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Pino, 55, is facing manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in the death of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.

Prosecutors accuse Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of a 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig.

His defense team counters that the crash was merely an accident and not the result of negligence.

On Friday, jurors heard testimony from a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission lieutenant and watched video from his body-worn camera.

Local 10 News will be streaming the proceedings above.

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On Thursday, jurors visited a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission facility in North Miami. They were escorted by deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and got a detailed look at the boat in question and could even board it to better understand the passenger positions of the girls on the day of the accident and where Pino was standing.

The jury members were able to see the exact location and the extent of the damage, giving them a different perspective from the videos and pictures they had seen in court court.

The field trip took about 40 minutes. They then went back to the courthouse after a lunch break.

There, jurors saw a drone view reenactment video ― produced by FWC and MDSO ― and underwater crash scene footage, among other pieces of evidence.

They also heard testimony from law enforcement officers.

“The vessel was overturned in Cutter Bank,” FWC Lt. Manuel Pomares said. “Cutter Bank is a narrow channel. I describe it best as a funnel.”

He added, “You really have to pay attention when you’re going down or through Cutter Bank.”

Pomares was part of a dive team that documented evidence with a GoPro camera.

“There’s a couple of Yeti type tumbler cups, and a couple of Trulys (hard seltzer) and a Bud Light can,” Pomares testified.

Proceedings wrapped up on Thursday evening and are expected to resume on Friday morning.

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The suspect arrested in the case was identified by North Miami police on Friday as 53-year-old James Mackenzie.

According to an arrest report obtained by Local 10, officers responded around 10:45 a.m. Thursday to the 500 block of Northeast 132nd Terrace in reference to a reported stabbing.

Police said they located Mackenzie with blood on his hands in the backyard near an efficiency at the back of his home.

Investigators conducted a safety sweep of the home and located the victim who they say was “suffering from multiple stab wounds to the chest.”

The report states that the victim was seated in a walker used as a wheelchair and was having difficulty breathing and speaking after he was stabbed.

Police said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics transported the victim to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital for treatment.

Hospital staff later told investigators the victim had been stabbed approximately seven times, with at least one wound piercing his heart, according to the report. Police said the victim, who has not yet been identified, remains in critical condition as of Friday afternoon.

Investigators said while inside the home, they found large amounts of blood in a bedroom where the victim was discovered.

They also confirmed that a small folding pocketknife with what appeared to be blood on it was also located inside Mackenzie’s home.

The report states other residents heard an argument between Mackenzie and the victim but did not witness the stabbing.

A surveillance camera inside the home captured audio of the victim saying, “I’m bleeding everywhere, please. I need to go to the hospital,” according to the report.

Police said Mackenzie made several statements that were redacted from the publicly released report before invoking his right to an attorney after being read his Miranda rights.

Jail records show he is facing one count of second-degree attempted murder.

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

A motive for the stabbing remains unclear at this time.

El sospechoso arrestado en el caso fue identificado por la policía de North Miami el viernes como James Mackenzie, de 53 años.

Según un informe de arresto obtenido por Local 10, los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 10:45 a.m. del jueves a la cuadra 500 de Northeast 132nd Terrace tras recibir un reporte de un apuñalamiento.

La policía dijo que encontró a Mackenzie con sangre en las manos en el patio trasero, cerca de una vivienda tipo eficiencia ubicada detrás de su casa.

Los investigadores realizaron una inspección de seguridad de la vivienda y encontraron a la víctima, quien, según dijeron, estaba “sufriendo múltiples heridas de arma blanca en el pecho”.

El informe indica que la víctima estaba sentada en un andador utilizado como silla de ruedas y tenía dificultades para respirar y hablar después de ser apuñalada.

La policía informó que paramédicos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladaron a la víctima al Hospital HCA Florida Aventura para recibir tratamiento.

Posteriormente, personal del hospital informó a los investigadores que la víctima había sido apuñalada aproximadamente siete veces, y que al menos una de las heridas perforó su corazón, según el informe. La policía dijo que la víctima, cuya identidad aún no ha sido revelada, permanecía en estado crítico hasta la tarde del viernes.

Los investigadores dijeron que dentro de la vivienda encontraron grandes cantidades de sangre en un dormitorio donde fue localizada la víctima.

También confirmaron que dentro de la casa de Mackenzie hallaron una pequeña navaja plegable de bolsillo con lo que parecía ser sangre.

El informe señala que otros residentes escucharon una discusión entre Mackenzie y la víctima, pero no presenciaron el apuñalamiento.

Una cámara de vigilancia dentro de la vivienda captó el audio de la víctima diciendo: “Estoy sangrando por todas partes, por favor. Necesito ir al hospital”, según el informe.

La policía dijo que Mackenzie realizó varias declaraciones que fueron censuradas en la versión pública del informe antes de invocar su derecho a un abogado tras ser informado de sus derechos Miranda.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato en segundo grado.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “pendiente de establecer”.

Por el momento, el motivo del apuñalamiento sigue sin estar claro.

Judge Lewis J. Liman said in a written ruling that Lively can recover legal fees and costs related to her defense against a countersuit Baldoni brought against her after she sued him in December 2024.

In his written ruling Friday, Liman cited a California law designed to protect survivors of sexual harassment and discrimination from retaliatory lawsuits meant to intimidate and silence victims.

The judge said the law requires that the plaintiff must pay the defendant’s legal fees and costs if a defamation claim made in response to a lawsuit is dismissed, even if the facts of the case have not been developed through the gathering of evidence.

Liman said the only exception would be if Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios LLC, could prove that Lively acted with malice when she sued him. He said that Baldoni and Wayfarer had provided little evidence to support such a claim and none establishing that she had acted with malice.

The judge rejected her claims to triple any damages and pursue punitive damages as well under the California law, saying that they did not fall within “carefully crafted federal procedural rules designed to protect the rights of the parties.”

Lively and Baldoni settled the bulk of their dispute last month just as a trial was about to start on Lively’s retaliation claims. She received no money from the deal but was permitted to pursue legal fees.

In a statement, Lively lawyers Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson cast the judge's decision as a victory, saying the award of legal fees “makes it clear that Ms. Lively brought her claims in good faith, that there was no evidence she acted with malice, and that she is the prevailing defendant.”

Baldoni's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and retaliation, along with his production company, in late 2024. She said the actor engineered an effort to damage her public reputation and credibility.

Baldoni, who directed the dark romantic drama and starred in it with Lively, denied harassing her or orchestrating a smear campaign. He claimed the complaints about his behavior were made up by Lively as part of an effort to seize creative control of the movie. He countersued, accusing Lively and her husband, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds, of defamation and extortion.

Liman threw out Baldoni's countersuit last year and then dismissed Lively's sexual harassment claims weeks ago, saying she could not bring them because she was an independent contractor rather than an employee on the movie set.

“It Ends With Us,” an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel about a relationship devolving into domestic violence, was released in August 2024 and exceeded box office expectations.

Lively appeared in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and the TV series “Gossip Girl” from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including “The Town” and “The Shallows.”

Baldoni starred in the TV comedy “Jane the Virgin,” directed the 2019 film “Five Feet Apart” and wrote “Man Enough,” a book challenging traditional notions of masculinity.

But some of the key objectives Trump laid out for the conflict seem to remain unfulfilled. And while the Trump administration has said its objectives are clear and unchanging, the list has expanded and shifted as the president and his administration have spoken about the war since it started Feb. 28. All the while, the conflict has battered the global economy, tested alliances and raised unanswered questions about the planning for the conflict, its justification and its aftermath.

By most accounts, the strikes by the U.S. and Israel have significantly degraded Iran's military capabilities and killed scores of senior leaders. But those tactical successes don’t necessarily translate into achieving all the president’s strategic aims, even as the administration said Friday that it was meeting the goals it had laid out.

Here’s a look at the objectives laid out by Trump at various points since the outset of the war and what we know about where they stand:

1. Destroy Iran's ability to fire missiles

One of the prime objectives laid out by the administration was to “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground."

Trump said in late March that Iran's missiles “are mostly decimated" and that 90% of their missiles and launchers were knocked out.

By mid-May, that shifted to a more conservative estimate, with the president saying that 82% of Iran's missiles were gone.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, told lawmakers in mid-May that Iran maintains a “very moderate if not small capability to continue strikes” in the region.

Iran proved as recently as this week that it still had the ability to launch missiles when it attacked three Gulf allies of the U.S.

2. Destroy Iran's defense industrial base

Early in the war, the president and his administration sometimes listed this as a standalone objective. Other times, it has fallen off their list.

U.S. Central Command has said its targets for strikes in Iran have included weapons production and missile and drone manufacturing facilities.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers in early June that Iran has had “massive destruction” of its defense industrial base and “80 to 90% of attrition. It will take years for them to rebuild it.”

Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday: “Most of the drone factories have been knocked out, most of the launching pads have been knocked out and most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked out. But they still have capacity.”

3. Eliminate Iran's navy and air force

The U.S. and Israel quickly established air superiority in the skies above Iran, where they flew largely unchallenged.

Rubio told lawmakers that Iran still has drone capabilities, but it lacks the ability to use swarms of drones to attack targets, as it did at the start of the war.

He also said Iran does not have a navy but small crafts outfitted with machine guns that harass ships and sometimes drop mines in the water.

Iran has shown its ability to still launch attacks in the region, such as a deadly June 3 attack of drones and missiles at Kuwait that led to the brief closure of its main airport. The U.S. and Bahrain also said they intercepted missiles and drones fired at the Gulf kingdom by Iran.

And on Tuesday, Trump blamed Tehran for the downing of a U.S. Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz after it collided with an Iranian drone.

4. Obliterate Iran's nuclear program for good

Trump made a marked shift over the last year after declaring that the U.S. had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program in June, only for his aides to warn that Iran was just weeks away from a bomb to justify the current operations.

One of the most pressing questions is what will be done with about 970 pounds of enriched uranium that Tehran has that could potentially be used for a weapon. The material is believed to be buried under three nuclear sites bombed by the U.S. and Israel last year. Trump said in a May 29 social media post that it will be retrieved by the U.S. “in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the International Atomic Energy Agency, and DESTROYED.”

Iran has not said whether it would consent. Without permission from Iran, seizing it would be a dangerous mission, experts say, and would require a sizable deployment of U.S. troops into the country.

Trump told reporters on Thursday that there was an agreement “conceptually” on the uranium, but he did not offer details and Iran has not yet confirmed it.

A senior administration official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity on Friday to provide an update on negotiations, said that Iran has agreed that the uranium will be destroyed and removed, but details of what that looks like have not yet been hammered out.

5. Protect America's Middle Eastern allies

Trump, in a March social media post, added a fifth objective for the U.S: “Protecting, at the highest level, our Middle Eastern Allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others."

The U.S. maintains thousands of troops on bases and other installations in the region, but Trump has been unclear on how far he'd be willing to go to protect Middle East allies from threats.

As Trump said the U.S. was nearing a deal with Iran in recent weeks, he's said that any agreement should somehow bind many of the Gulf allies to join the Abraham Accords, agreements from Trump’s first term that seek to normalize relations with Israel. But that seems exceedingly unlikely as Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip have created a bigger distance from Gulf Arab states and the wider Muslim world.

As the U.S. and Iran traded back-and-forth strikes this week, Tehran’s targets included attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, prompting the U.S. to respond with a fresh round of strikes.

The Trump administration has begun exploring whether to let Gulf allies use Iran's frozen assets to pay for damages sustained in the war, but officials have not said whether they are moving forward with that plan.

The senior administration official said Friday that the memorandum of understanding would guarantee a long-term peace in the region, but did not offer details on what that would look like or how it would be achieved.

6. Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Keeping shipping traffic flowing through the vital waterway was not one of the reasons for launching the war, but after Iran leveraged its ability to effectively shut traffic through the strait, it has become a key problem to tackle in the conflict.

The Strait of Hormuz is a chokepoint for 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas and its effective closure since the war has spiked global energy prices, along with the costs of other goods. Iran had allowed ships seen as friendly to pass through, while charging considerable fees.

Trump has said that a proposed deal with Iran would include the reopening of the strait and the U.S. ending its blockade of Tehran's ports.

7. Cut off

support for Iranian proxy groups

In March, Trump and his administration repeatedly included degrading Iran's proxy terror networks as a key goal of the operation.

As time has gone on, administration officials have offered fewer updates about this objective, which the president described as ensuring that “the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces” and “ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.”

The U.S., early on, struck Iranian-aligned militia groups in Iraq. But the biggest question has been Israel's deepening war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which Iran backs. Iran has insisted that the fighting in Lebanon must be stopped as part of any deal with the U.S., but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears intent on pursuing his goal of destroying the militant group.

Israel said Thursday that it was not a party to the agreement that the U.S. had reached with Iran.

The administration official said Friday that the U.S. was confident that broad regional peace terms in the memorandum of understanding would include both Hezbollah and Israel. If the Iranians hold up their end as it pertains to constraining Hezbollah, the Israelis would not feel a need to respond, the official said.

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Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report.

Según Jessica Montes, portavoz de Davie Fire Rescue, los bomberos respondieron a la cuadra 3900 de Southwest 84th Terrace alrededor de las 5:18 a.m. tras recibir un reporte sobre una rotura de una tubería principal de agua.

“Al llegar, se informó a los bomberos que había un caimán en el agua”, dijo Montes en un correo electrónico enviado a Local 10 News.

Según Montes, el caimán intentó huir hacia un patio cercano, pero los bomberos y la policía de Davie trabajaron juntos para capturarlo antes de que pudiera escapar.

“La Policía de Davie utilizó un lazo de captura para asegurar al caimán, mientras que los bomberos ayudaron cubriéndole los ojos con una toalla y colaboraron para sujetarlo hasta que la Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida llegó al lugar”, dijo Montes.

Montes confirmó que el caimán fue entregado a la FWC y que no se reportaron lesiones ni entre los socorristas ni en el caimán.

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According to Jessica Montes, a spokeswoman for Davie Fire Rescue, firefighters responded to the 3900 block of Southwest 84^th Terrace at about 5:18 a.m. after receiving a report about a water main break.

“Upon arrival, firefighters were advised that an alligator was present in the water,” Montes said in an email to Local 10 News.

According to Montes, the gator tried to flee into a nearby yard, but firefighters and Davie police worked together to capture the gator before it could escape.

Davie Fire Capt. Chris Pelosi was among the first responders who helped wrangle the gator.

“When we tried getting it, it just got agitated and ran away,” he said.

Pelosi said police got to it first.

“PD was able to get the little K9 leash out. They kind of got it around the neck so it was kind of doing a little death roll -- it was rolling over here, so we corralled it against the wall,” Pelosi said. “I always see on TV, they just throw a towel over its head, so I just kind of walked up, just threw the towel.”

Montes confirmed that Davie police used a “catch pole” to secure the gator, while firefighters helped restrain it until FWC officers arrived.

Montes said the gator was turned over to the FWC and no injures were reported to first responders nor the gator.

"Son tiempos en que hay que cambiar y el país no puede seguir funcionando igual... Cada oportunidad en medio de una crisis hay que aprovecharla como un momento de despegue, como un momento de crecimiento. Entonces nosotros hemos establecido un grupo de prioridades para enfrentar toda esta situación”, dijo Díaz-Canel según una nota de la presidencia replicada por plataformas gubernamentales.

Estados Unidos impuso en enero un cerco petrolero a Cuba para presionar un cambio de modelo político que agravó la crisis que la isla padece desde hace un lustro, caracterizada por largos apagones y desabastecimiento de bienes básicos.

Esto impactó dramáticamente en la vida cotidiana de población y obligó a recortar las jornadas laborales y limitar el transporte.

El mandatario dijo que se evalúa “un grupo de medidas orientadas al comercio exterior, a las exportaciones, a las cadenas de valor y logística”.

Sin dar detalles de los plazos de su implementación, Díaz-Canel indicó que se eliminará la intermediación estatal –hasta ahora obligatoria— en la importación y exportación, al tiempo que se darían beneficios arancelarios a quienes traigan al país materias primas para procesos productivos.

Además, se aprobarán más pequeñas y medianas empresas –que hasta esta década no tenían autorización— con amplios objetos sociales al tiempo que se quitarán limitaciones en las actividades permitidas para los particulares, aunque no especificó cuáles.

También se reorganizará la administración estatal, recordó el mandatario. Una ley impulsada en el Parlamento busca reducir de 27 a 21 los ministerios. También los municipios tendrán autonomía para trazar y ejecutar planes económicos —importar, exportar y autorizar negocios— y las empresas estatales van a diseñar su propio sistema de salarios.

La semana pasada durante una entrevista difundida por la televisión estatal Díaz-Canel había advertido sobre la posibilidad de entregar a cubanos la gestión de hoteles luego de que Estados Unidos amenazara con bloquear en su sistema financiero a las cadenas turísticas internacionales que operen con el conglomerado cubano militar GAESA.

Las firmas españolas Meliá e Iberostar y otras abandonaron decenas de contratos con hoteles a comienzos de este mes debido a esa medida estadounidense.

Las reformas forman parte de un programa económico que se presentará al Parlamento, dijo el mandatario.

Durante décadas, Cuba se caracterizó por un sistema centralizado y vertical con fuerte control estatal. La apertura comenzó paulatinamente en la década pasada y recién en esta se permitieron las primera empresas privadas.

Trump y su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, han acusado al gobierno de la isla de ser ineficiente y exigieron cambios económicos y políticos.

Pese a la tensión bilateral ambos gobiernos reconocieron que sostienen un diálogo, cuyo alcance se desconoce.

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Results are expected sometime next week, the secretary of state’s office said.

Maine and Alaska use ranked choice voting for some statewide elections. Voters in ranked choice elections are allowed to rank the candidates on their ballot in order of preference.

Under that scenario, if no candidate breaks 50% of the popular vote, the bottom finisher is eliminated, and voters’ second choices come into play. The tabulations continue until a candidate achieves a majority of the total votes.

No candidates exceeded 50% in Tuesday’s Republican and Democratic primaries for governor or the Democratic primary for the 2nd Congressional District. The Maine Secretary of State Department said Friday that the counting the ballots would begin that afternoon and would be open to the public and available on the secretary of state’s YouTube page.

A busy governor's race

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who has served since 2018, is termed out of office, and that created a wide-open field for both parties. Democrats had five candidates actively campaigning in the June 9 primary and the Republicans had seven. The Democratic race was especially close, with the top four candidates within a few percentage points of each other.

Democrats chose between Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows; former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson; former state House Speaker Hannah Pingree; energy executive Angus King III; and former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Nirav Shah.

Bellows, whose office is running the ranked counting, “has stepped aside from this part of the process and has delegated to her staff,” said Jana Spaulding, the deputy secretary of the office.

Republicans chose between former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Bobby Charles; healthcare executive Jonathan Bush; former Senate Majority Leader Garrett Mason; former Paris, Maine, selectman Robert Wessels; and businessmen Owen McCarthy, David Jones and Ben Midgley.

Mills ran in the primary for U.S. Senate in Maine this year, but suspended her campaign in April. That primary was won by oyster farmer Graham Platne r, who will run against longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Key House race

In the 2nd Congressional District, former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, state Sen. Joe Baldacci, former U.S. Senate candidate Jordan Wood and social worker Paige Loud were on the ballot for the Democrats.

The winner faces Republican former Gov. Paul LePage, an ally of President Donald Trump who was unopposed in the Republican primary. LePage served as governor from 2010 to 2018, during which time he fashioned himself as a vocal critic of liberalism and a staunch defender of Trump.

The 2nd District seat has no incumbent in the November election because Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, who has held the seat since 2018, is stepping down.

The district has consistently voted for Trump but also elected Golden four times.

El video, junto con una llamada desesperada al 911 realizada antes de la caída, fue presentado durante una audiencia judicial el jueves para Corey Hutterli, de 37 años, quien, según los investigadores, enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en segundo grado por la muerte de Justin Zelin, de 35 años.

La jueza Cristina Miranda finalmente le otorgó a Hutterli una fianza de $150,000 USD el jueves.

En las imágenes de la cámara corporal presentadas en el tribunal, Hutterli les dijo a los agentes que respondieron al incidente que Zelin lo había atacado repentinamente.

“¿Qué está pasando? De repente perdió el control y me atacó”, dijo Hutterli.

También se escuchó en la audiencia una llamada al 911 en la que Zelin le rogaba a una persona identificada como “Sasha” que abandonara su apartamento.

“Aléjate de mí, Sasha, basta. Por favor, vete ahora mismo”, dijo Zelin.

Los fiscales alegan que Hutterli empujó a Zelin desde un balcón de los condominios Akoya en Collins Avenue el 15 de febrero, tras una pelea entre ambos hombres.

Los abogados defensores argumentaron que el caso del estado es circunstancial y señalaron un informe toxicológico que mostró que Zelin tenía fentanilo, cocaína y ketamina en su organismo al momento de su muerte.

La defensa sostiene que las drogas pudieron haber provocado un estado mental alterado y afirmó que las pruebas no respaldan la teoría presentada por la fiscalía.

Al conceder la fianza, Miranda dijo que la llamada al 911 no establecía de manera concluyente que hubiera ocurrido un asesinato.

“Definitivamente podría tratarse de la víctima de un asesinato, pero la llamada al 911 no es prueba de eso”, dijo Miranda. “La llamada al 911 me lleva a creer que se trata de alguien que sufría una psicosis inducida por drogas”.

Fuera de la sala del tribunal, la madre de Hutterli dijo que cree que su hijo es inocente, mientras que los abogados defensores afirmaron que planean solicitar la desestimación de los cargos.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Hutterli también enfrenta cargos de allanamiento con agresión o violencia física, posesión de una sustancia controlada y posesión de parafernalia de drogas.

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The video, along with a frantic 911 call made before the fall, was presented during a court hearing on Thursday for 37-year-old Corey Hutterli, who investigators say faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of 35-year-old Justin Zelin.

Judge Cristina Miranda on Thursday ultimately granted Hutterli a $150,000 bond.

In body camera footage shown in court, Hutterli told responding officers that Zelin had suddenly attacked him.

“What’s going on? Suddenly he freaked out and attacked me,” Hutterli said.

Jurors also heard a 911 call in which Zelin pleaded with someone identified as “Sasha” to leave his apartment.

“Get away from me Sasha, stop. Please leave right now,” Zelin said.

Prosecutors allege Hutterli pushed Zelin from a balcony at the Akoya Condominiums on Collins Avenue on Feb. 15 following a struggle between the two men.

Defense attorneys argued the state’s case is circumstantial and pointed to a toxicology report showing Zelin had fentanyl, cocaine and ketamine in his system at the time of his death.

The defense contends the drugs may have caused an altered mental state and said the evidence does not support the state’s theory of the case.

While granting bond, Miranda said the 911 call did not conclusively establish that a murder had occurred.

“Could definitely be the victim of a murder, but the 911 call is not evidence of that,” Miranda said. “The 911 call leads me to believe it’s someone suffering from a drug-induced psychosis.”

Outside the courtroom, Hutterli’s mother said she believes her son is innocent, while defense attorneys said they plan to seek dismissal of the charges.

Jail records show Hutterli also faces charges of burglary with assault or battery, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a legal advocacy group's request to block organizers from using the White House lawn as the venue for Sunday’s planned UFC mixed martial arts event.

Mehta concluded that the plaintiffs likely don’t have legal standing to challenge the event and have failed to prove that they would suffer irreparable harm by the event going forward as planned. The judge also cited the plaintiffs’ “unreasonable delay” in suing to challenge an event that’s been in the works for months.

“In the context of an emergency application — and coupled with the fact that the UFC fight date was long ago known — it is fair to say Plaintiffs unreasonably delayed bringing suit, undercutting their claims of irreparable harm,” Mehta wrote.

Attorneys from the nonprofit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trump’s “UFC Freedom 250” event on behalf of an activist and a Vietnam War veteran. The two plaintiffs also asked the court to block organizers from building anything for the event on White House grounds, including a 92-foot-tall, 600-ton steel structure called The Claw.

The plaintiffs’ alleged “aesthetic harms,” the judge noted, are temporary since The Claw will be disassembled starting Monday morning and staging equipment at the Lincoln Memorial must be removed before then. “The President’s musings about permanency of the Claw does not move the dial in the face of a White House official’s clear representation,” the judge wrote.

The White House called the lawsuit a baseless attempt to prevent Trump from hosting an event that’s no different from many others routinely hosted at public forums in the nation’s capital.

Trump's administration can’t issue permits for sporting events on the South Lawn or at the Lincoln Memorial, where UFC fighters planned to hold a press conference in front of fans on Friday, according to plaintiffs’ attorneys. They noted that the event is a privately organized, for-profit business venture, with VIP packages costing millions of dollars.

“The President’s administration is granting the UFC an extraordinary business opportunity it may not lawfully grant, and in exchange the UFC is throwing an event at which its leadership, fighters, advertisers, and various celebrities will all pay tribute to the President on his birthday,” plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote.

Public Integrity Project attorney Brendan Ballou said the plaintiffs were disappointed in the judge's decision but respect it and intend to "keep bringing cases to raise the cost of corruption in America.”

“This isn’t a case about a sporting event, it’s about corruption, as a handful of people and companies stand to profit from our public monuments," Ballou said in a statement.

The National Park Service and the Interior Department are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

In 2019, during his first term in office, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC show. Trump, a Republican, is a friend of UFC president and CEO Dana White.

Mehta was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Mehta has presided over other Trump-related cases, including civil litigation accusing Trump of inciting a mob of his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, a Democrat.

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The suspect, James Thompson, was arrested by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and later charged in connection with the June 6 attack, according to his arrest report.

The report states that the incident began just after 4:30 p.m. at a market on Homestead Avenue in southwest Miami-Dade, where Thompson and the victim got into an argument over a “monetary debt” stemming from a previous narcotics transaction.

Investigators said the victim, who has not been identified, walked away from the store, but Thompson followed him on foot and continued to harass him.

The report states Thompson, who resides in the county’s West Perrine area, then trailed the victim to a bus stop at Southwest 173rd Street and the South Dade TransitWay, where the confrontation escalated.

At the bus stop, Thompson repeatedly punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall from a bus bench, according to the report. Investigators said the victim became unconscious, and Thompson continued kicking him in the face and upper body.

The report states Thompson then searched through the victim’s backpack while he was unconscious, removed an unidentified item and fled the scene on foot.

Deputies said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics responded and transported the victim to Jackson South Medical Center. Despite life-saving efforts, they said the victim was pronounced dead at 5:57 p.m.

The report states that an autopsy conducted by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the manner of death a homicide.

Investigators said Thompson was arrested on unrelated charges on June 6 and remains in custody at the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Pre-Trial Detention Center.

He was later transported to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Homicide Bureau for questioning on Friday, where he made a confession that was redacted in his publicly released arrest report.

Jail records show Thompson is facing one count of second-degree murder and armed robbery with a weapon. He also faces illegal possession of a firearm as a post-convicted felon, possession of cannabis with intent to sell while illegally armed, resisting an officer without violence to his person and violation of house arrest in an unrelated case, records show.

He remains at the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Pre-Trial Detention Center, where bond was listed as “to be set” as of Friday afternoon.

El sospechoso, James Thompson, fue arrestado por la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO) y posteriormente acusado en relación con el ataque del 6 de junio, según su informe de arresto.

El informe indica que el incidente comenzó poco después de las 4:30 p.m. en un mercado ubicado en Homestead Avenue, en el suroeste de Miami-Dade, donde Thompson y la víctima discutieron por una “deuda monetaria” derivada de una transacción previa relacionada con narcóticos.

Los investigadores dijeron que la víctima, cuya identidad no ha sido revelada, se alejó del establecimiento, pero Thompson la siguió a pie y continuó acosándola.

El informe señala que Thompson, residente del área de West Perrine, siguió a la víctima hasta una parada de autobús ubicada en Southwest 173rd Street y South Dade TransitWay, donde la confrontación se intensificó.

En la parada de autobús, Thompson golpeó repetidamente a la víctima en el rostro, provocando que cayera de una banca de espera, según el informe. Los investigadores dijeron que la víctima perdió el conocimiento y que Thompson continuó pateándola en el rostro y la parte superior del cuerpo.

El informe indica que Thompson luego revisó la mochila de la víctima mientras estaba inconsciente, sacó un objeto no identificado y huyó del lugar a pie.

Los agentes dijeron que paramédicos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron a la escena y trasladaron a la víctima al Jackson South Medical Center. A pesar de los esfuerzos para salvarle la vida, la víctima fue declarada muerta a las 5:57 p.m.

El informe señala que una autopsia realizada por la Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado Miami-Dade determinó que la causa de muerte fue un homicidio.

Los investigadores dijeron que Thompson fue arrestado el 6 de junio por cargos no relacionados con este caso y permanece bajo custodia en el Centro de Detención Preventiva de Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Posteriormente fue trasladado el viernes a la Oficina de Homicidios de la MDSO para ser interrogado, donde realizó una confesión que fue censurada en la versión pública del informe de arresto.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Thompson enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en segundo grado y otro de robo a mano armada con un arma. También enfrenta cargos por posesión ilegal de arma de fuego por parte de un delincuente convicto, posesión de cannabis con intención de venta mientras portaba un arma ilegalmente, resistencia a un agente sin violencia y violación de arresto domiciliario en un caso no relacionado, según los registros.

Permanece detenido en el Centro de Detención Preventiva de Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation, donde hasta la tarde del viernes la fianza figuraba como “pendiente de establecer”.

Unless the Kennedy Center decides to appeal the decision from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, Trump's name could be removed from the building within hours. Workers were seen building scaffolding around a section of the building that includes Trump's name and about a dozen people watched nearby, chanting “take it down.”

A Kennedy Center spokesperson didn't immediately comment on the ruling.

Last month, Cooper ruled Trump’s name was illegally added to the iconic Washington performing arts facility. Late Thursday, Trump’s handpicked board at the center mounted a last-minute effort to keep his name on the facade of the iconic performing arts facility but Cooper refused to stay his order.

A June 4 memo to staff from the Kennedy Center’s Office of General Counsel said email signatures, letterhead and other documents must reflect the name as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center.”

The Kennedy Center’s website has dropped Trump's name. And an earlier email sent to members offering ticket packages for the June 28 Mark Twain Award for American Humor ceremony came from the Kennedy Center without including Trump’s name.

After ignoring the Kennedy Center for much of his first term, Trump has wielded tremendous influence over the venue during his return to office. Just a month into his second term, he ousted the center’s previous leadership and replaced it with a board of trustees that named him chairman.

In his earlier ruling, Cooper also blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations that had been planned to start in July and last for two years.

It's the latest action by the Trump administration connected to voting or election operations in the states, and it comes in a state that is expected to have hotly contested races this fall for governor and U.S. Senate.

Federal agents showed up at the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on Thursday and spent hours questioning staff, said Prentiss Haney, a board member of the grassroots organization. The organization was founded in 2007 and describes its mission as fighting for criminal justice reform, racial justice and an expansion of voting rights.

Federal agents also went to the homes of people who have worked with the organization, seeking interviews and information about alleged voter fraud, Haney said. He accused the agents of “intimidation tactics and harassment" and expressed concern that the investigation was designed to sow doubt in the coming elections.

The focus of the probe was unclear, but a person familiar with the matter said Friday that investigators were examining potential fraud violations. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The Justice Department declined to comment on Friday, and a spokesperson for the FBI in Cleveland did not respond to messages seeking comment.

To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must convince a judge that probable cause of criminal activity exists. Though the information authorities presented was not immediately released, Democrats expressed skepticism about the basis of a search that unfolded against persistent concerns of a politicized FBI and Justice Department.

The party's nominees for the state's top races issued statements Friday saying they were troubled by the FBI raid.

“Any attempts by federal law enforcement to intimidate eligible Ohioans from registering to vote are unacceptable,” said Dr. Amy Acton, the state’s former public health director, who won the state’s Democratic primary for governor and is challenging Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.

Democrat Sherrod Brown, who is challenging Republican Sen. Jon Husted in the fall, called on the FBI to make public “any and all activities around these raids.”

He added, “Any attempt to intimidate Ohio voters is wrong, and will not work.”

Republicans have held the state's top elected seat for 20 years and hold both U.S. Senate seats but are concerned that Democratic momentum in this year's midterms could make them vulnerable.

The Justice Department during President Donald Trump's second term has launched several legal actions or investigations related to voting or state election operations.

The FBI has seized ballots and other records from the 2020 election for Georgia’s Fulton County and Arizona’s Maricopa County and from the 2024 election in Michigan’s Wayne County. It also has been questioning election workers in Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County. All four are in presidential battleground states.

The Justice Department has sued at least 30 states and the District of Columbia after they refused to hand over detailed voter data that includes dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers. It has said in court filings that it wants the information so it can run it through a Department of Homeland Security program that checks U.S. citizenship, although the program's accuracy has been questioned. The Justice Department has so far been on a losing streak in its lawsuits seeking to extract the data from the holdout states.

Early in his second term, Trump, a Republican, also ordered the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the top fundraising platform for the Democratic Party.

Allegations of fraud in voter registration efforts are typically investigated by states and usually involve people working for groups that pay for sign-ups. Earlier this year, California officials opened an investigation into whether signature-gatherers were offering to pay people for signing a ballot petition. In 2025, Pennsylvania officials brought criminal charges against seven people for submitting fraudulent voter registration forms.

