Trump used oversized gold scissors to cut a red, white and blue ribbon. He then exchanged handshakes with officials wearing green construction smocks and hardhats — seeking to portray business as usual.

The noise of his waiting helicopter meant Trump didn't answer shouted questions before climbing aboard Marine One for a flight to New York.

MS Now, Politico and CNN have sued after Trump announced Friday that he was banning them from covering the White House in a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage he finds objectionable.

CNN normally participates in a five-network rotation that provides pooled coverage of daily events at the White House.

When it was barred from taking its customary spot on Monday, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox News agreed collectively to the extraordinary step of skipping Trump's helipad ceremony.

Trump has long crowed about how the new helipad — featuring extensive granite that the president boasts will have “million-year life,” as well as a large insignia reading the “Seal of the President of the United States” — would impress Chinese President Xi Jinping, who arrives Wednesday for a state visit.

He's been focused on wowing Xi even as he decried Democrats as communists in an attempt to help Republicans retain control of Congress in upcoming midterm elections. But his effort to curb access for media outlets to the White House has overshadowed Trump's pet building projects and Xi's visit.

It has also eclipsed Trump's plans to use the helipad to fly from the White House to Joint Base Andrews and then on to New York, where he will attend the United Nations General Assembly beginning on Tuesday.

The president has ignited constitutional questions over media access, and spent large swaths of his presidency focused on building projects, even as the war in Iran rages and his approval ratings sinks now with only about six weeks before Election Day, where voters are increasingly worried about inflation and a potentially weakening economy.

Whether Trump's work will be long-lasting is unclear

Trump claims about the granite's longevity may also yet prove suspect. He long suggested that his refurbishing of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool would last a century — only for the paint to fade and its liner to peel away in chunks just days after it was laid.

The helipad work began in June. Trump also ripped out the original Tennessee flagstone along the West Wing’s colonnade and replaced it with black granite and refurbished with white granite the traditional walkway from the White House’s diplomatic entrance along with a portion of the asphalt driveway around the South Lawn.

Trump rushed to finish the project before Xi arrives and argues that visiting dignitaries will likely be dazzled by the project — even though Marine One is the only aircraft that lands so close to the White House.

The president says the improvement was required since Vietnam War-era choppers that long had been used as Marine One are being replaced by modern ones that are too potent to land on the White House lawn without damaging the lawn's grass.

Trump said in July that the helipad project would be privately funded and estimated its cost at up to $6 million. He’s also talked about making additional changes, however — including extensive efforts to level the ground around the helipad, that have made calculating the exact expenditure difficult.

The pilots were the only people on board, and were employed by the contract aircraft company Precision. They were working with a wildland firefighting crew that specializes in using ropes to descend from helicopters to reach otherwise inaccessible terrain, known as helitack rappelling.

The Super Puma helicopter was using a water bucket to help suppress the fire when it went down southeast of Ostrander Lake, said Benjamin Cossel, a spokesperson with the Federal Complex Incident Management Team overseeing the firefighting response.

Details about the circumstances surrounding the crash were not immediately released. The crash will be investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.

“It is with unimaginable sadness and broken hearts that we share the loss of two beloved members of our team,” Precision wrote in a social media post. “We are devastated by this loss and are struggling to find the words. We ask for privacy and compassion for their families and our team as we grieve this tremendous loss.”

The names of the pilots were not immediately released.

Roughly 580 people are fighting the Dome Fire, which started Sept. 15 near Wawona, California, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. It's burning on about 4.7 square miles (12.3 square kilometers) and is about 15% contained.

The lake near the crash site was roughly 9 miles (14 kilometers) south of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan, and about 7 miles (11 kilometers) northeast of Wawona.

At least 14 people have died while helping with wildfires in the U.S. this year, the most since 2022 when 25 deaths were recorded, according to government reports.

In August, two helicopter pilots died while helping fight a fire in Utah, and a helicopter pilot in Colorado crashed into a reservoir.

Earlier this month, a firefighter suffered a medical emergency while fighting a wildfire in Oklahoma. Another firefighter in Oregon was hit by a tree that broke while he was cutting it in Mt. Hood National Forest.

Also in August, a wildfire officer was killed after getting trapped while evacuating a burning building in a wildland fire in Oklahoma; a firefighter died following a medical emergency during a wildfire in Minnesota; and a bulldozer operator got overrun by flames in Oregon.

In June, four firefighters got trapped in a fire in western Colorado. ___ Associated Press correspondent Matthew Brown contributed from Billings, Montana.

With Rivers now insisting that his Hall of Fame coaching career is over, the time seemed right for him to join NBC.

The network announced on Monday that Rivers will be an analyst on games this season across NBC, Peacock and NBCSN, along with the possibility for some studio work.

“I honestly can say I’m absolutely retired,” Rivers said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “I had a long run. It ended up in the (Naismith) Hall of Fame (earlier this year) and I am so thankful that I was able to coach and played as long as I did. For the first time, I can focus on giving TV my 100% attention, which I’m really looking forward to.

“I think I’ve always been pretty honest. I’ve always celebrated the game in general, but told the truth. I don’t think anyone has ever had a problem with honesty and the way you tell the truth. There are always times where you offend people because of the truth, but I’ve never really worried about that.”

Rivers is sixth on the NBA's career coaching list in wins (1,194) and games (2,059). In nine seasons with Boston, he led the Celtics to the NBA title in 2008 and returned to the finals two years later. Along with Boston and Orlando, Rivers coached the Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.

This will not mark the first time Rivers has worked with NBC. He was a studio analyst during the 2012 London Games and got to do other sports beside basketball, including handball.

“We couldn’t be happier to have him back on the NBC Sports team,” NBC sports executive producer and president Sam Flood said in a statement about Rivers. “Having led the Celtics to the 2008 NBA title with nearly four decades of NBA experience between coaching and playing, we are excited to add another Hall of Famer to our roster.”

Rivers was with Turner Sports for three years (1996-99) before beginning his coaching career with the Orlando Magic. He also had two stints with ESPN/ABC in 2003-04 and 2023. That included being on the top announcing team with Mike Breen and Doris Burke for the first couple months of the 2023-24 season before taking the Bucks job in January 2024.

“I don’t take a lot of breaks in my life. I’ve always been around the game and this is a way of keeping me there,” Rivers said. “When you think about it, I’ve played, I’ve coached, I’ve been in front office, I’ve done TV, I’ve done about everything you can do in our game. And that gives me an interesting perspective and hopefully I can share that with the viewers.”

Rivers also coached five players who became NBC analysts and played against Reggie Miller, NBC's lead analyst. Rivers, a point guard, played on four teams during his 12-year career.

He coached his son, Austin, and Jamal Crawford with the Clippers; Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady in Orlando; and Brian Scalabrine with Boston.

One of the funnier moments last season was Austin Rivers trying to interview his dad before a Milwaukee-Cleveland game.

“With this opportunity, one of the things I thought was I’d love to work with Austin. That would be a lot of fun to be able to work with him," Doc Rivers said. "It’s funny when you think about half the staff, I’ve either coached or been the father. I had a fight with Reggie, which is even funnier. So it’s pretty cool how connected I am to all the talent.”

NBC's coverage begins with three games on opening night, Oct. 20 — including Boston at Detroit and Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio. The marquee game that night will be the New York Knicks beginning their defense of the franchise's first NBA title since 1973 when they host Philadelphia in LeBron James' 76ers debut.

“When you add Giannis (Antetokounmpo) going to Miami, LeBron going to Philadelphia, Indiana getting healthy, Cleveland a whole year now with (James) Harden and (Donovan) Mitchell. The East is going to be rough this year. I mean, it’s very, very much top heavy in the East and it’ll be an interesting conference,” Rivers said. "The West, the top two teams are still the top two teams, San Antonio and Oklahoma. There’s two interesting teams. The Lakers, because they have Luka (Doncic) and Denver because they have (Nikola) Jokic, right? You can’t discount those teams.

"I think the much-watched team of the year will be Minnesota. It could go unbelievably well where (LaMelo) Ball and Ant (Anthony Edwards) figure it out and they play well or they could struggle. I mean, we just don’t know, but that’s a lot of talent on one team."

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Donalds, 46, is married to U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the Republican running for Florida governor with President Donald Trump’s endorsement.

“Here in South Florida, it’s not having enough seats for the demand for school choice, we’re heading that all over, but here it’s especially acute,” Erika Donalds, a mother of three, said. “The best schools have waitlists. Families feel like they don’t have enough transportation to access some of the other options.”

Madeline Pumariega, the president of Miami Dade College, helped to organize the event at CasaCuba, a restaurant at 5859 SW 73 St. Florida Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez was among the event’s guests.

Erika Donalds, a certified public accountant, is the founder and chair of the Education Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit organization, and Optima Ed, a Naples-based company that supports virtual reality in education.

Erika Donalds is also a member of Moms for Liberty, a far-right organization that supports parental rights in public education. She is set to speak at the Broward Women’s Republican Club’s ticketed event at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Jay’s Steakhouse, at 441 NE Third Ave., in Fort Lauderdale.

Byron Donalds is running against David Jolly, the Democrat who is campaigning for Florida governor. Jolly recently announced he doesn’t plan to debate his opponent.

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Donalds, de 46 años, está casada con el representante federal Byron Donalds, el republicano que se postula para gobernador de Florida con el respaldo del presidente Donald Trump.

“Aquí en el sur de Florida, no hay suficientes cupos para satisfacer la demanda de elección escolar, estamos escuchando eso en todas partes, pero aquí es especialmente grave”, dijo Erika Donalds, madre de tres hijos. “Las mejores escuelas tienen listas de espera. Las familias sienten que no tienen suficiente transporte para acceder a algunas de las otras opciones”.

Madeline Pumariega, presidenta de Miami Dade College, ayudó a organizar el evento en CasaCuba, un restaurante ubicado en 5859 SW 73 St. La senadora de Florida Ana Maria Rodriguez estuvo entre los invitados al evento.

Erika Donalds, contadora pública certificada, es fundadora y presidenta de Education Freedom Foundation, una organización sin fines de lucro, y de Optima Ed, una empresa con sede en Naples que apoya el uso de la realidad virtual en la educación.

Erika Donalds también es miembro de Moms for Liberty, una organización de extrema derecha que apoya los derechos de los padres en la educación pública. Está previsto que hable en un evento con entrada del Broward Women’s Republican Club a las 6:30 p.m. del miércoles en Jay’s Steakhouse, ubicado en 441 NE Third Ave., en Fort Lauderdale.

Byron Donalds se postula contra David Jolly, el demócrata que hace campaña para gobernador de Florida. Jolly anunció recientemente que no planea debatir con su oponente.

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“I just don’t see that you can finish outside the top 30 multiple times and have a shot,” Blaney said last week. “It’s just going to be too much to make up.”

Three days later, Blaney finished 33rd at Bristol Motor Speedway, the second consecutive finish outside the top 30 for the 2023 Cup Series champion. Blaney has plummeted from second to sixth in the standings since the Chase began, and his frustrations boiled over in a fight with Carson Hocevar, who bumped Blaney into a crash that ended a promising Bristol race after the Team Penske star led a race-high 202 laps.

“I understand why he’s upset,” Hocevar said. “That’s probably his championship. I’d probably be mad, too.”

During the playoff system that existed the past 12 seasons, Bristol was a cutoff race in which four drivers were eliminated from title contention, and the points were reset for the rest of the field.

In the Chase reintroduced by NASCAR this season, all 16 drivers remain mathematically eligible for the title but without a points reset — which leaves Blaney already on the fringe of contention.

He trails leader Kyle Larson by 51 points, which is more than double his deficit to open the Chase.

Meanwhile, Larson and Bristol winner Joey Logano are headed in the other direction by averaging more than 50 points per race since the Chase started.

Larson has erased a 55-point deficit to take a one-point lead on top-seeded Denny Hamlin heading into a stretch of three 1.5-mile ovals where Larson has excelled. He has three wins apiece at Kansas Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the next two tracks on the Cup circuit.

“It’s good, but there’s still so much racing left,” Larson said after a second at Bristol marked his third top five in a row (including a Gateway victory that snapped a 51-race win drought ). “Just got to keep having good consistent days. We’re going to some good tracks for us, but it could easily change a lot in the upcoming weeks. We’ve just got to keep plugging away.”

Logano, who started the Chase ranked ninth with a 65-point deficit, has surged to third and trails by 16 points.

“It was a big hole that we dug ourselves, and trying to make that up on the best teams, it’s really hard to do that,” Logano said. “We’ve done a tremendous job, but it goes to show how quickly it can go the other way. You’ve got to get hot at the right time and take advantage of the cars when you have them.”

Logano and crew chief Paul Wolfe set a weekly goal of averaging 40 points during the Chase to have a shot at winning the championship.

In the first iteration of the Chase from 2004-13, the 10 Cup champions averaged a seventh-place finish over the final 10 races. But with the 2017 introduction of stages, two predetermined sections during every race in which the top 10 are awarded points, there is a greater emphasis on running well from green to checkered flag.

Wolfe said the stage points make it possible to make up ground more quickly as Larson (38 stage points) and Logano (37) have shown in the past three races.

“When a team gets hot, and they’re able to win stages, run up front and win a race or two, you can close that gap pretty quick,” Wolfe said. “Maybe quicker than all of us anticipated when these playoffs started.”

Another way to close the gap is by winning. The value of a first-place finish was increased by 15 points this year, and the three Chase victories belong to three of the top four drivers in the standings (Larson, Logano and Darlington winner Christopher Bell).

“I think you’re going to have to win multiple races in the Chase to just keep up,” Blaney said.

No penalties expected

NASCAR officials have reviewed video of the scuffle between Blaney and Hocevar, and no punishment is expected for either driver. Competition executives will meet Tuesday for a weekly postrace debrief that includes penalty discussions.

In a similar postrace confrontation at Atlanta three years ago, Ross Chastain struck Noah Gragson, and neither driver was fined. NASCAR once put drivers on probation but removed that penalty from its rulebook this year.

