The world-famous DJ born in Nigeria promoted dance parties in the 1990s in Beirut, Lebanon, and techno took her to London, where she gained notoriety.

“It’s amazing being part of this community that I supported from the beginning, and that’s where I discovered myself on the dance floor,” Moudaber said. “It was at gay parties in New York.”

The celebrity is the Ambassador of the Association For Electronic Music, the host of The Mood Radio, and a Lower Eastside Girls Club advocate in New York.

Miami Beach officials displayed a rainbow crosswalks and launched PRIDE with a ceremony on Friday. Moudaber will be celebrating at M2 in South Beach.

“We have to be strong. We have to stick together, and this is what our community is all about, standing our grounds, and sticking together, and fight, fight, all the time, and we will always prevail,” Moudaber said.

M2 opens at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday at 1235 Washington Ave., in South Beach. Moudaber is set to perform during Urge Turns It Up With Pride. For more information, visit this page.

The 29-year-old MacIntyre, who tied for second last week at the Texas Open, raised some eyebrows Thursday at Augusta National — where decorum is held in high esteem — when he flashed the middle finger upon hitting a ball into the water. MacIntyre also slammed a couple of clubs and muttered some curse words loud enough to be caught live by the TV mics.

It was unclear whether Augusta National took any disciplinary action.

MacIntyre finished at 7 over, missing the cut by three shots, and headed straight to the Player Services Building. At one point, someone posted to his Instagram story what appeared to be an AI-produced image of a Masters gnome in his likeness giving the bird.

Whoever it was had a sense of humor about things.

Bryson DeChambeau probably didn't find anything funny about his finish.

He was 3 over coming to the par-4 18th before hitting his drive under a pine tree. He managed to punch his next into a bunker left of the green but left the ensuing shot in the sand. His fourth rolled off the front of the green, and the bogey pitch that DeChambeau needed to make the cut never had a chance; the two-time U.S. Open champ made triple bogey and finished at 6 over.

It was a grind for many of the game's best players to make the low 50 and ties and play the weekend.

Brian Harman was a full 10 shots better than his opening round on Friday, pairing a 69 with that 79 to make the cut on the number. Rasmus Hojgaard and Jon Rahm each improved by eight shots with rounds of 70 to also make the cut on the number.

Rahm, the 2023 Masters champion, was among the favorites before his opening 78.

“Yesterday was just an anomaly where everything that could go wrong went wrong,” Rahm said. “Not that I shot myself out of the tournament but I’m going to need an absolute miracle starting today, and didn’t quite do enough. I’m going to need a heck of a round tomorrow to give myself a chance and even then, might be a little too far away.”

Or a lot too far away. Rory McIlroy finished at 12 under after rounds of 67-65, giving the defending champion a six-shot lead over his closest pursuers, Sam Burns and Patrick Reed. That set a 36-hole record for the largest lead at the Masters.

JJ Spaun, the U.S. Open champion and the winner last week in San Antonio, opened with a 2-over 74 but put himself in trouble right away with three bogeys in a four-hole span early Friday. Not even two birdies in his last three holes could save him. He finished at 5 over.

Former British Open champ Cameron Smith shot 74-77 to miss the cut for the sixth straight time in a major.

Nobody had a bigger roller coaster around the cut line than Akshay Bhatia.

Playing late in the day, the winner of the Arnold Palmer Invitational was at 4 over before his bogey at the 16th. Bhatia got back on the cut line by holing out from a bunker at the 17th, then proceeded to double bogey the closing hole to miss the cut.

None of the six amateurs made the cut, including U.S. Amateur champion Mason Howell, who spent the two days playing with McIlroy. Jackson Herrington, whom Howell defeated in the finals last year, and British Amateur champion Ethan Fang fared the best among the amateurs, each finishing at 8-over par.

“Maybe if I'm allowed to come out and practice, I'll be out here tomorrow,” Herrington said. “It's the best place on Earth. I know that.”

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Vineyard Wind filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Massachusetts against GE Renewables. That comes after the parent company for GE Renewables said it would be terminating its contracts for turbine services and maintenance at the end of April.

GE Vernova says Vineyard Wind owes it $300 million for work it performed. But Vineyard Wind counters that the manufacturer remains on the hook for about $545 million to make up for a catastrophic turbine blade collapse in July 2024 and the delays that caused.

Fiberglass fragments of a blade broke apart and began washing onto Nantucket beaches in July 2024 during the peak of tourist season. GE Vernova agreed to pay $10.5 million in a settlement to compensate island businesses that suffered losses.

The lawsuit states that the project already has been significantly damaged by GE Renewable's “inexcusably poor performance,” and allowing the contractor to back out now would case irreparable harm. Craig Gilvarg, spokesman for Vineyard Wind, said Friday that the lawsuit is meant to ensure that GE Renewables fulfills its obligations to the project “and to the people of Massachusetts and New England who are relying on the significant and economic benefits this project is already providing.”

GE Vernova said the company is exercising its right to terminate agreements for nonpayment for work performed.

“The company remains committed to the safety of the wind farm and stands by our performance and our contractual obligations," the company said in a statement. "We will vigorously defend our position through the appropriate legal process.”

Construction finished on Vineyard Wind in March, making it the first project to reach this stage during President Donald Trump’s time in office. It had already been providing power to the grid for over a year as more turbines were finished. It is expected to reach full operations in the coming months.

According to the lawsuit, GE Renewables is the only company able to perform the remaining work, and it would be virtually impossible to find another turbine supplier willing to take its place. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday.

GE Vernova has said that insufficient bonding at one of its factories in Canada was responsible for the blade coming apart and that there was no indication of a design flaw. Sixty-eight out of the 72 blades that had been installed at Vineyard Wind at the time were removed and replaced. Vineyard Wind said that set the project behind nearly two years.

The Trump administration has been particularly critical of the project because of the blade failure.

It was one of five major East Coast offshore wind projects the Trump administration halted construction on days before Christmas, citing national security concerns. Developers and states sued, and federal judges allowed all five to resume construction, essentially concluding that the government did not show that the national security risk was so imminent that construction must halt.

Vineyard Wind is a joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, located 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts. It has 62 turbines that will generate a total of 800 megawatts. That is enough clean electricity to power about 400,000 homes.

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U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi's ruling means a Monday arraignment hearing for Kalshi has been called off. State prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation.

Liburdi said he would explain his reason for the ruling in an order, which was expected to be released Friday evening.

The federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission had sued Arizona in response to cease-and-desist letters sent to Kalshi from state gambling regulators and the criminal charges filed against the prediction market operator. The commission argued Arizona is intruding on its exclusive federal power to regulate national swaps markets.

Liburdi had previously denied Kalshi’s attempt to bar prosecutors from moving forward with the case and declined a request from the company for a ruling saying federal law trumps Arizona’s gambling laws. Liburdi said it was too early in the case for him to rule on that issue.

State prosecutors have charged Kalshi with 20 misdemeanor counts of wagering for allegedly accepting bets on political outcomes, college sports and individual player performance.

Arizona, the first state to file criminal charges against Kalshi, prohibits operating an unlicensed wagering business and betting on elections. The criminal charges mark a new front in a high-stakes legal battle over whether prediction markets should be subject to the same rules as gambling companies.

Kalshi maintains it’s a financial marketplace rather than a gambling operation and should only have to answer to the federal Commodities Futures Trading Commission, not the state of Arizona.

Richie Taylor, a spokesperson for the Arizona Attorney General's Office, declined to comment. The Associated Press sent emails to Kalshi and the federal commission seeking comment.

Kalshi operates by allowing customers to buy and sell “Yes” or “No” contracts tied to the probable outcome of an event. It has said its product is different from gambling operations because Kalshi’s customers engage in “swaps” between one another instead of betting against the “house.”

In a lawsuit filed just days before prosecutors leveled the criminal charges, Kalshi argued federal law trumps Arizona’s efforts to subject it to state statute. It also contends that shutting down its ability to offer event contracts would threaten its viability, undermine confidence in the integrity of its platform and cause other problems for the business.

The company said Arizona filed the charges to interfere with its lawsuit.

Lawyers for the state contend Kalshi has marketed itself as a platform for sports and election betting and that Arizona should be able to enforce its gambling laws to hold Kalshi accountable for flouting state law.

Kalshi sued Arizona, Utah and Iowa in attempts to stop anticipated state actions against the platform. Other states have taken some form of legal action against Kalshi.

So far, the outcomes have been mixed. Federal and state judges in Nevada and Massachusetts, respectively, issued early rulings in favor of states looking to ban Kalshi and its competitor Polymarket from offering sports being in their states, while federal judges in New Jersey and Tennessee have ruled in favor of Kalshi.

Earlier this month, the federal government filed lawsuits against Connecticut, Arizona and Illinois challenging their efforts to regulate prediction market operators.

The Trump administration has so far backed the platforms.

President Donald Trump’s eldest son is an adviser for both Kalshi and Polymarket and an investor in the latter. Trump’s social media platform Truth Social is also launching its own cryptocurrency-based prediction market called Truth Predict.

Joachin, 40, who was born in Haiti, was behind bars on Friday after killing Nilufa Easmin, who was born in Bangladesh, on April 3 in Florida’s Lee County, according to the Fort Myers Police Department.

Easmin, 51, a mother of two, was working as a clerk at a gas station’s convenience store. Fort Myers detectives arrested Joachin hours later, and Lee County correctional deputies booked him.

“Surveillance footage showed that Joachin smashed the victim’s car windshield, approached her, and repeatedly hit her in the head with a hammer—violently killing her in broad daylight," a spokesperson from Homeland Security wrote in a statement on Tuesday.

Joachin had received a final order of removal in 2022, but former President Joe Biden’s administration allowed him to stay, according to DHS.

“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, Temporary Protective Status, a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate,” President Donald Trump wrote Thursday night on Truth Social.

The Trump administration announced on Friday that Joachin’s TPS was no longer valid, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had issued a detainer on Thursday.

“Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way. This one killing should be enough for these Radical Judges to STOP impeding my Administration’s Immigration Policies, and allow us to END THIS SCAM ONCE AND FOR ALL,” Trump wrote Thursday night.

Attorney Fritznie Jarbath, whose parents were born in Haiti, is based in Miami-Dade County. She said the association is unfair.

“It’s not uncommon for this particular administration to identify one particular person from one group and try and push a narrative,” Jarbath said, adding that this reminded her of Trump’s assertion that Haitian migrants were eating dogs.

“While that was particularly debunked,” Jarbath said. “People kept looking at Haitians, thinking, ‘Is this true? Could this be true?’”

Many issues could derail the truce and the negotiations aimed at making a broader deal to stop the fighting permanently.

Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency, close to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, claimed that the talks set for Saturday would not happen unless Israel stopped its attacks in Lebanon. And U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social media platform that Iran has no leverage except to restrict ship traffic in the strait, through which 20% of the world’s traded oil once passed.

Kuwait, meanwhile, said it was targeted by seven drone attacks since Thursday that it blamed on Iran and its militia allies in the region. Though the Guard denied launching any assault, it has carried out attacks across the Mideast in the past that it did not claim.

Preparations for the talks between Iran and the U.S. appeared to be moving forward, with Vance boarding Air Force Two for the long flight to Islamabad.

Elsewhere, negotiations between Israel and Lebanon were expected to begin Tuesday in the U.S. capital, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s office said Friday. Beirut is keen to hold direct talks to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah, but under a ceasefire similar to the one with Iran.

Before his departure, Vance said he believed the negotiations with Iran will be “positive.”

But he added, “If they’re going to try and play us, then they’re going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive.”

In Islamabad, security forces locked down key parts of the Pakistani capital, erecting barricades along routes from the airport to the city.

Hours later, the Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf arrived in Islamabad, Iranian state TV reported. The delegation included security, political, military, economic and legal teams. The report said negotiations will begin only if the other side accepts Iran’s preconditions.

Earlier in the day, Qalibaf posted on social media that two points he said had been mutually agreed on — a ceasefire in Lebanon and the release of blocked Iranian assets — have yet to be implemented.

“These two matters must be fulfilled before negotiations begin,” he wrote.

Israel and Lebanon will have direct negotiations

Israel’s insistence that the ceasefire in Iran does not include a pause in its fighting with Hezbollah has threatened to sink the deal. The militant group joined the war in support of its backer, Iran.

The day the truce was announced, Israel pounded Beirut with airstrikes, killing more than 300 people, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. It was the deadliest day in the country since the war began Feb. 28.

Trump said Thursday that he had asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dial back the strikes.

Then on Friday, Israeli warplanes struck near a state security office in the southern town of Nabatieh, killing 13 officers, according to the Lebanese president’s office. Israeli forces said they also hit about 10 rocket launchers in Lebanon that had fired toward northern Israel.

A day earlier, Netanyahu said he authorized the negotiations with Lebanon with the aim of disarming Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors, which have technically been at war since Israel was established in 1948.

Aoun’s office confirmed that the two sides were set to negotiate after Lebanon and Israel’s ambassadors to the U.S. held a call with Washington’s ambassador to Lebanon to discuss terms. The U.S. State Department will mediate.

In a first statement since Israel announced direct negotiations with Lebanon, Hezbollah chief Naim Kassem urged Lebanese officials to stop offering “free concessions,” but he did not take a clear stance on the talks.

Two days after Israel’s barrage, people sifted through the wreckage of their homes, trying to salvage furniture and personal mementos. Some expressed gratitude that they did not lose loved ones.

“There is no substitute for family,” said Wissam Tabila, 35. “Everything else can be replaced.”

Strait of Hormuz remains a sticking point

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent oil prices skyrocketing, driven stocks down and roiled the world economy. Tehran’s control over the waterway has proved its biggest strategic advantage in the war.

The spot price of Brent crude, the international standard, was around $97 Friday, up more than 30% since the war started.

Before the conflict, over 100 ships passed through the strait each day — many carrying oil to Asia. With the ceasefire in place, only 12 have been recorded passing through.

Trump said Iran has little clout in the negotiations.

“The Iranians don’t seem to realize they have no cards, other than a short term extortion of the World by using International Waterways,” Trump posted Friday. “The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate!”

Questions linger about missile and nuclear programs

Questions also remain over the fate of Iran’s missile and nuclear programs, which the U.S. and Israel sought to eliminate in going to war.

The U.S. insists Iran must never be able to build nuclear weapons and wants to remove Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which could be used to make them. Iran insists its program is peaceful.

Trump has said that the U.S. would work with Iran to remove the uranium, though Tehran has not confirmed that.

More than 3,000 people have been killed in Iran, a top Iranian officer told the state-run Iran newspaper. Iran’s government has not provided any definitive death toll from the war.

In Lebanon, at least 1,953 people have been killed and 1 million have been displaced. Over a dozen people have died in Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, while 23 civilians were killed in Israel. Thirteen U.S. service members have been killed.

In other developments, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces shot down Iranian‑designed Shahed drones in several Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war. The missions, carried out with domestically produced interceptor drones, were part of efforts to help partners counter the same weapons Russia uses in Ukraine, he said.

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Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Mednick from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Will Weissert and Aamer Madhani in Washington; Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City; and Kareem Chehayeb and Hussein Malla in Beirut contributed to this report.

The building is scheduled to come crashing down in a controlled implosion.

Miami police say the entrance to Brickell Key will be closed from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Police will be in the area, along with Miami Fire Rescue in case of any emergencies and onlookers will be kept back at least 800 feet as the concrete structure is already armed with multiple explosives.

“We expect that there’s going to be a lot of dust, but these companies have planned vigorously to make sure that this goes on without any harm to the surrounding buildings, to the atmosphere,” Officer Michael Vega, a spokesperson for the Miami Police Department, told Local 10 News.

The implosion is only slated to last 20 seconds as the building falls in place, all to make room for ultra luxury residences and a hospitality site that will bear the same Mandarin Oriental name.

It’s slated to stand 66 stories at its highest point. Neighbors are being asked to prepare.

“Between eight and maybe nine, that they should not use air conditioning,” Vega said. “Make sure that all their doors are closed, make sure that all their windows are closed.”

Residents are also being advised to be mindful of their pets, who may be scared by the implosion.

Tsvia Kol, 37, of Hallandale Beach, and Jimmy Sanchez, 38, of Spring Valley, California, both pleaded guilty to using a firearm to cause death and conspiring to distribute at least 500 grams of methamphetamine.

Investigators said the two were among those responsible for shooting and killing Julio Gonzalez, 46, of Hialeah Gardens, at the Aladdin Hotel, located at 901 S. Royal Poinciana Blvd. in Miami Springs — about a block away from the airport — on Nov. 29, 2022.

Investigators said the killing was linked to a “missing package containing about 11 pounds of methamphetamine, the street value of which totaled approximately $90,000,” which the duo mistakenly believed that Gonzalez stole. Instead, law enforcement officials had seized the meth.

They said Kol and Sanchez, the latter of whom had flown in from San Diego to MIA the night of the killing, arranged a 12-hour room rental to confront, and later kill, Gonzalez.

Kol had been described in a Miami-Dade arrest warrant as “a known high-ranking Sinaloa cartel member with a history of international organized crime syndicate that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering” and the ex-wife of Wilfredo Nunes Gallardo, another high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel.

The criminal organization was once run by the infamous Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The case was originally investigated by what was then the Miami-Dade Police Department before turning federal.

“This started as a drug deal gone wrong and ended in an execution,” U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones said in a statement. “The defendants armed themselves, set up the victim, and carried out a killing over a missing drug package that had already been seized by law enforcement.”

Prosecutors said Kol received a nearly 20-year sentence while Sanchez received a sentence totaling more than 27 years.

Reding Quiñones said that the sentences “reflect the seriousness of that violence.”

Engel died Friday at a Bronx hospital of complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to his family.

“During his over 44 years in public service, Eliot Engel fought tirelessly for his constituents at home and for peace and security around the world,” the family said in a statement.

Engel won his first congressional election in 1988, defeating a 10-term incumbent on an insurgent, reformist platform. More than 30 years later, he left office in similar fashion after losing a 2020 primary to now-former Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a race seen as a progressive upset over the party’s pragmatic wing.

A former teacher and state Assembly member, Engel rose through the ranks of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, eventually becoming its chair in 2019. He was a strong supporter of Israel and one of the first lawmakers to call for military intervention on behalf of Kosovo, then a province where ethnic Albanians were seeking independence from Serbia, in their war in the 1990s. A U.S.-and-U.K.-led NATO bombing campaign opened the way for Kosovo's eventual independence nine years later.

Engel was "a fierce advocate for Kosovo and the Albanian community at a time when few others were paying attention,” U.S. Rep. Richie Torres, a fellow Bronx Democrat, said in a statement Friday.

Engel also helped negotiate the Harkin–Engel Protocol, an international agreement that aimed to eliminate the “worst forms of child labor” on cocoa farms in West Africa.

And he headed the Foreign Relations Committee as it worked on the 2019-2020 impeachment inquiry into Trump over the Republican's efforts to prompt Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to scour for dirt on Trump's then-rival Joe Biden.

After Trump was impeached and then acquitted in February 2020, Engel vowed not to abandon the issue, saying there were “a lot of unanswered questions that the American public deserves to know” answers to.

Soon after, the COVID-19 pandemic set in — and with it, questions, spurred by an article in The Atlantic, about Engel's absence from his district.

That scrutiny grew following a hot mic incident in which Engel was heard trying to convince another Bronx official to let him speak at a news conference, saying: “If I didn’t have a primary, I wouldn’t care.”

During his years in office, Engel became known for waiting for hours to get an aisle seat in the House chamber for the State of Union address, so he could greet the president — in full view of TV cameras — as the chief executive entered.

But Rep. George Latimer, a Democrat who now holds what was Engel's seat, said “his legacy consists of hard work on issues and kindness to all.”

The officers, who are part of the department’s homeless outreach team, was responding to a situation at a shopping center when one of them noticed a man recording.

“Hi … you good?” an officer is heard saying on the video.

Moments later, the tone escalates.

“You want to get arrested,” the officer says.

“Why am I being arrested?” the bystander responds.

“You’re interfering with my investigation,” the officer says.

“No, I’m not,” the bystander replied.

Video shows the man standing more than 25 feet away as officers ordered a woman, who officers described as someone frequently seen at the shopping center, to leave the property.

The situation intensifies when a bystander asks, “What did she do?”

“You don’t know the law,” the officer is heard saying repeatedly.“You’re gonna be trespassed from this property. If you return, you’re gonna be placed under arrest.”

Plantation Mayor Nick Sortal and the city’s police chief said from the outset that recording from that distance is within a person’s rights.

“You can’t come up to people and put your finger in their face and say stop videoing,” Sortal said. “I wish that whole part hadn’t happened.”

Officials noted that the officer had a point after referencing that the bystander was obstructing traffic, but that observation came after the initial confrontation.

Police supervisors have since counseled the officer involved, and city leaders say they are taking accountability.

“If we messed up, we’re going to tell you to your face, we messed up,” Sortal said. “We’re going to try to do better.”

Miami-Dade and Broward counties can expect scattered clouds Friday night with the slight chance for a passing sprinkle or light shower. Generally, winds will be sustained 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 25 mph.

Similar conditions are forecast for Saturday and Sunday, northeast to east-northeast winds sustained around 15 mph with gusts to 25 mph.

Both days will feature a sun/cloud mix -- can’t rule out a quick-moving, random shower. Plan for seasonable temperatures, lows near 70°F, highs around 80°F.

For some, it’s their first experience taking in the beachfront music scene, while others make the trip year after year.

“This is our third year in a row,” said Susie Magendantz, a visitor from Daytona Beach. “It’s our happy space. It’s my peaceful place. We love coming here,” added Eric Magendantz.

With the good times comes a focus on safety.

Uniformed officers from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department are stationed throughout the area, making it clear they’re there to help festivalgoers.

Police are also sharing safety tips with the public.

They say to be cautious in crowded areas due to the potential for pickpocketing and to keep phones and valuables close.

Festivalgoers are urged to stay aware of their surroundings and to know their entrances and exits.

Officials also warn not to accept drinks from strangers and not to leave drinks unattended.

People are encouraged to travel in groups with friends and not to leave anyone behind.

Police add that attendees should use official rideshare services only and verify the license plate, make and model of the car before getting in.

Road closures are also planned.

Seabreeze Boulevard and Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard will shut down around 10 p.m. to allow people to leave the area.

Anyone in the area who is not attending the festival is urged to be mindful of those closures.

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Deputies said it happened just before 4:40 p.m. near the 16500 block of Golf Club Road, near the Bonaventure Golf Club.

Authorities said the video shows “a light-skinned male wearing a khaki hoodie and distinctive red and black pants exposing and pleasuring himself in an adjacent parking lot,” then “slowly approaching the victim, surveying his surroundings and removing his shoes before grabbing her from behind.”

“She struggled with the attacker before he got up, put on his shoes, and ran to a nearby scooter, which he used to flee the scene,” a BSO news release states.

Anyone with information on the suspect is being asked to call BSO Detective Michael Kravecz at 954-626-4006 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

According to BSO, tips leading to an arrest “are eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.”

Miami Beach police arrested Corey Hutterli, 37, of Parkland, on a second-degree murder charge on Wednesday.

He’s accused of killing Zelin, 35, by throwing him off the balcony of his own 25th-floor unit at the Akoya Condominium, located at 6365 Collins Ave. on Mid-Beach.

Police said Zelin could be heard in a struggle with Hutterli in a 911 call moments before his death. The connection between the two remains a mystery.

“It’s one of those things where the more answers you get, the more questions you have,” Zelin’s friend Amit Jolly said.

Jolly, speaking to Local 10 News in Hollywood on Friday, said he wants Zelin to “be memorialized for so much more than just the final moments of his life.”

“He was yet a big presence in the Jewish community, a big presence in the biotech community,” Jolly said. “What he has done in terms of his line of work has saved many lives.”

Jolly said the killing left Zelin’s family heartbroken.

“On the night of the funeral the rabbi asked the father to write some words about his son and he said, ‘I don’t have the words for my son, because I don’t believe my son is dead,’” Jolly said.

Jolly shared photos of Zelin with Local 10 News.

“These final moments were very painful,” Jolly said. “I think it’s very important to have Justin be remembered for something so much more than just those final moments, just as (with) anyone when they pass away.”

Hutterli, meanwhile, remained held without bond at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Friday.

His attorney argued during a court appearance Thursday morning that the case against Hutterli is purely circumstantial.

Surveillance video shows Carey, 22, was driving a black 2016 Nissan Maxima northbound on Northwest Ninth Avenue early Wednesday morning with a broken light and damage, according to deputies.

Crime scene technicians found Carey’s Nissan Maxima’s headlight assembly, a driver’s side view mirror, and exterior black trim pieces where the woman died, according to Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies.

“Carey stated he was driving home last night and as he passed under the bridge, something hit his vehicle ... he looked around and did not see anyone or anything, so he continued driving home ... he saw the damage to his vehicle and covered it with a tarp to hide it from his parents,” a deputy wrote, according to an arrest report.

