preceding the elections held in December and January, and that they have continued unabated afterward.

Myanmar’s foreign ministry rejected the IIMM report on Sunday, saying that limited airstrikes and counterterrorism operations solely aim at military targets and were carried out in response to insurgents and terrorist groups in accordance with the rules of engagement, and that the security forces exercise maximum restraint to avoid civilian harm.

The Cessna's two pilots could not see the gravel airstrip and were flying solely by instruments when the plane crashed about midday Thursday, Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region chief, told a virtual news conference.

Regulations required that they abort their first landing attempt because of the lack of visibility, he said, and the plane crashed on its second attempt, about one-third of a mile (0.5 kilometers) from the runway. The runway is surrounded by mountainous terrain on three sides, and the Federal Aviation Administration recommends pilots use GPS and other instruments when they land there.

On board were the pilots, two employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and four contractors. Two of the contractors were employees of Calista Brice, a collection of companies that perform construction, engineering, logistics and other work in remote areas. Calista Brice is a subsidiary of Calista Corp., an Alaska Native regional corporation.

The military has not said what work they were performing at the Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site, about 450 miles (725 kilometers) west of Anchorage on Alaska's southwest coast.

NTSB investigators were traveling to the scene Friday.

The radar site was built in the 1950s as part of a network designed to provide early warning of a missile attack by the Soviet Union. Today, it monitors the skies off the coast in the direction of Russia, North Korea and China.

Those on board were “dedicated professionals carrying out a vital mission in a demanding environment," U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Davis, commander of Alaskan Command, the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region and Eleventh Air Force, said in a statement Thursday.

“This is a devastating loss for our military family and the communities we serve,” Davis said.

Johnson said search teams found the fragmented wreckage after the twin-engine Cessna 441, also known as a Cessna Conquest, lost contact. Its final flight path was captured by radar at the site, he said.

Weather conditions were changing Thursday as heavy fog rolled through the area. An automated observation system not far from the airport reported a low cloud ceiling, fog and visibility of about 10 miles (16 kilometers) in the minutes before the crash, but the next update about 15 minutes after it showed visibility of less than one-quarter mile (0.40 kilometers), according to Carrie Haisley, the meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service's Alaska sector operations center.

Mike O’Donnell, who oversaw airport safety programs and accident investigations for much of his 17 years at FAA, said it sounded as if weather conditions were bad enough that the pilots should have diverted and landed somewhere else.

The airstrip is at a private military site managed by the Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center. It’s part of a network of remote radar sites that tracks aircraft operating in Alaska’s airspace and along its borders, a statement from Alaskan Command said.

The outpost at Cape Newenham closed in 1983 after a new radar was installed, and now the site is visited only occasionally by civilian contractors who perform maintenance on the system.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the two employees who died were part of a “project delivery team en route to a project site in support of the U.S. Air Force.” The statement did not provide additional details about the work.

Johnson said the flight was operated by Security Aviation based in Anchorage. The charter company did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.

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Associated Press writer Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report. Funk reported from Omaha, Nebraska.

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A total of 64 hatchlings recently made their way into the pool at the Islamorada home after apparently being led astray by the home’s bright lights.

Knowing the baby turtles would not survive in the chlorinated water, the homeowners contacted The Turtle Hospital for help.

All 64 hatchlings were rescued and taken to the facility, where they were cleaned up and given nourishment.

After spending several days recovering, the turtles were ready to return to the wild.

The hatchlings were released into the ocean, where they could be seen swimming away in the Gulf Stream — turning an unexpected backyard discovery into a successful rescue story.

Un total de 64 tortugas recién nacidas llegaron recientemente a la piscina de la vivienda en Islamorada después de aparentemente ser desviadas por las luces brillantes de la casa.

Sabiendo que las tortugas bebés no sobrevivirían en el agua con cloro, los propietarios de la vivienda contactaron a The Turtle Hospital para pedir ayuda.

Las 64 tortugas recién nacidas fueron rescatadas y llevadas a las instalaciones, donde fueron limpiadas y alimentadas.

Después de pasar varios días recuperándose, las tortugas estaban listas para regresar a su hábitat natural.

Las tortugas recién nacidas fueron liberadas en el océano, donde se las pudo ver nadando en la Corriente del Golfo, convirtiendo un hallazgo inesperado en un patio trasero en una exitosa historia de rescate.

