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Moody emerged victorious in the Republican primary.

“We are standing for common sense, a commitment to safe communities, a commitment to accountable and responsive government, a commitment to ensuring the people’s government puts the people’s interest first, and an appreciation and affirmance of the ideals of this country,” Moody said during her victory speech.

State Rep. Angie Nixon won the Democratic nomination.

“Floridians deserve better, and we can have better, and that we have to work and vote to make that happen,” Nixon said in her victory speech.

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Moody was Florida’s attorney general before being appointed to the seat in 2025 after her predecessor, Marco Rubio, was confirmed as U.S. secretary of state.

She’s touting accomplishments during her time in the seat, including rolling back regulations to help Florida’s citrus industry and bringing in billions of dollars in disaster relief.

She is facing three Republican challengers: Chris Gleason, a U.S. Army veteran and data forensics expert who says he has experience “exposing corruption and fraud;” physician Neelam Taneja Perry, who says she’s “fighting for the rights of the people”; and Pastor Ernie Rivera, who says his background in finance and as a licensed housing manager could help curb South Florida’s affordability problems.

State Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, is a six-year state lawmaker and a Florida native. She says she will fight to make life more affordable for all Floridians, saying the economy should work for everyone.

Her campaign cornerstone is putting people over politics and profit.

Alex Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, moved to Florida with his wife and daughter three years ago. He was wounded in Iraq and received a Purple Heart and is known for testifying during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.

He said his campaign is promising to rekindle the American dream for Floridians, with a spotlight on affordability — from making sure buying a home is attainable to driving down health care costs.

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It was a mixed bag for incumbents in the state, where Republican-led redistricting efforts scrambled congressional maps. Voters in Alaska, Wyoming and California were also choosing their nominees, sometimes considering multiple people running with matching last names.

Tuesday’s contests will help shape the midterms this fall to determine control of Congress, where Republicans have a narrow edge.

Here are some takeaways from this round of primaries.

Another progressive beats a far better-funded establishment rival

Progressives notched a surprise victory as the battle between outsider and establishment candidates that has roiled the Democratic Party in states like Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan moved to more conservative territory.

In a major upset, progressive state lawmaker Angie Nixon easily defeated retired Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, a former National Security Council official who delivered searing testimony against Trump in his 2019 impeachment trial. Vindman had outraised Nixon by more than 16-to-1, with Nixon bringing in less than $1 million.

Now she will face Sen. Ashley Moody in a campaign to fill the last two years of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s former Senate term. Moody was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis after Rubio stepped down.

But in another matchup in South Florida, U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz won the nomination for reelection in a new Republican-friendly district against union organizer and democratic socialist Oliver Larkin.

Donalds joins historic slate of Black candidates for governor

Donalds, a rising star in the Republican Party, won his party’s nomination to succeed the term-limited DeSantis, joining a historic slate of Black gubernatorial nominees across the country as he vies to become the first Black governor of the state.

They include Republicans Rep. John James in Michigan and Lisa Demuth, who defeated pillow-selling conspiracist Mike Lindell in Minnesota. On the Democratic side, David Crowley won a razor-thin primary against a democratic socialist in Wisconsin, joining Attorney General Aaron Ford in Nevada, State Rep. Jermaine Johnson in South Carolina and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia.

Either Bottoms or Demuth could be the country’s first Black woman governor.

There is currently only one Black governor in the nation, Democrat Wes Moore of Maryland, who is seeking reelection in November.

Donalds will face David Jolly, a Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat, who won the Democratic nomination Tuesday night.

Wasserman Schultz wins diverse, redrawn Florida seat

A Republican-led redrawing scrambled Florida’s congressional map, creating some awkward matchups for Democrats.

But longtime U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz easily won the most contentious race, beating U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and three other Black candidates in a South Florida district that is a plurality-Black district. Cherfilus-McCormick had resigned earlier this year under a pending federal indictment and threat of House ethics sanctions, but wanted her seat back.

Wasserman Schultz, a former national party chair seeking a 12th term in Congress, was the only white candidate competing to represent an area of Broward County that has helped send Black Democrats to Congress since 1992.

Her decision to run had stirred deep animosity, including charges by one rival that “she stabbed us in the back.”

Trump pick loses in race featuring transplants and scandal-plagued candidates

While Trump-backed Donalds emerged victorious, the candidate Trump had endorsed to fill his seat — Catalina Lauf — lost to Jim Schwartzel, owner of conservative talk radio station 92.5 FOX News.

The race had featured a cast of characters akin to a reality show reunion, including several who had spent time in prison and a handful who had run in other states.

They included two former members of Congress mounting comeback bids after departing in scandal: Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn’stenure was marred by repeat traffic stops, guns at airport checkpoints and a claim he had been invited to a Washington orgy. Former New York Rep. Chris Collins, who resigned before pleading guilty to insider trading charges, served prison time before he was pardoned by Trump.

Trump-endorsed Lauf had run twice for Congress in Illinois. She lost the 2020 primary to Jim Oberweis, a former state senator, who has also decamped to Florida and ran for the seat.

Another candidate, Ola Hawatmeh, previously ran unsuccessfully for Congress in New York, while Linda Sawyer once tried in Michigan.

Also in the race: John Strand, a former television actor, underwear model and romance novel cover model, who served prison time for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 assault of the U.S. Capitol.

Republicans lose an incumbent

While Democratic incumbents won their races, Republican Rep. Cory Mills lost his bid for a third term to Ryan Elijah, a former television reporter.

Mills faced a series of scandals, including allegations of domestic violence involving a former girlfriend, which he denies. He had also been abandoned by DeSantis and other state officials.

Trump initially backed Mills in February but did not include him in a list of endorsements on Monday.

Double-checking the name in Alaska

Will Alaska voters need to contend with two Dan Sullivans going forward? It’s too soon to tell.

The primary ballot for the state’s Senate race, which is expected to be one of the country’s most closely watched this fall, included both Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Trump ally seeking a third term, and another candidate also named Dan Sullivan.

Republicans had claimed the second Sullivan — who appeared on the ballot as “Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.” — was a sham candidate running at the behest of Democrats to cause confusion. Dan J. Sullivan Jr., a retired teacher, has denied the charge.

Under the state’s open primary system, all candidates appear on the same ballot, and the four who receive the most votes move on to a ranked-vote general election. Sullivan, the incumbent senator, and former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, who would become the first Alaska Native senator if she wins in November, swiftly advanced Tuesday, but it was too early to call the other two spots on the November ballot.

Another Trump pick for governor loses their race

While he had success with Donalds, another governor candidate endorsed by Trump lost her race, this time in Wyoming. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder was defeated by state Sen. Eric Barlow, a U.S. Marine veteran and livestock veterinarian who is also a former Wyoming House Speaker.

Trump’s picks for governor have occasionally struggled in primaries this year, including Lindell in Minnesota, Randy Feenstra in Iowa, Burt Jones in Georgia and Pamela Evette in South Carolina.

Trump had better luck in the Senate race in Wyoming, where his endorsed candidate, Rep. Harriet Hageman, easily captured the Republican nomination for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Cynthia Lummis.

Pro-Israel group spending in former Swalwell seat

In California’s Bay Area, voters are choosing a replacement for Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, whose resignation amid sexual assault allegations ended his run for governor.

California’s 14th District will remain under Democratic control as state Sen. Aisha Wahab and Bay Area Rapid Transit Board President Melissa Hernandez advanced from a special open primary.

However, the race was too early to call on Tuesday night, and California is notorious for counting slowly.

The campaign reprised a theme that dominated other Democratic primaries this year: outside spending, particularly from pro-Israel lobbying groups. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC spent more than $2 million against Wahab and in support of Hernandez, and another group funded by the super PAC has spent nearly $2 million in support of Hernandez.

Pro-Israel group spending seemed to backfire in Michigan’s recent Democratic Senate primary, where Abdul El-Sayed emerged victorious despite tens of millions of dollars backing his opponent, Rep. Haley Stevens.

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China kicked off the 2026 World Robot Conference on Wednesday, with companies showcasing the country’s expanding robotics industry as it looks to move the technology beyond demonstrations and into factories and other real-world applications.

Organizers say around 3,000 products will be showcased during the five-day event. Despite the conference's name, there was no sign of other countries exhibiting.

One of the main attractions on Wednesday was the booth of Unitree, one of China’s leading humanoid robot makers, where some of its models boxed and danced. One even played ping pong with a human opponent.

The opening of the conference coincided with Unitree’s stock market debut in Shanghai.

The conference comes weeks after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move targeting China. The prohibition also covers new imports of quadruped robots, often referred to as four-legged robot dogs. The agency said advanced robots could pose cybersecurity and other national security risks.

UBTECH, another of China’s leading robotics companies, brought several industrial models to the conference. Some demonstrated tasks such as moving components around as they might on a factory floor.

But among those drawing the most attention were humanoid robots with lifelike faces, promoted for emotional care.

Jiao Jichao, deputy president of UBTECH Robotics, said one of its emotional-care humanoids can talk, make various facial expressions, rotate its neck and move its hands. And it is available to individual buyers. The price: 168,000 yuan (more than $24,000).

But despite the increasingly sophisticated displays, experts say many humanoid robots remain more impressive as performers than as practical workers.

Several companies showcased helper robots equipped with mechanical arms and hands. At one booth, a robot attempted a seemingly simple household chore: folding a shirt. After several minutes of trying, it couldn’t do it.

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Election takeaways: Donalds joins historic field and progressive scores upset victory in Florida

As the long, contentious primary season nears its end, Democratic voters elevated another progressive Senate candidate in Florida, while Trump’s chosen candidate in his adopted home state, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, won the nomination to be the state’s first Black governor.

It was a mixed bag for incumbents in the state, where Republican-led redistricting efforts scrambled congressional maps. Voters in Alaska, Wyoming and California were also choosing their nominees, sometimes considering multiple people running with matching last names.

Tuesday’s contests will help shape the midterms this fall to determine control of Congress, where Republicans have a narrow edge.

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South Korean and US militaries shorten drills by about half after Trump ordered a reduction

The South Korean and U.S. militaries detailed how they’re scaling back joint drills, a reduction Trump ordered in an apparent bid to reengage with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump had ordered his Pentagon chief to “substantially reduce” the allies’ summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, just before they began Monday for an 11-day run. Trump cited what he said was a good relationship with Kim and South Korea’s refusal to support him over Iran.

South Korean officials said Trump’s surprise announcement came without prior notice, baffling many people in the Asian country and raising concerns about joint defense readiness.

South Korea’s military said Wednesday the allies agreed to adjust the duration and scale of the exercises at the request of the U.S. It said the ongoing drills would end Friday, not Aug. 27 as initially planned. The allies also agreed to downsize some joint field training exercises.

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Trump says US and Canada have reached last-minute deal to delay 50% US tariffs on Canadian imports

President Donald Trump says he’s delaying the 50% U.S. tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports. The countries reached a deal less than two hours before the sanctions were to go into effect, buying time for more negotiations and avoiding for now another strain in already tense relations.

“I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

If they had gone into effect as scheduled at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, Trump’s import taxes would have hit Canadian products ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.

But the political impact would likely have been bigger than the economic one. Canada had threatened to retaliate against any new tariffs with levies of its own, aggravating a trade fight between countries that sold each other $880 billion worth of goods and services last year.

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Judge rules paint tests on Eisenhower Building can proceed, advancing Trump’s makeover plans for now

A federal district judge said Tuesday that paint tests on a 19th-century historic landmark building next to the White House can go ahead, advancing Trump’s plans to add a new coat of white paint to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, for now.

Trump has suggested the massive building be painted as part of his push to remake and beautify the nation’s capital. Planners said the paint job would cost at least $7.5 million.

The proposal to paint the building has alarmed preservationists, architects, historians and others who argue that granite is not meant to be painted and that paint would trap moisture and degrade the stone.

U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich said plaintiffs in an ongoing case had not shown that minimal tests planned for the historic building would cause irreparable harm if those tests go ahead.

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Prosecutors also called into question Comey's account that he had found the seashells in the numerical arrangement of “86 47” while walking on a beach in North Carolina and suggested that his May 2025 post on Instagram was a thinly veiled attempt to sell copies of a forthcoming novel about a social media personality whose words have inspired his fans to attack his foes.

The arguments in motions late Tuesday represent the government's most detailed explanation of its indictment and were filed in response to wide-ranging defense efforts to dismiss the case on grounds including that it constitutes a vindictive prosecution and that Comey's post did not amount to a true threat.

Comey's lawyers contend that investigators in the case misled judges, submitted documents containing false statements, withheld key facts and repeatedly came up empty in their efforts to prove that Comey intended a physical threat or knew that the number 86 could suggest violence.

The entry for “86” from Merriam-Webster, the dictionary used by The Associated Press, says its meaning is “to throw out,” “to get rid of” or “to refuse service to.” Trump, a Republican, is the 47th president.

The Justice Department maintains the photo of the seashells, which Comey said he found on the beach, constituted a threat against Trump. Comey deleted the post shortly after he put it up, saying he did not know that anyone interpreted the numbers as a call to violence. His lawyers have said that the slogan has long meant to “get rid of” or “eject” and has been featured on thousands of items sold online and regularly displayed at protests.

But the Justice Department sought in its filings to place the post against the backdrop of a spate of assassination plots or attempts against Trump in the months before and after Comey's post. Prosecutors say that two minutes before the post was made, Comey's wife texted him a screenshot of a definition of “86” that said "to get rid of or refuse service.”

"There is no serious dispute that an objective viewer of Comey’s post could read it to mean ‘Kill President Trump,’” prosecutors wrote.

The photo was posted days before Comey was set to release a novel titled “FDR Drive,” in which a prosecutor pursues a far-right social media personality who has called out his foes by name and inspired violence against them by his fans, the Justice Department said.

After the Instagram post provoked an outcry, according to the government's filings, Comey's publishing agent observed in a text message to him that he had “gone viral.” Comey responded that that was “not my intention, but I’ll be OK if it sells books.” The agent replied, ”Music to an agent's ears."

Prosecutors also asserted there was “reason to doubt” Comey’s account of having come upon the seashells while on a walk, saying they were located 4 miles (6 kilometers) “down from the beach from beachfront property where Comey was staying, in an area separated from the ocean by a sand dune.” They said there was "no evidence that anyone else arranged, photographed, or even saw the shells.”

Comey's lawyers have called the indictment, the second in a year against him, part of a Trump retribution campaign targeting one of the president’s vocal critics. Trump fired Comey as head of the FBI in 2017 as Comey was overseeing an investigation into potential ties between the Republican's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, and Trump since then has called for him and other perceived adversaries to be jailed.

But the Justice Department denied allegations of vindictiveness, saying the decision to indict Comey was made by the U.S. attorney in the area and did not derive from a directive from the president or the attorney general.

Whether defendant Tyler Robinson acted out of political animus could be key for prosecutors seeking the death penalty — or for his attorneys in taking that punishment off the table.

The prosecution and defense have filed dueling documents focused on whether the crime included aggravating factors that would make Robinson eligible for the death penalty if convicted. Those include political targeting and whether the shooting endangered thousands of others who attended Kirk’s Sept. 10 event at Utah Valley University.

Robinson is charged with crimes including aggravated murder and has not yet entered a plea. The 23-year-old defendant turned himself in a day after the shooting.

The latest batch of court documents follows a five-day preliminary hearing in July, when prosecutors presented what they said was “overwhelming” evidence against Robinson, while defense attorneys worked to sow doubt about analysts’ findings.

Judge Tony Graf said he will decide if the case should advance to trial after he hears again from both sides on Sept. 1.

In a document filed late Tuesday, prosecutors argued the engraved bullet found in the suspected murder weapon was an “overt political reference.” They also noted that Robinson allegedly wrote in a text message about Kirk: “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”

Robinson’s attorneys have argued that the text message is not strong enough evidence to prove a political motivation. They did not immediately respond to a request for comment on prosecutors’ new filing.

Before his death, Kirk and the organization he co-founded, Turning Point USA, galvanized the conservative youth vote to help President Donald Trump win a second term.

Prosecutors contend that Kirk’s opposition to same-sex marriage and gender-affirming care stood in sharp contrast to Robinson, who was reportedly in a romantic relationship with his roommate, Lance Twiggs. Twiggs told investigators he had considered a gender transition around the time of Kirk’s killing, according to prosecutors.

A handwritten note that prosecutors allege Robinson left for Twiggs read in part, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it.”

In a recorded interview shown in court last month, Twiggs said he had never heard Robinson talk about Kirk before the shooting. Robinson also did not talk much about gender issues or LGBTQ+ rights, but he did sometimes talk about politics, including Trump, Twiggs told investigators.

The Associated Press emailed Twiggs’ attorney seeking comment.

During the July hearing, investigators presented DNA analyses that they said linked Robinson to both the suspected murder weapon and a tool he allegedly used to engrave the bullet cartridges. Robinson’s attorneys repeatedly questioned the reliability of DNA tests and other evidence.

Defense attorneys also have argued against a possible sentence enhancement for endangering others, saying the shooter “hit the intended target.” Prosecutors said numerous people were within a “zone of danger” around Kirk when he was shot from a rooftop.

According to an arrest report, William Serrano Domenech, 49, who is currently homeless, was taken into custody Tuesday, a day after the shooting near Northwest 38th Street and Northwest 33rd Avenue.

The report states that Serrano Domenech went to the area at about 5:35 p.m. Monday, where he was socializing with a witness.

The victim arrived a short time later, and a verbal dispute broke out, investigators said.

According to the witness, Serrano Domenech began slapping and punching the victim. When the witness attempted to intervene, investigators said Serrano Domenech pulled a gun from a fanny pack and shot the victim in the abdomen.

Serrano Domenech then fled eastbound on Northwest 38th Street, according to the report.

The victim was taken to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

The victim’s identity was not mentioned in the arrest report.

Investigators said the shooting followed an ongoing dispute between Serrano Domenech and the victim that stemmed from the suspect’s alleged jealousy over the victim’s relationship with the witness.

The witness told investigators that the victim was unarmed and did not initiate the physical altercation.

According to the arrest report, deputies spotted Serrano Domenech Tuesday near Northwest 32nd Street and Northwest 31st Avenue.

When deputies attempted to approach him, Serrano Domenech entered the yard of a nearby home in an apparent attempt to avoid the deputies, investigators said.

Deputies detained him, and the report states that Serrano Domenech spontaneously told them, “I’m Willy, the guy you’re looking for from yesterday.”

While attempting to retrieve his identification, deputies spotted a handgun inside a bag in his possession, according to the report.

Investigators said Serrano Domenech has previous federal felony convictions for cocaine sales and weapons offenses.

After being read his Miranda rights, Serrano Domenech admitted to shooting the victim, according to the arrest report. Investigators noted that his account of what happened was inconsistent with the witness’s version of events.

Serrano Domenech was arrested on charges of second-degree murder and possession of a firearm and/or ammunition by a convicted felon.

As of Wednesday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed his bond as “to be set.”

To create this list of the best used 3-year-old hybrids, Edmunds examined fuel economy ratings, brand-level reliability, crash test scores, and overall appeal as a daily driver. Any one of these five hybrids from the 2023 model year will likely serve you well while saving you money. The prices listed below are what you can expect to pay at nationwide dealerships such as CarMax or Carvana.

Small car: 2023 Toyota Prius

Toyota redesigned the Prius for the 2023 model year, keeping its traditional aerodynamic hatchback shape while adding rakishly attractive styling. For the first time, the new design made the Prius a car you might want for its looks as much as for its fuel efficiency. Toyota also dramatically improved the car’s performance without reducing fuel economy. Open the rear hatch, and the Prius has a roomy trunk that expands with the back seat folded down. The downsides to this version of the Prius include a cramped interior and poor outward visibility, but you might decide those are small prices to pay for one of the most fuel-efficient hybrids that money can buy.

2023 Prius average price: approximately $30,000

EPA-estimated fuel economy: up to 57 mpg combined

Midsize car: 2023 Honda Accord

The Honda Accord is about as roomy as you can get for a midsize sedan. There’s plenty of rear legroom for adults, and there is an abundance of room in the trunk for all of your things. For the redesigned 2023 Accord, Honda installed its latest hybrid powertrain, which delivers satisfying acceleration and impressive fuel economy. It also made the hybrid powertrain standard on most of the Accord’s available trim levels. The main issue with the Accord is that you must buy the top Touring trim to get the hybrid powertrain and the most desirable technology features. Also, make sure to choose one equipped with blind-spot warning, an important safety feature.

2023 Accord Hybrid average price: approximately $28,500

EPA-estimated fuel economy: up to 48 mpg combined

Small SUV: 2023 Honda CR-V

The Honda CR-V is a longtime favorite for small SUV shoppers, and there are plenty of reasons why. The CR-V offers roomy seating, a smooth ride over bumps, and plenty of cargo space. As with the Accord, Honda redesigned the CR-V for the 2023 model year and equipped it with its latest hybrid powertrain. The Sport and Sport Touring trims come with the hybrid as standard. As with the Accord, the CR-V’s best infotainment tech features are available only on the top trim level. Blind-spot warning is not standard, so select accordingly.

2023 CR-V Hybrid average price: approximately $33,000

EPA-estimated fuel economy: up to 40 mpg combined

Midsize SUV: 2023 Toyota Highlander Hybrid

It wasn’t long ago that the idea of an eight-passenger, three-row midsize SUV offering fuel economy estimates in the mid-30s would have been considered an impossibility, but the Highlander Hybrid makes it a reality. This is a sensible SUV that’s easy to drive and can seat up to eight people with its third-row seat raised. That third-row seat is pretty small, though, so it’s best to think of it for occasional use only. The 2023 Highlander Hybrid received some tech upgrades, so look for one with the big 12.3-inch center touchscreen.

2023 Highlander Hybrid average price: approximately $44,000

EPA-estimated fuel economy: up to 36 mpg combined

Luxury vehicle: 2023 Lexus RX

When Americans decide to upgrade to a luxury car, they often pick this luxury SUV: the Lexus RX. It received a complete redesign for the 2023 model year and came in two hybrid flavors. The RX 350h is the more efficient and affordable one, while the RX 500h emphasizes power and performance over fuel economy. The RX is a midsize SUV seating five people, and both hybrid versions include standard all-wheel drive. For trim level and equipment variety, choose the RX 350h since the RX 500h is only available with the F Sport Performance trim.

2023 RX average price: approximately $49,000

EPA-estimated fuel economy: 36 mpg combined

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Affordability is a concern for most car buyers. If saving money is important to you, buying a used vehicle instead of a new one can save you thousands. Make it a fuel-efficient hybrid, and the savings will continue for years after the purchase.

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This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds.

Christian Wardlaw is a contributor at Edmunds.

The military said it would not launch criminal investigations into three other attacks that killed aid workers from World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders.

It released the news in a statement that said it had completed reviews of 150 incidents of troop conduct in Gaza and made decisions on five cases.

The statement did not mention other high-profile killings that the military has pledged to investigate throughout the war. It did not mention the Israeli strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza that killed five journalists in August 2025, including Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for The Associated Press and other news organizations.

The killings drew international outcry

Both the killing of Rajab in February 2024 and the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in May 2025 gained international attention.

Rajab was killed alongside her relatives while trying to flee Gaza City amid an Israeli offensive. Israeli troops opened fire on a vehicle carrying Hind and four of her cousins and her aunt and uncle. Hind’s cousin, 15-year-old Layan Hamada, called the Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic center, telling them that a tank was approaching and that her family had been killed.

Seconds later, more gunshots were heard, and Layan’s screaming stopped, according to the Red Crescent recording of the call.

Hind was the sole survivor in the car. The Red Crescent stayed in contact with her as they tried to get permission from the military to rescue her. Contact was lost. Hind, her five relatives and two medics were found dead 12 days later.

The 15 paramedics were killed when Israeli troops opened fire on their vehicles in the southern city of Rafah, then buried them in a mass grave. Troops shot at a first ambulance that was driving to retrieve casualties from an Israeli offensive, then fired on several other emergency vehicles that went out to look for the first one, according to phone footage and the sole survivor of the shootings.

Troops then bulldozed over the bodies along with their mangled vehicles, burying them in a mass grave. U.N. and rescue workers were only able to reach the site a week later to dig out the bodies.

The Israeli military initially said it opened fire because the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” on nearby troops without headlights or emergency signals. But it backtracked from that account after the footage emerged, showing the Red Crescent and Civil Defense teams driving slowly with their emergency vehicle lights flashing and logos visible.

“We are not obligated to prove the truth because it is already proven to the whole world,” Eid Azizi, a Palestinian Red Crescent spokesperson, told the Associated Press in a phone call. “We shouldn’t have reached this point if they respected and followed the international humanitarian law.”

The war's toll keeps growing

The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel and abducted 251 others. Israel’s ensuing war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 73,000 people, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

That includes at least 1,273 people killed in Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took effect in October, according to the ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants but says women and children constitute about half of the dead.

Incoming ballistic missile fire triggered nationwide warnings Tuesday night for UAE residents to seek shelter, the first time in weeks such an alarm had sounded.

Early in the conflict, the UAE regularly came under intense fire from Iran, and most trade between the countries, which had once been important trading partners, ground to a halt. In late June, as hostilities eased, some maritime trade resumed, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported.

More time and data are needed to evaluate the full effect of the war on Iran-UAE trade, but the UAE is clearly a critical partner for Iran, said Mohammad Farzanegan, a professor of Middle Eastern economics at Germany's University of Marburg.

Beyond the trade in domestically produced goods, “the UAE has been very important for Iran as a re-export hub and has helped the country absorb some of the shocks caused by sanctions,” he told The Associated Press.

“Iran therefore depends heavily on the UAE not because the UAE itself produces one-third of Iran’s imports, but because it serves as a major gateway for Iran to access third-country goods and commercial infrastructure.”

The UAE accuses Iran of firing missiles. Tehran denies that

Following the news that two ballistic missiles had been fired toward the UAE, both of which splashed down in the Persian Gulf late Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said that while it remained committed to “dialogue, cooperation and regional integration,” it had decided to impose the punitive measures.

“In light of regional escalations that undermine regional and international peace and security, all trade, commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran have been halted until further notice,” the ministry said in a statement.

The UAE’s Defense Ministry said assessments showed that the missiles targeted maritime traffic. It was not clear whether they targeted Emirati ships or the country’s territorial waters.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei denied that Iran had launched any missiles toward the UAE.

As part of Iran's efforts to maintain a stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, it has regularly attacked ships attempting to use the waterway, including four tankers owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-owned ADNOC oil and gas company over the past two weeks. None of the attacks caused injuries, but they brought harsh condemnation from the UAE and others in the region, including Kuwait and Bahrain.

Since the beginning of the conflict nearly 20 ADNOC vessels have been attacked by missiles and drones in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one person and wounding another 20.

Iran's ability to control traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of traded oil and natural gas passed during peacetime, has proved its biggest strategic advantage in the war. While the U.S. and Israel — which launched the war on Feb. 28 — have given various aims, including toppling Tehran's government and ending its nuclear program, the conflict has devolved into a fight over the strait.

During the war, Iran has launched hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of drones in strikes that Tehran said were targeting U.S. assets but hit buildings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Dubai’s commercial airport, ports and energy infrastructure.

Iran has accused the UAE and other U.S. allies in the Gulf of facilitating American military attacks on Iran, and Iran's Chief of Staff Gen. Ali Abdollahi on Wednesday issued a new warning to “countries on the southern shores of the Persian Gulf.”

