Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Jeremiah Armsey, of Mount Dora, on Wednesday morning at Mile Marker 106, records show.

Armsey faced two misdemeanor charges: Giving a false name or identification to a law enforcement officer and disturbing the peace.

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Malaysia Edwards was last seen shortly after 1:15 a.m., near the 5800 block of Northwest 62nd Avenue, according to Claudinne Caro, a BSO spokeswoman.

Malaysia, who is about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 125 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes, and was wearing a hoodie and shorts, according to Caro.

Deputies asked anyone with information about Malaysia’s whereabouts to call Detective Leonard Charla at 954-321-4274 or at 954-764-4357.

Malaysia Edwards fue vista por última vez poco después de la 1:15 a.m. cerca de la cuadra 5800 de Northwest 62nd Avenue, según Claudinne Caro, portavoz de la BSO.

Malaysia, quien mide aproximadamente 5 pies y 4 pulgadas y pesa cerca de 125 libras, tiene cabello negro y ojos marrones, y vestía una sudadera con capucha y pantalones cortos, según Caro.

Los agentes solicitaron a cualquier persona con información sobre el paradero de Malaysia que llame al detective Leonard Charla al 954-321-4274 o al 954-764-4357.

Even one of golf's elder statesmen and a three-time major champion could learn something from the way the 17-year-old played Thursday in the first round of the U.S. Open.

Russell rarely looked like a rookie while shooting a 2-over 72 that left him five shots ahead of his 54-year-old playing partner.

“He played lovely, 2-over par was the worst he could’ve shot,” Harrington said. “He hit it dead straight all day, didn’t really have himself in too much trouble at all. And then, you know, probably could have been a couple better.”

Russell is a Florida State-bound amateur who was making his U.S. Open debut. He is so young that he said this week he couldn't even remember if he watched when Shinnecock Hills last hosted the U.S. Open in 2018.

The left-hander has a thin build and could probably be mistaken for closer to 12 from far away. Harrington, with some grey hair showing from beneath his blue hat, looks every bit the age of someone who qualified for this event by winning the U.S. Senior Open championship last year.

So Russell wasn't surprised to hear that spectators were frequently asking each other how old he was.

“That was the first time I’ve played with somebody maybe that much older than me,” Russell said. “Usually I’m playing Korn Ferry events, so they’re not too much older, maybe a couple years.”

Harrington won his first major title at the British Open in 2007, then repeated and added the PGA Championship in 2008, a few months before Russell was born.

Harrington was a fair amateur himself. The native of Ireland played on three straight Walker Cup teams for Great Britain & Ireland, including one that beat a U.S. squad featuring Tiger Woods in 1995.

But he wasn't sure his game was as developed as Russell's is now.

“I can’t remember what I was doing when I was 17 years of age,” Harrington said. “But yeah, I’m sure it’s all ahead of him.”

Russell, ranked No. 1 in the American Junior Golf Association and No. 7 among all amateurs in the world, earned his spot in the U.S. Open through a 36-hole qualifier — where Charlie Woods, his future college teammate and Tiger's son, was his caddie.

He quickly was ahead of Harrington, who bogeyed six of the final seven holes on the front. Harrington said there wasn't much talk between them, even when they stood just a few feet from each other in the 10th fairway after both hit their tee shots 307 yards. He said the lack of conservation wasn't because of the age difference, but rather because the conditions made it tough to hear anything.

“It was very windy out there. Your head's down, getting your work done,” Harrington said. “There wasn’t a great deal of chat. A lot of good shots for him, as I said, but not a great deal of chat.”

Still, there was enough interaction that Russell was able to learn something from the owner of 43 worldwide victories.

“It’s always good to play with a guy like that and he’s done really well for himself,” Russell said. “He’s played a lot of good golf. So I mean, anything you can pick up from them, whether it’s just the way they act, or the way they walk, or the way they interact with people.”

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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf

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According to a spokesperson for the Florida Forest Service, the man appeared to have suffered an allergic reaction while working as a firefighter near Krome Avenue’s Mile Marker 33.

The FFS firefighter was alert, and his vital signs were stable before Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel flew him to the HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, according to the FFS.

Patrick Mahoney, a wildfire mitigation specialist and spokesman for FFS, said the drought is mostly to blame for the triple trouble that firefighters faced.

TRIPLE TROUBLE

The wildfire, known as “Quarry 2,” east of Krome Avenue, has been the most damaging.

MDFR personnel reported it started with lightning on Sunday near the Metrowest Detention Center, west of Doral. As of Thursday afternoon, it had burned 15,900 acres and was 70% contained, according to FFS.

A wildfire, known as “Well,” also east of Krome Avenue, near the Florida Turnpike, had burned 500 acres and was 25% contained, according to FFS.

A wildfire, known as “Coptic,” was west of Krome Avenue and south of the Tamiami Trail, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. It had burned about 340 acres, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which monitors air quality.

HEALTH RISKS

Aside from the flames’ heat, firefighters were also dealing with a heat index of over 100 degrees and a heat advisory that increased the risks of outdoor activity on Thursday in South Florida.

While southeastern winds may have kept smoke away from the metro area, winds could veer more southernly from Thursday night to Friday morning — and push smoke pollution closer to the metro area, according to the National Weather Service.

MDFR personnel also warned that shifting wind conditions could cause smoke from the wildfires to drift into nearby communities and pollute air quality, so residents should “limit time outdoors, keep windows and doors closed,” and set air-conditioners to recirculate.

“It’s going to be a while before the smoke is gone because you need a ton of rain to come in,” Mahoney said.

This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

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Every Brazilian fan — in Philadelphia to watch their national team play Haiti on Friday at the World Cup — that stopped for a snapshot or a selfie with the 9-foot-11, 1,300-pound beast left the statue dressed in only his bronze trunks and boots.

No taking chances of getting hit by the Rocky curse.

Yes, the Rocky statue, long a symbol of resilience, heart and the unbreakable bond between Rocky and the people of Philadelphia, has taken a few more hits of late (even in retirement).

Visiting American sports fans have long learned the hard way that dressing the statue with colorful jerseys, scarfs, hats, anything found in your local Rally House, has only meant that team would suffer a knockout blow at the home of the local Philly team.

Scoff all you want.

The bad fortune stretched to soccer when fans of the Ecuador’s national team took over the Rocky steps and sang and danced and waved flags and ... dressed Rocky in a team jersey and tied the country’s flag around the fictional fighter’s neck.

It didn’t go well.

Amad Diallo scored in the 90th minute to lift Ivory Coast to a 1-0 victory over Ecuador in its first World Cup appearance in a dozen years.

And there ain’t gonna be no rematch.

Brazil fans noticed the outcome and one of their fan groups, the Green and Yellow Movement, urged visitors to keep their clothing to themselves.

“ ANTENCAO TORCEDOR!” the Instagram post warned.

Everyone is paying attention.

The translated text read: “It’s totally forbidden to put a Brazil shirt on the Rocky statue in Philly!!!!!”

Even Visit PA cheekily got in on the fun and tried to warn foreigners that — just like Ivan Drago learned the hard way — Rocky was not to be messed with.

“Countless football teams (as in American Football, not Fútbol — same curse, different sport) have all dressed the Rocky Statue in their colors and gone on to lose,” the Instagram post said. “Ecuador dressed Rocky last weekend Coincidence? Sadly, history says no.

“Philadelphia can’t wait to host you! (but Rocky does not need your kit)”

Brazilian fans paid heed to the warning through Thursday afternoon, and scores of fans simply took the spot in front of the statue and raised their arms in triumph just as Rocky did after so many fights, and many, many movies.

“This is a moment in Brazil,” said Lorival Guerreiro, who traveled from Limeira, Brazil, for the World Cup. “They promote this place to celebrate before the game. The Brazilians come here to celebrate our team.”

When the bronze statue was left on the steps after filming the “Rocky” movies, the museum fought to have it removed. It was eventually relocated to South Philadelphia before returning to the bottom of the steps in 2006. The statue was a huge hit and became a point of pilgrimage for people around the world.

According to the Philadelphia Visitor Center, about 4 million people visit the steps each year — rivaling the nearby Liberty Bell in annual foot traffic. The pop culture icon was recently moved to the top of the steps.

Roberto De Freitas, a native of Porto Alegre who now lives in Florida and is attending his third World Cup, climbed the steps for a photoshoot with perhaps Philadelphia’s most famous landmark. He was dressed in Brazil’s colors — down to the green sneakers — and was set to attend Friday’s game.

He hoped five-time World Cup champion Brazil would take a page from Rocky’s corner and win some more.

“We have five titles,” De Freitas said. “We are trying to get that sixth one.”

De Freitas had not yet heard of the Rocky curse but had no plans to tempt fate once he learned of the potential consequences.

“That’s what they said,” he asked with a laugh. “I’m for sure not going to do it.”

For the record, De Freitas said “Rocky” was his favorite of all the movies in the series.

The Rocky Shop at the base of the steps was loaded with tourists who snaked their way through fighter T-shirts and plush offerings of Mr. T’s character, Clubber Lang. Peruvian sports journalist Jampool Cuadros Estrada tried on a Rocky robe as a cameraman followed him around the store for their latest World Cup report.

Philadelphia, home to nearly 6,000 Brazilian-born immigrants, has a bit of a recent connection with the South American country. The Philadelphia Eagles opened their Super Bowl championship season with a win over the Green Bay Packers in Brazil in 2024.

Facing pressure to win its first World Cup title since 2002, Brazil was outplayed early and needed Vinícius Júnior’s 32nd-minute goal to get a 1-1 draw with Morocco on Saturday.

Brazil now needs to beware Haiti — a noted heavy underdog, just like Rocky.

“Brazil has the pressure. Haiti has the freedom,” Haitian singer Wyclef Jean wrote on social media. “And sometimes freedom is the most dangerous thing on the pitch. I can’t wait!!!!”

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The memorandum of understanding signed by President Donald Trump started a 60-day negotiating clock to reach a final deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear program. While Trump allies noted the agreement is not final, the lifting of economic sanctions on Iran’s sale of oil and the plan for a $300 billion fund to rebuild Iran and its economy were met with criticism from Republican leaders and conservative influencers, including some close Trump supporters.

“President Trump has pursued peace through strength. I hope the intermediaries working on this deal are not undermining that objective,” said Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who has urged Trump to keep up the pressure on Iran and last month warned against striking a bad deal.

“The $300 billion fund for the reconstruction and economic development of Iran — though not funded by U.S. taxpayers — would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison,” Wicker said, referring to the Democratic administration's Iran agreement that Trump withdrew from during his first term.

The criticism from within Trump’s own party — though hardly unanimous — comes as he is trying to bring an end to the unpopular war fewer than five months from midterm elections, where Republicans are facing headwinds in their effort to hold their narrow majorities.

Trump calls his critics ‘fools’

Wicker’s points were backed by a number of his colleagues, many of whom supported the war when it began.

“History demonstrates giving billions of dollars to the theocratic lunatics who want to kill you is an exceptionally bad idea," said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a staunch supporter of the war. “And so I hope we don’t do that.”

Trump on Truth Social called his critics “fools” and said the $300 billon payment to Iran by the United States is “fake news.” The interim pact promises a $300 billion fund for postwar reconstruction. It’s not clear where that money will come from — but Trump said, as Wicker noted, the U.S. would not contribute.

“All there is for the U.S. is Success, Lower Oil Prices, and Victory,” he posted.

Some senators question financial provisions

As the memorandum was released to Congress on Thursday, several Republican senators said it left them with questions, many of them about its financial provisions.

Majority Leader John Thune and South Dakota colleague Sen. Mike Rounds were seeking clarity on how financial incentives to Iran and conditions barring funding terrorism would be enforced, because “right now, a lot of money's going to go to Iran,” Rounds said.

To be sure, there were Republicans more closely aligned with Trump's America First policies in the Senate and elsewhere who were giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Sen. Roger Marshall stressed the point in the memorandum that supporters say gives the U.S. the upper hand. In a social media post, the Kansas Republican said one of the most important provisions “lays out a key commitment that strengthens regional security and ensures that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.”

Louisiana GOP Senate candidate John Fleming, who has focused on Trump's most loyal supporters ahead of a June 27 Republican primary runoff, said that means Trump has suggested that the U.S. will strike Iran again if it does not live up to the agreement.

“The criticism may be worthy if there isn't follow-through,” Fleming said. “He's using the speak-softly-and-carry-a-big-stick in offering them plenty of help, but at the same time he's got that stick ready if they don't live up to their agreements."

MAGA voices send a warning

Still, some of Trump's strongest supporters in conservative media have warned against the agreement.

Conservative radio host Mark Levin suggested a strategic rethinking to hold off on an agreement with Iran until after the midterms.

“We should consider slow-walking the enemy, building up our munitions, our oil reserves, get the price of gasoline down, get through the midterms, then knock them out,” he said in a social media post. Instead, the U.S. seemed to be “rushing to a deal, building up their oil industry” and agreeing to governments “transferring billions to them.”

Right-wing social media influencer Laura Loomer, who has long supported Trump while also promoting conspiracy theories, was more pointed in her criticism.

“Who is giving the President tainted, pro-Islamic intel?” she posted on X.

What all the critics shared is an abiding distrust of the Iranian regime, no matter their relationship to Trump.

“It does smack of the kind of appeasement," said former Vice President Mike Pence, whose relationship with Trump was fractured after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Bottom line. I don’t trust the Iranians.”

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Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa.

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Police officers arrested Julio Davila on Wednesday at the BBC Logistics, a freight forwarding service at 2016 NW 135 Ave., in Sweetwater, records show.

Davila allegedly stole iPhones on June 1 that were valued at $4,796 from a delivery table, according to the police officer’s arrest report.

Surveillance video shows Davila grabbing “a sealed package” and hiding it “inside his pants,” a police officer wrote, according to the report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Davila on Wednesday afternoon at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to inmate records.

Davila appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer on Thursday, and she ordered him to stay away from BBC Logistics.

Davila faced three counts of third-degree grand theft. His bond was $7,500.

Local 10 News Photojournalist Bruno Giglio and Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

Los agentes arrestaron a Julio Dávila el miércoles en BBC Logistics, un servicio de transporte de carga ubicado en el 2016 de NW 135 Ave., en Sweetwater, según muestran los registros.

Dávila presuntamente robó iPhones el 1 de junio valorados en $4,796 USD de una mesa de entregas, según el informe de arresto policial.

Un video de vigilancia muestra a Dávila tomando “un paquete sellado” y ocultándolo “dentro de sus pantalones”, escribió un agente de policía en el informe.

El Departamento Correccional de Miami-Dade ingresó a Dávila el miércoles por la tarde en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según los registros de reclusos.

Dávila compareció ante la jueza de circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Mindy Glazer, el jueves, y ella le ordenó mantenerse alejado de BBC Logistics.

Dávila enfrentaba tres cargos de robo mayor en tercer grado. Su fianza fue fijada en $7,500 USD.

El fotoperiodista de Local 10 News, Bruno Giglio, y el editor de asignaciones, Carson Merlo, contribuyeron a este informe.

Un portavoz del Servicio Forestal de Florida informó que el bombero es un hombre que aparentemente sufrió una reacción alérgica cerca del marcador de milla 33 de Krome Avenue.

El bombero estaba alerta, hablando y sus signos vitales eran estables antes de que MDFR lo trasladara por aire al HCA Florida Aventura Hospital, según el Servicio Forestal de Florida.

Esta es una noticia en desarrollo. El editor de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo, contribuyó a este informe.

The apportionment of funds, which the White House's Office of Management and Budget made late Friday, comes from two accounts that were intended to provide the U.S. Secret Service with extra money for hiring and training in the aftermath of last year’s assassination attempts on the president, according to Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee. The shift was made days after Congress rejected a $1 billion request for the White House in a Homeland Security bill that Trump signed law and as the ballroom project is tangled in legal challenges.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, whose panel initially drafted the security funding, said Thursday he was unaware of the allocations.

“The president said that it was all going to be paid for with private money,” said Grassley, R-Iowa. “And that’s what the country expects."

Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, charged that Trump's actions are potentially illegal.

“After repeatedly telling the American people that zero taxpayer dollars would be spent on his gold-plated ballroom boondoggle, now Trump appears to be using a smoke and mirrors tactic,” Merkley said in a statement.

“Trump has proven that he can’t be trusted to follow the law," Merkley said. "He only cares about wasting taxpayer money on his vanity projects.”

Ballroom project hits setbacks

Trump has faced setbacks in his attempts to build the ballroom on the White House grounds, where he ordered the demolition of the storied East Wing to make way for it.

Touring the construction site last month, Trump called the development a “gift” to the American people. He has repeatedly said that is being paid for by donations – which has also run into ethics questions from watchdogs concerned about potential corruption and conflicts of interest.

Congress refused the Trump administration’s request for $1 billion for the ballroom last month. The administration wanted the money as part of a Homeland Security bill, but Republican and Democratic lawmakers rejected efforts to tack it on. It became politically toxic at a time when Americans are reeling from inflationary high costs of living.

The Washington Post reported earlier this week that the price tag for the project has ballooned to $600 million, according to a project summary prepared by the contractor, with more than half of that funding coming from taxpayers. Roll Call first reported on the apportionment of new funds for White House security.

At its core, arguments are swirling over how much of the White House project is to bolster security underground, with bomb shelters and a medical facility, and how much of the costs are related to the president's promised 999-seat ballroom on top.

White House says Trump and donors are paying for the ballroom

A spokesman for the White House said that Trump and donors are funding some $400 million for the ballroom development, and that the coordination with the Secret Service had been noted in the initial announcement of the project.

“The East Wing Modernization Project is inextricably tied to the security of the President, the White House grounds and the certain security infrastructure assets,” said White House spokesman Davis R. Ingle in a statement.

He said the events over the past weekend, including an alleged attack plan targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House, proves why the project is needed.

“President Trump and generous American patriots are funding the ballroom to the tune of approximately $400 million, which will be a secure and appropriate venue for Presidents for generations to come,” he said.

Government lawyers have argued that the project includes critical security features to guard against a range of threats, such as drones and missiles.

The White House has said in court documents that the East Wing project would be “heavily fortified,” including bomb shelters, military installations and a medical facility underneath the ballroom. The Secret Service told senators last month that $220 million of the White House's $1 billion request would go to harden the ballroom addition, with bulletproof glass, drone detection technologies, chemical and other systems.

The rest of the money would go for other security improvements, according to a document provided to Senate Republicans, including $180 million for a new, “long overdue” White House visitors screening facility.

Congress holds power of the purse

The shifting funds are certain to ignite growing concerns in Congress over the separation of powers, and the president’s use of federal funds allocated by lawmakers.

The money comes from Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill that the president signed into law last summer. It provided more than $1 billion for Secret Service resources, including “personnel, training facilities, programming, and technology; and performance, retention, and signing bonuses.”

The provision was uncontested at the time, even as Democrats voted against the broader bill. Democrats said they did not challenge this section or try to strip it out from the package.

Under the Constitution, only Congress has the specific authority to allocate funds across the federal government, including the executive and judicial branch operations.

While the president holds the power to sign – or veto – those appropriation bills, once the funding becomes law, it largely must stand.

Chase's father, John David Schwallier, confirmed to The New York Times she died from complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection. She had been homeless in Los Angeles with her boyfriend near the hospital where she died, he told the newspaper.

TMZ first reported Wednesday that Chase died Tuesday.

She voiced the lead role of Lilo in the 2002 animated film, a role she auditioned for at age 8. Years later, a Hawaiian actress was cast as Lilo for the live-action remake.

For her role as long-haired Samara in the 2002 horror film, Chase won an MTV movie award for best villain.

Chase also voiced another lead in the 2001 animated film “Spirited Away.” She had roles in the 2001 movie “Donnie Darko” and the 2003 show “Oliver Beene,” according to internet movie database IMDb.com.

She was born in Las Vegas and raised in Albany, Oregon. In her small hometown, she began singing and dancing at age 3, according to IMDb.

Chase struggled with drugs since she was 13 years old, Schwallier said in an interview with the Times. He said his daughter was estranged from her parents, who are divorced.

Schwallier said he was in touch with Chase's boyfriend, and just before she died, arrived at the Los Angeles hospital where she was being treated.

An online fundraiser by her boyfriend raised about $4,000 as of Thursday. “Many people know her as a talented childhood actor from ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ ‘Spirited Away,’ and ‘Donnie Darko,'" the fundraiser post said. “But behind the scenes, she’s faced more than her share of hardship.”

A continuación se ofrece un detalle de las más sobresalientes.

Descentralización y reducción del Estado

En el actual modelo cubano el gobierno central define qué se produce, quién lo hace, los precios de venta y la manera en que se asignan los recursos. Con las nuevas medidas se buscará conferir a los municipios el derecho de decidir qué empresas aprobar en sus territorios y su interrelación con compañías estatales, cooperativas y negocios privados.

También que tengan la facultad de importar y exportar y de gestionar sus ingresos en moneda extranjera.

En Cuba hay 168 municipios desplegados en 15 provincias.

Además ya se encuentra en la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular —el Parlamento— un proyecto de ley que busca reducir de 27 a 21 la cantidad de ministerios.

Autonomía de las empresas estatales

Las empresas podrán diseñar sus sistemas de salarios y tendrán facultades sin límites para usar sus utilidades, además de potestad de importar y exportar y asociarse con privados o cooperativas. Cuba cuenta con unas 2.000 empresas estatales.

Comercio exterior

Actualmente los privados que importan y exportan –por ejemplo las pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes)— tienen que hacerlo a través de una agencia estatal que maneja los tiempos e impone precios. Ahora se eliminaría esa intermediación.

También se darán beneficios a la importación de insumos y materias primas para procesos productivos.

Actividades privadas

Las medidas buscan acelerar el proceso de aprobación de pymes y fomentar su asociación con el Estado. Actualmente están aprobadas en la isla más de 9.500 pymes, un proceso que comenzó en 2021.

Inversión extranjera y de cubanos

Se eliminarán trabas al uso de cuentas bancarias y la aprobación de inversión extranjera directa. Cubanos residentes en el país y en el exterior podrán participar como actores económicos junto a inversores extranjeros, empresas estatales y cooperativas.

Eliminación de subsidios

Tras el triunfo de la revolución se instauró una libreta de abastecimiento que permite a los cubanos obtener casi cualquier producto a precios controlados y accesibles. A partir de ahora se eliminarían gradualmente los subsidios, por ejemplo a los alimentos, que se pagarán a precio de mercado.

Uso de la tierra

Se dará a los campesinos acceso a los mercados de insumos y al mercado cambiario. También se ampliarán los permisos para la inversión extranjera en la producción de alimentos.

At the Roots 101 Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, shackles made 400 years ago in Ghana are among the many relics of the African American experience on display. They were donated by a collector and activist. But Lamont Collins, who founded the museum in 2020, doesn’t just show them. He puts them on the wrists of willing visitors.

“It’s such a deep learning tool,” Collins says. “No matter how we hear people tell stories, how people try to change the story, the reality of the stories is in those shackles. Nobody can deny the reality of what you feel in those shackles.”

For European and American slave traders, iron shackles were seen simply as tools that helped run the transatlantic slave trade. Shackles were made for wrists, ankles, waist and the neck. They were even made in children's sizes. They were forced on kidnapped and sold Africans who were brutally crammed into ships as well as in slave markets in the Deep South. Seeing a coffle of enslaved people chained together in a line was commonplace.

Shackles reinforced to those enslaved that they could not even so much as dream of freedom. They were a punishment and a deterrent. A collar shackle even had bells or spiked ends to help slave catchers track runaways.

Last year, video of Collins placing shackles on a white woman's wrists at the museum gained attention on social media. He thinks it's because people want to talk about history through a racial lens as others continue to resist it.

“What I realized is sometimes that a lot of people think they want to know the story. But they want to know the story in their boundaries,” Collins says.

White men and women have cried after trying the shackles. Some decline just as Collins is about to cinch them on their wrists.

“I would say to them ‘Why I can't put these on you for two seconds and we had them on for 200 years,” he says. “It starts a conversation.”

___ This story is part of a recurring series, “ American Objects,” marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. For more stories on the anniversary, click here.

La fundación emitió un comunicado diciendo que “aprecia las preocupaciones planteadas por el abanico de partes interesadas” y que detendría los esfuerzos para retirar o inutilizar equipos. También indicó que volverá a desplegar el equipo que ya fue retirado del agua y que convocará a un panel de expertos para determinar el futuro de la red.

La Iniciativa de Observatorios Oceánicos es una red de más de 900 sensores oceánicos construida a un costo de 386 millones de dólares. Durante la última década ha seguido la circulación oceánica, los ecosistemas marinos, el cambio climático y el clima extremo, generando datos disponibles gratuitamente para el público e informando más de 500 publicaciones científicas. El proyecto está previsto a continuar otros 15 a 20 años.

La Fundación Nacional de Ciencias había ordenado retirar la mayoría de los instrumentos del sistema de aguas frente a Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Carolina del Norte y Groenlandia para 2027, una decisión que, según científicos, llegó sin aviso y sin revisión científica.

La agencia federal independiente, establecida por el Congreso, describió la medida no como una cancelación, sino como una “reducción de alcance” alineada con nuevas “prioridades científicas en evolución y tecnologías emergentes”. El presupuesto propuesto para 2026 por el gobierno de Trump incluía un recorte del 55% para la agencia.

Un grupo de senadores demócratas y un republicano, así como dos comités demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes, enviaron cartas a la fundación el lunes en las que le pidieron dar marcha atrás con su plan. Legisladores de la Cámara acusaron a la agencia de actuar ilegalmente.

“Desmantelar la iniciativa fue una estupidez suprema, y seguiremos luchando para garantizar que científicos, pescadores y comunidades costeras puedan seguir utilizando los datos críticos que proporciona la iniciativa”, expresó el senador demócrata Jeff Merkley, de Oregon, en un comunicado el jueves.

Los recortes al observatorio oceánico son vistos como parte de un repliegue más amplio de la ciencia bajo el gobierno republicano, que ha avanzado para reducir programas de investigación, recortar personal en agencias, incluida la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica y la Agencia de Protección Ambiental, y flexibilizar las regulaciones sobre emisiones.

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Kean, who represents a battleground district in this year's midterms, has missed more than 100 votes and hasn't been spotted in Washington or his district, stirring a mystery that carries potential national consequences.

"Congressman Kean is eager to return to in person work on June 30 and resume a full schedule," said Kean political consultant Harrison Neely in a text. “He plans to be fully transparent regarding the nature of his health issue and you should expect to hear from him in person June 30th."

Kean’s office has said he is still running for reelection and is set to face Democratic Navy veteran Rebecca Bennett in the state's premier contest in November.

The district is among the most closely watched in this year's election. In the past two midterm elections, the seat changed party hands, with Kean winning in 2022 over Democrat Tom Malinowski, who had defeated Republican Leonard Lance in 2018.

Kean last voted in the House on March 5, but his absence wasn’t explained. In April, his social media account posted that he had been dealing with a personal medical issue and his doctors expected him to recover.

