According to police, Ralph N-Kosi Blue III, 18, was arrested on two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated assault.

According to Hallandale Beach police, the shooting happened Saturday afternoon as the victims were waiting inside their SUV as the girl’s mother went inside the McDonald’s to pick up food.

“The investigation determined this was a targeted incident that originated outside the City of Hallandale Beach and culminated in the parking lot of 835 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd., where the suspect, who was reporting to work at McDonald’s, appears to have been the only individual who fired,” HBPD confirmed Monday in a press release. “The girl and her father, who had no connection to the dispute, were struck and transported to a nearby hospital. The father has since been released, and the child remains in stable condition.”

Detectives said they learned that two other children, ages 2 and 5, were also in the SUV at the time, but neither was injured.

While police confirmed that an incident leading to the shooting occurred outside of the city, detectives have not released a motive.

As of Monday morning, Blue was being held at the Broward County Main Jail as he awaited a bond court hearing.

“This arrest is the result of the relentless work of our detectives and the strong partnership we share with the Broward Sheriff’s Office,” Hallandale Beach police Chief Michel Michel said in statement. “A family was hurt by a reckless act of violence that had nothing to do with them. Today’s arrest is a significant step, but our investigation is far from over. We remain committed to identifying everyone involved and holding them fully accountable.”

This investigation remains ongoing and police confirmed that detectives are still “pursuing additional leads and working to identify and apprehend any other individuals involved.”

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Hallandale Beach Police Department Detective Bureau at 954-457-1400. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Rinsch, best known for the 2013 samurai fantasy film “47 Ronin,” was convicted in December of federal wire fraud and other charges. According to prosecutors and trial testimony, he told Netflix he needed $11 million to finish a show called “White Horse” but diverted the money into a personal account and ultimately spent whopping sums on luxury cars, watches, clothes and household goods, including $638,000 on two mattresses.

Rinsch, 48, and his lawyers told the court Monday that his behavior was fueled by mental health struggles and medication problems, which they said he is now addressing with a new care provider.

“This process has forced me to confront things about my health, my judgment and my life,” Rinsch said. He apologized for his behavior, acknowledged that “real harm was caused,” and explained: “I failed to recognize the danger of the state I was in.”

His psychological troubles weren't described in court, and he and his lawyers declined to detail them afterward.

Prosecutors argued that Rinsch —- who also owes about $11 million in restitution — should serve five years in prison.

“Mr. Rinsch had every possible advantage,” including family money, an elite education, famous friends and a high-flying career, prosecutor David Markewitz told the court. Rinsch's motive, the prosecutor said, “was naked greed.”

Rinsch, who also has used the name Carl Erik Rinsch professionally, hails from the Los Angeles area and began making short films as a teenager. He later directed commercials, then got attention for “47 Ronin,” which stars Reeves. His character leads outcast samurai seeking to avenge their master's killing.

Rinsch “bring exceptional joy and warmth to the people around him” and “creative inspiration to others through his creativity and vision,” Reeves told the court in a letter ahead of Rinsch's sentencing.

The “Matrix” star acknowledged that Rinsch “can self-sabotage by amplifying the scale, scope and landscape of what had been negotiated.” But he said he hoped the director’s sentence “might be tempered with measures of leniency and mercy as well as justice.”

Prosecutors said Netflix initially paid Rinsch about $44 million for “White Horse” in 2018 and 2019, then provided another $11 million in 2020 after he said he needed more money to wrap up production.

But instead of putting that money toward the show, Rinsch steered the cash to a personal account and made a series of failed investments, losing around half the $11 million in a couple of months, according to prosecutors and witnesses' testimony.

They said he put the remaining funds into the cryptocurrency market, netting some profit, which Rinsch deposited into his own bank account.

Then came the lavish purchases, prosecutors said, with Rinsch buying five Rolls-Royces, a red Ferrari, $652,000 worth of watches and clothes, and the pricey mattresses, plus another $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens. In addition, he used some of the money to pay off about $1.8 million in credit card bills, prosecutors said.

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said Rinsch's mental health difficulties “may explain some of the excesses” but don't “detract from the court's conclusion that he was determined to lie to get substantial monies from Netflix, lie to cover it up.”

As Rakoff announced the prison term, Rinsch wrote on a piece of paper on a table in front of him. One of his lawyers, Benjamin Zeman, patted the director's back.

After court, Rinsch — who's due to report to prison in September — hugged several people who had come to support him. He and his lawyers declined to comment as they left, except that attorney Daniel McGuinness said they looked forward to appealing the case.

Netflix declined to comment on his sentence.

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Associated Press writer Michael R. Sisak contributed.

It took place at Bayfront Park during the match between Brazil and Japan.

The Round of 32 knockout stage game was a great one.

It remained tied until the final moments, when Brazil pulled out a thrilling 2-1 victory.

Local 10 News’ Liane Morejon was there for all the fun, and her report can be seen at the top of this page.

After 16 single direct-knockout matches, the winning teams will advance to the tournament’s Round of 16, which begins on the Fourth of July.

Here is the list of the losing teams:

1. South Africa (54), the Group A runner-up with 4 points, was eliminated on June 28 after Canada won 1-0.
2. Japan (17), the Group F runner-up with 5 points, was eliminated on June 29 after Brazil won 2-1.

Here is the list of teams that are still in the Round of 32:

1. Argentina (1) wins Group J with 9 points
2. France (2) wins Group I with 9 points
3. Mexico (14) wins Group A with 9 points.
4. Spain (3) Group H with 7 points
5. England (4) wins Group L with 7 points
6. Belgium (9) wins Group G with 7 points
7. Colombia (11) wins Group K with 7 points
8. Switzerland (17) wins Group B with 7 points
9. Germany (10) wins Group E with 6 points
10. United States (15) wins Group D with 6 points
11. Morocco (7) is the Group C runner-up with 7 points.
12. Ivory Coast (30) is the Group E runner-up with 6 points.
13. Norway (31) is the Group I runner-up with 6 points.
14. Portugal (5) is the Group K runner-up with 5 points.
15. Japan (17) is the Group F runner-up with 5 points
16. Egypt (26) is the Group G runner-up with 5 points
17. Australia (27) is the Group D runner-up with 4 points.
18. Cape Verde (64) is the Group H runner-up with 3 points.
19. Austria (22) is the Group J runner-up with 4 points.
20. Croatia (11) is the Group L runner-up with 6 points.
21. Senegal (18) classifies after placing third in Group I with 4 points.
22. Algeria (29) classifies after placing third in Group J with 4 points and a minus two goal difference.
23. Ecuador (32) classifies after placing third in Group E with 4 points.
24. Paraguay (37) classifies after placing third in Group D with 4 points and a minus two goal difference.
25. Sweden (38) classifies after placing third in Group F with 4 points.
26. Congo (46) classifies after placing third in Group K with 4 points plus one goal difference.
27. Bosnia and Herzegovina (64) classifies after placing third in Group B with 4 points and a minus one goal difference.
28. Ghana (65) classifies after placing third in Group L with 4 points.

Round of 16 begins

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quarterfinals begin

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

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

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

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

Semifinals begin

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

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

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

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

Finals begin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Track group-stage

• Group A
• Group B
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group I
• Group J
• Group K
• Group L

After 16 single direct-knockout matches, the winning teams will advance to the tournament’s Round of 16, which begins on the Fourth of July.

Here is the list of the teams that have advanced to the Round of 16:

1. Canada (32), the Group B runner-up with 4 points, qualified after a 1-0 victory on June 28 against Canada.
2. Brazil (6), the Group C winner with 7 points, qualified after a 2-0 victory on June 29 against Japan.

Here is the list of teams that are still in the Round of 32:

1. Argentina (1) wins Group J with 9 points
2. France (2) wins Group I with 9 points
3. Mexico (14) wins Group A with 9 points.
4. Spain (3) Group H with 7 points
5. England (4) wins Group L with 7 points
6. Belgium (9) wins Group G with 7 points
7. Colombia (11) wins Group K with 7 points
8. Switzerland (17) wins Group B with 7 points
9. Japan (18) wins Group F with 7 points
10. Germany (10) wins Group E with 6 points
11. United States (15) wins Group D with 6 points
12. Morocco (7) is the Group C runner-up with 7 points.
13. Ivory Coast (30) is the Group E runner-up with 6 points.
14. Norway (31) is the Group I runner-up with 6 points.
15. Portugal (5) is the Group K runner-up with 5 points.
16. Egypt (26) is the Group G runner-up with 5 points
17. Australia (27) is the Group D runner-up with 4 points.
18. South Africa (54) is the Group A runner-up with 4 points. It was eliminated on June 28.
19. Cape Verde (64) is the Group H runner-up with 3 points.
20. Austria (22) is the Group J runner-up with 4 points.
21. Croatia (11) is the Group L runner-up with 6 points.
22. Senegal (18) classifies after placing third in Group I with 4 points.
23. Algeria (29) classifies after placing third in Group J with 4 points and a minus two goal difference.
24. Ecuador (32) classifies after placing third in Group E with 4 points.
25. Paraguay (37) classifies after placing third in Group D with 4 points and a minus two goal difference.
26. Sweden (38) classifies after placing third in Group F with 4 points.
27. Congo (46) classifies after placing third in Group K with 4 points plus one goal difference.
28. Bosnia and Herzegovina (64) classifies after placing third in Group B with 4 points and a minus one goal difference.
29. Ghana (65) classifies after placing third in Group L with 4 points.

TOURNAMENT’S SCHEDULE

Round of 16 begins

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quarterfinals begin

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

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

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

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

Semifinals begin

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

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

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

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

Finals begin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Track group-stage

• Group A
• Group B
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group I
• Group J
• Group K
• Group L

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will have to write an apology letter to each survivor as part of the settlement.

The settlement also requires the archdiocese to implement a series of child protection and transparency reforms, including creating a list of clergy accused of abuse, said Jeff Anderson, an attorney representing dozens of child sexual abuse victims.

The settlement comes three years after the archdiocese filed for bankruptcy and will cover approximately 530 survivors of child sexual abuse, Anderson said. It is the latest agreement over clergy sexual abuse claims. In 2024, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed to a record $880 million settlement.

Several archdioceses in California filed for bankruptcy after facing hundreds of lawsuits brought under a California law approved in 2019 that allowed decades-old claims to be filed by Dec. 31, 2022.

Cordileone, the archbishop, said in a statement that he believes the settlement provides “a path toward fair compensation for survivors who have borne the weight of this abuse for a lifetime.”

“The hope is that this proposal will allow us collectively to move forward,” he said,

“We accept full responsibility for what happened, and I sincerely apologize to all those who have been harmed,” Cordileone added.

Margie O’Driscoll sued the archdiocese alleging she was sexually abused almost 50 years ago by a priest while she was a student at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield, a community north of the Golden Gate Bridge. She said the settlement was hard-fought and puts the responsibility on church officials, not survivors.

“I, like every survivor, have carried this pain and shame along like a ball and chain for a very, very long time,” O'Driscoll said during a news conference. “Ashamed and confused about what happened, scorned by the archdiocese, and sometimes not even believed by family and friends, and I think today shame is gonna change sides.”

Anderson said a committee of survivors who spent thousands of hours over the last three years negotiating with Cordileone is empowered with establishing protocols on how to distribute the funds. He said every survivor will be given an opportunity to submit their story of abuse to an allocator hired by the committee to receive what Anderson said would be “an equitable distribution based on the unique circumstances of that survival.”

Besides the funds, the archdiocese will be required to follow 14 child protection and transparency demands that include maintaining and making public a comprehensive, up-to-date list of all accused clergy that details allegations and the outcomes of investigations. The archdiocese will also be banned from imposing confidentiality agreements that silence survivors.

“I’ve been working with survivors for decades and I’ve never heard of anything quite as significant, as rigorous, as robust as what is being required of the Archdiocese of San Francisco," Anderson said.

Portland is sending Jerami Grant and Kris Murray to the Grizzlies as part of the deal, said the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the trade has not gotten the required league approvals.

ESPN first reported the agreement.

It’s a big swing by the Trail Blazers and could suggest Portland — with new owner Tom Dundon, whose Carolina Hurricanes just won the Stanley Cup — might not be done making moves. Morant adds to a logjam at point guard right now for Portland, with Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard and Scoot Henderson also on the current roster.

Morant has averaged 22.4 points for his career but has played only 79 games over the last three seasons because of injuries and suspensions — including a 25-game banishment after he was seen on a livestream holding a gun while he was in the passenger seat of a vehicle. That came not long after an eight-game suspension for flashing a gun in a Denver-area nightclub, also captured on social media.

Grant averaged 18.6 points last season for Portland and will be joining his sixth team by going to Memphis. Murray averaged 5.8 points per game this past season for the Trail Blazers.

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A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Venezuela hours before Wednesday's earthquakes. On board were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative of Human Rights First, which tracks deportation flights. They were transported to a hotel in La Guaira.

Lisbeth Portillo, 58, said she escaped the rubble from the hotel with about 20 other deportees who walked the streets looking for help. They saw people running, some naked and others barefoot as they emerged from the rubble of the building in La Guaira, one of the areas that was hardest hit in Wednesday’s 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes.

“We walked about five kilometers, and I cried and cried … there was no communication,” Portillo said in a phone interview from her home in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

They reached a National Guard building, where they had a chance to call relatives.

“I was born again; God gave me a second chance,” said Portillo. “I am traumatized,” she said after a pause, weeping.

The Venezuelan government says more than 1,700 people were killed.

They survived the earthquake the same day that were deported from the U.S.

Portillo was caught up in the Trump administration's drive for mass deportations. In May, ICE Flight Monitor tracked 288 deportation flights to 38 countries, including Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile and the Ivory Coast.

The U.S. ran 12 deportation flights to Venezuela in May, operating three days a week, according to ICE Flight Monitor. Deportation flights to Venezuela resumed in February 2025 after a 13-month pause.

Portillo said the government took them to the Hotel Santuario La Llanada, where they underwent medical exams and got identification documents. They were told they would go home the next day.

Portillo was staying in a second floor room with 16 other women. She stepped onto a balcony to look at the sea and saw that the sky was black; it was very hot. She returned to the room, laid on a bed, and began to feel herself being shaken.

“I started hearing ‘papa, papa papapa,’, and I saw the women next to me start to fall,” she said, describing the sounds from the earthquake. “They were all screaming for help.”

And almost immediately, the second earthquake.

"I fall and end up buried and covered by a beam, but the shaking shifted everything where I was buried and I was able to get out,” said Portillo, who has bruises all over her body.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to a request for information from the AP.

A video from the Venezuelan government posted on social media showed images of the deportees being received by Venezuelan authorities upon their arrival at the Caracas airport on Wednesday.

Jenny Rodriguez, 24, told the Telemundo network that she was on the flight and taken to the hotel.

“I was trapped under the rubble. A colleague who had been on the same flight came by; I managed to free my hand from the debris, grabbed him by the trousers, and begged for help”, she said. “Thanks to God — and to him — I was able to get out of there.”

Liliana Rojas told Telemundo that she has been trying to locate her 33-year-old partner. The detention center where he was held in El Paso, Texas, says only told that he was deported.

“No one is giving an answer about anything,” Rojas said.

Woman says she feels ‘born again’ after surviving

Portillo, who crossed the U.S. border with Mexico in November 2021 and said had an pending asylum claim, couldn't remember her children's phone number. She called her husband in the United States.

“I said to him, ‘Cesar, I’m alive. Help me.’ And my husband kept saying, ‘It can’t be,’” she said. “‘I’m alive, I made it out of the rubble, I’m alive,’ I told him.”

Her husband called their children, who picked her up and were able to reunite with their mother the following night.

“I was born that day; on the 24th, I was born again,” said Portillo, who lived in South Florida for more than four years.

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This version corrects the headline to say the hotel was in La Guaira.

The Yarnell Hill Fire that killed 19 firefighters on June 30, 2013, remains the deadliest event on record for U.S. firefighters since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the deadliest for U.S. wildland firefighters in over a century.

The firefighters died 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Prescott, Arizona, after trying to escape flames fanned by shifting winds. They were deploying fire shelters — small, heat-resistant tents that can offer a chance at survival — when flames reached them in a brushy box canyon.

Temperatures reached 2,000 degrees (1,100 Celsius).

On Saturday, a wildfire west of Grand Junction, Colorado, killed three firefighters and injured two others. That fire has burned 44 square miles (114 square kilometers). The five firefighters were members of a Helitack crew who are dropped by helicopter into remote areas to saw and dig away vegetation and create fire-resistant barriers ahead of advancing flames.

As at the Yarnell Hill Fire, the firefighters decided to stop fleeing and use fire shelters to try to survive.

A complete investigation could take several months. Full knowledge of what happened could be elusive.

Investigators of the Yarnell Hill Fire could not verify radio communications from the firefighters for a half-hour period that may have shed light on their decision-making process.

The final investigation report ultimately did not fault the firefighters, saying they were fully qualified, staffed and trained and “followed all standards and guidelines.” Their commanders likewise made reasonable judgments and decisions in rapidly worsening conditions, according to the report.

“Complexity can outpace organizational attempts to respond,” the report concluded.

Fire shelters are a last resort, offering roll-of-the-dice odds under otherwise impossible circumstances. In a 2015 wildfire in Washington state, two firefighters who used such tents survived, while three who were in a truck died.

How much the protection the tents provide depends on the conditions in which they are deployed. They are not designed to withstand direct flame, Riva Duncan, president of Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, a firefighter advocacy group, said Monday.

“It’s your last-ditch effort to try to survive,” Duncan said.

Yet instead of feeling amplified pressure under the raised expectations created by their strong group round and a groundswell of national support, these Americans appeared to be energized by the opportunity to make history as they broke camp Monday at their training base in Orange County.

“Would it be weird if I told you I don't really feel too much pressure at this minute?” Ream said with a grin.

“I think we felt more pressure for that first game against Paraguay than anything, and that's coming from ourselves, not from anything on the outside," Ream added, referring to the Americans' impressive 4-1 win in their World Cup opener on June 12. "We just have to put in a performance the way we have in the group stage, and then we see where that takes us.”

The U.S. faces Bosnia-Herzegovina in the round of 32 in Santa Clara, California, on Wednesday night. The Americans are significantly favored — which is sort of an achievement in itself, given that this team has won exactly one knockout-round match in its entire World Cup history.

But these Americans are on the international stage with more optimism and likely more talent than nearly all previous editions of this team. Whether that translates into a deep run is still to be decided, but the Americans' confidence and excitement is undeniable.

“The game is going to be about us and what we're prepared to do, and what we have to do to advance,” U.S. striker Folarin Balogun said. “It’s crunch time. This is the business end, and this is the stage where, in my opinion, the big players step forward and the big players carry the pressure and make things happen.”

Although the Americans reached the semifinals at the inaugural World Cup in 1930 by winning their group, their only knockout victory came at the 2002 tournament when they beat Mexico in the round of 16.

Tim Ream says the US team felt more pressure at the last World Cup in Qatar

The 38-year-old Ream believes the Americans felt more pressure four years ago in Qatar, when they muddled through group play before getting blasted 3-1 by the Netherlands in the first knockout round.

Those Americans weren't led by accomplished Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino, who has made strong tactical advancements and clearly instilled many of his players with a new kind of confidence after previous U.S. cycles were spent under more parochial coaching.

They also didn't have Balogun, the elite goal-scorer who made a major impact on the Americans' victories over Paraguay and Australia by a combined 6-1, clinching their group in style and rendering their third match meaningless.

Folarin Balogun taking in American culture during the World Cup

Balogun's impact is undeniable on the field, but the Brooklyn-born, London-raised forward is also a focal point away from the field. This World Cup cycle has been his first significant exposure to U.S. culture, and that's an endless source of amusement and insight for his teammates.

“He says America is a simulation quite often,” defender Mark McKenzie said with a laugh. “We’ll be driving down the road and he’ll see something and be like, ‘What is that? Why is an individual dressed like that, or why are they throwing a sign up in the air on the corner? What is Bojangles?’ It’s stuff like that, where he’s like, ‘Bro! America! What is going on?’”

Many of the top Americans now play their club soccer internationally — another obvious factor in this team's improved competitiveness in this World Cup. Defender Chris Richards, an Alabama native who plays in London for Crystal Palace, says his team is more mature and more tested than most previous editions of the U.S. roster because of its experience at all levels of the sport.

And count Richards among those who find Balogun's culture shock to be a hilarious distraction during the down time on international breaks and this World Cup cycle.

“I think (Balogun) still has this notion that he says Americans aren’t real,” Richards said. “There’s some stuff that we do that doesn’t fly back in London. It's a lot to learn and especially when you’re only here for a few weeks at a time. It’s been cool (for Balogun) being able to see different pockets of America.”

Cristian Roldan and Auston Trusty do modified training ahead of round of 32

NOTES: Injured players Cristian Roldan (quadriceps strain) and Auston Trusty (ankle) did modified training while their teammates went through a full workout Monday, but McKenzie (foot irritation) remained sidelined for a second straight day. Roldan hasn't played at this World Cup, while Trusty scored in the Americans' 3-2 loss to Turkey before he rolled his ankle late in the match. Roldan was on the field doing drills for the second straight day. McKenzie is getting treatment away from practice. None of the three injured Americans was expected to play a major role in the knockout rounds.

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The World Cup’s daily group-stage matches ended on June 27 after 16 teams were eliminated.

The 48 qualifying teams started the tournament with matches within 12 groups of four on June 11.

As the tournament continues, the single direct-knockout matches to advance into the Round of 16 are set to end on July 3.

The list of 32

Here is the list of the teams in order of group-stage placement, points earned, and FIFA ranking:

1. Argentina (1) wins Group J with 9 points
2. France (2) wins Group I with 9 points
3. Mexico (14) wins Group A with 9 points.
4. Spain (3) Group H with 7 points
5. England (4) wins Group L with 7 points
6. Brazil (6) wins Group C with 7 points
7. Belgium (9) wins Group G with 7 points
8. Colombia (11) wins Group K with 7 points
9. Switzerland (17) wins Group B with 7 points
10. Japan (18) wins Group F with 7 points
11. Germany (10) wins Group E with 6 points
12. United States (15) wins Group D with 6 points
13. Morocco (7) is the Group C runner-up with 7 points.
14. Ivory Coast (30) is the Group E runner-up with 6 points.
15. Norway (31) is the Group I runner-up with 6 points.
16. Portugal (5) is the Group K runner-up with 5 points.
17. Japan (17) is the Group F runner-up with 5 points
18. Egypt (26) is the Group G runner-up with 5 points
19. Australia (27) is the Group D runner-up with 4 points.
20. Canada (32) is the Group B runner-up with 4 points.
21. South Africa (54) is the Group A runner-up with 4 points. It was eliminated on June 28.
22. Cape Verde (64) is the Group H runner-up with 3 points.
23. Austria (22) is the Group J runner-up with 4 points.
24. Croatia (11) is the Group L runner-up with 6 points.
25. Senegal (18) classifies after placing third in Group I with 4 points.
26. Algeria (29) classifies after placing third in Group J with 4 points and a minus two goal difference.
27. Ecuador (32) classifies after placing third in Group E with 4 points.
28. Paraguay (37) classifies after placing third in Group D with 4 points and a minus two goal difference.
29. Sweden (38) classifies after placing third in Group F with 4 points.
30. Congo (46) classifies after placing third in Group K with 4 points plus one goal difference.
31. Bosnia and Herzegovina (64) classifies after placing third in Group B with 4 points and a minus one goal difference.
32. Ghana (65) classifies after placing third in Group L with 4 points.

Tournament’s schedule

June 30: Three matches.

Group E runner-up vs. Group I runner-up at 1 p.m., at the AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas.

Group I winner vs. Group F third place at 5 p.m., at the MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford.

Mexico (Group A winner) vs. third place team at 9 p.m. at the Estadio Azteca, in Mexico City.

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

July 1: Three matches.

Group L winner vs. Group H third-place winner at noon at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.

Group G winner plays at 4 p.m. at the Lumen Field in Seattle.

United States (Group D winner) vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Group B third place) at 9 p.m. at the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

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

July 2: There are three matches.

Group H winner vs. Group J runner-up at 3 p.m. at the SoFi Stadium, om Inglewood.

Group B winner vs. Group G third-place at 7 p.m. at the Vancouver Stadium in Canada

Group K runner-up vs. Group L runner-up at 11 p.m. at the Toronto Stadium in Canada.

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

July 3: There are three matches.

2 p.m., at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

6 p.m., at the Miami Stadium, better known as the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

9:30 p.m. at the GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.

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

Round of 16 begins

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quarterfinals begin

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

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

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

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

Semifinals begin

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

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

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

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

Finals begin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Track group-stage

• Group A
• Group B
• Group C
• Group D
• Group E
• Group F
• Group G
• Group H
• Group I
• Group J
• Group K
• Group L

Since the 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes struck on June 24 — amid an already existing humanitarian crisis — Guevara has seen the images of pancaked buildings and held on to a hopeful vision.

“I was born in the area that was affected,” said Guevara, who works for Food For the Poor.

The team behind the Christian relief and development nonprofit organization headquartered in Coconut Creek also has a network of believers who support the vision, but the needs are great.

“I have many family members and friends in these areas, so this is personal,” said Guevara, the director of partnerships for Food for the Poor.

As the search and rescue efforts continued and the death toll was increasing in Venezuela’s state of La Guaira, a 4.6 magnitude aftershock struck on Monday morning. Work towards that vision continued.

“Today we are sending about $20,000 to one of our partners to purchase some items in Venezuela,” Guevara said, as volunteers near him packed care packages with hand-written notes.

The nonprofit was already counting on the goodwill of churches, corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and schools, but Guevara welcomed more partners. Each aid shipment costs between $5,000 to $7,000.

“One of the most important things is cash donations,” Guevara said. “Cash donations allow us to mobilize a large number of containers.”

With hundreds of apartment buildings collapsed or partially collapsed in coastal towns like Caraballeda and Catia La Mar, Guevara asked the public to believe in the vision and join the team.

“We will do the rehabilitation and development,” Guevara said.

While the nonprofit was accepting drop-off donations of nonperishable food and hygiene products from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., from Monday to Friday, at 6401 Lyons Road, in Coconut Creek, the nonprofit’s site was accepting cash donations 24/7.

Food For The Poor’s site has an online catalog with categories that include home assistance, access to running water, and investments in education and micro-enterprises.

The site also has a page for pledge donors, a page to contribute to the Angels of Hope program, a section for the 1982 Legacy Society program, and a monthly donation program.

For more information on how to make a one-time donation or to contribute to the nonprofit’s efforts in Venezuela, visit this page.

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Personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondió a las 1:30 p.m. en 16850 South Glades Drive.

Los rescatistas concentraron sus esfuerzos en los pisos sexto y séptimo del edificio y trasladaron a uno de los heridos a un hospital cercano, según MDFR.

Fujimori, candidata de Fuerza Popular, suma 50,135%, al contabilizarse el 100% de las actas. Sánchez, de Juntos por el Perú, alcanzó 49,865%. La diferencia entre ambos es de más de 49.000 votos.

Sin embargo, el Tribunal Electoral de Perú anunció la semana pasada que recién el viernes 3 de julio proclamará de forma oficial al ganador de la segunda vuelta. El triunfador gobernará desde el 28 de julio por cinco años, según la ley.

Fujimori, primera dama e hija del fallecido exmandatario Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), llega por cuarta vez a un balotaje presidencial en Perú. Se presenta como la mejor opción para imponer orden en un país agobiado por la creciente delincuencia.

Sánchez, quien fue ministro de Comercio Exterior del sentenciado expresidente Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), afirma que en Perú se ha producido un fraude, pero no ha mostrado pruebas y ha marchado por las calles de Lima en dos ocasiones. El progresista ha indicado que no reconocerá el triunfo de Fujimori si no se anulan los votos de peruanos en el exterior que provocaron el ajustado triunfo de la conservadora.

Más del 70% de los electores no votaron ni por Fujimori ni por Sánchez en la primera vuelta.

Perú sufre una larga crisis política que vio pasar a ocho presidentes en casi una década de enfrentamientos entre el Parlamento y el Ejecutivo y protestas sociales que dejaron 50 manifestantes muertos entre 2022 y 2023.

“En general, vemos un patrón realmente caluroso y húmedo. Va a acompañarnos durante la mayor parte de la semana”, aseguró Andrew Ansorge, meteorólogo en Des Moines, Iowa, refiriéndose al primer periodo prolongado de calor de este verano.

Gran parte de Iowa y amplias zonas de la región centro-norte estaban bajo una advertencia de calor extremo al menos hasta el martes. Se pronosticaba que las temperaturas alcanzarían los 32,2 grados Celsius (90 grados Fahrenheit), y que los valores del índice de calor, o sensación térmica, superarían los 37,8 °C (100 °F) en la región, indicó Ansorge.

Rachel Washburn, que está de visita en Des Moines con su familia, buscaba cosas que hacer con los niños durante una ola de calor. Terminaron en un parque de fuentes brotantes antes del almuerzo, donde sus hijos jugaron a la pinta en el agua fresca para escapar de un índice de calor que se pronosticaba que llegaría a 43 °C (109 °F).