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Police surrounded a home in the 1900 block of Northwest 115th Street, where they found a man who had been shot.

He was taken to a nearby hospital and is stable.

A woman who lives nearby said she heard at least four gunshots.

“When she opened up the door, we just heard ‘pop, pop, pop, pop,’” the neighbor said.

She said sometimes it can be difficult to tell whether a loud sound is gunfire or fireworks.

Police said the suspect shot through the front glass door of the home before getting into a car and taking off.

A sign reading “24 Hour Surveillance” was posted on the fence, and a camera was visible above the front door.

Neighbors said police were at the same home over the weekend.

Police have not released a description of the shooter and said the case remains under investigation.

La policía rodeó una vivienda en la cuadra 1900 de Northwest 115th Street, donde encontró a un hombre que había recibido disparos.

Fue trasladado a un hospital cercano y se encuentra estable.

Una mujer que vive cerca dijo que escuchó al menos cuatro disparos.

“Cuando ella abrió la puerta, solo escuchamos “pum, pum, pum, pum””, dijo la vecina.

Dijo que a veces puede ser difícil distinguir si un ruido fuerte es un disparo o fuegos artificiales.

La policía dijo que el sospechoso disparó a través de la puerta principal de vidrio de la vivienda antes de subir a un vehículo y huir.

Un letrero que decía “Vigilancia las 24 horas” estaba colocado en la cerca y una cámara era visible sobre la puerta principal.

Vecinos dijeron que la policía estuvo en la misma vivienda durante el fin de semana.

La policía no ha divulgado una descripción del tirador y dijo que el caso continúa bajo investigación.

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Shortly before 7:45 p.m., someone called 911 to report a shooting at the Marathon gas station, located at 220 S. Dixie Highway.

Deputies responded to the scene and found a man who had been shot. Customers told Local 10 News that the victim was the store clerk, but authorities did not immediately confirm that information.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue transported the victim to an area hospital for treatment.

Detectives with BSO’s Crime Scene and Robbery Units are investigating.

According to investigators, a subject was located and detained.

The investigation continues.

Poco antes de las 7:45 p.m., alguien llamó al 911 para reportar una balacera en la gasolinera Marathon, ubicada en 220 S. Dixie Highway.

Agentes respondieron a la escena y encontraron a un hombre que había recibido disparos. Clientes dijeron a Local 10 News que la víctima era el empleado de la tienda, pero las autoridades no confirmaron de inmediato esa información.

Pompano Beach Fire Rescue trasladó a la víctima a un hospital del área para recibir tratamiento.

Detectives de las unidades de Escena del Crimen y Robos de BSO están investigando.

Según los investigadores, una persona fue localizada y detenida.

La investigación continúa.

With sparse details, President Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. would be imposing an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran, aiming to force its leadership to cave to demands to end its nuclear program and fully reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz to oil and natural gas tankers.

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Trump awaits word from Supreme Court in case against his ballroom

The administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to allow the White House to continue building Trump’s $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work.

A divided federal appeals court panel ruled earlier this month that construction must stop because Congress hasn’t approved the project. That order to halt construction is set to go into effect Friday.

The Supreme Court has options. It can allow construction to continue while the case plays out. It can also leave the lower court ruling in place — meaning ballroom construction would have to stop — during the litigation.

US Capitol Police clear headquarters for suspicious vehicle

The U.S. Capitol Police briefly evacuated the agency’s Washington headquarters Friday morning and blocked off neighborhood roads when officers spotted what they called a “suspicious” vehicle in the same block as the headquarters.

The evacuation ended and roads reopened quickly after authorities checked out the vehicle without incident. The agency said it was a routine suspicious vehicle check that ended up being nothing.

Roads are closed and a swath of the National Mall is fenced and blocked off and the security level is heightened throughout D.C. because of the weekend’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix. The FBI did not immediately respond to a question about the current threat level in the city.

US and South Korean militaries wrap up drill early

The U.S. and South Korean militaries ended their annual drill six days earlier than initially scheduled Friday in a conciliatory gesture toward North Korea.

Trump had earlier abruptly ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise just before it began Monday. Trump cited what he described as a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s refusal to support him over the war in Iran.