At about 12:20 a.m. on Wednesday, the woman was crossing Ninth Avenue’s northbound lanes at the 4400 block, and after the Nissan struck her, she “came to a final rest in the southbound lanes,” according to deputies.

BSO deputies pronounced the woman dead at 12:24 a.m. and found Carey and his damaged Nissan Maxima hours later in North Lauderdale, according to deputies.

Deputies arrested Carey at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, and corrections booked him at the Broward County Main Jail.

Carey faced charges of failure to stop and remain at the scene of an accident, a first-degree felony, and tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony.

During a hearing, a bond court judge ordered Carey to avoid driving, surrender his passport, stay in Broward, and remain on house arrest with a GPS.

According to court records, Broward County Circuit Judge Peter Holden was set to preside over the case.

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

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Maria Del Carmen Alvarez-Concepcion, 57, was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges of soliciting/accepting kickback payments, organized fraud and second-degree grand theft.

An arrest report states that a current board member and homeowner at the Greynolds Park Club Condominium Association, located at 17890 W. Dixie Highway, contacted MDSO about concerns he had regarding the mismanagement of association funds by certain members of the board of directors and the on-site building manager, identified as Alvarez-Concepcion.

Detectives said the board member told detectives that on Jan. 23, he was approached by a contracted vendor who reported that Alvarez-Concepcion had been soliciting and accepting kickback payments “in the form of cash and Zelle transfers.”

The report states that the board member “further reported longstanding concerns regarding the defendant’s exclusive control over multimillion dollar contracts, lack of financial transparency, questionable fees, missing records, and the exclusion of certain board members from major association decisions.”

According to the report, the vendor who spoke with the board member met with detectives on Feb. 13 and corroborated the information initially provided by the board member.

Detectives said that the vendor claimed that between March 7, 2025, and Dec. 5, 2025, Alvarez-Concepcion repeatedly solicited and accepted kickback payments, saying that he paid her about $19,910 in cash and Zelle transfers during that time period.

Authorities said the payments were not authorized by the association and were “intentionally concealed from the board of directors.”

According to the report, between Feb. 18 and March 19 of this year, Alvarez-Concepcion accepted an additional $1,000 in kickback payments.

In total, she is believed to have accepted $20,910 in “undisclosed kickback payments,” authorities said.

According to the arrest report, Alvarez-Concepcion was located Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of the condominium community and was taken into custody.

Detectives said she provided them with a “self-serving” statement, in which she “admitted to accepting kickback payments while acting in her position as an on-site manager.”

“This arrest reflects our commitment to protecting residents and holding accountable those who exploit positions of trust, and we will continue to aggressively combat association fraud in our community,” Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said in a statement.

As of Friday morning, Alvarez-Concepcion was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her bond at $10,000, which she has since posted.

Ambas sedes diplomáticas se sumaron a la misión en el país de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) que el miércoles, el mismo día en que Mazariegos fue reelecto como titular de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC), presentó un informe en el que condenó la violencia hacia la comunidad estudiantil que pedía elecciones democráticas.

La tensión se elevó el martes cuando los estudiantes universitarios exigieron que se abrieran las puertas del campus. Las autoridades académicas habían ordenado clases virtuales y cerrado el lugar para supuestos trabajos de mantenimiento para evitar protestas contra la reelección.

Desde dentro de la universidad hombres vestidos de negro y armados con palos tiraron bombas incendiarias y gas pimienta a los estudiantes que protestaban, de los cuales algunos resultaron heridos. Tras varios intentos los estudiantes derribaron los portones y tomaron las instalaciones.

El miércoles cientos de estudiantes protestaron por la elección que se llevó a cabo en un hotel en Antigua Guatemala, a unos 45 kilómetros de la capital, donde los aliados de Mazariegos votaron por su reelección y les fue negada la entrada a varios electores.

En el lugar hubo incidentes y guardias de seguridad de Mazariegos hicieron disparos. Nadie resultó herido y no hubo detenidos.

Los electores a los que no se les permitió el ingreso eligieron simbólicamente como rector a Rodolfo Chang, un veterinario y catedrático.

Estudiantes, particulares y diputados buscan que la fiscalía investigue a Mazariegos y sus allegados por presunto fraude.

Mazariegos fue sancionado en 2023 por el gobierno de Estados Unidos por socavar las instituciones democráticas al aceptar el cargo también en un cuestionado proceso electoral.

La Constitución establece que la USAC, con más de 300 años de antigüedad, es autónoma, recibe un 5% del presupuesto anual de la nación y no puede ser intervenida.

La USAC es una de las instituciones que este año renuevan autoridades en Guatemala, entre ellas la Corte de Constitucionalidad y la Fiscalía General.

Los agentes indicaron que ocurrió poco antes de las 4:40 p.m. cerca de la cuadra 16500 de Golf Club Road, en las inmediaciones del Bonaventure Golf Club.

Las autoridades dijeron que el video muestra “a un hombre de tez clara, vestido con una sudadera con capucha color caqui y pantalones distintivos rojos y negros, exponiéndose y tocándose en un estacionamiento cercano”, y luego “acercándose lentamente a la víctima, observando a su alrededor y quitándose los zapatos antes de sujetarla por detrás”.

“Ella forcejeó con el atacante antes de que él se levantara, se pusiera los zapatos y corriera hacia un scooter cercano, que utilizó para huir de la escena”, señala un comunicado de BSO.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el sospechoso debe llamar al detective de BSO Michael Kravecz al 954-626-4006 o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

Según BSO, las pistas que conduzcan a un arresto “pueden ser elegibles para una recompensa de hasta $5,000 USD”.

Oneka Davis is an example of that.

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She’s a mom whose love and perseverance carried her family through the darkest of times.

Three years ago, the 38-year-old mother of six girls was abandoned by the person she trusted most.

“My husband decided he no longer wanted to pay bills. He no longer wanted to help,” Oneka said. “So he packed up and he left me with our daughters.”

He also left them without a home. Oneka’s salary as a full-time county track repair technician wasn’t enough to cover the rent.

“We stayed at hotels,” she said. “From there, it was back to square one, living out of my car.”

“Your daughters are with you in your car?” Local 10’s Mayte Padron asked.

“Yes,” Oneka said.

“So, it’s you and your six daughters?” Padron asked.

“Yes,” Oneka responded.

Oneka’s daughter, Melanie, 15, shared what it was like for her.

“At first, I didn’t understand. I was very confused,” she said. “It was very hard. We would search for a place, but then they would turn us down.”

The family lived this way for 2 1/2 years. And during that time, they were hit by another crisis. Oneka’s youngest daughter, Noa, was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

“She had brain surgery at 3 years old,” Oneka said. “Everything was removed successfully.”

“She made it through. She’s healthy,” Oneka added.

And it was the love of family and love of community that changed the course of the family’s lives.

“My union got involved and my union reached out to Chapman Partnership and Chapman immediately stepped in to help,” Oneka said.

Chapman Partnership is a leading emergency housing provider in Miami-Dade County.

“We are just incredibly blessed to be able to help families, like Oneka and her family, to transition themselves very rapidly into stable housing,” Kavaja Sarduy, Vice President of Operations for Chapman Partnership, said.

“I am so thankful to have a roof over my head, to be able not to worry about them being safe. I know that they are safe,” Oneka said.

Natalia, Melanie, Paris, Hazel, Justise and little Noa are indeed safe, happy and very grateful for their mom.

“Mom, I want to tell you that you are a vessel in my life and I love you dearly,” Natalia said.

This is only the first chapter in Oneka’s story and we hope to bring you another update soon.

Until then, it’s important to point out that Oneka does not receive any government assistance -- not for food or for rent.

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Oneka Davis es un ejemplo de ello.

Es una madre cuyo amor y perseverancia sacaron a su familia adelante en los momentos más difíciles.

Hace tres años, la madre de 38 años y seis hijas fue abandonada por la persona en la que más confiaba.

“Mi esposo decidió que ya no quería pagar las cuentas. Ya no quería ayudar”, dijo Oneka. “Así que empacó sus cosas y me dejó con nuestras hijas”.

También las dejó sin hogar. El salario de Oneka como técnica de reparación de pistas del condado a tiempo completo no era suficiente para cubrir el alquiler.

“Nos quedamos en hoteles”, dijo. “De ahí, volvimos al punto de partida, viviendo en mi carro”.

“¿Tus hijas estaban contigo en el carro?”, preguntó Mayte Padron de Local 10.

“Sí”, respondió Oneka.

“¿Eran tú y tus seis hijas?”, preguntó Padron.

“Sí”, respondió Oneka.

La hija de Oneka, Melanie, de 15 años, compartió cómo fue esa experiencia.

“Al principio, no entendía. Estaba muy confundida”, dijo. “Fue muy difícil. Buscábamos un lugar, pero nos rechazaban”.

La familia vivió así durante 2 años y medio. Y durante ese tiempo, enfrentaron otra crisis. La hija menor de Oneka, Noa, fue diagnosticada con un tumor cerebral.

“Tuvo una cirugía cerebral a los 3 años”, dijo Oneka. “Todo fue removido con éxito”.

“Salió adelante. Está saludable”, agregó.

Y fue el amor de la familia y de la comunidad lo que cambió el rumbo de sus vidas.

“Mi sindicato se involucró y contactó a Chapman Partnership, y Chapman intervino de inmediato para ayudar”, dijo Oneka.

Chapman Partnership es uno de los principales proveedores de vivienda de emergencia en el condado Miami-Dade.

“Nos sentimos increíblemente bendecidos de poder ayudar a familias como la de Oneka a hacer una transición rápida hacia una vivienda estable”, dijo Kavaja Sarduy, vicepresidenta de operaciones de Chapman Partnership.

“Estoy muy agradecida de tener un techo sobre mi cabeza, de no tener que preocuparme por su seguridad. Sé que están seguras”, dijo Oneka.

Natalia, Melanie, Paris, Hazel, Justise y la pequeña Noa están seguras, felices y muy agradecidas con su madre.

“Mamá, quiero decirte que eres una bendición en mi vida y te amo mucho”, dijo Natalia.

Este es solo el primer capítulo en la historia de Oneka y esperamos poder traer otra actualización pronto.

Hasta entonces, es importante señalar que Oneka no recibe ninguna asistencia gubernamental, ni para alimentos ni para el alquiler.

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Sunrise police identified the suspect as 24-year-old Thomas Jamaine Roberson.

On Thursday, the victim told police about a domestic violence incident involving her boyfriend, Roberson, with whom she had been in a relationship for five to six months, according to the report.

Police said the victim is about 10 weeks pregnant with Roberson’s child, and the two lived together as a family.

The victim said that around midnight Thursday, she asked Roberson to return her cellphone after the couple got into an argument at a home in Sunrise.

Roberson initially denied having the phone but later retrieved it from under a pillow inside the home they shared, the report states.

Shortly after, police said Roberson left the home and took the victim’s vehicle, which was registered to her grandmother but in the victim’s care, along with her cellphone and other property.

About an hour later, they said Roberson returned to the home but refused to give the phone back.

The victim then reminded Roberson that she was pregnant, to which he responded, “I don’t care,” the report states.

Sunrise police said the victim later found Roberson’s loaded gun hidden inside the home in a laundry basket under clothing.

Shortly after, they said Roberson then pulled the victim, tearing her shirt and causing her to fall onto her neck.

The report states that Roberson refused to call 911, and the victim remained on the floor for about an hour after the incident.

Police said the victim attempted to flee the home multiple times, but at least twice Roberson “restrained her and brought her back inside against her will.”

The victim later fell asleep, then woke up and requested her phone. Roberson gave it to her after she handed him the gun, according to the report.

Police said the victim then gathered her two children, ages 2 and 3, and attempted to leave on foot when Roberson used his vehicle to block her path and “forcibly took both children from her custody without her consent, placing them into the vehicle without proper constraints.” Investigators noted Roberson is not the father of the children.

The victim then attempted to call 911 using her laptop, but Roberson allegedly grabbed it and threw it to prevent her from calling, police said.

They said the victim later fled and located her two children inside a vehicle before driving away and calling 911.

While on the phone with dispatchers, police said Roberson located the victim, forcibly entered her vehicle to turn off the ignition and took her phone.

He then attempted to remove her from the vehicle and threatened to kill her before fleeing with the vehicle while one of the children was still inside, according to the report.

A short time later, police said Roberson released the child to the victim and returned to the home, where she observed “extensive property damage, including overturned furniture, destroyed food items, and damaged electronics valued in excess of $1,000.”

Roberson was later located in Fort Lauderdale, where police said he fled from a traffic stop, leading to a pursuit that ended in a rollover crash near Powerline Road and Northwest 12th Street.

Fort Lauderdale police said the crash involved a vehicle, which overturned after being struck. They said several people, including Roberson, were taken to Broward Health Medical Center with minor injuries.

Jail records show Roberson is facing charges including robbery with carjacking, aggravated battery of a pregnant female, obstruction of justice, grand theft of a vehicle, child neglect and interfering with custody of a minor.

As of Friday morning, he was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail and ordered to have no contact with any victims or to possess firearms, weapons or ammunition.

La policía de Sunrise identificó al sospechoso como Thomas Jamaine Roberson, de 24 años.

El jueves, la víctima informó a la policía sobre un incidente de violencia doméstica con su novio, Roberson, con quien mantenía una relación de cinco a seis meses, según el informe.

La policía indicó que la víctima tiene aproximadamente 10 semanas de embarazo de Roberson y que ambos vivían juntos como familia.

La víctima dijo que alrededor de la medianoche del jueves le pidió a Roberson que le devolviera su teléfono celular después de una discusión en una vivienda en Sunrise.

Roberson inicialmente negó tener el teléfono, pero luego lo sacó de debajo de una almohada dentro de la casa que compartían, según el informe.

Poco después, la policía indicó que Roberson salió de la vivienda y se llevó el vehículo de la víctima, registrado a nombre de su abuela pero bajo su cuidado, junto con su teléfono y otras pertenencias.

Aproximadamente una hora después, regresó a la vivienda, pero se negó a devolver el teléfono.

La víctima le recordó que estaba embarazada, a lo que él respondió: “No me importa”, según el informe.

La policía de Sunrise indicó que la víctima luego encontró el arma cargada de Roberson escondida dentro de la casa en una canasta de ropa debajo de prendas.

Poco después, dijeron que Roberson la jaló, rompiéndole la camisa y provocando que cayera sobre su cuello.

El informe indica que Roberson se negó a llamar al 911 y que la víctima permaneció en el suelo durante aproximadamente una hora tras el incidente.

La policía dijo que la víctima intentó huir de la vivienda en múltiples ocasiones, pero al menos dos veces Roberson “la retuvo y la llevó de regreso al interior en contra de su voluntad”.

La víctima se quedó dormida y luego despertó y pidió su teléfono. Roberson se lo devolvió después de que ella le entregó el arma, según el informe.

La policía indicó que la víctima reunió a sus dos hijos, de 2 y 3 años, e intentó irse a pie, cuando Roberson utilizó su vehículo para bloquearle el paso y “le quitó por la fuerza a ambos niños sin su consentimiento, colocándolos en el vehículo sin las debidas sujeciones”. Los investigadores señalaron que Roberson no es el padre de los menores.

La víctima intentó llamar al 911 usando su computadora portátil, pero Roberson presuntamente la tomó y la lanzó para impedir la llamada, según la policía.

Posteriormente, la víctima logró huir, encontró a sus dos hijos dentro de un vehículo y se fue conduciendo mientras llamaba al 911.

Mientras hablaba con los operadores, la policía indicó que Roberson la localizó, entró por la fuerza al vehículo para apagarlo y le quitó el teléfono.

Luego intentó sacarla del vehículo y la amenazó de muerte antes de huir con el auto mientras uno de los niños aún estaba dentro, según el informe.

Poco tiempo después, la policía dijo que Roberson devolvió al menor a la víctima y regresó a la vivienda, donde ella observó “daños extensos a la propiedad, incluyendo muebles volcados, alimentos destruidos y aparatos electrónicos dañados valorados en más de $1,000 USD”.

Roberson fue localizado más tarde en Fort Lauderdale, donde la policía indicó que huyó de una parada de tráfico, lo que provocó una persecución que terminó en un choque con volcadura cerca de Powerline Road y la calle 12 del noroeste.

La policía de Fort Lauderdale indicó que el choque involucró a otro vehículo que volcó tras ser impactado. Varias personas, incluido Roberson, fueron trasladadas al Broward Health Medical Center con heridas leves.

Registros de la cárcel muestran que Roberson enfrenta cargos que incluyen robo con robo de vehículo, agresión agravada contra una mujer embarazada, obstrucción de la justicia, hurto mayor de un vehículo, negligencia infantil e interferencia con la custodia de un menor.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en la cárcel principal del condado Broward y se le ordenó no tener contacto con las víctimas ni poseer armas de fuego, armas o municiones.

Scheffler hit 3-iron into a tributary of Rae's Creek on the par-5 13th, and his second shot into the par-5 15th went over the green and rolled into the pond on the 16th hole.

Both led to bogeys, and he didn't recover. His 2-over 74 was his first round over par at the Masters since a 75 in the second round in 2023.

“It was frustrating to get it back to even, have a couple of par 5s in front of me, and then not do many things I felt wrong and wasn't able to convert basically anything coming down the stretch,” said Scheffler, who was at even-par 144.

The water balls stand out. Scheffler tried to play a draw into the 13th, a deceptively difficult shot because the ball is slightly above the feet but a shot not cleanly struck tends to stay out to the right, and that's where the trouble is.

“I just tried to kind of swing it with the slope and just didn’t catch it that solid and kind of hung out there,” Scheffler said. “But that was one ... to that pin specifically that’s a shot that I could get in there close, so I felt like it was worth the risk of going for it.”

The real problem was his putting. He didn't make many, mainly an issue of speed more than line.

“I felt like I definitely played better than my score,” he said.

Scheffler, trying to win his third Masters in the last five years, now has a big climb. The two times he won, he went into the weekend with at least a share of the lead.

Li feels sick but still shows major form

The majors seem to bring out the best in Haotong Li of China, even when he's so sick he wonders if he can even play.

Such was the case Friday at the Masters. Li said he was in the bathroom most of the night and “kind of live in the toilet” even when he got to Augusta National. And then he made four straight birdies on the back nine and shot 69 to finish at 4-under 140.

“I didn’t hit many balls on the driving range. I was feeling really, really bad,” Li said. “No energy, fuzzy, want to throw up something. I actually just planned to play a few holes, see how it goes. If really sick, then I probably just decide not to. So glad I survived today.”

Li closed out the 2017 British Open at Royal Birkdale with a 63. Three years later, he opened 67-65 at Harding Park in the PGA Championship to become China's first player to lead after any round of a major championship.

No low amateur this year

For the second straight year, none of the amateurs will be sticking around for the weekend.

That's not to suggest they all are leaving disappointed, and some of them are not in any hurry to leave at all.

“My friends were telling me, ‘Thank you for inviting me, it was awesome to see you.’ Yeah, I would love to have played better, but it's fine,” Mateo Pulcini of Argentina said after going 81-78. “We're going to keep having fun. We're going to come to watch tomorrow and Sunday and enjoy the moment and the tournament.”

Amateurs have access to stay in the Crow's Nest in the top of the clubhouse even if they fail to make the 36-hole cut.

Fifa Laopakdee of Thailand, who won the Asia-Pacific Amateur, had rounds of 80-75. He also had the pleasure of spending two rounds with Fred Couples, who even at 66 oozes charisma and cool.

“Oh, man, if you give me an hour I can write 100 bullet points what I learned this week,” said Laopakdee, who plays at Arizona State. “Play with Freddie and Min Woo (Lee), I learned a lot. If you watch Freddie first 14 holes (Thursday), it was perfect golf.”

Koepka is in the mix

Brooks Koepka's first mission was to get in the mix in his return to the PGA Tour after four years with Saudi-funded LIV Golf. He didn't think it would take until the Masters, but here he is.

Koepka has made 11 birdies through two rounds, enough to offset some soft bogeys. He had a 69 on Friday and goes into the weekend at 3-under 141. Key to his second round was changing the setting on his driver and getting the ball in play.

“Ball-striking has been really good this week. Putted better today. Short game has been kind of iffy,” he said. “But I like the way I’m playing right now. Just need to be a little bit more aggressive.”

Tom Watson was critical of the PGA Tour for letting Koepka return under a program that kept Koepka from getting equity grants for five years and not having access to bonus money this year. Watson felt the tour reneged on its promise to ban LIV players for life. If anything, he said Koepka or anyone else should have spent a year on the Korn Ferry Tour.

“I would have to look at exactly what he said. Just going off your summary, everybody is entitled to their own opinion,” Koepka said. “He’s not the first person that’s thought that. I’m just grateful to be out here. The people that make those decisions let me out here. If you’re going to get the opportunity to come back out, you’re going to take it.”

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Wilton Manors police say Katherine Luciano left the kittens at Donn Eisele Park around 10 a.m. on Sunday. Surveillance video from a nearby home shows a red sedan pulling up, with a taped cardboard box inside.

Moments later, the five baby kittens spill out onto the ground as the woman walks away.

“While walking back to the car, the defendant is heard asking the male she is with, ”There were five total correct," her arrest report states.

The two then got back into the vehicle and left the park, abandoning the five kittens with no access to food, water, or shelter.

Peter Carey, who was walking his dog at the time, told Local 10 that he witnessed the kittens being abandoned.

“I was really focused on the cats, but it kept my anger from being focused on her,” he said. “Because I really wish that I could just put her in a box and dump her in a field so she could see how it felt. That’s how I feel.”

Carey rescued four of the kittens, while the fifth was found later.

All five have since been adopted.

“Happy to say that they’ve all been adopted,” Carey said. “I dropped off the last kitty last night to a nurse that lives in Aventura.”

After seeing her mugshot, Carey said, “It looks like her. And I hope I never see her again.”

Zachary Rinkins at Broward County Animal Care says they have resources to help shelter or house animals — even strays.

Luciano appeared to smirk when a judge on Friday morning told her that she is not allowed to have an animal while on pre-trial release.

Luciano remained at the Broward County Main Jail on five counts of animal abandonment and five counts of conservation of animals: torment, deprive, mutilate or kill. Her total bond was set at $5,000.

It’s not clear if the passenger in the car will face any charges.

Investigators said people were killed and six others were injured in the attack, which happened nearly a year ago.

The material, released by the State Attorney’s Office, include body camera video showing officers rushing to the scene, confronting the suspected gunman and taking him into custody.

Recordings of 911 calls capture the urgency of the moment.

“Can you tell me exactly what’s happening?” a 911 dispatcher asked the caller.

“There’s a shooter at the FSU Student Union” the caller responded.

Authorities later identified the suspect as Phoenix Ikner, who was 20 years old at the time of the shooting.

Records related to his parent’s custody dispute show Ikner’s identity before 2020 was Christian Gunnar Eriksen, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Norway, and included allegations that he had been diagnosed with “several health and mental issues” by the time he was 11 years old, ABC News and First Coast News.

After the FSU shooting, Leon County Sheriff Walter A. McNeil said Ikner was a “long-standing” member of The Leon County Sheriff’s Office Youth Advisory Council and identified, Jessica Ikner, a deputy who served in LCSO for over 18 years, as his mother..

“Her son had access to one of her weapons and that was one of the weapons that was found at the scene,” McNeil said referring to the deputy’s stepson.

Newly released court documents also detail Eichner’s alleged conversations on the day of the shooting with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, including questions about the university and prompts such as when the FSU student union is busiest.

Attorneys in Tallahassee have since filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT on behalf of one of the victims. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier also announced an investigation into the company this week.

Investigators said Eichner faces nine charges, including first-degree murder. His trial is expected to begin in October.

Local 10 digital journalist Andrea Torres contributed to this story.

Según la sentencia, fechada el 31 de marzo y a la que tuvo acceso The Associated Press el viernes, el perito independiente solicitado por el juez dio la razón a los demandantes y estableció que el siniestro ocurrido en mayo de 2018 fue un “accidente institucional", es decir, que se gestó dentro la compañía por las negligencias en el mantenimiento y colocó a los pilotos como "la última barrera de defensa y a quienes desafortunadamente no les fue posible controlar el desplome a baja altura" de la aeronave.

Por eso, el juez ordenó a la empresa, Aerolíneas Damojh, pagar 1,5 millones de dólares por familia de los cuatro miembros de la tripulación que fueron los primeros en demandar. La compañía no se presentó al juicio y fue juzgada en rebeldía. La empresa que aseguraba el avión también fue demandada pero quedó exenta de multas.

El avión, un Boeing 737, se estrelló sobre un campo de yuca poco después de haber despegado del aeropuerto internacional José Martí en La Habana en lo que fue una de las peores tragedias aéreas de la isla en décadas. Aunque algunas personas fueron hospitalizadas, finalmente solo sobrevivió una mujer.