Hocevar said NASCAR would “lose ticket sales” if he was penalized for punching Blaney.

“I would have to think not,” he said. “I kind of have to defend myself at some point.”

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Jason Eaton, 51, faces up to life in prison in the November 2023 attack near the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, which left Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the waist down and his friends, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid, wounded.

The jury deliberated for several hours before reaching its verdict after a weeklong trial that saw testimony from the three wounded men and psychiatric experts called by the defense and prosecution.

Eaton was ordered jailed pending sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled. He stared ahead blankly as the verdict was read. Awartani and Aliahmad, sitting in the front row of the courtroom gallery, smiled and hugged people around them.

Eaton had pleaded not guilty but did not dispute that he was the shooter. His lawyers argued that he should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, pointing to his claims that the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies transmitted orders to shoot the men to him via FM radio and that God was commanding him to protect his Jewish neighbors.

Had he been found not guilty by reason of insanity, he could have been ordered to undergo mental health treatment.

The shooting, a few days after Thanksgiving, shook Burlington, Vermont, and reverberated in the West Bank, where the three wounded men grew up and became friends as schoolmates in Ramallah before moving to the U.S. for college.

The November 2023 shooting, weeks after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, spawned calls for a hate crime investigation.

But no hate crime charges were filed as questions persisted about whether anti-Palestinian animus, an altered mental state or something else had compelled Eaton to open fire on Awartani, Aliahmad and Abdalhamid, who were all 20 at the time.

Eaton’s lawyers argued he was suffering from a delusional, psychotic disorder after losing his job at a credit union two weeks before the shooting.

While listening to a local NPR affiliate, Eaton believed he was hearing messages he attributed to the CIA, defense lawyer Joshua O’Hara said. At first, the messages were encouraging and validating, the lawyer said, but subsequent messages turned dark, insisting that Eaton “has to go out and shoot somebody.”

Authorities found three shotguns in Eaton’s apartment and a Ruger .380-caliber handgun that crime lab testing concluded was the gun used in the shooting, prosecutor Sally Adams said. Eaton had purchased the gun seven months earlier from a Vermont gun store.

Awartani, Aliahmad and Abdalhamid, all of whom are now 23, told jurors of their holiday weekend visit to Awartani’s grandmother’s house, a trip to a bowling alley to celebrate his twin cousins’ birthday, and the walk they took near the University of Vermont campus after dusk that ended in bloodshed.

Awartani, who was studying at Brown University in Rhode Island at the time, said they were smoking cigarettes and speaking a mix of English and Arabic. Two of them said they were wearing traditional Palestinian scarves known as keffiyehs. Awartani said he first noticed Eaton standing on a porch as they approached the apartment house where he lived.

Within seconds, Awartani said, Eaton was off the porch and walking toward them. His face was expressionless and he didn’t say anything. As Eaton got to about five to 10 feet (1.5 to 3 meters) away, “he pulled out a handgun and started shooting at us,” said Awartani, who was paralyzed from the waist down in the shooting and now uses a wheelchair.

Jacob Pyne, who lived in a different apartment in the same house as Eaton, testified that he heard four to six gunshots, followed by footsteps going up the stairs of the apartment house. He said he ran outside and heard two men speaking, one of whom was more vocal and yelling, “I’ve been shot, help me.” He then brought the men blankets and called 911.

Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College near Philadelphia, said he fled and hid behind another home after seeing Aliahmad fall to the ground. He said he only realized later when he sat down that he had also been wounded. Awartani was shot in the chest and the bullet ricocheted off his scapula, causing paraplegia in his spinal cord. Aliahmad, who was a student at Trinity College in Connecticut, was struck in the collarbone, and Abdalhamid was shot in the right buttock.

Meritage Hospitality Group, which operates 314 Wendy’s restaurants in 15 states, said in a statement last week it intends to keep operating its restaurants and paying its 9,000 employees during the bankruptcy process.

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Meritage filed its bankruptcy petition in federal court in western Michigan on Sept. 17. According to court documents, Wendy’s filed a notice of termination of the company’s franchise agreement “effective immediately” on Sept. 16.

Wendy’s claims Meritage owes $27.4 million in royalties and fees and $119.5 million in continuous operations fees, which companies charge to franchisees when they close locations, according to court filings. Meritage closed 60 underperforming Wendy’s locations late last year as part of a restructuring.

Asked for comment Monday on Meritage, Wendy’s said its focus is “strengthening the long-term health of the brand.”

“We partner closely with franchisees that are experiencing challenges to support them and evaluate each situation on a case-by-case basis to identify the best and most sustainable path forward,” the company said.

Michigan is Meritage’s largest market; it operates 54 Wendy’s locations there as well as five Morning Belle and Blue Porch Bar & Grill restaurants. The company also runs 44 Wendy’s in both Georgia and Florida; 29 Wendy’s in Connecticut; 24 Wendy’s in Tennessee; 23 Wendy’s in Oklahoma and less than 20 Wendy’s each in Arkansas, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Virgina.

Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy’s has been struggling for several years with outdated stores, high beef prices and stiff competition. It closed 240 restaurants in 2024 and said earlier this year that it planned to shutter up yo 358 locations this year.

Wendy's same-store U.S. sales fell 7% in its most recent quarter.

“Wendy's is an iconic brand with exceptional assets. Today we are clearly not performing at our potential,” Wendy's President and CEO Bob Wright said in a statement last month. Wright joined Wendy's in May after previously serving as the CEO of Potbelly.

But among terms of Monday’s agreement announced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta — who led the states' case — Paramount pledged to increase domestic production by spending at least an additional $1.5 billion on U.S. film production over the next five years and establish monitoring of editorial independence of the company’s news operations.

The settlement still needs a final sign-off by a judge. Bonta said Monday's agreement was about “protecting people’s careers, the lives they’ve built here in California, the livelihoods their families rely on" — but he maintained it was not a vote in support of the merger.

“I don’t think these two companies should merge, but that’s not something that we are focused on with our resolution here,” Bonta said in a Monday press conference.

Paramount CEO David Ellison welcomed the settlement, which he said marked “complete clearance for this merger." He added that "bringing Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery together will build that stronger Hollywood, creating expanded opportunity for our people and even more great entertainment for audiences around the world.”

The coalition of states — including entertainment heavyweights like California and New York — sued to block the merger in July, alleging a Paramount-Warner combo would “extinguish competition” and lead to fewer choices for consumers, particularly movie theatergoers and cable customers across the U.S.

The Writers Guild of America also filed suit, and both challenges were headed toward a full antitrust trial set to kick off in March. The WGA separately confirmed Monday that it settled its case, too.

“We continue to believe the merger will cause damage to writers and the industry at large," the guild said in a statement. “Now that the Attorneys General have settled with Paramount, however, as a nonprofit, the WGA must contend with the reality of forging ahead alone, with no backing from government enforcers, with a complex antitrust lawsuit that would cost millions of dollars to pursue through trial.”

The union added that Paramount had agreed to prohibit writer layoffs at CBS News for five years and to pay $17.5 million to WGA's health fund, along with attorneys’ fees from the litigation.

Paramount previously agreed to delay its transaction well into next year so the challenges could make their way through court. It then quickly called for a settlement — arguing that it had satisfied all regulatory clearances worldwide (including from the Trump administration’s Justice Department ), saying that the states' lawsuit, in particular, was its “final obstacle.”

As reports of the states reaching a settlement with Paramount emerged Monday, critics decried the deal — while warning of what further consolidation could mean in an industry already controlled by just a few major players.

“Today, billionaires have yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top,” Alvaro Bedoya, senior adviser at the American Economic Liberties Project and a former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, said in a statement. “Layoffs will follow. People from L.A. to Atlanta will lose their jobs, small businesses will lose their contracts, your cable bill and movie ticket will be even more expensive.”

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Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Carlos Fernandez de Cossio made a surreal statement yesterday, claiming that everyone at the top of the Cuban government leadership get, on average, two hours of electricity per day.

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We know that most of Cuba’s inner circle of power have generators or solar panels that provide them electricity around the clock each day.

What Fernandez de Cossio does not admit is that the electrical problem has been caused by the Cuban government not being able to fix the outdated electrical plans that are the cause of the problem.

Sept. 18: Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar breaks with Trump over immigration policy

After supporting President Donald Trump’s policy on immigration, Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar issued a video yesterday criticizing Trump.

The Department of Homeland Security was quickly to react and say that the Trump administration will continue enforcing the policy.

We need to ask ourselves whether Salazar’s change of heart has to do more with political survival since she faces a tough race in the midterm elections this coming November from well known South Floridian Eliott Rodriguez (D).

Sept. 17: Cuba is not Venezuela

A new poll recently done by FIU, inside Venezuela and Cuba, show how different the situations are for U.S. foreign policy.

The poll shows that 90% of Venezuelans want free and democratic elections this year, which I do not believe the current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez will agree to. I’m also sure that she will use Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan of “stabilization, recovery, and transition phase” to say that the first stage has not been fully accomplished. There was no timetable put on the plan.

The case of Cuba is very different. The population wants their economic and social needs met before political reforms, which goes to my argument that Cuba has a very short history of democratic governments.

So to remind our local members of Congress. To say that “we must return Cuba to democracy” will not happen anytime soon.

Sept. 16: Rubio’s latest actions on Cuba

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently sent more humanitarian aid to Cuba, and it is being distributed by the non-governmental organization (NGO) associated with the Catholic Church, Caritas of Cuba.

At the same time, Rubio warned international banks and businesses not to collaborate with any Cuban business entities that have been sanctioned by the U.S.

Secretary Rubio also called for the Cuban government to change and become a democracy.

By now, we should understand that changing governments like Cuba, which have been under totalitarian control, is not easy and will take time. Especially countries like Cuba that, in their political history, have had unsustainable democratic governments.

Sept. 15: Cuba becomes a betting market for U.S. prediction markets

Cuba has become a betting market in the USA.

The betting site Polymarket shows how people in the U.S. are betting on everything from the removal of Cuba’s President Miguel Díaz-Canel from power to when and if the U.S. will invade Cuba or make an economic agreement with Cuba.

The last prediction is whether the U.S. will go and get indicted Cuban leader Raúl Castro.

Sept. 10: Russia denies Cuba full membership in BRICS

BRICS is an organization of 11 emerging economies around the world. The organization works to influence their global importance and reshape economic governance.

The membership includes Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Partner nations include Belarus, Cuba, Nigeria and Thailand.

The Russians turned down Cuba for full membership into the organization because of Cuba’s poor economic conditions and poor predictions by economists moving forward.

Sept. 9: Cuba and the U.S. stuck in diplomatic rhetoric

Cuba’s Brigadier General Emir Mesa Corona, who is in charge of personal security at the Ministry of Interior, sent a strong message to the U.S. not to even think of trying to kidnap Raul Castro or anyone in Cuba’s government or they will face serious consequences.

At the same time, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parilla admitted that backroom negotiations with the U.S. continue but the U.S. will not soften their positions. Cuba wants the economic embargo lifted while the U.S. wants regime change.

Sept. 8: Blind passion for Cuban politics leads to a political circus between Miami, Havana and DC

As a little boy growing up in Miami, I remember when every presidential candidate from both political parties would come to campaign in Miami and promised that if elected, they would work to see a “Free Cuba.” They would end their speeches with “Viva Cuba Libre.” Local politicians representing different municipalities in Miami-Dade would talk about U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba like they controlled it, and yet, they had nothing to do with it within their scope of responsibilities. But it got them the votes they needed to be elected and remain in power, while political leaders in Cuba continued to blame everything wrong on the island on the U.S. economic embargo, or as they call it, “the blockade.”

On Jan. 3, the U.S. military captured Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela with the assistance of their current Interim President Delcy Rodriguez and brought him to the U.S. to face justice. Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump announced that Cuba would be next.

The Trump administration began to sanction Cuban organizations and individuals of the government in an attempt to squeeze them out of power. So far, they are still in power. The Cuban government began to prepare for a U.S. invasion. To this date, it has not happened and probably never will.

On May 20, the U.S. Justice Department indicted Raul Castro for the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996 in a theater-like political rally at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. So far nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen. There is no Delcy Rodriguez in Cuba. A week ago, many media outlets across Miami reported, based on sources from inside the island, that Raul Castro was gravely ill. This past weekend, Raul reappeared surrounded by Cuba’s military elite.

Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the three Cuban-American members of Congress from South Florida had announced that by the end of 2026, Cuba would fall. Now it has been pushed back to 2029. Furthermore, Rubio recently said that the problem in dealing with Cuba is the Helms-Burton Law (Senator Jesse Helms and Richard Burton, both Republicans) that was enacted by Congress in 1996, also with the hard work of the late Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

The three Cuban-American members of Congress made it clear that the goal was to return Cuba to democracy. What democracy? Cuba did not have a democratic government before Fidel Castro took power. How much do they really know about Cuban history? Or is it just a play on words and empty promises?

So as time passes each day, the Cuban-American community is beginning to ask itself, what is really going on in D.C.?

It would not surprise me that in the near future the Trump organizations would negotiate to buy the empty Melia Hotels in Cuba and put the Trump name on them. After all, we now own a big chunk of Venezuelan oil and there was no regime change as promised.

Will we ever learn? How much longer are we going to be blind by our passion?

Sept 6: Raul Castro makes public appearance

After much speculation about Cuba’s Raul Castro being close to death, the Cuban leader showed up at a military event yesterday accompanied by his grandson, Raulito, and Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Sept 3: Raul Castro stable, according to sources

Sources in Cuba say Raul Castro, 95, is stable despite reports about his declining health. According to sources, retired General Abelardo Colome Ibarra, known as “ El Fury,” is currently in worse condition. Colome Ibarra was head of the Ministry of the Interior and highly respected by the Castro brothers and the Cuban military.

Sept 3: President Trump’s hands are tied with regard to Cuba, Rubio says

After months of saying Cuba would be next, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that the president’s hands are tied because of the Helms Burton Law which requires no normalization between the U.S. and Cuba unless there is regime change and a move towards a democratic government.