“Mis hijos se sorprendieron bastante por el calor y la humedad”, dijo Washburn, madre de siete hijos de entre 18 meses y 17 años, ya que están acostumbrados a un clima más templado en Bemidji, Minnesota. “Esperábamos que hiciera buen tiempo, pero nos las arreglaremos”.

Scott Kleebauer, meteorólogo del Centro de Predicción Meteorológica en College Park, Maryland, explicó que se esperan algunas de las peores condiciones el jueves y el viernes, a medida que el calor avance por el valle de Ohio, el Atlántico medio y hacia el noreste, con la posibilidad de alcanzar algunas temperaturas récord.

La mañana del lunes, Tom y Cindy Youngblood caminaron por un parque de esculturas al aire libre en Des Moines, disfrutando breves momentos de sombra y de una brisa oportuna. La pareja, ambos de 67 años y originarios de Rogers, Arkansas, regresaba de un viaje de campamento en Wisconsin y el domingo eligió un hotel en lugar de su furgoneta camper.

“No queríamos acampar anoche porque sabíamos que haría demasiado calor”, señaló Cindy Youngblood.

Kleebauer indicó que una de las principales recomendaciones del centro es mantenerse hidratado y tener acceso a zonas con sombra y aire acondicionado.

“Da la casualidad de que coincide con un periodo en el que mucha gente está fuera y mucha gente se va de vacaciones” durante la semana festiva del 4 de julio, agregó.

El calor extremo también ha pasado factura en Europa, donde se establecieron récords de temperatura y se reportaron muchas muertes relacionadas con el calor en Francia.

La gente podría verse tomada por sorpresa por la primera ola de calor del año, afirmó el doctor Roy Elrod, jefe de personal del DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital.

“Estás feliz de que el invierno se haya ido, estás listo para disfrutar el verano, lo has estado deseando”, manifestó Elrod. “Y entonces, creo que caemos en una especie de postura en la que pensamos que todo va a estar bien”.

Pero las lesiones relacionadas con el calor pueden ocurrir en cuestión de minutos, especialmente en quienes no se preparan para el clima hidratándose, usando ropa ligera, evitando las horas más calurosas del día y minimizando la exposición al sol, explicó.

“No siempre estamos preparados, y basta un incidente que te sacuda y te altere para que entiendas que puede agravarse muy rápido”, añadió.

En la región centro-norte, algunos programas de campamento reorganizaron sus horarios el lunes. Otras actividades al aire libre, como un mercado de agricultores en Michigan y un autocine en Minnesota, cerraron el lunes debido al calor.

En Flint, Michigan, la ciudad activó cuatro centros de enfriamiento hasta el miércoles, con la posibilidad de extender las operaciones si el calor persiste.

La Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison informó que cerraría 23 edificios al público a partir del martes, permitiendo solo acceso limitado a otros 11. Reubicó algunas clases de verano después de que, a principios de mes, una tubería de agua rota en su planta de enfriamiento redujera drásticamente la capacidad de proporcionar aire acondicionado en todo el campus.

Las temperaturas cercanas a los 32,2 °C (90 °F) y la alta humedad no impidieron que Toni Kreutzer, de 28 años, saliera a caminar por la orilla del lago Mendota en Madison, Wisconsin, con su perro Chester, de 13 años.

“Me gusta el calor”, afirmó Kreutzer. “Solo que no me gusta la humedad”.

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McCormack informó desde Concord, Nueva Hampshire. Los periodistas de The Associated Press Scott Bauer en Madison, Wisconsin, y Haya Panjwani en Washington, D.C., contribuyeron a este despacho.

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

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday released its list of participants for an upcoming meeting to reconsider the safety and effectiveness of several popular peptide injections, including some that have been praised by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Previous FDA panels on the topic have been composed of academics and researchers. The agency’s new group mainly includes health professionals who prescribe, produce or promote peptides, which have become a wellness trend among athletes, influencers and celebrities.

The two-day meeting is the latest example of how Kennedy and his deputies are trying to reshape U.S. health policy in the mold of the Make America Healthy Again movement. Some of the biggest supporters of the movement sell peptide formulas, though many pharmaceutical industry experts consider them illegal, unapproved drugs.

The substances are sold online and promoted by wellness clinics as a means to build muscle, heal injuries and look younger, though there’s little evidence behind those claims. Peptide sellers often skirt U.S. regulations by labeling their products as "for research use only,” since the FDA doesn’t regulate research chemicals.

FDA has raised safety concerns about peptides

Many of the injectable peptides sold in the U.S. are produced by compounding pharmacies, which mix custom medications that aren’t available from traditional drug manufacturers.

For several years, the FDA has warned Americans about the risks of injecting chemicals with names like BPC-157 and TB-500, which have not been extensively studied in humans. Both drugs are considered doping substances by international sports authorities. They are among seven peptides set for review in July.

Previous versions of the FDA’s panel on drug compounding — the group that will meet next month — have voted against a string of peptide ingredients brought forward by compounding pharmacies, declaring all of them too risky to be offered to patients. Those panels were mostly composed of experts from universities including Duke, Harvard and Johns Hopkins.

New FDA panel includes peptide proponents

The FDA's new group includes more than a half-dozen panelists who run clinics, online businesses or pharmacies specializing in peptides, which are often given alongside other unapproved therapies, including vitamin infusions.

For example, panel member Dr. Haleem Mohammed runs clinics in Florida that sell injections of peptides, vitamins, testosterone and weight loss medications. The business is part of a national chain of clinics dubbed Gameday Men's Health. The company's website states, "compounded medications offered through our services are not FDA-approved, and the FDA does not verify their safety."

Another panelist, Dr. Gabriel Alizaidy, charges $500 for “peptide and hormone” consultations, including advice on “where to safely get each peptide or compound.” Alizaidy promotes BPC-157, GHK-Cu and other peptides to thousands of followers through his accounts on Instagram and TikTok.

His website contains the disclaimer that each consultation “is educational in nature and does not constitute medical care, diagnosis, or treatment.”

Another member is Bobby Harshbarger, a Tennessee state senator who has multiple connections to the industry. Harshbarger is a pharmacist at his family's business, Premiere Pharmacy, which sells compounded medications for weight loss, longevity, pain and other conditions.

His mother, Rep. Diana Harshbarger, is also a pharmacist and a Republican member of U.S. Congress from Tennessee. Last year she sent a letter to Kennedy calling on him to relax FDA restrictions on a half-dozen peptides.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly praised Harshbarger's support of his “Make America Great Again” agenda. Last year, the president pardoned her husband, Robert Harshbarger Jr., who pleaded guilty more than a decade ago to substituting an unapproved drug from China for one used by patients on kidney dialysis. He was stripped of his pharmacy license and sentenced to four years in prison, which he served.

Mohammed and Alizaidy did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press Monday afternoon. A spokesperson for Harshbarger could not immediately provide comment when reached by phone.

Kennedy and his allies previously criticized government panels

The FDA has more than 30 panels of experts who advise the agency on various drugs, vaccines, food ingredients and other products.

Advisory meetings are subject to strict government transparency rules in terms of panel composition and financial disclosures. Experts who have a financial stake in a company or industry are permitted to serve on the panels, but the relationship must be disclosed and regulators are supposed to explain why the person's expertise outweighs their potential conflict of interest.

Kennedy and his allies have been highly critical of federal expert panels, often alleging that they are riven with conflicts of interest, despite federal data showing otherwise.

Last year, Kennedy fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's entire 17-member vaccine panel and replaced it with a group that includes several anti-vaccine voices. A federal judge later said that action likely violated federal rules.

Kennedy told podcast host Joe Rogan earlier this year that he is “a big fan of peptides,” and described using them to recover from injuries.

Former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary — who resigned in May — was also highly critical of FDA advisory panels, complaining that they were expensive, time-consuming and subject to too many financial conflicts.

The number of such meetings plummeted during Makary's tenure. Instead, the FDA held a number of ad hoc meetings with handpicked experts on topics favored by Kennedy, including the risks of talc powder and antidepressants.

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After Djokovic won the first set against Wu Yibing of China, one man in the crowd took the opportunity to pop the question to his girlfriend.

The seven-time Wimbledon champion clearly took notice, coming back out on court and making a heart gesture and then two thumbs up toward the couple before shouting out: “I want an invitation to the wedding.”

If he gets one, he could bring a pretty decent wedding singer along.

Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny was in the player's box on Centre Court, two days after Djokovic appeared on stage during the artist's concert in London.

Bad Bunny has experience with weddings — there was a real one performed during his Super Bowl halftime show this year.

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The attorneys general and governors who filed the lawsuit allege that an interim final rule released earlier this month by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversteps the text of the law last summer that set in motion the changes to Medicaid.

They claim the Republican administration’s narrow interpretation of parts of the statute, including new limits to a medical frailty exemption, will create harmful coverage barriers and chaos in states that have been rushing to implement new systems by the January deadline.

“Added administrative burdens will cause individuals who are eligible for Medicaid to lose or be denied coverage,” the plaintiffs write. “People with disabilities, patients in the middle of cancer treatment, or those struggling with another serious or complex health condition, shouldn’t be at risk of losing the care that helps maintain their health.”

Spokespeople for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CMS, the agencies named in the lawsuit, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump administration has promoted the new rules as commonsense measures to eliminate government freeloading and preserve benefits for those who need them most.

The new Medicaid restrictions, which Democrats have criticized, were part of Trump’s big tax and policy law in 2025. The change affects those covered through an expansion in most states that gave more lower-income people access to the government’s safety net healthcare program.

Starting Jan. 1, expansion enrollees age 19 to 64 will have to show that they work or do community service at least 80 hours a month or are in school at least half the time. There are exceptions for those considered medically frail or in addiction treatment programs, among others.

This month’s announcement from CMS caught states off guard with a new definition of medical frailty. The law had said medically frail people include those who have substance use disorders, disabilities or serious medical conditions. But the CMS rule went further, saying someone’s condition must “significantly impair” their ability to work, volunteer or attend school at the rates required in the law for them to be granted an exemption.

In 2027 and once in 2028, the patient can attest that they meet this definition. But when they try to renew coverage in 2028, they’ll need to prove it. Health analysts and state Medicaid directors have said they aren’t clear on what existing documentation could prove that point.

In the lawsuit, states allege that this change came “contrary to months of regular communications with CMS and preliminary guidance materials upon which Plaintiff States based their implementation plans.” They say CMS has still not provided states with enough clarity on how they can update their systems appropriately.

Kinda Serafi, a partner at the legal and consulting firm Manatt Health who is working with states to make the changes, said the administration “moved the goalposts” with its rule on medical frailty.

“By going beyond the clear language of the statute, CMS opened the door to this court challenge,” she said.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, one of the Democrats suing the administration, said the new rule puts thousands of her state's residents at risk.

“New Yorkers who are battling cancer, living with a disability, managing a serious mental health condition, or recovering from addiction should be able to get the health care they need without being buried in paperwork,” she said in a statement.

In a trade with the Anaheim Ducks, Florida acquired the rights to pending-unrestricted free agent defenseman Radko Gudas.

Going back to Anaheim in the deal are the rights to another pending-UFA, forward A.J. Greer.

Gudas patrolled the Panthers’ blue line from 2020 to 2023, playing 203 games in a Florida sweater and accumulating seven goals and 44 points while racking up 224 penalty minutes.

If he ends up signing with the Panthers, Gudas will join a defensive group that includes Aaron Ekblad, Gustav Forsling, Seth Jones, Niko Mikkola, Dmitry Kulikov and Uvis Balinskis.

Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vowed to take her outrage “right to the White House and Congress” to seek assurances the DEA is no longer using the risky law enforcement strategy in New Mexico — and that it is not being replicated elsewhere. Overdoses have surged in New Mexico, even as fentanyl deaths declined in other states.

“This is a stunning failure by the federal government,” the governor told reporters at a news conference in the state medical examiner's office in Albuquerque, joining a host of state and local law enforcers and officials demanding answers. “It’s disgusting and despicable.”

The White House and DEA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Lujan Grisham's remarks came a week after The Associated Press reported that DEA agents repeatedly monitored — but did not seize — shipments of fentanyl as part of an effort to build bigger criminal cases between 2023 and 2025.

Current and former DEA agents, including whistleblower David Howell, told AP the strategy amounted to a gamble with public safety and may have violated U.S. Justice Department rules intended to safeguard the public.

The DEA initially denied Howell’s allegations in a statement to AP. But the agency later called upon the Justice Department’s independent watchdog to conduct its own investigation.

The fentanyl went unseized amid the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history and as the DEA led a public awareness campaign — “One Pill Can Kill” — emphasizing that even a few milligrams of the substance can be lethal.

New Mexico has responded swiftly to the revelations. Last week, the state's attorney general announced a criminal investigation to determine whether any federal officials broke state law by knowingly exposing New Mexico residents to the synthetic opioid.

“We’re going to protect the rest of the United States from this kind of foul, ‘I need a big case' effort no matter what the consequences,” Lujan Grisham said. “We’re angry because it’s immoral."

Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller said fentanyl represents his city's “No. 1 challenge," driving crime and homelessness and straining health care resources.

“Using us in some sort of uninformed, undisciplined experiment that’s literally killing our people — that’s what this is,” he said. “This should outrage every single New Mexican.”

Trump last week shared a link on his Truth Social page to an article attributing the scandal to the “Biden-run Justice Department.” In a statement to AP last week, the Justice Department similarly said “the alleged conduct occurred under the Biden Administration’s disastrous open border policies.”

Howell first came forward during the Biden administration in 2023 — and was sidelined for doing so — but he continued to flag unseized fentanyl shipments as recently as last year, and the largest he documented happened two months into Trump's second term, a 1.8-million pill haul DEA learned about but did not intercept in March 2025.

Lujan Grisham has criticized both administrations as not doing enough to stem the tide of fentanyl in New Mexico, and pointed to the death last year of a 15-month-old girl who reportedly swallowed some of her mother's drugs in Española, a town ravaged by grinding poverty and addiction.

It is not clear whether any fatal overdoses in the state can be directly attributed to the DEA strategy. While overdose deaths nationwide fell 14% last year, government data show New Mexico tallied a 21% spike.

“Somebody must pay for the damage to the state, the public safety risks that will be shared by everyone here for a decade or more, and pay to try to right the wrongs and put people’s lives back together,” she said.

Lujan Grisham, who will leave office at year's end after two terms as governor, said the worst part of being an elected leader is having to face the victims of what she called “senseless” devastation and loss.

“There are no words that can take away that pain,” she said, adding their experiences cannot be dismissed by politics as usual. “Whatever we can do to prevent the next loss for the next family, is the work that we’re all collectively doing."

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Mustian and Goodman reported from Miami.

The 44-year-old Williams is scheduled to play an opponent less than half her age, 20-year-old Maya Joint of Australia, in the third match Tuesday on Centre Court — the patch of grass where the American standout won seven of her 23 Grand Slam singles titles.

“I think everyone’s feeling the same way: Cannot wait to be watching Serena back on Centre Court again,” Sally Bolton, the chief executive of the All England Club, said Monday.

Wimbledon organizers took the unusual step of holding up an eighth and final wild card spot for Williams until she accepted the invitation at almost the last possible moment the weekend before qualifying began.

“We were all sitting there sort of quietly keeping our fingers crossed that that’s what would happen,” Bolton said when asked by The Associated Press how anxious the club was while Williams pondered her decision.

“She is such an icon of the sport and particularly here at the championship she’s one of our most special champions,” Bolton added. “So it really will be the ticket to have tomorrow when she walks back on Centre Court.”

Whether it was related to Williams or not, the queue (line) of would-be-spectators camping out overnight for the daily batches of Wimbledon tickets on offer had reached 10,000 people by Monday morning.

“We are advising people if they haven’t already set off to travel, not to travel because the queue is effectively full,” Bolton said. “By comparison to last year, it is really busy.”

Williams will also play doubles with older sister Venus Williams later in the week.

Since Serena last won Wimbledon a decade ago, eight different women have won the title.

“It was needed a wee bit to kind of reinvent the women’s game,” said Lauren Byrne, a 26-year-old spectator at Wimbledon from near Dublin. “She’s definitely going to bring a bit more excitement back.”

Added Byrne’s father, Anthony: “It’s just great to see her. She still has the appetite, hasn’t she, to play at this level? … Age isn’t a barrier.”

Gibran Chenia, a London resident who described himself as “50-plus,” called Williams “a legend.

“And if she’s half as good as she was, she is going to be great for tennis,” Chenia said. “It’s great to have legends back.”

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The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called a titanosaur. Scientists haven't yet identified the species it belongs to.

It was discovered in 1985 during an expedition to Antarctica's James Ross Island and collected by geologist Mike Thomson. Working with the British Antarctic Survey, Thomson was mapping the area's rock layers and collected marine reptile fossils to help with future dating efforts. He recorded the find as a large reptile.

Decades later, paleontologist Mark Evans spotted the bone in the British Antarctic Survey's collections and wondered whether it might be a dinosaur. He and other researchers analyzed the shape of the bone and compared it to other more complete dinosaur remains, confirming their discovery. The findings were published on Monday in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, when this dinosaur lived, the region was populated by lush forests — a “rather different and much more hospitable place than we think of today,” said study co-author Paul Barrett with the Natural History Museum in London.

At about 23 feet (7 meters) long, the dinosaur was small for its group and may have been young when it died. Scientists don't know how the creature met its end, but they think its body floated away from the coast and sank to the sea floor, becoming fossilized in marine rock.

Technology has come a long way since the dinosaur tail bone was first found, allowing researchers to peer inside bones and gain even more detailed information about ancient creatures. Thomson died in 2020 before the fossil was identified as belonging to a dinosaur.

“If he were still with us, he would be delighted to know what this was,” Evans, a study co-author, said.

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An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified paleontologist Mark Evans as Mike Evans in one reference.

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AP video producer Havovi Todd in London contributed to this report.

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El nuevo sismo se produjo a unos 30 kilómetros de La Guaira, en la costa norte de Venezuela, a las 7.01 hora local (11.01 GMT) con una magnitud de 4,6 y una profundidad de 10 kilómetros, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS).

Aquí los últimos acontecimientos registrados en Venezuela:

Cruz Roja estima que su labor se extienda por 24 meses

La Cruz Roja Venezolana proyecta que la operación de respuesta desplegada tras los terremotos del 24 de junio se extienda por 24 meses, con la expectativa de atender a 300.000 personas afectadas por la emergencia nacional. La Sociedad Nacional mantiene acciones humanitarias sostenidas entre La Guaira y el Distrito Capital, dos de las zonas más afectadas por la actividad sísmica.

Presidente de Asamblea Nacional informa nueva cifra de muertos

El presidente de la Asamblea Nacional, Jorge Rodríguez, informa que la cifra de fallecidos asciende a 1.719 y que los heridos suman 5.034. Indica a su vez que en total hay 15.866 personas damnificadas.

Agrega que en el sismo de la mañana del lunes “no hubo absolutamente ninguna afectación de ninguna estructura ni sobre ninguna persona, afortunadamente”.

En cuanto a los daños materiales causados por los sismos de la semana pasada, se han contabilizado 855 edificios afectados de los cuales 189 sufrieron un colapso total. También sufrieron daños 38 hospitales y más de 1.600 estructuras como puentes y carreteras.

Nuevos reportes sobre extranjeros

Tres ciudadanos estadounidenses murieron en los terremotos, confirmó el lunes un alto funcionario del Departamento de Estado, y 12 siguen desaparecidos. El Departamento estima que hay alrededor de 5.000 ciudadanos estadounidenses en Venezuela.

Por su parte, la Cancillería cubana confirmó el fallecimiento de un ciudadano cubano e indicó que buscan información con las autoridades venezolanas para dar con otras personas hasta ahora desaparecidas, cuya cifra no detalló.

En tanto, la cancillería peruana informó que se ha concretado el retorno de dos peruanos residentes en La Guaira que pidieron ser evacuados y que ha recibido reportes de cuatro peruanos desaparecidos.

México enviará más ayuda

La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum dice que las autoridades venezolanas hicieron una nueva solicitud a México para el envío de plantas potabilizadoras de agua y energía eléctrica y alimentos no perecederos, que serán enviados por vía aérea y marítima. “En la medida que podamos vamos a enviar todo lo que se requiera”, añadió.

Sheinbaum expresó en su conferencia matutina que México está disputo a apoyar a Venezuela cuando se inicie la fase de reconstrucción de las áreas devastadas por los terremotos con normas de construcción y sistemas de alerta sísmico que no existen actualmente en el país sudamericano.

Actividades se reanudan lentamente en Caracas

En Caracas los comercios abren sus puertas más tarde de lo habitual y el transporte colectivo se mantiene activo, aunque con pocos pasajeros.

“Voy tarde al trabajo, pero a pesar del susto no nos podemos quedar en casa, hay que producir”, dijo Johny González, un empleado de un automercado de 22 años, momentos antes de abordar un autobús.

“Nos toca tener mucha fortaleza mental para salir a trabajar, en mi caso ayuda que todos estamos sanos (en la familia) y tenemos un techo que nos abrigue”, agregó.

Sismos tuvieron impacto geológico en Trinidad y Tobago

En la vecina Trinidad y Tobago, geólogos confirman que los dos terremotos elevaron la costa suroeste de Trinidad hasta seis metros.

El geólogo Xavier Moonan, quien visitó Galfa Point durante el fin de semana, indicó que la línea costera también se desplazó hacia el sur aproximadamente 30 metros.

Se encontraron peces, cangrejos y rayas muertos en la playa de Trinidad tras los dos terremotos de la semana pasada.

Moonan explicó que, cuando se produce un gran terremoto en la región, la transferencia de energía tiende a reflejarse en la falla a lo largo de la costa sur de Trinidad.

Nuevo temblor en Venezuela mientras continúan los rescates

Un nuevo sismo sacude la región centro costera de Venezuela, el más reciente de una serie de réplicas luego de los dos terremotos del 24 de junio.

“Aquí estamos otra vez en la calle, no sé cuándo vamos a tener un momento de verdadera tranquilidad”, dijo a The Associated Press Concepción Hernández, un ama de casa de 51 años, que evacuó junto a su esposo un edificio en la barriada Los Palos Grandes de Caracas.

“Somos bendecidos, nuestro edificio resistió otra vez, salimos sin problema. La mayoría de los vecinos ya regresó a su casa”, agregó Hernández.

De momento no ha habido reportes de daños o víctimas.

EEUU amplía ayuda a Venezuela

El Departamento de Estado estadounidense informa que “en respuesta a las necesidades urgentes identificadas por los equipos de primera intervención estadounidenses sobre el terreno, Estados Unidos ha incrementado su compromiso financiero para esta respuesta vital a más de 300 millones de dólares”.

Los fondos están destinados a organizaciones asociadas, financiación bilateral y al fondo común para los países de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Coordinación de Asuntos Humanitarios.

China promete 14,7 millones de dólares en ayuda humanitaria

China anuncia que proporcionará 100 millones de yuanes (14,7 millones de dólares) en ayuda humanitaria para las víctimas de los terremotos en Venezuela. Esta ayuda se suma a una cantidad no especificada de asistencia en efectivo enviada previamente a Venezuela, declara Guo Jiakun, portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores chino. Ocho ciudadanos chinos han fallecido a causa de los terremotos, según informaron medios de comunicación chinos.

El jugador de 23 años, nacido en Caracas y residente del sur de Florida desde 2004, no se limitó a donar dinero. Se presentó personalmente a mover cajas en el almacén de GEM en Doral, ubicado en 1850 NW 84th Ave.

“Físicamente no podemos estar allá ahora mismo... lo cual es una mierda... pero seguimos ayudando de todas las formas que podemos. Por eso estamos aquí”, dijo mientras trabajaba como voluntario.

Borregales, conocido como “Automatic Andy” y exestrella de la Universidad de Miami, llegó al almacén junto a su esposa Stephanie, graduada de Florida State University. Ambos portaron con orgullo el chaleco verde neón de GEM.

“Tengo a mi hermana allá”, dijo el pateador. “Gracias a Dios está bien, pero muchas familias no tienen esa suerte.”

La urgencia del esfuerzo aumentó tras un sismo de magnitud 4.6 que sacudió la zona el lunes, en medio de la devastación causada por los terremotos de magnitud 7.2 y 7.5 que golpearon el estado venezolano de La Guaira el miércoles pasado.

“Mucha gente no tiene un refugio ni un hogar al que regresar porque todo es escombros”, dijo Borregales.

Mientras el número de víctimas seguía aumentando, la ONU estimó el lunes que unos 680,000 niños se encuentran entre los 1.8 millones de venezolanos que necesitan asistencia tras los sismos.

Borregales no es el único atleta venezolano que siente el dolor desde lejos. William Contreras, receptor de los Milwaukee Brewers nacido en Puerto Cabello, rompió en llanto tras una victoria el viernes y se disculpó por no poder sumarse a las labores de búsqueda y rescate.

Borregales, quien se graduó del Champagnat Catholic School en Hialeah en 2021 y también jugó fútbol americano en el Booker T. Washington High School en Overtown y en el Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School en Hollywood, encontró en el almacén de Doral una forma concreta de actuar.

“Es realmente increíble ver cómo todos se unen”, dijo Stephanie Borregales, cubanoamericana que se casó con el jugador el año pasado en Boca Raton.

GEM también cuenta con un almacén en Valencia, Venezuela, desde donde comienza la distribución. La organización no acepta ropa ni ropa de cama, pero sí recibe tiendas de campaña, colchones inflables, alimentos no perecederos, productos de higiene, baterías, pañales y kits de emergencia.

“Si todo lo que puedes donar es una caja de jabón, eso es suficiente”, dijo Borregales. “Haz lo que puedas.”

Para más información sobre cómo ser voluntario de GEM, visita esta página.

A decision favoring the state of Mississippi over the Republican National Committee delivered an immediate reprieve to the 14 states with grace periods for regular mail ballots, as well as heading off what was expected to be a scramble to alter the practice and inform voters just months ahead of the midterm elections.

At least one state, Ohio, had preemptively changed its law in anticipation of a different result from the high court, and 15 other states have such grace periods specifically for military and overseas voters.

Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said the ruling means "the thousands of voters whose ballots are postmarked on time but received after Election Day still have their voices heard.”

Mail ballots, also called absentee ballots, have been the source of conspiracy theories from President Donald Trump, who groundlessly blames them for his loss in the 2020 election. The RNC and Libertarian Party had sued to overturn a Mississippi law that permits the counting of mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and arrive up to five days later, on grounds that it violated federal law.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, wrote for the majority that the practice is legal.

"Nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by Election Day,” she wrote, adding that the court considered that very narrow question without wading into more sweeping declarations about absentee voting in general or the authority of Congress versus states over election law.

In Illinois, where mail-in ballots accounted for up to a quarter of this year's primary vote, the state elections board had budgeted $300,000 for a television and radio ad campaign to educate voters about potential changes to the mail ballot deadline. Spokesman Matt Dietrich said that campaign will be called off after the court's ruling. Illinois allows mail ballots to be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day and received within 14 days.

“Anytime you have a change in the administration of elections that affects voters, it is a big challenge to us to make sure that voters understand what that change is,” he said.

California, which has a seven-day grace period, has been a regular target of Trump and other Republicans who criticize the state's slow-counting of late-arriving ballots and have used the gap to spread conspiracy theories about voter fraud.

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber called Monday's ruling "a win for voters, for the rule of law, and for the future of our democracy.”

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson called the decision a victory for states' rights, including the ability to set election rules as long as they don't conflict with federal law.

In addition to California, Illinois and Mississippi, the other states that count regular mail ballots received after Election Day are Alaska, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

Data shows that mail ballots are popular options across all 50 states for both Republican and Democratic voters.

Although the RNC was party to the case and not the Trump administration itself, national party committees of a sitting president’s party typically operate in concert with the president’s political strategies. Trump also has effectively taken over operations of the RNC, the GOP's main fundraising and political operation.

Calling Monday's ruling “a tremendous loss,” Trump used it as a way to push his sweeping election law bill that has stalled on Capitol Hill despite Republican control in both chambers of Congress.

In a Truth Social post, the president declared it “more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” his name for legislation that would require voters nationally to document their U.S. citizenship to register to vote, show certain photo identification to cast ballots and limit who can vote with a mail ballot. RNC Chairman Joe Gruters issued a statement aligning with Trump, saying Monday's ruling was justification to pass the congressional proposal.

Lower federal courts have issued rulings blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to impose new restrictions on mail ballots and to create a national voter list, among other proposed changes. Judges in those cases have consistently said the Constitution vests authority for setting election rules with Congress and the states, not the president.

While Barrett framed Monday’s opinion on the narrower question of the mail ballot deadline, the decision could bolster hopes among Democrats that the high court will look skeptically on the president’s assertion of power over elections if other cases land before it.

Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said he was relieved because the ruling was a potential sign that other cases could go Democrats' way. But he accused the president and RNC of trying to disenfranchise voters and said he was alarmed by the narrow 5-4 decision in the case.