Un año después del accidente, Cuba dijo que el siniestro se debió a errores de cálculo de la tripulación. Previamente las autoridades de aviación civil mexicanas habían suspendido temporalmente a la empresa, que había tenido irregularidades en el pasado, y abrió una investigación sobre el caso.

L a AP preguntó por la situación actual de dichas pesquisas a la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes pero no recibió respuesta de manera inmediata.

Damojh utilizaba el nombre comercial de Global Air y rentaba el avión con tripulación incluida a la aerolínea estatal de la isla, Cubana de Aviación, que era la que operaba el vuelo.

“Es una sentencia ejemplar... que se logró probar después de muchísimos esfuerzos”, dijo uno de los abogados litigantes, Samuel González. Según explicó, el juez confirmó lo que el jefe de mantenimiento de la empresa dijo a varios familiares desde el primer día, “que el avión no podía volar”, máxime porque días antes había tenido un golpe.

”Ese avión voló por la cabeza de todos nosotros durante diez años sin mantenimiento", agregó. “Cayó en Cuba... pero pudo haber caído en cualquier parte”.

La sentencia todavía puede ser apelada. González cree que Damojh está tramitando su quiebra, “que puede ser una quiebra fraudulenta, en cuyo caso también denunciaremos”.

Además de esta primera demanda de familias de la tribulación, el abogado señaló que hay una acción civil colectiva ya en trámite en representación de todas la víctimas y una denuncia penal por homicidio contra la empresa y todo aquel que resulte responsable ante la Fiscalía General de la República.

Esta última investigación está ralentizada, según González, porque las autoridades cubanas no han aportado la información solicitada. La fiscalía no respondió de manera inmediata a la AP sobre el estado de este caso.

Queda por verse si hubo responsabilidad por acción u omisión de autoridades mexicanas, aunque el equipo litigante ya interpuso denuncias en otras dependencias, entre ellas la fiscalía anticorrupción, contra quienes autorizaron el vuelo y dieron el certificado de aeronavegabilidad al avión.

The FAA and Defense Department have signed an agreement outlining the safety precautions that they say will protect travelers anytime these lasers are used, but their statement didn't spell out what those safeguards will be.

The FAA didn’t immediately respond to questions seeking more details about the agreement.

In early February, the FAA closed the airspace around the El Paso airport for several hours after another agency used a counter-drone laser without notifying the aviation safety regulator. That left many travelers scrambling to find new flights. A second, more limited airspace closure later that month followed the military shooting down a drone owned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

A demonstration of the lasers conducted last month at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico convinced the FAA that they can be used safely.

"We will continue working with our interagency partners to ensure the National Airspace System remains safe while addressing emerging drone threats,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said in a statement.

Drones are commonly used along the border by Mexican cartels looking to deliver drugs or surveil officers. Officials told Congress last summer that more than 27,000 drones were detected within 1,600 feet (500 meters) of the southern border in the last six months of 2024.

The use of armed drones regularly carry out devastating attacks in the Ukraine and Iran wars highlights the threat.

Lawmakers in Congress said they are glad to see the agencies working together better now. But Democratic senators who raised questions after the anti-drone laser uses in February say they need detailed answers before they can be sure the lasers are safe. The FAA has not yet held a briefing for Congress.

“It is absolutely critical that meaningful interagency collaboration continues — the FAA must be at the table whenever any counter-UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) is deployed that could impact the safety of our national airspace,” said Rep. Rick Larsen, who is the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

In the second incident, the military used the laser to shoot down a “seemingly threatening” drone flying near the U.S.-Mexico border on Feb. 26. It turned out the drone belonged to Customs and Border Protection, lawmakers said.

That led the FAA to close the airspace around Fort Hancock, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of El Paso.

The Trump administration has said it was working to halt an incursion by Mexican cartel drones. U.S. Army Brigadier General Matt Ross said that this agreement will allow the use of the most advanced tools to defend the homeland.

“By working hand-in-hand with the FAA and our interagency partners, the Department of War is proving that these cutting-edge capabilities are safe, effective, and ready to protect all air travelers from illicit drone use in the national airspace,” Ross said.

The U.S. government has handed out more than $250 million to help states prepare to respond to drones before hosting World Cup matches and celebrations planned this summer for the country's 250th birthday.

Another $250 million in grants will be awarded later this year to strengthen the nation’s drone defenses.

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At The Berry Farm in southwest Miami-Dade, children and parents spread out across 40 acres Saturday for the farm’s annual Eggstravaganza.

Kids of all ages raced through egg hunts, played on playgrounds, visited baby animals and posed for photos with the Easter Bunny.

“We actually live in Chicago,” said Christine Burger, a grandmother attending the event. “And the weather is better than Chicago. It’s a whole lot of outdoor activities for us to do today too.”

Karl Wiegandt of The Berry Farm said the event has grown over the years and has become a tradition for many families.

“This is the sixth year we’ve done the egg hunts here at the berry farm and we’ve really learned a lot,” Wiegandt said. “We do 39 egg hunts to keep organization, enough eggs for all the kids, and really for parents to be able to get those pictures where it’s not a congestion of kid running at the same time.”

“We always say we try to create that forever moment and picture and those memories. I think we’ve done a great job of it,” he added.

The event continues on Easter Sunday.

In Broward County, families gathered in Plantation for the city’s annual Royal Easter Egg Hunt at Pop Travers Park.

Children from toddlers to 10 years old were split into age groups, each taking turns running across the field to collect eggs.

“It was very nice to come out on a Saturday. I got up really early to do it. I wasn’t expecting this but it was really good. The kids enjoyed it,” said Ambria Butts.

After the hunt, families stayed to enjoy inflatables, games and a visit from the Royal Easter Bunny.

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Investigators said it happened on Feb. 24 near suspect Joel Xavier McNeil’s home in the county’s unincorporated West Little River area.

According to an MDSO arrest report, the victim told investigators that she had arranged a “quick visit out call” with McNeil early that morning, in which she would drive to him and have sex with him.

Authorities said the woman picked McNeil up near his home and the two drove close to a Dollar General, but McNeil had her turn around and head back to where she picked him up, near his home.

Deputies said at around 7:30 a.m., he had the victim pull over along the side of the road near Northwest 18th Avenue and 93rd Terrace, and “began to rub (her) inner thigh.”

According to the report, after she asked McNeil to pay first, he “stopped, used his phone, then pulled out a pistol from his waistband and pulled the slide backwards to chamber a round.”

The report states that he then told her “that he was police and (he) was going to need her to wait right there.”

Authorities said the woman put her hands up and asked what McNeil what he was doing and he asked her, “Where is the money?”

Deputies said the victim told him she had no money and showed her empty purse. At that point, they said McNeil, listed in the report as 6-foot-5 and 200 pounds, grabbed hold of the woman’s jacket as she tried to leave the vehicle and held her at gunpoint.

Authorities said she briefly got back in the vehicle, then ran out again and broke free from McNeil’s grip as another car headed her way.

“The victim then walked in front of the passing vehicle and asked for them to help her and call the police, however the vehicle continued driving away, not assisting (her),” the report states. “The victim then used her cellphone camera to record (McNeil) in her vehicle as he continued to ask her to come back into the vehicle. (He) then jumped over to the drivers side of the vehicle, closed the door and drove off in an unknown direction.”

On Thursday, authorities said McNeil’s father had called MDSO regarding a dispute over McNeil leaving their home in the 1800 block of Northwest 93rd Street.

Deputies said a check revealed an unrelated domestic violence warrant and a probable cause message in connection with the escort robbery.

As four deputies tried taking McNeil into custody, he started “pulling his hands away and rolling on the ground in an effort to avoid being handcuffed,” a separate arrest report states.

He was eventually taken into custody on charges of armed robbery, false imprisonment with a deadly weapon, falsely personating an officer with a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony and resisting an officer without violence.

Appearing in court on Friday, a Miami-Dade judge ordered he be held without bond.

As of Friday afternoon, McNeil was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, online records show.

Bowser’s proposal makes education and health care spending — especially for Medicaid — priorities but would cut funding for several areas, including $127 million set aside for future collective bargaining agreements and non-union pay increases for city employees.

Notable in the proposal is the decrease in the proposed general funds budget to $12.7 billion, a 3.3% cut from 2026. General funds are what pay for city services. Bowser said the cuts are necessary because of a drop in revenue due in part to federal workforce reductions and rising costs, including higher Medicaid expenses and higher administration costs for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), because of a change in federal law that shifted some costs to states.

Bowser, speaking to the Council, assured members the city is “not broke” as she walked them through what she called the three periods of her tenure, the days of growth, the COVID-economic years and post-COVID.

“We are adjusting to what DOGE has done to our workforce and commercial corridor,” she said, referring to the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal government. She said the rising costs and decreased revenue have left the city with an estimated budget gap to address.

“I think we all have to be clear-headed about where we are and what it will take to keep growing,” said Bowser, who has served as mayor since 2015 and has announced she will not be running for reelection this year.

Members of the council questioned Bowser and members of her staff on proposed targets, including taking aim at programs intended to help defray the cost of child care in a city where a family pays on average more than $25,000 a year for infant care, according to the advocacy group Child Care Aware of America.

The plan would cap the District’s child care subsidy program, which helps the city’s poorest families afford care, at 6,000 children. Families currently receiving the subsidies would continue to receive them. And it would eliminate a program that supplemented the wages of child care providers, a measure passed during the pandemic to help attract and retain workers to a field with historically low wages.

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said the council would likely vote on the budget in June.

Washington's budget has been complicated in the last two years. In 2025 the House passed a federal government funding bill that would force the district’s government to revert to its 2024 budget parameters, effectively cutting $1.1 billion from its previously balanced budget midway through the financial year.

The remaking of the federal workforce by the Department of Government Efficiency heavily impacted the Washington region. Terry Clower, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, estimated more than 50,000 jobs were lost in the region. Clover said those job losses meant more than lost salaries and income taxes for the workers, also hitting businesses that support those workers.

The D.C. Office of Revenue Analysis estimated that Washington had a net loss of 22,000 federal jobs at a combined annual pay of more than $3 billion.

City Administrator Kevin Donahue said the reduction in the federal workforce, primarily by DOGE, cost about $325 million in lost revenue from cuts in jobs and the accompanying consumer spending. Those losses will be even higher in the 2027 fiscal year.

Los investigadores dijeron que el hecho ocurrió el 24 de febrero cerca de la vivienda del sospechoso, Joel Xavier McNeil, en el área no incorporada de West Little River.

Según un informe de arresto de MDSO, la víctima dijo a los investigadores que había coordinado una “visita rápida a domicilio” con McNeil esa mañana, en la que ella conduciría hasta él para tener relaciones sexuales.

Las autoridades indicaron que la mujer recogió a McNeil cerca de su casa y ambos condujeron hacia un área cercana a un Dollar General, pero McNeil le pidió que diera la vuelta y regresara al lugar donde lo había recogido.

Los agentes dijeron que alrededor de las 7:30 a.m., él le indicó a la víctima que se detuviera a un lado de la vía cerca de la avenida 18 del noroeste y la terraza 93, y “comenzó a tocar la parte interna de su muslo”.

Según el informe, después de que ella le pidiera que pagara primero, él “se detuvo, usó su teléfono y luego sacó una pistola de la cintura y deslizó la corredera hacia atrás para cargar un proyectil”.

El informe indica que luego le dijo “que era policía y que iba a necesitar que se quedara allí”.

Las autoridades dijeron que la mujer levantó las manos y le preguntó qué estaba haciendo, a lo que él respondió: “¿Dónde está el dinero?”

Los agentes dijeron que la víctima le indicó que no tenía dinero y le mostró su bolso vacío. En ese momento, McNeil, descrito en el informe como de 6 pies y 5 pulgadas de estatura y 200 libras, sujetó la chaqueta de la mujer cuando ella intentó salir del vehículo y la mantuvo a punta de pistola.

Las autoridades indicaron que ella volvió brevemente al vehículo, luego salió corriendo nuevamente y logró soltarse del agarre de McNeil cuando otro vehículo se acercaba.

“La víctima caminó frente al vehículo que pasaba y les pidió ayuda y que llamaran a la policía, sin embargo, el vehículo continuó su marcha sin asistirla”, señala el informe. “Luego, la víctima utilizó la cámara de su teléfono celular para grabar a McNeil en su vehículo mientras él continuaba pidiéndole que regresara. Posteriormente, él se pasó al lado del conductor, cerró la puerta y se fue conduciendo en dirección desconocida”.

El jueves, las autoridades dijeron que el padre de McNeil llamó a MDSO por una disputa relacionada con que su hijo había salido de la vivienda en la cuadra 1800 de la calle 93 del noroeste.

Los agentes dijeron que al verificar, encontraron una orden de arresto por un caso no relacionado de violencia doméstica y una causa probable vinculada al robo de la escort.

Mientras cuatro agentes intentaban detener a McNeil, este comenzó a “retirar las manos y a rodar en el suelo en un intento de evitar ser esposado”, según otro informe de arresto.

Finalmente fue puesto bajo custodia y enfrenta cargos de robo a mano armada, privación ilegal de la libertad con arma mortal, hacerse pasar por agente con arma mortal durante la comisión de un delito grave y resistirse a un agente sin violencia.

Durante su comparecencia en corte el viernes, un juez de Miami-Dade ordenó que permaneciera detenido sin derecho a fianza.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, McNeil permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según registros en línea.

Mayor Quinton Lucas and nine of 12 City Council members introduced a proposed ordinance Thursday to allow the city manager to negotiate with the Royals over a new stadium near the city's historic Union Station and its World War I museum, about 6 miles northwest of the Royals' current Kauffman Stadium.

The city expects the new stadium to cost $1.9 billion, and Missouri last year enacted a law allowing the state to cover half, or $950 million. If Kansas City issued its bonds, the Royals would need $350 million in private funds.

Kauffman Stadium sits beside the Chiefs' Arrowhead Stadium in the Truman Sports Complex, owned by Jackson County, Missouri, and home to both teams since 1973. Their stadium leases expire in 2031, and in April 2024, county voters rejected extending a tax that would have helped pay for renovations of both.

The Royals also have considered another site for a new stadium about 5 miles north in neighboring North Kansas City.

Kansas legislative leaders who would have to approve a deal to attract the Royals have shown little appetite for one after the state committed in December to issuing $2.4 billion in bonds to cover 60% of the cost of a new, $3 billion domed stadium for the Chiefs in Kansas City, Kansas. Two of them, House Speaker Dan Hawkins, a Republican, and Minority Leader Brandon Woodard, a Democrat, issued a joint statement Friday congratulating Missouri, adding, “We're looking forward to what's ahead.”

The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council could vote on the proposed ordinance as early as Thursday, but City Manager Mario Vasquez said the work toward keeping the team “is just beginning.”

The team said in a statement Friday: "We are grateful for their engagement in this process, as well as for the critical work of the State of Missouri, and look forward to more detailed conversations as we consider solutions that are best for our team, our fans, and our community.”

Economists who have studied pro sports teams have concluded for decades that subsidizing stadiums isn’t worth the cost for their communities because the venues pull economic activity away from other parts of the area instead of expanding the overall economy. Yet states and cities continue providing subsidies to renovate stadiums or build new ones.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called the Royals “a key economic catalyst” for his state.

“The State of Missouri is committed to continue working alongside the Kansas City Royals organization and the City of Kansas City to ensure the Royals remain in Missouri — where they belong," Kehoe said.

Of the 60 stadiums used by MLB and NFL teams, 49 are publicly owned or sit on public land.

New York state and Erie County together chipped in $850 million, or 40% of the cost, for the Buffalo Bills' new $2.1 billion NFL stadium. Ohio state and local governments have pledged $1.2 billion to cover half the cost of a new stadium for the NFL's Cleveland Browns, though the state's portion is held up by a lawsuit.

Kansas officials have described the Chiefs' stadium as the largest economic development project in state history. The team also plans a retail district around the stadium and a new training complex in Olathe, Kansas.

“It's only been four months,” she said as her husband, Brian, tugged on some rigging as they got ready to set sail.

The “Gulf Crossing” video more than three years ago marked the start of a sailing adventure — chronicled on Facebook — for a couple who are now at the center of criminal investigations after Lynette went missing in the Bahamas.

A few days after Lynette disappeared, police in the Atlantic Ocean island nation arrested Brian. He denies any wrongdoing in his wife’s disappearance and has been cooperating with law enforcement, his attorney, Terrel Butler, said.

Brian Hooker told police that his wife of more than 20 years fell overboard Saturday night from a small motorboat that was carrying the couple from Hope Town to Elbow Cay, small islands on the eastern end of the Bahamas. He said Lynette, 55, had the keys and the boat's engine shut off.

“Strong currents subsequently carried her away, and he lost sight of her,” police said in a statement Saturday.

He paddled to shore and alerted others early Sunday, said authorities, who arrested and questioned him Wednesday.

The U.S. Coast Guard has opened an investigation separate from the one by Bahamas authorities.

Karli Aylesworth, Lynette's daughter, has said it's unlikely her mother would “just fall” from a boat.

And while the couple is seen smiling, laughing and joking in social media videos of their voyage, they have a history of contention.

Brian and Lynette Hooker accused each other of assault in 2015, according to a Kentwood, Michigan, police report obtained by NBC News.

Brian Hooker, who was intoxicated and bleeding from the nose, told police his wife had struck him multiple times in the face, the report said. He told officers Lynette also was drunk. She was arrested for assault and spent the night in jail. A warrant was denied because it wasn't clear “who started the assault.”

Aylesworth also told NBC that the couple’s relationship was volatile and that they have a “history of not getting along, especially when they drink.”

The couple’s home is in Onsted, about 72 miles (117 kilometers) southwest of Detroit. The closest big body of water is Lake Erie, about 60 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of Onsted.

Lynette Hooker's mother, Darlene Hamlett, said Wednesday that the family “grew up on water” and that her daughter's life has been “near lakes, on boats, sailing and swimming.”

The couple posted videos of their years sailing around the Caribbean on their “Sailing Hookers” Facebook page.

Lynette, in the March 2023 video, describes the start of the couple's voyage aboard the Soul Mate as the sailboat slips through the Kemah, Texas, fog and into the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

“Pretty cool,” Lynette said as Brian blared the Soul Mate's foghorn. Later, while changing an engine alternator belt, he looks up at his wife and says, “Hi sexy.”

In an earlier video, the couple explains how they bought the Soul Mate in the coastal town of Rockport, Texas, and fixed it up.

“After several years of driving around the country, looking for our perfect sailboat, we finally found her in Texas,” Lynette said in that eight-minute video, posted in January 2023. “She was a little rough on the edges. The decks needed to be redone, but we knew we were up for the task.”

That video shows them working together, scraping, priming and painting. “The decks are done! we're still married! party time!” is printed in a message on the video.

A video posted two years ago shows them using their smaller motorboat to buy food on land. The video doesn't give the couple's location.

“We got the grub,” Brian says into the camera, which shifts to a case of beer at his feet and bags of groceries in the bow. “Delivery ... the way of life, man.”

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Associated Press writers R.J. Rico and Dánica Coto contributed to this report.

Anfernee Watts, quien también tiene una hija de 2 años, compareció el jueves ante la corte de fianza de Broward, donde un juez le negó la fianza.

Watts “admitió haber fabricado una historia para presentar a las autoridades, colocando al bebé fallecido de nuevo en el corral con la intención de hacer parecer que murió mientras dormía”, escribió un agente, según la orden de arresto.

Crystal Garcia tenía 20 años cuando dio a luz a su hijo el 11 de julio en el Memorial Regional Hospital, según la policía.

Un pediatra reportó que el bebé estaba en buen estado de salud el 28 de julio, según la orden. La tragedia ocurrió pocos días después.

“Ella restringió intencionalmente al bebé envolviéndolo firmemente en una manta, asegurando un chupón en su boca y sujetándolo en un asiento de auto antes de colocarlo dentro de una bañera y aislarlo detrás de una puerta cerrada mientras sonaba música a alto volumen”, y “ignoró deliberadamente su angustia y no lo revisó durante varias horas”, escribió un detective, según la orden.

Personal de Hollywood Fire Rescue declaró muerto al bebé a la 1:50 p.m. del 1 de agosto en una vivienda ubicada en 6660 Thomas St., según los registros.

Los oficiales notaron una “almohadilla desechable para cambiar pañales que parecía tener manchas de sangre”, y el bebé “tenía espuma visible en la boca y labios agrietados que parecían tener sangre seca”, según la orden de arresto.

Watts dijo a los agentes que había asistido a una entrevista de trabajo cuando ocurrió la muerte, pero el supuesto entrevistador indicó que eso era falso, según la orden.

La Oficina del Médico Forense de Broward determinó que la causa de la muerte fue asfixia y la clasificó como homicidio. La evidencia también incluye un video de una cámara de vigilancia Ring que muestra a Garcia con una bolsa de basura antes de llamar al 911.

La madre de Watts contactó a la policía para reportar que Garcia, de 21 años, le dijo que el bebé murió atrapado entre el marco de la cama y el colchón, según la orden.

Garcia dejó mensajes de voz a la policía desde el 4 de agosto hasta el miércoles y admitió haber mentido y haber “asfixiado” al bebé, según la orden.

“Crystal admitió que mintió a la policía por miedo a ser arrestada”, escribió un agente, según la orden.

El Grupo de Trabajo de Fugitivos de los U.S. Marshals arrestó a la pareja el miércoles.

Registros carcelarios indican que Garcia permanecía detenida sin derecho a fianza el viernes en el North Broward Bureau, un centro de detención en Pompano Beach.

Garcia y Watts enfrentan cada uno cinco cargos: obstrucción de una investigación criminal, homicidio agravado de un menor, negligencia infantil con gran daño corporal, manipulación de evidencia y alterar o manipular un cadáver, su vestimenta o elementos circundantes sin autorización.

La madre de Watts tiene la custodia de la hija de 2 años desde que tenía aproximadamente 5 meses, luego de que Garcia y la bebé dieran positivo a THC al nacer, según la orden de arresto.

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Anfernee Watts, who also has a 2-year-old daighter, appeared in Broward bond court on Thursday, and a judge denied him bail.

Watts “admitted to fabricating a story to present to law enforcement, placing the deceased baby back into the playpen in an effort to make it appear as though the baby died in his sleep,” a police officer wrote, according to an arrest warrant.

Crystal Garcia was 20 years old when she gave birth to their son on July 11 at Memorial Regional Hospital, according to police.

A pediatrician reported the baby boy was in good health on July 28, according to the arrest warrant. The tragedy unfolded a few days later.

“She intentionally restrained the baby by tightly wrapping him in a blanket, securing a pacifier in his mouth, and strapping him into a car seat before placing him inside a bathtub and isolating him behind a closed door while loud music played,” and she “willfully ignored his distress and failed to check on him for several hours,” a detective wrote, according to the warrant.

Hollywood Fire Rescue personnel pronounced the baby dead at 1:50 p.m. on Aug. 1st, in a house at 6660 Thomas St., records show.

Police officers noticed a “disposable changing pad that appeared to have blood spotting on it,” and the baby “had visible foam in his mouth and cracked lips that appeared to have dried blood on them,” according to the arrest warrant.

Watts told police officers that he had attended a job interview when the baby died, but the alleged interviewee said that was false, according to the warrant.

The Broward Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the baby’s cause of death to be suffocation and the manner of death to be a homicide. The evidence also includes a video recorded by a Ring surveillance camera showing Garcia with a garbage bag before calling 911.

Watts’ mother contacted police to report that Garcia, 21, told her the baby died while pinned between the bed frame and the mattress, according to an arrest warrant.

Garcia left voicemails to police from Aug. 4 to Wednesday and admitted to lying and to report that she had “smothered” the baby, according to the arrest warrant.

“Crystal admitted she lied to the police out of fear of being arrested,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest warrant.

The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested the couple on Wednesday.

Corrections was holding Garcia without bond on Friday at the North Broward Bureau, a detention center in Pompano Beach, according to inmate records.

Garcia and Watts are each facing five charges: Obstruction of a criminal investigation, aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect with great bodily harm, tampering with evidence, and willfully touching, removing, or disturbing a dead body, clothing, or surrounding items without authorization.

Watt’s mother has had custody of their 2-year-old daughter since she was about 5 months old after Garcia and the baby tested positive for THC at birth, according to the arrest warrant.

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Reading prepared remarks at the White House on Thursday, Melania Trump said she and her attorneys were fighting back against “unfound and baseless lies” in regards to her connections to the late financier, a convicted sex offender who leveraged connections to the rich, powerful and famous to recruit his victims and cover up his crimes.

“The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today,” she said. “The individuals lying about me are devoid of ethical standards, humility and respect. I do not object to their ignorance, but rather I reject their mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation.”

The first lady didn't take questions from the press after her statement, leaving many with questions:

Why now?

It's unclear.

The message came as her husband, President Donald Trump, and his administration had finally seemed to move past more than a year of controversy surrounding Epstein, especially as the Iran war had become all-consuming in Washington.