The end of the drill comes after North Korea said such a step isn’t enough to persuade it to return to talks.

On Thursday, North Korea fired about 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, apparently following through with its previous threat to respond to the drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal.

Trump announces plan aimed at lowering beef prices

In a social media post Friday, the president said his administration will allow more beef to be imported into the U.S. without triggering a higher tariff rate that would otherwise go into effect.

The agreement, Trump said, allows up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be brought into the U.S. for the next 90 days without activating an “out of quota” tariff.

The president said he had a commitment that the beef would be sold at 25% below current market rates, making beef cheaper for American consumers.

Trump did not say who the deal was with or what countries the beef will be imported from. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for more details.

An out-of-quota tariff is a higher tax that goes into effect once a certain quantity of that product enters the U.S.

Trump said the agreement would help rebuild the U.S. beef herd and ultimately help American ranchers. But the American cattle industry has in the past balked at Trump’s plans to import more foreign beef, such as his effort last year to bring in more beef from Argentina.

Trump to stump for Sen. Darline Graham days ahead of South Carolina’s GOP Senate runoff

Trump is scheduled to travel to South Carolina on Friday to make a last-minute appeal for Sen. Darline Graham, his chosen candidate to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, ahead of a Republican runoff next week.

Voters will decide Tuesday whether Graham or Rep. Ralph Norman will be Republicans’ nominee on the November ballot.

The Myrtle Beach rally is the sort of campaign trail occasion that Trump hasn’t done as much of this year, compared with past midterms, making it a signal of the importance Trump is placing on a win for his pick.

It’s also an opportunity for the president to wade into friendly territory ahead of the midterm elections that leave his party’s control of Congress hanging in the balance. South Carolina hasn’t elected a Democrat statewide in decades, its House delegation has only one Democrat and Trump’s own victory in the 2016 presidential primary here helped propel him toward the nomination and ultimately the White House.

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Investigators seek interviews with Trump foes related to Mar-a-Lago search, AP sources say

Justice Department investigators have sought to interview law enforcement officials related to the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a Florida-based inquiry aiming to establish a conspiracy against the Republican president, multiple people familiar with the matter said Thursday.

The requests for interviews, made in recent weeks, suggest a conspiracy investigation that had mostly appeared focused on the decade-old question of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is also examining a more contemporary event — the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago that resulted in the FBI seizing top secret documents from the president’s Palm Beach estate.

The requests for voluntary interviews were not made through subpoenas, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation with The Associated Press.

It is not clear when or if prosecutors might seek to bring charges, or for what, but investigating conduct that occurred in Florida might give the Justice Department the legal hook it needs to try to anchor a prosecution in the state.

— Eric Tucker and Alanna Durkin Richer

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World shares are mixed and US futures edge higher, while oil prices slip

World shares were mixed Friday after a retreat on Wall Street as a U.S. Treasury Department plan to boost its government debt buybacks appeared to have only limited capacity to calm markets.

The futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 0.3%.

The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it will at least double the size of its planned purchases of longer-term government debt, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled Thursday that the repurchase program could be larger.

The announcement temporarily brought down government bond yields, which have been elevated under concerns about high inflation partly caused by the war in Iran and rising U.S. government debt. Higher yields tend to slow the broader economy because of increased borrowing costs across the financial system and can undercut stock prices.

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Trump warns of ‘economic D-Day’ against Iran, but Tehran is well acquainted with sanctions

Nearing the six-month mark of the Iran war and facing diminishing stockpiles of key weapons, the Trump administration is touting a crushing financial campaign against Tehran, promising an “economic D-Day” against a country that has so far withstood nearly five decades of punishing American sanctions.

With sparse details, President Donald Trump announced this week that the U.S. would be imposing an “unprecedented” level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran, aiming to force its leadership to cave to demands to end its nuclear program and fully reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz to oil and natural gas tankers.

It reflects the dire reality Trump faces with an increasingly unpopular war he can’t seem to end just months before pivotal midterm elections that will decide whether his Republican Party keeps control of Congress. Whether out of desperation or strategy, the president is refocusing America’s might on bringing Iran to its knees through an accelerated sanctions campaign against one of the most economically penalized countries in the world.

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