On Primary Day this month, President Donald Trump endorsed Kean’s reelection, without mentioning his absence, and the same day, Kean said in a statement he expected to return to work in a matter of weeks.

He hasn't explain what the medical issue was.

Kean comes from a long line of public servants, stretching 250 years to the country’s founding when one of his ancestors became New Jersey’s first leader since independence. His great-grandfather was a senator, his grandfather was a congressman and his father is the former two-term governor, Tom Kean Sr.

A 22-year-old male suspect, described as armed and dangerous, remained at large Thursday.

The five shootings occurred Tuesday between 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m, in a 5-mile stretch of Kansas City, three of them on Interstates 70 and 670 as they cut through downtown. All of the shootings were at least 4 miles away from Arrowhead Stadium, where Argentina won its first match against Algeria.

Two Argentina fans told Argentine outlet La Nación that someone in a car came alongside and fired two shots at the Uber they were riding in, hitting the driver in the leg. They said they first thought the sound was a car tire popping until they saw the driver had been hit.

They had to go to the police station to provide statements about what happened. Officers then took them to the stadium in patrol cars, they said. The driver's injuries were not life-threatening, police Capt. Jacob Becchina said.

That shooting and two others on the interstates occurred while cars were traveling east, one of them from neighboring Kansas, police said. The others occurred further east on Truman Road, a major thoroughfare through the city.

Police said three adults and a minor, a teenager, were injured, and all were hospitalized, though only one adult had life-threatening injuries, Becchina said.

About 6:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a vehicle crashing into a pole along Truman Road, east of the other shootings. The driver was taken to a hospital, and workers there discovered what appeared to be a gunshot wound while treating him. He died of his injuries.

“Victims all indicated they were driving down the highway or roadway when one or more shots were fired into their vehicles,” Becchina said in an email.

Becchina said detectives believe the non-fatal shootings occurred “in close succession,” from west to east, connected by the one suspect.

Police later tracked the suspect to a home in the suburb of Independence, about 2 miles further east of where the fatal shooting victim was found, and a standoff ensued. But when police entered the home about 8 a.m. Wednesday, the suspect was not there.

Officials across the state line in Kansas City, Kansas, also have a warrant out for the suspect over a June 11 incident involving an illegal discharge of a firearm, Nancy Chartrand, the spokesperson for its police department said.

Grupos de la sociedad civil, entre los que está una organización cristiana, se sumaron a la impugnación y argumentaron que la prohibición vulnera los derechos a la vida, la salud, la dignidad y la igualdad, y que esas protecciones deberían extenderse a niñas y mujeres embarazadas.

La impugnación se presentó el miércoles ante el Tribunal Constitucional del país.

República Dominicana tiene una de las prohibiciones del aborto más estrictas de la región, al penalizarlo sin excepciones y sin importar las circunstancias. Las mujeres enfrentan hasta dos años de prisión por practicarse un aborto, mientras que médicos o parteras podrían enfrentar de cinco a 20 años.

“Mi hija murió porque se le negó la atención médica que necesitaba. Ninguna otra madre debería tener que pasar por esto”, manifestó Rosa Herminia Hernández en un comunicado.

Rosaura Almonte murió en 2012 por leucemia cuando tenía tres semanas de embarazo. Tenía 16 años, según documentos judiciales.

La impugnación busca que se permita el aborto en casos de violación o incesto, cuando la vida o la salud de una mujer o una niña esté en peligro, o cuando un feto presente anomalías mortales.

“Esta acción busca algo muy simple: que ninguna mujer o niña tenga que elegir entre su vida, su salud y la ley”, señaló en un comunicado la abogada Patricia Santana Nina.

Según datos del gobierno, en el sector público de salud se registraron al menos 67.455 abortos desde 2019 hasta finales de 2024. La cifra no diferencia entre abortos espontáneos e inducidos.

Mientras tanto, desde junio de 2017 hasta octubre de 2022, los fiscales presentaron 62 causas penales por aborto y 16 por intento de aborto. La Procuraduría General de la República dejó de publicar esos datos desde noviembre de 2022.

“¿Es legitimo mantener una amenaza penal permanente sobre mujeres en situaciones de emergencia médica únicamente para expresar legalmente una postura moral?”, se indica en la impugnación presentada el miércoles.

En 2023, una mujer con tres hijos, uno de los cuales era producto de una violación, tuvo un aborto incompleto y espontáneo mientras estaba embarazada, se indica en la impugnación, donde también se señala que las autoridades la detuvieron durante 10 días en condiciones inhumanas pese a su estado, y se añade que no recibió atención médica adecuada.

“La mujer acudió a un centro de salud en busca de atención y terminó privada de libertad”, indicó.

Activistas de derechos humanos afirman que a menudo son los propios proveedores de salud quienes denuncian a las mujeres ante las autoridades.

No hay estadísticas confiables sobre cuántas mujeres en República Dominicana han muerto durante o después de un aborto clandestino.

En 2024, al menos 585 niñas de 11 a 14 años se convirtieron en madres, según datos del gobierno. Mientras tanto, se reportaron al menos 681 violaciones de enero a julio de 2025, y activistas señalan que los casos no denunciados son mucho más numerosos.

En la impugnación se indica que la prohibición agrava las desigualdades existentes: las mujeres con recursos pueden buscar atención médica privada dentro o fuera del país, mientras que quienes viven en la pobreza enfrentan mayores riesgos para la salud y están más expuestas a procesos penales.

“Las mujeres perseguidas comparten con frecuencia condiciones de vulnerabilidad socioeconómica, precariedad laboral, bajo nivel educativo o condición migratoria”, se lee en la impugnación.

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JUNE 18: DAY 2

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The police officer, who is a woman, was riding an ATV when she collided with a colleague, also riding an ATV, on Wednesday evening in South Beach, according to police.

A Nest surveillance video showed the crash and the response at Meridian Avenue and Ninth Street. Angel Urcola was among the witnesses who heard the loud collision and people screaming.

“I looked through the window, and I saw a motorcycle flipped,” Urcola said about the ATV that the police officer had been riding.

Miami Beach Fire Rescue personnel responded to the crash and rushed the police officer injured to JMH’s Ryder Trauma Center, according to police. The crash remained under investigation on Thursday afternoon.

The police officer remained and good spirits and doctors expected her to recover, according to police.

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La agente, una mujer, conducía un vehículo todo terreno (ATV) cuando chocó con un colega, que también conducía un ATV, la noche del miércoles en South Beach, según la policía.

Un video de vigilancia de Nest mostró el accidente y la respuesta de emergencia en Meridian Avenue y Ninth Street. Angel Urcola estuvo entre los testigos que escucharon el fuerte impacto y a personas gritando.

“Miré por la ventana y vi una motocicleta volcada”, dijo Urcola en referencia al ATV que conducía la agente.

Personal de Miami Beach Fire Rescue respondió al accidente y trasladó de emergencia a la agente lesionada al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital, según la policía. El accidente continuaba bajo investigación la tarde del jueves.

La agente permanecía de buen ánimo y los médicos esperaban que se recuperara, según la policía.

Informe relacionado: Agente de policía de Miami Beach resulta gravemente herida en accidente, informan autoridades.

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Sky 10 was above the area of Coral Ridge Drive and Wiles Road at about 2:15 p.m. as a yellow tarp covered a body in the roadway.

A maroon-colored SUV with its airbags deployed was spotted a short distance away in the intersection along with a motorcycle on its side.

Coral Springs police later confirmed that the crash was reported at about 1:44 p.m.

Police said the victim killed in the crash is a man, but his identity has not yet been released.

All westbound lanes on Wiles Road were shut down from Northwest 110^th Avenue to Coral Ridge Drive during the investigation.

No other details were immediately released.

But the brief document signed by U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is vague on some of the major questions left by the three-month regional conflict that jolted the world economy. The U.S. says some outstanding issues will be worked out over the 60 days.

Here are some of the main questions, and the best answers available at the moment.

What will happen with Iran's nuclear program?

Trump says a key objective of the war was to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, something Tehran has long denied seeking. The U.S.-Israeli surprise attack that started the war on Feb. 28 came as Iran was engaged in nuclear talks, which are now set to resume.

It will be extremely difficult to reach a full nuclear agreement before the 60-day deadline, which could be extended. The 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump scrapped during his first term, took more than 18 months to negotiate and involved complex technical discussions among nuclear experts.

Iran has long insisted on its right to enrich uranium. The deal does not specify the level at which it would be allowed to enrich — the low levels required for power plants or the much higher level at which it had enriched before the war, which put the uranium a short, technical step away from weapons-grade.

Iran’s existing stockpile of highly enriched uranium is believed to have been largely buried by U.S. strikes last year. The agreement says at a minimum the stockpile will be diluted on site under U.N. supervision, without elaborating. Trump has long demanded that it be removed from the country.

When will the Strait of Hormuz reopen?

Iran's effective closure of the critical waterway — through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas passed before the war — caused a historic worldwide fuel shock, driving up the prices of everything from gas and groceries to fertilizer and airline tickets.

Lloyd's List Intelligence, a maritime data company, said Thursday that major shippers have begun moving vessels through the strait again.

Under the agreement, it will be fully reopened, with Iran to remove mines within 30 days and with no charges imposed on commercial vessels during the 60-day period.

Passage was free before the war, but Iran imposed tolls during the fighting and has said it will continue to charge fees.

Legal experts say that would violate international laws around freedom of navigation, and the U.S. has adamantly rejected it. Such fees could also run afoul of sanctions on Iran, making them problematic for shippers.

When will the fuel crisis end?

Even if the strait is fully reopened, it could take weeks or months for the normal flow of oil and gas to resume.

Ship captains and insurers will have to decide if it's truly safe. Hundreds of ships bottled up in the Persian Gulf for months will need to exit through the narrow, elbow-shaped waterway. Even a brief exchange of fire — which happened several times after a declared ceasefire in April — could halt traffic once again.

Major oil and gas producers in the Gulf, including Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, will also need time to repair critical infrastructure damaged by Iranian missile and drone attacks.

Will sanctions on Iran be lifted?

The U.S. says it has lifted its blockade under the agreement, which also calls for sanctions waivers that will allow Iran to export oil. That will provide a boost to Iran's wrecked economy and likely push world fuel prices down. The U.S. also commits to unfreezing Iranian funds held abroad.

A raft of international sanctions imposed over the years related to Iran's nuclear program, its support for militant groups and human rights violations are also to be lifted, but only as part of a final nuclear deal. U.S. Vice President JD Vance said sanctions relief would be “performance-based.”

The deal calls for the United States and its regional allies to develop a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, but does not say who would pay for it.

Trump has said the U.S. won't contribute, and Vance has said it would be up to wealthy Gulf countries to fund it. But they are unlikely to want to help Iran at a time when their own economies are suffering from the war's fallout and the destruction of their infrastructure in Iranian attacks.

Will the war in Lebanon end?

The deal calls for an immediate halt to military operations “on all fronts, including in Lebanon,” where Israel has been battling the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, and for ensuring Lebanon's “territorial integrity and sovereignty.”

It does not say whether that means Israel would withdraw from the large swaths of southern Lebanon it has occupied since Hezbollah joined the war in its early days by firing rockets and drones at northern Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces elections later this year, has refused to withdraw, saying Israeli forces will remain in Lebanon until the threat from Hezbollah has been eliminated.

Hezbollah has refused to halt its own attacks while Israel is occupying Lebanese territory, and Iran has insisted Lebanon be included in any ceasefire.

Continued fighting there could unravel the deal if Iran or the U.S. believe the other is in breach of it.

What about Iran's ballistic missiles and its support for militants?

The deal says nothing about either, and Trump suggested this week that Iran is entitled to have some ballistic missiles in proportion to its neighbors.

Iran still has missiles capable of hitting Israel and has long backed militant groups like Hezbollah, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthi rebels in Yemen and militias in Iraq, which have also attacked it. Eliminating Iran's missiles and degrading its network of militant allies were among the main U.S. war goals.

Sanctions relief would potentially allow Iran to continue funding such groups, though it will have to balance that against its own economic crisis and reconstruction needs.

The comments deepened a rift that has emerged between the two allies over the interim deal reached by the United States and Iran to end their war.

“Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Vance said during a a news briefing at the White House. “The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the president of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in.”

Israel and the U.S. jointly launched the war against Iran on Feb. 28, closely coordinating the more than monthlong military operation.

But disagreements quickly emerged following a preliminary April 8 ceasefire agreement, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushing to continue the campaign and Trump moving to wind down a war that was deeply unpopular in the U.S. and rattled the global economy.

While Netanyahu has been careful not to openly criticize this week’s ceasefire deal, some members of his Cabinet have been more outspoken. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who leads a small ultranationalist party, this week declared that Israel is not “bound” by Trump’s agreement and said it would not cave in to international pressure.

Vance noted that Netanyahu has not publicly criticized Trump, but he accused unnamed members of Netanyahu’s Cabinet of being ungrateful. He said Israel has few friends in the international community and protected itself with large quantities of weapons paid for by the United States.

Netanyahu’s office declined to comment on Vance’s statement.

In recent days, Trump has expressed frustration with Netanyahu, claimed credit for Israel’s existence and has described the Israeli leader as “ crazy.” He sidelined Israel throughout the negotiations, and criticized Israeli airstrikes in Beirut.

In his first comments on the newly signed memorandum of understanding, Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel’s military will stay in a zone of territory it is occupying in southern Lebanon “as long as Israel’s security needs require it.” The comments threatened to undermine the deal, which calls for a halt in all fighting and respect for Lebanon’s territorial integrity.

Netanyahu, however, noted it was important “to maintain the important relationship with our American friends who fought shoulder to shoulder with us, and we greatly appreciate that.”

Talking to Orlando, he said, was different.

Sweeney was introduced Thursday as the new coach of the Magic, which was the obvious proof that he won them over by his answers during the interview process. Turns out, the Magic won him over with their questions as well.

“The Magic were the most thorough and they did the best job of asking questions and asking follow-ups to get to layers underneath the first answer," Sweeney said. “Some interviews that I’ve had in the past, I did not get that same level of detail. And given how I am and how I want to coach, that stood out.”

Sweeney and the Magic struck their deal for him to take over about three weeks ago; the formal welcome-to-Orlando event was put off until now because Sweeney has been a bit busy in his role as associate head coach of the San Antonio Spurs and their trip to the NBA Finals.

He stayed locked in on his tasks with the Spurs, even though the interview process started early in their postseason run. But with the finals over, Sweeney wasted little time in getting to Orlando and starting on the new job.

“When we finally did get in front of him, it was a long day and he had a lot going on," Magic President Jeff Weltman said. "It was during the playoffs and not only was he able to kind of compartmentalize his work with the Spurs and present well to us, but he really knocked our socks off. In Sean Sweeney, we have somebody who, in our minds, has the potential to be one of the elite coaches in this league.”

Sweeney said he fully believes this is the best situation for him.

Some first-time head coaches have to deal with a total rebuild; that's not the case in Orlando, where a young core led by Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner has made three consecutive playoff appearances — but three consecutive first-round exists essentially convinced the Magic that it was time for a change. Jamahl Mosley, now the coach in New Orleans, was let go after a successful five-year run and Sweeney was targeted as the replacement.

“I was fortunate this summer to have some different things to look at," Sweeney said. "But this is the only one I wanted to look at.”

Sweeney, who turned 42 earlier this month, comes to Orlando after basically spending half his life as an assistant.

He has come a long way from Anoka-Ramsey Community College and the Academy of Art University, two of his earliest stops. He started in the NBA as a video coordinator for the then-New Jersey Nets, and has since had assistant stints with the Nets, Milwaukee, Detroit, Dallas and San Antonio. He quotes the teachings of just about everyone he's worked for at every level, along with those he considers some of the greatest to ever blow a whistle in a basketball practice, names like Bob Knight, Tim Grgurich, Rick Majerus, Jason Kidd, Chuck Daly and his now-former boss with the Spurs, Mitch Johnson.

And then there was the guy who had the office next to him for the last year in San Antonio. That would be Gregg Popovich, the NBA's all-time coaching wins leader.

“Coach Pop’s office was right next to mine and I was very fortunate,” Sweeney said. "When you’re next to a guy who’s the greatest coach of all time daily, the fact that he even said hello and knew my name meant something to me. So yeah, Coach Pop, he built that program and guys like me are fortunate to be part of it. I'm very grateful and that’s part of the reason why I’m here now.”

Sweeney is blunt, focused and driven. He took a look at the handful of Magic players who attended the press conference introducing him as the team's new coach on Thursday, offering them his first message since taking the job.

Or, perhaps more accurately, it was part message, part warning.

“I'm going to listen to you guys as much as I talk to you,” Sweeney said. “Now, how I talk to you may be different than how I listen.”

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The decision announced Thursday marks the third such fake elector case filed by states to be dismissed, though the Democratic attorney general is vowing to bring it back to a grand jury in hopes of securing another indictment.

The legal maneuver is aimed at getting around a Friday deadline for starting new grand jury proceedings after Mayes lost an appeal earlier this month. The appeal was filed after defense attorneys argued successfully that the original grand jury hadn’t been shown the relevant parts of a law that governs how presidential contests are certified.

“This case is complex and will require substantial presentation of evidence and time to accommodate defendants’ request to testify and present evidence,” prosecutors wrote, explaining the new presentation of the case to a grand jury won’t happen by the deadline. Mark L. Williams, an attorney for Giuliani, said his client and the others charged in the case did nothing wrong and were only exercising their rights to free speech and to petition the government.

“This action was brought to punish Mr. Giuliani and the other Republican defendants for exercising their constitutional rights,” Williams said. “It’s appropriate that it’s being dismissed.”

Courts have dismissed similar cases in Michigan and Georgia, and a special prosecutor dropped a federal case in late 2024 that charged Trump with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. Those cases ended after Trump defeated Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024. Cases related to the fake elector scheme remain in Nevada and Wisconsin.

The Nevada charges were dismissed in 2024 after a judge concluded Clark County, the state’s most populous county and home to Las Vegas, was the wrong venue for the case. Later that year, though, the case was refiled in Carson City, Nevada’s capital.

The Arizona case had been stalled for well over a year while Mayes pursued the appeal.

In Arizona, defense lawyers argued the law allowed for multiple slates of electors to be submitted to Congress in case the results were disputed. Federal law was amended in 2022 to specify that any given state could put forward only one slate of electors and that state governors are responsible for signing off.

Joe Biden won Arizona in 2020 by 10,457 votes.

The state attorney general has faced steep challenges in making her case.

It was filed nearly three and a half years after the 2020 election and levels complicated conspiracy charges against the 18 defendants. A dozen dismissal requests filed by defense attorneys have slowed progress in court.

The first judge on the case recused himself in late 2024 after an email surfaced in which he told fellow judges to speak out against attacks on Harris’ campaign for the presidency. The next judge ordered the case to be sent back to a grand jury.

Of the 18 Arizona defendants, two were former Trump aides, five were lawyers working for Trump and 11 were Republicans who submitted a document falsely claiming Trump won Arizona.

Three defendants have resolved their cases, including one who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.

The rest pleaded not guilty. Some said they signed the certificate in case Trump won court challenges and a new slate of electors was needed urgently before Congress’ Jan. 6 deadline to tally votes.

The case has factored into Arizona’s attorney general race, where both Republican challengers to Mayes have publicly said they will dismiss the charges if they were elected to the post. Mayes is running unopposed in the July 21 primary.

The expected motion for dismissal of the suit was filed Thursday by the 99th District Court in Lubbock County. That was three days after Texas Tech said he wouldn't play this fall, and exactly a month after Sorsby filed his lawsuit that set off a legal saga that rattled college sports.

That Texas court issued a temporary injunction June 8 that made the transfer quarterback eligible to play even after admitting that he placed bets on his own team while at Indiana as a freshman four years ago. Those were among thousands of impermissible bets he made while in college.

Sorsby had to be ineligible for NCAA play to be able to apply for the NFL's supplemental draft. The submission deadline for that rarely used draft is Monday, and the 22-year-old quarterback tentatively plans to work out for NFL teams on July 10.

The injunction last week by Judge Ken Curry had prevented the NCAA from enforcing its ruling that the quarterback was ineligible to play what would have been his final college season. Sorsby transferred to reigning Big 12 champion Texas Tech in January after the past two seasons at Cincinnati.

Cody Campbell, the billionaire booster who is chairman of the Texas Tech regents, announced in an open letter Monday night that Sorsby would not be part of the team this fall. He wrote that the decision was made with Sorsby and his family, with the draft deadline and ongoing legal process among the key factors.

That letter came on the same day the NCAA and Big 12 Conference had filings in separate courts related to the case.

Sorsby already faced a two-game suspension as part of the temporary injunction. The continued legal wrangling made uncertain what his status could be for Tech's remaining games.

The temporary injunction had cleared the way for Sorsby, after the first two games, to play despite being declared ineligible after he admitted making thousands of bets worth at least $90,000 while at Indiana, Cincinnati and Texas Tech. Those included at least 40 bets on Indiana while he was a freshman there in 2022, though none on the games in which he played for the Hoosiers that season.

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Sky 10 sobrevoló el área de Coral Ridge Drive y Wiles Road alrededor de las 2:15 p.m., donde una lona amarilla cubría un cuerpo en la vía.

Una SUV color vino con las bolsas de aire desplegadas fue vista a corta distancia en la intersección, junto a una motocicleta caída sobre uno de sus lados.

Todos los carriles en dirección oeste de Wiles Road permanecen cerrados desde Northwest 110th Avenue hasta Coral Ridge Drive, confirmó la policía.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles.

La investigación judicial al jefe de Gabinete Manuel Adorni golpea el corazón del relato de Milei, quien llegó al poder a fines de 2023 con la promesa de desterrar la corrupción y otros vicios de la “casta” política tradicional.

Milei ve ahora cómo el patrimonio de una de sus principales espadas políticas es escrutado. Viajes al exterior, adquisiciones inmobiliarias y costosas reformas edilicias encienden las alarmas por la aparente falta de correlación con sus ingresos formales.

Adorni quedó aún más expuesto cuando reconoció que ocultó alrededor de medio millón de dólares de sus declaraciones juradas patrimoniales.

El escándalo erosiona la imagen de Milei por negarse a echarlo del gobierno. La crisis estalló cuando los ingresos de muchos argentinos se licúan por el cierre de más de 20.000 empresas, masivos despidos y el tarifazo de los servicios públicos.

Al mismo tiempo unificó a la debilitada oposición, que el jueves próximo debatirá en el Senado si somete al funcionario a una interpelación el 2 de julio con vistas a evaluar su remoción, para lo cual deberán expedirse las dos cámaras.

En medio de esta polémica una pregunta se repite entre políticos, analistas y ciudadanos.

¿Por qué Milei sostiene la mano de su funcionario?

¿Quién es Adorni?

Fue analista económico en medios de comunicación y actualmente es una figura muy cercana al presidente y su hermana, la influyente secretaria general de la Presidencia Karina Milei. Ejerció de vocero presidencial y ahora es jefe del gabinete de ministros.

“Es un destacado ´tuitero' con un estilo provocador que conecta con ese estilo medio altanero de Milei”, señaló a The Associated Press Lucas Romero, director de la consultora Synopsis Consultores.

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Además de la investigación por supuesto enriquecimiento ilícito, Adorni reconoció haber omitido en las declaraciones realizadas al Fisco desde que es funcionario 500.000 de dólares de “ahorros” que generó junto a su esposa en el sector privado.

“No lo declaramos porque la manera de escaparse de la vieja política era tener un ahorro en negro”, argumentó Adorni en una entrevista periodística. Dijo que fue un error involuntario y que pagará la multa.

Su explicación generó un sinfín de dudas. Sostuvo que invirtieron 200.000 dólares y ganaron otros 300.000 dólares en Bitcoin entre 2014 y 2018, un tipo de operaciones que criticó años después.

Milei lo defiende; costo político

“No voy a ejecutar en el altar del ego de los periodistas a una persona honesta”, afirmó el mandatario, cuyo enfrentamiento con los medios ha ido escalando en los últimos meses.

Pero el escándalo lo golpeó. El nivel de desaprobación de su gestión es de 58,1%, superando al de aprobación en 20,2 puntos, lo que supone el pico negativo más alto desde su asunción, según una encuesta de Management & Fit realizada entre el 11 y 22 de mayo, con un margen de error de 2,1%.

Mariel Fornoni, directora de esa consultora, señaló que “obviamente impacta” que mientras “a la gente no le alcanza para llegar a fin de mes” el mandatario se apropia de “un discurso de la ética y defiende al jefe de Gabinete, que se está incriminando en cada aparición pública".

Un gran interrogante; varias hipótesis

“Esta es la gran pregunta: por qué Milei sigue pagando un altísimo costo por sostenerlo cuando el beneficio es nulo", afirmó Romero. Cuestionó que Adorni “no tiene habilidades en el diálogo político con el resto de los actores”, como se espera de los jefes de gabinete.

La misma encuesta de Management & Fit reveló que 42,1% de los ciudadanos cree que Adorni sigue en el gobierno porque tiene información sobre irregularidades de la gestión. Un 21,9% lo atribuye a su cercanía a los hermanos Milei.

Romero apuntó que Adorni “puede ser alguien que sepa mucho” de la estafa millonaria en torno al lanzamiento en 2025 de LIBRA, la criptomoneda que promovió Milei en su cuenta de X. La justicia investiga el rol que cumplió el mandatario y sus allegados.

“Adorni estuvo en el Tech Forum, el evento cripto de 2024 que se indican como el origen de las conversaciones entre Milei y los promotores del token”, apuntó Romero.

Sergio Berensztein, de la consultora Berensztein, indicó que si Adorni siente que lo abandonan “tendría incentivos para cooperar con la justicia en algunas causas que preocupan al gobierno, sobre todo la de LIBRA".

El analista apuntó que además “las cuestiones institucionales son secundarias” para el mandatario y está convencido de que si lo remueve “aparecería respondiendo a una agenda más bien mediática”.

Romero agregó que “es una dinámica muy propia de este tipo de liderazgo; no quiere darle al periodismo lo que entiende que quiere, que es correrlo a Adorni". Acotó que con esa postura el presidente "no está teniendo un correcto diagnóstico del problema”.

The amateur draft for players residing in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico would be cut from 20 rounds to 12 beginning in 2027 under the proposal Major League Baseball made during a bargaining session with the players' association. An identical 12-round draft would be started for international prospects, a proposal the union has rejected in the past.

Starting in 2028, a prospect for the amateur draft would have to be at least 20 years old by the Sept. 1 of his signing year and two years removed from the graduating year of his high school class — a restriction that also would eliminate players who completed their first year of junior college.

The amateur draft started in 1965, high schoolers have been eligible along with college players who are in or have just finished their junior years.

Raising signing ages would likely lead to players being older when they become eligible for free agency, which currently requires six years of major league service.

MLB cited increased revenue in college baseball as reasoning. In addition, MLB said 75% of high schoolers signed from 2012-19 did not reach the major leagues.