The first lady’s comments almost assuredly will serve to push the story back into the political spotlight even as the president urged the public and media to move on from the case.

Who was Melania Trump responding to?

Melania Trump seemingly referenced a brief email from 2002 with the sender and recipient blacked out. It begins, “Dear G!” and ends “Love, Melania,” and compliments the recipient on a magazine article about “JE.”

“I know you are very busy flying all over the world,” it says. “How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY.”

That email was sent the same month that a New York Magazine article was published about Epstein in which Trump called him a “terrific guy.”

Melania Trump said Thursday that she was not friends with Epstein or his confidant and onetime girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, but was in overlapping social circles in New York and Florida. She described an email reply she sent to Maxwell as “casual correspondence” without elaborating.

“My polite reply to her email doesn’t amount to anything more than a trivial note,” she said.

Among other documents released was an image from Epstein’s home showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Donald Trump alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Maxwell.

Melania Trump noted Thursday that several individuals and organizations have had to apologize for their “lies about me.” Of the examples she cited, the most recent was in October. In that case, book publisher HarperCollins UK apologized to the first lady and retracted passages from a book suggesting Epstein played a role in introducing her and Donald Trump.

What did President Trump say about his wife’s comments?

MS ​NOW ​reporter Jacqueline Alemany said on social media Thursday that President Trump told her he ⁠did ​not “know anything ​about” ​Melania ​Trump’s statement about ⁠Epstein.

The White House press office did not respond to requests for comment.

Nick Clemens, a spokesperson for the first lady, said the West Wing was aware beforehand that she was making a statement. But he deferred to the West Wing on whether the content of what Melania Trump planned to say was known.

In recent weeks President Trump’s public appearances have largely centered around the war in Iran.

What is the status of the release of the Epstein files?

The first lady brought Epstein back to the forefront months after federal authorities released millions of pages of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the law enacted after months of public and political pressure. It requires the government to open its files on the late financier and Maxwell.

Lawmakers initially complained when the Justice Department made only a limited release, but officials said more time was needed to review additional documents that were discovered and to ensure no sensitive information about victims was released.

Did anyone get punished after the files were made public?

Several key leaders in Europe have been punished for their affiliation with Epstein but there have been no comparable prosecutions in the U.S.

Most notably, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — Britain's former Prince Andrew — was arrested in February following the most recent trove of files that were released. Mountbatten-Windsor's name frequently appeared in the files, depicting a close relationship with Epstein.

But his arrest didn't have anything to do with sexual impropriety. Instead, he was arrested for allegedly sharing confidential trade information with Epstein.

Melania Trump called on Congress to hold a public hearing centered on survivors of Epstein’s crimes, with a chance to testify before lawmakers and have their stories entered into the congressional record.

“Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes,” she said. “Then, and only then, we will have the truth.”

The unveiling of Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki's statue had an unforced error on Friday — a broken bat.

As broadcaster Rick Rizzs declared “we're going to count down from 51!” — a nod to Suzuki's jersey number, which was retired by the Seattle Mariners — the curtain covering the bronze statue was pulled down, and so, too, went the bat.

A snapping noise could be heard as the bronze bat flopped down and confetti sprouted up.

“Here it is! The statue of one of the greatest players in the history of the game!” Rizzs declared as the curtain was pulled and a celebratory tune played outside of T-Mobile Park.

The statue depicts Suzuki in his batting stance. He appeared to find the mishap to be hilarious, and joked through an interpreter that New York Yankees Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera got the best of him again.

“I didn’t think Mariano would come out here,” Suzuki said with a smile, “and break the bat.”

It did not take long for the Mariners to fix the statue; Suzuki’s bat was soon turned upright and reconnected at the handle. The statue was sculpted by Chicago-based Lou Cella, who also produced statues of Mariners greats Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez, University of Washington football coach Don James, Seattle Storm legend Sue Bird, and former Seattle SuperSonics player and coach Lenny Wilkens.

Suzuki said he wore a jersey from the 2001 season, when he won both AL MVP and Rookie of the Year, for a photo shoot with Cella.

“I can say I was happy that I was still able to fit into that uniform, and probably could say Junior and Edgar probably couldn’t do that,” Suzuki said. “So, I was happy about that.”

Suzuki was inducted into the Hall of Fame last summer and last year became only the third Mariners player to have his jersey retired by the franchise, joining Griffey (No. 24) and Martinez (No. 11).

Griffey and Martinez joined Suzuki for the ceremony and helped him pull the curtain off the statue.

“To have this moment with them, I look back at how it all started,” Suzuki said. “And it’s just been an unbelievable experience.”

Suzuki made history as the first Japanese-born player inducted into the Hall of Fame, earning a near-unanimous 99.7% of the vote from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

The way the jovial Suzuki saw it, his statue having an imperfection was only fitting.

“In the Hall of Fame, I was short one vote,” Suzuki said. “Today, the bat was broke. It kind of lets me know that I’m still not there, that I still need to keep going. So, this is a good example of that.”

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Adams, a Democrat, received the honorary citizenship “at his request,” according to an official decree from the country’s president, Bajram Begaj.

The news was first reported in the Albanian press and confirmed by a spokesperson for Adams, who said the ex-mayor had “long been a friend and ally of the Albanian-American community.”

“The decision by the Republic of Albania to grant Mayor Adams citizenship reflects that enduring relationship and mutual respect,” the spokesperson, Todd Shapiro, said in a text message, adding that the recognition “further strengthens the bond between New York and Albania.”

Adams, who once described himself as an “international mayor,” has previously expressed an affinity for the small Balkan nation. His adult son lived in the country while competing in Albania’s version of “American Idol." Adams traveled there himself in October — one of several international trips taken in his final months in office.

The purpose, he said at the time, was “to say hello to a friend and learn from a friend and build a relationship with a friendship that will not allow our oceans or seas to divide us.”

It wasn’t immediately clear what, if anything, Adams planned to do with his new citizenship. But he has previously expressed a desire to move far from his hometown of New York City.

“When I retire from government, I’m going to live in Baku,” Adams, then Brooklyn Borough President, said at an event honoring the Azerbaijan community in 2018. A few years later, in an interview with a Jewish publication, Adams said he would like to retire in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

As mayor, Adams' penchant for international trips to Turkey prompted a federal indictment focused, in part, on allegations that he accepted improper travel benefits from foreign nationals.

Adams denied the allegations, and the case was later ordered dropped by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Adams later met with Trump administration officials about the possibility of taking an ambassadorship, which did not materialize.

Shortly after dropping his ailing bid for reelection, Adams embarked on a four-day trip to Albania, meeting with the country’s Prime Minister Edi Rama and members of his Cabinet, along with local business leaders. The trip was paid for in part by the Albanian government.

Since leaving office, Adams has been spotted in Dubai and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also told reporters that he planned to fly to Senegal for a business opportunity, which he declined to discuss further.

In January, he launched a cryptocurrency coin that he said would beat back antisemitism and “anti-Americanism,” but it drew scrutiny after losing millions of dollars in value.

The team announced that Conine was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring tear after attempting to make a diving catch in left field during Thursday’s series finale win against the Cincinnati Reds.

Conine is batting .273 with a .951 OPS, six hits, two home runs, and four RBIs in 22 plate appearances this season.

It is still unknown how long he will be out.

The Marlins also recalled infielder Deyvison De Los Santos from Triple-A Jacksonville.

Imanaga struck out nine and walked one. He threw 100 pitches, 68 for strikes.

O’Hearn greeted Thielbar with a liner to right on a 1-1 slider. Bryan Reynolds drove Thielbar's next pitch deep to left for his third homer, lifting the Pirates to a 2-0 lead on a chilly afternoon at Wrigley Field.

Pittsburgh got its first baserunner when Oneil Cruz walked with two down in the second. Imanaga then fanned rookie Konnor Griffin for the final out of the inning.

The 32-year-old Imanaga went 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA in his first two starts of the season.

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Schaefer still has three-time All-American Madison Booker to build around, but the departures were jarring. A program coming off consecutive Final Four appearances was expecting to refresh and reload behind Booker, a group of seasoned veterans and one of the top recruiting classes in the country.

Texas was already losing starting point guard Rori Harmon and center Kyla Oldacre, as well as key reserve forward Teya Sidberry as all three had expired their college eligibility.

But soon after the transfer portal opened, a trio of players who were expected to be major contributors next year bolted.

Sophomore Jordan Lee, the team’s second-leading scorer who started 38 games and averaged 13.2 points and was the team's top 3-point shooter, was among them. So was Aaliyah Crump, who was one of the top recruits in the country in 2025. She missed 15 games last season with a foot injury but played in 24, averaging 7.9 points.

And sophomore Justice Carlton, who flashed moments of brilliance but also struggled with consistency, started 28 games and averaged 8.5 points. Also transferring is Aaliyah Moore, who missed last season with an injury.

Carlton posted on social media that she had wanted to play her entire career at Texas.

“I never imagined I'd transfer,” she wrote, “But some things just don't work.”

Schaefer did not plan to make a comment on the departures, a team spokesman said.

The players transferring out leave a team that has rocketed into the national elite in Schaefer's six seasons. In that span, Texas returned to the Final Four for the first time since 2003 and advanced to the Elite Eight three other times.

Texas won a share of the Southeastern Conference regular-season title in 2025 and won the league tournament this past season. Texas also earned No. 1 seeds for the NCAA Tournament the last three years.

Schaefer has proven to be a demanding coach to play for, and willing to publicly criticize his players.

After an 18-point loss in Nashville on Feb. 12, he went on a postgame rant that questioned his team’s heart and called the Longhorns “probably the softest team I’ve had in years.”

They didn't lose again until the Final Four. Schaefer's comments followed the team to Phoenix, where Harmon and Booker said the players had responded well to their coach's rebuke.

The roster needs an overhaul for next season but is far from bare. Schaefer's incoming recruiting class is ranked among the best in the nation, highlighted by guard Addison Bjorn and forward Brihanna Crittendon.

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Rozier was with the Heat for one game this season — the opener at Orlando on Oct. 22, a contest in which he did not play. He was arrested by federal officials at the team hotel the following morning on charges that he offered information to help people win bets on his stat totals in a 2023 game when was with the Charlotte Hornets.

Miami has until Sunday to sign another player. It’ll open play in the play-in tournament either Tuesday or Wednesday.

Rozier was placed on leave by the NBA shortly after his arrest. He has collected his $26.6 million salary this season; the Heat were first paying it into an interest-bearing account, and an arbitrator later ruled that Rozier should be getting the money despite his legal issues.

The Heat traded for Rozier in January 2024, unaware of the gambling probe. Miami sent Kyle Lowry and a 2027 first-round pick to Charlotte in return for Rozier; last month, the Hornets wound up giving Miami a second-round pick in this year’s draft, a largely unprecedented move presumably to close the dispute over what wasn’t disclosed at the time of the original deal.

Miami, like all teams, had until 5 p.m. Friday to waive a player with either an expiring contract or one where the team held an option for next season. The Heat, albeit in name only, have continued listing Rozier on injury reports as “not with team” all season, and his nameplate has even remained over his stall in the team locker room even after it became obvious that he would not be with the team again.

It’s not known how much contact Rozier — who was in the final year of his four-year, $96.2 million contract — has had with the Heat since his arrest. He did reach out to some in the organization via text in celebration of Bam Adebayo’s 83-point game against Washington, but hasn’t been known to have been around the team in any way since October.

The NBA was aware of unusual prop bet activity surrounding Rozier’s performance in that March 23, 2023, game he played with Charlotte against the New Orleans Pelicans; it was flagged by sportsbooks that afternoon, but a league probe — not the federal investigation — found no reason at that time to keep him from playing.

Rozier was in the starting lineup for Charlotte for that game and played reasonably well in 9 1/2 minutes of action, with five points, four rebounds, two assists and a steal. That remains one of only two times in his career that he had that many points, rebounds and assists in a first quarter.

Rozier cited foot pain as his reason for not returning to that game. The Hornets have not said publicly if they were aware of any federal probes into Rozier’s conduct at that time.

Rozier has averaged 13.9 points per game in his career, which includes stops with Charlotte and Boston before coming to Miami. He appeared in 95 games with the Heat.

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Las autoridades indicaron que los agentes acudieron al área de la calle 58 del suroeste y la avenida 120 del suroeste, en el vecindario de Kendale Lakes.

La escuela, que abarca desde prekindergarten hasta grado 12, está ubicada cerca de la intersección.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escuela a las 2:53 p.m., donde se observaba a agentes y equipos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue en la escena.

Las autoridades informaron que los agentes realizaron una revisión de seguridad exhaustiva del campus siguiendo los protocolos establecidos.

Posteriormente, los equipos de respuesta concluyeron la inspección y determinaron que la llamada fue un incidente de “swatting”.

Los estudiantes y el personal ya regresaron a la escuela.

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Authorities said MDSO deputies were called to the area of Southwest 58th Street and Southwest 120th Avenue in the Kendale Lakes neighborhood.

The pre-kindergarten–12 school is located near the intersection.

Sky 10 flew over the school at 2:53 p.m., where deputies and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews were at the scene.

Authorities said deputies conducted a comprehensive security sweep of the campus while following established safety protocols.

First responders later concluded the sweep and determined the call was a swatting incident. Students and staff have since returned to the school.

No other details were immediately released.

The 12-page plan released by the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts shows the arch will stand 250 feet tall (76.2 meters) from its base to the tip of the winged figure's torch, with “One Nation Under God” and “Liberty and Justice for All” inscribed in gold atop either side of the monument.

The plan indicates the structure would stand between the Lincoln Memorial in the east and Arlington National Cemetery toward the west and within a traffic circle connecting Washington with northern Virginia. The arch would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial, which stands at 99 feet tall (30.2 meters).

Trump wrote on social media that it “will be the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal Arch, anywhere in the World. This will be a wonderful addition to the Washington D.C. area for all Americans to enjoy for many decades to come!”

Trump has said he wants to build the arch near the Lincoln Memorial and argued that the nation’s capital first sought such a monument 200 years ago.

“It was interrupted by a thing called the Civil War, and so it never got built,” Trump said in February. “Then, they almost built something in 1902, but it never happened.”

Trump has said that major cities around the world have such monuments, and Washington is the only one without one.

The arch is one of several architectural changes Trump is making in his second term. In addition to building a large ballroom at the White House, he's also made changes to the Oval Office and converted the Rose Garden into a stone-covered patio.

The arch goes beyond the White House, giving Trump a chance to leave another lasting monument in a city known for them. It would expand on his earlier talk of sprucing up the city by replacing its “tired” grasses, and broken signage and street medians.

Rolbert Joachin, 40, was arrested and charged with killing a woman on April 2 in Fort Myers, about 160 miles northwest of Miami. Authorities said the man was from Haiti and arrived in the U.S. in 2022. The woman who was killed was identified as a 51-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh and a mother of two adult daughters.

Trump, who posted the video late Thursday to his Truth Social account, has often sought to portray immigrants as bringing crime to the U.S., and the video emerging from the Florida attack presented him with a new, particularly graphic opportunity to do so. Trump also often paints Democrats and his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, as allowing in immigrants who posed a criminal or national security threat to the U.S.

“The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see,” Trump said in his post, describing the man as an “animal."

Critics say the president unjustly paints all immigrants as criminals in an effort to bolster his immigration agenda, when studies have found that people living in the U.S. illegally are less likely than native-born Americans to have been arrested for violent, drug and property crimes.

“Our hearts are with the family of the victim during this unimaginably painful time," said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, which advocates for Haitian immigrants. “We condemn this act of violence in the strongest possible terms. But we must also be clear: one individual’s actions do not define an entire people. The exploitation of this tragedy to demonize Haitian immigrants and dismantle humanitarian protections is both unjust and deeply harmful.”

Graphic video captured woman's killing

The woman who was killed was working as a clerk at the convenience store of the gas station, according to court documents. The killing happened outside the store and the man was arrested the same day.

In security camera footage of her killing posted on the Department of Homeland Security's X feed, the man can be seen repeatedly slamming the hammer into a black vehicle parked in front of the gas station. Eventually, a woman in black pants and a pink shirt comes out and appears to question him.

The man, wearing a yellow shirt and black shorts, walks up to the woman and immediately swings the hammer at her head. The woman falls down on the sidewalk in front of the gas station’s front doors. The man attacks the woman with the hammer multiple times before stepping over her unmoving body and walking away, out of the frame of the camera.

The victim was later ıdentified in a police report as Nilufa Easmın, 51. A GoFundMe started by Samir Bahadur Syed, the President of the Bangladesh Association of Southwest Florida, described her as a "devoted mother who worked tirelessly to provide for her two young daughters."

Syed said that Easmin arrived in the United States about three decades ago and resided in Miami and Palm Beach before moving to Florida’s west coast. She was a single mother, and her two daughters — one 23 years old and the other about 26 — were born in the U.S., Syed told The Associated Press.

He added that Easmin had been working at the convenience store for nearly five months and that she also held another job.

Fort Myers police said they responded to a report of a woman being hit with a hammer at a Chevron gas station. When officers arrived, they found a woman on the ground with blood around her head and multiple cuts.

Officers later located Joachin walking on the street and took him into custody. The police said he has confessed. He was charged with murder and property damage and appeared in court on Wednesday. His arraignment is set for May 4.

An email message sent to the public defender listed in court records as Joachin’s lawyer seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Trump administration criticizes temporary deportation protections

Trump blamed Biden for granting the man temporary protection to stay in the U.S.

Kelei Walker, acting field office director for ICE enforcement and removal operations in Miami, said during a news conference Friday that Joachin arrived in a “water vessel” near Key West, Florida, in August 2022. He was arrested and given Temporary Protective Status in 2023. That status was revoked this week, Walker said.

“We’ll make sure he never gets to the streets of the United States and gets back to his home country,” she said.

The Trump administration has harshly criticized the use of Temporary Protected Status, which can be granted by the administration to citizens of a country experiencing turmoil or strife. Immigrants who qualify are allowed to stay in the U.S. and work for a temporary period, although Republican critics contend that the Biden administration misused its TPS authorities to broadly allow hundreds of thousands of people to stay in the country.

There are several lawsuits in the federal courts challenging Trump's efforts to terminate TPS for more than one million people, including 350,000 Haitians. In March, a federal appeals court sided with a lower judge’s ruling against the end of temporary status for Haitians, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 29.

The Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration have often highlighted crimes committed by immigrants and created a website where people can look up people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the crimes they’ve committed in the U.S.

The administration often highlights “Angel Families” who have lost family members to crimes committed by immigrants.

On Thursday, ICE held an event marking the one-year anniversary of the reopening of an office dedicated to assisting those families, including emotional testimony from some of the surviving family members.

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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the first name of the acting director of ICE's Miami field office. It is Kelei, not Kelly.

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Bellisle reported from Seattle and Santana from Washington.

Y según analistas consultados el viernes, el conflicto no muestra señales de resolverse en el corto plazo.

La tensión está causando graves afectaciones a los sectores productivos de ambos países, especialmente en la zona fronteriza donde hasta hace unos meses el comercio, el transporte de mercancías, de bodegas y servicios eran incesantes.

La guerra arancelaria comenzó a fines de enero cuando Ecuador reclamó a Colombia por la falta de control de su lado de la frontera, donde actúan con relativa libertad grupos armados y del narcotráfico y se quejó de una balanza comercial negativa de casi 1.000 millones de dólares anuales.

Afectaciones económicas y comerciales

Ecuador subió la víspera al 100% los aranceles a los productos colombianos y la respuesta no tardó en llegar. El viernes el Ministerio de Comercio colombiano anunció que aumentaría el arancel a las importaciones provenientes de Ecuador del 30% al 100% en una propuesta que llevará a un comité antes de dejarla firma y que busca "restablecer las condiciones equitativas en el intercambio comercial”.

El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro matizó la medida al asegurar en la red social X que su país permitirá que producción ecuatoriana necesaria ingrese “a cero por ciento de arancel”, sin dar más detalles. Hasta ahora, Colombia ha puesto aranceles sólo a decenas de productos ecuatorianos.

“Es un mensaje concreto de querer aniquilar totalmente el mercado de exportaciones entre Colombia y Ecuador, porque con un arancel del 100% obviamente saca de competitividad a las empresas colombianas”, advirtió a The Associated Press Oliva Diazgranados, directora ejecutiva de la Cámara Colombo Ecuatoriana, con sede en Bogotá.

Vaticinó que la mayoría de las empresas no lograrán sobrevivir hasta agosto, cuando se produzca el cambio de gobierno en Colombia, y estimó que ya han perdido cerca de 800 millones de dólares de intercambio comercial.

Expectativa por cambio político en Colombia

El presidente ecuatoriano Daniel Noboa lamentó el jueves en X que no se pueda llegar a acuerdos “con quien no tiene el mismo compromiso para luchar contra el narcoterrorismo”, aunque evitó mencionar a su par colombiano. Aseguró que espera que en el futuro pueda “conversar con un gobierno que sí esté comprometido con combatir la delincuencia y el narcotráfico”.

Colombia elegirá al sucesor de Petro el 31 de mayo y en caso de que ningún candidato alcance la cantidad de votos exigida por la ley irá a un balotaje en junio. En la carrera presidencial compiten 14 candidatos, entre ellos el senador Iván Cepeda, del partido de Petro; la senadora Paloma Valencia y el ultraderechista Abelardo de la Espriella.

El analista político y profesor de la Universidad Andina, Gustavo Isch, dijo que ve "imposible una salida en el corto plazo” a la crisis bilateral porque Ecuador tiene una política internacional y comercial “anclada a Estados Unidos y ese país no es afín al gobierno colombiano”.

Al tiempo que Noboa reclamaba a Colombia por no actuar con eficacia contra el crimen en la frontera, anunció operaciones conjuntas con Estados Unidos contra el crimen organizado.

“Esa alianza se está fortaleciendo y están tomando ventaja del anti-petrismo de oficiales dentro del Departamento de Estado, para ser aún más audaces con Colombia porque saben que Estados Unidos los va a apoyar”, dijo a la AP Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, directora para los Andes de la Oficina en Washington para Asuntos Latinoamericanos (WOLA).

Una compleja frontera

La extensa y porosa franja limítrofe ha sido usada por años por grupos armados ilegales colombianos vinculados al tráfico de drogas, la minería ilegal, el contrabando y la trata de personas que se asocian con bandas locales ecuatorianas, según el gobierno de Noboa.

La tensión política podría tener consecuencias “muy serias” en el ámbito de la seguridad según Grace Jaramillo, analista internacional y catedrática de Universidad de la Columbia Británica en Vancouver, Canadá.

Jaramillo explicó que cuando no hay confianza bilateral “no hay inteligencia compartida, seguridad, control del tráfico de narcóticos, de armas, de movimientos del crimen organizado. Eso es gravísimo”.

Organismos internacionales han advertido que el 70% de la droga que llega a Ecuador se produce en Colombia. Petro ha dicho que su gobierno ha priorizado la incautación de droga logrando resultados récord y aumentando la presencia militar en la frontera compartida, mientras cuestionó que Ecuador “debilitó la vigilancia en los puertos marítimos”.

Jaramillo aseguró que la crisis podría resolverse si Noboa elimina la tasa a los productos colombianos que “nunca debió comprometer el comercio con otro país” y que afecta especialmente a Ecuador.

El mercado colombiano recibe 1.150 productos ecuatorianos y es el quinto destino de sus exportaciones no petroleras —entre las que se destacan las grasas y aceites vegetales, las conservas de atún, la madera, el camarón y minerales. Al menos 620 empresas ecuatorianas están vinculadas con la exportación a Colombia, según la Federación Ecuatoriana de Exportadores.

El exministro de Economía de Ecuador, Fausto Ortiz, aseguró a AP que debido a la magnitud de la economía colombiana es “más fácil que asimile el impacto de las medidas impuestas por Ecuador".

“Es un desgaste innecesario” que causa un efecto que “tomará un proceso largo para ser restaurado desde cuando haya una solución”, aseguró Ortiz, quien advirtió que la incertidumbre paraliza las empresas, causa despidos y alienta el contrabando.

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Offset, one-third of the influential hip-hop trio Migos, was shot Monday night following a fight at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, just north of Miami.

On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Offset confirmed that the rapper was in stable condition, but his exact condition was unknown. Police said the injuries were not life-threatening.

“Offset has been released from the hospital and he is up and walking," a representative for Offset said on Friday. "We’re incredibly grateful to the doctors, nurses, and the entire hospital staff who took such great care of him.”

The rapper shared his own statement on social media Friday, writing, “Thank you to everyone who’s checked in on me and showed me love! I’m good….but I’m planning to be better! I’m focused on my family, my recovery, and getting back to the music…realizing that life is made up of quiet wins and loud losses...”

“Life’s a gamble and I’m still playing to win,” he concluded.

Earlier this week, officers detained two people. The rapper Lil Tjay, born Tione Jayden Merritt, was arrested in connection with the altercation that occurred before the shooting, the Seminole Police Department in Florida said. He was charged with disorderly conduct and operating a vehicle without a valid license.