Even if Raul Castro was to die in the near future, I do not expect regime change.

Only the U.S. can change the Helms-Burton Law and I don’t expect that to happen anytime in the near future or after the mid-term elections.

Sept. 2: Children in Cuba start new school year amid more challenges than any other year before

Children in Cuba started the new school year Tuesday facing a lack of supplies, books, uniforms and teachers, and buildings that are falling apart, along with a lack of food to feed the children.

According to the Cuban minister of education, this will be a very challenging year unlike any others.

Cuban education was once one of the big accomplishments of the revolution. However, it was also used to indoctrinate the students in an ideology that no one on the island nation believes anymore.

Sept. 1: Raul Castro hospitalized, sources say

Reliable sources inside Cuba have informed me this afternoon that Raul Castro has been hospitalized. We need to be careful and not to over speculate what might happen until further notice.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

El viceministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, hizo ayer una declaración surrealista, afirmando que todos los altos dirigentes del gobierno cubano reciben, en promedio, dos horas de electricidad al día.

Sabemos que la mayoría del círculo interno de poder de Cuba tiene generadores o paneles solares que les proporcionan electricidad las 24 horas del día.

Lo que Fernández de Cossío no admite es que el problema eléctrico ha sido causado por la incapacidad del gobierno cubano de reparar las obsoletas plantas eléctricas que son la causa del problema.

18 de septiembre: Congresista republicana María Elvira Salazar rompe con Trump por política migratoria

Después de apoyar la política migratoria del presidente Donald Trump, la congresista republicana María Elvira Salazar publicó ayer un video criticando a Trump.

El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional reaccionó rápidamente y dijo que la administración Trump continuará aplicando la política.

Debemos preguntarnos si el cambio de postura de Salazar tiene más que ver con su supervivencia política, ya que enfrenta una difícil contienda en las elecciones de mitad de mandato de este próximo noviembre contra el conocido residente del sur de Florida Eliott Rodriguez (D).

17 de septiembre: Cuba no es Venezuela

Una nueva encuesta realizada recientemente por FIU dentro de Venezuela y Cuba muestra lo diferentes que son las situaciones para la política exterior de Estados Unidos.

La encuesta muestra que el 90% de los venezolanos quiere elecciones libres y democráticas este año, algo que no creo que la actual presidenta interina Delcy Rodríguez acepte. También estoy seguro de que utilizará el plan del secretario de Estado Marco Rubio de “estabilización, recuperación y fase de transición” para decir que la primera etapa no se ha completado por completo. No se estableció un cronograma para el plan.

El caso de Cuba es muy diferente. La población quiere que sus necesidades económicas y sociales sean atendidas antes de las reformas políticas, lo que respalda mi argumento de que Cuba tiene una historia muy corta de gobiernos democráticos.

Así que, como recordatorio para nuestros miembros locales del Congreso. Decir que “debemos devolver a Cuba a la democracia” no sucederá pronto.

16 de septiembre: Últimas acciones de Rubio sobre Cuba

El secretario de Estado Marco Rubio envió recientemente más ayuda humanitaria a Cuba, y está siendo distribuida por la organización no gubernamental (ONG) asociada con la Iglesia Católica, Cáritas de Cuba.

Al mismo tiempo, Rubio advirtió a bancos y empresas internacionales que no colaboren con ninguna entidad empresarial cubana que haya sido sancionada por Estados Unidos.

El secretario Rubio también pidió que el gobierno cubano cambie y se convierta en una democracia.

A estas alturas, deberíamos entender que cambiar gobiernos como el de Cuba, que han estado bajo control totalitario, no es fácil y llevará tiempo. Especialmente en países como Cuba que, en su historia política, han tenido gobiernos democráticos insostenibles.

15 de septiembre: Cuba se convierte en mercado de apuestas para mercados de predicción de Estados Unidos

Cuba se ha convertido en un mercado de apuestas en Estados Unidos.

El sitio de apuestas Polymarket muestra cómo personas en Estados Unidos están apostando por todo, desde la salida del poder del presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, hasta cuándo y si Estados Unidos invadirá Cuba o llegará a un acuerdo económico con Cuba.

La última predicción es si Estados Unidos irá a buscar al líder cubano acusado Raúl Castro.

10 de septiembre: Rusia niega a Cuba membresía plena en BRICS

BRICS es una organización de 11 economías emergentes de todo el mundo. La organización trabaja para aumentar su importancia global y reformar la gobernanza económica.

Entre sus miembros se encuentran Brasil, China, Egipto, Etiopía, India, Indonesia, Irán, Rusia, Arabia Saudita, Sudáfrica y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos.

Entre las naciones asociadas se encuentran Bielorrusia, Cuba, Nigeria y Tailandia.

Los rusos rechazaron la membresía plena de Cuba en la organización debido a las malas condiciones económicas del país y a las negativas proyecciones de los economistas para el futuro.

9 de septiembre: Cuba y Estados Unidos estancados en retórica diplomática

El general de brigada cubano Emir Mesa Corona, encargado de la seguridad personal en el Ministerio del Interior, envió un fuerte mensaje a Estados Unidos para que ni siquiera piense en intentar secuestrar a Raúl Castro o a cualquier integrante del gobierno cubano, o enfrentarán graves consecuencias.

Al mismo tiempo, el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, admitió que continúan las negociaciones tras bastidores con Estados Unidos, pero que Estados Unidos no suavizará sus posiciones. Cuba quiere que se levante el embargo económico, mientras que Estados Unidos quiere un cambio de régimen.

8 de septiembre: Pasión ciega por la política cubana conduce a un circo político entre Miami, La Habana y DC

Cuando era un niño que crecía en Miami, recuerdo cuando todos los candidatos presidenciales de ambos partidos políticos venían a hacer campaña en Miami y prometían que, si eran elegidos, trabajarían para ver una “Cuba Libre”. Terminaban sus discursos con “Viva Cuba Libre”. Políticos locales que representaban a diferentes municipios de Miami-Dade hablaban sobre la política exterior de Estados Unidos hacia Cuba como si la controlaran y, sin embargo, no tenía nada que ver con el alcance de sus responsabilidades. Pero eso les daba los votos que necesitaban para ser elegidos y permanecer en el poder, mientras que los líderes políticos de Cuba continuaban culpando de todo lo que estaba mal en la isla al embargo económico de Estados Unidos, o como ellos lo llaman, “el bloqueo”.

El 3 de enero, las fuerzas armadas de Estados Unidos capturaron a Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela con la ayuda de su actual presidenta interina, Delcy Rodríguez, y lo llevaron a Estados Unidos para enfrentar a la justicia. Poco después, el presidente Donald Trump anunció que Cuba sería la próxima.

La administración Trump comenzó a sancionar a organizaciones cubanas y a individuos del gobierno en un intento por sacarlos del poder. Hasta ahora, siguen en el poder. El gobierno cubano comenzó a prepararse para una invasión estadounidense. Hasta la fecha, no ha ocurrido y probablemente nunca ocurrirá.

El 20 de mayo, el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos acusó formalmente a Raúl Castro por el derribo de los aviones de Hermanos al Rescate en 1996 durante un mitin político con apariencia teatral en la Freedom Tower, en el centro de Miami. Hasta ahora no ha sucedido nada y no va a suceder nada. No hay una Delcy Rodríguez en Cuba. Hace una semana, muchos medios de comunicación de Miami informaron, basándose en fuentes dentro de la isla, que Raúl Castro estaba gravemente enfermo. Este pasado fin de semana, Raúl reapareció rodeado de la élite militar de Cuba.

Trump, el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio y los tres miembros cubanoamericanos del Congreso del sur de Florida habían anunciado que para finales de 2026, Cuba caería. Ahora se ha aplazado hasta 2029. Además, Rubio dijo recientemente que el problema para tratar con Cuba es la Ley Helms-Burton (el senador Jesse Helms y Richard Burton, ambos republicanos), que fue promulgada por el Congreso en 1996, también con el arduo trabajo del fallecido congresista Lincoln Díaz-Balart y firmada como ley por el presidente demócrata Bill Clinton.

Los tres miembros cubanoamericanos del Congreso dejaron claro que el objetivo era devolver a Cuba a la democracia. ¿Qué democracia? Cuba no tenía un gobierno democrático antes de que Fidel Castro llegara al poder. ¿Cuánto saben realmente sobre la historia cubana? ¿O es solo un juego de palabras y promesas vacías?

Así que, a medida que pasan los días, la comunidad cubanoamericana comienza a preguntarse, ¿qué está pasando realmente en D.C.?

No me sorprendería que en un futuro cercano las organizaciones Trump negociaran la compra de los hoteles Meliá vacíos en Cuba y les pusieran el nombre Trump. Después de todo, ahora poseemos una gran parte del petróleo venezolano y no hubo un cambio de régimen como se prometió.

¿Aprenderemos alguna vez? ¿Cuánto tiempo más vamos a estar cegados por nuestra pasión?

6 de septiembre: Raúl Castro hace aparición pública

Después de mucha especulación sobre que Raúl Castro, de Cuba, estaba cerca de morir, el líder cubano apareció ayer en un evento militar acompañado por su nieto, Raulito, y el presidente de Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel.

3 de septiembre: Raúl Castro está estable, según fuentes

Fuentes en Cuba dicen que Raúl Castro, de 95 años, está estable a pesar de los reportes sobre el deterioro de su salud. Según las fuentes, el general retirado Abelardo Colomé Ibarra, conocido como “El Fury”, se encuentra actualmente en peores condiciones. Colomé Ibarra fue jefe del Ministerio del Interior y era muy respetado por los hermanos Castro y las fuerzas armadas cubanas.

3 de septiembre: Presidente Trump tiene las manos atadas con respecto a Cuba, dice Rubio

Después de meses diciendo que Cuba sería la próxima, el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio dijo hoy que el presidente tiene las manos atadas debido a la Ley Helms-Burton, que exige que no haya normalización entre Estados Unidos y Cuba a menos que haya un cambio de régimen y un avance hacia un gobierno democrático.

Incluso si Raúl Castro muriera en un futuro cercano, no espero un cambio de régimen.

Solo Estados Unidos puede cambiar la Ley Helms-Burton y no espero que eso suceda pronto ni después de las elecciones de mitad de mandato.

2 de septiembre: Niños en Cuba comienzan nuevo año escolar en medio de más desafíos que cualquier otro año anterior

Los niños en Cuba comenzaron el martes el nuevo año escolar enfrentando falta de suministros, libros, uniformes y maestros, además de edificios que se están deteriorando y falta de alimentos para alimentar a los niños.

Según la ministra de Educación de Cuba, este será un año muy difícil, diferente a cualquier otro.

La educación cubana fue alguna vez uno de los grandes logros de la revolución. Sin embargo, también fue utilizada para adoctrinar a los estudiantes en una ideología en la que ya nadie en la nación insular cree.

1 de septiembre: Raúl Castro hospitalizado, dicen fuentes

Fuentes confiables dentro de Cuba me informaron esta tarde que Raúl Castro ha sido hospitalizado. Debemos ser cuidadosos y no especular demasiado sobre lo que podría suceder hasta nuevo aviso.

El Dr. Andy S. Gomez es analista de Cuba de Local 10. Gomez es considerado uno de los principales expertos sobre Cuba. Trabajó en educación superior durante 32 años antes de retirarse de la Universidad de Miami en 2012.

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The shooter described the person who died as “an intruder” at 4606 NW 5th Ave., according to Officer Kenia Fallat, a spokeswoman for the Miami Police Department.

“The individual was pronounced deceased on scene by Miami Fire Rescue. One person is currently being questioned in connection with the incident,” Fallat wrote in a statement.

A crime scene forensics van was parked on Northwest Fifth Avenue, between 46th and 47th streets.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

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

La persona que disparó describió a la persona que murió como “un intruso” en 4606 NW 5th Ave., según la oficial Kenia Fallat, portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Miami.

“La persona fue declarada muerta en el lugar por Miami Fire Rescue. Una persona está siendo interrogada actualmente en relación con el incidente”, escribió Fallat en un comunicado.

Una camioneta de análisis forense de la escena del crimen estaba estacionada en Northwest Fifth Avenue, entre las calles 46 y 47.

Los detectives pidieron a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre este u otros casos que llame a Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477 para permanecer en el anonimato.

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Según funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, el choque fue reportado en el área de Northwest 67th Avenue y 202nd Street.

Agentes de Miami-Dade y policías de Miramar acudieron al lugar.

Un video captado por Local 10 muestra daños extensos en la parte delantera del Kia después del choque, mientras que la llanta delantera del lado del pasajero se desprendió del vehículo.

Hubo un impacto mínimo en el tráfico de la zona después del choque de un solo vehículo.

No se dieron a conocer de inmediato más detalles.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was making a DoorDash delivery in the Texas capital of Austin on Sunday before he was shot during a traffic stop, said Fabiana Meléndez Ruiz, a spokesperson for immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch.

Ruiz said that Perez called his wife around 12:30 p.m. Sunday to tell her that he had been shot. She said Perez's wife hasn't spoken with him since then.

Perez was being detained at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) southwest of Austin, Ruiz told The Associated Press. She said Lincoln-Goldfinch spoke by phone with Perez, who told her that he was being interrogated while a bullet remained in his back. Perez also said he had no pain medication, according to Ruiz.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has released little information and has not said what prompted the shooting. In a statement early Monday, the department said it was investigating the shooting of a Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally who “had a final order of removal.”

Perez is an asylum seeker and entered the United States through a parole program, and he has no criminal history, Ruiz said.

“Regardless of his status, the use of force was unwarranted," Ruiz said. "As far as we understand, he was here legally.”

The shooting occurred amid a surge in ICE enforcement across the U.S. during President Donald Trump's second term. During the summer, it reported more than 50,000 monthly arrests in July and August — a first for the agency.

Immigration officers have come under intense scrutiny amid a series of shootings during the crackdown. At least four people have been fatally shot by federal officers during immigration enforcement operations this year.

Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis told reporters Sunday that the shooting occurred following a traffic stop. She said local police were not involved. Local officials said the man was shot once in the torso and had been hospitalized in serious but stable condition.

Perez's wife and attorney were unable to get information on his condition from the hospital Sunday until hospital attorneys told them at around 6 p.m. that he had been discharged 90 minutes earlier, Ruiz said.

She said that ICE had not confirmed any information to Lincoln-Goldfinch, who used legal databases and other means to discover where he was being detained.

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, a Democrat, said Sunday he wants local police to have a role in investigating the shooting. Watson said it wouldn’t be appropriate for ICE to investigate on its own.

At the scene of the shooting, a dark blue Toyota Corolla was parked under an overpass with damage to its passenger-side door and what appeared to be bullet holes before it was towed away Sunday evening.

About 100 anti-ICE protesters gathered Sunday in the shooting’s aftermath.

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Associated Press journalist Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, contributed.

ICE removed those detainees from its online detainee locator system on Sept. 15, according to three current and former ICE officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the change. Several lawyers contacted by The Associated Press confirmed their clients vanished from the system this week, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association warned its members about the situation Friday.

The move represents a stark departure from previous practice and highlights the hardline nature of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, leaving thousands of detainees exceedingly hard to trace and potentially unable to exercise all of their legal options.

The practice, which applies to detainees who have received final orders of removal from an immigration court, could speed deportations by making last-minute legal challenges harder to pursue, immigration lawyers said. Nearly 16,000 people who were arrested and booked into ICE detention in July were subject to final removal orders, more than a third of the overall bookings, according to ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project based at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA.

The practice does not apply to detainees held at a detention facility in Adelanto, California or at temporary holding facilities in Minneapolis, New York City or suburban Chicago, the sources said. Judges have ordered ICE to list detainees in those facilities in the online locator promptly upon their arrival, as part of litigation over their detention practices.

Lawyers and relatives distressed by lack of information on detainees

The effort to hide their locations adds to the ways in which the Trump administration has made life harder for detainees and their families as it has increased pressure on them to waive appeals and agree to deportation.

ICE did not publicize the move and in a statement issued to the AP, the agency did not confirm or deny it. The statement said detainees with final removal orders were being prioritized for deportation, even as ICE faces a “historic number of injunctions” from courts stopping individual removals.

As a result of the change, lawyers and relatives lost track of their clients and loved ones without explanation, which is especially concerning because detainees are frequently moved to new facilities before deportation, said Greg Chen, senior director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

“Families are freaking out because they think the person has been deported and they don’t know where the person might be,” he said. “On the attorney side, this has serious implications for the ability to contact their client. It certainly has implications about how it will interfere with the attorney-client relationship.”

The Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent agency, has argued that people who are subject to final removal orders have received due process. That usually means an immigration judge has ordered their removal after a hearing, including cases when immigrants fail to show up, and the decision was affirmed on appeal or not appealed.

Detainees with final removal orders still have options to appeal

Still, those detainees have options to challenge their detention and removal, including seeking to reopen the case or by bringing what’s known as a habeas petition asking a judge to release them on constitutional grounds. Federal judges have granted thousands of rulings ordering that detainees be released or granted bond hearings.

ICE detention facilities held more than 65,000 people as of early July, the most recent available data. Around 30% of them likely have final removal orders, said Michelle Mendez, legal director at the National Immigration Project.

More people have been issued final removal orders after failing to show up for hearings in recent months because the administration's immigration courts have taken steps to make it harder to participate and to reopen such cases, she said.

“To me, it’s just another iteration of disappearing people,” she said. “Why would we do that in the United States of America? It’s something we’d hear about in another country and be concerned about individual rights and due process.”

Some with final removal orders also have legal protections against deportation to their countries of origin based on the likelihood they would be tortured or persecuted. Many of them are facing removal to third-party countries where they have no ties and their disappearance in ICE's system will make legal challenges harder, lawyers said.

Lawyers say clients have vanished from ICE locator system

ICE initiated the online detainee locator system in 2010 to allow relatives, lawyers and the public to search for people in custody. Previously they had to call ICE regional offices or individual facilities to try to track them down.

Many advocates and lawmakers have complained that the system updates too slowly and contains too much inaccurate or missing information, allowing ICE to shield the locations of detainees for days or weeks. Minors, people who have been held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for less than 48 hours, and detainees who are being transported are not in the system, among others.

But the exclusion of detainees with final removal orders has no apparent parallel, several immigration lawyers said. Atenas Burrola Estrada, a deputy program director with the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, said that “every single one of our clients who has a final order has disappeared from the locator,” including 17 in all as of Monday.

Among those disappeared from the locator system are eight Somali men being detained at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to one of their attorneys, My Khanh Ngo, of the American Civil Liberties Union. She said the change could make it “nearly impossible” for people to challenge their removals in some cases.

“If you can't find your client, don't know what's happening to your client, you can't get that information to the court to stop their removal,” she said.

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Miami Fire Rescue officials said crews were dispatched at about 1:52 a.m. Saturday to the 3700 block of Northwest 23rd Court for a report of a person with an “alleged gunshot wound.”

They said the boy was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in “extremely critical condition.”

The boy died from his injuries Saturday night.

Authorities said a 45-year-old woman was also transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital for evaluation, but first responders said she had no reported injuries.

On Sunday, Local 10’s Bridgette Matter caught up with a man who witnessed the shooting.

The man, who cannot speak because of a medical condition, showed Matter where the shooting took place and confirmed the teenagers were drinking in the backyard of a home.

He claims someone started shooting and pointed to multiple bullet holes in a nearby fence.

He became emotional while trying to describe the tragedy he witnessed.

Police closed Northwest 23rd Court near 38th Street as officers and detectives investigated. Several Miami police cruisers were spotted at the scene with emergency lights flashing, while police tape surrounded a home investigators appeared to be focusing on.

Crime scene investigators were also seen entering and leaving the area with equipment. A clear evidence bag containing what appeared to be a gun was also visible at the scene.

Neighbors told Local 10 News they heard multiple gunshots followed by yelling and the sound of people running through the area.

One neighbor said he heard about seven gunshots. Another said security-camera footage captured activity in the area, but he later claimed that footage had been deleted and could not be shared.

The investigation remains active, though police have not released additional details about what led to the shooting.

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According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials, the crash was reported in the area of Northwest 67^th Avenue and 202^nd Street.

Miami-Dade deputies and Miramar police officers responded to the scene.

Video taken by Local 10 shows extensive front-end damage to the Kia after the crash as the front passenger-side tire was dislodged from the vehicle.

There was minimal impact to traffic in the area after the single-vehicle crash.

No other details were immediately released.

Gilbert, miembro fundador de la banda de pop-punk que se formó cuando tenía 17 años en Coral Springs en 1997, había anunciado que fue diagnosticado por primera vez con cáncer de hígado en 2021.

Gilbert había compartido información sobre su diagnóstico de feocromocitoma metastásico, que comenzó en las glándulas suprarrenales y se propagó a sus pulmones y huesos.

A principios de este año, Gilbert también fue diagnosticado con cáncer cerebral. En Instagram, compartió que había tocado en un concierto el 20 de febrero en Nashville y fue hospitalizado el 23 de febrero.

“Me llevaron a la sala de emergencias, donde una tomografía computarizada mostró que habían aparecido tres nuevos tumores en mi cerebro. El 27 de febrero me sometí con éxito a una cirugía cerebral y desde entonces me he estado recuperando en el hospital”, escribió Gilbert el 23 de marzo en Instagram.

El domingo, un portavoz divulgó un comunicado firmado por Cimorelli y sus compañeros de banda Jordan Pundik e Ian Grushka.

“Gilbert murió pacíficamente mientras dormía. Dejó este mundo rodeado de amigos y familiares y dio sus últimos suspiros con su esposa y su madre a su lado, tal como deseaba”, escribió un portavoz en un comunicado también firmado por Cimorelli y sus compañeros de banda Jordan Pundik e Ian Grushka.

El portavoz agregó que los visitantes llenaron el vestíbulo del hospital de un momento a otro.

“Fue un músico legendario, pero su logro favorito fue ser esposo y padre. Sus mayores sueños se hicieron realidad”, escribió el portavoz.

Mark Hoppus, de Blink-182 y sobreviviente de cáncer, también divulgó un comunicado.

“Chad era el mejor amigo de cada persona que conocía. La fuerza más positiva y creativa en cualquier lugar al que entraba. Durante estos últimos años, luchó contra su enfermedad con el alma de un guerrero alegre y valiente. Con dignidad, amor y gratitud. Nunca se quejó ni una sola vez, solo seguía diciendo lo afortunado que era. Por todo”, escribió Hoppus. “Hoy perdimos a uno de los buenos, y el mundo no será el mismo”.

A Gilbert también le sobrevive su hija Lily, de cuatro años.

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A man died, and another man was injured after a shooting at about 3:30 a.m. on Sunday at Carefree Cove, a gated community of manufactured homes.

Witnesses said the BSO’s response to the crime scene in the area of Northwest 32nd Avenue and 37th Street included a helicopter and patrol cars.

Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel also responded and took the man injured to the Broward Health Medical Center, where he remained on Monday.

BSFR personnel did not rescue the man who died after arriving at a hospital, according to deputies.

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

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Un hombre murió y otro resultó herido después de una balacera alrededor de las 3:30 a.m. del domingo en Carefree Cove, una comunidad cerrada de casas prefabricadas.

Testigos dijeron que la respuesta de la BSO a la escena del crimen en el área de Northwest 32nd Avenue y 37th Street incluyó un helicóptero y patrullas.

Personal de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue también acudió al lugar y trasladó al hombre herido al Broward Health Medical Center, donde permanecía el lunes.

El personal de BSFR no logró salvar al hombre que murió después de llegar a un hospital, según los agentes.

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

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Gilbert, a founding member of the pop-punk band that formed when he was 17 in Coral Springs in 1997, had announced he was first diagnosed with liver cancer in 2021.

Gilbert had shared about his diagnosis of metastatic pheochromocytoma, which started in the adrenal glands and spread to his lungs and bones.

Earlier this year, Gilbert was also diagnosed with brain cancer. On Instagram, he shared he had played a show on Feb. 20 in Nashville and was hospitalized on Feb. 23.

“I was taken to the ER where a CT scan showed 3 new tumors had appeared in my brain. On 2/27 I had successful brain surgery and have been recovering in the hospital since,” Gilbert wrote on March 23rd on Instagram.

On Sunday, a spokesperson released a statement signed by Cimorelli and his bandmates Jordan Pundik and Ian Grushka.

“Gilbert passed away peacefully in his sleep. He left this world surrounded by friends and family and took his final breaths with his wife and mother by his side, just as he wished,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement also signed by Cimorelli and his bandmates Jordan Pundik and Ian Grushka.

The spokesperson added that visitors crowded the hospital lobby at a moment’s notice.

“He was a legendary musician, but his favorite accomplishment was being a husband and father. His biggest dreams came true,” the spokesperson wrote.

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, a cancer survivor, also released a statement.

“Chad was the best friend to every person he met. The most positive and creative force in any room he walked into. These past years, he fought his sickness with the soul of a joyous, courageous warrior. With dignity, love, and gratitude. He never complained once, only kept saying how lucky he was. For everything,” Hoppus wrote. “Today we lost a good one, and the world won’t be the same.”

Gilbert is also survived by his four-year-old daughter, Lily.

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The partners — 60 in total, according to Monday's announcement — include frontier AI labs, corporations, philanthropies and others already working to expand the number of languages available in AI tools that the Gates Foundation believes could combat global inequality. The coalition aims to reach more than 3 billion people over five years by better coordinating existing efforts.

It's work that must continue “full speed ahead," according to Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman, even as some of the largest AI companies urge their industry to slow down development of advanced models. Governments must regulate the impacts on cybersecurity or children's development, he said, while they extend AI's humanitarian applications to poor communities currently “shut out” from the technology.

“Even if AI was frozen right now — which I don’t expect and I am not calling for — we would want to be building these language sets and making them usable with the tools that we have available right now,” Suzman told The Associated Press.

The collaboration follows last week's Goalkeepers report, where the foundation committed $1 billion toward AI-focused efforts to improve health outcomes, upgrade educational tools and inform small farmers' practices around the world. Unrepresentative language data could lead a model to mistranslate a pregnant Malawi woman saying her “water has broken” into the direct English that she'd “thrown away water," the report warned.

The “original sin” is that many AI tools were trained on language data scraped from the internet, according to Mozilla Data Collective CEO E.M. Lewis-Jong, whose company was incubated by the Mozilla Foundation and is now a subsidiary of the not-for-profit Mozilla.org. The data-sharing platform seeks to help communities upload cultural and linguistic data sets on their own terms rather than have that data taken from the web without their explicit consent.

“The internet is not a representative space,” she said. “Why would you think that you were going to get a culturally diverse and representative system out of something that was predominantly trained on Reddit?”

Details such as the coalition’s governance are still getting hammered out, according to Suzman. A secretariat will track each signatory’s commitments and the Gates Foundation may nudge partners to fill larger gaps when necessary.

Google, a member of the coalition, has been funding an effort to collect more than 150,000 hours of audio across every district in India. Known as Project Vaani, the push underscores the need to gather speech data on dialects within languages, according to Google senior vice president James Manyika. To get there, he said, Google is working with local partners to record speech in the field.

Anthropic, whose CEO published an essay calling for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements, was already working with the foundation to speed up vaccine developments and bolster its chatbot’s data set of local crops. Elizabeth Kelly, the head of beneficial deployments at Anthropic, acknowledged the company's products “lag in many African languages in particular."

“We’re acutely aware that we can’t achieve any of the benefits we want to see in terms of improving patient outcomes or improving literacy and numeracy for students across the globe unless we actually get this language piece right," she said.

