According to a 21-page arrest affidavit from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Brian Louis Sguros, 35, is accused of using his position as a police officer to gain access to information about a man whose body he helped discover in July 2022.

Investigators said Sguros subsequently took control of the man’s Lauderhill home, spent years making improvements and attempted to establish a financial interest in the property.

The investigation began after a dispute involving the home’s ownership led to allegations of identity theft and official misconduct.

Officer discovers man’s body during welfare check

According to the affidavit, Sguros and another Lauderhill police officer responded to a welfare check at 4551 NW 12th St. on July 11, 2022.

A neighbor had contacted authorities after becoming concerned that she had not seen the homeowner, Dennis Ionis West, for approximately two weeks.

Officers entered the home through an unlocked front door and discovered West’s body near the entrance.

An autopsy determined that West died of cardiovascular disease, and his death was ruled natural.

Investigators said body camera footage showed Sguros participating in the response, but there was no indication that he told the other officers he knew West.

However, records later showed Sguros identified himself as West’s friend when communicating with the medical examiner’s office.

He also offered to handle West’s funeral arrangements if relatives could not be located.

Investigators eventually determined that West had several surviving family members and legal heirs.

Police say officer took possession of home weeks after death

According to the affidavit, Sguros acknowledged in sworn court documents that he took possession of West’s property around Aug. 1, 2022, just weeks after the man’s death.

“I was wondering, Dennis had just passed away and how could he have gotten the house so quick,” West’s neighbor, Lethel Haye, said. “He was like taking out all the rotten boards and everything inside and putting it outside, and at one point, they were living in there.”

Sguros claimed he spent more than two years cleaning, securing and renovating the home, the affidavit stated.

In court filings, he said he invested at least $214,000 of his own money into the property and increased its value to approximately $500,000.

He maintained that his work was intended to protect the vacant home from squatters and criminal activity, authorities said.

Investigators said property records showed Sguros paid taxes on the home, which remained registered under West’s estate.

Records also showed he made a payment of more than $2,500 toward a utility account that remained in West’s name nearly two years after his death.

In February 2025, Sguros and another individual filed paperwork attempting to establish adverse possession of the property, the affidavit stated.

According to the affidavit, the filing itself did not grant them legal ownership.

Building permit allegedly used dead man’s identity

Investigators said they discovered an August 2024 building permit application for an $8,000 project to replace windows and exterior doors at West’s home.

The paperwork listed West as the property owner, included his driver’s license information and contained a signature purportedly belonging to him, authorities said.

The document also indicated that West had appeared before a notary in August 2024, more than two years after his death.

Investigators said the phone number listed for West on the application actually belonged to Sguros.

According to the affidavit, detectives interviewed an employee of Active Builders Inc., the company involved in the renovation project.

The employee told investigators that Sguros had provided documents needed for the building permit, including a copy of West’s driver’s license, authorities said.

According to the affidavit, the employee said he believed West was alive and owned the property because of the information Sguros provided.

Investigators also reviewed text messages between the employee and Sguros that contained images of the deceased man’s identification and building permit paperwork, authorities said.

According to the affidavit, the notary whose name appeared on the documents told investigators she did not recognize the paperwork and that the signature was not hers.

She also said the notary stamp appeared smaller than the one she used, detectives said.

Investigators examine police database searches

The affidavit also accuses Sguros of improperly accessing law enforcement databases to obtain information about West.

Investigators said records showed Sguros conducted seven searches using his Lauderhill Police Department-issued computer between July 2022 and January 2023.

Those searches involved West’s driver’s license information and vehicle registration records.

According to investigators, the database results included personal information such as West’s address, date of birth, Social Security number and vehicle details.

One search conducted in January 2023 specifically identified West as deceased, authorities said.

Property dispute leads to investigation

According to the affidavit, the case came to light after Equinox Realty Holdings became involved with the property.

The affidavit states that the company located West’s surviving heirs and acquired their ownership interests in the home.

A Broward County court subsequently recognized the heirs’ interests and the conveyances to Equinox.

Investigators said Sguros eventually surrendered the keys to the home but sought reimbursement for the improvements he claimed to have made.

In February 2026, he filed a civil lawsuit seeking an equitable lien against the property, citing the money he said he spent on renovations, records show.

The company’s attorney later filed a complaint with the Lauderhill Police Department, raising concerns about Sguros’ involvement with the property and his use of information obtained through his official duties.

The investigation eventually involved the Broward County Property Appraiser’s Deed Fraud Task Force and Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives.

Five criminal charges outlined in affidavit

According to the affidavit, investigators found probable cause to pursue five charges against Sguros:

• Official misconduct
• Criminal use of a deceased person’s identification information
• Criminal use of personal identification information
• Offense against a computer user
• Unlawful use of a two-way communications device

“We hold police officers in the highest regard because they take an oath to protect the public,” Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar said in a statement to Local 10 News. “This case is so troubling because this officer has been charged with using his position to defraud the public. I want to thank our BCPA Crimes Against Property Team and the Broward Sheriff’s Office for their detailed and thorough investigation.”

Sguros has since been placed on leave without pay.

Jurors recommended death by an 11-1 vote for the killing of Machado, while they unanimously voted 12-0 to recommend death for the killing of Julia. In the case involving Daniela, jurors voted 8-4 in favor of the death penalty.

Sierra, 42, confessed to killing Machado and her daughters on Nov. 10, 2012. He will face capital punishment for the killings.

During the sentencing phase of his trial, defense attorney Khurrum Wahid urged jurors to choose life in prison without the possibility of parole, asking them to weigh the brutality of the killings against the totality of Sierra’s life, including a traumatic childhood brain injury.

After weeks of testimony, jurors were tasked with deciding whether Sierra should receive the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Wahid acknowledged the severity of the crimes while urging jurors to set aside their feelings of anger, hatred and disgust, as they had pledged to do during jury selection.

“He admits that he did this monstrous act,” Wahid said.

He reminded jurors of their oath to consider the evidence and remain open to life as a possible punishment, even after hearing details of the killings.

“This is a very challenging set of facts,” Wahid said, asking jurors to remember that they had said they could remain fair and consider life despite the horrific circumstances.

“The choice here is a moral choice that is before you,” he added.

Wahid asked jurors to consider Sierra’s background, including a serious head injury he suffered in a car accident in 1996, when he was 12.

“Nobody chooses to have a skull fracture when they are 12 years old,” Wahid said.

During the trial, defense expert testimony addressed structural damage to Sierra’s brain and its potential effects on his behavior, personality and executive functioning. Wahid pointed to brain images presented during the proceedings as he argued that the injury marked a turning point in Sierra’s life.

“This is not a normal, healthy brain,” Wahid said. “An unhealthy brain has consequences.”

He also asked jurors to consider Sierra’s mother, a Cuban immigrant who raised two sons as a single mother while working two jobs. Wahid argued that she did her best to help her son but that the family did not recognize the need for the kind of intervention that might have addressed his behavioral changes.

Wahid also urged jurors to weigh those circumstances against the violence of the killings, emphasizing that they alone had heard all the evidence presented during the sentencing phase.

“You still can exercise your moral clarity and choose life,” he said. “You don’t have to justify that to anybody, you don’t have to justify that to anyone in this room, you don’t have to justify that to anyone out there, you are the only ones who heard all the evidence, you just have to justify it to yourself.”

The defense’s plea followed Monday’s closing argument from lead prosecutor Abbe Rifkin, who urged jurors to recommend the death penalty, emphasizing the brutality of the killings and the evidence presented in court.

Rifkin described Sierra’s injuries to Machado as she recounted the killings and referred to the use of a yellow plastic Sedano’s bag to suffocate the victims.

“He carved up her arms,” Rifkin said. “He carved up her face. It was heinous, atrocious and cruel.”

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The incident happened on Oct. 11 around 9:40 p.m. near the intersection of Weaver Street and McLeod Avenue in Daytona Beach.

According to the Daytona Beach Police Department, the victim, whose father is globally known rapper and music executive Rick Ross, arrived to the DBPD headquarters the following day to report the assault.

The victim told officers that he was at the scene speaking with a woman when the suspect pulled up in a gray vehicle and got out yelling, “that’s what we doin’” which the victim believed was in reference to the suspect and the woman having previously dated, according to an arrest report.

Police have since identified the suspect as Don Roberts, 20, of Daytona Beach.

After getting out of the vehicle, police said Roberts approached the victim with a tan handgun in his right hand and after raising the gun and pointing it at the victim, he said, “I don’t care who your daddy is, I’ll kill you right here,” the report states.

Police said Roberts didn’t open fire, but instead struck the victim on the head with the gun, which prompted the victim to get into his car and leave the scene.

After reporting the incident to authorities, investigators said the victim was able to identify Roberts after being presented with a photo lineup.

Police did not say how or when they were able to locate Roberts and take him into custody.

Jail records show he is now facing felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Roberts was being held at the Volusia County Branch Jail on no bond.

Ross made headlines earlier this month following an arrest in Miami-Dade County in connection to a domestic violence case.

After his release from jail, Ross told waiting media members that he was “totally innocent” of the accusations levied against him.

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The announcement coming just as early voters head to the polls.

On their ballot is Amendment 3, a proposed property tax measure.

Getting rid of property taxes would mean less money for services like the sheriff’s department.

Earlier this month, the Miami-Dade County Commission approved a $1.2 billion dollar budget, the largest in the agency’s history, but it’s a budget the sheriff says still isn’t enough.

The commission met on Tuesday, but commissioners and the county mayor declined to speak to Local 10 News about the cowboy hat expenditure.

Voters at the polling site just one floor below the commission chambers, however, had a lot to say.

“I believe that that purchase was really not worth it because $10,000 worth of hats for what?” said Miami-Dade resident Francisco Agusto.

According to MDSO, the total cost for the hats is actually $132,500 dollars.

“It’s not necessary,” said voter Odely Deloro. “I mean, we have all the things that we need to worry about that we should be spending the money on.”

“You see all these homeless people?” asked resident James Roberts. “You can do better than that. Cowboy hats, we’re not going to do a cowboy hat.”

The sheriff’s department responded to a Local 10 News information request, saying, “Each hat costs $132.50. The agency has purchased approximately 1,000 hats. Deputies are not required to wear the hats. They are issued exclusively to sworn deputies of all ranks.”

South Florida Police Benevolent Association President Steadman Stahl pointing out that Miami-Dade voters chose to have a sheriff’s department over a police department, and cowboy hats are part of the sheriff’s rebranding effort.

“A lot of sheriff’s offices already have the cowboy hats,” he said. “(The sheriff) saved the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County over $6 million by not switching the uniforms from brown to the traditional green and white.”

Stahl says the hats are more functional than the baseball caps deputies currently have.

“So the hats, we’ve gotten good reviews on them,” he said. “Again, it’s not mandatory. A lot of officers do enjoy wearing them and we’re seeing them out there now.”

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U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez was among the Cuban American supporters who welcomed Donalds to the restaurant on Bird Road in the Westchester neighborhood.

“Florida will never be a home to socialism,” Donalds told dozens at the restaurant. “Not on my watch as your next governor.”

The crowd cheered. Donalds, who is running against Democrat David Jolly, also said his goal is to back law enforcement and make Florida more affordable.

“Some things also, we’ve got to do. We’ve got to make it more affordable,” Donalds said. “We’ve got to drive prices down for people. We want young children to be able to achieve a great dream in Florida. We want seniors to live out their golden years in Florida.”

President Donald Trump endorsed Donalds. Early voting started on Monday in Miami-Dade County ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 3rd.

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La comisión le encargó al abogado del condado redactar una ordenanza que establezca la prohibición temporal.

La propuesta se aplicaría solo a las zonas no incorporadas del condado Broward, buena parte de las cuales se encuentra en los Everglades, ya que el condado no puede regular las decisiones de urbanización que toma cada ciudad.

“Tres cuartas partes del condado están en los Everglades. Esa es probablemente la parte más vulnerable”, dijo el comisionado Beam Furr.

El comisionado Lamar Fisher propuso la moratoria y afirmó que el condado necesita proteger a los vecindarios de los posibles efectos de los grandes centros de datos.

“Nuestro objetivo es asegurarnos de proteger a nuestros residentes”, dijo Fisher. “La historia ha demostrado que estos grandes centros de datos no lo hacen”.

Fisher también expresó su preocupación por la demanda de recursos locales que generan estas instalaciones y por las posibles consecuencias económicas para los residentes.

“Son centros que generan tanta demanda de electricidad, que absorben tanta agua, y uno también escucha... ¿eso afecta los costos de nuestras comunidades residenciales?”, preguntó.

Broward se suma a otros condados de Florida que toman medidas para regular la construcción de grandes centros de datos. El condado Palm Beach aprobó una prohibición de un año que estará vigente hasta septiembre de 2027.

Una ley estatal firmada por el gobernador Ron DeSantis en mayo preserva la autoridad de los gobiernos locales para regular la construcción de centros de datos.

El vicealcalde Robert McKinzie, quien representa zonas que podrían verse afectadas por la moratoria propuesta, dijo que tiene reservas sobre los centros de datos, pero advirtió que no se debe desalentar a las empresas tecnológicas más pequeñas que quieran invertir en las comunidades locales.

“Muchas veces, cuando se ofrece o se propone algo para el BMSD (Broward Municipal Services District), no hay gran cosa allí. Esta podría ser la oportunidad que salve a esa comunidad o que la impulse aún más”, dijo McKinzie.

Durante el periodo de comentarios del público, uno de los participantes pidió a los comisionados que las restricciones fueran permanentes y no temporales.

“Tenemos Amazon sin problema, y Google Gemini sin problema, sin necesidad de uno de estos”, dijo.

La moratoria aún no está en vigor. El abogado del condado debe redactar la ordenanza antes de que los comisionados puedan considerar su aprobación final.

Fisher espera que la medida regrese a la comisión para una votación final el próximo mes, aunque podría aplazarse hasta diciembre.

Según la policía, fue precisamente ese robo, captado por las cámaras el viernes en 7tyone Restaurant & Coffee Bar, en el 1130 Normandy Drive, el que les permitió relacionarlo con otro ocurrido dos semanas antes, y sospechar de Kevin Reilley.

Los investigadores indicaron que Reilley, con el rostro cubierto, rompió con una piedra la puerta de vidrio del frente de 7tyone alrededor de la 1 a.m., se metió detrás del mostrador y se robó casi $300 de la caja registradora.

En un comunicado de prensa, el agente Christopher Bess, portavoz del Miami Beach Police Department, dijo que los detectives “rápidamente identificaron similitudes entre este incidente y otro robo a un comercio que se estaba investigando activamente en la zona”.

Ese robo ocurrió el 2 de octubre en Big Joe Smash Burgers, en North Beach.

Según la policía, esta vez Reilley no rompió ninguna ventana, sino que “arrancó a la fuerza una caja de seguridad montada en la pared” del local, ubicado en el 6987 Collins Ave., sacó la llave de repuesto y entró. Tras intentar sin éxito abrir la caja registradora con un destornillador, se la llevó completa.

De acuerdo con un reporte de arresto, la gaveta de la caja tenía unos $800.

“Gracias a las imágenes de seguridad y al trabajo de investigación posterior, los detectives identificaron positivamente a Reilley como el sospechoso”, escribió Bess. “Cuando el Priority Service Team del Miami Beach Police Department lo detuvo (el domingo por la mañana), llevaba shorts y botas, y cargaba una mochila que coinciden con lo que se ve en las grabaciones”.

Reilley, quien no tiene hogar, enfrenta cargos que incluyen robo en una estructura desocupada con el rostro cubierto, posesión de herramientas para cometer robos y hurto mayor.

“Por suerte, nuestros detectives, nuestros agentes de apoyo a personas sin hogar y nuestros equipos de servicio prioritario no solo lo identificaron, sino que lograron dar con él”, dijo después Bess a Local 10 News en una entrevista.

Bess señaló que Reilley “también tenía condenas previas por robos en tiendas locales, como Walgreens y otros negocios”.

Hasta la tarde del martes, no aparecía en los registros de la cárcel de Miami-Dade.

Según la policía de Miramar, Michael Polanco intentó secuestrar a la adolescente ese mismo día, más temprano, en una gasolinera Shell ubicada en el 2840 S. State Road 7.

De acuerdo con el reporte de arresto, un testigo vio a Polanco agarrar a la niña por el cuello e intentar llevársela caminando.

La policía indicó que, tras el incidente, Polanco huyó del negocio en dirección oeste.

“Mientras las unidades respondían, se recibió información de que un hombre que coincidía con la descripción estaba causando otro disturbio en la zona”, informó el departamento en un comunicado de prensa.

Según la policía, las unidades fueron redirigidas a ese lugar, donde localizaron a Polanco y lo detuvieron.

La víctima y un testigo identificaron a Polanco como el hombre que intentó raptar a la adolescente, confirmaron las autoridades.

Polanco fue arrestado y trasladado a la Broward County Main Jail, donde fue procesado por los cargos de agresión con lesiones corporales y secuestro con lesiones corporales o para aterrorizar a la víctima.

Hasta la mañana del martes, seguía tras las rejas y se esperaba que compareciera en una audiencia de fianza más tarde ese mismo día.

Según la policía, Polanco tiene un extenso historial delictivo que incluye robo, robo en propiedad ajena, agresión y exhibicionismo, entre otros delitos.

El congresista Carlos Gimenez estuvo entre los simpatizantes cubanoamericanos que recibieron a Donalds en el restaurante, ubicado en Bird Road, en el vecindario de Westchester.

“Florida nunca será un hogar para el socialismo”, les dijo Donalds a las decenas de personas reunidas en el restaurante. “No mientras yo sea su próximo gobernador”.

El público lo aplaudió. Donalds, quien se enfrenta al demócrata David Jolly, también dijo que su meta es respaldar a las fuerzas del orden y hacer que Florida sea más asequible.

“Hay otras cosas que también tenemos que hacer. Tenemos que hacer que la vida sea más asequible”, dijo Donalds. “Tenemos que bajar los precios para la gente. Queremos que los jóvenes puedan alcanzar un gran sueño en Florida. Queremos que nuestros adultos mayores vivan sus años dorados en Florida”.

El presidente Donald Trump respaldó a Donalds. La votación anticipada comenzó el lunes en el condado Miami-Dade, de cara a las elecciones de mitad de período del 3 de noviembre.

Wednesday will offer more of the same: tolerable humidity, sunshine, scattered clouds and a north-northeast breeze (winds sustained 10 to 15 mph, gusts to 20 mph). The rain chance will remain low as temperatures make a run for the mid-80s. That’s seasonable!

El anuncio llega justo cuando los votantes acuden a las urnas para la votación anticipada.

En la boleta aparece la Enmienda 3, una propuesta sobre los impuestos a la propiedad.

Eliminar los impuestos a la propiedad significaría menos dinero para servicios como el departamento del sheriff.

A principios de este mes, la Comisión del Condado Miami-Dade aprobó un presupuesto de $1,200 millones, el mayor en la historia de la agencia, aunque la sheriff asegura que aún no es suficiente.

La comisión se reunió el martes, pero los comisionados y la alcaldesa del condado se negaron a hablar con Local 10 News sobre el gasto en los sombreros.

En cambio, los votantes que acudieron al centro de votación ubicado apenas un piso más abajo del salón de la comisión tenían mucho que decir.

“Creo que esa compra no valió la pena, porque ¿$10,000 en sombreros para qué?”, dijo Francisco Agusto, residente de Miami-Dade.

Según el MDSO, el costo total de los sombreros es en realidad de $132,500.

“No hace falta”, dijo la votante Odely Deloro. “Tenemos un montón de cosas por las que preocuparnos, y en eso es en lo que deberíamos gastar el dinero”.

“¿Ven a toda esta gente sin hogar?”, preguntó el residente James Roberts. “Se puede hacer algo mejor. ¿Sombreros vaqueros? Eso no va”.

En respuesta a una solicitud de información de Local 10 News, el departamento del sheriff indicó: “Cada sombrero cuesta $132.50. La agencia compró aproximadamente 1,000 sombreros. Los agentes no están obligados a usarlos. Se entregan exclusivamente a agentes juramentados de todos los rangos”.

Steadman Stahl, presidente de la South Florida Police Benevolent Association, recordó que los votantes de Miami-Dade eligieron tener un departamento del sheriff en lugar de un departamento de policía, y que los sombreros vaqueros forman parte del cambio de imagen de la oficina del sheriff.

“Muchas oficinas del sheriff ya usan sombreros vaqueros”, dijo. “(La sheriff) les ahorró a los contribuyentes del condado Miami-Dade más de $6 millones al no cambiar los uniformes del marrón al tradicional verde y blanco”.

Stahl asegura que los sombreros son más funcionales que las gorras de béisbol que usan actualmente los agentes.

“Los sombreros han recibido buenas críticas”, dijo. “Repito, no son obligatorios. A muchos agentes les gusta usarlos y ya los estamos viendo en la calle”.

Before raising their championship banner ahead of their season opener against the Philadelphia 76ers, the NBA champions hung one at Madison Square Garden to celebrate the NBA Cup title they won last season.

The Knicks broke with tradition last December when they became the first team to win the in-season tournament and then not commemorate it with a banner. They said at the time they were looking ahead to bigger things.

They ended up getting the biggest thing possible by beating the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals for their first championship since 1973.

The Knicks also defeated the Spurs in the NBA Cup final. The NBA Cup banner went up sometime after the Sixers held their morning shootaround at the arena.

“I haven’t seen it, but I think it’s just a recognition of what our journey was like last year, you know?” coach Mike Brown said. “There were a lot of, obviously, ups and downs throughout the course of the year, and our guys rallied and figured out a way to win the NBA Cup, and then you go ahead and win the regular season final, or excuse me, the end of season final, and it’s just a recognition to not just to our guys, but to the fans out there.”

The NBA Cup banner was the first hung at Madison Square Garden by the Knicks since they won the Atlantic Division title in 2012-13.

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The move “severely harms the legitimate rights and interests” of Chinese businesses, the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement. “The nature of this act is egregious. China firms opposes this.”

The ministry also urged the U.S. to "correct its erroneous practice” and said Beijing would take “necessary measures,” without specifying them.

It came a day after the U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies connected to Linwei Ding, who founded Shanghai Zhisuan Technology. The department said he had touted his experience with Google and claimed his company could replicate the American tech giant’s super intelligence infrastructure technology.

The startup incubation program MiraclePlus, which was sanctioned along with Zhisuan, gave seed capital in exchange for an ownership stake in Zhisuan, the State Department said. The other three Chinese entities facing penalties are linked to MiraclePlus.

Zhisuan “has knowingly engaged in, or benefitted from, significant theft of trade secrets of United States persons, which occurred on or after January 5, 2023,” the State Department said.

Ding was charged in 2024 with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from Google while secretly working with two companies based in China. In January, he was convicted by a federal jury in San Francisco of several counts of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

A judge later dismissed the economic espionage charges and sentenced him to 12 months in prison. The Justice Department is appealing the dismissal of the economic espionage charges.

China’s commerce ministry said its AI development is “the result of long-term cultivation in basic research, continuous innovation investment, and adherence to independent scientific and technological innovation and open cooperation.”

The country's achievements have “nothing to do with the so-called ‘stealing of trade secrets,’” the ministry said.

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Police said it was that burglary, caught on camera Friday at 7tyone Restaurant & Coffee Bar at 1130 Normandy Drive, that led them to link it to another burglary two weeks prior ― and to suspect Kevin Reilley.

Investigators said a masked Reilley used a rock to break into the front glass door of 7tyone at around 1 a.m., went behind the counter and stole nearly $300 from the cash register.

In a news release, Officer Christopher Bess, a spokesperson for the Miami Beach Police Department, said detectives “quickly identified similarities between this incident and another commercial burglary that was actively being investigated in the area.”

That burglary happened on Oct. 2 at Big Joe Smash Burgers on North Beach.

Police said Reilley didn’t smash a window this time, but instead “forcibly removed a wall-mounted lockbox” at the storefront at 6987 Collins Ave., took the spare key and walked in, and took the whole cash register after an unsuccessful attempt to pry it open with a screwdriver.

According to an arrest report, the cash drawer had about $800 inside.

“Through surveillance footage and follow-up investigative work, detectives positively identified Reilley as the suspect,” Bess wrote. “When taken into custody by the Miami Beach Police Department’s Priority Service Team (on Sunday morning), he was wearing shorts and boots and carrying a backpack consistent with those seen in the footage.”

Reilley, who is homeless, faces charges including burglary of an unoccupied structure while masked, possession of burglary tools and grand theft.

“Luckily, our detectives, our homeless resource officers and our priority service teams not only identified him but tracked him down,” Bess later told Local 10 News in an interview.

Bess noted that Reilley “also had previous convictions of thefts in local stores, such as Walgreens and other businesses.”

He did not appear in Miami-Dade jail records as of Tuesday afternoon.

The NBA picked the matinee matchup to tip off the season and it delivered plenty of entertainment.

Paul George scored 38 points, the most by a Celtic in his debut. The nine-time All-Star, in his 17th season, showed he's still got it in his first game with Boston since it acquired him from Philadelphia in exchange for 2024 NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown.

Jayson Tatum, though, was off his game.

He missed 17 of 23 shots had 13 points and 11 assists. His lack of hustle on defense allowed Green to take his time for a fifth 3-pointer that gave the Pistons a 13-point lead with 3:33 left.

Tatum, a six-time All-Star, is set to play his first full season since tearing his Achilles tendon in May 2025.

Boston took its biggest lead early in the third quarter at 72-50 after George made three 3-pointers in less than a minute.

Detroit cut its deficit to six points after three quarters and surged ahead in the fourth. Green made a go-ahead 3, Duren added a three-point play and Robinson connected on a 3 to put the Pistons ahead 107-99 with 5:10 to go.

Jalen Duren had 22 points and nine rebounds, Duncan Robinson scored 21 points — making 5 of 9 3-pointers — and Ausar Thompson added 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons.

Boston's Derrick White and Payton Pritchard scored 17 points apiece.

Up next

Celtics: Host the New York Knicks on Friday.

Pistons: At Miami on Friday.

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According to Miramar police, Michael Polanco tried to kidnap the teen earlier in the day at a Shell gas station, located at 2840 S. State Road 7.

An arrest report states that a witness saw Polanco grabbing the girl by the neck and trying to walk away with her.

Police said Polanco fled west from the business after the incident.

“As units were responding, intel was given of a male matching the description in the area causing another disturbance,” the department said in a press release.

Police said units were then redirected to the area, where they located Polanco and detained him.