The second person detained at the scene has not been charged and investigators were working to identify others involved, police said in a statement Tuesday.

Offset, born Kiari Kendrell Cephus, launched his career with Migos, one of the most popular hip-hop groups of all time. The Atlanta trio is celebrated for their rapid-fire triplet flow, an often-imitated delivery that changed the trajectory of trap.

The group had several multiplatinum selling singles, including “Bad and Boujee,” which went No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart, “Stir Fry,” and “Narcos." Migos released four full-length albums across their career.

More than three years ago, Offset’s cousin Takeoff, another member of Migos, was shot and killed at a Houston bowling alley.

As a solo artist known for his idiosyncratic style — a melodic, aggressive finesse — Offset has released three full-length albums.

He was also previously married to the rapper Cardi B. The pair were secretly wed in September 2017 in Atlanta. In 2024, Cardi B announced that she filed for divorce. They have three children together.

The White Sox announced on Friday that they will hand out pope-themed hats to all fans who attend their Aug. 11 game against Cincinnati. The promotional item was originally limited to fans who had purchased specialty theme night tickets.

“The fans have spoken, and unlike some of our more limited quantity promotions, the White Sox Pope Hat is one we believe all fans should have the opportunity to take home,” Brooks Boyer, the chief revenue and marketing officer for the team, said in a release. “We viewed the promotion as a creative way to celebrate one of the franchise’s most popular fans, and by the overwhelming response we received, White Sox fans certainly agreed.”

The hats are shaped like the Pope’s miter, with the team’s sock logo in the middle. The White Sox said fans who had already purchased the specialty tickets would receive the hat and an additional item.

The pope, the former Robert Prevost, attended Chicago's 2005 World Series opener against Houston and watched as his beloved team beat the Astros 5-3 on the way to a four-game sweep and its first title since 1917.

In May, the White Sox unveiled a graphic installation near the seat paying tribute to Pope Leo and that moment. The pillar artwork features a waving Pope Leo XIV, along with a picture from the TV broadcast of the future pope sitting with good friend Ed Schmit and his grandson, Eddie.

In June, Rate Field hosted an event honoring his election as the first American pope. A month later, at a pregame ceremony honoring the 2005 team, White Sox great Paul Konerko was presented a jersey signed by the pope, a gift from one No. 14 to another.

Pope Leo broke Vatican protocol by donning a White Sox cap last year. In October, he shouted “they lost” to someone who screamed “go Cubs.” And a few weeks ago, he gave a thumbs up to someone who yelled “God bless the White Sox!”

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Researchers looked at 1,600 tropical cyclones — the broader category of storms that includes hurricanes — that made landfall since 1981 and found those that went over the extra-hot water were more likely to intensify rapidly, a problem that's becoming more frequent. This resulted in 60% more disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damage — adjusted for inflation — when they hit land, according to a study in Friday's journal Science Advances.

A better understanding of how marine heat waves amplify hurricanes could help forecasters, emergency officials and long-term planners prepare for future storms.

The study defined marine heat waves as long-lasting, large areas of water in the top 10% of historical heat. They are becoming more of a danger with climate change and ever hotter oceans, study authors said. Warm water is fuel for hurricanes.

“These marine heat waves affect more than half of landfalling tropical cyclones,'' said study co-author Gregory Foltz, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “They're happening closer to land and more frequently, so I think people need to pay attention and know that these are more likely to result in extreme damages when they make landfall.”

It's important for meteorologists forecasting the storm track to see if these hurricanes go over a marine heat wave because it is more likely to intensify rapidly which “can potentially have a bigger impact on landfall,” Foltz said.

Just look at damaging hurricanes that smacked the United States in 2023, said study co-author Hamed Moftakhari, a coastal engineering professor who studies compound hazards at the University of Alabama.

“The story of Helene and Milton is that if you've got a warmer ocean, you've got the fuel to supercharge tropical cyclones even in a cascade. So within a few weeks you could get two rapidly intensified hurricanes making landfall in the west coast of Florida,” Moftakhari said. “This is shocking but should also be alarming for people.”

The study also points to October 2023's Hurricane Otis, which rapidly intensified from a tropical storm to a top level Category 5 hurricane in one day, then caused about $16 billion in damage and 52 deaths when it made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, with 165 mph (265 kph) winds.

Researchers said the higher damage, compared with storms that didn’t cross marine heat waves, wasn’t driven by increased coastal development. Storms that crossed hot water and hit developed coasts were contrasted with other storms that hit similarly urbanized areas but without crossing hot water, said study lead author Soheil Radfar, a scientist who does hurricane hazard modeling at Princeton University.

Science has long known that warm water fuels and often strengthens tropical cyclones, providing more of a link on causation.

That means the future looks more dangerous, Radfar said.

“All these pieces of the puzzle are going to be really challenging for the coastal environment in the next four decades when you have more rapid intensification, more marine heat waves," Radfar said. This “is going to be really costly and frightening for the coastline environment, and it’s going to cause more billion-dollar disasters in the future.”

Moftakhari said “from a coastal engineering and risk management perspective, this has important implications for how governments plan, design, and respond to these hazards.”

Evacuation planning must account for storms that cross ocean hot spots being more likely to intensify rapidly and pose greater threats, according to Moftakhari. Earlier warnings and triggers on when people leave may be needed when there are marine heat waves. Designs for flood protection, drainage system, sea walls all have to be updated to the new worsening storm reality, he said.

Outside scientists said the study fits with the known physics of hurricanes and climate change, while putting a more specific number on the likelihood for mega-damage when marine heat waves are present.

“Climate change is causing stronger and longer-duration marine heat waves. Tropical cyclones draw their energy and produce heavy rain via evaporation from warm ocean waters,” said University at Albany atmospheric sciences professor Brian Tang, who wasn't part of the study. “It’s reasonable that marine heat waves are turbocharging hurricanes, provided other environmental conditions are favorable for hurricanes to intensify. In effect, the dice is being loaded.”

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MLB said that 6.8% of players on opening day rosters, injured lists and the restricted list were Black, up from 6.2% at the start of the 2025 season and 6.0% at the beginning of 2024.

This year's 0.6% increase was the most in a season since a 0.7% rise from 2017 to 2018.

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at Central Florida issued annual studies that showed the percentage was 18% when its reports started in 1991.

Twenty of the 64 Black players had been in programs such as the MLB Youth Academy, Breakthrough Series, DREAM Series, Nike RBI and the Hank Aaron Invitational.

MLB said the total includes 22 players 25 or younger and eight older than 32. The average age of Black players was 27.8 and the overall average 29.25.

In addition, 17 Black players assigned to the minor leagues were on opening day 40-man rosters, including seven from MLB development programs. That group included Milwaukee outfielder Blake Perkins, who was brought up to the Brewers on March 26.

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Karl Jordan Jr. had been positioned for release as soon as Friday. But then federal prosecutors appealed a judge's decision granting him bond with electronic monitoring, and the judge agreed Friday to put it on hold while that appeal plays out.

A message seeking comment was sent to Jordan's attorneys. Prosecutors declined to comment.

Jordan and another man, Ronald Washington, were convicted in 2024, more than two decades after the Run-DMC turntable ace was gunned down in his recording studio. Both men had pleaded not guilty.

This past December, a judge overturned Jordan’s conviction and acquitted him, while upholding the verdict against Washington.

Prosecutors argued that Jordan should remain behind bars while they appeal his acquittal and he awaits trial on unrelated drug charges. He has pleaded not guilty to those.

Jordan's lawyers said the 42-year-old, who was seriously wounded in a stabbing in Brooklyn’s troubled federal jail, ought to get bond. A roster of loved ones has agreed to co-sign the bond and to put up properties amounting to everything they have, his attorneys said.

Jam Master Jay, born Jason Mizell, and his fellow Run-DMC members helped launch rap into music’s mainstream with 1980s hits including “It’s Tricky” and a remake of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way.”

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According to police, the boy, who was initially believed to be named Lucas or Legacy, was found at about 11 p.m. Wednesday by the man, wandering around the area of Northwest Seventh Avenue and 17^th Street.

“God sent me there. I had to do what God say to do,” Arnett Johnson said.

Johnson has been sleeping on a bench in the area for six months after serving time in prison.

He told Local 10 that you see a lot of things go down in the area, but don’t often see a child by themselves.

“I’m looking around for a parent, but I looked and I don’t see nobody. You know what I’m saying? So I’m like, what is this kid doing out here outside at this time of night?” Johnson said.

Johnson said he immediately knew something was wrong, so he called police and stayed with the young boy until authorities arrived.

“This was a good Samaritan that was sleeping in the streets, and he called us and gave us that information. You know, kudos to him. We don’t know what would have happened if he would have remained on the streets,” Miami police Officer Mike Vega said.

Investigators say the child told them, “Mommy drop me off and left me.”

Police said the boy has delayed speech, which made it difficult for them to get information from him.

However, an officer from Miami-Dade Schools Police called the Miami Police Department shortly after 10:34 a.m. Thursday and was able to identify the boy after seeing the “need to identify” flyer.

According to the report, police were then able to make contact with a witness who told them she has known the mother, Annie Rivera, 30, for a few years and Rivera and the boy recently moved in with her and her children.

Police said she went to bed at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and noticed that Rivera and her son were not home.

She said she heard the front door open in the middle of the night and assumed it was Rivera so she went back to sleep, authorities said.

Police said the witness woke up at about 6 a.m. Thursday to get her kids and herself ready for the day when they went downstairs and saw Rivera sleeping.

According to the report, one of the witness’ children asked where the boy was and the witness said she didn’t know and assumed he was at his godmother’s home.

Police said Rivera was found at about 11:40 a.m. Thursday and was taken into custody.

Rivera claimed to have had no idea that her son was gone, police said.

The full statement she made to detectives was redacted from the publicly released report.

Rivera is facing a charge of child neglect without bodily harm.

The boy, whose name has not been publicly released, is now in the care of the Florida Department of Children and Families.

“It’s dangerous everyday out here, right here,” Johnson said. “Especially, we got homeless people all together, and you’ve got fixed minds -- it’s dangerous.”

Rivera cried in front of a Miami-Dade County judge in bond court Friday, where she was ordered held on a $2,500 bond, which she has since posted.

It’s a story that could have gone much worse, but didn’t -- all because of an unlikely guardian angel.

“Probably anyone would have done the same thing I did, you know?” Johnson said.

Según la policía, el menor, que inicialmente se creía que se llamaba Lucas o Legacy, fue encontrado alrededor de las 11 p.m. del miércoles por el hombre, caminando por el área de la Séptima Avenida del noroeste y la calle 17.

“Dios me envió allí. Tenía que hacer lo que Dios me dijo que hiciera”, dijo Arnett Johnson.

Johnson ha estado durmiendo en un banco en el área durante seis meses después de cumplir tiempo en prisión.

Le dijo a Local 10 que en el área se ven muchas cosas, pero no es común ver a un niño solo.

“Estoy mirando alrededor buscando a un padre, pero miro y no veo a nadie. ¿Entiendes? Entonces pienso, ¿qué hace este niño aquí afuera a esta hora de la noche?”, dijo Johnson.

Johnson dijo que de inmediato supo que algo estaba mal, por lo que llamó a la policía y permaneció con el menor hasta que llegaron las autoridades.

“Este fue un buen samaritano que estaba durmiendo en la calle, y nos llamó y nos dio esa información. Reconocimiento para él. No sabemos qué habría pasado si el niño hubiera permanecido en la calle”, dijo el agente de la policía de Miami Mike Vega.

Los investigadores dicen que el niño les dijo: “Mami me dejó aquí y se fue”.

La policía indicó que el menor tiene retraso en el habla, lo que dificultó obtener información de él.

Sin embargo, un agente de la Policía Escolar de Miami-Dade llamó al Departamento de Policía de Miami poco después de las 10:34 a.m. del jueves y pudo identificar al niño tras ver el volante de “necesidad de identificación”.

Según el informe, la policía pudo entonces contactar a una testigo que dijo conocer a la madre, Annie Rivera, de 30 años, desde hace algunos años, y que Rivera y el niño se habían mudado recientemente con ella y sus hijos.

La policía dijo que la mujer se fue a dormir alrededor de las 9:30 p.m. del miércoles y notó que Rivera y su hijo no estaban en la vivienda.

Indicó que escuchó la puerta principal abrirse en medio de la noche y asumió que era Rivera, por lo que volvió a dormirse, según las autoridades.

La policía dijo que la testigo se despertó alrededor de las 6 a.m. del jueves para preparar a sus hijos y a ella misma para el día, y cuando bajaron, vieron a Rivera dormida.

Según el informe, uno de los hijos de la testigo preguntó dónde estaba el niño, y ella respondió que no sabía y asumió que estaba en la casa de su madrina.

La policía dijo que Rivera fue localizada alrededor de las 11:40 a.m. del jueves y fue puesta bajo custodia.

Rivera afirmó no tener idea de que su hijo no estaba, según la policía.

La declaración completa que hizo a los detectives fue censurada en el informe público.

Rivera enfrenta un cargo de negligencia infantil sin causar daño corporal.

El niño, cuyo nombre no ha sido divulgado públicamente, está ahora bajo el cuidado del Departamento de Niños y Familias de Florida.

“Es peligroso todos los días aquí”, dijo Johnson. “Especialmente, hay personas sin hogar juntas, y hay mentes inestables — es peligroso”.

Rivera lloró frente a un juez del condado Miami-Dade durante la audiencia de fianza el viernes, donde se le impuso una fianza de $2,500 USD, la cual ya pagó.

Es una historia que pudo haber terminado mucho peor, pero no fue así, todo gracias a un inesperado ángel guardián.

“Probablemente cualquiera habría hecho lo mismo que yo, ¿sabes?”, dijo Johnson.

Yelitza Pérez, the 29-year-old mother of two girls, said President Donald Trump’s administration deported her husband to Venezuela, and she couldn’t afford to stay in the U.S. without him.

Pérez opted to self-deport. But once she arrived to her connecting flight at Miami International Airport, the airline did not allow her to board her flight to Venezuela without a safety pass.

“Oh my God! I almost wanted to die,” Pérez said.

The only way the airlines would allow her to fly to Venezuela was if she was able to get a pass or “salvoconducto” from a Venezuelan consulate or embassy, but those were closed in 2019.

Pérez was part of a larger group of Venezuelans who slept with their children at MIA, where they were unable to afford a hotel or food.

“I sat with my children to cry,” a mother, who asked to be referred to as Jennifer, said.

Pérez and Jennifer said they reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection to explain the dilemma. A CBP representative told Jennifer that CBP couldn’t help her.

“They couldn’t help me without a passport,” Jennifer said.

Jennifer reached out to a stranger on TikTok, who promised to help her in exchange for cash. The opportunistic fraudster stole her $520.

Miami-based nonprofit Hermanos De La Calle helped the vulnerable Venezuelans to get a place to stay and food while they remained stuck in a hopeless limbo.

Homeland Security has yet to respond to a request for information about the cases. A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar said she and her team were trying to find solutions.

Read the statement from DHS

In coordination with the Department of State, DHS actively engages with foreign governments to facilitate the travel documents for voluntary self-deportations. In some instances, however, the issuance of those documents is determined by the receiving country and cannot be compelled by the United States. DHS provides information and case-specific guidance to illegal aliens seeking to self-deport. Voluntary self-deportation remains subject to commercial carrier requirements and the admission requirements of the destination country.

DHS continues to support lawful and orderly departures and to work with interagency and international partners to mitigate documentation challenges where possible. We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure by utilizing the CBP Home app to receive a free flight home and $2,600.

Source: Steve Sapp, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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Police officers reported attempting a traffic stop. The driver of the car that had been reported stolen out of Plantation sped away, according to police.

The driver crashed into a fence and damaged a parked car at 660 Long Island Ave., according to Casey Liening, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.

After the crash, the driver attempted to flee again, but he didn’t get far — a police dog helped the officers to find him, according to Liening.

The Plantation Police Department was dealing with the carjacking case.

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

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Miami Beach officials made their message loud and clear.

“We have worked hard in this community, we are a vibrant part of this community, we help make this thing work,” Palace performer Tiffany T. Fantasia said.

Friday marked a resurrection of the nearly 4,000 pavers that were removed by the Florida Department of Transportation from the crosswalk at 12th Street and Ocean Drive.

“It’s so exciting because this is what it’s all about. This is about representing our community in the way our residents, our visitors, our businesses want to be represented,” Miami Beach Commissioner Tanya Katzoff Bhatt said.

Earlier this year, Katzoff Bhatt brought forth the idea of bringing the LGBTQ+ symbol back on city property.

“Some people say that this is just a road. It’s more than that,” State Sen. Shevrin Jones said.

Jones, a Democrat, was vocal in his stance against Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ order banning any road designs linked to social, political or ideological messages, citing safety concerns.

“To be able to have a seat at the table and to even fight against things like this – it’s an honor to be able to push back on bigotry,” Jones said.

Friday’s unveiling marks a new chapter in Miami Beach with a plaque memorializing the history of the crosswalk.

The talks are set to begin Tuesday in Washington and will be mediated by U.S. diplomats, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun's office said in a statement, citing the outcome of a call Friday among Israeli, Lebanese and U.S. ambassadors. The statement reiterated Beirut's position that the talks be held under a ceasefire or truce.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter later issued a statement describing next Tuesday's talks as “formal peace negotiations," but said a ceasefire was not on the agenda, in a stark contradiction to Aoun's remarks.

“Israel refused to discuss a ceasefire with the Hezbollah terrorist organization, which continues to attack Israel and is the main obstacle to peace between the two countries,” the statement read.

At least 13 members of Lebanon's State Security forces were killed in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Friday, while Hezbollah claimed an attack targeting a naval base in the Israeli port city of Ashdod some 145 kilometers (90 miles) from the border.

Israel launched strikes across several towns in southern Lebanon, including one on a government building in the southern city of Nabatieh that killed the government security personnel. Hezbollah claimed 31 other attacks on northern Israel and on Israeli ground troops that have invaded southern Lebanon.

Israel launched its latest aerial campaign and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon after Hezbollah fired rockets toward northern Israel in solidarity with Iran, its key ally and patron, on March 2.

At least 1,953 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to the Health Ministry. At least 303 were killed in a rapid series of 100 strikes that hit the country — including multiple areas in dense residential and commercial areas in central Beirut — in 10 minutes on Wednesday, the bloodiest day in the latest war between the two sides. Civil Defense first responders are still searching for bodies trapped under the rubble in the Lebanese capital.

Meanwhile, officials at Beirut's main government-run hospital on the southern edge of the capital fear it could be in the line of fire after the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for the surrounding suburbs, including the busy neighborhood of Jnah where the hospital is located. Israel has launched attacks in Jnah, both with and without warning.

The World Health Organization has since called for the Rafik Hariri University Hospital to be spared from attacks and not to evacuate, and WHO officials said Friday that they received assurances that it would not be struck. The hospital has not evacuated, though staff are fearful, as getting to work now requires them to drive on roads that can be struck at any time says Dr. Mohammad Cheaito, who heads the emergency department.

“The entire zone around the hospital was threatened and deemed dangerous,” he told The Associated Press. “But at the end of the day, we have a humanitarian duty.”

Lebanon hopes for truce while Hezbollah supporters reject talks

Lebanon's authorities have not yet commented on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement on Thursday of the decision to go ahead with talks. Netanyahu said the talks would revolve around disarming Hezbollah and establishing “peaceful relations” between the two countries.

A Lebanese official in government familiar with the developments said that a halt in the fighting is a critical condition for the country to engage in direct talks with Israel, similar to the one between the U.S. and Iran. It has yet to appoint a representative for negotiations. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.

Aoun had initially proposed the direct talks early on in the war on similar terms, at the time hoping for Israel to stop an escalation in airstrikes and to not invade the country. At the time, with only the backing of France, that failed.

On Wednesday, the U.S. and Iran announced a temporary ceasefire in the war that began on Feb. 28. It included Lebanon and other countries impacted in the wider regional conflict, mediator Pakistan announced. However, Israel — and later the United States — denied this. They want to separate the diplomatic tracks of the two wars.

Hezbollah considers Israel's attacks on Lebanon to be a violation of the ceasefire, while Beirut, in a bid to disarm Hezbollah and assert its full sovereignty over the country, says it wants to be included in talks related to Lebanon.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Kassem in a statement broadcast Thursday did not directly mention the prospect of Israel-Lebanon talks, but called on the Lebanese government to “stop giving free concessions” to Israel.

Dozens of supporters of the Iran-backed group protested outside of the Lebanese prime minister's office in central Beirut. They see the scheduled direct talks as a surrender to Israel, which says its troops will stay in the country indefinitely.

“Our blood has been spilled on this land, and our state is conspiring against us,” said protester Hassan Shuaib. “Our state wants to kill us; our state wants to strip us of our weapons.”

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Associated Press producer Malak Harb and video journalist Fadi Tawil in Beirut, and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

According to police, the boy, who was initially believed to be named Lucas or Legacy, was found at about 11 p.m. Wednesday by a man, wandering around the area of Northwest Seventh Avenue and 17^th Street in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood.

“This was a good Samaritan that was sleeping in the streets, and he called us and gave us that information. You know, kudos to him. We don’t know what would have happened if he would have remained on the streets,” Miami police Officer Mike Vega said.

According to an arrest report, police interviewed the boy and he said, “Mommy drop me off and left me.”

Police said the boy has delayed speech, which made it difficult for them to get information from him.

However, an officer from Miami-Dade Schools Police called the Miami Police Department shortly after 10:34 a.m. Thursday and was able to identify the boy after seeing the “need to identify” flyer.

According to the report, police were then able to make contact with a witness who told them she has known the mother, Annie Rivera, 30, for a few years and Rivera and the boy recently moved in with her and her children.

Police said she went to bed at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and noticed that Rivera and her son were not home.

She said she heard the front door open in the middle of the night and assumed it was Rivera so she went back to sleep, authorities said.

Police said the witness woke up at about 6 a.m. Thursday to get her kids and herself ready for the day when they went downstairs and saw Rivera sleeping.

According to the report, one of the witness’ children asked where the boy was and the witness said she didn’t know and assumed he was at his godmother’s home.

Police said Rivera was found at about 11:40 a.m. Thursday and was taken into custody.

Rivera claimed to have had no idea that her son was gone, police said.

The full statement she made to detectives was redacted from the publicly released report.

Rivera is facing a charge of child neglect without bodily harm.

The boy, whose name has not been publicly released, is now in the care of the Florida Department of Children and Families.

According to the arrest report, a DCF investigation involving Rivera was opened last year as well for allegations of “inadequate supervision.”

As of Thursday evening, Rivera was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her bond as “to be set.”

Sentebale, which supports young people living with HIV in Botswana and Lesotho, filed suit last month in London’s High Court, according to court records viewed Friday. Online filings show Harry and his friend, Mark Dyer, a former trustee at the charity, are being sued for either libel or slander. No documents were available.

“The charity seeks the court’s intervention, protection, and restitution following a coordinated adverse media campaign conducted since 25 March 2025 that has caused operational disruption and reputational harm to the charity, its leadership, and its strategic partners,” Sentebale said Friday in a statement on its website.

A spokesperson for Harry and Dyer said the pair “categorically reject these offensive and damaging claims.”

The lawsuit puts the Duke of Sussex in an unaccustomed position as a defendant in the High Court. Over the past three years, he has repeatedly been on the other side of litigation as the leading claimant in invasion of privacy suits against Britain's most prominent tabloids over allegations of phone hacking and unlawful snooping by journalists and the private eyes they hired.

Harry co-founded Sentebale, which means “forget me not” in the language of Lesotho, about 20 years ago in memory of his mother, who was a prominent advocate for treatment of HIV and AIDS and helped reduce stigma around the disease. Prince Seeiso of Lesotho was the co-founder.

Disagreements at the charity surfaced in 2023 over a new fundraising strategy, and the two founders stepped down as patrons in March 2025 in support of trustees who had quit.

At the time, they said the relationship between the board and its chair, Sophie Chandauka, was beyond repair. Chandauka later accused Harry of orchestrating a campaign of bullying and harassment to try to force her out.

As the dispute unfolded, Chandauka told Sky News that filming for one of Harry's Netflix programs had interfered with a scheduled fundraiser for Sentebale and that an incident with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, became a source of friction.

The Charity Commission for England and Wales investigated and criticized both sides for allowing the issue to become public and damaging the organization’s reputation, but found no evidence of widespread bullying or misogyny at Sentebale.

“Sentebale’s problems played out in the public eye, enabling a damaging dispute to harm the charity’s reputation, risk overshadowing its many achievements, and jeopardizing the charity’s ability to deliver for the very beneficiaries it was created to serve,” commission CEO David Holdsworth said in a statement in August 2025.

Harry’s spokesperson had criticized the commission’s report while Chandauka welcomed it.

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“I might. I am thinking about it,” Harris told Rev. Al Sharpton after he asked directly whether she was going to run for president in 2028.