“Expanded scholarships, NIL opportunities, revenue sharing and significant investments in facilities and player development have made college baseball an increasingly important pathway that is producing major league-ready talent at an accelerated rate," MLB said in a statement. “By creating a draft system centered around college-aged players and making most college players eligible one year earlier, more players will benefit from both a college education and an elite development environment while reaching professional baseball — and ultimately the major leagues — more quickly.”

The players' association claimed the plan would decrease compensation by $1 billion over five years, including $400 million from this year to 2027.

“MLB made another set of proposals that are flat-out bad for baseball, ones that would cripple the next generation of players and damage the future of our game,” the union said in a statement.

MLB said it will not seek to reduce the 120 minor league teams in the top four levels when it negotiates new professional development licenses in 2030 to replace expiring 10-year deals. It would cap bonuses for undrafted players at $10,000 — Middle Tennessee two-way player Trace Phillips was bypassed in the draft last July and signed with Tampa Bay for $629,200.

For international amateurs, the age to sign would be raised to 18 on the Sept. 1 of their signing year, up from 17.

“The game's greatest stars are precocious talents. We always want to have a great window for them,” said Scott Boras, baseball's most high-profile agent. “International markets recognize this, as well. When you bar a labor force from opportunity in America, it is not an American concept.”

Each separate draft would have $200 million in signing pools in 2027. There would be hard caps for each draft.

Teams would be able to trade draft picks but a club couldn't trade its first-round pick in consecutive drafts. A team couldn't acquire more than three additional selections among the first three rounds.

Spending on signing bonuses for players eligible for the 2025 amateur draft have totaled $401.81 million and signing bonus pools for 2026 increased by 2.5%.

Each team would have the same amount to spend under the proposal rather than the current system which gives higher pools to teams with poorer records in the previous year. Pittsburgh is at just over $19 million this year and the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at slightly under $4 million. Teams currently can go over their pools and often do as much as 5%.

Teams have spent $196.38 million on signing bonuses for international amateurs in 2026. The current signing period runs from Jan. 15 to Dec. 15 each year, but the initial international draft would be no earlier than September 2027 and no later than March 2028.

MLB proposed eliminating competitive balance round picks that began in 2023 and cutting the draft lottery that started in 2023 from the top six picks to four.

Bargaining began May 13 and the sides exchanged initial proposals two weeks later as management proposed a salary cap for the first time since 1994, which resulted in a 7 1/2-month strike and the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years,

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Thapelo Maseko’s long range shot late in the match caught the hand of Czech opponent Pavel Sulc in the area.

Mokoena, who was shown on camera with tears rolling down his cheeks during the pre-game national anthem, stepped up to the penalty spot and sent his shot low past Czech Republic goalkeeper Matej Kovar in the 83rd minute.

The South Africa midfielder said he was overwhelmed before kick off, thinking about his late grandfather.

“I know, wherever he is, he would be proud of me," Mokoena said. "I just felt his presence in that moment. I thought if he was here, he would be proud of me because I know he believed in me when nobody believed in me.”

Michal Sadilek had given the Czechs the lead in the sixth minute at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Alexandr Sojka played in Sadilek and he slid a shot past goalkeeper Ronwen Williams.

Both teams lost their opening matches, and both knew another setback would seriously hinder their chances of reaching the round of 32.

South Africa faced some strong criticism following its 2-0 loss to World Cup co-host Mexico, which raised the prospect of the country extending its run of never having advanced to the knockout phase of a World Cup — even as host in 2010.

“If we go on like that and if we can make another performance like today I think we have a chance to go in the second round,” South Africa coach Hugo Broos said.

South Africa will next face South Korea on Wednesday in Group A, but will be without Mokoena, who is suspended after picking up his second yellow card of the tournament.

The Czechs lost to South Korea 2-1 in their opening match and will likely need to beat Mexico in their final game on Wednesday to advance.

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Civil society groups including a Christian organization joined the challenge, arguing that the ban violates the rights to life, health, dignity and equality, and that such protections should be extended to pregnant girls and women.

The challenge was filed Wednesday in the country’s Constitutional Court.

The Dominican Republic has one of the strictest abortion bans in the region, criminalizing it without exception and regardless of circumstance. Women face up to two years in prison for having an abortion, while doctors or midwives could face five to 20 years.

“My daughter died because she was denied the medical care she needed. No other mother should have to go through this,” Rosa Herminia Hernández said in a statement.

Rosaura Almonte died in 2012 from leukemia while three weeks pregnant. She was 16 years old, according to the court filing.

The challenge seeks that abortions be allowed in rape or incest cases; when the life or health of a woman or girl is in danger; or when a fetus has fatal abnormalities.

“This action seeks something very simple: that no woman or girl should have to choose between her life, her health and the law,” attorney Patricia Santana Nina said in a statement.

At least 67,455 abortions were recorded from 2019 through late 2024 in the public health sector, according to government data. It did not differentiate between spontaneous and induced abortions.

Meanwhile, from June 2017 to October 2022, prosecutors filed 62 criminal cases for abortion and 16 cases for attempted abortion. The Prosecutor General’s Office has stopped publishing such data since November 2022.

“Is it legitimate to maintain a permanent criminal threat against women in medical emergencies solely to legally express a moral stance?” the challenged filed Wednesday stated.

In 2023, a woman with three children, one of whom was product of a rape, had an incomplete and spontaneous abortion while pregnant, according to the challenge. It noted that authorities detained her for 10 days in inhumane conditions despite her condition, adding that she did not receive adequate medical care.

“The woman went to a health center seeking care and ended up being deprived of her freedom,” it stated.

Human rights activists say that it’s often health providers who report women to authorities.

There are no reliable statistics on how many women in the Dominican Republic have died during or after a clandestine abortion.

In 2024, at least 585 girls from 11 to 14 years old became mothers, according to government data. Meanwhile, at least 681 rapes were reported from January to July 2025, with activists noting that unreported cases are much higher.

The challenge noted that the ban worsens existing inequalities: women with resources can seek private medical care in or outside the country, while those who are impoverished face higher health risks and are more exposed to criminal prosecution.

“The women who are persecuted often share conditions of socioeconomic vulnerability, job insecurity, low educational level, or migratory status,” the challenge read.

“Esta tregua tiene que permitirnos ya habilitar los corredores para que se normalice la circulación”, dijo el ministro José Luis Lupo en conferencia de prensa.

Tras casi 50 días de bloqueos —que han afectado principalmente a La Paz y a su vecina ciudad de El Alto—, el presidente Rodrigo Paz se reunió con la dirigencia de la Central Obrera de Bolivia (COB), el sindicato que lidera las protestas y que reclama al gobierno la liberación de manifestantes detenidos durante choques con la policía a cambio de negociar el fin del conflicto.

El ministro de Gobierno, Marco Antonio Oviedo, dijo a radio Panamericana que la Fiscalía revisa los casos, pero advirtió que “una cosa es que una persona sea detenida protestando, pero otra cosa son los delitos que se cometen”.

En las protestas se han registrado unos 17 fallecidos, en su mayoría por falta de asistencia médica debido a los bloqueos que también han causado escasez de alimentos y oxigeno medicinal.

Las protestas comenzaron el 1 de mayo con demandas salariales de la COB y quejas por gasolina de mala calidad que había importado el gobierno y fueron escalando hasta pedir la renuncia de Paz. Los movilizados acusan al mandatario, que asumió en noviembre, de dilatar las soluciones para resolver la peor crisis económica en 40 años e inclinarse a favor de sectores conservadores en detrimento de los populares.

Los bloqueos se han ido reduciendo, pero las carreteras a La Paz y a la región altiplánica de Oruro, por donde se importa el combustible, permanecen bloqueadas. El departamento de Cochabamba, en el centro del país, es la segunda región con más cortes por afines al expresidente Evo Morales (2006-2019).

En varios puntos se observan kilométricas colas de vehículos alrededor de estaciones de servicio debido a la escasez de combustible y muchos conductores de transportes de carga deben dormir en la fila para abastecerse.

Sectores productivos reclaman a Paz que evalúe un estado de excepción, pero el mandatario conservador ha descartado aplicar esa medida o utilizar la fuerza para despejar los cortes para evitar que el conflicto se profundice.

La Cámara Nacional de Industrias estimó que las pérdidas por los bloqueos y protestas ascienden a 2.000 millones de dólares.

Según funcionarios de Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, el incendio fue reportado alrededor de las 5:20 a.m. en la cuadra 1800 de Southwest 23rd Avenue.

Los funcionarios indicaron que los bomberos llegaron al lugar unos seis minutos después y encontraron llamas provenientes de una choza tiki ubicada detrás de una propiedad en alquiler, así como de una vivienda vecina.

Los bomberos señalaron que cuatro adultos que viven en la casa lograron evacuar de manera segura junto con sus tres perros.

No se reportaron heridos.

La causa del incendio está bajo investigación y no está claro si se originó en la vivienda o en la choza tiki, dijeron las autoridades.

La Cruz Roja Americana asistirá a los residentes desplazados.

He’s intent on becoming the best. He already may be there.

The 24-year-old is hitting unprecedented velocities for a starter in MLB's pitch-tracking era that began in 2008. Over the last month, he's dominated unlike any pitcher in the last century.

Misiorowski has allowed just one run over his last eight starts heading into his Friday matchup with the Atlanta Braves. He says he can’t come up with a specific moment or decision that sparked this surge.

“It’s more that it finally clicked,” said Misiorowski, who is 8-2 with a 1.34 ERA and 131 strikeouts to lead the majors in the latter two categories. “Everything started settling in and feeling good.”

The fact Misiorowski used the word “finally” to describe an emergence in his first full major league season underscores his exacting standards.

Misiorowski's rise has Brewers manager Pat Murphy comparing him to Forrest Gump, which prompted a social media post by the pitcher his own face over the Tom Hanks movie character’s body.

“It’s for sure meant to be a compliment for a guy who didn’t put in limits on himself and his naiveté,” Murphy said. “It was a factor in a positive way, where he went out and achieved whatever he set his mind to, and didn’t let the outside forces, weren’t even aware of the outside forces, and didn’t let anything hold him back.”

Misiorowski was selected to the All-Star Game last season after only five starts. He struggled late last year before producing a 1.50 postseason ERA during Milwaukee’s run to the NL Championship Series. Now he’s a Cy Young Award favorite.

Misiorowski is more than just a hard thrower

The eye-popping numbers most associated with Misiorowski come from the radar gun. He reached 104.5 mph — the fastest velocity by any starter in the pitch tracking era — and got to 100 mph on a record 58 pitches during the Brewers’ 6-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday.

He's thrown 460 pitches at least 100 mph this season, already surpassing the record for a starter set by Cincinnati's Hunter Greene with 337 such pitches in 2022.

But his most impressive statistics have more to do with results than velocity.

According to MLB.com, Misiorowski’s 0.17 ERA since May 1 is the best in an eight-start stretch for any pitcher since earned runs became an official statistic in 1913. Against Philadelphia, he became the third pitcher since 1900 to throw a shutout while striking out 15 and allowing no more than one baserunner.

Opponents are batting just .140 against Misiorowski this season. SportRadar says no starting pitcher has allowed an opponent batting average of .166 or below over a full non-pandemic season since at least 1910. Boston’s Pedro Martinez had batters hitting .167 against him in 2000. Opponents hit .168 against Cleveland’s Luis Tiant in 1968.

Misiorowski’s development into a complete pitcher should come as no surprise, considering who he grew up watching.

The pitchers Miz admires most aren't necessarily smoke throwers

The list of pitchers he admired growing up includes Adam Wainwright, Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw and Chris Sale. While Sale is a hard thrower and Kershaw also had outstanding velocity early in his career, Wainwright and Greinke succeeded without overpowering fastballs.

They had one thing in common.

“Every game, you felt like they could trust them to get a win,” Misiorowski said. “That was the big thing. You looked at those guys and they were going out there and going to perform for seven or eight innings to secure the team a win.”

His appreciation for baseball history includes a baseball card collection he says numbers in the thousands, though he probably owns even more Pokemon cards.

“Since I was a kid, my dad got me into it,” Misiorowski said of his baseball card collection. “It’s huge right now. I think I need to downsize it a little bit, but it’s fun.”

His enthusiasm shows on the mound and in his work ethic. He devoted the offseason to upgrading his leg strength to withstand the rigors of a full season and results are showing in his improved endurance and command.

“He could rest on his laurels. ‘Hey, I was an All-Star in my first year. I pitched in the playoffs. I pitched well. I can do it. I’m fine. I’ll be all right,’“ Murphy said. “Or you can say, ‘I’m going home. I’m going to get stronger. I’m going to do whatever I can do to come back and dominate.’ That’s what he’s done.”

He's stabilizing an injury-riddled rotation

Misiorowski’s growth has helped the Brewers overcome numerous pitching injuries to build a comfortable NL Central lead. With Misiorowski and Kyle Harrison (8-1, 2.47) leading the rotation, the Brewers rank fourth in the majors in ERA.

Over his last eight starts, Misiorowski has struck out 80 while allowing nine walks and 14 hits over 54 1/3 innings. The only extra-base hit he’s allowed over his last nine starts was a double by Houston’s Isaac Paredes on May 31.

The low walk totals are notable after Misiorowski battled control issues as a rookie. He walked 31 batters in 66 innings last year, but now constantly gets ahead of hitters.

“He’s winning the 0-0 and the 1-1 (counts) a lot,” pitching coach Chris Hook said. “When he doesn’t, it stands out to be like, ‘Oh, God, he didn’t win the 0-0. He didn’t win the 1-1.’ Like that’s weird, for him to go to a two-ball count.”

Once hitters fall behind in the count, they have little chance.

After facing him for the first time last month, New York Yankees slugger and three-time MVP Aaron Judge noted that “he’s almost basically releasing it in the catcher’s glove” due to the extension Misiorowski gets with his 6-foot-7 frame.

MLB Network analyst and two-time All-Star pitcher Ryan Dempster says Misiorowski reminds him of 6-10 Hall of Fame lefty Randy Johnson in that regard because their hands seem right in front of the plate to the batter when they let go of the ball.

“You can tell yourself to swing, but your brain doesn’t quite compute until it’s out of the hand,” Dempster said. “By the time it’s out of his hand, it’s already on you. I haven’t seen a fastball like this since Kerry Wood.”

Wood’s career was derailed by injuries, leading to worries of hard throwers being susceptible to blowing out pitching arms. Dempster notes Misiorowski is playing in an era with lower pitch counts. Misiorowski also produces elite velocity without overthrowing.

“He sure is repeating his delivery, and when you repeat your delivery, you tend to stay healthy,” Dempster said. “Guys who don’t repeat deliveries and get out of whack and something’s a little off, they struggle with that. I really think he will stay healthy, just me personally.”

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Detectives listed eight surveillance videos that showed Ivis Aceituno’s obsessive three-day focus on parked cars that didn’t belong to him, according to incident and arrest reports.

Records show six of the surveillance videos were recorded on May 30 in Coral Gables, one on June 5 in Miami’s Coral Way neighborhood, and another on June 9, also in Coral Gables.

A May 30 video shows Aceituno trying to break into a black 2026 Cadillac Escalade ESV and a gray 2025 Subaru Crosstrek near Sevilla Avenue and Segovia Street, according to police.

A May 30 video show him trying to break into a dark 2024 Ferrari SF90, a red 2025 Lamborghini Urus, and a red 2026 Ferrari 12Cilindri near Sevilla Avenue and Anderson Road, according to police.

In the area of Palermo Avenue and Segovia and Hernando streets, May 30 videos show Aceituno breaking into a silver Chrysler and a black Volkswagen, and trying to break into a Ford Mustang and a green Mercedes-Benz, according to police.

A May 30 video near Northwest 15 Avenue and 19 Street in Allapattah showed Aceituno “exiting” a 2026 Dodge Durango that had been stolen from a driveway near Aledo Avenue and Anderson Road in Coral Gables, according to police.

“The bicycle that Aceituno utilized for multiple vehicle burglaries, that was captured on CCTV, was located in the rear cargo area of the Durango,” a deputy wrote, according to an arrest report.

The June 5 video shows Aceituno breaking into a parked car near Southwest 16th Avenue and 22 Terrace “and taking a set of” Airpods that later pinged in the area of Northwest 18 Avenue and 19 Street in Allapattah, according to police.

The June 9 video shows Aceituno trying to break into cars near to where a 2024 Ford Mustang was stolen near Savona Avenue and South Le Jeune Road before it was abandoned near Northwest 19 Avenue and 16 Terrace in Allapattah, according to police.

Records show Aceituno was living near Northwest 19 Avenue and 19 Terrace in Allapattah, and his alleged crime spree involved the Miami and Coral Gables police departments and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

The Coral Gables Police Department had issued a “Be-On-the-Look-Out” alert for a suspect when a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy recognized Aceituno after an arrest on Monday, records show.

On Tuesday, a Coral Gables detective contacted the MDSO deputy, who “provided a positive ID” for Aceituno, who was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, according to a police report.

In the 12 cases prosecutors filed, Aceituno faced four counts of grand theft vehicle, five counts of burglary of an unoccupied conveyance, two counts of attempted burglary of an occupied conveyance, five counts of attempted burglary of an unoccupied conveyance, one count of trespass in an unoccupied structure or conveyance, and one count of petit theft.

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

Los detectives enumeraron ocho videos de vigilancia que mostraban el enfoque obsesivo de Ivis Aceituno durante tres días en vehículos estacionados que no le pertenecían, según informes de incidentes y arresto.

Los registros muestran que seis de los videos de vigilancia fueron grabados el 30 de mayo en Coral Gables, uno el 5 de junio en el vecindario Coral Way de Miami y otro el 9 de junio, también en Coral Gables.

Un video del 30 de mayo muestra a Aceituno intentando entrar a la fuerza en una Cadillac Escalade ESV negra modelo 2026 y una Subaru Crosstrek gris modelo 2025 cerca de Sevilla Avenue y Segovia Street, según la policía.

Un video del 30 de mayo lo muestra intentando entrar a la fuerza en una Ferrari SF90 oscura modelo 2024, una Lamborghini Urus roja modelo 2025 y una Ferrari 12Cilindri roja modelo 2026 cerca de Sevilla Avenue y Anderson Road, según la policía.

En el área de Palermo Avenue y las calles Segovia y Hernando, videos del 30 de mayo muestran a Aceituno entrando a la fuerza en un Chrysler plateado y un Volkswagen negro, e intentando entrar a la fuerza en un Ford Mustang y un Mercedes-Benz verde, según la policía.

Un video del 30 de mayo cerca de Northwest 15 Avenue y 19 Street en Allapattah mostró a Aceituno “saliendo” de una Dodge Durango modelo 2026 que había sido robada de una entrada residencial cerca de Aledo Avenue y Anderson Road en Coral Gables, según la policía.

“La bicicleta que Aceituno utilizó para múltiples robos a vehículos, y que fue captada por cámaras de vigilancia, fue localizada en el área de carga trasera de la Durango”, escribió un agente, según un informe de arresto.

El video del 5 de junio muestra a Aceituno entrando a la fuerza en un vehículo estacionado cerca de Southwest 16th Avenue y 22 Terrace “y tomando un par de” AirPods que posteriormente emitieron una señal en el área de Northwest 18 Avenue y 19 Street en Allapattah, según la policía.

El video del 9 de junio muestra a Aceituno intentando entrar a la fuerza en vehículos cerca de donde un Ford Mustang modelo 2024 fue robado cerca de Savona Avenue y South Le Jeune Road antes de ser abandonado cerca de Northwest 19 Avenue y 16 Terrace en Allapattah, según la policía.

Los registros muestran que Aceituno vivía cerca de Northwest 19 Avenue y 19 Terrace en Allapattah, y que su presunta ola de delitos involucró a los departamentos de policía de Miami y Coral Gables, así como a la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

El Departamento de Policía de Coral Gables había emitido una alerta de búsqueda para un sospechoso cuando un agente de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade reconoció a Aceituno tras un arresto el lunes, según los registros.

El martes, un detective de Coral Gables contactó al agente de la MDSO, quien “proporcionó una identificación positiva” de Aceituno, quien se encontraba en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, según un informe policial.

En los 12 casos presentados por los fiscales, Aceituno enfrentaba cuatro cargos de robo mayor de vehículo, cinco cargos de robo en vehículo desocupado, dos cargos de intento de robo en vehículo ocupado, cinco cargos de intento de robo en vehículo desocupado, un cargo de ingreso ilegal a una estructura o vehículo desocupado y un cargo de hurto menor.

El editor de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Carson Merlo, contribuyó a este informe.

The unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge wrongly interpreted Philadelphia's contract claims involving Independence National Historical Park, saying the city merely having standing to sue did not mean its arguments had merit. The panel also praised the plans for the replacement installation, writing that they were, “full of historical context,” despite objections from historians and city officials that the content appears whitewashed.

The ruling comes a week after a Massachusetts federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” The federal government has asked for a stay on that ruling while it appeals.

It was unclear how the Massachusetts ruling would affect the restoration or replacement of the panels at the President's House Site. About half the large panels at the outdoor exhibit had been restored before a February pause in the work.

Phone and email messages left for attorneys representing the city were not returned early Thursday. Messages to spokespeople for the Department of Interior and the National Park Service also were not returned.

Dawn Chavous, a volunteer for Avenging the Ancestors Coalition, one of the advocacy groups that helped develop the site in the 2000s, said they are disappointed with the decision but are speaking to their attorneys and considering options.

“For decades, ATAC has worked to ensure that the stories of the enslaved African descendants who lived and labored at the President’s House are not erased, overlooked, or misrepresented,” the group said in an emailed statement. “That commitment remains unwavering. We believe that historical truth matters, and we will continue to advocate for the protection, preservation, and accurate interpretation of this important chapter of American history.”

The city of Philadelphia sued in January after the National Park Service, in response to President Donald Trump's executive order, removed the explanatory panels from the President’s House Site, where George and Martha Washington lived with nine of their slaves in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital.

The city had worked in tandem with the federal government, historians and private partners to create the exhibit in the early 2000s — as part of a longstanding cooperation agreement over the downtown historical park — and contributed $1.5 million toward its creation.

The city argued that federal government must consult with the city before making changes to the President's House Site. Justice Department lawyers argued the administration alone can decide what stories are told at National Park Service properties.

In its ruling Thursday, the appeals panel said the maintenance portion of the contract between the city and the federal government could not be interpreted to mean the site would remain as it was when it was completed.

“The duty to ‘maintain’ is better understood as a general management obligation that accompanies ownership, not a promise that the exhibits will forever remain in place regardless of the owner’s wishes,” the opinion said.

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Casey contributed from Boston.

Guthrie se encontraba en North Miami para una mesa redonda sobre preparación ante huracanes en el campus Biscayne Bay de la Universidad Internacional de Florida (FIU).

El traslado se produce a pesar de que Guthrie y otros funcionarios habían afirmado previamente que el centro de detención para inmigrantes podría resistir una tormenta débil.

“Así que tendrían que preguntarle a ICE qué ha cambiado”, dijo Guthrie. “Al final del día, el gobernador siempre ha dicho que la instalación de inmigración es temporal”.

Añadió: “Siempre fue diseñada para ser temporal. ICE tomó una decisión. Emitieron ese comunicado. Yo no vi ese comunicado antes de que llegara a los medios”.

Guthrie sostuvo que las estructuras del lugar siguen siendo lo suficientemente resistentes para soportar una tormenta.

“Las estructuras en sí, las estructuras de vigas en I y las estructuras de lona pueden resistir vientos de hasta 74 millas por hora, lo que equivale a una tormenta tropical o un huracán de categoría 1”, dijo Guthrie. “Nunca existió la intención de dejar personas en esa instalación, ni siquiera durante una tormenta tropical. Íbamos a evacuar y teníamos planes de evacuación”.

Anteriormente había dicho que la instalación podía soportar un huracán de categoría 2.

Guthrie agregó que el lugar permanecerá tal como está por ahora y que aún podría volver a recibir detenidos en el futuro.

“En este momento no se nos ha indicado que suspendamos operaciones, por lo que seguimos preparados para recibir detenidos nuevamente, si eso es lo que el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional desea hacer”, afirmó.

El centro de detención improvisado, ubicado en lo profundo de los Everglades, fue construido rápidamente el verano pasado y ha recibido fuertes críticas de varios grupos ambientalistas, que posteriormente presentaron una demanda solicitando su cierre.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la instalación a principios de esta semana y mostró que las estructuras continúan en el lugar, aunque con menos actividad de la que se había observado anteriormente.

Hasta ahora, ni Guthrie ni el DHS han comentado exactamente a dónde fueron trasladados los detenidos que estaban en Alligator Alcatraz.

Según el teniente de Miami Fire Rescue, Pete Sanchez, el incendio fue reportado a la 1:55 a.m. en Austral Marina, ubicada en 2190 NW North River Drive.

Sanchez dijo que los bomberos llegaron al lugar y encontraron dos embarcaciones atracadas, cada una de más de 30 pies de largo, completamente envueltas en llamas y amenazando a otras embarcaciones cercanas.

Se solicitaron más unidades de rescate de bomberos al lugar y los bomberos utilizaron múltiples líneas de mangueras y realizaron una “operación de supresión con espuma desde tierra en coordinación con el barco de bomberos de Miami operando en el agua”, dijo Sanchez.

Según Sanchez, el incendio fue controlado en menos de una hora y se confirmó que todas las embarcaciones estaban desocupadas.

Sanchez confirmó que cuatro embarcaciones resultaron dañadas en el incendio, incluyendo dos con daños severos por fuego y otras con daños por calor, incluyendo un yate de 60 pies.

Todos los propietarios de las embarcaciones afectadas fueron notificados sobre el incendio y acudieron al lugar, donde hablaron con el comandante del incidente, dijo Sanchez.

La Unidad de Investigaciones de Incendios de Miami está investigando el origen y la causa del incendio.

Sanchez dijo que la Guardia Costera “evaluará cualquier posible impacto ambiental por combustible u otros materiales peligrosos que puedan haber ingresado al agua”.

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Guthrie was in North Miami for a hurricane preparedness roundtable at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay campus.

The transfer comes despite Guthrie and other officials previously stating the immigration detention facility could survive a weak storm.

“So you would need to ask ICE what’s changed,” Guthrie said. “At the end of the day, the governor has always said that the immigration facility is temporary.”

He added, “It was always designed to be temporary. ICE has made a decision. They came out with that statement. I did not see that statement prior to it hitting the media.”

Guthrie maintained that the structures on the site are still sturdy enough to survive a storm.

“The structures themselves, the I beam structures, the soft-sided structures can withstand up to 74 mile-an-hour winds, that is a tropical storm, (Category 1) hurricane,” Guthrie said. “There was never ever an intent to leave individuals at that facility, even in a tropical storm. We were going to evacuate, we had evacuation plans.”

He previously said that the facility could handle a Category 2 storm.

Guthrie added that the site will stay as it is for now and could still receive detainees again in the future.