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Desde el sábado el diésel se vende a precio internacional tras más de 20 años de subsidio, lo que provocaba al Estado una carga fiscal más de 2.000 millones de dólares anuales en medio de la peor crisis económica en 40 años. La eliminación del subsidio fue un requisito del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) para otorgar a Bolivia un préstamo por 1.900 millones de dólares, según el ministro de Economía, Christian Morales.

Transportistas, campesinos, integrantes de la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) y trabajadores informales preparan reuniones para definir las “medidas de presión” contra el gobierno mientras rige hasta fin de año el estado de excepción que decretó el presidente Rodrigo Paz para controlar las protestas de 53 días con cortes de ruta que asfixiaron a La Paz y otras ciudades entre junio y julio.

El retiro del subsidio ha tenido un efecto inmediato, desaparecieron las kilométricas filas y las esperas de hasta tres días para comprar el combustible. En contrapartida, los precios de los alimentos —que ya estaban altos— se incrementaron el fin de semana en los mercados.

“Ya no alcanza la plata, ya no sabemos cómo más estirar el dinero. Mucha gente no sabe qué hacer para comprar alimentos”, dijo a The Associated Press el ama de casa Sandra López. “Verduras y frutas volverán a subir porque la nueva carga recién llegará desde el martes”, agregó la vendedora Dionisia Calle.

Mientras tanto, Paz arribó a Estados Unidos para un encuentro con el secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, y reuniones con organismos multilaterales para "acelerar la llegada de inversiones para la recuperación económica”, dijo el portavoz José Luis Gálvez. Sus ministros están enfocados en promover reuniones y acuerdos para desactivar las protestas, acotó.

El mandatario centroderechista heredó problemas acumulados durante dos décadas de gobiernos de izquierda, entre ellos la caída en la producción de gas natural, la reducción de la generación de divisas, dificultades para importar productos, inflación y un creciente malestar social.

Sin embargo, Paz es criticado por opositores por mantener a la petrolera estatal a cargo de la venta de hidrocarburos y por algunos escándalos en sus 10 meses de gestión.

"La demora en tomar medidas, la falta de previsión y las decisiones cambiantes del gobierno generan mayor incertidumbre”, dijo el expresidente Jorge Quiroga (2001-2002).

Para el analista Francesco Zaratti el recorte del subsidio era necesario y obliga a vivir “con la verdad y no en la ficción", pero a la vez aplicar “medidas de compensación para la población más vulnerable”.

The hybrid series features a family of law enforcement officers — one an FBI agent, one a U.S. marshal, two in the Secret Service and one in the Department of Justice — whose work and home life overlap dramatically.

It sounds like what you get when “Quantico” is mixed with “Gossip Girl” and that's not too far from what Safran has concocted. He worked on both those series and has channeled them into a heady network mix. Plus, he's added a little French farce.

“You’re going to watch a case unfold every week by very capable people who are in an area or areas of law enforcement that you may have seen before, but you’re also going to go home with them and see how they take that work home with them, how it impacts their family life, how it impacts their relationships,” he says.

Who stars and how does it work?

“Line of Fire,” debuting Monday, stars Peter Krause and Hope Davis as the on-again, off-again couple at the heart of the high-achieving, slightly dysfunctional Hollingsworth family.

The fundamentals are not dissimilar to CBS's long-running series “Blue Bloods,” about a multi-generational family of New York City cops and their assistant district attorney sister. But while the fictional Reagan family would do seemingly anything for one another, one of the Hollingsworth family's three children describes them as “a family full of people who will stop at nothing to protect literal strangers but are unable to stop hurting each other.”

An early scene in the pilot episodes shows mom demanding that her daughter introduce the family to her new boyfriend — while both women stand over a fresh crime scene with two corpses.

“I think it’s really hard these days to set boundaries, even when we do set aside time," says Safran. "If you’re out with your partner, or you’re out with friends, the conversation really often tends to center around work because we’ve lost the art of going out and seeing where the night takes you or where the day takes you.”

Each week will have its own case — pulling in two or more family members — while there are also long-term arcs, like questions around an old assassination attempt on the president and which killer is leaving little origami cranes at crime scenes. By the end of the first show, a deadly conspiracy is revealed that will echo throughout the series.

Unfortunately for them, this family is destined to be in each other's faces. “It’s a family business,” says the mom to one of her sons during a tense moment. “If you didn’t want to join it, you could have gone to art school.”

Peter Krause and Jenna Bush Hager

After his beloved fire captain Bobby Nash was killed last year in a shocking twist on ABC's “9-1-1,” Krause was lured back to the small screen by Safran's scripts.

The “Parenthood,” “Sports Night” and “Six Feet Under” alum says he wasn't thinking about doing another network show but, as his credits suggest, he enjoys being part of a TV family. This time, there was a lot of family intrigue.

“The fun of it for me is the concealment, that within their jobs they have to conceal things from each other and sometimes they don’t," says Krause. "Sometimes they’ll cross a line to share information with each other, which is fun.”

The cast also includes Kat Cunning, Tommy O’Brien and Taylor Bloom as the three Hollingsworth children. Guest stars include Sam Waterston, Campbell Scott and Chris Chalk.

Safran says that while he was writing the family dynamic, he was inspired by the song “Stay” by Samantha Barks, with the lyric “Don’t come too close and don’t go too far.”

One of the show's champions is someone who spent a lot of time under Secret Service protection — Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of “Today” and daughter of former President George W. Bush. Hager is an executive producer.

“She’s really been an invaluable resource. She’s talked to the writers, she’s come to set,” says Safran. “She’s just so positive and her energy is so infectious and great.”

Hager helped Safran pick what became “Line of Fire” from a number of ideas he was kicking around. He says he's always been interested in procedurals but forever wondered about the characters' nonwork life.

“You don’t see their home lives and I really wanted to explore that. When you watch the ‘Chicago’ shows or the ‘Law & Order’ universe, at least for me, I’m digging for pieces and clues about the characters behind their job,” he says.

Safran also gets to explore ways the work-life divide can get messed up, like how the Hollingsworth's mother is someone who is suspicious of everyone — good for tracking down fugitives — but that isn't very helpful when meeting her kids' new friends.

“It goes both ways,” he says. “We bring home to work, but we bring work to home in the worst ways, too.”

Los explosivos detonaron en la madrugada en una zona rural del municipio de la Macarena, en el departamento de Meta, causando la muerte de los tres soldados y heridas a otros cuatro militares.

El ejército señaló de manera preliminar como responsable al Bloque Jorge Suárez Briceño, una disidencia de las FARC que persistió en armas pese al acuerdo de paz firmado hace una década con el Estado.

La disidencia comandada por Alexander Díaz Mendoza, alias “Calarcá”, ha sido declarada objetivo militar por el presidente conservador Abelardo de la Espriella, quien cerró todas las mesas de negociación de paz que había abierto su predecesor, el progresista Gustavo Petro (2022-2026).

De la Espriella ha advertido a los grupos armados ilegales que se sometan a la justicia voluntariamente o que actuará con “mano de hierro” incrementando las operaciones militares en su contra.

El ejército indicó que en paralelo fueron heridos otros dos soldados en Vistahermosa, otro municipio de Meta, con explosivos y disparos con armas de largo alcance.

Los soldados heridos en Vistahermosa fueron trasladados a un centro médico cercano y serán remitidos a un hospital de más alto nivel, mientras se adelanta la extracción por vía aérea de los heridos en La Macarena, indicó el ejército.

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Ultimately Fay fell just short of the 74 mph hurricane threshold, topping out as a 70 mph tropical storm Sunday night before quickly crumbling to a curtain of wind shear early Monday.

Fay was poorly forecast or missed entirely by our major forecast models late last week. Models mostly keyed in on the disturbance designated Invest 98L over the central Atlantic last week – which we discussed in detail in this newsletter much of last week – while either downplaying or overlooking the potential development of the low-pressure system that became Fay southwest of the Azores.

The National Hurricane Center didn’t first include the disturbance in its outlook until Friday morning – only 24 hours before it formed – and with low odds that sharply rose during the day Friday.

Fay finds a window

Fay formed almost as far north and east as we’ve recorded an Atlantic named storm in September, in a part of the basin that’s historically hostile to tropical development this time of year.

But waters in the area where Fay formed are at record warmth for the time of year and, with a narrow window of light upper-level winds, Fay made the most of its short stint as a tropical system.

Forecast models historically struggle with initially non-tropical systems like Fay that form in the far corners of the North Atlantic and outside of the traditional tropical belt. Back in September 2012, the system that was forecast to top out as a 40 mph Tropical Storm Michael over the open middle Atlantic became 115 mph Category 3 major Hurricane Michael (different from 2018’s catastrophic Hurricane Michael that struck the Florida panhandle) less than three days later.

It’s a good reminder that while hurricane forecasts are one of the best success stories in all of predictive sciences, forecast models can still miss in dramatic fashion, especially for unconventional situations or during seasons that don’t behave like others in the historical record.

Upcoming nor’easter with a small chance of turning tropical

An area of low pressure that’s expected to develop along a stalled cold front over the western Atlantic later this week will drift westward toward the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S. as it strengthens into the weekend.

While the exact track of the low-pressure is still uncertain, the difference in high pressure over Central Canada and the intensifying low to the southeast over the western Atlantic will crank up winds and whip up seas along the Eastern Seaboard from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to New England from Thursday through Saturday. This could produce a prolonged nor’easter-like event for the region, with strong, gusty winds above 40 mph, multiple cycles of coastal flooding, coastal erosion, and periods of heavy rain depending on the eventual track of the low-pressure system.

For now, the system looks to stay non-tropical, but there’s a small chance (~20% chance) its core warms enough so that it transitions to a tropical system later this week into the weekend. Both the AI models and traditional, physics-based models agree on this low probability scenario so it’s something to follow. Regardless, it shouldn’t appreciably change the impacts expected for the coast later this week.

En definitiva, Fay se quedó a las puertas de alcanzar el umbral de huracán de 119 km/h, llegando a ser una tormenta tropical de 113 km/h el domingo por la noche antes de disiparse rápidamente en una cortina de cizalladura del viento a primera hora del lunes

Los principales modelos de predicción de finales de la semana pasada no predijeron correctamente la llegada de Fay, o directamente la pasaron por alto. La mayoría de los modelos se centraron en la perturbación denominada Invest 98L sobre el Atlántico central la semana pasada —que analizamos en detalle en este boletín durante gran parte de la semana—, mientras que restaron importancia o pasaron por alto el posible desarrollo del sistema de baja presión que se convirtió en Fay al suroeste de las Azores.

El Centro Nacional de Huracanes no incluyó la perturbación en su pronóstico hasta el viernes por la mañana, solo 24 horas antes de que se formara, y con bajas probabilidades que aumentaron drásticamente durante el día del viernes.

Fay encuentra una ventana

Fay se formó casi tan al norte y al este como la última vez que registramos una tormenta tropical con nombre en el Atlántico en septiembre, en una parte de la cuenca que históricamente es hostil al desarrollo de ciclones tropicales en esta época del año.

Pero las aguas en la zona donde se formó Fay registraron temperaturas récord para esta época del año y, gracias a un breve periodo de vientos suaves en las capas altas de la atmósfera, Fay aprovechó al máximo su corta duración como sistema tropical.

Históricamente, los modelos de pronóstico tienen dificultades con sistemas inicialmente no tropicales como Fay, que se forman en los rincones más remotos del Atlántico Norte y fuera del cinturón tropical tradicional. En septiembre de 2012, el sistema que se pronosticaba que alcanzaría su máxima intensidad como la tormenta tropical Michael, con vientos de 64 km/h, sobre el Atlántico medio abierto, se convirtió en el huracán Michael, de categoría 3, con vientos de 185 km/h (diferente del catastrófico huracán Michael de 2018 que azotó el noroeste de Florida) menos de tres días después.

Es un buen recordatorio de que, si bien los pronósticos de huracanes son uno de los mayores éxitos en todas las ciencias predictivas, los modelos de pronóstico aún pueden fallar estrepitosamente, especialmente en situaciones poco convencionales o durante temporadas que no se comportan como otras registradas históricamente.

Se avecina una tormenta del noreste con una pequeña probabilidad de convertirse en tropical.

Se espera que una zona de baja presión que se desarrollará a lo largo de un frente frío estacionario sobre el Atlántico occidental a finales de esta semana se desplace hacia el oeste, en dirección al Atlántico Medio y el noreste de Estados Unidos, a medida que se intensifique durante el fin de semana.

Aunque la trayectoria exacta de la baja presión aún es incierta, la diferencia entre la alta presión sobre el centro de Canadá y la baja presión que se intensifica al sureste sobre el Atlántico occidental provocará fuertes vientos y oleaje intenso a lo largo de la costa este, desde los Outer Banks de Carolina del Norte hasta Nueva Inglaterra, desde el jueves hasta el sábado. Esto podría generar un fenómeno meteorológico prolongado similar a una tormenta del noreste en la región, con fuertes ráfagas de viento superiores a 64 km/h, múltiples ciclos de inundaciones costeras, erosión costera y periodos de lluvias intensas, dependiendo de la trayectoria final del sistema de baja presión.

Por ahora, el sistema parece mantenerse fuera de los trópicos, pero existe una pequeña probabilidad (aproximadamente un 20%) de que su núcleo se caliente lo suficiente como para transformarse en un sistema tropical a finales de esta semana y durante el fin de semana. Tanto los modelos de IA como los modelos tradicionales basados ​​en la física coinciden en este escenario de baja probabilidad, por lo que conviene seguirlo de cerca. En cualquier caso, no debería alterar significativamente los impactos previstos en la costa a finales de esta semana.

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said in a speech in London that the Fed is facing a series of persistent supply shocks that have driven up inflation, including higher oil prices from the Iran war and tariffs. Typically, Goolsbee noted, the central bank would essentially wait for such shocks to fade and inflation to fall on its own rather than raise borrowing costs.

But faced with an ongoing series of persistent supply shocks, the Fed now has little choice but to hike rates, Goolsbee said. The increases are needed to lower consumer and business demand to a level consistent with reduced supply, he added, which should bring inflation back to the Fed's 2% target.