“Any assistance or facilitation provided to the aggressor U.S. military amounts to participation alongside U.S. military forces,” he said in a statement distributed by Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency.

The UAE embargo could put new pressure on Iran

Before the war, the UAE was one of Iran's biggest trade partners, providing more than 30% of its imports valued at some $21 billion, according to the World Trade Organization's latest figures from 2024. It was the destination for nearly 13% of its exports worth some $7 billion.

The embargo carries its own risks, however, Farzanegan said.

“As a relatively small country seeking to remain a regional hub for business and finance while attracting tourists and investors, the UAE depends heavily on regional stability,” he said. “Any major conflict with Iran can therefore cause substantial damage to its economy.”

The Emirati announcement comes as the U.S. prepares to apply new economic pressure on Iran. Speaking last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the measures would be a combination of economic isolation and the continued blockade of Iranian ports.

The economic pressure follows the intense bombing campaign that targeted industrial and civilian infrastructure in addition to military targets. Already the International Monetary Fund forecasts inflation of nearly 70% this year in Iran and an economic contraction of 5.4%. Meanwhile, its rial currency has hit record lows.

Meanwhile, France announced that it will expel two Iranian diplomats in response to the expulsion of French diplomats from the Islamic Republic earlier this week.

The souring of ties between the UAE and Iran comes amid fears of renewed escalation in the region, with no apparent renewed talks between Iran and the United States on the horizon.

Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East on Wednesday. Full coverage can be found here.

Iran denies UAE accusation of launching ballistic missiles

Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wednesday criticized the United Arab Emirates for accusing Iran of launching two ballistic missiles “targeting maritime navigation” but fell into the Persian Gulf. In the weeks after the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran on Feb. 28, the UAE was frequently targeted by Iranian missiles and drones, but Tuesday’s reported attack was the first in weeks.

“This behavior is contrary to the principle of good neighborliness and disrupts ongoing efforts to strengthen trust between regional countries and prevent escalation in the region,” Esmail Baghaei said in his weekly news conference.

Not long after the incident Tuesday, the UAE Foreign Ministry said it suspended trade with Iran “in light of regional escalations that undermine regional and international peace and security.”

It comes less than a week after Abu Dhabi accused Iran of firing drones at two tankers operated by a state-owned oil company as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran's Parliament Speaker and top negotiator visits Iraq

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf arrived in neighboring Iraq Wednesday for a three-day visit where he will meet with Iraqi officials and leaders of an Iran-backed political coalition.

Iran-backed Iraqi militias have launched and claim drone attacks targeting U.S. bases and diplomatic presence both within the country and abroad, piling the pressure on Baghdad which for years has delicately tried to maintain strong ties between both Washington and Tehran. President Donald Trump last month welcomed his Iraqi counterpart Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the White House, showering him with praise.

Qalibaf on Wednesday praised the country's Tehran-backed militias — which he called the “resistance in Iraq” — describing them as a “key component of the country's national power.”

“After years of experience in Iraq, the resistance has gone beyond the borders of the two countries and has become an influential force at the regional and global levels,” Qalibaf said.

Iran has long relied on its top allies and proxies, notably the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon and the Yemeni Houthi rebels, in years of Mideast conflict.

France and Iran expel diplomats

France announced Wednesday that it will expel two staff members of the Iranian Embassy in France, in response to what the French Foreign Ministry described as an assault by Iranian security forces against two French diplomatic staff in the Islamic Republic last month.

Iran accused the French pair of taking part in a secret meeting with “suspects in a major case involving foreign infiltration and interference,” Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The French diplomats were expelled on Monday.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot slammed the Iranian authorities for not investigating what he called a “premeditated and deliberate attack.” He said the two Iranians will leave Paris in the coming days.

“Iranian authorities chose to make entirely false accusations against French personnel and fabricate a case of foreign interference to justify their actions,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.

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Associated Press writers Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut, Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad contribute to this report.

The retailer also benefited from a tariff refund of $994 million after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this year that the Trump administration had overstepped its authority when the tariffs were implemented.

There is a lot of interest in how tariff refunds from the U.S. government will impact retailers and whether those refunds will be used to lower prices for customers.

Chief Financial Officer Jim Lee, when asked about tariff refunds this week, said the company continues to invest in lowering prices. Target reduced the prices of more than 10,000 items over the past year and “there’s more to come even as we’re facing headwinds overall,” Lee said.

Comparable sales, those coming from stores and digital channels operating for at least 12 months, rose 3.8% in the second quarter. The company also upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook, citing the solid performance during the first half of the year.

Target is emerging from more than a year of weak comparable sales. A 5.6% jump in the first quarter offset a 3.8% decline in 2025. The second-quarter gain followed a 1.9% drop a year ago.

Target CEO Michael Fiddelke, a 20-year company veteran who became chief executive in February, said the latest quarter was “an important step forward in the plan we laid out earlier this year to open a new chapter of growth for Target.”

Target also reported an increase in the number of customers going to its stores and shopping on its website from May through July.

“We’re encouraged by the progress made so far, and we’re also clear-eyed about the important work still ahead,” Fiddelke said.

In March, Fiddelke unveiled a $6 billion plan to reverse Target’s sales slump and to reclaim the retailer’s reputation as a place to go for affordable yet stylish apparel and home goods.

More than half of Target’s back-to-school merchandise is new, the company said.

That includes a limited-time collection of teen and tween clothes, school supplies and accessories in pastel colors and floral prints from the women’s lifestyle brand LoveShack Fancy. Target also collaborated with Hollister on a dorm decor collection.

Target recruited fashion designer and TV personality Isaac Mizrahi this summer to fill the newly created role of creative director at large. Mizrahi has been brought in to mentor Target designers, advise on product design and innovation, and forge new partnerships.

It is Mizrahi's second partnership with Target. He became the first major fashion designer to collaborate with the retailer in 2002 for a successful run.

Fiddelke is also remodeling Target stores and improving staffing. The company has more than 100 full-scale remodels underway, with a goal of reaching 130 this year, Fiddelke said Tuesday.

During the second quarter, comparable store sales — sales from established physical stores — increased 2.7%, while increased same-day deliveries pushed digital comparable sales up 8.7%.

Target is one of the first big retailers to report second-quarter financial results, which could give industry analysts and economists another read on whether ongoing price pressures from the conflict in Iran impacted consumer behavior.

The Commerce Department released a report Friday showing weak retail sales in July. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, also released Friday, showed greater pessimism about the economy this month, likely driven by stubbornly high prices.

Target's overall sales increased in all six of its main merchandising categories, led by double-digit growth in what the company calls Fun 101 — a division that includes consumer electronics, toys, trading cards, sports paraphernalia, books and gaming items.

Net income was $1.87 billion, or $4.11 per share, for the three months ended Aug. 1, easily beating the $2.34 per share that Wall Street had expected, according to a survey by FactSet. It also outpaced last year's $935 million, or $2.05 per share. Yet this year also included millions from tariff refunds, which amounted to $1.65 in earnings per share, Target said.

Net sales rose 5.3% to $26.54 billion for the period.

Target now expects sales to increase 5%, up from its earlier predictions for a 4% gain. It also expects earnings per share for the full year to be in the range of $9.90 to $10.90. Analysts expect $8.52 per share for the year, according to FactSet.

In May, Target reiterated its guidance from March for earnings per share to be near the high end of $7.50 to $8.50.

Customers could receive the drone deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes, Amazon said in a news release. The drones can carry packages up to 5 pounds.

The plan will intensify the battle between Amazon and Walmart to provide consumers with the fastest delivery times. Both giants rely on a mix of drones and drivers to deliver everything consumers have ordered.

Amazon’s plan would expand its drone delivery operation more than sixfold nationwide into hundreds of new communities, including the Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Boise metro areas. The drones will primarily fly in the suburbs well away from skyscrapers and major airports that could cause problems.

Drone delivery is growing fast but remains a small factor

Hundreds of thousands of packages have already been delivered by Amazon drones this year, but even after this expansion drones will still only handle a fraction of the hundreds of millions of package deliveries each year. In addition to only being able to carry 5 pounds, the drones Amazon builds face countless challenges from tree cover to landscaping and inflatable pools that can make it hard to find a good drop zone.

There are also regulatory hurdles to overcome in every community where Amazon wants to set up operations. Noise concerns also pose a potential challenge.

“It’s still an experiment. It’s still in test and learn mode,” said Sucharita Kodali, who is a retail analyst with Forrester.

The novelty of drone delivery may attract orders at first

Initially, consumers might order something delivered by drone because they are curious about it, but it’s not clear how often they will continue to use the service, and Amazon is still working out the economics, Kodali said.

The service will be free for Amazon Prime members who are ordering more than $50 worth of goods, but smaller orders will cost members $2.99. Non-members will pay $4.99 for drone delivery.

Prime members get free deliveries while non-members pay a flat fee if the shipment is under $35 for standard delivery or up to $12.99 for same‑day shipments when available.

Kodali said drones could prove more useful for certain light-weight deliveries that are needed urgently like prescription medications.

DoorDash and other delivery companies also are experimenting with using drones to deliver foods and other goods.

Amazon CEO believes drone delivery will be part of the mix

Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders in his annual letter in April that the company has learned a great deal by flying drones in 11 sites across Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas. In each location, the drones launch from an Amazon warehouse and cover about 175 square miles, so it takes multiple drone launching locations to serve a large metro area.

“Prime Air now has a design that’ll scale, plans to serve communities with 30 million customers by year-end, and expects to deliver half a billion packages by the end of this decade (with an aim to deliver inside 30 minutes),” Jassy wrote.

Amazon is also continuing to invest in its warehouses, smaller fulfillment centers closer to customers and its fleet of trucks as the company competes to deliver packages within minutes or hours instead of just days.

Amazon is already certified by the Federal Aviation Administration and the company has been awarded waivers to fly drones beyond the line of sight of the pilots. Amazon has invested in safety measures to help drones avoid collisions with anything else in the sky while they are making deliveries.

The federal government has proposed a rule that would allow more drone operators to fly beyond the horizon, but that hasn’t been finalized yet.

King Charles III announced on Feb. 5, 2024, that he was being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer, breaking with the royal family’s tradition of keeping health concerns private. The king’s openness in talking about his diagnosis has been credited with persuading more men to be tested for prostate cancer and other forms of the disease.

The queen said she was “longing” to talk about Charles’ diagnosis when she opened a Maggie’s cancer support center at the Royal Free Hospital in London a week before the announcement but knew she couldn’t. Camilla has been president of Maggie’s, which runs cancer centers at 27 hospitals around the U.K., since 2008.

“Nobody could say anything at that time. That was quite difficult,” Camilla said in a video released Wednesday to mark the charity’s 30th anniversary. “I almost said something but, you know, I felt that it wasn’t the time say.”

Recent updates on the king say his health is moving in a positive direction as he continues to receive cancer treatment.

Camilla’s eight-minute video is based on a conversation between the queen and Maggie’s Chief Executive Laura Lee, who said the number of men who visit the charity’s centers has risen 12% since the king announced his diagnosis.

Maggie’s provides information, counseling and other forms of support to help cancer patients overcome their fears and continue living while undergoing treatment.

Camilla said she better understood the need for such services after Charles’ diagnosis.

“Look at my husband, nothing stopped him,” she said. “He just said, ‘This is my way. I’m going to cope with it.’”

The German prosecutors said that the suspect was a “trained scuba diver” who belonged to a group of people who “planted explosives” on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm.

The undersea explosions on Sept. 26, 2022, damaged the pipelines, which had been built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. The damage added to tensions over the war in Ukraine as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.

The suspect was “strongly suspected of jointly causing explosions, anti-constitutional sabotage, and destruction of buildings and structures," the prosecutors' statement said. It said he was arrested in the Croatian seaside city of Pula and would be brought before an investigating judge at Germany’s federal court of justice after his extradition.

The German prosecutor's office identified the suspect only as Vladimir Z. in its statement announcing his arrest. A spokesperson, however, confirmed to The Associated Press that it was the same man who was arrested in Poland last year but was later released when a Polish court refused to extradite him to Germany. Polish authorities identified him as Volodymyr Zhuravlov.

Poland has long opposed the Nord Stream pipelines, viewing them as an attempt by Russia to use its vast energy resources to gain leverage across Europe. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at the time of Zhuravlov's extradition hearing that it would not be in Poland’s interest to hand him over.

It was not immediately clear why Zhuravlov left Poland given the arrest warrant that was out for him.

“Volodymyr knew that the ruling applies only on the territory of Poland,” his Polish lawyer, Tymoteusz Paprocki, told the AP, adding that Zhuravlov's wife was also surprised that her husband was detained in Croatia.

The German government welcomed the arrest on Wednesday.

“We’re simply glad that the federal prosecutor’s office is making progress in these investigations, because it’s important that the bombing of the pipelines be clarified as well,” justice ministry spokesman Nicholas Limmer told reporters in Berlin.

Last month, German federal prosecutors filed charges against a former Ukrainian army officer in connection with the same explosions.

The suspect, identified only as Serhii K., faces charges of causing an explosion, damaging property, disrupting public service and being an “accomplice to war crimes” by attacking civilian objects.

Serhii K. was detained in August 2025 in an Italian village, where officers raided a bungalow where he was staying with his family. Police said he surrendered without resistance. He was extradited to Germany in November.

The suspects allegedly used a yacht that set off from the German port of Rostock. The yacht had been rented from a German company using forged IDs and intermediaries.

The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was Russia’s main natural gas supply route to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies in August 2022. They also damaged Nord Stream 2, which never entered service because Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia’s invasion.

Russia has accused the U.S. of staging the explosions, a charge Washington has denied. The pipelines were long a target of criticism by the U.S. and some of its allies, which warned that they increased dependence on Russian gas.

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Claudia Ciobanu in Warsaw, Poland, and Fanny Brodersen in Berlin contributed reporting.

The State Department announced Tuesday that it had hit ICC president Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national, and ICC senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, who is from Senegal, with sanctions that freeze any assets they have in U.S. jurisdictions or come into contact with the U.S. financial system.

The Trump administration has now slapped sanctions on nine of the ICC's 18 judges, both of its deputy prosecutors, its former chief prosecutor and one other prosecution office staffer, the court said. The U.S. accuses the court of overstepping its mandate by investigating and seeking to prosecute senior military and political officials from countries, such as Israel and the United States, that are not members of the court.

In a statement, the court said that when “judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at risk.” It said the court “will continue to fully discharge its mandate with independence and impartiality.”

In a statement Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio branded the ICC “a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate.”

The move came weeks after Rubio announced that the U.S. was launching a “sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty.”

Rubio said he will pressure the court’s 125 member states to withdraw from the institution, sanction organizations that work with the court and ban staff from traveling to the United States.

Since then, Venezuela and Chad have announced they plan to leave the court, bringing the number of countries to pull out of the court in the past year to five. It takes a year for a country's decision to quit the court to be formalized.

The sanctions can impact the daily lives of court officials. They prevent the ICC officials and their families from entering the United States, block their access to even basic financial services making even going to a grocery store difficult.

Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned last year, lost access to her credit cards, and Amazon’s Alexa stopped responding to her. “Your whole world is restricted,” she told The Associated Press after she was targeted.

The court's oversight body, the Assembly of States Parties, called the sanctions an “escalation” that “risks undermining ongoing investigations and impeding global efforts” to ensure justice reaches victims of global atrocities.

Japan also criticized the U.S. move.

“The announced measures are very unfortunate,” Toshihiro Kitamura, press secretary at Japan’s Foreign Ministry, said in a statement Wednesday.

Japan has consistently supported the ICC in its efforts to prosecute and punish the most serious crimes of concern to the international community and to uphold the rule of law, he said. “Japan will remain committed to strengthening the rule of law in the international community, while maintaining communication with related countries.”

Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Japanese opposition Democratic Party for the People, wrote on X that Trump’s sanctions were “outrageous and intolerable.” He urged Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government to show its support for the ICC and reach out to the U.S. government to “have it retract this unjust sanction.”

Balkees Jarrah, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, called the sanctions “the latest example of the Trump administration’s utter contempt for international law and a naked attempt to shield American and Israeli officials implicated in serious crimes from justice.”

Human Rights Watch and three other groups sued the Trump administration last week to challenge its campaign against the ICC. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, says that Trump’s executive order last year targeting the Hague-based criminal court and the U.S. sanctions issued against a U.N. human rights expert and three Palestinian rights groups represent a “blatantly illegal attack on international justice and should be struck down,” according to a press release.

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Associated Press journalists Matthew Lee in Washington, D.C., and Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report.

With control of the chamber on the line, Sullivan stepped up his attack against Peltola in the days leading to the primary, questioning her effectiveness while in Congress and seeking to align her with Lower 48 “liberals.” Peltola positioned herself as someone who would represent “regular” people and push back against special interests and wealthy politicians.

Both are seen as the leading candidates in November because of their fundraising and name recognition.

The Senate race was one of several being decided in Tuesday's primary, which also featured Alaska's only U.S. House seat and a wide open governor's race. Under the state’s open primary system, all candidates appeared on the same ballot. The four top vote-getters qualify for the ranked vote general election, but it was too early to call all candidates advancing in the top races.

In the House race, Republican Rep. Nick Begich advanced, along with independent Bill Hill. Two Democrats, former lawmakers Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Tom Begich, Nick Begich's uncle, advanced in the race for governor.

Voters Tuesday also approved a ballot measure that would reimpose campaign contribution limits, five years after a divided federal appeals court struck down a number of caps.

Senate race features 2 widely known candidates

Sullivan and Peltola were the highest-profile candidates among a field of 16 and vastly outraised the other competitors. The race, among a handful that could help determine control of the Senate, has drawn significant attention from outside groups, with Republican and Democratic campaign organizations identifying it as a top target.

Peltola, who in 2022 became the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress, has tried to steer a centrist path and revived the “fish, family, freedom” slogan that first propelled her to office. But in the days before the primary, she shook up her campaign leadership. The campaign described the changes as “staffing updates as we transition into the general election.”

Sullivan, a veteran and ally of President Donald Trump who is seeking a third term, campaigned on supporting the military, opening more land for oil and gas extraction, and voting for Trump’s signature tax and spending law. He told supporters Tuesday that his office is “getting big things done.”

He said “D.C. Democrats” don't have a vision for the state but instead have placed a target on Alaska, such as opposing opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

He criticized Peltola as ineffective during her time in Congress. She lost reelection in 2024.

Peltola said she worked well with Sullivan as part of the state's three-person congressional delegation. But she said the Trump administration has brought challenges to Alaska, including cuts to the federal workforce, and she blasted Sullivan for his support of Trump’s tax and spending bill. She said the bill has not brought opportunity to Alaskans and accused Sullivan of voting for “corporate greed.”

“We’ve got to get working people — regular people — in” office, she told supporters.

A second Dan Sullivan garnered attention

A third candidate, a Republican also named Dan Sullivan, stole much of the attention ahead of the primary.

Dan J. Sullivan won a legal fight to appear on the ballot despite claims by the senator and GOP allies that he was a sham candidate running at the behest of Democrats with the intent of causing confusion. Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher from the island community of Petersburg, denied that and said frustration with the incumbent prompted him to run.

He appeared on the ballot as Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., with no party affiliation — a decision that a state elections official said was intended to minimize possible confusion. The senator was listed as Dan S. Sullivan, Republican and incumbent.

It was too early to determine whether he would be among the four Senate candidates in the general election.

Matchups in House, governor's races still taking shape

Nick Begich, who was endorsed by Trump, cast himself as hardworking and effective in his role in the U.S. House. He said results from the primary show that Alaskans are ready to return him to Congress.

Hill, a fisherman and former educator from a small southwestern village, has made affordability a key issue in his campaign. He said Alaskans are tired of paying high costs for healthcare, gas and groceries.

“Begich and his buddies think they can play by a different set of rules than we do,” he said after advancing Tuesday. “The Alaskans I know don’t think that’s right.”

The governor's race was wide open with Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy barred by term limits from seeking a third consecutive stint. The crowded field was mostly led by Republican tickets. A Democrat hasn't served as governor in Alaska since Tony Knowles left office in 2002.

Republicans in the race included Bernadette Wilson, a businessperson and conservative activist; Click Bishop, a former lawmaker; Dave Bronson, a former mayor of Anchorage; and Adam Crum and Treg Taylor, two former members of Dunleavy’s Cabinet.

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Associated Press writer Mark Thiessen in Anchorage contributed to this report.

For months, the two countries have traded fire sporadically across their long, mountainous border, leaving hundreds of people dead. Islamabad accuses Afghanistan's Taliban government of harboring militants who carry out attacks inside Pakistan — a charge Kabul denies.

With the fighting have come border closures, severing a critical trade route and preventing Afghan producers from reaching what is the primary export market for many goods.

Unable to export their fresh fruit, Afghan grape producers have turned to the domestic market, where the increased supply has sent prices tumbling. To adapt, many producers are now drying their grapes and turning them into raisins — a cheaper product that sells for less.

In a long warehouse in Kandahar’s Zhari district, fans whirl overhead, stirring the hot summer air around bunches of plump, green grapes draped over sticks set up in rows to dry.

But even for raisins, prices have tanked.

Sakhi Jan, who owns a grape orchard in Zhari, says that with 10 people in his household to feed, he's barely getting by. Seven kilograms (15.5 pounds) of raisins used to sell for around 1,000 to 1,200 afghanis ($13 to $16), he says. Now, the same amount sells for just 400-450 afghanis ($5-$6).

In a country where poverty is rife and malnutrition strikes the most vulnerable, such income losses can be critical.

“We are grateful, but things aren’t like they used to be, the struggle is much harder now,” Jan said. “In the past, work was steady, we used to sell some grapes, and people generally had good work but now the hardship is immense.”

Opening the border crossings and allowing trade to flow once more is critical, he stressed.

“We urge both our government and Pakistan to open these routes and reach an agreement,” he said. “The current situation is causing great hardship.”

Abdul Baqi Bina, the deputy director of the Kandahar Chamber of Commerce and Investment, said the border closure has dealt a severe blow to Afghanistan's fruit exports — not just grapes, but also pomegranates.

In 2025, five southern Afghan provinces that make up the country’s main grape-producing region exported 44,225 tons — $13.8 million worth of grapes. Nearly all — 43,000 tons — went to Pakistan and the remainder headed to Bangladesh, Iraq and India, Bina said. So far this year, only 256 tons have been exported, at a value of $100,000.

For grape exporter Haji Abdul Hai, it has been a disaster.

“In my 50 years of life, I have never seen these roads closed to the extent they are now,” he said, adding that previous border closures would usually last for a few days, or one crossing would close while another remained open.

“But now, we are facing truly major difficulties,” he said.

Last year, the orchard where Qudratullah Popal worked picking grapes employed about 1,500 workers. This year, Popal said the number has plummeted to around 15.

“There have been good harvests. Grapes turned out well, but the issue is they cannot be exported to other countries. They are being sent to domestic locations … where there is already an abundance of grapes,” he said.

“When routes are blocked and trade halts, everyone’s livelihood is paralyzed, traders, laborers and orchard owners alike,” Popal said.

Data from Congo’s Ministry of Health showed the outbreak had so far recorded 5,021 cases, including 2,378 deaths as of Sunday, as it rages in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable fueled by insecurity, displacement and intense population movements.

The outbreak has infected and killed more people at a greater speed than any other outbreak in history. The World Health Organization estimates it will likely surpass the outbreak of 2014 to 2016 across West Africa, which was the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record with more than 11,000 deaths.

Starting from the first detected case, the current outbreak has spread about three times faster than the deadliest on record.

The outbreak “has spread rapidly and the risk of further national and international spread remains high,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday at a meeting convened by the agency.

“We must be frank: the epidemic is far from being under control,” he said.

Thérèse Anyiya, a nurse working in Ituri’s capital Bunia, said she is exhausted by the work demands and poor working conditions. Some health workers have gone on strike after not being paid.

“If the managers don’t take things seriously, we too will end up withdrawing. The way this epidemic is being managed is exhausting,” Anyiya told The Associated Press.

A key challenge has been the lack of approved vaccines or treatments for the rare Bundibugyo virus, which is responsible for the current outbreak. Most new cases are being reported outside of the people being monitored, showing it has spread quickly and left surveillance teams racing to catch up.

Lack of information in Ituri causes attacks on health workers

Ituri, the province that has been hit the worst by the outbreak, has become a primary location for violence that has limited the response as health workers are targeted.

Residents on Monday attacked a health team in the territory of Aru after a suspected case was reported there. A mob set fire to an ambulance and damaged two other vehicles, according to Michael Wani, president of the Union of Cultural Associations for the Development of Ituri.

Dr. Martin Cwinyay, who is involved in the Ituri response efforts, explained it is “essential to bring the response closer to the people, particularly in rural, mining and displacement areas.”

Trish Newport, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said not all the people in the impacted areas have the essential information they need.

“The community needs to be aware about the outbreak. They need to be involved in the response. They need to know what the signs and symptoms are and what to do if they get sick,” Newport said.

Limited care is resulting in more deaths

Experts believe the virus began spreading from the mining town of Mongbwalu as early as February, months before authorities declared the outbreak on May 15.

Responders racing to catch up are also battling several other challenges including threats by rebel groups, anger from communities that have been traumatized for years and bad roads into the affected territories.

Although the 2014-2016 outbreak is considered the deadliest among the virus types that causes Ebola disease, government data shows this Bundibugyo outbreak has killed a higher percentage of people as care and support are not getting to patients quickly enough, while many are not reporting symptoms or doing so late.

The situation also varies across the six affected provinces. While the case fatality rate is so far 47.4%, it is far worse in some places where response efforts are more challenging, such as in North Kivu province where the fatality rate is 70%.

The revelation brought another test of Zelenskyy’s political resilience as Ukraine’s war with its bigger neighbor stretches into its fifth year.

Inspectors identified a group of people who laundered 150 million hryvnias ($3.4 million) to pay bail for a defendant in a major corruption case last year, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said. That case, involving the state-owned nuclear power company, brought the resignations of Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers.

The latest suspects include a deputy head of the presidential office, a former lawmaker, the chairperson of a state bank’s board and the head of that bank’s supervisory board, among others, the agency said.

Zelenskyy made no public comment on the investigation but issued a decree dismissing Iryna Mudra from the position of deputy head of the Office of the President.

Zelenskyy remains dogged by high-level graft investigations.

Last year, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigned and was later named as a suspect in a major graft probe involving a luxury construction project in the biggest threat to Zelenskyy’s government since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.

The European Union has identified deep-seated corruption as one of the major hurdles to Ukraine's desired membership in the bloc.

Zelenskyy's one-time loyal aide wants a wartime election

Zelenskyy is already under pressure over his firing last month of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, one of the longest-standing members of his team and a close ally since he helped Zelenskyy win the 2019 presidential election.

Zelenskyy, seeking to reconcile tensions between the defense ministry's young and tech-savvy innovators and Ukraine's seasoned, Soviet-trained battlefield leaders, risked angering both sides by reshuffling his wartime leadership. He ousted both Fedorov, whose changes to military procurement aimed to stamp out corruption, and commander-in-chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi.

That sparked days of street protests in support of Fedorov. For Zelenskyy, it was the second time in a year that a wartime decision triggered a strong public backlash, after he moved in mid-2025 to curb the powers of anti-corruption agencies.