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Lauer reported from Philadelphia, and Richer reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed from Washington.

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For Carrera, the moment was more than a celebration of survival. It marked the beginning of a mission.

“I would say that I ended up exactly where I needed to be, but it took cancer to get me here,” Carrera said.

Today, the Miami-Dade mother, wife and licensed optometrist is channeling her experience into helping others through 305 Pink Pack, a nonprofit organization that provides free support services and essential items to cancer patients and their families.

A Life-Changing Diagnosis

In 2018, Carrera received news that would change her life. At age 40, after her first screening mammogram, she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer.

The diagnosis came at a particularly emotional time. Carrera and her husband, Oscar, had recently welcomed their daughter.

“She was 8 months old at the time I was diagnosed,” Carrera recalled.

Like many patients facing a cancer diagnosis, Carrera’s thoughts immediately turned to her family’s future.

“I feel like it takes you automatically to the worst-case scenario,” she said. “And then you wonder, am I going to be here for kindergarten?”

Carrera ultimately chose to undergo a double mastectomy, a physically and emotionally demanding procedure. One of the most difficult aspects was knowing she would temporarily lose the ability to care for her infant daughter the way she always had.

“I had her on me because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to carry her for six weeks,” Carrera said. “I also knew that I would lose sensation in my chest, so I would never feel what she felt like at that moment. So I wanted to hold on to that as much as possible.”

Finding Strength in Community

Throughout her treatment, Carrera was surrounded by a strong support network of family and friends who helped her navigate appointments, surgeries and recovery.

“If you looked at that waiting room on surgery day, there must have been 30 people there — just for me, just for us,” she said.

That experience left a lasting impression.

Carrera realized not every cancer patient has a large support system. She wanted to create one for those facing treatment alone.

Creating 305 Pink Pack

In 2020, Carrera founded 305 Pink Pack, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping cancer patients focus on healing rather than the logistical and financial challenges that often accompany treatment.

The organization provides free assistance ranging from groceries and transportation to childcare support and self-care products. Patients also receive specially curated care packages filled with practical items designed to make treatment more manageable.

“Everyone receives a pack from 305 Pink Pack,” Carrera said. “But we’re also that pack that has your back.”

The organization’s flamingo mascot symbolizes resilience and community — values that have helped fuel its rapid growth.

Since its founding, 305 Pink Pack has served more than 500 families throughout South Florida.

Paying It Forward

Photos of cancer patients and families helped by the organization line the walls of Carrera’s office, serving as daily reminders of the impact a supportive community can have during difficult times.

For Carrera, helping others is about creating a cycle of support that extends far beyond a single diagnosis.

“We’re here to help,” she said, “and you’ll be able to help the next person going through it, too.”

As demand for services continues to grow, 305 Pink Pack is looking ahead to new initiatives, including an expanded men’s program and the launch of a 954 Pink Pack to serve additional South Florida communities.

The nonprofit recently announced a bilingual survivor summit, which sold out ahead of the event.

For Carrera, each new milestone reinforces the lesson she learned during her own cancer journey: no one should have to face cancer alone.

To learn more about receiving assistance, volunteering or making a donation, visit 305pinkpack.org.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred Saturday night in the area of Northwest 103^rd Street and 27^th Avenue.

Deputies said Osmany Castillo, 48, was making a left turn on Northwest 103^rd Street when he struck a motorcyclist, vaulting the victim in the air.

According to the report, Castillo continued driving north on 27^th Avenue, dragging the victim’s 2025 Yamaha YZF-R3 motorcycle under his vehicle before it eventually dislodged.

Deputies said Castillo never stopped to render aid to the victim and didn’t report the crash to law enforcement.

A witness, however, followed Castillo’s 2011 Toyota Tundra and was able to obtain its tag number, authorities said.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials responded to the scene and transported the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was listed in critical condition.

According to the report, Castillo provided a “full confession” to detectives, however his exact statement was redacted from the publicly released report.

His vehicle was impounded as evidence, detectives said.

Deputies did not confirm in the report whether Castillo was conducting a rideshare ride at the time of the crash.

Authorities said he surrendered to law enforcement Thursday and was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash resulting in serious bodily injury.

As of Friday afternoon, Castillo remained at TGK on a $15,000 bond.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), el accidente ocurrió la noche del sábado en el área de Northwest 103rd Street y 27th Avenue.

Los agentes dijeron que Osmany Castillo, de 48 años, realizaba un giro a la izquierda en Northwest 103rd Street cuando impactó a un motociclista, lanzando a la víctima por el aire.

Según el informe, Castillo continuó conduciendo hacia el norte por la 27th Avenue, arrastrando debajo de su vehículo la motocicleta Yamaha YZF-R3 modelo 2025 de la víctima hasta que finalmente se desprendió.

Los agentes dijeron que Castillo nunca se detuvo para brindar ayuda a la víctima ni reportó el accidente a las autoridades.

Sin embargo, un testigo siguió la camioneta Toyota Tundra 2011 de Castillo y logró obtener el número de matrícula, indicaron las autoridades.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron a la escena y trasladaron a la víctima al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde fue reportada en estado crítico.

Según el informe, Castillo proporcionó una “confesión completa” a los detectives, aunque su declaración exacta fue censurada en la versión pública del informe.

Los detectives dijeron que su vehículo fue confiscado como evidencia.

Los agentes no confirmaron en el informe si Castillo estaba realizando un viaje de transporte por aplicación en el momento del accidente.

Las autoridades dijeron que se entregó a las autoridades el jueves y fue ingresado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight acusado de abandonar la escena de un accidente que causó lesiones corporales graves.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Castillo permanecía en TGK con una fianza de $15,000 USD.

Para Carrera, ese momento fue más que una celebración de supervivencia. Marcó el inicio de una misión.

“Diría que terminé exactamente donde necesitaba estar, pero hizo falta el cáncer para traerme hasta aquí”, dijo Carrera.

Hoy, esta madre, esposa y optómetra licenciada de Miami-Dade está transformando su experiencia en ayuda para otros a través de 305 Pink Pack, una organización sin fines de lucro que ofrece servicios de apoyo gratuitos y artículos esenciales a pacientes con cáncer y sus familias.

Un diagnóstico que cambió su vida

En 2018, Carrera recibió una noticia que cambiaría su vida. A los 40 años, tras su primera mamografía de detección, fue diagnosticada con cáncer de mama en etapa 2.

El diagnóstico llegó en un momento especialmente emotivo. Carrera y su esposo, Oscar, acababan de dar la bienvenida a su hija.

“Tenía 8 meses cuando me diagnosticaron”, recordó Carrera.

Como ocurre con muchos pacientes que enfrentan un diagnóstico de cáncer, sus pensamientos se dirigieron de inmediato al futuro de su familia.

“Siento que automáticamente te lleva al peor escenario posible”, dijo. “Y entonces te preguntas: ¿voy a estar aquí para cuando entre al kínder?”

Carrera finalmente decidió someterse a una mastectomía doble, un procedimiento física y emocionalmente exigente. Uno de los aspectos más difíciles fue saber que temporalmente perdería la capacidad de cuidar a su hija bebé como siempre lo había hecho.

“La tenía sobre mí porque sabía que no podría cargarla durante seis semanas”, dijo Carrera. “También sabía que perdería sensibilidad en el pecho, así que nunca volvería a sentir cómo se sentía ella en ese momento. Quería aferrarme a eso todo lo posible”.

Encontrando fortaleza en la comunidad

Durante todo su tratamiento, Carrera estuvo rodeada por una sólida red de apoyo de familiares y amigos que la ayudaron a afrontar citas médicas, cirugías y la recuperación.

“Si hubieras visto esa sala de espera el día de la cirugía, habría unas 30 personas allí, solo por mí, solo por nosotros”, dijo.

Esa experiencia dejó una huella duradera.

Carrera se dio cuenta de que no todos los pacientes con cáncer cuentan con un gran sistema de apoyo. Quiso crear uno para quienes enfrentan el tratamiento en soledad.

Creación de 305 Pink Pack

En 2020, Carrera fundó 305 Pink Pack, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a ayudar a pacientes con cáncer para que puedan concentrarse en sanar en lugar de preocuparse por los desafíos logísticos y financieros que a menudo acompañan el tratamiento.

La organización brinda asistencia gratuita que incluye alimentos, transporte, apoyo para el cuidado infantil y productos de cuidado personal. Los pacientes también reciben paquetes especialmente preparados con artículos prácticos diseñados para hacer más llevadero el tratamiento.

“Todos reciben un paquete de 305 Pink Pack”, dijo Carrera. “Pero también somos ese grupo que siempre te respalda”.

La mascota de la organización, un flamenco, simboliza la resiliencia y la comunidad, valores que han impulsado su rápido crecimiento.

Desde su fundación, 305 Pink Pack ha ayudado a más de 500 familias en todo el sur de Florida.

Devolver la ayuda recibida

Fotografías de pacientes con cáncer y familias ayudadas por la organización cubren las paredes de la oficina de Carrera, sirviendo como recordatorios diarios del impacto que una comunidad solidaria puede tener durante momentos difíciles.

Para Carrera, ayudar a otros significa crear una cadena de apoyo que va mucho más allá de un solo diagnóstico.

“Estamos aquí para ayudar”, dijo, “y tú también podrás ayudar a la próxima persona que pase por esto”.

A medida que la demanda de servicios continúa creciendo, 305 Pink Pack trabaja en nuevas iniciativas, incluido un programa ampliado para hombres y el lanzamiento de 954 Pink Pack para atender a más comunidades del sur de Florida.

La organización sin fines de lucro anunció recientemente una cumbre bilingüe para sobrevivientes, cuyas entradas se agotaron antes del evento.

Para Carrera, cada nuevo logro reafirma la lección que aprendió durante su propia experiencia con el cáncer: nadie debería enfrentar el cáncer en soledad.

Para obtener más información sobre cómo recibir ayuda, ser voluntario o hacer una donación, visite 305pinkpack.org.

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Nicholas Perez was also accused of offering and giving the teens, aged 14 and 16, cocaine, according to a Hollywood Police Department officer’s report.

On Jan. 12, 2024, the teens “decided to go to a party” at Black Flamingo in Pompano Beach, “where they consumed alcohol,” the police officer wrote.

After leaving Black Flamingo, the teens went to a Denny’s on Jan. 13, 2024, and to the beach, where they “consumed more alcohol,” according to the report.

Police said Perez was 31 years old but claimed to be 24 before he met with the teens on Jan. 13, 2024, at the beach in Boca Raton.

According to the report, Perez drove the teens to the Breeze Inn, a motel in Hollywood, rented a room, and invited them in.

Perez and the teens started “making out” — “oral sex,” “sex,” and more cocaine use followed — before he drove them to one of their homes, according to the report.

The 14-year-old girl reported Perez’s abuse on Jan. 29, 2024, and the second victim reported the abuse on April 29, 2026, according to the police officer’s report.

Court records show Broward prosecutors filed a drug possession case against Perez, who was born in Homestead and lived in Plantation, on May 10, 2024, after his arrest on May 9, 2024, in Hollywood.

Court records also show Broward prosecutors filed a case on June 3, 2024, against Perez on two counts of lewd or lascivious battery of a minor, and contributing to the delinquency of a child.

Hollywood police officers arrested Perez on June 7, 2024, re-arrested him on Wednesday, and corrections booked him again in the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, records show.

Both 2024 cases remained pending when Broward prosecutors filed a case on Thursday against Perez for sexual assault by an adult of a minor, and for contributing to the delinquency of a child, records show.

In the most recent arrest report, a Hollywood police officer referred to Perez as Nicholas Alexander Rue Perez, records show.

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

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.

Según el informe de un agente del Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, Nicholas Pérez también fue acusado de ofrecer y suministrar cocaína a los adolescentes, de 14 y 16 años.

El 12 de enero de 2024, los adolescentes “decidieron ir a una fiesta” en Black Flamingo en Pompano Beach, “donde consumieron alcohol”, escribió el agente de policía.

Tras abandonar Black Flamingo, los adolescentes fueron a un restaurante Denny’s el 13 de enero de 2024 y a la playa, donde “consumieron más alcohol”, según el informe.

La policía informó que Pérez tenía 31 años, pero afirmó tener 24 antes de reunirse con los adolescentes el 13 de enero de 2024 en la playa de Boca Ratón.

Según el informe, Pérez llevó a los adolescentes al Breeze Inn, un motel en Hollywood, alquiló una habitación y los invitó a entrar.

Según el informe, Pérez y los adolescentes comenzaron a tener relaciones sexuales, seguidas de sexo oral, sexo y más consumo de cocaína, antes de que él los llevara en coche a la casa de uno de ellos.

La niña de 14 años denunció los abusos de Pérez el 29 de enero de 2024, y la segunda víctima denunció los abusos el 29 de abril de 2026, según el informe del agente de policía.

Los registros judiciales muestran que los fiscales del condado de Broward presentaron una denuncia por posesión de drogas contra Pérez, quien nació en Homestead y vivía en Plantation, el 10 de mayo de 2024, después de su arresto el 9 de mayo de 2024 en Hollywood.

Los registros judiciales también muestran que los fiscales de Broward presentaron una denuncia el 3 de junio de 2024 contra Pérez por dos cargos de agresión lasciva o indecente a un menor y por contribuir a la delincuencia de un niño.

Según los registros, los agentes de policía de Hollywood arrestaron a Pérez el 7 de junio de 2024, lo volvieron a arrestar el miércoles y los servicios penitenciarios lo ingresaron de nuevo en la cárcel principal del condado de Broward en Fort Lauderdale.

Según consta en los registros, ambos casos de 2024 seguían pendientes cuando los fiscales de Broward presentaron el jueves una denuncia contra Pérez por agresión sexual de un adulto a un menor y por contribuir a la delincuencia de un niño.

En el informe de detención más reciente, un agente de policía de Hollywood se refirió a Pérez como Nicholas Alexander Rue Perez, según consta en los registros.

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

Wilson Louis, editor de noticias de Local 10 News, contribuyó a este reportaje.

That won't change now, with the Golden Knights facing their first elimination game and dealing with an injury to center William Karlsson.

The Golden Knights lost 4-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes in Thursday's Game 5, moving the Hurricanes within a victory of claiming the Stanley Cup. The series shifts to Las Vegas for Sunday's Game 6, with the Golden Knights aiming to force a Game 7 back here Wednesday.

“They've been through it all," Tortorella said in a Zoom news conference Friday morning. "They know what's at stake here. We need to win one game. They'll be ready to play.”

Vegas — featuring numerous holdovers from the team that raised the Cup in 2023 — had only gained momentum since the abrupt firing of coach Bruce Cassidy in late March to hire Tortorella.

The Golden Knights won seven of eight to close the regular season. They faced 2-2 playoff series in Round 1 against Utah and Round 2 against Anaheim, and won Games 5 and 6 to close out each. They swept the Presidents' Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche. And they held a 2-1 lead on Carolina after a double-overtime victory in Game 3.

But the Hurricanes have gradually begun to turn the series.

Since trailing 4-0 entering the third period of Game 3, the Hurricanes have doubled up the Golden Knights (13-6) while finding a spark with Brandon Bussi taking over in net. In Game 5, the Hurricanes got two more power-play goals from a unit that had sputtered through the Eastern Conference playoffs while also reversing Vegas' second-period dominance.

Vegas had compounding mistakes like getting a kill only for Brayden McNabb to immediately go to the box for cross-checking Jackson Blake in the second period. Or there was Mark Stone's high stick on Jalen Chatfield in the third, leaving Chatfield bleeding from a cut above his right eye for a double-minor penalty.

Carolina's Andrei Svechnikov scored after both, coming amid a postseason of questions as to when he and fellow top-liner Sebastian Aho would get rolling.

“Anytime you give the other team’s best players the opportunity to be on the ice on the power play and feel good about themselves … you stack that up and it definitely can be challenging and tire guys out,” center Nic Dowd said afterward.

Svechnikov's scores pushed the Hurricanes to 6 of 16 (37.5%) on the power play this series, coming after they were at 12.5% (7 of 56) in a 12-1 push through the Eastern Conference playoffs.

“One of the areas that we've lost a little bit is special teams, a couple of power-play goals last night,” Tortorella said Friday. “Like I said after the game, I thought at times we were killing, we had some good times as far as moving, being aggressive with our penalty kill, and are doing the job. Other times, not so good.”

Then there's Karlsson, who missed nearly six months with a lower-body injury before returning for his playoff debut to start the Anaheim series. He had three goals and six assists through 14 playoff games to elevate the Golden Knights, including goals in Games 1 and 4 against Carolina.

But Karlsson appeared to injure his left arm or shoulder after getting knocked into the boards by Hurricanes defenseman Sean Walker midway through the second. He got medical attention on the bench briefly, skated off and never returned.

Tortorella said Thursday that Karlsson was “not going to be with us, probably” and Vegas needed a collective effort to replace him. He offered no additional details Friday morning.

Still, he has defiantly promised the series would “be back here” for a Game 7.

“We know what we have to do to beat this team," McNabb said Thursday night. "It's a matter of going home and winning one game. That's all it is, and hopefully we're back here for Game 7.”

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Maruchi Supermarket and Cafeteria in Hialeah tops the list with 43 violations following an inspection based on a complaint.

Inspectors found everything from dead roaches and mold-like buildup in an ice machine to food temperature violations, standing water, and multiple repeat violations.

Bocas House in Miami also makes the list with 34 violations.

Inspectors cited damaged and missing ceiling tiles, food temperature issues, an improperly sanitizing dish machine, employee training problems, and several repeat violations.

And over on Key Biscayne, Papercrane Thai & Sushi lands on the Dirty 30 list with exactly 30 violations. Among the issues: mold-like buildup inside the ice machine, food temperature violations, improperly sanitized food-contact surfaces, employee training deficiencies, and food safety concerns involving raw fish.

Thirty or more violations is not bad luck, it’s a choice, and it’s unacceptable. You have to do better.

**MARUCHI SUPERMART AND CAFETERIA

92 EAST 8TH STREET

HIALEAH

INSPECTION BASED ON A COMPLAINT

INSPECTION DATE 6/9

43 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed ice machine interior soiled with black mold like substance at front counter.”

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Observed cup with no handle inside whole wheat container under preparation table at front counter.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed reach in freezer handle soiled outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Cardboard used on floor as anti-slip measure not replaced every day or when heavily soiled, whichever comes first. Observed at walk in freezer at kitchen area. Also observed all around kitchen area and outside walk in cooler. **Warning**

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed hole on ceiling tile at dry storage area. Also observed several ceiling tiles with water damage all around dry storage area at kitchen area.”

“Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Observed clean metal containers to inverted stored on top of shelf on preparation at cook line area at kitchen area. Employee inverted metal containers at the time of inspection.”

“Clean utensils stored between equipment and wall. Observed several utensils stored between wall and three compartment sink at kitchen area. Operator removed during inspection.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Observed on top of preparation table next to soups area at front counter.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on the floor outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area. Employee discarded during inspection. Also observed 1 dead roach under three compartment sink at kitchen area. Operator discarded dead roach during inspection.”

“Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Observed several personal items on top of preparation tables at cook line at kitchen area.”

“Employee wearing jewelry other than a plain ring on their hands/arms while preparing food. Observed several employees engaged in food preparation wearing jewelry all around front counter.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Observed 1 employee engaged in food preparation with no hair restraint at kitchen area. Employee put a hat during inspection.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed standing water on the floor all around dry storage area.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed accumulation of debris under dry storage shelves next to walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed taro root sacks stored on the floor at outside walk in cooler.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed hole on the wall next to mop sink at front counter.”

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer and/or walk-in freezer. Observed ice buildup inside reach in freezer outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. Observed tong stored on oven door handle at cook line at kitchen area. Employee removed tong from oven door handle at the time of inspection. Repeat Violation.”

“In-use wet wiping cloth/towel used under cutting board. Observed wet towel under cutting board on top of preparation table at kitchen area. Employee removed wet towel during inspection.”

“Insect control device installed over food preparation area. Observed bug zapper installed over food establishment at dry storage area.”

“Lights in food preparation, food storage or ware washing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. Observed all around kitchen area.”

“No Heimlich maneuver/choking sign posted. Provided to operator during inspection.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed reach in freezer gaskets soiled outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area. Also observed vent with soiled accumulation at kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Open dumpster lid.”

“Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. Observed 2 employees water bottles stored inside reach in freezer next to back walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Reuse of single-service or single-use articles. Observed several single service containers stored outside of walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine at kitchen area.”

“Standing water in bottom of reach-in-cooler. Observed standing water on reach in cooler at front counter.”

“Stored food not covered. Observed several food containers stored uncovered inside walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine at kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Unsealed concrete floor in food preparation, food storage, ware washing area or bathroom. Observed all around kitchen area.”

“Walk-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Observed walk in cooler shelves soiled at kitchen area.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed walk in cooler walls with accumulation of soiled at kitchen area. Also observed walls with soiled accumulation all around kitchen area.”

“Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Observed sugar and salt container not identified on top of preparation table at kitchen area. Employee identified during inspection. Observed sugar container not identified on top of preparation table next to coffee machine at front counter.”

“Cooked/heated time/temperature control for safety food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours. Observed Cooked black beans (48F - Cold Holding) stored inside pot at walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine. As per operator for more than 4 hours. Stop sale issued.”

“Raw animal food stored over or with unwashed produce. Observed raw shell eggs stored on top of a case of cucumber and a case of celery on shelf at walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine at kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed Cooked black beans (48F - Cold Holding) stored inside pot at walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine. As per operator for more than 4 hours. Stop sale issued.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed Corn tamales (125F - Hot Holding) inside pot at kitchen area. Employee reheated during inspection. Corn tamales (183F - Reheating). Also observed Baked chicken (107F - Hot Holding); Cooked meat (110F - Hot Holding); Fried pork belly (96F - Hot Holding) inside steam table at front counter.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb. Observed no vacuum breaker at hose bibb under dishwasher machine at kitchen area.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet or on fitting/splitter added to mop sink faucet. Observed at clean supplies room at front counter.’

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed a plastic container inside hand wash sink at front counter.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Observed at kitchen entrance. Employee provided paper towel during inspection.”

“No probe thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products. Repeat Violation.”

“Raw/undercooked animal food offered and establishment has no written consumer advisory. Raw animal foods must be fully cooked prior to service. Provided to operator during inspection.”

“Sink compartments of three-compartment sink too small to accommodate utensils or equipment.”

**BOCAS HOUSE

10200 NW 25TH ST.

DORAL

INSPECTION DATE 6/2

34 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food.”

“Ceiling tile missing.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance.”

“Cove molding at floor/wall juncture broken/missing.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable.”

“Employee beverage container in ice machine/ice bin.”

“Equipment in poor repair.”

“Establishment did not report seating change that affects the license fee, Clean Indoor Air Act, sewage system approval or other related requirements. Repeat Violation.”

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.”

“Floor tiles missing and/or in disrepair Repeat Violation.”

“Floors not maintained smooth and durable.”

“Food stored on floor.”

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer and/or walk-in freezer.”

“In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“Light shield for lights in food preparation, food storage or ware washing are missing end caps.”

“No copy of latest inspection report available.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust.”

“Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers.”

“Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Repeat Violation.”

“Standing water in bottom of reach-in-cooler.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food thawed in an improper manner.”

“Unsealed concrete floor in food preparation, food storage, ware washing area or bathroom. Repeat Violation.”

“Walk-in cooler/freezer shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. Repeat Violation.”

“Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.”

“Dish machine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength.”

“Nonfood-grade bags used in direct contact with food.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Repeat Violation.”

“No currently certified food service manager on duty with four or more employees engaged in food preparation/handling Repeat Violation.”

“No measuring device available for measuring utensil surface temperature when using hot water as sanitizer in a dish machine.”

“No plan review submitted and approved - renovations were made or are in progress.”

“No written procedures available for use of time as a public health control to hold time/temperature control for safety food.”

“Required employee training expired for some employees.”

**PAPERCRANE THAI & SUSHI

328 CRANDON BLVD.

KEY BISCAYNE

INSPECTION DATE 6/10

30 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin.”

“Bathroom located inside establishment not completely enclosed with tight-fitting, self-closing doors.”

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair.”

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.”

“Fly sticky tape hanging over food/food preparation area/food-contact equipment.”

“Food stored on floor.”

“In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses.”

“In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“Interior of refrigerator or freezer in disrepair/has exposed insulation.”

“No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees.”

“Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.”

“Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.”

“Dish machine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength.”

“Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use.”

“Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food.”

“Shell eggs not stored at an ambient air temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit or less.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“Toxic substance/chemical improperly stored.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet or on fitting/splitter added to mop sink faucet.”

“Employee has not received adequate training related to their assigned duties as evidenced by the inability to answer basic food safety questions.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing.”

“Identity of food or food product misrepresented.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked.”

“Water with a temperature of least 85 degrees Fahrenheit not provided/shut off at employee handwash sink.”

Esta semana tenemos tres.

El supermercado y cafetería Maruchi en Hialeah encabeza la lista con 43 infracciones tras una inspección realizada a raíz de una queja.

Los inspectores encontraron de todo, desde cucarachas muertas y acumulación de moho en una máquina de hielo hasta infracciones relacionadas con la temperatura de los alimentos, agua estancada y múltiples infracciones reiteradas.

Bocas House en Miami también figura en la lista con 34 infracciones.

Los inspectores señalaron daños y falta de baldosas en el techo, problemas con la temperatura de los alimentos, una máquina lavavajillas que no desinfectaba correctamente, problemas con la capacitación de los empleados y varias infracciones reiteradas.

En Key Biscayne, Papercrane Thai & Sushi figura en la lista de los 30 establecimientos con más infracciones, con exactamente 30. Entre los problemas se incluyen: acumulación de moho dentro de la máquina de hielo, incumplimiento de las normas de temperatura de los alimentos, superficies en contacto con los alimentos mal desinfectadas, deficiencias en la capacitación del personal y problemas de seguridad alimentaria relacionados con el pescado crudo.

Treinta o más infracciones no son mala suerte, son una decisión, y son inaceptables. Tienes que mejorar.

**SUPERMERCADO Y CAFETERÍA MARUCHI**

92 CALLE 8 ESTE

HIALEAH

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA DENUNCIA

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 6/9

Se detectaron 43 infracciones.

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verdosa similar al moho en el interior de la máquina/contenedor de hielo. Se observó el interior de la máquina de hielo sucio con una sustancia negra similar al moho en el mostrador.”

“Taza u otro recipiente sin asa utilizado para servir comida. Se observó una taza sin asa dentro de un recipiente de trigo integral debajo de la mesa de preparación en el mostrador principal.”

“Acumulación de restos de comida/residuos de tierra en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Se observó suciedad en la manija del congelador exterior de la cámara frigorífica en el área de la cocina.”

El cartón utilizado en el suelo como medida antideslizante no se reemplaza diariamente ni cuando está muy sucio, lo que ocurra primero. Se observó en el congelador industrial de la zona de la cocina. También se observó en toda la zona de la cocina y en el exterior de la cámara frigorífica. **Advertencia**

“El techo/las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado. Se observó un agujero en una baldosa del techo en la zona de almacenamiento en seco. También se observaron varias baldosas del techo con daños por agua alrededor de la zona de almacenamiento en seco en el área de la cocina.”

“Vasos, tazas, cuencos, platos, ollas y sartenes limpios no se almacenaban boca abajo ni protegidos. Se observaron recipientes metálicos limpios almacenados boca abajo en la parte superior de un estante en la zona de preparación de alimentos en la línea de cocción de la cocina. Un empleado tenía los recipientes metálicos boca abajo en el momento de la inspección.”

“Utensilios limpios almacenados entre el equipo y la pared. Se observaron varios utensilios almacenados entre la pared y el fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina. El operador los retiró durante la inspección.”

“La tabla de cortar tiene marcas de cortes y ya no se puede limpiar. Se observó sobre la mesa de preparación junto a la zona de sopas en el mostrador principal.”

“Cucarachas muertas en las instalaciones. Se observó una cucaracha muerta en el suelo, fuera de la cámara frigorífica en la zona de la cocina. El empleado la desechó durante la inspección. También se observó una cucaracha muerta debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos en la zona de la cocina. El operario desechó la cucaracha muerta durante la inspección.”

“Artículos personales de los empleados almacenados en o encima de un área de preparación de alimentos, alimentos, equipos y utensilios limpios, o artículos de un solo uso. Se observaron varios artículos personales sobre las mesas de preparación en la línea de cocción en el área de la cocina.”

“Empleados que llevaban joyas distintas a un simple anillo en las manos o brazos mientras preparaban la comida. Se observó a varios empleados preparando comida con joyas alrededor del mostrador.”

“Empleado sin sujeción para el cabello mientras preparaba alimentos. Se observó a un empleado preparando alimentos sin sujeción para el cabello en el área de la cocina. El empleado se puso un sombrero durante la inspección.”

“Zonas del suelo cubiertas de agua estancada. Se observó agua estancada en el suelo alrededor de toda la zona de almacenamiento en seco.”

“El suelo está sucio/tiene acumulación de residuos. Se observó acumulación de residuos debajo de los estantes de almacenamiento en seco junto a la cámara frigorífica en el área de la cocina.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo. Se observaron sacos de raíz de taro almacenados en el suelo de la cámara frigorífica exterior.”

“Agujero u otro daño en la pared. Se observó un agujero en la pared junto al fregadero para fregar en el mostrador principal.”

“Acumulación de hielo en el congelador vertical y/o en el congelador industrial. Se observó acumulación de hielo dentro del congelador vertical, fuera del refrigerador industrial en el área de la cocina.”

“Pinzas en uso guardadas en la manija de la puerta del equipo entre usos. Se observó una pinza guardada en la manija de la puerta del horno en la línea de cocción en el área de la cocina. El empleado retiró la pinza de la manija de la puerta del horno al momento de la inspección. Infracción reiterada.”

“Se observó un paño/toalla húmeda debajo de la tabla de cortar, sobre la mesa de preparación en la zona de la cocina. El empleado retiró la toalla húmeda durante la inspección.”

“Dispositivo de control de insectos instalado sobre el área de preparación de alimentos. Se observó un dispositivo eléctrico para eliminar insectos instalado sobre el establecimiento de alimentos en el área de almacenamiento en seco.”

“Las luces en las áreas de preparación, almacenamiento o lavado de alimentos carecen de la protección, el revestimiento o las cubiertas adecuadas. Se observó este problema en toda la cocina.”

“No hay señal de maniobra de Heimlich/asfixia colocada. Se le proporcionó al operador durante la inspección.”

Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. Se observaron juntas sucias en el exterior del congelador de acceso directo, en la zona de la cocina. También se observó acumulación de suciedad en la rejilla de ventilación de la zona de la cocina. Infracción reiterada.

“Abre la tapa del contenedor de basura.”

“Se encontró un recipiente de bebida de un empleado abierto en una unidad de refrigeración con alimentos destinados a ser servidos a los clientes. Se observaron dos botellas de agua de empleados almacenadas dentro de un congelador vertical junto a la cámara frigorífica trasera en el área de la cocina.”

“Reutilización de artículos de un solo uso. Se observaron varios envases de un solo uso almacenados fuera de la cámara frigorífica, junto al lavavajillas, en la zona de la cocina.”

“Agua estancada en el fondo del refrigerador. Se observó agua estancada en el refrigerador del mostrador.”

“Alimentos almacenados sin tapar. Se observaron varios recipientes de alimentos sin tapar dentro de la cámara frigorífica, junto al lavavajillas en la zona de la cocina. Infracción reiterada.”

“Piso de concreto sin sellar en áreas de preparación y almacenamiento de alimentos, lavado de utensilios o baños. Se observó en toda la zona de la cocina.”

“El interior y los estantes de la cámara frigorífica presentan acumulación de residuos de suciedad. Se observaron estantes sucios en la zona de la cocina.”

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, restos de comida y/o polvo. Se observó acumulación de suciedad en las paredes de la cámara frigorífica en la zona de la cocina. También se observó acumulación de suciedad en las paredes alrededor de toda la zona de la cocina.”

“Se encontraron recipientes de alimentos sin identificar, retirados de sus envases originales. Se observó un recipiente de azúcar y sal sin identificar sobre la mesa de preparación en la zona de la cocina. El empleado fue identificado durante la inspección. Se observó un recipiente de azúcar sin identificar sobre la mesa de preparación junto a la cafetera en el mostrador.”

“Se observó que los alimentos cocinados/calentados, que requerían control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad, no se enfriaron de 135 grados Fahrenheit a 41 grados Fahrenheit en 6 horas. Se observaron frijoles negros cocidos (48 °F - Conservación en frío) almacenados dentro de una olla en la cámara frigorífica junto al lavavajillas. Según el operador, permanecieron allí durante más de 4 horas. Se emitió una orden de cese de venta.”

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados encima o junto a productos agrícolas sin lavar. Se observaron huevos crudos con cáscara almacenados encima de una caja de pepinos y una caja de apio en un estante de la cámara frigorífica junto al lavavajillas en la zona de la cocina. Infracción reiterada.”

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta por manipulación inadecuada de alimentos que requerían control de tiempo y temperatura. Se observaron frijoles negros cocidos (a 48 °F - refrigerados) almacenados en una olla en la cámara frigorífica junto al lavavajillas. Según el operador, llevaban allí más de 4 horas. Se emitió una orden de cese de venta.