The victim and a witness identified Polanco as the man who tried to abduct the teen, authorities confirmed.

Polanco was then arrested and transported to the Broward County Main Jail, where he was booked on charges of battery causing bodily harm and kidnapping, inflicting bodily harm or terrorizing a victim.

“This is very disturbing. You have a child walking home, and suddenly, some guy is trying to grab her and pull her away,” said Miramar Police Department Chief Delrish Moss. “Now, she was very smart. She put up a fight, she made a ruckus, she ran to people for safety, and because of that, we were able to get not only a description, but we were able to catch him in rather quick fashion, just a few blocks away.”

Polanco appeared in Broward County bond court Tuesday, where he was ordered held without bond and prohibited from contacting the victim or any minors, returning to the incident location, or possessing firearms, weapons, or ammunition.

According to police, Polanco has a lengthy criminal history that involves various crimes, including robbery, burglary, battery and exposure of sexual organs, among others.

U.S. and Guatemalan prosecutors called Rigoberto Román Miranda-Orozco's sentencing another step toward justice in one of the deadliest smuggling attempts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Miranda-Orozco, 39, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after admitting to arranging travel and accommodations for two people who died and another who was seriously injured.

Nearly 20 people in the U.S. and Guatemala have been convicted since the discovery of the abandoned trailer full of bodies horrified communities accustomed to seeing their young people leave, trying to flee poverty or violence in Central America and Mexico.

“It was clear that they suffered tremendously in their last few hours on this earth,” U.S. Attorney Justin Simmons told reporters at a news conference following the sentencing.

People tried to ‘claw their way out’ of a tractor with no air conditioning

The trailer’s air conditioning malfunctioned and would not blow cool air to the people trapped inside during the sweltering, three-hour ride in June 2022 from the border city of Laredo to San Antonio, authorities said. Prosecutors have said migrants paid up to $15,000 each to be taken across the U.S. border.

When the abandoned trailer was opened on a remote San Antonio back road, 48 migrants were dead. Another 16 were taken to hospitals, where five more died.

Simmons said investigators found clothing passengers had shed to cool off and claw marks on the trailer’s walls.

“They were literally trying to claw their way out,” he said.

Twenty-one of those who died were from Guatemala, Simmons said.

Other defendants still await sentencing

U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia sentenced Miranda-Orozco, who was arrested in Guatemala in 2024 and extradited to the U.S. the following year.

He pleaded guilty in July to conspiracy to bring a migrant into the U.S. resulting in death, aiding and abetting bringing a migrant into the U.S. resulting in death, as well as aiding and abetting bringing a migrant into the U.S. resulting in serious bodily injury, prosecutors said.

Simmons said prosecutors in Guatemala were integral in securing convictions for Miranda Orozco and others. Guatemalan Attorney Gabriel García Luna attended Tuesday's news conference in Texas.

Last year, Felipe Orduna-Torres, described by prosecutors as the leader of the smuggling operations inside the U.S., was sentenced to life in prison in the U.S. Armando Gonzales-Ortega, his top assistant, was sentenced to 83 years.

Sentencing dates have been set for more people, including the truck’s driver.

The tragedy is the deadliest among those that have claimed thousands of lives in recent decades as people attempt to cross the U.S. border from Mexico. Ten migrants died in 2017 after they were trapped inside a truck parked at a Walmart in San Antonio.

In 2003, the bodies of 19 migrants were found in a sweltering truck southeast of San Antonio.

The club said the 19-year-old Kindel had an unspecified issue shortly after the team's plane took off from the Salt Lake City airport on Tuesday.

The plane returned to the airport while Kindel was tended to on the flight by the team's medical staff. He was taken by ambulance to the University of Utah hospital.

The team said Kindel was conscious, alert and stable.

Kindel, in his second season with the Penguins after being selected with the 11th overall pick in the 2025 draft, has two goals and two assists in nine games. He played 18 minutes, 53 seconds in a 5-4 loss to Utah on Monday night.

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Paris police said the curfew in two designated zones — around Place de la République and the Les Halles shopping district — had restored “public peace” overnight and would remain in place “for as long as necessary.” The curfew zones leave out other areas hit on Saturday, including the Champs-Elysées and the area around the Saint-Lazare train station and parts of the Rue de Turbigo in central Paris, where protesters set up barricades and lit fires.

In Lyon, one of France’s largest cities, authorities also renewed a curfew in the city center from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., saying no disturbances had been recorded overnight.

Marseille, France’s second-largest city, imposed a curfew for unaccompanied minors starting Tuesday night. Lecornu said the targeted curfews “helped keep last night calm.”

Student unions and groups from the “ yellow vest ” movement, whose protests over fuel prices shook France in 2018 and 2019, have called for another day of protests Saturday.

Soldiers from Sentinelle, the anti-terrorism operation that has patrolled French cities since the 2015 Islamic State group attacks, will take over guarding sensitive sites to free up more police officers and gendarmes for crowd control, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told lawmakers Tuesday.

“The deployment (of police forces) for next Saturday will be massive,” Lecornu told the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, without giving figures.

Suspect held over Limoges city hall fire

Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect in the arson attack that charred the historic city hall in Limoges, in central France, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that the person was being held in police custody and may not have acted alone.

French media reported that the suspect was close to radical environmentalist movements and was on a watchlist of people considered potential threats to national security. Darmanin declined to comment on the suspect’s profile, but said far-left groups appeared to have organized to attack symbols of the state throughout France.

Footage of the 143-year-old building in flames, its bell tower collapsing, spread widely online over the weekend. U.S. Vice President JD Vance shared it on X, blaming the unrest on immigration and writing, “I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.” President Donald Trump, who also relayed the video, said migrants had “taken over France.”

French officials have instead blamed the violence on far-left groups and opportunistic looters. At least 2,400 people were arrested after rioters in cities across France on Saturday clashed with police, set cars on fire and stormed public buildings, during nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.

On Sunday evening, small groups set fire to trash bins, bicycles and other objects in the streets and looted businesses in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other cities.

In Paris on Monday night, a police helicopter circled over Place de la République overnight, a central point in the weekend clashes, sweeping the square with a searchlight to check that the curfew was being respected.

Early Tuesday morning, workers used a crane to remove a giant fluorescent yellow vest draped over the statue at the center of the square, then used pressure washers to blast graffiti off the monument.

Louise Belanger, a volunteer who came to help with the cleanup, said she still could not apprehend the level of violence. “Normally when you are 20 you should be optimistic, you should be starting to build something (...) If you are only anger and violence, what are you going to do? This is sad for everybody in society,” she said.

Courts promise ‘extremely firm’ response

Speaking in Lille, northern France, Darmanin said 149 people had been jailed nationwide as of Tuesday at noon. According to the Justice Ministry, of the roughly 2,400 people arrested since Saturday, more than 800 have been sent before prosecutors, most of whom were either put on trial immediately or ordered to appear at a later hearing.

In Paris alone, about 300 people have been sent before prosecutors following the Oct. 17 protests, the city prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Darmanin said he had asked prosecutors to appeal any sentence they considered too lenient. “People with no criminal record ending up in prison for property crimes is extremely rare, if not unheard of,” he said, arguing that the French justice system will be “extremely firm.”

In Lille, he said, three men aged 20 to 25 with no criminal record were each sentenced to 10 months in prison and jailed immediately for looting a video game store in the city’s old town.

The National Assembly is launching an inquiry into the Oct. 17 violence and the authorities’ policing strategy, its speaker, Yaël Braun-Pivet, said, with findings expected “by the end of the year.”

Protests continued Tuesday on a smaller scale. Some 400 people, mostly high school and university students, marched in the western city of Rennes, and about 750 in Lyon, under pouring rain.

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The Gambia Reparations Commission said it received $2,573,414.10 from the sale of a mansion in Potomac, Maryland, owned by the former ruler of the tiny West African nation.

The U.S. Department of State had secured the forfeiture in 2022 after it filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging that the property was bought with proceeds of corruption. The property, according to the Department of State, was purchased through a trust set up by his wife.

“The funds were deposited directly into the Reparations Fund account at the Central Bank of Gambia and shall only be utilized for the payment of reparations by the commission,” said the commission in a statement. The commission was set up in 2023 to compensate victims of abuse under Jammeh's rule.

Jammeh ruled the country for over two decades. His rule was marked by arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and summary executions, victims and rights groups have claimed. He was forced out in 2017 when he rejected the 2016 election results, prompting the threat of military intervention by the regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States.

“The repatriation (is) ... an important step toward reparations for victims and survivors," Sirra Ndow, Director of the Alliance of Victim-Led Organizations (AVLO), said.

The company, run by Elon Musk, posted net income in the three months through September of $4.4 billion, or 35 cents per share. That's more than double what Wall Street expected, and reverses a loss from the year-earlier period. Revenue soared to $14.6 billion, up 161%.

“They beat across all metrics and the Starlink business looks to be accelerating,” said Dan Ives, an analyst at Yorkville Ives, adding about investors. “This is just what the Street wanted.”

The newly public company's results marked a sharp break from more than a year of losses.

The stock rose 4.6% in after-hours trading.

In an investor call, Musk said that for next month's launch of its Starship rocket, SpaceX will attempt to grab both the booster and ship with mechanical arms upon return to base, a key step toward demonstrating it can reuse the massive spacecraft.

“The only way that we can extend consciousness beyond Earth on a sustained basis is with a fully reusable orbital launch vehicle,” Musk said, calling the attempt, if successful, “a massive technology milestone.”

SpaceX hopes to get Starship on a regular launch pattern in preparation for NASA's upcoming lunar missions.

The company already has huge contracts with the federal government, and House Democrats have called for investigations into those contracts and Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk has spent $276 million since July in support of Republican candidates.

He recently drew criticism from politicians in Washington after speeds for a military version of SpaceX's satellite communications service were slowed for Ukraine following President Donald Trump's deal to get more diesel oil from Russia amid a push to end the war. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that it was Musk who ordered the slowdown, impeding Ukraine’s use of drones along the front. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Journal story.

Both Trump and Musk have denied responsibility for the slowdown.

As midterm elections near, Musk on Monday promised to give one share of SpaceX to “every kid in America” next year, though he provided no details on how the distribution would be carried out. With communities nationwide protesting the construction of large data centers and concerns about the safety of artificial intelligence, AI companies are trying to build some goodwill. Anthropic pledged to commit 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund.

In a filing for its initial public offering in June, SpaceX warned that a change in control of Congress could have a “material and adverse impact on our growth and competitive position.”

SpaceX shares have been under pressure over concerns that the company was spending too much on major projects to compete with rivals such as Anthropic. The company said capital expenditures totaled $19.6 billion last quarter, nearly triple the figure from a year earlier, and it forecast spending would grow to $35 billion to $40 billion in the current quarter.

Shares of SpaceX closed Tuesday at $147.79, down from a peak near $201 after its IPO, which made Musk the world’s first trillionaire at the time. But the share prices for SpaceX and Tesla have since dropped, reducing his net worth to $925 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

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According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials, 10 units responded to a fire near the 1200 block of Northwest 79th Street at approximately 3:21 a.m.

A man identified only as Roberto told Local 10 News that he was sleeping, and when he looked out his window, he saw the flames and firefighters at work.

When firefighters arrived, they found both the converted trailer and box truck fully engulfed in flames.

Crews quickly deployed hose lines and began battling the fire, officials said.

Authorities said firefighters were able to extinguish the flames and prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby vehicles, but everything beside the converted trailer was scorched.

After bringing the fire under control, crews applied specialized firefighting foam to reduce the chance of anything reigniting.

No injuries were reported.

A man who works in the junkyard said a battery that was charging exploded, however, the official cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The commission directed the county attorney to draft an ordinance establishing the temporary ban.

The proposal would apply only to unincorporated Broward County, much of which lies in the Everglades, because the county cannot regulate development decisions made by individual cities.

“It’s 3/4th of the county that’s out in the Everglades. That’s the part that is probably the most vulnerable,” said Commissioner Beam Furr.

Commissioner Lamar Fisher proposed the moratorium, saying the county needs to protect neighborhoods from the potential effects of large-scale data centers.

“Our goal is to be able to make sure we protect our residential folks,” Fisher said. “History has shown these large data centers don’t do that.”

Fisher also raised concerns about the facilities’ demands on local resources and the potential financial consequences for residents.

“Centers that create so much electricity, absorb so much water, and you’re hearing too that, does that affect the cost of our residential communities?” he asked.

Broward County joins other Florida counties taking steps to regulate large-scale data center development. Palm Beach County has enacted a one-year ban that runs through September 2027.

A state law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May preserves local governments’ authority to regulate data center development.

Vice Mayor Robert McKinzie, who represents areas that could be affected by the proposed moratorium, said he has concerns about data centers but cautioned against discouraging smaller technology companies from investing in local communities.

“Often times when something is offered or proposed to the BMSD (Broward Municipal Services District), there’s not very much there. This could be that opportunity that saves that community or sends it further,” McKinzie said.

During public comment, one speaker urged commissioners to make the restrictions permanent rather than temporary.

“We have Amazon just fine, and Google Gemini just fine without one of these,” the speaker said.

The moratorium is not yet in effect. The county attorney must draft the ordinance before commissioners can consider final approval.

Fisher expects the measure to return to the commission for a final vote next month, although it could be delayed until December.

Convencida de que su cuenta había sido comprometida, la víctima, del condado Jacksonville, en Carolina del Norte, hizo el 31 de julio de 2025 tres transferencias de $3,000 cada una a una cuenta de Wells Fargo a nombre de Benjamin Smalls, de acuerdo con un reporte policial.

Según el reporte, un video de seguridad muestra a Smalls usando una tarjeta de débito asociada a esa cuenta de Wells Fargo para comprar cinco money orders de $500 en el mostrador de servicio al cliente de un supermercado Publix en el condado Miami-Dade, ese mismo 31 de julio de 2025.

Los agentes arrestaron a Smalls a las 11:20 a.m. del lunes en su casa, ubicada en Northeast 24th Drive cerca de 41st Place, en las inmediaciones de la Homestead Air Reserve Base, y lo llevaron a la estación de policía para interrogarlo, según el reporte de arresto.

De acuerdo con el reporte del agente, Smalls dijo que “había abierto una cuenta en Wells Fargo con su propia información personal y que en ella se habían depositado $9,000”.

Según los registros de reclusos, Miami-Dade Corrections lo procesó poco después de las 2:05 p.m. del lunes en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, cerca de Doral.

Smalls enfrentaba tres cargos: hurto mayor en tercer grado, esquema organizado para defraudar y esquema para defraudar a una institución financiera. Su fianza se fijó en $7,500.

Carson Merlo, editor de la mesa de asignaciones de Local 10 News, contribuyó a este reporte.

El Miami Herald informó el lunes que los mensajes, que aparecieron en las historias de Instagram de Wilson, presuntamente incluían insultos racistas, lenguaje homofóbico, imágenes violentas de esclavitud y amenazas de violación y violencia contra Wilson y su familia.

Un portavoz de The Florida Bar confirmó que la cuenta de redes sociales vinculada a los mensajes pertenecía a McLendon, quien trabajaba como técnico informático para la organización. El Herald también informó que las cuentas de Instagram y LinkedIn de McLendon fueron eliminadas el lunes.

Según el Miami Herald, al menos 12 mensajes que Wilson aparentemente compartió en sus historias de Instagram contenían ataques racistas, entre ellos un insulto racial, la frase “ojalá mi bisabuelo le haya pegado bien duro al tuyo” y una referencia a Wilson como “maquinaria agrícola”.

En un comunicado enviado el martes a Local 10 News, un portavoz de The Florida Bar calificó los mensajes de “ética y moralmente reprobables” y dijo que violaban la política interna de la organización sobre el uso de redes sociales por parte de sus empleados.

“Mientras continúa la investigación interna, estamos comprometidos con hacer cumplir nuestras políticas y procedimientos, a la vez que garantizamos la protección de cualquier derecho al debido proceso”, indica en parte el comunicado.

Wilson llegó a Miami esta temporada procedente de Missouri, tras ser elegido el año pasado al segundo equipo All-SEC. Antes jugó en Georgia.

En esta temporada con los Hurricanes suma cuatro tacleadas y tres sacks.

Netflix said Tuesday it earned $3.66 billion, or 87 cents per share, for the July-September period. That's up 44% from $2.55 billion, or 59 cents per share, a year earlier.

Revenue rose 12% to $12.87 billion from $11.51 billion.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet predicted earnings of 82 cents per share on revenue of $12.87 billion.

“With Netflix under pressure to find alternative lines of revenue beyond subscriptions, it’s concerning that the company lowered its estimate for its ad business,” said Emarketer senior analyst Ross Benes. “Revamping content strategy is not enough to fix this challenge but it is a worthwhile start. Guidance is not as aggressive as investors have grown accustomed to.”

Last week, the Los Gatos, California-based company announced that it plans to lay off about 6% of its workforce, amounting to nearly 1,000 positions, as the company makes wider “organizational changes.” At the end of 2025, per regulatory filings, Netflix had about 16,000 full-time employees worldwide. The most recent layoff announcement marks the biggest round of cuts that the company has rolled out in years.

Netflix also announced last week that Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria will be replaced by Peter Rice. Bajaria was with Netflix for nearly a decade. Rice will lead Netflix’s global content organization, overseeing scripted and unscripted series, film, live events and more across all regions. He takes over the post on Oct. 26.

While Netflix has benefited from membership sign-ups and price increases, the company is dealing with intense competition in the streaming sector from companies such as Amazon’s Prime Video and Disney+. There's also Skydance, after Paramount’s $81 billion buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery put HBO Max and Paramount+ under the same roof. Netflix walked away from its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business in February.

The company is also competing for people's attention with YouTube and TikTok, where short videos are extremely popular.

For the current quarter, Netflix is forecasting revenue of $13.4 billion, slightly below analysts' expectations of $13.5 billion. New shows and movies coming this quarter include “East of Eden” and season four of “The Diplomat” as well as the sixth and final season of “Emily in Paris.”

Netflix also released “La Bola Negra,” a Spanish film about the interconnected lives of three gay men across a history that spans the early 20th century, the Spanish Civil War and the modern day. “La Bola Negra” — which cost $15 million to make — is expected to challenge “The Odyssey” for best picture.

Shares of Netflix fell $2.79, or 4.1%, to $65.90 in after-hours trading after the results came out.

As of Tuesday's close, Netflix's stock is down about 25% for the year to date. Analysts see several factors contributing to its difficulties.

“Investors are concerned about soft engagement trends, decelerating revenue growth, a slower margin expansion outlook, and most recently content executive leadership changes,” said John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds.

The market was made available on Sept. 30 and was slated to close on Jan. 31. It had more than $450,000 in volume before it was taken off Polymarket's international platform. The company's U.S. exchange is regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which bans trading related to “activity that is unlawful under Federal or State law.”

“Our primary goal at Polymarket is to bring objective, data-driven insight to the most important questions of our time,” a Polymarket spokesperson said Tuesday. “This market addressed whether the government would take action — a process that deserves scrutiny, particularly in a case of such serious concern. That said, we believe in the wisdom of crowds, have heard them loud and clear, and removed the market.”

Front Office Sports was the first to report on the contract.

Some outcry over the Polymarket contract has been aimed at its celebrity promoters. Philadelphia 76ers star LeBron James has an endorsement deal with Polymarket, and he recently appeared in a star-studded commercial that also included cameos by Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, Sue Bird and several celebrities.

Messages were left by the AP on Tuesday with representatives for James, Jeter, Manning and Bird.

Polymarket also has partnership agreements with the NHL, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, the UFC and ATP Tour. Messages were left by the AP seeking comment from each organization.

A spokesman for Spike Lee, who also appeared in the Polymarket commercial with James, said the director had no comment. Messages also were left with representatives for actors Craig Robinson, John Leguizamo and Alexandra Daddario — who were also part of the commercial with James.

A woman identified in court documents by the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month alleging that seven fraternity members sexually assaulted or exploited her in October 2024 and that Cornell mishandled her complaints. All of those men have denied her allegations, saying either that their interactions were consensual or that they weren’t involved.

Online critics characterized the Polymarket contract as degrading and questioned why celebrity ambassadors would associate themselves with the company. An online petition singled out James, Manning, Daddario and model Emily Ratajkowski while calling on other famous endorsers to cut ties with the company. A message was left seeking comment from a representative for Ratajkowski, who also appears in the celebrity-filled commercial with James.

Prediction markets provide an opportunity to trade on the result of future events. Sports account for a major portion of the volume generated by the array of typically yes-or-no question, depending on the platform.

When a U.S. Army sergeant was indicted earlier this year over bets on the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he was trading on Polymarket’s international platform. The Associated Press reported in April that 50 brand new accounts on Polymarket’s international platform placed substantial bets on a U.S.-Iran ceasefire in the hours, even minutes, before President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire on social media, raising concerns of insider trading.

Polymarket had an active market on its international platform on Tuesday that allowed customers to trade on whether Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff will be out by Oct. 31. It had more than $10,700 in volume.

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El incidente ocurrió el 11 de octubre alrededor de las 9:40 p.m., cerca de la intersección de Weaver Street y McLeod Avenue, en Daytona Beach.

Según el Daytona Beach Police Department, la víctima, cuyo padre es el rapero y ejecutivo musical de fama mundial Rick Ross, se presentó al día siguiente en la sede del DBPD para denunciar la agresión.

De acuerdo con el reporte de arresto, la víctima les dijo a los agentes que estaba en el lugar conversando con una mujer cuando el sospechoso llegó en un vehículo gris y se bajó gritando: “¿Así que en eso estamos?”. La víctima creyó que se refería a que el sospechoso y la mujer habían sido pareja.

La policía identificó al sospechoso como Don Roberts, de 20 años, residente de Daytona Beach.

Según la policía, tras bajarse del vehículo, Roberts se acercó a la víctima con una pistola color canela en la mano derecha, la levantó, le apuntó y le dijo: “No me importa quién sea tu papá, te mato aquí mismo”, indica el reporte.

La policía dijo que Roberts no disparó, sino que golpeó a la víctima en la cabeza con el arma, por lo que esta se subió a su carro y se fue del lugar.

Los investigadores indicaron que, tras denunciar el incidente, la víctima logró identificar a Roberts en una rueda de reconocimiento fotográfica.

La policía no informó cómo ni cuándo logró localizar y detener a Roberts.

Según los registros de la cárcel, enfrenta cargos graves de asalto agravado con arma mortal sin intención de matar y agresión agravada con arma mortal.

Hasta la tarde del martes, Roberts permanecía en la Volusia County Branch Jail sin derecho a fianza.

A principios de este mes, Ross acaparó titulares tras ser arrestado en el condado Miami-Dade en relación con un caso de violencia doméstica.

Al salir de la cárcel, Ross les dijo a los periodistas que lo esperaban que era “totalmente inocente” de las acusaciones en su contra.

The Republican governor said she was commuting Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life in prison without parole. Johnson was convicted of the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy. Johnson has long maintained he is innocent.

“When presented with Mr. Johnson’s case, I had concerns there was not enough direct evidence to carry out the most serious punishment, death,” Ivey said in a statement. “My decision is not a determination of innocence, but a recognition that the circumstances of this case justify commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment, without possibility of parole.”

Ivey has overseen 27 executions during her time as governor. She has commuted the death sentence of three death row inmates.

Hardy was shot twice in the head while working off-duty security at a hotel. Johnson has maintained he was on the other side of town at the time of the shooting.

Ty Alper, one of Toforest Johnson’s attorneys, said they are grateful to Ivey for “diligently reviewing Toforest’s case and taking action to spare an innocent man from execution.” Alper said the fight to overturn the conviction will continue.

“Toforest Johnson is innocent. Now it is up to the courts to overturn his conviction and grant him a new trial. We will keep fighting until he is home with his family,” Alper said.

There has been a long-running legal effort to win a new trial in the case that has garnered national attention and was the subject of a podcast. Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr, who was elected in 2018, has supported Johnson’s bid for a new trial. Carr wrote in a 2024 court filing that the “evidence in this case has unraveled over 20 years.”

Carr said in 2024 that credible alibi witnesses place Johnson elsewhere at the time of the crime. He said there are multiple reasons to doubt the key prosecution witness, a woman who “claimed she overheard Johnson confess to the murder on a three-way phone call on which she was eavesdropping.”

The key prosecution witness at Johnson's 1998 trial testified that, while eavesdropping on a phone call, she heard a man she believed was Johnson admitting to the crime. She was paid $5,000 in 2001 for her testimony, and Johnson’s lawyers argue that the state withheld evidence of monetary motivation for the testimony.

A number of former judges and prosecutors have joined those seeking a new trial for Johnson amid questions about his conviction more than 20 years ago. Former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, former Chief Justices Sonny Hornsby and Drayton Nabers, and several former judges and prosecutors have submitted briefs or written editorials supporting a new trial.

The Gellert Global Group, a third-generation family business that imports Canadian cheese, took its case to the U.S. Court of International Trade, a specialized court in New York.

In August, Trump reached back to Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose the tariffs on Canada, prompting dollar-for-dollar retaliation from Ottawa and straining already-tense relations between the neighbors and longtime allies. The president last month escalated the conflict by announcing an outright ban on nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian products, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.

The president’s Section 338 tariff authority had never been used in a trade dispute, let alone tested in court.

"No president should have the power to pull a dormant statute off the shelf and use it to impose sweeping tariffs or import bans without the limits Congress required,” said Sara Albrecht, chair of the Liberty Justice Center, a libertarian advocacy group that is representing the Gellert firm and which successfully challenged previous Trump tariffs before the Supreme Court earlier this year.

The White House said the administration would vigorously defend Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports and considers Section 338 appropriate to counter what the administration considers Canadian discrimination against American dairy, alcohol and auto exports.

Since returning to the White House last year, Trump has sought to build a wall of protective tariffs — import taxes — around the U.S. economy. The centerpiece of the policy originally was his use of a 1977 law to declare America's longstanding trade deficits a national emergency, justifying double-digit tariffs on almost every country. But the Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February, and the Trump administration was forced to refund billions of dollars to the importers that paid them.

Trump has since looked for other legal authority to tax imports. In July, for example, he hit dozens of U.S. trading partners with tariffs of 10% to 12.5%, charging that they had not done enough to crack down on imports produced by forced labor. Those tariffs are also being challenged in court.

Then he invoked Section 338 to sanction Canada for allegedly discriminating against U.S. dairy, auto and alcoholic beverages.