“What’s troubling was that so many of the other justices were willing to sacrifice the rights of voters,” said Galvin, a Democrat.

Perhaps nowhere was the case being watched more closely than Alaska, where Native and rural communities dotted across a vast landscape rely on the state's grace period to ensure their ballots get counted. Planes are often the only way ballots can get from polling locations to counting locations.

Jacqueline De León, a senior staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, was among the attorneys who filed a brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of Alaska Native and Native American groups. The brief highlighted the challenges they face, in particular where many communities are accessible only by air or water and rely on air service for mail.

“For many Native communities, voting by mail is shaped by long distances to election offices, no home mail delivery, unreliable postal service, lack of access to transportation, and the realities of living in rural and remote areas,” she said. “Ballots cast by election deadlines should not be discarded simply because substandard service or weather delays cause them to arrive after Election Day.”

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Associated Press writers Bill Barrow and Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta, Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas, Josh Kelety in Phoenix, Ali Swenson in New York and graphic artist Kevin Vineys in Washington contributed to this report.

La policía de West Miami indicó que el crimen ocurrió alrededor de las 6 a.m. del domingo en el hogar del sospechoso Luis Alberto Negrin, de 38 años, en la cuadra 6100 de Southwest 14th Street.

Las autoridades respondieron tras recibir una llamada sobre la víctima “llorando y sangrando en medio de la calle”.

Un informe de arresto indica que la víctima y Negrin habían estado bebiendo y fumando cigarrillos durante las primeras horas de la madrugada, lo que eventualmente derivó en un encuentro sexual.

Durante el encuentro, según la policía, Negrin cometió un acto que involucró “materia fecal” sin el consentimiento de la víctima, dejándola “enojada y asqueada” y desencadenando una “discusión verbal”.

El informe señala que la situación “escaló rápidamente a una confrontación física” cuando Negrin sacó una pequeña pistola plateada y la apuntó a la cabeza de la víctima “mientras hacía gestos amenazantes”.

“Temiendo por su seguridad y creyendo que (Negrin) era capaz de dispararle, (la víctima) indicó que retrocedió lentamente hacia el interior de la residencia en un intento de desescalar la situación”, escribió la policía. “(La víctima) informó que (Negrin) continuó siguiéndolo mientras mantenía el arma apuntada a su cabeza”.

Ya en la cocina, la policía dijo que Negrin “lo tomó en una llave de cabeza” y “aplicó presión extrema alrededor de su cuello, dificultándole la respiración”.

La víctima creyó haber perdido el conocimiento dos veces. Tras ser liberada de la llave, intentó llamar al 911, pero Negrin le arrebató el teléfono para impedirle contactar a la policía.

Según el informe, Negrin golpeó a la víctima “múltiples veces”, causándole cortes, enrojecimiento e hinchazón en el rostro.

“(La víctima) indicó que continuó buscando una oportunidad para escapar porque creía que (Negrin) seguiría agrediéndolo o posiblemente le dispararía”, señala el informe.

Finalmente, la víctima logró “liberarse” y corrió a la casa de un vecino en busca de ayuda. Los oficiales que respondieron confirmaron que el hombre presentaba lesiones consistentes con su relato.

Cuando las autoridades fueron al hogar de Negrin para hablar con él, se atrincheró adentro durante dos horas antes de abrir la puerta.

Negrin fue detenido bajo cargos de agresión agravada con arma de fuego, agresión por estrangulamiento, obstrucción a testigo o víctima y agresión. Al lunes por la tarde permanecía recluido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $8,500.

It's not even clear when the two sides will meet again. “The situation is sensitive and complex,” a senior Iranian negotiator, Kazem Gharibabadi, posted Monday on X.

Talks are just one of the pressing questions. Others include the Strait of Hormuz, which the U.S. says is open while Iran insists on a measure of control. The issue led both sides to carry out days of military strikes that appeared on Monday to have ended.

Here’s a look at what both sides have said about key sticking points, including the ongoing fighting in Lebanon, and why the conflict is still far from resolved.

More talks are expected, at some point

WHAT THE U.S. SAYS:

“IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING. IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN DOHA!” U.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media Monday.

WHAT IRAN SAYS:

“There are no negotiation meetings with the U.S. side at any level scheduled in the coming days,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said Monday.

WHAT’S GOING ON:

The U.S. and Iran have a roughly mid-August deadline to reach a permanent peace deal including an agreement on Iran's disputed nuclear program.

What’s ahead are technical talks involving lower-level diplomats before any return to the table by top negotiators. Mediators are eager to get going. Pakistan, a key mediator along with Qatar, has said talks would resume Tuesday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday that envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, were flying to Qatar to meet with the Iranians and that technical negotiations would occur on the sidelines.

Later, Iranian state media cited Baghaei as saying an expert delegation will travel to Qatar this week but with no planned U.S. meetings.

There’s plenty to discuss, including arrangements around the Strait of Hormuz, sanctions waivers on Iran and the future of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

But the deal says fighting must stop before further negotiations. After the exchange of fire over the weekend, Iran on Sunday threatened a “complete halt” in talks. On Monday, both sides appeared to pause their attacks. Tehran may be waiting to see if that holds.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for shipping, in theory

WHAT THE U.S. SAYS:

The Strait of Hormuz is open, according to the interim deal.

WHAT IRAN SAYS:

Iran insists it must govern the strait. “Any attempt to establish new or separate arrangements from those currently being carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran will only lead to further complications, delay the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and increase the level of tension,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday.

WHAT’S GOING ON:

This AP explainer is a good start. But in short, Iran during the war discovered a powerful new source of leverage in the waterway that carried a fifth of the world's oil and gas before the conflict.

The interim deal says Iran should immediately facilitate commercial shipping through the strait that lies between it and Oman. It says Iran can work with Oman and other Persian Gulf countries to administer the waterway in line with international laws ensuring freedom of navigation.

Iran says shippers must use its designated routes and coordinate with its authorities. It has objected to a new route overseen by the U.S. that runs along Oman. That sparked the fighting over the weekend.

The Trump administration is operating on the understanding that the U.S. and Iran are standing down and vessels can move freely through the strait, a U.S. official said Monday on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door negotiations.

Ships have begun transiting again, but traffic is still below prewar levels.

Fighting has stopped on all fronts, in a way

WHAT IRAN SAYS:

Fighting must stop everywhere and Israel must withdraw from Lebanon before moving ahead on other issues.

WHAT HEZBOLLAH SAYS:

The Iranian-backed militant group will resist Israel's occupation of large parts of southern Lebanon, and linking Israel’s withdrawal to Hezbollah’s disarmament is a “very dangerous suggestion,” Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said Saturday.

WHAT ISRAEL SAYS:

Israeli forces will remain in southern Lebanon “until Hezbollah and the rest of the terrorist organizations are disarmed, and until no further threat to Israel is posed from Lebanon,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

WHAT’S GOING ON:

A separate set of U.S.-brokered talks have been held between Israel and Lebanon's government.

Iran says its interim deal with the U.S., which calls for a complete ceasefire in Lebanon, requires Israel to withdraw. But a separate U.S.-brokered agreement between Lebanon and Israel allows Israeli forces to stay in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah has been disarmed. Hezbollah was not part of those talks and has rejected that deal.

Hezbollah attacked Israel two days after it and the United States attacked Iran on Feb. 28. Israel responded with aerial bombardment and a ground invasion.

Israel has vowed to keep forces in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah's threat is eliminated. Lebanon's government does not have the capacity to disarm Hezbollah by force.

Sporadic clashes continued in Lebanon over the weekend. That could delay Iran's return to the negotiating table.

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Associated Press writer Josh Boak in Washington contributed.

Martinelli entered the game as a second-half substitute and put an end to Japan’s near-upset on Monday, scoring the winning goal late in injury time to give five-time champion Brazil a 2-1 victory and a spot in the round of 16.

The result was a showcase of Brazil’s Italian connections. Martinelli holds dual citizenship in Italy and Brazil, and the man who made the decision to change the team’s makeup was Carlo Ancelotti, an Italian who is the first European to coach the South American country’s national team.

“Above all else we wanted to freshen up the field because Martinelli has a lot of intensity as a player,” Ancelotti said through a translator. “When he goes in the match he’s always on his top game.”

Brazil will next face either the Ivory Coast or Norway on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in the round of 16.

“We can never be content with what we’re doing,” Ancelotti said. “We’re doing a good job. We are performing. But you can never be content because we want to play better. We want to play at the highest level.”

Casemiro had earlier equalized for Brazil on a header in the 56th minute off an assist from Gabriel Magalhães after just missing another chance two minutes earlier. The shot sailed just out of the reach of the outstretched hand of Japan goalkeeper Zion Suzuki and into the net.

Kaishu Sano stole a misplaced pass at midfield and took it down the field before a right-footed shot from above the half circle put Japan ahead in the 29th minute.

“There is not not making mistakes because nobody is perfect,” Ancelotti said. “But you have to overcome it and you have to push it forward. The team did a good job of that in the second half.”

Vinícius Júnior, who has scored four goals so far in this year's tournament, had a chance to put Brazil on top in the 58th minute but his shot from the left box was deflected by Suzuki and went off the far post.

Casemiro left in the first minute of second-half stoppage time with what appeared to be a leg injury.

Brazil had two chances to even the score early in the second half before breaking through. On the first one, Suzuki blocked a header from Bruno Guimarães in the 52nd minute. Soon after, Casemiro’s header bounced off a defender’s head and Suzuki’s face. Suzuki finished with four saves.

Brazil great Neymar didn’t play Monday after making his first appearance for the team since 2023 in the last game against Scotland. He played only 14 minutes in that 3-0 win after missing the first two group matches at the World Cup with a right calf injury.

“I was seriously considering putting him on the pitch,” Ancelotti said. “In the end, we did not need him.”

Japan has never won a knockout match at the World Cup, going 0-4 in the round of 16 — including also taking the lead the last two times in 2018 and 2022 before losing.

The win was Brazil’s 12th in 15 games against Japan. The teams have also played to two draws while Japan got its first win in the series in a friendly in Tokyo in October.

“The gap between us is closing now,” Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu said through a translator. “Brazil is a top-tier team and we’re definitely approaching that level.”

Then he mentioned the loss in Qatar four years ago before adding: “We have to up our game.”

This was a matchup between two countries with deep ties, with Brazil being home to about 2.7 million Japanese descendants, which is the largest Japanese population outside of Japan.

Those ties extend to soccer where Brazil superstar Zico moved to Japan in 1991 to play for Kashima Antlers and help build Japan’s professional soccer network. He coached the Japan national team from 2002-06, leading the team to the World Cup in 2006.

That team lost to Brazil 4-1 in the only previous meeting between the teams at the World Cup.

Brazil won Group C after a draw with Morocco and victories over Haiti and Scotland. Monday’s victory came on the anniversary of their first World Cup championship in Sweden in 1958, when a 17-year-old Pele scored two goals in the final against the host country.

Japan reached the round of 32 as runner-up in Group F after a draws with the Netherlands and Sweden and a win over Tunisia. The loss snaps a 10-game unbeaten streak dating back to a 2-0 loss to the United States in September.

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Según funcionarios de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue, el accidente ocurrió en la cuadra 800 de Southwest 10th Street.

Las autoridades indicaron que cuatro vehículos estuvieron involucrados en la colisión.

Dos de los heridos fueron trasladados a Broward Health Medical Center y cuatro más al Broward Health North.

Dos de las víctimas fueron clasificadas como alertas de trauma, incluido el niño, informaron las autoridades.

No se divulgaron otros detalles sobre la colisión de manera inmediata.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded at 1:30 p.m. to 16850 South Glades Drive.

Fire rescue personnel focused on the building’s sixth and seventh floors and took one of the injured to a nearby hospital, according to MDFR.

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

El Departamento de Policía de Doral arrestó inicialmente a Veronika Nikolaevna Mitina, de 34 años y residente de Hallandale Beach, el martes. La agencia la volvió a arrestar formalmente el miércoles y el viernes mientras permanecía recluida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Mitina enfrenta cargos por tres robos ocurridos entre agosto de 2025 y este abril, que tuvieron como víctimas a tres residentes de Doral, según la policía. Las autoridades indicaron que una víctima había ordenado un reloj Cartier valorado en $8,000, otra había ordenado dos monedas de oro por casi $9,500 y la tercera había pedido barras de oro valuadas en $70,000.

Según el DPD, Mitina cometió los robos mientras participaba en “un grupo de chat en Telegram donde recibía trabajos que incluían interceptar paquetes de repartidores”.

Esas acusaciones son similares a las formuladas contra otro ciudadano ruso arrestado por la policía de Doral en mayo. La policía dijo que Vladimir Kudyakov, de 43 años y residente de Hollywood, admitió haber usado identificaciones falsas para robar paquetes de alto valor de FedEx como parte de un “trabajo de reparto” en un grupo de chat de Telegram para “rusos en América”.

Los informes de arresto no indican ninguna conexión personal conocida entre Mitina y Kudyakov.

La policía señaló que en cada uno de los tres robos conocidos, Mitina se acercaba a los repartidores en distintas comunidades residenciales de Doral a bordo de una camioneta SUV Lexus con placas de Illinois y les mostraba una identificación en su teléfono con las direcciones a donde debían entregarse los paquetes.

Los robos quedaron registrados en cámaras de CCTV, según los informes de arresto.

Las autoridades indicaron que la policía le pidió a Mitina que se presentara el martes en la sede del DPD, donde ofreció una “confesión completa” e informó a los investigadores sobre el grupo de chat.

Los doce cargos contra Mitina incluyen robo mayor, esquema organizado para defraudar, uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicaciones y comercialización de bienes robados.

Los registros muestran que al lunes permanecía detenida en el TGK con una fianza de $47,500.

De acuerdo con el reporte de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Margate, Nia Natalie Robinson, de 27 años, es maestra en Liberty Elementary School, ubicada en 2450 Banks Road.

La policía indicó que Robinson llevó la pistola eléctrica al campus el 17 de abril y se la mostró a otros dos empleados.

Según el reporte, Robinson presentó una declaración escrita al personal de la escuela en la que afirmó que “se olvidó por completo” de que tenía la pistola eléctrica en el plantel, y que se la mostró a los dos empleados durante una conversación sobre cómo protegerse.

La policía señaló que Robinson aseguró no haber usado la pistola eléctrica en el campus y que estaba “muy arrepentida.”

Ambos empleados también presentaron declaraciones escritas que corroboran la versión de Robinson.

Según el reporte, la pistola eléctrica fue confiscada por un oficial de seguridad escolar. Posteriormente, se presentó una declaración de causa probable ante la Fiscalía del Condado de Broward para determinar si Robinson enfrentaría cargos.

Como resultado, fue arrestada el domingo por cargos de posesión de un arma en terrenos escolares.

Para el lunes por la mañana, Robinson se encontraba detenida en el North Broward Bureau, a la espera de comparecer ante un juez para la audiencia de fianza.

Local 10 News se comunicó con las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Broward para solicitar comentarios y aguarda una respuesta.

El cementerio, ubicado en lo alto de un cerro en el municipio de San Martín Jilotepeque y rodeado de árboles, será el lugar de descanso para la víctimas de varios hechos de violencia ocurridos durante 1982. Con flores, oraciones, incienso y discursos para recordar a sus muertos, las familias empezaron a enterrarlos.

Entre 1960 y 1996 hubo un conflicto armado entre el ejército y guerrilleros en Guatemala que se saldó con unos 200.000 muertos y 45.000 desaparecidos según informes que dieron cuenta de lo ocurrido en el país. En 1996 se firmaron los Acuerdos de Paz que pusieron fin al conflicto.

Durante cinco años los restos de las víctimas permanecieron resguardados en una pequeña bodega en el cementerio de Pacoj Chicojon, en San Martín Jilotepeque, mientras eran identificados.

Concluida la construcción de un mausoleo, esa comunidad situada en el departamento de Chimaltenango, al occidente de la capital de Guatemala, celebró una ceremonia para enterrar a las víctimas en una sepultura digna.

De las 68 víctimas, 20 no pudieron ser identificadas. Los restos fueron exhumados del destacamento militar de Choatalum, en Chimaltenango, dijo José Silvino Tay, de la Asociación por la Justicia y Reconciliación, que está a cargo de organizar la inhumación.

Entre las víctimas están las dos pequeñas hijas de Teodoro Atz Sutuj —un campesino maya kaqchikel de 71 años—, quienes fueron asesinadas junto a su tía y sus dos primas en una incursión del ejército en su comunidad.

Fue en marzo de 1982 cuando María y Horacia, de 4 y 6 años, buscaron refugio en la casa de su tía en momentos en que el ejército llegó a la comunidad buscando grupos guerrilleros. La madre huyó cuando vio llegar a los militares y su padre había salido a trabajar al campo.

Cuando Teodoro Atz Sutuj escuchó los disparos intentó regresar a su casa, pero los soldados seguían en la zona. Se acercó a la casa de su hermano y vio a sus hijas fallecidas, tras lo cual fue a buscar a su esposa. Cuando la encontró en el camino, recuerda que ella le preguntó por las niñas. “Yo solo le dije, ya no pensés en las niñas, ya no tenemos familia, ya el ejército las mató”, contó el hombre a The Associated Press.

“Cuando ya se había ido el ejército regresé, pero ya no había nada, ya les había disparado, ya estaban tendidas en el suelo en la casa de mi hermano, mis dos hijas, su esposa y sus dos hijas, fueron cuatro niñas las que mataron. Todas tenían disparos en la cabeza”, narró Atz Sutuj.

“Hoy podemos tener un lugar a donde venir a verlas, todos somos humanos y tenemos derechos, hasta el derecho de un lugar para ser enterrados”, destacó el hombre.

Simón Atz Sutuj, de 76 años y hermano de Teodoro, dijo por su lado que cuando el ejército empezó a disparar él huyó y no pudo hacer nada por su familia. Vio que su esposa tenía una herida “que le destruyó la cabeza”.

Soldados lo persiguieron por un kilómetro y pasaron cerca de los matorrales donde se escondió, pero no lo atraparon. Tras el hecho, no tuvo más hijos.

La semana pasada el gobierno del presidente Bernardo Arévalo anunció que su gobierno impulsa un plan de reparación y dignificación de las víctimas del conflicto armado que incluye también un mecanismo de búsqueda de los desaparecidos.

According to Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials, the crash occurred in the 800 block of Southwest 10^th Street.

Officials said four vehicles were involved in the collision.

They said two people were transported to Broward Health Medical Center and four were taken to Broward Health North.

Two of the injured victims were listed as trauma alerts, including a child, authorities said.

No other details about the collision were immediately released.

Sotomayor’s disclosure form says she and unidentified guests attended the concert last August while she was on a personal trip to Puerto Rico. The paperwork does not identify the performer, but Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny is known to have performed a series of shows on the island that month and the $4,333 gift she disclosed was provided by Rimas Entertainment, Bad Bunny's record label.

The justices' ethical practices away from the court have received additional scrutiny in recent years because of media coverage, including by The Associated Press, that has highlighted their lucrative book deals, gifts they have received and travel they have taken. Among the revelations was a series of stories by ProPublica that revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to report luxury travel paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow.

The forms underscore the extent to which book-writing remains a lucrative source of income for members of the court.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who in 2024 released a memoir titled “Lovely One,” disclosed nearly $1.2 million in book advances, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett reported more than $849,000 in royalties. They both reported more than a dozen book events or discussions at which a combination of food, travel or lodging was provided. Justice Neil Gorsuch also received $300,000 in royalty payments.

Several justices also disclosed paid teaching assignments. Chief Justice John Roberts, for instance, reported $25,000 in teaching income for a brief course at New England Law School, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh received $33,285 for teaching at Notre Dame.

Kavanaugh also delivered a speech last September — his meals, transportation and lodging were provided — at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, which the AP earlier reported had invited Thomas to headline a 2017 event.

The court released disclosure forms for eight of the nine current justices. Justice Samuel Alito, as he has previously done, requested a 90-day extension, the court said.

The 23-year-old New England Patriots player — who made NFL history on Feb. 8 as the first Venezuelan-born player to make it to a Super Bowl — didn’t just hand over money and donations.

“We physically can’t be there right now ... which sucks ... but we are still helping out in any way that we can. That’s why we are here helping out,” he said while volunteering at GEM’s warehouse in Doral.

The former University of Miami standout, known as “Automatic Andy,” and his wife, Stephanie Borregales, a Florida State University graduate, wore the GEM neon green vest with pride.

“I have my sister over there,” the NFL football kicker said. “Thank God, she is OK, but a lot of families aren’t.”

There was urgency after a 4.6-magnitude aftershock struck on Monday amid the devastation of Wednesday’s 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira.

“Not many people have a shelter to go back to or a home to go back to because it’s all rubble,” Andy Borregales said.

As the death toll continued to increase, the United Nations estimated on Monday that there were some 680,000 children among the 1.8 million Venezuelans who need assistance after the quakes.

There are other Venezuelan professional athletes in pain in the U.S. MLB catcher William Contreras, who was born in Puerto Cabello and plays for the Milwaukee Brewers, was in tears after a victory on Friday and apologized for not being able to join the search and rescue effort.

Andy Borregales, who graduated from Champagnat Catholic School in Hialeah in 2021, felt the same pain, but as a Venezuelan American from South Florida, he had a massive effort to join.

Moving boxes at the warehouse, at 1850 NW 84th Ave, was helping Andy Borregales, who also played football as a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Miami’s Overtown and Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School in Hollywood.

“It’s really just amazing to see just everyone come together,” said Stephanie Borregales, a Cuban American who wed the NFL player last year in Boca Raton and who believes in the healing power of giving.

GEM also has a warehouse in Valencia, Venezuela, where the distribution effort begins. GEM is not accepting clothes or linens, but the list of items they are accepting includes tents, inflatable mattresses, nonperishable food, hygiene products, batteries, diapers, and emergency kits.

“If all you can donate is a box of soap. That is enough,” Andy Borregales said. “Do what you can.”

For more information about how to become a GEM volunteer, visit this page.

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The Doral Police Department initially arrested Veronika Nikolaevna Mitina, 34, of Hallandale Beach, on Tuesday. The agency formally re-arrested her on Wednesday and Friday while she was already jailed at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Mitina is facing charges for three thefts spanning from August 2025 to this April targeting three different Doral residents, according to police. Authorities said one victim had ordered a Cartier watch worth $8,000, another had ordered two gold coins worth nearly $9,500 and the other victim had ordered gold bars worth $70,000.

According to DPD, Mitina committed the thefts while participating in “a Telegram group chat where she received jobs that included intercepting package(s) from delivery drivers.”

Those allegations mirror those made against a fellow Russian national arrested by Doral police in May. Police said Vladimir Kudyakov, 43, of Hollywood, admitted to using fake identifications to steal high-value FedEx packages as part of a “delivery job” in a Telegram group chat for “Russians in America.”

Arrest reports don’t indicate any known personal connection between Mitina and Kudyakov.

Police said in each of Mitina’s three known thefts, she pulled up to delivery drivers at various residential communities in Doral while in a Lexus SUV with Illinois plates and showed an identification on her phone with the addresses where the packages were supposed to be delivered.

The thefts were captured on CCTV footage, arrest reports state.

Authorities said police asked Mitina to come to the DPD headquarters on Tuesday, where she provided a “full confession” and told investigators about the group chat.

Mitina’s dozen charges include counts of grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, unlawful use of a communications device and dealing in stolen property.

Records show she remained at TGK on a $47,500 bond as of Monday.

West Miami police said the crime happened at around 6 a.m. Sunday at the home of suspect Luis Alberto Negrin, 38, in the 6100 block of Southwest 14th Street.

Police said they responded after getting a call about the victim “crying and bleeding in the middle of the roadway.”

An arrest report states that the victim and Negrin had been drinking and smoking cigarettes throughout the early morning hours, which eventually led to sex.

Police said during the encounter, Negrin committed an act involving “fecal matter” without the victim’s consent, leaving the victim “angry and disgusted” and leading to a “verbal argument.”

The report states that it “quickly escalated into a physical confrontation” when Negrin pulled a small silver gun out and pointed it at the victim’s head “while making threatening gestures.”

“Fearing for his safety and believing (Negrin) was capable of shooting him, (the victim) stated that he slowly backed away further into the residence in an attempt to de-escalate the situation,” police wrote. “(The victim) advised that (Negrin) continued to follow him while keeping the firearm aimed at his head.”

Once in the kitchen, police said Negrin “placed him into a headlock” and “applied extreme pressure around his neck, making it difficult for him to breathe.”

Police said the victim believed he lost consciousness twice. Authorities said after being released from the headlock the man tried to call 911, but Negrin grabbed his cellphone to keep him from calling the police.

According to the report, Negrin punched the victim “multiple times,” causing cuts, redness and swelling to his face.

“(The victim) stated that he continued looking for an opportunity to escape because he believed (Negrin) would continue to assault him or possibly shoot him,” the report states.

Police said the victim eventually managed to “break free” and run to a neighbor’s home to seek help. Responding officers said the man had injuries consistent with his account of the incident.

Authorities said when they went to Negrin’s home to speak with him, he barricaded himself inside for two hours before finally opening the door.

Police took Negrin into custody on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm, battery by strangulation, tampering with a witness or victim and battery.

As of Monday afternoon, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an $8,500 bond.

U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said she was postponing the federal trial so Mangione’s lawyers can focus on his state murder trial, which is scheduled to begin on Sept. 8.

Jury selection in the federal case will begin on Jan. 5, instead of Oct. 13, followed by opening statements and testimony on Jan. 25, instead of Nov. 4, Garnett said at a hearing in Manhattan.

Garnett said she will not release the questionnaire that prospective jurors will be required to fill out until after the panel is chosen. Having it circulating online for months before jury selection “would only make what promises to be a difficult task more difficult,” she said.

Wearing a beige jail suit, Mangione looked bemused as a pair of deputy U.S. Marshals led him into the courtroom about 20 minutes after the hearing was supposed to start. He briefly gazed at the courtroom gallery, where about two dozen of his supporters were sitting.

“Mangione was late due to elevator problems,” the court said in a statement.

It was the second mishap involving Mangione’s arrival to a court hearing in recent weeks.

A June 16 hearing in the state case was delayed a day after prosecutors failed to inform his jail that he was needed in court.

Garnett said she had hoped “with perhaps undue optimism” to hold the federal trial in the fall but that “we can no longer wait to see what happens” in the state case.

“In my view it’s simply impossible to be moving through the jury selection process in this case while the defendant and his counsel are fully occupied by conducting the state trial,” Garnett said.

Mangione’s lawyers declined to comment to reporters afterward.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges in the Dec. 4, 2024, killing. He could spend his life in prison if convicted in either case.

The 28-year-old Ivy League graduate appeared energetic and engaged during Monday's brief hearing. He watched intently at times, knitting his fingers and resting his chin on them.

He spoke animatedly with his lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Marc Agnifilo, before the proceeding began, gesturing with his hands as he sat between them at the defense table.

Mangione’s federal charges allege that he traveled across state lines by bus to stalk and kill Thompson. He's accused of using a cellphone, the internet and interstate highways, among other means, while planning and carrying out the attack, as well as staying at a hostel that serves out-of-state customers.

At a hearing in the state case in February, Mangione spoke out against the prospect of two trials, telling the judge: “It’s the same trial twice. One plus one is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition.”

Mangione’s lawyers had argued that back-to-back trials on a compressed timeline would violate his constitutional rights.

Thompson, 50, was killed as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor conference.

Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind. Police say “delay,” “deny” and “depose” were written on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims.

Mangione was arrested five days later at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) west of Manhattan.

In January, Garnett took the death penalty off the table but ruled that prosecutors could use items collected from Mangione’s backpack during his arrest as evidence against him.

They included a 3D-printed pistol that investigators said matched the one used to kill Thompson and a notebook in which authorities say Mangione described his intent to “wack” an insurance executive.

Earlier this month, Mangione’s lawyers said they would pursue a psychiatric defense in the state case, but reversed course a day later. The defense, involving claims that he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the killing, isn’t allowed in federal court.

Mangione has become a cause célèbre for people upset with the health insurance industry.

An online fundraiser for his legal defense fund has raised more than $1.5 million and his court appearances have attracted a cadre of supporters, some of whom have worn “FREE LUIGI” T-shirts and green clothing — the color worn by the Mario Bros. video game character Luigi.

Los domos de calor pueden hacer que temperaturas ya elevadas sean aún más extremas y prolongadas; su intensidad es cada vez peor y su frecuencia aumenta a medida que el planeta se calienta.

Esto es lo que hay que saber.

¿Qué compone un domo de calor y qué hace?

Los domos de calor son, esencialmente, sistemas de alta presión que se ciernen sobre una región y atrapan el calor y la humedad, según expertos.

Se originan por el flujo hacia el norte de aire cálido. Ese sistema hace que el aire descienda, aumente la presión y suban las temperaturas.

“El concepto de un domo de calor realmente significa que el aire en esta región es muy cálido, y sabemos que el aire cálido se expande”, explicó Jennifer Francis, climatóloga del Woodwell Climate Research Center. “Básicamente, esto significa que las capas de la atmósfera también se abomban hacia arriba”.