Fedorov, in a video address posted to YouTube late Tuesday, called for elections to be held in Ukraine in a bombshell statement that appeared to directly confront Zelenskyy, who says a ballot can't be held under the martial law in place due to the war.

“We must find a legal, safe and realistic mechanism that will allow Ukraine to restore a full democratic process even amid a prolonged war,” Fedorov said.

He said Ukraine is facing a systemic crisis in how it is governed, arguing that the current system is oriented toward protecting itself and resisting change. He also condemned corruption among officials without naming anyone, saying it had weakened Ukraine’s ability to fight the war.

Zelenskyy’s office did not immediately comment on Fedorov’s address. It was not immediately clear whether Fedorov's appeal for a ballot would resonate with Ukrainians.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has balked at negotiating a peace deal directly with Zelenskyy, asserts that the Ukrainian president is an illegitimate leader because his term expired in 2024.

Ukraine’s Parliament approved Zelenskyy's candidate, Yevhenii Khmara, as the new defense minister in a vote Wednesday, a move that effectively closes the door to Fedorov’s return to the post, which he has sought, any time soon.

Lawmakers also gave their consent for Andrii Sybiha to stay on as foreign minister after holding the post in an interim role.

Political noise comes after Ukrainian successes in the war

The political disarray comes after recent successes in the war for Ukraine. Using its innovative drone technology, it has repeatedly hit Russian oil facilities, causing fuel shortages. It has also shocked the Russian public by striking warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer, and stalled front-line advances by Russia's bigger army.

But Zelenskyy has been unable to get traction in U.S.-led peace efforts, and Ukraine is at the mercy of Russia's ballistic missiles because more U.S.-made Patriot interceptors aren't available due to low international stockpiles.

In its latest strike on oil facilities, a drone hit an oil refinery in Ufa in Russia's Bashkortostan, its Gov. Radiy Khabirov was quoted as saying by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

The city of Ufa is located roughly 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) east of the border with Ukraine. There are three oil refineries in Ufa, and all three have been attacked before.

Russian air defenses overnight intercepted 453 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions, as well as occupied Crimea and the Black Sea, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Wednesday.

The Defense Ministry said Russian forces on Tuesday evening hit a bulk carrier in the Black Sea, southeast of Odesa, that was carrying military equipment. On Wednesday, the Russian military struck what it said were fuel and lubricant storage tanks for the Ukrainian armed forces in the southern port of Chornomorsk.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine, a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern Kherson region on Wednesday morning, killing four people, said Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration. Four women were also wounded in the strike and were hospitalized, he said.

Also, a Russian drone struck a civilian car in Kherson city, the region's capital, on Wednesday, killing a woman, Prokudin said.

Amid the fighting, Russia and Ukraine each sent home 103 prisoners of war Wednesday, according to Zelenskyy and the Russian Defense Ministry.

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Three years later, after weeks of news stories presenting evidence that he was a plagiarist and fabulist, Arday, 41, was found dead on Friday at his apartment in south London.

His death quickly led to a blame game. Cambridge has been criticized for elevating Arday in a rush to promote diversity, despite red flags about his qualifications, while the news media has been targeted for driving him to despair when his credentials and life story began to unravel under intense scrutiny.

Universities' ‘due diligence’ criticized

James Cleverly, a Black member of Parliament who held Cabinet positions in past governments, said a number of universities “failed to do the proper due diligence” on Arday.

“We see now that he was not completely honest and he clearly did have frailties and failings,” Cleverly told Times Radio. “But he was teed up by a number of academic institutions because they desperately wanted a wunderkind. They desperately wanted to play on the fact he was young and Black and good-looking, and they wanted him to be their poster child.”

But commentator Patrick Vernon, who was recently knighted for his work on racial equality, is focused on the media.

Coverage of the Arday story was out of proportion to his position in society, reflecting the higher standard to which people of color are held when compared with their white peers, Vernon said.

“The level of scrutiny that the late Professor Jason Arday faced was unprecedented,” Vernon said.

“He’s not the prime minister of this country. He’s not a current secretary of the civil service or local government or the (National Health Service) or a chief executive of a major PLC. … But he was treated at the same standard, which is outrageous,” Vernon said.

Cambridge trumpeted Arday's arrival

Cambridge hired Arday as a professor of sociology of education in February 2023, when he was 37.

In announcing the appointment, Cambridge highlighted his place as the youngest Black professor in the university’s history and described him as a “respected scholar” focused on increasing the representation of Black, Asian and other minorities in higher education. Arday achieved this stature, the university said, even though he was born with a form of autism spectrum disorder that left him unable to speak until he was 11 and unable to read or write until his late teens — aspects of his biography that have since been questioned in news stories.

British universities have been working to hire more academics from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds so that their faculties better reflect the broader society.

There were 270 Black professors at U.K. universities during the 2024-25 academic year, up from 120 in 2016-17, according to data published by the Society for Research into Higher Education. Black scholars still represent just 1% of all U.K. professors, even though Black people make up about 4% of the working age population, the data shows.

Questions about Arday’s qualifications became public last month.

Nathan Cofnas, a one-time Cambridge researcher who left the university after his vitriolic comments about diversity programs and minorities sparked widespread protests, said he had found evidence of plagiarism in Arday’s Ph.D. thesis. The Times of London and other newspapers picked up the story, publishing an analysis of the thesis and highlighting multiple passages they said were “identical or near-identical” to an earlier paper by another academic.

The news media also questioned Arday’s claims about astounding personal accomplishments, such as running 30 marathons in 35 days, and raising 5.5 million pounds ($7.4 million) for charity over 20 years.

The public scrutiny was partly fueled by the impending publication of Arday’s memoir, “Great and Unfortunate Things.” Simon & Schuster published the book last week in the U.S., and it is scheduled to be published in the U.K. on Aug. 27.

After initially standing by Arday, Cambridge said Aug. 5 that it was opening an investigation after receiving “new information” about his qualifications. Arday resigned later that day. The University of Glasgow and Durham University, where Arday previously taught, have announced their own investigations.

The ceremonial head of Cambridge on Sunday defended the university’s decision and criticized media coverage of Arday.

“I do believe it is possible to hold to two principles at the same time: To believe in the importance of academic integrity, and, where criticisms of plagiarism arise about any academic, whoever they are, ensure that they are rigorously investigated, and also to refuse to join in a racist feeding frenzy over a particular academic,” Chancellor Chris Smith told the BBC.

Demand for investigation of media coverage

By Tuesday afternoon, more than 107,000 people had signed an open letter calling on the government to commission a public inquiry into media coverage of Arday.

The letter alleges that media organizations kept up their coverage of Arday even after Simon Baron-Cohen, director of Cambridge University’s Autism Research Centre, publicly warned that their focus on a “vulnerable autistic man” raised “safeguarding issues.” Circulated by the Good Law Project, a campaign group, the letter says Arday and other prominent Black people have been subject to “press harassment with racist overtones.”

Steven Barnett, a professor of communications at the University of Westminster, put the onus on British newspapers, not social media. The mainstream press published 289 stories about Arday in 22 days, almost two-thirds of them after he resigned, he said.

No one should doubt that he was overwhelmed by the scrutiny because Arday himself said it was more than anyone could bear, Barnett said. “I don’t think it’s possible to overestimate the impact that those newspapers, those publishers, have had in this particular case,” he said.

Charles Moore, a former editor of the Daily Telegraph who writes about education, rejected that criticism in a column on Monday.

If Cambridge had properly investigated concerns about Arday that surfaced as early as 2023, he wouldn’t have suffered the shame caused by widespread media coverage, Moore wrote.

Rather than trumpeting Arday’s position as the university’s youngest ever Black professor, Cambridge “could quietly have nurtured his talents and sorted out his problems, which were surely those of a young man out of his depth rather than a brazen impostor,” he said.

“It was the university, not the press, which was obsessed with the color of Dr. Arday’s skin,” Moore wrote.

Columnist Sarah Ditum, writing in the Times of London, said Arday was a legitimate news story because his actions hurt the academics he plagiarized, public confidence in the rigor of his discipline and other early-career lecturers against whom he competed. But she acknowledged that the story was given extra oxygen because it broke during the summer, when Parliament is closed and journalists are desperate for something to write about.

“Academic plagiarists don’t usually make headlines, but Arday was not any old academic,” Ditum wrote.

“He was publishing a high-profile memoir with celebrity blurbs,” she added. “He had chosen the spotlight.”

Vernon, meanwhile, encouraged people to remember there was a man, a husband and father behind the headlines. He has created a GoFundMe campaign to help Arday’s family that has already raised more than 193,000 pounds ($261,000).

“This tells you that Britain still cares about justice, they care about inequalities,” he said. “And more importantly they really want to support Jason and his family in their hour of need.”

“Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States and if so, why or how?” asked one of the moderators.

Graham started her answer by saying, “I’m just going to be honest here."

“I’m not that informed on national security," she said, then paused. "But I do support the military."

Graham’s brother, Lindsey, died unexpectedly on July 11. She was appointed to fill his seat temporarily, and now she’s running in a special election for her own term. Her opponent is Rep. Ralph Norman.

Her answer was noteworthy because her late brother was known for his involvement in foreign policy, something that Graham mentioned in her answer.

“My brother was in the Air Force for 33 years so I will do everything I can to support the military," she said. "My dad was in the Army. I’m not a polished politician up here, national security is not my thing, not my area of expertise, but I do support the military.”

Graham was endorsed by President Donald Trump. She and Norman advanced to the runoff in last week's primary.

They are growing in numbers and in political and cultural clout. That’s bringing their vision of faith, Jewish identity and civic practices into conflict with other Israelis, both religious and secular. Distrust spirals on all sides.

Mass protests over proposed changes to the exemption from the military draft for ultra-Orthodox men highlight the most contentious issue as the country approaches three years of war on multiple fronts — and national elections where ultra-Orthodox parties are likely to be kingmakers.

At the core of ultra-Orthodox doctrine is the belief that studying scripture — and teaching it to family and community — is the highest duty, above working or joining the armed forces even in wartime.

Judith Rosenblum, who has seven sons and one daughter, believes that ultra-Orthodox practice is under threat from secular culture, and that conscripting young men into the military can “compromise” their religious practice.

But when she ran into an acquaintance whose grandson lost two legs and an arm in the war in Gaza, she was proud to relay that three of her sons also signed up to serve after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.

“If all my kids were cut out for full-time Torah learning and had the money to support themselves doing so, for sure that would be a preference,” Rosenblum said. “But my kids who left full-time Torah study are amazing human beings. And I believe that they did the right thing by going into the army and participating in the defense of the country.”

Full-time Torah study anchors ultra-Orthodox beliefs

In Hebrew, the ultra-Orthodox are called Haredim. The term was first used in the late 19th century by several rabbis and is derived from the Prophet Isaiah’s description of being “fearful or astounded by the word of God,” according to Rabbi Beryl Gershenfeld.

"God’s word is not supposed to be intuitive; you have to look deeply,” said Gershenfeld, who grew up in Philadelphia but has lived in Israel, studying and teaching the Torah, for half a century. “Understanding the Torah is the crucial mission of life.”

He runs two Jerusalem yeshivas — or seminaries — for ultra-Orthodox boys and men.

Such institutions are “the beating heart of the community,” said Rabbi Heshy Grossman, an administrator at a prominent yeshiva in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot.

Inside the residential yeshiva, students aged 17-22 in white shirts and black pants spend long days praying, studying and discussing sacred texts and commentaries. Etl Lovy, 22, is completing his five years of study at the age when families start matchmaking for marriage.

“We have a lot of belief in what we’re learning,” he said a day before the start of summer break.

The Torah guides every moment of daily life

Lovy enthusiastically described how days begin at 7 a.m. with a prayer and continue with Talmud studies until late evening, learning “all commands from God and how to get close to him.”

As he took a sip of water on the hot day, he whispered a prayer. “Everything comes from the one above,” he explained with a smile.

For the ultra-Orthodox, each commandment and each good deed is not just a God-given obligation, but a way to find fulfillment and holiness.

And the highest one is studying God’s word — especially for men. Women receive a broader education in secular subjects like math, and they are expected to work while also raising large families. Ultra-Orthodox Jews believe many forms of birth control are opposed to God’s will, a view held by other conservative faiths but not all branches of Judaism.

“My life is not about making money, or building a nice house,” said Lovy, who plans to continue to study the Torah while his future wife works.

For the ultra-Orthodox, “every second of life is devoted to God,” said Rabbi Emanuel Feldman, adding that other Jews will either follow suit or “disappear into the mainstream.”

“The Orthodox are fighting assimilation,” said Feldman, who in his late 90s has witnessed the growth of the practice and still writes columns for a popular Haredi weekly magazine. “If you don’t study Torah and observe the commands, you become like any other Mediterranean country.”

He added that the ultra-Orthodox follow civil law so long as it doesn’t interfere with religious belief, such as forbidding or “affecting” the study of the Torah.

The ultra-Orthodox Jews’ complicated relationship with Israel

Much of the Torah studies tradition was lost during the Holocaust. When the state of Israel was founded shortly after, it gave ultra-Orthodox scholars special rights so they could rebuild, said Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz, director of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Religion and State Program.

That included an exemption from the military draft, originally for a few hundred scholars and in later decades broadened by conservative governments to everyone who wanted to engage in Torah learning full-time, she said. The same body of men was also largely outside the workforce.

But the ultra-Orthodox have grown rapidly, outpacing other Israelis. Ravitsky Tur-Paz estimates they will be about 25% of the population by 2050, and about 40% of the potential army draft.

“Israelis aren’t concerned about the Haredi way of life; they’re concerned about their way of life,” she said, adding that includes everything from welfare tax impacts to how much time non-Haredi Israelis might need to serve in the reserves. “The question is, who’s paying the price for your choice of life? This has become the issue everyone is talking about.”

For many ultra-Orthodox, there’s no debate — they’re fulfilling their individual obligation to God, and nothing else matters more.

“The importance of the Torah is a genuine feeling, and not just an escape, not just an excuse,” Rosenblum said. “Haredi world will put Torah first, and then Israel.”

Fewer than 10% of ultra-Orthodox men reaching the conscription age of 18 enlist, according to a parliamentary committee, and they usually join separate units accommodating their religious practices. Reacting to a recent bill protecting the ultra-Orthodox from draft evasion prosecution, the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, called such exemptions "inconceivable” while troops are being asked for “unprecedented sacrifice.”

But most ultra-Orthodox rabbis are adamant about their youths' exemption from the draft, to avoid “diluting their piety” at a critical age. Other Jewish men in Israel are required to serve for nearly three years, and women for two years.

“Studying the Torah is itself a spiritual protection,” Feldman added — an argument wearing thin with many Israelis, especially since about 1,000 troops have been killed fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon since the 2023 attack.

Asked if he had any qualms about his peers serving as soldiers while he devotes his life to studies, Lovy, the yeshiva student, said he prays “all the time” for soldiers.

“But we think because we believe in the Bible, we believe this is the right way to live. We don’t apologize,” he said. “I’m doing what God wants.”

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Africa's most populous country will hold the election against a backdrop of worsening economic and security crises that have caused anger among voters against Tinubu's government.

The presidential vote will be held Jan. 16 alongside parliamentary elections, while gubernatorial elections will be held Feb. 6.

Tinubu is challenged by 18 opposition candidates but analysts predict a three-man race, including the two top contenders that he defeated in 2023. They are former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress, a serial presidential candidate, and Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, a former state governor who blew the last race wide open with his mass appeal to Nigeria’s youth.

Historically, the ruling party in Nigeria's presidential elections usually has a higher chance of winning when the race features more than one prominent opposition candidate.

Tinubu unpopular among young voters

Tinubu was elected president in 2023 after campaigning on promises to build on his predecessor's efforts to deliver democratic dividends to citizens in a country grappling with deadly security crises, corruption in the government, and widespread poverty and hunger.

But critics say the president has not met those expectations and has become unpopular among many of Nigeria's mostly young voters. His massive economic reforms and their poor implementation has had a knock-on effect on the price of just about everything, resulting in the country's worst economic hardship in a generation.

Nigeria's challenges, notwithstanding, analysts say the split opposition could give Tinubu a higher chance of winning as was the case in 2023. In that year's election, Tinubu emerged ahead of multiple prominent opposition candidates but recorded one of the lowest vote percentages ever for an elected president, showing how unpopular he was.

An opposition coalition formed by Atiku and Obi among others in 2025 to unseat Tinubu collapsed before it took off.

“Voters are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the administration’s handling of inflation, insecurity and unemployment but because the anti-incumbent vote is split, the president has the edge,” said Ikemesit Effiong, a partner at SBM Intelligence, a Lagos-based risk advisory firm.

The president has solidified his base

Tinubu has also shored up his support base through the defections of erstwhile opposition figures, with 31 of Nigeria’s 36 state governors now members of his party, the ruling All Progressives Congress.

The defections had prompted fears of a one-party state, which the national government denied.

In a country where current and former governors command massive grassroots support and are often accused of working with local electoral officials to manipulate election results, analysts say the defections could work in Tinubu’s favor.

The Nigerian leader began his administration with centerpiece economic reforms. At his inauguration in May 2023, he announced the removal of the decades-long fuel subsidy and later floated the local naira currency by ending its distorted foreign exchange rate, which caused a major devaluation.

The bold reforms, which Tinubu’s government argues saved the economy and handed the government more money, were cheered by investors but resulted in soaring inflation.

Nigeria's security woes have also persisted in recent years with more mass kidnappings and killings, and have further spread to regions that were once spared the violence.

“No matter how bad things are, Tinubu will still win because they are not working together,” said Juliet Onah, a resident in the capital of Abuja, referring to the opposition candidates not uniting as one front.

The company, founded in 2016 by entrepreneur Wang Xingxing in the eastern Chinese technology hub of Hangzhou, raised around 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in its listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Nasdaq-style STAR market. The shares were priced at 150.80 yuan ($22.36) a share. Its shares closed 460% higher at 845 yuan ($125.31).

Advanced robotics, often referred to as “embodied” artificial intelligence, is a key sector in the heated technology rivalry between China and the U.S. China leads the U.S. in terms of production capacity of humanoid robots and the ability to scale up manufacturing.

Last year, of the roughly 15,000 humanoid robots shipped globally, Unitree and AGIBOT, another major Chinese humanoid robot maker, each shipped more than 5,000, according to technology research and advisory group Omdia, way ahead of their U.S. counterparts. For the first half of 2026, Omdia’s estimates put Chinese humanoid robot makers’ total global shipments at around 18,500 units.

But analysts say for now, many of these humanoid robots are still mainly used for demonstrations, performances and research rather than real-world applications. Unitree's humanoid robots, for example, dazzled audiences at China's annual Spring Festival gala by performing backflips and martial arts.

“The real competitive test will be whether companies – Chinese or American – can achieve reliable performance and attractive returns on investment in large-scale industrial and commercial deployments,” analyst Kangyuxiao Li at investment research firm Morningstar said in a commentary.

Unitree said proceeds from the IPO will be used for advanced robot research and development and development of its robot manufacturing base.

The company is the first publicly traded humanoid robotics maker in mainland China. Analysts believe the IPO could set a precedent for valuations of other robotic company stock offerings.

It “gives mainland investors direct exposure to one of the sector’s leading companies,” said Li at Morningstar.

Unitree's debut coincided with the World Robot Conference in Beijing, featuring more than 300 exhibitors. Chinese leaders made robots a development priority.

UBTech, another major Chinese humanoid robot maker, has shares traded in Hong Kong. Its shares fell more than 10% on Wednesday.

Unitree reported about 1.7 billion yuan (about $250 million) in revenue in 2025, mainly from sales of its humanoid robots and quadruped robots, often referring to four-legged robot dogs. More than 40% of that revenue was from overseas.

Last year, the U.S. accounted for roughly 13% of Unitree’s revenue, the company said. But that was before the U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned imports of new foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots in July on national security grounds.

Unitree cautioned that the U.S. ban, which it said applies to its new models, could affect its future sales in the U.S. market. Existing models of its advanced robots can still be sold, but Unitree faces the risk that the U.S. could further expand its restrictions.

Lian Jye Su of Omdia said Chinese robot makers will likely seek to expand in major markets outside of the U.S., such as Europe.

Carson Kelly led off the bottom of the ninth with a double to left off Trevor Richards (0-1). The White Sox intentionally walked Crow-Armstrong before Bregman delivered the Cubs' MLB-leading 13th walk-off win of the season.

Bregman singled in pinch-runner Kevin Alcantara off Grant Taylor in the seventh to tie the score.

Crow-Armstrong led off with a home run, his 31st, for the second straight game and sixth time this season. He homered in consecutive at-bats after his first career walk-off shot Monday.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Crow-Armstrong is the first player in MLB history with two leadoff home runs and a walk-off in a two-game span, and the 13th since 1900 to follow a walk-off homer with a leadoff shot.

Crow-Armstrong also hit leadoff home runs in back-to-back games June 15-16 against Colorado.

Jacob Webb (6-2) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win, the Cubs' eighth straight over the White Sox at Wrigley Field.

Colson Montgomery had three hits for the White Sox, who saw their AL Central lead shrink to four games over the Minnesota Twins. The Cubs remained 4 1/2 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Central.

The game was delayed 88 minutes by rain in the eighth inning.

After White Sox opener Bryan Hudson gave up first-inning solo home runs to Crow-Armstrong and Michael Busch, Erick Fedde worked 4 2/3 shutout innings.

The Cubs' Kevin Gausman gave up three runs on seven hits before exiting the game in the fifth with a left (non-throwing) hand cramp.

After Drew Romo's RBI single in the second, Munetaka Murakami hit his 29th home run in the third. Tristan Peters put the White Sox ahead in the fourth with an RBI double.

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The White Sox have not named a starter for Wednesday's series finale against Cubs RHP Clay Holmes (5-5, 2.56 ERA).

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The Brewers equaled baseball’s modern-era record for the biggest shutout with a power surge that included three-run homers from Christian Yelich, David Hamilton and Luis Lara and a two-run shot by Jake Bauers.

The Brewers have 117 home runs this season, the fewest in baseball, but as was pointed out by Seattle manager Dan Wilson, they have multiple players with the ability to go deep.

“They’ll put bunts down and put pressure on the bases and steal bags,” Wilson said before the game. “They also have the ability to hit the home run. You kind of have to prepare for all areas of the game.”

The Brewers also generated offense doing what they do best, pulling off a double steal in a five-run fifth inning that helped break open a tight game.

The 78-48 Brewers matched a franchise record for runs in a game, tying the 22 runs they scored at the Toronto Blue Jays on Aug. 28, 1992. The Brewers also had a season-high 22 hits.

“It’s one game but a pretty darn good performance,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. “I’d like to order that every night.”

The only other 22-0 victories since 1901 were by Pittsburgh over the host Chicago Cubs on Sept. 16, 1975 and by Cleveland at the New York Yankees on Aug. 31, 2004.

Yelich connected for his ninth homer of the season, a three-run shot off Bryce Miller in the fifth. The Brewers tacked on five more runs in the sixth.

“It’s kind of crazy. It happened fast,” Yelich said. “It’s always fun to be on this side.”

Bauers smiled as he struggled to find words to describe the Brewers offensive outburst.

“I’ve got nothing for you on that one,” Bauers said. “It was just good performance all around. Just good at-bats all night up and down the lineup.”

Bauers hit his team-leading 22nd home run of the season in the sixth inning and he’s now reached base safely in 20 consecutive games.

The Brewers tagged Mariners infielder Leo Rivas, who came on to pitch in the eighth, for nine runs, which included a three-run home run from 21-year-old rookie Lara, his first career homer.

Lara took some good-natured ribbing about whether the homer counted since he hit it off a position player, but he was in a celebratory mood.

“For me, it all counts,” Lara said through an interpreter. “But I understand that it may not be common to get your first (home run) against a position player.”

Bauers and Yelich backed their young teammate.

“It’s a hard game. Every bloop single, dribbler single, home run off a position player, they all count,” he said.

Yelich urged Lara to embrace the moment.

“The first career homer is always cool,” he said. “Anytime you get to jog around the bases in a major league game is always special. It was cool for him to get his first one and smile and laugh about it.”

The Brewers also used a position player on the mound, veteran catcher/first baseman Gary Sanchez, with a much different result. Sanchez pitched a scoreless ninth with many in the announced crowd of 36,870 standing and cheering.

It was the third career pitching appearance for Sanchez and second this season. He has tossed two scoreless innings in the pair of outings the season.

“He did great. He was a showman as always,” Bauers said. “The crowd was involved. They loved it. He loved it. We loved it. But I still think he’s a better catcher than a pitcher.”

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The races voters see on their ballot will depend on their party affiliation and where they live in Monroe County.

Florida is a closed-primary state, meaning voters generally may vote only in the primary of the political party with which they are registered. Nonpartisan races are open to all eligible voters.

Unlike some other South Florida counties, Monroe County does not have a contested congressional primary this year.

In Congressional District 28 -- which covers Monroe County along with the southwest portion of Miami-Dade County, including Homestead and Cutler Bay -- Republican incumbent Carlos Gimenez and Democrat Phil “Felipe” Ehr are each unopposed in their respective party primaries. Eddy Rojas is running without party affiliation in the general election.

The state legislative races affecting Monroe County also have no contested party primaries. Republican Ana Maria Rodriguez and Democrat Jose Antonio Stoute are unopposed for their respective nominations in Florida Senate District 40.

Republican incumbent Jim Mooney is unopposed in Florida House District 120.

Monroe County races

Several local contests, however, give Keys voters choices in the primary.

The Republican primary for Monroe County Commission District 2 features Michelle Lincoln and George Lopez.

Republican voters will also decide the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District 2 race between Phillip L. Goodman and Alex Osborn.

School Board races

Because School Board elections are nonpartisan, eligible voters can participate regardless of political party.

In School Board District 1, Theresa Axford and Darren Horan are competing for the seat.

In District 5, incumbent Sue Woltanski faces challenger Chelyn Shaw. Woltanski is seeking a third term after first winning election in 2018, while Shaw is making her first run for public office.

Monroe County voters also have a nonpartisan judicial contest on the ballot.

Key West races

In Key West, residents will be selecting their choice for mayor, along with several commission seats and a couple utility board member seats.

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Florida is a closed-primary state, meaning voters generally receive the primary ballot for the political party with which they are registered. All registered voters can participate in nonpartisan contests and any universal primary contests that appear on their ballot.

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Several congressional races affecting Broward County have drawn crowded fields, including District 20, District 24, District 25 and District 22.

Statewide races

Broward voters also helped choose their parties’ nominees for several statewide offices, including governor and U.S. Senate.

Contested races for chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner also appeared on the ballot.

Broward County and School Board races

At the county level, the District 6 County Commission Democratic primary included Eugen Bold, Jeffery Jones, A.J. Ryan and Caryl Shuham.

Several nonpartisan Broward County School Board races were also decided by voters, including for Districts 1, 4, 6, 7 and 8.

Judicial races included a three-way contest for 17th Judicial Circuit Judge, Group 52, between David Andrew Fry, Tamar Hamilton and Kathleen O’Brien “Katie” Hinkle. Debi Gheorge Alten and Veronica N. Walker competed for County Court Judge, Group 11.

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Broward County has 346 precincts, and more than 1.35 million registered voters. As of about 6:45 p.m., 217,520 had cast ballots in Broward.

Nearly 35% voted by mail, about 28% voted early, and about 36.6% voted on Election Day, according to data released by Scott before the polls closed.

The polls opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 7 p.m.