As Section 338 sat on the books unused for decades, Congress passed new trade laws. Some of them ceded to the president tariff power, which the Constitution originally granted to Congress. But the new laws also limited the president’s authority to certain circumstances — including dealing with national security threats and foreign currency crises — and required the government to carry out investigations and meet other procedural requirements beforehand.

The Liberty Justice Center argues that the newer trade legislation superseded the president's Section 338 tariff authority and rendered it obsolete.

The astrophysicist plans to host his lecture about the ongoing search for habitable planets on March 15 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at 1700 Washington Ave.

Ticketmaster starts selling VIP packages at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, and the rest on Friday. Live Nation’s presale starts on Thursday for those who have the Live Nation All Access membership.

El caso es el ejemplo más reciente de la intervención de los tribunales para corregir desequilibrios en las plataformas que afectan a la política y a las elecciones.

La demanda fue impulsada por la campaña de Lula el 15 de octubre, cuando acusó a la empresa tecnológica propietaria de Instagram, Facebook y WhatsApp de usar algoritmos sesgados y restricciones de IA para favorecer a Bolsonaro. El lunes, cientos de personas protestaron frente a la oficina de la compañía en el área metropolitana de Sao Paulo.

Meta indicó que había “completado la implementación de medidas para cumplir la directiva del tribunal electoral”. Añadió que las restricciones ordenadas por el tribunal “no afectan a las publicaciones orgánicas”.

Bolsonaro obtuvo la mayor cantidad de votos en la primera vuelta de las elecciones el 4 de octubre, con 47% frente al 45% de Lula, y encuestas y analistas sugieren que será una contienda reñida hasta el último minuto.

Meta señaló que ha aplicado medidas integrales para garantizar el cumplimiento de las normas sobre publicidad electoral y salvaguardar la integridad del proceso democrático del país. También afirmó que implementó un sistema específico de revisión humana, en el que cualquier bloqueo o limitación automática aplicada a cuentas de anuncios de campaña presidencial debe someterse a una evaluación manual en un plazo de dos horas.

Meta insistió en que sus recientes incidentes operativos se deben a limitaciones técnicas y no a ninguna parcialidad. Volvió a negar cualquier acusación de sesgo político, manipulación o interferencia intencional en las elecciones de Brasil.

Tatiana Cochlar, portavoz del tribunal electoral de Brasil, confirmó que se recibió la respuesta de Meta y añadió que en las siguientes horas del martes se espera que representantes de la empresa y de los dos equipos de las campañas presidenciales se reúnan con un juez en Brasilia, la capital, para analizar la situación.

El caso en Brasil refleja precedentes en Europa, donde el aparato estatal también intervino. En Alemania, un fallo judicial de 2019 obligó a Facebook a restablecer una página política bloqueada para proteger la igualdad política. Cinco años después, Rumania anuló su elección presidencial después de que redes ocultas de bots en TikTok impulsaran a un candidato prorruso. Posteriormente, el país europeo aprobó leyes que exigen códigos de seguimiento en los mensajes políticos en redes sociales.

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He did it in “Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing,” a poem that later became a song and is now widely called the Black National Anthem. The original manuscript along with other papers by Johnson, who was Black, are held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Johnson wrote “Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing” in Jacksonville, Florida, as part of a celebration in 1900 for Abraham Lincoln's birthday. His brother, John Rosamond Johnson, later composed the music. It first was performed by Black children in a Jacksonville school where James Weldon Johnson was principal.

The song was later adopted by the NAACP and sung at marches and other events during the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Singer Kim Weston performed it in 2001 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the first inauguration of President George W. Bush. It has become a standard in Black churches and in Black History Month programs across the United States.

Yollie Copeland, a licensed tour guide in Jacksonville and owner of Explore Jax Core, says part of the song's legacy is that after the initial performance, it was passed from generation to generation.

“Those same children and students (as adults) taught the song to their students," Copeland says. "James Weldon Johnson writes that he kind of forgot about the song. Decades later they were singing his song. He just couldn’t believe it caught.”

The song's lyrics tell of perseverance leading to freedom and “liberty” with Lincoln's 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves held in the Confederate states. Lyrics include “Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod felt in the days when hope unborn had died. Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed?”

That verse is followed by “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered. Out from the gloomy past, ’til now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.”

Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister and public theologian at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, calls “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” an “American treasure."

“This is a song about my faith, our faith," she says. "The faith is in the God whose destination is liberation, the God whose purpose is to free people, all the people. So, I think America could find its hope in this song that is honest about trouble and honest about pain and honest about struggle.”

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The Miami Herald reported on Monday that messages, which appeared on Wilson’s Instagram stories, reportedly included racist slurs, homophobic language, violent slavery imagery and threats of rape and violence against Wilson and his family.

A Florida Bar spokesperson confirmed that the social media account implicated in the messages belonged to McLendon, who worked as a computer technician for the organization. The Herald also reported that McClendon’s Instagram and LinkedIn accounts were taken down Monday.

The Miami Herald reported that at least 12 messages apparently shared by Wilson on his Instagram Stories contained racist abuse, including a racial slur, the statement: “I hope my great grand daddy beat urs so hard,” and a reference to Wilson as “farming equipment.”

In a statement released to Local 10 News on Tuesday, a Florida Bar spokesperson called the messages “ethically and morally reprehensible” and said they violated its internal social media policy for employees.

“As the internal investigation continues, we are committed to enforcing our policies and procedures while making sure that any due process rights are protected,” the statement read, in part.

Wilson transferred to Miami from Missouri this season after earning second-team All-SEC honors last year. He previously played at Georgia.

He has four tackles and three sacks with the Hurricanes this season.

Angel Reese fully realized her team couldn’t afford to fall behind by two games to the Golden State Valkyries in the best-of-seven WNBA Finals as the series shifts to Atlanta, so she led the charge on both ends and grabbed back some momentum for the Dream as they evened the series at one game apiece Monday night.

“Even from going in the locker room, first person I made eye contact with was Angel and I’m like: ‘Oh, I like this look. I like this look,'” Smesko, Atlanta’s second-year coach, said with a chuckle. “She started off aggressive. One thing we try to do is just give her a couple more breaks during the game, so that she can just keep that intensity going throughout the entire game, and she was just fantastic. Just on both ends of the floor, just a superior performance.”

The Dream won Game 2 79-65 as Reese delivered 30 points and 16 rebounds and Rhyne Howard set a WNBA Finals single-game record with six steals. That smothering defense flustered the Valkyries into committing 19 turnovers that led to 24 points for Atlanta. Game 3 is Wednesday night.

Now that her team has finally won its first Finals game after an 0-10 showing, which spanned three previous berths, Reese understands the defense and grit it will take to slow down Gabby Williams and a Golden State team that takes the same kind of pride in its top-notch defense — and did all season long to earn the league's No. 2 seed in just the second year for the franchise.

Reese felt she had failed the Dream when the Vallkyries buckled down on her leading to a scoreless second half in a 68-64 Game 1 defeat Saturday. She made sure it went differently Monday.

“I was hungry. I wanted one and we let one slip away and you can’t do that, especially on the road,” Reese said. “This is a good environment and a good team. We all came together and we were pissed. We felt disappointed. We felt embarrassed, and we didn’t like the outcome of that last game.”

After Game 2, Golden State point guard Veronica Burton felt similar emotions given her team's season-high turnovers, noting: “It starts with me.”

“It’s controllable, it’s definitely controllable,” coach Natalie Nakase said afterward.

“Just credit to them their effort, their hustle, their fight. I thought they did an excellent job getting into those lanes and creating those turnovers.”

The 24-year-old Reese became the youngest player to have a 30-point, 15-rebound performance in a playoff game and one of just six players ever to accomplish the feat in the postseason — joining Jonquel Jones of Connecticut in 2019 and Breanna Stewart for Seattle in 2020 as the only others to do so on the Finals stage.

At every chance, Reese called for the ball.

“Just the energy that she brings for our team, we feed off of that,” said guard Jordin Canada, who contributed 13 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds. “So when she’s in that mode, we know we’ve got to give her the ball to some form of capacity, and try to give her as much space as she can to attack and do what she does best.”

The Dream will now be counting on their home crowd after dealing with the noise from Golden State's loyal, supportive “Ballhalla” fans. Games 3 and 4 were moved to State Farm Arena to accommodate more people — the Hawks' arena can host some 17,000 — than Atlanta's regular 3,500-seat Gateway Center Arena. Chase Center, meanwhile, has attracted sellout crowds of 18,064 for every Valkyries game since they started as an expansion franchise last year.

One of these teams will capture its first championship, and Reese wants to lead the way in the Dream taking the next big step to building something special for the long term.

“I think it's just the start,” she said. “Throughout the entire year we just continued to stick together and know who we are and we have the city behind us, we have the team, we have the coaches and everybody rally behind us so it feels really good. It's just the next step of who Atlanta is and who Atlanta is going to continue to be for the next couple years.”

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Executive VP of club business, international and league events Peter O’Reilly said officials are collaborating with Parisian and national authorities overseas, along with the U.S. State Department. League officials, including senior VP of security Cathy Lanier, have been on the ground in France, according to O'Reilly.

“There’s nothing more important from our standpoint than the teams’ security, the fans’ security — everybody involved with this game,” O’Reilly said at the league’s annual fall owners meeting. “Obviously being very vigilant in everything we do, in all of our planning on an hour-by-hour basis, working closely with the two teams.”

O’Reilly said there was never a point that the game was in danger of not being played at Stade de France, which is in the outskirts of Paris in Saint-Denis. He cited other sporting events ongoing in the city, including a Champions League soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona on Tuesday night.

The NFL has in the past moved games to avoid getting in the way of local response to an unforeseen event, and officials believe that is not an issue for the league's debut in France.

"We feel confident that we would not have any impact on the broader resources needed," O'Reilly said. “That’s always top of mind for us, and we feel confident that we wouldn’t be depleting resources in a negative way around this game.”

Rioters clashed with police, set cars on fire, stormed public buildings and engulfed a historic city hall in flames in France’s worst civil unrest in years as violence and looting swept through major cities.

About 2,400 people were arrested over the weekend, and authorities said thousands of businesses were damaged or looted. The rioting overshadowed demonstrations against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools in which hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully.

The Saints traveled directly to Paris after playing at the New York Giants and are practicing in the area this week. The Steelers are set to travel closer to kickoff.

International play questions

With the collective bargaining agreement allowing for up to 10 international games, O'Reilly said that number is being considered for next season. There are a record nine on the schedule this year.

Where those games take place is still being discussed.

“We like continuity, but we are looking at new regions, and Asia would be one of them,” O'Reilly said.

After so much talk leading up to and coming out of the game in Melbourne, Australia, about the Los Angeles Rams waiting until late to fly there — and lost 27-7 to San Francisco — the NFL does not appear close to dictating when teams must travel.

“That is the discretion of the club,” O'Reilly said. “As it stands today, you let the football decisions reside at the football level in terms of how they want to plan and prepare for a game coming in. That’s not something we’re ruling out, and there could be discussion on is there some standardization in the future. But right now, that’s the prerogative.”

49ers owner Jed York returns from his suspension

With his suspension over Tuesday, 49ers owner Jed York was in attendance for the fall meeting.

York was suspended for six games and fined $500,000 for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy after being arrested in a prostitution sting in Ohio in August. He pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors but was still punished by the league and stayed away from the 49ers during their 6-0 start.

York didn’t attend the owners’ meetings in Atlanta the week of his arrest.

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The network has been entangled in legal action with Trump’s administration ever since the president issued its reporters a sudden ban from White House grounds a month ago, along with those from MS NOW and Politico, calling their content “fake news.” Last week, a federal judge granted the news outlets their request for a preliminary injunction against the government ban as the case moves through the legal system.

But that only addresses part of the problem.

The White House has continued to bar CNN from taking its place in TV pool coverage of Trump’s travel on Air Force One. And so the network may need to take additional action, said Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., an attorney for CNN, in a letter to Justice Department attorney Michael K. Velchik.

Media attorney says the spaces in question ‘belong to all Americans’

Boutrous noted in the letter late Monday that CNN has traditionally had “uninterrupted access to the Oval Office and Air Force One for 45 years. That is because those spaces belong not to any particular president or administration but to all Americans, and CNN and other members of the press serve as surrogates for the public when covering the White House.”

Now, though, the White House is engaging in “what appears to be a new unstated policy to interfere with CNN’s ability to fulfill its duties” as part ot the video pool. The pool consists of the five major U.S. networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox, who alternate assignments and share video.

Boutrous noted that in his most recent ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly had found the three media outlets were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the White House violated the First Amendment and due process with Trump’s ban, and thus were entitled to the relief they requested.

Still, though, the White House has selectively denied CNN access to cover the president’s travel on Air Force One — no fewer than four times to date, Boutrous wrote.

Such “efforts to retaliate and discriminate against CNN based on the content of its news coverage are mistaken, counterproductive, and unlawful," the attorney wrote.

“If these actions persist, CNN will have no choice but to return to the court to defend its rights, and it is prepared to fight as long as is necessary to secure them."

The Justice Department did not respond to a query from The Associated Press seeking reaction to the letter, in which Boutrous gave the White House two days to respond.

The showdown began in September

The extraordinary showdown between Trump and CNN, whose personalities he has mocked publicly, began more than a month ago. Trump announced on Sept. 18 that he was barring the network’s reporters, along with those from MS NOW and Politico, from White House grounds. The next day, journalists found their passes had been deactivated.

It was a marked escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage he finds objectionable, and a test of First Amendment protections in the United States.

Kelly first granted relief from the ban for two weeks, then granted the open-ended preliminary injunction last week.

And yet, the letter said, the network had been denied access to Air Force One in September for Trump’s visit to the U.N. General Assembly, for a football game in Knoxville, Tennessee, and for a trip to Texas and Oklahoma. This month, it was denied access to the plane for a trip to Georgia and Florida. In all cases, CNN was the scheduled pool network.

There has, however, been no explanation from the White House, Boutrous wrote. “In fact, the White House has not even directly stated to CNN that it is being excluded from the Oval Office or Air Force One."

Según una declaración jurada de arresto de 21 páginas de la Broward Sheriff’s Office, Brian Louis Sguros, de 35 años, está acusado de aprovechar su cargo de policía para acceder a información sobre un hombre cuyo cadáver ayudó a descubrir en julio de 2022.

Los investigadores afirman que Sguros luego tomó el control de la casa del hombre en Lauderhill, pasó años haciéndole mejoras e intentó establecer un interés económico sobre la propiedad.

La investigación comenzó después de que una disputa por la titularidad de la vivienda derivara en acusaciones de robo de identidad y conducta oficial indebida.

Policía descubre el cadáver durante un chequeo de bienestar

De acuerdo con la declaración jurada, Sguros y otro policía de Lauderhill respondieron el 11 de julio de 2022 a un chequeo de bienestar en el 4551 NW 12th St.

Una vecina había llamado a las autoridades preocupada porque llevaba unas dos semanas sin ver al dueño de la casa, Dennis Ionis West.

Los agentes entraron por la puerta principal, que estaba sin seguro, y encontraron el cuerpo de West cerca de la entrada.

La autopsia determinó que West murió de una enfermedad cardiovascular, y su muerte se declaró natural.

Los investigadores indicaron que las imágenes de las cámaras corporales muestran a Sguros participando en la respuesta, pero nada indica que les dijera a los otros agentes que conocía a West.

Sin embargo, registros posteriores revelaron que Sguros se identificó como amigo de West al comunicarse con la oficina del médico forense.

También se ofreció a encargarse del funeral de West si no se localizaba a sus familiares.

Con el tiempo, los investigadores determinaron que West tenía varios familiares vivos y herederos legales.

Según la policía, el agente ocupó la casa semanas después de la muerte

De acuerdo con la declaración jurada, Sguros reconoció en documentos judiciales presentados bajo juramento que tomó posesión de la propiedad de West alrededor del 1 de agosto de 2022, apenas unas semanas después de la muerte del hombre.

“Yo me preguntaba cómo era posible que, si Dennis acababa de morir, él consiguiera la casa tan rápido”, dijo Lethel Haye, vecina de West. “Estaba sacando todas las tablas podridas y todo lo de adentro y poniéndolo afuera, y en un momento hasta estaban viviendo ahí”.

Según la declaración jurada, Sguros aseguró haber pasado más de dos años limpiando, asegurando y renovando la casa.

En documentos judiciales, afirmó que invirtió al menos $214,000 de su propio dinero en la propiedad y que elevó su valor a unos $500,000.

Las autoridades indicaron que Sguros sostuvo que su trabajo tenía como fin proteger la casa vacía de invasores y actividades delictivas.

Según los investigadores, los registros de propiedad muestran que Sguros pagó los impuestos de la vivienda, que seguía registrada a nombre del patrimonio de West.

Los registros también muestran que hizo un pago de más de $2,500 a una cuenta de servicios públicos que seguía a nombre de West casi dos años después de su muerte.

En febrero de 2025, Sguros y otra persona presentaron documentos para intentar reclamar la propiedad por posesión adversa, según la declaración jurada.

De acuerdo con el documento, esa solicitud por sí sola no les otorgaba la propiedad legal de la casa.

Presuntamente usó la identidad del difunto para un permiso de construcción

Los investigadores dijeron haber descubierto una solicitud de permiso de construcción de agosto de 2024 para un proyecto de $8,000 destinado a reemplazar ventanas y puertas exteriores en la casa de West.

Según las autoridades, los documentos señalaban a West como dueño de la propiedad, incluían los datos de su licencia de conducir y contenían una firma supuestamente suya.

El documento también indicaba que West se había presentado ante una notaria en agosto de 2024, más de dos años después de su muerte.

Los investigadores afirmaron que el número de teléfono que aparecía a nombre de West en la solicitud era en realidad de Sguros.

De acuerdo con la declaración jurada, los detectives entrevistaron a un empleado de Active Builders Inc., la empresa a cargo del proyecto de renovación.

Según las autoridades, el empleado les dijo que Sguros le entregó los documentos necesarios para el permiso, entre ellos una copia de la licencia de conducir de West.

El empleado aseguró que creía que West estaba vivo y era el dueño de la propiedad por la información que le dio Sguros, según la declaración jurada.

Los investigadores también revisaron mensajes de texto entre el empleado y Sguros que contenían imágenes de la identificación del difunto y de los documentos del permiso de construcción, informaron las autoridades.

Según la declaración jurada, la notaria cuyo nombre figuraba en los documentos les dijo a los investigadores que no reconocía esos papeles y que la firma no era suya.

Además, señaló que el sello notarial parecía más pequeño que el que ella usa, según los detectives.

Investigan búsquedas en bases de datos policiales

La declaración jurada también acusa a Sguros de acceder indebidamente a bases de datos policiales para obtener información sobre West.

Según los investigadores, los registros muestran que Sguros hizo siete búsquedas con la computadora asignada por el Lauderhill Police Department entre julio de 2022 y enero de 2023.

Esas búsquedas incluyeron los datos de la licencia de conducir de West y los registros de su vehículo.

De acuerdo con los investigadores, los resultados contenían información personal como la dirección de West, su fecha de nacimiento, su número de Seguro Social y los datos de su vehículo.

Una de las búsquedas, hecha en enero de 2023, identificaba específicamente a West como fallecido, indicaron las autoridades.

Una disputa por la propiedad desató la investigación

Según la declaración jurada, el caso salió a la luz después de que Equinox Realty Holdings se involucrara con la propiedad.

El documento indica que la empresa localizó a los herederos de West y adquirió sus derechos de propiedad sobre la casa.

Posteriormente, un tribunal del condado Broward reconoció los derechos de los herederos y las transferencias a Equinox.

Los investigadores indicaron que Sguros terminó entregando las llaves de la casa, pero pidió que le reembolsaran las mejoras que asegura haber hecho.

En febrero de 2026, presentó una demanda civil para obtener un gravamen equitativo sobre la propiedad, alegando el dinero que dice haber gastado en las renovaciones, según los registros.

El abogado de la empresa presentó luego una queja ante el Lauderhill Police Department, en la que expresó su preocupación por la participación de Sguros con la propiedad y por el uso de información obtenida en el ejercicio de sus funciones.

En la investigación terminaron participando el Deed Fraud Task Force de la Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office y detectives de la Broward Sheriff’s Office.

Cinco cargos penales detallados en la declaración jurada

Según la declaración jurada, los investigadores encontraron causa probable para presentar cinco cargos contra Sguros:

• Conducta oficial indebida
• Uso delictivo de la información de identificación de una persona fallecida
• Uso delictivo de información de identificación personal
• Delito contra un usuario de computadoras
• Uso ilegal de un dispositivo de comunicación bidireccional

“Tenemos a los policías en la más alta estima porque juran proteger al público”, dijo el tasador de propiedades del condado Broward, Marty Kiar, en una declaración a Local 10 News. “Este caso es muy preocupante porque a este agente se le acusa de usar su cargo para defraudar al público. Quiero agradecer a nuestro BCPA Crimes Against Property Team y a la Broward Sheriff’s Office por su investigación minuciosa y detallada”.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because conversations between the league and team were to remain private.

In a statement released Tuesday, the NFL said officials had been in contact with Eagles medical personnel and the Cleveland Clinic in London throughout the process of Hurts being treated.

“The league’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Allen Sills, arranges for medical resources with leading providers in every international market with approval from the NFL Players Association,” the league said. “Medical care for players is provided by club medical staff in coordination with independent doctors.”

Sills and other officials are expected to address reporters at the league's annual fall meeting later Tuesday in New York.

Hurts is on injured reserve and expected to miss the rest of the season after a blood clot in his left calf traveled to his lungs. The Eagles and agent Nicole Lynn said Monday that Hurts has deep vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli.

His treatment involves blood thinners, and Hurts will not be allowed to participate in any football activities until he is off them.

Hurts played in London against Jacksonville on Oct. 11, three days after informing medical staff of the injury after practice. He was initially diagnosed by specialists in London with a left calf superficial vein thrombosis.

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Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Beatrice Butchko Sanchez sided with George Morgan, the candidate who asked the court to disqualify Desulme for the way he paid his qualifying fees.

“The payment was made with a bank-certified check drawn from my campaign account rather than my campaign check,” Desulme wrote in a statement in reaction to the ruling.

Related story: Judge rules North Miami mayor ‘shall be disqualified as a candidate’

Florida election law requires that the fee be paid from a campaign account and signed by the campaign’s treasurer.

After the judge’s ruling, Miami-Dade County released a “notice to North Miami voters” that the mayoral election was “an unopposed candidate race” and that a “vote cast in this race will not change the outcome as the remaining candidate is deemed by law to be elected.”

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The filing comes after Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Beatrice Butchko Sanchez ruled on Monday that Desulme wasn’t qualified for the Nov. 3rd election.

“Mayor Desulme is in the process of appealing that decision,” Attorney Benedict P. Kuehne, who represents Desulme, wrote, according to the counterclaim.

Desulme accused George Morgan, a mayoral candidate, of not paying the qualifying fee in full. Morgan asked the court to disqualify Desulme over the way he paid his qualifying fees,

“The payment was made with a bank-certified check drawn from my campaign account rather than my campaign check,” Desulme wrote in a statement in reaction to the ruling.

Related story: Judge rules North Miami mayor ‘shall be disqualified as a candidate’

Florida election law requires that the fee be paid from a campaign account and signed by the campaign’s treasurer.

After the judge’s ruling, Miami-Dade County released a “notice to North Miami voters” that the mayoral election was “an unopposed candidate race” and that a “vote cast in this race will not change the outcome as the remaining candidate is deemed by law to be elected.”

Related story: North Miami mayor to appeal judge’s disqualification to run for re-election

The supervisor of elections sent the vote-bymail ballots, and early voting started on Monday.

“The cost, burden, and disruption of having voters cast ballots for an unqualified candidate deprives the North Miami citizens of their right to elect their office holders,” Kuehne wrote, according to Desulme’s counterclaim.

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The case is the latest example of courts intervening to fix platform imbalances impacting politics and elections.

The suit was triggered by Lula’s campaign on Oct. 15, when it accused the tech company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of using biased algorithms and AI restrictions to favor Bolsonaro. On Monday, hundreds of people protested in front of the company’s office in metropolis Sao Paulo.

Meta said it had “completed the implementation of measures to comply with the directive from the electoral court.” It added the restrictions ordered by the court “do not affect organic posts.”

Bolsonaro won the most votes in the first round of the elections on Oct. 4, with 47% to Lula's 45%, with polls and analysts suggesting they will be in a tight race for victory until the last minute.

Meta said it has enforced comprehensive measures to enforce compliance with electoral advertisement regulations and safeguard the integrity of the nation’s democratic process. It also said it implemented a dedicated human review system, under which any automatic blocks or limitations placed on presidential campaign ad accounts must undergo manual evaluation within two hours.

Meta insisted its recent operational incidents come from technical limitations rather than any partiality. It once again denied any allegations of political bias, manipulation or intentional interference in Brazil's elections.

Tatiana Cochlar, a spokesperson for Brazil’s electoral court, confirmed Meta’s response was received and added that later on Tuesday representatives of the company and the two presidential campaigns are expected to meet with a judge in capital Brasilia to discuss the situation.

The case in Brazil mirrors precedents in Europe where the state apparatus also intervened. In Germany, a 2019 court ruling forced Facebook to restore a blocked political page to protect political equality. Five years later, Romania annulled its presidential election after hidden TikTok bot networks boosted a pro-Russia candidate. The European nation later passed legislation mandating tracking codes on political social media messaging.

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The ad began circulating overnight, just two weeks before Election Day. Acton, Ohio's former public health director, is in a tight race with Republican billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, a 2024 presidential candidate who has benefited from spending on his behalf that has exceeded $120 million.

The online ad, which first surfaced in a post by an Ohio political blogger, spread quickly across social media platforms. It does not include the “paid for” tag that is legally required to air on TV so viewers can know its source.

It was not immediately clear who produced it or paid for it, or how it was accessed for posting. It also was not clear if Acton's mother was paid for the one-minute spot. Her last known telephone number has been disconnected.

Acton suggested Ramaswamy was behind the ad.

“I won’t normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is just something I’m complaining about, who today just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse," she told Spectrum News, a cable news outlet in Ohio.

She said Ramaswamy was accused of similar personal attacks during his run for the GOP presidential nomination: “This is a lifelong pattern with my opponent.”

Ramaswamy’s campaign issued a statement that did not address whether he was responsible for the ad or disavow it. In the statement, campaign spokeswoman Connie Luck said Acton “has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of.”

In a statement released by Acton's campaign, her brother, Philip Stearns, said the two were removed from their mother Donna Arthur's custody as children after their stepfather, Arthur's husband, was indicted for raping Acton as a child. Acton has not seen Arthur, whose last known address was in Pennsylvania, since they were in a courtroom together in 1978.