“The only way to bring inflation down is to raise rates and narrow the gap between supply and demand,” he said in a written copy of his remarks. “Forcing inflation back to target in the short run means pushing employment below target. ... In the short run, supply shocks force a difficult trade-off” between the Fed's goals of low inflation and maximum employment.

“It’s going to be painful,” Goolsbee said in later to reporters. “It would necessarily be painful.”

Goolsbee's comments contradict Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh's remarks last Wednesday at a news conference that took place after the Fed lifted its key interest rate for the first time in three years to about 3.9%.

“I don’t believe that we need to do harm to the labor markets to achieve our objective,” Warsh said last week.

The Fed generally fights inflation by raising interest rates to cool borrowing and spending. Historically, such rate hikes have often slowed growth and have even led to recessions.

Yet in 2022-2023, the Fed sharply raised interest rates and inflation did decline, without a significant rise in unemployment or economic slowdown.

Goolsbee also suggested while speaking with reporters that the Fed may need to implement more than just the one additional rate hike later this year that policymakers, as a group, forecast last week.

There are signs that surging investment in data centers for AI are also pushing up inflation, he said, suggesting that strong demand is playing a role, as well as the supply shock from oil.

If inflation mostly comes from supply shocks, then just one more rate hike could be sufficient, Goolsbee told reporters.

“And if we get evidence that convinces us that it’s coming from demand, then it likely would not be enough,” he said.

Tiffany Yearty conoce esa sensación de primera mano. Ahora, a través de su organización sin fines de lucro Birthday Boxes for Good, está ayudando a otros padres a asegurarse de que sus hijos tengan algo que celebrar.

Cada caja de cumpleaños cuesta alrededor de $35 USD y se financia mediante donaciones, socios comunitarios y, cuando es necesario, del propio bolsillo de Yearty.

Antes de que Yearty fuera conocida entre las familias como la “Señora de las Cajas de Cumpleaños”, era una madre con dificultades económicas que intentaba mantener a su propio hijo.

“Cuando tuve a mi primer hijo en 2017, vivía en Florida Central y tuve que regresar a casa debido a problemas económicos”, dijo Yearty. “Llegó la Navidad y no pude comprarle nada”.

Sus padres intervinieron para ayudar esa Navidad, pero Yearty dijo que nunca olvidó cómo se sintió.

“Para mí como madre, pensaba: este es mi primer bebé. Se supone que debería poder celebrarlo, pero no puedo”, dijo. “Las emociones son como culpa, sientes enojo, sientes vergüenza”.

Años después, Yearty se unió a un grupo de Facebook para padres y comenzó a ver solicitudes de familias que necesitaban ayuda. Eso le recordó una idea que había tenido durante su propia época difícil.

“Formaba parte de un grupo de padres en Facebook, y ahí fue donde comencé a ver las solicitudes de ayuda”, dijo Yearty. “Y entonces recordé la idea que tuve en 2017. Es hora de enfocarme. Realmente quiero que esto suceda. Y años después, aquí estamos”.

Birthday Boxes for Good crea cajas de cumpleaños personalizadas para niños y adolescentes cuyas familias atraviesan dificultades económicas.

“Es toda una fiesta de cumpleaños dentro de una caja”, dijo Yearty.

Las cajas incluyen artículos para hornear, decoraciones y un regalo, dando a las familias lo que necesitan para organizar una celebración de cumpleaños.

Para Tiffany Cordero, madre de nueve hijos y con dos cumpleaños este mes, las cajas proporcionan una ayuda muy necesaria.

“He estado tratando de asegurarme de que cada uno tenga un buen cumpleaños”, dijo Cordero. “Y normalmente los dos últimos, que son en diciembre, porque está la Navidad, se vuelve muy, muy difícil”.

Cordero dijo que la presión económica puede volverse abrumadora.

“Trato de no llorar porque es abrumador”, dijo. “Así que es muy bueno que me hayan presentado con ella, porque al menos sé que en cada cumpleaños tendrán algo. Incluso si no viene de mí”.

Para Yearty, ayudar a padres como Cordero es algo personal.

“Quería ser la persona que yo necesitaba cuando estaba pasando por momentos difíciles y tenía que elegir entre pagar una factura o comprar un juguete para mi hijo”, dijo Yearty.

“Cuando puedo ayudar a los padres, veo un reflejo de mí misma en ellos porque siento que me convierto en la persona que necesitaba cuando estaba en su lugar”, agregó.

Birthday Boxes for Good actualmente ayuda a familias en todo el condado Miami-Dade mediante referencias de organizaciones sin fines de lucro, refugios y organizaciones de cuidado temporal.

La organización está aceptando donaciones, incluidos juguetes, artículos para cumpleaños y cajas. También está buscando voluntarios, a quienes Yearty llama el “Equipo de Celebración”. Los estudiantes pueden obtener horas de servicio voluntario ayudando.

Haga clic aquí para obtener información sobre cómo participar o solicitar una caja de cumpleaños.

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Tiffany Yearty knows that feeling firsthand. Now, through her nonprofit Birthday Boxes for Good, she is helping other parents make sure their children have something to celebrate.

Each birthday box costs about $35 to put together and is funded through donations, community partners and, when necessary, Yearty’s own pocket.

Before Yearty became known to families as the “Birthday Box Lady,” she was a mother struggling financially and trying to provide for her own son.

“When I had my firstborn child in 2017, I lived in Central Florida and had to move back home because of finances,” Yearty said. “Christmas came around and I could not get him anything.”

Her parents stepped in to help that Christmas, but Yearty said she never forgot how it felt.

“For me as a parent, I’m like, this is my first born baby. I’m supposed to be able to celebrate him but I can’t,” she said. “The emotions are like guilt, you feel anger, you feel shame.”

Years later, Yearty joined a Facebook group for parents and began seeing requests from families who needed help. It reminded her of an idea she had during her own difficult time.

“I was a part of a parent group on Facebook, and that’s where I started seeing the request for help,” Yearty said. “And then I remembered in 2017 the idea I had. It’s time to focus. I really want this to happen. And years later, here we are.”

Birthday Boxes for Good creates curated birthday boxes for children and teenagers whose families are experiencing financial hardship.

“It’s an entire birthday party in the box,” Yearty said.

The boxes include baking supplies, decorations and a gift, giving families what they need to put together a birthday celebration.

For Tiffany Cordero, a mother of nine with two birthdays this month, the boxes provide some much-needed help.

“I’ve been trying to make sure each one has a good birthday,” Cordero said. “And normally the last two, which is in December, ‘cause it’s got Christmas, it gets very, very hard.”

Cordero said the financial pressure can become overwhelming.

“I be trying not to cry, because it be overwhelming,” she said. “So it’s very cool that I got introduced to her, because at least I know each birthday they will have something. Even if it doesn’t come from me.”

For Yearty, helping parents like Cordero is personal.

“I wanted to be the person I needed when I was going through hard times and having to choose between paying a bill or getting a toy for my kid,” Yearty said.

“When I’m able to give to parents, I see a reflection of myself in them because I feel like I become the person I needed when I was in their shoes,” she added.

Birthday Boxes for Good currently serves families across Miami-Dade County through referrals from nonprofits, shelters and foster organizations.

The organization is accepting donations, including toys, birthday supplies and boxes. It is also looking for volunteers, whom Yearty calls the “Celebration Crew.” Students can earn volunteer hours by helping.

Click here for information on how to get involved or to request a birthday box.

Miami Fire Rescue informó que sus equipos fueron enviados alrededor de la 1:52 a.m. a la cuadra 3700 de Northwest 23rd Court tras recibir un reporte sobre una persona con una “aparente herida de bala”.

El adolescente fue trasladado al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital en “estado extremadamente crítico”.

El joven murió posteriormente a causa de sus heridas la noche del sábado.

Las autoridades informaron que una mujer de 45 años también fue trasladada al Jackson Memorial Hospital para ser evaluada. Miami Fire Rescue indicó que no presentaba lesiones reportadas.

La policía cerró Northwest 23rd Court cerca de 38th Street mientras agentes y detectives investigaban. Varias patrullas de la Policía de Miami podían verse en el lugar con las luces de emergencia encendidas, mientras cinta policial rodeaba una vivienda en la que los investigadores parecían estar concentrando su atención.

Investigadores de la escena del crimen también fueron vistos entrando y saliendo del área con equipo. En el lugar también se observó una bolsa transparente para evidencias que contenía lo que parecía ser un arma de fuego.

Vecinos dijeron a Local 10 News que escucharon múltiples disparos, seguidos de gritos y del sonido de personas corriendo por la zona.

Un vecino dijo haber escuchado unos siete disparos. Otro señaló que las cámaras de seguridad habían captado actividad en el área, pero posteriormente afirmó que las imágenes habían sido eliminadas y que no podía compartirlas.

La investigación continuaba activa la noche del sábado y la policía no había revelado de inmediato más detalles sobre lo que provocó el tiroteo.

Los Dolphins abrieron el partido con un ataque de pases cortos que tuvo como protagonista al corredor De’Von Achane, pero la serie terminó sin puntos cuando el pateador Riley Patterson falló por la derecha un intento de gol de campo de 51 yardas.

Los 49ers aprovecharon rápidamente el fallo.

Brock Purdy utilizó una jugada de engaño para encontrar al receptor Mike Evans, quien realizó una recepción de 10 yardas manteniendo los pies dentro del campo para conseguir un primero y diez. Más tarde, Purdy conectó con el corredor Christian McCaffrey, quien rompió una tacleada del esquinero novato Chris Johnson para preparar un primero y gol. McCaffrey luego anotó con una carrera de una yarda para darle a San Francisco una ventaja de 7-0.

Miami fue creativo en su siguiente posesión, utilizando al fullback DJ Hernandez para convertir una situación de tercera oportunidad y pocas yardas. Los Dolphins volvieron a involucrar a Achane en el juego de pases cortos, pero la línea defensiva de San Francisco obligó al quarterback Malik Willis a salir del bolsillo en tercera oportunidad, dentro del territorio de los 49ers. Miami se conformó con un gol de campo, con Patterson acertando desde 28 yardas para reducir la desventaja a 7-3.

Purdy utilizó sus piernas en la siguiente serie ofensiva de San Francisco para evadir la presión antes de lanzar campo abajo al receptor DeMarcus Robinson. Más tarde, Purdy utilizó un engaño de jugada antes de correr para un touchdown de dos yardas, ampliando la ventaja de los 49ers a 14-3.

Los Dolphins respondieron con una serie en la que Willis utilizó su movilidad para conectar con los receptores Malik Washington y Caleb Douglas y conseguir primeros y diez. Pero Miami nuevamente no logró llegar a la zona de anotación. Después de una penalización por sujetar contra el guardia de primera ronda Kadyn Proctor, los Dolphins se conformaron con otro gol de campo de Patterson y se fueron al medio tiempo perdiendo 14-6.

Miami volvió a avanzar hasta territorio de San Francisco en el tercer cuarto, pero no pudo finalizar la serie con un touchdown.

Los 49ers pasaron inmediatamente al ataque para comenzar la segunda mitad. En la primera jugada, Purdy utilizó un engaño de jugada para encontrar al ala cerrada George Kittle para una ganancia de 40 yardas. Unas jugadas después, Purdy volvió a encontrar a Kittle tras un error de cobertura de Willie Gay Jr., ampliando la ventaja de San Francisco a 21-6.

Los 49ers continuaron imponiéndose en la batalla física en la línea de golpeo. La defensa de San Francisco colapsó repetidamente el bolsillo y el safety Marques Sigle derribó a Willis para la tercera captura de quarterback de los 49ers en el partido.

Purdy agregó entonces su tercer touchdown del día, lanzando un pase de anotación de seis yardas al fullback Kyle Juszczyk. Purdy terminó con dos pases de touchdown y un touchdown por tierra.

Los problemas de Miami continuaron cuando el pateador de despeje Bradley Pinion dejó caer el centro, dándole a San Francisco la posesión en la yarda 28 de los Dolphins.

En la siguiente jugada, Purdy colocó un pase preciso para Evans, quien ganó 28 yardas. McCaffrey terminó la corta serie con su segunda carrera de touchdown de una yarda, poniendo a San Francisco arriba 35-6.

Kittle agregó más tarde en el partido una recepción de 26 yardas por el centro mientras los 49ers continuaban moviendo el balón con eficacia.

Los Dolphins no pudieron encontrar mucho ritmo ofensivo, con penalizaciones costosas y la incapacidad de mantener las series ofensivas contribuyendo a la abultada derrota. Miami, que tiene uno de los planteles más jóvenes de la liga, tuvo dificultades para igualar la fortaleza física de San Francisco.

Purdy completó 20 de 22 pases para 287 yardas y dos touchdowns, además de sumar una anotación por tierra sin lanzar una intercepción. Mac Jones ingresó como relevo al final del partido.

Kittle lideró a los 49ers con cuatro recepciones para 80 yardas y un touchdown. McCaffrey agregó dos touchdowns por tierra mientras continuaba fortaleciendo su trayectoria profesional.

Willis sí logró conectar un pase profundo con el receptor Ryan Miller para un touchdown de 77 yardas. Fue el primer touchdown de Miami en el partido y uno de los pocos puntos positivos de la ofensiva.

En general, Miami consiguió más oportunidades para Achane, pero el juego terrestre siguió siendo inconsistente. Willis también tuvo dificultades para llevar a su equipo a la zona de anotación de manera constante por segunda semana consecutiva y fue capturado cuatro veces.

El ex quarterback de los Dolphins Ryan Fitzpatrick dijo recientemente en un podcast que si Miami no derrotaba a los Las Vegas Raiders en la Semana 1, los Dolphins no ganarían ningún partido en toda la temporada. Miami perdió ante los Raiders en el primer partido y enfrentará un calendario complicado mientras intenta demostrar que sus críticos están equivocados.

Próximos partidos

Miami (0-2) recibe a Kansas City el próximo domingo.

San Francisco (2-0) visita a Arizona (1-1) el próximo domingo.