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos seguros, excepto asado de carne entera, mantenido caliente a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron tamales de maíz (125 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) dentro de una olla en el área de la cocina. El empleado los recalentó durante la inspección. Tamales de maíz (183 °F - Recalentamiento). También se observó pollo al horno (107 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); carne cocida (110 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); panceta de cerdo frita (96 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) dentro de la mesa de vapor en el mostrador principal.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en la llave de paso o en el adaptador/divisor añadido a la misma. No se observó ningún interruptor de vacío en la llave de paso debajo del lavavajillas en la zona de la cocina.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en el grifo del fregadero de fregonas o en el adaptador/divisor añadido al grifo del fregadero de fregonas. Observado en el cuarto de suministros limpios, en el mostrador de recepción.”

“El lavamanos se utiliza para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó un recipiente de plástico dentro del lavamanos en el mostrador principal.”

“No se proporcionaron toallas de papel ni secadores de manos mecánicos en el lavamanos. Se observó en la entrada de la cocina. Un empleado proporcionó toallas de papel durante la inspección.”

“No se proporcionó termómetro de sonda para medir la temperatura de los productos alimenticios. Infracción reiterada.”

“Se ofrecen alimentos de origen animal crudos o poco cocidos y el establecimiento no cuenta con un aviso escrito para el consumidor. Los alimentos de origen animal crudos deben cocinarse completamente antes de servirlos. Esta información se proporcionó al operador durante la inspección.”

“Los compartimentos del fregadero de tres compartimentos son demasiado pequeños para acomodar los utensilios o el equipo.”

**CASA BOCAS

10200 CALLE 25 NO.

DORAL

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 6/2

Se detectaron 34 infracciones.

“Acumulación de residuos en el exterior de la lavadora de vajilla.”

“Recipiente u otro tipo de bol sin asa que se utiliza para servir comida.”

“Falta una baldosa del techo.”

“El techo o las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado.”

“Techo/baldosas/rejillas de ventilación sucias con restos de comida acumulados, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho.”

“La moldura de remate en la unión del suelo y la pared está rota o falta.”

“La tabla de cortar tiene marcas de cortes y ya no se puede limpiar.”

“Recipiente para bebida de un empleado en la máquina de hielo/cubo de hielo.”

“Equipo en mal estado.”

“El establecimiento no informó sobre cambios en la distribución de los asientos que afectan la tarifa de la licencia, la Ley de Aire Limpio en Interiores, la aprobación del sistema de alcantarillado u otros requisitos relacionados. Infracción reiterada.”

“La puerta exterior tiene una abertura en el umbral que da al exterior.”

“Faltan baldosas en el suelo o están en mal estado. Infracción reiterada.”

“Los suelos no se mantienen lisos ni resistentes.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo.”

“Acumulación de hielo en el congelador vertical y/o en el congelador industrial.”

“Utensilio en uso almacenado en agua estancada a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit.”

“A las pantallas protectoras de las luces utilizadas en la preparación, almacenamiento o lavado de alimentos les faltan las tapas de los extremos.”

“No hay copia disponible del último informe de inspección.”

“Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos, sucia de grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo.”

“Se encontró un recipiente abierto con la bebida de un empleado en una unidad de refrigeración que contenía alimentos destinados a ser servidos a los clientes.”

“El interior/estantes del refrigerador presentan acumulación de residuos de tierra. Infracción reiterada.”

“Agua estancada en el fondo del refrigerador.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para garantizar la seguridad de los alimentos descongelados de forma inadecuada.”

“Piso de concreto sin sellar en área de preparación de alimentos, almacenamiento de alimentos, área de lavado de utensilios o baño. Infracción reiterada.”

“Estantes de la cámara frigorífica/congelador con óxido que ha corroído la superficie. Infracción reiterada.”

“No guardar el paño húmedo en solución desinfectante entre usos.”

“El desinfectante de cloro para lavavajillas no tiene la concentración mínima adecuada.”

“Bolsas no aptas para uso alimentario que se utilizan en contacto directo con alimentos.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria: alimentos refrigerados a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Infracción reiterada.”

“No hay ningún gerente de servicio de alimentos certificado actualmente de servicio con cuatro o más empleados dedicados a la preparación/manipulación de alimentos. Infracción reiterada.”

“No existe ningún dispositivo para medir la temperatura de la superficie de los utensilios cuando se utiliza agua caliente como desinfectante en un lavavajillas.”

“No se ha presentado ni aprobado ninguna revisión del plan; se han realizado o están en curso renovaciones.”

“No existen procedimientos escritos para el uso del tiempo como control de salud pública para mantener el control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria.”

“Para algunos empleados, la formación obligatoria para empleados ha caducado.”

**PAPERCRANE THAI & SUSHI

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“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verdosa similar al moho en el interior de la máquina/contenedor de hielo.”

“El baño, ubicado dentro del establecimiento, no está completamente cerrado con puertas que se cierran automáticamente y ajustan herméticamente.”

“Recipiente u otro tipo de bol sin asa que se utiliza para servir comida.”

“El techo o las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado.”

“La puerta exterior tiene una abertura en el umbral que da al exterior.”

“Cinta adhesiva para moscas colgando sobre alimentos/área de preparación de alimentos/equipos en contacto con alimentos.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo.”

“Las pinzas en uso se guardan en la manija de la puerta del equipo entre usos.”

“Utensilio en uso almacenado en agua estancada a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit.”

“El interior del refrigerador o congelador está en mal estado o tiene el aislamiento expuesto.”

“Se ha colocado un cartel que indica que no se debe lavar las manos en el lavamanos utilizado por los empleados de la cocina.”

“No guardar el paño húmedo en solución desinfectante entre usos.”

“Envases de alimentos utilizados para su procesamiento, retirados del envase original, no identificados por su nombre común.”

“El desinfectante de cloro para lavavajillas no tiene la concentración mínima adecuada.”

“Las superficies en contacto con alimentos no se desinfectan después de la limpieza, antes de su uso.”

“El pescado no exento que se ofrece crudo o poco cocido no ha sido sometido a la destrucción adecuada de parásitos.”

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados encima de alimentos listos para el consumo o que no se hayan separado adecuadamente de ellos.”

“Huevos con cáscara que no se almacenen a una temperatura ambiente de 45 grados Fahrenheit o menos.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para garantizar la seguridad de los alimentos refrigerados a una temperatura superior a 41 grados Fahrenheit.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria, excepto asados ​​de carne enteros, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit.”

“Sustancia tóxica/producto químico almacenado incorrectamente.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en la llave de paso de la manguera o en el accesorio/divisor añadido a la llave de paso.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en el grifo del fregadero para fregar o en el accesorio/divisor añadido al grifo del fregadero para fregar.”

“El empleado no ha recibido la formación adecuada relacionada con las funciones que se le han asignado, como lo demuestra su incapacidad para responder a preguntas básicas sobre seguridad alimentaria.”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, una sustancia similar al moho o una sustancia viscosa.”

“Lavabo para lavarse las manos utilizado para fines distintos al lavado de manos.”

“Identidad del alimento o producto alimenticio tergiversada.”

“No se proporcionan toallas de papel ni secadores de manos mecánicos en el lavamanos.”

“Alimentos listos para consumir, que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para garantizar su seguridad, preparados en el establecimiento y conservados durante más de 24 horas sin la fecha de caducidad debidamente marcada.”

“No se suministra agua a una temperatura mínima de 85 grados Fahrenheit (29 grados Celsius) o el suministro está cortado en el lavamanos de los empleados.”

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) says the crisis has exposed its heavy dependence on imported refined jet fuel, leaving airlines vulnerable to global shocks.

African carriers were already paying about 17% more for jet fuel than the global average before the Iran war, according to AFRAA. The new price pressures are adding to already thin margins across the sector.

“The impact is dire and a major shock for our members,” AFRAA Secretary-General Abderahmane Berthe told The Associated Press. “Fuel represents between 30% and 40% of airlines’ operating costs. Any increase directly affects their balance sheets.”

The aviation industry is closely watching the Strait of Hormuz, a key global energy corridor through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil and fuel flowed before Iran effectively closed it for shipping at the start of the war in February.

For African airlines, the effects are amplified by structural constraints, including higher procurement costs and a weaker ability to absorb shocks.

Berthe said some carriers have introduced fuel surcharges, but most cannot pass on the full increase to passengers, forcing them to absorb losses.

“They cannot pass these costs to passengers as this will affect demand,” he said.

Supply disruptions have also raised concerns at major hubs including Nairobi, Kenya, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where consistent jet fuel availability is critical to regional and international operations, Berthe said.

Some airlines have already begun adjusting networks, cutting frequencies and reviewing routes to manage rising costs and fuel uncertainty, he said.

The crisis has renewed calls for Africa to strengthen domestic refining capacity and reduce reliance on imported jet fuel.

“We need African solutions,” Berthe said. “Many African countries produce oil, but we still depend on non-African suppliers for refined jet fuel.”

Attention is increasingly turning to projects such as Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery, which is expected to play a growing role in supplying refined fuel across the region, including to countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa.

“We have seen hubs like Addis (Ababa) turning to Dangote for supply,” Berthe said. “This is expected to ease pressure on fuel supply chains during this period.”

Despite the pressures, demand for air travel in Africa remains strong. AFRAA projects passenger growth of about 6% annually, outpacing many global markets.

But Berthe warned that sustained shocks could weigh heavily on profitability and connectivity.

“If this continues, the impact on African airlines will be very severe,” he said. “If Africa wants a resilient aviation sector, it must secure its own fuel future.”

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he called off fresh strikes on Iran as he claimed a deal to end the war was imminent. Back-and-forth strikes earlier this week pushed a shaky ceasefire to the edge of collapse, which, if it happens, would inflict more havoc on Iran’s battered economy.

Strikes on steel and petrochemical industries and energy infrastructure earlier in the war have spurred a wave of business closures and job losses in Iran, where people now struggle to afford groceries in the face of triple-digit food inflation.

Many Iranians are desperate for peace

Along with the cratering economy, the specter of war has left many people desperate for an end to the turmoil and deeply anxious about the future. Huraz Ahmadi, a 19-year-old street vendor in the capital of Tehran, said he feared renewed fighting.

“I don’t think they will reach an agreement, given the way things are going. But I hope they make a deal. An agreement is much better than war,” Ahmadi said. “In wars, innocent and good people die. I personally lost a relative.”

In the past year, Iranians have faced two wars – first Israel’s 12-day war in 2025 against Iran followed by a joint assault with the U.S. that began on Feb. 28. Both attacks were launched in the middle of talks about Iran’s nuclear program.

Fresh U.S. strikes on Monday sowed confusion in Iran’s capital following growing optimism that Tehran and Washington were nearing a deal. One Tehran resident in his late 20s said the echo of explosions and air defenses in the capital triggered “maybe a half hour of panic." Long lines formed at gas stations, but people returned within hours to “living normally,” he said.

“War is also becoming normal. And that is very upsetting,” the resident said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of security fears.

“Everybody is stressed out for a thousand reasons,” he added. “Our lives are constantly in this political game where we can’t plan anything or know what’s going to happen.”

A country ‘tired of instability’

A critical demand in talks for Iranian negotiators is that the U.S. deliver some kind of sanctions or economic relief, besides lifting a naval blockade that has throttled Iran’s oil exports as well as imports of raw materials and other goods.

Many business owners are struggling to survive, a member of a council representing Iranian industrialists said.

“The main concern of many industrialists and entrepreneurs is the survival of their businesses and production. The concern is about the disruption of the supply chain of raw materials, parts and machinery due to the cruel U.S. blockade,” Mehdi Bostanchi said.

Tehran-based Bostanchi, who owns a company that makes ventilation systems, is part of a trade group for factory owners across Iran. Its members include textile, food and metal producers and printing firms.

Bostanchi said uncertainty over any deal to end the war is stifling the ability of businesses to plan ahead and look toward any kind of recovery.

“Society is tired of instability and does not want a wider war to break out,” he added.

Iran’s rial currency has also lost over half its value in the past year. Exchange rates have crashed to around 1.8 million rials to the dollar, compared with 41,600 rials 10 years ago.

Economic woes stoke unrest and fear

The deepening economic problems have stoked unrest in Iran. In January, security forces shot thousands of anti-government protesters in the streets. Arrests of protesters and those expressing support for them has continued through the war.

Alongside fear of their own leaders, Iranians who oppose the government also fear a return to open war, said a social media influencer and therapist who lives in central Tehran and has participated in past anti-government protests.

“The war isn’t anything but destruction for us. And in reality, the attacks that happened killed a number of ordinary people and destroyed a number of homes and residential buildings,” she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.

Residents contacted by The Associated Press also expressed worries that renewed conflict would lead Iranian authorities to cut internet service again. Repeated blackouts since the January protests have crippled what was a strong digital economy and stoked job losses. A partial restoration has seen a limited uptick in connectivity.

Next steps are unclear

A few hours after threatening to launch further attacks, Trump posted on social media that significant points in the negotiations “have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.” But a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said in a live phone call on state television that mediators were active and nothing had been finalized to end the conflict.

Iran’s ability to withstand U.S.-Israeli assaults and to close the globally strategic Strait of Hormuz has also rallied the Islamic Republic’s hard-liner base. Authorities have organized nightly rallies in past weeks as they try to project popular support for a tough stance in U.S. talks.

Hamid Reza Bani Ebrahimi, a 47-year-old merchant, said he opposed any agreement that would limit what he sees as Iran’s right to enrich uranium and develop nuclear technology. Israel and the U.S. have repeatedly struck sites and figures linked with the country’s atomic program.

“Our scientists worked so hard to acquire this technology, and then they came and martyred them,” Bani Ebrahimi said.

Abdullah Hosseini, a 45-year-old university professor in Tehran, said Iranian strikes on Gulf states and Jordan this past week were part of an effort to deter further attacks.

“I don’t like war. I am extremely worried about people and children being killed,” Hosseini said. “But sometimes war is necessary, and now is the time for Iran to stand against its enemy."

But Tehran-based analyst Rahman Ghahremanpour said the back-and-forth strikes this week had deepened concerns in Iran that the conflict “could turn into a crisis without end and in reality make running the country more difficult” in the face of economic pressures.

“Both America and Iran are looking for a way out of this situation with honor and claiming victory so they can strengthen their own domestic situation,” he said.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the U.S. and Iran have reached a “final, agreed upon text.” He said Pakistan, which has taken the lead in mediation efforts, was working with the warring countries on next steps.

“Peace has never been this close as it is now,” Sharif said in a post on X.

The apparent breakthrough in negotiations comes after Iran exchanged fire with the U.S. and Israel over three days this week, threatening to return the Middle East to full-scale war.

There was no immediate comment from U.S. or Iranian leaders on Sharif’s statement.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday an agreement “has never been closer” in post on X. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said multiple times in recent weeks that the countries were on the cusp of a deal, shared Araghchi's post on his own social media.

None of the leaders gave details about the emerging agreement.

The war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28 has rattled the Middle East and virtually shut down oil and natural gas shipments from the Persian Gulf. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 7.

Official says emerging deal would reopen strait, remove nuclear material

The U.S. and Iran were making progress Friday toward completing a deal that could effectively end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin the process of destroying or removing Tehran’s highly enriched uranium, according to a senior U.S. administration official.

The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said a deal was 80% to 85% done and that the U.S. side believes “most of the people who have authority” in the Iranian government want to sign onto the deal “but not everybody.”

The official said technical details on how to remove Iran’s enriched uranium, according to the emerging agreement, would be worked out over 60 days after both sides sign it. The official did not detail who the U.S. envisions taking charge of removing the uranium, which is believed to entombed under three nuclear sites that were battered by U.S. strikes last year.

Three regional officials said the emerging deal is also expected to include the phased lifting of sanctions on Iran and the release of frozen Iranian assets. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.

Underscoring the fragility of the negotiations, Trump on Friday lashed out at Iranian officials on social media and said: “They better get their act together, and FAST!” That was before he shared Araghchi's post.

Officials say a deal could be signed in the coming days

Iran's nuclear program has been a key point of division. The U.S. and Israel fear it could lead to an atomic weapon — a main reason their leaders cited for going to war. Tehran has insisted its nuclear efforts are for peaceful purposes.

Also critical is Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for oil and natural gas. Disruption of transit through the strait has crimped global energy supplies, driven up fuel prices and made food and other basics more expensive well beyond the region.

The U.S. has responded since mid-April with a naval blockade of Iranian ports to choke off Iran’s own oil exports.

The regional officials said they expect a signing ceremony for the agreement in the coming days after officials in Washington and Tehran approve it.

Trump on Thursday claimed significant progress in the negotiations, just hours after he threatened to escalate attacks and seize Iran’s oil industry. Esmail Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said on state television that mediators were active and the text of a deal was “mostly finalized.”

There was no immediate comment Friday from Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, which has been leading efforts to mediate a deal between the U.S. and Iran. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi had said Thursday that Pakistan remained involved in negotiations.

Israel expects Trump to advocate for its interests

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is not a party to the deal being negotiated. He said in a statement Friday that he and Trump were in “full agreement” that Iran must not have nuclear weapons.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a separate statement that Israel also expects Trump to uphold key Israeli interests, including weakening Iran's missile program and proxy network.

Katz warned that Israel could still act independently toward Iran and that the country would not pull out of the zones it is occupying in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, nor would it withdraw from the northern refugee camps of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Iran has insisted that any deal to end the war must also end fighting in Lebanon between its ally militia Hezbollah and Israel. Netanyahu appears intent on pursuing his goal of destroying the militant group, complicating negotiations between Iran and the U.S.

The deal was largely being brokered by Pakistan, led by its army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, the regional officials said, with backing from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar.

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Price reported from Washington and Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. Associated Press journalists Julia Frankel in Jerusalem, and Collin Binkley and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Friday the government's evidence against the once high-profile player in the cryptocurrency industry was “conservatively stated, robust.”

A jury found that Bankman-Fried defrauded customers and investors of billions of dollars while he operated FTX, once the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange.

The appeals court said the evidence proved that Bankman-Fried reassured FTX customers while also transferring billions of dollars for his own use and falsifying business records to conceal transactions.

“While he was publicly reassuring customers, investors, and regulators that FTX customer funds were safe, he was simultaneously using FTX as his own personal piggy bank, spending customer funds on real estate, political contributions, and investments,” the appeals court wrote.

The 2nd Circuit, which heard oral arguments in November 2025, rejected the defense’s argument that his trial was unfair because of a series of rulings by the judge that limited the evidence he could present. Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote the three-judge panel's opinion.

Bankman-Fried, 34, was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in 2023 after a meteoric rise and then dramatic fall in the cryptocurrency universe, where his company once advertised during the Super Bowl. Bankman-Fried testified before Congress and enjoyed celebrity endorsements from stars like quarterback Tom Brady, basketball point guard Stephen Curry and comedian Larry David.

FTX collapsed in November 2022, leaving customers, investors and lenders short over $11 billion.

At Bankman-Fried's sentencing, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan criticized the entrepreneur's trial testimony, saying he repeatedly committed perjury on the witness stand in testimony that was “often evasive, hair-splitting, dodging questions.”

Kaplan also said Bankman-Fried should not be credited because some investors and customers might recover some money. He noted that customers lost about $8 billion, investors lost $1.7 billion and lenders were shorted by $1.3 billion.

A request for comment was sent to Bankman-Fried's lawyer. A prosecutor’s spokesperson declined comment.

The 19-year-old Mboko, who is ranked No. 9, slipped and appeared to strain her knee during a match against Karolina Pliskova at the HSBC Championships. She retired from the match and later pulled out of the doubles event.

“Unfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season. This unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year,” Mboko wrote on Instagram.

Williams and Mboko had won their opening doubles match Tuesday — in the 44-year-old Williams’ first professional match since the 2022 U.S. Open.

While trying to return a shot in the second set against Pliskova, Mboko slipped behind the baseline and immediately grabbed her left knee. She told a physiotherapist there was “no stability" in it.

In her Wimbledon debut last year, Mboko reached the second round where she lost to Hailey Baptiste.

Mboko gave a special thanks Friday to Williams “for giving me this incredible opportunity to play alongside you. I learnt so much from you and am so sorry our tournament came to an end prematurely, but I hope we can play together again soon and finish what we started.”

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As perfectly-timed as Morenatti's photo was, what happened after made it even more captivating. Its publication and a post by Morenatti on the social platform X set off a search by internet sleuths for the boy's parents, who believed they had witnessed a miracle and likewise were trying to find Morenatti.

A photo transcends a moment

The pope shares moments with individuals all the time, especially on trips abroad, but there was something about this particular instance that stirred emotion. Here's what Morenatti, a two-time Pulitzer-winning photographer, had to say about this extraordinary photo:

“In photojournalism, a photograph should do more than document an event. It should convey a feeling, evoke an emotion and hold the viewer’s attention long enough to spark a thought, even if only for a brief moment.”

“I have always believed that if a photograph moves me while I am making it, there is a good chance it will move others as well,” he added. “When that happens, the image transcends the simple recording of a moment and gains a deeper power.”

A family prays to Gaudí

When Montse Martínez, 36, and her husband first heard of Leo’s upcoming visit to the Sagrada Familia basilica, it felt like stars aligning. Such is their devotion to the Catalan architect who designed the church, Antoni Gaudí, that they named their newborn after him. For nine straight days they prayed before an image of Gaudí, who’s on the path to possible sainthood, asking him to grant them tickets to see the pope.

Their wish came true, and they were among the 40,000 faithful gathered for Leo’s prayer vigil on Tuesday. A security guard noticed their baby and handed him to the pope, who gave the crying infant a blessing. The guard came back for 7-year-old Joaquim.

“He was so moved that he could only smile, he couldn’t speak,” Martínez said of Joaquim’s few seconds with the pope in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday.

And it was at that precise moment that Morenatti snapped his photo.

How this photo was made

This photo was only possible because Morenatti felt compelled to seek out a unique angle.

“Covering a papal visit is often frustrating for photographers. We are usually confined to positions assigned by the organizers, with little freedom to move in search of better angles," he said. On this occasion, however, he managed to get past the security cordon and join a crowd gathered along one section of the route to watch the Popemobile pass by.

“Standing on a chair among the crowd, I could see the Popemobile approaching through a sea of waving hands and flags. Then I noticed a small gap in front of me — a narrow opening through which a photograph might be possible."

“My 50–150 mm f/2 lens was already zoomed to its maximum focal length and opened to its widest aperture. I quickly checked that both faces were sharp and that the frame was clean, with everything positioned neatly beneath the windshield of the Popemobile. I pressed the shutter for a few seconds and immediately sensed that I had the photograph I had been searching for,” he said. “A wave of emotion washed over me, followed by relief. The image I had imagined was finally there, safely stored on my memory card.”

The search for a family, and a photographer

Morenatti didn't just publish the photo for AP clients. He also posted the image to X, asking for help finding the boy's family so he could give them a printed copy.

“They had to see this photo. And I needed to tell them how moved I was by their son,” Morenatti said.

His post went viral, racking up more than half a million views and hundreds of comments. Even the Catholic Church in Barcelona chimed in, asking — in the local Catalan language — for people to assist. And one of the region's most-read newspapers wrote a story about the search.

Joaquim's parents were unaware of this campaign. But they had seen Morenatti's photo on the website of top local newspaper La Vanguardia and started working to track him down. They found his name with the help of ChatGPT and messaged him directly on Instagram. Morenatti responded and they spoke by phone, touched by the speed with which they found each other.

The family is thrilled they will soon obtain the printed image, which they will hang in their home in a village outside Barcelona.

“We haven’t figured out yet where to place it, but it will be in a very special place,” Martínez said, adding that she hopes it will help plant the seed of faith in her five children. Perhaps, she said, her son's short private audience with the pope could even be included in Gaudí's canonization dossier.

“For us, it’s a miracle of Antoni Gaudí. It’s a gift of God, who has these tender gestures of love for his children.”

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Leonel Alejandro Laferte was arrested Thursday following a traffic homicide investigation into the crash that Hialeah police say occurred around 4:11 a.m. near Southeast Fourth Avenue and East Okeechobee Road.

According to the report, Laferte went to Hialeah Police Department headquarters on June 11 and told investigators he was driving the 2022 Kia Stinger involved in the deadly crash.

The report states that 37-year-old Kenneth William Wimbley was riding a bicycle northbound and attempting to cross East Okeechobee Road when he entered the center lane and was struck by Laferte.

Police said Wimbley suffered critical injuries and was taken to Hialeah Hospital before being transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he died.

According to the report, Laferte, of Hialeah, admitted during a post-Miranda interview that he was involved in the crash. Police also cited scene evidence and surveillance video obtained during the investigation.

The report states Laferte “failed to immediately stop, remain at the scene or provide aid as required by Florida law.”

Instead, investigators said he left the area and did not report the crash until he later appeared at police headquarters.

Police also learned Laferte’s driver’s license was suspended at the time of the crash.

Jail records show Laferte is facing one count each of leaving the scene of a crash involving death and driving while his license is suspended.

As of Friday, he was being held on a $50,000 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Leonel Alejandro Laferte fue arrestado el jueves tras una investigación de homicidio de tránsito relacionada con el accidente que, según la policía de Hialeah, ocurrió alrededor de las 4:11 a.m. cerca de Southeast Fourth Avenue y East Okeechobee Road.

Según el informe, Laferte acudió a la sede del Departamento de Policía de Hialeah el 11 de junio y les dijo a los investigadores que él conducía el Kia Stinger 2022 involucrado en el accidente mortal.

El informe indica que Kenneth William Wimbley, de 37 años, circulaba en bicicleta hacia el norte e intentaba cruzar East Okeechobee Road cuando ingresó al carril central y fue impactado por Laferte.

La policía informó que Wimbley sufrió heridas críticas y fue trasladado al Hospital de Hialeah antes de ser transferido al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde murió.

Según el informe, Laferte, residente de Hialeah, admitió durante una entrevista posterior a la lectura de sus derechos Miranda que estuvo involucrado en el accidente. La policía también citó evidencias encontradas en la escena y videos de vigilancia obtenidos durante la investigación.

El informe señala que Laferte “no se detuvo de inmediato, no permaneció en la escena ni brindó ayuda según lo exige la ley de Florida”.

En cambio, los investigadores dijeron que abandonó el área y no reportó el accidente hasta que posteriormente se presentó en la sede policial.

La policía también descubrió que la licencia de conducir de Laferte estaba suspendida al momento del accidente.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Laferte enfrenta un cargo por abandonar la escena de un accidente con resultado de muerte y otro cargo por conducir con la licencia suspendida.

Hasta el viernes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $50,000 USD.

Earlier this month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that the government is scrapping its plans for the fund in the face of a fierce bipartisan backlash, and government attorneys have argued that lawsuits challenging the fund are now moot. But plaintiffs’ attorneys aren’t satisfied by Blanche’s assurances that the fund won’t move forward.

Neither was U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who ruled that the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” will remain blocked until further notice from the court.

“The (government's) mootness argument, in my view, doesn't go anywhere,” the judge said.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has not publicly and unequivocally endorsed the fund's cancellation. He has continued to express support for it in remarks to reporters.

Brinkema gave the parties a week to negotiate an agreement for Trump administration officials, including Blanche, to submit a sworn declaration that the administration won't revive the fund.

Brinkema previously agreed to temporarily block the administration from proceeding with the fund for at least two weeks. Her May 29 order was due to expire on Friday.

Trump's Republican administration created the fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.

Plaintiffs who sued to block fund payouts argue that the government can’t legally divert taxpayer money into what they argue is a slush fund for compensating Trump’s allies.

In a separate case on Wednesday, a different judge in Washington, D.C., rejected a government watchdog’s parallel request for a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from forging ahead with the fund. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said he accepts Blanche’s representation that the fund is now moot.

Leon had asked Justice Department attorney Andrew Block why Blanche doesn’t formally rescind his May 18 order establishing the fund. Block said he didn’t know. He still didn’t have an answer to that question when Brinkema posed it two days later.

“It’s a huge gap in the record that we don’t have an answer to that question,” said Brinkema, who was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

Block said he couldn't provide her with a “concrete answer” because he doesn't have direct access to Blanche.

“All I would be doing is speculating,” he told the judge.

In the Virginia case, attorneys from the legal advocacy group Democracy Forward asked for an order to temporarily suspend the fund’s implementation and stop the Trump administration from disbursing any payouts from it.

The plaintiffs include a fired prosecutor and a college professor acquitted of assaulting federal agents at a protest. Also named as plaintiffs are the government watchdog Common Cause; the city of New Haven, Connecticut; and the National Abortion Federation, an association of abortion providers.

Even before the Trump administration said it was dropping the fund, the Justice Department did not form the five-member commission that would decide on payout criteria, so no money was paid out nor claims accepted.

Many of the Republican president’s allies are opposed to compensating rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. In May, however, Blanche wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Capitol rioters who engaged in violence could be eligible to apply for payments from the fund.

Trump issued mass pardons to Capitol rioters on his first day back in the White House last year. More than 1,500 people were charged in the Jan. 6 attack before Trump erased every case with his sweeping act of clemency.

Democracy Forward attorney Pooja Boisture said reviving the fund would irreparably harm the lawsuit's plaintiffs. A court order to block it wouldn't harm the government if the administration is truly abandoning it, as Blanche testified, Boisture told the judge, who agreed with that argument.

The president did not provide details about the measures or a timetable for their implementation but said during remarks to state media that it is now “time to change” and that the country “simply cannot continue on its current course.”

“Every opportunity in the midst of a crisis must be seized as a moment for takeoff, as a moment for growth,” Díaz-Canel said, according to a statement from the presidency that was republished by state-run media. “We have established a group of priorities to confront this situation,” he added without offering specifics.

The announcement comes as Cubans have struggled with fuel shortages as a result of the U.S. oil blockade and food insecurity. In January, the United States tightened restrictions on Cuba’s oil supplies in an effort to pressure the island’s government to change its political and economic model, exacerbating challenges that have persisted for about five years.

Díaz-Canel said officials are evaluating measures related to foreign trade, exports, supply chains and logistics. Without elaborating, he suggested the government could eliminate mandatory state intermediaries in import and export operations and grant tariff benefits to those who bring raw materials into the country for production.

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Earlier Friday, a ship carrying nearly 100 tons of food and essential goods arrived from Colombia as part of the humanitarian aid that several countries have sent to Cuba in recent months as a U.S. energy embargo persists.

The ship, which departed Cartagena in early June, crossed the Havana Bay channel early in the morning flying the Colombian flag and escorted by a small Cuban auxiliary vessel, The Associated Press confirmed.

The Colombian Presidential Agency for International Cooperation said that, on orders of President Gustavo Petro, the shipment included nonperishable food, medicine, hospital supplies, electrical materials, solar panels and other items.

The ship also carried seven tons of goods collected by solidarity groups.

Last weekend, another ship carrying 1,700 tons of essential goods from Mexico and Belize arrived in Havana.

In late January, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. The move has deepened a preexisting crisis caused by U.S. sanctions. Washington is pressing the Cuban government to release political prisoners and move toward political and economic liberalization in return for a lifting of sanctions.

Cuba produces only 40% of its oil, leaving the island semiparalyzed and subjected to severe power outages.

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El accidente ocurrió cerca de la intersección de Southeast Eighth Avenue y Okeechobee Road.

Según la Policía de Hialeah, un hombre de 37 años que viajaba en bicicleta fue atropellado por el conductor de un vehículo negro de cuatro puertas. La policía indicó que el conductor huyó de la escena después del accidente.

Según los investigadores, el ciclista murió a causa de sus heridas.

La policía no ha divulgado información adicional sobre el vehículo, la víctima ni el conductor involucrado.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso debe comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Hialeah al 305-687-2525.

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In a statement provided to Local 10 News on Friday, the family of Cardal Wyche III said they are seeking answers about the events that led to his death on April 10 at CW Thomas Park, located in the 800 block of Northwest Second Street.

“Cardal was a beloved son, family member, and friend whose loss has deeply impacted everyone who knew him,” the statement said.

The family urged anyone who was at the park that night, witnessed any part of the incident, or has photos, videos or other information to contact law enforcement.

“No piece of information is too small. Even details that may seem insignificant could help investigators establish a complete understanding of what occurred,” the statement continued.

Investigators said the preliminary investigation revealed Wyche was shot following an altercation with several people.

They said deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene and found Wyche suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

Authorities said paramedics transported him to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:44 p.m.

Wyche’s family they appreciate the efforts of investigators and remain hopeful that all facts surrounding the shooting will be uncovered. They also requested privacy as they continue to grieve.

Detectives say a reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the case.

Detectives are asking anyone with information about the shooting or those involved to contact BSO Homicide Detective Kevin White at 954-321-4215 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

En un comunicado proporcionado a Local 10 News el viernes, la familia de Cardal Wyche III indicó que busca respuestas sobre los hechos que llevaron a su muerte el 10 de abril en CW Thomas Park, ubicado en la cuadra 800 de Northwest Second Street.

“Cardal era un hijo, familiar y amigo muy querido, cuya pérdida ha impactado profundamente a todos los que lo conocieron”, señala el comunicado.

La familia instó a cualquier persona que estuviera en el parque esa noche, que haya presenciado alguna parte del incidente o que tenga fotografías, videos u otra información, a comunicarse con las autoridades.