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Tatis' glove and bat were on display Tuesday night in a 5-2 win over the Mets as the 27-year-old robbed New York's Francisco Lindor of a grand slam in between hitting two homers.

“Tough challenge,” Tatis said following his 14th career two-homer game, which ties him for second in franchise history. “But robbery today was more fun.”

Tatis hit the first pitch from New York's Zac Thornton 452 feet into the second deck in left field before adding a two-run homer off Thornton in the fifth. He has 15 homers after opening the season without a longball in his first 238 at-bats.

But Tatis’ biggest contribution in the game came in the field in the second inning, when reached over the wall in in right field and pulled back Lindor’s potential slam.

“It’s amazing — he’s seriously one of the most athletic fielders I’ve ever seen,” said Padres pitcher Robbie Ray, who loaded the bases with three walks. “What he’s able to do out there, just to be able to be in that spot to make that catch, was incredible.”

Tatis, Ray and manager Craig Stammen were all surprised as Lindor’s fly drifted toward the wall on an night with minimal wind.

“I knew it was going to be a play at the wall,” Tatis said. “Just great timing — prepare myself to launch and go for it.”

Tatis was one step from the wall when he jumped and grabbed the ball just as it began to clear the wall. The converted shortstop used his hands to break his fall as his hat fell off and bounced behind him.

Tatis stood straight up and stared toward the infield, which left everyone on the field and the crowd of 35,508 wondering if he’d made the catch.

“Just taking off a grand slam right there, that’s a game changer,” Tatis said.

Tatis then raised his glove, after which Ray raised his arms and put his glove on his head.

“He does it with a flair,” Stammen said. “And that’s who makes Fernando who he is and why we love watching him.”

Ray walked a few more steps with his glove on his hat, grinning in disbelief as he gazed at Tatis, who jogged in with his mouth agape before he exchanged low fives with centerfielder Jackson Merrill.

“I kind of blacked out in the moment,” Ray said with a grin. “Just a really cool — it was just an incredible play.”

Ray allowed just two baserunners over his final four innings.

“It’s up there as one of the most impactful games he’s had as a Padre, for sure,” Stammen said. “You look at how many runs he created and then how many runs he took away. That’s a pretty big number.

“They talk about plus/minus in the NBA and hockey and stuff like that. That was a big plus/minus game for ‘Tati’ tonight.”

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El condado Broward cuenta con 346 precintos y más de 1.35 millones de votantes registrados. Hasta aproximadamente las 6:45 p.m., 217,520 habían emitido su voto en Broward.

Casi 35% votó por correo, alrededor de 28% votó de manera anticipada y aproximadamente 36.6% votó el día de las elecciones, según datos publicados por Scott antes del cierre de las urnas.

Las urnas abrieron a las 7 a.m. y cerraron a las 7 p.m.

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The regular school board term is four years.

DISTRICT 1

Maura McCarthy Bulman is the incumbent seeking reelection after assuming office in November 2024.

She received over 70% of the ballots cast, winning the race in a landslide.

Her campaign website describes Bulman as “a dedicated mother of four sons who have attended Broward County Public Schools in District 1” and whose “experience as a local attorney, community volunteer, and a long-time Hollywood resident inspired her to run for office.”

Running against Bulman was Carmen Gimenez.

According to her campaign website, Gimenez is a “Venezuelan-American-Latina.

The website describes her as a “statist” who is “known in international circles, United Nations (U.N.), The Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassadors, Countries, Refugees, congressmen, senators, counties, cities, national and international entrepreneurs, and officers.”

She previously ran for mayor of Hallandale Beach in 2024, losing to Joy Cooper who received 68.4% of ballots cast.

DISTRICT 4

Nicole Morst defeated Sharry Kimmel in the race for District 4, receiving 60% of the vote.

Morst is a mother of three children who have all attended Broward County Public Schools.

According to her campaign website, she became involved in school advocacy after she “saw firsthand the security gaps” at her daughter’s school, successfully “advocating with district staff and the School Board to implement security updates.”

Morst says she is running “because after years of serving in our schools and on district advisories, I’ve seen the gaps, inequities, and disparities impacting our students and schools.”

Kimmel’s campaign website describes her as a “distinguished educator and community leader whose career spans over three decades, marked by a commitment to innovative teaching and public service.”

She is a previous recipient of the Broward County Teacher of the Year award (1996) for her work as an educator before transitioning into administrative roles, which includes serving as the founding assistant principal at Sagemont School.

Kimmel has served as a professor of teacher education at Broward College for the past 22 years.

DISTRICT 6

This race will head to a runoff between Adam Cervera, the incumbent seeking to retain his position after being appointed to the seat by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2024, and Roberto Fernandez.

Cervera received 38% of the vote while Fernandez received 26%.

According to his campaign website, Cervera is an “accomplished attorney where he practices business litigation and represents clients in administrative proceedings” who came up and graduated through Broward County Public Schools before attending the University of Central Florida and then law school at Florida International University.

Fernandez has worked in Broward County education for over 20 years, “as a teacher, instructional leader, and community advocate,” according to his campaign website.

He said he is running because he wants to remove politics from decisions that impact students, families and educators in Broward County. Fernandez is also a U.S. Army Reserve veteran.

Jessie Bastos came in third in the primary with 22% of the ballots cast. She is a native of Davie, and she and her children are all products of Broward County Public Schools.

According to her campaign website, Bastos has “more than 20 years of experience building relationships and driving millions in revenue within Fortune 500 accounts at Samsung and leading diverse, high-performing teams at T-Mobile.”

If elected to the school board, Bastos says she “will champion higher teacher pay, responsible budgeting, and stronger partnerships with families and local organizations.”

Makai Aline Henry describes himself as a son of Broward County.

He is a product of Broward County schools and is currently a substitute teacher and debate coach, according to his campaign website.

Henry is running on a platform that features “Four Pillars for Broward’s Future” that include Literacy First, Smaller Classes, Fair Teacher Pay and Against Unregulated AI in Schools.

Lester L. Wilks Jr. joins the race for District 6 “to bring real-world insight and results-driven leadership to our schools,” according to his campaign website, which indicates that he is “already actively involved in school communities, speaking with parents, working alongside staff.”

His platform has four “key priorities” that are listed as “district accountability, parent trust and transparent communication, consistency across schools and student support needs.”

DISTRICT 7

Cynthia Alceus Dominique defeated Rochelle Soffer in the race for the District 7 seat, receiving around 60% of the vote.

Dominique describes herself as “a wife, nurse practitioner, nurse educator, Army veteran with 23 years of service, and the proud mother of four amazing children who attend Broward County Public Schools.”

A Broward County native and graduate of Coconut Creek High School, Dominique has been an active volunteer within the schools and district.

According to her campaign website, Dominique’s vision for Broward schools include “safe and supportive schools, student success and wellness, accountability and transparency and community engagement and partnerships.”

Rochelle Soffer is a longtime educator, who says she is running for the Broward County School Board “because our schools deserve leadership that has been earned in the classroom.”

According to Soffer’s campaign website, she lists four commitments to students, teachers and families in District 7, should she be elected: “student success, teacher support, school safety and accountability.”

The Broward Teachers Union is listed among Soffer’s endorsements.

DISTRICT 8

Allen Zeman will retain his District 8 seat, defeating Azim with 55% of the ballots cast on Tuesday.

Zeman was the incumbent after winning a close race in 2022, receiving 51.4% of the 477,828 ballots cast.

He is the CRO of data analytics company CHCI and has worked for U.S. presidents and government leaders, both foreign and domestic.

Zeman is also a product of Broward County Public Schools from grades K through 12 and has endorsements from the Broward Teachers Union and current board members Sarah Leonardi, Jeff Holness, Debbi Hixon and Rebecca Thompson.

For the past two decades, Zeman’s opponent Sonja Azim has worked in classrooms as a special education teacher, ESE specialist, student services coordinator, Dean of Students and as a district trainer.

Her two daughters have both been students with Broward County Public Schools.

According to her campaign website, Azim believes more accountability is paramount, and also stresses the importance of equitable treatment, teacher support and overall school safety.

El período regular de los miembros de la junta escolar es de cuatro años.

DISTRITO 1

Maura McCarthy Bulman es la titular que busca la reelección después de asumir el cargo en noviembre de 2024.

Recibió más del 70% de los votos emitidos, ganando la contienda por amplio margen.

El sitio web de su campaña describe a Bulman como “una madre dedicada de cuatro hijos que han asistido a las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward en el Distrito 1” y cuya “experiencia como abogada local, voluntaria comunitaria y residente de Hollywood desde hace mucho tiempo la inspiró a postularse para el cargo”.

La candidata que compitió contra Bulman fue Carmen Gimenez.

Según su sitio web de campaña, Gimenez es una “venezolana-estadounidense-latina”.

El sitio web la describe como una “estadista” que es “conocida en círculos internacionales, las Naciones Unidas (ONU), la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), embajadores, países, refugiados, congresistas, senadores, condados, ciudades, empresarios nacionales e internacionales y oficiales”.

Anteriormente se postuló para alcaldesa de Hallandale Beach en 2024, pero perdió ante Joy Cooper, quien recibió el 68.4% de los votos emitidos.

DISTRITO 4

Nicole Morst derrotó a Sharry Kimmel en la contienda por el Distrito 4, al recibir el 60% de los votos.

Morst es madre de tres hijos que han asistido a las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward.

Según su sitio web de campaña, se involucró en la defensa de las escuelas después de que “vio de primera mano las brechas de seguridad” en la escuela de su hija, y logró “abogar ante el personal del distrito y la Junta Escolar para implementar actualizaciones de seguridad”.

Morst dice que se postula “porque después de años de servir en nuestras escuelas y en los comités asesores del distrito, he visto las brechas, desigualdades y disparidades que afectan a nuestros estudiantes y escuelas”.

El sitio web de campaña de Kimmel la describe como una “educadora distinguida y líder comunitaria cuya carrera abarca más de tres décadas, marcada por un compromiso con la enseñanza innovadora y el servicio público”.

Es una ex ganadora del premio Maestra del Año del Condado Broward (1996) por su trabajo como educadora antes de pasar a puestos administrativos, lo que incluye desempeñarse como subdirectora fundadora de Sagemont School.

Kimmel se ha desempeñado como profesora de formación docente en Broward College durante los últimos 22 años.

DISTRITO 6

Esta contienda irá a una segunda vuelta entre Adam Cervera, el titular que busca conservar su puesto después de ser designado para el cargo por el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, en 2024, y Roberto Fernandez.

Cervera recibió el 38% de los votos, mientras que Fernandez recibió el 26%.

Según su sitio web de campaña, Cervera es un “abogado destacado que ejerce en litigios comerciales y representa a clientes en procedimientos administrativos”, quien creció y se graduó en las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward antes de asistir a la Universidad de Florida Central y luego estudiar Derecho en la Universidad Internacional de Florida.

Fernandez ha trabajado en la educación del condado Broward durante más de 20 años, “como maestro, líder de instrucción y defensor comunitario”, según su sitio web de campaña.

Dijo que se postula porque quiere eliminar la política de las decisiones que afectan a estudiantes, familias y educadores en el condado Broward. Fernandez también es un ex veterano de la Reserva del Ejército de EE. UU.

Jessie Bastos quedó en tercer lugar en las primarias con el 22% de los votos emitidos. Es nativa de Davie, y tanto ella como sus hijos son egresados de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward.

Según su sitio web de campaña, Bastos tiene “más de 20 años de experiencia construyendo relaciones y generando millones en ingresos dentro de cuentas de Fortune 500 en Samsung y liderando equipos diversos y de alto desempeño en T-Mobile”.

Si es elegida para la junta escolar, Bastos dice que “defenderá salarios más altos para los maestros, una elaboración responsable del presupuesto y alianzas más sólidas con las familias y organizaciones locales”.

Makai Aline Henry se describe a sí mismo como un hijo del condado Broward.

Es egresado de las escuelas del condado Broward y actualmente es maestro sustituto y entrenador de debate, según su sitio web de campaña.

Henry se postula con una plataforma que presenta “Cuatro pilares para el futuro de Broward”, que incluyen Alfabetización primero, Clases más pequeñas, Salarios justos para los maestros y En contra de la IA no regulada en las escuelas.

Lester L. Wilks Jr. entra en la contienda por el Distrito 6 “para aportar una perspectiva del mundo real y un liderazgo orientado a resultados a nuestras escuelas”, según su sitio web de campaña, que indica que “ya participa activamente en las comunidades escolares, hablando con padres y trabajando junto al personal”.

Su plataforma tiene cuatro “prioridades clave”, que se enumeran como “rendición de cuentas del distrito, confianza de los padres y comunicación transparente, consistencia entre las escuelas y necesidades de apoyo de los estudiantes”.

DISTRITO 7

Cynthia Alceus Dominique derrotó a Rochelle Soffer en la contienda por el puesto del Distrito 7, al recibir alrededor del 60% de los votos.

Dominique se describe como “esposa, enfermera especializada, educadora de enfermería, veterana del Ejército con 23 años de servicio y orgullosa madre de cuatro hijos increíbles que asisten a las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward”.

Nativa del condado Broward y graduada de Coconut Creek High School, Dominique ha sido una voluntaria activa dentro de las escuelas y el distrito.

Según su sitio web de campaña, la visión de Dominique para las escuelas de Broward incluye “escuelas seguras y de apoyo, éxito y bienestar estudiantil, rendición de cuentas y transparencia, y participación comunitaria y alianzas”.

Rochelle Soffer es una educadora de larga trayectoria, quien dice que se postula para la Junta Escolar del Condado Broward “porque nuestras escuelas merecen un liderazgo que se haya ganado en el salón de clases”.

Según el sitio web de campaña de Soffer, enumera cuatro compromisos con los estudiantes, maestros y familias del Distrito 7, si es elegida: “éxito estudiantil, apoyo a los maestros, seguridad escolar y rendición de cuentas”.

La Unión de Maestros de Broward figura entre los respaldos de Soffer.

DISTRITO 8

Allen Zeman conservará su puesto en el Distrito 8, al derrotar a Azim con el 55% de los votos emitidos el martes.

Zeman era el titular después de ganar una contienda cerrada en 2022, al recibir el 51.4% de los 477,828 votos emitidos.

Es el director de ingresos (CRO) de la empresa de análisis de datos CHCI y ha trabajado para presidentes de Estados Unidos y líderes gubernamentales, tanto extranjeros como nacionales.

Zeman también es egresado de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward desde kindergarten hasta el grado 12 y cuenta con el respaldo de la Unión de Maestros de Broward y de los actuales miembros de la junta Sarah Leonardi, Jeff Holness, Debbi Hixon y Rebecca Thompson.

Durante las últimas dos décadas, la oponente de Zeman, Sonja Azim, ha trabajado en salones de clases como maestra de educación especial, especialista en ESE, coordinadora de servicios estudiantiles, decana de estudiantes y capacitadora del distrito.

Sus dos hijas han sido estudiantes de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward.

Según su sitio web de campaña, Azim considera que una mayor rendición de cuentas es primordial y también enfatiza la importancia del trato equitativo, el apoyo a los maestros y la seguridad escolar en general.

The private Jellyfish Museum in Pompano Beach, Florida, just north of Fort Lauderdale, is believed to be the first museum in the United States dedicated solely to the translucent invertebrates, and one of the few such spaces in the world, according to the city and the museum’s founders.

It was created by Alex and Yana Yanovsky, who previously developed successful aquariums in Ukraine, including their first jellyfish museum in Kyiv. The couple left those facilities behind when they fled Ukraine following the 2022 Russian invasion, operations manager Jessica Eisenbarth said.

The museum, which opened this past spring, is the couple's first aquatic attraction since immigrating to the U.S., but they'd like to expand.

“When they left Ukraine, they moved to Florida, and then they immediately wanted to share their passion here,” Eisenbarth said.

Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them older than dinosaurs and even trees. Their ancient origins are part of their allure, along with their hypnotic, pulsing movements. They have no heart or brain, and are made up primarily of water, giving them a translucent look.

Yana Yanovsky came up with the idea for the jellyfish museum after noticing how popular the jellyfish were at their other aquariums.

“Jellyfish are some of the most resilient creatures on Earth. While they lack a brain, they maintain a simple nerve net that allows them to respond to their environment,” Yana said in a statement provided by the city. “Their movement is mesmerizing, almost meditative, and they play an important role in marine ecosystems.”

Monty Graham, director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, said he’s not surprised someone made an aquarium dedicated specifically to jellyfish. He credits the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California with kicking off the popularity of jellyfish exhibits at aquariums all over the world. Monterey Bay Aquarium began displaying jellyfish in temporary exhibits in 1985 and opened a permanent gallery in 1996.

“Jellyfish are cool, they’re things that people don’t get to see up close unless they’re scuba diving,” Graham said. “So here was this opportunity, in a controlled environment, very beautiful settings. It clicked all the buttons and checked all the boxes, and it was a very good, positive thing.”

The nearly 10,000-square-foot (900 square meters) Jellyfish Museum houses roughly 20 unique species of jellyfish found in Florida waters and other parts of the world. Different species can be rotated through the museum's 21 tanks. Some current occupants include Japanese sea nettles, moon jellyfish, spotted jellies and upside-down jellyfish, the last of which can be found among Florida's mangrove swamps.

The jellyfish are acquired through licensed aquaculture partners, according to the city.

The space is designed to exude calm and tranquility, general manager Iryna Pelypkanych said. It was converted from a former Wells Fargo bank branch with about $100,000 in community redevelopment grants from the city of Pompano Beach. Guides teach people about the role jellyfish play in marine ecosystems and the importance of protecting them.

“The biggest idea here is to leave people with the feeling that they know something more about the population of jellyfish,” Pelypkanych said. “Because so far, we know around 4,000 different species that can be called jellyfish.”

Las contiendas que los votantes verán en su boleta dependerán de su afiliación partidista y de dónde vivan en el condado Monroe.

Florida es un estado con elecciones primarias cerradas, lo que significa que los votantes generalmente solo pueden votar en las primarias del partido político en el que están registrados. Las contiendas no partidistas están abiertas a todos los votantes elegibles.

A diferencia de algunos otros condados del sur de Florida, el condado Monroe no tiene una primaria congresional disputada este año.

En el Distrito Congresional 28, que cubre el condado Monroe junto con la parte suroeste del condado Miami-Dade, incluyendo Homestead y Cutler Bay, el republicano titular Carlos Gimenez y el demócrata Phil “Felipe” Ehr no tienen oposición en sus respectivas primarias partidistas. Eddy Rojas se postula sin afiliación partidista en las elecciones generales.

Las contiendas legislativas estatales que afectan al condado Monroe tampoco tienen primarias partidistas disputadas. La republicana Ana Maria Rodriguez y el demócrata Jose Antonio Stoute no tienen oposición para sus respectivas nominaciones en el Distrito Senatorial 40 de Florida.

El republicano titular Jim Mooney no tiene oposición en el Distrito 120 de la Cámara de Representantes de Florida.

Contiendas del condado Monroe

Sin embargo, varias contiendas locales ofrecen opciones a los votantes de los Cayos en las primarias.

La primaria republicana para el Distrito 2 de la Comisión del Condado Monroe incluye a Michelle Lincoln y George Lopez.

Los votantes republicanos también decidirán la contienda del Distrito 2 del Distrito de Control de Mosquitos de los Cayos de Florida entre Phillip L. Goodman y Alex Osborn.

Contiendas de la Junta Escolar

Debido a que las elecciones de la Junta Escolar son no partidistas, los votantes elegibles pueden participar independientemente de su partido político.

En el Distrito 1 de la Junta Escolar, Theresa Axford y Darren Horan compiten por el puesto.

En el Distrito 5, la titular Sue Woltanski enfrenta a la retadora Chelyn Shaw. Woltanski busca un tercer mandato después de ganar por primera vez la elección en 2018, mientras que Shaw se postula por primera vez para un cargo público.

Los votantes del condado Monroe también tienen una contienda judicial no partidista en la boleta.

Contiendas de Key West

En Key West, los residentes elegirán su candidato a alcalde, junto con varios puestos de la comisión y un par de puestos de miembros de la junta de servicios públicos.

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Hundreds of miles away, Ukrainian drone crews had barely paused after the night’s work before starting to prepare for another attack.

A small group of soldiers quickly assembled in a sunflower field in southern Ukraine, gathering around 20 small planelike drones laden with explosives, before launching them toward Russia.

The launch by the Ukrainian 413th “Raid” Unmanned Systems Regiment on Sunday morning was observed by a team of Associated Press journalists — a rare glimpse into a rapidly expanding part of Ukraine’s war effort.

It's Ukraine's latest tactic — long-range drones designed to carry the war deep inside Russia, striking military, industrial and logistical sites far from the front line.

Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummeled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant.

Those attacks have brought the war home to the Russian public, nearly 4½ years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The scale of the attacks has also forced Russia’s military to stretch air defenses over a larger area, disrupted airports, sparked fuel shortages and undermined morale in Russia.

The regiment's commander, Yevhen Karas, said his unit had also taken part hours earlier in the strike on the Wildberries warehouse, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Moscow, during one of Ukraine’s largest attacks on Russia to date.

Ukraine will need to punish the Kremlin “if we want to get a stable and long period of peace, and normal peace,” Karas said.

“The bigger casualties they have,” the sooner they will go for peace, he added.

Kyiv officials aim to make the Russian public feel the war’s consequences and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into negotiating a peace settlement. Putin has so far shown no sign he intends to end the war.

Karas, however, believes the impact of Ukraine’s long-range strike campaign on Russia’s economy is bringing home the cost of the war to ordinary Russians and hopes this will drive Moscow back to the negotiating table after months of U.S.-brokered talks between the two sides stalled.

On Sunday morning, before the drones took to the skies, Karas took out a black marker and wrote a message on the fuselage: “Moscow burns under the sky, red flame rises so warm and high, dark smoke moves above the town, fire lights the night all around.”

Like the majority of Ukraine’s serving military, Karas had a very different life before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

But on that day, the 38-year-old who majored in philosophy in his university studies and his brother Volodymyr both volunteered for the front. His brother was killed while defending the Kyiv region. In the months that followed, Karas rose through the ranks to become an officer in Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces.

In 2024, Karas was appointed commander of the newly-formed 413th Raid Unmanned Systems Regiment, which began as a unit using drones for reconnaissance and other battlefield tasks.

As drone technology developed and flight range increased from hundreds to over a thousand miles, his unit was tasked with mounting long-range operations using Ukraine’s domestically produced FP-1 drones against targets deep inside Russia.

Others in the unit include a former opera singer, a computer programmer, a rapper and a cellist. Their routine now focuses on a very simple sequence of tasks: prepare the drone, check the systems, move it into position and launch.

Wait for the result, then repeat.

The unit's medallion — something militaries across the world refer to as a “challenge coin” — carries the troops' insignia on one side, a stylized, three-prong arrow. On the other is a relief depiction of a Kremlin in flames, with a drone flying over it.

Karas said that in this phase of the war, Moscow should fear the skies.

“Muscovites should spend their nights in their wonderful metro, just as residents of Kyiv have spent years going underground to escape Russian missile and drone attacks,” Karas said.

Back in the sunflower field, once the drones were airborne, the soldiers packed up their equipment and drove away, leaving hardly any traces of their activity.

They were on to the next launch site.

Teoscar Hernandez had a triple and double, and Tommy Edman doubled twice as the Dodgers broke out of an offensive slump in Denver.

Los Angeles scored 10 runs in the four-game series against Milwaukee over the weekend. Against Colorado, the Dodgers have scored 18 runs on 24 hits with four homers, including three by Ohtani, in the first two games of the three-game set.

Ohtani’s 30th homer traveled 448 feet into the Los Angeles bullpen off Ryan Feltner (5-7) and gave the Dodgers a 3-1 lead in the third inning. The Rockies tied it in the bottom of the inning before Los Angeles went ahead again in the fourth.

Edman, Kyle Tucker and Hernandez doubled in the inning to make it 5-3, and Hernandez scored on Freeman’s sacrifice fly.

Eric Lauer (8-6) allowed four runs on six hits with six strikeouts in five innings. The 31-yeare-old left-hander has been one of the best starters for Los Angeles since coming over from Toronto on May 17. He went 6-1 with a 3.48 ERA in his first 11 starts with the Dodgers.

Before the game, Los Angeles placed closer Edwin Diaz on the injured list with neck inflammation and recalled righty Emmet Sheehan from Triple-A. Tanner Scott, elevated to the closer role, earned his 17th save when he got TJ Rumfield to pop out to short with the tying run on.

Colorado's Will Castro hit his 14th homer of the season, a solo shot in the fifth inning.

Up next

Dodgers RHP Roki Sasaki (5-5, 4.46 ERA) faces Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (4-10, 6.27) in the finale of the three-game series Wednesday night.

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Florida es un estado con elecciones primarias cerradas, lo que significa que los votantes generalmente reciben la boleta de las primarias del partido político con el que están registrados. Todos los votantes registrados pueden participar en contiendas no partidistas y en cualquier contienda de primaria universal que aparezca en su boleta.

Contiendas para el Congreso

Varias contiendas para el Congreso que afectan al condado Broward han atraído a numerosos candidatos, incluidos los Distritos 20, 24, 25 y 22.

Contiendas estatales

Los votantes de Broward también ayudarán a elegir a los nominados de sus partidos para varios cargos estatales, incluidos gobernador y Senado de Estados Unidos.

En la boleta también aparecen contiendas disputadas para director financiero y comisionado de Agricultura.

Contiendas de la Comisión del Condado Broward y la Junta Escolar

A nivel del condado, las primarias demócratas para la Comisión del Condado por el Distrito 6 incluyen a Eugen Bold, Jeffery Jones, A.J. Ryan y Caryl Shuham.

Los votantes también decidirán varias contiendas no partidistas para la Junta Escolar del condado Broward, incluidos los Distritos 1, 4, 6, 7 y 8.

Las contiendas judiciales incluyen una competencia entre tres candidatos para juez del 17.º Circuito Judicial, Grupo 52, entre David Andrew Fry, Tamar Hamilton y Kathleen O’Brien “Katie” Hinkle. Debi Gheorge Alten y Veronica N. Walker compiten por el puesto de juez del Tribunal del Condado, Grupo 11.

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Cuatro abogados de derechos civiles del Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos monitorearon los centros de votación durante las elecciones primarias en el condado Miami-Dade.

“Estamos muy seguros de que todo va a estar bien”, dijo Garcia sobre el anuncio del Departamento de Justicia que informó que la “iniciativa de monitoreo” tenía como objetivo “promover la transparencia y un flujo abierto de comunicación entre los observadores electorales y los monitores electorales”.

Según datos no oficiales de participación electoral, 243,225 personas emitieron sus votos, incluidas 106,278 que votaron por correo, 78,483 que votaron el día de las elecciones y 58,364 que votaron anticipadamente.

El condado Miami-Dade tiene 772 precintos que abrieron a las 7 a.m. y cerraron a las 7 p.m.

El condado Miami-Dade tiene más de 1.28 millones de votantes registrados, incluidos aproximadamente 455,470 republicanos y 407,910 demócratas, según los datos más recientes publicados por Garcia.

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DISTRICT 2

There are three candidates seeking to be Miami-Dade County’s District 2 commissioner.

Running for the seat are incumbent Commissioner Marleine Bastien, trapeze artist Miguel “Skip” Quintero and newcomer Ernst Jean Louis.