Harris’ comments came during the National Action Network’s annual convention, where more than a half-dozen potential candidates appeared this week , hoping to make inroads among Black voters — who comprise one of Democrats’ most powerful blocs.

The Democrats' next presidential primary season won’t begin in earnest until after November’s midterm elections, but this week’s conference showcased a collection of Democrats already jockeying for position in what promises to be a crowded competition.

For now, at least, there is no clear early favorite. But there did appear to be a favorite at Sharpton's conference.

Harris, the nation's first Black female vice president and the Democrats' presidential nominee in 2024, earned the only standing ovation and the largest crowd of any other 2028 prospect this week.

Sharpton noted that Harris earned more votes in her losing 2024 campaign than even former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

“Whatever she decides to do, she made a point in history,” Sharpton said.

Harris has raised the possibility of another presidential bid before in the 15 months since she left office. She also recently launched a political action committee and began to travel across the United States to support Democrats, especially across the South.

Still, some in the party have shifted their focus to a new generation of Democratic leaders given Harris' struggle in the last presidential contest.

The convention lineup this week featured Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Rep. Ro Khanna of California, and Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego.

Buttigieg, speaking shortly after Harris left the stage, received soft applause from a room that was about half-empty. Some cheered when he mentioned supporting federal workers and minority businesses, but many attendees had streamed out of the packed auditorium after Harris’ speech in an effort to grab a selfie with the former vice president.

Buttigieg, like many other 2028 prospects this week, laughed off a question about whether he would seek the presidency again.

Harris was more explicit.

Three times she repeated, “I'm thinking about it,” when Sharpton asked her about a 2028 White House run.

“I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office footsteps away from the Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Oval Office and the situation room. I know what the job is, and I know what it requires,” Harris said.

She continued: “I am thinking about it in the context of who and where and how can the best job be done for the American people. That’s how I’m thinking about it. I’ll keep you posted."

The charges stem from a grand jury indictment related to the July 1 explosion that injured two others, Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Clara Nabity said. One of the people charged with murder is Samuel Machado, who was a Yolo County Sheriff's Department lieutenant at the time of the explosion. He illegally stored more than 1 million pounds (453,000 kilograms) of fireworks at his property and used his position at the sheriff's office to evade scrutiny as the operation grew, she said.

The explosion near the community of Esparto, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento, sparked a massive fire and led to nearby Fourth of July celebrations being called off.

"Samuel Machado’s participation included using his role as a trusted lieutenant to help shield the conspiracy as it expanded, and the expansion was significant," Nabity said, adding that the warehouse went from having 13 fireworks storage containers in 2015 to 50 last year.

It was not immediately clear if Machado has an attorney who can speak on his behalf. A telephone number listed for him went answered Friday.

Machado's sprawling 5,000-square-foot (465-square-meters) warehouse property was used to store and sell fireworks by other men indicted in the case.

Nabity said a total of eight people face 30 charges in the case, including murder, conspiracy to commit a crime, possession of illegal assault weapons, illegal explosives possession, insurance fraud, child endangerment and animal cruelty.

All those charged are scheduled to be arraigned in Yolo County on Monday.

Machado’s wife, Tammy Machado, was also arrested Thursday but was released after posting bail. She was a non-sworn administrative employee at the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office at the time of the explosion. Both Samuel and Tammy Machado were put on leave after the incident. She faces charges of mortgage fraud, filing a willfully wrong tax return and endangering a child by storing illegal explosives next to a family pool, according to the indictment.

Others indicted include Kenneth Chee, owner of Devastating Pyrotechnics, whose illegal fireworks were being stored at Machado's warehouse, has also been charged with murder and was arrested in Florida. He appeared in a Florida courtroom Friday and was told he will be extradited to California within the week, KCRA-TV reported.

Authorities also arrested Jack Lee, the operations manager for Devastating Pyrotechnic, and Gary Chan Jr., whose name is on the company’s federal license. Both also face murder charges. The fifth person charged with murder is Douglas Tollefsen, who was arrested in Northern California but has yet to be taken to a Yolo County jail, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. Tollefsen stored and sold fireworks at Machado's warehouse, according to the indictment.

“This is not a case just about fireworks,” Nabity said. “They are devices that have so much more explosive fireworks than the law allows that they can’t be considered fireworks.”

Machado, Chee, Lee, Chan and Tollefsen were arrested Thursday along with Craig Cutright, the owner of Blackstar Fireworks, which operated at the Esparto property. Cutright, was a volunteer firefighter for the Esparto Fire District and was also listed as an employee of Devastating Pyrotechnics.

One of Cutright’s employees, Ronald Botelho III, has been in custody since December. More than a dozen new charges were filed against him Thursday, jail records show.

The grand jury concluded that the initial blast caused the death of seven people, Nabity said. Those killed included four workers: 18-year-old Jesus Ramos and his 22-year-old Jhony Ramos, of San Pablo, California; 28-year-old Joel Melendez, of Sacramento, and 43-year-old Carlos Javier Rodriguez-Mora, of San Andreas, California. Christopher Goltiao Bocog and Neil Li of San Francisco and Angel Mathew Voller, of Stockton, California, were also killed.

People living nearby described the blast being so strong that it blew open the doors of homes.

Nisa Gutierrez told the Sacramento CBS affiliate KOVR-TV that she and her daughter were in their yard and were nearly knocked over as their pony and goats scattered.

“We hear like a big boom, and feel the wave,” Gutierrez said. “I thought it was a bomb.”

After the explosion, officials in nearby Sutter and Yuba counties announced they would find alternatives for Fourth of July celebrations after their fireworks were destroyed in the blast.

The Frontier pilot was alarmed and used an expletive as he told the tower he had to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision late Wednesday. “It was real close. The closest I have ever seen,” he said in audio posted by ATC.com.

No one was hurt in the incident that is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency said several vehicles on a service road crossed in front of the plane around 11:25 p.m. Wednesday.

“We thank our crew for their vigilance and professionalism,” Frontier Airlines said in a statement.

On March 22, an Air Canada jet carrying 76 people collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing both pilots and injuring dozens of people.

In that crash, an air traffic controller cleared the fire truck to cross the runway less than 20 seconds beforehand. Then seconds later the controller frantically called for the fire truck to stop.

The incident in Los Angeles appears to have happened in an area of the airport where the planes are communicating with air traffic controllers about their movements, but ground vehicles are simply supposed to yield to any planes, which are typically moving only about 15 mph (24 kph). Airport officials didn't respond immediately to questions about what happened and what procedures are in place to prevent collisions.

Aviation safety expert Steve Arroyo, who was a longtime United Airlines pilot, said these kind of incidents happen daily on taxiways across the country, but don't normally get any attention because the collision is avoided. The issue will undoubtedly get more attention now.

“Multiple incidents, accidents happening, just in March alone, I think it’s time to put some serious eyes on what’s going on on the ramp,” Arroyo said.

The crew and spacecraft will perform a third burn shortly after 1:50 p.m. on Friday. The re-entry procedures will follow, as a U.S. Navy ship awaits in the Pacific Ocean.

If all goes as planned, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere at 23,840 mph in self-flying Orion’s capsule, Integrity, which has a shield to withstand the high heat.

NASA expects Integrity to slow down to a 19 mph splashdown shortly after at 8:05 p.m. on Friday off the coast of San Diego. The USS John P. Murtha and crew will be doing the pickup.

The weather will be cooperating.

NASA plans to celebrate the Artemis II astronauts as the first human crew in history to have ever flown 252,756 miles from Earth. Wiseman will return to his family after having named newly discovered moon craters after his late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer.

The program will continue to make improvements for Artemis III around the Earth’s orbit in 2027, and an actual moon landing with Artemis IV in 2028.

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Eight state attorneys general and DirecTV sued to block the merger between the local television giants, arguing that it would raise consumer prices and harm local journalism. They asked U.S. District Court Chief Judge Troy L. Nunley in Sacramento, California, to halt the merger until their antitrust lawsuit is resolved.

Nexstar's attorneys say the deal will lead to expanded local journalism and programming, not a reduction.

Nunley extended the temporary restraining order until April 17, saying the extension would give him time to prepare a ruling on whether a longer preliminary injunction is needed. The judge also modified the order so both companies could take “reasonable steps” to handle regular business matters like meeting federal debt reporting deadlines.

The deal, announced last year and approved by the Federal Communications Commission, would create a company that owns 265 television stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia, most of them local affiliates of one of the “Big Four” national networks: ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.

The merger needed the approval of the Republican Trump administration’s FCC because the government had to waive rules limiting how many local stations one company can own.

When the judge issued the original temporary restraining order in the case, he said the merger could give Nexstar the power to demand higher fees from multichannel video programming distributors like DirecTV, because if the distributors refuse to pay the increases they could risk subscribers losing access to things like Sunday NFL football games.

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Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said the suspect, Bentoria King, was arrested Thursday in connection with the stabbing.

According to an arrest report, the stabbing occurred around 4:20 p.m. Feb. 14 near the intersection of Northwest 51st Street and Northwest 21st Avenue.

Investigators said King and the victim, who were previously in a relationship and had lived together but are now homeless, got into an argument over a Valentine’s Day gift.

The dispute escalated when deputies said King allegedly armed herself with a silver homemade knife and stabbed the victim “multiple times throughout his body.”

They said the victim suffered puncture wounds to the left side of his neck and back, the top of his head, and a laceration behind his right ear. He was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he underwent surgery, the report states.

Deputies said King fled the scene on a bicycle before officers arrived at the scene. They also confirmed that portions of the incident were captured on surveillance video and on cellphone video.

On Thursday, deputies said they located King at an Extended Stay America Premier Suites in Doral and took her into custody.

After being read her rights, King admitted to being involved in an altercation with the victim but denied stabbing him, according to the report.

King’s arrest report did not specify what the gift was before the reported stabbing occurred.

Jail records show she is facing one count of attempted felony murder causing injury.

As of Friday morning, she was being held without bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. She was also ordered to stay away from the victim.

Records also show she was previously arrested on charges of child neglect without great bodily harm and committing or engaging in prostitution.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade dijeron que la sospechosa, Bentoria King, fue arrestada el jueves en relación con el apuñalamiento.

Según un informe de arresto, el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 4:20 p.m. del 14 de febrero, cerca de la intersección de la calle 51 del noroeste y la avenida 21 del noroeste.

Los investigadores dijeron que King y la víctima, quienes anteriormente mantenían una relación y habían vivido juntos pero ahora están sin hogar, tuvieron una discusión por un regalo de San Valentín.

La disputa se intensificó cuando, según los agentes, King presuntamente se armó con un cuchillo plateado de fabricación casera y apuñaló a la víctima “múltiples veces en distintas partes del cuerpo”.

Indicaron que la víctima sufrió heridas punzantes en el lado izquierdo del cuello y la espalda, en la parte superior de la cabeza y una laceración detrás de la oreja derecha. Fue trasladado al Ryder Trauma Center del Hospital Jackson Memorial, donde fue sometido a cirugía, según el informe.

Los agentes dijeron que King huyó de la escena en una bicicleta antes de que los oficiales llegaran. También confirmaron que partes del incidente fueron captadas en video de vigilancia y en video de teléfono celular.

El jueves, los agentes dijeron que localizaron a King en un Extended Stay America Premier Suites en Doral y la detuvieron.

Tras leerle sus derechos, King admitió haber estado involucrada en un altercado con la víctima, pero negó haberlo apuñalado, según el informe.

El informe de arresto no especifica cuál era el regalo antes de que ocurriera el apuñalamiento.

Registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato grave que causó lesiones.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía detenida sin derecho a fianza en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. También se le ordenó mantenerse alejada de la víctima.

Los registros también muestran que previamente fue arrestada por cargos de negligencia infantil sin causar gran daño corporal y por cometer o participar en prostitución.

The U.S. Court of International Trade, a specialized court in New York, heard oral arguments Friday in an attempt to overturn the temporary tariffs Trump turned to after the Supreme Court in February struck down his preferred choice — even bigger, even more sweeping tariffs.

In his first attempt to impose global tariffs, the president last year invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), using the law to declare America's longstanding trade deficit a national emergency and to impose double-digit worldwide taxes on imports to combat it. He interpreted the law broadly to justify tariffs of whatever size he wanted, whenever he wanted to impose them, on whatever country he wanted to target.

The Supreme Court struck those tariffs down on Feb. 20, saying IEEPA did not authorize the use of tariffs to counter national emergencies.

But Trump had alternatives to IEEPA. The quickest option was Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows the president to impose global tariffs of up to 15% for 150 days, after which congressional approval is needed to extend them. After his defeat at the Supreme Court, Trump quickly announced 10% Section 122 tariffs. He said he'd raise them to the maximum 15% but hasn't yet done so. The tariffs are scheduled to expire July 24.

Two dozen states and some businesses quickly challenged the new tariffs in court. Friday's hearing lasted more than three hours as a three-judge panel tried to assess a provision that had never been used before to impose tariffs and to analyze congressional decisionmaking from more than a half century ago.

The judges intensely questioned lawyers for both the plaintiffs and the government about what certain terms mean including what precisely the term “balance-of-payments deficits” meant when it was used in the Trade Act of 1974 and what it means today.

“I think the judges asked tough questions of all sides and were genuinely trying to find out what Congress meant when it passed section 122,” said Jeffrey Schwab, senior counsel and director of litigation for Liberty Justice Center, which represents some of the plaintiffs.

“I would be stunned if the challengers prevail,’’ said trade lawyer Ryan Majerus, a partner at King & Spalding law firm and a former U.S. trade official.

The trade court's judges, he said, are likely to defer to the president and allow the Section 122 tariffs to stay, considering that they will expire in three and a half months anyway. “I just don’t see them sticking their neck out on this one, given how temporarily it’s in place and how much discretion these courts give to the president,’’ he said.

Section 122 is aimed at what it calls “fundamental international payments problems.’’ At issue is whether that wording covers trade deficits, the gap between what the U.S. sells other countries and what it buys from them.

The provision arose from the financial crises that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s when the U.S. dollar was tied to gold. Other countries were dumping dollars in exchange for gold at a set rate, risking a collapse of the U.S. currency and chaos in financial markets. But the dollar is no longer linked to gold, so critics say Section 122 is obsolete.

Awkwardly for Trump, his own Justice Department argued in a court filing last year that the president had needed to invoke IEEPA because Section 122 did “not have any obvious application’’ in fighting trade deficits, which it called “conceptually distinct’’ from payments problems.

Awkwardly for the plaintiffs challenging his use of the temporary tariffs, the trade court itself wrote last year in its own decision striking down IEEPA tariffs that Trump didn’t need them because Section 122 was available to counter trade deficits.

Last May, the trade court issued a decision striking down Trump’s IEEPA tariffs about two weeks after hearing oral arguments in the case. Attorney General Dan Rayfield of Oregon, one of the states challenging Trump’s latest tariffs, is eager for another speedy ruling. “We are hopeful to get a result sooner than later,’’ he said. “When the president continues to do an unlawful action and take money out of the pockets of Americans, we want a response as quickly as we can from the courts.’’

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Paul Wiseman reported from Washington.

AP Writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this story.

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The suspect was identified by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies as 36-year-old Marshaun Altarol West Jr.

According to an arrest report, the shooting occurred Oct. 27, 2019, around 8:10 p.m. near Northwest 76th Street and 17th Avenue in the county’s Gladeview area.

Investigators said the victim, who wasn’t publicly identified, was riding a bicycle and stopped near a group of people gathered in the roadway when an argument broke out between him and West.

During the argument, deputies said West grabbed a gun from another individual and began shooting, striking the victim multiple times.

Authorities said West fled the scene before emergency personnel arrived.

Medics took the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Detectives identified West as the shooter after interviewing multiple witnesses. Investigators said their statements were also corroborated by surveillance video that captured the incident.

Jail records show West, who is facing charges of second-degree murder with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, is being held without bond at the Metrowest Detention Center, as of Friday morning.

Records show West was previously convicted of attempted felony murder and aggravated battery with a firearm causing bodily harm in an unrelated case.

A motive for the 2019 shooting remains unclear at this time.

El sospechoso fue identificado por agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade como Marshaun Altarol West Jr., de 36 años.

Según un informe de arresto, la balacera ocurrió el 27 de octubre de 2019, alrededor de las 8:10 p.m., cerca de la intersección de la calle 76 del noroeste y la avenida 17, en el área de Gladeview del condado.

Los investigadores dijeron que la víctima, que no fue identificada públicamente, iba en bicicleta y se detuvo cerca de un grupo de personas reunidas en la vía cuando se desató una discusión entre él y West.

Durante la discusión, los agentes indicaron que West tomó un arma de otra persona y comenzó a disparar, impactando a la víctima varias veces.

Las autoridades dijeron que West huyó de la escena antes de que llegara el personal de emergencia.

Paramédicos trasladaron a la víctima al Ryder Trauma Center del Hospital Jackson Memorial, donde los médicos lo declararon muerto.

Detectives identificaron a West como el tirador tras entrevistar a múltiples testigos. Los investigadores dijeron que sus declaraciones también fueron corroboradas por video de vigilancia que captó el incidente.

Registros de la cárcel muestran que West, quien enfrenta cargos de asesinato en segundo grado con arma de fuego y posesión de arma de fuego por un ex convicto, permanece detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro de Detención Metrowest hasta la mañana del viernes.

Los registros indican que West fue previamente condenado por intento de asesinato grave y agresión agravada con arma de fuego que causó lesiones corporales en un caso no relacionado.

El motivo de la balacera de 2019 sigue sin estar claro por el momento.

The states argue in the civil case that the company and its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster, are monopolizing the industry and driving up prices to see live music.

Live Nation contends there is more competition than ever and the company plays fair amid a U.S. booming concert business.

Soon after starting deliberations the jury in Manhattan federal court told the judge it wanted to review certain testimony given at the five-week trial.

The states carried on with their case after the federal government settled last month.

The Justice Department said it had won important concessions from Live Nation, particularly in the sale of tickets at dozens of the company’s amphitheaters.

A lawyer for the states said in closing arguments on Thursday that Live Nation controls 86% of the market for concerts and 73% of the overall market when sports events are included.

Live Nation’s lawyer said the company isn’t hiding from the fact that it’s the biggest entertainment company and ticketer in the country. But, the lawyer said, “success is not against the antitrust laws in the United States.”

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FBI agents said Tommy Duwayne Dennis, 56, blamed his behavior on crack cocaine.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Dennis walked in to the TD Bank at 1 N. State Road 7 just before 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday and wrote a note on a debit slip reading, “This is a Robbery give me the money and no one will get hurt.”

Investigators said he said nothing as he handed it to a teller, who, in fear for her life, handed him $600 and a “bait bill tracker.”

The complaint states that the tracker led police to a red Kia Soul in the area of Northwest Fifth Street and 31st Avenue in Lauderhill.

As police watched the vehicle, agents said “a brown bag containing the tracker was thrown from the Kia.“ And that’s not all.

The complaint states that an unknown woman, whom Dennis ”later identified as a prostitute," got out of the Soul while Dennis “continued to flee at a slow rate of speed.”

“Law enforcement officers attempted a traffic stop by initiating emergency lights and sirens. The Kia did not stop or yield to law enforcement,” the complaint states. “Law enforcement officers conducted a Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) on the Kia, but it did not stop. The Kia continued to flee and a second PIT was executed.”

Agents said two law enforcement officers in an unmarked vehicle attempted to block the Kia and Dennis then struck the vehicle. After a third PIT at around 4:52 p.m., Dennis crashed his Kia Soul into a concrete wall at a home at the corner of Northwest 31st Avenue and Second Street.

Authorities took Dennis into custody and took him to Broward Health Medical Center, where investigators interviewed him, according to the complaint.

The complaint states that Dennis told detectives he “was smoking crack all day” and “lost his judgement and made a mistake,” saying he “went to the bank to get some money.”

Agents said he also “admitted to writing the demand note on the deposit slip and throwing the note out of the car prior to police chasing him” and identified himself in CCTV footage from the bank.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Dennis was still in the hospital as of Friday morning; he did not appear in Broward or federal jail records.

Additionally, his federal court file lists no scheduled hearings. His case has been assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Panayotta Augustin-Birch, who sits in Fort Lauderdale.

Dennis could face up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted.

Agentes del FBI dijeron que Tommy Duwayne Dennis, de 56 años, culpó su comportamiento al consumo de crack.

Según una denuncia penal federal, Dennis entró al TD Bank en 1 N. State Road 7 poco antes de las 4:30 p.m. del miércoles y escribió una nota en un comprobante de débito que decía: “Esto es un robo, dame el dinero y nadie resultará herido”.

Los investigadores dijeron que no dijo nada al entregarla a una cajera, quien, temiendo por su vida, le entregó $600 USD y un “rastreador de billete señuelo”.

La denuncia indica que el rastreador llevó a la policía a un Kia Soul rojo en el área de Northwest Fifth Street y 31st Avenue en Lauderhill.

Mientras la policía vigilaba el vehículo, los agentes dijeron que “una bolsa marrón que contenía el rastreador fue lanzada desde el Kia”. Y eso no fue todo.

La denuncia indica que una mujer desconocida, a quien Dennis “posteriormente identificó como una prostituta”, salió del Kia mientras Dennis “continuaba huyendo a baja velocidad”.

“Los agentes del orden intentaron detener el vehículo activando luces de emergencia y sirenas. El Kia no se detuvo ni cedió ante las autoridades”, indica la denuncia. “Los agentes realizaron una maniobra PIT contra el Kia, pero no se detuvo. El Kia continuó huyendo y se ejecutó una segunda maniobra PIT”.

Los agentes dijeron que dos oficiales en un vehículo no identificado intentaron bloquear el Kia y Dennis chocó contra ese vehículo. Tras una tercera maniobra PIT alrededor de las 4:52 p.m., Dennis estrelló su Kia Soul contra un muro de concreto en una vivienda en la esquina de Northwest 31st Avenue y Second Street.

Las autoridades detuvieron a Dennis y lo trasladaron al Broward Health Medical Center, donde los investigadores lo entrevistaron, según la denuncia.

La denuncia señala que Dennis dijo a los detectives que “había estado fumando crack todo el día” y que “perdió el juicio y cometió un error”, afirmando que “fue al banco a buscar dinero”.

Los agentes dijeron que también “admitió haber escrito la nota de demanda en el comprobante de depósito y haberla arrojado del vehículo antes de que la policía lo persiguiera”, y se identificó en imágenes de vigilancia del banco.

No estaba claro de inmediato si Dennis seguía en el hospital hasta la mañana del viernes; no aparecía en los registros de la cárcel del condado Broward ni federales.

Además, su expediente en la corte federal no muestra audiencias programadas. Su caso fue asignado a la jueza magistrada de EE.UU. Panayotta Augustin-Birch, con sede en Fort Lauderdale.

Dennis podría enfrentar hasta 20 años de prisión federal si es declarado culpable.

For the whipped feta:

1 cup crumbled feta cheese

½ cup Greek yogurt 1 lemon, juiced

½ cup of your favorite tahini2 tablespoons water (if needed)salt & pepper to taste

For the salad:

1 pound mixed ripe tomatoes, cored and roughly chopped

½ head radicchio, chopped

fresh oregano leaves, optional garnish

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

salt & pepper to taste

To make whipped feta and tahini, combine feta cheese, Greek yogurt, HALF of the lemon juice and the tahini in a food processor. Blend until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper, adjust lemon as desired. If the dip is too thick, add 1-2 tablespoons of water to loosen it and blend again. If it’s too thin, add 1-2 tablespoons more tahini or feta.

Place the radicchio on the base of a salad bowl, top with tomatoes. Spoon 3 scoops of whipped feta dip over the top of the salad.

Drizzle with the oil, season with salt, pepper and a garnish with fresh oregano leaves, if desired.

2 pounds very ripe tomatoes (any type or size work as long as they are ripe and juicy)

½ cup extra virgin olive oil

5 garlic cloves, minced using a microplane

2 bunches basil, leaves torn

salt and black pepper, to taste

1 pound of your favorite pasta

freshly grated parmesan cheese, if desired

Finely dice the tomatoes. Transfer to a bowl and add the oil, garlic and basil leaves. Add at least.

½-1 teaspoon salt, toss well to combine everything and allow to just macerate for 30 minutes.

Cook the pasta until al dente in salted, boiling water, reserving about 1 cup of pasta water. Add the just cooked pasta to the bowl with the tomatoes and add a little of the pasta water until you reach the consistency you desire. Taste for seasoning, adjust if desired.

Serve topped with a little parmesan if desired.

3 pounds fresh very ripe tomatoes, cored and quartered

1 yellow onion, peeled and quartered or cut into 1/6ths

12 garlic cloves, smashed a little with the side of a knife

¼ cup extra virgin olive oil

salt and black pepper, to taste

2-3 cups chicken or veggie broth, as needed

fresh basil leaves

fresh oregano, if available

⅓-½ cup heavy cream

½ teaspoon granulated sugar, if needed

Preheat your oven to 400°F. Toss the tomatoes, onion and garlic with the oil, and season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or aluminum foil and roast for 12-15 minutes or until a bit caramelized.