En pocas palabras, los domos de calor provocan olas de calor, señalan los expertos. Se asocian con condiciones muy secas y soleadas que duran varios días seguidos, atrapan el calor en la superficie y ayudan a amplificarlo, explicó Zachary Labe, climatólogo de Climate Central, un colectivo independiente de científicos.

¿Cómo ha afectado el calor al mundo este año?

El calor afectó a diversas regiones del mundo a comienzos de 2026.

El área continental de Estados Unidos registró en marzo su mes más anormalmente caluroso en 132 años de registros, con extremos que batieron récords primero en el suroeste y luego en el resto del país. El calor afectó el Abierto de Francia y castigó partes de India en mayo. Desde entonces, el calor extremo ha sido una preocupación central para el Mundial de fútbol que tiene lugar en Estados Unidos, Canadá y México.

Europa se ha calcinado desde mediados de junio bajo temperaturas máximas inusuales de alrededor de 40 grados Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) en muchos lugares debido a un domo de calor.

Ahora, se espera que gran parte del este de Estados Unidos experimente una larga ola de calor en los próximos días y, ya esta semana, gran parte del Suroeste registra temperaturas de alrededor de 38 °C (100 °F), y esas temperaturas podrían extenderse a otros lugares para el feriado del 4 de julio.

¿Qué función desempeña el cambio climático?

La ciencia muestra que, a medida que el planeta se calienta —como resultado de que los seres humanos queman carbón, petróleo y gas—, las olas de calor empeoran, duran más y se vuelven más frecuentes.

“Olas de calor como esta se vinculan directamente con la crisis climática y el cambio climático”, afirmó Francis, “y es por la manera en que hemos quemado combustibles fósiles y hemos talado bosques durante tanto tiempo, aumentando la concentración de gases que atrapan el calor en la atmósfera.

“Este tipo de olas de calor y sequías, y los incendios asociados a ellas, aumentan tal como esperaríamos que lo hicieran en un mundo que se calienta”, agregó.

¿Cómo puedo mantenerme a salvo?

Los expertos indican que las personas necesitan mantenerse hidratadas cuando llega un calor sofocante y húmedo.

Asegúrese de evitar hacer ejercicio al aire libre durante el calor del día —y busque sombra o, si puede, acceso a aire acondicionado. Algunas ciudades ofrecen recursos y centros de enfriamiento para brindar alivio.

Refrescarse en piscinas cercanas o en cuerpos de agua también puede ayudar.

Los domos de calor pueden dificultar la recuperación completa de las altas temperaturas por la noche, por lo que es importante encontrar maneras de mantenerse fresco durante el día y en las horas de la tarde.

“Son esas horas nocturnas —especialmente, los lugares y las personas que no tienen acceso a un enfriamiento adecuado— las que realmente necesitan estar conscientes de los impactos que tendrá ese estrés térmico adicional y de la capacidad del cuerpo de no poder enfriarse”, detalló Labe, “porque la humedad va a ser un factor realmente clave para intensificar esos impactos del calor”.

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Sister Leticia Ugboaja was walking to Our Lady of Sorrows Church in McAllen, Texas, just a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday when she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

The Department of Homeland Security and ICE have not responded to a request for comment since Sunday.

Parish officials posted a message on social media shortly after the arrest that gained traction in the news and led to Congress members including U.S. Rep. Monica de la Cruz intervening on Ugboaja's behalf.

The nun is part of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy and volunteered as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, according to Brenda Riojas, a spokesperson for the Diocese of Brownsville.

Ugboaja is also a registered nurse at South Texas Health System and worked previously for 10 years as a certified nursing assistant at DHR Health in Edinburg, Riojas confirmed.

Members of congress representing south Texas intervened with federal officials. As of Monday, Ugboaja was back in her home.

“We are grateful for the quick response of local representatives who reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to get her released from custody,” Riojas added in her statement.

President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown — including at sensitive sites such as houses of worship — has prompted faith leaders to adjust their response to church members who have become too afraid to attend. Some have encouraged online attendance, while others have offered help doing errands such as grocery shopping for people too fearful to leave their homes.

The plaintiff, Sam O’Hara, sued the district, four Metropolitan Police Department officers and a guard member from Ohio over what he says was his act of protest against President Donald Trump's federal law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C.

A court filing on Thursday disclosed the settlement but didn't specify any monetary terms. The amount is included in a copy of the settlement agreement that D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb's office provided to The Associated Press.

The $50,000 settlement includes attorney's fees and costs. O'Hara is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia. In an email on Friday, an ACLU spokesperson referred to the settlement’s financial terms as “a significant amount” that O’Hara “is pleased with” but said they weren't disclosing the dollar figure to protect his privacy.

O’Hara, an artist who works in the hospitality industry, agreed to drop his claims against the district and the MPD officers within three business days of receiving the settlement payment. The settlement isn't an admission of wrongdoing by the district, the agreement says.

O'Hara's settlement with the district doesn’t resolve his related claims against an Ohio National Guard member, Sgt. Devon Beck, who has asked a judge to dismiss O’Hara’s claims against him.

O’Hara said in a statement that he is satisfied with the settlement but conflicted that taxpayers are footing the bill.

“Those who actually violated my constitutional rights should be the ones paying the price, like taking the money from their pensions. That’s what real accountability looks like,” he said. “This settlement is a reminder that our freedoms are worth fighting for, especially when the powerful would rather we suffer in silence.”

O’Hara sued the district in October, claiming police officers violated his First Amendment rights to free speech and his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizures and excessive force.

O’Hara played “The Imperial March” theme from “Star Wars” on his phone as he followed several National Guard troops down a public street on Sept. 11, 2025. One of the troops summoned police officers, who stopped O’Hara and kept him handcuffed for 15 to 20 minutes before releasing him without charges, according to the lawsuit.

Trump’s ongoing deployment of guard members in Washington began last August after the Republican president issued an executive order declaring a crime emergency in the nation's capital. The surge inflamed tensions with residents of the heavily Democratic district. Hundreds of guard members remain deployed in the district nearly a year later, with no clear end in sight.

John Yoo confirmed in an email to The Associated Press on Monday that he would be assisting Joe diGenova in an ongoing investigation into whether officials who over the last decade scrutinized Trump participated in a criminal conspiracy against the Republican president.

“He’s a lawyer. He's going to be helping us,” diGenova said in a brief telephone interview about Yoo. diGenova served as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia between 1983 and 1988 and was enlisted in April to return to government as a counselor to the attorney general.

A law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Yoo was a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration who served as an author of the so-called “torture memos” that government officials used to justify using “enhanced interrogation” techniques on potential terror suspects. The Justice Department later rescinded the memos.

In the years since, he's remained a prominent proponent of broad executive authority, telling the AP in 2020 that he had told Trump administration officials that a Supreme Court ruling that rejected Trump’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, opened the door to enormous new presidential power.

The conspiracy investigation is being conducted in Florida, but the scope is unclear, as is whether any criminal charges will be brought.

Prosecutors have centered at least part of the probe on the long-concluded investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Investigators have issued a broad swath of subpoenas to former officials for records and conducted interviews related to the creation of an intelligence community assessment, released in January 2017, that found that Russia engaged in wide-ranging election interference to boost Trump over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

A 2019 report by special counsel Robert Mueller affirmed that Russia interfered on Trump's behalf and that the Trump campaign repeatedly welcomed the assistance, but it did not find sufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the campaign.

Several subsequent investigations into the Russia probe have identified multiple errors into how it was conducted, and a former FBI lawyer pleaded guilty in 2020 to doctoring an email during the course of the inquiry. But none of the reviews have identified criminal misconduct by any senior law enforcement or intelligence official involved in the investigation.

Trump has nonetheless continued to demand retribution and has sought to punish top officials from that time at the FBI and CIA.

Asked in a Fox News Channel interview in May what the Justice Department had done to address claims of a long-running conspiracy to bring down Trump, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “That's exactly what we're investigating right now.”

Yoo's involvement in the investigation was earlier reported by Politico and CNN.

Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the 6-3 court that people don’t forfeit expectations of privacy even when they opt into Google’s location history.

“A cellphone user is not to be viewed as sharing private information with third parties—which then can be freely passed on to the government—just by doing the ordinary things cellphone users do,” Kagan wrote.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote in dissent that Okello Chatrie had no expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turned over to Google.

The decision is the court’s latest effort to apply a constitutional provision ratified in 1791 to technology the nation’s founders could not have envisioned.

Police obtained a geofence warrant after a bank robbery in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, and used it to locate cellphones that were near the bank around the time it was robbed in May 2019.

One of those phones belonged to Chatrie, who had eluded the police until they turned to the powerful technological tool.

The warrant kick-started the investigation. After determining that Chatrie was among those near the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian at the time, police obtained a search warrant for his home. They found nearly $100,000 in cash, including bills wrapped in bands signed by the bank teller.

Chatrie pleaded guilty to robbing the bank and was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison. His lawyers argued on appeal that none of the evidence should have been used against him.

They challenged the warrant as a violation of his privacy because it allowed authorities to gather the location history of people near the bank without having any evidence they had anything to do with the robbery. Prosecutors argued that Chatrie had no expectation of privacy because he voluntarily opted into Google’s location history.

The Supreme Court did not decide Monday whether the search complied with the Fourth Amendment, which bans unreasonable searches and seizures. It sent the case back to a lower court for more work.

A federal judge had ruled that the search violated Chatrie’s rights, but allowed the evidence to be used because the officer who applied for the warrant reasonably believed he was acting properly.

The federal appeals court in Richmond upheld the conviction in a fractured ruling. In a separate case, the federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that geofence warrants “are general warrants categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.”

NBA free agency in 2026: Everyone is waiting again for James to make a decision.

James was the biggest domino to fall in the NBA's offseason player movement period 16 years ago when he decided to join Miami, and he may be the biggest domino to fall — at least in free agency — this summer as well. Free agency opens in the NBA on Tuesday evening, with James' future atop the list of most intriguing storylines that will be solved over the coming days and weeks.

It seems like retirement isn't happening yet, which would mean the NBA's all-time leader in points scored, minutes played and games played coming back for a record-extending 24th season and potentially — when including playoff contests — appearing in the 2,000th game of his career.

His options would figure to include staying with the Los Angeles Lakers, returning to Miami or Cleveland (both would have interest for obvious reasons) or even thinking about moving elsewhere like Golden State and teaming up with longtime friends Stephen Curry and Draymond Green to chase one more title.

Green — who is not expected to leave Golden State — on Monday declined his $27.6 million option for next season, doing so to give the Warriors more maneuverability to add players in the coming days, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because that detail was not revealed publicly by the team, and it raises the possibility that the Warriors might now have more of a selling point to pitch to James.

“When the time comes, you guys will know what I decide to do,” James said when the Lakers were eliminated this spring by Oklahoma City in a 4-0 sweep.

The time is coming.

The window when teams can begin officially talking with free agents — other than the ones on their own team, those talks could begin when the NBA Finals ended — opens at 6 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, and deals could be flying not long afterward.

In most cases, any new deals cannot be executed until at least the end of the NBA's offseason moratorium on July 6.

“This period we’re in right now, kind of from mid-May to mid-July, it’s a two-month sprint through the draft, combine, free agency, Summer League, all that,” Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. said earlier this month. “We’re super busy right now. But it’s a fun time of year. This is where we get to make decisions, shape the roster, do all that stuff.”

The NBA finalists — champion New York and runner-up San Antonio — both will have moves to make in the coming days, though they are expected to keep their cores largely intact.

Plenty of decisions and roster-shaping already has happened around the league, either by trades (such as the Giannis Antetokounmpo blockbuster) or teams re-signing or extending their own players (such as Trae Young's $212 million deal with Washington and Austin Reaves' $185 million deal with the Lakers).

Miami will land Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis in a trade that sends Tyler Herro, other players and draft capital to Milwaukee, but that won't be finalized until that moratorium date passes. But in the interim, the Heat will be looking to add shooters — Tim Hardaway Jr., whose father's number is retired in Miami, and longtime Antetokounmpo favorite Khris Middleton make a lot of sense.

The Heat will be keeping Andrew Wiggins, who on Monday exercised his $30 million option for this coming season and, according to a person familiar with the talks between the sides, has agreed in principle on a $34 million deal for the following two seasons — with 2028-29 at his option.

More trades could be coming, with a person familiar with the negotiations confirming to the AP that Toronto has spoken with the Los Angeles Clippers on the possibility of Kawhi Leonard — who led the Raptors to the 2019 NBA title — returning to Ontario next season. And Boston is still believed to be holding talks about the possibility of trading 2024 NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown, who was the centerpiece of the Celtics' ultimately futile offer to land Antetokounmpo in trade discussions with Milwaukee.

“Nobody has won more combined regular-season and playoff games since I entered the league 10 years ago,” Brown posted on social media over the weekend. He's right: The Celtics have won 523 games with Brown in the lineup, including playoff contests, which is six more than Denver has won with Nikola Jokic over that span.

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According to Charania, the deal comes with a player option in the third season.

Citing sources, Charania said that as part of the deal, Wiggins opts in for $30 million for the 2026-2027 season.

The move comes after it was revealed last week that the Heat landed NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo — a two-time NBA MVP and 10-time All-Star — from the Milwaukee Bucks.

The terms, according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the move had yet to receive the required league approval: Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis are heading to Miami for Wisconsin native Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel’el Ware and Kasparas Jakucionis.

“Overall, we’re looking at just a really hot and humid pattern. It’s going to be with us through most of the week," Andrew Ansorge, a meteorologist in Des Moines, Iowa, said of the first prolonged period of heat this summer.

Much of Iowa and big chunks of the Midwest were under an extreme heat warning through at least Tuesday. Temperatures were forecast to reach the 90s, with heat index values, or “feels-like” temperatures, expected to top 100 degrees (37.8 degrees Celsius) in the region, Ansorge said.

Visiting Des Moines with family, Rachel Washburn searched for things to do with kids during a heat wave. They landed at a water sprayground before lunch, where her children played tag in the cool water to escape a heat index forecast to reach 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius).

“My kids were quite shocked at the heat and humidity,” said Washburn of her seven children ages 18 months to 17 who are used to more temperate weather in Bemidji, Minnesota. “We were hoping for some good weather, but we'll make do.”

Some of the worst conditions are expected by Thursday and Friday as the heat moves through the Ohio Valley, the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast, with the potential for some record-high temperatures, said Scott Kleebauer, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

On Monday morning, Tom and Cindy Youngblood walked around an outdoor sculpture park in Des Moines, enjoying brief moments of shade and a helpful breeze. The couple, both 67 and from Rogers, Arkansas, returned from a camping trip in Wisconsin and chose a hotel over their camper van Sunday.

“We did not want to camp last night because we knew it would be too hot,” Cindy Youngblood said.

Kleebauer said one of the center’s biggest recommendations is to stay hydrated and have access to shady areas and air conditioning.

“It just so happens to be coinciding with a time frame where a lot of people are away and a lot of people are going away for vacation” during the Fourth of July holiday week, he said.

Extreme heat has also taken its toll in Europe, where temperature records were set and many heat-related deaths were reported in France.

People can be caught off guard by the first heat wave of the year, said Dr. Roy Elrod, chief of staff at DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital.

“You’re happy winter’s gone, you’re ready to enjoy the summer, you’ve just been aching for it,” Elrod said. “And so, I think we slip into kind of a position where we think it’s got to be OK.”

But heat-related injuries can happen in a matter of minutes, especially to those who don’t prepare for the weather by hydrating, wearing light clothing, avoiding the hottest times of the day and minimizing exposure to the sun, he said.

“We’re just not always prepared for it and it just takes an incident that rattles you and shakes you up that you understand that it can get serious very quick,” he said.

In the Midwest, some camp programs on Monday rearranged their schedules. Other outdoor activities, like a farmers market in Michigan and a drive-in theater in Minnesota, were canceled on Monday because of the heat.

In Flint, Michigan, the city activated four cooling centers through Wednesday, with the potential to extend operations if the heat persists.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison said it was closing 23 buildings to the public starting Tuesday, allowing only limited access to 11 others. It was relocating some summer classes after a broken water line at its cooling plant earlier this month severely reduced the ability to provide air conditioning across campus.

Temperatures approaching 90 degrees and high humidity didn’t stop Toni Kreutzer, 28, from taking a walk along the shores of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, with her 13-year-old dog Chester.

“I like it hot,” Kreutzer said. "I just don’t like the humidity."

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The break-in happened around 12:45 a.m. in the rear parking lot of Boston Johnny’s, located at 2120 N. Dixie Highway, where surveillance cameras captured a masked individual walking through the lot before targeting a parked vehicle that belongs to Local 10 photojournalist Avi Robledo.

The video shows the suspect approaching a car, pausing to look around, and pretending to walk away as another vehicle passes by. Moments later, the person returns, pulls on door handles and then smashes Robledo’s vehicle’s window to gain access inside.

Robledo said his vehicle was burglarized while he was inside the restaurant for less than an hour.

“At first we thought it was hail because we saw the glass on the roof and didn’t see the passenger window smashed in yet,” Robledo said.

His backpack was stolen during the break-in.

Restaurant owner Jason said this is the first time the business has experienced a vehicle burglary in its parking lot.

“Yeah, it’s concerning. This is our neighborhood, so we want to be good neighbors. We want them to be good neighbors to us,” he said.

Police also investigated a second vehicle that was damaged in the driveway of a home across the street, photographing evidence as they searched for clues.

A man at the scene told Local 10 News that the car targeted belongs to his daughter-in-law, and said this is the second time a vehicle has been burglarized outside his home in a matter of months.

Although Boston Johnny’s surveillance system captured the suspect’s actions, the business owner said identifying the person may be difficult.

“Luckily I have good cameras. It doesn’t do much good—you know, hoodie, black clothes, dark clothes, mask,” he said.

Hollywood police are continuing their investigation and are working to identify the suspect seen on the surveillance footage.

“We know of two exactly and then there was evidence of a third one because there’s stuff that doesn’t belong to them – it’s right by their car … including a laptop,“ Jason said.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Hollywood police or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Three guards and 88 inmates were inside the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor when the takeover began at about 5 a.m., prompting an immediate response from local, state and federal authorities, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement posted on social media.

By early afternoon, the Bureau of Investigation and the FBI had “cleared the facility,” the state bureau said in a statement. ”All inmates and staff are safe and accounted for, and those who sustained injuries have received treatment.”

Inmates have been transferred to other facilities and the jail will remain secured while the damage is assessed, the Bureau of Investigation said. The 90-bed jail located about 120 miles (190 kilometers) east of Raleigh houses pretrial detainees and short-term inmates for Bertie and Martin counties.

Inmates took two guards captive and the third guard escaped. Negotiations led to the release of the two guards along with 80 inmates, leaving only eight inmates inside, Bertie County Sheriff Tyrone Ruffin said at a news conference.

Ruffin said the two guards who were released were undergoing medical treatment but he had no details about their injuries.

Most of the remaining inmates “complied and exited the facility as soon as entry was made,” said Chad Flowers, a spokesperson for the State Bureau of Investigation.

It wasn’t immediately known whether officers fired any lethal or non-lethal rounds upon entering the jail. In a telephone interview, Flowers said law enforcement officials were in a meeting about the incident and unavailable late Monday afternoon.

Flowers also referred questions about the facility's security to a jail administrator, who did not immediately return a telephone message. Authorities have not addressed why there were three guards overseeing the jail at the time of the takeover.

“The perpetrators must be held accountable for this horrifying action," Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, said on the social platform X. "We also must do everything in our power to ensure this doesn’t happen again — and that includes doing more to recruit, retain, and compensate the county and state officials who are charged with keeping our jails and prisons safe.”

Ruffin did not indicate what caused the takeover.

“Right now we have a lot going on that we're trying to get under control," he said. "I will release that information to the public as soon as I can.”

“I consider myself cancer-free," thanks to robotic surgery that also reconstructed his bladder using part of his intestine, Sanders told The Associated Press after getting a tutorial in the surgical system that was used in his operation.

This being Men's Health Awareness Month, the University of Colorado football coach wanted to get a first-hand look at the Intuitive Da Vinci System, which is less invasive than open surgeries and cuts down on hospital stays and speeds recoveries.

“I was fighting” last year at this time, Sanders recalled. "I was walking out on the property with a bag of blood and also urine and trying to get back. But this expedited the process. Last year at this time I was in a whole different place, and I'm just thankful.”

Sanders missed football camps last summer in Boulder as he went through cancer treatments. The Buffaloes finished with a 3-9 mark a year after making a bowl game behind Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter.

This summer he appears much fitter and energetic as he oversees offseason training.

"If I pull my shirt up, I'm not scarred, it's not flawed. I'm not embarrassed by anything that transpired. I'm elated by everything that transpired,” Sanders said.

At a routine checkup last spring, a CT scan showed a mass on Sanders' bladder. He was referred to the University of Colorado Anschutz, where he met Dr. Janet Kukreja, director of urologic oncology at the CU Cancer Center and UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.

Sanders, who turns 59 later this summer, was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his bladder. Although the tumor hadn't reached the muscle layer in his bladder, it was considered “very high risk,” with a 50-50 chance of recurring or progressing after treatments.

Kukreja is among the small group of surgeons in the U.S. who perform robotic removal of the entire cancerous bladder — called a radical cystectomy — and robotic reconstruction of the organ, which involves having a section of intestine function as a bladder.

“It got me back in the game, got me back on my feet and got me out of the darn hospital and back into the normalcy of my life," Sanders said. “I'm here to let people know there's another option if you need surgery."

He called the robotic system his time machine.

”I'd be a fool to be blessed the way I was blessed and not sound alarms," Sanders said. “When I opened up a club years ago I went to the mountaintop and told all the stations come on to the nightclub. So, why wouldn't I do this? Saved me time so I could get back on the field, get back on my game instead of sitting up there in the hospital having a pity party. It saves you time. That’s what we’re all fighting for is time. We never know how much we get.”

Football past and present

Sanders has spent time recently with his son Shedeur, who's entering his second year with the Cleveland Browns and who will compete for the starting job with Deshaun Watson in training camp.

“He's on vacation, but he's going to the hills in St. Croix right now doing gassers," Sanders said.

Asked what he thought about Hunter, entering his second season in Jacksonville, possibly focusing on playing defensive back after pulling double duty as a DB and wide receiver in college, Sanders said: “I just want him to be happy. I can't tell those coaches how to coach and Travis what he's gifted to do. I just want him happy; that's all I want.”

As for Julian “JuJu” Lewis, the Buffs' starting quarterback and former five-star recruit out of Carrollton, Georgia, who took over the starting role as a freshman late last season, Sanders said those cameos will pay dividends in 2026.

“I think the entire team is benefiting" from lessons learned last year and new faces arriving this spring, Sanders said. “I have the best coaching staff I've ever featured. Everybody's unified. I just walked out of the weight room. They're lifting their butts off and they can't wait to go to camp. It's going to be phenomenal.”

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According to authorities, deputies responded to a lake in the area of Southwest 336th Street and Southwest 192nd Avenue at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday after several teenagers reported that a teenage boy had gone into the lake and didn’t come back up.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews joined the search, and a diver later found Sanders underwater and unresponsive.

Rescue crews performed life-saving efforts before the boy was taken to Homestead Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said.

While crews were still working that scene, another group of teenagers across the lake also went into the water, first responders said.

Deputies said a second 14-year-old boy went underwater and didn’t resurface.

He was later found by MDFR divers and was airlifted to the trauma center at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, officials said.

Deputies confirmed that the boy remained in critical condition on Monday. His name has not been released.

Five-year-old Garret “Gary” Leonard was riding a little motorbike as he often did with his family when the driver of a Chevrolet Silverado truck struck him at the motocross park, according to deputies.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel pronounced Garret dead on Friday night at the park at 16665 Krome Ave., and MDSO’s traffic homicide deputies were investigating the cause of the crash.

“We are coming together to support Garret’s family with funeral expenses and to help them navigate the days ahead,” Alejandro Acevedo wrote in a statement published on a GoFundMe page.

Acevedo remembered Gary as a boy “who brought joy to everyone around him, especially within the moto community,” so he also wanted to create “a memorial race in his name” to honor him.

Andrew Stelloh was also fundraising, and his hope was to help Gary’s parents to be able to afford to take time off from work to grieve.

“Garrett was such a sweet young man who loved motocross and was well on his way to becoming a great athlete,” Stelloh wrote in a statement on a GoFundMe page. “He loved to show you how well he could ride his track in the yard at their house. He was such a sweet boy who gave the best little kid hugs with the biggest smile.”

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Para el lunes por la mañana, el fuego había crecido a unas 180 acres cerca de la Sawgrass Expressway y Commercial Boulevard, según las autoridades.

“Es una locura, hombre”, dijo Troy Budoski, quien observaba el incendio desde lejos. “Se ven las llamas rojas desde aquí. Está ardiendo fuerte. ¡Arde caliente!”

El incendio se desató el domingo por la tarde, cuando quemó unas 100 acres de inmediato y continuó extendiéndose hacia el oeste.

Las cámaras de tráfico ubicadas a millas de distancia captaron las densas nubes de humo en el horizonte.

“Nunca imaginé que esto podría incendiarse, y está aquí mismo, no tan lejos”, dijo un hombre llamado Connor. “Iba hacia el norte por la autopista y lo vi, así que pensé: voy a curiosear y ver qué pasa. Y efectivamente, todavía se ven las llamas. Es una locura.”

Las autoridades monitorean el incendio mientras continúa activo en la zona.

“Lo que más me preocupa es: ¿cómo va a contener esto el departamento de bomberos?”, se preguntó Connor.

Para el lunes por la mañana, el fuego no tenía ningún porcentaje de contención.

Este incendio se suma a una temporada de fuegos que ha sido especialmente intensa. Solo en los últimos meses, decenas de miles de acres han quedado arrasados por las llamas.

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Officers responded around 7:15 p.m. to Southwest 336th Street and Southwest 192nd Avenue after several teenagers reported that a boy had gone into a lake and didn’t come back up.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue joined the search, and a diver later found the teen underwater and unresponsive.

Rescue crews performed life-saving efforts, and the boy was taken to Homestead Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said.

While crews were still working that scene, another group of teenagers across the lake also went into the water. A second 14-year-old boy went under and didn’t resurface.

He was later found by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue divers and was airlifted to the trauma center at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, officials said.

Both incidents are currently under investigation by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

Keith’s family said Monday that she had been diagnosed with cancer and died at her home in Surrey, near London.

Keith began her acting career onstage and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963. But she found her greatest fame on television.

She won a BAFTA award in 1977 for “The Good Life,” playing Margo Leadbetter, a snobbish suburbanite appalled by her back-to-the-land neighbors Tom and Barbara Good, played by Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal.

Kendal called Keith a “comic genius.”

“She was a joy to know and work with, and she will be much missed,” Kendal said.

Keith displayed a similar mix of imperiousness and deadpan wit in “To the Manor Born,” broadcast between 1979 and 1981 and brought back for a 2007 Christmas special. Keith played cash-strapped aristocratic widow Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her country estate to a nouveau millionaire, played by Peter Bowles, with whom she has a love-hate relationship.

Keith's velvet tones featured on children’s show “Teletubbies” and in ads for everything from Pimm’s to Parker Pens. She also presented cozy documentary TV series, including “Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages.”

Keith continued to perform in stage roles into her 80s. Theaters in London’s West End will dim their lights on Wednesday evening in tribute to her.

In 2014 she was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knight, for services to the arts and to charity.

She is survived by her husband, Rodney Timson, and their two adopted sons.

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As we detailed last week, the system is associated with the remnants of a large clustering of thunderstorms that pushed southeastward through the Carolinas late yesterday and is now mixed up with a stalled front over the waters off the southeast U.S.

As we discussed in previous newsletters, models suggest only low development odds, and they’ve only trended downward with the already-low-odds over the past 24 hours.

As of Monday morning, NHC was maintaining a 10% chance of development this week, down slightly from 20% on Sunday.

Marginal conditions ahead

Though stalled fronts like this can be common trigger for early-season development – especially north of the deep tropics in what we call the subtropics – the bar is typically higher to churn out significant development compared to traditional tropical disturbances that roll westward off Africa and can develop later in the season.

Fronts are a natural source of wind shear, which is anathema to would-be tropical systems. So the first thing that would need to happen to promote development is to scour away at the shear. This is a gradual process that often results from the low-pressure system firing off repeated rounds of strong thunderstorms. This mostly commonly happens where water temperatures are warmest.

As we mentioned last week, this is partly why we’re keeping an eye on the area despite the low odds, as waters east of Florida are at near-record or record warmth for the time of year and the Gulf Stream – the deep ribbon of warm waters that runs along the shorelines of the southeastern U.S. – often serves as a fuel source to tap for these type of initially non-tropical low-pressure systems.

In general, however, the farther offshore and north of Florida you go right now, the cooler the waters are. That’s been the directional trend over the past few days, which is partly why the already low development odds have trended down even further. Additionally, the initial overland thunderstorm system that moved off the Carolina coast overnight wasn’t as strong as it could’ve otherwise been, so its starting place is weaker.