“Ningún dato es demasiado pequeño. Incluso detalles que puedan parecer insignificantes podrían ayudar a los investigadores a establecer una comprensión completa de lo ocurrido”, continúa el comunicado.

Los investigadores dijeron que la investigación preliminar reveló que Wyche recibió disparos tras un altercado con varias personas.

Indicaron que agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward y equipos de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue respondieron al lugar y encontraron a Wyche con una aparente herida de bala.

Las autoridades dijeron que los paramédicos lo trasladaron al Broward Health Medical Center, donde fue declarado muerto a las 9:44 p.m.

La familia de Wyche expresó que aprecia los esfuerzos de los investigadores y mantiene la esperanza de que se esclarezcan todos los hechos relacionados con la balacera. También solicitó privacidad mientras continúa su proceso de duelo.

Los detectives informaron que se ofrece una recompensa de hasta $5,000 USD por información que conduzca a un arresto en el caso.

Los detectives solicitan a cualquier persona con información sobre la balacera o sobre los involucrados que se comunique con el detective de homicidios de la BSO Kevin White al 954-321-4215 o que envíe información a través de la aplicación SaferWatch o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

El buque, que había salido de Cartagena de Indias a comienzos de mes, atravesó el canal de la bahía habanera a primera hora flameando la bandera colombiana y escoltado por una pequeña nave auxiliar cubana, constató The Associated Press.

La Agencia Presidencial de Cooperación Internacional de Colombia indicó que por orden del presidente Gustavo Petro se realizó el envío de alimentos no perecederos, medicamentos, insumos hospitalarios, materiales eléctricos y paneles solares, entre otros.

Además de los productos donados por el gobierno colombiano para la población en la isla, también se cargaron en la nave siete toneladas de mercancías recolectadas por grupos solidarios, dijeron las autoridades colombianas.

El fin de semana Cuba recibió otro barco con 1.700 toneladas de artículos de primera necesidad procedente de México y Belice que se sumaron a las ayudas enviadas por China, Rusia, algunas naciones europeas y Uruguay.

Cuba atraviesa desde hace cinco años una severa crisis económica que se agravó luego de que en enero el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump amenazó con aplicar aranceles a los países que envíen crudo a la isla.

La nación caribeña sólo produce un 40% del combustible que consume, por lo que lleva meses semiparalizada en casi todos los sectores y sometida a largos apagones.

Pino, de 55 años, enfrenta cargos de homicidio involuntario y homicidio por embarcación por la muerte de Lucy Fernández, de 17 años.

Los fiscales acusan a Pino, entonces de 52 años, de actuar de manera imprudente cuando perdió el control de una embarcación Robalo de 29 pies durante las primeras horas de la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2022 y se estrelló contra una baliza de canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, causando la muerte de Fernández. Otras dos jóvenes resultaron gravemente heridas, incluida Katerina Puig, de 17 años.

Su equipo de defensa sostiene que el choque fue simplemente un accidente y no el resultado de negligencia.

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El jueves, los miembros del jurado visitaron una instalación de la Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida (FWC) en North Miami. Fueron escoltados por agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade y observaron detalladamente la embarcación involucrada, incluso pudieron abordarla para comprender mejor las posiciones de las jóvenes pasajeras el día del accidente y el lugar donde se encontraba Pino.

Los miembros del jurado pudieron ver la ubicación exacta y la magnitud de los daños, lo que les brindó una perspectiva diferente a la de los videos y fotografías que habían visto en el tribunal.

La visita duró aproximadamente 40 minutos. Luego regresaron al tribunal después de una pausa para almorzar.

Allí, los jurados observaron un video de recreación aérea con dron, elaborado por la FWC y la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), así como imágenes submarinas de la escena del accidente, entre otras evidencias.

También escucharon el testimonio de agentes del orden.

“La embarcación estaba volcada en Cutter Bank”, declaró el teniente de la FWC Manuel Pomares. “Cutter Bank es un canal estrecho. La mejor forma de describirlo es como un embudo”.

Agregó: “Realmente hay que prestar atención cuando se navega hacia o a través de Cutter Bank”.

Pomares formó parte de un equipo de buceo que documentó evidencias con una cámara GoPro.

“Hay un par de vasos térmicos tipo Yeti, y algunas latas de Truly (bebida alcohólica tipo hard seltzer) y una lata de Bud Light”, testificó Pomares.

La audiencia concluyó la noche del jueves y se espera que se reanude la mañana del viernes.

Hasta el momento, no se han reportado muertes ni lesiones que pusieran en peligro la vida a causa de las tormentas del jueves, aunque varias personas recibieron atención por heridas leves, informaron las autoridades.

Las autoridades de Merrillville, Indiana, a unos 53 kilómetros (33 millas) al sureste de Chicago, reportaron daños generalizados. Varias viviendas y otros edificios quedaron destrozados, árboles y líneas eléctricas caídos bloquearon calles y el viento arrancó parte del techo de una escuela secundaria.

Varias agencias de la región ayudaron a los equipos locales de primera respuesta a realizar búsquedas y a evaluar las zonas dañadas, indicaron autoridades municipales en redes sociales. Las cuadrillas trabajaron hasta entrada la noche para despejar las vías.

Marsha Smith estaba en su edificio de apartamentos en Merrillville cuando el tornado golpeó el complejo, arrancando los techos de tres edificios, derribando árboles y rompiendo parabrisas de autos antes de que la intensa lluvia causara más daños. Ella y algunos vecinos se refugiaron bajo una escalera interior, tomados de la mano y rezando.

“Cuanto más fuerte se ponía el tornado, más fuerte empecé a rezar”, relató Smith, de 54 años e instructora de RCP. “Dije: ‘Oh Dios, ya está aquí’. Dije: ‘Señor Jesús, haz que pase, que pase, que pase por encima’. Dije: ‘Dios, danos la fuerza para salir adelante’. Y simplemente empezó a destrozarlo todo”.

Smith relató que se produjo una tensa calma justo antes de que el tornado impactara. Luego sonó como un tren de carga estrellándose contra su edificio, afirmó. Agradeció a Dios que nadie resultara herido. La mañana del viernes, recorrió su vecindario y lo describió como una catástrofe.

Al menos otros dos tornados azotaron comunidades en Streator, Illinois, y Hebron, Indiana, y sus alrededores, informó el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Fotos y videos publicados en redes sociales mostraron daños similares a los de Merrillville. El servicio meteorológico indicó que inspeccionará los daños durante los próximos días para determinar cuántos tornados tocaron tierra en la región.

En Streator, una ciudad manufacturera y agrícola a unos 160 kilómetros (100 millas) al suroeste de Chicago, los equipos de emergencia también inspeccionaban los daños. Se instaló un centro de reunificación para residentes desplazados en el ayuntamiento, y la Cruz Roja abrió un refugio.

La alcaldesa de Streator, Tara Bedei, señaló que no se reportaron muertes. “Estamos increíblemente agradecidos por la seguridad de nuestros residentes y la rápida acción del personal de emergencia”, dijo en un comunicado. Las autoridades informaron que cuatro personas fueron atendidas en un hospital por lesiones leves.

Los equipos de primera respuesta también trabajaron durante la noche en Hebron, un pequeño pueblo a unos 80 kilómetros (50 millas) al sureste de Chicago, indicaron las autoridades en una publicación de Facebook.

Jennifer Hall estaba en su garaje en Elkhart, Indiana, cuando el viento y la lluvia se intensificaron la noche del jueves. De repente, escuchó un fuerte estruendo y descubrió que una rama de árbol había atravesado el techo de la casa que alquila. Usó cubetas para recoger el agua de lluvia que entraba por el agujero.

“Estoy nerviosa porque ha sido una cosa tras otra”, señaló. añadiendo que acababa de someterse a una cirugía y que su esposo está fuera de la ciudad.

El viernes había más de 200.000 cortes de electricidad en Illinois y más de 120.000 en Indiana, según poweroutage.us.

El jueves, las tormentas retrasaron o detuvieron vuelos en aeropuertos de algunas ciudades, entre ellas, Chicago, Filadelfia y Nueva York. Varias partes del noreste y del Atlántico medio también enfrentaron el intenso calor y la humedad. Decenas de vuelos fueron cancelados o retrasados el viernes en los aeropuertos internacionales O’Hare y Midway de Chicago, según FlightAware, un sitio web de seguimiento de vuelos.

Los tornados se produjeron después de que fuertes tormentas barrieran el miércoles la región centro-norte de Estados Unidos, causando cortes de electricidad, dañando edificios y cancelando vuelos.

En Des Moines, Iowa, un hombre de 54 años murió el miércoles en un campamento de personas sin hogar en un parque después de ser golpeado por un árbol que “se partió y cayó durante las fuertes tormentas”, informó la policía en un comunicado. No se reportaron otras muertes o lesiones por esas tormentas.

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Los periodistas de The Associated Press Hannah Fingerhut en Des Moines, Iowa, y Gene Johnson en Seattle contribuyeron a este despacho.

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That level of wealth, all owned by just one person, was once unfathomable. Before Friday, the trillion dollar mark was reserved for measures like the GDP (or staggering debt ) of a handful of major economies — and, in the last decade alone, the value of some of the biggest companies to ever trade on the stock market.

Musk's new title arrives amid a wider acceleration for the richest of the rich. Year after year, his former (although now very distant) billionaires club has reaped a growing number of members — from tech titans to celebrities. All the while, more and more people worldwide are struggling to pay their everyday bills. Many have decried the arrival of the first trillionaire as the latest and most alarming example of that wealth gap.

The number “one trillion” is hard in itself for the human mind to comprehend. One trillion dollars is a thousand times greater than $1 billion. And a million times more than $1 million.

According to Forbes, Musk’s net worth actually hit $1.1 trillion as of midday Friday, after SpaceX soared in its first moments on the market. Still, here’s some ways to think about how far $1 trillion of that money could go.

To the moon and back, over 200 times

Thinking about what $1 trillion looks like is almost as astronomical as the interplanetary — and at this point, still far from realized — goals SpaceX has laid out for itself.

In terms of physical cash, one trillion U.S. dollar bills laid end to end would stretch nearly 97 million miles (or almost 156 million kilometers). That would account for the distance of more than 200 round trip journeys to the moon — which NASA says sits an average of 238,855 miles (nearly 384,400 kilometers) away from Earth. It would also surpass the roughly 93 million miles (about 150 million kilometers) between Earth and the sun.

$122 for every person on Earth

There are nearly 8.2 billion people living on Earth today, per the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. If $1 trillion was divided among the entire population, each person would receive almost $122.

Double the GDP of South Africa

One trillion dollars is more than double the annual GDP of South Africa, the country where Musk was born. According 2026 numbers from International Monetary Fund, the nation’s output of goods and services stands at nearly $480 billion.

Only about 21 countries in the world have a GDP over the trillion dollar mark today. The U.S. and China lead the pack at more than $32.38 trillion and $20.85 trillion, respectively, but that's far ahead most other economies.

2.5 million homes in the US

Houses sold in the U.S. have a median sales price of about $403,200, per the latest numbers from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. With $1 trillion, you could buy nearly 2.5 million homes at that cost.

243 billion gallons of gas

At current U.S. gas prices — which averaged at nearly $4.11 a gallon Friday per AAA — $1 trillion could buy more than 243 billion gallons of regular fuel.

To help put that in context, that far surpasses the nearly 137 billion gallons Americans used on finished motor gasoline all last year. And prices at the pump were much less expensive in 2025. Steep oil prices, spanning from the U.S. and Israel's ongoing war against Iran, propelled the national average above $4 a gallon for the first time in four years.

Over $700 billion ahead the world's second richest person

According to Forbes, the second richest person in the world today is Google co-founder Larry Page — who carried a net worth of nearly $295 billion as of midday Friday. That's $705 billion under the trillion dollar mark.

In fact, the combined net worth, as of Friday, of the four men following Musk on Forbes' richest list — which, beyond Page, includes fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin ($272 billion), Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($247 billion) and Oracle’s Larry Ellison ($228 billion) — amounted to just over $1.04 trillion.

Those fortunes can oscillate by tens of billions of dollars by the day, or even a matter of hours. Musk's own net worth has rapidly ballooned in value. Just last year, his net worth sat at $342 billion per Forbes — up from $195 billion in 2024.

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For the next month, you won’t need a passport to take a trip around the world — just an appetite.

At the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, the FIFA World Cup is showing up on the menu.

“We have some globally inspired food options here at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, as well as some cocktails that are also globally inspired,” said entertainment expert Paul Zahn.

The hotel’s “Culinary Cup Series” pairs matchups on the field with flavors from around the globe.

From smoky cocktails inspired by Mexico and Germany to dishes celebrating countries like Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and beyond, the idea is simple.

In Coconut Grove, the World Cup is coming with a side of waterfront views.

At Bayshore Club Bar & Grill, fans can watch matches on the big screen while overlooking Biscayne Bay.

Over on South Beach, Queen Miami Beach is leaning into the international spirit of the tournament.

With special watch parties for matchups like Brazil vs. Scotland and Colombia vs. Portugal, along with cocktails designed to celebrate the pursuit of gold, the venue is embracing the excitement of the competition.

And if your ideal match day looks more like a night out, E11EVEN plans to keep the celebration going around the clock, with match viewings, DJs and performances turning every game into an all-day, all-night event.

The World Cup isn’t just taking over hotels and nightlife.

It’s popping up in some pretty unexpected places, too.

On Miami Beach, Reefline’s “Big Goals” installation is using soccer as a way to talk about art, ocean conservation and community engagement.

In Broward County, Amerant Bank Arena is hosting free watch parties throughout the tournament, offering fans a chance to cheer together without heading to Hard Rock Stadium.

Durante el próximo mes, no necesitará un pasaporte para dar una vuelta al mundo, solo apetito.

En el hotel Loews Miami Beach, la Copa Mundial de la FIFA también está presente en el menú.

“Tenemos algunas opciones gastronómicas inspiradas globalmente aquí en el Loews Miami Beach Hotel, así como algunos cócteles que también están inspirados en distintas partes del mundo”, dijo el experto en entretenimiento Paul Zahn.

La “Serie Copa Culinaria” del hotel combina los enfrentamientos en la cancha con sabores de todo el mundo.

Desde cócteles ahumados inspirados en México y Alemania hasta platillos que celebran a países como Arabia Saudita, Uruguay y otros más, la idea es simple.

En Coconut Grove, la Copa del Mundo llega acompañada de vistas frente al mar.

En Bayshore Club Bar & Grill, los aficionados pueden ver los partidos en pantalla gigante mientras disfrutan de la vista de la bahía de Biscayne.

En South Beach, Queen Miami Beach está adoptando el espíritu internacional del torneo.

Con fiestas especiales para ver partidos como Brasil contra Escocia y Colombia contra Portugal, además de cócteles diseñados para celebrar la búsqueda del oro, el lugar está aprovechando al máximo la emoción de la competencia.

Y si para usted el día perfecto de partido se parece más a una noche de fiesta, E11EVEN planea mantener la celebración activa las 24 horas, con transmisiones de partidos, DJ y espectáculos que convierten cada encuentro en un evento de día y de noche.

La Copa del Mundo no solo está tomando protagonismo en hoteles y centros de vida nocturna.

También está apareciendo en algunos lugares bastante inesperados.

En Miami Beach, la instalación “Big Goals” de ReefLine utiliza el fútbol como una forma de hablar sobre arte, conservación oceánica y participación comunitaria.

En el condado Broward, Amerant Bank Arena está organizando fiestas gratuitas para ver los partidos durante todo el torneo, ofreciendo a los aficionados la oportunidad de apoyar juntos a sus equipos sin tener que ir al Hard Rock Stadium.

Starmer has seen the departure of several junior and senior ministers in recent weeks, as Labour Party lawmakers revolt and rivals plot, in despair at the government’s relentless unpopularity.

But the sudden resignation of Defense Secretary John Healey is a heavy blow. Healey quit Thursday, warning that the government is not spending enough on the military to keep Britain safe “at this time of rising threats.”

His departure hits Starmer in the one place the often embattled prime minister has won consistent praise: the world stage.

Since taking office after a landslide election victory in July 2024, Starmer has bolstered support for Ukraine, working with French President Emmanuel Macron on a multinational “coalition of the willing” to help guarantee the country’s security if a ceasefire is reached.

France and the U.K. also have put together a maritime security force that would help keep the Strait of Hormuz open to shipping if the Iran war ends.

Starmer has also argued strongly that European nations must do more to fund their own defense in response to President Donald Trump ’s criticism of the United States’ NATO allies.

“Starmer has been consistently staunch about warning of the security risk from Russia,” said Olivia O’Sullivan, head of the U.K. in the World program at the Chatham House think tank. “He’s been given quite a bit of credit by the public for having to deal with Trump and doing so with a level of steadiness and calm. And he has been, in line with previous U.K. governments, a close and consistent ally of Ukraine.”

At issue is money for defense

At issue is the government’s long-awaited Defense Investment Plan, a road map for how the U.K. will increase military spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2035. The U.K. military is also seeking to reverse years of decline in the face of an increasingly assertive Russia, which invaded its neighbor Ukraine in 2022 and increasingly tests the defenses of European nations with overt and covert activity.

Healey says defense spending must reach 3% of GDP by 2030. He quit in frustration after Treasury chief Rachel Reeves refused to budge on a plan that falls short of that.

He cited a British intelligence assessment that Russia could attack a NATO member country as soon as 2030 and said a lower-than-needed spending plan “could make the country less safe.”

Critics argue that military spending can be a bottomless pit, and point out that procurement projects regularly run over time and over budget.

Former Armed Forces Minister Al Carns, who quit on Thursday a few hours after Healey, said it is not just a question of spending more money, but spending it wisely. He said the investment plan was not “transformative enough.”

“I want to see a higher percentage for uncrewed systems, AI, data — data is the new gunpowder — and we’ve got to move that forward if we are going to win the next war,” he told the BBC.

Resignations could hasten Starmer’s exit from office

Healey is not the first government minister to resign. Last month Starmer lost several junior ministers and then Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who quit so that he can run for party leader if a contest is triggered.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is widely expected to challenge Starmer for the leadership if he is elected to Parliament in a special election on Thursday.

But the departure of Healey, long seen as a loyal minister without personal leadership ambitions, “suggests that Starmer’s credibility, even with his inner circle of ministers, is perhaps draining away,” O’Sullivan said.

Starmer insisted Friday he is staying put, saying it’s his job to make “hard-edged decisions.”

He told the BBC that defense is “my number one priority. And I have taken the difficult decisions to make sure that we are safe as a country.”

“I’m not going to go away. I don’t think we should plunge the country into the chaos of a leadership election,” he said. “I don’t think it should happen, but if it does, then I will fight.”

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Associated Press writer Danica Kirka contributed to this story.

Los registros de la cárcel en línea muestran que Ashley Marie Hosendove, de 32 años, enfrenta un cargo de alteración del orden público/quebrantamiento de la paz.

Según documentos judiciales, una orden de arresto judicial fue emitida el 1 de junio contra Hosendove por un incidente ocurrido el 12 de marzo.

Un informe de arresto indica que Hosendove fue víctima de una agresión presuntamente cometida por su novio ese día.

Pero mientras su novio era puesto bajo custodia por la policía, Hosendove comenzó a “gritar y proferir obscenidades” contra los agentes presentes en la escena y se negó a proporcionar una identificación, señala el informe.

La policía dijo que las acciones de Hosendove, que fueron captadas por cámaras corporales, provocaron que vecinos se reunieran afuera.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), la balacera fue reportada alrededor de las 2 a.m. del miércoles en una vivienda ubicada en Northwest First Court cerca de la calle 16.

Las autoridades dijeron que la niña, identificada por un familiar como Janova Park, sufrió heridas de bala en el estómago y el torso y fue trasladada de emergencia al HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, donde posteriormente murió.

“Sabemos que al momento de la balacera había tres adultos y dos niños: la víctima, que tenía 5 años, y su hermano de 4 años”, dijo el detective de la MDSO Angel Rodriguez el miércoles.

Los detectives confirmaron que Hosendove estaba entre los adultos que se encontraban dentro de la vivienda al momento de la balacera.

Los detectives dijeron que todavía intentan determinar cómo Janova recibió el disparo, incluyendo si pudo haber tenido acceso al arma por sí misma o si otra persona le disparó.

Hannah Yechivi, de Local 10, habló el miércoles con Laticha Ellison, abuela de Janova, quien dijo que la balacera pudo haberse evitado.

“Mi nietecita tiene 5 años”, dijo Ellison entre lágrimas. “Solo tiene 5 años. Me da rabia porque algo así no debería poder ocurrir, especialmente en tu propia casa, por descuido”.

Ellison describió a su nieta como “inteligente y atrevida”.

Los investigadores dijeron que recuperaron un arma dentro de la vivienda y que “no están buscando a ninguna persona que pueda representar una amenaza para la comunidad”.

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Now, the 21-year-old defender is on the verge of making that dream a reality.

Freeman is expected to make his World Cup debut with the U.S. Men’s National Team, marking a major milestone in a journey that began in South Florida.

Despite his age, Freeman said he’s embracing the pressure that comes with competing at the highest level.

“I think, yeah, for me it’s my first World Cup and I’m the young guy,” Freeman said in an exclusive interview with Local 10 News. “I think as well for me it’s always going to be a lot of pressure, but for me, it’s how can I deal with the pressure and make it into something great when I play.”

For Freeman, the moment is about more than personal achievement. It’s an opportunity to represent the people who helped him reach this point.

“I think for me it’s to realize that I’m not only doing it for the fans and for myself,” Freeman said. “I’m doing it for the people that helped me get to this point. From Fort Lauderdale, from where I’m from, and it just means so much that I’m able to have that kind of support back home.”

Freeman said taking the leap to pursue a professional soccer career came with uncertainty, but the encouragement he received from family, friends and his South Florida community helped fuel his confidence.

“Knowing that I took a risk and I had so many people backing me, encouraging me to do this,” he said.

Representing the United States on the international stage is something Freeman said he does not take lightly.

“For me it’s such an honor,” Freeman said. “But I know honor comes with privilege, knowing that you have the privilege and the confidence and desire to be able to wear the shirt and perform when you’re in it.”

As he prepares to step onto the field, Freeman said he remains focused on carrying that responsibility with gratitude and pride.

“Always having that honor and grateful energy that you don’t get to wear this every day,” he said. “And when you do get to wear it, it’s to wear with pride.”

For the former Broward County standout, the upcoming match represents the latest chapter in a remarkable rise from local soccer fields to the global stage — one that South Florida will be watching closely.

Ahora, el defensor de 21 años está a punto de convertir ese sueño en realidad.

Se espera que Freeman haga su debut en la Copa del Mundo con la Selección Masculina de Estados Unidos, marcando un importante hito en una trayectoria que comenzó en el sur de Florida.

A pesar de su edad, Freeman dijo que está aceptando la presión que conlleva competir al más alto nivel.

“Creo que sí, para mí es mi primera Copa del Mundo y soy el joven del grupo”, dijo Freeman en una entrevista exclusiva con Local 10 News. “También creo que para mí siempre habrá mucha presión, pero la cuestión es cómo puedo manejar esa presión y convertirla en algo grandioso cuando juego”.

Para Freeman, este momento es mucho más que un logro personal. Es una oportunidad para representar a las personas que lo ayudaron a llegar hasta este punto.

“Creo que para mí es darme cuenta de que no solo lo hago por los fanáticos y por mí mismo”, dijo Freeman. “Lo hago por las personas que me ayudaron a llegar hasta aquí. Desde Fort Lauderdale, de donde soy, y significa muchísimo poder contar con ese tipo de apoyo en casa”.

Freeman dijo que dar el salto para perseguir una carrera profesional en el fútbol estuvo acompañado de incertidumbre, pero el respaldo que recibió de su familia, amigos y de su comunidad en el sur de Florida fortaleció su confianza.

“Saber que asumí un riesgo y que tenía a tantas personas apoyándome y alentándome a hacer esto”, dijo.

Representar a Estados Unidos en el escenario internacional es algo que Freeman asegura no toma a la ligera.

“Para mí es un gran honor”, dijo Freeman. “Pero sé que el honor viene con privilegios, saber que tienes el privilegio, la confianza y el deseo de poder vestir esta camiseta y rendir cuando la llevas puesta”.

Mientras se prepara para salir al campo, Freeman dijo que sigue enfocado en asumir esa responsabilidad con gratitud y orgullo.

“Siempre tener ese honor y esa energía de gratitud, porque no puedes vestir esto todos los días”, dijo. “Y cuando tienes la oportunidad de vestirlo, es para hacerlo con orgullo”.

Para el ex destacado jugador del condado Broward, el próximo partido representa el capítulo más reciente de un ascenso extraordinario desde las canchas locales hasta el escenario mundial, uno que el sur de Florida seguirá muy de cerca.

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The low-pressure area is an amalgamation of the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristina that crossed Central America from the eastern Pacific over the past few days and a westward-moving tropical disturbance. As of Friday morning, the low-pressure area remained broad and thunderstorm activity was disorganized.

Because the disturbance is situated so far south in the lower reaches of the Gulf and Bay of Campeche, there’s a small window today and Saturday for it to overperform and become a short-lived tropical depression or storm (Arthur, in the off-chance it’s named), but odds are stacked against it given the presence of dry, continental air to the west and a curtain of wind shear to the north.

Regardless, significant development isn’t expected before the system moves inland over northeastern Mexico late Saturday into early Sunday.

But wait, there’s more…

As we discussed in yesterday’s newsletter, the newcomer AI models suggest residual spin from the disturbance could re-emerge back over the northern Gulf south of Texas come the early to middle part of next week, where a stalled front could help to energize it and deflect the low-pressure area eastward toward the north-central Gulf Coast.

This is reflected in a handful of scenarios in both Google’s DeepMind machine learning-based model and the European Centre’s AI ensemble system.

It’s worth noting that development is only shown in about 10% of the scenarios from both AI modeling camps and for now none of the conventional physics-based models like the European model or American GFS show any development next week. Additionally, the handful of development scenarios shown by the AI models maintain a weak system.

Given the track record (pun intended) of the AI models last season, we’ll keep an eye on the trends as the disturbance loiters near or over Gulf waters.

Tropical air aggravates Deep South rains early next week

The upshot will be an infusion of tropical air into the Deep South and Southern Plains beginning this weekend and into next week, which will enhance the heavy rainfall threat associated with the approaching cold front and along the stalled frontal zone.

The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center is indicating a slight risk of excessive rainfall for these areas starting on Sunday and bleeding into the northern Gulf Coast for the middle part of next week. This could lead to scattered, localized flash flooding from parts of eastern Texas to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

On the eve of Friday's match between Bosnia and Canada, members of the genre-bending rock group met The Associated Press in the Sarajevo neighborhood where they filmed the new music video for the accordion-heavy earworm, now titled “I Am From Bosnia, Take Me to America.” In less than three weeks, the video celebrating soccer's working-class roots has notched nearly 2 million views on YouTube — on top of the 26 million views the original “USA,” released in 2011, has amassed over the years.

“It’s an interesting story how this song got its second and third and fourth incarnation in these 15 years,” muses Vedran Mujagić, bassist for the band that has woven political and social causes into its identity. “It evolved from this satirical take on immigration and (the) American Dream and it was translated into (an) American football dream for the entire nation.”

Bosnia-Herzegovina is making only its second appearance at a World Cup, a goal that once seemed improbable as more traditional soccer powers stood in the way of qualification. At the end of April, though, Bosnia's late goal against Wales propelled the team to a victorious penalty shootout, a feat it would replicate days later against Italy. The band members were surprised when fans unfurled a banner emblazoned with their lyrics, singing them as a rallying cry.

“First, it was working as a joke, but what I like the most is the supporters kind of loaded completely new meaning to the old song, and this is the best thing for the band or for the song: when people take over and load new meaning and then it becomes theirs,” keyboardist Brano Jakubović says. “It’s not ours anymore.”

An own goal lament turns joyous

The original “USA” is as up-tempo and catchy — it's hard not to wander around muttering, “I can no longer wait, take me to United States / Take me to Golden Gate, I will assimilate” — but its protagonist's eagerness to flee slides quickly to disenchantment with life outside the Balkans.

The band decided to deliver an updated version of what Jakubović describes as a “typical immigrant song,” writing new lyrics befitting a soccer anthem. While “USA” is in English, this version is mostly in Bosnian — “so people will understand,” he says — and mostly about the sport. The language switch has done nothing to lessen its global appeal, as a quick perusal of the YouTube comments suggests, though there are some jokes Jakubović acknowledges would be inscrutable outside Bosnia. (See: burek without cheese.)

Jakubović’s favorite new line is a chance to excise something that has haunted the country since the 2014 World Cup: “And that goal against Nigeria, that was never offside.”

“So this is like a big national trauma in Bosnia, so I used the song and lyrics to kind of release this trauma,” he says.

He's being wry there, but trauma has been a mainstay since Bosnia's independence amid the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992. Interethnic war almost immediately broke out, leading to genocide. More than 30 years after the Srebrenica massacre, deep division between Bosnian Serbs and Bosniak Muslims persist.

“Football in this moment is much more than just a game, it's a hope and it’s very basically (a) political thing because it brought all the people from Bosnia together, which is usually not the case,” Jakubović says.

I am from Bosnia, take me to ... Canada?

Bosnia's first match is in Canada, but the team will indeed be taken to America. Their base camp is in Sandy, Utah, and the other group stage matches — against Switzerland and Qatar — are in the States. And, as Mujagić points out, many of the players were born in the U.S. or elsewhere in the diaspora.

“They are children of those people who went outside in search of a better life or as refugees or whatever their story was. And they kind of see and hear these lyrics and this song entirely differently from us,” he says.

Mujagić thinks the original message of “USA” endures as Bosnians still emigrate. Once they leave, he finds, “they encounter this hostility of the locals, right-wingers, and they just don’t want them there.”

“So it’s this schizophrenic situation in which you want to go there, but you somehow know that you won’t have it good on the other side as well,” he concludes. “So in that sense, this song still works perfectly well as it worked before.”

In St. Louis, home to a thriving Bosnian community, Admir Hodzic is one of the founders of the supporter group BH Loyals. The 40-year-old business owner was born in Bosnia and has moved back and forth between his homeland and the U.S., not unlike the protagonist of “USA.”

“I think every Bosnian that lives here and understands how the system works and everything else, I think they will find the truth in that song, and that song is honestly nothing but the truth,” he says. There are more opportunities in the U.S. than elsewhere, he says, but “it's a matter of biting your teeth and pulling through the worst times possible.”

He and his fellow supporters are big fans of Dubioza Kolektiv and sing their anthem at matches and watch parties. More often than not, though, it's the original “USA.”

“It’s engraved in their brain and their hearts,” he says, “and no matter what, they just go back to the old lyrics, you know?”

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Sen reported from New York.

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La zona de baja presión es una fusión de los remanentes de la tormenta tropical Cristina, que cruzó Centroamérica desde el Pacífico oriental en los últimos días, y una perturbación tropical que se desplaza hacia el oeste. Hasta la mañana del viernes, la zona de baja presión seguía siendo extensa y la actividad de tormentas eléctricas estaba desorganizada.

Debido a que la perturbación se sitúa tan al sur, en la parte baja del Golfo y la Bahía de Campeche, existe una pequeña ventana de tiempo hoy y mañana para que se intensifique y se convierta en una depresión o tormenta tropical de corta duración (Arthur, en el improbable caso de que reciba un nombre), pero las probabilidades están en su contra dada la presencia de aire continental seco al oeste y una cortina de cizalladura del viento al norte.

En cualquier caso, no se prevé un desarrollo significativo antes de que el sistema se adentre en el interior del noreste de México entre la noche del sábado y la madrugada del domingo.

Pero espera, aún hay más…

Como comentamos en el boletín de ayer, los nuevos modelos de IA sugieren que el giro residual de la perturbación podría reaparecer sobre el norte del Golfo, al sur de Texas, a principios o mediados de la próxima semana, donde un frente estancado podría ayudar a energizarlo y desviar la zona de baja presión hacia el este, hacia la costa centro-norte del Golfo.

Esto se refleja en un puñado de escenarios tanto en el modelo de aprendizaje automático DeepMind de Google como en el sistema de conjunto de IA del Centro Europeo.

Cabe destacar que el desarrollo solo se observa en aproximadamente el 10 % de los escenarios de ambos grupos de modelos de IA, y por ahora ninguno de los modelos convencionales basados ​​en la física, como el modelo europeo o el GFS estadounidense, muestra desarrollo alguno para la próxima semana. Además, los pocos escenarios de desarrollo mostrados por los modelos de IA mantienen un sistema débil.

Dado el historial (valga la redundancia) de los modelos de IA la temporada pasada, estaremos atentos a las tendencias mientras la perturbación permanezca cerca o sobre las aguas del Golfo.

El aire tropical agravará las lluvias en el sur profundo a principios de la próxima semana.

El resultado será una infusión de aire tropical en el sur profundo y las llanuras del sur a partir de este fin de semana y durante la próxima semana, lo que aumentará la amenaza de fuertes lluvias asociadas con el frente frío que se aproxima y a lo largo de la zona frontal estacionaria.

El Centro de Predicción Meteorológica del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional indica un riesgo leve de lluvias torrenciales en estas zonas a partir del domingo, que se extenderán hacia la costa norte del Golfo de México a mediados de la próxima semana. Esto podría provocar inundaciones repentinas localizadas y dispersas desde partes del este de Texas hasta Luisiana, Misisipi y Alabama.