Remove and place all contents of the baking sheet into a saucepan. Add the broth and simmer for 10 minutes. Add a few basil leaves and oregano leaves and simmer for a couple more minutes.

Blend using an immersion blender. Add the heavy cream and simmer until warmed through. Taste for salt and sweetness and adjust as desired, you may need ½ teaspoon granulated sugar if the tomatoes are not at their height of sweetness and ripeness.

Ogwumike spent the first 12 seasons of her career in Los Angeles after she was drafted No. 1 by the team in 2012. She won the MVP in 2016 and helped the franchise win the WNBA championship that season.

The veteran forward posted on social media a 45-second video that showed her intentions to return to the Sparks, which her agent confirmed was accurate. Free agents can't sign until Saturday.

“It was always see you later, now I’ll see you soon…” Ogwumike wrote in the post. The video showed highlights of her time in Los Angeles.

The 35-year-old Ogwumike averaged 18.3 points and 7.0 rebounds for Seattle last season — her second with the Storm.

It's been a busy offseason for Ogwumike. She presided over collective bargaining negotiations as president of the union and helped get a transformational new deal that saw average salaries rise nearly four-times what they were in the previous CBA.

The Sparks have a talented group to go with Ogwumike as the team gave the franchise tag to guard Kelsey Plum, who is also on the union's executive committee, as well as young star Cameron Brink.

This is the busiest offseason in WNBA history with 80% of the players in the league being free agents.

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Premiering in 2019, this is the series that showcased the rising careers of Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney — all of whom have since become bona fide stars.

The dark suburban teen drama has also featured more established figures like Colman Domingo, who has received two best actor Oscar nominations in the last few years, and the late Eric Dane. And it’s given visibility and recognition to other actors: Hunter Schafer, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow and Barbie Ferreira. Angus Cloud, another of its breakout performers, died in 2023.

Series creator Sam Levinson says it's a thrill to see many cast members thriving.

“The thing is when you’re casting, every person that walks in, you’re hoping this is the person, this is going to be the character,” he told The Associated Press at the season premiere. “And sometimes when they do, they walk in, they have the talent, they’ve got the passion, the enthusiasm for it, and they inspire you.

“To see them working with such incredible filmmakers like (Christopher) Nolan and (Guillermo) del Toro ... it's just exciting.”

Here’s a look at how some of the “Euphoria” stars got their starts — and how they've been keeping busy since we last saw their characters four years ago.

Zendaya (Rue Bennett)

She soared, quite literally, as a trapeze artist in “The Greatest Showman” in 2017, two years before “Euphoria” premiered.

But Zendaya has soared far higher in the seven years since she first played Rue Bennett.

The actor began as a Disney Channel star and went on to play MJ in “Spider-Man” movies opposite her eventual partner, Tom Holland. She won her first Emmy in 2020 for “Euphoria” — the youngest to win for lead actress in a drama. The following year, she became the youngest two-time winner.

Then came the “Dune” movies, the sexy, tennis-themed “Challengers” — and more “Spider-Man.”

She's currently appearing in “The Drama,” a controversial film in which she and Robert Pattinson play a couple whose impending nuptials are thrown into chaos following a dark revelation.

There were mixed reviews for the movie, but not for her fashion choices: She teased the movie’s bridal theme on carpets around the world by wearing something old, then something new, then something borrowed — and a spectacular, feathered Schiaparelli couture ball gown that was, yes, blue.

Jacob Elordi (Nate Jacobs)

Launched by “The Kissing Booth” and shortly thereafter “Euphoria,” Elordi has become nothing less than a monster star — and an Oscar nominee, as the Creature in del Toro’s “Frankenstein, ”

But before that, his achievements were already pretty, well, monstrous.

In 2023, Elordi channeled a magnetic Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s biopic “Priscilla.” Then, he made waves — are there waves in a bathtub? — with his memorably rakish appearance as golden-boy rich kid Felix in Emerald Fennell’s salty “Saltburn.”

Other major roles followed, including another TV series, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” playing a medical officer forced to work on the Thai-Burma railway during World War II. And then, Fennell’s recent “Wuthering Heights,” where in a smoldering turn as Heathcliff, he somehow managed to pick up co-star Margot Robbie by her corset strings.

Sydney Sweeney (Cassie Howard)

Before her breakout “Euphoria” role, for which she earned an Emmy nod — along with another for “The White Lotus” — Sweeney was perhaps best known for her role as tragic teen Eden Spencer in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” In a story arc bleak even for that show, she was forced to marry an uninterested Nick Blaine, and later punished for falling in love with someone else, leading to a horrific watery demise.

Sweeney played a teenager in a psychiatric ward in “Sharp Objects,” and appeared as a Manson family member in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” the same year she joined the “Euphoria” cast.

In recent years, her career has blossomed, with her most challenging role coming in a movie she produced, “Christy,” playing boxer Christy Martin, a trailblazer for women in the sport who also suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her trainer and husband. The film tanked at the box office but Sweeney received critical praise — and indeed, Oscar buzz — for her immersion in the difficult role.

On the other side of the box office spectrum, Sweeney struck gold with “The Housemaid” — Paul Feig's psychological thriller that took a satirical look at the depravity of the ultra-rich.

Alexa Demie (Maddy Perez)

Demie — an actor, singer-songwriter, and designer — made her feature debut in the 2017 movie “Brigsby Bear.” She appeared in Jonah Hill’s skate movie “Mid90s” and then “Waves,” a 2019 drama by writer-director Trey Edward Shults.

That same year Demie became a breakout star of “Euphoria,” playing Maddy Perez, who is involved in an abusive relationship with Elordi’s Nate.

In 2020, Demie appeared in Gia Coppola’s “Mainstream,” with Andrew Garfield.

In September 2021, she released the single “Leopard Limo (Archive LL11).” Her previous single, “Girl Like Me,” was released in 2016.

Hunter Schafer (Jules Vaughn)

Schafer started her career as an activist and model, and made her acting debut with “Euphoria.” She followed up in 2023 as Tigris Snow in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.”

The following year she appeared in both the science-fiction horror film “Cuckoo” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness.”

This year, she appears in the yet-to-be-released “Blade Runner 2099” opposite Michelle Yeoh, and later this month in psychological thriller “Mother Mary,” with Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel.

Colman Domingo (Ali Muhammad)

An established actor well before he began playing Ali in “Euphoria,” Domingo soared to two consecutive best actor Oscar nominations in 2023 and 2024, for playing Bayard Rustin in “Rustin” and then a prison inmate in “Sing Sing.” He’s also had a host of other accolades, including an Emmy win for “Euphoria” (2022) and a nomination for “The Four Seasons” (2025).

The actor-director-producer stars as Joe Jackson in the Jackson biopic “Michael” later this month.

But perhaps his most high-profile move comes this Saturday — he’ll be hosting “Saturday Night Live” for the first time.

Maude Apatow (Lexi Howard)

The daughter of Judd Apatow appeared in her father’s “Knocked Up,” “Funny People,” “This is 40” and later, “The King of Staten Island.” She also appeared in the TV series “Girls.”

Later movies included “Other People” (2016), “The House of Tomorrow” (2017) and “Assassination Nation” (2018) — the last written and directed by Levinson, who then cast her in “Euphoria.”

Apatow’s feature directorial debut, “Poetic License,” stars her mother, Leslie Mann, and is awaiting release.

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Associated Press journalist Leslie Ambriz contributed to this report from Los Angeles.

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The crash occurred near Powerline Road and Northwest 12th Street, according to Fort Lauderdale police.

Police said the suspect, Thomas Jamaine Roberson, fled when officers attempted a traffic stop, leading to a pursuit that ended when the suspect crashed into a civilian vehicle, causing it to overturn.

They said Roberson, 24, and the occupants of the other vehicle were taken to Broward Health Medical Center with minor injuries.

Jail records show he is facing one count each of robbery with carjacking, aggravated battery of a pregnant female, obstruction of justice, grand theft of a vehicle, criminal justice, child neglect, interfering with custody of a minor.

As of Friday morning, he was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail. He was also ordered to have no contact with any victims, not to drive, and not to possess firearms, weapons or ammunition.

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La policía de Wilton Manors informó que Katherine Luciano dejó a los gatitos en el parque Donn Eisele. Un video de vigilancia de una casa cercana muestra un sedán rojo llegando, con una caja de cartón sellada con cinta en su interior.

Momentos después, los cinco gatitos bebés caen al suelo mientras la mujer se aleja, pasando junto a un hombre que paseaba a su perro.

“Estaba realmente enfocado en los gatos, pero eso evitó que mi enojo se centrara en ella”, dijo Peter Carey. “Porque realmente desearía poder meterla en una caja y abandonarla en un campo para que vea cómo se siente. Así es como me siento”.

Carey rescató a cuatro de los gatitos, mientras que el quinto fue encontrado más tarde.

Los cinco ya han sido adoptados.

“Me alegra decir que todos han sido adoptados”, dijo Carey. “Anoche dejé al último gatito con una enfermera que vive en Aventura”.

Luciano fue ingresada en la cárcel el jueves por la tarde.

Tras ver su foto policial, Carey dijo: “Se parece a ella. Y espero no volver a verla nunca”.

No está claro si el pasajero del vehículo enfrentará cargos.

The Crimson Tide had two options waiting for a shot.

Austin Mack and Keelon Russell, the two guys Simpson beat out to start last fall, have spent spring practice vying for the job. Coach Kalen DeBoer has declined to offer much detail on any separation, but the team's annual spring game Saturday could provide a glimpse into the competition.

“Getting a lot of good reps,” DeBoer said. ”I love the aggressiveness that they have. They're not gun shy. They go and make plays, attacking whenever they get the right opportunities with the throws. And they're making the throws."

Replacing Simpson, who threw for 3,567 yards and 28 touchdowns while leading Alabama to the College Football Playoff, is one of many offensive changes for the Tide in 2026.

DeBoer and offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb are trying to replace eight starters on that side of the ball. The list includes Simpson, four offensive linemen, receiver Germie Bernard, tight end Josh Cuevas and running back Jam Miller.

Alabama also made a change at quarterbacks coach, with tight ends coach Bryan Ellis getting elevated to replace Nick Sheridan, who was hired as offensive coordinator at Michigan State.

But Ryan Coleman-Williams is back with a new number and should provide a go-to target for whoever ends up taking snaps in the season opener against East Carolina on Sept. 5.

“The guys are coming through, making plays and catches for them," DeBoer said. "I think they’re gaining more confidence in the offensive line each and every day. That’s going to take time; there’s a lot of (new) faces up front. ... They’re clear with their communication. There’s not a lot that’s catching them off guard, so they can go out and let their skills speak for themselves and make the plays.”

Mack, a redshirt junior, followed DeBoer from Washington in 2024. The 6-foot-6 Californian appeared in four games last season, completing 24 of 32 passes for 228 yards and two touchdowns.

His most notable appearance came when he filled in for Simpson in a loss to Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Mack completed 11 of 16 passes for 103 yards and led the Tide to its only score in the 38-3 drubbing.

Russell, a redshirt freshman, is the highest-rated recruit to sign with Alabama in the modern era, according to 247 Sports. The 6-foot-3 Texan appeared in two games in 2025 — against Louisiana-Monroe and Eastern Illinois — and completed 11 of 15 passes for 143 yards and two scores.

“One of the biggest things this year was to get smarter,” Russell said during Rose Bowl preparations. “Understanding the offense, just building my confidence level. I feel like I’ve grown, developed and feel like I’m becoming more of an NFL-ready quarterback.”

The Tide would settle for finding a college-ready guy, the next in line at a place that's enjoyed Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa, Mac Jones, Bryce Young, Jalen Milroe and Simpson over the last decade.

“Obviously, Keelon is a really, really good athlete,” Grubb said. “I think his feet probably come into play. I think you saw it in the Rose Bowl, obviously Austin can run a little bit. ... It’s not like Austin can’t run, but there is a piece of athleticism there with Keelon that’s different from some guys.

“As far as arm talent, they’re both supremely talented as far as pushing the ball all over the field. There’s not going to be a throw I have in the game plan that I have for one but couldn’t do with the other. Both have quick releases. Accuracy is something they’re both working on. But very similar guys. I don’t think other than Keelon’s feet, there’s a massive difference, other than size.”

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“This year, we are going for our fourth victory in the parade,” said AJ Prasaguet, general manager of the Palace Bar & Restaurant. “We are also the hub for Miami Beach Pride -- all the floats stop right at the Palace.”

From drag brunches to beach parties, this is where celebration, culture and community collide.

“Pride did start as political. It’s always been political, but it’s evolved into a celebration of individuality, personality, love, life, all things -- not just LGBTQIA. And this year, because of the climate here in Florida, I think it’s really, really meaningful to come out (and) show your support,” community advocate Timur Tugberk said.

Pride continues to be both a celebration and a statement, drawing hundreds of thousands to South Florida.

“Miami Beach Pride started in 2009, and I bought Palace in 2007. The bar owners got together to start working on how we can start a Pride on South Beach,” Tom Donall, Palace co-owner/co-founder of Miami Beach Pride, said.

“We had 15,000 people show up the first year. The next year, it went up to 40,000, and it just kept growing,” said Donald “Donnie”, Palace co-owner/co-founder of Miami Beach Pride.

At the heart of it all is iconic spots like the Palace, helping turn Pride into a full weekend experience.

“This year for Pride, we are piggy-backing off of Miami Beach Pride’s theme of infinite. And this year for us, it’s going to be ‘infinite love is limitless,’ and it’s a week-long of festivities,” Prasaguet said.

Nonstop shows will be held that keep the energy going well into the night.

“On Friday, we start our world-famous drag brunches, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.,” Prasaguet said. “Then we pop into Saturday and this is where we start our weekend festivities of rooftop pool parties.”

“Our drag shows are every day from 7 p.m. until midnight,” Prasaguet added.

And if you’re new to Pride, consider this your survival guide. First things first, crowd participation is a must!

“Come in with boas, come in with hats, come in with wild, crazy looks and don’t forget that you need to be ready to just have the most fun you’re ever going to have, either on your vacation or while you’re here enjoying Pride. But it will be the time of your life,” Prasaguet said.

“It’s a great feeling when people are having a lot of fun and a good time, enjoying the day and the weekend,” Donnie said.

And the celebration kicks off Friday with a groundbreaking for a brand-new Pride Park.

The pavers from the iconic rainbow crosswalk were saved and are being repurposed at Lummus Park.

After the ceremony, there will be a party at the Palace.

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“Este año vamos por nuestra cuarta victoria en el desfile”, dijo AJ Prasaguet, gerente general del Palace Bar & Restaurant. “También somos el centro de Miami Beach Pride: todas las carrozas se detienen justo en el Palace”.

Desde brunches drag hasta fiestas en la playa, este es el lugar donde la celebración, la cultura y la comunidad se unen.

“El Pride comenzó como algo político. Siempre ha sido político, pero ha evolucionado hacia una celebración de la individualidad, la personalidad, el amor, la vida, de todo, no solo LGBTQIA. Y este año, debido al clima aquí en Florida, creo que es realmente muy significativo salir y mostrar apoyo”, dijo el activista comunitario Timur Tugberk.

El Pride continúa siendo tanto una celebración como una declaración, atrayendo a cientos de miles al sur de Florida.

“Miami Beach Pride comenzó en 2009, y yo compré Palace en 2007. Los dueños de bares se unieron para trabajar en cómo podíamos iniciar un Pride en South Beach”, dijo Tom Donall, copropietario de Palace y cofundador de Miami Beach Pride.

“Tuvimos 15,000 personas el primer año. Al siguiente subió a 40,000, y siguió creciendo”, dijo Donald “Donnie”, copropietario de Palace y cofundador de Miami Beach Pride.

En el corazón de todo están lugares icónicos como el Palace, que ayudan a convertir el Pride en una experiencia de fin de semana completo.

“Este año, para Pride, nos alineamos con el tema de Miami Beach Pride de infinito. Y para nosotros será ‘el amor infinito no tiene límites’, con una semana completa de festividades”, dijo Prasaguet.

Habrá espectáculos continuos que mantendrán la energía hasta bien entrada la noche.

“El viernes comenzamos con nuestros famosos brunches drag, a las 11 a.m. y 2 p.m.”, dijo Prasaguet. “Luego pasamos al sábado, donde iniciamos las festividades del fin de semana con fiestas en piscinas en azoteas”.

“Nuestros shows drag son todos los días de 7 p.m. a medianoche”, agregó Prasaguet.

Y si eres nuevo en el Pride, considéralo tu guía de supervivencia. Lo primero es participar.

“Llega con boas, sombreros, atuendos llamativos y no olvides que debes estar listo para divertirte al máximo, ya sea en tus vacaciones o mientras disfrutas el Pride. Será el mejor momento de tu vida”, dijo Prasaguet.

“Es una gran sensación ver a la gente divirtiéndose y pasando un buen rato, disfrutando el día y el fin de semana”, dijo Donnie.

La celebración comienza el viernes con la colocación de la primera piedra de un nuevo Pride Park.

Los adoquines del icónico cruce peatonal arcoíris fueron conservados y serán reutilizados en Lummus Park.

Después de la ceremonia, habrá una fiesta en el Palace.

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Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, Maria Del Carmen Alvarez-Concepcion, de 57 años, fue arrestada el jueves por la tarde por cargos de solicitar y aceptar sobornos, fraude organizado y hurto mayor en segundo grado.

Un informe de arresto indica que un miembro actual de la junta y propietario en la asociación Greynolds Park Club Condominium, ubicada en el 17890 W. Dixie Highway, contactó a la MDSO por preocupaciones sobre el manejo indebido de los fondos de la asociación por parte de ciertos miembros de la junta directiva y la administradora del edificio, identificada como Alvarez-Concepcion.

Los detectives dijeron que el miembro de la junta les informó que el 23 de enero fue contactado por un proveedor contratado, quien reportó que Alvarez-Concepcion había estado solicitando y aceptando sobornos “en forma de efectivo y transferencias por Zelle”.

El informe señala que el miembro de la junta “también reportó preocupaciones de larga data sobre el control exclusivo de la acusada sobre contratos multimillonarios, falta de transparencia financiera, cargos cuestionables, registros faltantes y la exclusión de ciertos miembros de la junta de decisiones importantes de la asociación”.

Según el informe, el proveedor que habló con el miembro de la junta se reunió con detectives el 13 de febrero y corroboró la información inicial.

Los detectives indicaron que el proveedor afirmó que entre el 7 de marzo de 2025 y el 5 de diciembre de 2025, Alvarez-Concepcion solicitó y aceptó repetidamente sobornos, señalando que le pagó alrededor de $19,910 USD en efectivo y transferencias por Zelle durante ese período.

Las autoridades dijeron que los pagos no estaban autorizados por la asociación y fueron “intencionalmente ocultados a la junta directiva”.

Según el informe, entre el 18 de febrero y el 19 de marzo de este año, Alvarez-Concepcion aceptó $1,000 USD adicionales en sobornos.

En total, se cree que aceptó $20,910 USD en “pagos de sobornos no revelados”, indicaron las autoridades.

Según el informe de arresto, Alvarez-Concepcion fue localizada el jueves por la tarde en el estacionamiento de la comunidad del condominio y fue detenida.

Los detectives dijeron que ella les proporcionó una declaración “en beneficio propio”, en la que “admitió haber aceptado sobornos mientras actuaba en su cargo como administradora en el lugar”.

“Este arresto refleja nuestro compromiso de proteger a los residentes y responsabilizar a quienes abusan de posiciones de confianza, y continuaremos combatiendo agresivamente el fraude en asociaciones en nuestra comunidad”, dijo la sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz en un comunicado.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, Alvarez-Concepcion permanecía detenida en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Los registros en línea indicaban que su fianza estaba “por establecer”.

Daniel Curran fue encontrado sin vida en un edificio en Northeast 36th Street y North Ocean Boulevard en su cumpleaños número 35.

Su muerte se produce tras un caso de violencia doméstica contra Curran, en el que Trantalis, de 72 años, citó incidentes previos de amenazas y violencia.

Antes de su muerte, se estaban realizando modificaciones a la orden de restricción, ya que Trantalis consideraba que su ex pareja ya no representaba una amenaza.

“Me sorprendió recibir esta noticia esta mañana. Estábamos en camino a una resolución, lo que habría permitido que Danny recibiera el tratamiento que necesitaba y habría llevado a que los cargos fueran desestimados”, dijo el abogado de Curran, Philip C. Johnston, en un comunicado a Local 10 News. “Danny era una persona muy amable y sensible. Después de que modificamos la orden de no contacto, expresé mis condolencias al alcalde. Él dijo que él y Danny se reunieron anoche y conversaron con alegría sobre planes futuros juntos. Esta es una situación profundamente triste.”

Trantalis emitió un comunicado el jueves tras la muerte de Curran, diciendo que se enteró “con profundo pesar”.

“Era una persona amorosa, y mis condolencias van a su familia”, dijo Trantalis. “Quizá ahora, el dolor que sufrió se alivie. Que descanse en paz”.

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Hollywood homicide detectives believe Garcia, now 21, tried to cover up his death with the help of the baby’s father, Anfernee Watts, according to police.

Watts’ mother contacted police to report that Garcia told her that he died while pinned between the bed frame and the mattress, according to an arrest warrant.

“You know, when you see someone, when they have passed? Like, it was like that,” Garcia told police officers on Wednesday as she confessed to accidentally smothering the baby, according to a police report.

The couple, who also has a 2-year-old child, appeared in court on Thursday in Broward County. A judge denied them bond.

Watts, 25, and Garcia “admitted to fabricating a story to present to law enforcement, placing the deceased baby back into the playpen in an effort to make it appear as though the baby died in his sleep,” a police officer wrote, according to an arrest warrant.

Their son was born on July 11 at Memorial Regional Hospital, according to police.

A pediatrician reported the baby boy was in good health on July 28, according to the arrest warrant. The tragedy unfolded a few days later.

Watts told police officers that he had attended a job interview, but the alleged interviewee said that was false, according to the arrest warrant.

“She intentionally restrained the baby by tightly wrapping him in a blanket, securing a pacifier in his mouth, and strapping him into a car seat before placing him inside a bathtub and isolating him behind a closed door while loud music played,” and she “willfully ignored his distress and failed to check on him for several hours,” a detective wrote, according to the warrant.

The couple allegedly tried “placing the deceased baby back into the playpen in an effort to make it appear as though the baby died in his sleep,” a detective wrote, according to an arrest warrant.

Hollywood Fire Rescue personnel pronounced him dead at 1:50 p.m. on Aug. 1st, in a house at 6660 Thomas St., records show.

Police officers noticed a “disposable changing pad that appeared to have blood spotting on it,” and the baby “had visible foam in his mouth and cracked lips that appeared to have dried blood on them,” according to the arrest warrant.

The Broward Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the baby’s cause of death to be suffocation and the manner of death to be a homicide. The evidence also includes a video recorded by a Ring surveillance camera showing Garcia with a garbage bag before calling 911.

Garcia left voicemails to police from Aug. 4 to Wednesday and admitted to lying and to report that she had “smothered” the baby, according to the arrest warrant.

“Crystal admitted she lied to the police out of fear of being arrested,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest warrant.

The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested the couple on Wednesday.

Corrections was holding Garcia without bond on Thursday evening at the North Broward Bureau, a detention center in Pompano Beach, and Watts at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, according to inmate records.

Garcia and Watts are each facing five charges: Obstruction of a criminal investigation, aggravated manslaughter of a child, child neglect with great bodily harm, tampering with evidence, and willfully touching, removing, or disturbing a dead body, clothing, or surrounding items without authorization.

Watt’s mother has had custody of their 2-year-old daughter since she was about 5 months old after she and the baby tested positive for THC at birth, according to the arrest warrant.

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Detectives de homicidios de Hollywood creen que Garcia, ahora de 21 años, intentó encubrir su muerte con la ayuda del padre del bebé, Anfernee Watts, según la policía.

La madre de Watts contactó a la policía para reportar que Garcia le dijo que el bebé murió mientras estaba atrapado entre la estructura de la cama y el colchón, según la orden de arresto.

“Sabes, cuando ves a alguien, cuando ha fallecido? Como, era así”, dijo Garcia a los oficiales el miércoles al confesar que asfixió accidentalmente al bebé, según un informe policial.

La pareja, que también tiene un hijo de 2 años, compareció ante la corte el jueves en el condado Broward. Un juez les negó la fianza.

Watts, de 25 años, y Garcia “admitieron haber fabricado una historia para presentarla a las autoridades, colocando al bebé fallecido nuevamente en el corralito en un intento de hacer parecer que murió mientras dormía”, escribió un oficial, según la orden de arresto.

Su hijo nació el 11 de julio en el Hospital Memorial Regional, según la policía.