Development odds from Google’s DeepMind 1000-member machine learning-based ensemble system fell below 5 percent in its latest run.

A slow loop back toward the Carolinas

The system will get trapped underneath a powerful ridge of high pressure centered over the Ohio Valley – the same high-pressure heat dome that’ll cause dangerous heat across much of the central and eastern U.S. this week.

The high-pressure heat dome to its north will steer the low-pressure system toward the west or west-northwest and back toward the coast of southeast Georgia or the Carolinas for Friday into Saturday.

It’s unlikely given the marginal conditions we’ll see much of anything. If it manages to overcome the odds, it’ll likely stay a tropical depression or low-end tropical storm at the high side, with the main development window from this Wednesday (July 1^st) through Friday (July 3^rd).

It’s unclear if the system will reach the coast or drift just offshore for the weekend, but with so much dry, sinking air inland over the eastern U.S., this will not pose a flood threat regardless of development, unlike Arthur and its remnants along the Gulf Coast a few weeks back.

Otherwise things look to stay quiet for the opening weeks of July for the remainder of the tropical Atlantic.

Kaitlyn Perricone said she’s seen flames like this before but it’s been years.

“We came here for sunrise just to see the fire,” she said. “I (saw) it last night when I woke up. We woke up a little early.”

The fire sparked on Sunday afternoon and quickly spread to nearly 200 acres. As of around noon on Monday, it hadn’t been contained.

“It’s pretty crazy, man,” resident Troy Budoski said. “You see the red fire from all the way over here. It’s burning pretty good. Burning hot.”

While neither the blaze nor the smoke seemed to be affecting drivers, traffic cameras captured the thick smoke off in the distance, with the wind pushing the fire west.

Crews with the Florida Forest Service were working to keep it from spreading on Monday.

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According to an arrest report from the Margate Police Department, Nia Natalie Robinson, 27, is a teacher at Liberty Elementary School, located at 2450 Banks Road.

Police said Robinson brought the stun gun on campus on April 17 and showed it to two other employees.

According to the report, Robinson provided a written statement to school staff, stating that she “totally forgot” that she had her stun gun on school grounds and showed it to the two employees when having a conversation with them about protecting herself.

Police said Robinson claimed that she did not use the stun gun on campus and was “very apologetic.”

They said both employees also provided written statements, corroborating Robinson’s explanation.

According to the report, the stun gun was confiscated by a school resource officer.

The report states that a probable cause affidavit was then submitted to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office to determine whether Robinson would face charges.

She was consequently arrested Sunday on a charge of possession of a weapon on school grounds.

As of Monday morning, Robinson was being held at the North Broward Bureau. She was expected to appear in bond court later in the morning or afternoon.

A spokesperson for Broward County Public Schools told Local 10 News in an email that Robinson no longer works for the district.

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The Broward Sheriff’s Office Department of Detention’s correctional officers booked Artiom Echiusciu on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, and he appeared in county bond court on Monday morning.

“Echiusciu was residing in the United States illegally from Russia,” Deanna Bettineschi, a spokeswoman for the Hollywood Police Department, wrote in a statement.

At 12:25 a.m., on May 20, Echiusciu was driving a BMW at more than 100 miles per hour when he crossed a center median at Hollywood Boulevard and North Ocean Drive and struck the officer’s patrol car, according to Bettineschi.

“The impact of the crash sent the officer to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries,” Bettineschi wrote in the statement.

Echiusciu got out of the BMW, ran away, a Lyft driver gave him a ride, and he fled to Chicago, where the U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested him on June 10, according to

“The officer is continuing to recover, and we appreciate the outpouring of support seen from our community,” Bettineschi wrote.

Echiusciu faces charges of leaving the scene of a crash involving serious bodily injury, driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage, and failing to register a vehicle.

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

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El incidente ocurrió poco antes de las 2:30 p.m. del domingo en las estaciones de carga de vehículos eléctricos del centro comercial Aventura Commons, ubicado en 21265 Biscayne Blvd., según el departamento de policía de la ciudad.

De acuerdo con los reportes policiales, el joven intentaba estacionar su Tesla cuando se enredó en una discusión con los dos hombres en otro vehículo por un espacio de estacionamiento.

La policía indicó que el muchacho declaró a los agentes que el pasajero del otro vehículo, identificado posteriormente como Ahmed Mohamed, de 34 años y residente de Sunny Isles Beach, “lo empujó intencionalmente antes de agarrarlo en un intento de alejarlo físicamente del espacio de estacionamiento.”

Según los reportes, el joven “logró recuperar el equilibrio y se paró nuevamente frente al espacio de estacionamiento para evitar que el otro vehículo lo ocupara”, pero “segundos después”, el conductor del otro vehículo, identificado como Serguey Artigas, de 47 años y residente de Miami Beach, “puso el vehículo en reversa intencionalmente y retrocedió contra él, golpeándolo en la pierna.”

Tras el incidente, los dos hombres procedieron a estacionar. El joven logró fotografiarlos mientras caminaban hacia el área de Whole Foods del centro comercial.

Los agentes encontraron a los dos hombres en el centro comercial y los interrogaron. Ambos negaron cualquier irregularidad y afirmaron que la disputa había sido únicamente verbal.

Sin embargo, las autoridades señalaron que “múltiples testigos independientes” corroboraron la versión del adolescente, incluido el embestimiento con el vehículo.

Los agentes arrestaron a ambos hombres por cargos de abuso infantil. Además, Artigas enfrenta un cargo adicional de agresión agravada con arma mortal, y Mohamed enfrenta un cargo adicional de agresión.

Para el lunes por la mañana, la fianza de ambos aparecía como “por determinar” en los registros de la cárcel de Miami-Dade.

The IRS Criminal Investigations division, the crime-fighting arm of the IRS, says Twista, whose legal name is Carl Mitchell, failed to pay income tax from 2019 to 2023 and owes more than $440,000 in back taxes.

Last week, Mitchell pleaded guilty to five counts of willfully failing to pay income tax. He is scheduled for sentencing on Oct. 22.

Best known for his 2004 album ’Kamikaze,” Mitchell has collaborated with musicians including Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and Jamie Foxx on the song “Slow Jamz." He has received two Grammy nominations.

His income stemmed from performances, album sales, streaming and royalties, according to IRS-CI.

Despite warnings from both the IRS and his own accountants of his tax debts, “instead, Mitchell entered into agreements with a third-party company to pay him advances on future royalties, knowing that the IRS would not be able to levy these funds,” the IRS said in a statement.

Mitchell also has unpaid tax liabilities dating back to 2011, and the government alleges Mitchell made large purchases to support his lifestyle, including buying at least four luxury vehicles.

Representatives for Mitchell did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.

“IRS Criminal Investigation doesn’t care how famous you are or what you’ve accomplished,” Adam Jobes, with IRS-CI's Chicago field office, said in a statement. "If you willfully refuse to pay your taxes, we’ll follow the money and bring you to justice.”

They were part of a specialized crew that goes into remote areas to quickly put out new and rapidly escalating wildfires, federal officials said Monday.

Their deaths on Saturday came almost 13 years to the day since an elite crew of 19 wildland firefighters died when they were trapped in a steep canyon in Yarnell, Arizona.

Like this weekend's victims, the men in Arizona had tried to deploy emergency shelters that are a “last resort” for firefighters when there's no other way out. Investigators didn't blame anyone in the deaths but did cite radio communication problems that contributed to the Granite Mountain Hotshots becoming trapped. Arizona's workplace safety commission also fined the state's forestry division for not pulling them out.

Wildfires have erupted over the past week all across the West, fueled by months of dry weather and a record lack of snow this past winter in some places. Wildfire experts have been warning for months that extreme fire dangers are likely this summer.

With more than two dozen large fires burning, almost 8,000 wildland firefighters and dozens of firefighting helicopters have been deployed. About half the largest blazes are in Alaska while the rest are mostly in Western states.

Evacuations were ordered near seven fires, including in Arizona, Washington state, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.

Firefighters were part of a specialized crew

The U.S. Forest Service identified the firefighters killed as Emily Barker, 38, of Clinton Township, Michigan; Nick Hutcherson, 27, of Glendale, Arizona; and Sydney Watson, 26, of Warrior, Alabama.

Two others who were with them sustained burn injuries. Federal authorities would not release any information about their conditions.

The three victims were assigned to a Helitack crew that can be dropped into remote areas by helicopters and whose mission is to prevent new fires from growing into out-of-control blazes. But it can be extremely dangerous, often taking place in areas where fires are rapidly expanding.

One of the crew members worked for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service while two were assigned to the U.S. Forest Service and all were part of an interagency response to fires just west of Grand Junction, Colorado.

The Snyder Fire in the area has burned about 44 square miles (114 square kilometers), authorities said.

The Wildland Fire Service, created by the Department of Interior this year to coordinate firefighting on public lands, said in a statement that it “stands united” with the Forest Service in grief and “in our unwavering support for the loved ones left behind.”

The deaths will trigger an investigation by the Forest and Wildland Fire services that typically results in recommendations for how to prevent or reduce the risk of a similar accident. Agencies can also convene an accident review board to suggest any further actions.

High wildfire threat for much of this week

More hot, dry and windy weather across the Southwest will elevate the fire threat at least until the weekend, according to the national Storm Prediction Center.

Among the concerns were high winds in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, in the Black Hills of South Dakota and across portions of the High Plains.

Utah already has restricted firework usage going into the July Fourth holiday.

The National Interagency Fire Center on Monday increased the national “preparedness level” for wildfires to a 4, on a scale of 1 to 5. That’s a sign resources are beginning to be strained, and officials warned of a high potential for new, large fires in multiple parts of the country in coming days.

So far this year, the fires have burned more than 4,800 square miles (12,400 square kilometers) — the most by this point in the year since 2022 and significantly above the 10-year average.

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Brown reported from Billings, Montana and Seewer from Toledo, Ohio.

If their injuries aren't too severe, victims can survive for a week or more, assuming the weather isn't too hot or cold, experts say.

In Venezuela, rescue teams have been racing against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira last Wednesday. More than 770 buildings were totally or partially collapsed from the earthquakes, and aftershocks continued to shake the region.

Most rescues happen in the 24 hours after a disaster. The chances of survival drop with each day after that, experts say. Most victims are badly injured or buried by falling stones or other debris.

What factors affect earthquake survival?

Trapped victims are more likely to survive if they are in a debris-free pocket that prevents major injury while they await rescue, like under a sturdy desk, said geophysicist Victor Tsai from Brown University. Experts call this a survivable void space.

If fire, smoke or hazardous chemicals were released as a result of the building collapse, they may decrease a person's survival odds, said emergency response expert Dr. Joseph Barbera, an associate professor at George Washington University.

Beyond that, having air to breathe and water to drink are crucial as the days go on.

“You could survive a while without food,” Barbera said. “You could survive less without water.”

Temperatures where someone is trapped may affect survival, and temperatures outside the rubble can affect rescue missions.

More than 2,600 rescue workers from around the world arrived in Venezuela with trained search dogs and machinery, the government said. And rescue efforts in La Guaira, the hardest-hit area, appeared significantly more organized on Sunday, after residents expressed frustration and anger about the level of response in the days before.

It can be important for survivors to receive vital medical care before they are removed from the rubble, Barbera said. If not, the buildup of toxins from crushed muscles could make them go into shock after they are rescued.

After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a teenager and his 80-year-old grandmother were found alive after nine days trapped in their flattened home. And the year before, a 16-year-old Haitian girl was rescued from earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince after 15 days.

What to do during an earthquake

The best practices for survival during an earthquake depend on where you are in the world. Building codes in regions with active fault lines are often designed to withstand earthquakes, but that doesn't hold true everywhere.

In many countries, including the United States, the best practices are to drop, seek cover and hang on unless you are close to a building exit. Seek shelter under a heavy table or near sturdy furniture that may yield a survivable pocket if the roof collapses. Cover your face with cloth or a mask to protect from dust and debris.

If you are trapped in the rubble after an earthquake, save your energy and don't overexert. Ration food and water, listen for rescue calls and search for something near you to make noise. If you have a phone with you, conserve its battery and try for help in short spurts each day.

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Osaka, who has made a habit of creating a buzz with her creative outfits at recent Grand Slam tournaments, wore a flowing kimono with swinging sleeves and elaborate embroidery as she walked onto No. 3 Court for her first-round match against Elsa Jacquemot.

After winning 6-1, 7-5, Osaka said she got the inspiration for the outfit from a Quentin Tarantino movie.

“For me, my Japanese heritage means a lot. They say all white at Wimbledon and I thought it would be really cool to come out in a kimono," Osaka said in an on-court interview. "I just get inspired by a lot of different things, and for me, one of my favorite movies is ‘Kill Bill.' So I really love Lucy Liu's character, O-Ren Ishii, and she comes out in this really iconic white kimono. I always tell people I like to be like a video game character sometimes, I don't want to be myself when I'm playing on the court. And I kind of try to embody her a little.”

The Japanese player's latest creation drew a rave reaction from the crowd, many of whom were eagerly waiting with their phones aloft to record her entrance. One female fan shouted “C'mon queen!” as Osaka walked out.

“It’s something that we’ve been waiting for all day, right, what Naomi Osaka is going to appear in at Wimbledon," said Alicia Molik, the former top-10 ranked player who is doing commentary for the BBC.

Osaka kept her robe on as she bounced on her toes at the net while listening to instructions from the chair umpire. She then removed it and placed it on her chair to begin warmups before the match started.

Osaka is far from the first player to make a fashion statement at Wimbledon, and wasn’t the only one to do so on Monday. Seven-time men’s champion Novak Djokovic, for instance, walked out for his match on Centre Court in a white blazer with green details.

But the four-time Grand Slam champion’s fashion creations and walk-ons are becoming an eagerly anticipated ritual at both Grand Slam tournaments and other events.

At the Australian Open this year, Osaka walked onto court wearing a wide-brim hat, a veil and holding a white parasol. At the French Open, she came out for her opening match in a ceremonial black skirt and sleeveless beaded bodice, which she removed to reveal a sequined gold playing dress.

And at the Met Gala in New York, Osaka stunned in a edgy Robert Wun white sculptural fitted dress featuring exaggerated shoulders and adorned with red feathers and a matching headpiece. To complete her look, she wore two-toned red gloves.

The latest ensemble turned plenty of heads even before she stepped onto the grass.

Playing on No. 3 Court meant Osaka had to walk through part of the Wimbledon grounds to get to the stadium, giving some fans a sneak peak of her outfit.

“I could feel, when I walked by someone, they would physically turn their whole body,” Osaka said. “I thought that was really fun.”

Fellow players, meanwhile, have been full of questions about the kimono.

“I got asked if I only have one, because it’s all white, and what happens if I stain it,” Osaka said.

At her post-match news conference, Osaka sported a lot more color to show off the Haitian side of her heritage. She wore a red-and-blue Haiti soccer jersey after the country played at a World Cup for the first time since 1974.

“I felt really proud of them,” she said.

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AP Sports Writer Ken Maguire contributed to this report.

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With rising political violence, including recent incidents near the White House, and a president who enjoys being at the center of public pomp yet has repeatedly faced attempts on his life, a major security challenge awaits.

“It comes as no surprise to you that D.C. on a normal day is a target-rich environment,” said Darren B. Cox assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office at a recent press conference detailing the security preparations. “We are prepared for any threats.”

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit Washington in the coming weeks for the festivities.

The throngs will be joined by thousands of law enforcement officers and agents and 5,000 National Guard troops, along with military-style vehicles and other hardware they don’t often see on the streets of America.

Authorities are preparing for a major security operation

The largest crowds are expected July 4, with multiple events happening simultaneously, including the Great American State Fair, a showcase for each state and a signature attraction of the celebrations that stretches across the National Mall.

The annual fireworks display that night is designated a National Security Special Event for the first time by the Department of Homeland Security, granting it the highest classification for federal security coordination.

For visitors, that means strict ID requirements, long lines and magnetometers, similar to air travel security. Snipers are also expected to be deployed at some events.

Flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which is across the Potomac River from Washington, will be suspended longer than in other years because of the scope of the celebrations — from noon on July 4 until the next day. Other America 250 events that include flyovers or parachute jumps could prompt more flight disruptions.

The FBI, Secret Service, U.S. Capitol Police, U.S. Park Police and D.C. National Guard have all been involved in security coordination for the events. At the press conference earlier this month, equipment that could be deployed to guard the city was on display, including BearCat armored SWAT vehicles, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected, known as MRAPs, as well as communication vans and FBI diving boats.

“Our protective model is meant to adjust to any type of direct or indirect threats that we come across,” said Tara McLeese, special agent in charge of the Secret Service Washington Field Office. “I can assure you that we have no lack of imagination as to the potential threats out there."

Brig. Gen. Leland Blanchard II, interim commander of the D.C. National Guard, said the planning had been underway for months and included rehearsals.

Blanchard said the guard members would continue the roles they have served the last 10 months as part of a deployment to the city President Donald Trump says is meant to fight crime. Blanchard highlighted that guard members, including military police officers, would be helping with duties like traffic and crowd control as well as responding to emergencies around the events.

President Trump, who has already attended several events leading up to July 4, including the kickoff rally last week launching the Great American State Fair, has said on Truth Social that he would hold a rally on the National Mall.

Speaking at a press conference Monday updating the upcoming security preparations, Cox reiterated that “at this time we are not tracking any credible threats related to the July 4th event, but we always remain vigilant.”

Recent violence has shaped the threat picture

The festivities come at a fraught moment, with recent political violence creating a complex threat environment for authorities. One man, Cole Tomas Allen, has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president after he sprinted past security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April. Allen has pleaded not guilty.

In the following weeks, two men on two separate occasions opened fired at Secret Service officers, the service said. Each incident happened in the vicinity of the White House.

More recently, the FBI announced it had thwarted a planned attack targeting Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show at the White House. Several suspects have been arrested in that case.

Security was already enhanced on the National Mall ahead of the launch of festivities, as Trump claimed without providing evidence that vandals had damaged the Reflecting Pool that he had recently renovated.

Matt Dallek, a political scientist at George Washington University who studies extremism, said Trump posed a unique security challenge because he is “both an accelerant and a target of political violence.”

The nation’s bicentennial offers a historical parallel

Observers draw some parallels to the 1976 bicentennial. The nation was coming off Watergate and Vietnam and 10 months before the celebration there were two assassination attempts against then-President Gerald Ford.

“There was a lot of sourness in the country in ’76, a lot of cynicism about the direction of the country,” Dallek said. But both Ford and his democratic opponent Jimmy Carter understood the threat political divisions posed and “were looking to bring down the level of vitriol.”

Angelyn Spaulding Flowers, Professor of Homeland Security & Administration of Justice at the University of the District of Columbia, said the amount of security was unparalleled for the city, citing the ongoing and open-ended National Guard presence that has flooded Washington with additional security patrols for months.

It happened just before 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the electric vehicle charging stations at the Aventura Commons shopping center, located at 21265 Biscayne Blvd., according to the city’s police department.

According to police reports, the boy was “attempting to park his Tesla” when he got into an argument with the two men in another car “over a parking space.”

Police said the boy told officers that the passenger of the other vehicle, later identified as Ahmed Mohamed, 34, of Sunny Isles Beach, “intentionally pushed him before grabbing him in an attempt to physically move him away from the parking space.”

According to the reports, the boy “stated he was able to regain his balance and again stood in front of the parking space in an effort to prevent the other vehicle from taking it,” but “seconds later,” the driver of the other vehicle, later identified as Serguey Artigas, 47, of Miami Beach, “intentionally placed the vehicle in reverse and backed into (him), striking him in the leg.”

Police said they then proceeded to park. The boy, authorities said, was able to snap a picture of them as they walked to the Whole Foods area of the plaza.

Officers saw the two men in the shopping plaza and questioned them, according to the reports. The two men denied any wrongdoing, claiming the dispute was only verbal.

But authorities said that “multiple independent witnesses” corroborated the teen’s account of the incident, including the vehicle ramming.

Officers arrested both men on child abuse charges, while Artigas faces an additional felony count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and Mohammed faces an additional charge of battery.

Bond for both men was listed as “to be set” in Miami-Dade jail records as of Monday morning.

Según la policía, Ralph N-Kosi Blue III, de 18 años, fue arrestado por dos cargos de agresión agravada con arma y dos cargos de agresión agravada.

De acuerdo con la policía de Hallandale Beach, el tiroteo ocurrió el sábado por la tarde mientras las víctimas esperaban dentro de su SUV. La madre de la niña había entrado al McDonald’s a recoger un pedido cuando se desató la balacera.

“La investigación determinó que se trató de un incidente dirigido que se originó fuera de la ciudad de Hallandale Beach y culminó en el estacionamiento de 835 W. Hallandale Beach Blvd., donde el sospechoso, que se presentaba a trabajar en McDonald’s, parece haber sido el único que disparó”, confirmó el Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach en un comunicado de prensa. “La niña y su padre, quienes no tenían ninguna relación con la disputa, fueron alcanzados por los disparos y trasladados a un hospital cercano. El padre ya fue dado de alta, y la menor permanece en condición estable.”

Los detectives también determinaron que otros dos niños, de 2 y 5 años, se encontraban en el vehículo en el momento del tiroteo, pero ninguno resultó herido.

Aunque la policía confirmó que el incidente que desencadenó el tiroteo ocurrió fuera de la ciudad, los detectives no han revelado el móvil.

El lunes por la mañana, Blue se encontraba detenido en la cárcel principal del Condado de Broward a la espera de una audiencia para fijar fianza.

“Este arresto es el resultado del trabajo incansable de nuestros detectives y la sólida colaboración que mantenemos con la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward”, declaró el jefe de policía de Hallandale Beach, Michel Michel. “Una familia fue lastimada por un acto de violencia imprudente que no tenía nada que ver con ellos. El arresto de hoy es un paso significativo, pero nuestra investigación está lejos de concluir. Seguimos comprometidos a identificar a todos los involucrados y a hacerlos plenamente responsables.”

La investigación continúa activa y la policía confirmó que los detectives siguen “persiguiendo pistas adicionales y trabajando para identificar y capturar a otros individuos involucrados.”

Quienes tengan información sobre el tiroteo pueden llamar a la División de Detectives del Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach al 954-457-1400. Las pistas anónimas pueden enviarse llamando a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

El robo ocurrió alrededor de las 12:45 a.m. en el estacionamiento trasero de Boston Johnny’s, ubicado en 2120 N. Dixie Highway. Las cámaras de seguridad grabaron a un individuo enmascarado que recorría el área antes de atacar un vehículo estacionado.

El video muestra al sospechoso acercándose a un auto, mirando a su alrededor y fingiendo alejarse cuando otro vehículo pasa por el lugar. Momentos después, la persona regresa, jala las manijas de las puertas y rompe la ventana del vehículo para entrar.

Entre las víctimas se encuentra el fotógrafo de Local 10, Avi Robledo, cuyo vehículo estaba estacionado en el lugar mientras él se encontraba dentro del restaurante por menos de una hora.

“Al principio creímos que era granizo porque vimos el vidrio sobre el techo y todavía no habíamos notado la ventana del pasajero rota”, dijo Robledo.

Su mochila fue robada durante el incidente.

El dueño del restaurante, Jason, afirmó que es la primera vez que el negocio enfrenta un robo de vehículo en su estacionamiento.

“Sí, es preocupante. Este es nuestro vecindario, así que queremos ser buenos vecinos. Y queremos que ellos también lo sean con nosotros”, expresó.

La policía también investigó un segundo vehículo dañado al otro lado de la calle, donde recolectó evidencia en busca de pistas.

Aunque el sistema de vigilancia de Boston Johnny’s captó las acciones del sospechoso, el dueño del negocio reconoció que identificarlo podría ser difícil.

“Por suerte tengo buenas cámaras. Pero de poco sirve —ya saben, capucha, ropa negra, ropa oscura, máscara”, dijo.

La policía de Hollywood continúa la investigación y trabaja para identificar al sospechoso que aparece en las imágenes.

Quienes tengan información pueden comunicarse con la policía de Hollywood o con Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

Como detallamos la semana pasada, el sistema está asociado con los remanentes de una gran agrupación de tormentas eléctricas que se desplazó hacia el sureste a través de las Carolinas y ahora se mezcla con un frente estacionario sobre las aguas frente al sureste del país.

Según los modelos, las probabilidades de desarrollo son bajas y han seguido disminuyendo en las últimas 24 horas. Para el lunes por la mañana, el NHC mantenía una probabilidad de desarrollo del 10% para esta semana, ligeramente por debajo del 20% del domingo.

Condiciones marginales por delante

Aunque los frentes estacionarios como este pueden ser un detonante común para el desarrollo temprano de la temporada —especialmente al norte de los trópicos profundos, en lo que llamamos los subtrópicos— la barra es típicamente más alta para generar un desarrollo significativo en comparación con las perturbaciones tropicales tradicionales que avanzan hacia el oeste desde África.

Los frentes son una fuente natural de cizalladura del viento, lo cual es perjudicial para los posibles sistemas tropicales. Por eso, lo primero que tendría que ocurrir para favorecer el desarrollo es disipar esa cizalladura, un proceso gradual que generalmente resulta de rondas repetidas de fuertes tormentas. Esto ocurre con mayor frecuencia donde las temperaturas del agua son más cálidas.

Como mencionamos la semana pasada, esto es en parte por lo que seguimos vigilando la zona a pesar de las bajas probabilidades: las aguas al este de Florida están cerca de temperaturas récord para esta época del año, y la Corriente del Golfo —la profunda franja de aguas cálidas que corre a lo largo de las costas del sureste del país— suele servir de fuente de energía para este tipo de sistemas de baja presión inicialmente no tropicales.

En general, sin embargo, cuanto más al norte y lejos de la costa de Florida, más frías son las aguas. Esa ha sido la tendencia en los últimos días, lo que en parte explica la caída adicional en las probabilidades de desarrollo. Además, el sistema de tormentas que se desplazó sobre tierra y salió por la costa de las Carolinas durante la noche no fue tan intenso como podría haber sido, por lo que su punto de partida es más débil.

Las probabilidades de desarrollo del sistema de conjunto basado en aprendizaje automático de 1,000 miembros de Google DeepMind cayeron por debajo del 5% en su última corrida.

Un lento giro de regreso hacia las Carolinas

El sistema quedará atrapado bajo una poderosa cresta de alta presión centrada sobre el valle de Ohio, la misma cúpula de calor que provocará temperaturas peligrosas en gran parte del centro y este del país esta semana.

La cúpula de calor al norte dirigirá el sistema de baja presión hacia el oeste o el noroeste, de regreso hacia la costa del sureste de Georgia o las Carolinas entre el viernes y el sábado.

Es poco probable que, dadas las condiciones marginales, veamos algo significativo. Si el sistema logra superar las probabilidades, lo más probable es que se mantenga como una depresión tropical o, en el mejor de los casos, una tormenta tropical de baja intensidad, con la ventana principal de desarrollo entre este miércoles 1 de julio y el viernes 3 de julio.

No está claro si el sistema alcanzará la costa o se mantendrá cerca de ella durante el fin de semana, pero con tanta masa de aire seco y en descenso sobre el este del país, no representará una amenaza de inundaciones independientemente de si se desarrolla o no, a diferencia de lo que ocurrió con Arthur y sus remanentes en la Costa del Golfo hace unas semanas.

Por lo demás, el Atlántico tropical se mantiene en calma para las primeras semanas de julio.

Los oficiales de correccionales del Departamento de Detención de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward registraron a Artiom Echiusciu el domingo en Fort Lauderdale, y compareció ante el tribunal de fianzas del condado el lunes por la mañana.

“Echiusciu residía ilegalmente en los Estados Unidos, proveniente de Rusia”, indicó Deanna Bettineschi, portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, en un comunicado.

Según Bettineschi, a la 1:25 a.m. del 20 de mayo, Echiusciu conducía un BMW a más de 100 millas por hora cuando cruzó la mediana central en Hollywood Boulevard y North Ocean Drive e impactó el patrullero del oficial.

“El impacto del choque envió al oficial al hospital con heridas graves, aunque sin riesgo de vida”, escribió Bettineschi.

Tras el accidente, Echiusciu salió del BMW, huyó a pie, tomó un Lyft y escapó a Chicago, donde el Grupo de Trabajo Regional de Fugitivos de los Grandes Lagos del Servicio de Alguaciles de los Estados Unidos lo arrestó el 10 de junio.

“El oficial continúa recuperándose y agradecemos el apoyo que hemos recibido de nuestra comunidad”, expresó Bettineschi.

Echiusciu enfrenta cargos de fuga de un accidente con lesiones corporales graves, conducir con licencia suspendida, fuga de un accidente con daños materiales y no registrar un vehículo.

From supporters to candidates, the message throughout the gathering was confidence heading into this year’s elections.

“Obviously we can’t be too complacent, but I think our prospects are great,” said Jad with the Florida Young Republicans.

“I feel really good. You talk about stuff happening in other states, in Florida things just get better and better every year as Republicans and as proud Floridians in America,” said John Carroll, a District 53 State House candidate.