Receiving 78% of the ballots cast, Bastien retained her seat in a landslide.

Bastien, a nonprofit founder and executive who won the seat in 2022, says her priorities include investing in infrastructure like the 27th Avenue corridor and added that the county needs to make budget cuts.

Quintero is a South Florida native who made an unsuccessful run for Miami-Dade County mayor in 2024.

He describes himself as a First Amendment advocate who lists transparency as a main priority while adding that he also wants universal basic income.

Records show Jean Louis lists his primary source of income as Allied Universal Services. He does not appear to have a campaign website, but the Miami Herald reported that he founded a Creole-language newspaper.

DISTRICT 5

There are three candidates running for the District 5 seat in Miami-Dade County.

The district encompasses parts of Miami Beach, Brickell and The Roads.

Candidates are incumbent Commissioner Vicki Lopez, former Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Joe Sanchez and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Rob Piper.

Ultimately, the race is heading for a runoff.

Once all of Tuesday’s ballots were counted, the top two candidates were Lopez, with 42% of the vote, and Piper, with 29% of the vote.

Lopez was appointed to the seat after Eileen Higgins was elected City of Miami mayor. She said her experience as a member of the Florida House of Representatives makes her qualified to tighten the budget.

Sanchez highlights his career in law enforcement and as a veteran and says safety and quality of life are key.

Piper, who moved to Miami in 2012, thinks a task force ought to analyze the county’s true fiscal situation.

DISTRICT 8

The county’s eighth district encompasses a big portion of southern Miami-Dade, including Homestead and Palmetto Bay.

Incumbent Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins is running against nonprofit CEO Martha “Vega” Hero and former Palmetto Bay Vice Mayor John DuBois.

Once the ballots were cast and counted, it was Cohen Higgins who kept her seat, receiving approximately 55% of the votes in the race.

Cohen Higgins, who is a trial lawyer by trade, says her experience looking at details makes her an effective leader, especially when it comes to the budget.

Hero believes government and organizations working together is key, as well as transparency in balancing a budget.

DuBois, the former vice mayor of Palmetto Bay, is running to bring accountable, resident-focused leadership to Miami-Dade County, according to his campaign website.

DISTRITO 2

Hay tres candidatos que buscan ser comisionados del Distrito 2 del condado de Miami-Dade.

La comisionada titular Marleine Bastien, el artista de trapecio Miguel “Skip” Quintero y el recién llegado Ernst Jean Louis se postulan para el cargo.

Al recibir el 78% de las boletas emitidas, Bastien retuvo su escaño por amplio margen.

Bastien, fundadora y ejecutiva de una organización sin fines de lucro que ganó el escaño en 2022, dice que sus prioridades incluyen invertir en infraestructura como el corredor de la Avenida 27 y agregó que el condado necesita hacer recortes presupuestarios.

Quintero es oriundo del sur de Florida y se postuló sin éxito para alcalde del condado de Miami-Dade en 2024.

Se describe a sí mismo como un defensor de la Primera Enmienda que señala la transparencia como una de sus principales prioridades, además de agregar que también quiere un ingreso básico universal.

Los registros muestran que Jean Louis señala a Allied Universal Services como su principal fuente de ingresos. No parece tener un sitio web de campaña, pero el Miami Herald informó que fundó un periódico en idioma criollo.

DISTRITO 5

Hay tres candidatos que se postulan para el escaño del Distrito 5 del condado de Miami-Dade.

El distrito abarca partes de Miami Beach, Brickell y The Roads.

Los candidatos son la comisionada titular Vicki Lopez, el ex agente de la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida Joe Sanchez y el veterano del Cuerpo de Marines de Estados Unidos Rob Piper.

En última instancia, la contienda se dirige a una segunda vuelta.

Una vez contabilizadas todas las boletas del martes, los dos candidatos principales fueron Lopez, con el 42% de los votos, y Piper, con el 29% de los votos.

Lopez fue designada para el escaño después de que Eileen Higgins fuera elegida alcaldesa de la ciudad de Miami. Dijo que su experiencia como miembro de la Cámara de Representantes de Florida la hace estar calificada para ajustar el presupuesto.

Sanchez destaca su carrera en las fuerzas del orden y como veterano, y dice que la seguridad y la calidad de vida son fundamentales.

Piper, quien se mudó a Miami en 2012, considera que un grupo de trabajo debería analizar la verdadera situación fiscal del condado.

DISTRITO 8

El octavo distrito del condado abarca una gran parte del sur de Miami-Dade, incluyendo Homestead y Palmetto Bay.

La comisionada titular Danielle Cohen Higgins se enfrenta a la directora ejecutiva de una organización sin fines de lucro Martha “Vega” Hero y al ex vicealcalde de Palmetto Bay John DuBois.

Una vez emitidas y contabilizadas las boletas, fue Cohen Higgins quien mantuvo su escaño, al recibir aproximadamente el 55% de los votos en la contienda.

Cohen Higgins, quien es abogada litigante de profesión, dice que su experiencia analizando los detalles la convierte en una líder eficaz, especialmente cuando se trata del presupuesto.

Hero considera que la colaboración entre el gobierno y las organizaciones es fundamental, al igual que la transparencia al equilibrar un presupuesto.

DuBois, el ex vicealcalde de Palmetto Bay, se postula para llevar un liderazgo responsable y enfocado en los residentes al condado de Miami-Dade, según el sitio web de su campaña.

Although this marks China’s first successful recovery on land, it is the second time the country has recovered a rocket stage, following a successful recovery on a sea platform in July.

Chinese state news agency Xinhua said the reusable rocket, Zhuque-3, was launched Wednesday morning and that the rocket's first stage was recovered afterward.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have been recovering rockets since 2015, helping drive down launch costs by reusing hardware that would otherwise be discarded after carrying satellites and other payloads toward space.

Xinhua said that Wednesday's recovery also marked China's first use of deployable landing legs and deemed the result “a major breakthrough in the country’s reusable rocket technology.”

On July 10, the first stage of a Long March-10B rocket separated from the second stage after liftoff and returned to a platform at sea. That time, it was recovered using a net-capture system.

The next day, on July 11, Japan conducted the first test flight of an experimental reusable rocket, which took off and safely landed.

Japan is also trying to catch up with the technology needed to cut launch costs and compete in the global space market.

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The Democratic candidates seeking the vote are U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, who currently represents Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, and Oliver Larkin.

Ultimately, the voters selected Moskowitz, who received over 60% of the ballots cast.

“Tonight, Democratic voters sent a clear message. I faced a challenge from the DSA. They threw everything at me and I didn’t change who I am or what I believe, and the voters overwhelmingly chose the independent-minded approach I’ve brought to Congress,” Moskowitz said in a statement released by his campaign.

Moskowitz, who was born in Coral Springs, served as a Parkland city commissioner from 2006 to 2012 and in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2019.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Moskowitz as the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management from 2019 to 2021. He has been representing Florida’s 23rd Congressional District since 2023.

So far this election cycle, Moskowitz has raised $2.9 million.

Larkin, 32, a union organizer, follows Moskowitz and five Republicans with more than $541,000 in total funds raised, according to campaign finance data.

The five Republican candidates running in Florida’s 25th Congressional District are Scott Singer, Daniel Franzese, George R. Moraitis, Raven Harrison and Joe Kaufman.

Singer will face Moskowitz in November, receiving approximately 31% of the ballots cast.

“Since he got to Congress, he’s been a lot less of a centrist, voting lockstep with the Democrat leadership for open borders, for higher taxes,” Singer said of Moskowitz following the primary election. “As mayor, I worked across the aisle and got common sense solutions to lower taxes, add green space, to back up public safety, and I think people are going to see the difference that I’m going to bring versus what he’s bringing from outside the district.”

Singer is the Republican at the top of the campaign finance list with more than $1.99 million in total funds raised, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Franzese, who earned his MBA at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1989, follows Singer on the list with more than $1.47 million raised.

Moraitis, a retired lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve who was born in Fort Lauderdale, followed Singer and Franzese after raising more than $839,000.

Harrison, a Temple University grad who was born in Texas, follows Moraitis with more than $778,000 in total receipts while Kaufman, a counter-terrorism expert known as the “Terrorist Hunter,” follows Harrison with more than $631,500 in total funds raised.

Varias elecciones al Congreso que afectan al condado de Miami-Dade cuentan con un gran número de candidatos, incluidas las de los distritos 24, 25 y 27.

Entre las contiendas legislativas de Miami-Dade figuran primarias muy disputadas para varios escaños de la Cámara de Representantes de Florida, incluidos los distritos 106, 108, 109, 113 y 118.

Los votantes de Miami-Dade también eligieron a sus candidatos para el escaño del Distrito 1 de la Junta Escolar de Miami-Dade, así como para diversos puestos de comisionado.

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Con 99% de los precintos reportados, alrededor del 54% de los votantes demócratas habían emitido sus votos por Rodriguez, de 69 años, un veterano periodista de televisión retirado nacido en Nueva York de padres cubanos.

Alrededor del 19% de los votantes republicanos emitieron sus votos por V. Michael Arias, un abogado radicado en Coral Gables.

Con 99% de los precintos reportados, alrededor del 81% de los votantes republicanos habían emitido sus votos por Salazar, de 64 años, también un periodista de televisión retirado cuyos padres nacieron en Cuba.

Alrededor del 46% de los votantes demócratas emitieron sus votos por Robin Peguero, un ex fiscal federal.

Rodriguez y Salazar se enfrentarán en las elecciones generales del 3 de noviembre.

El Censo de Estados Unidos informó en 2024 que el distrito tiene alrededor de 788,713 habitantes. Abarca unas 119 millas cuadradas en el condado Miami-Dade, según Census Reporter.

Ganadora de la primaria Republicana pronuncia discurso

Ganador de la primaria Demócrata pronuncia discurso

Resultados de elección

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Four Republicans sought the nomination in the deep-blue district.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was declared the winner on the Democratic side early Tuesday evening.

Soon after, Brent Andersen was declared the winner on the Republican side.

Local 10 News spoke to Wasserman Schultz at her victory celebration on Tuesday.

“I’m so thankful and appreciative to the voters of District 20, they said, ‘You know what? We’re going to decide who we want to be in D.C. to fight for us’ and they they delivered that with an overwhelming message,” she said. “And in the results in this primary, I’m so thankful, and I’m ready to fight for them to lower their costs, to stop Donald Trump for his corruption, self-dealing, taking care of billionaires instead of working folks and go to bat for them every single day.”

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Democratic candidates included rap music executive and free speech activist Luther Campbell, former Broward mayor and commissioner Dale Holness, community organizer Elijah Manley and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is changing districts after the redraw.

And then there is the embattled incumbent seeking to make a comeback — former U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick— who resigned ahead of a House Ethics Committee expulsion threat in the wake of her indictment, accused of stealing federal funds. She denies wrongdoing.

On the Republican side: Brent Andersen is a Pompano Beach resident and businessman fighting for lower costs and economic opportunity for District 20 families. Lateresa “La” Jones is the founder of “Grandmas for the Generations” — a grassroots organization helping families defend children. Dr. Rod Joseph is a U.S. Army combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient with 20 years served in the military. Carla Spalding is a U.S. Navy veteran who also has longtime experience in nursing.

5 p.m. report:

Con 94% de los precintos electorales reportados, alrededor del 69% de los votantes demócratas había emitido su voto por Dandiya, de 39 años, hija de inmigrantes indios y graduada de Harvard que se desempeñó como maestra y directora de escuela.

Con 95% de los precintos electorales reportados, alrededor del 31% de los votantes republicanos había emitido su voto por Askar, de 57 años, un ex marine de Estados Unidos y presidente de Askar Brands, una empresa de administración y franquicias de restaurantes de múltiples marcas.

La Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos informó en 2024 que el distrito tiene alrededor de 804,159 habitantes. El mapa de redistribución de distritos más reciente incluyó áreas de los condados Broward, Palm Beach, Collier y Hendry.

Primaria republicana

La boleta electoral incluye a siete candidatos.

MICHAEL CARBONARA

Este empresario del sector “fintech” es padre de dos hijos. Se enfrentó a críticas debido a informes sobre sus vínculos con un controvertido centro de datos en Michigan.

Carbonara, de 43 años y nacido en Nueva York, es el fundador y exdirector ejecutivo de Ibanera, una empresa de banca digital con sede en Miami.

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BELINDA KEISER

Keiser, de 67 años y nacida en Filipinas, obtuvo una licenciatura en Comunicación por la Universidad Estatal de Florida y una maestría en Administración de Empresas (MBA) por la Universidad Nova Southeastern.

DR. HERBERT “HERBIE” WERTHEIM

Wertheim, de 87 años y nacido en Filadelfia, es optometrista y empresario. Es el fundador de Brain Power, un fabricante de productos ópticos.

DANIEL FRANZESE

Franzese, nacido en Nueva York, obtuvo una maestría en Administración de Empresas (MBA) en la Wharton School of Business de la Universidad de Pensilvania.

DAVID BURCK

Este marine retirado de EE. UU. y ex detective nació en Tampa y trabaja como agente inmobiliario.

TERRI HASDORFF

Hasdorff, nacida en Alabama, se graduó de las universidades de Harvard y Oxford y trabaja en desarrollo empresarial.

Primaria demócrata

Sólo un candidato se postuló contra Dandiya.

KAYSIA EARLEY

La abogada es egresada de la Universidad Howard y de la Facultad de Derecho de St. Thomas.

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With Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis unable to seek another consecutive term because of term limits, the race attracted a crowded field of candidates hoping to succeed him.

On the Republican side, 11 candidates were seeking the nomination, while six candidates competed in the Democratic primary.

Donalds led crowded Republican field

Donalds had emerged as the frontrunner in the Republican primary.

He currently represents Florida’s 19th Congressional District, which includes portions of Southwest Florida, including Fort Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs and Cape Coral.

Recent polling has shown Donalds with a substantial advantage over his Republican rivals. A July poll conducted for Associated Industries of Florida found Donalds leading the GOP field by 46 percentage points. Other polling tracked by The New York Times has also shown Donalds out front.

Among his challengers were Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner and political newcomer James Fishback.

Also seeking the Republican nomination were Jim Holcomb, Arthur McCaffrey, Daniel Nokovich, Rachel Rodriguez, James Shaw, Caneste Succe and Bobby Williams.

During his speech after securing the party’s nomination, Donalds said his three main priorities as governor if he wins the General Election would be to make Florida “accountable, achievable and most of all, affordable.”

“This state gave me a chance,” Donalds said to his supporters at his campaign watch party in Orlando. “I went on to spend 17 years in banking, finance, and insurance, and it prepared me for the very real economic challenges that Floridians face every single day. You see, the Florida dream to us is clear. It’s the promise that if you work hard, you can get ahead, own a home, raise your family and give your kids a better shot than you had without government holding you back.”

One of the biggest controversies of the Republican primary came over plans for a gubernatorial debate at the Florida GOP’s Sunshine State Showdown.

The Republican Party of Florida said Donalds was the only candidate who met the polling requirements to qualify for the debate, prompting criticism from Collins, Renner and Fishback. DeSantis also took issue with the decision.

Florida GOP Chairman Evan Power told Local 10’s Glenna Milberg on “This Week in South Florida” that the candidates had agreed to the debate criteria before launching their campaigns. Some of the candidates disputed that characterization.

Jolly led Democratic primary

Six candidates competed for the Democratic nomination, with former U.S. Rep. David Jolly as the frontrunner in recent polling.

Jolly, a former Republican congressman who represented a Tampa Bay-area district, has named former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham as his running mate for lieutenant governor.

“This is a moment where we are believing again in each other, not because of the strength of an ideology, but because of the strength of a people,” Jolly said during his campaign watch party after securing the party’s nomination. “Because of the values that are holding us together – our American values that have made this nation strong and have created the greatest of economic and upward mobility the nation has ever seen.”

Polling had put Jolly ahead of the rest of the Democratic field as voters prepared to make their choice Tuesday.

He expressed confidence in his ability to take down Donalds in November.

“Voters always tell us what they want,” Jolly told Local 10’s Byron Tollefson. “Four years ago, voters weren’t asking for change, and so Democrats, despite our values, weren’t where voters were. Tonight, voters are screaming for change. They’re begging for change. They’re saying enough with the economic grip, let’s focus on housing, healthcare and education.”

State Rep. Dotie Joseph also sought the nomination. Joseph represents House District 108, which includes portions of North Miami, Little Haiti, Wynwood and El Portal.

Fort Lauderdale native Dayna Marie Foster, a high school math teacher, was also in the race and had sought support from younger progressive voters.

Evelyn Castillo-Bach, Thomas Fernandez and Stephann Norman rounded out the six-person Democratic field.

Winners advance to November

Florida is a closed-primary state, meaning voters generally must be registered with a political party to participate in that party’s primary.

Donalds and Jolly will now advance to the November general election as Florida voters decide who will succeed DeSantis and become the state’s next governor.

Los candidatos demócratas que buscaron el escaño son el diputado Jared Moskowitz, que actualmente representa al 23° distrito congresista de Florida, y Oliver Larkin.

Finalmente, los votantes eligieron a Moskowitz, quien recibió más del 60% de los votos emitidos.

“Esta noche, los votantes demócratas enviaron un mensaje claro. Enfrenté un desafío de la DSA. Lanzaron todo contra mí y no cambié quién soy ni en qué creo, y los votantes eligieron abrumadoramente el enfoque independiente que he llevado al Congreso”, dijo Moskowitz en un comunicado difundido por su campaña.

Moskowitz, nacido en Coral Springs, fue concejal de Parkland entre 2006 y 2012 y miembro de la Cámara de Representantes de Florida entre 2012 y 2019.

El gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, nombró a Moskowitz director de la División de Gestión de Emergencias de Florida entre 2019 y 2021. Lleva representando al 23.º distrito congresional de Florida desde 2023.

En lo que va de esta campaña electoral, Moskowitz ha recaudado 2,9 millones de dólares.

Larkin, de 32 años, organizador sindical, se sitúa detrás de Moskowitz y de cinco republicanos, con más de 541 000 dólares recaudados en total, según los datos de financiación de la campaña.

Los cinco candidatos republicanos que se presentan en el 25.º distrito congresista de Florida son Scott Singer, Daniel Franzese, George R. Moraitis, Raven Harrison y Joe Kaufman.

Singer, de 49 años, es el republicano que encabeza la lista de financiación de campaña con más de 1,99 millones de dólares recaudados en total, según la Comisión Electoral Federal.

Franzese, que obtuvo su máster en Administración de Empresas (MBA) en la Wharton School de la Universidad de Pensilvania en 1989, le sigue a Singer en la lista con más de 1,47 millones de dólares recaudados.

Moraitis, de 55 años, teniente comandante retirado de la Reserva de la Marina de los Estados Unidos y nacido en Fort Lauderdale, quien se sitúa detrás de Singer y Franzese tras haber recaudado más de 839.000 dólares.

Harrison, graduado de la Universidad de Temple y nacido en Texas, sigue a Moraitis con más de 778.000 dólares en ingresos totales, mientras que Kaufman —un experto en contraterrorismo conocido como el «Cazador de Terroristas»— sigue a Harrison con más de 631.500 dólares en fondos recaudados.

AI-related stocks have become volatile in recent months as the value of company shares have soared while confidence in a pay off, at least soon, has waned.

The futures for the S&P 500 were relatively unchanged, while those for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.1%. Nasdaq futures declined 0.1%.

Oracle shares slipped more than 1% before the market opened Wednesday. Shares of Marvell Technology and Intel both fell nearly 2%. Micron Technology dipped 1%. The seller of computer memory was one of the largest drags on the S&P 500 Tuesday.

Target's stock declined 1.6% even as the retailer reported its second straight quarter of comparable sales gains Wednesday under new CEO Michael Fiddelke.

Markets are also reacting to decision by President Donald Trump to delay U.S. tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian import.

Later Wednesday, the Federal Reserve will release minutes from the most recent meeting of the rate-setting committee.

Crude prices continue to climb with the conflict over the Strait of Hormuz unresolved. Brent crude, which was trading for around $70 per barrel before the start of the war, gained 1% to $91.91 per barrel early Wednesday. U.S. benchmark crude oil rose 1.1% to $84.99 per barrel.

Bond yields have jumped since the war began because high oil prices are pushing inflation higher. That has increased the anxiety over government debt and is also one of the reasons the fast-growing tech sector, which thrives when borrowing costs are low, is under pressure.

The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury edged down to 4.70% from 4.72% Wednesday but remains well above its 3.97% level from just before the war with Iran began. The 30-year Treasury yield also ticked lower but is still near its highest level since 2007.

High yields have already sent the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate near its highest level in a year, which has hurt the housing industry.

In Europe, Germany’s DAX shed 0.1% to 26,084.43, while the CAC 40 in Paris rose 0.3% to 8,535.30. Britain’s FTSE 100 slipped 0.2% to 10,705.47.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 sank 3.2% to 65,326.42 as worries over rising bond yields coupled with selling of tech shares pulled the benchmark lower.

The U.S. dollar fell to 159.13 Japanese yen from 159.61 yen. The euro rose to $1.1604 from $1.1577.

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Associated Press Business Writer Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong contributed.

The major league-best Brewers (78-48) matched a franchise record for runs in a game. Since 1901, the only previous 22-0 victories were by Pittsburgh over the host Chicago Cubs on Sept. 16, 1975 and by Cleveland at the New York Yankees on Aug. 31, 2004.

Bauers scored the Brewers' first run in colorful fashion. He doubled with two outs in the first against Bryce Miller (4-7). William Contreras singled, and left fielder Randy Arozarena's throw to the plate easily beat Bauers, who slapped at catcher Cal Raleigh's mitt on his slide. Raleigh dropped the ball, and Bauers dived back to the plate.

Yelich's homer made it 6-0 in the fifth. Hamilton went deep in the sixth to make it 9-0, and Bauers' 22nd homer later in the inning made it 11-0.

Milwaukee scored nine times in the eighth against Mariners infielder Leo Rivas, including Lara's homer, which was the first of his career.

Kyle Harrison (10-3), who allowed eight runs (three earned) over 4 2/3 innings in his previous start, held the Mariners to two hits in five innings. Shane Drohan worked two innings, Grant Anderson pitched the eighth and catcher Gary Sánchez completed the five-hitter, working around two hits in the ninth while throwing several pitches under 40 mph.

Hamilton's four RBIs were a career high. Yelich and Lara also drove in four runs each, and Garrett Mitchell had four hits.

Up next

Seattle’s RHP Logan Gilbert (9-7, 3.28 ERA) and Milwaukee’s RHP Dustin May (6-7, 4.13) start on Wednesday.

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Con 97% de los precintos electorales reportados, alrededor del 34% de los votantes demócratas había emitido su voto por Gilbert, de 53 años, comisionado del condado Miami-Dade y ex presidente de la comisión, quien se desempeñó como alcalde de Miami Gardens de 2012 a 2020.

Alrededor del 32% de los votantes demócratas emitió su voto por Jones, quien se desempeñó en la Cámara de Representantes de Florida de 2012 a 2020, cuando comenzó su servicio en el Senado de Florida.

Gilbert y la empresaria Te Brown, la candidata republicana sin oposición, se enfrentarán en las elecciones generales del 3 de noviembre.

Gilbert y Jones participaron en una contienda con otros cinco candidatos después de que la representante federal Frederica Wilson, quien representó al distrito durante unos 13 años, anunciara en mayo que no buscaría la reelección.

Wilson respaldó a Gilbert, quien creció en Miami Gardens, obtuvo una licenciatura de Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University y un título de Juris Doctor de University of Miami.

“Nunca había visto tanta negatividad”, dijo Wilson el martes por la noche sobre los ataques contra Gilbert durante la campaña.

Hubo desinformación y fricciones durante las campañas de los candidatos. La desinformación incluyó un anuncio falso de Equality Florida que sirvió como un ataque homofóbico contra Jones, quien es el primer senador abiertamente gay de Florida.

Gilbert pronuncia su discurso de victoria

Según informes de la Comisión Federal de Elecciones de los Estados Unidos sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Gilbert superó los 812.140 dólares, el total de sus desembolsos fue superior a los 583.000 dólares y su efectivo disponible superó los 229.090 dólares.

Jones pronuncia su discurso de reconocimiento de la derrota

Jones, de 42 años, quien nació en Hollywood y creció en Miami Gardens, obtuvo una licenciatura de Florida A&M University. También obtuvo títulos de maestría y doctorado en educación de Florida Atlantic University. Su experiencia también incluye haber presidido el Partido Demócrata de Miami-Dade.

Según los informes de la Comisión Federal de Elecciones (FEC) de EE. UU. sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Jones superó los 283.690 dólares, sus desembolsos totales fueron superiores a los 205.080 dólares y su saldo de caja superó los 78.610 dólares.

Wilson felicita a Gilbert

Más información sobre los otros cinco candidatos

KENDRICK MEEK JR.

Kendrick Meek Jr. sigue los pasos de su padre, el ex representante federal Kendrick B. Meek, quien representó al Distrito Congresional 17 de Florida de 2003 a 2011, y de su abuela, la fallecida ex representante federal Carrie Meek, quien representó al Distrito Congresional 17 de Florida de 1993 a 2003.

Meek, de 29 años, obtuvo una licenciatura de University of Florida y un título de J.D. de University of Miami. Hizo una pasantía con el Comité de Administración de la Cámara de Representantes en 2015 y con el Comité Judicial de la Cámara en 2021. También trabajó como asesor de la Casa Blanca en iniciativas de política de salud durante la administración Biden.

Según informes de la FEC de EE. UU. sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Meek superó los 657.615 dólares, el total de sus desembolsos fue superior a los 542.845 dólares y su efectivo disponible superaba los 114.770 dólares.

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RUDOLPH MOISE

El coronel retirado de la Reserva de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos, Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Moise, un médico haitiano-estadounidense, se desempeñó como embajador itinerante para inversiones de la República de Haití en 2014.

Moise, de 71 años, nació en Puerto Príncipe y tenía 17 años cuando se mudó a Chicago. Después de graduarse de University of Illinois, obtuvo un doctorado en osteopatía de Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. También obtuvo un título de Juris Doctor y una maestría en administración de empresas de University of Miami.

Según informes de la FEC de EE. UU. sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Moise superó los 651.695 dólares, el total de sus desembolsos fue superior a los 555.845 dólares y su efectivo disponible superaba los 100.850 dólares.

JEAN MONESTIME

Jean Monestime se desempeñó como comisionado del condado Miami-Dade de 2010 a 2022, incluido como presidente de 2014 a 2016.

Monestime, de 63 años, nació en Saint-Louis du Nord, Haití, y tenía 17 años cuando se mudó a Estados Unidos. Obtuvo una licenciatura de Florida International University y una maestría en administración de empresas de Nova Southeastern University.

Según informes de la FEC de EE. UU. sobre contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Monestime fue de 95.065 dólares, sus desembolsos totales superaron los 69.160 dólares y su efectivo disponible fue superior a los 25.900 dólares.

RODERICK D. VEREEN

Roderick “Rod” Vereen, abogado de defensa penal, se desempeñó como defensor público federal adjunto para el Distrito Norte de Florida en Pensacola y como fiscal estatal adjunto para el Segundo Circuito Judicial.

Vereen, de 64 años, creció como hijo de un militar del Ejército de Estados Unidos y obtuvo una licenciatura de Florida State University y un título de Juris Doctor de Southern University Law Center.