“At this point in time, we have not been told to stand down, so we are still in a posture to receive detainees again, if that’s what the Department of Homeland Security wants to do,” he said.

The makeshift detention center, deep in the Everglades, was constructed quickly last summer and has received sharp criticism from several environmental groups who later filed a lawsuit arguing for its closure.

Sky 10 flew over the facility earlier this week, showing structures are still in place but not as busy as they’ve been in the past.

So far, neither Guthrie nor DHS have commented on exactly where those detainees from Alligator Alcatraz have been transferred.

Luego de reunirse con el pontífice en el Vaticano, el mandatario señaló que el pontífice planea un viaje que incluiría las ciudades de Puno, Iquitos, Cusco, Pucallpa, Piura y Chiclayo, ésta última ubicada en la costa norte del Pacífico y donde el papa ejerció su trabajo pastoral por casi dos décadas.

“La primera quincena de noviembre estará en Perú", dijo Balcázar a la radio local RPP desde el Vaticano tras salir de una reunión de dos horas con el papa. Indicó que los detalles de su itinerario se darán más adelante debido a “razones de política religiosa y seguridad”.

El Vaticano no ha confirmado ningún viaje próximo, pero se rumorea ampliamente una visita a Perú para fines de año con posibles paradas en otros países sudamericanos. El propio León XIV ha expresado su deseo de realizar dicho viaje.

“Argentina y Uruguay esperan la visita del papa. Creo que Perú también me recibiría con los brazos abiertos y, si voy a Perú, también visitaría muchos países vecinos, pero el plan aún no está definido”, declaró el pontífice a la prensa en diciembre a su regreso del Líbano.

Chiclayo, a 14 kilómetros del Pacífico, es una ciudad con más de 800.000 habitantes y desempeña un papel vital como eje comercial de la costa norte de Perú. Sin embargo, también enfrenta problemas sociales y alrededor del 20% de su población vive en la pobreza.

Ése fue el hogar de León XIV durante casi una década antes de que partiera a Roma en 2023 cuando el entonces papa Francisco le pidió asumir la presidencia de la Comisión Pontificia para América Latina.

Los habitantes de Chiclayo celebraron emocionados cuando en sus primeras palabras como pontífice, León XIV dijo en castellano a la a multitud que lo vitoreaba en la Plaza de San Pedro: “mi querida diócesis de Chiclayo, en el Perú, donde un pueblo fiel ha acompañado a su obispo, ha compartido su fe”.

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According to Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials, the fire was reported at about 5:20 a.m. in the 1800 block of Southwest 23^rd Avenue.

FLFR officials said firefighters arrived at the scene about six minutes later and found flames coming from a tiki hut that was behind a rental property, as well as a neighboring home.

“It was huge -- it was a big tiki hut,” a neighbor identified only as Gigi said.

Firefighters said four adults who live at the home were able to safely evacuate with their three dogs.

No injuries were reported.

“It’s very sad, you know,” Gigi said. “Imagine it was your house that catches on fire.”

The cause of the fire is under investigation and it’s unclear whether the fire originated in the home or tiki hut, authorities said.

The American Red Cross will assist the displaced residents.

But that wasn't the only memorable moment Macron had this week at a G7 summit where the experience and networks he has built over nearly 10 years as president bore fruit.

Perhaps the most remarkable feat was getting Trump to more forcefully back Ukraine in its war with Russia — a win for European leaders and for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy following his diplomatic disaster at the White House in March 2025.

“Bravo,” Macron said after Trump signed the Iran war agreement. The signing came as a surprise to most of the officials and other guests at the Versailles Palace dinner, and they responded with a round of applause.

Macron had said the dinner was intended as a celebration of French-American friendship. The unannounced signing ceremony transformed it into a symbolic finale to Macron’s weeklong effort to get Trump more aligned with Europe — perhaps his last big achievements before the end of his term next spring.

Macron used Versailles as an ‘instrument of influence’

Macron had presented Versailles as an “instrument of influence” and suggested the invitation could help keep Trump engaged through the end of the G7 summit held in Evian. Trump left last year’s gathering in Canada before it had concluded.

The Palace of Versailles, which Trump praised as “not gold leaf,” has been a venue for French leaders to honor visiting guests for more than three centuries.

After the signing, Macron praised the Iran agreement as one that “allows for putting an end to the conflict, that allows peace, that allows the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz" and will likely result in lower oil prices.

Macron, who was not involved in the Iran war negotiations, cannot claim success for Trump deciding to sign the deal. But he secured the historic location, helping to put Europe back into the frame of a war that the U.S. and Israel jointly launched without consulting Western allies.

French Economy Minister Roland Lescure, who attended the dinner, described the signing as largely improvised.

Trump said in his remarks that he was going to sign the agreement, Lescure said. Asked whether Macron knew in advance, Lescure said he believed Trump had informed the French president shortly beforehand.

“But for us, ministers in the French government, it was a surprise,” he told French radio RTL.

Trump received backing from European leaders

Trump arrived in France facing pressure at home over Iran, including criticism from some allies about his handling of the conflict and the emerging agreement. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s closest allies and a longtime Iran hawk, had expressed skepticism.

As negotiations with Iran advanced, Trump sought backing from leaders at the G7 meeting, according to a European diplomat briefed on the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The G7 includes the U.S., France, the U.K., Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan.

“We certainly gave him some reassurance on the Middle East,” the European diplomat said. “And President Trump, for his part, delivered for us on Ukraine.”

The G7 statement on geopolitical issues referred to a “breakthrough” in the Middle East and mentioned Trump by name three times, praising what it called his “strong leadership.”

Trump has had friction with Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni over failing to consult them before the decision to go to war. He has pushed back on the four members of NATO for their lack of support for the U.S. in the conflict.

Macron, whose bumpy relations with Trump started with an awkwardly long handshake nearly a decade ago, prepared for the G7 summit for months via frequent phone calls focusing on both Iran and Ukraine.

Trump met on the sidelines of the summit with Zelenskyy, who showed Trump photos of the damage caused by Russian bombing of the Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv.

Americans and Europeans align views to support Ukraine

Macron has at times expressed caution about Trump’s shifting positions, particularly regarding Russia and President Vladimir Putin. But European officials argued that this week’s written commitments represented a more durable position because the language had been approved by Trump himself.

“America is with us on Ukraine. That is very important,” Macron said after Trump joined a three-way phone call with Zelenskyy from Versailles.

G7 leaders agreed in a joint statement to increase deliveries of air-defense systems and long-range weapons for Ukraine. They also pledged to increase pressure on Russia through stronger sanctions, including measures targeting the country’s oil and gas sectors.

Macron also used the summit to raise Lebanon’s future with Trump. France has longstanding historical ties to Lebanon and has sought to keep support for Lebanese sovereignty high on the international agenda. During discussions in Evian, Trump repeatedly expressed sympathy for Lebanon while criticizing Israel and describing tensions with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Romanch Mahajan, 18, jumped out of the carriage after his mother fell out and hit his head on the ground, his father, Deepak Mahajan, told The New York Times.

“He was screaming, ‘Mom!'” the young man’s father told the newspaper. Mahajan said he, his wife and younger son escaped with minor injuries, though their carriage clipped another horse-drawn vehicle and toppled over.

The family arrived in New York from India on Monday, the same day Romanch learned he had been accepted to a university in Jaipur. They had spent the day visiting many of the city’s popular tourist attractions and were unwinding on a carriage ride when the driver got off to photograph them. Moments later, the accident occurred.

Video showed the horse sprinting through the park as two people appeared to jump from the four-wheeled carriage. A second video shows the cab toppling over after clipping the wheels of another carriage on the park’s busy loop.

“This incident should be taken very seriously,” Mahajan said. “It took my son's dream away.”

Calls to ban the quaint attraction revived

Horse carriages, which cost about $72 for the first 20 minutes, were not running Thursday in the park, which sees millions of visitors every year. It was not immediately clear when they would resume.

The company that owns the carriage involved in the fatal crash also suspended the driver indefinitely, and the horse will be retired from the business, according to the union representing the industry. The union has said the driver dismounted to take a photograph of his passengers, which they are not supposed to do.

“We’re absolutely gutted and stunned by this tragedy,” said Alexander Kemp, a vice president with the Transport Workers Union Local 100, the labor union representing carriage drivers and owners. “We have shuttered the stables and ceased operations today while we have extensive internal discussions of safety protocols and how they can be improved.”

Mahajan's death is believed to be the first human fatality involving a horse carriage since they were introduced in Central Park more than 150 years ago, according to the union and the Central Park Conservancy, which manages the 850-acre park.

The conservancy was among those on Thursday that called for the industry to be suspended until more protections could be put in place. There have now been eight horse-related incidents in Central Park over the past 13 months, the group said.

“If any other activity in the Park posed a comparable risk to visitors, it would be suspended immediately while steps were taken to address those dangers,” the conservancy said.

The influential nonprofit revived the debate over the carriages when, for the first time, it threw its support behind a long-simmering bill that would ban horse carriages and help drivers transition into new jobs.

The organization argued that the carriages are a public safety hazard in the increasingly crowded park, noting that other U.S. cities, including Chicago and San Antonio, have also recently done away with the nostalgic rides.

Carriage owners and drivers fear end to livelihood

Animal welfare groups have also long complained that the horses are overworked, can get easily spooked on city streets and live in inadequate stables while their drivers regularly flaunt city rules.

“The record is undeniable: crashes, runaways, horse deaths, injuries, and now a devastating loss of human life,” Edita Birnkrant, head of New Yorkers for Clean, Livable, and Safe Streets said on Thursday.

Onur Altintas, who owns four horses and a carriage operating in Central Park, said Wednesday’s death was tragic but shouldn’t lead to the industry ending.

He said the industry provides hundreds of jobs to drivers, stable hands, farriers, and others in horse-related trades.

“We are sad about what happened. Nobody wants that. But it’s not like this is happening every day,” said Altintas. “Car crashes and plane crashes are happening every single day. One horse makes an accident, and the world is destroyed? Come on.”

New York City leaders, meanwhile, vowed to work to put an end to the quaint attraction, which harkens back to a romanticized, bygone New York.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin said the legislative body would hold a hearing next month on Ryder's Law, the bill backed by the conservancy.

“The time to act is now,” she wrote on the social platform X.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani also reiterated his support for ending the industry, saying he’d work with the council, the industry and animal welfare advocates to “deliver a just transition that protects workers while ending horse-drawn carriages in Central Park once and for all.”

If the industry were phased out, Altintas said he would have to find another way to support his family and four children.

Instead, the longtime owner and driver said the industry needs better regulations to make it safer. He said “90%” of horse-related accidents could be avoided simply by installing hitching posts throughout the park so drivers could safely tether and secure their horses, including at popular tourist photo stops.

The Transport Workers Union on Thursday said legislation introduced into the council last week would do just that.

“Drivers can’t leave their carriage. They have to be on it all the time,” Altintas said. “But it’s impossible. We have to go to the restroom. We have to eat. We have to do things.”

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The league launched an investigation at the request of the NHL Players’ Association in light of the Edmonton Oilers’ interest in hiring Babcock. The league in a statement said even in the least favorable light, there was no basis to restrict Babcock’s employment.

It was not immediately clear if or when the Oilers would name Babcock coach. They have been looking for a replacement since firing Kris Knoblauch following a first-round playoff exit that came after back-to-back trips to the Stanley Cup Final.

Babcock, 63, has not coached in the NHL since 2019, when he was fired by Toronto 23 games into his fifth season in charge. The Blue Jackets hired him on July 1, 2023, and Babcock resigned in September after his requests for personal photos from players in an attempt to get to know them drew criticism as an invasion of privacy.

A statement from the NHLPA called the allegations very concerning and said, "Moving forward, we expect that Mr. Babcock will uphold the high standards required of NHL head coaches.”

The NHL dropped its planned investigation at the time because Babcock stepped down. It got underway this week after the final ended

Babcock coached Detroit to the Stanley Cup in 2008 and has made two other trips to the final, along with guiding Canada to Olympic gold medals in 2010 and ’14.

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The document, which has not yet been made public, will be submitted Thursday to Cuba’s National Assembly. It envisions expanding opportunities for private enterprise, greater autonomy for municipalities and state-owned companies and measures to attract additional foreign investment, including from Cubans abroad.

In recent days, residents in several Havana neighborhoods staged protests, banging pots and pans as power outages spread across the island.

“Cuba resists heroically and creatively, but has endured for too long a barbaric, undeserved and unbearable punishment, to which is now added the threat of military aggression,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel said late Wednesday in the closing speech of the Communist Party session. The speech was published Thursday.

The announcement comes after months of increasing pressure from the U.S. and high-level talks between the two countries that have included Raúl Castro’s grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro. The U.S. has levied numerous sanctions against Cuba and has indicted Raúl Castro in connection with the 1996 downing of two civilian planes operated by Miami exiles.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said at a White House press briefing that the administration is watching the island's actions to determine how to respond.

“We’re going to see what they do. And obviously, if they do one thing, we’re going to do something,” Vance said. "If they make smart decisions, we’re going to have a much better relationship with that island.”

Pressure from the European Union also ratcheted up Thursday, with lawmakers passing a resolution condemning “the systematic repression” by the Cuban government and demanding “profound economic and political change.” The resolution also called for EU sanctions targeting Díaz-Canel and the leadership of Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A. (GAESA), a business conglomerate operated by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. Both have already been sanctioned by the U.S.

Díaz-Canel said the emergency plan and the policy document prepared by the Communist Party’s Central Committee were shaped by the experiences of China and Vietnam, two communist countries that have introduced market-oriented economic reforms while maintaining one-party rule.

The document will be submitted to the National Assembly for debate during a special session that, like the recent party meeting, was convened without prior public notice.

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Although the official certification of the primary race is continuing, McDuffie said in a statement that “it is clear that the voters have chosen a different path.” The former member of the D.C. council said he had contacted Lewis George and congratulated her. He thanked his supporters and urged them to continue working for the city.

"The campaign may be over, but the work of building a safer, more affordable, more prosperous city continues.”

The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the race. Lewis George had a little less than 53% of the vote Thursday morning, which is just a few percentage points above the 50% threshold to avoid ranked choice voting.

The city is scheduled to release preliminary ranked choice voting results on Sunday. AP will call the race before then if it is clear that the ranked choice process will be avoided.

Lewis George has pledged to aggressively stand up to federal intervention into Washington, D.C.’s, affairs, setting up a potential showdown with President Donald Trump over his administration's moves to challenge the city’s limited autonomy.

If the results stand, Lewis George is likely to win November’s general election in the heavily Democratic city. The winner in the general election will replace Muriel Bowser, who decided not to run again after three terms.

Lewis George would join Robert White Jr., who won the Democratic primary for the district’s delegate to Congress, as the top local officials who likely will contend with the federal government’s intentions for the city. They each campaigned on a promise to take a harder line than their predecessors against the Trump administration’s moves on the district, including its deployment of the National Guard on an ongoing, open-ended mission meant to fight crime.

“As mayor, I will work with anyone who makes D.C. safer,” Lewis George told a crowd of cheering supporters Tuesday night, “but I will also stand up to Trump.”

Washington has limited autonomy and federal leaders retain significant control over local affairs, including approval of the budget and laws passed by the D.C. Council.

Trump further encroached on that autonomy last year when he briefly federalized the city’s police force and deployed an ongoing law enforcement surge that included the National Guard. His efforts to downsize the federal government also roiled the capital region, costing thousands of people their jobs. And he has been reshaping the city by renovating storied landmarks and putting his name or image on buildings.

Lewis George, a self-described democratic socialist and a member of the D.C. Council, has already come under fire from Trump, who last week threatened to place the city under federal control if she won.

“Maybe we’d take back Washington, run it on the federal basis,” he said.

Lewis George, 38, and a third generation Washingtonian, has vowed to overrule an executive order by the city’s police chief permitting local law enforcement to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Lewis George argued the order “hurt the trust of our community.”

She also pledged to use any levers available to her through the city’s home rule compact to resist what she called authoritarian infringements on the district’s local governance.

“We have legal tools we can use to fight back,” she told the AP in an interview before the vote. “And we know that when we have gone to court, we’ve won.”

Bowser found herself walking a fine line between staying in Trump’s good graces and responding to the concerns of constituents, many of whom said she didn’t push back hard enough on Trump’s actions. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the 18-term, 89-year-old delegate to Congress, meanwhile, faced mounting concern from critics who said she wasn’t forcefully pushing back on the Trump administration’s moves against the city.

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According to Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Pete Sanchez, the fire was reported at 1:55 a.m. at Austral Marina, located at 2190 NW North River Drive.

Sanchez said firefighters arrived at the scene and found two docked boats, each measuring more than 30 feet in length, fully engulfed in flames and threatening nearby boats.

More fire rescue units were called to the scene and firefighters used multiple hose lines and conducted a “foam suppression operation from land in coordination with the Miami Fire Boat operating on the water,” Sanchez said.

According to Sanchez, the fire was under control without an hour and all boats were confirmed to be unoccupied.

Sanchez confirmed four boats were damaged in the fire, including two with severe fire damage and four with heat-related damage, including a 60-foot yacht.

All affected boat owners were notified about the blaze and they all responded to the scene where they spoke with the incident commander, Sanchez said.

The Miami Fire Investigation Unit is investigating the origin and cause of the fire.

Sanchez said the Coast Guard will “assess any potential environmental impact from fuel or other hazardous materials that may have entered the water.”

A military judge at Fort Stewart handed down his verdict in the court-martial of Sgt. Quornelius Radford, local news outlets reported. Army prosecutors accused Radford of targeting leaders of his supply unit when he opened fire with a personal handgun last August.

Radford, 29, wounded four fellow soldiers and his then-fiancé, Raekwon Smith, who testified during the two-day trial that he had followed Radford onto Fort Stewart fearing the soldier was suicidal. Smith said Radford shot him in the torso before entering his unit's office building and shooting others.

Radford admitted to carrying out the shootings in March when he pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault and domestic violence. But he insisted he never intended to kill anyone, and Army prosecutors pressed ahead with trying Radford on charges of attempted murder.

Trial witnesses described how Radford walked to two offices and a conference room as he shot four soldiers, but he told others he encountered to leave, WSAV-TV reported. He was apprehended by military police after being restrained and disarmed by fellow soldiers.

A radiologist who examined X-rays of the soldiers' injuries testified one was shot in the face and another in the chest, while bullets stuck other victims in the back and abdomen. Dr. Morgan Williamson said any of those wounds could have been fatal, WTOC-TV reported.

Prosecutors argued that Radford knew from his military firearms training never to shoot at anyone unless he meant to kill them.

Defense attorneys said Radford was suicidal and opened fire to provoke a showdown with police, hoping they would kill him.

“Radford only wanted one person to die that day, himself,” said Lt. Col. Dylan Mack, one of Radford's Army lawyers.

Radford opted for his trial to be decided by a military judge rather than a jury of soldiers. The judge scheduled a sentencing hearing for Monday. Under military law, attempted murder carries a potential penalty of life imprisonment.

The largest Army post east of the Mississippi River, Fort Stewart is home to thousands of soldiers assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division. It is located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Savannah.

Radford served as a supply sergeant in the division’s 2nd Armored Brigade. Army records show he enlisted in 2018.

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Authorities said it happened just after 11:45 p.m. near Ninth Street. An arrest report from the Miami Beach Police Department states that a worker at Mango’s nightclub reported that a man, later identified as Juan Luis Rivera Jr., was exhibiting the threatening behaviors.

Police said they were able to track down two victims, who said Rivera approached them, lifted his jacket to show a pocketknife in his waistband and was “mumbling incoherently.”

According to the report, Rivera then followed the victims and was eventually “flanking” them, asking them, “Why y’all walking so fast?” while holding the knife in his hand.

Authorities said after noticing police officers in the area, Rivera took off. They said two witnesses later flagged down two police officers and pointed out Rivera, who was walking nearby.

Police said they detained him and found the folding knife. The report states that Rivera told the officers, “I didn’t do anything. I was just trying to get girls’ numbers.”

Police arrested Rivera, who has an address in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon just after midnight on Wednesday.

As of Thursday morning, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.

Las autoridades indicaron que ocurrió poco después de las 11:45 p.m. cerca de Ninth Street. Un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami Beach señala que un empleado del club nocturno Mango’s reportó que un hombre, posteriormente identificado como Juan Luis Rivera Jr., estaba mostrando un comportamiento amenazante.

La policía indicó que logró localizar a dos víctimas, quienes dijeron que Rivera se les acercó, levantó su chaqueta para mostrar una navaja plegable que llevaba en la cintura y estaba “murmurando de manera incoherente”.

Según el informe, Rivera luego siguió a las víctimas y finalmente comenzó a caminar a su lado, preguntándoles: “¿Por qué caminan tan rápido?”, mientras sostenía el cuchillo en la mano.

Las autoridades señalaron que, al notar la presencia de agentes de policía en el área, Rivera huyó. Posteriormente, dos testigos alertaron a dos oficiales y señalaron a Rivera, quien caminaba cerca del lugar.

La policía indicó que lo detuvo y encontró la navaja plegable. El informe establece que Rivera les dijo a los agentes: “No hice nada. Solo intentaba conseguir números de teléfono de mujeres”.

La policía arrestó a Rivera, quien tiene una dirección registrada en el vecindario Overtown de Miami, por un cargo de agresión agravada con un arma mortal poco después de la medianoche del miércoles.

Hasta la mañana del jueves, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $5,000 USD.

The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate fell to 6.47% from 6.52% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.81%.

Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, often sought by borrowers refinancing a home loan, also came down this week. That average rate fell to 5.81% from 5.84% last week. A year ago, it was at 5.96%, Freddie Mac said.

Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, from the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions to bond market investors’ expectations for the economy and inflation. They generally follow the trajectory of the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans.

With inflation still well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, officials at the U.S. central bank left the benchmark interest rate where it was on Wednesday. It was the first meeting with new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, who replaced Jerome Powell after his eight-year run as the U.S. central bank’s leader.

A number of Fed policymakers said they are actually willing to consider at least one interest rate hike this year.

Rates have been mostly trending higher since the conflict between the U.S. and Iran began in late February, disrupting the flow of crude oil from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide. That’s sent oil prices sharply higher, helping drive up inflation, bond yields and mortgage rates.

However, earlier this week, the U.S. and Iran came to a tentative agreement to end the war and allow Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and sell its oil freely.

That sent the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note down from 4.53% last week to 4.44% Thursday. It was just 3.97% in late February, before the war broke out.

As recently as late February, the average rate on a 30-year mortgage had slipped just under 6% for the first time since late 2022. It’s hasn’t fallen below that threshold since. Two weeks ago, it climbed to 6.53%, its highest level since Aug. 28.

While average long-term mortgage rates remain lower than they were at this time last year, their mostly upward trajectory and uncertainty over how much higher they may go has kept many would-be homebuyers on the sideline.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in the first three months of the year compared to a year earlier, extending a nationwide housing slump that dates back to 2022 when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Sales were essentially flat in April, but accelerated in May to their fastest pace since December.

Still, sales of existing U.S. homes continue to hovering close to a 4-million annual pace, far short of the historic norm that is closer to 5.2-million.

Though mortgage applications fell according to the most recent Mortgage Bankers Association survey, they jumped 10.8% the week before.

Pending home sales also rose last month, an encouraging sign for the housing market heading into the second half of the year after a lackluster spring homebuying season.

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The forum was hosted by the Urban League of Broward, while questions about representation in the majority-Black district remained front and center.

“There is an attack on Black people in this country and we have to stand up against that and we have to speak out against that,” Democratic congressional candidate Elijah Manley said.

The forum took place in Congressional District 20, where roughly half of the constituents are Black. The seat was formerly held by Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Democrat, who is seeking the seat after resigning under the cloud of an ethics investigation and criminal indictment.

“This is a Black access district, and if we erase the remedy, we erase the past, and that would lead us into a future that would destroy us,” Cherfilus-McCormick said. “So everybody must talk about what is wrong at this time, having someone come into our district forum shopping.”

The comment appeared to be aimed at Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose district was eliminated under a new redistricting map. Wasserman Schultz is now running in District 20 against five other candidates who are Black.

“I think my record speaks for itself,” Wasserman Schultz said. “I’ve been a strong fighter over my entire career to stand up and be a voice for consumers and to push back on businesses and industries who take advantage of consumers.”

Wasserman Schultz said she has fought for minorities, jobs and immigrants during her time in Washington, but candidates throughout the evening continued to emphasize the importance of minority representation.

“When everyone has a seat at the table, we’re better for it. We’re stronger for it,” Democratic candidate Dale Holness said.

The discussion also touched on climate change, healthcare and voting rights.

“We need regulations -- strict regulations -- cut the red tape, promote small local businesses, and that way we can empower our own insurance company locally,” Republican candidate Rod Joseph said.

Cherfilus-McCormick’s ethics investigation also came up during the forum.

One Democratic candidate was notably absent from the event: Luther Campbell. The rapper-turned-political candidate later posted a message on Facebook explaining why he did not attend.

“I love a good fight, but I never confirmed an event,” Campbell wrote. “Nobody on my team confirmed an event.”

A spokesperson for WDFL-TV, which organized and produced the forum in partnership with the Urban League of Broward County, disputed Campbell’s claims to Local 10 News and provided a copy of an email from a man named Kevin Harris, who said he was “helping to support the Luther Campbell for Congress campaign” and confirmed that Campbell would be participating in the forum.

The email was dated April 28.

Secretary of State Shirley Weber, a Democrat, said Wednesday night that petitioners have collected more than the roughly 875,000 signatures needed to place the proposed tax before voters. It will qualify June 25 unless proponents pull the measure.

The proposal, backed by the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Workers West, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on individuals whose net worth exceeds $1 billion and who were living in the state as of Jan. 1, 2026. The goal is to generate $100 billion in revenue, mainly to fund the state’s Medicaid system with some money going to food assistance and education programs.

The union didn't respond Thursday to a request for comment on the announcement that the proposal has secured enough support to qualify for the ballot.

States have been debating how to respond to the major tax breaks and spending cuts legislation President Donald Trump signed last year. The proposal has already divided Democrats and major labor unions and triggered an expensive campaign to defeat it. The proposed tax is backed by prominent progressives including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The measure has faced staunch pushback from Silicon Valley tech moguls as well as Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and prominent players in Sacramento. They include the California Medical Association and California School Boards Association, which helped launch a committee this week to oppose it. Newsom also opposed a ballot measure in 2022 to increase taxes on the wealthy, which would have funded programs that help people buy electric cars or install more chargers. Voters rejected it.

Critics say the measure would decrease state revenue over time by pushing the ultrawealthy to leave, taking the money they would contribute in income taxes with them. That would deal a huge blow to a state that relies on its top 1% of earners for nearly half of its personal income tax revenue.

“This flawed measure is the wrong approach for California’s small businesses and working families,” said Roger Salazar, a spokesperson for Golden State Promise, a political committee fighting the tax.