Several high-profile Republican figures took the stage, including Attorney General James Uthmeier and U.S. Senators Ashley Moody and Rick Scott.

11 Republicans are running for governor, including Congressman Byron Donalds, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump.

“We are the best state in America, that’s not going to change, and this November we will tell the Florida Democratic Party once again. Because when you win in Florida, it’s the best state, and that’s not going to change anytime soon,” Donalds said.

Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins also spoke, while his competitor delivered sharp criticism.

“If we do not test our nominee now, the left-wing machine will test him when it’s too late to choose somebody else. And I’m telling you plainly Byron Donalds is not ready for the fight ahead,” the competitor said.

Donalds, meanwhile, focused his criticism on Democratic frontrunner David Jolly, a former Republican.

“I don’t know about you but we have worked too long in this state to make it the number one conservative state in America just to let some milquetoast Democrat wannabe think he is gonna transform Florida,” Donalds said.

Former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner also took the stage, pitching himself as a steady hand in the race.

“You also want a governor who’s gonna get there and deliver results and I’m a no nonsense, less talk, more action leader,” Renner said.

The event also featured a debate among four congressional candidates competing for the GOP nomination in the newly redistricted District 25, stretching from Miami Beach to Delray Beach.

Candidates including former state Rep. George Moraitis, former Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer, business owner Raven Harrison, and businessman Dan Franzese traded sharp exchanges over qualifications, experience, and vision for the district.

Singer and Franzese in particular went after each other’s records and backgrounds in a heated back-and-forth.

“These are the failed efforts by a repeat failed candidate,” one candidate said.

“I’ll tell you what else I hear when I go door to door, you could not get elected dog catcher in that district if you ran in your town again,” another said.

On the Democratic side, Rep. Jared Moskowitz is set to face progressive challenger Oliver Larkin in the primary.

Primary elections are scheduled for August 18th, with the general election set for November 3rd.

*Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that Scott Singer is the current mayor of Boca Raton. Singer is the former mayor of Boca Raton, completing his term in March.

Beasley has been out of the NBA since playing with the Detroit Pistons in 2024-25. Another former NBA player, Ed Davis, was also charged in the indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court against six people.

U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said they “turned professional basketball into a criminal betting operation.”

The schemes, he added, “erode the integrity of American sports and victimize the sports-watching public.”

Nocella said hundreds of thousands of dollars were wagered through popular gambling sites. The indictment says Beasley had financial woes, including millions of dollars in gambling losses, and had relied on Davis, a former teammate, for help.

“Malik maintains his presumption of innocence throughout this two-year investigation,” Beasley’s attorney, Steve Haney, said. “We ask that people reserve judgment until all the facts are known.”

Feds say Beasley tipped others about his play

In return for fixing his performance, Beasley got paid by his money-winning co-conspirators and his debts to Davis were reduced or eliminated, the indictment alleges.

In one example, according to the court filing, Beasley informed Davis that he would try to outperform the 3.5 prop line bet for rebounds in Milwaukee's game against the Los Angeles Clippers on March 10, 2024.

With a second left, and the Bucks ahead by seven points, any shot by the Clippers would not have affected the outcome. But Beasley challenged the shot and then dashed past four players to grab the rebound as the horn sounded.

Beasley finished with four rebounds that night — an overperformance and a winning prop bet, the indictment states.

“What's funny is after he got it he had a big sigh of relief,” a co-conspirator said in a text message, according to the indictment.

In other games, Beasley told Davis that he would underperform certain statistics, the government alleges.

The NBA said it would continue to cooperate with authorities.

“We take these allegations with the utmost seriousness, and the integrity of our game remains our top priority,” spokesperson Mike Bass said.

Investigation has kept Beasley on sidelines

Beasley last played in the NBA for the Pistons in 2025, averaging 16 points per game. He is one of five players in NBA history with more than 300 3-pointers in a season, but he did not play in the league last season because of the investigation.

Beasley's financial problems have been widely reported, including disputes with a Detroit landlord, a Milwaukee barber and a Minnesota dentist. In 2025, when the Pistons were in New York for a playoff game, he was served with a lawsuit from a local sports marketing agency, which subsequently got a $1 million default judgment against Beasley.

Davis' attorney did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. He was an NBA journeyman who was primarily a backup in a 12-year career that got him roughly $48 million in gross salary. Davis and Beasley were teammates in Minnesota in 2020-21.

Paolo Zamorano, a sports agent who formerly represented Davis, was also charged with placing bets based on Beasley's information. Defense attorney Ken Breen said Zamorano denies wrongdoing and “looks forward to his day in court.”

Other NBA figures arrested in 2025

Authorities last fall announced a gambling sweep that led to the arrests of more than 30 people, including reputed mobsters and well-known basketball figures such as Chauncey Billups, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and coach of the Portland Trail Blazers at the time.

Billups is accused of conspiring to fix high-stakes card games tied to La Cosa Nostra organized crime families that cheated unsuspecting gamblers out of at least $7 million. He has pleaded not guilty.

In April, former NBA player Damon Jones, 49, became the first person to plead guilty. He was accused of defrauding major sportsbooks, including DraftKings and FanDuel, and filching millions of dollars from unwitting poker players.

Jones was charged with selling or attempting to sell insider information to bettors based on his relationships in the NBA.

Terry Rozier is accused of conspiring with friends to help them win bets on his performance during a 2023 game when he played for the Charlotte Hornets. He, too, has pleaded not guilty. He was on the Miami Heat when he was charged in 2025.

In 2024, former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter pleaded guilty in a separate gambling case. Porter, who had gambling debts, said he took himself out of games early so co-conspirators could win bets on his performance.

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The app said it has started allowing users to reserve unique usernames, which can be used to contact WhatsApp users when the feature is launched later this year.

WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number.

The app, owned by Meta Platforms, said in a blog post that over the “coming months” users will get the option to be found and contacted only by their username, and not their number. It wasn't more specific about the timeline.

“We have designed this as a core privacy feature,” Alice Newton-Rex, WhatsApp's vice president of product, told reporters.

There won't be a directory of usernames on the app, and the app won't suggest names as you type.

“People will need to know your exact username to contact you for the first time,” she said.

WhatsApp's current privacy settings are limited to blocking individual users and silencing unknown callers. The app also allows users to add a profile name, but that's only displayed in chat groups for other people who don't have the user's contact info saved.

While Americans still prefer text messaging to WhatsApp, the app is widely used in Europe, Asia and much of the rest of the world.

Catchy online handles are highly coveted and users will likely scramble to claim a desirable one.

“I think a lot of people will go and get usernames and that’s why we decided to open reservations early,” Newton-Rex said.

Companies, organizations and creators with existing accounts on Meta's social media platforms, Instagram and Facebook, will get the chance to claim their usernames on WhatsApp.

Usernames need to be between three and 35 characters. To prevent impersonation, WhatsApp will hold back usernames for high-profile people or groups such as celebrities, public figures and government entities.

The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights the Republican president’s effort to fire her over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she has denied.

But other than at the nation’s central bank, with its role of setting interest rates, the court held that presidents have free rein to fire agency heads at will, despite federal laws that require a cause for such dismissals and a 91-year-old decision that had limited executive authority.

With the six conservative justices in the majority, the nine-member court jettisoned its unanimous decision in Humphrey’s Executor that had limited when presidents can fire agencies’ board members — in part to try to ensure decision-making free of political influence.

“We hold that such protection from removal is contrary to the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court.

Support for Trump’s position

The justices ruled in the case of former Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump fired without cause despite a provision of federal law that requires a reason. The logic of the decision extends to other agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where Trump also has fired board members.

Trump voiced his approval in a Truth Social post. “It is such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers,” he wrote.

The court already had signaled its support for the Trump administration’s position, over the liberals’ objection, by allowing Slaughter and the board members of other agencies to be removed from their jobs even as their legal challenges continued.

No president before Trump had sought to wrest control of the agencies that regulate wide swaths of American life, including nuclear energy, product safety and labor relations. But at arguments in Slaughter's case in December, the six conservatives, including three appointed by Trump, seemed more concerned about issuing a ruling that would endure than handing too much power to Trump.

Their rhetoric was reminiscent of the presidential immunity case in 2024 that allowed Trump to avoid prosecution for his efforts to undo his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. The court is writing a decision “for the ages,” Justice Neil Gorsuch said then.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent she summarized aloud in the courtroom, said the ruling could lead to “submission, instability, and even oppression.”

“The president, to be sure, emerges with more power than ever before. That power was given to him by six justices on this court, not the people or the Constitution,” Sotomayor said.

Fed governor Cook's case

In Cook’s case, the court voted 5-4 to reject the Trump administration’s effort to get Cook out of her job now. Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the three liberal justices were in the majority.

Allowing Cook to be ousted now, Roberts wrote, “would allow the President to remove a member of the Federal Reserve at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check after. That would turn for-cause protection into little more than at-will employment.”

Roberts did include a footnote in his opinion noting that nothing forbids Trump from “trying again” to fire her, provided she is given proper notice and a chance to contest it.

Trump suggested he would take Roberts up on the offer, saying on Truth Social that “we will take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States of America!”

Cook, who was nominated to the Fed’s Board of Governors by Biden, can continue in her post at least as long as her lawsuit challenging her firing goes on, the court said. The Trump administration is appealing a lower-court ruling in her favor.

Besides trying to fire Cook, Trump had threatened to fire former Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell if he didn’t leave the board when his term as chairman ended in mid-May. Powell has remained as a governor, even as Kevin Warsh has replaced him as chairman.

Judges on lower courts have allowed Cook to remain in her post as one of seven central bank governors.

The true motivation for trying to fire Cook, Trump’s critics say, is the Republican president’s desire to exert control over U.S. interest rate policy. If Trump succeeds in removing Cook, the first Black woman to be a Federal Reserve governor, he could replace her with his own appointee and gain a majority on the Fed’s board. The case is being closely watched by Wall Street investors and could have broad impacts on the financial markets and the U.S. economy.

Cook said her case was “never about mortgage documents signed years before I became a Federal Reserve governor.”

"It was an attempt to remove me on a manufactured pretext because I refused to bow to political pressure and continued to set interest rates based only on what would best serve the American people. That is the most fundamental obligation of a Federal Reserve governor,” Cook said in a statement.

Trump's confrontation with the Fed

Trump has been dismissive of worries that cutting rates too quickly could trigger higher inflation. He wants dramatic reductions so the government can borrow more cheaply and Americans can pay lower borrowing costs for new homes, cars or other large purchases, as worries about high costs have soured some voters on his economic management.

The Fed has left its key rate unchanged this year, but a growing chorus of policymakers is expressing concern about persistently high inflation and suggesting the central bank could raise its benchmark rate by the end of this year or leave it unchanged.

While Cook’s case was under review at the high court, Trump dramatically escalated his confrontation with the Fed. The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation of Powell and served the central bank with subpoenas.

The investigation ended in late April, the department said. The announcement cleared a major roadblock to the confirmation of Warsh as Powell’s successor.

The case against Cook stems from allegations she claimed two properties, in Michigan and Georgia, as “primary residences” in June and July 2021, before she joined the Fed board. Such claims can lead to a lower mortgage rate and smaller down payment than if one of them was declared as a rental property or second home.

Those applications, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in January, are evidence of “gross negligence at best” and give Trump reason to fire her. In any event, he argued, courts shouldn’t be reviewing his decision and Cook has no right to a hearing.

Cook has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with a crime.

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Johnson, 40, spent 10 seasons in the league and last played in 2017 for the Arizona Cardinals. He said on ABC's “ Good Morning America ” that he was diagnosed with the fatal nervous system disease last year.

“Honestly, I don’t know if you really fully process it,” he said, using his eyes to communicate through a computerized speech-generating device during the interview with Michael Strahan. “At first you’re in shock. Then you realize you have two choices: You can give up or you can fight. I chose to fight.”

Johnson, a first-round draft pick out of East Carolina in 2008, rushed for 7,965 yards over six seasons with the Titans. The native of Orlando, Florida, had 2,006 yards in 2009 to earn the nickname “CJ2K” and ingratiate himself with the Tennessee fan base.

Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk, in a statement released Monday, said the organization is holding Johnson, his wife and four children close.

“Some people leave a mark on an organization that you just can’t put into words. Chris Johnson is one of those people for us. His leadership on the field, in addition to his impact in the locker room and Nashville community have written him permanently into the story of this franchise," Adams Strunk said. “Learning this news is extremely difficult, and we will support Chris every step of the way throughout his journey."

ALS, which is an acronym for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative condition that affects nerve cell communication with muscles throughout the body. The disease leads to muscle weakness and can cause deterioration of the ability to move, speak and breathe.

Tim Shaw, who had a six-year career as a linebacker in the NFL and was a teammate of Johnson's with the Titans from 2010-12, was diagnosed in 2014 at age 30 with ALS and is still alive.

Johnson, who also played one season for the New York Jets, first noticed weakness in his right hand and trouble with his grip. He was still working out daily a year ago. Now he can't hold a cup or speak on his own.

“Your mind stays sharp. People sometimes look at a person with a physical disability and assume you’re not still the same person inside,” Johnson said. “I still think the same. I still dream. I still love my family. My body just doesn’t cooperate.”

Johnson was joined for the interview by his wife, Brittany, who has become his primary caregiver.

“She hasn’t left my side through any of this. My kids are also a huge part of why I keep going,” Johnson said. “Every day I wake up wanting more time with them to make more memories and just be their dad. They give me a reason to keep fighting.”

Johnson has been participating in experimental treatments with the goal of extending his life and helping the medical field move closer to a cure for the disease.

“If it helps even one person get diagnosed sooner, inspires more research or gives another family hope,” he said, “then it's worth it.”

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The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some number of days after the election, provided they are postmarked by Election Day. The outcome spares officials the headache of changing their ballot rules just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections.

In just over half those states, the more forgiving deadlines apply only to ballots cast by military and overseas voters.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the court's majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices.

Federal laws setting a single Election Day “leave open when those votes must be received,” Barrett wrote.

Congress could change the law, she said. “If varied deadlines for ballot receipt similarly call for a national solution, the American people must choose it through their elected representatives,” Barrett wrote.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the dissent for four justices. “Not only is today’s decision inconsistent with statutory text, legal context, historical practice, and precedent; it also threatens to produce lamentable consequences," Alito wrote. “The majority’s holding spawns a slurry of troubling election-law questions and risks further undermining Americans’ confidence in election integrity.”

The legal challenge was part of Trump’s broader attack on most mail balloting, which he has said breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and years of experience in numerous states. Trump has repeatedly claimed that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 resulted from fraud even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.

Trump called the court ruling a “tremendous loss” and renewed his call for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which has made it through the House of Representatives but not the Senate.

“There is only one reason to oppose — CHEATING!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Among other changes, the legislation would limit who is able to receive a mail ballot and impose a documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for registering to vote.

“If we want fair and secure elections, Election Day should mean exactly what it says, which is why this decision makes it even more imperative that Congress pass the SAVE America Act,” RNC Chairman Joe Gruters said in a statement.

The court heard arguments in March in a case from Mississippi pitting the state against Trump’s Republican administration and the Republican and Libertarian parties. At issue was whether federal law sets a single Election Day that requires ballots to be both cast by voters and received by state officials.

The federal appeals court in New Orleans struck down a Mississippi law allowing ballots to be counted if they arrive within five business days of the election and are postmarked by Election Day.

The outcome is a “sigh of relief” for a lot of election administrators, said Stephen Richer, a Republican and the former top election administrator in Arizona’s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.

A ruling in favor of the Republican National Committee "would have created a whole host of administrative challenges for the affected states,” said Richer, who is now a legal fellow at the Cato Institute.

RNC officials did not immediately respond Monday to email and telephone requests for comment.

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Gotham announced signing Kerr on Monday to a deal that will keep her with the team through 2030. The move marks a return to the NWSL for Kerr, who previously played for Sky Blue — which later became Gotham — from 2015-17.

She also played for the Chicago Red Stars before moving to Chelsea in November 2019. Kerr remains the NWSL's top regular-season scorer with 77 career goals and led the league in scoring for three straight seasons from 2017-19. She won league MVP awards in 2017 and 2019.

Kerr, 32, also is the all-time leading scorer for the Australia, among men or women, with 75 international goals, surpassing men's leader Tim Cahill with 51. She led the Matildas to the semifinals of the 2023 Women's World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

“I’m incredibly excited to return to Gotham FC and to this city,” Kerr said in a statement released by the team. “This club was an important part of my journey, and to come back at this moment, with everything Gotham has built, is really special. The ambition here is clear, and I’m looking forward to helping this team compete for trophies and create more history.”

Known for her backflip goal celebrations, Kerr is widely considered one of the best strikers in the world. She's the only player to have won a Golden Boot in three different leagues.

“Sam is one of the defining players of her generation and a game-changing talent who has consistently delivered at the highest levels of world football,” said Yael Averbuch West, president of soccer operations for Gotham FC. “Her winning mentality, relentless competitiveness and ability to decide matches in an instant make her one of the most impactful players in the game. Bringing Sam back to Gotham is a landmark moment for our club, and we couldn’t be more excited.”

Gotham won the league title last year and in 2023. The team’s loaded roster already includes such players as Esther González, who won the 2023 World Cup with Spain, German goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger, U.S. midfielder Rose Lavelle and England defender Jess Carter.

Kerr finished with 17 goals last season for Chelsea. She scored 65 goals in the Women’s Super League and won the league’s Golden Boot twice. She scored 116 goals in all competitions, tying Chelsea’s all-time leading scorer Fran Kirby. Chelsea won five WSL titles, three FA Cups and three League Cups during Kerr’s tenure with the club.

She also played professionally in the W League in Australia.

Kerr is married to American Kristie Mewis, who also played in the NWSL and the English WSL, as well as for the U.S. national team. The couple have a son, Jagger Mewis-Kerr, who was born in May 2025.

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Thunderstorms return to the forecast on Tuesday, but more on Wednesday. Some thunderstorms this week will be slow movers, producing heavy rain that leads to minor flooding. High temperatures will consistently be above average in the low-to- middle 90s.

The majority declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented, calling on the court to reconsider the legal standards for public figures who claim defamation.

Alan Dershowitz said the news network aired only a portion of the comment made during his defense of the president, distorting his meaning to make him look like he’d “lost his mind,” according to court documents.

The network said that multiple outlets had interpreted his remarks in a similar way, and Dershowitz couldn’t show CNN was trying to mischaracterize what he said.

In his appeal, Dershowitz had urged the court to reconsider New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. The landmark First Amendment case that made it harder for public figures to win libel lawsuits because it requires proof that an outlet knowingly published something false, or showed a reckless disregard for the truth.

Dershowitz, a retired Harvard Law School professor and legal commentator, was part of Trump's defense team during his impeachment trial over allegations that Trump wanted political favors from Ukraine in return for U.S. military aid. Trump was acquitted by the Senate.

Dershowitz responded to a question at one point by saying, “the only thing that would make a quid pro quo unlawful is if the quo were somehow illegal." Providing arms to Ukraine, he said, isn't illegal.

He alleged that CNN only played what he said moments later: “Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest and, mostly, they are right, your election is in the public interest, and if the president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”

Dershowitz said the edit made it seem like he was arguing a president could avoid impeachment for illegal acts as long as he was doing it to get reelected – a concept his original suit called “preposterous and foolish on its face.”

CNN countered by saying it did air his full remarks during its live coverage, and invited him on twice more to expand on his meaning.

Lower courts tossed out the suit, finding that Dershowitz hadn’t shown CNN acted with “actual malice” in its reporting, making it fall short of the standard set by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.

The high court has allowed some similar rules to take effect as lawsuits play out, including Arizona's proof-of-citizenship requirement for state and local elections and a Virginia purge of voter rolls that the state said was aimed at keeping noncitizens from voting.

The appeal was filed by the Republican National Committee after lower courts found the measures violated federal voting laws, and it was joined by GOP President Donald Trump’s administration.

“The RNC is proud to lead this effort, and we will keep fighting nationwide to defend election integrity and ensure only eligible citizens cast a ballot,” said Chairman Joe Gruters.

The high court is expected to hear arguments in the fall and likely hand down an opinion after the midterm elections.

The Republican-controlled legislature passed the laws in 2022, part of a wave of similar proposals around the country after Trump falsely claimed widespread voter fraud was responsible for his narrow defeat there to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump reclaimed the state in 2024, helping secure his return to the White House.

One measure requires people to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote using a state form. Another calls for regular purges of the voter rolls to remove people if their citizenship could not be confirmed, including within 90 days of an election.

The case reached the Supreme Court's emergency docket in 2024. The justices gave the GOP a partial victory, allowing Arizona to require proof of citizenship for registration in state and local elections but not federal races.

Also that year, the high court allowed Virginia to continue a purge of voter rolls shortly before the election.

Citizenship is required to vote across the country, and people must attest they are citizens under penalty of perjury to register. Arizona is among only a handful of states that require additional proof, like a driver's license or passport. Data indicates that voting by noncitizens is rare.

Arizona tried to impose proof requirements for national elections in 2013, but the law was struck down by the Supreme Court. Now, people can register as “federal only” voters without providing proof of citizenship, but Arizona requires additional proof for state and local election participation.

Just over 19,000 people were registered as active federal-only voters in 2023.

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He beat Scottie Scheffler in a playoff at the Travelers Championship, had both parents from Norway watch him win for the first time and even did the “row” with the Norwegian soccer fans who cheered him all the way to the surprising end.

Hovland capped off a gritty rally when he made a 7-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole and won the Travelers when Scheffler missed a 4-foot birdie putt.

“Winning in the playoff against Scottie — best player in the world — that was pretty satisfying,” said Hovland, who won for the first time since the Valspar Championship in March 2025.

The surprise was Scheffler going from a big advantage — an 8-iron to 4 feet on the 18th on the first playoff hole — to missing a hard-sliding putt on the high side that made Hovland a winner.

“Maybe I hit it a little firmer than I intended to,” said Scheffler, whose putt caught the left edge and rolled out some 7 feet by the hole. “It looked like it got pretty far by the hole and I was playing it outside the hole, so I hit it down my line, just maybe the speed was a touch off.”

It was a big disappointment for Scheffler, who made Monday possible by making an 8-foot par putt on the 72nd hole in near darkness to force the playoff.

He was first to hit from the 18th fairway and some 3,000 fans on the hillside around the green erupted in cheers. Hovland responded, just like the 28-year-old Norwegian had done on the back nine Sunday when he rallied from a two-shot deficit.

Hovland's birdie putt was snapping off to the right when it curled in the right side and he let out a big fist pump.

“It’s one of those putts that if I make mine, his gets significantly tougher, and if I miss, he probably will make his,” Hovland said. “Yeah, it was definitely no gimmies there, so to put the pressure on him was awesome.”

It was the first Monday finish on the PGA Tour since The Players Championship in 2025, which involved a three-hole aggregate playoff won by Rory McIlroy. This turned out to be one hole and 15 minutes, but it did not lack for drama, or atmosphere.

There was lively banter for the playoff. A group of Norwegian fans, who had been in Boston for the World Cup, wore their soccer jerseys and chanted, “Hov-land!” as he approached his golf ball in the fairway. The Americans began the “Scot-tie Scheff-ler!” chants to drown them out.

The Norwegians also brought the “row,” which has gone viral in the stadium and subway stations and wherever they go. They sit shoulder to shoulder, arms out and then forcefully pull them in. Hovland had never seen it in person until Saturday.

When it was over, he sat with his people and they showed him how it's done.

“You definitely get adrenaline from it,” he said.

Hovland had plenty of that Sunday afternoon when he returned from a 90-minute rain delay and made three straight birdies to catch up to Scheffler and eventually get into the playoff. He closed with a 69, while Scheffler had a 68. They finished at 21-under 259.

Hovland is rarely satisfied with a swing that has given him a reputation for making solid contact. He felt it gaining momentum with a third-place finish in Canada, and even in the U.S. Open despite missing the cut. There was always one bad swing that allowed doubts to creep in.

Those were gone at the TPC River Highlands, particularly at the end. He was first to hit in the playoff and drilled it down the middle, just as he had done all week.

“I’ve been playing golf with Viktor for a long time. We’ve had some good battles in college and out here as a pro," Scheffler said. “He’s a guy that has a lot of talent and works really hard. So those are the types of guys you like to see have success.”

For Scheffler, it was his fourth runner-up finish this year after opening his season with a victory at The American Express in the California desert. But he felt a little momentum, even in a playoff loss, as he gets ready a three-week stretch that includes the British Open, the final major of the year.

“Ball striking is definitely in a good spot. That was some of the best I hit it all season,” Scheffler said. “Obviously I think just a little disappointed with the results of today. But, yeah, I did a good job of keeping myself in the tournament last night, made the nice putt to close out last night, and so trying to remember that one.”

Hovland headed home for Norway with his parents. As for his throng of flag-waving, rowing supporters? Norway plays Ivory Coast on Tuesday in Dallas, the hometown of Scheffler.

“That was probably more coincidental,” Hovland said with a laugh. “That should be a good game.”

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The high court declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order, as is typical. There were no noted dissents. Trump also plans to appeal another $83.3 million verdict awarded to Carroll by a different jury after a second defamation trial, his lawyers have said.

The decision comes as the court hands down its biggest opinions, including a ruling that expands his firing power over the federal bureaucracy with the exception of the Federal Reserve.

Trump called the decision to pass on the Carroll case “surprising” in a social media post, and he said he would continue to fight the defamation claims. “This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for,” he wrote.

Trump’s lawyers had argued that allegations leading to the verdict were propped up by “highly inflammatory” evidentiary rulings, including those that allowed the testimony of two other women who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago. Trump has denied all three women’s allegations.

Trump's attorneys argued the judge broke federal evidence rules in the case. They framed it as a distraction from Trump’s unique duties as president, though the verdict came before his return to the White House.

“This mistreatment of a President cannot be allowed to stand,” Attorney Justin D. Smith wrote in court documents. Trump, a Republican, has since nominated Smith to be an appeals court judge. His lawyers called the case “Liberal Lawfare" in a statement on Monday.

Carroll's lawyers had urged the justices to pass on the case. They argued that the women's testimony was relevant because the allegations were similar and that Judge Lewis Kaplan’s decisions were in line with others around the country. “This question is not worthy of review,” wrote attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is not related to the judge.

Monday's decision affirms the jury's verdict will stand, she said in a statement Monday. “His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions,” she said.

Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and former TV talk show host, testified at a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury retailer across the street from Trump Tower in Manhattan. The jury also found Trump liable for defaming Carroll when he denied her allegation in 2022.

The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.

Trump has successfully fended off other hefty court judgments, including a New York civil fraud penalty of over $500 million thrown out by a New York appeals court. The Supreme Court also granted him broad immunity from criminal prosecution in 2024, though it later narrowly rejected his bid to halt sentencing in his New York hush money case.

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The recent devastating earthquakes in Venezuela have put on pause any serious conversations between Washington, D.C. and Cuba. However, the question remains: how long can Cuba hold on as their economic situation worsens and social unrest increases each day?

The Cuban government is trying to find ways to implement the recently approved 176 reforms. But even Cuban economists inside the island agree that they might be too late to save Cuba from a total economic collapse.

June 24 update: US Supreme Court allows claim by Exxon Mobil against the government of Cuba to proceed

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-to-3 decision that the claim by Exxon Mobil against the government of Cuba for confiscating their properties in the early 1960’s can proceed under the Helms-Burton law.

This clearly sets a precedent for the other 5,913 registered American companies to file legal procedures against the Cuban government.

June 22 update: Ramiro Valdes, one of the original Comandantes of the Cuban Revolution, dies

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

June 19 update: Cuba approves 176 new economic measures

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

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

June 17 update: Can President Trump afford another conflict?

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

June 11 update: Rubio announces sanctioning of CUPET:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 3 update: Raúl Castro turns 95

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

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

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

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

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

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

They walked the coed Paris runways at Amiri and Ami. At Vetements, women modeled many of the “menswear” looks, and Sharon Stone closed the show in thigh-high boots.

Inside fashion, none of this was eyebrow-raising.

The gender blur was not happening on the margins. It was built into Paris Men’s Fashion Week, which ended Sunday, where a multibillion-dollar luxury industry shows what it thinks men will want next.

It has reached menswear advertising, too.

A pregnant Rihanna became the face of Pharrell Williams’ first Louis Vuitton men’s campaign in 2023, appearing on a giant Paris billboard with her baby bump exposed and arms full of Vuitton bags.

“It’s not something completely new,” said Joseph McBrinn, art historian at Ulster University.

Women have paraded through menswear collections for so many seasons that it barely registers with fashion insiders anymore — even as a Gen Z mainstream, only now catching up to the gender-bending David Bowie flaunted in the ’70s, treats it as the cutting edge.

In recent decades, he said, fashion has moved “from very binary understandings of gender and fashion to something which is today very fluid” — reflective, he added, of how younger people now think.

The deeper confusion: They do not always travel together.

At Issey Miyake’s IM Men, by the brand’s account, the cast was entirely male — yet the show still read as androgynous.