According to police and court documents obtained by The Associated Press, Cledith Arthur was arrested and charged with the rape of his stepdaughter, then 12, in July 1978, after Acton's biological father reported his alleged conduct to authorities. The abuse allegedly happened from December 1976 to April 1978.

Cledith Arthur pleaded not guilty. He was indicted by a grand jury that September, but failed to show at a court hearing and remained a fugitive until at least 1981. He has since died.

Stearns accused Ramaswamy of being behind the ad, saying the Republican had stooped "to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at 12 years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point.”

Acton's mother does not mention Ramaswamy's name in the ad, but she suggests that Acton has misrepresented her opponent and the time her family was homeless and living in a tent when she was a child __ an experience Stearns corroborates.

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Associated Press writer Ali Swenson in New York contributed to this report.

A government decree calls for the deployment of an additional 500 soldiers to Milan through the end of the year, requiring parents to pay for damage caused by minors and making it easier to prosecute minors over 14.

In a video posted on social media, Premier Giorgia Meloni said the presence of so many young rioters was “painful and frightening.”

“Young people … came to the square to smash things, steal and film themselves doing it,” Meloni said. “This is a phenomenon that we must address seriously, also to prevent those images from becoming a model for others to imitate.”

The decree also creates a new criminal offense of violent participation in a demonstration, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 20,000 euros ($22,500). Penalties increase if offenders cover their faces or someone is injured.

Protesters will be responsible for paying for property damage, with parents liable for damage caused by minors, Meloni said.

The decree, which must be converted to law by parliament within 60 days, also automatically presumes that anyone over age 14 is capable of understanding their own actions, unless proven otherwise. That until now was up to a judge to determine.

Meloni also said the government would add new beds to detention facilities and judges to the juvenile justice system.

Police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse rioters, many with their faces covered, who clashed with police, looted stores and set property on fire in central Milan on Saturday. Looting and violence continued on Sunday, with authorities saying more than 100 police officers were injured over two days.

Milan police said 2,000 youths participated in the riots Saturday night, including a large presence of naturalized Italians born to foreign parents as well as foreign nationals. Of the roughly 50 people arrested over the weekend, more than 30 are minors.

The unrest coincided with nationwide demonstrations in neighboring France against rising living costs and in support of high school students’ grievances. French police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent protesters who joined the rallies.

Her secondhand account of the president's remark, which Cornell disputes, comes as faculty prepare for a potential vote of no confidence in the Ivy League school’s leadership. She sent a letter to faculty leaders last week, which The Associated Press obtained Tuesday.

The sexual assault allegations by the former student, called Jane Doe in court documents, have sparked campus protests, renewed scrutiny of the university’s disciplinary system and a state investigation into the alleged October 2024 assault.

In the letter, Jane Doe said her sorority president told her that Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff questioned why she waited until the following month to report being assaulted. The sorority leader, who spoke with Kotlikoff in November 2024, interpreted his remark as casting doubt on her story.

“President Kotlikoff’s initial response was along the lines of, ‘Why did she wait so long to report it?’” Jane Doe wrote in the letter. She said the conversation made her less confident that the administration could handle what happened with the sensitivity and fairness she expected.

Cornell’s dean of faculty, however, offered a different account of the conversation. In an email Tuesday to faculty senators and verified by the AP, professor Chris Schaffer said another official who was present at the conversation recalled Kotlikoff asking why bystanders had not reported the alleged assault sooner through the school’s anonymous tip line, especially since the allegations were already circulating on social media.

Schaffer said he waited to share Jane Doe’s letter with faculty senators until he could get another account of the conversation. He said he forwarded the letter to university lawyers, who passed it on to an independent team investigating Cornell’s response.

Schaffer said at a meeting last week that he was against the proposed no-confidence resolution, saying it identified no specific failures or fixes, but acknowledged faculty frustration. “The anger in our community is justified and I share it.”

Kotlikoff did not respond Tuesday to an email inquiry about Jane Doe’s letter. A statement from a university spokesperson also disputed her account of the conversation, saying Kotlikoff was asking about bystanders' actions rather than Jane Doe.

Her letter, transmitted through her attorney and first reported by The New York Times, comes as Cornell faculty consider a resolution declaring no confidence in the university administration’s ability to address what some faculty members have described as an “ongoing crisis” of sexual assault on campus.

Faculty members began debating the resolution at a meeting last Wednesday, where Kotlikoff faced pointed questions about the school's response to sexual assault allegations and its oversight of fraternities. The Faculty Senate is expected to resume debate on Oct. 28 before holding an electronic vote.

In her letter, Jane Doe said she wanted faculty members to have information that might be relevant to their deliberations. She emphasized that she was not trying to tell them how to vote.

“My intention is not to prescribe how the Senate should interpret this account, but rather to provide information that its members may wish to consider or investigate further,” she wrote.

Messages seeking comment were left for Jane Doe’s lawyers, Thomas Giuffra and W. Whitney Seals.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Instacart was advertising jobs through the Permanent Labor Certification, or PERM, program. The program lets employers hire temporary visa holders and sponsor them for permanent resident status as long as they have also made a good-faith effort to hire U.S. workers.

The agencies said Instacart created a burden for U.S. workers by requiring that applications be physically mailed to the company for jobs that were listed as part of its PERM recruitment program. Instacart allows electronic applications for its standard job recruitment process.

San Francisco-based Instacart said Tuesday that its hiring practices complied with U.S. laws and regulations, but it agreed to the settlement in order to remain focused on its business.

“We’re proud to be a U.S.-based grocery technology platform, employing thousands of American workers and serving millions of customers, retailers, shoppers and brands,” the company said. “Hiring and investing in American workers across our U.S. business is our priority, and we actively promote every role across many channels to ensure qualified U.S. candidates are always first in line for opportunities.”

Instacart is the latest tech company to reach a settlement with the government over allegations that it favors foreign workers for certain jobs.

In 2023, Apple agreed to a $25 million settlement after federal regulators said its hiring practices discriminated against U.S. candidates for jobs that went to immigrant workers seeking permanent resident status in the country. Facebook agreed to pay $14 million in 2021 to settle claims about its hiring practices.

“Our record demonstrates that the Justice Department is holding companies who prefer workers with temporary employment visas accountable," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement. "We will not stop fighting for U.S. workers until there is a fair playing field.”

The settlement requires Instacart to establish a fund of up to $4 million to compensate job applicants and people who were allegedly deterred from applying to Instacart between December 2023 and February 2026.

Instacart will pay $1 million in civil penalties to the federal government. The company is also required to post jobs that are part of its PERM recruitment program on its public career website and accept electronic applications.

A screaming match in the hallways of the United Nations in New York City broke out Monday evening between the Cuban delegation, led by their Ambassador Ernesto Soberon, against U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz.

The U.S. had organized an event entitled “Cuba Libre: The Oppression Havana Hides.” This happened before the United Nations takes their annual vote on the U.S. Economic Embargo on Cuba.

In the last months Cuba has increased their propaganda against the U.S. in fear of a U.S. military action or after yesterday’s indictment and warrant for the arrest of Raul Castro, a military exercise to get Raul Castro and bring him back to the U.S. to stand trial.

Oct. 16: Electrical plant in Cuba catches fire and blows up

As experts have been saying for a long time, the current electrical plants in Cuba cannot be repaired -- they are too old.

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Yesterday afternoon, the electrical plant in Santa Cruz caught fire and part of it exploded, causing more blackouts in that region of Cuba.

The people that live around the eastern town of Guantanamo have not had electricity for 36 days.

It has been estimated by the electrical experts in the U.S. that a new electrical system in Cuba will cost $9 billion to $11 billion.

Oct. 14: Human rights violations continue in Cuba

According to the organization Cuba Decide, in the month of September, there were 911 human rights violations in Cuba that range from arrests for simply protesting in the streets to posting comments on social media criticizing the Cuban government. 75% arrested were men and 25% women.

For example, in the capital city of Havana, 413 people were arrested. In Camagüey, 121 people were detained and in Villa Clara, 62. There were 284 cases of threats reported that were allegedly made against Cubans by the government as well.

During the month of September, there were also 138 cases reported of human rights violations against individuals for practicing their religious freedoms.

Anything that can threaten the political control and power of the Cuban government will continue to be castigated in an attempt to maintain control of the population.

Cuban laws have two interpretations. One for those in power and one for the Cuban people.

Oct. 13: With or without a U.S. intervention, can Cuba survive?

The socio-economic conditions continue to worsen in Cuba and the Cuban government has no answers for improving them. Even with the 176 economic reforms they introduced months ago, they have been very slow to implement them.

The only answers the Cuban government has is to increase their propaganda of blaming the U.S. for all their problems, which the Cuban people on the island no longer believe.

Without foreign investment, it will be very difficult for them to survive. In addition, their infrastructure continues to collapse from their electrical plants, water system, food supply, and lack of safe buildings for people to live in.

As the midterm elections get closer in the U.S., I don’t see us taking any action against Cuba. Their only hope is that Raul Castro dies in the months to come and that someone within their inner circle of power becomes a true political reformer that can begin to transform their totalitarian system.

Oct. 8: Social Challenges Facing Cuba

In 2014, I wrote a book with that title.

Today, the social challenges facing Cuba are even greater.

When we speak of creating a democratic government in Cuba’s future, there are three variables that must be taken into consideration.

1) The history of the country

2) The culture of the country

3) The personal experiences of the population

That is why it’s very difficult to apply a transition of another country to Cuba or any other country that has lived under a totalitarian regime for so long.

Today, Cuba’s population is about 8.3 million. Many have left seeking a better future. Some factors that are often forgotten is the fact that about 60% of the island is Black or Mulato, while in exile, that percentage is about 5%. Today, Cuba has the lowest birth rate in all of Latin America and, at the same time, one of the oldest population in Latin America.

As we have seen from recent statistics, about 1 million Cubans left last year, seeking a better life. I suspect if and when there is a change in Cuba’s regime, the young generation will not stay on the island to help rebuild their country. They will go elsewhere, seeking better opportunities.

The last challenge is how to change people’s minds to support a democracy when it has been years, even before the Revolution of 1959, that there was a democracy in Cuba.

The ideology of the Cuban Revolution is gone. However, there is a lack of any clear ideology that Cubans believe in, which makes it more difficult when trying to develop a civil society in the future that can support a democratic government.

Oct. 6: Cuba prepares for possible U.S. intervention as talks stall

Cuba’s Chargé d’Affaires in Washington, D.C., Lianys Torres Rivera, gave an interview to Reuters and said that, given the lack of progress in conversations with the U.S., the Cuban military has begun preparations for a possible U.S. intervention.

Cuba fully understands that, if such an intervention were to come, it would not be an invasion as many expect, but rather an aerial drone and missile attack. According to military experts and sources at the Pentagon, such an attack could take less than forty-eight hours to neutralize Cuba’s military.

The U.S. military has also incorporated preparations and contingency plans to deal with Cuban drones if any were launched against the U.S. mainland. My own personal belief is that Cuba would first target the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, which is located very close to one of Cuba’s main military installations near Santiago de Cuba.

Oct. 5: Cuba will not negotiate regime change with U.S.

Over the weekend, Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, made it very clear that Cuba will not negotiate regime change with the U.S. In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Cuban government that if they don’t change their regime, the consequences would be worse.

This leaves the U.S. with limited options moving forward. 1) Wait until Raul Castro dies and see what happens. 2) Strengthen the opposition inside the island. 3)Take military action against the island nation.

None of these options lead to a clear and quick path to a quick change in their system of government. A military invasion of Cuba by the U.S. could lead to a prolonged stay on the island until some form of government can be established from within the island and with the support from the Cuban exile community. However, there are some in the exile opposition that consider themselves possible leaders in a free Cuba, which could further complicate things.

Lastly, the extended war with Iran and the mid-term election results in the U.S. could also complicate what the U.S. does with Cuba.

Oct. 2: Who is driving U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba?

In the last several months, we have witnessed Secretary of State Marco Rubio continuing to sanction top officials of the Cuban government and their organizations, trying to force them to change or come to the table and negotiate with the U.S.

On the other hand, we just learned that the White House authorized a sale of 3.2 million barrels of oil to Cuba supposedly going to Cuba’s private sector. Are you kidding?

When dealing with Venezuela and Cuba, Trump has clearly shown that making money is more important than regime change in these two countries.

Oct. 1: Robberies and delinquencies increase in Cuba

According to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (14yMedio), this past Monday a bank was robbed in Lawton, Cuba in the middle of a major power failure.

The robbers got away with the money that was to be paid the next day to people who had retired. At the same time, many solar panels that have been installed around Cuba to help with the growing electrical shortages are being stolen at night by robbers.

The Cuban government is concerned that as socio-economic conditions continue to get worse on the island nation, these practices will increase. So far, no one has been caught.

Believing that her account had been compromised, the victim in North Carolina’s Jacksonville County made three $3,000 transfers to a Wells Fargo account belonging to Benjamin Smalls on July 31, 2025, according to a police report.

Surveillance video shows Smalls using a debit card associated with the Wells Fargo account to buy five $500 money orders at a Publix Supermarket’s customer service desk on July 31, 2025, in Miami-Dade County, according to the police report.

Police officers arrested Smalls at 11:20 a.m. on Monday at his home along Northeast 24th Drive near 41st Place, near the Homestead Air Reserve Base, and took him to the police station for questioning, according to the arrest report.

Smalls said, “he had opened a Wells Fargo account using his own personal information, and that $9,000 had been deposited into the account,” according to the police officer’s arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Smalls shortly after 2:05 p.m. on Monday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral, according to inmate records.

Smalls faced three charges: Third-degree grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, and scheme to defraud a financial institution. His bond was $7,500.

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

Our rain chances start to change Thursday with a breeze picking up off the Atlantic. This will give us batches of rain swinging through at times. This will be on and off into the weekend. We will also be watching the potential for king tides this weekend into early next week to give us moderate coastal flooding.

Unlike in many areas of medicine, experts say there’s a lot of variation in the U.S. transplant system. Knowing there are differences and what to ask might help.

“I had to ask a lot of questions to figure out what it was that I could do to move the needle,” said Katherine Screws of Phoenix, who got a rare intestine transplant after she decided to get on the waiting list at more than one hospital to increase her chances.

It can be difficult to learn how to navigate that search, but there's publicly available information about which hospitals perform the most of each type of transplant, plus their waiting times and outcomes. Long used by experts analyzing the transplant system, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, or SRTR, database has new patient-friendly tools developed in the hopes that more would-be transplant recipients will use it.

“People are making these really high-stakes decisions without understanding the options,” said Dr. Allyson Hart of Minnesota’s Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute, who helped design the tools.

Here are some things to know.

Different transplant centers have different criteria

There are about 100,000 people on the U.S. transplant list at any given time, the vast majority of whom need a kidney. With just over 49,000 transplants performed in the U.S last year, more people than ever are getting new organs. It’s mostly thanks to over a decade of increases in donations from the deceased, which are recovered by organ procurement organizations, or OPOs.

But more organs are needed to meet the demand, and different transplant hospitals have different criteria for who they'll accept on their waiting list.

Sometimes, “if a patient receives a ‘no’ at one place, they can go somewhere else and be successfully transplanted,” said Dr. Syed Ali Husain, a kidney specialist at NYU Langone Health.

Each transplant program's waiting list is linked to a national automated matching system. OPOs enter information about viable organs into that system, which generates lists of possible matches at multiple hospitals in order of priority. When the OPO offers an organ, the transplant team must quickly decide if it's a good choice for that patient or the offer moves to the hospital with the next-in-line candidate.

Some hospitals are more conservative than others about which organs they’ll accept, said Husain, who studies such differences.

One large study of kidney transplants found “there’s about a 16-fold variation in how quickly a patient will get transplanted at one center versus another,” he said. That's partly because some surgeons have more experience than others using kidneys with complex anatomy such as extra arteries, or those from older, sicker donors that still may be better than dialysis for the right patient.

How to find data about transplant centers

Typically, a doctor or other health worker points patients to the nearest hospital offering the kind of transplant they need. But the SRTR database allows people to compare transplant centers around the country in multiple ways.

Search for a particular organ and a list of the highest-to-lowest-volume centers pops up, with dials to show how they perform on such measures as getting a transplant faster, survival on the waiting list and the new organ's survival. Click on those of interest for more data.

For certain organs, there's a “personalized decision guide” to customize the search a little more with demographic and medical information that compares outcomes for patients similar to you. It may be important to know, for example, if hospitals you’re considering perform transplants for a lot of older adults or people with certain chronic illnesses, Hart said.

There's more data about kidneys, the most-transplanted organ, and a kidney decision aid also allows adding factors such as blood type and diabetes that play a particular role in those transplants. That tool shows the chances of getting a transplant in the first five years after joining the waiting list, or the alternatives — still waiting or having died or become too sick to get a transplant.

It's OK to quiz the transplant team

Like Screws, the Phoenix patient, some people choose to “double list” at a hospital closer to home and another higher-volume transplant program further away.

While not everyone is able to travel, the search tools can also help inform discussions with your chosen transplant program.

It's OK to come to a transplant program to say, “'Hey, there are other centers that do this faster. Help me understand why,'” Hart said. “Sometimes, that conversation is really enough to prompt maybe more aggressive offer acceptance than that center might otherwise do on their own.”

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The woman began showing symptoms on Oct. 7 and was admitted to a private hospital in Abuja on Oct. 11, where she was later diagnosed with Ebola.

Health Minister Muhammad Pate said authorities had begun tracing 44 people identified as contacts of the patient. “We are doing everything possible to contain this case by tracing all the contacts the individual may have had,” he said.

Uganda had previously reported Ebola cases but it later declared itself free of the virus.

Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the latest outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.

Dr. Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control, said on X that “we are facing an extremely serious threat,” with a fatality rate of nearly 50% of cases.

“This Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has already become the most geographically extensive in history, affecting several countries spread across three regions of Africa,” he said.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said two weeks ago it was stepping up surveillance following the detection of Ebola in Kenya and strengthening the country’s preparedness for a potential outbreak.

“These efforts have focused on early detection, isolation and referral, laboratory diagnosis, infection prevention and control, contact tracing, risk communication and protection of health care workers,” the agency said.

Nigeria established an Ebola task force in June following the outbreak in Congo in mid-May.

“We do not want a repeat of what happened during the last outbreak when a carrier entered the country, and everyone was scrambling to respond," Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu, said when the task force was announced. “We have covered a lot of ground and established structures to address any potential threat.”

The spread of Ebola beyond Congo has heightened longstanding fears among health authorities about the rapid transmission of the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has infected more than 9,500 people and killed more than 4,600 people.

The latest outbreak is the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record and is on track to exceed the deadliest on record, West Africa’s regional outbreak between 2014 and 2016, which killed 11,000 people, WHO has said. Nigeria was one of the countries affected, recording 20 cases before it was declared over in the country after three months.

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Elliot Rohl was safely located Tuesday, according to Pembroke Pines police.

Authorities have not said what led to his disappearance.

Counter Terrorism Policing said the men, a 24-year-old British national and a 25-year-old dual U.K.-Iranian national, were arrested under the National Security Act.

One of the suspects was first arrested on Sept. 27, when the suspected plot against the U.S.-run base at RAF Fairford took place. The air base in western England has been used to bomb Iran during this year’s war.

The second suspect was first arrested on Oct. 1. Until Tuesday the men had been bailed pending more investigation.

Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swarmed the rural area. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans at the site, but no explosives.

British authorities have linked Tehran to the incident, which led the U.S. to pull its bombers from RAF Fairford. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the apparent plot was “almost certainly” directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, or IRGC.

Iran has denied involvement, although it has previously said that it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target.

Five other men in their 20s were arrested earlier then released on bail pending further investigation. No one has yet been charged.

Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing in the U.K., said detectives are looking at “many lines of enquiry involved in this hugely complex investigation.”

“This is very much a live investigation, and our evidence gathering continues, but at this time our position remains the same; we consider it highly likely that there is Iranian state involvement,” he said in a statement.

“Our investigators are continuing to examine what that level of involvement was and the ambition behind it," he added.

Last week the head of Britain's MI5 spy agency warned that both Iran and Russia were expanding their attacks against the U.K., and that the RAF base incident was not unique.

Ken McCallum, who leads the U.K.’s domestic security service, said Tehran is seeking to intensify its attacks in Britain beyond the traditional targets of Iranians opposed to the country’s Islamic authorities.

In all, more than 50 people have been arrested over Iran-linked plots in the past year, McCallum said.

Murphy celebrated Milwaukee’s NL Championship Series sweep by saying the Los Angeles Dodgers had Hall of Famers but his team had gamers. The theme wasn’t much different from pep talks he gave his college teams.

“It’s kind of déjà vu,” said Cory Mee, who played for Murphy at Notre Dame from 1989-92. “I’ve heard this before.”

Murphy won exactly 1,000 games during a college coaching career that included stops at Maryville (Tennessee) and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (California) before longer stints at Notre Dame (1988-94) and Arizona State (1995-2009). He now is on baseball’s biggest stage as the Brewers face the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series starting Friday.

He may have tempered his approach since making a cold call to then-Notre Dame athletic director Gene Corrigan and talking his way into the Fighting Irish coaching job at the age of 28.

But his knack for getting players to believe remains as strong as ever.

“Watching him with these Brewers, it struck me that he’s got a formula,” said Mike Moshier, who played for Notre Dame from 1986-89. “His algorithm is the same now as it was 40 years ago.”

That formula includes playing strong fundamentals, creating belief, outworking opponents, keeping everything fun and preparing for any obstacle.

“He does a really good job of explaining the expectation of how we’re going to respond, what toughness and discipline look like, to be able to respond to tough moments,” said Brett Wallace, who played for Murphy at Arizona State and again in the minor leagues and with the San Diego Padres.

The legend of the mud chart

There’s perhaps no greater example than the “mud chart” Murphy designed to help Notre Dame’s 1989 team earn an elusive NCAA Tournament berth.

Notre Dame was in a double-elimination Midwestern Collegiate Conference tournament seeking the league’s automatic NCAA bid. The Irish fell 16-15 to Detroit and dropped into the losers’ bracket, so their season would end unless they won five straight games.

Constant rain delays meant the last four of those games would take place in a span of 22 hours. One began at 1:30 a.m. and ended after 4 a.m.

Murphy designed a chart including a square for each of the 45 innings separating Notre Dame from its goal. Murphy figured the Irish needed to win or tie just about every inning. Whenever Notre Dame did that, he’d put a mud smudge in the corresponding square.

“It was posted in the dugout,” Mee said. “Every inning, he just stuck his hand in the dirt, put some water on it and put a thumbprint on it.”

Notre Dame won those five games to earn its first NCAA bid since 1970. Murphy went 318-116-1 at Notre Dame, which had been .500 or below each of the five years before his arrival.

“People would ask me after I was done playing baseball, who was the best manager I’d ever played for, expecting someone in the big leagues,” said Dan Peltier, a Notre Dame outfielder from 1987-89 who played three seasons in the majors. “I’d say right away it was Pat Murphy. I knew his style of managing would translate well into the big leagues as long as he had the right group of guys.”

Demanding his players' best efforts

Murphy is now a two-time NL manager of the year with a reputation for getting the best out of his players. This season, he has removed both three-time All-Star William Contreras and rookie Cooper Pratt from games because he didn’t believe they sufficiently hustled.

He took that to another level during his college years.

Former Notre Dame outfielder Mike Rotkis recalled a 28-10 loss at Western Michigan in Murphy’s debut season. When the Irish returned to campus, Murphy had them do sprints.

“It was like the scene in ‘Miracle,’“ Rotkis said, referring to the Kurt Russell movie about the 1980 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team. “I can’t go anymore, you’re trying to run as fast as you can and you’re barely walking, you can barely lift your leg. He’s like, ‘All right, that was an embarrassment. Don’t let it happen again,’ and walked out.”

Murphy made practices so intense that games didn’t seem as tough.

“He didn’t accept anything but the best from you,” former Notre Dame pitcher Chris Michalak said. “It wasn’t easy, but games were easy after practice. The games became fun.”

Earlier this postseason, Murphy noted a motivational ploy he attempted involving Craig Counsell, who played for Notre Dame from 1989-92 and later became Murphy’s boss as manager in Milwaukee.

Murphy believed Counsell was too shy and needed to emerge as a leader, so he told the infielder to shout “Mine!” while taking ground balls during workouts.

“There would be this shortstop out there yelling ‘Mine!’ for every ground ball, and people would be like, ‘What the hell was that?'" Murphy said. “But I was trying to bring it out of him, and he wanted to kill me.

“That was a mistake. He did just fine without yelling ‘Mine!' for ground balls.”

Murphy also pulled occasional pranks. Moshier remembers when the team stopped at a fast-food restaurant on a road trip and Murphy yelled for everyone to get back to the bus.

“The minute everyone got out of the restaurant, he sneaked in to get his order first,” Moshier said. “That’s classic Murph."

Murphy eventually left for Arizona State and went 629-284-1 with four College World Series appearances, including a runner-up finish in 1998.

His Arizona State tenure ended bitterly when he resigned amid an NCAA investigation. He entered the pro ranks and managed in San Diego’s farm system before going 42-54 as the Padres’ interim manager in 2015 following Bud Black’s dismissal.

When the Padres opted against keeping him beyond that season, Murphy became a bench coach for Counsell, Milwaukee’s manager at the time. Murphy got promoted when Counsell left for the Chicago Cubs after the 2023 season.

After working alongside Murphy for so long and now competing with him, Counsell understands why his college coach's approach has worked so well in the big leagues.

“It’s authentic," Counsell said last month before a Cubs-Brewers game. "That’s the No. 1 thing. It’s just who he is. That’s his authentic style. That’s how he’s coached. You’ve got to be yourself, and that’s what he’s doing.”

Carrying college lessons to their work lives

Many of Murphy’s former college players keep in touch with him. They notice how he has matured. Murphy turns 68 next month, and he survived a heart attack in 2020.

His style remains similar, but he’s smoothed his edges.

“He was terrifying (at Notre Dame) because he was unpredictable,” Moshier said. “You’d either get the funny, comic, sarcastic Murph, which was great. Or you’d get this really serious, really demanding, critical Murph. And you never knew which you were going to get, so he always kept you a little bit on edge.

“But I’ve seen him change over the years. Just interacting with him the last 10 years, I think his ego has been sort of softened a bit. He’s a bit more grateful for the opportunities that he’s had.”