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that the proposal would generate tens of billions of dollars in the first few years, but that income tax revenues could subsequently decline by hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

Since the proposal was announced in October, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated $82 million to a political committee called “Building a Better California” that backs a variety of initiatives designed to blunt the billionaire tax proposal. It has raised more than $118 million, counting Brin’s contributions, from fewer than a dozen donors.

State lawmakers passed budget bills this week that aim to raise revenue in other ways, including by extending a tax on healthcare providers. Newsom and legislative leaders agree to this approach, Senate President pro Tempore Monique Limón said.

“The budget, as approved by the Legislature and now being negotiated with the Governor, does not include the billionaire’s tax,” the Democrat said in a statement. “Instead, it reflects additional revenues to address our long-term structural deficit.”

In a media briefing, Richard Meade, editor in chief of Lloyd’s List, said for the first time in 110 days, ships owned by major companies were crossing the strait after effectively being marooned there since February.

The strait is a critical passageway for the world’s oil and natural gas. Before the war, the waterway off Iran's coast carried a fifth of the world’s crude oil. Its closure during the war has created a historic energy crisis.

Lloyd’s List did not say how many ships were transiting through or had passed through the strait as of Thursday. It said tankers controlled by major ship owners Grimaldi Group, Cosco, Knutsen and NYK had passed through the strait. Two Iran-flagged, National Iranian Tanker Company-owned, sanctioned crude oil tankers entered the strait, according to Lloyd’s List.

Meanwhile, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the U.S. Navy lifted its blockade of the strait to allow some ships through Iranian ports.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani wrote on X that an Italian merchant ship owned by the Grimaldi Group was among the first vessels to transit the strait after the agreement’s signing.

Maritime data and tracking company Kpler said it observed six verified ship crossings on Wednesday and another 11 on Thursday.

Phillip Belcher, marine director of Intertanko, a trade group for global independent tanker owners, said the main central route of the Strait of Hormuz was still closed and has an estimated 80 mines that need to be cleared. But ships have been passing through the smaller northern route, which goes through Iranian waters, and the southern route, which goes through Omani waters.

“Those two routes now seem to be fully open,” Belcher said.

However, it will take weeks or months to fully reopen the strait, and the two alternative routes don't have as much capacity as the central passage in the Strait of Hormuz.

“This is like a highway where the road in the middle is closed and you’re using that hard shoulder,” Belcher said. “That’s now being used as the main route. We need to get back to having the highway open.”

Lloyd’s List estimated that 550 merchant ships will need to prepare to exit the Persian Gulf, including 160 tankers, 200 bulk carriers, 60 container ships and 10 vehicle carriers.

Here, The Associated Press runs you through some of the more compelling — and controversial — backstories from the kit designs on show in soccer’s biggest event, currently taking place in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Cape Verde's flight paths

For its World Cup debut, the smallest nation by population at the tournament is paying homage to the roughly 525,000 inhabitants who live on 10 volcanic islands off the coast of Africa. A geometric, triangular print across its blue (home) and white (away) jerseys represents the network of flight paths that connect the islands. The idea is that the people of Cape Verde are united behind the players at the World Cup — and that togetherness showed as the team held firm to seal an unlikely 0-0 draw with heavily favored Spain in their first match.

Belgium's surrealism

“This is not a jersey,” reads a message on the collar of Belgium's multicolor away shirt. No, the Belgians aren't losing their minds. It's just a nod to the European nation's surrealist heritage — and notably the work of its master in this artistic movement from the early 20th century. Throughout his career, Belgian artist René Magritte questioned the enigmatic relationship of mind and eye, reality and language, writing under “The Treachery of Images” — his iconic painting of a pipe — the words: “Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe).” The light-blue jersey features pink patterns and black detailing, incorporating soccer-inspired motifs such as pitch lines and a ball. “True to the surrealism theme, the kit sparks the imagination and invites conversation,” the Belgian federation says.

Haiti's battle scene

The original jersey submitted by this Caribbean nation included a depiction of the final battle of the Haitian War of Independence in 1803 on its front. In the words of Colombian sportswear manufacturer Saeta, it was a “tribute to the men and women who contribute every day to Haiti’s future.” It didn't go down too well with FIFA, which rejected the image during its approval process, deeming it too political. So an updated blue soccer kit was needed, one that no longer includes the battle artwork.

Argentina's swirling paint technique

The defending World Cup champion is mixing sporting heritage with artistic expression in its jerseys. The home kit — worn by Lionel Messi for his hat trick against Algeria on Tuesday — features three shades of blue on its stripes, an homage to the South American nation's World Cup-winning uniforms from 1978, 1986 and 2022. As for its dark blue away jersey, that's inspired by a traditional painting technique from capital city Buenos Aires — filete porteño — that's used for ornamental design, combining brilliant, swirling colors with specific lettering styles.

France's American connection

France arrived for the World Cup with an away kit that honors a gift the nation famously gave to the United States: the Statue of Liberty. The jersey has a green hue that resembles the oxidized color of the iconic sculpture designed by a Frenchman — Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi — and given to the United States in 1886 as a symbol of French-American friendship. On the jersey is a logo in copper — the original color of the statue — with the words “Nos différences nous unissent” (Our differences unite us).

Iran's endangered Asiatic cheetah

The most striking imagery on Iran's home (white) and away (red) kits is an Asiatic cheetah low across the front. There also are cheetah spots on the sleeves up to the shoulder. The Asiatic cheetah, an equally fast cousin of the African cat, is one of the world’s critically endangered species — one that Iran has long tried to save. There were as many as 400 in the 1990s but the numbers have dwindled to less than an estimated 70 remaining in Iran.

Norway's runic font

Norway's kit might be the sharpest at the World Cup — literally. The font used for the names and numbers of players is inspired by runic writing — characters in several Germanic alphabets used in northern Europe from ancient times until the adoption of the Latin alphabet. The writing is pointy, geometric and easily visible, representing the Norwegian team's desire to embrace its centuries-old history. Flanking the large blue cross across the chest are Viking art patterns in an Urnes style.

Colombia's yellow butterflies

Look closely at Colombia's typically vibrant yellow jersey and you'll notice a burst of butterfly patterns. That's an homage to the classic novel by the nation's Nobel Prize-winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and the stories that made him literature’s best-known practitioner of magical realism — the blending of the everyday with fantastical elements such as a man trailed by a cloud of yellow butterflies.

Mexico's Aztec calendar

Mexico's home jersey brings back the Aztec calendar design that was popular in the 1990s. In the run-up to the World Cup, the team visited the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and posed for a photo with the uniforms in front of the Aztec “Piedra de Sol” or Stone of the Sun, best known as the Aztec calendar.

Saudi Arabia's architecture

Dotted across Saudi Arabia's dark green home jersey are symmetrical lavender squares or diamond shapes, a tribute to doorway decoration — namely geometric, triangular architecture — commonly seen in homes in the kingdom. Wild lavender flowers fill Saudi's desert landscapes in springtime, so purple is a celebrated color in the nation and regarded as a symbol of generosity.

Brazil's Amazonian frogs

What might immediately jump out when looking at Brazil's navy blue-and-black away jersey made by Nike is a yellow “Jumpman” logo synonymous with Michael Jordan-promoted sportswear. However, more closely linked to Brazilian culture is the color of the kit, inspired by the skin of the poison dart frog found in the Amazon. It's a nod to the danger posed by Brazil, the record five-time world champion.

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This story has been corrected to remove a reference to Haiti as a World Cup debutant. This is Haiti's second World Cup.

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Associated Press writer Luis Andres Henao contributed to this report.

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According to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, Jasper Frohock was found by deputies with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies did not immediately confirm where in the Keys Frohock was located at.

Investigators said Frohock was reported missing on Monday after last being seen in the 1900 block of Crestview Drive in Fort Pierce.

“Throughout his journey, he was traveling several miles each day by bicycle and camping overnight in a tent, often staying at local parks,” an SLCSO news release states.

It’s unclear why Frohock’s loved ones were unable to get in contact with him.

El documento —que no ha sido difundido públicamente— será enviado el jueves a la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, el Parlamento cubano, y contempla mayor espacio para la iniciativa privada, incremento de la autonomía de los municipios y las empresas estatales y reglas beneficiosas para atraer inversión extranjera. La víspera se informó que el expresidente Raúl Castro aprobaba las medidas.

“La realidad nos impone cambios urgentes y necesarios. Y cuando la vida del pueblo se vuelve tan dura, el primer deber del Partido Comunista y del gobierno revolucionario no es explicar mejor la crisis, sino cambiar lo que haya que cambiar”, expresó el presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel en el discurso de cierre de la sesión del PCC en la noche del miércoles y que fue publicado el jueves.

Cuba se encuentra bajo un cerco energético y financiero de Estados Unidos que ha agravado la crisis que padece desde hace cinco años y ha tenido un fuerte impacto en la vida diaria, con apagones de hasta 20 horas por día y limitaciones en los servicios de salud, el transporte, la industria y la educación.

En las últimas jornadas se registraron manifestaciones barriales con golpes de cacerolas a medida que la luz se cortaba, constató The Associated Press.

Díaz-Canel dijo que para el plan de emergencia y el documento elaborado por el PCC se tuvieron en cuenta experiencias como las de China y Vietnam, países comunistas con economías de mercado.

El documento será entregado a los parlamentarios para su debate en una sesión especialmente convocada de manera tan sorpresiva como el llamado al plenario del PCC.

La semana pasada, y sin ofrecer plazos, Díaz-Canel había informado que las reformas contemplarían la ampliación de autorizaciones para la creación de empresas privadas —recién permitidas este lustro—, que se admitirá a cubanos residentes en la isla y el exterior como inversores en el sector del turismo y una mayor libertad a las empresas estatales que incluye su asociación con privados.

También anticipó modificaciones en el mercado cambiario y la posibilidad de que negocios privados puedan importar y exportar sin intermediación estatal –como se hace actualmente--.

El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump y su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, han dicho que buscan un cambio de gobierno y modelo económico en la isla. Cuba respondió que podría encarar aperturas económicas, pero que no discutirá su modelo político y social.

El PCC, cuyo primer secretario es Díaz-Canel y el único con reconocimiento legal, no es un partido electoral –no se presenta a comicios--, sino que por la Constitución orienta a los otros poderes, incluido el Legislativo, sobre la dirección del país.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado St. Lucie, Jasper Frohock fue localizado por agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Monroe.

Los agentes no confirmaron de inmediato en qué lugar de los Cayos fue encontrado Frohock.

Los investigadores informaron que Frohock fue reportado como desaparecido el lunes después de haber sido visto por última vez en la cuadra 1900 de Crestview Drive, en Fort Pierce.

“A lo largo de su recorrido, viajaba varias millas cada día en bicicleta y pasaba la noche acampando en una tienda de campaña, con frecuencia hospedándose en parques locales”, indica un comunicado de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado St. Lucie.

No está claro por qué sus familiares y seres queridos no pudieron comunicarse con él.

With 894 confirmed cases so far, the current outbreak is three times worse than a previous outbreak in Uganda in 2000, which had 281 cases at the same point, said Dr. Wessam Mankoula, a medical epidemiologist at Africa CDC.

The latest number of cases is believed to be higher because the outbreak was confirmed on May 15, weeks after it was suspected to have begun. The number of cases has increased 38% since last week and is now in 32 health zones across eastern Congo, said Mankoula.

The outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no approved vaccines or treatments and was not tested for in the early days. The more common Zaire virus, for which there is a vaccine, was responsible for most of Congo’s past 16 outbreaks of the disease.

So far 74 patients have recovered from the disease across eastern Congo and Uganda. Experimental treatments like monoclonal antibodies are being developed for Bundibugyo.

The outbreak is concentrated in Congo’s eastern province of Ituri, which accounts for more than 90% of the cases. Cases have also been recorded in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces and have spread across the border to Uganda, where 19 confirmed cases have been reported and two people have died.

Contact tracing remains an issue due to the area's remoteness and ongoing insecurity in Ituri province, Dr. Mankoula said.

“For those 800 confirmed cases, we should have between 17,000 to 35,000 contacts that should be in our contact list,” said Mankoula. Currently only around 4,000 contacts have been tracked and are being evaluated, less than 15%.

“We are still far from controlling the situation of this outbreak,” said Mankoula.

Nearly a million people have been displaced by years of conflict in Ituri, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, making contact tracing difficult as people flee attacks or move frequently in the vast province with dense forests, poor roads and remote villages that can take days to reach.

Tracing is also difficult among the thousands of miners who regularly move among remote sites in the mineral-rich region.

Of the over $900 million pledged to fight the outbreak, only $90 million has been released to help fight the outbreak, further complicating the ongoing crisis, according to Mankoula.

Africa CDC estimates it needs 540 personnel to fight the outbreak and so far they only have 84.

“We’re keeping our fingers crossed those new pledges will be fast tracked, and we’ll be following up with different member states and different partners about their commitment to turn those pledges into actual money released to their affected countries or partners,” said Mankoula.

Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance announced that he may postpone a trip to Switzerland that had been planned for Friday and included a ceremonial signing of the deal. And a Trump administration envoy told U.S. lawmakers in a private briefing that Iran will invite the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency to inspect its nuclear sites.

In other developments, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei endorsed direct negotiations with the U.S. in a statement read by state media.

“It is obvious that the face-to-face negotiations that will be held in the future will not mean accepting the enemy’s opinion,” he said.

It was Khamenei’s first reaction to the agreement, and it indicated a shift in Iran’s approach. Hardliners, especially Khamenei’s father, the previous supreme leader, have long opposed direct talks, especially after the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

The supreme leader has not been seen in public since he was wounded in a strike at the start of the war.

Trump envoy tells lawmakers Iran will invite UN inspectors to its nuclear sites

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff told lawmakers that Iran will invite the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency to inspect its nuclear sites and begin work on identifying and uncovering the locations of Tehran’s enriched material, which is believed to be buried under rubble.

The private briefing was described by two people familiar with the conversation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to share the closed-door details.

Witkoff told congressional leadership and members of national security-related committees that the agreement that the U.S. struck with Iran did not include any side deals, but a side letter was drafted between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency extending the invitation.

Witkoff disclosed the existence of the letter and invitation in the briefing, according to the people.

Witkoff said the letter to IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi would enable him to bring U.S. nuclear inspectors to Tehran.

The agreement states that Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium must at minimum be diluted under international supervision. It also says that Iran shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons — a commitment it has made previously.

Uncertain timeline could make it more difficult to promote deal

Vance's visit might have helped start talks on the next, potentially even more critical, round of negotiations between the two sides.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also postponed a planned visit to Switzerland, where Islamabad officials were to host the ceremony, because the agreement had already been signed, said two senior officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The now uncertain timeline could raise new questions and make it even more difficult for the Trump administration to promote a deal that many in the U.S. — including some congressional Republicans — have criticized as too favorable to Tehran.

“Our plan is to go to Switzerland. I don’t know exactly when,” Vance said during a briefing with reporters at the White House when asked about not flying, as planned, to the signing ceremony.

That injected new doubt into an agreement that President Donald Trump said he signed to avoid “economic catastrophe” in the U.S.

Vance's announcement came a day after Trump signed the pact with Iran while dining with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles. The deal is slated to take immediate effect and extends a ceasefire while giving each side 60 days to hammer out broader agreements on larger issues.

Trump said the deal would avoid continued stress on the U.S. economy after the war caused oil prices to skyrocket, made financial markets skittish and fueled inflation. He repeatedly said he did not want to be compared to Herbert Hoover, whose policies helped exacerbate the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Vance defends U.S.-Iran deal

The vice president, who was initially personally skeptical of the U.S. going to war with Iran, has increasingly become the administration’s face of the conflict and has been outspoken in defending the deal. Asked about concerns it concedes too much, the vice president said repeatedly that the accord would force Iran to “change their behavior.”

Shortly before Vance said his trip was being delayed, Pakistan said it was postponing a visit by its top officials to Switzerland’s resort near Lucerne, where Islamabad was to host the signing ceremony. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and top officials had been set to make the trip, but officials said that a ceremonial signing became less urgent after both sides had already signed.

Vance defended the agreement and shrugged off accusations that its rollout has been piecemeal and sometimes contradictory, saying, “I don’t think our public messaging has been chaotic."

He also offered a surprisingly blunt warning to Israel, which has pushed the U.S. to take a harder stance against Iran and launched attacks on the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon throughout the war, including just before the deal extending the ceasefire was reached. Those attacks complicated the peace efforts with Iran.

Trump “is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time," Vance said. “And he happens to be the head of state of the world’s superpower.”

The vice president said more than 12.5 million barrels went through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday night. That could further soothe oil prices that spiked during the war but have been falling since the U.S. and Iran announced a tentative deal to end the conflict.

He said the U.S. easing its blockade of Iran means "honoring our end of the early part of the agreement on the military side."

U.S. Central Command said American warships “will remain in the general area to make sure that all aspects of the agreement are adhered to, obeyed and in full force and effect.”

Shipping starts to pick up

At least two oil tankers left Iran and crossed the U.S. military blockade without being stopped. A merchant shipping tracking website said the ships were carrying a combined total of 3.8 million barrels of Iranian crude oil.

Iranian state media said shipping had “normalized” at Iran’s southern ports but added that the strait remains supervised and under the control of the Iranian military, and transiting through the vital waterway still requires coordination.

Major shipowners began moving vessels through the strait after the agreement was signed, according to maritime data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence, though Lloyd's did not give data on how many ships have passed through the strait as of Thursday.

In a media briefing, Richard Meade, editor-in-chief of Lloyd’s List, said for the first time in 110 days, ships owned by major companies are transiting the strait after effectively being marooned there since February.

Tankers controlled by major ship owners Grimaldi Group, Cosco, Knutsen and NYK have passed through the strait. And two Iranian-flagged, sanctioned crude oil tankers owned by the National Iranian Tanker Company have entered the strait, according to Lloyd’s List.

Phillip Belcher, marine director of Intertanko, a trade group for global independent tanker owners, said the main central route of the strait is still closed and has an estimated 80 mines that need to be cleared.

But ships have been passing through the smaller northern route, which goes through Iranian waters, and the southern route, which goes through Omani waters.

Lloyd’s List estimated that 550 merchant ships will need to exit the Persian Gulf. It could take weeks or months to fully reopen the strait, and the two alternative routes do not have as much capacity as the strait's central passage.

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Associated Press writers Munir Ahmed in Islamabad; Aamer Madhani in Zurich; Collin Binkley and Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington; Mae Anderson in New York; and Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright had urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to act in an effort to help the United States better compete with China for superiority in the fast-growing AI sector.

Tech companies and data center developers welcomed the chance to connect faster to the country’s power supply for the biggest energy users ever built in the United States, including some that consume more electricity than a small city.

Utilities, states and regional grid operators had worried that the Republican administration’s plan would remove their authority to manage the process, but FERC said the order leaves states in control of retail electric rates, terms and conditions. Clean energy advocates had urged regulators not to undermine state-level efforts to require the use of renewable energies, and came away satisfied Thursday.

The commission’s actions come as a backlash grows against data centers over concerns about the massive amounts of energy and water they use and fears about noise and air pollution, water shortages and a loss of open space or farmland.

Unanimous vote and affordability

FERC members voted unanimously to direct six regional grid operators to ensure that AI data centers and other large power users are “able to connect to the transmission system in a timely and orderly manner.”

Laura Swett, an appointee of President Donald Trump who chairs the commission, called the vote “historic” and said it would push the country’s electricity market into the future while respecting states’ rights, protecting reliable electric service and shielding ratepayers from shouldering the costs of connecting big power users to the grid.

“I know that Americans across the country are concerned about affordability, and so are we,” Swett said, referring to the five-member commission. She said that, as chairman, “I am taking extremely seriously the mission that Congress has entrusted us to ensure that rates are reasonable.”

The vote comes eight months after Wright asked the independent agency to take more control over ensuring that the vast network of massive computing warehouses needed to power AI are connected quickly to high-voltage transmission lines.

Data centers would pay the full cost of any grid upgrades needed for their connection, under the commission order. But that order can do little to address the tightening energy supplies that are driving up electricity bills in some areas and raising warnings of blackouts as the construction of data centers outpaces the speed of new power plants coming online to serve them.

Robert Montejo, a lawyer who represents data centers, said the most important message from FERC’s action is that AI “has fundamentally changed the electricity landscape. The grid and prior policy were not built for the pace and scale of demand we’re seeing from AI infrastructure, and FERC is signaling that standing still is no longer an option.”

The six regional grid operators under the order serve 200 million Americans, or two-thirds of FERC’s jurisdiction. FERC, meanwhile, invited utilities that handle their regional transmission systems to also participate and analysts said the agency could eventually pressure them, too.

A search for power

Tech giants are scrambling to find enough power for their data centers and report that, in some places, it will take years to connect to the electric grid.

The Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned electric utilities, said FERC’s order builds on regional and state processes already underway while “supporting flexibility and innovation.”

Besides power bottlenecks, the tech industry is running into widespread opposition from communities where residents don’t want to live next to or near a data center.

More than 4,000 data centers now operate in the U.S., according to one estimate, with an additional 3,000 planned or under construction.

Trump has tried to deflect public concerns about AI, seeing the fast-evolving technology as crucial for the U.S. to attract foreign investment and maintain its economic and military prowess. He signed an executive order this month establishing a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release.

In December, FERC took an earlier step to help data center operators get electricity quickly, voting to allow tech companies to effectively plug a data center directly into a power plant and Thursday’s order sought to ensure that option is accessible around the country.

Power demands from data centers

FERC told grid operators to respond within 30 days on how they will ensure there is adequate power supplies for new and future data centers, and within 60 days on plans to integrate large power users in line with the new guidelines. Swett told reporters after the meeting that she hoped faster connection processes are in effect in “as little time as possible.” She didn't set an exact timeline.

Jeff Dennis, executive director of the Electricity Customer Alliance, said FERC’s order is responsive in particular to big power users and state regulators.

Tech giants are confronting unclear rules to connect data centers to high-voltage transmission systems, while state regulators need more clarity on who should bear the cost of regional transmission projects approved at the federal level, he said.

Rob Gramlich, a Washington-based energy consultant, said states should quickly develop rules to accommodate large power users and prevent cost shifts to residential and business customers. FERC could assert broader jurisdiction over interconnection issues if states don’t act quickly, he said.

Data from the Electric Power Research Institute shows that data centers now account for about 5% of U.S. electricity demand, but could triple by 2035.

Tech companies have continued to raise their spending on building and equipping data centers, but there is evidence that construction is lagging and projects are hitting roadblocks, either because of permitting delays, growing local opposition or bottlenecks around gas turbines, transformers and skilled labor.

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Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pa.

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Records show Jennifer Armenti, 36, was arrested Wednesday by Miramar police while her boyfriend, Brett Anthony Bellera, 25, was charged in the case earlier this month as he was already being held in the Joseph V. Conte facility on other charges.

Both are now charged with aggravated cruelty to animals.

According to their arrest affidavits, a friend of the couple notified Broward County Animal Care on Dec. 15, 2024, that the couple’s cat named Reaper had been found dead.

Police said Armenti claimed that she woke up and found Reaper dead on the bathroom floor.

When Animal Care employees showed up, they said they found Reaper’s body on the back patio inside a plastic laundry basket and a large amount of blood pooling on the bottom of the basket.

Bellera claimed the cat may have ingested cleaning products, his arrest affidavit stated.

According to the affidavits, the cat’s body was sent to the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals where a forensic necropsy was performed and revealed that Reaper had died from “involuntary heat exposure” through either microwave radiation, being submerged in hot water or exposure to hot water vapor.

Police said the analysis by a veterinarian indicated that the cat did not die immediately, but suffered severe pain and suffering prior to his death.

Los registros muestran que Jennifer Armenti, de 36 años, fue arrestada el miércoles por la policía de Miramar, mientras que su novio, Brett Anthony Bellera, de 25 años, fue acusado en el caso a principios de este mes, ya que se encontraba detenido en el centro Joseph V. Conte por otros cargos.

Ambos enfrentan ahora cargos de crueldad agravada contra animales.

Según las declaraciones juradas de arresto, un amigo de la pareja notificó a Broward County Animal Care el 15 de diciembre de 2024 que el gato de la pareja, llamado Reaper, había sido encontrado muerto.

La policía indicó que Armenti afirmó que despertó y encontró a Reaper muerto en el piso del baño.

Cuando empleados de Animal Care llegaron al lugar, encontraron el cuerpo de Reaper en el patio trasero dentro de una cesta plástica para ropa y una gran cantidad de sangre acumulada en el fondo de la cesta.

Bellera afirmó que el gato podría haber ingerido productos de limpieza, según su declaración jurada de arresto.

De acuerdo con los documentos, el cuerpo del gato fue enviado a la Sociedad Estadounidense para la Prevención de la Crueldad contra los Animales (ASPCA), donde se realizó una necropsia forense que reveló que Reaper murió por “exposición involuntaria al calor”, ya fuera por radiación de microondas, inmersión en agua caliente o exposición al vapor de agua caliente.

La policía indicó que el análisis realizado por un veterinario determinó que el gato no murió de inmediato, sino que sufrió dolor intenso y severo sufrimiento antes de morir.

Pino, de 55 años, está acusado de homicidio involuntario y homicidio de embarcación.

Los fiscales acusan a Pino, entonces de 52 años, de ser imprudente cuando perdió el control de una embarcación Robalo de 29 pies en las primeras horas de la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2022 y la estrelló contra un marcador de canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, matando a Lucy Fernandez, de 17 años. Otras dos jóvenes resultaron gravemente heridas, incluida Katerina Puig, de 17 años, quien quedó permanentemente discapacitada.

La esposa de Pino, Cecilia Pino, dijo a los jurados el martes sobre los momentos caóticos después del choque y señaló que después ella “solo pensaba en las chicas”.

Claudia Portocarrero, quien estaba en la embarcación celebrando el cumpleaños 18 de la hija de los Pino, dijo que ella y sus amigas estaban cantando y levantando las manos antes del choque.

La defensa afirma que algo pudo haber obstruido la vista de George Pino del marcador de canal, pero el estado sostiene que ninguna de las jóvenes estaba de pie ni levantando las manos de una manera que hubiera obstruido la vista de Pino.

“Solo recuerdo abrir los ojos después del impacto y ver como mucho blanco”, dijo Portocarrero. “Y lo primero que vi cuando abrí los ojos fue a George, y pensé que estaba muerto. Solo vi mucha sangre brotando y luego mis amigas me decían que tenía que salir de la embarcación, , para cuando iba a bajarme de la embarcación estaba como casi volteada, inclinada, así que en lugar de saltar desde la embarcación, prácticamente como que entré al agua porque estaba muy inclinada”.

Portocarrero dijo que ayudó a una de sus amigas a mantener a Puig a flote en el agua antes de que llegara una embarcación de rescate.

Tanto ella como otro pasajero que testificó el martes dijeron que, aunque cada uno había tomado un par de bebidas alcohólicas, no vieron a Pino bebiendo y señalaron que la velocidad de la embarcación no se sentía excesiva en el momento del choque.