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The Dolphins opened the game with a short passing attack that featured running back De’Von Achane, but the drive ended without points when kicker Riley Patterson missed a 51-yard field-goal attempt wide right.

The 49ers quickly capitalized on the miss.

Brock Purdy used play-action to find wide receiver Mike Evans for a 10-yard toe-tap catch and a first down. Purdy later connected with running back Christian McCaffrey, who broke a tackle by rookie cornerback Chris Johnson to set up first-and-goal. McCaffrey then scored on a 1-yard run to give San Francisco a 7-0 lead.

Miami got creative on its next possession, using fullback DJ Hernandez to convert a third-and-short situation. The Dolphins again worked Achane into the short passing game, but San Francisco’s defensive line flushed quarterback Malik Willis from the pocket on third down deep in 49ers territory. Miami settled for a field goal, with Patterson connecting from 28 yards to cut the deficit to 7-3.

Purdy used his legs on San Francisco’s next drive to evade pressure before throwing downfield to wide receiver DeMarcus Robinson. Purdy later used a play-action fake before scrambling for a 2-yard touchdown, extending the 49ers’ lead to 14-3.

The Dolphins answered with a drive in which Willis used his mobility to connect with wide receivers Malik Washington and Caleb Douglas for first downs. But Miami again failed to reach the end zone. After a holding penalty on first-round guard Kadyn Proctor, the Dolphins settled for another Patterson field goal and went into halftime trailing 14-6.

Miami moved into San Francisco territory again in the third quarter but could not finish the drive with a touchdown.

The 49ers immediately went on the attack to begin the second half. On the first play, Purdy used play-action to find tight end George Kittle for a 40-yard gain. A few plays later, Purdy found Kittle again after a blown coverage by Willie Gay Jr., pushing San Francisco’s lead to 21-6.

The 49ers continued to win the physical battle at the line of scrimmage. San Francisco’s defense repeatedly collapsed the pocket, and safety Marques Sigle brought down Willis for the 49ers’ third sack of the game.

Purdy then added his third touchdown of the day, throwing a 6-yard touchdown pass to fullback Kyle Juszczyk. Purdy finished with two touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown.

Miami’s problems continued when punter Bradley Pinion fumbled the snap, giving San Francisco possession at the Dolphins’ 28-yard line.

On the next play, Purdy dropped a pass into the bucket for Evans, who gained 28 yards. McCaffrey finished the short drive with his second 1-yard touchdown run, putting San Francisco ahead 35-6.

Kittle added a 26-yard reception over the middle later in the game as the 49ers continued to move the ball effectively.

The Dolphins could not find much rhythm offensively, with costly penalties and an inability to sustain drives contributing to the lopsided loss. Miami, which has one of the youngest rosters in the league, struggled to match San Francisco’s physicality.

Purdy completed 20 of 22 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns while adding a rushing score without throwing an interception. Mac Jones entered in relief late in the game.

Kittle led the 49ers with four catches for 80 yards and a touchdown. McCaffrey added two rushing touchdowns as he continued to build his career résumé.

Willis did connect on a deep ball to wide receiver Ryan Miller for a 77-yard touchdown pass. It was Miami’s first touchdown of the game and one of the only bright spots on offense.

Overall, Miami did get more opportunities for Achane, but the running game remained inconsistent. Willis also struggled to get his team in the end zone consistently for the second consecutive week and was sacked four times.

Former Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick recently said on a podcast that if Miami did not beat the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 1, the Dolphins would not win a game all season. Miami lost to the Raiders in the opener and will face a challenging schedule as it tries to prove its doubters wrong.

Up Next

Miami (0-2) hosts Kansas City next Sunday.

San Francisco (2-0) visits Arizona (1-1) next Sunday.

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On Friday, people were forced to push a car that was stuck in the flood waters near the intersection of Southeast 10th Street and Second Avenue.

The president of Meadowbrook Lakes Condominiums said severe flooding has been an issue for years, and he says it’s past time for the city to help out.

“The damage of people driving too fast to houses or condos and cars is crazy,” said condo president Tom Heyen.

He said the issue came to a head in April of 2023, when 45 first floor units were ruined by flooding.

It was an estimated $6 million loss after all the units needed to be renovated, which also kept residents out of their homes for at least seven months.

Some never returned.

“Just frustration because I’ve been battling with the city for two, three years,” said Heyen.

Dania Beach has a stormwater master plan aimed to keep the rainwater away from homes, but Heyen said the project hasn’t made its way over to his neighborhood.

Until then, when heavy rain is in the forecast, he wants the road outside the complex blocked off to through traffic so vehicles don’t push waves of floodwater toward homes.

“To keep people from roaring through here and causing waves and damage,” Heyen said.

El viernes, varias personas se vieron obligadas a empujar un automóvil que quedó atascado en las aguas de la inundación cerca de la intersección de Southeast 10th Street y Second Avenue.

El presidente de Meadowbrook Lakes Condominiums dijo que las graves inundaciones han sido un problema durante años y asegura que ya es hora de que la ciudad ayude.

“Los daños causados por personas que conducen demasiado rápido a casas o condominios y automóviles son una locura”, dijo el presidente del condominio, Tom Heyen.

Dijo que el problema llegó a un punto crítico en abril de 2023, cuando 45 unidades del primer piso quedaron destruidas por las inundaciones.

Se estimó una pérdida de $6 millones USD después de que todas las unidades necesitaran ser renovadas, lo que también mantuvo a los residentes fuera de sus hogares durante al menos siete meses.

Algunos nunca regresaron.

“Simplemente frustración porque he estado luchando con la ciudad durante dos, tres años”, dijo Heyen.

Dania Beach cuenta con un plan maestro de aguas pluviales destinado a mantener el agua de lluvia alejada de las viviendas, pero Heyen dijo que el proyecto aún no ha llegado a su vecindario.

Hasta entonces, cuando se pronostiquen fuertes lluvias, quiere que la carretera frente al complejo sea cerrada al tráfico de paso para que los vehículos no empujen olas de agua de las inundaciones hacia las viviendas.

“Para evitar que la gente pase a toda velocidad por aquí y provoque olas y daños”, dijo Heyen.

With the winners to be announced at a ceremony in London on Oct. 26, clubs and players have been campaigning actively for the prestigious award.

During a recent interview with France Football, which organizes the trophy, Mbappé said he believes he can win it this year.

The Real Madrid striker also compared himself with Dembélé, who won the accolade last year. When told that 10 years ago only a few observers would have thought that Dembélé would win the Ballon d'Or before him, Mbappé replied:

“But he has always been seen as a talented player. I, on the other hand, have always been seen as the chosen one. I was at the top right away, from a very young age. He had a different journey, with injuries, but he has caught up really well!”

Mbappé's comments reportedly created tensions between the pair. Both players were set to gather Monday for a France training camp ahead of upcoming Nations League matches, and Mbappé said their relationship remains unchanged.

“I’ve already spoken to him about it, and there’s no tension,” he told L'Equipe during an interview in connection with his role as an ambassador for the brand On. “He’s a friend. I don’t think there’s really any problem regarding that. I’m very relaxed about it.”

After claiming a second straight Champions League title with Paris Saint-Germain last season, Dembélé has a chance to retain the Ballon d’Or.

Dembélé and Mbappé both played for France at the World Cup, where their team lost to eventual champion Spain in the semifinals. Although it’s difficult to win the accolade without a major trophy, Mbappé made history when he overtook Lionel Messi for the most all-time World Cup goals (22), in fewer games.

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Un video obtenido por Local 10 muestra la embarcación, identificada como “Promiscuous”, completamente envuelta en llamas. El fuego parecía concentrarse en la parte trasera del catamarán.

El incendio ocurrió en la cuadra 100 de Hendricks Isles, en Fort Lauderdale. Según los bomberos, residentes de la zona reportaron el fuego alrededor de las 6:05 a.m.

Una densa columna de humo podía verse a varios kilómetros de distancia mientras los equipos de emergencia acudían al lugar.

Residentes dijeron a Local 10 que se despertaron al notar un pequeño incendio que se propagó en cuestión de segundos. En un momento dado, aseguraron haber escuchado lo que parecía ser una explosión mientras las llamas consumían la embarcación.

Casi 20 unidades de Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue respondieron a la emergencia, según las autoridades.

Videos grabados en el lugar muestran a los bomberos utilizando herramientas para abrir partes de la embarcación y llegar a zonas donde el fuego seguía activo.

Según residentes, el “Promiscuous” estaba a la venta por aproximadamente un millón de dólares.

No se reportaron heridos.

Las autoridades continúan investigando la causa del incendio.

Una residente dijo que escuchó los disparos desde el interior de su vivienda.

“Estábamos todos sentados en la casa y de repente escuchamos disparos muy fuertes. Era como ‘¡pum, pum, pum!’, y nos preguntamos: ‘¿Qué está pasando afuera?’. Hay mucho movimiento, parece que está ocurriendo algo grande”, dijo.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward dijeron que el tiroteo dejó a un hombre hospitalizado con una herida de bala. Un segundo hombre fue trasladado de emergencia al hospital por una persona que se encontraba en el lugar cuando se produjeron los disparos. Ese hombre murió posteriormente a causa de sus heridas.

También se observó a agentes escoltando a un hombre esposado hacia una ambulancia. Los equipos de emergencia atendieron una lesión que tenía en una mano antes de que fuera colocado en una patrulla y trasladado para ser interrogado.

Otra residente describió su sorpresa al enterarse de lo ocurrido.

“Salimos y la policía que estaba aquí nos dijo que dos personas habían recibido disparos, y nosotros dijimos: ‘¡¿Qué?!’”, relató.

Mientras los agentes trabajaban en el lugar, se pidió a los residentes que permanecieran afuera mientras los investigadores continuaban con sus labores.

Las identidades de ambos hombres aún no han sido reveladas.

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In Miami, China Express was ordered shut after inspectors found dozens of rodent droppings, including beneath an air-conditioning unit and near the back exit. A follow-up inspection the next day still found additional droppings. And in Deerfield Beach, Pizzapiez was ordered shut after inspectors found rodent droppings on a package of pasta, on a box of single-service containers and throughout the kitchen.

Below are all the places recently ordered shut and some of their violations.

All the places mentioned were allowed to re-open following an ordered cleanup and then a re-inspection.

**CHINA EXPRESS

5301 NE 2ND AVENUE

MIAMI

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 9/16

27 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 20 rodent droppings under AC unit. Observed approximately 20 rodent droppings by back exit door hallway. Observed approximately 12 rodent droppings by storage under sugar container. Observed approximately 6 rodent droppings under storage by hallway.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee started working handling SS bowls without wash hands. Coached employee to wash hands properly.”

“Employee touched bare body part and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee touching face and proceeded to cooked beef at stove. Coached employee to wash hands.” Repeat Violation

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw shell eggs stored over cooked chicken at reach in cooler across three compartment sink.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed pikliz (58F - Cold Holding) at front counter table.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked chicken wing (112F - Hot Holding); fried rice (125F - Hot Holding); fries (99F - Hot Holding) at front counter steam table. As per manager less than one hour. Manager reheated products. Recheck cooked chicken wing (182F - Reheating); fries (159F - Reheating).”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed food container with sugar heavily soiled across cook line.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed towels stored inside hand sink front counter.” Warning

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed ceiling tile in disrepair above three compartment sink.” Warning

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling tiles soiled and dusty throughout all establishment.” Warning

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Observed cutting board at prep table across three compartment sink.” Warning

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed two dead roaches by dry storage under sugar containers across bathrooms. Observed two dead roaches by AC unit storage.” Warning

“Equipment in poor repair. Observed reach in cooler in disrepair across mop sink.” Warning

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside. Observed at back door.” Repeat Violation — Warning

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor under fryers heavily soiled with accumulation of grease. Observed floor soiled under three compartment sink.”

“Observed floor soiled with breading by breading table machine. Observed fryers exterior heavily soiled.” Warning

“Floor tiles missing and/or in disrepair. Observed tiles in disrepair by entrance door and by three compartment sink floor tiles in disrepair.” Warning

“Food stored on floor. Observed cooking oil container stored at floor by back exit door. Observed rice container stored on floor by storage hallway and sugar container stored on floor by cook line.” Warning

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed by hallway and bathroom.” Repeat Violation — Warning

“In-use wet wiping cloth/towel used under cutting board. Observed by prep table across three compartment sink.” Warning

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed fryers heavily soiled. Observed breading table machine soiled across three compartment sink.” Warning

“Outer openings not protected with self-closing doors. Observed front door entrance open during inspection.” Warning

“Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Across cook line.” Repeat Violation — Warning

“Standing water or very slow draining water in handwash sink, three-compartment sink, or mop sink. Observed hand sink water slow draining front counter.” Warning

“Unclean building components, attachments or fixtures. Observed camera installed by ceilings heavily dusty.” Warning

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed wall soiled and dusty by front counter. Observed wall soiled behind fryers.” Warning

“Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. Observed by prep table and cook line.” Warning

“Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Observed sugar container not labeled by storage across bathroom.” Warning

FOLLOW-UP INSPECTION 9/17

“Observed approximately 10 rodent droppings under AC unit. Observed approximately 7 rodent droppings by back exit door hallway. Observed approximately 3 rodent droppings under storage by hallway bathroom.”

**AU BON GOUT TAKE OUT RESTAURANT

5273 NORTH DIXIE HIGHWAY

POMPANO BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/15

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 4/1/24 (ROACH ISSUE)

ALSO ORDERED SHUT 3/21/18 (ROACH ISSUE)

“Accumulation of dead or trapped birds, insects, rodents, or other pests, in control devices. 1. Observed one dead rodent behind oven at cookline in kitchen.”

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1. Observed approximately 100 rodent droppings in oven at cookline in kitchen. 2. Observed approximately 75 rodent droppings scattered on floors at cookline and in prep area in kitchen. 3. Observed approximately 75 rodent droppings inside pots stored cleans, on paper bags and cardboard boxes at front counter, and on floor around reach in coolers in storage area. 4. Observed 9 rodent droppings on floor inside walk in cooler. 5. Observed 1 rodent droppings scattered on top of microwave on storage rack in kitchen.”