Según informes de la FEC de EE. UU. sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Vereen fue de 45.005 dólares, el total de sus desembolsos superó los 11.730 dólares y su efectivo disponible ascendió a 77.505 dólares.

MARSHAL L DAVIS SR.

Marshal L. Davis, Sr., se desempeña como director del Marshal L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center en Liberty City, Miami. Es desde 1963.

“Tenemos que analizar lo que consideramos que es el problema porque con cualquier problema, hay una solución”, dijo Davis, de 76 años. “Tenemos que analizar nuestro potencial y ser expansivos, y tenemos que gobernarnos por principios”.

Según informes de la FEC de EE. UU. sobre las contribuciones de campaña, el total de ingresos de Davis superó los 13.045 dólares y el total de sus desembolsos superó los 14.010 dólares.

Resultados de la Elección

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Gilbert, 53, a Miami-Dade commissioner and former commission chair, and businesswoman Te Brown, the uncontested Republican candidate, will face off in the midterm election on Nov. 3rd.

“After November, when we beat the Republican, we are going to Washington together,” Gilbert said during his speech on Tuesday night.

It was a tight primary race. With 97% of precincts reported, about 34% of Democratic voters had cast their ballot for Gilbert, who served as mayor of Miami Gardens from 2012 to 2020.

About 32% of Democratic voters cast their ballots for Jones, 42, who had served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020, when he started his service in the Florida Senate.

Gilbert and Jones ran in a crowded race with five other candidates. U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, who represented the district for about 13 years, announced in May that she was not seeking re-election.

“I am so grateful for her leadership, for her support, for her advice, for the torch, for her telling me what to do,” Gilbert said about Wilson during his victory speech.

Wilson, 83, endorsed Gilbert, who grew up in Miami Gardens, earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, and a JD from the University of Miami.

“I have never seen so much negativity,” Wilson said on Tuesday night about attacks against Gilbert during the campaign.

There was misinformation and friction during the candidates’ campaigns. The misinformation included a fake Equality Florida ad that served as a homophobic attack against Jones, who is Florida’s first openly gay senator.

During his concession speech, Jones said he was committed to helping Gilbert to get elected in November.

Gilbert delivers victory speech

According to the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s reports on campaign contributions, Gilbert’s total receipts were more than $812,140, his total disbursements were more than $583,000, and his cash on hand was over $229,090.

Jones delivers concession speech

Jones, who was born in Hollywood and grew up in Miami Gardens, earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida A&M University. He also earned master’s and doctorate degrees in education from Florida Atlantic University. His experience also includes serving as the chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party.

“I know that this is not the end for me,” Jones said during his concession speech.

According to the U.S. FEC’s reports on campaign contributions, Jones’s total receipts were more than $283,690, his total disbursements were more than $205,080, and his cash on hand was over $78,610.

Wilson congratulates Gilbert

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KENDRICK MEEK JR.

Kendrick Meek Jr. is following in the footsteps of his father, former U.S. Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, who served Florida’s 17th Congressional District from 2003 to 2011, and his grandmother, the late former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek, who served Florida’s 17th Congressional District from 1993 to 2003.

Meek, 29, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and a J.D. from the University of Miami. He interned with the House Administration Committee in 2015 and the House Judiciary Committee in 2021. He also worked as a White House aide on healthcare policy initiatives under the Biden administration.

According to the U.S. FEC’s reports on campaign contributions, Meek’s total receipts were more than $657,615, his total disbursements were more than $542,845, and his cash on hand was over $114,770.

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RUDOLPH MOISE

Retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Col. Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Moise, a Haitian-American physician, served as ambassador-at-large for investment for the Republic of Haiti in 2014.

Moise, 71, was born in Port-au-Prince, and he was 17 when he moved to Chicago. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he earned a doctorate in osteopathy from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also earned a JD and MBA from the University of Miami.

According to the U.S. FEC’s reports on campaign contributions, Moise’s total receipts were more than $651,695, his total disbursements were more than $555,845, and his cash on hand was over $100,850.

JEAN MONESTIME

Jean Monestime served as a Miami-Dade County commissioner from 2010 to 2022, including as chairman from 2014 to 2016.

Monestime, 63, was born in Haiti’s Saint-Louis du Nord, and he was 17 when he moved to the U.S. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and a master of business administration from Nova Southeastern University.

According to the U.S. FEC’s reports on campaign contributions, Monestime’s total receipts were $95,065, his total disbursements were more than $69,160, and his cash on hand was over $25,900.

RODERICK D. VEREEN

Roderick “Rod” Vereen, a criminal defense attorney, served as an assistant federal public defender for the Northern District of Florida in Pensacola and as assistant state attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit.

Vereen, 64, grew up as a U.S. Army brat, and he earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and a juris doctor from the Southern University Law Center.

According to the U.S. FEC’s reports on campaign contributions, Vereen’s total receipts were $45,005, his total disbursements were more than $11,730, and his cash on hand was $77,505.

MARSHAL L DAVIS SR.

Marshal L. Davis, Sr., has served as the director of the Marshal L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center in Miami’s Liberty City, since 1963.

“We’ve got to look at what we consider to be the problem because with any problem, there is a solution,” Davis, 76, said. “We have to look at our potential and be expansive, and we’ve got to govern ourselves by principles.”

According to the U.S. FEC’s reports on campaign contributions, Davis’s total receipts were more than $13,045, and his total disbursements were more than $14,010.

ELECTION RESULTS

Tatis hit the first pitch from Zac Thornton 452 feet into the second deck in left field for his team-record 18th career leadoff homer. Tatis added a two-run homer off Thornton in the fifth. He has 15 homers after opening the season without a longball in his first 238 at-bats.

But, Tatis' biggest contribution in the game came in the field in the second inning when reached over the wall in in right field and pulled back Lindor’s potential slam. Tatis stood and stared straight ahead when he landed, leaving everyone momentarily confused as to whether he'd caught the ball. Tatis then help up his glove and Padres pitcher Robbie Ray raised his arms and put his own glove on his head.

Tatis’ leaping catch came a night after Mets outfielders Carson Benge and A.J. Ewing combined to throw out three Padres players at the plate.

Ty France added a run-scoring single in the seventh for the Padres, who lead the majors with an 18-6 record since July 24. Manny Machado hit his 24th homer of the season, a solo shot in the ninth inning.

Ray (11-7) allowed three hits, including Luis Torrens’ homer, and struck out four in six innings on the way to his first win since being acquired from the San Francisco Giants at the trade deadline. Mason Miller struck out two in the ninth and earned his 31st save.

New York's Luis Robert Jr. homered in the eighth.

Thornton (3-4) gave up three runs and tied a career-high with seven strikeouts in five innings for the Mets, who are 10-4 since the trade deadline.

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Padres RHP Michael King (8-8, 3.41 ERA) starts against Mets RHP Robert Stock (0-2, 6.57 ERA) in Wednesday’s series finale.

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Cuatro republicanos buscaron la nominación en el distrito de tendencia demócrata.

La representante federal Debbie Wasserman Schultz fue declarada ganadora por el lado demócrata la noche del martes.

Poco después, Brent Andersen fue declarado ganador por el lado republicano.

Local 10 News habló con Wasserman Schultz durante su celebración de victoria el martes.

“Estoy muy agradecida y agradecida con los votantes del Distrito 20. Ellos dijeron: ‘¿Saben qué? Vamos a decidir quién queremos que esté en Washington para luchar por nosotros’, y lo hicieron con un mensaje contundente”, dijo. “Y con los resultados de estas primarias, estoy muy agradecida y estoy lista para luchar por ellos para reducir sus costos, para detener a Donald Trump por su corrupción, sus negocios para beneficio propio, por cuidar a los multimillonarios en lugar de a los trabajadores y defenderlos todos y cada uno de los días”..

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Entre los candidatos demócratas se encuentran el ejecutivo de música rap y activista por la libertad de expresión Luther Campbell, el ex alcalde y comisionado de Broward Dale Holness, el organizador comunitario Elijah Manley y la representante federal Debbie Wasserman Schultz, quien está cambiando de distrito tras el nuevo trazado.

Y luego está la actual representante en medio de una controversia que busca regresar al cargo —la ex representante federal Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick—, quien renunció antes de una amenaza de expulsión por parte del Comité de Ética de la Cámara de Representantes tras ser acusada formalmente de robar fondos federales. Ella niega haber cometido irregularidades.

Por el lado republicano: Brent Andersen es residente de Pompano Beach y empresario que lucha por reducir los costos y aumentar las oportunidades económicas para las familias del Distrito 20. Lateresa “La” Jones es la fundadora de “Grandmas for the Generations”, una organización comunitaria que ayuda a las familias a defender a los niños. El Dr. Rod Joseph es un veterano de combate del Ejército de Estados Unidos y condecorado con el Corazón Púrpura, con 20 años de servicio militar. Carla Spalding es una veterana de la Armada de Estados Unidos que también tiene una larga experiencia en enfermería.

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With 99% of precincts reported, about 54% of Democratic voters had cast their ballots for Rodriguez, 69, a retired veteran broadcast journalist born in New York to Cuban parents.

About 19% of Republican voters cast their ballots for V. Michael Arias, a Coral Gables-based attorney.

With 99% of precincts reported, about 81% of Republican voters had cast their ballots for Salazar, 64, also a retired broadcast journalist whose parents were born in Cuba.

About 46% of Democratic voters cast their ballots for Robin Peguero, a former federal prosecutor.

Rodriguez and Salazar will face off during the general election on Nov. 3.

The U.S. Census reported in 2024 that the district is home to about 788,713 people. It covers about 119 square miles in Miami-Dade County, according to the Census Reporter.

Republican primary’s winner delivers speech

Democratic primary’s winner delivers speech

ELECTION RESULTS

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With 94% of precincts reported, about 69% of Democratic voters had cast their ballots for Dandiya, 39, the daughter of Indian immigrants and a Harvard grad who served as a teacher and school principal.

With 95% of precincts reported, about 31% of Republican voters had cast their ballots for Askar, 57, a retired U.S. Marine and the president of Askar Brands, a multi-brand restaurant management and franchising company.

The U.S. Census reported in 2024 that the district is home to about 804,159 people. The latest redistricting map included areas in Broward, Palm Beach, Collier, and Hendry counties.

Republican primary

Here is the list of the six candidates who ran against Askar.

MICHAEL CARBONARA

The fintech entrepreneur is a father of two. He faced criticism over reports of ties to a controversial data center in Michigan.

Carbonara, 43, who was born in New York, is the founder and former chief executive officer of Ibanera, a Miami-based digital banking company.

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BELINDA KEISER

Keiser, 67, who was born in the Philippines, earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Florida State University and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University.

DR. HERBERT ‘HERBIE’ WERTHEIM

Wertheim, 87, who was born in Philadelphia, is an optometrist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Brain Power, an optical products manufacturer.

DANIEL FRANZESE

Franzese, who was born in New York, earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

DAVID BURCK

The retired U.S. Marine and former detective was born in Tampa and is a real estate agent.

TERRI HASDORFF

Hasdorff, who was born in Alabama, graduated from Harvard and Oxford universities and works in business development.

Democratic primary

Only one candidate ran against Dandiya.

KAYSIA EARLEY

The attorney is a graduate of Howard University and St. Thomas School of Law.

ELECTION RESULTS

Moody salió victoriosa en las primarias republicanas.

“Defendemos el sentido común, el compromiso con comunidades seguras, el compromiso con un gobierno responsable y receptivo, el compromiso de garantizar que el gobierno del pueblo ponga primero los intereses del pueblo, y una valoración y afirmación de los ideales de este país”, dijo Moody durante su discurso de victoria.

La representante estatal Angie Nixon ganó la nominación demócrata.

“Los floridanos merecen algo mejor, y podemos tener algo mejor, y tenemos que trabajar y votar para hacer que eso suceda”, dijo Nixon durante su discurso de victoria.

Previamente:

Moody fue fiscal general de Florida antes de ser designada para el escaño en 2025, después de que su predecesor, Marco Rubio, fuera confirmado como secretario de Estado de EE. UU.

Ella destaca logros durante su tiempo en el cargo, entre ellos la eliminación de regulaciones para ayudar a la industria de cítricos de Florida y la obtención de miles de millones de dólares en ayuda para desastres.

Enfrenta a tres rivales republicanos: Chris Gleason, veterano del Ejército de EE. UU. y experto en análisis forense de datos que dice tener experiencia “exponiendo corrupción y fraude”; la médica Neelam Taneja Perry, quien dice estar “luchando por los derechos de la gente”; y el pastor Ernie Rivera, quien dice que su experiencia en finanzas y como administrador de viviendas con licencia podría ayudar a reducir los problemas de asequibilidad del sur de Florida.

La representante estatal Angie Nixon, demócrata por Jacksonville, es legisladora estatal desde hace seis años y oriunda de Florida. Dice que luchará para hacer que la vida sea más asequible para todos los floridanos, afirmando que la economía debería funcionar para todos.

La piedra angular de su campaña es poner a las personas por encima de la política y las ganancias.

Alex Vindman, un teniente coronel retirado del Ejército, se mudó a Florida con su esposa y su hija hace tres años. Fue herido en Irak y recibió un Corazón Púrpura, y es conocido por testificar durante el primer juicio político del presidente Donald Trump.

Dijo que su campaña promete reavivar el sueño americano para los floridanos, con un enfoque en la asequibilidad, desde garantizar que comprar una vivienda sea posible hasta reducir los costos de atención médica.

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The same treat was served to her at breakfast the following morning. Delighted, she summoned her chef and rewarded him with a silver ingot.

“It was originally called ‘minced pork pancake,’ but because it had fulfilled her dream, it later became known as ‘dream pastry,’” said Zhou Tong, a chef at Fangshan Restaurant in Beijing.

Fangshan specializes in imperial cuisine, preserving dishes like the one associated with Cixi and other culinary traditions from China’s imperial court. The restaurant was founded in 1925 by former chefs from the Qing Dynasty at Beihai Park, a garden where royals from several dynasties rested, handled government affairs and performed ritual sacrifices.

“The name Fangshan literally means ‘imitating the imperial cuisine,’” said assistant general manager Di Xin.

A handful of other Beijing restaurants also serve versions of imperial cuisine, while the Palace Museum preserves Qing-dynasty objects tied to court dining, including pastry molds.

Every meal comes with its own rules

Imperial cuisine encompasses the meals emperors ate daily and the feasts their courts held throughout the year.

Each had its own rituals. Drinking milk tea, for instance, was an important first step at Qing-dynasty banquets, said Teng Deyong, a researcher at China’s Palace Museum.

During the banquet, the emperor bestowed wine or food on princes and officials. Recipients performed rites and paid their respects to him before they ate or drank.

Aside from banquets, sacrificial rituals were held. They followed a separate system and could involve meat offerings.

“At the Palace of Earthly Tranquillity, there was the eating of sacrificial pork, which we know was one of the most important rituals of the Qing imperial court,” Teng said.

In that ritual, fatty pork was boiled without salt. After the ceremony, it was distributed among guests, and receiving the sacrificial meat was considered a great honor.

Unseasoned food also appears in earlier Chinese ritual traditions. Wandi Wang, a professor of Chinese at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, said the “Book of Rites,” a classical work on rites and ceremonies, describes a meat broth known as “grand stew” that was served without seasoning during sacrificial ceremonies.

“The absence of added flavoring was itself meaningful: the unseasoned dish evoked an earlier and simpler way of cooking and thus expressed a ritual ideal of honoring antiquity and remembering cultural origins,” Wang said.

Traditional techniques keep imperial pastry-making alive

Pastries were key to imperial cuisine, and the court had an institution specialized in making them.

Sweets made at Fangshan by Zhou include Cixi’s dream pastry and a small steamed corn bun. Their recipes are rooted in the imperial court.

“When customers visit, our servers often tell them the stories behind these dishes,” Zhou said. “People enjoy them even more because they carry such meaningful history.”

He learned his pastry-making technique from a master who had also learned from a mentor. It’s a craft that has been passed from one generation to the next.

Traditional imperial methods mean cooking must be done by hand — no blenders or food processors are allowed. Ingredients like beans are pulverized using sieves and certain flours are handled in custom-made copper pots.

“A machine may be more convenient, but the texture is completely different,” Zhou said. “You lose the delicate graininess and sandy mouthfeel that handcrafted pastries are supposed to have.”

Among Fangshan’s bestselling delicacies are the pea flour cake and the red bean roll. During the busy season, customers order more than 200 of the cakes per day.

Balancing ancient cooking methods with a changing world

When he joined Fangshan as a kitchen apprentice, now-executive chef Fan Liangliang had to relearn everything he was taught at culinary school. Rather than employing techniques that allowed him to work quickly, he embraced slower processes he had never heard of.

One of them is “Nizihuo,” which Fan said involves mincing ingredients such as fish, shrimp or chicken into a smooth paste. It is then reshaped into decorative forms such as frogs, birds and flowers.

“This is one of the hallmarks of imperial cuisine,” Fan said. “Every dish had to be innovative, visually beautiful, nutritious and worthy of presentation on the imperial dining table.”

Rare ingredients such as bear paws are no longer served. Fan said adaptations are made to retain the spirit of each dish.

Chinese cuisine has long reflected cultural values, politics and ideals

A celebrated Chinese poet once wrote about cold noodles made with pagoda-tree leaves.

“The poem is not simply a description of a dish,” Wang said. “Du Fu turns the verdant, fresh, yet modest dish into an expression of his political loyalty and thwarted ambition to serve the emperor.”

She added that Chinese cuisine has historically carried meaning beyond food, reflecting broader ideas about politics, culture and aesthetics that have evolved as circumstances changed.

“Preserving a culinary tradition begins with taking its history seriously,” Wang said. “Culinary heritage tells us not only how people ate in the past, but also how people in the present choose to remember and give meaning to that past.”

Chef Fan said that at the heart of Fangshan’s imperial cuisine is a fusion of Manchu and Han culinary traditions, bringing together the culture of the Qing rulers and that of China’s majority population.

“It’s not simply a collection of dishes from the two cultures,” he said. “It represents the blending of their different approaches to food into a unified cuisine.”

Some inherited techniques such as stir-frying, braising and stewing have survived. And while some ingredients have been substituted both for availability reasons and to suit modern tastes, Fan said his team’s commitment to Chinese heritage remains strong.

“When people dine at Fangshan Restaurant, I hope they experience more than just a meal,” Fan said. “They experience the weight of history.”

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Several congressional races affecting Miami-Dade County have drawn crowded fields, including District 24, District 25 and District 27.

Among the Miami-Dade legislative contests were competitive primaries for several Florida House seats, including districts 106, 108, 109, 113 and 118.

Miami-Dade voters also selected their picks for the District 1 seat on the Miami-Dade School Board, along with various commissioner seats.

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Ante la imposibilidad del gobernador republicano Ron DeSantis de buscar otro mandato consecutivo debido a los límites de mandato, la contienda ha atraído a un amplio grupo de candidatos que esperan sucederlo.

Por el lado republicano, 11 candidatos buscan la nominación, mientras que seis candidatos compiten en las primarias demócratas.

Donalds lidera amplio campo republicano

El representante federal Byron Donalds se ha convertido en el favorito en las primarias republicanas.

Donalds representa al Distrito 19 del Congreso de Florida, que incluye partes del suroeste de Florida, entre ellas Fort Myers, Naples, Bonita Springs y Cape Coral.

Encuestas recientes han mostrado a Donalds con una ventaja considerable sobre sus rivales republicanos. Una encuesta de julio realizada para Associated Industries of Florida mostró a Donalds liderando el campo republicano por 46 puntos porcentuales. Otras encuestas registradas por The New York Times también han mostrado a Donalds al frente.

Entre sus rivales están el vicegobernador de Florida Jay Collins, el ex presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de Florida Paul Renner y el recién llegado a la política James Fishback.

También buscan la nominación republicana Jim Holcomb, Arthur McCaffrey, Daniel Nokovich, Rachel Rodriguez, James Shaw, Caneste Succe y Bobby Williams.

Una de las mayores controversias de las primarias republicanas surgió por los planes para un debate para gobernador en el Sunshine State Showdown del Partido Republicano de Florida.

El Partido Republicano de Florida dijo que Donalds era el único candidato que cumplía con los requisitos de las encuestas para calificar para el debate, lo que provocó críticas de Collins, Renner y Fishback. DeSantis también cuestionó la decisión.

El presidente del Partido Republicano de Florida, Evan Power, dijo a Glenna Milberg, de Local 10, en “This Week in South Florida” que los candidatos habían acordado los criterios del debate antes de lanzar sus campañas. Algunos de los candidatos cuestionaron esa caracterización.

Jolly lidera las primarias demócratas

Seis candidatos compiten por la nominación demócrata, con el ex representante federal David Jolly como favorito en las encuestas recientes.

Jolly, un ex congresista republicano que representó a un distrito del área de Tampa Bay, nombró a la ex representante federal Gwen Graham como su compañera de fórmula para vicegobernadora.

Las encuestas han colocado a Jolly por delante del resto del campo demócrata mientras los votantes se preparan para tomar su decisión el martes.

La representante estatal Dotie Joseph también busca la nominación. Joseph representa al Distrito 108 de la Cámara de Representantes, que incluye partes de North Miami, Little Haiti, Wynwood y El Portal.

Dayna Marie Foster, oriunda de Fort Lauderdale y maestra de matemáticas de secundaria, también está en la contienda y ha buscado el apoyo de votantes progresistas más jóvenes.

Evelyn Castillo-Bach, Thomas Fernandez y Stephann Norman completan el campo demócrata de seis candidatos.

Ganadores avanzan a noviembre

Florida es un estado con primarias cerradas, lo que significa que, por lo general, los votantes deben estar registrados con un partido político para participar en las primarias de ese partido.

Los ganadores de las contiendas republicana y demócrata del martes avanzarán a las elecciones generales de noviembre, cuando los votantes de Florida decidirán quién sucederá a DeSantis y se convertirá en el próximo gobernador del estado.

It happened around 10:30 p.m. Saturday at the apartment building where the victims and the suspect, identified as Enrique Diaz, both live.

Authorities did not provide details on the location of the apartment building in order to shield the victim’s information.

According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the scene after receiving reports that a man had struck two children.

Upon arrival, investigators said they spoke with the victims, who told them they were sitting outside their unit when Diaz exited his apartment. The children told deputies the man appeared to stumble while walking toward them and that he was holding a beer.

According to Diaz’s arrest form, “in an unprovoked attack, (he) flicked” one of the children on the head and slapped him, causing the child to cry and run inside his apartment. Deputies said Diaz then set his sights on the second child.

Per the arrest form, Diaz went to the second child and “proceeded to grab his head while aggressively squeezing, causing pain to the top of his head, and then slapped him.”

According to investigators, the children told deputies they were unsure why Diaz struck them, saying that they had never had previous contact outside of being neighbors.

Diaz is now facing two charges of child abuse without great bodily harm. He was granted a bond of $5,000 on the child abuse charges, but he is being held at the Broward Main Jail on an immigration hold.

Trump had ordered his Pentagon chief to “substantially reduce” the allies’ summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises, just before they began Monday for an 11-day run. Trump cited what he said was a good relationship with Kim and South Korea’s refusal to support him over Iran.

South Korean officials said Trump's surprise announcement came without prior notice, baffling many people in the Asian country and raising concerns about joint defense readiness.

South Korea’s military said Wednesday the allies agreed to adjust the duration and scale of the exercises at the request of the U.S. It said the ongoing drills would end Friday, not Aug. 27 as initially planned. It added the allies also agreed to downsize some joint field training exercises.

The Pentagon said that it was “continuing training that enhances tactical capability” but certain events have been canceled or converted to simulations. “These adjustments preserve essential readiness and training objectives. There will be no degradation to U.S. training objectives,” a Pentagon statement said.

Shortening of drills raises worries about military readiness

Many experts say Trump’s move threatens to hurt the combined U.S.-South Korean defense posture and eventually weaken their decades-long alliance.

A reduction or suspension of military drills matters because military commanders change periodically. A one-year suspension of drills would mean commanders unfamiliar with the procedures of the drills would be taking part when they resume, according to Yang Uk, an analyst at Seoul’s Asan Institute for Policy Studies.

Ulchi Freedom Shield is largely a computer-simulated command post exercise meant to hone the allies’ ability to deal with potential North Korean aggression. The two countries usually hold a set of field training exercises during the command post exercise period.

The drills and a similar springtime exercise are a central pillar of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, which dates to the 1950-53 Korean War. But it’s also a long-running source of tensions with North Korea, which has denounced the exercises as a rehearsal for an invasion and responded with provocative missile tests. Days before this month's drills began, North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the sea.

This month's drills were initially supposed to be held in two phases in simulation of North Korean attacks — the first part until this Friday on defensive operations and the second part until Aug. 27 on counteroffensive operations. North Korea is extremely sensitive to counteroffensive drills, according to South Korean media.

North Korea lambasts US-South Korea drills and vows responses

North Korea hasn't responded to Trump's overture. But earlier Wednesday, its state news agency, KCNA, published a commentary slamming the U.S.-South Korean military drills as “frantic” and “extremely dangerous” and vowing to completely frustrate its rivals’ hostilities.

“The dangerous escalation of the war drills staged by the U.S. and its vassal forces is posing a more serious threat to the security” of North Korea, the commentary said. “Our exercise of right to self-defense will continue to completely neutralize the enemies’ military threat.”

Many experts said Kim, now emboldened by his advancing nuclear program and expanding military cooperation with Russia, won't likely embrace Trump's overture and return to talks anytime soon unless he's promised bigger concessions. In response to Trump's previous outreach, Kim suggested last year that he can only return to talks if the U.S. drops its demand for North Korean denuclearization as a precondition for diplomacy.

Trump and Kim met three times from 2018-2019 but their high-stakes diplomacy eventually fell apart over wrangling over a North Korean demand for extensive sanctions relief in return for limited denuclearization steps.

On Monday, the office of South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed hope that a “friendly relationship” between Trump and Kim would lead to “meaningful dialogue” to promote peace on the Korean Peninsula. Lee is a liberal who wants better ties with North Korea.

But his office's statement drew a strong backlash from conservatives, who alleged Lee's government was prioritizing the resumption of Kim-Trump diplomacy over security concerns caused by Trump's move.

Trump's move may focus on South Korea over Iran

In his social media post, Trump said the drills are not only costly but “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he said “has been unthreatening and respectful” during his time in the White House. Trump said he asked Lee if South Korea would join the U.S. in the “denuclearization” of Iran, “and they said, ‘No thanks!’”

At separate parliamentary hearings Wednesday, South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun and Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back said neither South Korean nor U.S. officials were informed of Trump's move before his social media post.

Cho said the alliance remains strong, while Ahn said South Korean and U.S. defense officials were maintaining close consultations.

Some experts say Trump's cut of the drills was more likely designed to apply pressure on South Korea to give him substantial support over the Iran war than to reach out to North Korea.

“Trump's message is that if you don’t cooperate with us on Iran, we’re not cooperating with you” on the drills either, said Yang, the analyst. “It's like he's asking South Korea to show it's helping him over Iran” by taking steps like sending warships or reinforcing missile defenses in some areas.

South Korean officials said South Korea and the U.S. are closely discussing practical and military contributions that South Korea can make to help restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

It wasn't the first time that the U.S. and South Korea have scaled back or canceled their drills.