The border between his and hers keeps eroding, on the body and on the calendar. It has not vanished, and its erosion owes as much to money as to gender.

“Androgyny only works because people understand what is being crossed,” said Andrew Groves, menswear systems professor at the University of Westminster.

The real story is not that menswear has escaped its rules, but that designers are finding new freedom inside one of fashion’s narrowest rule books, Groves added.

The runways look like they are erasing gender; the categories are exactly what make the gesture legible.

This season's men's clothes borrowed freely from womenswear

For Jonathan Anderson, Dior’s first ever designer to oversee both its men’s and women’s lines, models wore pearls, pink and sheer blouses with soft bows at the throat; the collection, he told reporters, was about how he "connects with the feminine.”

At Saint Laurent, men bared their chests in second-skin tops, wore briefs cut from leather and walked in transparent shoes lifted from the women’s runway.

The house opened Paris Men’s Week, and its menswear push is not only aesthetic: Saint Laurent has reportedly set a target of doubling men’s sales by 2030.

Many houses have folded men’s and women’s collections into one coed runway. Once provocations, such shows became a calendar strategy by the late 2010s — part creative, part convenient, mostly commercial.

When Anthony Vaccarello took over Saint Laurent in 2016, he scrapped its separate menswear show and sent men down the women’s runway, restoring a men’s show only in 2018; Vetements and Balenciaga merged theirs around then too.

“I don’t think having men and women on the same runway means a greater belief in nonbinary genders,” said Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. “That’s really more of an economic thing.”

One show costs less than two

A mixed approach consolidates the media moment and lets a designer tell a single story. That matters in a luxury market under pressure – it’s been a weaker period for the sector in the last couple of years.

Women already buy menswear, which helps explain why Ami, founded in 2011 as a men’s brand, added womenswear.

The blurring of the clothes is the older story. Long before “nonbinary” was common usage, Yves Saint Laurent put women in men’s tailoring in 1966, Bowie smudged the line in the ’70s and Jean Paul Gaultier sent men out in skirts in the ‘80s. Fashion ran years ahead of the language.

Suzy Menkes, the veteran fashion critic, sees the history stretching even further back. Men once wore “the most dramatic, precious, glamorous and priceless jewels,” she noted, without doubting that they were suitable for men. The 20th century, she said, narrowed that idea of male dress before fashion began reopening it.

The exchange has never been equal: A woman in a man’s suit is, 60 years on, unremarkable; a man in a skirt or heels still reads as transgression.

“Women’s bodies are still consumed in ways that men’s bodies are not,” McBrinn said.

Men, he added, “can still be seen as deviant” when they cross the line.

Off the runway, the moment is volatile: combative online masculinity, “manosphere" influencers like the Tate brothers, a wave of anti-trans laws.

Last year, J.Crew set off a conservative uproar by marketing a pink sweater to men — even as Dior, Paul Smith and Willy Chavarria sent pink down their own runways. The fight was cultural, but not only: reports said pink apparel sellouts rose 17% year-on-year in spring-summer 2025.

Menkes said color is part of the same story. Postwar Europe helped harden the idea that some colors were “suitable” for men, she said, and it took “a surprisingly long time” for shades such as lilac or pale pink to be accepted as male choices.

Steele said openness to androgyny crested in the 1920s, the ’70s and the ’90s, then receded each time.

“Everything is moving to the right,” McBrinn said. “Fashion may go back to being much more entrenched within gender binary” — perhaps, he warned, within five to 10 years.

The stakes run past the runway

After years of expanding legal protections for LGBTQ+ people, progress is reversing in many countries, with transgender people at the center of the fight.

“We are seeing tremendous backlash internationally against trans people,” Steele said.

In the end, Steele said, the runway matters less than the office and the dinner table. People shift when they see androgynous clothes on friends, colleagues or men around them.

Increasingly, they are just clothes.

The justices said Monday that Trump can fire leaders of independent agencies with one exception, ruling that central banker Lisa Cook can keep her job at the Federal Reserve for now.

The court said states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting a Trump-led challenge. It declined to consider Trump’s push to toss a $5 million jury verdict that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll. And it turned away Trump defender Alan Dershowitz ’s effort to rewrite the U.S. libel law standards.

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Feds to buy back North Carolina offshore wind lease from Duke Energy

Duke Energy is the latest utility to bow to pressure from the Trump administration to cancel offshore wind leases in return for money.

The $129 million deal by the Interior Department brings the total amount spent on these agreements to about $2.7 billion. The Trump administration has been buying back the leases as it seeks to discourage the expansion of wind energy in favor of more traditional energy sources such as natural gas, coal and nuclear power.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Duke said the deal will allow it “refocus” the money in range of ways, including new nuclear or natural gas generation, or grid enhancements to strengthen reliability.

French energy giant TotalEnergies, which had partnered with Duke on the North Carolina project, took a similar deal in March.

Mississippi official sued over mail ballots says Supreme Court ruling was win for states’ rights

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson said the Supreme Court Monday confirmed the right of states to administer elections.

Watson, a Republican running for lieutenant governor in Mississippi, was sued by the Republican National Committee in 2024 over Mississippi’s policy of counting absentee ballots received after Election Day. The justices in a 5-4 ruling sided with Watson.

Watson said in a statement after the decision that he opposed the practice of counting ballots received after Election Day, but deeply valued the rights of states to “govern themselves, including the administration of elections.”

He said the Supreme Court ruling confirms election policy is a “decision to be made by Congress or, in its absence, state legislatures.”

Trump equivocates on importance of Qatar talks

He said U.S. delegates had either just left or were getting ready to leave for negotiations to end the war with Iran. But he offered a lukewarm view of the talks.

“The meeting in Doha is going to be perhaps important, perhaps not — we’re going to find out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.

Trump calls bill aimed at addressing housing affordability ‘a yawn’ and says he doesn’t know if he’ll sign it

Trump last week abruptly canceled a ceremony to sign the bill, saying he would not approve the bipartisan legislation aimed at lowering the cost of housing until Congress acts on legislation to require proof of citizenship to vote.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said over the weekend he would send Trump the bill on Monday anyway. When asked by reporters about whether he’d sign it, Trump gave an exasperated response and drew out his words, saying, “I don’t knooow.”

He proclaimed to have more knowledge about housing than anyone in the history of the presidency, but said the bill was “so unimportant” compared to the voting legislation.

“When I look at that bill, it’s a bill,” Trump said. “But when I look at the Save America Act, it’s about saving America.”

Rubio meets with son of Libyan military strongman as signs of a potential unification deal emerge

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met with the son of a powerful Libyan warlord as signs grow that the U.S. is intensifying efforts to broker a unity agreement between the Libya’s fractured eastern and western factions.

Rubio met on Monday with Saddam Hifter, the deputy general commander of the self-styled Libyan national army, based in the east of the country. Hifter is the son of Khalifa Hifter, widely seen as the most powerful figure in eastern and southern Libya.

The two men “discussed ongoing Libyan-led efforts to unify the country’s military, economic, and political institutions” and “possible avenues for cooperation to advance unity and peace in Libya,” the State Department said.

The U.S. is reportedly pushing an initiative under which Saddam Hifter would head a presidential council in a new unified administration that would also include Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, who runs the government in western Libya.

Monday’s meeting came after a senior official from Dbeibah’s defense ministry met with U.S. officials in Washington last week.

Trump signs memo telling EPA that people can fix their autos as they see fit

The U.S. president said he signed a memo to allow Americans to fix their own vehicles, saying that people had been arrested for trying to do so.

“It came to my attention because they noticed they were arresting people for fixing their car,” Trump said.

The president appeared to be referencing a diesel mechanic, Troy Lake, who violated the Clean Air Act by disabling emissions monitoring systems on trucks. Trump pardoned Lake last November.

The memo also addresses the use of aftermarket auto parts. It would supersede the ability of the California Air Resources Board to evaluate parts that affect vehicle emissions.

Secretaries of state in mail voting-reliant Washington and Oregon praise Supreme Court mail ballot ruling

The top election officials in Washington and Oregon — states that conduct elections mostly by mail — commended Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to continue counting late arriving mail ballots.

Oregon allows mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day and received in the seven days following to be counted. In Washington, mail ballots can be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day and received 21 days after a general election or 14 days after a primary.

“The decision is a win for voters, particularly for Oregon voters,” Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read said in a phone interview.

“The ruling upholds our longstanding ballot return rules, which support accessible and fair elections,” Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said in a news release.

Schumer blasts Supreme Court decision on independent federal agencies

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says the Supreme Court’s decision giving presidents free rein to fire agency heads at will gives Trump a “permission slip to turn independent federal agencies into members-only clubs for his golf buddies and cronies.”

The justices ruled in the case of former Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump fired without cause despite a provision of federal law that requires a reason. The logic of the court’s decision extends to other agencies where Trump has fired board members.

Slaughter once served as Schumer’s chief counsel. Schumer says she was fired for no other reason than doing a good of a job protecting consumers.

“Instead of preserving independence intended to keep markets fair and protect consumers, Trump’s instead catering to fraudsters and monopolists. And the Supreme Court is giving him a green light to do it,” Schumer said.

Top California election official says mail-in ballot ruling is a win for democracy

California’s Secretary of State hailed Monday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court as a win for voters, the rule of law and democracy.

Shirley Weber, California’s first Black secretary of state, said in a statement the court “protected an important safeguard” that helps make sure voters are not disenfranchised by mail delays.

“This ruling makes one thing clear,” the Democrat said in a statement. “Our elections belong to the people, not to partisan agendas.”

Under California law, ballots received within seven days of an election are counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

FCC’s sole Democrat warns of Supreme Court ruling’s impact

Anna Gomez is one of the few Democrats who have held onto their seats at federal agencies after Trump fired most of them, partly because her presence allows for a quorum that allows Chairman Brendan Carr to enact his agenda.

She warned the Supreme Court’s ruling “puts at risk how Congress intended independent agencies to function in American democracy.”

“Those who argue these agencies are unaccountable misunderstand how they were designed, as the FCC answers to Congress, the democratically elected body that created it, through oversight, appropriations, and legislation,” she said in a statement following the Court’s ruling. “When commissioners can be removed for their policy views rather than for cause, the inevitable result is an agency that pulls its punches and defers to political winds rather than the record before it.”

She said consumers “will pay the price” in higher costs, fewer choices and slower progress toward connectivity.

Republican chairman follows Trump’s lead on mail-in ballot ruling

RNC Chairman Joe Gruters said the court’s decision upholding state practices of accepting all ballots postmarked by Election Day is a reason to pass the president’s proposed elections bill that is stalled on Capitol Hill.

“If we want fair and secure elections, Election Day should mean exactly what it says, which is why this decision makes it even more imperative that Congress pass the SAVE America Act,” Gruters said.

RNC aides distributed the statement after Trump made the same argument Monday morning. Trump’s proposal would virtually eliminate absentee voting nationally, require voters to provide citizenship documentation to register and then present certain photo identification at polling places.

Gruters said Democrats “are inviting chaos at the ballot box by allowing elections to drag on.” He did not offer any examples of such chaos, and it was the original plaintiffs who wanted the court to overturn long-established rules months before November’s elections.

America 250 celebrations bring extraordinary security challenge to Washington

Federal law enforcement is preparing for one of the capital’s largest and most complex security operations as hundreds of thousands of people visit Washington for the 250th anniversary of the nation’s freedom.

The security challenge comes amid rising political violence, including recent incidents near the White House, and a president who enjoys being at the center of public pomp yet has repeatedly faced attempts on his life.

The nation’s capital “is a target-rich environment” on a normal day, said Darren B. Cox, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. “We are prepared for any threats.”

The throngs will be joined by thousands of law enforcement officers and agents and 5,000 National Guard troops, along with military-style vehicles and other hardware not often seen on American streets.

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Trump says he will keep fighting Carroll case after court declines to take it up

The president said in a social media post that it was “a Fake Case” brought against him by a woman he claims he never met.

“I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength,” Trump wrote.

He also said the case, in which a jury found that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in New York City in the 1990s and and later defamed her, is “really against the United States of America, and all it stands for.”

In a statement Monday, Carroll said the decision affirms the jury’s verdict will stand. “His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions,” she said.

Trump says he'll seek to remove Cook despite court rejection of his initial attempt

Trump said he lost his effort to remove the Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook “on a strictly procedural basis” and would still seek to remove the central bank governor.

The court ruled 5-4 that the Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook can remain on the Fed board as she challenges the administration’s attempts to fire her over claims of mortgage fraud, which she has denied.

Trump said in a social media post that “we will take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the Welfare of the United States of America!”

In light of Supreme Court rejection, Trump renews push for his voter ID bill

Trump called a Supreme Court ruling that ballots postmarked by Election Day can be counted days after an election a “tremendous loss.”

Trump posted on social media that the decision makes it more important for his SAVE America Act to pass. The measure would require proof of citizenship and include a ban on mail-in ballots unless that person is sick, disabled, traveling or deployed by the military, Trump noted.

“There is only one reason to oppose — CHEATING!” Trump said.

The president then called out Republican senators who have objected to the measure: Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Cook says her attempted firing was about ‘political pressure’ on the Fed

The firing attempt “was never about mortgage documents signed years ago” but rather “was an attempt to remove me on a manufactured pretext because I refused to bow to political pressure” from Trump, who has long sought lower interest rates from the central bank, Cook said in a written statement reacting to the court’s ruling.

Trump fired Cook last August, citing allegations that she had committed fraud in mortgage documents she signed in June and July of 2021. The Biden appointee sued to keep her job, and lower courts ruled she could remain while the case is litigated. The Supreme Court Monday upheld those rulings.

“Today’s ruling affirms a principle that has underpinned sound economic stewardship for generations: that the Federal Reserve must make all its policy decisions guided by evidence and independent judgment, free from political interference,” Cook’s statement said.

Trump applauds ruling empowering him to fire independent agency leaders

A majority of the justices ruled presidents have free rein to fire agency heads at will, despite federal laws that require a cause for such dismissals and a previous court ruling from 91 years ago.

“It is such an Honor to be the sitting President who won this Historic and Unprecedented Ruling, one of the most important ever given with respect to Presidential Powers,” Trump posted on social media.

The justices ruled in the case of former Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter. The decision’s logic extends to National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Trump did not acknowledge that the court recognized some limits on his authorities by also ruling 5-4 that Lisa Cook can remain a central bank governor while challenging unproven mortgage fraud allegations, which she has denied.

Supreme Court says Fed’s Cook can keep her job for now

The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception, the Federal Reserve.

The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights the Republican president’s effort to fire her over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she has denied.

But other than at the nation’s central bank, with its role of setting interest rates, the court held that presidents have free rein to fire agency heads at will, despite federal laws that require a cause for such dismissals and a 91-year-old decision that had limited executive authority. That decision, Humphrey’s Executor, was overturned.

Witkoff and Kushner going to Qatar for talks with Iran

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Steve Witkoff, who is the special envoy, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are flying to Qatar to meet with the Iranians.

Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that those talks would be “high level” and that technical negotiations would occur on the sidelines. Iran has denied that the talks are happening.

Trump accused Iran of violating the ceasefire by attacking a ship last week in Strait of Hormuz, but so far the interim deal for negotiations to take place appears to have held.

Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots

The Court said states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of Trump.

The decision Monday rejects a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some number of days after the election, provided they are postmarked by Election Day. The outcome spares officials the headache of changing their ballot rules just a few months before the 2026 midterm congressional elections.

In just over half those states, the more forgiving deadlines apply only to ballots cast by military and overseas voters.

Trump has claimed most mail balloting breeds fraud despite strong evidence to the contrary and years of experience. He keeps repeating that fraud caused his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 even though more than 60 court decisions and his own attorney general said that argument had no merit.

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Supreme Court rebuffs Alan Dershowitz’s $300 million suit against CNN

The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive the prominent attorney’s defamation lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of remarks he made while defending Trump during his 2020 impeachment.

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented from the majority decision, saying legal standards for public figures who claim defamation should be reconsidered.

Alan Dershowitz said the news network aired only part of a comment he made, distorting his meaning to make him look like he’d “lost his mind,” according to court documents.

The network said that multiple outlets had interpreted his remarks in a similar way, and Dershowitz couldn’t show CNN was trying to mischaracterize what he said.

Dershowitz had urged the justices to reconsider New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the landmark First Amendment case that made it harder for public figures to win libel lawsuits by requiring proof that an outlet either knowingly published something false, or showed a reckless disregard for the truth.

Supreme Court will weigh GOP push to revive Arizona voting laws

The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a Republican push to enforce strict Arizona voting laws passed in the swing state after the 2020 election.

The high court has allowed some similar rules to take effect temporarily before, including Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship requirement for state and local elections and a Virginia purge of voter rolls that the state said was aimed at keeping noncitizens from voting.

President Donald Trump’s Republican administration joined the appeal after lower courts found the measures violated federal voting laws.

The high court is expected to hear arguments in the fall and hand down an opinion after the midterm elections.

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Since Russia launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, its forces have conducted bombing in an effort to destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure and sap morale. More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the U.N.

A Russian missile targeting infrastructure struck the central city of Dnipro, killing six people and wounding 29, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said. Russian drones also hit a passenger minibus in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three and wounding six, including a child, Zelenskyy said on social media.

Russian drones also killed a 69-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man in the northeastern Sumy region, National Police said. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a daytime Russian strike killed one person and wounded five others in the northeastern city.

Other deadly attacks occurred in at least six other regions of Ukraine, authorities said. No further details were immediately available.

Strikes leave some Ukrainians without power

Some customers in eight Ukrainian regions were left without power Monday after Russian strikes, while hot weather drove up electricity use as people turned on air conditioners, grid operator Ukrenergo said.

Zelenskyy renewed his plea for Europe to step up its development of air defenses to block Russia’s ballistic missiles.

“People need greater protection from such horrific attacks,” Zelenskyy said. “Above all, we need anti-ballistic capabilities. It is essential that Europe is as active as possible in developing its own anti-ballistic defense — its own systems and missiles.”

Putin says expanding Ukrainian drone attacks won't stop the war

A marked shift has taken place in the war in recent months, Western officials say, as Ukraine’s expanding drone strikes have brought fuel shortages in Russia and Russia-occupied territory. The attacks have weakened the Russian military’s supply lines to the front in eastern and southern Ukraine, slowing their advance, according to analysts.

Ukraine’s innovative drone engineering has given it an edge and made it a world leader in the technology’s military use. It is now helping partner countries after previously pleading for foreign military support.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday acknowledged that Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russia’s oil facilities have caused fuel shortages. The scarcity has triggered public anger and frustration as people wait in line for hours at gas stations.

But Putin ruled out making concessions to end the invasion and insisted that Russia will ultimately prevail in the war despite what he called “temporary” setbacks.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia’s position on Ukraine remains unchanged, insisting that Russian troops are continuing their front-line offensive.

Their effort “makes us confident that our goals will be achieved,” Peskov told reporters.

Russia's battlefield progress is waning, analysts say

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said the Kremlin's stance is an attempt to push the West and Ukraine to give in to Russia’s demands.

But, it added, “Russia’s battlefield performance continues to decline in 2026 and Russia’s ability to seize its objectives militarily is in question.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 209 Ukrainian drones from late Sunday through early Monday.

Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 82 of the 108 drones that Russia launched overnight.

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Las organizaciones de ayuda dicen que las primeras 72 horas después de un desastre natural son el periodo más crucial para los rescates, aunque la supervivencia puede prolongarse si las personas tienen acceso a comida y agua. Cinco días después de que los sismos gemelos azotaran el norte de Venezuela, había grandes interrogantes sobre si el atribulado gobierno podrá coordinar las tareas necesarias para atender a miles de personas que se han quedado sin hogar.

En tanto, una réplica de magnitud 4,6 retumbó en la zona del desastre en el estado norteño de La Guaira.

La cifra de muertos superaba las 1.700 personas, según el gobierno.

El gobierno venezolano promueve sus esfuerzos

Enfrentando críticas de que las autoridades han hecho demasiado poco, demasiado tarde, el gobierno ha promovido sus esfuerzos de recuperación y rescate en redes sociales y medios estatales.

En un discurso televisado el lunes, Jorge Rodríguez, presidente de la Asamblea Nacional venezolana y hermano de la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez, dijo que la electricidad había sido restablecida en el 90% del estado de La Guaira. Indicó que las autoridades se apresuraban a evaluar edificios dañados que aún representaban un peligro y que habían instalado 15 campamentos temporales para personas desplazadas.

Delcy Rodríguez, quien llegó al poder en enero después de que el ejército de Estados Unidos capturó al entonces presidente Nicolás Maduro, compartió imágenes de sobrevivientes siendo sacados de entre las ruinas entre aplausos.

Pero esos destellos de luz son raros en el epicentro del sismo, donde las familias mantienen vigilia en los sitios de búsqueda.

“Hay que tener fuerza, sin comer, sin dormir”, dijo Ana Rada, mientras observaba a trabajadores de protección civil buscar a su hermano. “Hasta que no vea el cuerpo, tengo fe".

Réplica sacude a los rescatistas

Tras un fin de semana de réplicas más pequeñas y lo que el gobierno dijo que fueron más de 600 eventos sísmicos desde los sismos del miércoles, el temblor moderado del lunes se registró cerca del epicentro de los sismos de la semana pasada — unos 27 kilómetros (17 millas) al norte de Caraballeda, en la costa caribeña de Venezuela— y tuvo una magnitud de 4,6, según el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos. El servicio geológico de Colombia lo cifró en 5,1.

Jorge Rodríguez indicó que no había reportes de nuevos daños hasta el momento, pero la réplica hizo que residentes de la capital, Caracas, salieran gritando a las calles.

“Aquí estamos otra vez en la calle. No sé cuándo vamos a tener un momento de verdadera tranquilidad”, manifestó Concepción Hernández, de 51 años, quien evacuó su edificio de apartamentos en el municipio de Chacao en Caracas.

El Metro de Caracas anunció la suspensión temporal del servicio el lunes para inspeccionar la infraestructura tras la réplica.

Dudas sobre la ayuda de EEUU

Decenas de países han ofrecido asistencia. Pero el desastre ha elevado las expectativas sobre el gobierno estadounidense, considerando que tomó el control de la industria petrolera venezolana a principios de este año.

En una rueda de prensa, un alto funcionario del Departamento de Estado apuntó que 300 socorristas enviados desde Estados Unidos están trabajando sobre el terreno y que dos docenas de aviones militares de transporte C-17 llegan cada día con suministros. El apoyo financiero de Estados Unidos ahora supera los 300 millones de dólares.

El ejército estadounidense también está ayudando con algunas reparaciones, incluidos daños al puerto de La Guaira para permitir la llegada de más suministros por mar. Otro equipo está ayudando a gestionar el tráfico aéreo después de que los sismos destruyeran parte de la torre de control del Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolívar en Caracas, reveló el funcionario, que habló bajo condición de anonimato porque no estaba autorizado a hablar públicamente.

Sin embargo, parecía poco probable que Estados Unidos otorgara protecciones legales temporales a los venezolanos como lo han hecho gobiernos anteriores con personas de países golpeados por desastres que ya están en Estados Unidos. Esa medida se tomó después de los terremotos de 2010 en Haití y de 2001 en El Salvador. Los venezolanos han sido un blanco importante de la ofensiva migratoria del gobierno de Donald Trump.

Entre los rescatistas: un minero deportado por EEUU

Entre los rescatistas que excavaban entre los escombros el lunes en La Guaira estaba el minero Jean Sosa, de 31 años, quien dijo que fue deportado de Estados Unidos en enero por no presentarse a una audiencia migratoria y regresó a Caracas el mes pasado. Relató una odisea que incluyó trasladarse en autobús por cinco países después de que agentes de inmigración lo dejaran en el sur de México sin su pasaporte, sin teléfono y sin su billetera.

Había construido una nueva vida en la ciudad de Nueva York durante los últimos cuatro años, trabajando en un puesto de tacos cerca de Penn Station, antes de que funcionarios del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional lo detuvieran y lo trasladaran durante meses entre cárceles para migrantes.

Desde que llegó el miércoles a La Guaira, Sosa ha ayudado a sacar a personas de entre los escombros ante la ausencia de equipos nacionales de rescate. Durante los primeros días, antes de que llegara más ayuda, los sobrevivientes eran llevados a hospitales en carro particular o motocicleta, señalo.

Sosa sostuvo que no está involucrado en política, pero cree que muchas personas podrían haberse salvado si hubiera habido equipos y apoyo de las máximas autoridades desde el principio. Habló con The Associated Press, con un casco y una camiseta negra manchada de polvo en la ciudad portuaria donde afirmó que ya había rescatado a 20 personas con vida.

Esos rescates lo alentaron, dijo, pese a la falta de suministros.

La magnitud total de los daños seguía sin estar clara

Expertos y organizaciones de ayuda tienen dificultades para evaluar el alcance de los daños, pero en general coinciden en que las cifras del gobierno probablemente están por debajo de la cifra real. Jorge Rodríguez dijo que hasta el lunes un total de 15.866 personas habían sido afectadas, mientras que el número de edificios dañados o colapsados había llegado a 855.

Una evaluación preliminar de la NASA estimó que el terremoto dañó o destruyó 58.870 edificios. La evaluación se basó en imágenes de radar de los satélites Sentinel-1 de la Agencia Espacial Europea, que pueden detectar cambios en la infraestructura.

Las Naciones Unidas han dicho que hasta 6,8 millones de los casi 30 millones de habitantes de Venezuela podrían verse afectados, lo que podría significar ser desplazados o perder acceso a servicios esenciales como electricidad y agua.

La Cruz Roja Venezolana dijo que esperaba que las tareas de ayuda continuaran durante dos años.

Debido al caos y al mal servicio de telefonía celular, muchos venezolanos han recurrido a bases de datos digitales no gubernamentales para reportar a sus seres queridos como desaparecidos. Más de 50.000 personas fueron reportadas como desaparecidas en una de esas bases de datos, aunque no está claro cuántas han sido encontradas.

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DeBre reportó desde Buenos Aires, Argentina. Los periodistas de The Associated Press Jorge Rueda y Regina García Cano en Caracas, Venezuela; Dánica Coto en San Juan, Puerto Rico, y Gabriela Aoun Angueira en Tijuana, México, contribuyeron a este despacho.

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

Relief organizations say the first 72 hours after a natural disaster is the most crucial time period for rescues, though survival can be extended if people have access to food and water. Five days after the twin quakes, questions loomed about whether the cash-strapped government will be able to coordinate the effort needed to care for thousands of people who have been left homeless.

In other developments, a 4.6 magnitude aftershock rumbled through the disaster zone in the northern state of La Guaira.

The death toll stood at more than 1,700 people, according to the government.

Venezuelan government promotes its efforts

Facing criticism that authorities have done too little, too slowly, government officials promoted their recovery and rescue efforts on social and state-run media.

In a televised speech Monday, Jorge Rodríguez, the leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly and brother of acting President Delcy Rodríguez, said electricity had been restored to 90% of the hard-hit state of La Guaira. He said authorities were racing to evaluate damaged buildings that still posed a danger and had set up 15 temporary encampments for displaced people.

Delcy Rodríguez, who came to power in January after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration seized former President Nicolás Maduro, shared footage of survivors lifted out of the ruins to applause.

But such bright spots are rare at the quake's epicenter, where families keep vigil at search sites.

“We have to stay strong, even without food, without sleep,” said Ana Rada, watching as civil defense workers looked for her brother. “Until I see the body, I still have hope.”

Aftershock rattles rescuers

Following a weekend of smaller aftershocks and what the government said were more than 600 seismic events since Wednesday's quakes, the moderate temblor on Monday struck 27 kilometers (17 miles) north of Caraballeda on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast and measured 4.6 magnitude, according to the United States Geological Survey. Colombia’s geological survey put the magnitude at 5.1.

Jorge Rodríguez said there were no reports of additional damage, but the latest aftershock sent residents in the capital of Caracas screaming into the streets.

“Here we are again, back in the street. I don’t know when we’ll have a moment of true peace,” said Concepción Hernández, 51, who evacuated her apartment building in the Chacao municipality of Caracas.

The Caracas Metro said it would temporarily suspend service Monday to inspect infrastructure following the aftershock.

Questions over extent of US help

Dozens of countries have offered assistance. But the disaster has raised expectations for the Trump administration after its takeover of Venezuela’s oil industry earlier this year.

In a briefing with reporters, a senior State Department official said 300 first responders sent from the U.S. are working on the ground and two dozen C-17 military transport planes arrive every day with supplies. Financial support from the U.S. now exceeds $300 million.

The American military is also assisting with some repairs, including damage to the port in La Guaira to enable the arrival of more relief supplies by sea. Another team is helping to manage air traffic after the quakes destroyed part of the control tower at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

It seemed unlikely, however, that the Trump administration would grant temporary humanitarian protections to Venezuelans as previous administrations have done for people from disaster-stricken countries already in the U.S. Such action was taken after earthquakes in 2010 in Haiti and 2001 in El Salvador. Venezuelans have been a major focus of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Rescuers included a miner deported from the US

Among the rescuers digging through the rubble Monday in La Guaira was 31-year-old miner Jean Sosa, who said he was deported from the U.S. in January over a missed immigration court hearing and returned to Caracas last month. He said he was dazed by an odyssey that involved traveling by bus through five countries after immigration agents left him in southern Mexico without his passport, phone or wallet.