Wallace has a unique perspective after playing for him in college, in Triple-A and again with the Padres.

“The way you lead a group of 16- to 21-year-olds is different from the way you lead a group of minor leaguers and a group of big leaguers,” Wallace said. “He learned along the way how to be authentic, how to be himself and how to communicate with a group of people. The biggest thing about Murphy is he’s genuine and really authentically himself.”

Wallace now works with college players as California’s hitting coach. Mee is an assistant coach at Mount St. Mary’s and Michalak is a longtime coach in the minors. All carry Murphy’s lessons into their own coaching.

Moshier has established a leadership development company and says his years with Murphy help him in the workplace as far as valuing candor and knowing when to have tough conversations.

They’re watching their former coach with pride.

“He’s the most complex, interesting, talented guy I know — super complex guy,” Moshier said. “But you’d want to go to war with him.”

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In an interview with GQ magazine about grief and family, recorded in New York in late September and published on Tuesday, Harry was asked if he grieves his “complicated” relationship with his father and brother.

“Yes, of course,” he replied, adding that people often ask him about it because it's a “massively relatable issue for so many people.”

“Some people don’t want it to work out – I want it to work out," he said. “Of course I do ... with everything else that’s going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile — that’s the key point.”

Harry, his wife Meghan and their two children moved back to the U.K. in late August, six years after their decision to leave their roles as working royals and move to California widened a gulf in the royal family.

The couple's criticism in interviews included accusing an unspecified royal of racism and calling palace staff insensitive to Meghan’s mental health.

But Harry, who is fifth in the line to the throne, said last year he would like to reconcile with his family and spend more time with his father, who is being treated for an undisclosed form of cancer.

Asked if he thought he could repair the family rift, Harry told GQ: “Look, scars stick around forever," but letting go of the past is "something that I would encourage everybody to do.”

“For me, there’s enough drama in the world and enough drama in people’s lives than to continue with issues with family,” he added.

A spokesperson later said his “some people” comment was “absolutely not intended as a swipe at his brother or any other member of his family.”

Rwanda President Paul Kagame last week announced the 10-year deal for an African Grand Prix from the early 2030s, a milestone he said could serve as a catalyst for sports across Africa.

Besides South Africa, which has hosted World Cups in soccer, rugby and cricket — and the last F1 race on African soil in 1993 — the continent historically has been overlooked as a global sports destination.

That’s starting to change.

Rwanda last year hosted the road cycling world championships. In less than two weeks, Senegal will host the Youth Olympic Games — the first ever Olympic event in Africa. And in 2030 Morocco will co-host the men’s World Cup with Spain and Portugal.

“There are some really interesting things beginning to happen in African sport now,” said Simon Chadwick, a business management director at the African School of Economics. “Investors are showing an interest; governments are showing an interest. And what’s significant as well, I think, is that we’re actually beginning to get competition between African nations to be leaders.”

Tapping into the African market

Rwanda saw off competition from South Africa to land the F1 prize. Morocco and Nigeria were also reportedly interested.

The Grand Prix announcement made clear that F1 views Africa, with its population of more than 1.5 billion people, as an untapped market. F1 President Stefano Domenicali said there were more than 100 million F1 fans on the continent, “people who have waited a long time to see our sport return.”

Kagame said it was high time to integrate African markets with global sports franchises and competitions.

“For decades African athletes have been a pillar of the global sports economy, adding significant commercial value to top leagues, with the continent receiving almost nothing in return,” he said. “Partnerships like the one we are building help break the cycle because they serve as a catalyst for sports infrastructure development.”

Abi Ijasanmi, the CEO of African Sports Investor, called the F1 announcement “really significant” for Africa because it connects the continent to global sports and “combines things like sport and technology and tourism and investment. And the continent really needs the boost in all of those things.”

African countries considering bids to host major sporting events have been faced with one overriding criticism: That spending millions or even billions of dollars on a sports event is unwise considering the continent of mainly middle- and low-income nations has pressing concerns like a lack of housing, frail healthcare systems and widespread poverty.

Rwanda’s policy of committing money to sports to burnish its reputation comes right from the top, but it’s largely an outlier, and the majority of African nations may never have the money to host a big-time sports event. Even the government in South Africa, the biggest economy in Africa, has not made the financial guarantees to host an F1 race again, and has been mulling over the cost of a possible Olympics bid for nearly 20 years.

Learning from each other

U.S. professional sports have also started taking a greater interest in Africa. The NFL has opened an American football developmental camp in Ghana and the NBA in 2021 launched the Basketball Africa League together with FIBA, the international basketball federation. Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, has hosted five of the six finals so far.

The basketball league "made other countries sit up and appreciate what’s possible,” Ijasanmi said.

Similarly, other countries have been inspired by Morocco’s developments in soccer, by far the most popular sport in Africa, said Ijasanmi, who previously worked as chief operational officer of the Confederation of African Football.

Morocco hopes to host the 2030 World Cup final in a 115,000-capacity stadium under construction near Casablanca and has been lauded for its player development through its Mohamed VI Academy, an advanced training complex.

“It was really interesting and very positive to hear other presidents and federations sit talking about how they were going to be the next ones to do that,” Ijasanmi said. “So, it can be short-lived, but I think the more that it happens, the more it makes others look and say, ‘OK, well, this is really possible and look what it’s doing for the economy.'”

F1 announcement brings renewed human rights concerns

The F1 news wasn’t universally welcomed.

Human rights activists said it distracted from the rights abuses of Rwandan authorities.

Kagame has been accused of repressive methods to keep his grip on power, with opponents dying in prisons, independent media muzzled, and other abuses.

Amnesty International called the deal “a sportswashing prize” allowing Rwanda “to polish its image and deflect from its appalling human rights record.”

Neighboring Congo joined the criticism. Rwanda is accused by Congo, the United States and U.N. experts of backing the M23 rebels fighting in Congo.

Kagame denies the accusations of human rights abuses.

He has faced sportswashing criticism before because of Rwanda’s sponsorships of popular soccer teams like Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Atlético Madrid, as well as the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA.

Infrastructure remains a challenge for sports in Africa

Corruption and delivery of infrastructure are potential stumbling blocks for African sports projects.

Rwanda has not yet built the F1 circuit in Bugesera, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Kigali, and will be keen to avoid the infrastructure setbacks that have plagued many other sports events, including the Africa Cup of Nations, the continental soccer championship.

Every men’s Africa Cup since 2013 has been moved because of construction delays, security problems or public health issues in the original host countries. There are concerns the next edition in 2027 could be moved from co-hosts Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda due to infrastructure projects reportedly lagging behind.

“The instability in the global markets is kind of forcing some of those countries, they’re not able to advance or proceed as fast as they want,” said Maher Mezahi, a journalist and contributing editor at Africa Is a Country.

Morocco hosted the last men's Africa Cup and the last three editions of the women’s tournament. It has invested heavily in sports infrastructure and often hosts “home” games for other African nations whose stadiums don’t meet the same standards.

Egypt also hosts international matches for other African countries. It recently built a stadium with more than 90,000 seats as part of a sports complex known as Egypt International Olympic City east of Cairo.

However, pointing to Morocco, Mezahi said grassroots initiatives, rather than showcase stadiums, can be a more significant factor in developing sports in Africa.

“The reason why they’ve had success producing talent instead of just hosting events is because they built thousands of what they call ‘proximity pitches’ … artificial turf, small pitch, five-a-side, and it’s really open to the public. It’s really just take your ball and go and play,” Mezahi told The AP from Algiers.

An acid test for sports in Africa

It is too early to tell whether Rwanda’s F1 race will be a game changer for sports in Africa, but it was met with optimism far beyond Kigali.

South Africa Sports Minister Gayton McKenzie pointed to Rwanda as an inspiration and said there’s room for more than one grand prix on the continent, noting that a single European country like Italy has two.

All eyes are now on Rwanda to see how it follows up with the racetrack construction and other infrastructure needed to make the African Grand Prix a lasting success.

“In some ways the F1 grand prix is almost like an acid test,” Chadwick said. “Does Rwanda have what it takes? Or is it going to fall foul of what has beset African sport before?

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Executives at Anthropic and OpenAI have long argued the technology's arrival will bring many benefits for everyday people, and they've promised that will include a share of the profits. The companies are outlining a range of proposals for distributing AI fortunes, but so far they have not resolved key questions over how they would work, how transparent they will be, and who will determine beneficiaries.

On Sunday, Anthropic said it would commit 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity within the company, pending approval from stockholders. The stake could increase “as the company grows” in the future. The maker of AI assistant Claude said the fund “might explore” larger donations to traditional nonprofits or potentially distribute money to “specific populations.”

The San Francisco-based company shared little information about the types of organizations supported by the fund and the issues they will address. One area it will not support, Anthropic said, is lobbying and political giving.

Phil Buchanan, the president of The Center for Effective Philanthropy, said he welcomed Anthropic’s commitment — especially at a time when he said some billionaires are “diminishing the importance of philanthropy.” But he cautioned that Anthropic should avoid the “arrogance” of previous technology barons who assumed their professional expertise would translate to philanthropic wisdom.

Buchanan recommended the fund support highly effective, existing nonprofits but said it is “hard to talk about any of this because it’s all so abstract.”

“I guess I’m hopeful,” Buchanan said, “but I’m not going to get too excited until I see some evidence of what’s actually happening.”

Anthropic's pledge hinges on Wall Street plans

Anthropic, which was valued at close to $1 trillion earlier this year, is preparing for an initial public offering as soon as next month that is shaping up as one of the biggest ever.

Once a company is public, donations might be made through the selling of future shares, or potentially turning to cash dividends in the future, explained Jay R. Ritter, director of The IPO Initiative at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. The specifics on how charitable donations will be made through Anthropic’s fund are not clear yet.

Regardless, Ritter said the announcement now is helpful for potential investors to “know what they’re buying.”

Anthropic has already committed $200 million to study the economic effects of AI more broadly. Combined with Sunday’s announcement, Anthropic said roughly 20% of its shares will be dedicated to the “public good,” plus any additional percentage that could be added if the company’s valuation reaches certain milestones.

In announcing the benefit fund, Anthropic offered labor market impacts as one example of its philanthropic focus.

“AI may generate enormous economic value, but it could also cause instability for many workers,” Anthropic said in a blog post Sunday. It added the fund will have the “versatility” to pursue “bolder approaches” that might be necessary to offset that. The company said it would share more details about the fund's structure and governance in the coming months.

In a May interview with The Associated Press, Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said she expected the company’s success would generally lead to more philanthropic support for disease research and “ensuring that everyone around the world gets to share in the prosperity that we hope AI creates.”

The companies' pledges have met with skepticism from some critics.

“Anthropic is playing games here,” Gary Marcus, a longtime AI expert and professor emeritus at New York University, wrote on social media Sunday. “Trying to curry public favor while still holding control and resisting disclosure is annoying.”

AI companies are pursuing a range of pathways for charitable distributions

Anthropic and OpenAI are each structured as a public benefit corporation, a designation that requires the companies to pursue not just profit but a social good.

OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, promised to build out its grantmaking capacity earlier this year with a $1 billion commitment.

Separately, OpenAI in April proposed the creation of a “Public Wealth Fund” with a stake in “AI-driven economic growth” across companies more broadly. That fund could be invested in a handful of assets, OpenAI noted, with returns distributed directly to people regardless of whether or not they’re invested in financial markets. OpenAI is planning its own initial public offering next year.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also has spoken to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about sharing equity in AI companies with the public.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has tended to eschew traditional philanthropy, pledged as recently as Monday to donate some shares of his own company.

During the personal computer boom, the likes of Michael Dell and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates started private foundations to manage their philanthropy. Today, Silicon Valley’s leaders including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have turned instead to limited-liability companies, the option that Anthropic is pursuing for its public benefit fund.

The structure offers more control for its owners, experts say. An LLC is not bound by the same spending rules as a foundation, which is required to distribute at least 5% of the value of its endowment.

“They have a lot more flexibility and latitude in how to use the resources they put into the fund,” said Katherina Rosqueta, the founding executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy.

Brian Mittendorf, the chair in accounting at Ohio State University, said LLCs allow for activity outside “traditional philanthropy,” such as payouts to individuals that would not be possible through a 501(c)3 charity. But if they are not making traditional charitable gifts, that puts the companies in a “gray area” by raising the question of how the public is benefiting, he said.

LLC owners don’t reap the same tax benefits, either, according to Rosqueta and Mittendorf. Anthropic's pledge doesn't immediately trigger a tax write-off, and the company can only claim a deduction once the donated shares are moved to a public charity. There's also less transparency required of LLCs.

Overall, Anthropic's announcement amounts to a commitment to “yet-to-be-specified wider goals,” Mittendorf said. The move “reflects more of an intention to do things in the future rather than an act now,” Mittendorf said.

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The health ministry said there was still no evidence of transmission beyond known contacts of the first patient.

Authorities have also identified 135 contacts linked to the nine patients, with 134 now in quarantine. The ministry said the list would continue to grow as more people who had come into contact with any of the nine patients were identified.

Kenya announced its first Ebola case on Oct. 6, involving a man who traveled from Congo via Uganda before arriving in Nairobi on Oct. 3. A relative drove him to a hospital, where he tested positive for Ebola on Oct. 5. He died the same day.

Four of his relatives and four health care workers have since tested positive.

Ebola is highly contagious and spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, including blood and vomit, or through contact with contaminated materials and surfaces, such as bedding and clothing. Congo is experiencing its deadliest outbreak, with at least 4,000 deaths since May.

Kenya’s Ministry of Health said Tuesday that the first group of contacts was expected to complete the 21-day quarantine period on Oct. 25. Those who had not developed symptoms would be allowed to return home.

The ministry appealed to communities to welcome them back, saying they “pose no risk of infection”.

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The Max 10’s certification represents another milestone in Boeing’s efforts to restore its reputation and financial footing after years of safety, quality and production challenges. With production approved, the aircraft can now be sold to domestic and foreign carriers.

“After extensive safety reviews – including thousands of hours of test flights – the team at the FAA is ready to approve this critical aircraft for sale,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “This is a major win for American manufacturing and our nation’s status as a global aviation powerhouse."

The Max 10 — the largest version of Boeing’s bestselling 737 family — is an important piece of the company's effort to regain ground in the narrow-body market. For airlines, the larger plane offers a way to carry more passengers on a single flight, potentially lowering costs per seat. For travelers, it could eventually mean more seats on popular routes, though the impact on fares will depend on how airlines deploy the planes and how much competition they face.

Stephanie Pope, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in a statement that “completing the certification program clears the path for us to deliver a Boeing airplane that will set a new standard in commercial aviation." The Max 10 will typically seat 185-210 passengers, according to Boeing, compared with 175-195 on the Max 9 and 160-180 on the Max 8.

The single-aisle jet was introduced at the Paris air show in 2017 to help Boeing compete with rival Airbus. But technical and regulatory hurdles repeatedly delayed certification.

Boeing said in its 2020 annual report that it expected to make the plane's first delivery in 2023. The company now expects to begin deliveries in 2027.

The delays have held up a key part of Boeing's business. More than 30 customers worldwide have ordered 1,555 Max 10s that Boeing has yet to deliver, accounting for more than 30% of its total 737 Max backlog.

Major customers for the Max 10 include United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and Ryanair. Alaska Airlines joined that list in January, ordering 105 Max 10s, with options for 35 more.

Boeing’s struggles have been particularly acute since two deadly crashes involving the smaller Max 8 killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019 off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia. In 2024, a panel flew off of an Alaska Airlines Max 9 in midair, renewing scrutiny of Boeing’s manufacturing and safety practices.

The Max 10 is intended to compete with Airbus’s A321neo model family, which entered service in 2017. The largest A321neo can carry more passengers and fly farther without refueling than the Max 10.

Still, Boeing designed the Max 10 to carry more passengers while burning less fuel than older aircraft — a potentially attractive combination for airlines facing soaring jet fuel costs amid the U.S. war with Iran. Those rising costs have put added pressure on airlines to control expenses.

The Max 10’s certification completes the lineup of four 737 Max models. The FAA cleared the smaller Max 7 for airline operations in August.

Certification means the FAA has determined that the Max 10’s design meets safety standards, following engineering reviews and flight testing. But Boeing must continue to show it can consistently build the aircraft to the approved design, and each plane must be cleared before it can fly passengers.

In the wake of the fatal Max 8 crashes, the FAA overhauled how it certifies Boeing aircraft. But over the past 18 months, the agency has gradually eased some of its restrictions on the company, increasing the limit on how many planes Boeing can produce. In July, the FAA also said Boeing could once again issue airworthiness certificates for its 737 Max and 787 planes at the end of production, allowing the company to take back some responsibility for determining whether finished aircraft are ready to fly.

“I’m back at square one where I don’t know what’s going on with me,” the actor said on the latest edition of her podcast “MeSsy,” along with co-host Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who has been public about her own battle with MS.

Applegate first publicly announced in 2021 that she had been diagnosed with the disorder that causes the immune system to attack the cells in the central nervous system.

On Monday's podcast, Applegate revealed that despite the misdiagnosis, she still has “every symptom of someone with MS,” adding, “I still have to use wheelchairs when I go to the doctor’s office. I can’t walk from the car to the room.”

There is no single test for MS, and a diagnosis usually involves ruling out other causes. It can take years and seeing multiple doctors before one puts the clues together.

Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, a neurologist who specializes in multiple sclerosis and autoimmune neurological disorders at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said the most reputable studies put the MS misdiagnosis rate at 10%.

“We rely on the clinical symptoms, the history, the MRI, often spinal fluid, and then a series of tests to rule out potential mimics. And unfortunately, those tests are not universally codified,” he said.

Greenberg said Applegate’s experience has lessons for both medical providers and patients. For doctors, it’s a reminder to ensure a single diagnosis doesn’t lead to a system-wide bias toward that conclusion.

“If I put ‘multiple sclerosis’ as a diagnosis on an MRI, a radiologist is far less likely to say, ‘Well, this isn’t multiple sclerosis. You really should consider something else.' It can permeate the system,” he said.

“For patients and families, my general recommendation is whenever receiving a significant serious or chronic diagnosis, if feasible, there is never a harm in getting second opinions.”

Applegate said the news had put her in an odd place since she and Sigler have become prominent advocates for people with MS.

"It’s weird because I feel like I let everybody down,” she said. “It’s very unnerving, and it’s really confusing for me.”

Most autoimmune diseases, especially in adults, aren’t caused by a specific gene defect. Instead, a variety of genes that affect immune functions can make people susceptible. Scientists say it then takes an “environmental” trigger, such as an infection, smoking or pollutants, to set the disease in motion.

On the podcast and earlier this year while promoting her memoir, "You with the Sad Eyes,” the Emmy-winning Applegate has been candid about unpredictable symptoms that have forced her to use diapers and scoot down stairs on her butt.

“My life has in some ways shrunk to the size of my California king,” she writes in her book.

Solórzano Foppa murió la mañana del sábado de varios impactos de bala al ser atacado cuando estaba en un campo de futbol en la capital guatemalteca.

El abogado usaba sus redes sociales para hacer análisis personales sobre la corrupción, las pandillas y el narcotráfico y había señalado que instituciones y funcionarios podrían estar involucrados en esos delitos.

Con su madre Silvia Solórzano al frente, que llevaba claveles rojos en sus manos, el cuerpo del abogado fue llevado en un carro de bomberos, pues también era bombero, desde una funeraria local hasta la Plaza de la Constitución, frente al Palacio Nacional, para rendirle un homenaje.

Una ceremonia maya con flores, incienso, fuego y velas dio pie a que cientos de personas que acompañaron el cortejo fúnebre pidieran que se haga justicia y se esclarezca el crimen.

“Foppa no está muerto, él vive. Justicia”, gritaban las personas.

El presidente Bernardo Arévalo condenó el crimen y pidió a las autoridades de justicia una pronta investigación para dar con los responsables.

Por el crimen fueron detenidos dos hombres indígenas hermanos en una zona diferente a donde ocurrió el hecho. Éstos se identificaron como repartidores de comida y la policía dijo que les incautó un arma. Un día después la fiscalía pidió a un juez dejarlos en libertad porque no había evidencias para acusarlos. El presidente ordenó también investigar el procedimiento de la policía.

The Senate Majority PAC, aligned with Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, will spend $1.2 million on a new television advertisement to boost Scott Colom, a district attorney, in his campaign against Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. The ad, first disclosed to The Associated Press, is set to start Wednesday and run through Election Day.

“Senate Majority PAC has been watching this race closely, and it is clear Colom is running a competitive race that has put Hyde-Smith on her heels,” group spokesperson Lauren French said in a statement.

With just two weeks to go in the race, it's unclear what impact the ad will have in a matchup that's been set since Colom won a March primary. Still, it's a substantial investment in a race that's seen only about $8 million in total spending, with Colom outspending Hyde-Smith nearly $4.6 million to $3.2 million, according to AdImpact.

Jake Monssen, campaign manager for Hyde-Smith, noted that the spending was coming late in the race.

“Team Cindy is confident that voters will reject this radical agenda at the ballot box on November 3rd,” he said.

Democrats believe Hyde-Smith is vulnerable

Hyde-Smith, first appointed and then elected in 2018, is running for reelection in a state Republicans have long dominated. In the 2024 presidential race, Republican Donald Trump won Mississippi by nearly 23 percentage points over Democrat Kamala Harris, and a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate race in the state since 1982.

However, some Democrats believe Hyde-Smith is vulnerable, and she underperformed Trump by 6 percentage points in 2020, the year he lost his White House reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden.

The television ad touts Colom's time as district attorney, while labeling Hyde-Smith a “do-nothing” senator.

“A decade in power, Hyde-Smith hasn’t passed one piece of legislation, but she did vote to kick people off Medicaid,” a narrator says in the ad, which will run on television stations statewide alongside a digital campaign.

Harris and other high-profile Democrats have raced to campaign with Colom

Colom's campaign manager, Gerard Henderson, said that the contest against an incumbent senator is competitive because “thousands of Mississippians volunteered and chipped in.”

“We clearly have the resources and momentum to win,” Henderson said in a statement.

Colom has raised Democratic hopes in a year when electoral winds are at their backs. Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock was the latest high-profile Democrat to campaign with Colom last week, and Harris, who was Biden's vice president, is set to rally with Colom on Thursday.

Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and were expected to face a friendlier map this year with fewer seats to defend. But high costs and gas prices amid an unpopular war in Iran under a Republican president have made Democrats optimistic, with the Senate Majority PAC spending its final weeks investing in conservative territory. It's already announced spending in Kansas, where megachurch pastor and Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton is trying to unseat Republican Sen. Roger Marshall.

Colom would be his state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the U.S. Civil War when the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were adopted.

Some Democrats have criticized national groups for not spending more in Southern states like Mississippi.

“I worry, to be very honest, that Democrats are missing a real opportunity to invest in a serious and sustained way in the South,” Warnock said Sunday on NBC’s ”Meet the Press."

The Gamecocks received 23 first-place votes from a 31-member national media panel Tuesday. UConn, USC, Duke and Michigan round out the top five.

It is the fifth time in the past seven years that Staley's team has been ranked No. 1 in the preseason.

“It's a gift and curse,” Staley said. “I tend to not look at the number, but our players do. They look at it and feel like there’s a sense of respect to being No. 1. They also know that it’s pressure packed with the type of non-conference shcedule we have, we’re going to be challenged. If we stand there at No. 1 at the end of our non-conference season that’s something to be truly to be proud of.”

South Carolina will face five ranked teams in the first month of the season, including UConn, USC and Duke.

“It’s a doozy of a schedule. something we have to do for us to actually keep having the roster we have,” Staley said. “Some of them are NIL games. some of them are games we just got to play because they are super competitive and we want to test ourselves.”

UConn, which lost to South Carolina in the Final Four last season, garnered six first-place votes and has been ranked in the top 10 of every preseason poll since 1994.

This is the third consecutive year that South Carolina and UConn have been 1-2 in the preseason poll, though the Huskies were on top a year ago. The two play each other on Nov. 24 in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Southern California picked up the other two first-place ballots. Expectations are high for the Trojans, who have a healthy JuJu Watkins back after she missed last season while recovering from a torn ACL suffered in the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The No. 3 ranking matches the one they had two years ago.

Duke has its highest ranking in the preseason poll since 2013 when the Blue Devils were second. Michigan has its best ranking ever in the preseason Top 25. The Wolverines were ranked in the top 10 for the final 18 weeks of the poll last season.

“They came to Michigan to do things that have never been done before,” Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said of her stellar junior class led by Olivia Olson and Syla Swords. “We're in the position we're in because they came here and made a difference.”

The first regular season poll will be released Nov. 9.

The rest of the rankings

Texas, Louisville, Vanderbilt, LSU and Iowa round out the top 10. Defending national champion UCLA is next with North Carolina, Notre Dame, Kentucky and TCU following the Bruins.

Washington, Minnesota, Ohio State, Ole Miss and Maryland are 16-20 while the final five in the Top 25 were Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Illinois, West Virginia and N.C. State.

It is the first preseason ranking for No. 17 Minnesota since 2019. Coach Dawn Plitzuweit’s team is coming off its first NCAA tourney berth since 2018 and first Sweet 16 appearance since 2005, but lost leading scorer Tori McKinney for the season with a knee injury suffered last week in practice.

Conference supremecy

The Big Ten has nine teams in the Top 25, the most ever for one conference in the preseason poll. The Southeastern Conference has seven, including four in the top 10. The ACC has five and the Big 12 three. The Big East has one.

“When I left the Big East we had eight or nine teams in the Top 25 as well and it was the best league in the country. I couldn't imagine I'd goto a place that would be even greater,” said Barnes Arico, who is in her 15th year at Michigan. “With expansion this conference got better and better. The knock has been that the Big Ten hasn't won a championship, but UCLA did that last year and now we have some of the best players in the country returning this year.”

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An initial call was made to authorities regarding a suspicious white power found in an envelope.

Wasserman Schultz’s office is located in Sunrise, east of the Sawgrass Expressway and south of Sunrise Boulevard.

According to Sunrise police, the envelope was safely secured and remains unopened, but the contents of the envelope are unknown.

There has been no word on whether the Democratic congresswoman was at her office on Monday.

The congresswoman did post about the incident on X, thanking Sunrise PD for responding quickly and ensuring the safety of her staff.

Today, like other Members, my district office received a suspicious letter. I’m thankful Sunrise Police and first responders acted swiftly to ensure my staff’s safety. Cowardly acts of intimidation like this will not work. They have no place in our politics and must be condemned. pic.twitter.com/w7cedz9VMw

— Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (@RepDWStweets) October 19, 2026

This is not the first time her office has faced a potential threat.