In 2018, Trump abruptly announced the cancellation of a major war game with South Korea, after his first summit with Kim. Announcing the decision, Trump said suspending the “provocative” war games would “save us a tremendous amount of money.”

The U.S. and South Korea have since canceled or reduced other joint drills to support diplomacy with North Korea and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts say reducing those drills has undermined the combined South Korea-U.S. readiness.

Dr. David Morens is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 12 by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt, Maryland. Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government, a felony punishable by a maximum prison sentence of five years.

“By pleading guilty today, Dr. Morens has taken responsibility for what he did, and he will continue to do so," defense attorney Tim Belevetz said in a statement after the plea hearing.

Morens is accused of using his private email account to intentionally circumvent public records laws while employed at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The Justice Department alleges that he concealed or destroyed records of discussions related to COVID-19 research grants, including an effort to revive a controversial coronavirus grant.

The indictment follows a probe by House Republicans into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that scrutinized Morens’ email communications and accused him of intentionally concealing records. In congressional testimony, Morens denied attempting to evade federal transparency laws by using his personal email.

In July, Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a congressional hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last Friday, Fauci declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines to hold him in contempt of Congress.

Fauci wasn't charged in the case against Morens, 78, of Chester, Maryland.

Four civil rights attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice were monitoring the polls during the primary elections in Miami-Dade County.

“We are very confident that everything is going to be just fine,” Garcia said about the DOJ’s announcement reporting that the “monitoring initiative” was “aimed at promoting transparency and an open flow of communication between poll observers and election monitors.”

According to unofficial voter turnout data, 243,225 cast their ballots, including 106,278 who voted by mail, 78,483 who voted on Election Day, and 58,364 who voted early.

Miami-Dade County has 772 precincts that opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 7 p.m.

Miami-Dade County has more than 1.28 million registered voters, including about 455,470 Republicans and 407,910 Democrats, according to the latest data released by Garcia.

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Tras el recibimiento del proyecto, que plantea ocho modificaciones a la Constitución, los parlamentarios deberán discutir las medidas dentro de un plazo de 15 días, conforme el carácter de suma urgencia invocado por el mandatario a la hora de remitir la iniciativa.

El mandatario ultraconservador llegó al poder en marzo con un fuerte discurso de tolerancia cero contra la delincuencia, el avance del crimen organizado y la inmigración irregular.

La semana pasada, el mandatario anunció un paquete de controvertidas medidas para hacer frente al crimen organizado en el marco de su Agenda contra el Crimen Organizado y el Terrorismo (ACOT). Estas incluyen penas más duras a integrantes de facciones criminales, mientras que prevé la extensión de los derechos a la legitima defensa no sólo para el personal policial durante el ejercicio de sus funciones sino también para los que estén de franco.

En paralelo, adelantó una propuesta de reforma constitucional, la que finalmente fue sometida la víspera y llegó a las manos de los senadores el martes.

La seguridad, un “deber” del Estado

El proyecto, que se puede revisar en la web del Senado, busca establecer la seguridad pública como un deber del Estado y plantea ocho cambios concretos, entre ellos la implementación de regímenes penitenciarios diferenciados para condenados por delitos de crimen organizado, la creación de un registro de organizaciones criminales, al tiempo en que otorga al presidente de la República el poder de declarar que una agrupación constituye una organización terrorista o de crimen organizado.

Aliado político en la región de la administración de Trump, Kast ha alabado el modelo estadounidense de hacer frente a las bandas criminales transnacionales, en tanto que ha mostrado admiración por el modelo de seguridad y control penitenciario de Bukele en El Salvador, cuya megacárcel para pandilleros llegó a visitar para estudiar fórmulas de “mano dura” contra el crimen organizado y adaptarlas a la realidad de Chile.

La semana pasada, Kast encabezó un operativo de traslado de unos 300 presos considerados de alta peligrosidad a una nueva cárcel del país. Las imágenes difundidas por el gobierno mostraron a los internos apiñados en filas, con la cabeza agachada y los pies encadenados, lo que evocó escenas de El Salvador, donde Bukele ha hecho énfasis en difundir en redes sociales sus estrictas medidas de seguridad.

Ahora, el Ejecutivo promete endurecer aún más la mano. El proyecto prevé la creación de un nuevo estado de excepción de seguridad pública, que podrá ser declarado por el presidente sin el consentimiento del Congreso ante una amenaza “grave e inminente” o una "afectación grave ya producida”.

De acuerdo con el borrador de la reforma, el estado de excepción tendría una vigencia inicial máxima de 120 días, prorrogables por otros 120. En ese escenario, el jefe de Estado también estaría facultado para “suspender o restringir la libertad personal” y los derechos de locomoción, reunión y asociación, así como interceptar, abrir o registrar documentos y toda clase de comunicaciones, así como disponer la requisa de bienes.

Debate “legítimo”

La propuesta ha generado controversia y desatado críticas de la oposición, sectores ciudadanos e incluso algunas alas del oficialismo, que apuntan a lagunas jurídicas en el proyecto y han solicitado mayores precisiones y aclaraciones por parte del gobierno.

“Estamos en un escenario que entra en la raya, y probablemente la pasa, de lo que es admisible en un sistema democrático”, dijo a The Associated Press Mauricio Duce, profesor de la Escuela de Gobierno de la Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Chile. "Se crearía una nueva figura que establece muy poco control democrático, enormes poderes al presidente de la República y una facultad gigantesca de restricción de derecho”.

En ese sentido, Kast reconoció que “algunos podrán molestarse” con las propuestas presentadas, pero defendió que será el Congreso el responsable de debatir y aprobar la propuesta.

“Lo que planteamos es un debate parlamentario, legítimo, donde serán los diputados, los senadores los que tendrán que determinar cuáles son las normas que necesitamos para enfrentar, por ejemplo, el crimen organizado”, dijo el mandatario en un evento el martes, mientras de forma simultánea sigue impulsando su agenda ACOT.

Chile sigue estando entre los países más seguros de América Latina, pero un incremento reciente de los secuestros, la extorsión y el narcotráfico —junto con la expansión de bandas transnacionales — ha causado hacinamiento en las prisiones del país y azuzado la ansiedad pública sobre el crimen organizado, lo que ayudó a impulsar a Kast a la victoria electoral en diciembre.

Customers could receive the drone deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes, Amazon said in a news release. The drones can carry packages up to 5 pounds.

The plan will intensify the battle between Amazon and Walmart to provide consumers with the fastest delivery times. Both giants rely on a mix of drones and drivers to deliver everything consumers have ordered.

Amazon's plan would expand its drone delivery operation more than sixfold nationwide into hundreds of new communities, including the Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Boise metro areas. The drones will primarily fly in the suburbs well away from skyscrapers and major airports that could cause problems.

Drone delivery is growing fast but remains a small factor

Hundreds of thousands of packages have already been delivered by Amazon drones this year, but even after this expansion drones will still only handle a fraction of the hundreds of millions of package deliveries each year. In addition to only being able to carry 5 pounds, the drones Amazon builds face countless challenges from tree cover to landscaping and inflatable pools that can make it hard to find a good drop zone.

There are also regulatory hurdles to overcome in every community where Amazon wants to set up operations. Noise concerns also pose a potential challenge.

“It’s still an experiment. It’s still in test and learn mode,” said Sucharita Kodali, who is a retail analyst with Forrester.

The novelty of drone delivery may attract orders at first

Initially, consumers might order something delivered by drone because they are curious about it, but it's not clear how often they will continue to use the service, and Amazon is still working out the economics, Kodali said.

The service will be free for Amazon Prime members who are ordering more than $50 worth of goods, but smaller orders will cost members $2.99. Non-members will pay $4.99 for drone delivery.

Prime members get free deliveries while non-members pay a flat fee if the shipment is under $35 for standard delivery or up to $12.99 for same‑day shipments when available.

Kodali said drones could prove more useful for certain light-weight deliveries that are needed urgently like prescription medications.

DoorDash and other delivery companies also are experimenting with using drones to deliver foods and other goods.

Amazon CEO believes drone delivery will be part of the mix

Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy told shareholders in his annual letter in April that the company has learned a great deal by flying drones in 11 sites across Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, and Texas. In each location, the drones launch from an Amazon warehouse and cover about 175 square miles, so it takes multiple drone launching locations to serve a large metro area.

“Prime Air now has a design that’ll scale, plans to serve communities with 30 million customers by year-end, and expects to deliver half a billion packages by the end of this decade (with an aim to deliver inside 30 minutes),” Jassy wrote.

Amazon is also continuing to invest in its warehouses, smaller fulfillment centers closer to customers and its fleet of trucks as the company competes to deliver packages within minutes or hours instead of just days.

Amazon is already certified by the Federal Aviation Administration and the company has been awarded waivers to fly drones beyond the line of sight of the pilots. Amazon has invested in safety measures to help drones avoid collisions with anything else in the sky while they are making deliveries.

The federal government has proposed a rule that would allow more drone operators to fly beyond the horizon, but that hasn't been finalized yet.

Written on it in black ink were the names of children and young adults who have died from social media related harms, including deaths by suicide after bouts of cyberbullying or sextortion. Giovanni, an 11-year-old, Bubba, a 13-year-old, and Englyn, a 14-year-old, were among the nearly 600 names. Parents said the names were “just the tip of the iceberg.”

“Behind us, justice is going to be served,″ said Lennon Torres, an advocate with the organization Heat Initiative. “The courtroom doors are open, and it is time that the public see what the executives at Meta have known all along: that their products are designed to addict and to harm children.″

Many of the gathered parents have attended previous trials, congressional hearings and other events related to online child safety. But they say this trial, in which the attorneys general from four states are seeking billions of dollars in damages for social media harms to children, marks a significant moment.

They see it as the culmination of years of work and public pressure on social media firms to do more to protect kids online. Social media companies are increasingly facing lawsuits over harms to young users, and Meta already has lost two pivotal cases over harms to children and teens this year, both of which it is appealing.

The trial represents a “groundswell of public perception changing against these companies,” said Amy Neville, whose 14-year-old son Alexander Neville died from fentanyl poisoning after being deceived by a drug dealer operating on Snapchat. Neville, like many other parents who have lost their children in similar ways, has dedicated her life to educating and spreading awareness of the dangers of social media.

“If we can keep holding them accountable over and over, something has to give, and I don’t want us to stop doing this until they’ve made their products safe by design,” she said.

Lawsuit focuses on broad claims

This lawsuit is not focused on any individual person, case or specific harm tied to social media, but rather broader claims that Meta made decisions in designing Instagram and Facebook that put young users at risk. The states also claim Meta knew the platforms to be dangerous and lied about how dangerous they were.

Meta has rejected the allegations and said the trial will show the work it has done to make its platforms safer.

The trial's outcome could have significant consequences for Meta’s bottom line and how its platforms are designed and operated. But many parents are eager for evidence from the trial, namely internal Meta documents, to be brought to light.

John DeMay, whose son Jordan died by suicide at age 17 after being subject to a sextortion scheme on Instagram, is one of those parents who will be closely watching the trial and the evidence that emerges.

“As this information starts to unfold and unfold and unfold, the American people, the American mothers and the American fathers who are not seeing this stuff every day can see it and go, ‘Oh my God, this is really what’s happening,’ ” he said.

Some of the parents present outside of the courtroom were residents of the four states that are the plaintiffs in this trial — California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey — and they thanked their attorneys general for the work on the case.

Lori Schott of Colorado said Attorney General Phil Weiser has viewed the content that populated her daughter Annalee's social media feeds and read her journals after her death by suicide. Annalee, who was 18 when she died, wrote in her journals about feeling ugly and comparing herself to other girls' social media profiles.

Parents call for accountability

In a message to Meta, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the head of Instagram Adam Mosseri, Schott said outside of court that they have built one of the most powerful companies in the world, “but power does not excuse harm.”

“Profits does not erase the responsibility of Big Tech and no company — no matter how wealthy, no matter how influential, no matter how untouchable it feels it is — should get to stand above the truth, the law and our children," Schott continued.

Many parent advocates seemed to carry optimism with them on Tuesday. Erin Popolo, whose daughter Emily Murillo died by suicide after being subject to intense cyberbullying, was hopeful the trial's outcome could lead to meaningful change on social media.

“I think that we’re going to make history here," she said.

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Associated Press journalist Terry Chea contributed to this report.

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Polls opened at 7 a.m. and closed at 7 p.m.

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Voters saw a variety of federal, state and local races on their ballots depending on where they live and their party affiliation. The ballots included party primaries for Florida governor, U.S. Senate, congressional and state legislative races, along with nonpartisan contests.

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El detective Shmueal Mauda, de 36 años, de Pembroke Pines, fue arrestado en Davie por cinco cargos de robo de identidad en el estado de Washington. Mauda, también conocido como Sam Mauda, posteriormente fue puesto en licencia sin goce de sueldo por el MSPD.

Fue detenido junto con dos coacusados, incluido un hombre que comparte el mismo apellido: Elisha Mauda, de 39 años, también de Pembroke Pines; no está claro qué relación podrían tener los dos.

Lo que ahora está claro, sin embargo, es exactamente de dónde se originan los cargos: el pequeño pueblo de Sedro-Woolley, Washington, ubicado a poco más de 60 millas al norte de Seattle.

Según la Policía, los Mauda, junto con el segundo coacusado, Brent Small, de 58 años, de Airmont, Nueva York, son sospechosos en un caso de fraude reportado a las autoridades a principios de este año. Small fue detenido en Davie al mismo tiempo que los Mauda.

La Policía de Sedro-Woolley dijo que el adulto mayor, quien vive en el pueblo, informó a los investigadores que habían tomado más de $1 millón de su cuenta.

Los detectives “han ejecutado más de 50 órdenes de registro relacionadas con este caso, lo que les permitió seguir el dinero robado mientras era transferido electrónicamente a través de múltiples empresas y múltiples cuentas bancarias”, según la Policía.

Las autoridades dijeron que “también determinaron quién había accedido a la cuenta bancaria de la víctima y quién movió el dinero, y encontraron más víctimas que residían en varios otros lugares de Estados Unidos”.

“Con la cooperación del FBI y el Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos, se descubrió que el Departamento de Policía de Davie en Florida tenía investigaciones paralelas desconocidas que involucraban a los mismos sospechosos y a un gran número de víctimas adicionales”, señala un comunicado de prensa del SWPD.

Los Mauda, junto con Small, permanecen encarcelados en el condado Broward a la espera de su extradición al estado de Washington. No estaba claro de inmediato si enfrentarán cargos estatales o federales adicionales.

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Detective Shmueal Mauda, 36, of Pembroke Pines, was arrested in Davie on five identity theft charges out of Washington state. Mauda, also known as Sam Mauda, was later placed on unpaid leave from MSPD.

He was taken into custody along with two co-defendants, including a man sharing the same last name: Elisha Mauda, 39, also of Pembroke Pines; it’s unclear how the two may be related.

What is now clear, however, is exactly where the charges originate from: The small town of Sedro-Woolley, Washington, located a little more than 60 miles north of Seattle.

According to police, the Maudas, alongside the second co-defendant, Brent Small, 58, of Airmont, New York, are suspected in a fraud case reported to authorities earlier in the year. Small was taken into custody in Davie at the same time as the Maudas.

Sedro-Woolley police said the senior, who lives in the town, told investigators that more than $1 million had been taken from his account.

Detectives “have served over 50 search warrants related to this case, allowing (them) to follow the stolen money as it was moved electronically through multiple companies and multiple bank accounts,” according to police.

Authorities said they “also determined who had accessed the victim’s bank account and who moved the money (and) found further victims who resided at several other locations across the United States.”

“With the cooperation of the FBI and the United States Postal Service, it was found that the Davie Police Department in Florida had unknown parallel investigations involving the same suspects and a large number of additional victims,” an SWPD news release states.

The Maudas, along with Small, remain jailed in Broward County pending extradition to the Evergreen State. It wasn’t immediately clear whether they will be facing additional state or federal charges.

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Despite two healthy tropical disturbances in the deep Atlantic last week —designated Invest 92L and Invest 94L — that flirted with becoming our next tropical cyclones, both systems ultimately fell flat in the face of relentless wind shear tearing through the central Atlantic and Caribbean.

It’s unusual for a system to have as lofty development odds at 92L did late last week, (80% odds of developing last Thursday) and ultimately fall flat, but that’s the kind of season it’s been so far for otherwise healthy-looking tropical waves moving across the typical tropical storm and hurricane conveyor belt between Africa and the Caribbean.

While we’ve had three named storms so far in 2026, they’ve all been weak and very short-lived. Assuming we get through the week without any development as expected, this will be the least active start to an Atlantic hurricane season in almost 40 years (since 1988).

El Niño is beating up on the Atlantic hurricane season. And not just any old El Niño mind you but one that’s on pace to be the strongest El Niño in perhaps a quarter millennium — one that no one alive has ever lived through.

El Niño and its counterpart La Niña have arguably the biggest known influence on global weather patterns on an interannual basis (between years), so we can be sure to see some extreme weather events this year as a result (for example, here in South Florida we can expect an exceptionally rainy winter ahead).

For the Atlantic hurricane season, the extreme result of the powerful El Niño is a net positive for those of us living at the end of hurricane alley.

Wind shear across the western Atlantic is the highest on record and that’s not expected to abate anytime soon, so even systems that appear initially healthy will have a hard time punching through the wall of wind shear that’s enveloped areas around the Americas and Caribbean.

As we’ve covered extensively in this newsletter, the better chances of a system slipping through the El Niño cracks will come from disturbances originating in the waters closer to the U.S. or in the subtropical waters east of Florida and north of the Caribbean.

For now, though, El Niño is taming the late August beast in the Atlantic that usually rears its ugly head this time of year.

If long-range models are correct, the next shot at development in the deep tropics won’t come until we approach the end of the month (toward the end of next week) with a wave moving off Africa and into the Atlantic.

If recent history is indication, however, it’ll have a long road ahead of it to become the first hurricane of the season.

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Miami reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit Tuesday, which only happened one other time in July 1942. Records go back to 1895.

Fort Lauderdale, meanwhile, set its own record by reaching 98 degrees, which was last set in 2024.

A heat advisory is in effect through Tuesday evening, with no rain in the forecast to bring us relief.

As skies remain mainly clear, temperatures are forecast to drop to 80°F overnight across Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Spotty afternoon thunderstorms return Wednesday and will be with us each day into the weekend. This will bring our temperatures down to the low-to-middle 90s.

It will not feel any different, however, since humidity will be higher.

If Miami reaches 97 degrees Wednesday, it will surpass the record high for the date. The heat index is forecast to peak at or over 105 degrees. Thunderstorms may develop after 4 p.m.

Johnny, Jimmy, Janie, Joey and Jesse Buss reiterated their stance Tuesday in a statement issued to ESPN, saying they “remain united in that decision. ... We intend to move forward thoughtfully, respectfully and through the appropriate process."

The five Buss siblings said Monday they had voted to sell the family trust's remaining 17.8% stake to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger, who are acquiring majority ownership from Mark Walter.

Jeanie Buss announced her intention to fight back against the plan later Monday through a letter from her attorney, Adam Streisand. Jeanie Buss claims the siblings can't sell the trust's ownership shares without her approval.

If the five siblings are able to sell their remaining ownership, Jeanie Buss would no longer be able to serve as the Lakers' governor, a position she is scheduled to hold until at least 2030 under the deal struck with Walter last year when he purchased majority control of the team at a valuation of $10 billion.

The Buss siblings reportedly made nearly half a billion dollars apiece in that sale, but the 17-time NBA champion team is considered to be worth even more with Walter flipping his ownership to Kushner and Iger at a valuation of $12.5 billion.

Jeanie Buss has been the Lakers’ governor since Jerry Buss’ death in 2013, and she led the family’s decision to sell to Walter, who is now under federal investigation for tax issues. Not all of the siblings were in favor of relinquishing majority control of the Lakers last year, and Joey and Jesse were fired from their front-office jobs with the team last November.

The Buss siblings have been in frequent conflict since their father’s death in 2013, with Jeanie firing Jim from his job as the Lakers’ head of basketball operations in 2017, followed a week later by a lawsuit against her brothers amid an attempt by Jim and Johnny to oust Jeanie from her role as the Lakers’ controlling owner.

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There is the potential for more record warmth Wednesday. The combination of sunshine and gentle, northwest winds could send temperatures well into the 90s. If Miami reaches 97°F, it will surpass the record high for the date. The heat index is forecast to peak at or over 105°F. Thunderstorms may develop after 4 p.m.

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The crash happened Friday around 8:30 p.m. near Southwest First Terrace and Third Court. Deputies said the driver of a black pickup truck hit the victim, identified by relatives as Barry Charles, and did not stop.

Charles’ niece, Shell Stanley, told Local 10 News that her uncle has been a big part of her life.

“He’s almost like my dad,” she said. “He’s been there for me. It’s just us. He’s a very funny person. He’ll give everybody nicknames. He probably would give you a nickname if you met him.”

Family members set up a GoFundMe page, initially to help pay for Charles’ mounting medical expenses, but now they will be paying for funeral arrangements.

They are hopeful that the person responsible will turn themselves in.

Anyone with information about the hit-and-run is urged to contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.

El accidente ocurrió el viernes alrededor de las 8:30 p.m. cerca de Southwest First Terrace y Third Court. Los agentes dijeron que el conductor de una camioneta pickup negra atropelló a la víctima, identificada por familiares como Barry Charles, y no se detuvo.

La sobrina de Charles, Shell Stanley, dijo a Local 10 News que su tío ha sido una parte importante de su vida.

“Es casi como mi papá”, dijo. “Ha estado ahí para mí. Solo estamos nosotros. Es una persona muy divertida. Les pone apodos a todos. Probablemente te pondría un apodo si lo conocieras”.

Los familiares crearon una página de GoFundMe, inicialmente para ayudar a pagar los crecientes gastos médicos de Charles, pero ahora el dinero se utilizará para pagar los gastos funerarios.

Tienen la esperanza de que la persona responsable se entregue a las autoridades.

Cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el atropello y fuga debe comunicarse con Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-TIPS.

Just a few days later, the truth emerged: The poll was fabricated.

The California results were among at least three “polls” across three states posted online this month by Median Strategies, a previously unknown organization that admitted to the Los Angeles Times on Monday that the purported results were fake. The company wrote before shuttering its website this week that it “was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification.”

The post offered no explanation of who was behind the “experiment” or for what purpose.

The trajectory of the California poll offers a cautionary tale about the perils of trusting unvetted polling. While high-quality independent polls still exist, they appear amid a slew of other surveys produced by outside groups, campaigns or super PACs or using undisclosed or questionable methodologies. It can be a struggle to make sense of the findings — and as the latest episode shows, even campaigns may end up falling for falsified data.

“This is much bigger than one fake poll,” said Chris Wilson, a veteran Republican pollster who now leads the public opinion firm EyesOver. “It’s never been easier to make invented numbers look legitimate, and campaigns and outside groups have every incentive to amplify anything favorable before anyone verifies it.”

The Median Strategies fake polls, none of which appeared in AP coverage, claimed to evaluate support in the Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin, the gubernatorial race in Nevada, and the mayoral race in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles poll, which purported to show Bass, an incumbent Democrat, leading councilmember Nithya Raman, a progressive Democrat, by about 12 percentage points in the mayoral race, was shared by the Bass campaign on social media and covered by the California Post before it was revealed to be bogus.

The Bass campaign has since deleted its social media post promoting the poll, but defended itself by saying that it “was reported on by multiple news outlets.”

"Any bad faith attempts to influence elections should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Bass campaign spokesman Alex Stack said.

Transparency is critical for evaluating poll findings

Median's “findings” were shared by polling aggregation accounts on social media. They were not, however, included in the databases of major independent aggregators, including The New York Times, Real Clear Politics or FiftyPlusOne.

The New York Times and FiftyPlusOne noted that the polls were released without basic information that was needed for vetting, such as who was running the firm. When they reached out, Median Strategies did not respond to requests for more information.

“When the poll was released, it lacked basic information about how it was conducted and who was behind it,” Will Davis, director of Election Data Analytics at The New York Times, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. “Releasing this type of information is standard practice for pollsters, and because that information was not provided, we did not include it.”

Mary Radcliffe, Head of Research at FiftyPlusOne, also thought the methodology statement for the Wisconsin poll was missing key details, including the source for the voter file the company claimed to have used and the vendor who fielded part of the sample.

Median did not respond to her questions, so the polls were not included in FiftyPlusOne’s database. But Radcliffe noted that her method for screening polls is not infallible.

“There is a universe where they could have come up with plausible answers to my questions,” she said. “This is an industry built on trust. I have to trust that people are answering my questions in good faith.”

While admissions of falsified polling data are rare, they are not without precedent.

In 2010, for instance, the left-leaning blog Daily Kos said that polling for its website, conducted by a firm called Research 2000, was fraudulent.

But it’s common for pollsters to release polls with minimal information about how the survey was conducted, what questions were asked, or who was behind it. Higher-quality polls rely on expensive methodologies, such as randomized sampling, so many pollsters opt for cheaper solutions. In addition, many election polls are conducted by campaigns or super PACs with a stake in the outcome of the race. This can leave few — if any — reliable and independent polls to evaluate in contests like midterm primaries.

Before writing about any poll, AP verifies that it meets high standards of transparency and methodological rigor. But even high-quality polls have some amount of error, which underscores the importance of examining each finding with caution.

Prediction markets introduce more complexity

The introduction of prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket gives polls a different significance for people betting on election outcomes.

The posts about Wisconsin and Nevada drew little reaction and were not accompanied by any discernible movement on the two prediction markets when they were released, but there were some shifts on both platforms after Bass shared the false Median Strategies numbers.

On Kalshi, the price of a “yes” contract on Bass winning the Los Angeles mayoral election rose two cents, from about 63 cents to about 65 cents, within fifteen minutes of Median’s post. On Polymarket, roughly twenty separate accounts traded thousands of contracts in Bass’s favor six minutes after the tweet.

In the days leading up to Bass's post about Median, trading on the LA mayoral election had been thin, with a typical trade over that week being under ten dollars.

While the price movements were small, the concentration of trading on both platforms shortly after the release of Median’s fake poll was not.

Before it was taken down, the Median Strategies website included a statement claiming that “no individual involved held or traded any position in an election prediction market, betting market, or other financial instrument tied to the races covered by Median Strategies.”

Motivations for the fake data remain unclear

More than a week after the firm began sharing “results,” it remains unclear who is behind Median Strategies.

No one responded to AP's questions sent to an email address listed on its website, which was created little more than a week ago. Before it was taken offline, the only content on the site was a statement indicating that the firm “has concluded its polling project and will not publish additional polls.”

“All previously published polling releases have been withdrawn and should not be cited or treated as genuine polling data,” it wrote.

The firm highlighted what it called “a credibility problem” in its first social media post earlier in the month.

“Polling has a credibility problem. Ours is the fix: no partisan clients, no campaign or party money, numbers that go wherever the data takes them even when it’s inconvenient. Trustworthy polling, rebuilt,” it wrote.

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Asked if he thought Marte would play for Arizona again this year, Lovullo said he hoped so. A three-time All-Star, Marte is hitting .249 with 21 home runs and 67 RBIs over 118 games this season.

“We need him,” Lovullo said before Tuesday's game against the Red Sox. “He’s one of the best players in the National League as far as I’m concerned.”

Arizona placed the 32-year-old Marte on the restricted list Monday, the second time in as many seasons the D-backs have done so.