Según una orden de arresto, un detective de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade informó que los videos de vigilancia muestran a Julian Jimenez en la escena del crimen y su automóvil de huida después del tiroteo ocurrido el 27 de agosto de 2019 en Kendale Lakes.

Según la orden judicial, un video de vigilancia muestra a Jiménez con una máscara y guantes, y sosteniendo una pistola calibre .40, después de que Alex Vega llegara en su auto al camino de entrada de su casa en Southwest 118 Avenue, cerca de Killian Parkway.

Jiménez, que entonces tenía 23 años, disparó, y los agentes encontraron a Vega, que entonces tenía 50 años, con heridas en la espalda, según la orden de arresto. Los bomberos trasladaron a Vega al Centro Médico Regional de Kendall, que ahora funciona como Hospital HCA Florida Kendall, según consta en los registros.

Hace más de 15 años, Vega y Rolando Ramírez tuvieron un conflicto por deudas, según fiscales federales que trabajaron en un caso relacionado.

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En 2012, según los fiscales, Ramírez, propietario del Doral Collision Center, se hizo cargo de Vega’s Exclusive Motoring Worldwide en Doral como parte de un acuerdo.

Según los fiscales, Rasheed Ali, amigo de Ramírez y exjugador de fútbol americano de la Universidad de Miami, ayudó a organizar el complot para cometer un asesinato por encargo en 2018.

Según los fiscales, Ali, también conocido como “Fresh”, y su amigo Tamrat Mason, más conocido como el artista de reggae “Shifta”, reclutaron a Jaime Serrano, un “distribuidor de marihuana” con una deuda pendiente.

Según los agentes, el 21 de agosto de 2019, Serrano voló con Jiménez de Nueva York a Miami y alquiló un Nissan Rogue de 2018 en Enterprise Rental Car.

Pocos minutos después de que Vega resultara herido el 27 de agosto de 2019, un video de vigilancia muestra a Jiménez caminando hacia el sur por la Avenida 117 Suroeste y “hacia una parada de autobús que contenía un bote de basura donde posteriormente se encontró el arma de fuego”, según la orden judicial.

Otro video de vigilancia muestra el Nissan Rogue, “unos cinco minutos después, en la plaza de peaje de Bird Road en la autopista Florida Turnpike en dirección norte”, según la orden judicial, que no menciona cuánto se le pagó supuestamente a Jiménez.

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“Las fuerzas del orden encontraron una máscara y un par de guantes”, escribió un agente, según la orden judicial.

Jiménez, originario del Bronx, accedió a una orden judicial para proporcionar su ADN a los detectives el 26 de junio de 2022, y el laboratorio de la Oficina de Servicios Forenses del MDSO lo analizó, según consta en la orden.

Según los registros de reclusos, el departamento penitenciario del condado de Miami-Dade ingresó en el centro penitenciario Turner Guilford Knight poco antes de las 23:40 del miércoles.

Jiménez tenía dos órdenes de arresto pendientes: una por intento de asesinato con arma mortal y conspiración para cometer asesinato con arma mortal, y la otra por una orden de detención emitida por otra agencia, según consta en los registros.

Lea un fragmento de la orden judicial.

La editora de la mesa de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este reportaje.

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Her actions in the backseat of a deputy’s cruiser after she was taken into custody were captured on multiple body cameras and an in-car camera, authorities confirmed.

According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded around 2 p.m. Tuesday to a Texaco gas station after receiving reports about a disorderly person causing a disturbance outside the business.

Employees told deputies that the woman, identified as Iesha Field, 33, of Brooksville, had been yelling at customers, behaving erratically and disrupting business operations. Workers requested that she be trespassed from the property, and deputies issued a trespass warning.

Investigators said Field then left the gas station and walked to a nearby mobile home park, where deputies observed her continuing to behave disruptively.

According to the sheriff’s office, Field removed her clothing and was wearing only underwear while yelling, acting belligerently and disturbing residents. Deputies said her behavior alarmed several residents, including a mother with young children, who requested that Field be trespassed from her property.

Deputies reported that Field appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and/or narcotics and attempted to de-escalate the situation by instructing her to return home. Authorities said Field, who had visible injuries to her right knee and left eye, refused commands and became increasingly combative.

Field was taken into custody, but deputies said she resisted efforts to place her into a patrol vehicle and repeatedly attempted to hit and kick deputies during the arrest.

Once inside the patrol vehicle, Field allegedly continued acting aggressively by repeatedly striking her head and feet against the vehicle’s windows. Deputies said that when they opened the patrol car door to address her behavior, she fell out of the vehicle due to her movements.

The sheriff’s office said Deputy M. LaPalme assisted Field back into the patrol vehicle, at which time she spit on the left side of his face. Authorities said Field spit at the deputy a second time while he was attempting to secure her with a seat belt.

Video shows the deputy slapping Field in the face before closing the vehicle door.

Deputies reported that even after the slap, Field continued resisting and attempting to damage the patrol vehicle as she was transported to the Hernando County Detention Center.

“Due to her continued combative behavior, additional restraints and a spit hood were utilized for the safety of both Field and responding personnel,” a press release from the sheriff’s office stated.

Field was arrested on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and breach of the peace/disorderly intoxication. She was booked into the Hernando County Detention Center, where she was being held on a $3,000 bond.

HCSO officials confirmed that LaPalme’s actions during the encounter are under administrative review.

Sus acciones en el asiento trasero de una patrulla de un agente después de ser puesta bajo custodia fueron captadas por múltiples cámaras corporales y una cámara instalada en el vehículo, confirmaron las autoridades.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Hernando, los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 2 p.m. del martes a una gasolinera Texaco tras recibir reportes sobre una persona alterando el orden y causando disturbios fuera del negocio.

Los empleados dijeron a los agentes que la mujer, identificada como Iesha Field, de 33 años y residente de Brooksville, había estado gritándole a los clientes, comportándose de manera errática e interrumpiendo las operaciones del negocio. Los trabajadores solicitaron que se le prohibiera el acceso a la propiedad, y los agentes emitieron una advertencia de invasión de propiedad privada.

Los investigadores dijeron que Field luego abandonó la gasolinera y caminó hacia un parque de casas móviles cercano, donde los agentes observaron que continuaba comportándose de manera perturbadora.

Según la oficina del sheriff, Field se quitó la ropa y vestía únicamente ropa interior mientras gritaba, actuaba de forma agresiva y alteraba la tranquilidad de los residentes. Los agentes dijeron que su comportamiento alarmó a varios residentes, incluida una madre con niños pequeños, quien solicitó que se le prohibiera el acceso a su propiedad.

Los agentes informaron que Field parecía estar bajo la influencia de alcohol y/o narcóticos e intentaron reducir la tensión de la situación indicándole que regresara a su casa. Las autoridades dijeron que Field, quien tenía lesiones visibles en la rodilla derecha y el ojo izquierdo, se negó a obedecer las órdenes y se volvió cada vez más combativa.

Field fue puesta bajo custodia, pero los agentes dijeron que se resistió a los intentos de introducirla en un vehículo de patrulla y que repetidamente intentó golpear y patear a los agentes durante el arresto.

Una vez dentro del vehículo de patrulla, Field presuntamente continuó actuando de manera agresiva al golpear repetidamente su cabeza y sus pies contra las ventanas del vehículo. Los agentes dijeron que cuando abrieron la puerta de la patrulla para atender su comportamiento, ella cayó fuera del vehículo debido a sus movimientos.

La oficina del sheriff indicó que el agente M. LaPalme ayudó a Field a regresar al vehículo de patrulla, momento en el que ella le escupió el lado izquierdo del rostro. Las autoridades dijeron que Field escupió al agente una segunda vez mientras él intentaba asegurarla con el cinturón de seguridad.

El video muestra al agente dándole una bofetada a Field en el rostro antes de cerrar la puerta del vehículo.

Los agentes informaron que incluso después de la bofetada, Field continuó resistiéndose e intentando dañar el vehículo de patrulla mientras era trasladada al Centro de Detención del Condado Hernando.

“Debido a su continuo comportamiento combativo, se utilizaron restricciones adicionales y una capucha antisaliva para la seguridad tanto de Field como del personal que respondió al incidente”, indicó un comunicado de prensa de la oficina del sheriff.

Field fue arrestada por cargos de agresión contra un agente del orden público y alteración del orden público/intoxicación escandalosa. Fue ingresada en el Centro de Detención del Condado Hernando, donde permanecía detenida con una fianza de $3,000 USD.

Funcionarios de la HCSO confirmaron que las acciones de LaPalme durante el incidente están bajo revisión administrativa.

Pino defeated attorney Tiffany Burress in the northern New Jersey district, where Pou is seeking a second term. The Associated Press called the race for Pino on Friday.

The district is being watched closely in this year's hotly contested midterm elections, with Republicans in particular drawing a target on the longtime Democratic-held seat.

The GOP saw an opportunity there after the 2024 election was closer than expected and Donald Trump won in places where his party hadn’t been victorious for decades.

Pino, a former Democrat, said she left the party for the GOP and criticized Democrats in the campaign for their longtime control in the region.

In a statement, Pino emphasized that she would work for those who disagree with her sometimes.

“I extend a hand to everyone across our district — Republicans, Independents, and Democrats, as well as those who have never voted before,” she said.

Pino had been critical of the slow pace of vote counting in her district, where the election ended June 2, and across the country.

“In Congress, I will help lead the fight to secure our elections,” Pino said in a statement this week. “We need mandatory Voter ID nationwide and strict limits on late mail-in voting."

In a statement Friday, Burress said she was grateful to her supporters but stopped short of backing Pino.

Pou is in her first term in the House, where she was elected after years in the state Legislature, succeeding longtime Democrat Bill Pascrell Jr., who died in 2024.

The West African nation is the latest to criminalize homosexuality, following similar measures earlier this year in Senegal.

The new penal code punishes anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practices lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, Queer, intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) acts” with between five and 10 years in prison and a fine, according to the text of the new penal code.

“This same penalty is applicable to persons who officiated the marriage, to the witnesses of the alleged spouses, as well as to persons who have given their consent for the celebration of the marriage and to the organizers,” the new penal code said.

Hamidou Julien, an adviser to the justice minister, confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that the law took effect on Thursday.

Previously, homosexuality wasn't illegal in Niger, but has been heavily stigmatized.

Laws prohibiting homosexuality are common across Africa: more than 30 of the 54 countries criminalize same-sex sexual acts. Niger has joined countries like Senegal, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Tanzania, where penalties can include 10 or more years of imprisonment. In Somalia, Uganda and Mauritania, the offense can carry the death penalty.

Three regional officials say the emerging deal is expected to pave the way for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the phased lifting of sanctions on Iran, and the release of frozen Iranian assets. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.

A senior U.S. administration official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said that technical details on how to remove Iran’s enriched uranium, according to the emerging memorandum of understanding, would be worked out during a 60-day period following the two sides signing off on the agreement.

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White House is trying to assure Netanyahu about emerging deal

Trump spoke on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the latest efforts to reach an agreement with Iran, according to a senior U.S. administration official.

The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said that the U.S. administration is stressing to Israeli officials that any deal will require Iran to begin delivering on concessions in the deal before Tehran receives any potential benefits from the settlement.

— By Aamer Madhani in Washington

Cuban president announces economic reforms amid tensions

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday announced a package of economic reforms aimed at attracting investment, expanding participation by Cubans living abroad in the economy and decentralizing parts of the country’s administration.

The president did not provide details during remarks to state media.

“Every opportunity in the midst of a crisis must be seized as a moment for takeoff, as a moment for growth,” Díaz-Canel said, according to a statement from the presidency that was republished by state-run media.

The reforms come amid heightened tensions in U.S.-Cuba relations. The U.S. has pressed for economic reforms since launching a blockade that has deprived Cuba of fuel since February.

Technical details are still in flux for emerging Iran deal, US official says

A senior U.S. administration official said that a deal with Iran was 80% to 85% done, and the U.S. side believes “most of the people who have authority” in the Iranian government want to sign onto to the deal “but not everybody.”

The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said that technical details on how to about removing Iran’s enriched uranium, according to the emerging memorandum of understanding, would be worked out during a 60-day period following the two sides signing off on the agreement.

The official did not detail who the U.S. envisions taking charge of removing the uranium, which is believed to be entombed under three nuclear sites that were battered by U.S. strikes last year.

— By Aamer Madhani in Washington

Judge rules Trump can stage UFC fights at the White House this weekend

A federal judge has refused to stop the White House from staging a UFC mixed martial arts event this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary — on Trump’s 80th birthday.

The nonprofit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event.

The White House calls the lawsuit baseless, saying it’s no different from many other events hosted at public forums in the capital.

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Judge denies Kennedy Center request for pause in ruling ordering Trump’s name removed from building

That denial came Friday. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled last month Trump’s name was illegally added to the iconic Washington performing arts facility. Cooper ruled only Congress could institute a change to the Kennedy Center’s name and ordered references to Trump to be removed by Friday.

’A June 4 memo to staff from the Kennedy Center’s Office of General Counsel said email signatures, letterhead and other documents must reflect the name as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center.”

The Kennedy Center’s website has dropped Trump’s name. And an email earlier this week sent to members offering ticket packages for the June 28 Mark Twain Award for American Humor ceremony came from the Kennedy Center without including Trump’s name.

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Pakistan says US and Iran agree on ‘final’ text of a peace deal

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Friday that a “final, agreed upon text of the peace deal” between the United States and Iran has been reached and that Pakistan is now working with both sides to finalize the next steps.

“Peace has never been this close as it is now,” he added.

In a post on X, Sharif said Pakistan was engaged in “ongoing intense mediation efforts” and accused unnamed actors of spreading “incessant misinformation” aimed at undermining the process.

The U.S. and Iran did not immediately comment on Sharif’s statement.

Thunderbirds and Blue Angels fly over White House before Sunday’s UFC matches

Dana White, president and CEO of UFC, was on hand to watch as the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and U.S. Navy Blue Angels did a practice run over the White House, where the lawn is set up for Sunday’s matches.

White is a big Trump supporter. Sunday is also Trump’s 80th birthday.

Trump’s name remains on Kennedy Center as removal deadline approaches

Yet there were signs of activity on this steamy summer afternoon, as workers put up scaffolding around a section of the performing arts venue that includes Trump’s name.

Workers have appeared in the area before so it’s unclear whether they were preparing to immediately take down his name.

Much of the attention is on U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who must decide whether to grant a last-minute pause for his earlier ruling to remove Trump’s name. The judge ruled in May that only Congress could make such changes.

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio, made a filing earlier Friday opposing the request. An ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center’s board, she filed the lawsuit seeking to remove Trump’s name from the institution.

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Iran’s top diplomat says a deal with the US is close

Striking an unusually optimistic tone, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that a Pakistan-brokered agreement between the U.S. and Iran to end their war “has never been closer.”

He added that the media should not speculate about the deal’s content, apparently in reference to reports circulating with lists of points purportedly included in the agreement.

“All details will be shared with the public in due course,” Araghchi said in a post on X.

Trump shared Araghchi’s post on his own social media account.

Official details US reductions to NATO resources in Europe

The U.S. notified NATO in early June that it’s reducing the American military assets that would be available to Europe in case of attack, according to a NATO official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The reduction included an aircraft carrier strike group as well as a number of submarines, fighter jets, maritime patrol aircraft, air refueling planes and drones, the official said. However, U.S. space capabilities that help with targeting are not being drawn down.

The official said details are still being worked out on exactly when those assets are being reduced and when other NATO countries will step in to fill gaps left by the U.S. The timeline will be discussed further at the NATO summit in Turkey in July.

German news outlet Die Welt earlier reported some details of the cuts.

— Ben Finley

Vice President JD Vance pushes back on critics of in-the-works Iran deal

Vance in a social media post appeared to be chiding some of the president’s supporters who “said Donald Trump was a historic president a month ago” were now “criticizing a deal based on unconfirmed media reports.”

“The president is going to get us a good outcome, one way or the other,” Vance said.

The vice president in his post said the Iranians “are not receiving any cash,” but that Iran would receive “economic benefits” if it meets obligations.

“This deal has the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace,” he said, without releasing details.

Judge extends block on Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund

The federal judge agreed Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration’s creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.

Earlier this month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress the government is scrapping its plans for the fund in the face of a fierce bipartisan backlash. Government attorneys have argued that lawsuits challenging the fund are now moot, but plaintiffs’ attorneys aren’t satisfied by Blanche’s assurances that the fund won’t move forward.

President Trump, meanwhile, has not publicly and unequivocally endorsed its cancellation.

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US official says Iran deal has five key terms that include destroying and removing nuclear material

A senior U.S. official said there are five key terms in the agreement: Iran’s nuclear material will be destroyed and removed, its nuclear program will be dismantled, none of its frozen money will be released until it meets certain demands, the Strait of Hormuz will be open, and Iran must not fund terrorist groups.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the sensitive talks.

Trump on Friday lashed out at Iranian officials on social media and said, “They better get their act together, and FAST!”

— Collin Binkley

NATO weighs options to defend Europe as the US plans for conflict elsewhere

NATO’s top military officer is weighing alternative plans to defend Europe should it come under attack from Russia, after the United States announced it’s cutting the number of aircraft and warships it would provide in a security crisis.

The so-called NATO Force Model is Plan A for making forces from the 32 member nations available in times of peace, crisis or war. It sets out the military assets commanders can call on in phases over the first six months of any conflict.

But last month, the Pentagon warned its NATO allies it would be scaling down its commitment to focus on potential threats elsewhere, notably from China in the Indo-Pacific region.

European countries and Canada had waited impatiently for over a year for the Trump administration to detail its plans after it warned that Europe is no longer a top U.S. security priority. They knew cuts were coming, but not how big, fast or what kind.

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Tensions between Trump and Macron could be on full display at next week’s G7 summit in France

The relationship between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron started simply enough, with a handshake, nearly a decade ago.

But even then, there were signs of strain in their relationship — tensions that could be on full display during next week’s G7 summit in France.

Back in 2017, Trump was a brash businessman just elected to America’s most powerful office, and Macron was an upstart politician who had won his race in a landslide. At a NATO summit in Brussels, they clinched hands far longer than most people do when they meet for the first time. Neither seemed to want to be the first to break a grip so tight that it exposed white knuckles.

Nevertheless, a friendship was born. And early on, Macron seemed to be the one European leader with a knack for managing his mercurial, three-decades-older counterpart.

But by the end of Trump’s first term, the bromance had faded. And in his second term, the leaders now openly trade barbs, disagreeing over tariffs, Ukraine and the Iran war.

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A key US government surveillance program is set to expire

The surveillance tool seen as vital in preventing terror attacks and catching foreign spies is set to expire Friday after congressional efforts to temporarily extend it failed in bipartisan fashion.

It’s a significant lapse for the program known as Section 702, and even as President Donald Trump nominates a new national intelligence director more palatable to both Republicans and Democrats than his initial pick, it’s unclear how soon lawmakers — set for recess — would be able to revive the spy program.

Still, there may not be an immediate drop-off given that a court order from March authorized these government surveillance powers to remain in effect for another year.

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Ahead of G7, Carney softens tone toward Trump with trade talks at stake

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney became a symbol of middle power resistance after a celebrated speech earlier this year, but he is expected to be more muted in his criticism of Trump at an upcoming summit in Europe.

Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, helped make him an international political star in January, when he declared the global rules-based order over and condemned coercion by great powers on smaller countries. The prime minister received widespread praise and attention for his remarks and upstaged Trump at the gathering.

But the Group of Seven summit of industrialized democracies that begins Monday in France comes ahead of the scheduled July 1 review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, the latest iteration of the North American free-trade pact that has intertwined the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada since the early 1990s. It is a crucial moment in trade talks, and Trump said this week that he may not renew the deal.

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Kennedy Center board seeks pause of ruling ordering removal of Trump’s name by Friday deadline

Trump’s handpicked board at the Kennedy Center is mounting a last-minute effort to keep his name on the facade of the iconic performing arts facility before a court-ordered deadline to remove it by Friday.

The board voted Thursday to seek a stay of U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper’s May 29 ruling that said Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center, according to a person familiar with the move who requested anonymity to discuss a private meeting. The formal request was filed late Thursday.

Cooper ruled that only Congress could institute a change to the Kennedy Center’s name and ordered references to Trump be removed by Friday. He also blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations that had been planned to start in July and last for two years.

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Where Trump has lost support with independents, according to AP-NORC polling

Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with Trump during his second term, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds, particularly those without a college degree.

The analysis from researchers at The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that while about half of independents without a college education had a positive view of Trump around the 2024 election, his approval with that group fell to about one-quarter this spring. That shift has erased the large education gap that existed among independents in the months before Trump took office for his second term, with independents now holding similarly negative views of the president regardless of their level of education.

The analysis was conducted by aggregating nearly two dozen AP-NORC polls conducted between July 2024 and April 2026, allowing for a deeper look at how support for Trump changed during several distinct periods, including the last six months of 2024, the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, the summer of 2025 when the Big Beautiful Bill passed, last fall’s government shutdown and the beginning of the Iran war.

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Trump is raising expectations that this time he really will close deal with Iran to wind down war

Trump has long been looking for this weekend to be a big one for his presidency.

The World Cup returns to the U.S. on Friday for the first time in 32 years after Trump threw himself into winning the bid to co-host the soccer tourney during his first term. He’ll be feted Sunday, his 80th birthday, during a UFC fight night that’s expected to draw thousands to the White House grounds. Hours after the final bout, he’s scheduled to jet off to the G7 summit in the French Alps for talks with several world leaders he’s been beefing with over war and tariffs.

But Trump set expectations even higher for the coming days when he announced Thursday that the U.S. and Iran could come to terms this weekend on an agreement that would set the pathway to end the three-month-old war that’s been broadly unpopular with Americans and has rattled global oil markets. He said he plans to dispatch Vice President JD Vance to the signing of the agreement.

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Canada’s afternoon opener against Bosnia for Group B is at 3 p.m.

The United States’ night opener against Paraguay for Group D is at 9 p.m.

Group A progress on Thursday: Mexico and South Korea each get 3 points after openers

The rest of the schedule

June 13: There are three matches: The Group B, Qatar vs. Switzerland, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Haiti vs. Scotland, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch party: Fan Festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight on June 13 at Bayfront Park

June 14: There are five matches: The Group D, Australia vs. Turkey, game is at Midnight. The Group E, Germany vs. Curaçao, game is at 1 p.m. The Group F, The Netherlands vs. Japan, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Sweden vs. Tunisia, game is at 10 p.m.

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

June 15: There are four matches: The Group H, Spain vs. Cape Verde, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Egypt, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, Iran vs. New Zealand, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 16: There are three matches: The Group I, France vs. Senegal, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Iraq vs. Norway, game is at 6 p.m. The Group J, Argentina vs. Algeria, game is at 9 p.m.

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

June 17: There are five matches: The Group J, Austria vs. Jordan, game is at Midnight. The Group K, Portugal vs. Congo, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Croatia, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Ghana vs. Panama, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Uzbekistan vs. Colombia, game is at 10 p.m.

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

June 18: There are four matches: The Group A match, The Czech Republic vs. South Africa, is at Noon. The Group B, Switzerland vs. Bosnia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Canada vs. Qatar, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A match, Mexico vs. South Korea, is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 19: There are four matches: The Group D, U.S. vs. Australia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Haiti, game is at 8:30 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. Paraguay, game is at 11 p.m.

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

June 20: There are three matches: The Group F, Netherlands vs. Sweden, game is at 1 p.m. The Group E, Germany vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Curaçao, game is at 8 p.m.

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

Miami Beach fan party: Doors open at 6 p.m. on June 20 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for an event for Uruguayan fans co-hosted by the Consulate General of Uruguay.

June 21: There are five matches: The Group F, Tunisia vs. Japan, game is at Midnight. The Group H, Spain vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Iran, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Egypt, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 22: There are four matches: The Group J, Argentina vs. Austria, game is at 1 p.m. The Group I, France vs. Iraq, game is at 5 p.m. The Group I, Norway vs. Senegal, game is at 8 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Algeria, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 8 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 11 a.m. on June 22 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 1 p.m. Argentina vs. Austria match.

June 23: There are four matches: The Group K, Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Ghana, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Panama vs. Croatia, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Congo, game is at 10 p.m.

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

June 24: There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 4 p.m. on June 24 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 6 p.m. Scotland vs. Brazil match.

June 25: There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 26: There are six matches: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 27: There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

Miami watch party: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

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

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

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

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

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

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

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

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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And Ira Parker, showrunner of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdom,” HBO's latest entry to the “Game of Thrones” universe that has charmed and disarmed viewers with its humble story of big, raw, aspiring knight Dunk and his tiny, cue ball-bald squire Egg, says it's going to stay that way.

“If anything, I’d say Season 2 might feel even smaller,” Parker said. “It’s not at all busy and everything. There’s almost some loneliness creeping into this.”

Parker spoke to The Associated Press from the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, where he's making the second season of the show based on George R.R. Martin's series of novellas about the journeys and adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his sidekick whose nickname obscures his true identity.

After eight sprawling seasons of “Game of Thrones” and two seasons of the almost-as-epic “House of the Dragon,” some worried about Westeros fatigue when “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” arrived in January. Instead, it was enthusiastically embraced by fans and plenty of newcomers. People seemed to want a world with no dragons or clashing kings, just an overgrown orphan without a last name trying to become somebody.

Everything about the show is scaled down. Season 1 had just six episodes averaging about 35 minutes, all of them centered entirely on Dunk and Egg.

“It is 100% a function of the underlying material,” Parker said. “We don’t want to have to stretch the story. We like building out the world and hanging out with our characters and having some fun in Westeros. But we don’t want to have odd little side quests.”

Smaller stories may be having a moment in elite TV. “The Pitt,” last year’s best-drama Emmy winner and a favorite to repeat the win, is set almost entirely in one part of one hospital. “Pluribus,” the acclaimed Apple TV+ show that will give it Emmy competition this year, has a single main character.

“Game of Thrones” was also the mother of all Emmy contenders, getting more nominations during its full run than any drama ever.

This little brother of a show could get a little Emmy attention too when nominations are announced next month after a voting period that started Thursday. Its two stars, each as unlikely to find themselves in the spotlight as the characters they play, could both get acting nominations.

Peter Claffey, who plays Duncan, is a 6-foot-5, 29-year-old former professional rugby player who has had a steady stream of supporting roles since switching to acting in 2019 but nothing remotely like the title role in a franchise series.

When he got the Egg gig, Dexter Sol Ansell was plenty experienced for a 9-year-old. (He’s 11 now.) But now he’s become a memeable charmer as the little hairless scamp who’s devoted to Dunk but sitting on big secrets.

They were both big, and lucky, finds for Parker and his team. Dexter was the first kid they looked at for Egg. And he and Claffey have established an off-screen rapport that translates to the screen.

“They’ve just been growing up together and they’re coming up together and they really do talk to each other like brothers now,” Parker said. “There’s an aspect of that that you just can’t create.”

Parker himself has a humble background and isn't used to being the center of such attention. He wrote for shows including “The Last Ship,” “Better Things” and, crucially, “House of the Dragon” before having this gig, and a sort of stardom, fall into his lap.

The sophomore year, however, is going a little roughly.

“Worst experience of my life,” Parker said, smiling but not entirely joking.

Season 2, based on Martin's 2003 novella “The Sworn Sword,” is set in a drought that they’re supposed to be recreating in Spain. But Gran Canaria is getting historic downpours.

“The whole story is about the drought,” he said. “The whole story is somebody damming the water to keep it from someone else.”

But he spoke to AP after a day of sun, with hope for more.

“If we can somehow manage to corral this thing back into its box of sunshiny-ness,” he said, “I think we’re going to have something special.”

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The request was the focus of a Broward County budget workshop Thursday.

Sheriff Gregory Tony was absent from the meeting but was watching via livestream.

“I think Sheriff Tony is watching. I think we should pull the plug and drive him crazy,” Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen joked during the workshop.

Undersheriff Steve Robson addressed commissioners about the department’s need for additional funding.

“Of course the elephant is our unresolved issue, money of this current year rolled into next year’s budget,” Robson said.

Robson also highlighted deputy starting salaries, saying they are the lowest among Broward law enforcement agencies and that deputies are leaving in large numbers.

BSO is requesting 50 additional positions, with much of the proposed budget tied to employee costs and staffing.

“Here’s a pie chart showing within the agency the different categories where the funds flow to. Personnel is 80%,” Robson said.

The budget discussion comes amid an ongoing dispute between BSO and Deerfield Beach as the city moves toward operating its own police department.

“October is when October 1 takes over -- they have their own force. What happens to the 150 officers? So we plan to absorb them through our transition plan that we’ve given to the city, and the city has refuted the plan that we put forward, so we’re kind of in that position right now,” Robson said. “Before October 1st of ’27, I plan to absorb all of those officers into the BSO.”

Commissioners raised concerns about the size of the budget request, including Commissioner Steven Geller.

“Tony asks us for more money than is available,” Geller said.

Geller said public safety remains a top priority but noted that other county services also require funding.

“It is a top priority, but it is not our only priority,” Geller said.

“Currently, out of our general revenue budget, we’re spending approximately 54% on public safety. But there’s a lot of other things we have to pay for,” he added.

Bogen agreed that the request may be difficult to accommodate.

“Based on our budget constraints right now, it isn’t realistic,” Bogen said.

The final county budget is scheduled to be approved in September.

BSO declined a request for an interview with the undersheriff and referred questions to remarks made during the meeting.

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June 11: Coverage of Day 1 of Group A matches

Mexico’s “El Tri” wins 2-0 against South Africa

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South Korea wins 2-1 against Czech Republic

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June 18: Day 2 of Group A matches

• The Czech Republic plays South Africa at noon on in Atlanta.
• Mexico plays South Korea at 9 p.m. in Guadalajara.

June 24: Day 3 of Group A matches

The Czech Republic plays against Mexico at 9 p.m. on June 24 in Mexico City.

South Africa plays against South Korea at 9 p.m. on June 24 in Monterrey.

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Seanna Martinez didn’t realize it at the time, but she was being groomed online. By 14, she had connected with a man on a hookup app called HUD, an app she chose specifically because it didn’t have an 18-plus age restriction.

“It’s supposed to be an app where you have FWB, which is friends with benefits,” she said. “I kind of just looked for something that was not necessarily for adults.”

She remembered specifically seeking it out.

“I remember specifically back then I didn’t want to get on an adult dating site because the age restriction was like, ‘Oh, 18 plus,’ she recalled. ”But I remember that that app, HUD, at least back then, I believe it wasn’t 18 plus.”

The man went by the alias “Adam0041.” But detectives said he was actually Osher Mamion, a 30-year-old who allegedly wasted little time. His first message asked her age. When she told him she wasn’t 18, he responded, “Sexy,” she said.

Detectives said within minutes, they moved from HUD to Snapchat, then to Instagram, where they video-chatted between 11 p.m. and midnight. Over two days, according to a court affidavit, Mamion convinced Seanna to send him explicit photos of herself.

Seanna said older men had been pulling her in for years before Mamion:

“At that time, I was honestly speaking to so many guys online who were older than me, who would genuinely just control me,” she said. “We would be on the phone for hours at night, and that was part of the grooming process. I feel like that’s kind of where I got this idea — ‘I’m just into older men’ — but the reality was I was really just into the affection that I was receiving, and I just kind of made that my identity.”

Police said the two eventually agreed to meet in person. Seanna tried to back out, texting that they should meet another day. Mamion pushed back, telling her he had taken off work, authorities said.

“I wanted to back out, and I remember making up a bunch of excuses, just being like, ‘No, I can’t do it,’” she said. “And he was very adamant, saying, ‘Oh, I took off of work — how could you do this to me?’ And so on and so forth. I eventually — I didn’t really know how to say no — just said, ‘OK, we’ll meet up.’”

Police said Mamion picked Seanna up from her middle school in North Miami in a blue SUV and took her back to his apartment.

“I kind of just remember feeling icky, because even though online it was one thing, in person it was just kind of having someone who was ready to take advantage of you. It was very weird,” she said.

Seanna said the relationship ended after she casually mentioned Mamion to her sister, who was a year older. Her older sister took her phone and drove her straight to the police department.

North Miami Beach police contacted the FBI. Authorities said Mamion admitted to investigators that he had exchanged explicit photos with Seanna but claimed he didn’t know she was 14.

Seanna now wants parents to understand what she didn’t have: boundaries around cellphone use.

“Having boundaries with my cellphone, definitely placed by your parents. I would say they unfortunately placed too much trust in me and my cellphone, but my cellphone had predators on it,” she said.

Her message to parents is direct:

“I would say to set clear boundaries with your kids and their cellphone usage — whether that’s literally physically removing it from them at a certain time, checking it frequently, checking who they’re talking to, checking the apps that they have. That’s what’s going to help prevent things like this from happening.”

And even when kids push back, she says parents need to hold firm.

“I believe that it is the parents’ responsibility to do everything in their power to make sure their kid is safe,” she said. “So even if there’s pushback, they need to step up and be a parent and make sure that their child is not in danger, because at the end of the day, if it’s not you, it’s going to be the predator who’s looking after your kids.”

Thursday's storms ripped roofs off of buildings, flattened homes, brought down scores of trees and power lines and caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and major air traffic disruptions. Officials said there were no reports of deaths or life-threatening injuries, though there were several people treated for minor injuries.