Un testigo que estaba en otra embarcación dijo al jurado que su amigo le gritó a Pino que revisara debajo de la embarcación y Pino “inmediatamente” se metió debajo y luego sacó a Fernandez antes de entregársela al testigo que se había lanzado al agua.

El testigo dijo que luego ayudó a colocarla en otra embarcación que llegó.

El equipo de defensa de Pino afirma que el choque fue un horrible accidente y no el resultado de negligencia.

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Manuel De Jesus Chaveco Delgado, 42, was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center early Wednesday morning. An arrest report indicates that the Hialeah Gardens Police Department filed charges later that afternoon.

The Hialeah Gardens allegations stem from a period when the girl was between 11 to 13 years old, according to the report. The Hialeah allegations cover a period when she was 13 to 15.

Like in the Hialeah case, the girl, whom Chaveco Delgado knows, told investigators of occasions where he inappropriately touched her, according to the HGPD report.

In the Hialeah case, he’s also accused of showing her “a photo of a penis” on his phone at one point.

On top of four charges in the Hialeah case, Chaveco Delgado now faces an additional two felony child molestation charges.

But even more may be coming, the report indicates. Detectives wrote, “The victim stated that more incidents happened in other jurisdictions and that they were going to file police reports with the other agencies.”

Local 10 News contacted HCSO seeking comment on Wednesday. It’s not clear when he began working for the agency.

The agency put out a brief news release on Wednesday acknowledging Chaveco Delgado’s employment, arrest and charges but providing no additional details about his employment or status with HCSO.

As of Thursday, Chaveco Delgado remained at TGK with a bond listed in jail records as “to be set.”

Manuel De Jesus Chaveco Delgado, de 42 años, ingresó en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight la madrugada del miércoles. Según el informe policial, el Departamento de Policía de Hialeah Gardens presentó cargos esa misma tarde.

Según el informe, las acusaciones en Hialeah Gardens se remontan a un período en el que la niña tenía entre 11 y 13 años. Las acusaciones en Hialeah abarcan el período en el que tenía entre 13 y 15 años.

Al igual que en el caso de Hialeah, la niña, a quien Chaveco Delgado conoce, declaró a los investigadores que él la tocó de forma inapropiada en varias ocasiones, según el informe del Departamento de Policía de Hutchinson-Gilford.

En el caso de Hialeah, también se le acusa de haberle mostrado en su teléfono “una foto de un pene” en un momento dado.

Además de los cuatro cargos en el caso de Hialeah, Chaveco Delgado ahora enfrenta dos cargos adicionales por delitos graves de abuso sexual de menores.

Pero, según el informe, podrían producirse más incidentes. Los detectives escribieron: «La víctima declaró que se habían producido más incidentes en otras jurisdicciones y que iban a presentar denuncias ante las demás agencias policiales».

El canal Local 10 News contactó a la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Harris (HCSO) el miércoles para solicitar comentarios. No está claro cuándo comenzó a trabajar para la agencia.

La agencia emitió un breve comunicado de prensa el miércoles reconociendo el empleo, el arresto y los cargos contra Chaveco Delgado, pero sin proporcionar detalles adicionales sobre su empleo o su situación dentro de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Harris (HCSO).

Hasta el jueves, Chaveco Delgado permanecía en TGK con una fianza que, según los registros penitenciarios, estaba “por determinar”.

The Midwest, meanwhile, was also dealing with damage after a strong line of storms tore through parts of Illinois, Indiana and northern Kentucky on Wednesday, bringing possible tornadoes. Scores of homes were left without electricity.

Arthur was the first tropical storm of the season in the Atlantic basin.

Coni Dubois said several inches of water flooded her home overnight in Houma, southwest of New Orleans, but others in the community had worse damage. She’s lived through many hurricanes and other storms, but never witnessed thunder and lightning like this.

“It was unbelievable, it literally sounded like hell broke open,” Dubois said. “I thought for sure we had a tornado on top of us. The lightning and the thunder was so consistent, the whole house was lit up like daylight for about 20 minutes.”

Arthur weakened into a low-pressure area along the upper Texas coast Wednesday night, but its remnants were expected to dump 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) or more of rain across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle through Friday, according to forecasters.

Rain was falling at rates of up to 3 inches (8 centimeters) per hour in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi on Thursday, prompting flash flooding, tornado warnings and widespread power outages. The region had already been soaked by heavy rain earlier in the week.

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno posted a video on Facebook describing relatively minor damage and cleanup efforts. Ahead of the storm, police prepared boats and set up barricades in flood-prone areas. They also opened sandbag distribution sites across Louisiana.

In the Midwest, more than 130,000 homes and businesses were without power Thursday afternoon in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, according to poweroutage.us.

A tornado was reported Wednesday evening near Effingham, Illinois, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) southeast of Springfield. Several people suffered minor injuries, officials said.

Firefighters responded to damaged homes, collapsed structures, car crashes, downed power lines, gas leaks and blocked roads, Effingham Fire Chief Brant Yochum said.

Marla Washburn and her husband, Todd, hunkered down in their basement as a suspected tornado tore through their neighborhood about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north in Blue Mound. They could hear debris smacking into their house and a school across the street lost its roof, which came crashing onto their home.

“The whole house shook," Washburn said in a phone interview, adding that the neighborhood looks like Armageddon.

“You don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but we’re OK," she said. “You look at it and you go, ‘I don’t even know where to start to clean up.’”

Also north of Effingham, the weather service reported that a tractor trailer flipped over in high winds on Interstate 57, injuring the driver.

Damage from strong winds and a possible tornado were also reported in Florence, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, with news video and photos showing roofs and siding ripped off, as well as downed trees and power lines.

The weather service got numerous reports of wind damage across a wide swath, from Iowa and Missouri to Ohio and West Virginia.

The strong storms were expected to move through the central Appalachians to New England on Thursday, the weather service said.

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The Czech Republic vs. South Africa, a Group A match, is at noon.

Switzerland vs. Bosnia, a Group B match, is at 3 p.m.

Canada vs. Qatar, a Group B match, is at 6 p.m.

Mexico vs. South Korea, a Group A match, 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.

Groups’ stage progress

Group K: Colombia gets 3 points

Group J: Austria and Argentina each get 3 points

Group I: France and Norway each get 3 points

Group H: Every team sits at 1 point

Group G: Every team sits at 1 point

Group F: Sweden gets 3 points

Group E: Germany and Ivory Coast each get 3 points

Group D: Australia and United States each get 3 points

Group C: Brazil and Morocco each get 1 point; Scotland gets 3 points

Group B: Qatar and Switzerland each get 1 point

Group A: Mexico and South Korea each get 3 points

Tournament’s schedule

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 matcuphes: 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.

Sunrise watch party: The indoor Amerant Bank Arena is hosting a free watch party for ticket holders at 7:30 p.m. on June 27. Parking is free. Broward County is offering free Express bus transportation from the arena to the Miami Stadium, also known as Hard Rock, in Miami Gardens, to FIFA World Cup ticket holders.

Round of 32 begins

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.

Round of 16 begins

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quarterfinals begin

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

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

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

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

Semifinals begin

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

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

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

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

Finals begin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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El partido entre la República Checa y Sudáfrica, correspondiente al Grupo A , se disputará al mediodía.

Suiza contra Bosnia, partido del Grupo B , se juega a las 15:00.

El partido entre Canadá y Qatar, correspondiente al Grupo B , se jugará a las 18:00.

México contra Corea del Sur, partido del Grupo A , se juega a las 9 pm

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 11:00 a 21:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Progreso de la etapa de los grupos

Grupo K : Colombia consigue 3 puntos.

Grupo J : Austria y Argentina obtienen 3 puntos cada una.

Grupo I : Francia y Noruega obtienen 3 puntos cada una.

Grupo H: Cada equipo tiene 1 punto

Grupo G: Todos los equipos tienen 1 punto.

Grupo F : Suecia consigue 3 puntos

Grupo E : Alemania y Costa de Marfil obtienen 3 puntos cada una.

Grupo D : Australia y Estados Unidos obtienen 3 puntos cada uno.

Grupo C : Brasil y Marruecos obtienen 1 punto cada uno; Escocia obtiene 3 puntos.

Grupo B: Catar y Suiza obtienen 1 punto cada uno.

Grupo A: México y Corea del Sur obtienen 3 puntos cada uno.

Calendario del torneo

19 de junio : Hay cuatro partidos: Grupo D , EE. UU. vs. Australia, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo C , Escocia vs. Marruecos, partido a las 18:00 h. Grupo C , Brasil vs. Haití, partido a las 20:30 h. Grupo D , Turquía vs. Paraguay, partido a las 23:00 h.

Fiestas para ver el evento en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra desde las 14:00 hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

20 de junio : Hay tres partidos: Grupo F , Países Bajos vs. Suecia, partido a la 1 pm. Grupo E , Alemania vs. Costa de Marfil, partido a las 4 pm. Grupo E , Ecuador vs. Curazao, partido a las 8 pm.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta las 11 de la noche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para aficionados en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 18:00 horas del 20 de junio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para un evento para aficionados uruguayos organizado conjuntamente por el Consulado General de Uruguay.

21 de junio : Hay cinco partidos: Grupo F , Túnez vs. Japón, el partido es a medianoche. Grupo H , España vs. Arabia Saudí, el partido es al mediodía. Grupo G , Bélgica vs. Irán, el partido es a las 15:00. Grupo H , Uruguay vs. Cabo Verde, el partido es a las 18:00. Grupo G , Nueva Zelanda vs. Egipto, el partido es a las 21:00.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 11:00 a 21:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

22 de junio : Hay cuatro partidos: Grupo J , Argentina vs. Austria, partido a la 1 pm. Grupo I , Francia vs. Irak, partido a las 5 pm. Grupo I , Noruega vs. Senegal, partido a las 8 pm. Grupo J , Jordania vs. Argelia, partido a las 11 pm.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas de 12:00 a 20:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 11 de la mañana del 22 de junio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido entre Argentina y Austria que comienza a la 1 de la tarde.

23 de junio : Hay cuatro partidos: Grupo K , Portugal vs. Uzbekistán, partido a la 1 pm. Grupo L , Inglaterra vs. Ghana, partido a las 4 pm. Grupo L , Panamá vs. Croacia, partido a las 7 pm. Grupo K , Colombia vs. Congo, partido a las 10 pm.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la 1 de la madrugada en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

24 de junio : Seis partidos: Grupo B , Suiza vs. Canadá, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo B , Bosnia vs. Qatar, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo C , Marruecos vs. Haití, partido a las 18:00 h. Grupo C , Escocia vs. Brasil, partido a las 18:00 h. Grupo A , Sudáfrica vs. Corea del Sur, partido a las 21:00 h. Grupo A , República Checa vs. México, partido a las 21:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 14:00 a 21:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 4 pm del 24 de junio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido entre Escocia y Brasil que comienza a las 6 pm.

25 de junio : Seis partidos: Grupo E , Curazao vs. Costa de Marfil, partido a las 16:00 h. Grupo E , Ecuador vs. Alemania, partido a las 16:00 h. Grupo F , Túnez vs. Países Bajos, partido a las 19:00 h. Grupo F , Japón vs. Suecia, partido a las 19:00 h. Grupo D , Turquía vs. Estados Unidos, partido a las 22:00 h. Grupo D , Paraguay vs. Australia, partido a las 22:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre de 15:00 a 01:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

26 de junio : Hay seis partidos: Grupo I , Noruega vs. Francia, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo I , Senegal vs. Irak, partido a las 15:00 h. Grupo H , Cabo Verde vs. Arabia Saudita, partido a las 20:00 h. Grupo H , Uruguay vs. España, partido a las 20:00 h. Grupo G , Nueva Zelanda vs. Bélgica, partido a las 23:00 h. Grupo G , Egipto vs. Irán, partido a las 23:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 14:00 a 23:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

27 de junio : Seis partidos: Grupo L , Panamá vs. Inglaterra, partido a las 17:00 h. Grupo L , Croacia vs. Ghana, partido a las 17:00 h. Grupo K , Colombia vs. Portugal, partido a las 19:30 h. Grupo K , Congo vs. Uzbekistán, partido a las 19:30 h. Grupo J , Argelia vs. Austria, partido a las 22:00 h. Grupo J , Jordania vs. Argentina, partido a las 22:00 h.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 16:00 a 01:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Fiesta para ver el partido al amanecer : El Amerant Bank Arena, un recinto cubierto, organiza una fiesta gratuita para quienes tengan entrada a las 19:30 h del 27 de junio. El estacionamiento es gratuito. El condado de Broward ofrece transporte gratuito en autobús exprés desde el estadio hasta el Miami Stadium, también conocido como Hard Rock, en Miami Gardens, para los poseedores de entradas para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA.

Comienza la ronda de 32.

28 de junio : Hay un partido a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 13:00 a 22:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

29 de junio : Hay tres partidos a la 1 pm, 4:30 pm y 9 pm.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

30 de junio : Hay tres partidos a la 1 pm, a las 5 pm y a las 9 pm.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

1 de julio : Hay tres partidos a las 12:00, a las 16:00 y a las 21:00.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre de 11:00 a 23:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

2 de julio : Hay tres partidos a las 15:00, 19:00 y 23:00.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 14:00 a 22:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

3 de julio : Hay tres partidos a las 14:00, 18:00 y 21:30.

Eventos para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans se celebra de 13:00 a 21:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Comienza la ronda de octavos de final.

4 de julio: Hay dos partidos a la 1 pm y a las 5 pm.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas desde el mediodía hasta la medianoche en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

5 de julio : Hay dos partidos a las 16:00 y a las 20:00.

Fiestas para ver el partido en Miami : El festival para fans abre sus puertas el último día de 15:00 a 23:00 en Bayfront Park, en 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

6 de julio : Hay dos partidos a las 15:00 y a las 20:00.

7 de julio : Hay dos partidos a las 12:00 y a las 16:00.

Comienzan los cuartos de final

9 de julio : Hay un partido de cuartos de final a las 16:00.

10 de julio : Hay un partido de cuartos de final a las 15:00.

11 de julio : Hay dos partidos de cuartos de final a las 17:00 y a las 21:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido al amanecer : El Amerant Bank Arena, un recinto cubierto, organiza una fiesta gratuita para ver el partido a las 17:00 horas del 11 de julio para quienes tengan entrada . El aparcamiento es gratuito.

Comienzan las semifinales

14 de julio : El festival de aficionados ha finalizado. Hay un partido de semifinales a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 3 pm del 14 de julio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido de semifinales.

15 de julio : Hay un partido de semifinales a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver el partido en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 3 pm del 15 de julio en The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para el partido de semifinales.

Comienzan las finales

18 de julio : El partido por el tercer puesto se jugará a las 17:00.

Fiesta para ver la final en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a las 3 pm del 18 de julio en The Sandbowl, detrás de The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para la final de bronce de las 5 pm.

Viaje al amanecer al estadio : El Amerant Bank Arena ofrece estacionamiento gratuito para los poseedores de entradas para la Copa Mundial de la FIFA que utilicen el servicio de autobús exprés gratuito del condado de Broward para llegar al Miami Stadium, también conocido como Hard Rock, en Miami Gardens.

19 de julio : El partido final es a las 15:00.

Fiesta para ver la final en Miami Beach: Las puertas se abren a la 1 pm del 19 de julio en The Sandbowl, detrás de The Bandshell, en 7275 Collins Ave., para la final que comienza a las 3 pm.

Fiesta para ver el partido al amanecer : El Amerant Bank Arena, un recinto cubierto, organiza una fiesta gratuita para ver la final el 19 de julio para los poseedores de entradas . El estacionamiento es gratuito.

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Nevertheless, intense tropical rainfall well east of Arthur’s remnant circulation spread over parts of southeastern Louisiana overnight into the pre-dawn hours Thursday, causing significant, widespread flash flooding across parts of the New Orleans metro and River Parishes of southeastern Louisiana by daybreak.

Radar indicates rainfall rates exceeding 3 inches an hour in the New Orleans metro at points early Thursday, with official 6-hourly rainfall totals at New Orleans International Airport nearing 8 inches by 7 AM local time.

According to radar and storm reports, Lafourche, Jefferson, and Orleans Parishes south of Lake Pontchartrain in southeast Louisiana have seen the worst flooding so far, especially around places like Houma, Thibodaux, St. Rose, Kenner, Metairie, and parts of New Orleans. Flooding was also reported north of Lake Pontchartrain around Slidell.

Additionally, another pocket of extreme rainfall was observed southeast of Alexandria in south-central Louisiana. A reporting station in Plaucheville, Louisiana, had reported an incredible 10 inches of rain in a 3-hour period from around 5 AM to 8 AM local time Thursday.

More flooding ahead today for the central Gulf Coast

As Arthur’s remnants spread farther inland today, the flood threat will extend along the central Gulf Coast into central Georgia.

The National Weather Service issued a rare high risk of excessive flooding (flood threat level 4 out of 4) for parts of southern Mississippi, South Alabama, and the western Florida panhandle. A high risk of excessive rainfall indicates the possibility of extreme impacts from flash flooding. While only issued on about 4 percent of days, so-called “high-risk days” account for about a third of all flood deaths and a remarkable 80 percent of flood-related damages.

Places in the high-risk flood zone today include McComb, Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pascagoula, Mississippi, as well as Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.

Those living in these areas especially will want to monitor flash flood warnings issued by local National Weather Service offices today through local media outlets or your preferred weather app.

The flood threat will persist across parts of the southeast in the wake of Arthur’s remnants through early Saturday, as abundant tropical air ahead of an approaching cold front will mean the possibility of continued heavy rainfall, especially from eastern Mississippi to southern Alabama.

Additionally, isolated severe storms and a few tornadoes may accompany the weather along the Gulf Coast today.

Slight chance Arthur re-develops off the U.S. East Coast this weekend

As we mentioned in yesterday’s newsletter, as Arthur’s remnants emerge off the Carolinas Friday into Saturday, it could try to briefly re-develop as it accelerates eastward over the western Atlantic.

As of Thursday morning, NHC puts those odds at only 10 percent. If development happens, it’ll likely be associated with non-tropical processes, as the system will be mixed up with an approaching cold front. Regardless, the low pressure will be swept quickly out to sea, so a second act of Arthur poses no direct threat to land.

The Atlantic will settle down otherwise, with no development expected elsewhere through the latter part of next week.

Merlin Lu admitted to a TV station this week that he was responsible for the cross burning in Grant Park on June 9. But he insisted that he was protesting President Donald Trump and was not using the cross as a historical symbol of hate and intimidation against Black people.

Lu has been charged with four felonies and four misdemeanors, including a hate crime and burning a cross to intimidate, police said in a statement released Wednesday night.

“I understand why it was interpreted that way, and I apologize for that, but no, the intent was not there,” Lu told WMAQ-TV before his arrest.

It was not immediately known Thursday if Lu has an attorney who could speak on his behalf. He was scheduled to appear in court for a detention hearing.

“I did know about this historical relevance beforehand. But I didn’t know the severity, how racially motivated it may seem from what I did,” Lu told the TV station. “Cause my protest has nothing to do with race, nothing to do with gender.”

Lu said he was protesting the “ruling class” and Christian nationalists who support Trump.

Someone put a large, multicolored, glass fiber heart with the word, “resilient,” in the place where the burning cross stood in the park.

Lu's LinkedIn page says he has attended college in Indiana and Chicago and was studying chemistry.

Sin embargo, intensas lluvias tropicales muy al este de la circulación remanente de Arthur se extendieron sobre partes del sureste de Luisiana durante la noche y las horas previas al amanecer del jueves, provocando inundaciones repentinas significativas y generalizadas en partes del área metropolitana de Nueva Orleans y las parroquias ribereñas del sureste de Luisiana al amanecer.

Los radares indican tasas de lluvia superiores a 3 pulgadas por hora en algunos sectores del área metropolitana de Nueva Orleans durante las primeras horas del jueves, con acumulados oficiales de lluvia en seis horas en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Nueva Orleans acercándose a las 8 pulgadas para las 7 a.m., hora local.

Según los radares y los reportes de tormentas, las parroquias de Lafourche, Jefferson y Orleans, al sur del lago Pontchartrain en el sureste de Luisiana, han registrado las peores inundaciones hasta ahora, especialmente en áreas como Houma, Thibodaux, St. Rose, Kenner, Metairie y partes de Nueva Orleans. También se reportaron inundaciones al norte del lago Pontchartrain, en los alrededores de Slidell.

Además, se observó otra zona de lluvias extremas al sureste de Alexandria, en el centro-sur de Luisiana. Una estación de monitoreo en Plaucheville, Luisiana, reportó unas impresionantes 10 pulgadas de lluvia en un período de 3 horas, aproximadamente entre las 5 a.m. y las 8 a.m., hora local del jueves.

Más inundaciones en camino hoy para la costa central del Golfo

A medida que los remanentes de Arthur continúan avanzando tierra adentro hoy, la amenaza de inundaciones se extenderá a lo largo de la costa central del Golfo y hasta el centro de Georgia.

El Servicio Nacional de Meteorología emitió una rara alerta de alto riesgo de inundaciones excesivas (nivel 4 de 4) para partes del sur de Mississippi, el sur de Alabama y el oeste del Panhandle de Florida. Una alerta de alto riesgo de lluvias excesivas indica la posibilidad de impactos extremos por inundaciones repentinas. Aunque solo se emite en aproximadamente el 4 por ciento de los días, los llamados “días de alto riesgo” representan cerca de un tercio de todas las muertes por inundaciones y un notable 80 por ciento de los daños relacionados con inundaciones.

Entre los lugares incluidos en la zona de alto riesgo de inundaciones hoy se encuentran McComb, Gulfport, Biloxi y Pascagoula, en Mississippi, así como Mobile, Alabama, y Pensacola, Florida.

Quienes viven en estas áreas, especialmente, deben mantenerse atentos a las advertencias de inundaciones repentinas emitidas por las oficinas locales del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología a través de los medios de comunicación locales o su aplicación meteorológica de preferencia.

La amenaza de inundaciones persistirá en partes del sureste tras el paso de los remanentes de Arthur hasta las primeras horas del sábado, ya que la abundante humedad tropical delante de un frente frío que se aproxima mantendrá la posibilidad de lluvias intensas, especialmente desde el este de Mississippi hasta el sur de Alabama.

Además, tormentas severas aisladas y algunos tornados podrían acompañar estas condiciones meteorológicas a lo largo de la costa del Golfo hoy.

Leve posibilidad de que Arthur se reorganice frente a la costa este de Estados Unidos este fin de semana

Como mencionamos en nuestro boletín de ayer, cuando los remanentes de Arthur emerjan frente a las Carolinas entre el viernes y el sábado, podrían intentar reorganizarse brevemente mientras aceleran su desplazamiento hacia el este sobre el Atlántico occidental.

Hasta la mañana del jueves, el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC) estimaba esas probabilidades en apenas un 10 por ciento. Si el desarrollo ocurre, probablemente estará asociado con procesos no tropicales, ya que el sistema estará interactuando con un frente frío que se aproxima. En cualquier caso, la baja presión será arrastrada rápidamente mar adentro, por lo que una segunda etapa de Arthur no representa una amenaza directa para tierra firme.

Por lo demás, el Atlántico permanecerá tranquilo, sin desarrollo ciclónico previsto en otras áreas hasta la segunda mitad de la próxima semana.

Group stage matches

JUNE 17: DAY 1

Colombia gets 3 points after 3-1 victory against Uzbekistan

• Game analysis: Luis Díaz sparks Colombia to a 3-1 win over Uzbekistan in its World Cup opener

Portugal and Congo each get 1 point after 1-1 draw

• Game analysis: Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal held to a 1-1 draw by Congo at the World Cup
• Pre-game coverage: Ronaldo looks to make history by scoring in 6th World Cup

The next matches

JUNE 23: DAY 2

Portugal vs. Uzbekistan is at 1 p.m.

Colombia vs. Congo is at 10 p.m.

JUNE 27: DAY 3

Congo vs. Uzbekistan is at 7:30 p.m.

Track the groups’ progress

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• Group E
• Group F
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• Group J
• Group L

El foro fue organizado por la Urban League of Broward, mientras las preguntas sobre la representación en el distrito de mayoría negra continuaron ocupando un lugar central.

“Existe un ataque contra las personas negras en este país y tenemos que levantarnos contra eso y tenemos que alzar la voz contra eso”, dijo Elijah Manley, candidato demócrata al Congreso.

El foro se llevó a cabo en el Distrito Congresional 20, donde aproximadamente la mitad de los electores son negros. El escaño está actualmente ocupado por la representante Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, demócrata que busca la reelección.

“Este es un distrito de acceso para la comunidad negra, y si eliminamos el remedio, eliminamos el pasado, y eso nos llevaría a un futuro que nos destruiría”, dijo Cherfilus-McCormick. “Por eso todos deben hablar sobre lo que está mal en este momento, al permitir que alguien venga a nuestro distrito buscando una oportunidad política”.

El comentario pareció estar dirigido a la representante demócrata Debbie Wasserman Schultz, cuyo distrito fue eliminado bajo un nuevo mapa de redistribución electoral. Wasserman Schultz ahora compite en el Distrito 20 contra otros cinco candidatos que son negros.

“Creo que mi historial habla por sí solo”, dijo Wasserman Schultz. “He sido una firme defensora durante toda mi carrera para alzar la voz por los consumidores y enfrentar a las empresas e industrias que se aprovechan de ellos”.

Wasserman Schultz afirmó que ha luchado por las minorías, el empleo y los inmigrantes durante su tiempo en Washington, pero los candidatos continuaron enfatizando durante toda la noche la importancia de la representación de las minorías.

“Cuando todos tienen un asiento en la mesa, todos nos beneficiamos. Somos más fuertes por ello”, dijo el candidato demócrata Dale Holness.

La discusión también abordó el cambio climático, la atención médica y los derechos al voto.

“Necesitamos regulaciones, regulaciones estrictas, eliminar la burocracia, promover las pequeñas empresas locales y de esa manera podemos fortalecer nuestra propia compañía de seguros a nivel local”, dijo Rod Joseph, candidato republicano.

La investigación ética contra Cherfilus-McCormick también surgió durante el foro.

Un candidato demócrata estuvo notablemente ausente del evento: Luther Campbell. El rapero convertido en candidato político publicó posteriormente un mensaje en Facebook explicando por qué no asistió.

“Me encanta una buena pelea, pero nunca confirmé un evento”, escribió Campbell. “Nadie de mi equipo confirmó un evento”.

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The video shows a woman in blue sitting in a park before police say she violently pushed down the young child.

“She hit my child with such a force and with anger and hatred in her eyes,” the mother said after being shown the footage.

The attack happened June 8 at 172nd Street and Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles Beach. The little girl was being watched by her grandmother at the time.

“My 5-year-old, she fell to the ground, she rolled on the floor, and she had severe bruises all over her body after the fall,” the mother said.

She described the moment in disbelief, saying the suspect was simply sitting near her child gathering toys before the assault.