He had built a new life in New York City over the past four years, working at a taco stand near Penn Station, before Department of Homeland Security officials detained him and shuttled him for months between immigration detention centers.

Since arriving Wednesday in La Guaira, Sosa has scrambled to pull people from the rubble in the absence of national rescue teams. For the first few days before more help arrived, survivors were driven to hospitals by private car or motorcycle, he said.

“I’m not involved in politics, but I believe many people could have been saved if there had been equipment and support from top authorities from the very beginning,” he told The Associated Press, wearing a helmet and a black T-shirt splotched with dust in the port city where he said he had already rescued 20 people alive.

Those rescues heartened him, he said, despite the lack of supplies. “We’re working without gloves, without equipment, borrowing supplies, improvising bandages and whatever else we can.”

The full scale of damage remains unclear

Experts and aid organizations are struggling to assess the scope of damage, but they generally agree that the government's figures are likely a vast undercount. Jorge Rodríguez said that as of Monday, a total of 15,866 people had been affected, while the number of damaged or collapsed buildings had reached 855.

A preliminary assessment by NASA estimated that the earthquake damaged or destroyed 58,870 buildings. The assessment relied on radar imagery from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites, which can detect changes to infrastructure.

The United Nations has said that up to 6.8 million of Venezuela’s nearly 30 million residents may be affected, which could mean being displaced or losing access to essential services such as electricity and water.

The Venezuelan Red Cross said it expected its relief efforts to continue for two years.

Because of the chaos and poor cellphone service, many Venezuelans have turned to non-governmental digital databases to report their loved ones as missing. More than 50,000 people were reported missing on one such database, though it is unclear how many have been found.

Firefighter Kleider Carrillo said nothing prepared him for the destruction in La Guaira.

“When you study for this profession, you’re trained for situations like this," he said. “But what's in textbooks is one thing. Reality is another.”

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DeBre reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Associated Press writers Jorge Rueda and Regina Garcia Cano in Caracas, Venezuela, Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Gabriela Aoun Angueira in Tijuana, Mexico, contributed to this report.

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Hallandale Beach police said the girl and her father were innocent bystanders and were not involved in the altercation that led to the shooting.

Police said the family had just arrived at the McDonald’s in the 800 block of West Hallandale Beach Boulevard when the girl’s mother went inside to get food. They said the father and daughter remained in the vehicle waiting.

Investigators said an altercation started in the parking lot between other people and the father and daughter were shot while they were inside their car.

They said the girl was conscious and alert after being shot.

Both were transported to a local hospital and are in stable condition, with the girl having to undergo surgery.

Detectives remained at the scene reviewing surveillance footage and investigating the shooting. Police were also conducting a house-by-house search as they looked for the suspect, who remained at large, authorities said.

A spokesperson with the Broward Sheriff’s Office confirmed the Hallandale Beach Police Department is the lead agency on the case.

Hallandale Beach police Capt. Megan Jones told Local 10 News it’s believed one of the people involved in the shooting was a McDonald’s employee.

The Hallandale Beach Police Department is asking anyone with information, video footage, or knowledge that may assist detectives in this investigation to contact the Hallandale Beach Police Department at 954-457-1400.

Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477).

Local 10 News reporter Rosh Lowe contributed to this story.

Paola Ramos said her 54-year-old mother, Carla, was beneath the rubble for three days before being rescued.

“I called my family,” Ramos said. “I couldn’t find my mom.”

Ramos spent the next 72 hours unsure if her mother was dead or alive.

“It’s frustrating, but I’m really connected with my people,” she said. “I was trying to do my best. I used my social media platforms to spread the news.”

She posted videos to Instagram, expressing fear that her mother’s building was being overlooked.

“I thought for two days she was dead because the building was really collapsed,” Ramos said. “It was on the floor.”

Learning of her mother’s rescue was “the best news,” Ramos said.

Since the devastating twin earthquakes, the United Nations estimates at least 243 people have been pulled from the rubble alive as the death toll continues to climb.

Ramos credits her mother’s faith for keeping her alive.

“She’s really shocked,” Ramos said. “She was there working, taking care of a child.”

The 6-year-old boy she was taking care of did not survive, Ramos said, dying of dehydration.

“Right now, we are not thinking. We have no time to process,” Ramos said. “Venezuela was not prepared for this.”

Humanitarian relief efforts have been well underway since the natural disaster occurred.

Two highly trained South Florida teams, Florida Task Force One and Two, were dispatched to the scene to aid in the search-and-rescue effort.

Many are stopping by local donation sites.

“It’s amazing,” Ramos said. “We need help.”

Ramos had a message for those in Venezuela: “Keep going; have faith.”

Pelosi, a Democrat who has represented San Francisco for nearly 40 years and is not seeking reelection, will also participate in the organization's academics by co-teaching a course on Congress. The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy will launch in January.

“I am honored to partner with this exceptional community of scholars and students so we can equip the next generation with the tools they need to strengthen our democratic institutions and forge a future that serves the public good,” Pelosi said.

The university says the institute will be focused on four pillars: strengthening America's democratic institutions; overcoming challenges to society, the economy and the planet; promoting human and civil rights; and ensuring political leadership that represents the full spectrum of perspectives and backgrounds.

Examples of the research that will be pursued include how to address climate change and wealth inequality and which electoral changes could be made to reduce voter polarization.

The Nancy Pelosi Institute has already received more than $35 million in philanthropic commitments. UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons said the institute aligns with the university's commitment to foster civil discourse and prepare students to lead with integrity on the global stage. The institute will be anchored in the university's political science department.

“We intend to do more than simply study democracy,” Lyons said. “We are building this institute to strengthen it.”

The institute will also be home to an exhibit chronicling Pelosi's career, a remarkable arc that included two stints as House speaker. Republican George W. Bush was completing the final two years of his presidency when she became the first female speaker. She continued during Democrat Barack Obama's first two years as president, helping muscle his landmark Affordable Care Act into law.

The second stint served as a check on President Donald Trump, a Republican who was impeached twice by the House but acquitted in the Senate.

One of Pelosi's most enduring images will be of her tearing up her copy of Trump's 2020 State of the Union address. She held up what remained of the address to her family in the gallery and explained to reporters that “it was a manifesto of mistruths.” Republicans were harshly critical of her action.

Trump was no fan of Pelosi. He responded to news of Pelosi's retirement last year by telling reporters he was glad she would be leaving Congress.

Pelosi, 86, remains a powerful figure in Democratic politics, particularly in her home state of California. Since stepping aside from leadership in 2023, she has served as a rank-and-file member of the House unlike any other, a speaker emerita engaged in the daily business of legislating while providing counsel to the next generation of Democratic leadership.

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Flash flood warnings were in effect Saturday for parts of Kentucky and Indiana amid heavy rainfall, according to the National Weather Service.

The agency late Saturday afternoon said between 4 and 10 inches of rain had already fallen in some parts of southwestern Indiana, with more possible. Beshear’s office said up to 7 inches of rain were expected in parts of his state through the late evening.

He said on social media that three people had died in Madison County and one in Jackson County due to flooding.

Two of the flood victims, a man and a woman, were found dead inside their house after floodwaters inundated a section of the city of Richmond, Kentucky, and trapped residents inside their homes, according to the Madison County coroner’s office.

Another victim was extracted from a vehicle trapped in floodwaters on Tates Creek Road near Lexington, the coroner’s office said.

Carlos Coyle, the deputy Madison County coroner, said search and rescue teams were going door to door searching for victims in hard-hit areas. Some areas still were not accessible, he said.

Beshear said on social media there were “significant roads underwater” in Madison County. He also said at least 12 state roads were “out of commission” because they were flooded.

“This is a serious flooding event, where teams have already had to conduct multiple water rescues from vehicles and homes across the commonwealth,” he said in a separate statement. “As more heavy rain continues through late tonight, we need folks to remain alert and to avoid driving, especially after dark when there is limited visibility.”

In northwest Kentucky, just outside Louisville, Bullitt County emergency management officials asked residents of a rural road to evacuate as a precaution after a landslide at a dam embankment. The dam was holding, and there was no indication of imminent failure, they said.

The area saw about 3 inches of rain in the past two days, according to the National Weather Service.

Five people – four women and one man – died at the scene of the shooting in Stade, police said. A sixth, also an adult, died later at a hospital. All six were employees of the youth center or its affiliates, they said.

"The police are investigating the motive and the exact course of events under high pressure," Daniela Behrens, interior minister for the Lower Saxony region, told a news conference, adding that it was an extremely violent crime in cold blood, “apparently in a custody dispute.”

Police said several people were wounded, some of them seriously, German news agency dpa reported, but they did not give a specific figure or information on the victims’ identity.

Police said the shooting took place in the facility on Dankersstrasse, a street south of the town center. The facility includes temporary accommodation for pregnant women or young mothers with children.

A main suspect was arrested, while another two people were subject to “police measures” on suspicion of involvement, police said in a statement. They didn't elaborate.

Video footage after the shooting showed a large police presence, along with other emergency service personnel and several ambulances on a residential street.

Germany’s gun laws are more restrictive than those in the United States, and mass shootings are rare but not unheard of.

Vitali Mertens, who lives across the street from the scene, said he heard gunshots and “the whole area was cordoned off right away.”

Stade has about 50,000 inhabitants and is located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Hamburg.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary between U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and state Attorney General Phil Weiser will not only determine who might lead Colorado as President Donald Trump wages what Weiser has described as a “ revenge campaign ” against the state and its outgoing governor, but it could also create an opening in the closely divided U.S. Senate.

If Bennet wins the nomination and the general election, he would need to vacate his U.S. Senate seat, allowing the governor to name a replacement until the next general election in 2028. Bennet has said that he would hold his seat right up until taking office and appoint his own replacement, rather than allowing Polis to make the pick.

In a June 4 debate, Bennet said he would appoint a replacement under the age of 50. Of the four Democrats in Colorado’s congressional delegation, three are under 50: Jason Crow, Joe Neguse and Brittany Pettersen. All have endorsed Bennet.

One name Bennet already eliminated from consideration was Polis, saying his decision to commute the sentence of election conspiracy theorist and imprisoned former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was disqualifying. Peters’ conviction over her role in a security breach of county election equipment after the 2020 election became a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters.

If Weiser becomes governor, Bennet would serve out the remaining two years of his term, a scenario that has prompted some Weiser supporters to brandish bumper stickers that read “Weiser for governor! Bennet for Senate.”

This is the second office Bennet has sought while serving in the U.S. Senate. In 2019, he briefly sought the Democratic presidential nomination. This year, he is one of four sitting senators running for governor, which is the most in recent history.

The winner will face either state Rep. Scott Bottoms, state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, or pastor and Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx as the Republican nominee. Marx leads the GOP field in fundraising, with about $2.8 million in contributions and about $200,000 in the bank heading into the campaign’s final 20-day stretch. Marx more than doubled Kirkmeyer’s and Bottoms’ combined totals in each category.

According to Colorado Secretary of State records, Marx is the beneficiary of more than $400,000 in spending on TV and digital advertising from outside groups supporting his campaign. He’s also the target of a several hundred-thousand-dollar ad campaign opposing him and supporting Kirkmeyer. Another group has spent a small amount on social media and email advertising opposing Marx and supporting Bottoms.

On the Democratic side, Weiser has raised about $6.5 million in contributions, compared to about $4.8 million for Bennet. Both candidates also have the backing of outside groups who have spent millions in support of their campaigns and against the other.

Democrats have won nine of the last 11 elections for Colorado governor and have held the office since 2007.

At the top of the ballot, first-term Democratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper faces a primary challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales. The winner will face Republican state Sen. Mark Baisley, who is unopposed in his primary.

One of the top U.S. House races to watch in November will be in the 8th Congressional District in the northern Denver suburbs, where Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans seeks a second term. The Democratic nominee will be either former state Rep. Shannon Bird or state Rep. Manny Rutinel. The seat will be key to determining control of the chamber.

El Paso County and the city and county of Denver are the most populous jurisdictions in the state. Arapahoe, Jefferson, Adams and Douglas counties, which surround Denver, also have large populations, as do Larimer, Weld, Boulder, Pueblo and Mesa.

These 11 counties comprise about 87% of the state’s total registered voters and are critical sources of primary votes for both parties. However, Republican-leaning El Paso and Douglas counties tend to be more influential in Republican primaries, while heavily-Democratic Denver and Boulder counties tend to play a larger role in Democratic primaries.

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

When do polls close?

Polls close at 7 p.m. MT, which is 9 p.m. ET.

What’s on the ballot?

The Associated Press will provide vote results and declare winners in contested primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, secretary of state, attorney general, university regent, state Senate and state House.

Who gets to vote?

Registered party members may vote only in their own party’s primary. In other words, Democrats can’t vote in the Republican primary or vice versa. Independent or unaffiliated voters may participate in the Democratic, Republican or Unity Party primaries.

How many voters are there?

As of June 1, there were about 4.4 million registered voters in Colorado. That includes about 1.1 million registered Democrats, about 997,000 registered Republicans and about 2.3 million voters not affiliated with any party.

How many people actually vote?

In 2022, when Democratic incumbents were running for renomination for both U.S. Senate and governor, roughly 520,000 people voted in the Democratic primaries and about 633,000 in the Republican primaries.

In 2020, when there was a Republican incumbent U.S. Senator running for renomination, about 999,000 voters cast ballots in the Democratic primary and about 555,000 in the Republican primary.

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

Elections in Colorado are conducted predominantly by mail. As of Thursday, about 327,000 Democratic primary ballots and about 228,000 Republican primary ballots have already been cast in Tuesday’s election.

When are early and absentee votes released?

In most Colorado counties, the first vote update of the night tends to include a mix of results from mail, early in-person and Election Day in-person voting. Since Colorado elections are conducted primarily by mail, mail voting results are released throughout the night, along with results from other voting methods.

How long does vote-counting usually take?

In the 2022 state primary, the AP first reported results at 9:04 p.m. ET, or four minutes after polls closed. By 12 a.m. ET, about 79% of the vote had been counted. The last vote update of the night was at 4:05 a.m. ET with about 90% of total votes counted.

When will the AP declare a winner?

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

How do recounts work?

In Colorado, an automatic recount is triggered if the margin between the top two vote-getters is 0.5% or less of the leading candidate’s vote total. The AP may declare a winner in a race that is subject to a recount if it can determine the lead is too large for a recount or legal challenge to change the outcome.

Are we there yet?

As of Tuesday, there will be 126 days until the 2026 midterm elections.

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Johnson sent lawmakers home early last week after tumult in his conference prevented the House from voting on two spending bills and a measure dealing with veterans' benefits. Meanwhile, the list of legislative priorities only grew with Trump requesting $87.6 billion in new spending, mostly to cover the cost of the war with Iran.

The week ahead could signal whether Johnson can turn a short summer in Washington into a productive work period that voters will reward in November.

“We have got a lot more to do. We have got to keep it going,” Johnson told Fox News Channel’s "Sunday Morning Futures."

Johnson, of Louisiana, went to the White House moments after the House wrapped up its abbreviated workweek and returned with a coveted Trump social media post telling Republicans to quit voting down the procedural rules that allow for final votes on their legislative priorities.

“No more grandstanding, please!" Trump wrote.

Before Trump's message, Republican and Democratic lawmakers were openly doubting whether the House would even return this week or just follow the Senate's lead and break for the July Fourth holiday.

“I got to have everybody working here on all cylinders, and I’m excited to bring them back," Johnson said on Fox.

A promising week quickly turns sour for Republicans

The House began last week with a legislative victory that speaks to voters' concerns about affordability, passing bipartisan legislation aimed at lowering the cost of housing. It was the culmination of years of work by members on both sides of the political aisle.

But Trump abruptly called off the bill signing ceremony, saying he would not act until Congress passed legislation that requires proof of citizenship for those registering to vote. Johnson said he will send the housing bill to Trump on Monday and hopes the Republican president signs it with the “biggest, boldest marker that he has.”

Hard-liners in the House have also taken up Trump's demand for the elections bill. More than two dozen of them have signed a letter pledging to vote against any Senate bills unless the elections legislation is attached. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., led the blockade that prompted Johnson to send lawmakers home early.

Democrats seized on the Republican gridlock.

”This is the incredibly pathetic Congress," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "The fact they can't get their act together, can’t establish discipline to keep this place running, is stunning. I’ve never seen such incompetence.”

Republicans also voiced their frustration.

“I just think it’s a very self-defeating position for anyone to take, that they’re going to shut everything down over one issue,” said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.

But Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., predicted there will be more gridlock ahead unless a bill that includes the elections legislation is sent to Trump. While the House has already passed a version of the measure, it has stalled in the Senate.

“Yeah, I think everything is going to be held up until we come to an agreement on voter ID and especially confirming the citizenship of Americans before they register to vote," Harris said.

Asked if Americans want Congress to be advancing other priorities besides the voting bill, known as the SAVE America Act, Harris replied. “I think they truly believe that this is a very important bill. I’m not sure they believe that a lot of the other things we’re doing here in Washington are very important.”

The test ahead is on an important defense bill

Trump's admonition to House Republicans to quit voting down their own procedural rules will be put to the test this week. Leadership is expected to tee up a vote on an annual defense policy bill, must-pass legislation that calls for some of the increased spending that Trump wants for the Pentagon.

Luna, a Trump ally, was making no promises about standing down, even after the president's social media post. She has proposed attaching the elections legislation to the defense bill. Because of the narrow Republican majority, it takes only a few Republican “no” votes to block a bill from advancing to a final vote.

“If they want my vote, they should entertain it, debate it, and if they block it, then we’ll see. But that’s how you get my vote," Luna told reporters.

There's little time left for top GOP priorities

The House is scheduled to be in session for only about 28 days before the midterm elections. The lawmakers are out for virtually all of August and October, giving them additional time to campaign back home for reelection.

In that window, they must pass bills to keep the government running beyond the Sept. 30 end of the budget year. They also aspire to pass a bill on a party-line basis that would include more defense spending, partially paid for by cuts in other programs. Republicans have billed their effort as going after waste and fraud.

It would be the successor to the big tax and spending cut bill that Republicans passed last year. That measure extended the tax cuts passed in Trump's first term and expanded tax breaks for those who get income through tips and overtime. The bill also focused on boosting immigration enforcement, paid in part through reduced spending on Medicaid and nutrition assistance.

Johnson has talked optimistically about being able to pass such a bill before the August recess. He met with members of the House Budget Committee last week as they try to find a path forward. But Republican senators are not counting on it. There are also doubters in the House, given the difficulty of the process that is required to bypass a filibuster in the Senate.

“I’m just not seeing a path forward on it," said Republican Rep. David Valadao, who represents a perennial swing district in California's farm belt.

But Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said members are close to a framework. He predicted it will be politically rewarded if they are able to address election integrity and curb waste and fraud.

“We have to energize our base, and we have to address the enthusiasm gap," Arrington said.

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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report.

Recently named “Best Chef in Miami” by Aventura Magazine, Ostrow is the founder and executive chef of Maison Ostrow, a French kosher restaurant in North Bay Village. Her newest venture, Maison Baguette, delivers handcrafted gourmet sandwiches inspired by cuisines from around the world.

For Ostrow, the journey began long before she opened her Miami restaurant.

“I’m the happiest when I’m around food,” she said.

Growing up in France, she developed her love of cooking at her grandparents’ country home, where large family gatherings revolved around the kitchen table.

“My grandparents had a country house where everybody would meet on the weekend — all the cousins, the uncles and everyone,” Ostrow recalled. “It was like a constant revolving door of food.”

Inspired by those family meals, Ostrow trained under some of France’s most accomplished chefs before eventually relocating to South Florida.

Determined to bring authentic French cuisine to Miami’s kosher dining scene, she opened Maison Ostrow, assembling a kitchen staff trained in France under Michelin-starred chefs.

“For me to open a restaurant that was kosher and French, I needed to have a real kitchen,” Ostrow said. “The guys with me in my kitchen were trained in France under Michelin-star chefs. They know their stuff.”

The restaurant’s menu features dishes including smoked salmon crêpes, caramelized miso black cod, homemade pastas, risottos, veal, lamb and duck.

But despite her extensive fine-dining menu, Ostrow admits one food has always been her favorite.

“I’m obsessed with a sandwich,” she said. “I can eat sandwiches every day. If you want to invite me over for dinner, just tell me you’re making a sandwich. I’m coming.”

That passion inspired Maison Baguette, a delivery-only concept centered around freshly baked French bread filled with globally inspired recipes.

Rather than creating traditional deli sandwiches, Ostrow designed a menu featuring about 25 different combinations inspired by favorite dishes from around the world.

“We picked dishes, not sandwiches, from all over the world that we love,” she said. “It can be sweet-and-sour sesame chicken representing Asia, a Greek salad with chicken, or steak frites with peppercorn sauce.”

Each sandwich is served on homemade baguettes developed specifically for delivery.

Perfecting the bread took months of testing.

“The work was literally five full months to perfect that baguette,” Ostrow said. “We imported flour from all over the globe, and we made it happen. Now we’re open, we’re thriving, and I couldn’t be prouder of my little baguette.”

Customers can also order VIP meal boxes that include fries, a dessert and a drink.

With Maison Ostrow continuing to serve diners in North Bay Village and Maison Baguette expanding her reach across South Florida, Ostrow hopes to continue sharing the French culinary traditions that first inspired her around her grandparents’ kitchen table.

Maison Baguette sandwiches can be ordered online through the company’s website or mobile app.

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As of Monday morning, the fire had grown to about 180 acres near the Sawgrass Expressway and Commercial Boulevard, according to authorities.

“It’s pretty crazy man,” said bystander Troy Budoski. “You see the red fire from all the way over here. It’s burning pretty good. Burning hot!”

The fire erupted Sunday afternoon, immediately torching about 100 acres and spreading further west.

Traffic cameras miles away show the massive, thick smoke clouds off in the distance.

“I never knew it would catch on fire and it’s right here. It’s not that far away,” a man named Connor said. “I was driving north on the expressway and I saw it, so I thought, I’m gonna be nosey and check it out. Sure enough, you can still see the fires, which is pretty crazy.”

Officials are monitoring the fire as it continues to burn in the area.

“Biggest thing for me is, how is the fire department going to contain this?” Connor wondered.

As of Monday morning, the fire was 0% contained.

This is the beginning of yet another firefight in what has been a busy fire season.

Tens of thousands of acres have been scorched just in the last few months.

She's filling in for Joy Behar on ABC's “The View.” Appearing alongside Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” Starring in a CNN documentary. Preparing a national tour. And churning out four podcasts most weeks featuring long-form interviews and commentary.

It's a ubiquity born of more than three decades chronicling the technology industry with a professed indifference to power that vaulted her into a rare echelon of journalism celebrity.

She harnessed that reputation to persuade rivals Steve Jobs and Bill Gates to appear onstage together and make Mark Zuckerberg so uncomfortable under questioning that he broke out into a sweat. She had Elon Musk's cellphone number — the two aren't currently speaking — and often texts tech and business leaders.

She's betting the influence that made her a Silicon Valley force will translate into politics as podcasts supplant traditional media as a destination for candidates seeking attention.

During Republican President Donald Trump's second term, potential Democratic presidential candidates ranging from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris to onetime Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel have appeared on Swisher's shows. She expects that roster to grow.

“We get called by all the presidential candidates,” the 63-year-old Swisher said in an interview at her home in a leafy corner of Washington, where her trademark high self-regard was on display. “We’re going to get to all of them.”

Swisher is hardly the only podcaster talking politics. Conservatives like Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson and some liberals like the former Barack Obama aides who host “Pod Save America” have larger audiences. They're all dwarfed by Joe Rogan.

But Swisher, who has evolved from a traditional print journalist to business owner and podcast host, has few rivals who can match her technology expertise and connect those observations to the broader political debate.

“When I first went on her podcast when I just got into Congress in 2017, she was very well respected in tech circles,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat whose district includes Silicon Valley. “But now she's emerged as a larger cultural force, especially at a time where there's such anger at the tech billionaires and tech arrogance.”

Interviews that produce revealing moments

When she's not on the road, Swisher typically records from a basement studio in the Washington home she shares with her wife, children and a cat named Lovely. The conversations on her interview podcast “On with Kara Swisher” are often referenced later on “Pivot,” which she co-hosts with entrepreneur Scott Galloway.

They frequently produce revealing moments, as when Newsom filled in for Galloway on “Pivot.” Swisher derided him for being too easy on Steve Bannon when the longtime Trump aide appeared on Newsom's own podcast.

“You had an opportunity to engage,” Swisher pressed. “Why not engage?”

The typically self-possessed Newsom conceded, “I'm not the pro that some of these others are, but I appreciate the insight.”

Swisher pushed Buttigieg on why he took so long to say President Joe Biden, a fellow Democrat, shouldn't have sought reelection. Buttigieg said he wasn't consulted.

“Sure, but you have eyes,” Swisher responded.

Her interview with Harris captured the former vice president's tenacious side as she called policies from Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “f----- up.” Harris said gravely that she “can't laugh” about such matters, though Swisher noted on a later podcast that the two had just joked about Kennedy backstage.

“Be the person backstage because that's the person who gave a great answer,” Swisher said in the later podcast.

In an interview, Newsom said Swisher “calls out my bulls—-.”

“She'll send me missives unsolicited,” he said. “She's usually right, and it drives me crazy.”

Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat who has long known Swisher, agreed that being interviewed by Swisher is “not a layup.”

Even Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a rare Republican to go on her show, said it was a worthwhile experience despite being pressed on whether his willingness to speak out against the Trump White House emerged only after he opted against reelection.

“If you’re a politician, you should be able to walk up anywhere and hold your own,” Tillis said. “Do the prep, get on the show. You may end up having an opportunity, like in my experience, to give a completely different perspective.”

‘Pivot’ was initially focused on tech and business

Shaping the political conversation wasn't the objective when “Pivot” launched in 2018.

Galloway, who hosts his own “Prof G” and “Raging Moderates” podcasts, recalled the idea for “Pivot” was to focus on the intersection of technology and business. That's still much of the show's focus, but the biggest stories in those spaces, such as the initial public offering for Musk's SpaceX or the rise of artificial intelligence, are now inevitably linked to politics.

“Show me a big business or tech story, and I'm going to show you a political overlay,” Galloway said.

The expansion converges with a sense of urgency among Democrats to be more aggressive on digital platforms, where audiences are increasingly concentrated.

“The single most important quality that every candidate needs to have is the ability to talk and the ability to talk anywhere,” said Teddy Goff, the co-founder of Precision Strategies and the digital director for Obama's 2012 presidential campaign. “That might mean a two-hour podcast interview. It might mean a 15-second digital video.”

Democrats are still stung by Rogan's nearly three-hour Trump interview in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign. Rogan, who doesn't consider himself a journalist, has said Harris' campaign didn't agree to his terms. Harris has described being spurned by Rogan.

Swisher agreed Democrats should embrace podcasts but insisted she's not a left-leaning counter to Rogan.

“You can’t manufacture this stuff,” she said. “It just doesn’t work, right? The kids like what the kids like.”

Still, the podcasts add up to influence and financial success.

Galloway said “Pivot,” which is effectively a joint venture between himself, Swisher and Vox Media, will be a $15 million to $20 million business this year. With a staff of just five, that's a robust moneymaker as media is disrupted by a wave of mergers and acquisitions.

Vox Media itself has been reborn after a recent acquisition by James Murdoch, who swept New York magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and the Vox editorial brand into a single company where podcasts are the fastest-growing business.

“Podcasts are the NBA,” Galloway said. “There’s a small amount of people making a lot of money.”

A goal to be popular ‘among the entire populace’

While Swisher largely hosts Democrats, she's recently interviewed Tillis and Scott Jennings, a conservative CNN commentator. She hopes to soon bring on additional Republicans and said she texted Steve Hilton's wife, a former Google executive, in hopes of booking him shortly after he advanced in California's governor's race.

“What we’re going for is to be popular among the entire populace,” she said. “So that people who don’t feel they want to be in a constant state of anger, whether it’s on the left or the right, can have a place to go.”

But her barbed comments about Trump and other Republicans could complicate that goal.

Kelly McBride, an ethics expert at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, said shows like Swisher’s can sometimes “butt right up against the type of podcasts that I would not consider journalism.”

“The way you separate them out is that the intention and the system surrounding the podcast is engineered in a way to create fact-based information,” she said.

Swisher describes her work as “reported analysis,” citing tech writer Om Malik, who died last week, as an inspiration.

As for the tone of the podcasts, it's all part of the authenticity that is central to Swisher's brand. Beyond the takes on the day’s news, she and Galloway have developed a strong — if unlikely — chemistry in which his penchant for vulgarities can make her seem almost highbrow.

“We don’t shy away from our faults,” she said. “We don’t shy away from our biases. You know, we don’t shy away from things that most people try to.”