Tornado damage was reported in several towns including Merrillville and Hebron in Indiana and Streator, Illinois. Authorities were surveying the damage Friday and preparing to issue emergency declarations needed to get recovery funding.

Marsha Smith was in her apartment building in Merrillville, about 33 miles (53 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, when the tornado struck the complex, tearing roofs off three buildings, knocking down trees and breaking car windshields before heavy rain caused more damage to the homes. She and some neighbors huddled under an indoor stairwell holding hands and praying.

“The louder the tornado got, the louder I started praying,” said Smith, 54, a CPR instructor. “I said, ’Oh God it’s here.′ I said, ’Lord Jesus make it pass, let it pass, let it pass over. I said, ’God give us the strength to make it through this.’ And it just started wrecking.”

Smith said there was an eerie calm just before the tornado struck. Then it sounded like a freight train smashing into her building, she said. She thanked God no one was hurt. Friday morning, she surveyed her neighborhood and described it as a catastrophe.

Officials in Merrillville said more than 200 buildings were damaged, including some that were destroyed. Downed trees and power lines blocked streets, and part of a high school's roof was ripped off. Cleanup crews were out working Friday.

Multiple agencies from the region helped local first responders search and assessed damaged areas, town officials said on social media. Crews worked into the night clearing roads. The American Red Cross set up a 700-bed shelter.

In and around Streator and Hebron, photos and videos posted on social media showed damage in those areas similar to that in Merrillville. The National Weather Service said tornadoes hit those areas as well, and it was surveying the damage to determined exactly how many tornadoes touched down.

In Streator, a manufacturing and farm city about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Chicago, emergency crews were inspecting the damage. Officials said nearly a dozen homes were damaged, including some that were destroyed. A reunification center for displaced residents was set up in its city hall and the Red Cross opened a shelter.

Streator Mayor Tara Bedei said there were no reported deaths. “We are incredibly grateful for the safety of our residents and the quick action of emergency personnel,” she said in a statement. Officials said four people were treated at a hospital for minor injuries.

First responders also worked through the night in Hebron, a small town about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, officials said in a Facebook post. Damage assessments were underway.

Jennifer Hall was in her garage in Elkhart, Indiana, as the winds and rain picked up Thursday evening. Suddenly, she said, she heard a loud crash and discovered a tree limb had gone through the roof of her rental home. She used buckets to catch the rain coming in from the hole.

“I’m just nervous because it’s just been one thing after another,” said Hall, explaining she just had surgery and her husband is out of town.

The tornadoes came after severe storms swept through the Midwest on Wednesday, knocking out power, damaging buildings and canceling flights.

There were nearly 180,000 power outages in Illinois on Friday afternoon, down from more than 200,000 earlier in the day. Nearly 115,000 homes and businesses in Indiana were in the dark, down a few thousand from earlier Friday, according to poweroutage.us.

Commonwealth Edison, a major electricity provider in Illinois, said it expected to restore 80% of the power outages from Wednesday's storms by Saturday night, and 80% of outages from Thursday's storms by Sunday night. In Indiana, NIPSCO said it was working to restore power as fast as possible but did not provide a timeline.

The storms delayed or halted flights at airports in some cities, including Chicago, Philadelphia and New York on Thursday. Parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic also strained under high heat and humidity. Dozens of flights were canceled or delayed Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International and Midway International airports, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking website.

During Wednesday's storms, a 54-year-old man died at a homeless encampment in a park in Des Moines, Iowa, after being hit by a tree that “broke apart and fell during strong storms,” police said in a statement. There were no immediate reports of other deaths or injuries from those storms.

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Officials say an unknown problem caused a diver to panic.

That woman went underwater, and when she didn’t resurface, she was pulled back onto the boat unconscious and rushed to shore.

The woman was taken to a local hospital, where she later died.

Foul play is not suspected.

Daniel Lomas was out on the water that day and saw the emergency response from a distance.

“Whether you’re free diving or if you’re scuba, they all come with their pros and cons,” he said. “They all come with different levels of risk for different things.”

As an experienced diver and shark safety guide, Lomas said every dive requires careful planning and an honest assessment of a person’s health.

“As you get deeper and deeper, certain things change about the dive, especially gas laws and how your body is dealing with those gases,” he said. “And that’s when you have to really make sure that that person is physically fit to do that dive.”

He added that equipment must be thoroughly checked before entering the water.

“Assembling the equipment, making sure that your regulators work, making sure that there’s no sticking or corrosion or anything that might be affecting those systems,” said Lomas.

He says, like with any sport, diving carries risks, but proper training and safety procedures can reduce them.

“If you do everything by the book, I don’t think there’s anything that can really go wrong, especially when you’re down there with over divers, other educated divers,” said Lomas.

Shares in SpaceX jumped 24% after opening for trading at noon Friday, a sign that investors are looking past the billions the company is losing and instead betting that its massive investments in satellites, orbital data centers and artificial intelligence will pay off in the future.

SpaceX opened at $150 a share, then jumped to around $168 around 2:.20 p.m. ET. That price gave the company a market value of $2.2 trillion, making it the sixth largest public U.S. company — larger even than its founder and CEO's other big business, the electric vehicle maker Tesla.

Between his holdings in SpaceX and Tesla, where he is also CEO, Musk is now worth an estimated $1.2 trillion, according to Forbes.

Why SpaceX is going public now

Musk says SpaceX, founded in 2002, is going public now because it needs money to fund its ambitions of putting satellites and data centers in space and eventually establishing a colony of people on Mars.

He marked the opening of trading on Nasdaq by joining a ceremonial bell ringing from Starbase, the South Texas home of SpaceX.

He reiterated his lofty goals “to make life multiplanetary.”

“Not just a few astronauts, I mean literally you,” Musk said. “Whoever you are watching this, SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars and ultimately beyond.”

Known for his technological breakthroughs, as well as wild claims and missed deadlines, Musk was able to whip up enthusiasm for the IPO.

Institutional and retail investors alike jumped at the opportunity to buy a piece of the company at $135 per share before trading began. The $75 billion in proceeds SpaceX raised easily topped the previous record IPO from oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2019.

In addition to establishing a one-million person Martian colony, the company has promised to save humanity by establishing other outposts in space, launch data centers the size of football fields into orbit and outdo rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in the race to make money from artificial intelligence.

To reach its goals, SpaceX needs billions more than it currently takes in from its rocket and satellite business. Between the start of 2025 and March 31, 2026, the company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., lost $8.7 billion.

Pros and cons for investors

Betting on SpaceX is in many ways a bet on Musk himself. In an unusual arrangement that has drawn criticism from shareholder watchdogs, he holds 82% interest in a special B class of shares, giving him sweeping power to control the company even though his ownership stake is about half that.

“There’s a lot of hype, but I see the faith that investors have in Musk,” said Yordys Coro, an IT support contractor in Miami as he watched his $14,000 investment in SpaceX shoot up to $17,000 in just a few hours. “I’m going to hold on.”

Wall Street bankers that helped take SpaceX public are also enthusiastic about the company — and the big fees they will earn — but not everyone thinks the stock price is justified.

Analysts at research firm Morningstar, which doesn't earn any investment banking fees, wrote that the IPO is “significantly overvalued." Citing SpaceX's unproven technology and massive capital needs, they estimated the company is only worth $780 billion — less than half its IPO value.

SpaceX itself has hinted at the challenges, conceding in regulatory documents that some of its business plans rest on “unproven technologies.” It also indicated that another part of the company, its artificial intelligence business called xAI, has no clear path to profitability and is burning cash to catch up with rivals.

On a livestreamed conference Thursday with the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, one of the investment banks making big money off the IPO, Musk offered few details.

He entertained the crowd with talk of “moon hotels,” a future Martian colony and a network of Earth-orbiting data centers powered by the sun. But when asked about plans for his flagship chatbot offering Grok, he pivoted to talking about his satellites.

How Elon made his fortune

Still, Musk has pulled off the seemingly impossible before.

The now-trillionaire — on paper at least — made his initial fortune by creating two companies, Zip2 and PayPal, that netted him about $200 million at sale. He used that money to start SpaceX and invest in Tesla, and defied the odds by creating a space company that figured out how to reuse rockets and a car company that made electric vehicles cool.

Musk has realized vast sums of wealth for himself, much of it in stock he has yet to cash in or grants for shares he’ll only receive if Tesla or SpaceX hit ambitious performance targets.

His recent pay package from Tesla was so large it even drew criticism from the Vatican. At Tesla, he’s worried shareholders by fighting with regulators or dividing his attention between multiple companies and last year by taking a role in the Trump administration.

But a rising stock price has cured all ills: Since it went public in 2010, Tesla has returned 20,000% for shareholders, or more than $1.2 trillion in investor wealth.

SpaceX is the first of three “megacap” companies expected to go public this year, with Anthropic and OpenAI to follow. Nasdaq even revised its rules to allow SpaceX to gain entry into funds tied to its indexes in 15 days, which means investors will end up buying the rocket maker's shares much earlier.

Not all investors are thrilled about SpaceX potentially showing up in their holdings of index funds.

Officials from pension funds for firefighters, teachers and other workers in California and New York sent a letter to SpaceX last month decrying some of the provisions in its IPO, including mandatory arbitration of shareholder claims and how much power Musk will hold over the company.

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“It was our last dive of the day - it was almost 7 o’clock,” recalled lead diver Blake Baker.

Baker said the captain of the salvage vessel DARE, Drake Nicholas, was the one underwater with a crew. They are part of Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions.

“We were in an area with a lot of metal detector hits,” Nicholas said. “This one was deeper.”

After hitting the object with a knife and examining the surface, Nicholas said he saw telltale markings that were consistent with a silver bar.

“I didn’t believe it at the moment,” he said.

The silver bar was covered in more than 400 years of marine encrustations and will be taken to a lab for examination.

Sean Browne, with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions, said the bar is worth an estimated $100,000. It will likely be kept intact as a historical object.

Discovered treasures like the bar are divided among investors and then the Fisher family, Browne said.

The Atocha was a ship packed with treasures and bound for Spain in 1622, but a powerful hurricane sunk it between Key West and the Dry Tortugas.

It was never seen again, until more than 300 years later when explorer Mel Fisher started finding its sunken treasure in the 1970s.

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Attorneys for Corey Hutterli, 37, of Parkland, continued with their argument that the state’s case is purely circumstantial against their client.

Ultimately, a judge granted Hutterli a bond of $150,000.

He is accused of pushing Justin Zelin, 35, off a 25th-floor balcony at the Akoya Condominiums, located at 6365 Collins Ave. on Mid-Beach on Feb. 15.

According to investigators, Zelin was heard on a 911 call telling Hutterli to get out of his apartment, and then a struggle could be heard.

A toxicology report revealed Zelin had fentanyl, cocaine, and ketamine in his system at the time of the incident, something Hutterli’s team pointed to while questioning a detective on the case.

The defense alleged those drugs possibly put Zelin in an altered state.

Last week, Zelin’s father testified about the final time he spoke to his son.

Hutterli is facing charges of second-degree murder, burglary with assault or battery, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Online jail records show Ashley Marie Hosendove, 32, faces a charge of disorderly conduct/breach of the peace.

According to court documents, a bench warrant was issued June 1 for Hosendove for an incident that occurred on March 12.

An arrest report states that Hosendove was the victim of a battery allegedly committed by her boyfriend that day.

But as her boyfriend was being taken into custody by police, Hosendove began to “shout and scream profanities” towards officers at the scene and refused to provide them with a form of ID, the report stated.

Police said Hosendove’s actions, which were captured on bodycam video, caused neighbors to gather outside.

In Miami-Dade bond court Thursday, Hosendove appeared before Judge Betty Capote-Erben, a day after her daughter’s death.

“You have an open case of disorderly conduct. You were supposed to appear in court June 2,” Capote-Erben said.

“Yeah, I was late for the Zoom,” Hosendove replied.

In bond court, Capote-Erben noted Hosendove had failed to appear twice.

“Well, you didn’t appear twice. You were supposed to appear April 28th, and that one said you didn’t show and they reset your case last week for June 2nd, so you are telling me last week you logged into Zoom late?” Capote-Erben asked Hosendove.

“I was going to log in,” Hosendove replied.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday’s shooting was reported at about 2 a.m. at a home off Northwest First Court near 16^th Street.

Authorities said the girl, who was identified by a family member as Janova Park, suffered gunshot wounds to her stomach and torso and was rushed to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where she later died.

“We know that at the time of the shooting, there were three adults and two children -- the victim who’s 5 years old and her 4-year-old brother,” MDSO Detective Angel Rodriguez said Wednesday.

Detectives confirmed that Hosendove was among the adults inside the home at the time of the shooting.

Detectives said they’re still trying to determine how Janova was shot, including whether she may have accessed the gun herself or whether someone else shot her.

Local 10’s Hannah Yechivi spoke to Laticha Ellison, Janova’s grandmother, on Wednesday, who said the shooting could’ve been prevented.

“My grandbaby is 5 years old,” Ellison said through tears. “She’s only 5. It makes me angry because nothing like this should be able to happen, especially in your home — carelessness.”

Ellison described her granddaughter as “smart and sassy.”

Investigators said a gun was recovered inside the home and that they “are not looking for any individuals that may pose a threat to the community.”

Hosendove’s bond was set at $1,500. She bonded out of jail Thursday night, ignoring questions from reporters.

For the second day in a row in the Canary Islands, the American pope insisted on the inherent dignity and rights of migrants and demanded they be welcomed and integrated into society, in some of his strongest comments on the politically divisive issue.

“Break those chains and free those you hold in bondage,” Leo said in a message to human traffickers that he delivered during a meeting with humanitarian aid organizations that help migrants on the island of Tenerife.

Leo was wrapping up his weeklong trip to Spain in the Spanish archipelago, which is closer to Africa than the Iberian Peninsula and is a key point of entry for migrants who make the perilous Atlantic crossing from West Africa.

His return to Rome was delayed when his Iberia charter flight developed a technical problem. King Felipe VI offered his private plane instead, and Leo accepted. The problem couldn't be fixed, so Iberia said it was sending a separate aircraft from Madrid to fetch the journalists and Vatican officials left behind in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

It was the first time in decades that a papal flight had experienced a problem so serious that it required the pope to deplane and change his travel plans.

The pope had been fulfilling a wish of Pope Francis to visit the islands to commemorate the thousands of lives lost at sea. He is also drawing attention to the Catholic Church’s biblically-mandated mantra to “welcome the stranger,” amid anti-migrant sentiment in Europe and the Trump administration's mass deportation program in his native United States.

During the encounter with aid groups in Tenerife, Leo implored receiving communities to integrate people fleeing war, poverty and climate change and spare them from the “silent shipwreck” of abandonment when they are left on the streets with nothing after surviving perilous crossings.

“A human conscience, and even more so a Christian conscience, cannot remain indifferent in the face of these graveyards of the sea, to the victims of shipwrecks and the lack of aid,” Leo said. “Every life lost on these routes is a failure for the human family.”

A deadly passage and a warning to traffickers

The Canary Islands have long been a stepping stone for migrants trying to reach Europe from West Africa and Morocco.

While people smugglers and human traffickers operate the Atlantic route, there are also many self-organized boats of migrants, including many former fishermen from Senegal who were left without income due to overfishing in recent years.

Migrant arrivals in the Canary Islands peaked in 2024 at nearly 47,000. They have fallen dramatically, with over 3,000 people landing there in the first five months of 2026.

Because of the vastness of the ocean and scarcity of rescue ships or monitoring, some experts consider the Atlantic route more deadly than the more well-known central Mediterranean smuggling route from Libya and Tunisia to Italy. Since 2020, several West African boats have been found in the Caribbean and Latin America with only dead bodies on board after drifting across the Atlantic, pushed by trade winds and currents.

Leo directed his remarks Friday to the criminal organizations and individual smugglers who organize these “death routes” to Europe. Such smugglers charge thousands of euros a person and often force their passengers into prostitution or other forms of black market labor by withholding their documents to pay off the debt.

“Stop. Repent,” Leo said in his message to traffickers, emphasizing each word in Spanish and drawing a sustained applause from the crowd. “For every life lost, every family deceived, every body subjugated, every woman threatened, every worker exploited, you will have to appear before divine justice.”

“Repent while there is still time, for God’s mercy can reach even the most hardened sinner, but it enters only through the narrow gate of truth, justice and conversion,” he said.

With his two-day visit to the Canary Islands, Leo has confirmed himself as the heir of Francis’ migration preaching, which was a priority of Francis' 12-year pontificate and often caused friction with U.S. and European powers.

History’s first U.S.-born pope has not only echoed Francis’ message and gestures, he has expanded and amplified them during a deeply symbolic visit. Upon arrival on Thursday, Leo threw a bouquet of flowers into the sea from a port nicknamed the “Dock of Shame” in 2020, when migrants were forced to live in squalor during a spike in their arrivals.

Leo’s gesture mimicked the one Francis made in 2013 when he visited Lampedusa, Sicily, another flashpoint in Europe’s migration drama, and denounced the “globalization of indifference” that the world showed asylum seekers.

But in a sign Leo is making the papacy his own, the 70-year-old pope has added a new gesture to his repertoire: After a onetime migrant offered his testimony during Leo's encounter Friday, the pope did the viral “6-7” hand gesture that's popular with young people as he joked alongside him. That earned the pope cheers and applause from the crowd.

Leo meets with migrants at reception center

In the Canary Islands and in remarks on the Spanish mainland, Leo reaffirmed the right of migrants to flee but also to stay home, demanding their countries of origin provide the necessary economic and security conditions. He shamed European countries that turn their back on migrants' plights, and said Christian cannot remain indifferent.

On Friday, he noted that for the Catholic Church, the process of integrating migrants into a community can become a chance at spreading the faith, “without imposing” it and in respect of the migrants’ own beliefs.

Leo opened the final day of his trip by visiting the Las Raíces migrant camp. Leo drew a round of applause when he went off-script to tell migrants that he would speak in French and English, the language spoken by many of the people living in the camp.

One woman told him of the desperation that drove her to leave her homeland and family, the trauma of the crossings, and her gratitude at finding safety and a new life.

“We aren't asking for privileges. We aren't asking for compassion. We just want respect, humanity and the chance to live with dignity,” said the woman, identified as Bousso Diouf.

Next month, on July 4, the American pope will spend U.S. Independence Day on the island of Lampedusa, where Francis in 2013 first denounced the “globalization of indifference” the world shows migrants.

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But Spielberg is hardly the only one making headlines of late about UFOs and the possibility of life on other planets.

What was once considered fringe or conspiratorial has in recent months popped up everywhere from the White House to the Catholic Church, as public fascination with unidentified anomalous phenomena — or UAPs, as the government calls them — becomes more mainstream.

The Pentagon in May made public large swaths of UFO files with very little context, leaving curious sleuths to piece together their own interpretations. The dump came just weeks after former President Barack Obama set off a media frenzy for stating unambiguously in an interview that aliens are real, though he later tempered that take.

“Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” the former president, who made a surprise visit to the “Disclosure Day” set, posted on social media. “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”

Some religious adherents, as well as some nonbelievers, maintain that the existence of life on other planets might undermine many faiths because it would complicate assertions that humans are unique. But others argue the opposite.

“Belief in UFOs is really one of the best things that’s happened to religion in a long time,” said Diana Walsh Pasulka, a religion scholar at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. “It’s a blow to the secular, materialist worldview.”

An intersection of aliens, demons and Catholics

Even if broad interest in UAPs bolsters the case for an enchanted universe, some believers in religions such as Christianity think they are something to be wary of.

“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons,” Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, said in a recent podcast interview.

That sentiment was echoed by Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, formerly an exorcist with the Archdiocese of Washington. He was removed last week by the archbishop, who said statements by Rossetti “gravely undermine” Catholic teaching on demons and the devil.

“It’s my personal belief that probably many, if not most, of these UFO sightings are in fact demons,” Rossetti said in a May 29 video posted on his Facebook page. “Aliens, if there are aliens, don’t possess people.”

Christopher Baglow, who heads a science and religion initiative at the University of Notre Dame, was surprised by the firing given that Rosetti made clear in the video he was expressing his own opinion. Baglow speculated that there may be other factors behind the decision.

“I ask forgiveness for any ways that I have not been faithful to the teachings of the Church’s Magisterium,” Rosetti said in a statement online.

Despite the assertions by Vance and Rossetti about demons, Baglow maintains the Catholic Church has long been open to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. “Theologians have been speculating about this for centuries and the church has never ever taught one way or the other,” he said.

While meeting with astronomy students last year at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the “ancient light of distant galaxies” and the “mysterious joy” provoked by the study of outer space. Some interpreted these remarks as tacit speculation about the possibility of life on other planets.

Extraterrestrials, old and new

In one sense, the idea of otherworldly beings coming to Earth can be traced back millennia.

“People would call it the plurality of worlds. So even back in the time of Socrates and Aristotle, there were Greek philosophers who talked about beings on other planets and other stars,” Walsh Pasulka said.

But it wasn’t until after 1945 that modern conceptions of UFOs began to develop, according to Jeffrey Kripal, a historian of religions at Rice University. “The flying saucer and the alien and the UFO — it’s definitely a Cold War invasion narrative,” he said.

That narrative explains why UAPs are often perceived as hostile to humans. But it’s also evolved over time and led to the formation of some religions — like Scientology, which counts many a Hollywood celebrity among its adherents — that see extraterrestrials as good or even part of a divine plan. Some adherents to the Nation of Islam, for example, believe that its founder will inaugurate an apocalyptic return to Earth on a spaceship.

The International Raëlian Movement, also know as Raëlism, is a UFO religion that was founded in France in the 1970s. It is still practiced today, with its strongest followings in parts of Asia, Africa and Canada, according to Susan Palmer, a sociologist who studies new religious movements at Concordia University in Montreal.

Its founder, Raël, claims he is a direct descendant of Yahweh, whom Raël visited on the planet of Elohim in 1975. Raëlism claims the Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad are all hybrids of humans and extraterrestrials, as well as Raël’s half brothers.

Of the groups she has studied, Palmer argued Raëlism is the most sympathetic toward UFOs. “They’re not interested in extraterrestrial wars,” she said.

But some think that sentiment might be growing.

Kripal, who heads Rice’s archival collection of reported paranormal experiences called the Center for the Impossible, perceives an increasing openness to these kinds of conversations about the existence of UFOs — and the possibility that they are not hostile.

“People are reporting these experiences or these encounters with entities and they’re religious through and through,” he said. “My colleagues in the academy, they’re really starting to listen in a different way.”

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It's a significant lapse for the program known as Section 702, and even as President Donald Trump nominates a new national intelligence director more palatable to both Republicans and Democrats than his initial pick, it’s unclear how soon lawmakers — set for recess — would be able to revive the spy program.

Still, there is not expected to be an immediate drop-off in intelligence collection given that a court order from March certified that government surveillance powers under the law could remain in effect for another year.

Section 702 allows for sweeping powers to sift through foreign communications

The provision is a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, and grants American spy agencies sweeping powers to collect and examine the communications of foreigners located outside the United States without first getting a warrant.

U.S. officials see the law as an invaluable national security tool that has helped disrupt potential acts of terrorism, yielded valuable insight into ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and contributed to the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a 2022 drone strike.

The law was passed in 2008 as an effort to codify key aspects of a predecessor spy program created by President George W. Bush's Republican administration.

Since then, officials across administrations of both major political parties have warned that without the law the government won't be able to collect crucial intelligence overseas.

The program's renewal historically has been contentious

The periodic need to reauthorize the law has prompted protracted debate in Congress well before this year, including discussion over whether additional guardrails are needed to protect the privacy of Americans and their personal data.

That's because when the government eavesdrops on foreigners abroad, it also sweeps up the communications of American citizens and others in the U.S. who are in contact with those surveillance targets.

Civil liberties advocates have raised concerns over revelations that FBI analysts over the years have improperly queried the vast repository of intelligence collected through the program for information about Americans, including related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters and the racial justice protests of 2020, as well as about state and federal political figures.

Some of those advocates have said the government should be required to have a warrant before examining communications collected from Americans. U.S. officials have said that a warrant would be legally unnecessary and overly cumbersome and that corrective measures have been implemented to reduce the number of improper queries.

Complicating the debate is the unlikely political alliances it has produced, uniting a coalition of lawmakers skeptical of government surveillance that includes both privacy-minded liberal Democrats and Republicans who still regard the intelligence community with suspicion over the investigation of ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 Republican presidential campaign.

The holdup this time is tied to pushback over acting intelligence pick Bill Pulte

Democrats balked when Trump picked Bill Pulte to serve as acting national intelligence director and refused to support a FISA extension until the selection was withdrawn. Pulte, a Trump loyalist with no known national security experience, has set off alarms by using his perch as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to facilitate dubious mortgage fraud investigations of perceived Trump adversaries.

A House vote this week that would have temporarily extended the program collapsed, with 19 Republicans and nearly all Democrats rejecting the temporary measure, 198-218. A Senate effort to approve its own versions also failed.

After those votes, Trump announced he was tapping Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan who previously served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as his permanent pick for director of national intelligence, or DNI. The pick was warmly received on Capitol Hill, but it was not enough to break the impasse before Friday's scheduled expiration.

Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he has “known and respected” Clayton for decades and that had he been tapped a week ago, “lots of pain might have been avoided.”

“His intelligence, temperament and deep commitment to public service will make him a terrific DNI,” Himes said.

The next steps for the spy powers provision

Before the congressional votes, Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had warned the Trump administration to prepare “for a potential significant gap in foreign intelligence collection." Other lawmakers since then have voiced similarly dire concerns.

The expiration is likely to be the first meaningful lapse of Section 702 since the law was created more than 15 years ago. In 2024, the Senate barely missed its midnight deadline before voting to approve a bill that was then signed by President Joe Biden, a Democrat, creating a brief lapse.

Despite this year's sunset of the statute, there's no expectation of any immediate halt to intelligence collection as the U.S. hosts a series of events this summer with potential national security concerns, including the World Cup and festivities surrounding the 250th birthday of the United States.

A March opinion from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court certified the program's renewal for another 12 months, meaning that Section 702's authority is expected to remain intact through then. Even so, it's conceivable that without congressional reauthorization, communications companies forced to provide data to the government under the law could try to cease that compliance and argue that they cannot be compelled to cooperate.

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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.

The protest was held after the prices of some fuel jumped 32% this week for the first time since the United States launched its war against Iran more than three months ago.

About 1,500 protesters attempted to march toward the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, a key Jakarta landmark, after Friday prayers. Anti-riot police blocked many of them from reaching the site, which has long been off-limits for rallies because of its location at the heart of the city's main business and commercial district.

More than 6,000 police and soldiers were deployed to secure key sites, including the presidential palace, and directed the protesters toward areas near the parliament building and the National Monument park. But many demonstrators resisted, saying they wanted to hold their protest in the business district due to their concerns about economic conditions.

“People will not be silent, they will speak out when they cannot eat, cannot work, cannot have a decent life. That is the simple reason why we are taking to the streets today,” said Jordan, a student protester who goes by a single name.

Some protesters forcefully kicked a line of large black metal police shields in an attempt to break through a strong barricade of anti-riot officers, others chanting “Revolution!”

Amid the signs of economic pressure, Indonesia’s rupiah currency has also come under pressure recently, hitting a historic low of 18,000 rupiah to the U.S. dollar earlier this month.

Demonstrators demanded cuts to what they called wasteful state spending, lower prices for fuel and staple goods, and a halt to major government programs such as a free meals program and a plan to revitalize rural areas.

The food program, costing about 268 trillion rupiah ($15 billion) for this year alone, is aimed at alleviating poverty and malnutrition. Prabowo recently fired the head of the program amid a massive graft probe.

They also called for an end to what they described as the growing role of the military in civilian affairs, something they view as a threat to the young democracy.

“The government is in denial about the current situation," said Yatalathof Ma’shum Imawan, who chairs the student organization that organized the rally. “We urge Prabowo to have the courage to acknowledge his mistake and stop denying it."

Friday’s demonstration marks one of the largest student mobilizations since nationwide protests erupted last August, when thousands took to the streets and clashes with security forces left at least 13 people dead.

The noisy demonstrators dispersed peacefully as night fell.

Similar protests were also held in other cities, including West Java's Bandung city and in Pontianak, a city on Borneo island.

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Associated Press journalists Edna Tarigan and Dita Alangkara in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report.

The remains of the girls, who were students at Utumishi Girls Academy, were placed in white coffins adorned with flowers and topped with their portraits. The coffins were lined up in front of their families, schoolmates, community members and local leaders, who called for justice.

The nine accused girls, who were students at the school, remain in police custody, with interrogations revealing that the May 28 blaze was started by lighting a mattress at the dormitory’s exit using a matchstick and paraffin. No motive has been revealed so far.

During the memorial service, hundreds of students from Utumishi Girls Academy sang a somber hymn declaring that all shall be well. One of the presiding officials reminisced about being a victim of Kenya’s deadliest school fire in 2001, when 67 boys died in a dormitory blaze in Machakos County in eastern Kenya.

Mourners called for accountability and justice as dozens of schools have closed in recent days because of student unrest. The Kenya Red Cross said that it had responded to 37 school fires since the beginning of the year.

School fires are common in Kenya, with some linked to arson attacks by students protesting disciplinary measures or scheduled examinations, while others are caused by electrical faults.

Congested dormitories, a lack of emergency exits and insufficient firefighting equipment have often contributed to loss of life and extensive damage.

Last month, Kenya's Education Ministry suspended the principal of Utumishi Girls Academy for failing to comply with school fire safety regulations. The ministry also said that it had closed more than 300 schools following a 2024 fire tragedy that killed 21 boys in central Kenya.

During the Friday memorial service attended by Kenyan first lady Rachel Ruto, the presiding bishop questioned how much longer Kenyan children and families would continue to suffer from school fires.

The school captain, Abigael Wanjiku, eulogized the girls as “friends, study partners, teammates and companions.”

“The pain of losing them is one that we will carry for a long time,” she said.

A mother representing the parents broke down in tears during her speech as she called for accountability and justice, while reassuring the surviving students that ensuring their safety remained a priority.

Over a seven-decade career, Hockney explored and reimagined classical portraiture, landscape painting and pop art, working in painting, collage, photography and digital drawing.

Hockney was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in Southern California, making its sun-drenched suburban views a major motif.

Later in life he returned to Europe, finding renewed inspiration in the wooded hills of his native county of Yorkshire and the fields and trees of France’s Normandy region. One of the most popular and critically lauded British artists of his generation, his works sold for record prices at auction.

Historian Simon Schama said it's no mystery why the appeal of his work endures.

“His work is admired — loved is not too strong a word — by the millions who, worldwide, flock to see it because it presupposes an expectation of pleasure,” Schama wrote in an essay accompanying a 2025 Hockney exhibition in Paris.

Hockney’s publicist, Erica Bolton, said he died at his home in London on Thursday, less than a month short of his 89th birthday. She did not give a cause of death.

He is survived by his longtime partner, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima; his great-nephew and studio assistant, Richard Hockney; his brothers Philip and John; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

Hockney was an icon of the swinging 60s

With his trademark round glasses and bleached-blond hair, Hockney was a well-known figure in the swinging British and American art scenes of the 1960s, even before he reached the age of 30. His paintings were just as distinctive, many of them creating a dreamlike world of patterned light bouncing off water and windows, and human forms rendered in flattened, simplified shapes in matte acrylic paint.

“I’m excited every day,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1979. “London has lots of dreary parts, but I never find anything dreary in Los Angeles.”

Hockney was born July 9, 1937, in Bradford, a large industrial city whose chief export was woolen textiles. He spent his first two decades there before going to London’s Royal College of Art. He made an impact even before his graduation, and art dealer John Kasmin took him into his stable of artists in 1961.

His artistic influences ranged widely, including Renaissance portraits, 18th-century English artist William Hogarth's satirical drawings, 19th-century English painter J.M.W. Turner’s landscapes, Pablo Picasso’s experiments in Cubism and 20th-century American pop art.

He shared with other pop artists an interest in the polished surface of modern life. And, like Andy Warhol with his Brillo boxes and Campbell’s soup cans, Hockney occasionally incorporated advertising labels, such as a British Typhoo Tea box used in his 1961 “Tea Painting in an Illusionistic Style.”

He saw success early in his career

He told The New York Times in 1964 that he enjoyed the burgeoning pop art scene in New York but wasn’t sure he was part of it.

“I’m just an ordinary artist,” he said. “I do admire American pop — in fact it seems that everything fresh-looking and vital in England these days has been coming from the U.S.”

Nonetheless, he said in 1995 that he still considered himself “very much an artist in the English tradition.”

Hockney, who was out as a gay man long before it was common, explored erotic themes, giving youthful male bodies the same tender scrutiny that artists had been giving the female nude for centuries.

Early works like “We Two Boys Together Clinging” and “Two Men in a Shower” celebrated gay relationships when homosexuality was still illegal in Britain.

Early in his career, two of his drawings were bought for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

“The moment I first sold pictures to earn a living, I felt rich. I’ve been rich ever since,” he told The Associated Press in 1995. “I didn’t have much money, but I did what I wanted. ... You are a rich man if you do the things you want to do.”

In 2018, his 1972 painting “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” sold at a Christie’s auction for $90.3 million, at the time a record for a living artist.