The aftermath has taken an emotional toll on the child, the mother said.

“She’s asking me about that lady, why she was so evil, what I did wrong, and it’s like every time I have that emotional conversation with my child since then,” the mother said.

Sunny Isles Beach police launched an investigation after a witness told them the child was thrown to the ground. Officers caught up with the suspect, Natalia Hordiienko, on Saturday and arrested her on a charge of child abuse without great bodily harm.

It remains unclear what prompted the attack. The mother told Local 10 News she is speaking out because she doesn’t want this to happen to any other child, and she’s grateful to police for conducting a thorough investigation and making an arrest.

“She deserves the absolute maximum penalty possible allowed by law,” the mother said.

El video muestra a una mujer vestida de azul sentada en un parque antes de que, según la policía, empujara violentamente al suelo a la menor.

“Golpeó a mi hija con tanta fuerza y con ira y odio en sus ojos”, dijo la madre después de ver las imágenes.

El ataque ocurrió el 8 de junio en la intersección de la calle 172 y Collins Avenue en Sunny Isles Beach. La niña estaba bajo el cuidado de su abuela en ese momento.

“Mi hija de 5 años cayó al suelo, rodó por el piso y sufrió hematomas severos por todo el cuerpo después de la caída”, dijo la madre.

La mujer describió el momento con incredulidad y señaló que la sospechosa simplemente estaba sentada cerca de su hija recogiendo juguetes antes de la agresión.

La madre indicó que las secuelas han tenido un fuerte impacto emocional en la menor.

“Me pregunta sobre esa mujer, por qué era tan mala, qué hice mal, y es como si cada vez tuviera esa conversación emocional con mi hija desde entonces”, dijo la madre.

La policía de Sunny Isles Beach inició una investigación después de que un testigo les informara que la menor había sido arrojada al suelo. Los agentes localizaron a la sospechosa, Natalia Hordiienko, el sábado y la arrestaron por un cargo de abuso infantil sin causar lesiones corporales graves.

Aún no está claro qué provocó el ataque. La madre dijo a Local 10 News que decidió hablar públicamente porque no quiere que esto le ocurra a ningún otro niño y agradeció a la policía por realizar una investigación exhaustiva y efectuar un arresto.

“Ella merece la pena máxima absoluta permitida por la ley”, dijo la madre.

The justices decided unanimously in favor of Ali Danial Hemani, a Texas man who argued that a law barring guns from anyone who regularly uses illegal drugs violates the Second Amendment.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that his opinion narrowly limits the government's power to take guns away from drug users who are not considered dangerous. Hemani, who was not charged with any other crimes or accused of using the weapon under the influence, is thankful he “finally has closure,” lawyer Zachary Newland said.

The decision is a loss for President Donald Trump’s Republican administration, which had defended the 1968 law despite arguing against other gun restrictions. Its core argument “fails under every measure,” Gorsuch wrote.

The law was originally meant to keep guns away from dangerous people, but the millions of people who now use marijuana can't all be characterized that way, Gorsuch wrote. While recreational use is illegal under federal law, about half of states allow it and cannabis use for health purposes is widespread.

“Whatever one thinks of these developments, the federal government has not just tolerated them; it helped fuel them,” Gorsuch wrote. “All of which leaves it awkwardly positioned to suggest that the millions of Americans who now regularly use marijuana are categorically and unusually dangerous.”

The law was also used in a case against Hunter Biden, who was convicted in Wilmington, Delaware, of buying a gun while addicted to cocaine in 2018. He was later pardoned by his father, Democratic President Joe Biden.

Someone addicted to an illegal drug could potentially still be prosecuted after Thursday’s decision.

“We do not address efforts to ban addicts, or those presently intoxicated, from possessing a firearm,” Gorsuch wrote. Prosecutors could charge a marijuana user if they had evidence the person was dangerous, he said.

Recreational use remains illegal on a federal level even after the Trump administration reclassified medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in April.

Gun rights and pro-cannabis groups join forces

The case made for some unusual political alliances.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association supported Hemani’s case, as did cannabis legalization groups such as NORML. On the other side were gun safety groups including Everytown that usually oppose the administration on Second Amendment issues.

The ACLU applauded the ruling, saying that nearly half of Americans have reported using marijuana at some point in their lives.

“The court has sent a strong message that the government cannot criminalize the conduct of large numbers of people by making categorical and unfounded assumptions about whether they are dangerous,” said Cecillia Wang, legal director at the ACLU.

NORML applauded the decision as a “vindication of personal freedom” and the Second Amendment Foundation called it a “major victory for gun owners.”

The group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, which opposes legalization of the drug, condemned it.

“While the justices in this case appear to be most concerned with historical battles over Second Amendment rights, public health and safety are the collateral damage in this decision,” said CEO Kevin Sabet.

Gun control groups were more measured, with Everytown saying the decision still recognizes that “drugs and guns can make for a dangerous mix.”

It is rare to see standalone criminal charges filed against people accused solely of owning guns and using drugs, though they are more often filed against people also accused of other crimes.

The opinion is the latest in a series of firearm cases to reach the Supreme Court since its landmark ruling expanding gun rights in 2022 led to a wave of challenges around the country.

Since then, the high court has upheld a law aimed at protecting victims of domestic violence and strict regulations on ghost gun kits but has struck down a ban on bump stocks, an accessory that enables rapid fire. The justices are also considering a second firearm case this term over strict regulations on carrying guns in Hawaii.

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Luis Díaz had a goal and an assist in his debut on soccer’s biggest stage, sparking Colombia to a 3-1 win over Uzbekistan on Wednesday night.

“That’s what we came here to do. It’s very important to win this first game. We controlled the first half, but they played better in the second,” said Díaz, who plays for Bayern Munich. “We must improve.”

Daniel Muñoz, also playing in his first World Cup, opened the scoring in the 40th minute after a pass from Díaz, who scored the tiebreaking goal in the 65th when his strike from close range deflected off the hands of diving goalkeeper Utkir Yusupov and trickled across the line.

“We knew that it was going to be a tough match,” Colombia coach Nestor Lorenzo said.

Fayzullaev Abbosbek scored in the 60th minute for Uzbekistan, which made its World Cup debut in front of a heavily pro-Colombia crowd of 80,824 at Estadio Azteca.

“It is a wonderful joy, but emotionally, I think it weighed on some of the players who suffered physically,” Lorenzo said. “It has to do with the emotional burden generated by the opening match and the setting in which we played — especially since we were expected to take the initiative and were under pressure to win.”

With the White Wolves’ defeat, three of the four debuting teams at this year’s World Cup lost their first match. Cape Verde played Spain to a draw, while Curaçao and Jordan lost.

“For a small team like ours, to lose 3-1 is too much,” said Uzbekistan coach Fabio Cannavaro, an Italian who took over the team in October 2025. “We have good quality for an Asian team, but we need to grow. It was a good experience.”

Jaminton Campaz added a goal in second-half stoppage time for the Colombians, who are ranked 13th in the world and were heavy favorites over 50th-ranked Uzbekistan. Colombia’s best World Cup finish was a run to the quarterfinals in Brazil in 2014.

“We needed to hit the ground running. Now we can enjoy the rest of the night,” midfielder Gustavo Puerta said.

Colombia moved atop Group K, ahead of Portugal and Congo, who played to a surprising 1-1 draw earlier Wednesday.

The Colombians will face Congo next Thursday at Guadalajara, Mexico, while Uzbekistan will take on Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal at Houston.

“We are going to play against a tough team that played great against one of the best teams in the world. It is going to be hard,” Lorenzo said.

Colombia finished third in South American qualifying behind Argentina and Ecuador. Uzbekistan was second in its Asian qualifying group behind Iran.

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The crash happened near Ninth Street and Meridian Avenue as the officer was responding to a separate traffic crash.

Cellphone video captured the aftermath of the crash involving the officer as Miami Beach police and fire rescue crews flooded the scene.

Another view showed what appears to be a damaged police ATV in the middle of the road.

The officer was transported by Miami Beach Fire Rescue to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.

Police shut down the scene for hours as detectives worked to piece together what happened.

The crash remains under investigation and investigators have not said whether any other vehicles were involved.

El accidente ocurrió cerca de Ninth Street y Meridian Avenue mientras el agente respondía a otro accidente de tránsito.

Un video grabado con teléfono celular captó las secuelas del accidente que involucró al agente mientras unidades de la policía de Miami Beach y equipos de rescate de bomberos acudían en gran número al lugar.

Otra toma mostró lo que parece ser un vehículo todoterreno (ATV) policial dañado en medio de la vía.

El agente fue trasladado por Miami Beach Fire Rescue al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en estado crítico.

La policía cerró la zona durante horas mientras los detectives trabajaban para reconstruir lo ocurrido.

El accidente continúa bajo investigación y los investigadores no han informado si otros vehículos estuvieron involucrados.

El incendio forestal más grande, que comenzó el lunes, estaba contenido en un 30% y había quemado 13,400 acres. El incendio más pequeño, que comenzó el martes, estaba contenido en un 25% y había quemado 500 acres.

Carolina Herrera dijo que vive con una condición autoinmune que aumentó su sensibilidad al humo. Estaba paseando a su perro en su comunidad cerca de la autopista Turnpike en Miami-Dade.

“Mis ojos han estado más irritados de lo normal”, dijo Herrera.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue desplegó alrededor de siete docenas de unidades en el área de la avenida 137 del noroeste y la calle 25, según el registro de llamadas activas.

Conductores reportaron que el humo afectó la visibilidad temprano el miércoles por la mañana a lo largo de la autopista Florida Turnpike cerca de Hialeah. Agentes cerraron temporalmente Krome Avenue en la milla 23.

Enlace útil: Posibles cierres temporales de carreteras

La contaminación afectó la calidad del aire en el sur de Florida, por lo que se desaconsejaron las actividades al aire libre, según la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos.

El personal de MDFR advirtió que el humo se disipará a medida que aumenten las temperaturas y sugirió a los residentes “limitar el tiempo al aire libre, mantener puertas y ventanas cerradas y configurar los sistemas de aire acondicionado para recircular el aire interior.

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The land holds the fuel facility that supplies PortMiami.

Commissioner Raquel Regalado was the only dissenting vote.

Ahead of the vote, she expressed concern that with eminent domain, they would be inheriting a “dinosaur,” due to the aging facility.

Commissioner Oliver Gilbert, on the other hand, said he believes it will be less costly to upgrade the existing site than it would be to build a new one.

“Last fall, the board of county commission authorized the administration to enter into negotiations for this property and should those negotiations not be successful to enter into eminent domain proceedings,” Miami-Dade Deputy Mayor Roy Coley told Local 10 News after the vote. “Since that time, and the mayor has determined the negotiations to not be successful, it has been identified that the legal description of the property could be reduced to a slightly smaller footprint than our original resolution. And so, it’s really a cleanup item that reauthorizes what’s already been authorized with a more accurate legal description.”

The fuel bunker on the exclusive Fisher Island has been the subject of several lawsuits and a high-profile dispute over its future.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the county’s goal is to ensure a reliable fuel supply for PortMiami’s operations.

As for the next steps in the related federal case, Coley said the county will now pursue eminent domain and Florida law “requires negotiations.”

“There’s a 30-day statutory negotiation period where we hope we can sit down with the new property owners, the developers, and negotiate out a final deal that the mayor can support,” he said.

Coley said he wouldn’t be able to say whether the plaintiffs who have filed suit will have a seat at the negotiating table.

“Well, Fisher Island has sued us, as you know, and they’ve also sued the developers,” he said. “And so, any negotiations would be confidential in nature, just like all the negotiations up to now that we’re talking about are confidential by requirement. So whether or not everyone’s willing to sit down at the table together, we’ll find out after we file our eminent domain.”

Roberto Perez, the CEO of HRP Group, released the following statement to Local 10 News on behalf of HRP Fisher Island, LLC:

“Today’s action to pursue the seizure of private property is the direct and entirely avoidable consequence of Miami-Dade County’s decades-long failure to plan. The County knew this property existed and were approached repeatedly by the former owner before it ever went to market and during the public sale. They proactively passed on the opportunity to purchase it again and again.

“The former owner provided extensive notice to the County and Port that the property would ultimately be sold to a developer given the highest and best use of the land in one of the country’s most expensive zip codes and provided alternatives for fuel supply location and financing. Moreover, the property was marketed to real estate developers in the public sale.

“HRP ultimately acquired the property through a fully transparent, publicly advertised process and made our intentions to build a world-class residential development clear from day one.

“When the County first threatened eminent domain - just weeks before the closing of our two years of development efforts to unlock the value of a $2.5 billion project - we came to the table and spent eight months participating in a confidential mediation process requested by the County. According to the County’s own public statements, that process resulted in a mediated resolution that would have allowed the County to secure the property immediately at no cost or risk to the taxpayers.

“HRP will aggressively fight this unconstitutional seizure of our property and we will build One Fisher Island. The only question now is how much of the public’s time and money the Mayor is willing to waste to obscure the numerous poor decisions her administration and the County have made for decades.”

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According to an arrest report obtained Thursday by Local 10 News, Reuel Claude Sculley, 28, of Miramar, who was wanted on multiple warrants in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, was arrested last Friday, June 12, in Hollywood.

Hollywood police said an officer stopped Sculley at about 3:45 a.m. in the area of North State Road 7 and Lucky Street after using a grappler, which is a tool that deploys a tethered net from the front of the police car to entangle the rear tire of a fleeing suspect.

According to the report, Sculley was then taken into custody on multiple charges, including grand theft of a motor vehicle, possession of a vehicle with altered numbers and driving with a suspended or revoked license.

The report states that Sculley also had an active warrant in Broward County for resisting/obstructing without violence, and two warrants in Miami-Dade County for numerous charges, including burglary, grand theft of a vehicle, providing a false name after arrest, resisting an officer without violence, interference with or disruption of an educational institution, criminal mischief and driving without a valid license.

As of Thursday morning, he was being held at the North Broward Bureau without bond.

Según un informe de arresto obtenido el jueves por Local 10 News, Reuel Claude Sculley, de 28 años y residente de Miramar, quien era buscado por múltiples órdenes de arresto en los condados Broward y Miami-Dade, fue arrestado el viernes 12 de junio en Hollywood.

La policía de Hollywood dijo que un agente detuvo a Sculley alrededor de las 3:45 a.m. en el área de North State Road 7 y Lucky Street después de usar un grappler, que es una herramienta que despliega una red sujeta desde la parte frontal del vehículo policial para enredar la llanta trasera de un sospechoso que huye.

Según el informe, Sculley fue detenido bajo múltiples cargos, incluyendo hurto mayor de un vehículo, posesión de un vehículo con números alterados y conducir con una licencia suspendida o revocada.

El informe indica que Sculley también tenía una orden activa en el condado Broward por resistirse/obstruir sin violencia, y dos órdenes en el condado Miami-Dade por numerosos cargos, incluyendo allanamiento, hurto mayor de un vehículo, proporcionar un nombre falso tras el arresto, resistirse a un agente sin violencia, interferencia o alteración de una institución educativa, daño criminal y conducir sin una licencia válida.

Hasta la mañana del jueves, permanecía detenido en el North Broward Bureau sin derecho a fianza.

The heat wave is showing no signs of stopping with well above average temperatures and humidity well into next week. What could help is an increasing chance for thunderstorms Friday and especially this weekend. It doesn’t look like a washout for Father’s Day weekend, but expect scattered thunderstorms to develop each afternoon. They will be hit or miss.

Kast impulsó un recorte del gasto público que generó cuestionamientos al tiempo que controversias en el área de seguridad precipitaron la caída en mayo de la entonces ministra Trinidad Steinert.

Esos factores combinados llevaron a un desplome de la aprobación presidencial desde el 47,5% con la que Kast debutó en marzo hasta el 31% a inicios de junio, según la firma Pulso Ciudadano.

“Kast ganó las elecciones presentando mensajes simplistas sobre seguridad, vinculados a la migración y la economía", pero ya en el poder no ha cumplido sus promesas, comentó a The Associated Press, Catalina Calderón, analista política del Women’s Equality Center.

Aquí un vistazo a la gestión de Kast.

Seguridad

Poco se ha avanzado en el combate a la delincuencia y una serie de errores del Ministerio de Seguridad, entre ellos haber admitido que carecía de un plan para combatir el crimen organizado, llevó a la caída de Steinert.

El nuevo ministro Martín Arrau tampoco ha presentado una hoja de ruta y reconoció que la Política Nacional de Seguridad promulgada durante la administración del progresista Gabriel Boric (2022-2026) sigue vigente.

Hasta la fecha la cartera no ha enviado al Congreso los proyectos de ley anunciados para fortalecer la seguridad.

Además, se produjo un "estancamiento de medidas críticas como el aumento de penas para miembros de organizaciones criminales y el reforzamiento de la tipificación del delito de pertenencia a una entidad criminal”, detalló un informe sobre el cumplimiento del programa de gobierno publicado en junio.

El estudio elaborado por una docena de centros progresistas —entre ellos el alemán Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung— analiza regularmente el cumplimiento de las promesas de cada administración.

Inmigración

Otra de las principales banderas de Kast en la campaña fue el combate a la inmigración irregular que muchos en Chile vinculan con el aumento de la delincuencia.

El entonces candidato había prometido convertirla en un delito, construir zanjas y barreras físicas en las fronteras e impulsar expulsiones masivas. Sin embargo, se ha encontrado con trabas legales y administrativas.

“Muchas de las cosas que se prometieron eran de dudosa aplicación”, dijo a AP el analista político Gilberto Aranda. “El Ejecutivo no cuenta ni con los instrumentos ni las herramientas jurídicas para expulsiones exprés".

Ello porque en la actualidad los extranjeros se encuentran en una situación irregular, pero no delictiva. Asimismo, el proceso de expulsión depende de la cooperación entre los países involucrados, lo que dificulta las deportaciones a naciones como Venezuela, cuyas relaciones diplomáticas con Chile están congeladas.

“Lamentablemente muchos de los que cometen delitos son extranjeros y el gobierno debería tener un mayor control sobre ellos”, dijo la comerciante Ana María Torres, de 47 años. “Pero lo que vemos hasta ahora es que todo sigue igual”.

Kast incluso anunció una "cuenta regresiva" para la deportación de los cerca de 300.000 inmigrantes sin papeles — en gran parte venezolanos— que viven en el país, pero luego reconoció que era una "metáfora”.

“Si alguien creyó que en un día vamos a expulsar a 300.000, creo que entendió mal el mensaje”, dijo hace algunas semanas.

En términos concretos el gobierno comenzó la construcción de una zanja simbólica en la frontera norte del país y encabezó recientemente una reunión regional donde firmó, junto a otros cuatro países, un compromiso para incrementar los esfuerzos conjuntos en el combate al crimen organizado y el monitoreo de pasos fronterizos no habilitados.

Economía

El tercer pilar del gobierno de Kast es el que hasta ahora ha mostrado avances más concretos.

El buque insignia de su administración es el proyecto de Reconstrucción Nacional y Desarrollo Económico y Social que prevé un paquete de reformas tributarias, laborales y habitacionales que se encuentra en discusión en el Congreso.

Kast anunció que seguirá adelante con medidas con las que espera “ordenar las finanzas públicas”, pero reconoció que algunas de ellas podrían generar molestias. Eso incluye una reducción de cerca del 3% del presupuesto ministerial, sobre todo en las carteras de Salud, Educación, Vivienda y Trabajo.

La medida generó una ola de críticas y llevó a miles de personas a las calles en los últimos meses.

“Nos quieren callar, pero nosotros no vamos a parar”, dijo la estudiante de Pedagogía, Magdalena Correa. “Nos están quitando recursos y derechos y tenemos que contraatacar”.

The news emerged as Ukraine launched one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, Russian officials said Thursday. A major Moscow oil refinery was hit for a second time in a week and commercial flights at Moscow airports were disrupted.

Against the backdrop of conflict, the EU has been quietly seeking to reopen communications with Moscow even as it doubles down on its support for Kyiv. Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has tried to cut out Europe and Kyiv and negotiate Ukraine’s future with Washington.

“⁠In the past few weeks, brief contacts were made at diplomatic level to open communication channels but nothing was discussed on substance,” an EU official with knowledge of the approach said on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive move. A second official, also speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media on the matter, confirmed the Russia outreach is taking place but declined to comment further.

“In any future scenario, the EU has specific interests that will need to be defended, therefore it is important to have established diplomatic channels with Russia. The EU is not a mediator. It supports Ukraine in its efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace,” the first official added.

The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Putin has repeatedly said Europe cannot play any kind of mediation role in settling the conflict but has not ruled out speaking to the EU.

“We have never refused contacts with representatives of the European Union in any format,” he said earlier this month. “We are not rejecting contacts. If they want to talk, they know how to reach us. They can pick up the phone and call. If they want to come, they are welcome to do so. It is not Russia that is refusing engagement.”

According to the officials, European Council President Antonio Costa “has been coordinating closely with European leaders on possible engagement with Russia and the issues to be discussed when the right moment comes.”

News of the moves came as EU leaders were heading to Brussels for their summer summit, where Ukraine will be high on the agenda. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to address the 27 leaders, who are seeking closer ties with Kyiv.

On Monday, Ukraine officially opened negotiations to join the EU, launching a process that will require its government to commit to years of political reforms even as it fights the Russian invasion.

It also closely follows this week's meeting of the world's seven leading industrialized nations in the French spa town of Evian-Les-Bains, where Europeans managed to get Trump to join G7 leaders in offering “unwavering support for Ukraine.”

Zelenskyy said his country won key pledges of further support from world leaders attending the G7 summit in France, including the United States.

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Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits in the week ending June 13 dropped by 4,000 to 226,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s in line with the 225,000 new applications forecast by analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet.

Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered representative of U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.

Despite concerns that the conflict in the Middle East would further squeeze a flagging labor market, hiring has picked up in recent months following a miserable 2025 that saw fewer than 200,000 job gains. For comparison, about 1.5 million jobs were added in 2024.

U.S. employers delivered a surprising 172,000 new jobs in May and the economy is averaging 188,000 job gains in the three months since the Iran war began in late February. That’s the best three months of hiring since early 2024. The unemployment rate remains historically low at 4.3%.

Job openings also rose in April as employers posted 7.6 million vacancies, up from 6.9 million in March and the most since May 2024.

The government reported last week that rising gas prices — triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s southern border — pushed U.S. consumer inflation in May to 4.2%, its highest level in three years. Despite recent declines, prices for oil and gas remain elevated, which can squeeze consumers’ budgets and make businesses think twice about hiring.

Earlier this week, Iran and the U.S. agreed to a deal to end the war and allow Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and sell its oil without restrictions.

With inflation still well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, officials at the U.S. central bank left the benchmark interest rate where it was on Wednesday. It was the first meeting with new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, who replaced Jerome Powell after his eight-year run as the U.S. central bank’s leader.

Lower interest rates can boost the economy and hiring, but also tend to stoke inflation, leading a number of Fed policymakers to say they are actually willing to consider at least one interest rate hike this year. That could potentially help bring inflation down, but higher borrowing costs generally make businesses more reluctant to hire.

Optimism over artificial intelligence has also injected a degree of uncertainty about the job market due to the investment required to develop it and because the powerful technology could alter or even replace some jobs.

Among the companies that have cut jobs recently are Verizon, UPS, Amazon, Disney, Starbucks and Walmart.

Weekly jobless aid applications have stabilized in a range mostly between 200,000 and 250,000 since the U.S. economy emerged from the pandemic recession. However, hiring began slowing about two years ago and tapered further in 2025 due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, his purge of the federal workforce and the lingering effects of high interest rates meant to control inflation.

The Labor Department’s report Thursday showed that the four-week moving average of jobless claims, which evens out some of the weekly volatility, rose by 4,000 to 223,250.

The total number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the previous week ending June 6 rose by 24,000 to 1.81 million, slightly more than analysts predicted.

The warnings were followed by sweeping airstrikes, which Israel said targeted the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group.

What Kaour found back in Tyre shattered his hopes. His dream family apartment overlooking the shimmering Mediterranean Sea was a heap of rubble and shattered glass.

His return came after the announcement of an agreement between the United States and Iran to end the war in the Middle East. The deal also calls for an end to the war in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting Hezbollah, but it's unclear what that means in practice.

Israel and Hezbollah are not parties to the agreement. Iran insists Israel must withdraw from the large swath of southern Lebanon it is occupying, but the wording of the interim deal doesn’t explicitly require that and only ensures Lebanon’s “territorial integrity.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel’s military will stay in a “security zone” of southern Lebanon as long as "Israel’s security needs require it.”

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri — a Hezbollah ally — said Thursday that the group was committed to the ceasefire, “provided that Israel adheres to it fully and comprehensively.” Hezbollah has said that it's committed to resisting any occupation by Israel. Fighting between the two sides, which was still underway in some parts of southern Lebanon, could derail the deal.

Many hope the US-Iran deal signals better times

For residents in the south of crisis-battered Lebanon, hopes of better times are mixed with skepticism after many ceasefire announcements previously failed to halt fighting.

Kaour lives in Germany, but spends most of the summer in Tyre. Last month, when an Israeli strike hit their street without warning, he was abroad with his family.

When he returned, he saw his building, with a popular sweets shop and an electronics store on the ground floor, was still standing, unlike surrounding structures that were leveled to the ground.

But walls and windows had been blasted out. He was relieved his family had not been there, he said.

“I’m hopeful for peace, and God willing this is the end of the war, and everyone can go back to their homes," he said. “We are living abroad, but our minds are here in our country.”

Outside, the street filled with people trying to clear the rubble.

Kaour's neighbor one floor above, Samih Haidar, had also just returned and found his door bolted by wooden boards.

He tried to kick them down, but failed, then anxiously waited as two men who had been clearing rubble on another floor came and unscrewed the bolts.

Through a gap, Haidar climbed in. He didn't know what to expect. He had rented the apartment out to a family displaced from another area in the south, people who came to him through a friend.

His anxiety turned into shock: broken furniture, shattered glass, rubble and a burned out kitchen that had caught fire after the strike. He slowly walked through each room, quietly filming with his phone. He doesn't know what became of the tenants — displaced from Tyre like scores of others, he presumed.

“We want things to work out and live in safety, so there can be stability for us and everyone else,” Haidar said.

An isolated enclave hopes for reprieve

Farther south, the Christian village of Ain Ebel is one of a few enclaves in Lebanon's border area where residents have remained during the war. Christian villages, where Hezbollah has little presence, have been largely spared the destruction of neighboring Shiite villages. But they have their own problems.

The village is cut off from the rest of Lebanon by fighting and Israeli checkpoints, relying on aid convoys that require extensive coordination to get through. One such convoy, organized by the Order of Malta, a Catholic lay religious order, arrived Thursday bearing emergency livestock feed and supplies for farmers.

Cattle farmer Boutros Maroun said people in Ain Ebel are exhausted.

“We don’t care about America and Iran, we want the Lebanese people to live comfortably and happily," he said. "Every two years there’s a new war, and we can no longer take it.”