Wasserman Schultz dealt with a mail-related alarm eight years ago when a suspicious package arrived at the same district headquarters site.

That incident prompted an evacuation and a response from the Sunrise PD Bomb Squad.

Wasserman Schultz also posted a full statement Monday, which can be read below:

“Today, like many other Members of Congress, my district office received a suspicious letter that was clearly designed to intimidate me and my staff. It will not work. Thankfully, Sunrise Police, local first responders, the FBI, and the U.S. Postal Service acted swiftly to ensure the safety of my staff and the other public servants who work in the same building. While initial tests were negative for any hazardous material, law enforcement will do further analysis as they continue their larger investigation. 

“Sadly, this is not the first time my office has received threatening mail. Right before the 2018 election, improvised explosive devices were sent to prominent Democrats, media, and my office with the same terrorizing goal in mind. Such cowardly acts of coercion will not work and have absolutely no place in our politics. My hope is that all sides will condemn these weak, desperate attempts to bully their opponents. And to be clear, they will not deter me from fully representing my Broward County constituents.”

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Federal investigators are looking into several similar incidents of suspicious letters arriving at congressional offices in recent days, that all contained a white powdery substance.

On Friday, investigators in Central Florida raced to Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost’s office after a suspicious item was delivered there, and a second emergency call in the same area prompted a similar alarm at Democratic U.S. Rep. Darren Soto’s office.

Officials in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Ohio are also trying to narrow down the source of the concerning mail sent to the offices of elected leaders.

Protesters blocked the loading and unloading of fresh food and other goods at supermarket distribution warehouses near Naples on Monday, Sky TG24 reported. The truckers are adding their voices to demonstrations that have spread across Europe as the war disrupts economies.

One supermarket in the city posted a note on empty shelves apologizing that “some products may be temporarily unavailable or available in a reduced range" due to the truckers' strike.

Shortages of fresh pasta, packaged cheeses and meats as well as produce have been reported in Sicily, partly due to stockpiling by shoppers. Partially empty supermarket shelves were also reported in the southern regions of Calabria and Puglia.

Transport Minister Matteo Salvini met Tuesday with national trucking associations to help the truckers cope, promising tax credits to offset soaring diesel prices and funds to modernize trucking fees.

Diesel prices are roughly a third higher than before the Iran war, despite government-backed efforts to curb pump prices. A temporary diesel tax discount expired earlier this month.

The president of the Unatras group of trucking associations, Paolo Uggè, said Salvini promised that payments would begin Wednesday and pledged legislation to address operating costs, the news agency LaPresse reported. Another meeting was set for next week.

During the peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning, it will be possible to see up to 20 meteors per hour in ideal viewing conditions, according to the American Meteor Society. Meteors are still visible for a few weeks before and after the peak.

The Orionids are viewable in the northern and southern hemispheres after midnight. While they get their name from the Orion constellation, they are visible across the night sky, according to NASA.

Orionids can be especially bright and fast, and can leave glowing trains that can last for several seconds. Here’s what to know about the Orionids and other meteor showers.

What is a meteor shower?

As the Earth orbits the sun, several times a year it passes through debris left by passing comets and the occasional asteroid. The source of the Orionids is debris from Halley’s comet, which passes near Earth every 75 years.

When these fast-moving space rocks enter Earth’s atmosphere, the debris encounters new resistance from the air and becomes very hot, eventually burning up.

Sometimes the surrounding air glows briefly, leaving behind a fiery tail — the end of a “shooting star.”

You don’t need special equipment to see the meteor showers that flash across the sky annually, but it will help to find a spot far enough from city lights and other light pollution.

How to view a meteor shower

The best time to watch a meteor shower is typically after midnight, or in the early predawn hours, when there's usually less interference from moonlight.

Competing sources of light — such as a bright moon or artificial glow from lights on the ground — are the main obstacles to a clear view of meteors. Cloudless nights when the moon wanes smallest provide optimal viewing opportunities.

Be patient: It can take several minutes for your eyes to adjust to the dark.

When is the next meteor shower?

The next major meteor shower, the Southern Taurids, is expected to peak Nov. 5, when there will be just a crescent moon, making for favorable viewing conditions.

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ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported Patterson’s release on Tuesday morning. The move comes as Miami returns from its bye week with an 0-5 record.

Patterson struggled with consistency during the first five weeks of the season.

He missed field goals in each of Miami’s first two games and failed to convert an extra point in Week 5. He finished his Dolphins tenure with five successful extra points on six attempts.

Patterson also had trouble from longer distances, missing his only field goal attempt from beyond 50 yards and making one of two attempts from 40 to 49 yards.

Miami did not attempt a field goal from 40 yards or longer in Weeks 3 through 5, raising questions about the team’s confidence in Patterson’s range.

The Dolphins are moving forward with Zane Gonzalez, who is expected to join the team after a workout, according to NFL insider Jordan Schultz. Schultz also reported that Miami worked out veteran kicker Justin Tucker.

Gonzalez enters the opportunity with a career field-goal conversion rate of 81% and an extra-point success rate of 95.3%. Last season with the Atlanta Falcons, he made seven of nine field-goal attempts from at least 50 yards, including a long of 56 yards.

Gonzalez has not appeared in a regular-season game in 2026.

The seventh-year small forward has three seasons left on a five-year, $136 million contract he signed right before the 2023-24 season. The new deal gives the Timberwolves another year of cost certainty in managing future salary caps around the next maximum contracts anticipated for star guards Anthony Edwards and LaMelo Ball. The extension also makes McDaniels eligible for another one in two years at a higher rate, thanks to the hefty raise he'll get from about $29.8 million in 2028-29 to the $40 million in 2029-30.

The 6-foot-9 McDaniels had an excellent season in 2025-26, posting career bests with an average of 14.8 points per game, 41.2% shooting from 3-point range and 83.5% from the free-throw line. The Timberwolves are confident the arrival of Ball and his keen passing ability can help unlock even more offensive potential.

Asked about McDaniels after practice on Monday, before this deal was done, Ball raved about his lanky teammate's capability and compared him to a video game creation.

“Can move, long, play defense, cut backdoor, shoot the 3. I mean, really anything you need,” Ball said.

Last week, McDaniels similarly praised his new point guard's passing skills.

“It’s crazy. If you’re not paying attention, it might go right past you, go out of bounds or something, and then that’s on you because you’re open,” McDaniels said. “So I just learned every time I cut just to make sure my head's on a swivel when he's got the ball.”

McDaniels, who was drafted with the 28th pick in 2020 out of Washington, has long been the team’s best perimeter defender. He was an NBA All-Defensive second-team selection in 2023-24. The addition of the 6-foot-7 Ball should allow McDaniels more opportunities to defend off the ball, a potentially less taxing but still impactful role for his quick step and long arms.

“Just all of us flying around, helping each other out," McDaniels said.

McDaniels has appeared in 49 career playoff games, the second-most in franchise history behind Edwards, and just ahead of Kevin Garnett. His defining performance in the postseason to date came in the series-clinching Game 6 win over Denver in the first round last spring, when he stifled Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray on defense and finished with 32 points and 10 rebounds.

His combination of athleticism, size and instinct has long given the Timberwolves belief he can become more of an impact scorer, an opportunity that has clearly increased with the departures of Julius Randle and Naz Reid in the trade to obtain Ball. Sinking those corner 3-pointers will continue to be an important source of offense for the Timberwolves, as are his signature high-rising shots from the paint, a midrange game that he has maintained amid the league-wide trend away from it.

“Incredible touch, off the bank shots or the little runners, floaters or the little fadeaway. That's all inherent, you know?” coach Chris Finch said. “He was really an outstanding 3-point shooter last year. I think we can up that rate a little bit even. But he’s got a gift, and it’s not just to have that size but also that touch at that size. It feels like he can kind of get that shot off on anybody.”

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William Nikolas Moraitis, de 20 años y residente de Bunnell, era buscado en relación con un caso del condado Flagler.

Según la Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, pruebas de ADN lo vincularon con el caso del 8 de abril de 2025.

De acuerdo con un comunicado de prensa de la FCSO, pocas horas después de la agresión la víctima acudió al agente asignado a su escuela para denunciar que Moraitis, que entonces tenía 18 años, se presentó en su casa “sin avisar” esa madrugada, después de que ella “le había dicho que no cuando él le pidió venir a tener sexo”.

“Como sabía que él andaba armado, sintió que tenía que dejarlo entrar por la ventana”, señala el comunicado. “Vio el arma en su cintura, aunque él nunca la sacó. Ella le volvió a decir que no; sin embargo, él no se detuvo”.

Las autoridades afirmaron que Moraitis sabía perfectamente la edad de la joven.

“En agosto de 2024, cuando la joven le dijo que iba a cumplir 15 años, él le respondió que era ‘demasiado mayor’ para ella y que en 12 días cumpliría 18”, indica el comunicado.

Las autoridades informaron que obtuvieron una orden de arresto contra Moraitis el 12 de octubre, y que agentes de U.S. Customs and Border Protection lo detuvieron el lunes en el puerto.

“La rapidez de la víctima para denunciar, su ADN y sus propias palabras ayudaron a probar este caso”, dijo el sheriff del condado Flagler, Rick Staly, en el comunicado. “Puede que pensara que se iba de viaje fuera del país, pero solo llegó hasta el puerto de Miami. Su próxima excursión será al Green Roof Inn”.

Según los agentes, Moraitis enfrenta un cargo de agresión lasciva contra una víctima de 12 años o más, pero menor de 16.

Hasta la mañana del martes, seguía en el condado Miami-Dade, según los registros de la cárcel, detenido en el Metrowest Detention Center a la espera de ser extraditado por la Interstate 95.

Elliot Rohl mide 5 pies y 7 pulgadas, y fue visto por última vez con una sudadera gris con capucha y letras rojas, pantalón negro y zapatos blancos, según la policía.

Las autoridades indicaron que utilizaron la unidad de aviación de la Broward Sheriff’s Office y perros sabuesos para tratar de localizarlo, aunque el aviso público del departamento no precisó si esas labores arrojaron alguna pista.

El martes, la policía pidió a cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero que se comunique con el detective Frank Dovi al 954-743-1639 o con el Pembroke Pines Police Department al 954-431-2200.

Jean Claude Saint Cyr, residente de Deerfield Beach, enfrenta cargos que incluyen homicidio vehicular, conducción temeraria con lesiones corporales graves y siete cargos de conducción temeraria con daños a personas o propiedades, según los registros de la cárcel.

Su esposa, Fedeline Alexis Saint Cyr, de 59 años, murió en el lugar tras salir expulsada de la Land Rover Discovery 2023 blanca que él conducía durante el choque del 26 de mayo, de acuerdo con los investigadores.

Local 10 News obtuvo un video de seguridad que muestra el choque y al personal de rescate trabajando en la escena durante horas.

El accidente ocurrió poco antes de la 1:40 p.m. en Northeast Third Avenue y 44th Street, según BSO.

Los investigadores indicaron que Jean Claude Saint Cyr circulaba hacia el norte por Third Avenue cuando chocó por detrás a una Nissan Rogue 2023 roja que estaba detenida en la 44th Street.

El impacto lanzó la Land Rover hacia los carriles en dirección sur, donde golpeó una Nissan NV200 2015 blanca antes de dar varias vueltas y quedar detenida cerca de la acera, informaron las autoridades.

Los investigadores determinaron que la Land Rover iba a entre 98 y 102 mph cuando pasó frente a un negocio cercano al lugar del choque, donde el límite de velocidad es de 30 mph. Al momento de impactar a la Nissan Rogue, la SUV circulaba a entre 79 y 87 mph, según los agentes.

El choque fue tan violento que el eje delantero de la Land Rover se desprendió y el motor salió expulsado. La Nissan Rogue también se volcó antes de quedar detenida contra el portal de una casa. Su conductor salió expulsado y fue encontrado parcialmente debajo del vehículo, cerca del portal, según los agentes.

Las autoridades informaron que los tres conductores heridos fueron trasladados al Broward Health North, en Deerfield Beach.

Según el reporte de arresto, los investigadores atribuyeron la muerte de Fedeline Alexis Saint Cyr a las lesiones que sufrió al salir expulsada del vehículo durante la colisión.

El choque también dañó una cerca de madera en una casa cercana, junto a una piscina donde jugaban cuatro niñas. Su abuelo le dijo anteriormente a Local 10 News que las niñas no resultaron heridas.

Tras el accidente, varios vecinos también le contaron a Local 10 News que los conductores suelen pasar a exceso de velocidad por la zona y no respetan el pare de cuatro vías.

Hasta la mañana del martes, Jean Claude Saint Cyr permanecía en la Broward County Main Jail, según los registros de la cárcel. Aún no se le había fijado una fianza.

Aunque los frentes asociados al sistema de baja presión, que el Centro Nacional de Huracanes ya designó como Invest 93L, comenzaban a enrollarse y debilitarse, el sistema todavía no se había desprendido de su origen no tropical.

En los próximos días, mientras 93L se mantiene sobre las cálidas aguas de la Corriente del Golfo, podría generar suficiente actividad de tormentas organizadas cerca de su centro de circulación como para perder sus rasgos frontales restantes y adquirir características tropicales.

Sin duda es un caso al límite, pero si se vuelve subtropical mañana o el jueves, el Centro Nacional de Huracanes le asignaría un nombre y un cono de pronóstico.

El próximo nombre de la lista es Josephine.

El nombre y la clasificación subtropical son pura formalidad

Como explicamos en el boletín del lunes, que la tormenta se transforme o no en la tormenta subtropical Josephine en los próximos días no cambia en nada sus efectos en la costa, que ya se están sintiendo.

Ya se han registrado ráfagas de casi 50 mph frente a los Outer Banks, y las inundaciones costeras, de menores a moderadas, seguirán durante varios ciclos de marea alta hasta el jueves, desde la costa de Carolina del Norte y la región de Tidewater, en Virginia, hacia el norte hasta el Eastern Shore de Maryland y el sur de Nueva Jersey.

A lo largo de la costa más expuesta, las inundaciones se agravarán por olas de 8 a 12 pies en la zona de rompiente, que no solo harán peligrosas las condiciones en el mar, sino que también provocarán una erosión generalizada de las playas y el desborde del oleaje sobre carreteras bajas cercanas.

Los vientos irán disminuyendo poco a poco el jueves y el viernes, lo que aliviará los problemas de inundaciones costeras hacia el final de la semana.

Si Josephine llega a formarse, lo hará cuando el sistema de baja presión ya se esté alejando de Estados Unidos.

Casi todos nuestros modelos de pronóstico más confiables le dan al sistema una probabilidad media, de entre 50% y 60%, de convertirse en Josephine mañana o el jueves.

Sin preocupaciones en el resto del Atlántico

En el resto de la cuenca del Atlántico no se espera ningún desarrollo hasta finales de mes.

Plans were announced Tuesday for a huge new visitor attraction that backers say will give Liverpool a tourist draw about its famous sons to rival Elvis Presley’s Graceland and Dolly Parton’s Dollywood.

Apple Corps Ltd., the company that oversees The Beatles’ business interests, said an expanded version of The Beatles Story museum is coming to the center of Liverpool in 2028. It’s scheduled to open soon after the release of Sam Mendes’ quartet of feature films about John, Paul, George and Ringo, which are expected to unleash a new wave of global interest in the band that transformed rock ‘n’ roll.

The plan will see Apple Corps take over The Beatles Story and move it from its current home in Liverpool’s docklands to the former St. John’s Market, a 100,000-square-foot (9,290-square-meter) site across from the city’s main Lime Street train station.

Apple Corps said the new venue will use “immersive technology, original artifacts and spectacular reconstructed sets” to take visitors from the band members’ childhoods in postwar Liverpool through their hardscrabble years in the bars of Hamburg, Germany, to the explosion of “Beatlemania” and global fame.

Sets and props from Mendes' movies will create versions of Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where the band got its start; the famous Abbey Road studios in London; and Shea Stadium, the site of their legendary 1965 performance.

The nearby St Johns Beacon, a 400-foot (122-meter) former radio tower, will be transformed into a tourist attraction inspired by the band’s song and animated movie “Yellow Submarine,” offering views over the city.

“Just like Graceland or Dollywood, it’s fitting that The Beatles will have a world class destination for fans to visit in the center of the city where the story started,” Apple Corps chief executive Tom Greene said.

Apple Corps said a portion of the ticket revenue will support a charity set up to nurture new artists in Liverpool.

The two surviving Beatles welcomed the development. Paul McCartney said the band’s success “couldn’t have happened without Liverpool and I can’t wait for people to be able to step into our story and share the experience.” Ringo Starr said “Liverpool was, and still is, music city.”

The announcement is the latest chapter in a Beatles boom, 56 years after the band’s breakup. Apple Corps has already announced that a new fan experience will open in late 2027 in the band’s former London headquarters at 3 Savile Row, whose rooftop was the site of The Beatles’ last public performance in 1969.

Mendes is directing a quartet of biopics starring Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Paul Mescal as McCartney and Barry Keoghan as Starr. All are due for release in April 2028.

The legacy of The Beatles has helped transform Liverpool into a culture and nightlife destination, reviving the city’s economy after decades of decline following the closure of its docks.

Mike Jones, a Beatles expert at the University of Liverpool, said the “double boost” of the films and attractions will bring in many more Beatles fans.

“I’m not sure that the city’s quite prepared for it,” he said, calling it both a risk and an opportunity. “What we have to resist is the Disneyfication of Liverpool, the Disneyfication of the Beatles."

That said, there's a lot more that people should know about the band and its legacy, Jones said.

“There’s a rich story to be told about the relationship between Liverpool and the Beatles, a very rich story," he said. "And I’m not sure that story’s been told."

SimBioSys, a Chicago-based software company born in a lab at the University of Illinois, created TumorSight Risk as a prognostic tool for cancer centers treating patients with early-stage, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Stacey Stevens, the president and chief executive officer of SimBioSys, recently celebrated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s clearance of TumorSight Risk to be used as a prognostic indicator of recurrence-free survival at five and ten years in some patients.

The tool is designed for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer that has three characteristics:

• It is hormone receptor-positive, which means that the cancer cells have receptors that attach to estrogen or progesterone.
• It is HER2-negative, which means the cancer cells don’t have high levels of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 protein or extra copies of the gene.
• And, it is Stage I–IIIA, which means it ranges from small, localized tumors to larger tumors with limited regional lymph node involvement.

Related story: New AI-powered tool helps women determine 5-year breast cancer risk

Animal advocates say breeders operating outside the law are profiting from puppies while often failing to provide proper veterinary care, vaccinations and safe living conditions.

Local 10 News animal advocate Jacey Birch spoke with three people working to expose illegal breeding operations, strengthen enforcement and protect animals from exploitation.

Puppies sold in parking lot spark investigation

Rebecca Landerman, who runs Rescue Dog Network, spends her days rescuing dogs from streets and shelters. But she has also taken on another mission: exposing backyard breeders.

Recently, Landerman investigated a woman advertising husky puppies for sale online and arranging to sell them in a Costco parking lot in Davie.

During the encounter, Landerman learned the puppies were being offered for $800 each, were approximately six weeks old and had not received vaccinations.

Breeders are required to obtain permits and register with the county. Puppies must also meet veterinary and vaccination requirements and be at least eight weeks old.

Selling puppies in public places is also prohibited under the local rules cited during the investigation.

A Broward County Animal Care field officer responded and was seen issuing a citation for the violation as the husky puppies sat in a grocery cart.

Landerman believes enforcing existing laws is essential to addressing the problem.

Documentarian exposes conditions behind puppy sales

Christian Ruben, a documentarian with iFilm Heroes, has made it his mission to expose what he describes as the dark side of the animal breeding industry.

Through documentaries, drone footage and a podcast, Ruben has investigated breeding operations across Florida, documenting conditions that prospective buyers rarely see.

“I have seen dogs in Miami, actually in Homestead, German Shepherd breeding inside a chicken coop, barely tall enough to stand,” Ruben said. “When I saw that, I was like, ‘Wow, OK, this is crazy, it’s getting crazier.’”

Ruben believes financial incentives are driving the problem, with some breeders prioritizing profits over the health and welfare of their animals.

“Does this all come down to easy money, exploiting animals?” asked Local 10’s Jacey Birch.

“Yes,” replied Ruben. “They are the number one problem, in my opinion, you know, because think about it, a backyard breeder doesn’t care where the dog goes, they don’t vet anybody, they could care less who takes that dog.”

He said the appealing puppy photographs used in advertisements often conceal the conditions in which breeding animals are kept, including cages, neglect and inadequate care.

His work aims to show potential buyers what can happen behind the scenes before puppies are advertised for sale.

Palm Beach County pushes for tougher enforcement

In Palm Beach County, Animal Care and Control Director Jan Steele says illegal breeding is placing enormous pressure on shelters already struggling to accommodate unwanted animals.

“Right now, there are no spaces for all the animals being bred in South Florida, whether it’s dogs or cats, and a lot of that is coming down to the illegal breeders,” Steele said.

Steele, who has led the county’s Animal Care and Control department for five years, says the agency is working to strengthen its existing regulations.

“We’ve got a really good ordinance right now. We’re going to make it even tighter because what we want to do is we want to stop all the illegal breeding in Palm Beach County,” she said.

The department has 30 field officers and works closely with the sheriff’s office to investigate animal welfare violations and enforce breeding regulations.

Steele said illegal breeders frequently skip essential veterinary care while repeatedly breeding animals until they can no longer produce puppies.

“They don’t ever do the medical workups, they don’t do health checks, they don’t get vaccinations, they often times breed and breed and breed until the animals are just worn out and they end up in shelters along with at least half, if not more, of their offspring,” she said.

Rescue groups left dealing with the consequences

Animal advocates say the consequences of irresponsible and illegal breeding extend far beyond the animals being sold.

Dogs that are sick, unwanted, unsold or no longer profitable often end up abandoned, surrendered to shelters or taken in by rescue organizations.

That leaves volunteers and nonprofit groups struggling to find homes, provide medical treatment and cover the costs of caring for the animals.

Advocates say stronger enforcement, public awareness and responsible decisions by prospective pet owners are necessary to reduce the number of animals entering already overwhelmed shelters.

Their message to South Floridians is simple: Don’t purchase pets from illegal breeders.

William Nikolas Moraitis, 20, of Bunnell, was being sought in connection with a case out of Flagler County.

According to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, DNA evidence tied him to the April 8, 2025 case.

An FCSO news release states that the victim went to a school resource deputy a few hours after the assault to report that Moraitis, then 18, showed up at her home “unannounced” early that morning after she “she had told (him) no when he asked to come over for sex.”

“Knowing he carried a gun, she felt she had to let him in through her window,” the news release states. “She saw the gun in his waistband, though he never pulled it out. She told him no again; however, he did not stop.”

Authorities said Moraitis was fully aware of how young the girl was.

“In August 2024, when the girl told him she was turning 15, he wrote back that he was ‘too old’ for her and he would turn 18 in 12 days,” the release states.

Authorities said they obtained a warrant for Moraitis’ arrest on Oct. 12 and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers took him into custody at the seaport on Monday.

“The victim’s fast reporting, his DNA, and his own words helped prove this case,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said in the news release. “While he may have thought he was leaving the country on a trip, he only made it to the Miami seaport. His next excursion is to the Green Roof Inn.”

Deputies said Moraitis was facing a charge of lewd or lascivious battery on a victim 12 or older but less than 16.

As of Tuesday morning, he remained in Miami-Dade County, jail records show, where he was being held at the Metrowest Detention Center pending extradition up Interstate 95.

El Senado dio su aval el lunes y la Cámara de Representantes lo hizo en la madrugada del martes tras un extenso debate en el que aprobaron un presupuesto por 634,9 billones de pesos, aproximadamente 201.140 millones de dólares, por lo que resta la firma del presidente De la Espriella.

Se trata de una victoria legislativa para el gobierno del conservador De la Espriella, quien no tiene garantizadas las mayorías en el Congreso y que ya había sufrido un revés con la votación en la que eligieron a las directivas del Senado.

"Esta señal que el Congreso le ha dado hoy a la política económica del gobierno es de muchísima importancia. Este es el primer paso para empezar a recuperar la estabilidad de nuestra economía y para generar crecimiento y prosperidad”, agradeció ante la Cámara el ministro de Hacienda, Miguel Gómez.

El gobierno defendió que el presupuesto ajustara rubros que dejó “desfinanciados” la administración del progresista Gustavo Petro (2022-2026), incluyendo el servicio de la deuda estatal y el dinero para pagos de pensiones, salud y educación.

“Están usando el tema de la deuda pública como una excusa para quitarle a las clases humildes de Colombia”, reclamó el martes ante la prensa José Luis Bohórquez, representante a la Cámara por el opositor Pacto Histórico, quien abogaba por más presupuesto para los departamentos agrícolas y el Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje, un centro estatal dirigido a la población de menos recursos.

El Congreso también aprobó algunos recortes propuestos por el gobierno, incluyendo 57,5 millones de dólares para la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), como se denomina al tribunal creado para juzgar crímenes de lesa humanidad y de guerra cometidos en cinco décadas de conflicto con la extinta guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC).

Alejandro Ramelli, presidente de la JEP, advirtió a la prensa en septiembre que el gobierno pretende desfinanciarla para dejarla inoperante en la práctica dado que De la Espriella dijo durante la campaña que haría todo lo que estuviera a su alcance para desmontar el tribunal.

“Claro que hay una desfinanciación, claro que hay una asfixia... quieren dejar un cascarón vacío, que no funcione para nada”, aseguró Ramelli.

Sin embargo, el Ministerio de Hacienda indicó el martes en un comunicado que una parte del recorte para el tribunal se trasladará al Ministerio de Defensa y sostuvo que el ajuste al tribunal “no afectará” su funcionamiento.

Jean Claude Saint Cyr, of Deerfield Beach, faces charges including vehicular homicide, reckless driving causing serious bodily injury and seven counts of reckless driving involving damage to a person or property, jail records show.

His wife, 59-year-old Fedeline Alexis Saint Cyr, died at the scene after she was ejected from the white 2023 Land Rover Discovery he was driving during the May 26 crash, according to investigators.

Local 10 News obtained surveillance video showing the crash and fire rescue personnel working at the scene for hours afterward.

The crash happened shortly before 1:40 p.m. at Northeast Third Avenue and 44th Street, according to BSO.

Investigators said Jean Claude Saint Cyr was driving north on Third Avenue when he rear-ended a red 2023 Nissan Rogue that had stopped at 44th Street.