While many of his best-known paintings had American scenes, he also tackled British subjects. He immortalized his parents in several portraits and his friends Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell in “Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy,” a 1971 portrait voted one of Britain’s greatest paintings in a 2005 BBC poll.

Hockney's work went beyond drawing and painting

Like many traditional artists, he considering drawing a fundamental skill and lamented that it wasn’t taught as rigorously as it used to be.

“Human beings are the most interesting things we see, so they’re the hardest to draw,” he said in a 1996 AP interview.

Hockney also embraced other media, including printmaking, photo collage and video. He contributed costume and set designs for the theater and opera, including a celebrated production of “Tristan und Isolde” first staged in 1987 at the Los Angeles Opera.

When he took up photography, he fused genres, assembling individual photos into elaborate collages like “Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th April, 1986,” built up of individual views of a desert highway intersection.

“My photographer friends said it was a painting,” Hockney told the AP in 2001. “I said it’s a photograph; I used a camera.”

Later he began to draw on iPads, which became his favorite tool.

In the early 2000s, he looked afresh at the fields and forests of Yorkshire in a series of landscape paintings that combined bold color with minute attention to the texture of snow on a hillside or a blossom on a hawthorn hedge. They featured in a 2017 exhibition at Tate Britain in London that was visited by half a million people and moved to the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Hockney used the English landscape for inspiration in his design for a stained-glass window installed at Westminster Abbey in 2018 to celebrate the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

King Charles III paid tribute to “one of life’s true originals” as he mourned "a man whose irrepressible charm, talent and constant innovation will be most sorely missed, but whose dazzling creativity lives on in galleries and museums around the world.”

He worked right up until his death

In 2019, he moved to Normandy, where during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown he produced joyous iPad drawings of springtime for his friends. His message — “Do remember they can’t cancel the spring” — was emblazoned in neon across the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris when it hosted a huge Hockney exhibition that opened in April 2025.

Art critic Estelle Lovatt said Hockney “changed how we see the world.”

“He was one of the first artists to use a fax machine,” she told the AP. “He was one of the first artists to use the Polaroid camera to make collages. He was one of the first artists to use really, really vibrant colors.”

An unrepentant cigarette smoker who railed against government anti-smoking rules, Hockney complained when a poster for the 2025 exhibition was banned from the Paris Metro because it showed him holding a cigarette.

The announcement of his death from his publicist noted that Hockney was “a committed life-long and defiant smoker, expressing the pleasure in life it brought him. ... He smoked up to the end.”

Hockney had a minor stroke in 2012 and was increasingly deaf in later years — something he said improved his visual perception.

“If you lose one sense, you gain other senses, and I feel I could see space clearer,” he told the AP in 2017.

He never stopped working.

“It’s my work that keeps me young,” Hockney told the Sun newspaper in 2017. “I’ve been a professional painter for 60 years. Sixty years of getting up every day and doing exactly what I want to do.”

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Associated Press journalist Mustakim Hasnath contributed to this report.

The scholar, Min Zin, was suspected of “engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security,” said China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lin Jian.

It is uncommon for Beijing to arrest a U.S. citizen on national security allegations. The case comes just a month after U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing as the two countries aim to reset a tumultuous relationship.

A Burmese activist who knows Min Zin said he disappeared June 3 after going to Kunming, in China’s Yunnan province, for a conference. The activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of government retribution and arrest, said Min Zin had visited China multiple times before.

Min Zin was a student activist in Myanmar’s 1988 uprising, a student-led movement that the government at the time reacted to with military force. He eventually sought asylum in the U.S. He was not engaged in any direct activism work currently, said the activist.

Min Zin is the founder of a think tank called ISP Myanmar, which in recent years has written about Chinese foreign policy and trade with Myanmar, located on China's southwest border. The think tank was involved in regular exchanges with Chinese think tanks, and had published on issues such as Myanmar's rare earth exports to China.

Min Zin is also a Ph.D candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.

Amnesty International, the human rights organization, called for Min Zin’s immediate release.

“The circumstances around Min Zin’s mysterious arrest are extremely concerning, as is the apparent charge of espionage,” said Joe Freeman, a Myanmar researcher for the group.

The Central African Republic, a deeply impoverished country plagued by conflict, is one of at least nine African nations with this type of agreement.

Under a series of often-secret agreements that are part of a broad U.S. crackdown on immigration, the Trump administration has deported thousands of people to nearly two dozen countries that are not their own, advocates say.

The Trump administration uses deportations to third countries as a legal loophole to indirectly force asylum seekers back to their home countries, immigration lawyers said.

It was unclear exactly how many migrants were on the deportation flight that left Louisiana late Thursday on the way to the Central African Republic's capital, Bangui.

Among those set to be deported Thursday were people from Iran, Jordan, Armenia, Turkey, Georgia and Afghanistan, according to Ali Rahnama, interim executive director of the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund, who has been in touch with some of the migrants.

Three Iranian women in the U.S. were originally scheduled to be sent to the Central African Republic, according to Sahar Jalili Pawelski, one of their immigration lawyers, who said two of them received emergency court orders temporarily stopping their deportation while judges reviewed whether the government was acting legally.

All had been granted court protection against deportation to Iran after judges ruled they faced credible fears of persecution on the basis of politics or religion, Rahnama said.

“Despite being granted withholding of removal, these individuals are being removed from the United States and abandoned in a country where they have no status, no connection and no support network. We fear they will ultimately be forced to return to the countries they originally fled,” Emily Trostle, an attorney representing two of the women, said Friday.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday would not comment on the case, saying it would not confirm future removal operations for security reasons. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Central African Republic has been plagued by years of conflict between pro-government forces and armed groups and is one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite vast reserves of gold, one in three people live on less than $2 a day.

It also is one of the countries where Wagner, a Russian mercenary group, was first active in Africa. The group has been responsible for President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s security and fighting rebel groups.

The country remains one of Russia’s closest allies in Africa, despite recent tensions between Touadéra and Moscow over Russia’s push to replace Wagner with the state-controlled Africa Corps.

Rahnama of the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund expressed concerns about an Iranian asylum seeker being sent to the Central African Republic, noting Russia’s influence in the country and Moscow’s close security ties with Iran.

The International Organization for Migration, a U.N.-affiliated agency, will “provide post-arrival humanitarian assistance” to the migrants at the request of the Central African authorities, a spokesperson said.

The U.S. earlier this year awarded $85 million to ⁠the IOM for ​operations in the Central African Republic to provide "assistance to migrants” and promote “community stabilization.”

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Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writers Rebecca Santana in Washington and Akram Oubachir in Casablanca, Morocco contributed to this report.

The analysis from researchers at The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that while about half of independents without a college education had a positive view of Trump around the 2024 election, his approval with that group fell to about one-quarter this spring. That shift has erased the large education gap that existed among independents in the months before Trump took office for his second term, with independents now holding similarly negative views of the president regardless of their level of education.

The analysis was conducted by aggregating nearly two dozen AP-NORC polls conducted between July 2024 and April 2026, allowing for a deeper look at how support for Trump changed during several distinct periods, including the last six months of 2024, the first 100 days of Trump's presidency, the summer of 2025 when the Big Beautiful Bill passed, last fall's government shutdown and the beginning of the Iran war.

The compiled polling shows a steady decline among independents throughout Trump’s second term. His standing has also dropped among several small but important groups that moved toward him in the 2024 presidential election, including Black and Hispanic independents.

More Americans than ever consider themselves independents, and they are among the groups that shifted toward Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Any erosion in that support could signal trouble for Trump and Republicans headed into the midterm elections, which are often seen as reflection of how voters feel about their governing party.

Tafari Torres, a senior research associate at NORC who co-authored the analysis, noted that while Democrats' and Republicans' views of Trump have held largely steady in his second term, independents' opinions are still moving. “Independents are, broadly, the people who are reacting to the events and dropping in their support,” he said.

Dramatic declines during Trump's first 100 days

Trump's return to the White House was fueled, in part, by independent voters who saw him as the stronger candidate on key issues like the economy. The new analysis, which looks at Trump's favorability and presidential approval ratings, shows that once he took the helm, their views soured quickly.

Independents without a college degree had a much more positive view of Trump than college-educated independents did during and just after the 2024 election, but that shifted in the first few months of his term. Positive views of Trump among independents without a college degree fell from 48% in the months before he returned to office to 31% in polling conducted during Trump’s first 100 days back in office. Those warm views declined even further, to about one-quarter, during the government shutdown and the early months of 2026.

Only about 3 in 10 college-educated independents, by contrast, had a positive view of Trump before he returned to office, making their drop to about one-quarter much less dramatic.

“The decline among no-college independents was steeper and it was greater than the slight decline in college independents," said Sean Collins, a research associate at NORC who co-authored the analysis. "That was surprising, especially given, when you think of Trump's coalitions, those without college degrees is usually one of the ones that that stands out.”

Hispanic, younger independents grow disenchanted

Americans without a college degree have long been a key part of Trump's coalition. But Trump also won in 2024 by making gains among groups that tend to support Democrats, including Hispanic adults.

About 4 in 10 independent voters — 42% — voted for Trump in 2024, up from 37% in the 2020 presidential election. Independent voters without a college degree were a little more likely to back Trump over former Vice President Kamala Harris in the last election, according to AP VoteCast, and Hispanic independents were about evenly split between the two.

The picture looks much bleaker for the president now.

Nearly half of Hispanic independents — 46% — saw Trump favorably in the polling conducted around the presidential election. His approval among these adults dropped quickly in his second term, falling as low as 15% during last fall's government shutdown before landing around one-quarter in the spring.

Younger independents also became less supportive of the president, while independents age 60 and older remained mostly stable. Other AP-NORC polling has pointed to Trump losing ground among younger Republicans over inflation concerns and Hispanic Americans growing increasingly discontented.

“The gains Trump appeared to make during the election, I don’t know if they’re sticking around. He’s experienced some significant shifts among those people,” Torres said. “From our research, they don’t appear to be permanent gains.”

The economy is frustrating many independents

Polling suggests that the economy is at the root of many Americans' frustrations with Trump, including independents.

About half of independents who supported Trump in 2024 said inflation was the single most important factor for their vote, AP VoteCast found, and most expressed high levels of concern about the cost of food and gas.

More than a year into Trump's second term, inflation remains high, fueled by gas prices that remain elevated as the Iran war continues. An AP-NORC poll conducted in April found that about 3 in 10 independents were “extremely” or “very” concerned about being able to afford groceries in the last few months, and a similar share were worried about being able to afford gas.

The analysis found that Americans' views of the U.S. economy tend to align with their view of the president. Those with negative views of the country's economy tended to have negative views of Trump, and about 8 in 10 independents described the U.S. economy this spring as poor.

The latest AP-NORC polling from May found that only about 3 in 10 independents approve of how Trump is handling the economy, in line with the roughly 3 in 10 who said that at the beginning of his second term. The April poll found only about 1 in 10 independents — 12% — approved of how Trump was handling the cost of living.

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This AP-NORC analysis of 4,836 independents was conducted over 21 AP-NORC surveys, blocked into five time periods before and during President Donald Trump's second term. Independents are classified as panelists who do not select that they identify with or lean toward either the Democratic or Republican Party.

Officials have not publicly pinpointed the cause, with shortages largely affecting some areas in the island's most populated cities, including the capital San Juan. The island's utilities company extracts water from rivers, reservoirs and underground aquifers that have in the past provided sufficient supply for the island's 3.2 million people.

Residents are being forced to buy potable water, spend money at laundromats and haul heavy buckets up several flights of stairs to wash dishes, flush toilets and take showers. The elderly and disabled struggle the most, with community leaders noting that some have been hospitalized as water shortages persist.

Jorge Figueroa, a community leader for several impoverished San Juan neighborhoods, stood by his car one recent morning fielding questions from residents wondering when the next water truck would swing by.

“They are playing with people's health and lives,” Figueroa said.

Shortages are widespread

Some customers in San Juan began reporting intermittent service more than a year ago, with the governor acknowledging the infrastructure has lacked investment and maintenance for decades.

The water outages have grown so severe that Mayor Miguel Romero sued Puerto Rico’s Water and Sewer Authority in late May.

People like Jeannette Mercado Rodríguez have spent up to two weeks without water as Puerto Rico's searing summer starts and meteorologists are already issuing heat advisories.

“This is really exhausting; it’s maddening,” she said.

The 52-year-old is among the lucky ones: a water truck is stationed near her public housing complex, Las Margaritas. But she still has to haul five buckets and 10 2-liter (half-gallon) bottles up to her third-floor apartment every day. She recently injured her shoulder doing so.

“We can’t take it sometimes,” Mercado said, confiding that she has broken down and cried. “There are older people here, bedridden people.”

Nearly 40,000 customers were hit with water outages on the first weekend of June. That prompted Gov. Jenniffer González to activate the National Guard, which began distributing water via four trucks with a capacity of 2,000 gallons (7,570 liters) each.

Puerto Rico’s Tourism Company brought in additional water trucks with a capacity of 12,800 gallons (48,453 liters) to help serve hotels and short-term rentals.

The need for water is so great that even Puerto Rico’s Department of Agriculture sanitized two large trucks that transport milk and instead used them to deliver potable water.

Despite those measures, water remains scarce for many in San Juan and beyond. At least one stationary tanker in an impoverished community sat empty for a couple of days, with residents cheering the water truck when it arrived, calling municipal workers “heroes.” Other residents also complain that the government doesn't inform them when a water truck will stop by, with those at work missing out.

“This has been a disaster,” said Luz Laborde, president of a neighborhood association in Santurce, a working-class community in San Juan. “This is inhuman … It’s destroying the emotional state of a people.”

Puerto Ricans demand water

Dozens of Puerto Ricans young and old crowded into a courtroom on a recent morning, eager to hear a ruling on the lawsuit that San Juan's mayor filed against the island's water and sewer company as they questioned when their water would return.

“We are exhausted,” said Marcia Soler París, a 61-year-old community leader. “We shouldn’t be living this way. We don’t deserve this.”

Every day at dawn, phones ping as people in San Juan and elsewhere share whether they have water, just a trickle or nothing at all.

Soler calls the emergency management office every other day to request a water truck for her and her neighbors. She lives with her daughter, who has three boys ages 13, 10 and 4, and they play soccer every day. Like many, they don't have a cistern.

“I don’t know what it is to see a stream of water,” said Soler, who recently spent $40 at a laundromat and was forced to buy plastic cups and plates for her family.

The extra costs are straining the budgets of many on the island of 3.2 million people where more than 40% live below the poverty line.

Soler said some of her neighbors bedridden and caregivers are forced to use towels and wet wipes to clean them. Another neighbor is blind, so people ferry water up to her apartment.

For years, chronic power outages have been a big frustration for many Puerto Ricans. Water woes also are at the top of the list now.

At Villa Kennedy, a nearby public housing complex, Elizabeth Sánchez, 79, explained how she injured her waist carrying buckets of water. Her husband can no longer help because he injured his back for the same reason.

“What we are going through is horrible,” she said as she began to cry.

Judge orders experts to investigate water woes

In February 2025, Puerto Rico's governor appointed Luis González Delgado as executive president of the island's Water and Sewer Authority.

Months later, former regional director Roberto Martínez Toledo was replaced. But Martínez was recently appointed to a new committee ordered by a judge to work with the agency to investigate and solve the chronic water shortages.

The mayor of San Juan, who is a member of the governor's party, said that if Martínez hadn't been removed from his position, “we wouldn't be here talking about this issue.”

The new head of the water and sewer agency blamed Martínez for some of the problems.

“(The crisis) could have been avoided if Roberto Martínez had answered the phone the first day I called him,” González told reporters this week, adding that he is willing to work with him.

Some Puerto Ricans are demanding González resign as they clamor for Martínez to return to his old job, while a growing number are blaming the governor for the situation. On Wednesday night, the governor announced that all projects aimed at fixing water-related infrastructure have started with an investment of $217 million.

Those without water say they are still being billed for it.

“That's another outrage,” said Laborde, the community leader. “You lose no matter what.”

The 7.8 magnitude offshore quake, which struck Monday off Sarangani province, injured at least 688 people and displaced more than 45,000 people, about half them still in emergency shelters, after the quake damaged more than 12,600 houses across farming towns and cities.

The numbers of dead and missing were considerably lowered after multiple verifications, the Office of Civil Defense said in a statement.

Many of the displaced were still too traumatized to return home because of strong aftershocks, officials said.

Days after the earthquake hit, more videos of the chaotic moments have been posted on social media showing horrified crowds witnessing the collapse of small buildings, and flag-raising ceremonies turning chaotic when the ground started to shake on the first day of school after a long summer break.

Students are seen on videos screaming in panic, but staying seated or standing still outside school buildings, with some covering their heads with their hands as teachers admonished them to calm down.

One video, which has gone viral on Facebook with millions of views, showed dozens of grade-schoolers screaming and breaking into tears as they sat on a tree-ringed school ground, which visibly swayed them from side to side. A tin roof shed nearby later collapsed with a loud thud, prompting many to dash away, but were asked by teachers to return and stay seated.

The grade school in the coastal town of Malita in Davao Occidental province reported no injuries from the quake.

“This incident serves as a reminder of the importance of earthquake preparedness and the value of regular disaster response drills,” the Mahayahay elementary school said in a statement.

Teresito Bacolcol, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said years of disaster-preparedness drills helped people anticipate and brace for extreme events like Monday’s quake, one of the strongest to hit the archipelago in a half-century.

He said that it was also fortunate that the quake hit at 7:37 a.m., a few minutes before work and classes were to start indoors.

“It’s good that our efforts to educate people on what to do when earthquakes hit somehow paid off,” Bacolcol told The Associated Press.

He expressed concern, however, over the collapse of some buildings that he said should have withstood the powerful quake, if construction standards based on the country’s building code were followed.

Ednar Dayanghirang, director of the Office of Civil Defense in a quake-hit region of about 5 million people, said that regular disaster-preparedness drills helped reduce casualties in many ways, including by preventing deadly stampedes.

“We required all school principals to take one-day courses on incident management, then they appointed disaster-response teams among teachers to deal with earthquakes, tsunamis,” Dayanghirang said. “They listened and they learned.”

The Philippines, one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, is often hit by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of seismic faults around the ocean.

“We need them to get going,” Brind'Amour said early in the Stanley Cup Final.

Maybe now, with a maximum of two games left to determine who will hoist the Cup, they've found a breakthrough.

Svechnikov scored twice on power plays and Aho had just his second goal since April as the Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 on Thursday night, moving within a victory of hoisting the Stanley Cup.

“It is the biggest game. It was for me,” Svechnikov said. “The mentality was great. I couldn’t sleep for the night (before).”

Game 6 is Sunday night in Las Vegas, with Carolina having a chance to win the Stanley Cup for the first time since Brind'Amour captained the Hurricanes to it the title in 2006. The goal now is for Svechnikov and Aho to carry the momentum forward from Game 5.

Svechnikov had the first two-goal performance of the playoffs and the fifth multi-goal playoff game of his career. He had wanted to be a bigger part of the production this spring, though that hadn't mattered as much with the Logan Stankoven-centered second line featuring Jackson Blake and Taylor Hall cooking throughout the playoffs.

Brind'Amour kept saying the two mainstays of the current eight-year playoff run were doing enough to contribute, it was just a matter of time before they'd score more. But as the Hurricanes pushed to the Stanley Cup Final, time was running out for Aho as the team's highest-paid player ($9.75 million this year) and Svechnikov as the team's third-highest ($7.75 million this year).

“Quite a decent (amount) of pressure, to be honest this playoffs,” Svechnikov said. “It’s just a new day was today.”

Aho and Svechnikov each had four goals through 17 postseason games entering Thursday. Five teammates had more goals. So having them beat Carter Hart three times for goals was like a long-waited bonus.

“That hasn’t really happened, and we’re still here,” Brind’Amour said. “So it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way, but they have to have an impact in the game, whether it’s on the scoresheet or doing other things. It certainly makes it a lot smoother if they’re scoring. It takes a lot of pressure off other guys to do that, and I guess that’s what happened tonight.”

The game was tied 1-1 before second-period goals from Svechnikov and Aho in a six-minute stretch. First there was Svechnikov whippping the puck past Hart on the power play, followed by Aho scoring for the first time in this series and for only the second time in the last 14 games.

“Getting on the score sheet, he knows he needs to do that,” Brind’Amour said of Aho. “He’s playing all the power plays, getting all that time to cash in. It doesn’t mean you’re not playing well. And he was doing, all playoffs, he’s done, I think, really well. But man, if we can get that out of him, that’s just a big bonus for our team.”

Svechnikov followed with a second goal for a 4-1 lead, a putaway at the right post off a sharp feed from Nikolaj Ehlers for one of his three assists.

“We know it’s going to be hard,” Svechnikov said about closing out the series. “That’s the hardest trophy to win, and we just kind of got to play our game and keep the pressure on and hopefully we’re going to keep the momentum.”

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Scottie Scheffler will try to take his place in history when the No. 1 player goes after the final leg of the career Grand Slam. Should he win, he would be the seventh player to win all four majors and join Tiger Woods as the only players since 1960 — the modern era of the slam — to get it done on his first try.

That ordinarily would be the sole focus of the 126th U.S. Open, to be played June 18-21, except for the recent history at Shinnecock Hills.

It has not been smooth sailing off the Great Peconic Bay on Long Island.

“It's hard when you run one tournament a year — and you run it on a different golf course every year — to get it just right,” Scheffler said. “And you're trying to make it hard. I think in the U.S. Open, they push the boundaries. If they're going to continue to push the boundaries, eventually they'll screw up and then they'll dial it back.”

The 2004 U.S. Open already was brutally tough when the USGA failed to account for the strength of the warm wind. The par-3 seventh, with its Redan green, became so impossible to hold that officials had to douse it with water between groups on the final day. No one broke par, and the average score was 78.73.

Among the blistering comments came this from Jerry Kelly: “I think they’re ruining the game. They’re ruining the tournament. This isn’t golf.”

When the U.S. Open returned to this New York gem in 2018, the greens were so glassy from sun and wind the last 45 players on the tee sheet Saturday failed to break par. Phil Mickelson staged a bizarre protest by swatting a moving ball on the 13th green. Brooks Koepka saved the week by becoming the first repeat champion in 29 years.

So a return to the fabled course evokes one thought: What will go wrong this time?

“Hopefully, they get the balance right of all the different challenges, and it’s not contrived,” Adam Scott said. “These great tracks, they’ve gotten into trouble when they’ve been manipulated.”

Wider fairways planned for this year

John Bodenhamer, the USGA's chief competitions officer, was asked to take a hard look after 2018 to see what went wrong and why. The short answer was greens not properly hydrated.

The real answer comes over four days at Shinnecock Hills, the sixth time for it to host the U.S. Open, never under this much scrutiny. The early scouting report from Scheffler and Rory McIlroy was wider fairways than they are used to seeing at a U.S. Open. That wasn't a mirage.

Bodenhamer said the USGA wanted to present a course the way William Flynn designed it in 1931 when he was brought into reshape a course that first opened in 1891, the oldest golf club in America still in the same location.

That means an average fairway width of 48 yards, compared with 42 yards in 2018 and 32 yards wide last year at Oakmont. He anticipates slower green speeds to account for so many putting surfaces perched on a hill and exposed to the wind.

“The way we're thinking about this year is to let Shinnecock be Shinnecock,” Bodenhamer said.

That should be enough. In the five U.S. Opens at Shinnecock Hills, three players have finished the tournament under par — Raymond Floyd in 1986, Retief Goosen and runner-up Mickelson in 2004.

McIlroy said the green speeds were just over 11 on the Stimpmeter — slightly under the target speed the USGA has in mind — and the Masters champion doesn't thing they need to be much fasters.

“If they can keep them at that green speed, they can get them firm, and they can use the hole locations that they want to use without having some of the struggles that they have had the last couple of U.S. Opens,” McIlroy said. “If it's set up the right way, I think it's one of the best championship tests in the country. It's an amazing golf course.”

Scheffler goes for the career Grand Slam

McIlroy became the most recent player with the career Grand Slam by winning the Masters in 2025. At the time, Scheffler had two green jackets but only one leg of the career slam. And then he steamrolled the competition at the PGA Championship and British Open.

“Fixed that,” Scheffler said with a laugh at the start of the year.

Now he's on the cusp of the most elite club in golf. McIlroy had to wait 11 years to get the final leg. Jack Nicklaus (1966 British Open) and Gary Player (1965 U.S. Open) each waited three years for their final pieces. Scheffler is the betting favorite, even though he hasn't won in five months.

He was runner-up in 2022 at The Country Club, his best chance. He was in the mix at Los Angeles in 2023 and on the fringe of contention at Torrey Pines.

“I like the challenge of playing a really hard golf course against a really good field,” he said.

Adam Scott playing his 100th straight major

Scott is among three players — potentially four depending on alternates — who is playing a third time at Shinnecock Hills, though he has yet to make the cut there.

He still has cause of celebration. Scott is playing in his 100th consecutive major, dating to the 2001 British Open, the second-longest streak behind Nicklaus and his incomparable run of 146 in a row.

“It's crazy," said Jordan Spieth, next in line at 52 in a row. “It's not only playing at a high level, it's take care of yourself the right way. Almost every single person you think of that could have reached 100 missed it because of injury.”

The toughest test

Players were due to start arriving around the weekend to prepare a major with a reputation as being the toughest test in golf. For Shinnecock, the test starts with wind on a course that more closely resembles a Scottish links than any other in America.

Flynn created a series of triangles — holes that run in that shape so players are forced to cope with different wind direction no matter which way it's blowing.

And for the players, the test can be what goes on between the ears. Nicklaus once said he could rule out most players having a chance when he hears them complain. And there's been a lot of complaining the last two times at Shinnecock Hills.

“Your acceptance meter, you've got to add some at the top end,” Xander Schauffele said. “If it's 100, you need to make it 150 because 100 is not enough. It might be the second or third hole of the day and you might have already had four bad breaks. It's really penalized. It's the most tired I am of the four majors.”

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The S&P 500 added 0.4% and was heading toward the finish of its third winning week in the last four. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 382 points, or 0.8%, as of 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3% higher.

Stocks got a lift from a 3.4% drop for the price of Brent crude oil to $87.29 per barrel, deepening its loss for the week. Oil prices have come down since President Donald Trump on Thursday called off his threat to launch strikes on Iran and said a potential deal with Iran may be imminent.

A deal to end the war could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and allow oil tankers to once again deliver crude from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide. Its near closure since the war began has sent the price of Brent up from roughly $70 per barrel and caused a wave of painful inflation for the world.

Of course, financial markets have rallied in the past on hopes that an end to the war with Iran was near, only to get disappointed each time.

The bigger factor for Wall Street over the last week has actually been artificial-intelligence stocks, and how they have gone from roaring to records to suddenly turning lower. The concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour.

SpaceX suggested plenty of demand still exists among investors for AI after its stock soared 24.3% in its first day of trading. That gave Elon Musk's rocket company a total value of $1.9 trillion, making it bigger than such behemoths as Broadcom, Tesla or Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook.

AI-related stocks otherwise were mixed following their roller-coaster moves over the last week. Broadcom's drop of 1.3% was one of the heaviest weights on the S&P 500, but CoreWeave jumped 8.1% after learning it will join the Nasdaq 100 index later this month.

Elsewhere on Wall Street, Adobe dropped 7.5% despite reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected.

Its stock has lost 42% so far this year, and it announced its chief financial officer is leaving the company on Monday. Adobe is already looking for a CEO to replace Shantanu Narayen, who announced in March that he is stepping aside after 18 years as Adobe’s leader.

In the bond market, Treasury yields rose to regain some of their sharp slide from the day before, when oil prices dropped following Trump’s announcement. The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 4.47% from 4.45% late Thursday.

High yields can slow entire economies and undercut prices for all kinds of investments, including stocks and cryptocurrencies. They hit investments seen as the most expensive in particular, and some critics are calling the AI industry a bubble where investment inflated too far.

Yields got a boost after a report suggested sentiment among U.S. consumers is not as bad as economists feared. The preliminary survey from the University of Michigan said sentiment improved by more than expected. U.S. consumers said they were feeling some relief after gasoline prices eased a bit early in the month.

In stock markets abroad, indexes rallied as they caught up to Thursday’s big gains on Wall Street.

South Korea’s Kospi jumped 4.6% and trimmed its losses from earlier this month taken because of sell-offs for AI-related stocks. The Kospi has nearly doubled since the start of the year.

Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 2.8%, and France’s CAC 40 climbed 1.8% for two of the world’s bigger moves.

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But even then, there were signs of strain in their relationship — tensions that could be on full display during next week’s G7 summit in France.

Back in 2017, Trump was a brash businessman just elected to America's most powerful office, and Macron was an upstart politician who had won his race in a landslide. At a NATO summit in Brussels, they clinched hands far longer than most people do when they meet for the first time. Neither seemed to want to be the first to break a grip so tight that it exposed white knuckles.

Nevertheless, a friendship was born. And early on, Macron seemed to be the one European leader with a knack for managing his mercurial, three-decades-older counterpart.

Macron invited the Republican president to join him for Bastille Day celebrations in July 2017, including an Eiffel Tower dinner date with their wives. Trump reciprocated by making Macron the guest of honor the following year at his first White House state dinner, the highest diplomatic honor the United States can extend to an ally.

But by the end of Trump's first term, the bromance had faded. And in his second term, the leaders now openly trade barbs, disagreeing over tariffs, Ukraine and the Iran war. That dynamic will be scrutinized next week when Trump and the leaders of Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy and Japan join Macron in the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains for the G7 summit.

Trump's long-simmering frustrations with US allies could be on display

There could be awkward moments between Trump and Macron, as well as among Trump and the other G7 leaders he's criticized for not joining him in Iran.

“But I also think European leaders are quite professionals when it comes to politics, and in some ways diplomacy at this point, and will maybe see it as an opportunity as well,” Max Bergmann, director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an interview.

Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, said the Trump-Macron relationship has been further complicated by the Iran war and Trump's complaints “that Europeans weren't helping, when they hadn't been consulted, and their interests are very much affected by this.”

“I think that was a negative for Macron,” Volker said.

Trump joined Israel in a war against Iran over its nuclear program back in February without consulting other U.S. allies. He then complained publicly when European countries spurned his requests for their help.

Waning support for Ukraine in its war against Russia from the Trump administration “has really irritated the French,” Volker said. “They feel this is important and we're not paying attention to it.” Macron invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to join the leaders’ discussions on Tuesday.

Macron is the G7 member who has dealt with Trump the longest

In Trump's first term, Macron appeared confident that he could persuade and influence the U.S. leader, but the relationship increasingly has come to be defined by their disagreements.

Macron now says he is “careful” about Trump's statements, suggesting he no longer takes them at face value. Their relationship remains cordial as each calls the other “my friend.” But the relationship has also experienced some ups and downs.

As president-elect, Trump attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in late 2024 at Macron's invitation. After Trump began his second term in 2025, Macron was an early Oval Office visitor. The president wrote on social media that he was “delighted” to welcome Macron back to the White House and said the relationship with France has been “very special.”

But at one point during the meeting, the French president publicly corrected Trump after he wrongly suggested that Europe would recover the money it had provided to support Ukraine. With a smile, Macron touched Trump's forearm and replied, “We provided real money.”

Macron also condemned as “brutal and unfounded” new tariffs that Trump slapped on steel, aluminum and a broader range of European imports in early 2025.

But there have also been some lighter moments mixed with the tensions.

A documentary aired last year on French television showed Macron telling Trump during a phone call that Zelenskyy had agreed to a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal. Trump replied, “You’re the greatest.”

Macron has often said he can reach Trump directly whenever he needs to — and proved his point during last year’s U.N. General Assembly session in New York. After police officers blocked the French leader from crossing a street because traffic had been halted for Trump’s motorcade, Macron whipped out his cellphone and dialed the U.S. president.

“How are you?” Macron said. “Guess what? I’m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you!”

‘This is not a show,’ Macron has said about Trump's NATO ambiguity

Macron has argued that Trump’s “America first” policies bolstered his case for a stronger European defense capability that would lessen reliance on the United States.

In April of this year, as Trump sent mixed signals about Washington's commitment to NATO after the start of the war in Iran, Macron delivered some of his sharpest criticism of the U.S. president.

“There is too much talk, and it's going in all directions,” Macron said. “We all need stability, calm and a return to peace. This is not a show.”

“You have to be serious, and when you want to be serious, you don't say the opposite every day of what you said the day before,” he said.

Trump, while mimicking a French accent, recently has taken to reenacting a conversation he says he had with Macron over drug prices and tariffs. Trump also poked Macron by telling a private luncheon in April that his wife, Brigitte Macron, treats her husband badly. The comments were in a video the White House had posted on its YouTube channel before blocking access.

Macron didn't see any humor in Trump's comments. “The remarks I heard were neither elegant nor appropriate,” he said. “They do not deserve a response.”

Still, Macron has tried to accommodate Trump's schedule to ensure his presence at the summit in Evian-les-Bains, knowing that he has a record of leaving such gatherings early.

Macron originally had set Sunday, which is Trump's 80th birthday, as the opening day of the summit, but he pushed the start back a day because Trump is celebrating the occasion with a UFC show staged on the White House grounds.

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After a lackluster first half in which both teams were jeered as they left the field, the Czech Republic took the lead in the 59th minute on a header by captain Ladislav Krejci after a long throw-in into the penalty area.