The convoy was delayed in returning to Beirut because of explosives found on the road, which had to be cleared by U.N. peacekeepers.

Fighting pierces a tenuous ceasefire

The fighting subsided but did not stop Thursday. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported several Israeli drone strikes, including one on a car in the town of Kfar Tebnit that killed one person and critically wounded another. Hezbollah later said in a statement that its fighters clashed with Israeli troops trying to advance on the town. Israel did not comment.

To the north, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) away, displaced families huddled along the waterfront in Beirut. Most of them have been sleeping in tents for months, living in limbo. For others, it's a bench or a mattress on the ground.

Many said they're not convinced that the U.S.-Iran deal will hold or that they will be able to return to their homes — if they still exist. In the border area close to Israel, many Lebanese villages have been almost completely demolished.

“I haven’t felt relieved at all,” said Mohammed Ashmar, displaced from the border village of Deir Seryan, holding a cup of coffee and sitting near his tent on the waterfront. “Until I get back to my home ... I won’t be convinced of anything.”

The Israel-Hezbollah war has displaced more than 1 million people in Lebanon, and killed more than 3,900, according to Lebanese officials. About 30 Israeli soldiers and a defense contractor have been killed in or near southern Lebanon, and two civilians have been killed in northern Israel, according to Netanyahu’s office.

Speaking during a visit by foreign dignitaries on Thursday, Lebanon’s Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed said the country faces urgent humanitarian needs but also the daunting task of planning for the return of displaced families and reconstruction of the destroyed areas.

“The Lebanese people deserve peace," she said. “They deserve to return safely to their homes, rebuild their communities, and look to the future with confidence and hope.”

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Associated Press journalists Fadi Tawil in Beirut and Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel, contributed to this report. Hussein reported from Ain Ebel, Lebanon.

But filling up is still more expensive than it was before the conflict began.

According to motor club AAA, a gallon of regular gasoline is now averaging at $3.999. It's the first time since March that prices have been that low. And the drop aligns with easing crude oil costs overall, with some optimism about an initial agreement between the U.S. and Iran to end their war.

Still, American drivers are collectively paying about $1 more per gallon than they were before the U.S. joined Israel to attack Iran in February — and prices are 25% higher than they were at this time last year. That's caused many households to tighten their budgets in other areas, or rethink where they want to spend their money more broadly.

More expensive bills beyond gas

Research has shown that short-term swings in the cost of gas leads consumers to adjust both their driving and wider spending — with some even pulling back on core necessities like groceries when prices at the pump get high, notes Dylan Brewer, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Economics.

If costs continue to cool in the coming weeks, he said, more people may be able to “loosen their belts a little bit.” Cheaper fuel will also be welcome by businesses that rely on gas and diesel to transport their goods. But it could take a few months for that to trickle through the supply chain, Brewer adds.

And gas isn't the only thing that's gotten more expensive over the course of the war. Groceries, airline tickets and even condoms and shoes cost more amid global supply chain disruptions. Even if oil and other core necessities — like fertilizer — begin flowing from the Middle East again, experts warn the sticker shock will likely outlast the fighting.

“Product prices across the United States are projected to keep climbing for the rest of 2026," Pat Penfield, a professor of supply chain practice at Syracuse University, said on Thursday.

Penfield pointed to depleted inventories and ongoing supply chain consequences spanning from the war — noting that farmers, for example, already had to pay higher costs for fertilizer and other supplies in the spring that will “ripple through to increased food prices by autumn.” And at the gas pump, he noted that limited refinery capacity in the U.S. “remains a significant bottleneck” toward bringing down prices further.

What prices at the pump look like nationwide

Steep fuel costs have already pushed U.S. inflation to its highest level in three years. And many consumers are still filling their tanks for much more than $4 a gallon.

That price is a national average, with costs varying between states due to factors like proximity to supply and differing tax rates. In California on Thursday, prices averaged about $5.64 for a gallon of regular gas, per AAA, followed by $5.57 in Hawaii. Meanwhile, prices in Indiana and Texas sat at about $3.40 and $3.49 a gallon, respectively.

Recent relief for fuel prices arrived with cooling costs for crude oil — the main ingredient in gasoline.

Brent crude, the international standard, sat under $80 per barrel Thursday. And U.S. benchmark crude tumbled to below $76 per barrel. That's still a little higher than the roughly $70 price tag before the war, but far below the $100-plus price from just a few weeks ago.

Why oil costs are falling

Prices fell overnight after President Donald Trump signed an agreement with Iran. The tenuous agreement calls for Tehran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and waives U.S.-backed sanctions on the country — immediately allowing Iran to sell its oil freely in a significant concession from Washington.

Major ship owners have also begun moving vessels through the key Strait of Hormuz since the memorandum of understanding was signed Wednesday, according to maritime data from Lloyd’s List Intelligence, although some reported that only more limited side routes were open. And U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that the Navy has lifted its own blockade to allow some transit to and from Iranian ports.

Still, it could take weeks or months for traffic to return to prewar levels. Before the war, the strait carried a fifth of the world’s crude oil. And Gulf oil producers that throttled back production will need time to get the oil moving again.

Some ship captains may take their time to determine if the passage is safe. The agreement between the U.S. and Iran calls for a permanent end to hostilities and starts a 60-day negotiating clock to reach a final deal on the future of Iran’s nuclear program, though Trump left the door open to resume attacks.

Refineries also typically pay for crude oil a month or more in advance, so even after oil prices drop, they won’t immediately be processing cheaper products. Energy shocks have been even starker in places that rely more heavily on imports from the Middle East — notably countries across Asia and Africa.

A century of broken treaties already had spawned distrust of the federal government, and widespread forced assimilation was accelerating. With shifting cultural and social circumstances came declining populations. Survival was hanging in the balance.

Renowned for their masterful beadwork, Lakota women had a strategy.

Incorporating symbols of American patriotism into their work was more than a simple embrace of the stars and stripes. It was an act of quiet resistance that provided an avenue for conserving their values as U.S. policies unraveled their communities.

So with America's 250th birthday come mixed emotions rooted in pain, pride and even patriotism. Native youth are writing essays about what 1776 means to them. Museums are displaying elaborate beadwork as a window into that past, while contemporary Native artists are offering critics in paintings on more modern political struggles.

It's a milestone marking resilience — and a fresh opportunity to look at the nation's history through an unexpected, and perhaps less varnished, lens.

Native Americans and the US have a unique relationship

Curators and tribal scholars say the Native experience cannot be overlooked or minimized when talking about the complex tapestry that is America.

“The United States could not exist without Native history having been here first,” said Aaron Carapella, who is of Cherokee descent and creates maps of Indigenous territories. “There’s so many influences that Native people embedded into the fabric of what we call America.”

A student of history, Carapella finds it unlikely that most of the Founding Fathers would have expected tribes to persist as sovereign entities. Rather, they thought tribes would be absorbed into American society.

Implementation of laws like the 1830 Indian Removal Act signed by President Andrew Jackson and the 1887 Dawes Act enacted by President Grover Cleveland led to forced relocations through brutal journeys like the Trail of Tears. Land grabs resulted when millions of acres of tribal landholdings were broken up.

Bounties in Minnesota and the Southwest along with militias in California further eroded tribal territories. Then came the boarding schools, where Native children were sent in an effort to erase their connections to culture, language and religion.

It's not ancient history. Tribal leaders say their people are still living with the effects of those policies.

Today, there are 575 tribes with inherent sovereignty recognized by the U.S, with the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina joining the list in December. The government-to-government relationships are unlike arrangements many other countries have with Indigenous populations.

N. Bruce Duthu, chair of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College and a member of the United Houma Nation, has taught and lectured around the globe. He said it’s hard for Indigenous leaders in Bolivia and elsewhere to believe that tribes in the U.S. have been able to build power over the last half-century. It’s an ongoing fight, but Duthu points to successful efforts to influence environmental policies and pass major legislation to hold nontribal citizens accountable for crimes committed in Indian Country.

“The U.S. is routinely at the top of the heap in terms of a country that, despite all the flaws, at least now in the last 50 years or so, seems to have gotten it right,” Duthu said.

There's a deep history of influence

Native influences span from the notions of democracy shared with the Founding Fathers to the warrior ethos exhibited by the fierceness with which tribal nations fought to protect their land — from other tribes, foreign nations and the federal government.

It's not unlike the patriotism many Americans feel today. And for some Native Americans, it's a fundamental part of who they are; they have one of the highest per-capita rates of military service in the country.

At the center of the “Stars, Stripes and First Americans” exhibit at New Mexico’s Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a painting by Kee Yazzie titled Diné Code Talker. The brushstrokes pay homage to the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their language to create an unbreakable code that played a critical role in U.S. victories during World War II.

Danyelle Means, the museum's executive director and a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, said other tribes also had code talkers. That included the Choctaw Nation and Comanche, Kiowa, Hopi, Muscogee, Sioux and Seminole recruits.

“Veterans are a huge part of celebration and ceremony within Native communities and are often revered and have their own societies within these communities,” Means said. “So it is something — that aspect of the U.S. and being a warrior for this country — that is very deep-seated in so many Native communities.”

Influence has permeated art and culture

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., is commemorating the 250th with an installation of two dresses that highlight heritage and Native American servicewomen.

Made a century apart, one is a Lakota beaded dress likely made for a July Fourth celebration and the other is a modern jingle dress worn by members of the Native American Women Warriors that includes a patch honoring Lori Piestewa, who is believed to be the first Native woman killed in combat on foreign soil. The Hopi soldier died from injuries following an ambush in Iraq in 2003.

Those military operations came after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Navajo artist Pauline Thomas called it a scary time, knowing that more Native soldiers would be heading off to war. The 73-year-old created a weaving following 9/11 that is now part of the exhibition in New Mexico.

For Thomas, her weavings mark moments in time, but they're also a way for Navajo customs to live on. Her 12-year-old granddaughter already is winning blue ribbons for her weavings.

“I think it’s very, very important,” Thomas said from her hometown of Naschitti on the Navajo Nation. “I don’t want my people to lose their culture. I want them to learn more about their ancestors, where they came from.”

The way forward has many paths

Jami Powell, curator of Indigenous art at Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art, uses the phrase “colonial entanglements” to describe the complexity of U.S.-tribal relations. She tells her students that things aren't always black and white.

“And it is OK to have feelings of ambivalence around these issues and the difficult histories that led to this current moment,” said Powell, a citizen of the Osage Nation.

The Hood Museum is displaying the work of Native artists as part of its 250th commemoration. Both subversive and pointed, the pieces broaden the conversation and get visitors thinking about the next two centuries, Powell said.

Ensuring Native youth have a voice in that future is a driving force for Tracy Canard Goodluck, executive director of the Center for Native American Youth.

A member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and of Mvskoke Creek heritage, Goodluck said the power of those voices rang loud and clear in essays submitted for a recent competition focused on the 250th. They touched on sovereignty, self-determination and maintaining a connection with land and culture.

“They know who they are, where they come from, their identity, their culture, their history,” Goodluck says, “and we need to create pathways for them to be able to share that with everyone.”

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Fourteen players managed to post scores — no birdies among them — before the horn sounded to stop because of low visibility. They were kept on the course for 15 minutes, and when it didn't get any better, they were brought back in.

The first round finally resumed after a two-hour delay. It was the first time the opening round of the U.S. Open was delayed by fog since 2021 at Torrey Pines in San Diego, which is notorious for its “June Gloom.” That one lasted 90 minutes and the first round was not complete until the next morning. That will be the case again at Shinnecock Hills.

The problem was evident at the start. James Nicholas was to hit the opening tee shot, and he walked over to the starter to ask if they were still on time.

“I just wanted to make sure,” Nicholas said. “I can't see the fairway.”

The fairways are wide enough — an average width of 48 yards this year — that no one had any trouble finding their golf balls. But when the par-3 11th green and some landing areas were hard to see, officials had no choice.

Scottie Scheffler, the world's No. 1 player who is trying to complete the career Grand Slam with a U.S. Open title, and Rory McIlroy were among those on the range ahead of their morning tee times.

The USGA prepared the course for the anticipation of strong wind, with gusts potentially approaching 40 mph. The wind Thursday morning wasn't strong enough to move the fog.

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The bipartisan Protect College Sports Act aims to regulate payments to players, limit them to one free transfer over their careers and create a rule to restrict coaches from changing jobs during a season. It advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee on a 19-9 vote and now heads to the full Senate for consideration.

Thursday’s vote came hours after the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten Conference, the two most powerful in college sports, reiterated their position that “revisions are needed to secure our support for the bill.” Several senators who voted against it cited concerns raised by the two conferences, which could spell trouble for its chances.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who supported the bill, said he would like to be able to bring it up for a vote in the Senate next month, before the August recess. He said the legislation will "continue to get refined as time goes on.”

“It was a really strong vote coming out of the committee,” Thune said.

The bill takes a step forward

The committee vote advancing the bill followed endorsements from several athletic conferences, the NFL and its players union, and the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. The Olympic committee backed the revised measure after lawmakers added additional protections for women’s and Olympic sports.

“The new agreement also reflects the critical importance of Olympic sports," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the Republican chair of the committee, said in opening remarks. “That is a major part of what this bill is about. College athletics is not only football and men’s basketball.”

NCAA President Charlie Baker applauded the Senate action Thursday, saying it was a “powerful statement to the growing bipartisan support for targeted intervention.”

In an interview with AP after the vote, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell — the top-ranking Democrat on the committee — said the vote result felt “pretty darn good.” The legislation is the product of months of negotiations between Cruz and Cantwell as other attempts in Congress to intervene in college sports have failed to advance far.

“This is a big milestone,” Cantwell said.

Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz was among the six Democrats who voted with most Republicans in advancing the bill.

“It took me awhile to get there, and I think there's more work to be done,” he said.

Big Ten and SEC aren't on board

The SEC and Big Ten said hours before Thursday’s committee meeting that their “critical revisions have not been accepted.”

Among their concerns, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey has argued the bill could invite the very litigation it is intended to prevent. Both conferences have also objected to a provision allowing conferences to pool media rights, saying they are unconvinced it would generate the additional revenue supporters say it could.

“What we did today was say we’re not going to let the most powerful, richest conferences dictate to the rest of America what’s going to happen to 500,000 athletes,” Cantwell said after the committee vote.

Support and opposition for the bill does not fall neatly along party lines, reflecting the national reach of SEC and Big Ten schools and broader divisions in Congress.

While President Donald Trump has backed the bill, multiple Republicans opposed the legislation Thursday, while several Democrat supported it.

Some of the senators who voted against the bill represent states that are home to prominent SEC and Big Ten programs, including Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, a Democrat, and Republican Sens. Todd Young of Indiana and Roger Wicker of Mississippi.

“Universities in Mississippi and around the SEC are concerned that some further progress needs to be made on the media rights,” Wicker told the AP.

Earlier this month, the Congressional Black Caucus also urged the Senate to suspend action on the bill in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that effectively disabled a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. Democratic Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, a member of the CBC, voted against the legislation Thursday.

A long road ahead

Clearing the committee is just the first step in a long process.

Passage through the Senate is far from guaranteed, as leaders already have a packed schedule and a dwindling number of legislative days left before the November election. The bill would need to clear a 60-vote threshold in the 53-47 Republican-controlled chamber.

The bill will also still need to clear the House. Earlier this year, the House Republican leadership had been working toward a vote on its own college sports bill, known as the SCORE Act, before the Congressional Black Caucus announced its unanimous opposition.

Still, supporters on Thursday called the committee action a massive step forward.

“Today we are proving that we are resilient in keeping this product moving,” Cantwell said.

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AP National Writer Eddie Pells in Southampton, N.Y., contributed to this report.

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The killing is the latest act which Polish authorities believe could be part of a campaign of Russian sabotage aimed at sowing fear and demoralizing Ukraine's closest allies. Poland, a NATO and European Union member, has in recent years become a place of refuge for political dissidents from Russia and Belarus, as well as Ukrainian war refugees.

“Early this morning, police apprehended a suspect in the murder of a Russian man — a murder that shocked all of Poland,” Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński told a news conference in Warsaw.

He said the suspect is a 36-year-old man who carried a passport belonging to the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia with links to organized crime and crimes committed in Poland dating to 2022. The arrest took place in a hostel housing foreigners in Piastów, near Warsaw, he said.

Robert Kuzovkov, a 44-year-old known by the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, was killed on Monday morning near his home in the eastern Polish city of Biala Podlaska, near the border with Belarus. Prosecutors said the perpetrator fired two shots at him, then shot him three more times at close range before fleeing.

Kuzovkov, who died of gunshot wounds to the head, chest and back, had painted unflattering caricatures of Putin, Kadyrov and other high-ranking Russian officials. One depicts Putin being cradled in the arms of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. He had refused offers of protection by Polish authorities.

Polish officials said Russia was under suspicion due to the profile of the victim and the way he was killed, though they stressed that they are still investigating.

“We are treating this case very, very seriously because, frankly, there is reason to suspect that there may have been people who commissioned this potential assassin,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in Brussels, where he arrived for a summit on Thursday.

“I do not need to convince anyone that this concern involves the possibility of state-sponsored terrorism. This would not be the first such case in Europe, as Europe has seen incidents of this kind before. However, in Poland it would be the first case of a politically motivated assassination carried out on behalf of a foreign state.”

Since it invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russia has been accused of trying to assassinate its opponents abroad, including targeting exiled activists in France and Lithuania.

Officials in Germany have also broken up plots targeting the head of a German weapons supplier to Ukraine and a Ukrainian military official.

Polish authorities arrested a man in 2024 in what they said was a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. That same year, a Russian helicopter pilot who defected was killed in Spain, with Russian operatives as the prime suspects.

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The incident occurred around 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday near 24302 SW 107th Ave.

Investigators said 24-year-old Elio Jesus Rodriguez Garcia was at his home when a man he had been arguing with through WhatsApp messages appeared at the front gate of his apartment complex.

Rodriguez Garcia heard the man yelling from outside and exited through the back of his apartment to see what was happening.

After seeing the man, Rodriguez Garcia went back inside, armed himself with a rifle and returned to his rear balcony, where the two continued arguing.

During the confrontation, Rodriguez Garcia fired two warning shots, investigators said.

One of the shots traveled across U.S. 1 and struck the passenger side of a Miami-Dade Transit bus as it was traveling north near Southwest 132nd Avenue and the Busway, authorities said.

The bus was carrying passengers at the time, deputies confirmed.

According to the arrest form, the bullet entered the bus, shattered a side window and caused minor glass injuries to the right side of a passenger’s head and face.

Deputies said a woman was seated on the driver’s side of the bus, a few feet from where the bullet entered. The bullet was recovered intact from inside the bus and appeared to be a rifle round, authorities said.

The woman was treated at the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel.

As deputies responded to the report of an occupied bus being struck by gunfire, dispatchers also received a separate call about a man firing a weapon at Pine Grove Apartments, authorities said.

Deputies said they responded to the second scene and took Rodriguez Garcia into custody without incident.

According to the arrest form, deputies recovered a spent .300 Blackout casing behind Rodriguez Garcia’s apartment. From the rear of the apartment, investigators said they could see across heavily-congested U.S. 1 to the Miami-Dade Transit bus that had been struck.

Rodriguez Garcia was transported to MDSO’s South District station for an interview. Investigators said he was advised of his Miranda rights and he agreed to speak without an attorney present.

He was later arrested and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

He faces multiple charges, including four counts of attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon and unlawfully discharging a firearm in a public place or residential property.

Rodriguez Garcia remains jailed on an immigration hold, according to online jail records, however his arrest report states that he is a U.S. citizen who was born in Florida.

The agreement calls for at least $60 million in humanitarian aid, provided by the Trump administration, to be controlled by the Cuban Catholic Church. Another $40 million would be handled by trusted non-governmental organizations, though still under challenging conditions.

But getting that aid where it needs to go is easier said than done.

“I spoke to the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba not too long ago and he says the logistics of it is -- they have no gasoline to deliver some of the humanitarian aid. Even in the region of Santiago de Cuba, it is very difficult,” said Local 10 News Cuba analyst Andy Gomez.

Gomez believes Cuba is on the brink of a historic change.

“At this instance, the situations are so bad that they’re gonna need help from the outside,” he said.

There is some talk of the U.S. military stepping in to help fill the gap in delivering foreign aid, but that scenario is unlikely to have the blessing of the Cuban regime.

“By allowing the U.S. military to go in, then you’re gonna have 8.3 million Cubans demanding much more and that is the fall of the regime -- and they know that. And that’s what Cuba does not want,” Gomez said.

Meanwhile, a meeting is set for Thursday with Cuba’s National Assembly, economists and President Miguel Diaz-Canel, billed as a meeting to evaluate proposals for economic and social transformations. Gomez isn’t buying the framing.

“I think it’s basically saying behind closed doors -- uh oh, where do we go with this?” he said.

When asked if it amounts to a crisis meeting, Gomez didn’t hesitate.

“I think it’s a crisis meeting,” he said.

Gomez questions what economic reforms Cuba could realistically introduce in that meeting besides approving new laws to attract foreign investment. Multiple analysts agree that Raul Castro, Diaz-Canel and the rest of the regime know their power is on the verge of collapse.

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The vote comes as the district faces a new reality -- for the first time in generations, there are more school seats than actual students. District leaders cited declining enrollment and changing demographics as reasons they had no choice but to re-evaluate how some school buildings are being utilized.

“It is never an easy decision to consolidate schools, but when done properly it benefits our students,” said school board member Robert Alonzo, who represents District 4.

Nine schools are set to be closed and/or repurposed, including Miami Springs Middle School, Richmond Heights Middle and Lorna Smith Elementary, among others.

“We’re not seeing those numbers coming in. We have also seen a decline in birth rate. We are just not seeing that many students within our communities,” Alonzo said.

Parents and community activists who spoke out at Wednesday’s school board meeting say changes in immigration policy are partially to blame for the drop in enrollment.

“I also want to urge the board to recognize how concerns around immigration enforcement have impacted school enrollment in our district,” said community activist Luna Plaza.

Others warned the closures carry consequences beyond just numbers.

“School closures affect far more than enrollment numbers -- they affect families, local businesses, property values and the overall stability of our communities,” said community activist Cassie Creed.

There were also those who pushed back on the closures themselves, saying those schools make up the fabric of their community. But district leaders say the changes will benefit students, and they pledged not to leave any community without the resources it needs.

“We are never going to leave a community that is going to be underserved or not having the resources that they are going to need -- our goal is to provide the best education that they can receive,” Alonzo said.

Students from closed schools will join others that continue to operate as the district consolidates buildings and facilities, with leaders saying the move is necessary to maintain quality.

“It’s something that we have to do in order to continue to provide our students with the best services out there and the best facilities,” Alonzo said.

As for what happens to the now-vacant properties, the district says that will vary on a case-by-case basis.

Below is a list of the closures:

North Region:

• Parkway Elementary

• Rainbow Park Elementary

Central Region:

• Lenora B. Smith Elementary

• Miami Springs Middle

• Phillis Wheatley Elementary

South Region:

• Mandarin Lakes K-8 Academy

• Pine Villa Elementary

• Richmond Heights Middle

• Robert Russa Moton Elementary

Below are the combinations:

Central Region:

• Georgia Jones-Ayers Middle School and Lenora B. Smith Elementary School will combine to become a K-8 Center.

• Miami Springs Middle School and Miami Springs Senior High School will combine to become a 6-12 School.

South Region:

• Arthur & Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts and Pine Villa Elementary School will combine to become a K-12 School.

• Richmond Heights Middle and BioTech 9-12 will combine to become a 6-12 School.

The Food and Drug Administration is evaluating Moderna's new shot, dubbed mFlusiva, for older Americans ahead of the winter flu season. Moderna is seeking full approval for the vaccine's use in people ages 50 to 64 — along with authorization for use in those 65 and older while it conducts additional testing.

The FDA's independent advisory committee evaluated Moderna's studies of the vaccine and voted unanimously that its benefits appear to outweigh any risks for both age groups. The FDA will consider that recommendation in making a final decision by early August.

Tens of thousands of Americans die from influenza every year, and older adults are among the most vulnerable. There are various types of flu vaccines already available in the U.S., including three specifically recommended for people 65 and older. But vaccines made with the Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology are faster to manufacture than other types — something experts say might help if the shape-shifting flu virus mutates in a way that requires suddenly brewing new doses to match.

“Having this technology available puts us in a better position to be prepared for emerging strains in the future,” said Dr. Flor Munoz-Rivas of Texas Children’s Hospital, one of FDA's advisers.

In a study of 40,000 people age 50 and older, Moderna’s mRNA vaccine reduced flu cases by about 27% compared with those given another routinely used vaccine brand. In a smaller study of people 65 and older, Moderna's shot also generated a strong protective immune response compared with a high-dose flu vaccine already recommended for that age group.

Data showing strong immune reactions “were very compelling,” said FDA adviser Dr. Anna Durbin of Johns Hopkins University, adding that "the vaccine looks very promising.”

Moderna’s Dr. Rituparna Das told panelists that the company’s ability to quickly manufacture mRNA vaccines that closely match the latest flu strains could prevent thousands of hospitalizations in older Americans.

Severe flu cases in the U.S. generally rise in years when the flu shot doesn’t closely match the circulating virus. Moderna officials noted that flu strains for each fall's vaccines now are chosen several months earlier than the yearly recipe update for COVID-19 shots that mostly are mRNA-based — and there can be a mismatch if the flu virus mutates after the recipe is made.

At the meeting, FDA vaccine reviewer Dr. Timothy Brennan suggested the agency was open to approving the vaccine for older adults ahead of the coming flu season, despite the need for more information about its use in frail seniors or people with weak immune systems.

If it's approved, Moderna is planning its required next-step study to include 400,000 people 65 and older, half given the mRNA vaccine and the rest given one of today’s special-for-seniors shots. It's supposed to repeat that study for two flu seasons.

Moderna's data showed no major safety issues although the shot did cause some temporary reactions including injection-site pain, fever, headache, tiredness and aches. The latter reactions are common in a variety of vaccines, but occurred somewhat more often than with today's flu shots. The FDA said that's typical of mRNA vaccines.

Those temporary reactions can be a signal that “your immune system is responding,” said Dr. Hayley Gans, a Stanford Medicine pediatrician and FDA adviser who stressed it will be important to explain that to vaccine recipients.

Earlier this year, Moderna’s data was at the center of a highly unusual public dispute as a then-top FDA official blocked the company’s application for its first-of-its-kind shot.

The embattled vaccine chief at the time, Dr. Vinay Prasad, said the company should have compared its shot to a high-dose flu vaccine recommended for seniors rather than a standard-dose brand. It was a sign of FDA’s heightened vaccine scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Moderna challenged that decision, noting that FDA staff had approved that main study’s design and citing a separate, smaller study comparing the mRNA shot with a high-dose vaccine for seniors. Days after the spat, the FDA accepted Moderna’s application.

Moderna also is studying the vaccine in younger adults and plans a separate study in 9- to 17-year-olds this fall.

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