The impact sent the Land Rover into the southbound lanes, where it struck a white 2015 Nissan NV200 before tumbling and rolling to a stop near the sidewalk, authorities said.

Investigators determined the Land Rover was traveling between 98 and 102 mph as it passed a business near the crash site, where the posted speed limit is 30 mph. The SUV was traveling between 79 and 87 mph when it struck the Nissan Rogue, deputies said.

They said the crash was so severe that the Land Rover’s front axle was torn off and its engine was ejected. The Nissan Rogue also rolled before coming to rest against the front porch of a home. Its driver was ejected and found partially beneath the vehicle near the porch, according to deputies.

Authorities said the three injured drivers were taken to Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach.

An arrest report states that investigators attributed Fedeline Alexis Saint Cyr’s death to injuries she sustained when she was ejected from the vehicle during the collision.

The crash also damaged a wooden fence at a nearby home, close to a pool where four girls were playing. Their grandfather previously told Local 10 News that the girls were not injured.

Neighbors also told Local 10 News after the crash that drivers frequently speed through the area and fail to obey the four-way stop.

As of Tuesday morning, Jean Claude Saint Cyr was being held at the Broward County Main Jail, according to jail records. His bond had not been immediately set.

Although the fronts connected to the low-pressure system – now designated Invest 93L by the National Hurricane Center – were beginning to wrap up and weaken, it hadn’t yet shed its non-tropical origins.

Over the next few days as 93L loiters in the vicinity of the warm Gulf Stream waters, it may muster up enough organized thunderstorm activity near its circulation center to shed its remaining frontal features and acquire tropical characteristics.

It’s a borderline case to be sure, but if it turns subtropical by tomorrow or Thursday, it would get a name and forecast cone from NHC.

The next name on the list is Josephine.

Name and subtropical standing purely academic

As we discussed in Monday’s newsletter, whether or not the nor’easter morphs into Subtropical Storm Josephine over the next few days is immaterial to its ongoing coastal impacts.

Already winds have gusted to nearly 50 mph off the Outer Banks and widespread minor to moderate coastal flooding will continue across multiple high-tide cycles through Thursday from coastal North Carolina and the Virginia Tidewater northward to the Eastern Shores of Maryland and southern New Jersey.

Coastal flooding will be compounded along the exposed coastline by breaking waves reaching 8 to 12 feet in the surf zone that will not only make for treacherous marine conditions but lead to widespread beach erosion and ocean overwash of nearby low-lying roadways.

Winds will gradually taper down on Thursday and Friday which will lessen the coastal flooding issues by the end of the week.

If Josephine forms, it will be doing so as the low-pressure system is pulling away from the U.S.

Nearly all of our reliable modeling systems give the system medium odds (~ 50-60% odds) of becoming Josephine by tomorrow or Thursday.

No concerns elsewhere

Elsewhere, no development is expected across the Atlantic basin through the end of the month.

The White House said that under the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program, anyone who submits a tip that leads to a fraud conviction or a significant federal enforcement action is eligible to receive up to $30,000, and that the Justice Department will administer the program.

During the announcement, Trump said payments will amount to a 1% commission on the amount of fraud the tip helps uncover. Trump also said he will decide who gets reward money in cases where more than one person claims to have provided the tip.

“I will be the arbitrator of all of these decisions,” Trump in the Oval Office with Vance and other administration officials standing behind him. “It'll be a binding arbitration.”

Trump said journalists could participate in the program.

The Republican president has undertaken an aggressive effort to eliminate fraud in government, establishing a task force on the topic in March and putting Vance in charge of it.

Critics have accused Trump and his family of profiting from the presidency through their many business ventures. The White House says Trump acts only with the best interests of the American people in mind.

Vance, who said his work leading the task force is “fun,” said tax dollars are being stolen.

“The president has said it must stop. It is stopping. And if you want to help us stop it, you get to share in the rewards," the vice president said.

The White House had said Trump would present a $10,000 check to Nick Shirley, a right-wing influencer who posted a video last year that said members of Minnesota’s Somali community were running fake childcare centers to collect federal subsidies. But a check was not given to Shirley in the presence of journalists.

The 24-year-old's video caught the attention of the Trump administration and conservative activists, though inspectors said the centers were operating as expected. Investigations, searches and arrests followed.

Shirley said during the event that fraud robs from poor and needy people.

“When you expose fraud, you help save America,” he said.

In July, Fahima Mahamud pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States by submitting inflated reimbursement claims for meals allegedly served to children at her childcare center, according to the Justice Department.

The White House says Mahamud was featured in Shirley's video.

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In a post on Instagram, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz announced the addition of cowboy hats to the MDSO uniform.

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According to the sheriff’s office, each new cowboy hat comes with a price tag of $132.50.

MDSO told Local 10 News that the department ordered around 1,000 hats.

However, the sheriff’s office said deputies are not required to wear the hats, adding that they will be issued to deputies of all ranks.

Las autoridades recibieron inicialmente una llamada sobre un polvo blanco sospechoso encontrado dentro de un sobre.

La oficina de Wasserman Schultz está ubicada en Sunrise, al este de Sawgrass Expressway y al sur de Sunrise Boulevard.

Según la policía de Sunrise, el sobre fue asegurado de manera segura y permanece sin abrir, pero se desconoce su contenido.

Hasta el momento, no se ha informado si Wasserman Schultz se encontraba en su oficina el lunes.

En una publicación en Instagram, la sheriff de Miami-Dade, Rosie Cordero-Stutz, anunció que los sombreros vaqueros pasarán a formar parte del uniforme del MDSO.

Según la oficina del sheriff, cada nuevo sombrero tiene un precio de $132.50.

El MDSO le dijo a Local 10 News que el departamento encargó alrededor de 1,000 sombreros.

Sin embargo, la oficina del sheriff aclaró que los agentes no estarán obligados a usarlos y que se entregarán a agentes de todos los rangos.

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The taste of fall will continue midweek with near normal highs and only a few coastal showers possible. Moisture will return into the start of the weekend, bringing up rain chances and wind speeds by Saturday and Sunday.

Según Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, 10 unidades acudieron alrededor de las 3:21 a.m. a un incendio cerca de la cuadra 1200 de Northwest 79th Street.

Al llegar, los bomberos encontraron el tráiler y el camión completamente envueltos en llamas.

Los equipos desplegaron rápidamente las mangueras y comenzaron a combatir el fuego, indicaron las autoridades.

Los bomberos lograron extinguir las llamas y evitar que el incendio se extendiera a los vehículos cercanos.

Una vez controlado el fuego, los equipos aplicaron una espuma especial contra incendios para reducir el riesgo de que se reavivara.

No se reportaron heridos.

La causa del incendio sigue bajo investigación.

His agent, Rich Paul, said over the summer the Knicks would have been James' first choice in free agency had New York not won its first NBA championship since 1973 last season.

It's the thrill of the chase, to end a championship drought — much like he did in Cleveland — that in part drives James to keep playing after racking up a list of accomplishments unrivaled by his modern-day peers.

It's why James is opening the season Tuesday night at “The World's Most Famous Arena” wearing No. 23 for the Philadelphia 76ers instead of the home team.

While the spotlight is on the Knicks ahead of the game as they raise their championship banner, all eyes will be on James once the ball tips as he makes his debut with the Sixers.

The 76ers get a first look at the potent lineup they put together this summer in hopes of winning their first NBA title since 1983. James and fellow All-Star newcomer Jaylen Brown will start alongside holdovers Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe.

There are some natural questions on how that All-Star starting four plus Edgecombe will coexist when all have been the primary ball handlers on their respective teams in the past. Who gets the ball in crunch time? Who has to sacrifice the most? Who has the most to gain?

Watching the answers unfold in real time will be fascinating for the Sixers and their fans.

“We're just getting together,” James said after the Sixers' preseason finale. “It's not going to be perfect. We've got some things to build on.”

The offseason all the way through the countdown to the Sixers' home opener Thursday against Cleveland has been nothing but a swirl of excitement in Philadelphia. James jerseys are flying off the racks. Murals of him have popped up all over the city. He drew more than 10,000 fans to a public scrimmage and preseason games sold out. There's a public fascination with his helicopter rides from New Jersey to New York.

Even his younger teammates admit to being a bit awestruck when they first met James.

Knicks coach Mike Brown — set to enjoy a championship celebration ahead of the game — has one of the longer professional relationships in the NBA with James. Brown coached the Cavaliers from 2005 through 2010 until he was fired, but the duo led the franchise to the NBA Finals in 2007.

Brown said at the Knicks’ preseason game earlier this month in Philadelphia that it was easy to be awed by all that James has accomplished.

“Year 24 is insane,” Brown said. “It’s unheard of. It’s not human. People talk about (Victor Wembanyama) being not human because of what he can do for his size. You kind of throw LeBron in that category because of his durability and still doing it at the age that he has at a high level. It’s amazing to watch.”

A four-time NBA champion with three teams, James is already the NBA’s career scoring leader. The leader in games, minutes, field goals and field goals attempted, too.

There's not much left for him to accomplish, except win that fifth ring.

Philadelphia is waiting.

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“You see the variety and diversity,” Turturro says. “It’s always around you. When I’m on the train, there are so many different kinds of people. Especially the 7 train. I get a lot of things from the 7 train.”

Turturro’s Pino, the racist pizzeria worker of “Do The Right Thing,” came from guys Turturro grew up around. His Brooklyn-born trash-talking bowler Jesus Quintana from “The Big Lebowski” was based on a Lower East Side man Turturro met just after the man got out of jail. Turturro liked his voice.

“I interview a lot of people and I take things from them. They know I’m going to,” Turturro says. “Sometimes I keep in touch with certain people, but sometimes you feel kind of bad about that. Like a thief in the night.”

Sitting outside at a cafe around the corner from his Park Slope brownstone, Turturro chuckles. The symmetry with his latest New York character is almost too perfect. In “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” Turturro stars as Harry Lehman, an aging pickpocket in an increasingly cashless and digital New York.

The film, which Sony Pictures Classics releases in select theaters Friday, is a fitting capstone for the 69-year-old Turturro, a shape-shifting character actor who has always worked best when you don’t see him working.

“The whole skill of it is that the person doesn’t know,” Turturro says of pickpockets. “I used to make a list of everything I had in common and everything I didn’t have in common with a character. A lot of things resonated with me. People don’t look at you anymore.”

“The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” written and directed by Noah Segan, is an elegiac ode not just to a bygone, analog New York but to a rich generation of New York actors. Steve Buscemi co-stars as a pawnshop owner and Giancarlo Esposito plays a police detective. A lot of the movie’s joy is seeing such archetypal New York performers on their home turf.

Turturro’s soulful performance has brought him something rare for the much-loved but relatively seldom-honored actor: Oscar buzz. “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York” could land him his first nomination.

“I worked so hard and long before that it’s wonderful when things actually come together,” says Turturro. “It’s rarer than people think, you know what I mean?”

‘I don’t look like Robert Redford'

Turturro could just as easily be talking about the New York Knicks, whose championship he’s still basking in. “Miraculous,” he says, smiling. The sun was also shining on Turturro on a recent bright autumn day in Brooklyn. “The Only Living Pickpocket” had just played at the New York Film Festival, where many of Turturro’s longtime friends and collaborators, like Joel and Ethan Coen, came to support him. The moment has made him reflective.

“When I first started, I thought: I don’t know if I’m going to work. I feel like I have the ability, but I don’t look like Robert Redford,” says Turturro.

Ironically, it was a film with Redford, 1994’s “Quiz Show,” that Turturro attributes to him and his wife of 40 years, Katherine Borowitz, being able to stay in New York.

“I got ‘Quiz Show’ and I was going to get paid,” recalls Turturro. “I said, ‘Well, maybe we have enough.’ So we stayed here.”

Since then, Turturro has played street-wise New York hustlers, high-minded intellectuals and world-weary schlubs. He’s played a corner store owner (“Jungle Fever”), an NYPD hostage negotiator (“The Taking of Pelham 123”), a court-appointed defense attorney (“The Night Of”), a mob boss (“The Batman”), a scriptwriting playwright (“Barton Fink”) and a gigolo ( “Fading Gigolo,” which he directed). Like few actors, he has captured the city, from Broadway to the Bowery to Bayside.

In a changing city, Turturro abides

The kinds of characters Turturro has made a living capturing can feel like an endangered species in a more sanitized, high-priced New York. Turturro grants that the city has changed. Cab drivers, he notes, no longer tell you their life story while barely keeping an eye on the road. But regardless of the number of pickpockets left, Turturro finds the same spirit is alive.

“There are different people now in New York. But if you go to certain pockets, you can find them,” he says. “We were in neighborhoods for this and I was like, ‘Wow, this is a whole other world.’ We shot way out past Coney Island. Sometimes I had a dressing room in a hair salon. I’d watch the clientele.”

So Turturro can often be spied walking around Brooklyn like he always has been. He takes the subway home after Knicks games. For the most part, people are cool.

“Everyone treats me the same, and that’s the way I like it. I can understand people who are like superstars. But that does really reduce your options in life. It removes you from life, like, taking the train home after a game,” says Turturro. “If you lose yourself, what do you have? You don’t have anything.”

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This story was updated to correct the name of Turturro's new movie in the headline.

The EU move comes after threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to take control of Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark, and after he left Iceland uneasy by posting a map with the colors of the American flag over both islands.

Other pressures are mounting as the Arctic warms about four times faster than the global average. New shipping routes are opening, China is doing more trade through the Arctic region, and a Russian military buildup is also heightening security concerns.

“When we see that sovereignty, territorial integrity and the rules that have underpinned stability in the region can no longer be taken for granted, we have to act and change our strategic posture,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

The EU wants to help set up a cable center to monitor, protect and repair undersea communications cables in the North Atlantic and Arctic. Russian submarines are suspected of planning to sabotage some marine infrastructure there.

EU funds would be spent on cameras, sensors and satellites to detect potential threats.

At the same time, the European Commission intends to “support the delivery of a sovereign, secure, and resilient submarine cable” that would connect Greenland directly to the EU, according to a new strategy document.

The cable monitoring operation would be part of a larger Maritime Security Hub the 27-nation bloc intends to set up to track the often-decrepit vessels that Russia uses in its shadow fleet to illicitly ship oil and raise funds for its war on Ukraine.

This hub would also be on the lookout for illegal fishing or pollution and help in search and rescue efforts.

In parallel, the EU wants to build up its fleet of icebreaker ships to move more effectively through the Arctic and expand research. Officials estimate that Europe has around 10 icebreakers, most of them in Finland. By comparison, Russia has around 40.

More broadly, transport connections between the Arctic and Europe will be improved, for both civilian and military use.

A key part of the EU’s plan is to link European infrastructure like ports, rail connections, energy terminals, satellite and digital infrastructure to Arctic trade and transport networks, with the aim of better connecting the region to Europe’s markets.

The EU believes it has an important stake in the Arctic. More than half a million EU citizens live there. Denmark, Finland and Sweden are members of the bloc, while Iceland and Norway are part of Europe’s single market.

It also intends to work closely with partners like Canada and the U.K.

At the same time, the EU insists it’s not trying to claim the Arctic as its own. It does not intend to drill for oil or gas and refuses to buy fossil fuels that are extracted there, including from its partner Norway.

The White House said that under the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program, or WHIP, anyone who submits a tip to fraud.gov that leads to a fraud conviction or a significant federal enforcement action is eligible to receive up to $30,000.

Later on Tuesday, the president was headed to Greenville, North Carolina, in the latest stop on his Republican midterm rescue mission. Trump is hoping that $5,000 checks can juice GOP turnout in the elections — but even some of his devoted fans are doubting that government payouts would arrive. This latest offer could reveal how much voters still trust Trump as they decide control of Congress on Nov. 3.

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Ruben Gallego says high gas prices have voters worried

Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego says Americans are feeling palpable fear over gas prices and predicts they will punish Republicans at the ballot box.

The Arizona senator and potential 2028 presidential candidate held a news conference at a Phoenix gas station Tuesday to highlight the rise of gas and diesel prices since the Iran war started.

A lot of voters are at gas stations anxiously watching the numbers tick up, waiting for the click that signals the tank is full, he said.

“The idea that they’re not going to bring that to the voting booth, I think it would be very naive on both sides,” Gallego said, adding that voters felt the same anxiety during Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency.

Arizona has two battleground House districts, and the state’s Democratic governor, secretary of state and attorney general are looking to hold onto offices they narrowly won four years ago.

Trump signs bill creating Chiricahua National Park

The nation’s 64th national park features towering rock spires formed from an ancient volcanic eruption in what is now southeastern Arizona. It’s part of the historical territory of the Chiricahua Apache Tribes and covers 19 square miles (49 square kilometers).

Native Americans referred to the site as the Land of Standing-Up Rocks, and early settlers called it Wonderland of Rocks. The name Chiricahua comes from the surrounding mountains.

President Calvin Coolidge named the site a national monument in 1924 under the federal Antiquities Act. President Franklin D. Roosevelt expanded it in 1938.

Its redesignation Tuesday as a national park comes amid deep cuts to the National Park Service workforce under Trump. Maintenance projects at many sites — including Chiricahua — have been ranked “low priority” by officials who have instead focused on projects wanted by the White House, including repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The legislation creating Chiricahua National Park was sponsored by Arizona Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani and garnered broad bipartisan support.

Elizabeth Warren and Gretchen Whitmer campaign for Democrats in Nevada

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined Nevada Democratic candidates Tuesday for a get-out-the-vote event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus.

They encouraged attendees to support Democrats on the ballot, and to support Ballot Question 6, which would codify abortion rights in the Nevada Constitution.

Whitmer told the crowd that UNLV students could make the difference in the competitive governor’s race between Democratic candidate Aaron Ford and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo.

“It’s up to you how you’re going to spend the next 14 days, but I implore you: don’t let any day go to waste. Don’t let any moment go to waste,” she said.

Other potential 2028 presidential candidates are flocking to the key battleground state ahead of the midterms. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., will also be in Nevada this week.

Judge rejects Trump administration bid to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center

A civil rights lawsuit alleges that Elon Musk’s xAI company is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion AI data center in Mississippi.

The NAACP and other groups say xAI failed to get a permit for the turbines, which are located near homes, schools and churches in the Memphis area, violating the federal Clean Air Act.

The Justice Department moved to dismiss the case, saying the plant is needed to power an artificial intelligence data center that is “critical” to the U.S. economy and military.

U.S. District Judge Debra Brown denied the motion, but granted a separate request allowing the Justice Department to remain in the case. The Environmental Protection Agency has jurisdiction over the Clean Air Act.

Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor rallies college students as early voting starts

David Crowley was joined by U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin for the rally on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on the first day of early voting in the battleground state.

Crowley and his Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, urged supporters to cast their absentee ballots in person during the two-week early voting period. About 96,000 fewer absentee ballots have been requested by mail this year compared with 2022.

Crowley blames the drop on attacks against the U.S. Postal Service made by the Trump administration.

“A lot of people are reluctant to actually mail in their ballot,” he says.

Gavin Denning, a 19-year-old sophomore at UW, voted on Tuesday before attending the Crowley event. He says the chance to vote in person before Election Day is a “great opportunity” that he was glad to take advantage of.

Trump won’t say why Hegseth met with Netanyahu

Trump says he can’t discuss what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about at their meeting on Monday.

“I can’t do that now,” Trump said when asked about the meeting on Tuesday.

While the Pentagon wouldn’t confirm the meeting, Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for Netanyahu’s office, told the AP the meeting was warm and that Hegseth thanked Israel on behalf of Americans for hosting U.S. troops.

Spielman also said they discussed offensive and defensive capabilities regarding threats in the region.

The meeting comes as Trump has signaled a willingness to resume hostilities with Iran following the U.S. midterm elections.

Republican Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden says Iran war making it harder for GOP to win

Van Orden said in a debate Tuesday that the war, which he supports, is “making it exponentially harder for Republicans to keep the House and Senate.”

Van Orden is a retired Navy SEAL who spent 26 years on active duty before being elected to Congress in 2022. Democrats are targeting his western Wisconsin swing district this year with political activist Rebecca Cooke, repeating the 2024 election Cooke narrowly lost.

Van Orden says, given his military background, “I know about war,” and he believes the U.S.’s stated intention of stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon is justified. He says Cooke is unwilling to ever go to war, even when it’s necessary.

Cooke, a part-time waitress and former small business owner, says she believes in diplomacy and economic sanctions first.

But Van Orden says diplomacy and sanctions didn’t work in Iran.

“They only respond to this horrible thing that is war,” he said.

Trump says it’s too early to think about endorsing his successor

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked whether he would endorse Vice President JD Vance if Vance runs to succeed him.

“I don’t think we’ve ever talked about it. You know, who would believe that?” Trump said of Vance, who was standing behind him.

He called Vance “a very talented person” and “a very good person,” but said it was too soon to talk about the future.

“It’s early, very early right now. We have to get through the midterms. We’ll see how it goes,” he said.

Vance told journalist Mark Halperin in an interview that he still hasn’t decided about running, but if he does, he expects Trump would back him.

Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate condemns uncredited ad featuring estranged mother

Dr. Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio, is pushing back against an unattributed ad circulating online that features her long-estranged mother calling her “a liar” and insinuating she has mental health issues.

The ad began circulating overnight Tuesday, two weeks before Election Day.

Ohio’s former public health director is in a tight race with Republican billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy. His campaign did not address whether it knew who produced and paid for the spot, but said Acton has “some serious problems with the truth.”

Acton and her brother blamed the ad on the Ramaswamy campaign, accusing them of “a despicable low” by turning sexual abuse she endured as a child into a political talking point.

Trump says ‘it’s time’ for Ukraine to agree to a deal with Russia

The U.S. president is upping the pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make a deal with his country’s Russian invaders after relations between the two men soured again.

“We want Zelenskyy to make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. We’ve gotten absolutely nothing back except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss.”

He says if that doesn’t happen, “I think it’s going to be a very bad thing.”

He also claimed Europe is growing weary of the conflict, though European countries have been trying to offset any scaling back of U.S. supplies.

Trump says ‘just stick with me’ on potential Hubbard freedom

The president says he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Stephen Hubbard, who is the first American known to be convicted of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.

“Just stick with me ... I don’t want to talk about it,” Trump said about a potential deal to free Hubbard, who was sentenced in Russia to nearly seven years in prison in 2024.

He confirmed the administration has been “focused” on Hubbard, saying, “It’s time to have Mr. Hubbard back.”

Trump on Le Pen: ‘She’s the conservative voice’

The U.S. president left the door open to backing far-right French leader Marine Le Pen, a potential front-runner in next spring’s presidential election.

“Well, I don’t know her. I haven’t met her,” Trump said Tuesday when asked about a potential endorsement.

Still, he said he believed she was badly treated and said she was the victim of weaponization. Trump didn’t elaborate, but Le Pen was found guilty twice of embezzling public funds in France.

“She’s the conservative voice,” Trump added.

Trump ultimate decider for fraud rewards, Trump says

The president says he’ll be the “arbitrator” of who deserves the reward money for his new anti-fraud initiatives.

“I am going to do something which I think people will like,” Trump said. “I will be the arbitrator of all these decisions.”

The White House earlier Tuesday said the Justice Department will administer the program. Successful whistleblowers can receive up to $30,000, and Trump insisted they will get their money “immediately.”

Rubio accuses Iran of using Nazi tactics in the Strait of Hormuz by targeting commercial shipping

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is accusing Iran of using Nazi tactics in the Strait of Hormuz by targeting commercial shipping, which he says is a throwback to World War II.

In an interview with the Indian outlet News1, Rubio said Tuesday that people should pay more attention to what Iran is doing and trying to do to close the strait.

“We have a nation-state that is openly saying, ‘We are targeting commercial vessels; we are trying to kill sailors who have nothing to do with the war; we are trying to sink commercial ships,’” Rubio said. “You haven’t seen that since the second world war. They are doing Nazi U-boat tactics. And that’s what the world should be rallying around and condemning.”

By contrast, he said that U.S. forces in the region are defending commercial shipping and the vast majority of attempted Iranian attacks have been thwarted.

Trump pledges to spend more than $400 million on midterms

President Donald Trump says he plans to spend more than $400 million on the Nov. 3 midterm elections, a figure that would represent the vast majority of his super PAC, MAGA Inc.

In a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump claims already to have spent more than $300 million, “on Advertising, Direct and Indirect Voter Contact, Rallies, Rally Arenas, Telerallies, Get Out the Vote Programs, Election Integrity, and more.”

Trump had boasted early in the year about building a political war chest exceeding $1.5 billion.

However, some Republican strategists had complained late in the summer and early fall that Trump was late to unleash money held in MAGA Inc, his main super PAC, which posted $416 million on hand as of the end of August.

As of Tuesday, Trump’s super PAC and aligned groups had spent $191 million on advertising, the lion’s share and costliest of all their expenses. They had another $65 million booked through Nov. 3, making the ad total $256 million, according to AdImpact, an ad-tracking firm.

European leaders say Ukraine-Russia peace ‘process is back on track’ as US envoy heads for Russia

After weeks of the U.S.-Ukraine alliance careening toward a possible breaking point, the leaders of Ukraine, Norway and Finland said Tuesday that progress has been renewed to bring an end to the years-long war with Moscow.

“U.S. and European teams have done substantive work on key issues together with Ukraine,” Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said at a press conference Tuesday.

He added that President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will be flying to St. Petersburg on Wednesday to meet with Russian leaders and exchange ideas from the Oslo meeting.

“Today was a good day for peace,” Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said.

Bloomberg is making a late $80 million investment in midterm races

Michael Bloomberg is making a major late investment in the midterms, spending about $80 million to help bolster Democrats in the races’ final stretch.

Howard Wolfson, a longtime adviser to the former New York City mayor, said the bulk of the spending -- about $50 million -- would focus on the House. That includes about $16 million to the House Majority PAC, a super PAC dedicated to electing Democrats, and $24 million to the group Everytown for Gun Safety.

The spending was first reported by the New York Times.

Wolfson said Bloomberg has long been a supporter of House Democrats and believes the money will be able to move the needle.

“I think the Democrats are well positioned for a good night, but there’s a big difference between Democratic control of the House at 218 and Democratic control of the house at 230. And the larger the majority the better,” he said.

As for the timing, he said: “Our view is that late giving provides you with more information to make decisions” about where to spend.

Trump, Vance host event on fraud

The two are announcing a new $25 million effort to incentivize Americans to report cases of fraud.

“This is so big and important, and there’s never been anything like it,” Trump said.