South Korea equalized in the 67th, when Hwang scored after faking a shot with a nifty move to clear two Czech players. The midfielder who plays for Dutch club Feyenoord then made the cross from the right flank for Oh Hyeon-gyu's decisive strike in the 80th in a match played in front of hundreds of empty seats at Guadalajara Stadium.

The South Korean squad celebrated with its fans behind one of the goals after the final whistle. Players later posed for a photo with the fans behind them.

“It was our first game and a very difficult one,” South Korea coach Hong Myung-bo said. “The win itself makes me happy, but what’s even more positive is that our boys won by not giving up. I knew that we were more than capable of winning, so at 1-1, I told the boys to keep playing the way we’ve been playing.”

It was South Korea's first opening World Cup win since it beat Greece in 2010 in South Africa. South Korea beat European opponent in the tournament for a third straight time, following wins over Portugal in 2022 and Germany in 2018.

Let by star forward Son Heung-min, South Korea controlled possession and outshot the Czechs, who were making their first World Cup appearance since 2006. The Koreans, ranked 25th by FIFA, had most of the significant scoring chances against the 38th-ranked Czechs but failed to capitalize early.

Son was looking to become South Korea’s top goal scorer at the World Cup and the Asian player with the most goals in the tournament. The 33-year-old former Tottenham star, who now plays for Los Angeles FC of Major League Soccer, entered Thursday having scored three goals over three prior World Cups.

Appearing in his fourth World Cup, Son had a couple of good opportunities to add to his tally but missed wide in the first half and had a close-range shot saved in the second.

The Czechs thought they had retaken the lead with another set piece in the 77th, but Tomas Soucek was ruled offside on his header.

Czech Republic coach Miroslav Koubek said “probably the better team won.” But he said his team could have had a better outcome if it weren’t for “some mistakes.”

“We played very well, it could have been a draw and we could have won as well,” Koubek said.

The announced attendance was 44,985 at the 45,664-capacity Guadalajara Stadium, a crowd that included FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Sections in the middle of the stands had many unoccupied seats and there were other empty seats scattered across the stadium.

South Korea is making its 11th straight World Cup appearance and 12th overall, the most of any Asian country. Its best result was a fourth-place finish at the tournament it co-hosted with Japan in 2002. Since then, the South Koreans have never gone beyond the round of 16.

In the other Group A match on Thursday, co-host Mexico defeated South Africa 2-0 in the tournament opener in Mexico City.

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The World Cup returns to the U.S. on Friday for the first time in 32 years after Trump threw himself into winning the bid to co-host the soccer tourney during his first term. He’ll be feted Sunday, his 80th birthday, during a UFC fight night that’s expected to draw thousands to the White House grounds. Hours after the final bout, he’s scheduled to jet off to the G7 summit in the French Alps for talks with several world leaders he’s been beefing with over war and tariffs.

But Trump set expectations even higher for the coming days when he announced Thursday that the U.S. and Iran could come to terms this weekend on an agreement that would set the pathway to end the three-month-old war that's been broadly unpopular with Americans and has rattled global oil markets. He said he plans to dispatch Vice President JD Vance to the signing of the agreement.

Trump has said on several occasions in recent weeks that he's on the cusp of a deal without anything coming to fruition. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted Friday on X that an agreement “has never been closer.” He gave no details, saying a final deal was still pending.

Still, Trump is claiming this time might be different.

The breakthrough comes after he threatened to escalate the conflict with more intense bombardment of Iran and by seizing control of Iran’s oil industry, including capturing Iran's vital Kharg Island oil facility. The president's threats followed back-and-forth strikes this week that had rendered a temporary ceasefire agreed to in early April all but meaningless.

“They’ve taken a pounding like very few people could take," Trump said in an Oval Office exchange with reporters as he explained why he was confident that, this time, a deal would come through. "And they want to make the deal a lot more than I do.”

Trump offered scant details about the settlement he says is taking shape, but told reporters that he believed the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who was thought to have been wounded on the first day of the war and has not been seen in public since, is ready to sign off on the deal.

Underscoring the fragility of the talks, Trump on Friday lashed out at Iranian officials on social media and said: “They better get their act together, and FAST!”

The White House on Friday signaled that efforts on landing the deal continued. The contours of the emerging agreement call for Iran’s nuclear material to be destroyed and removed and its nuclear program to be dismantled, according to a senior administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Iran is expected to receive sanctions relief if a deal is reached, but Vance stressed its government would only receive “economic benefits” if it meets obligations.

“The president is going to get us a good outcome, one way or the other,” Vance said in a posting on X.

Trump's heightened threats are aimed at creating an off-ramp

With the conflict intensifying over the past week, Trump’s threat to escalate U.S. military action seemed in part aimed at demonstrating to the hawkish flank of his political base that he was willing to play “hardball” with the Iranians if they didn't come to a deal soon, said Ali Vaez, Iran director at the International Crisis Group.

Trump in March warned he would target Iran’s infrastructure and put American troops on Kharg Island before he ultimately backed down, and the two countries agreed to the temporary ceasefire.

Almost immediately after raising the idea again on social media Thursday, Trump appeared to back away. He called into a morning show on Fox News Channel and questioned whether Americans had the “stomach" for an option that would require putting U.S. troops in harm's way.

Hours later, Trump announced he had decided to cancel orders for “very hard” strikes on Iran and said a deal was close.

Vaez said even as Trump was posting on social media Thursday about escalating strikes, mediators from Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar had been making progress in their talks with Iran.

At the same time, Iran also may have reset the equation for Trump with its decision last weekend to attack Israel directly for the first time since the ceasefire after Israeli forces carried out military strikes on Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

With the move, Iran signaled that Israel could no longer bomb Lebanon without facing a meaningful reaction and in the process also raised the cost for the U.S. to follow through on its commitment to help safeguard Israel.

“It really does appear to me that Trump wants to bring this to an end, but his real challenge is that he’s looking for a victory lap and an exit ramp and those two things are not necessarily compatible,” Vaez said.

Trump expresses frustration with war narrative

Trump has been boasting since the early weeks of the conflict that he'd already won the war — much of the Islamic Republic's leadership has been killed in the bombings and the Iranian navy and air force have been severely degraded.

But Iran continues to effectively keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, choking a waterway through which about 20% of the world's oil supply passed before the war, and has yet to agree to restart negotiations with the U.S. over its concerns about Iran's nuclear program, the main reason Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave to justify launching the war.

But the real problem, Trump grumbled Thursday, was largely a public relations issue.

"They could wave the white flag of surrender. They could say: ‘We surrender, we surrender, we’re finished, we’ve had it. The United States is the greatest power, praise be to Allah,’" Trump said on Fox News. “They could say it loud and clear. And the fake news would say it was a great victory for Iran.”

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, a former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Trump has grown impatient with Iran and the renewed strikes and threats on Kharg Island and Iran's energy sector were intended to get the negotiations back to the “right place.”

Polls show that the conflict is largely unpopular with Americans. McCaul said he believes the Iranians want to “try to drag this out as long as they can,” closer to the midterm elections in November, because they see that as being to their benefit.

War will be high on agenda at next week's G7

Deal or no deal, the war will loom large during next week's talks at the Group of Seven summit in bucolic Évian-les-Bains, France.

Trump has frequently criticized some of the group leaders — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz — for resisting his calls to aid the U.S. and Israeli war effort.

The four leaders have also angered Trump by criticizing how he's gone about executing the war and his lack of consultation with allies before jumping into a conflict that's hurt the global economy as oil prices have surged.

But Trump said he is optimistic he could have an agreement before his talks with leaders in France.

“The strait will officially open as soon as we sign, which could be soon, very soon — maybe over the weekend in Europe,” Trump said.

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The comments were made in response to speculation that the bullet fragment could exonerate defendant Tyler Robinson. Conjecture over the evidence in Kirk’s killing at Utah Valley University has fueled unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that there might have been a second shooter or that his death was staged.

Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty if Robinson is convicted. The 23-year-old from southwestern Utah is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk, a conservative activist who was shot in the neck while addressing a crowd of thousands on the Orem campus. Robinson has not yet entered a plea.

Robinson’s attorneys accused prosecutors of going on a “media tour” to discuss expert reports about the bullet fragment, violating the judge's restrictions against speaking about the case outside court. They have tried to guard against media coverage that they say sometimes misrepresents Robinson, as his case has drawn intense public attention.

Prosecutors countered that they had a right to speak to the press to correct misinformation about a preliminary finding by ballistics experts. Those experts' initial tests did not match the bullet fragment with a gun that investigators believe was used to kill Kirk.

In court filings, Robinson’s attorneys made public the failure to conclusively link the bullet fragment with the rifle. They said it appeared to be “exculpatory evidence,” without noting that the finding was preliminary and that further testing was planned. That spurred stories by some outlets raising questions about the prosecution's case: A March 30 headline in the U.K.-based Daily Mail reported that the bullet that killed Kirk “did NOT match” the rifle investigators say was used to kill Kirk.

Authorities have said DNA consistent with Robinson’s was found on the trigger of the rifle, the fired cartridge casing, two unfired cartridges and a towel used to wrap the rifle.

“The rules expressly allow lawyers to set the record straight,” Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard wrote in a court filing.

Ballard argued Friday that he didn't speak to the media about case specifics and only spoke generally about how ballistics testing can be inconclusive. He said his goal “was to respond to the substantial undue prejudicial effect of the media stories.”

Defense attorney Richard Novak disagreed, saying Ballard did not speak to the media using general terms and tried to “influence public perception” of the case.

“What was going on here was an attempt to influence the jury pool,” Novak argued.

State District Judge Tony Graf has said he will issue his decision about the contempt allegation at a later date.

Earlier Friday, Graf declined a defense request to halt the proceedings while they appeal a June 1 order in which the judge declined to bar cameras from the courtroom.

The ruling comes ahead of a key hearing scheduled to begin July 6, when prosecutors must show they have enough evidence to warrant a trial. That would mark the most significant presentation of evidence to date in the case, which has so far focused on matters of media access.

Before Friday's hearing, the defense team pointed to another criminal case in which prosecutors were accused of contempt and suggested that one potential remedy would be to bar the state from seeking the death penalty.

While the judge in that earlier case disagreed that an order barring the death penalty was merited, Robinson’s attorneys noted that “the court did not conclude that such a remedy was beyond its authority where the facts support it.”

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Brown reported from Billings, Montana.

Constantino, a political newcomer and candidate in the June 23 Republican primary to succeed Rep. Elise Stefanik, boasts a giant “Vote for Trump” sign atop his successful sticker business in the city of Amsterdam. He recorded a hip-hop album titled “Thank you President Trump." He even gifted Trump a big bronze statue of Trump himself last year at his West Palm Beach golf course.

Constantino's antics have not earned him fans among local party officials, who overwhelmingly support his opponent, state Assembly Member Robert Smullen, in the 21st Congressional District race. But Constantino has won over one powerful Republican who still has the power to sway primaries: Trump.

“Anthony is strongly supported by many of the most Highly Respected MAGA Warriors in our Movement, including Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Roger Stone!” Trump wrote in an endorsement of Constantino.

The president added: “The sign is still there!”

Constantino's battle against Smullen, a former U.S. Marine Corps colonel, is shaping up to be another test of Trump's pull at the ballot box, pitting the brash MAGA disciple against a more traditional conservative in the solid-red district.

Constantino has relentlessly attacked Smullen, calling him a “Trump hater” and giving him a derisive nickname out of the Trump playbook — “Slimebob.” He also doesn't miss a chance to feud with the state's Republican leadership.

“The New York GOP is a failing establishment, it’s a losing establishment,” Constantino said in an interview. “They reject outsiders. This happened with Donald Trump. The Republican Party tried to keep Donald Trump out, as well, because they knew he was going to reform things.”

Smullen has cast himself as the adult in the room, stressing his experience in the state Legislature, his military service, and his own ties to Trump.

“I think I directly represent the vast majority of the people in this district, their values, what they think about issues,” he said.

The district is 'not your country club Republican party’

The largely rural district sprawls across most of New York’s northern tip and includes the Adirondack Mountains, the U.S. Army's Fort Drum, dairy farms and dozens of small cities, towns and villages.

It's solid GOP territory — Stefanik won her last race by 24 points — with registered Republicans outnumbering Democrats 215,000 to 134,000. Voters there skew older and white, with many prison guards, police officers, farmers and devoutly religious people, according to Jack McGuire, an associate professor of politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

“It’s not your country club Republican party,” he said.

Stefanik shocked the New York political world when she announced late last year that she was suspending her campaign for governor and would not seek reelection to the House.

Her decision came after she didn't get full-throated support from Trump in the governor's race, and it followed an episode where Trump withdrew her nomination to be his ambassador to the United Nations over concerns about Republicans' threadbare majority in the House.

Local Republicans first began angling for the seat after she was tapped to head to the United Nations, only to begin circling again when she launched her run for governor.

A clash of candidates and styles

Smullen, who represents parts of the district in the state Assembly, is running a traditional campaign, chatting up voters at volunteer firehouses and community events.

He highlights a 24-year military career that included three tours of Afghanistan and combat experience, along with his more than seven years in the state Legislature. His 2018 appointment by Trump to serve in the White House Fellows program, along with attending both of Trump's inaugurations, was a go-to line when Constantino moved to cast himself as the Trump candidate during a recent debate.

“The idea that I have never been a supporter of President Donald Trump is a lie, it really is,” Smullen said during the debate. “And what's happening here is that if you say it long enough and if you say it hard enough then it's going to be true. But it's not true.”

Local GOP officials and committees are backing Smullen, as is the chair of the state Republicans. He also has the support of the state Conservative Party, which guarantees him a line in the general election even if he loses the GOP primary.

Matt Capano, who owns a hardware store in Gloversville, a small city in the district, said he knew Smullen as his local state lawmaker and had to “give him a lot of credit” because of his experience.

Constantino — who found success with his company Sticker Mule — is more of a showman. His style has forced his buttoned-up opponent to let loose. Smullen's campaign launched an anti-Constantino website that excoriates him for, among many other things, his past registration as a Democrat.

“I am the conservative Republican in this race,” Smullen said at the debate.

Constantino responded that he registered as a Democrat to vote for a childhood friend who was running for political office while calling himself a “lifelong conservative."

It didn't take long for him to steer the conversation back toward the president.

“I've always had his back through the whole thing,” he said of Trump. “In fact, in 2020, when he nicely exited the White House and a terrible person named Joe Biden entered, I went and I supported the president quietly by buying a Mar-a-Lago membership."

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Traffic homicide detectives with the Hialeah Police Department confirmed the arrest of Leonel Alejandro Laferte following an investigation into the crash.

According to police, the collision occurred around 4:11 a.m. near Southeast Fourth Avenue and East Okeechobee Road.

Investigators said Laferte was driving a dark-colored vehicle when he allegedly struck 37-year-old Kenneth Wembley, who was riding a bicycle, and then continued southeast on East Okeechobee Road without stopping.

Wembley died from his injuries, authorities said.

Police previously confirmed that Laferte’s vehicle was believed to have noticeable front-end damage and was missing its passenger-side mirror.

Lt. Eddie Rodriguez, a HPD spokesman, said Laferte is facing one count each of leaving the scene of a crash involving death and driving while his license was suspended.

Police said no additional information was being released as the case moves forward for prosecution.

With Karlsson knocked out of Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final because of injury, the Golden Knights took four penalties that turned into two power-play goals against. Carter Hart allowed four goals for a fifth consecutive game in the series, and now his team is on the brink of elimination after losing 4-2 to Carolina on Thursday night.

“When we lose Bill, it kind of screws things up," coach John Tortorella said. “We lost momentum when we went back to back in penalties. It was about the same time that we lost Bill. We’ve got to find a way.”

Karlsson appeared to injure his left arm or shoulder after getting knocked into the boards by Hurricanes defenseman Sean Walker a little over eight minutes into the second period. He got medical attention on the bench briefly, skated off and never returned and Tortorella foreshadowed that being the end of Karlsson's series.

“He’s not going to be with us, probably,” Tortorella said. "We’ve got to find a way to fill that void, not with just one guy but as a team.”

Karlsson making his playoff debut at the start of the second round changed everything for Vegas, shifting Mitch Marner to the wing and providing the kind of strong, reliable center depth needed to win this time of year. Karlsson had nine points in 14 games after missing the previous six months because of an undisclosed injury.

But the void left by Karlsson’s departure was all too clear, especially on the penalty kill. Carolina’s Andrei Svechnikov scored the first of his two power-play goals less than four minutes after Karlsson left, then added another in the third.

“He’s an important piece to us: up the middle of the ice, a penalty killer, power play guy," Tortorella said. “He’s a winner."

Fourth-liner Nick Dowd called Karlsson one of the team's best players. Defenseman Brayden McNabb, who along with Karlsson and Shea Theodore are the only players who have been around for Vegas’ entire nine-year existence, said Karlsson was a big leader in the locker room.

Karlsson is also nearly impossible to replace.

“He means so much," fellow center Jack Eichel said. "He’s a world class player. He plays in all situations. He’s extremely reliable in our own zone, and he creates a lot of offense. ... It's tough. You lose someone like Karl who’s so valuable to our team and playing so well. But it just means everyone else has to step up.”

Tortorella expects that to happen, promising there will be a Game 7 in Raleigh on Wednesday night.

“We’ll be back here. We’re just going to do it in a different order," Tortorella said. "I’m going to leave my clothes here, that’s for sure. They’ll be in the hotel.”

To do that, they'll have to win Game 6 back home in Las Vegas on Sunday. Hart is expected to be in net again despite a save percentage of .856 in the final.

Asked if he considered going to backup Adin Hill — who backstopped Vegas to the Cup in 2023 — in the third period, Tortorella scoffed and said, "That could be the stupidest question I’ve heard.”

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The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon and his ex-defense minister, Kim Yong Hyun, guilty of aiding an adversary and abusing their power, saying they sought to provoke North Korea into launching armed attacks or other serious retaliation against South Korea to manufacture a national emergency. It said the moves harmed South Korea’s military interests by exposing its capabilities, undermining its ability to conduct future operations and prompting North Korea to strengthen its defense posture. Yoon’s lawyers appealed the ruling.

The same court earlier sentenced Yoon to life in prison for a rebellion conviction over his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.

North Korea accused Seoul of flying drones over Pyongyang to drop propaganda leaflets three times in October 2024. Kim, who was South Korea’s defense minister at the time, issued a vague denial before the Defense Ministry said it could neither confirm nor deny the allegations. Tensions rose sharply but did not lead to any military clashes.

Yoon’s lawyers criticized the latest ruling, saying the drone flights were a response to North Korea flying thousands of trash-carrying balloons into the South earlier in 2024. They argued that a guilty verdict would undermine South Korea’s security interests.

Investigators led by special prosecutor Cho Eun-suk had sought a 30-year prison term for Yoon, accusing him of trying to create a warlike situation between the Koreas while plotting an authoritarian push to remove his political opponents and “monopolize” power. They had sought a 25-year prison term for Kim, a key confidant of Yoon who helped plan and mobilize forces for Yoon’s martial law declaration.

Yoon proceeded with the declaration late in the night of Dec. 3, 2024, delivering a televised address in which he accused liberal lawmakers of being North Korea-sympathizing “anti-state” forces. He cited a range of grievances, but particularly the opposition’s impeachments of senior officials and cuts to his government’s budget bill.

Martial law lasted about six hours until lawmakers broke through a blockade of soldiers and police at the National Assembly and voted to overturn it, forcing Yoon’s Cabinet to lift the measure.

Yoon was quickly impeached, suspended from office, and formally removed by the Constitutional Court. He was arrested in July 2025 and several criminal trials are ongoing.

The verdict in the most serious case, of rebellion, has been appealed both by Yoon and prosecutors, who had sought a death sentence.

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Five of those inspections resulted in follow-up inspections being required.

Elvis Italian Grille is a relatively new restaurant. It’s the old Mineo’s Pizza & Wings location on Griffin Road.

Records show it has been open for less than a year. An inspector visited the restaurant last week in response to a complaint.

Below is a list of the two restaurants that were inspected and some of the violations documented.

No kitchens in the Florida Keys were ordered shut last week.

All of the establishments mentioned were allowed to re-open after completing a required cleanup and passing a follow-up inspection.

**SICHUAN FISH RESTAURANT (SICHUAN CUISINE)

1242 NE 163RD ST.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 6/2

23 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 6 droppings on dry storage floor. Also 4 droppings on kitchen floor in between the triple doors reach in freezer and wall, 1 dropping under dishwasher machine, 1 dropping on top of the clean garbage bags box located on front counter shelves.”

“Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Observed 3 cases with Spicy Mala Soup Base with Beef Tallow, with mold like growth in walk in cooler.”

“Accumulation of debris inside ware washing machine.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Under dishwasher machine. Repeat Violation.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw beef over cooked noodles in reach in cooler, operator removed it.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink.”

FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION 6/3

“Observed 7 droppings on the dry storage area shelf.”

**ELVIS ITALIAN GRILLE

4261 GRIFFIN ROAD

DANIA BEACH

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 6/5

18 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 1. Approximately 5 live roaches found in kitchen by cookline ;2 live roaches on floor by stoves, 2 live roaches on floor by reach in coolers, 1 live roach on floor behind ice machine in kitchen.”

“Dead roaches on premises. 1. Approximately 5 dead roaches observed by ware washing station 2 dead roaches on floor under bag in box soda area, 2 dead roaches on floor under triple sink and 1 dead roach on floor by dishwasher in kitchen. 2. Approximately 3 dead roaches observed on floor of bar area.”

“Live, small flying insects found 1. Approximately 10 live small flying insects observed at bar separate from kitchen.”

“Accumulation of black mold-like substance in the interior of the ice bin.”

“Interior of microwave has accumulation of food debris.”

“Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. 1. Observed bar area espresso machine with build up milk residue.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. 1. Container of raw chicken stored over container of raw steaks. 2. Container of raw salmon stored over container of cut spinach.”

“No proof of required state approved employee training provided for employee hired more than 60 days ago.”

Newcomer Abelardo de la Espriella, a right-wing supporter of Donald Trump, and Iván Cepeda, a leftist and ally of outgoing President Gustavo Petro, moved forward after a tense election on May 31.

In Coral Gables, early voting will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. from June 15-20 at the University of Miami’s Watsco Center, at 1245 Dauer Drive — and not at the consulate at 280 Aragon Ave.

Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak, Jr., said on Thursday that the decision to avoid the consulate prioritized security, while the city was already dealing with high traffic during the FIFA World Cup.

Election Day is on June 21, and officials expect a high turnout. Voters will have assigned precincts available in a searchable database that requires the number of the Colombian identification, or “cedula.”

In South Florida, there will be six precincts. Three will be in Miami-Dade County and three in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Aside from the new one in Coral Gables, there will be one at the main gymnasium of the Miami Dade College campus, at 11011 SW 104 St., in Kendall, and one at the Milander Center, at 4800 Palm Ave., in Hialeah.

The voting precincts in Broward will be at Coral Springs High School, 7201 West Sample Road, and in the gymnasium of Cypress Bay High School, at 18600 Vista Park Boulevard, in Weston.

The precinct in Palm Beach will be at the Public Safety Conference Center at the Palm Beach State College at 4200 South Congress Ave.

In Florida, the consulate also reported that there will be a new precinct at the Strobes Event Center, at 3251 17 St., in Sarasota.

For more information from the Colombian consulate of Miami, visit this page. For more information from the Embassy of Colombia in the U.S., visit this page.

The sport is so popular it has surpassed hockey and all other sports in youth participation, according to a recent report by Jumpstart, a Canadian charity that helps low-income youth play organized sports. It said half the nation’s youth participate in organized soccer.

Reece was one of many locals sporting Canada soccer gear on Thursday ahead of their nation’s World Cup opener Friday against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

“Wish I had tickets to the game tomorrow, but I don’t,” Reece said. “I’m going to a game in Vancouver. It was cheaper to get a ticket out there.”

Is Canada about to have a soccer moment?

“It already has a good hold in this country in terms of participation. I think we all expect that to grow. These tournaments inspire so many next-generation people to find their heroes, play the game,” said Christina Linz, president of the women's Northern Super League. “I think (it) will really draw those emotional connections.”

Thursday in Toronto looked a bit like wear-your-favorite-soccer-jersey day as the tournament opened in Mexico. Canada’s red tops, like the one worn by Reece, were among the most popular.

Mexico (No. 13) and the United States (No. 17), the other co-hosts for the World Cup, each sit higher in FIFA’s rankings than Canada, which is 30th, but that means there’s more to gain for the Canadians. Especially when it comes to generating passion for the sport.

Canada coach Jesse Marsch said Thursday he has “felt a real momentum behind this team and behind this moment” as Canada Soccer, the sport’s national governing body, looks to capitalize on hosting the World Cup for the first time.

“Canada has become more and more multicultural, and I think the excitement for so many different nations to be here in North America and in Canada, and to be playing with all of the greatest players in the world and some of the greatest coaches, I think that there’s real excitement behind what this will be,” Marsch said.

Potentially stalling the potential of Marsch’s squad is the absence of star defender Alphonso Davies, who was ruled out for Friday’s match as he continues to nurse a hamstring injury sustained during Bayern Munich's Champions League semifinal against Paris Saint-Germain on May 6.

Marsch is hopeful that Davies will be able to return at some point in the group stage. He said Davies had an MRI on Wednesday.

“We’re getting ready to ramp things up,” Marsch said Thursday.

Davies is one of many Canada players fighting injuries. Defender Moise Bombito is recovering from a broken leg, but Marsch said Bombito is “ready to contribute.”

Regardless of who’s on the pitch for Canada, it’s ready to make a statement, and players are eager to prove their country is a soccer nation.

“Every one of these boys is incredibly Canadian, and the pride they have in putting on the jersey, representing the country, hearing the national anthem,” Marsch said. “These guys sing the national anthem, belt it out to the top of their lungs, because they want to show the country how proud they are to be here, to be Canadians, and to represent what Canada is.”

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Lexie Linderman is a student in the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State.

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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts downplayed the significance of the injury.

Roberts said the move was precautionary because the Dodgers did not want to risk Ohtani being injured further.

Roberts also said he is optimistic that Ohtani will be ready to play Friday night when the Dodgers meet the White Sox in Chicago to open a three-game series between division leaders.

“We tried to be smart about it and get him out of the game,” Roberts said. “He told the trainer that he felt a little something behind his knee and I just didn’t see any sense in risking it.”

The reigning NL MVP hit his 13th homer of the season, a solo shot, in the third inning. He also had a single and walked twice, reaching base in all four of his plate appearances.

Ohtani was not made available to the media following the game. He is hitting .305 with 40 RBIs. As a pitcher, he is 6-2 with a 1.06 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 67 2/3 innings.

Starting pitcher Justin Wrobleski left the game in the fifth inning with a left hamstring contusion. The left-hander was hit by a line drive off the bat of Bryan Reynolds. The ball ricocheted off Wrobleski to first baseman Freddie Freeman. Wrobleski collided with Reynolds while taking Freeman’s toss at first base.

“I’ll get some treatment on it and I’ll be fine,” Wrobleski said. “I don’t think it’s a big deal. Just a little frustrating.” ___

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But on Saturday?

“We got to watch the Knicks,” he said.

In most nations hosting the World Cup, soccer is a fixation. But with the New York Knicks holding a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals against San Antonio and one win from their first title since 1973, attention is surely going to be split this weekend. The Knicks can clinch with a victory in Game 5 on Saturday night. Tipoff will come shortly after Brazil and Morocco wrap a World Cup match in New Jersey, and it will directly overlap with a showdown between Scotland and Haiti.

“I want to watch all the World Cup games, but for us, the Knicks is still a priority,” the 38-year-old Carson said while he and a friend viewed the World Cup opening ceremony at The Football Factory at Legends, a soccer bar near Madison Square Garden. “I’ll probably catch the (soccer) recap after.”

The Knicks have gripped New York, but even some diehard fans already have divided attention. Hours before sitting courtside for the Knicks' historic Game 4 rally at MSG, film director Spike Lee was clad in green and gold for a visit to Brazil's training facility in New Jersey on Wednesday.

Brazil plays Morocco in its opener at East Rutherford, New Jersey, at 6 p.m., a match slated to end about 30 minutes before the NBA game starts in Texas. Scotland-Haiti in Massachusetts starts at 9 p.m.

The Football Factory has 20 screens, enough to satisfy all fandoms.

“I hope they put it to bed Saturday night, so we can just say, well done, Knicks. Have your parade, and that’s it. Now we can concentrate on the soccer," said Jack Keane, the Irishman who owns The Football Factory.

Keane's bar hosts supporters groups from Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Leeds and AC Milan. He estimated more than 2,000 people come through his bar on Wednesday night, when the Knicks won Game 4.

“The Knicks crowd was the same as the Champions League final crowd," he said.

Keane's bar was charging a $20 cover, with one drink included, for the Mexico-South Africa opener.

A 10-minute walk south and east, fans also were lined up to enter Smithfield Hall, which hosts the supporters clubs of Manchester United, West Ham, Nottingham Forest, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Roma and Marseille.

“Usually for American sports, because they’re longer, people don’t like to stand,” said Kieron Slattery, an Irishman who is Smithfield's co-owner. “For the Knicks right now, they’re standing. It’s like a soccer game atmosphere.”

Most of the fans watching Thursday were New Yorkers, many of them originally from elsewhere.

Ryan Cole, a 44-year-old from Britain's Southampton who has lived in New York for a dozen years, wore an England jersey and hopes to come up with a ticket for The Three Lions' group-stage game against Panama on June 27. His grandfather, William Cole, was an English League linesman — he has a program with the grandpa's name from a Manchester-Chelsea match in 1952.

“You just see a wave of jerseys everywhere, which is amazing,” he said of the soccer kits and Knicks gear. “It’s just amazing to be in New York all the time, but now in particular with the Knicks, with the World Cup, with summer, couldn't be happier.”

One of his friends, 46-year-old Joel Ramirez, is a New York transplant from Dallas with Mexican parents. During the 2022 World Cup, he watched games at different ethnic restaurants that had ties to a team involved in the match, such as Brooklyn's Sunset Park for Mexico. He thinks the soccer supporters will have greater numbers in the bars Saturday than Knicks fans.

“There's going to be pound for pound a lot more football fans in the city,” he said. “I'll be watching both."

New York City soccer bars open early on weekends for fans to watch lunchtime matches in England and Europe. The World Cup is different.

"When you look at the Premier League, it’s a niche market, still. There’s people who watch it, people who don’t,” Keane said. “The World Cup is the big one. It’s the big party. Everyone’s got a shirt in the closet. Everyone’s going to claim either their own identity or a parent or a grandparent, get on the bandwagon.”

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La ceremonia para la suscripción de los acuerdos fue realizada en el palacio presidencial de Miraflores y estuvo encabezada por la presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez. Estuvieron presentes el presidente de Exploración y Producción de Shell, Peter Costello; la ministra de Petróleo venezolana, Paula Henao, y el presidente de PDVSA, Héctor Obregón.

Entre los cinco acuerdos suscritos destaca la licencia para el inicio de la Fase I de desarrollo y explotación del campo Loran, un conjunto de yacimientos de gas no asociado —que contiene principalmente ese hidrocarburo— ubicado en la fachada atlántica de Venezuela, con reservas estimadas en 7,5 billones de pies cúbicos, según cifras de PDVSA.

“La firma de estos acuerdos son un logro maravilloso para Venezuela y Shell; subraya nuestra alianza de mucho tiempo y estoy ansioso de trabajar juntos para ver lo que podemos lograr juntos en beneficio de Venezuela, de Shell”, indicó Costello.

Rodríguez, por su parte, indicó que la licencia del campo Loran “va a permitir que Venezuela dé un paso muy importante en su desarrollo gasífero y también como exportador de gas”.

“Lo dijimos desde que comenzamos las negociaciones con Shell y otras empresas en el área de gas, que queríamos convertir a Venezuela en un exportador de gas y con esta firma estamos reafirmando ese camino”, agregó la mandataria, destacando que el campo Loran estuvo sin desarrollo durante 23 años.

Los yacimientos se ubican mayoritariamente a ambos lados de la línea fronteriza entre Venezuela y Trinidad y Tobago.

Los gobiernos de Caracas y Nueva España —que en la década de 1990 firmaron el Tratado de Delimitación que establece los términos sobre la forma de explotación de cualquier yacimiento de hidrocarburos en ambos lados de la línea fronteriza— firmaron en 2015 un acuerdo para la explotación conjunta de yacimientos comunes, entre otras medidas para impulsar proyectos y beneficios binacionales.

El acuerdo fue suscrito luego de que en enero fue aprobada una nueva Ley de Hidrocarburos que redujo drásticamente el rígido control estatal sobre las operaciones petroleras vigente en las últimas dos décadas y que abrió ampliamente el sector a la inversión extranjera.

En respuesta a esa reforma legal, el Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos comenzó a flexibilizar las sanciones a los hidrocarburos venezolanos y amplió la capacidad de las compañías energéticas estadounidenses y de otros países para operar en Venezuela.

Después que una operación militar de fuerzas estadounidenses depuso y capturó al entonces presidente Nicolás Maduro la madrugada del 3 de enero pasado, Washington se ha propuesto impulsar la capacidad operativa de Venezuela y asumir el control de la producción, refinación y distribución global de los productos petroleros venezolanos.