Marte failed to show up for Arizona’s 11-1 loss at Boston on Monday night in what Lovullo said was a crazy day as Marte deals with a personal issue. Lovullo said he spoke to Marte on Monday trying to find out what was going on without getting any answers.

The second baseman traveled with the team to Boston and Lovullo wasn't certain after Monday night's loss if Marte was still there.

This wasn’t the first time Marte had a strange disappearance.

Last season, he went on the restricted list when his home in Arizona was broken into during the All-Star break. He missed three games after flying back to his native Dominican Republic and later apologized for his absence.

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Nava Seewald, de nueve años, está llena de energía.

“Es una niña explosiva”, dijo su madre, Rivky Seewald.

Es divertida, rebosa de positivismo y asegura que algún día será famosa.

Hace aproximadamente un año, Nava comenzó a tener dolores de cabeza. Sus padres pensaron que era algo sencillo.

Pero pocas horas después de una cita médica de rutina, su mundo se puso de cabeza.

“Llamaron a mi esposa y le dijeron: ‘Ve al hospital ahora’”, dijo su padre, Yosef Seewald.

A la mañana siguiente, los médicos del Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital le dijeron a la familia que Nava tenía leucemia mieloide aguda, o AML, y que comenzaría la quimioterapia ese mismo día.

Mientras los médicos comenzaban un tratamiento agresivo para salvar la vida de Nava, la organización sin fines de lucro Chai Lifeline intervino para ayudar a mantener unida al resto de la familia.

La organización entregó comidas calientes, envió voluntarios para ayudar con lo que la familia necesitara y brindó apoyo.

“Con todos los voluntarios que Chai Lifeline nos ha dado, como cuando necesitábamos hacer algo, cuando había algún evento al que necesitábamos ir, Chai Lifeline llevaba voluntarios al hospital para que estuvieran con Nava, para que no tuviéramos que preocuparnos por nada”, dijo Rivky Seewald.

“Todos los días tenía voluntarios”, dijo. “Sin ellos, no sé, no habríamos podido superarlo. Realmente fueron increíbles con nosotros”.

Y cuando Nava estuvo lo suficientemente bien, Chai Lifeline le dio algo que esperar con ilusión: Camp Simcha.

“El lugar más divertido de la Tierra”, dijo Nava Seewald.

El campamento residencial en Nueva York permite que los niños que luchan contra el cáncer pasen casi dos semanas simplemente siendo niños y, por un tiempo, olviden por lo que han pasado.

“Son libres como un pájaro, para pacientes que normalmente tienen restricciones”, dijo el Dr. Warren Alperstein, uno de los médicos de Nava.

El campamento cuenta con oncólogos pediátricos, incluido Alperstein, quien también trata a Nava en casa.

Cada campista tiene un consejero individual.

“Se aseguraron de que los niños estuvieran cómodos con ese consejero y de que estuviera con ellos individualmente, cuidándolos todo el tiempo”, dijo Alperstein.

Los niños pueden recibir la atención que necesitan en el campamento, incluida quimioterapia si es necesario.

“Si puedes enviar a un paciente que está bajo el cuidado de un médico, junto con ese médico, a un campamento, no puedes tener algo mejor, no puedes estar más seguro que eso”, dijo Yosef Seewald.

Nava ha estado contando los días para ir al campamento.

“Está contando los minutos, realmente lo está haciendo. Todos los días me dice cuántos días faltan. Está muy emocionada”, dijo Rivky Seewald.

Nava dice que planea regresar a Camp Simcha todos los años.

“Y el año en que pueda convertirme en consejera, lo haré”, dijo.

Hasta entonces, Nava seguirá inspirando a todas las personas que conoce.

“Si algún niño puede pasar por algo así y salir más fuerte en lugar de más débil, esa es Nava”, dijo Rivky Seewald. “Ella nos ha enseñado que realmente esta es la manera de pasar por la vida. Sigues adelante. Y demuestras que eres fuerte y que puedes superarlo”.

Nava ahora está libre de cáncer.

Actualmente se encuentra en Camp Simcha, y su madre dice que lo está disfrutando mucho.

Chai Lifeline es una organización sin fines de lucro que opera gracias a donaciones.

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Wearing dark sunglasses and making no comment, Nuhfer left moments after a judge handed down the sentence in the case tied to former Miami Congressman David Rivera.

Nuhfer, a political consultant, was Rivera’s co-defendant in the case involving allegations of secretly lobbying for Venezuela’s government during the first Trump administration.

The courtroom was packed with Nuhfer’s friends and family, who testified on her behalf.

“Esther’s an extraordinary person,” said Jeanie Hernandez-Porter, a friend of Nuhfer. “She’s like the tide that is the wave to people. She lifts them up. She’s not a person motivated by greed or betrayal. She loves this country. That’s all I can say.”

The case is tied to a multimillion-dollar deal in 2017 involving Venezuela’s state oil company.

In 2022, that deal became the center of Rivera’s indictment and arrest.

The judge ultimately called it “the David Rivera show,” determining Nuhfer did not play a lead role.

But the five-year prison sentence still stands.

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In Miami-Dade County, 12.5% of registered voters had participated through early voting and returned mail-in ballots, according to Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia.

The county has more than 1.6 million registered voters. Garcia said more than 80,000 additional voters would need to participate to bring turnout back in line with past midterm primaries.

Poll workers in Miami-Dade have been processing early and mail-in ballots at the elections warehouse. Garcia said ballots are counted using two separate systems as a check to make sure the numbers match.

“A lot of people don’t know this, but we have two different systems that count our votes, she said. “Voting is your civic duty and it’s the way that we keep our democracy healthy.”

In Broward County, turnout after early voting was below 10%, according to Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott, who called the participation “very slow — surprisingly slow.”

Scott said the low turnout was unexpected given the number of high-profile contests on the ballot.

Florida has closed primary elections, meaning voters generally can only vote for candidates in their own political party. But voters can also participate in nonpartisan races, including school board contests.

Election officials are encouraging voters to review their sample ballots before heading to the polls. Some districts have been redrawn, though Scott said those changes should not affect voters’ assigned polling locations.

“Your voting location on election day is going to be exactly the same,” he said.

While turnout has been low, election workers in both counties have been preparing ballots for counting.

Scott said election equipment has been operating without major issues.

“The equipment is running great — we haven’t had complaints this time around,” he said.

For some voters, the election is also personal.

Adela Barralaga said her mother was once an immigrant who later became a U.S. citizen, making voting an important responsibility for their family.

“For example, my mom, she was an immigrant, then she became a citizen, so I feel like there are so many people who were like her at one point that can’t vote at this time,” Barralaga said. “It’s important for her to vote and for me also.”

Voters who received mail-in ballots can still return them to their polling location by 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. as elections officials hope Election Day brings a boost in participation across South Florida.

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Con gafas de sol oscuras y sin hacer comentarios, Nuhfer salió momentos después de que un juez dictara la sentencia en el caso relacionado con el ex congresista de Miami David Rivera.

Nuhfer, una consultora política, era coacusada de Rivera en el caso que involucra acusaciones de que realizó labores de cabildeo en secreto para el gobierno de Venezuela durante la primera administración de Trump.

La sala del tribunal estaba llena de amigos y familiares de Nuhfer, quienes declararon a su favor.

“Esther es una persona extraordinaria”, dijo Jeanie Hernandez-Porter, una amiga de Nuhfer. “Es como la marea que es la ola para las personas. Las impulsa hacia arriba. No es una persona motivada por la codicia o la traición. Ella ama a este país. Eso es todo lo que puedo decir”.

El caso está relacionado con un acuerdo multimillonario en 2017 que involucró a la empresa petrolera estatal de Venezuela.

En 2022, ese acuerdo se convirtió en el centro de la acusación y el arresto de Rivera.

El juez finalmente lo calificó como “el espectáculo de David Rivera”, determinando que Nuhfer no desempeñó un papel principal.

Pero la sentencia de cinco años de prisión sigue en pie.

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The life-saving actions occurred on Saturday at La Vina Aragon Restaurant y Cafeteria, located at 8155 W. Eighth Ave. in Hialeah.

According to authorities, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Alex Bello was working at a property and evidence warehouse in Hialeah when he stopped for lunch at the restaurant.

While he was at the restaurant, Bello noticed an 80-year-old man who started choking and quickly moved to help him, performing the Heimlich maneuver.

Bello’s quick actions saved him, who started breathing again at the restaurant, much to the delight of the people who were watching the ordeal unfold.

The man did not suffer any additional injuries and at last check was doing just fine.

Las acciones que le salvaron la vida ocurrieron el sábado en La Vina Aragon Restaurant y Cafeteria, ubicada en 8155 W. Eighth Ave. en Hialeah.

Según las autoridades, el sargento de la Policía de Miami Beach Alex Bello estaba trabajando en un almacén de propiedades y evidencias en Hialeah cuando se detuvo para almorzar en el restaurante.

Mientras estaba en el restaurante, Bello notó a un hombre de 80 años que comenzó a atragantarse y rápidamente se movió para ayudarlo, realizando la maniobra de Heimlich.

Las rápidas acciones de Bello le salvaron la vida al hombre, quien comenzó a respirar nuevamente en el restaurante, para alegría de las personas que observaban cómo se desarrollaba el incidente.

El hombre no sufrió lesiones adicionales y, según la última información, se encontraba muy bien.

One of his formative memories was seeing his father celebrating the Cowboys' success watching a game on TV. His mother, however, is not a fan.

"This should be the first year where everybody’s unified on one team, so it’s pretty cool to have everybody in blue,” Miller said at an introductory news conference after signing a one-year contract that could be worth up to $7.5 million with his hometown team on Tuesday, with the 37-year-old standout pass rusher hoping to return them to their Super Bowl-winning heights of his childhood.

Miller had previous conversations about joining the Cowboys, including after claiming his second Lombardi Trophy with the Los Angeles Rams following the 2021 season. He ended up signing with the Buffalo Bills, where he spent three years, before joining the Washington Commanders last season. This time around, everything lined up.

"It's like that movie, 'Inception,' like a dream within a dream. I always wanted to play in the National Football League, and then to play for the Dallas Cowboys. We're going deep with it, year 16,” Miller said.

It helped that Miller has ties to the Cowboys' new defensive coaching staff. Pass rush consultant B.T. Jordan is his longtime trainer. Miller also worked alongside coordinator Christian Parker in Denver and line coach Marcus Dixon in Los Angeles.

Add in his relationships with several Cowboys players, including outside linebackers Rashan Gary and Donovan Ezeiruaku, and even crossing paths with star quarterback Dak Prescott in Las Vegas last month, Miller felt everything was coming together to finally fulfill his aspirations of wearing the famous “star” helmet.

“For it to happen, it just shows you that you can really manifest everything. And to be here with the Dallas Cowboys back in my hometown, it's really cool,” he said.

Miller, the NFL's active sack leader, is coming off one of his better seasons in recent memory. He had nine sacks last season with a carefully managed workload for the Commanders, and Miller is confident he can “walk into eight of those” playing a similar number of snaps for the Cowboys.

“Like, am I gonna go out here and just beat somebody to death for 60 plays a game? Probably not, but it's still in there. And I can still win a lot of these reps, especially when it's crunch time," he said.

Not everything is finalized for Miller. He is still trying to figure out what number he will wear for the Cowboys. Miller and fullback Hunter Luepke both had No. 40 on during a joint practice with the New Orleans Saints on Tuesday.

“I'm not gonna get caught up in the number, but I did make some offers to him already that I feel like he can't really come off of those. I think a lifetime supply of chicken will do it," said Miller, who owns and operates a poultry ranch. “A number would be fine, but I think the most important thing is to win a lot of these games, play in big games, and the number would just be an afterthought.”

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El helicóptero Sky 10 sobrevolaba el Ayuntamiento, ubicado en el 776 de NE 125th St., poco después de las 2:00 p. m., mientras el vehículo azul permanecía en el lugar.

Según la policía de North Miami, el conductor perdió el control del vehículo mientras daba marcha atrás y chocó contra las puertas de entrada del Ayuntamiento.

La policía informó que el conductor sufrió heridas leves en el accidente y fue trasladado a un hospital local para ser evaluado.

No hubo otros vehículos involucrados en el choque.

“Cerraron todo y había mucha gente alrededor. Todo el mundo corría de un lado a otro”, comentó Sofia Stefanskaia, quien trabaja cerca del lugar.

Las autoridades municipales confirmaron que el Ayuntamiento permanecerá cerrado hasta nuevo aviso.

The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday.

The Falcon rocket’s upper stage plowed into the moon at 5,400 mph (8,700 kph) on Aug. 5 after drifting through space for more than a year. It launched a pair of private moon landers with experiments and even a tiny rover in 2025 as part of NASA’s push to commercialize lunar exploration.

Based on these new photos by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the fresh crater appears to be 60 feet (18 meters) across and less than 10 feet (3 meters) deep, according to scientists.

Dark and bright streaks are clearly visible emanating like butterfly wings from the crater. The darker lines represent excavated material that was close to the surface and shaped by eons of solar wind, cosmic rays and micrometeorite strikes. The brighter rays indicate fresh rocks and dirt that were hurled from farther down.

The spacecraft photographed the crater a week after the collision from 60 miles (96 kilometers) up, while zooming along at one mile per second. Flight controllers had to tilt the spacecraft so its cameras pointed toward the impact scene.

The orbiter completes a lunar polar orbit every two hours, as the moon rotates beneath. It took six days before the crash scene came into view.

South Korea’s Danuri spacecraft was first on the scene to beam back photos.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been orbiting the moon since 2009, serving as NASA's up-close eyes as the space agency works to return astronauts to the lunar surface.

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Nine-year-old Nava Seewald is full of energy.

“She is a firecracker,” her mom, Rivky Seewald, said.

She’s silly, bursting with positivity and swears she’s going to be famous one day.

About a year ago, Nava started getting headaches. Her parents thought it was something simple.

But within hours of a routine doctor’s appointment, their world was flipped upside down.

“They called my wife and said, ‘Go to the hospital now,’” her dad, Yosef Seewald, said.

The next morning, doctors at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital told the family Nava had acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, and would start chemotherapy that day.

While doctors began aggressive treatment to save Nava’s life, the nonprofit Chai Lifeline stepped in to help hold the rest of the family together.

The organization delivered hot meals, sent volunteers to help with whatever the family needed and provided support.

“With all the volunteers that Chai Lifeline has given us, like going whenever we needed to do something, whenever there was an event that we needed to go to, Chai Lifeline brought volunteers to the hospital so that they were with Nava, so we didn’t have to worry about anything,” Rivky Seewald said.

“Every single day she had volunteers,” she said. “Without them, I don’t know, we wouldn’t have gone through it. They were really just so amazing to us.”

And when Nava was well enough, Chai Lifeline gave her something to look forward to: Camp Simcha.

“The funnest place on Earth,” Nava Seewald said.

The sleepaway camp in New York allows children battling cancer to spend nearly two weeks just being kids — and, for a little while, forget what they’ve been through.

“They are free as a bird for patients that are normally restricted,” said Dr. Warren Alperstein, one of Nava’s doctors.

The camp is staffed with pediatric oncologists, including Alperstein, who also treats Nava at home.

Every camper has a one-on-one counselor.

“They made sure that the kids are comfortable with that counselor and they’re one to one taking care of all the time,” Alperstein said.

Children can receive the care they need at camp, including chemotherapy if necessary.

“If you can send a patient who’s in the care of a doctor with that doctor to a camp, you can’t get better, can’t be more secure than that,” Yosef Seewald said.

Nava has been counting down the days until camp.

“She’s counting down the minutes, she really is. Every day she tells me how many days are left. She’s so excited,” Rivky Seewald said.

Nava says she plans to return to Camp Simcha every year.

“And the one year that I can become a counselor, I’m gonna,” she said.

Until then, Nava will keep inspiring everyone she meets.

“If any kid can go through such a thing and come out stronger rather than weaker, it’s Nava,” Rivky Seewald said. “She has taught us that really this is the way to go through life. You push on. And you show that you’re strong and you can get through it.”

Nava is now cancer-free.

She is at Camp Simcha right now, and her mom says she’s loving it.

Chai Lifeline is a nonprofit organization that operates on donations.

Miami alcanzó los 100 grados el martes, algo que solo había ocurrido otra vez en julio de 1942, según registros desde 1895.

Fort Lauderdale, mientras tanto, estableció su propio récord al alcanzar los 98 grados, marca que había sido registrada por última vez en 2024.

Una alerta por calor está vigente hasta la noche del martes, sin lluvias en el pronóstico que puedan darnos alivio.

Tormentas eléctricas aisladas por la tarde regresarán el miércoles y estarán presentes cada día hasta el fin de semana. Esto hará que las temperaturas bajen a entre los bajos y mediados de los 90 grados.

Sin embargo, no se sentirá diferente, ya que la humedad será mayor.

Las urnas abrieron a las 7 a.m. y cierran a las 7 p.m.

Florida es un estado con elecciones primarias cerradas, lo que significa que, por lo general, los votantes solo pueden emitir su voto por candidatos del partido político con el que están registrados. Sin embargo, todos los votantes registrados pueden participar en las contiendas no partidistas aplicables y en las contiendas de primarias universales.

Los votantes encontraron una variedad de contiendas federales, estatales y locales en sus boletas, dependiendo de dónde viven y de su afiliación partidista. Las boletas incluyeron primarias partidistas para gobernador de Florida, Senado de EE. UU., contiendas legislativas estatales y del Congreso, además de contiendas no partidistas.

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The State Department said Tuesday it had hit ICC president Tomoko Akane, a Japanese national, and ICC senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, who is from Senegal, with sanctions that freeze any assets they have in U.S. jurisdictions or come into contact with the U.S. financial system.

“The Trump Administration has been clear: the International Criminal Court is a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement. “We will not tolerate its assault on state sovereignty.”

The move is the latest by the Trump administration against the ICC, which it says has exceeded its mandate by investigating or trying soldiers, commanders and political officials from countries, such as Israel and the United States, that are not members of the court.

The ICC was quick to respond, as it has done when faced with previous Trump administration actions, saying that the sanctions “undermine the rule of law.”

“When judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is placed at risk,” it said.

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Khalil Rashad Smith was arrested Monday evening after a felony traffic stop, the Pembroke Pines Police Department said.

According to the arrest form, Smith showed up at BMW of Pembroke Pines on Sheridan Street around 11:55 a.m.

He asked to see a blue-gray BMW M440i, and a dealership employee obliged, first photocopying Smith’s Florida ID for the sales file. Once Smith got behind the wheel and had the key in hand, he shoved the employee in the abdomen, closed the door and drove off — circling the lot briefly before speeding out, police said.

About half an hour later, at 12:28 p.m., officers said they received a call about shots fired at a nearby home. Surveillance video reportedly caught Smith backing the stolen BMW into the driveway, hopping a chain-link fence into the backyard, and heading straight for a set of glass French doors that led into the master bedroom.

When he found them locked, police say he raised a handgun and fired several rounds into the door before retreating to the car and driving away.

Police later identified the home as belonging to Smith’s mother. Investigators said she’ had kicked him out about a month earlier due to ongoing conflicts over his behavior, and told authorities he no longer had permission to be there. She told detectives he’d struggled with anger issues since being “kicked out” of the Navy in November 2025.

Officers tracked the BMW and pulled it over. Smith was found with a tan-and-black .22-caliber handgun — its magazine empty and slide locked back, consistent with all rounds having been fired. Investigators later recovered 10 spent .22-caliber shell casings at the shooting scene, matching the gun.

Smith faces three felony counts: carjacking without a firearm, armed burglary of a dwelling, and attempted first-degree premeditated murder.

Smith went before a judge on Tuesday and is currently being held at the Broward Main Jail on no bond.

The remains are believed to be those of a man who may have been sacrificed during a ritual in which a canal linked to a ceremonial pool was closed.

Gladys Paz, the archaeologist who led the excavation, said the bones will help researchers better understand "the rituals of the Lima culture” and reconstruct ceremonies performed hundreds of years ago.

Paz said that the body was buried inside a canal, resting on its left flank, with the skull facing the pyramid and the Pacific Ocean.

The Lima culture flourished between the first and seventh centuries along Peru’s arid central coast, about 700 years before the rise of the Inca Empire.

Huaca Pucllana was one of the most important ceremonial and administrative centers of the Lima culture, which disappeared centuries before a group of Spanish conquistadors founded Lima in 1535.

Today, the pyramid is surrounded by parks, leafy streets and upscale apartment buildings in the districts of Miraflores and San Isidro.

Huaca Pucllana is open to tourists, with a restaurant serving Peruvian specialties like ceviche, stir-fried beef and roasted alpaca meat.

According to Peru’s government, there are more than 400 archaeological sites across metropolitan Lima. Pieter Van Dalen, an archaeology professor at the National University of San Marcos who was not involved in the excavation, said that it's common to find tombs, mummified remains and other burial-related items along Peru’s coast. Such discoveries have also been made while construction workers dig canals to install gas pipes.

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Sky 10 was above City Hall at 776 NE 125th St. just after 2 p.m. as the blue vehicle remained at the scene and the driver was placed on a gurney and loaded into a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue truck.

According to North Miami police, the driver lost control of the vehicle while backing up and struck the entrance doors of City Hall.

Police said the driver sustained minor injuries in the crash and was transported to a local hospital to be evaluated.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

“They closed everything and there were a lot of people around. Everyone was kind of running around,” Sofia Stefanskaia, who works nearby, said.

City officials confirmed that City Hall has been closed until further notice.

Spotty afternoon thunderstorms return Wednesday and will be with us each day into the weekend. This will bring our temperatures down to the low-to-middle 90s. It will not feel any different since humidity will be higher.

The USS Benfold “reported an engineering casualty involving its generators, causing a loss of power” on July 24, Navy spokesman Cmdr. Matthew Comer said in the statement. The breakdown meant the crew went without drinking water, meals, functioning toilets and air conditioning for days aboard the ship, Comer said.

The incident, which only became public on Friday when it was first reported by USNI News, comes as the Pentagon grapples with serious questions about the quality of life aboard naval vessels and the military's ability to supply ships during the conflict with Iran.

Democratic lawmakers are calling for investigations into conditions aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Reports last week revealed that the ship, which has spent a record-setting 250 uninterrupted days at sea, has experienced shortages of supplies, including food and hygiene products, while crew members have suffered from stress and poor mental health.

Comer stressed that there were no injuries to the crew of the Benfold, “who demonstrated resilience, grit, professionalism, and unwavering steadiness in their response,” but that the ship needed assistance from the George Washington carrier strike group.

The cruiser USS Robert Smalls provided meals to the stricken destroyer.

Ultimately, Comer said the Benfold had to be towed to Subic Bay, in the Philippines, for repairs, arriving on July 28. The crew was then provided food and lodging off the ship. On Aug. 8, the Benfold left port “with all engineering, combat systems, and crew support systems functioning normally,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, the ships from the George Washington strike group, including the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, were spotted heading toward the Middle East. The carrier was expected to replace the Lincoln, which the acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, said last week would be returning home soon.

This would leave the waters of the Pacific without a U.S. carrier presence for an unknown period of time. The Trump administration sees China, the dominant power in the region, as “a settled force” that only needs to be deterred from dominating the U.S. or its allies and not the top global adversary that it was under the Biden administration.

A Greenville police officer who responded to the residence Sunday afternoon was met by the brothers and then observed paramedics performing CPR on an unresponsive woman, the report states.

“The patient did not seem to have any obvious physical reasons to be unresponsive,” the officer notes. After attempting lifesaving measures, the emergency workers declared Panettiere dead at 2:31 p.m.

No cause has been determined, and her death remains under investigation. An autopsy found no signs of trauma, and police said officers saw no signs of foul play.

The onetime child star, who soared to fame in the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville” while enduring struggles with alcohol addiction and depression, would have turned 37 on Friday.

Tumultuous relationship

Panettiere and Brian Hickerson had been in a tumultuous relationship for years, with allegations the 37-year-old aspiring actor physically abused her.

He was charged in 2020 with multiple counts of felony abuse, and he pleaded no contest to two counts of injuring a spouse or partner and served a short time in jail due to the case. He was sentenced to four years of probation and anger management and Alcoholics Anonymous sessions.

He completed the terms and recently asked a judge to reduce his conviction to misdemeanors; that request was denied Thursday by a Los Angeles judge. Messages were sent Tuesday seeking comment from Pat Carey, an attorney for Hickerson.

Panettiere wrote of Hickerson's time behind bars, and how she hoped it would change him, in her memoir, “This Is Me,” which came out in May.

“I wanted Brian to be in jail just long enough to scare him, but not long enough where’d he become a worse person,” she wrote. “I needed him to admit his wrongs and change because of them, but I didn’t want to traumatize him in an irreversible way.”

She wrote about her decision to “let go of my resentment” and try to forgive Hickerson, who she'd met at a West Hollywood restaurant in 2018 after noticing his “charming smile.”

Police report has redactions

The police report, which is heavily redacted, said the responding officer first spoke with Zach Hickerson, who said the unresponsive woman was his brother's girlfriend.

“I observed Zach to be very emotional while EMS were working on Hayden. Brian did not become emotional until EMS declared her officially deceased,” the officer said.

After she was declared dead, the officer escorted the brothers out of the apartment. The officer spoke with Brian “more in depth,” but the details of that conversation are redacted in the police report.

Also redacted is a list that of medications that Panettiere had been taking.

She had been open about addiction issues

In her book, Panettiere described lifelong scars from her early fame, and acknowledged being addicted to alcohol and enduring postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya, with Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko in 2014.

Panettiere’s daughter, now 11, began living with Klitschko full-time in Ukraine when she was 2. At the time, the actor was struggling with mental health and addiction. She entered rehab in 2015, while filming “Nashville.”

“I think there’s been this very common misconception that I just gave up my child,” she said in an interview with podcaster Jay Shetty in May. “That could not be farther from the truth.”

In a statement Tuesday, Klitschko said he will make sure their daughter always remembers her mother.

“She built an incredible career through immense talent, while also facing the darker sides of a very demanding industry. Nothing will erase the times we shared or the place she had in our lives," Klitschko said on Instagram.

Panettiere had endured numerous family struggles, and tragedy. Her parents’ marriage was strained, and eventually ended. Her younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, who was also an actor, died of a heart condition in 2023, at age 28.

Started out as a child actor

Panettiere was one of two children born to Skip Panettiere, a former New York City fire captain, and Lesley Vogel, a former soap opera star who had been the prime force behind her early career before the two became estranged. Panettiere began acting in commercials and soap operas, including as the ever-troubled Lizzie Spaulding on “Guiding Light.” In “This Is Me,” she wrote that the traumas her character endured, from being kidnapped to killing her mother’s boyfriend, led her to associate “catastrophe with adoration.”

“Is it any wonder why I’ve faced so many real struggles in my life?” she wrote.

She had much warmer memories of her role as a cheerleader with supernatural powers in “Heroes,” which propelled her to fame in 2006. The series revolved around the mantra: “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

She went on to win three Teen Choice Awards for that role. She was also nominated for a Grammy for a children’s spoken word album, “A Bug’s Life: Read-Along.”

Panettiere later played a brash country upstart opposite Connie Britton on “Nashville,” which aired on ABC for four seasons before being canceled and revived on CMT. She did her own singing in the show, which scored some hits on country charts, spawned U.S. tours and earned Panettiere two supporting actress Golden Globe nominations.