Un pediatra reportó que el niño estaba en buen estado de salud el 28 de julio, según la orden de arresto. La tragedia se desarrolló unos días después.

Watts dijo a los oficiales que había asistido a una entrevista de trabajo, pero el supuesto entrevistador indicó que eso era falso, según la orden de arresto.

“Ella sujetó intencionalmente al bebé envolviéndolo firmemente en una manta, asegurando un chupete en su boca y sujetándolo a un asiento de auto antes de colocarlo dentro de una bañera y aislarlo detrás de una puerta cerrada mientras sonaba música alta”, y “ignoró deliberadamente su angustia y no lo revisó durante varias horas”, escribió un detective, según la orden.

La pareja presuntamente intentó “colocar al bebé fallecido nuevamente en el corralito en un intento de hacer parecer que murió mientras dormía”, escribió un detective, según una orden de arresto.

El personal de Hollywood Fire Rescue lo declaró muerto a la 1:50 p.m. del 1 de agosto, en una casa ubicada en el 6660 de Thomas St., según los registros.

Los oficiales notaron una “almohadilla desechable para cambiar pañales que parecía tener manchas de sangre”, y el bebé “tenía espuma visible en la boca y labios agrietados que parecían tener sangre seca”, según la orden de arresto.

La Oficina del Médico Forense de Broward determinó que la causa de muerte del bebé fue asfixia y que la manera de muerte fue homicidio. La evidencia también incluye un video grabado por una cámara de vigilancia Ring que muestra a Garcia con una bolsa de basura antes de llamar al 911.

Garcia dejó mensajes de voz a la policía desde el 4 de agosto hasta el miércoles y admitió haber mentido y reportó que había “asfixiado” al bebé, según la orden de arresto.

“Crystal admitió que mintió a la policía por miedo a ser arrestada”, escribió un oficial, según la orden de arresto.

El Grupo de Trabajo de Fugitivos de los U.S. Marshals arrestó a la pareja el miércoles.

El Departamento de Correcciones mantenía a Garcia sin derecho a fianza el jueves por la noche en el North Broward Bureau, un centro de detención en Pompano Beach, y a Watts en la cárcel principal del condado Broward en Fort Lauderdale, según los registros de reclusos.

Garcia y Watts enfrentan cada uno cinco cargos: obstrucción de una investigación criminal, homicidio agravado de un menor, negligencia infantil con gran daño corporal, manipulación de evidencia y tocar, remover o alterar intencionalmente un cadáver, su ropa o los objetos circundantes sin autorización.

La madre de Watts ha tenido la custodia de su hija de 2 años desde que tenía aproximadamente 5 meses después de que ella y la bebé dieron positivo a THC al nacer, según la orden de arresto.

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“Had to have one,” said James, who was attending the Masters from Wyckoff, New Jersey. “It's a novelty.”

This is the 10th and perhaps final year Augusta National will sell the limited edition gnome, which features the traditional old man with a white beard in colorful golf attire. Each year's gnome is different, with the 2026 edition featuring the character dressed in khaki pants with a white-and-green striped polo shirt and blue vest holding an umbrella in one hand and a Masters-themed cup in the other.

The gnomes have become wildly popular — and increasingly valuable — over the last decade.

With only about 1,000 available each day, the gnomes regularly sell out within an hour each morning at the merchandise shop before being restocked the following day. This year's gnome sells for $59.50 plus tax and is only available at Augusta National.

It has become a big money-maker for some patrons on the resale market.

The bidding for one gnome on eBay reached $620 on Friday with two days still remaining in the auction. Another can be purchased directly for $670 plus delivery cost, but there are dozens of others listed for similar prices.

On Facebook Marketplace, some gnomes are being sold for $800.

Fueling the price is speculation this may be the final year that the gnome will be produced.

Masters chairman Fred Ridley was asked earlier in the week if this will be the final edition. He responded by saying, “I’ve been asking that question for several years, and they won’t tell me the answer. So I can’t help you.”

When asked if he'd consider selling his gnome, James laughed and said, “Maybe.”

“I mean, I just spent more than $1,000 in the gift shop, so from what I've heard the gnome might pay for all of it,” James said. “I'll have to think about it, but it's definitely an option.”

John Van Pay, who came from San Antonio, got caught up in the gnome hysteria after talking with a friend associated with the LIV tour the night before attending the Masters. He convinced his son, Bryce, to wake up early and get to the course, and limited to one per person, they each walked out of the merchandise shop with a gnome.

“Yeah, we kept hearing about this gnome, and the rumor is it's going to be the last year they produce them,” Van Pay said. “So next thing you know, we are waiting in line at 7 a.m. to buy this gnome at the shop.”

Van Pay said he plans to keep his gnome as a souvenir of his trip to the Masters, calling it “a great piece of memorabilia” and something that “is going to look great on the shelf.” The younger Van Pay is a little more torn; he's an avid memorabilia collector, mostly dealing with Funko Pop.

Bryce Van Pay recounted how he recently had a $10 trading card that exploded on the market and reached $300 in value following the release of the most recent Marvel movie, only to watch it's worth slip to $100 a few months later. Van Pay lamented not selling it when it was at its most valuable.

“The Masters gnome is a hot seller and I'm not sure if it's going to go up and down (in value),” the younger Van Pay said. “There is a lot in circulation right now (on eBay and other platforms)."

He said given the possibility this is the last gnome produced, the wiser financial decision might be to hold onto it for a while.

With that, his father jumped in and said: “Well, he's my only son, so he can sell his now and make money and have mine when I hand it down to him.”

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PEN America, the century-old free expression organization, announced Friday that it was launching the U.S. Safety Program, which would provide safety training and other resources for authors amid a wave of censorship efforts around the country.

“We have heard from countless authors, illustrators, and translators who are under siege, fending off a steady stream of abuse and threats, online and at book events,” said Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, co-chief executive officer of PEN America. “Through this new program, the literary and publishing community is stepping up together because writers should not be forced to choose between their safety and their voice.”

Viktorya Vilk, who directs PEN's digital safety efforts, told The Associated Press that she first noticed a rise in harassment against journalists a decade ago, around the time Donald Trump was first elected president, and has seen it spread to writers and educators over the past couple of years. Maia Kababe, Jon Evison and George Johnson are among the authors of censored works who have spoken out about being harassed and threatened and even physically assaulted.

Ashley Hope Pérez, whose young adult novel “Out of Darkness” became a target for censors over its depictions of sex and sexual abuse, says she had to take down her office email and telephone. “I got hate mail and all kinds of ugly phone calls,” says Pérez, who teaches at Ohio State University.

According to PEN, it has raised nearly $1 million through contributions from Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers and Penguin Random House among others. This spring, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Egan and Lee Child will be among the writers auctioning off character names for future novels, with the proceeds benefiting the safety program. PEN will be building on other programs from recent years, including digital safety workshops held for Hachette authors in 2023.

“There have probably never been as many threats to authors’ safety as there are currently in the U.S,” Hachette CEO David Shelley said in a statement. “We’re proud to support this much-needed program from PEN America that will give writers a wide range of professional resources to help them deal with threats to their safety, online and offline.”

También será la primera vez en más de 30 años en la que se elegirá a un Congreso bicameral de 130 diputados y 60 senadores en el que la cámara alta no podrá ser disuelta y tendrá la potestad de designar autoridades de control y destituir al mandatario.

Perú atraviesa una crisis política con choques entre el Legislativo y el Ejecutivo que han provocado el desfile de ocho presidentes y tres Congresos en una década, cuando lo normal hubiese sido tener dos mandatarios y dos Parlamentos con mandatos de cinco años cada uno.

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Distintos sondeos privados coinciden en que la derechista Keiko Fujimori —hija del fallecido expresidente Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000)— encabeza la intención de voto con 15% con su promesa de combatir la delincuencia con las Fuerzas Armadas y construir nuevas cárceles.

Sin embargo, la suma del voto nulo, en blanco e indeciso lidera las proyecciones.

Fujimori, que se postula por cuarta vez a la presidencia, también propone reactivar la confianza de los empresarios mediante la promoción de proyectos mineros estancados que suman alrededor de 60.000 millones de dólares, facilitar la formalización de los mineros informales de oro y ampliar proyectos de irrigación en terrenos áridos para impulsar la agroexportación.

De los 35 candidatos presidenciales, la mayor oferta electoral de la historia peruana, detrás de Fujimori se ubican sólo cinco postulantes son fluctuaciones en la intención de voto y separados por menos de cinco puntos porcentuales entre sí.

En ese grupo están dos exalcaldes de Lima: Ricardo Belmont (1989-1995) del Partido Cívico Obras, un nacionalista que asegura que renegociará los contratos de explotación de recursos naturales, y Rafael López-Aliaga (2021-2025), de Renovación Popular, un millonario que promete créditos a los pequeños empresarios a través del banco estatal.

También está Carlos Álvarez de País para Todos, un cómico que en el año 2000 apoyó al expresidente Fujimori durante su controvertida tercera reelección. Álvarez promete retirar a Perú de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos e instaurar la pena de muerte para los sicarios.

Jorge Nieto, del partido Buen Gobierno y exministro de Defensa (2016-2018), promete resolver el problema de la seguridad en “no más de un año” con un grupo especial contra las extorsiones; mientras Alfonso López Chau, exdirector del Banco Central (2006-2012) y líder de Ahora Nación propone limpiar la policía de agentes corruptos, atacar las finanzas de los criminales y combatirlos usando la tecnología.

Economía estable, delincuencia en alza

Perú llega a los comicios con una proyección de crecimiento del Producto Bruto Interno (PIB) de 3% impulsado por los altos precios del cobre y una inflación anual controlada por el Banco Central de 2%, una de las más bajas de la región.

Pero el costo de la criminalidad consume 1,7% del PBI, el equivalente a unos 5.000 millones de dólares anuales, lo que actúa como un impuesto que asfixia el consumo y la inversión privada, según cálculos del Ministerio de Economía.

En el último quinquenio las denuncias por extorsión —un delito que ha provocado protestas y paralizaciones frecuentes del transporte público— se han quintuplicado, mientras los asesinatos se han duplicado, de acuerdo con datos oficiales.

La llegada en la última década de grupos criminales extranjeros ha introducido nuevos métodos de violencia, según los expertos. Otras economías criminales como la minería ilegal y el narcotráfico han creado zonas donde la presencia del Estado es casi imperceptible.

Mientras Fujimori promete controlar las fronteras y cárceles con la ayuda de los militares, López Aliaga afirma que construirá una cárcel en la Amazonía donde serpientes venenosas serán las guardianas que impedirán la fuga de presos.

Álvarez, en tanto, propone traer la experiencia en seguridad de El Salvador, Dinamarca y Singapur y Belmont asegura que los puestos de auxilio rápido serán claves para atender a las víctimas de la delincuencia.

Todo hace prever que ningún candidato logrará más del 50% de los votos válidos exigidos por la ley para ganar en primera vuelta, por lo que se espera un balotaje el 7 de junio entre los dos con mayor cantidad de sufragios.

Las autoridades electorales han señalado que los resultados finales se conocerán recién el jueves 16 de abril cuando lleguen todas las actas de votación de las zonas rurales más remotas y del extranjero.

That mismatch is killing some of the planet’s most vital ecosystems, from California’s towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows along its coast, both of which store vast amounts of carbon and support complex webs of life.

Marine heat waves, record wildfires and coastal development are pushing these systems beyond their limits as climate change, driven by emissions of fuels like oil and gas, accelerates. An estimated 1 million species face extinction, many within decades, largely due to human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution and overuse of natural resources, according to a 2019 report by a United Nations-affiliated intergovernmental scientific body.

Scientists are working to close the gap with an emerging discipline called conservation genomics: sequencing an organism’s complete genetic blueprint to pinpoint individuals with traits suited to survive drought, disease and other climate extremes, then using that information to guide restoration.

Coral reefs are among the first ecosystems where these genomic tools are being put to use. Repeated marine heat waves, which have caused mass bleaching, have devastated reefs worldwide. By sequencing corals and the algae that live inside them, researchers have identified colonies that naturally withstand higher temperatures and are beginning to test whether selectively breeding and growing those more resilient corals can support reef recovery.

Seagrass are under stress

In Southern California, researchers are applying the approach to eelgrass, a type of seagrass, as traditional restoration methods falter. The plant provides habitat for fish, crabs and plankton, feeds migratory birds and locks away carbon and methane — both heat-trapping greenhouse gases — in coastal sediments.

Conditions in San Diego’s bays are changing. Waters are warming. King tides — the year’s highest tides, which climate change is making more frequent and severe — stir up sediment and reduce the light that reaches the seafloor. Development sends runoff into bays, further clouding the water.

As a result, efforts to replant what’s been lost fail about half the time.

“Conservation genomics is becoming particularly important because right now, the climate is changing — a plant that was growing great in San Diego Bay, now San Diego Bay might be too hot for it,” said Todd Michael, a research professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

In Mission Bay, Michael and his colleagues discovered a clue to improving those odds: a naturally occurring hybrid eelgrass that outperformed its parent species. The plant, a cross between shallow water eelgrass Zostera marina and deeper water Zostera pacifica, persisted where both parent species struggled.

By sequencing its genome, the team identified genes tied to the plant’s circadian clock that stayed active longer under low light conditions, a pattern scientists believe may help it photosynthesize more efficiently in murky water.

The findings suggest restoration could be improved by selecting or breeding eelgrass better suited to future conditions. But for now, that work remains largely experimental and has not yet been deployed at scale in the field. The researchers have partnered with ecologists at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography to explore how those insights could be applied in future restoration.

Applying similar techniques to Northern California's redwoods

Redwoods are among the tallest and oldest trees on Earth and their forests store more carbon per acre than any other, according to a 2020 study by Save the Redwoods League and Humboldt State University.

While these trees evolved with frequent low intensity fire, today’s hotter and more destructive wildfires, combined with drought, are taking a growing toll. Logging has had an even greater impact: about 95% of old growth redwoods were cut, drastically reducing genetic diversity.

Scientists have already sequenced the redwood genome — a massive undertaking given its size, which is nearly nine times larger than the human genome.

However researchers say the work is not just about restoring what once existed, but preparing forests for a climate that no longer resembles the past.

“Where one organism was adapted to a certain location at one moment in time, it may no longer be,” said David Neale, a forest geneticist and distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis. “It might require different genetic variation to adapt to the new environment.”

Early analyses have begun to link genes to traits such as drought tolerance and temperature adaptation, but researchers say more rigorous work is needed to confirm those links before they can be used to guide restoration. That work has stalled due to limited funding.

Conservation genomics alone cannot solve climate change

“It can be helpful, but it’s not a solution unto itself,” said Karen Holl, a distinguished professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “What should be prioritized is reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

Genomic tools may help certain species, particularly long-lived ones like redwoods that cannot adapt quickly enough on their own, but they come with limits. Ecosystems are built on complex relationships among plants, animals, microbes and fungi. Engineering or selecting for climate resilient traits in one species does not guarantee the survival of the many others that depend on it.

“Can you genetically engineer a few species that would be more tolerant? Absolutely. But that’s not an ecosystem,” said Holl. “We’re not going to engineer our way out of climate change.”

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The draw is on Tuesday at Christie's auction house in Paris.

The inaugural “1 Picasso for 100 euros” raffle, in 2013, saw a fire-sprinkler worker in Pennsylvania win “Man in the Opera Hat,” which the Spanish master painted in 1914 during his Cubist period.

A second Picasso, the oil-on-canvas “Nature Morte,” was raffled off in 2020 and made a very happy mom of Claudia Borgogno, an accountant in Italy. Her son bought her the ticket as a Christmas present.

That still life, painted in 1921, was purchased for the raffle from billionaire art collector David Nahmad, who argued in a rare Associated Press interview that Picasso would have approved of raffling his work. Picasso died in 1973.

“Picasso was very generous. He gave paintings to his driver, his tailor,” Nahmad said. “He wanted his art to be collected by all kinds of people, not only by the super-rich.”

The gouache on paper “Tête de Femme,” meaning “head of a woman,” up for grabs next week was painted by Picasso in 1941.

The Alzheimer Research Foundation, the charity raffle's organizer, is based in one of Paris' leading public hospitals and says it has become France's leading private financier of Alzheimer-related medical research since its founding in 2004.

Christie’s auction house says the painting will be on view from Monday at its galleries in Paris, ahead of Tuesday's 6 p.m. draw there.

The organizers’ online sales platform says the number of tickets will be capped at 120,000, meaning the draw could net 12 million euros ($14 million) if they're all sold.

From the proceeds, 1 million euros will be paid to the Opera Gallery, an international art dealership that owns the painting.

Organizers say the two previous Picasso raffles raised a total of more than 10 million euros for cultural work in Lebanon and water and hygiene programs in Africa.

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Deputies said Roberta Walker, 51, of Washington, D.C., broke into a home in Hobe Sound by climbing through a bedroom window.

They said she tried stealing the homeowner’s dog while it was in a crate, but not before the homeowner came home and confronted her.

“It’s one of these things that goes in the category of ‘you can’t make this stuff up,’” said Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek.

Authorities said Walker spent around a half hour trying to get inside the home.

“And for the next half an hour, she chipped away at an impact glass window in the back of the house with a rock and a little piece of metal,” said Budensiek. “Eventually, (she) was able to compromise that window, at which point she crawled into the window.”

That was just the beginning of Walker’s confusing criminal acts, authorities said.

“Nothing she did made sense,” said Budensiek. “Daytime burglary, spent a half an hour doing it, stayed in the house, drug a 90-pound dog outside, like, what are you going to do with a 90-pound dog? And then in broad daylight, stole a car.”

Following a large manhunt, Walker was arrested, and officials say they found jewelry in her vehicle from a second burglary.

Budensiek said Walker has a long criminal record, saying if convicted, these new charges carry harsh consequences.

“It’s significant because it’s a burglary of an occupied dwelling with damage over $1,000,” he said. “It’s actually a life felony. Now, do I think she’s going to get a life sentence? No. But she’s going to get a significant amount of time, especially with the criminal history that she has backing her up.”

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Police took Johnnie Sanders, 34, into custody on Monday at Uncle Hanks’ Hideaway restaurant.

“I didn’t care he made himself at home,” said restaurant owner Matthew Curtis.

According to police, Sanders was found inside the restaurant, located at 78 Canal St., late Monday night after authorities said he entered without permission while the business was clearly closed. Nobody was inside and the lights were off.

It wasn’t the first time he allegedly broke inside.

On Easter Sunday, surveillance cameras captured Sanders entering the business and taking a set of spare keys before watching TV inside the restaurant for four hours despite it being closed and him not being welcome, according to Curtis.

The next evening, police said he returned, and that’s when he was taken into custody.

Police said that before his arrest, Sanders gave the spare keys to Curtis upon request.

As of Thursday afternoon, Sanders remained behind bars at the Metrowest Correctional Center on two counts of burglary of an unoccupied structure.

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Aden Perry heard calls for help from someone who had driven into a lake in Sunrise in April 2022.

He jumped in to help, but never came back up, as both he and the driver died.

“It’s important to be proactive to save lives,” said Sara Perry, Aden’s mother. “I didn’t think I’d live a day or a week and here I am. On April 19, it’ll mark four years since that accident changed my world.”

Now, loved ones are hoping to turn their tragedy into something that could help make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.

“It wasn’t until losing my son that I realized there was currently nothing available in such an emergency,” said Perry.

Since then, Perry has put up more than 600 life rings, or life preservers, along waterways across South Florida and even up into North Carolina.

Each one has the last picture Perry would ever take of her son, and a hero’s message, but she hopes they send the message of “throw, don’t go.”

“Every body of water has the potential for a water emergency and it doesn’t matter how great a swimmer you are,” she said.

Perry added that the life rings have already saved lives.

“By having these life rings, it’s almost like we’re completing the job he started that night,” she said.

Aden’s legacy also lives on through events like annual 5Ks and the Aden Perry Good Samaritan Scholarship Foundation, which helps students who are smart, driven and selfless, like Aden was.

“To date, we’ve given well over $300,000 in scholarships,” said Perry. “He wanted to be a neurosurgeon, he wanted to make a difference, he really wanted to save lives.

“I miss him terribly. The work I do now is all for him, in his honor. He would be proud of me. He was my hero.”

The latest 5K will be held on Saturday at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, where Perry will give a $10,000 scholarship to a deserving student.

It’s one of the 16 scholarships she’s handing out.

All money collected from the 5K will go toward those scholarships.

The I-395/836/I-95 project, also known as “Connecting Miami,” began in 2019 and was originally expected to be finished by 2021. But the Florida Department of Transportation now says the project won’t be completed until late 2029.

The cost has also increased, rising from about $800 million to $866 million.

“To be quite honest, it’s unsurprising,” said Cathy Dos Santos, with Miami’s Transit Alliance, a nonprofit advocating for expanded public transportation. “And in the worst way possible.”

Critics point not only to the timeline and rising cost of the massive project, but also to recent safety concerns.

Construction resumed this week after being paused last month when a worker fell to his death. Earlier this year, six other workers had to be rescued after falling from another structure at the site.

As signs at the construction area urge workers to prioritize quality, past legal issues have also raised questions.

Previous lawsuits reportedly cited concerns over defective concrete and even the design of what’s meant to be an iconic signature bridge.

One lawsuit, filed by the joint venture behind the project against insurers, alleged the initial bridge design was not viable because it could not withstand required wind forces. That lawsuit was later settled.

“As a taxpayer, this being a project that is directly funded by the money that you give back to the government -- that you ask them to be good stewards -- you should be concerned about the fact that there is a lack of clarity and transparency,” Dos Santos said.

Local 10 News asked the Florida Department of Transportation to explain the latest delay. The department had not responded, as of the time of publication.

One of the country’s first exercise oncology programs began right here in South Florida.

For 25 years, the Memorial Healthcare Cancer Recovery Program has been connecting trained exercise physiologists with patients during and after cancer treatment.

“It’s helped us immensely with mood improvement, it helps us maintain physical fitness, muscle mass, anxiety, nausea, and maintaining their weight,” said Susan Zohar, a breast cancer survivor.

After a grueling month of radiation treatments, the last thing she thought she needed was an exercise program.

“I’m tired -- mentally, physically, emotionally beat down from the cancer treatment. But I was very pleasantly surprised, though I couldn’t do everything -- everything was measured for me,” she said.

In fact, Susan says the program is like having her own personal trainer. Exercise physiologists design unique plans for each patient, depending on their needs and abilities.

“I do think that the most important part is the building self-confidence and giving them measurable goals for them to hit, so they can say -- ‘Even though I have this or had this, I can get better,’” she said. “‘I can get stronger.’”

Stronger is exactly how Susan feels now. She has walked in the Dolphin Challenge to raise money for cancer research and even joined a dragon boat team.

She says she has never felt better. For her, the exercise program was a game changer.

“Cancer changed my life. Most people think cancer changes their life for the negative, but this actually was one of the most positive,” she said.

Also part of the exercise oncology program: nutrition counseling, stress management and yoga classes.

The Memorial Foundation -- the philanthropic arm of Memorial Healthcare -- ensures all patients can participate regardless of their financial situations.

The program gets about 400 referrals every year.

“Leading Ladies Magazine” is officially making waves across the region, celebrating the stories, impact and influence of local women who are making a difference.

“They’re serving our community -- present mothers or wives, single people, active in community and giving back,” said Jessica Cristobal, the founder of Leading Ladies League.

Cristobal, the wife of University of Miami head football coach Mario Cristobal, is also familiar with the world of luxury publications.

She previously served as president of Brickell and Key Biscayne Magazine and as publisher of a mega yachting magazine. Now, the philanthropist is returning to the industry with a new mission.

“I really wanted to showcase the women in my life that are doing amazing things -- philanthropy, business, inventors, authors,” she said.

In 2009, Cristobal founded the Leading Ladies League, a social organization that partners with nonprofits to support women and children in need. The group brings influential women together with a shared goal -- giving back.

“And I just thought it would be so cool to bring a magazine to market to showcase these women in South Florida,” she said.

All the while, Cristobal balances her role as a mother of two and a supportive wife.

“It’s kind of a perfect marriage,” she said. “I like to say Mario takes care of the guys, he’s a coach -- very present father -- pours into young men all day long, so I like to showcase the ladies -- gather women and then we come together. I can bring both worlds together easily.”

She says that support goes both ways.

“He’s always there cheering for me and I’m always cheering for him, so we really support each other with what we’re doing. So I want to see him win and he wants to see me win,” she said.

Whether it’s at home, on the field with Miami’s beloved Hurricanes, or now as the driving force behind an empowering publication, Jessica Cristobal is all in.

When asked what she wants readers to take away, her answer is simple.

“This is an aspirational magazine and I want the reader to walk away thinking, ‘Wow, if she can do that, I can too,’” she said.

For now, Leading Ladies Magazine is a quarterly publication, but there are already talks of expanding to six issues a year as more stories emerge.

The long-term plan is to grow beyond South Florida and bring the concept to other areas as well.