As he kicked off the event, Trump called Vance, who he’s tapped to lead the administration’s anti-fraud efforts, and his task force “JD and the untouchables.”

Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson talks on the campaign trail about her priorities as a working mom

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, 44, told a crowd in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday that she’s currently the youngest woman in the chamber, but she’s excited for Ashley Hinson, 43, to try and change that.

Britt joined Hinson, the congresswoman running to be Iowa’s next senator, for a conversation on how the two Republican moms bring a rare perspective to Congress. Britt and Hinson both have two school-aged children.

“You’ve got a lot of social media stars, but not a lot of statesmen. This woman is a statesman,” Britt said of Hinson. “She takes her intellect, she takes her diligence and she says: ‘How do we actually achieve a result?’ And I do think that’s the mom in us.”

The two talked about the policy priorities they want to continue to work on together, including child care affordability, contraception access and technology guardrails to protect kids online.

Hinson faces Democrat Josh Turek in a competitive – and costly – race to defend retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s seat.

“You want something done – give it to a busy mom,” Hinson said.

Zelenskyy says some intel sharing has resumed after talks with US officials

Standing next to leaders from Norway and Finland in Oslo, Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Kyiv is once again receiving early warnings from its partners following recent Russian attacks that occurred without prior notice to Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said that this change happened after talks with his American counterparts, including a phone call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio earlier in the day.

“We are thankful that intelligence works now and I’m speaking about early warning, which is very important for our people, for children, adults, civilians, because we can hear when ballistic is coming,” Zelenskyy said. “So we are thankful to American side now that it works.”

Immigrant rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers in California accuse Trump administration of trying to intimidate voters

They blasted the federal government’s claims of widespread voter fraud at a press conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, a day after the Justice Department charged 28 people as part of a statewide sweep targeting alleged noncitizens who officials say have illegally registered or voted in U.S. elections.

“Today, people in our communities are being asked whether the very government sworn to protect their rights is now a source of fear,” said Mark Gonzalez, a Democratic state assemblymember.

The Justice Department sued California last week in an attempt to bar the state from counting mail-in ballots in the midterms from people the federal government suspects are noncitizens.

Rather than trying to stop the aging process, the goal is to maintain healthier, stronger and more youthful-looking skin for as long as possible.

In this week’s Glow Check, Local 10’s Annaliese Garcia explores the growing trend and the treatments that may help people maintain their skin’s health as they get older.

Board-certified dermatologist Dr. Janice Lima Maribona says the shift is about embracing aging while taking steps to preserve skin health.

“We all know that’s where we’re going, so how about aging with grace and having longer, more beautiful skin and healthier bodies for a longer time,” Lima Maribona said.

Healthy skin starts with a daily routine

According to Lima Maribona, maintaining healthy skin doesn’t necessarily begin with expensive procedures, lasers or injections.

Instead, she recommends establishing a consistent skin care routine at home.

The basics include a quality cleanser, daily sunscreen and a nighttime product containing a retinoid or another vitamin A derivative. She also recommends incorporating an acid-based skin care product, depending on individual needs.

Lima Maribona emphasized that daily skin care is the foundation of any long-term approach to skin health.

“We truly feel, and I truly feel, that skin care is the workhorse for everybody,” she said. “Because this is what you do every day.”

Treatments that stimulate collagen

For those interested in going beyond their daily skin care routine, several professional treatments are designed to address the visible effects of aging.

One major focus is collagen, a protein that helps keep skin firm and supported.

Lima Maribona explained that collagen production declines as people get older, particularly after age 30.

As collagen levels decrease, wrinkles, fine lines and changes in skin texture can become more noticeable.

“So the goal is to make the collagen not only last longer, but be produced for longer,” she said. “And the way we do that is by stimulation.”

One of her preferred treatments is microneedling.

“My favorite for anybody? Microneedling, hands down,” Lima Maribona said.

Microneedling uses tiny needles to create controlled micro-injuries in the skin, stimulating its natural repair process and encouraging collagen production.

Other professional treatments include lasers and light-based procedures designed to address collagen, elastin and sun damage.

Injectable treatments can temporarily soften expression lines, while fillers can restore lost facial volume.

Hyaluronic acid skin boosters are another option for improving hydration and smoothness.

Chemical peels and facials may also help address uneven skin texture and discoloration.

Choosing the right treatment

With so many options available, Lima Maribona recommends consulting a dermatologist before deciding on a procedure.

“So the first thing you do is get a consultation,” she said. “We look at color, texture, and turgor, and we figure out what’s best for you. What’s your time? What’s your budget? And then we go from there accordingly.”

The goal is to develop an individualized plan based on a person’s skin concerns, available time and budget.

However, Lima Maribona stressed that professional treatments should complement, rather than replace, a consistent daily skin care routine.

She also warned against attempting procedures such as microneedling at home.

Without proper training and precautions, at-home microneedling can lead to infections and even permanent scarring.

The takeaway, according to Lima Maribona, is that skin longevity isn’t about preventing aging altogether. It’s about caring for your skin consistently and making informed choices to help it remain healthy over time.

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Canvassers were out across South Florida as residents made their way to early voting sites, with many citing concerns about the economy, rising grocery prices and housing costs.

Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia said election officials are hoping for strong voter participation.

“We’re hoping for 100%, but we’ll be happy with 60-65 percent,” Garcia said.

Garcia also reassured voters about election security, emphasizing that the county’s voting system uses paper ballots and is not connected to the internet.

“We have no issues with security. As you all know, we vote on paper and we’re not connected to the internet in any way, shape or form,” Garcia said.

There was also a strong turnout on the first day of early voting in Broward County.

“We do usually get a nice group of folks that are waiting for their first day of early voting, and then it kind of tends to drop off after the first day,” said Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott. “But it’s been pretty busy.”

Scott said while the first day of early voting is usually the busiest, the county is still expecting plenty of ballots to be cast ahead of Election Day in November.

“People might be at work or have other obligations that day that doesn’t allow them to pull away to go vote,” he said. “But when you have this 14-day period, it’s basically an opportunity for everybody.”

Voters cite economy, rising costs as major concerns

Among those casting their ballots early was Sharon Horne, of North Miami, who said she wanted to make sure her voice was heard.

“We need changes and right now, things are not good -- prices of groceries are so expensive, and the housing market is expensive, and so on and so on,” Horne said.

Veteran Charles Symonette also voted early, saying economic concerns played a major role in his decision to head to the polls.

“I want to make changes. We’re ready for some changes — we done tried everything. We need some new changes now,” Symonette said.

He pointed to concerns about jobs and government assistance programs, including Medicare and Medicaid.

“I’m thinking about jobs being taken away, I’m thinking about Medicare, Medicaid, and I’m thinking about the people that don’t have as much as all the billionaires,” Symonette said.

NAACP urges participation, warns against voter intimidation

As early voting gets underway, Daniella Pierre, president of the NAACP’s Miami-Dade branch, is encouraging residents to exercise their right to vote while warning against voter intimidation.

“It is our responsibility to get up and vote. It is our responsibility if we want to see change — it begins at the ballot box,” Pierre said.

Election officials are encouraging eligible voters to participate as early voting continues across Miami-Dade and Broward counties through Nov. 1 and through Oct. 31 in Monroe County.

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Sierra, 42, confessed to killing his estranged wife, Gladys Machado,29, and her two young daughters – 6-year-old Julia Padrino and 3-year-old Daniela Padrino – in 2012.

After hearing weeks of testimony in the sentencing phase of the trial, jurors will need to weigh whether life in prison or a death sentence is the appropriate punishment for Sierra.

As lead prosecutor Abbe Rifkin delivered her closing argument for why she thinks the jury should recommend death as the appropriate sentence, she reminded the jury of the brutality of the triple homicide case.

She spoke about how Sierra “carved up her arms” while recounting how he used a yellow plastic Sedano’s bag to suffocate the three victims.

“He carved up her face,” she said.

Rifkin also referenced distressing autopsy and crime scene photos of wounds that tell the visual story of their violent end.

“It was heinous, atrocious and cruel,” said Rifkin.

Defense attorney Khurrum Wahid told the jury they took an oath to put their feelings aside, weigh trial evidence and consider life in prison without parole as an appropriate punishment.

“He admits that he did this monstrous act,” said Wahid. “You are going to have these feelings of anger, and hate, and disgust. The choice here is a moral choice that is before you.”

Wahid asked jurors to consider aspects of his client’s background, including a traumatic childhood car accident.

“(He suffered) a head injury in 1996,” said Wahid. “This is the piece that is missing.”

During the trial, a defense expert testified that the head injury resulted in a change in behavior for Sierra’s personality, impacting his executive functioning.

“A non-healthy brain has consequences,” said Wahid, who requested the jury weigh the horrific events of that fateful day against the totality of their client’s life. “You still can exercise your moral clarity and choose life.”

Jurors are expected to begin deliberations on Tuesday after receiving final instructions from the judge.

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The incident in question occurred on Aug. 20 at a home that’s currently under construction in Miami.

According to police, Tennier Taylor, 42, hired someone to build him a pool at the home, which is located in the city’s Belle Meade neighborhood.

On the date in question, police said Taylor arrived and told the victim that he was not satisfied with the job before proceeding to pick up a hammer and begin destroying the work, according to authorities.

The victim attempted to explain to Taylor that he could fix the issue, police said, but Taylor became angry and struck the victim in the chest area with the hammer, according to an arrest form.

Police said Taylor also threw a hammer at the victim, which he blocked, and hit him in the back with a wooden stick.

After several months of investigating, authorities said the victim was able to pick Taylor out of a photo lineup, leading to Sunday’s arrest.

According to his arrest form, Taylor told police that he was dissatisfied with the quality of the work and asked the victim to either redo the work or leave, claiming that the two argued but that there was no physical altercation.

Taylor is facing a felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

As of Monday afternoon, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set.”

Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins wants voters to pass a bond to build new police and fire facilities, but commissioners are speaking out against it.

Higgins says now is the time for the city to do what it’s needed to do for so long and fix Miami’s neglected fire stations and police headquarters.

“Really, lives are at stake,” she said.

This November, Higgins said she hopes voters pass Referendum 1, saying yes to a $450 million bond.

Higgins says the city’s current police headquarters is overpacked and has plumbing issues, flooding, broken restrooms and aging electrical systems.

Plus, many of Miami’s fire stations are too old and don’t have enough space for emergency vehicles.

If Referendum 1 passes, the city could renovate the facilities, build new ones and create a new public safety headquarters.

Higgins argues emergency response times are falling behind, especially in underserved parts of the city, and every second counts when it comes to saving lives.

“When your grandmother is having a heart attack or your husband is having a stroke, it can take us nine, 10, 11, 12 minutes to get there,” said Higgins.

Commissioners Damian Pardo and Christine King agree law enforcement needs upgrades, but they’re opposing the referendum because they say it’s not being done the right way.

“People here are having a hard time paying for gas, groceries, rent, so the last thing they need is yet another increase,” said Pardo.

Advocates say this will not change the debt millage rate, but the commissioners say it will cost taxpayers money.

“This is a tax,” added King. “We are asking our voters to borrow money, and it has to be paid back through a tax.”

The city is essentially borrowing $450 million, but that’s going to gain interest over the next few decades.

“It’s estimated for a $500,000 home, you’re going to be paying $194 more a year in taxes and $6,000 more over the life of that bond, which is 30 years,” said Pardo.

The mayor pushed back.

“In the first year, the average homeowner will pay $2.38 a month,” said Higgins. “That is the price of a cup of coffee.”

Higgins says this should’ve been taken care of long ago, and if the city waits any longer, it will only get more pricey.

“If I wait even one more year, with construction points going up four to five percent a year, it’ll be another $20 million, and it’s $20 million for every year we wait,” said Higgins.

Pardo and King said instead of the referendum, the city should look toward different sources of funding like public-private partnerships.

Higgins responded by saying the city needs to control its own destiny now instead of relying on developers that may not have the city’s best interests in mind.

India and the United States seek to revive trade negotiations stalled for months by tensions over American tariffs and the Indian government's purchases of Russian oil.

“We’re very, very close. I would say we’re about as close as you can be without having executed the agreement,” Rubio told reporters in Mumbai on Tuesday. “I think there’s a small number of items left to wrap up, so I think that will happen shortly.”

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that they discussed ways to strengthen bilateral ties in trade, energy, technology and defense, along with talks on regional developments.

Jaishankar and Rubio also held a trilateral meeting with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who also was visiting India. Rubio said that the three officials met to discuss “regional energy security and advance our shared economic priorities.”

Washington imposed tariffs of up to 50% on most Indian goods in August 2025 after trade talks broke down. Under a framework agreed upon in February, the tariff rate was reduced to 18%, but the negotiations have since stalled.

Earlier this month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the talks had “plateaued.” Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, however, said last week that the first tranche of a trade deal was in its final stages.

India says its final tariff rate should be similar to those of competing manufacturing countries such as Vietnam.

India’s purchases of discounted Russian crude since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022 have strained ties with the United States at times. The Indian government has said that it would expand energy imports, including from the U.S., while diversifying suppliers to maintain market stability and keep prices affordable.

Despite tensions, the two countries continue to deepen defense and technology ties, with Washington viewing India as a key counterweight to China in the Indo-Pacific.

Rubio's visit to India follows a trip to Uzbekistan this week to promote trade and ties with Central Asia.

Rubio told reporters in the United States on Saturday before his departure that India had diversified its energy sources, but continued to buy substantial volumes of Russian oil, making an immediate shift to other suppliers difficult.

“You’ve got countries like India, for example, that have voluntarily diversified their energy portfolio, but are still getting a substantial amount of energy from Russia because it’s hard to pivot from one day to the next,” he said. “But they’re also an important ally and partner of the United States.”

Rubio is scheduled to visit a refinery in the city of Jamnagar in Gujarat state on Wednesday and meet with business leaders, according to the U.S. State Department.

The Jamnagar facility, operated by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, is the world’s largest refining complex. In March, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the company was investing $300 billion to set up an oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas.

Rubio last visited India in May.

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A previous version of this story was corrected to show that Rubio's comments on India diversifying its energy portfolio were made on Saturday while he was still in the U.S., not on Sunday in Uzbekistan.

In battleground states across the country, these faith leaders and hundreds of their colleagues will assume the role of poll chaplains for one day. They will deploy to nine states — Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia and Texas — where contentious races are expected to raise political tensions.

Faiths United in Saving Democracy, a nonpartisan coalition of interfaith and secular partners, is helping to train and certify this volunteer force of clergy members and lay peacekeepers in time for the Nov. 3 elections.

They’ll wear identifying hats and vests, and stay outside the poll centers, with the goal of maintaining a calm, reassuring presence to encourage more voters to exercise their rights without fear or hesitation, said co-founder Barbara Williams-Skinner. As of Oct. 19, they've recruited 1,235 poll chaplains and peacekeepers, she said.

A non-partisan effort to take the fear out of voting

While the idea of poll chaplains has been around for several years, Williams-Skinner said “2026 is going to be different” because there is widespread concern that the presence of federal immigration agents could create a chilling effect.

“The fear is real,” she says, worrying that it could deter eligible voters in mixed-immigration-status families and communities of color. Department of Homeland Security officials have consistently said they have no plans to send immigration agents to the polls, although DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said they could show up for a specific reason, such as arresting someone if they have a warrant.

The coalition has offered training online and in person. Participants get information about immigrant rights, de-escalation techniques and phone numbers to call in tight situations, Williams-Skinner said.

The initiative, strongly rooted in the Black church, has expanded to include diverse faiths as well as non-religious people, she said.

“This is a movement built by unusual coalitions,” she said. “You have white, Mainline Protestants, Quakers, traditional Baptists, Black church leaders, imams, rabbis — all kinds of people who probably would not work together or haven’t worked together in the past.”

While most participating groups are moderate or progressive, Williams-Skinner says it is a strictly nonpartisan initiative.

“We don’t get hung up on who’s moderate or who’s conservative. People just need to be able to vote, unafraid,” she said.

Concerns about voter intimidation motivate chaplains

A Pew survey following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025 showed 85% of Americans, across political lines, believe political violence is on the rise.

Polling places have been targeted by protesters in past elections. In 2022, members of a group claiming to monitor ballot drop boxes in Arizona were ordered to stay at least 250 feet (75 meters) away after voters complained about intimidation. In 2020, following Election Day, a crowd stormed a vote-counting center in Detroit, many incited by online conspiracy theories about election fraud.

As the mob banged on the center’s doors and windows, the Rev. Steve Bland was among several faith leaders who put their bodies between the building and the crowd. Bland, who leads Detroit's Liberty Temple Baptist Church, is continuing that work as a poll chaplain.

The pastor says de-escalation often involves “using the right words to calm a situation” or giving intimidated voters the moral support and reassurance that they are safe to exercise their civic right. Bland said he did precisely that for an elderly, Black woman during a prior election.

“She left and came back with two of her grandsons who also voted,” he said. “Without that intervention, three people wouldn’t have voted that day.”

The Rev. Bankole Akinbinu, senior pastor of Baptist Grove Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, said training in conflict resolution and de-escalation has given him the confidence to serve as a poll chaplain. A millennial, he has sought to engage younger people by recruiting peacekeepers from college campuses.

His motivation comes from seeing voter suppression attempts in North Carolina and other states.

“I look at our forefathers and the struggle they had to endure to afford us the privilege of voting,” Akinbinu said. “I look at my children and the nation I want to hand them.”

Steven Huefner, deputy director of the Election Law Program at The Ohio State University, says poll chaplains might be able to calm the frayed nerves of a voting public that is constantly exposed to divisive rhetoric and news about political violence. While political violence has increased, he says, it's not widespread.

“Election workers are well-trained and can run elections quite well,” he said.

Faith leaders have historically played the role of peacekeepers, said Wendy Cadge, professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and founder of the think tank Chaplaincy Innovation Lab.

And now chaplaincy — beyond traditional worship spaces — is attracting more clergy.

“People are feeling called to chaplaincy because they want to be with people in difficult times,” Cadge said. “They don’t want to worry about what color the carpet is in the church or if their youth programs are attracting enough people. It’s a different kind of work.”

Chaplains find inspiration in theology

Clergy deploying on Election Day say they are heeding a strong, faith-driven calling to serve as poll chaplains.

In Arizona, Rev. Katie Sexton, executive director of Arizona Faith Network, embraces the initiative as a way to reach across the political divide.

“The ballot box is a place where we’re all seen as equal,” she said, adding that it reflects the Christian belief that all humans are created in the image of God. “There is such power in that.”

On Oct. 6, Sexton and several others participated in a training session — one of the last before the midterms — at Temple Chai, a Reform synagogue in Scottsdale.

Rabbi Emily Segal, who leads the congregation, will be a poll chaplain for the first time next month. The work, she says, aligns with what the Torah and Talmud teach about a healthy and just society.

Throughout American history, interfaith coalitions have created powerful change and served as sources of inspiration, Segal said. “Any time we can come together with faith partners around our shared values for societal good is a real source of holiness for our community.”

Bridget Moix, a Quaker leader, will travel to her native Ohio on Election Day.

“In our faith tradition, we think about voting as a sacred act we want to protect,” she said.

For Reirin Gumbel, resident teacher at the Milwaukee Zen Center, it’ll be a third time, come November.

“As Buddhists, the Metta Sutra we chant says every being has the same rights, and that we should have compassion toward all,” she said.

Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi, spiritual leader of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, is considering becoming a poll chaplain for the first time. In a highly contentious campaign in Elahi’s state, Abdul El-Sayed is the first Muslim Democratic candidate to run for a U.S. Senate seat.

The imam said he is tired of anti-Muslim vitriol that has surfaced ahead of the midterms.

“As interfaith clergy, we stand for principles not personalities,” he said. “The Quran tells us to stand for what’s right — truth, justice, peace, human rights and the dignity of human beings, whoever they may be.”

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The 3.75 megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system, which can power the Peace Bridge Place affordable housing complex for several days, is among the largest battery systems in a U.S. residential building, manufacturer Viridi and developer Good Carbon Co. said Tuesday.

“We want our electric power to be resilient, affordable and available. Distributed battery storage accomplishes all three,” Viridi CEO Jon M. Williams said. “The only thing that has been holding up installations at scale is safety; a lot of the products on the market over the last 10 years have burned things down.”

Deploying large batteries that can safely power apartment buildings is an important step toward replacing fossil fuels with renewables, experts say, but they're uncommon because of the cost and concerns about fire risks. Already, larger batteries are paired with solar and wind projects, and homeowners are using smaller batteries to store excess energy from rooftop solar and for backup power.

How batteries help keep electricity flow steady

Batteries help maintain a steady flow of power when sources such as solar and wind are not producing. They charge when the sun is shining or when wind is blowing. That energy can then be used when demand is high.

Batteries can also store excess electricity from hydropower, and New York is one of the top hydropower-producing states. Buffalo is close to Niagara Falls, where most of the state's hydropower is produced.

When electricity demand is high, Peace Bridge will use the battery. It will get paid by the utility for not drawing from the grid and for sending power back if needed. This helps lower the complex’s overall electricity costs, which benefits residents. The building can use the system during outages, too.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Agency helped fund the Peace Bridge Place project, as part of its focus on including disadvantaged communities in the clean energy transition.

“It goes a long way toward demonstrating the safety and viability of these types of projects,” said NYSERDA President and CEO Doreen Harris.

Viridi has manufacturing facilities in Buffalo and Richmond, California, where a state grant assisted with renovations. California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild said he's impressed with the company.

More than two-thirds of California's electricity comes from clean energy and batteries get a lot of credit for that, Hochschild said. As electricity demand grows, batteries help ensure the grid is reliable, reduce pollution and contain costs, he added.

“I believe the battery industry is the single most important energy industry for the next several decades,” said Hochschild, who co-founded the Electric Innovation Initiative to use electricity instead of fossil fuels more broadly throughout the U.S. economy.

Viridi’s system passed a ‘near impossible' test

As large battery fires have garnered attention, some communities have opposed further development. However, the failure rate for batteries has decreased as more are installed, according to the Electric Power Research Institute.

Viridi spent six years and $10 million figuring out how to make a fireproof container for batteries. Half the cost was for batteries Viridi destroyed during testing.

Viridi uses plates, pouches and spacing to isolate each battery cell. If one fails, the energy dissipates instead of spreading to the next battery, so that no gas, smoke, heat or fire escapes the container, Williams said.

Jigar Shah, an expert in clean energy financing and deployment, said the Peace Bridge Place system is a milestone in overcoming safety concerns.

To ensure nothing would catch fire when used inside a residence, Viridi's system had to pass a test where the battery was forced to fail while a cheesecloth covered the container. The cheesecloth did not char or ignite, according to the test report record.

Viridi announced in April it met stringent Underwriters Laboratories safety standards so its system could be installed indoors without adding additional fire suppression to a building.

Shah, who led the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office during the Biden administration, said Viridi is the only company to consistently pass this “near impossible” test.

Shah thinks far more U.S. homes will use batteries for backup power by 2030. The U.S. can meet much more electricity demand and avoid costly upgrades to the grid if batteries are strategically deployed, he added.

New York and California officials want forward-thinking energy solutions

Viridi and Good Carbon Co. chose the Peace Bridge apartments because the all-electric building uses a geothermal system for heating and cooling rather than natural gas and needed additional, resilient power. The electricity demand locally can exceed the available supply, so the utility National Grid supported the endeavor, Williams added.

Peace Bridge is considered affordable housing because renters earn no more than 80% of the area's median income, Good Carbon said. It said energy storage will be an important part of future multifamily housing projects.

Viridi has been manufacturing in Buffalo since 2018. A medical research building in the city is using its battery system, too. Viridi's plant could build enough battery packs in a year to supply energy for about 14,000 average U.S. homes for 24 hours, Williams said.

Harris, at NYSERDA, said the state needs more options like this for maintaining a reliable grid and managing costs. Gov. Kathy Hochul has made that a priority.

“If we don’t need to build generation, we can utilize the grid that we have more effectively, that’s extremely valuable to us,” she said.

In California, 2,000 battery storage systems are being added each week and the largest in the world is under construction in Fresno County, Hochschild said. He thinks the battery industry is poised to take off.

He said, “We’re just getting started.”

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Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said Royal Air Force Typhoon jets will “conduct defensive counter-air operations over Saudi Arabia, helping to protect Saudi cities, civilian populations and critical national infrastructure” from missiles and drones fired by the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.

That means the British planes would try to shoot down missiles or drones in the air, but Streeting said the British planes won’t strike Houthi targets on the ground.

The U.K. will also send a military transport plane and an unspecified number of military advisers to Saudi Arabia, Streeting said.

The announcement follows Britain’s decision last month to offer in-air refueling of Saudi planes operating against the Houthis. That mission is being extended by another 90 days, Streeting said.

The conflict between the Houthis and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government has reignited, with the Houthis aiming missile and drone strikes at Saudi Arabia, against which the oil-rich kingdom has struggled to defend itself. The country's main international airport in Riyadh was struck several times earlier this month.

Streeting called the attacks “despicable” and said targeting the airport showed “the lengths the Houthis are going to to escalate the situation in the region.”

The Associated Press reported last month that Saudi Arabia had asked its allies, including France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt to deploy air-defense support to the region to help defend against missiles and drones fired by Houthis and other Iran-backed groups.

The U.S., which bombed the Houthis under the Biden and Trump administrations, has declined to do the same this time around.

Streeting said in a written statement to Parliament that “the government remains clear that there is no long-term military solution to the conflict in Yemen.”

“We continue to support a U.N.-led political process as the best route to a durable peace,” he said.

Yemen first plunged into civil war in 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa and much of northern Yemen and forced the government into exile.

A Saudi-led coalition intervened the following year in an attempt to restore the government to power. The conflict created one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, and killed more than 150,000 people.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s spokesman denied Britain was being dragged in to the conflict.

“Our support for Saudi Arabia is considered, proportionate and focused on helping them defend themselves from relentless Houthi attacks,” spokesperson Tom Wells said.

Egypt has also announced military assistance, saying it will provide “all possible forms of support” to help Saudi Arabia “defend its security and stability.”

The Egyptian government will deploy air defense systems and aircraft to help intercept missiles and drones fired toward the kingdom, a regional official briefed on the matter said.

The official said Egypt’s support would be defensive and would not include deploying ground troops to Yemen. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Saturday that his government would take “any measure” to defend Saudi Arabia and called for parliament to convene to authorize the deployment of troops and military equipment.

Parliament held two days of deliberations and is scheduled to reconvene for a vote next week.

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Associated Press writer Samy Magdy in Cairo contributed to this story.