“Ceiling tiles and vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance in kitchen.”

“Interior of oven and microwave oven in kitchen has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris.”

“Plumbing system in disrepair. Observed hand sink faucet hanging loose at hand sink in kitchen.”

“Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed employee cleaning inside of oven at cookline then handing cleaned utensils to stir food at cookline without first hand washing.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. 1. Observed Rice (62F - Hot Holding) under no temperature control on counter in kitchen. Cooked less than one hour ago per operator.”

“Employee washed hands in a sink other than an approved handwash sink. Observed employee washing hands in triple sink.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink in kitchen.”

**PITA FRESH

7758 N. KENDALL DR.

KENDALL

ORDERED SHUT 9/16

13 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed walk in cooler with ambient temp of 49F, the following TCS foods stored inside: raw chicken (55F - Cold Holding); cut tomato (50F - Cold Holding); tzatziki (48F - Cold Holding); shredded lettuce (47F - Cold Holding); gyro meat (50F - Cold Holding). Observed reach in across flat top with ambient temp of 45F, the following TCS foods stored inside: tzatziki (52F - Cold Holding); cut tomato (56F - Cold Holding); shredded lettuce (49F - Cold Holding). Observed cooler across gyro cooker with ambient temp if 68F, the following TCS foods stored inside: chickpeas (60F - Cold Holding); cut tomato (49F - Cold Holding); hummus (55F - Cold Holding); feta (49F - Cold Holding). Observed no equipment on site to properly maintain cold holding temperatures of at least 43F.’

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed knife magnet soiled.” Repeat Violation

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed dust accumulation to vents in kitchen.” Repeat Violation

“Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. Observed walk in cooler with ambient temp of 49F, the following TCS foods stored inside: raw chicken (55F - Cold Holding); cut tomato (50F - Cold Holding); tzatziki (48F - Cold Holding); shredded lettuce (47F - Cold Holding); gyro meat (50F - Cold Holding). Observed reach in across flat top with ambient temp of 45F, the following TCS foods stored inside: tzatziki (52F - Cold Holding); cut tomato (56F - Cold Holding); shredded lettuce (49F - Cold Holding). Observed cooler across gyro cooker with ambient temp if 68F, the following TCS foods stored inside: chickpeas (60F - Cold Holding); cut tomato (49F - Cold Holding); hummus (55F - Cold Holding); feta (49F - Cold Holding).”

“Inadequate number/capacity of cold holding units to maintain time/temperature control for safety food at proper temperatures. Observed all coolers in establishment not maintaining temperature of at least 43F. Observed walk in with temp of 48F, observed both reach in coolers with ambient temps of 45F and 68F.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed water damage to tiles in kitchen.” Repeat Violation.

**PIZZAPIEZ

614 SE 10TH ST

DEERFIELD BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/15

12 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 1. Observed 1 dropping on package of pasta in kitchen. 2. Observed 1 rodent droppings on box of single serve containers on storage rack in kitchen. 3. Observed approximately 15 rodent droppings in front of walk in cooler, under storage racks, and prep tables in kitchen.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. 1. Hood filters at cookline in kitchen. 2. Door gaskets at three door reach in cooler opposite cookline in kitchen.”

“Assorted Pizza slices, Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. Operator time marked 2:30p-6:30p.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink in kitchen.”

**CT CANTINA AND TAQUERIA

DANIA POINTE

176 N. DANIA POINTE DR.

DANIA BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/16

14 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Approximately 1 small live flying insect at cook line on open bag of tortillas. Approximately 50 small live flying insects on bags of onions at prep area. Approximately 15 small live flying insects at dish washing area landing on shelves and dishes. Approximately 4 small live flying insects in customer dining room landing on tables. Discussed with operator to eliminate all flying insects and clean and sanitize areas.”

“Food being cooled by nonapproved method as evidenced by inadequate rate of cooling during time of inspection. In reach at cook line cut lettuce (56F - Ambient Cooling) at 1:20 since 12:30 to 55F at 2:00, at this current rate of cool on product will not reach 41F within 4 hours, discussed with operator who placed bag of ice on product. In walk in cooler large covered metal pan raw ground pork (55F - Cooling) at 1:20 since 12:00 to 53F at 1:40, at this current rate product will not reach 41F within 4 hours, discussed with operator who separated products into separate pans to allow adequate air flow cooling.”

Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. In reach in cooler at soda expo line house made tomato salsa (52F - Cold Holding) per operator product not portioned or prepared today and held in unit for over 6 hours, see stop sale.

“Dish machine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dish machine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dish machine is repaired and sanitizing properly. Dishwasher (Chlorine 0ppm) operator ran machine multiple times and at retest Dishwasher (Chlorine 100ppm)”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Multiple areas of kitchen and walk in cooler standing water on floor, discussed with operator to clean and sanitize.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food. Employee handled trash can and after without wash he hands employee placed on gloves and handled tortilla, discussed with operator who educated employee, discarded tortilla and washed hands.”

“Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. At dish washing area hand washing sink filled with dirty dishes, discussed with operator who removed dishes.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. No soap provided at hand washing sink end of cook line, discussed with operator who provided soap.”

**VALE FOOD COMPANY

420 N. FEDERAL HIGHWAY

FORT LAUDERDALE

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 9/15

7 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Approximately 25 live small flying insects landing on the wall and TVs above the front serving line and expo station. 2 live small flying insects landing on aluminum to go containers on the top shelf of the cook line window. Approximately 5 live small flying insects landing on the walls of the mop sink Approximately 20 small flying insects landing on the single service item boxes in the corner by the dish area and dry storage room.”

“In-use utensil in non-time/temperature control for safety food not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. In the bin of granola, the handle was buried.”

“Handwash sink removed from food preparation/dishwashing area. Must be reinstalled in the same location where removed. At the front counter.”

**RIVERSIDE MARKET PLANTATION

6900 CYPRESS ROAD

PLANTATION

ORDERED SHUT 9/9

7 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 50 small flying insects at the bar landing in beer taps, counter tops and clean cups.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed handwashing sink used to stored cups.”

En Miami, se ordenó el cierre de China Express después de que los inspectores encontraran decenas de excrementos de roedores, incluso debajo de una unidad de aire acondicionado y cerca de la salida trasera. Una inspección de seguimiento al día siguiente reveló aún más excrementos. En Deerfield Beach, se ordenó el cierre de Pizzapiez después de que los inspectores encontraran excrementos de roedores en un paquete de pasta, en una caja de envases individuales y en toda la cocina.

A continuación se muestran todos los lugares que han sido clausurados recientemente y algunas de sus infracciones.

Todos los lugares mencionados pudieron reabrir tras una limpieza ordenada y una posterior reinspección.

**CHINA EXPRESS

5301 NE 2ND AVENUE

MIAMI

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA DENUNCIA

ORDEN DE CIERRE 16/9

Se detectaron 27 infracciones.

Se detectó actividad de roedores, evidenciada por los excrementos encontrados. Se observaron aproximadamente 20 excrementos debajo de la unidad de aire acondicionado. Se observaron aproximadamente 20 excrementos junto a la puerta de salida trasera del pasillo. Se observaron aproximadamente 12 excrementos junto al almacén, debajo del recipiente de azúcar. Se observaron aproximadamente 6 excrementos debajo del almacén junto al pasillo.

“El empleado comenzó a manipular alimentos, equipos o utensilios limpios, o a tocar artículos desechables sin envolver sin lavarse las manos previamente. Se observó que el empleado comenzó a manipular tazones de acero inoxidable sin lavarse las manos. Se le indicó al empleado que se lavara las manos correctamente.”

“El empleado tocó una parte del cuerpo sin protección y luego preparó alimentos, manipuló equipo o utensilios limpios o tocó artículos desechables sin envolver sin lavarse las manos. Se observó al empleado tocándose la cara y luego cocinando carne en la estufa. Se le indicó al empleado que se lavara las manos.” Infracción reiterada

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados encima de alimentos listos para el consumo o sin la separación adecuada de estos. Se observaron huevos crudos con cáscara almacenados encima de pollo cocido en un refrigerador ubicado frente a un fregadero de tres compartimentos.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para garantizar la seguridad de los alimentos refrigerados a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observó pikliz (58 °F - Refrigeración) en la mesa del mostrador.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos seguros, excepto asados ​​de carne enteros, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron alitas de pollo cocidas (112 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); arroz frito (125 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); papas fritas (99 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) en la mesa de vapor del mostrador. Según el gerente, menos de una hora. El gerente recalentó los productos. Volver a verificar las alitas de pollo cocidas (182 °F - Recalentando); papas fritas (159 °F - Recalentando).”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, una sustancia similar al moho o una sustancia viscosa. Se observó un recipiente de alimentos con azúcar muy sucia en la zona de cocción.”

“El lavamanos se utiliza para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observaron toallas guardadas dentro del mostrador del lavamanos.” Advertencia

“El techo/las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado. Se observó que las baldosas del techo estaban en mal estado sobre el fregadero de tres compartimentos.” Advertencia

“Techo/baldosas/rejillas de ventilación sucias con restos de comida acumulados, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho. Se observaron baldosas de techo sucias y polvorientas en todo el establecimiento.” Advertencia

“La tabla de cortar tiene marcas de cortes y ya no se puede limpiar. Se observó la tabla de cortar en la mesa de preparación, frente al fregadero de tres compartimentos.” Advertencia

“Cucarachas muertas en las instalaciones. Se observaron dos cucarachas muertas cerca del almacén de productos secos debajo de los recipientes de azúcar en los baños. Se observaron dos cucarachas muertas cerca del almacén de la unidad de aire acondicionado.” Advertencia

“Equipo en mal estado. Se observó refrigerador vertical en mal estado frente al fregadero para fregar.” Advertencia

“La puerta exterior tiene una abertura en el umbral que da al exterior. Observado en la puerta trasera.” Infracción reiterada: advertencia.

“El suelo está sucio/tiene acumulación de residuos. Se observó que el suelo debajo de las freidoras estaba muy sucio con acumulación de grasa. Se observó que el suelo estaba sucio debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos.”

“Se observó el suelo sucio con rebozado procedente de la máquina de rebozado. Se observó el exterior de las freidoras muy sucio.” Advertencia

“Faltan baldosas en el suelo o están deterioradas. Se observaron baldosas deterioradas junto a la puerta de entrada y junto al fregadero de tres compartimentos.” Advertencia

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo. Se observó un recipiente de aceite de cocina almacenado en el suelo junto a la puerta de salida trasera. Se observó un recipiente de arroz almacenado en el suelo junto al pasillo de almacenamiento y un recipiente de azúcar almacenado en el suelo junto a la línea de cocción.” Advertencia

“Agujero u otro daño en la pared. Observado en el pasillo y el baño.” Infracción reiterada: advertencia.

“Paño/toalla húmeda en uso debajo de la tabla de cortar. Observado en la mesa de preparación sobre el fregadero de tres compartimentos.” Advertencia

“Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. Se observaron freidoras muy sucias. Se observó la máquina de la mesa de empanizado sucia hasta el fregadero de tres compartimentos.” Advertencia

“Las aberturas exteriores no están protegidas con puertas de cierre automático. Se observó la puerta de entrada principal abierta durante la inspección.” Advertencia

“El interior/estantes del refrigerador presentan acumulación de residuos de tierra. En toda la línea de cocción.” Infracción reiterada: advertencia.

“Agua estancada o drenaje muy lento en el lavamanos, fregadero de tres compartimentos o fregadero para fregonas. Se observó que el agua del lavamanos drenaba lentamente en el mostrador frontal.” Advertencia

“Componentes, accesorios o instalaciones del edificio sucios. Se observó que la cámara instalada cerca de los techos estaba muy polvorienta.” Advertencia

“Pared sucia con grasa acumulada, restos de comida y/o polvo. Se observó pared sucia y polvorienta junto al mostrador. Se observó pared sucia detrás de las freidoras.” Advertencia

“El paño húmedo no se guarda en solución desinfectante entre usos. Observado en la mesa de preparación y en la línea de cocción.” Advertencia

“Se encontraron recipientes de alimentos en funcionamiento, retirados de sus envases originales, sin identificar por su nombre común. Se observó un recipiente de azúcar sin etiquetar junto al área de almacenamiento en el baño.” Advertencia

INSPECCIÓN DE SEGUIMIENTO 17/9

Se observaron aproximadamente 10 excrementos de roedores debajo de la unidad de aire acondicionado. Se observaron aproximadamente 7 excrementos de roedores junto a la puerta de salida trasera del pasillo. Se observaron aproximadamente 3 excrementos de roedores debajo del área de almacenamiento junto al baño del pasillo.

**RESTAURANTE DE COMIDA PARA LLEVAR AU BON GOUT

5273 CARRETERA NORTH DIXIE

PLAYA DE POMPANO

ORDEN DE CIERRE 15/9

Se detectaron 15 infracciones.

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“Acumulación de aves, insectos, roedores u otras plagas muertas o atrapadas en dispositivos de control. 1. Se observó un roedor muerto detrás del horno en la zona de cocción de la cocina.”

Se detectó actividad de roedores, evidenciada por los excrementos encontrados. 1. Se observaron aproximadamente 100 excrementos de roedores en el horno de la zona de cocción de la cocina. 2. Se observaron aproximadamente 75 excrementos de roedores esparcidos por el suelo de la zona de cocción y del área de preparación de la cocina. 3. Se observaron aproximadamente 75 excrementos de roedores dentro de las ollas limpias, en bolsas de papel y cajas de cartón del mostrador, y en el suelo alrededor de los refrigeradores en el área de almacenamiento. 4. Se observaron 9 excrementos de roedores en el suelo dentro de la cámara frigorífica. 5. Se observó 1 excremento de roedor esparcido sobre el microondas en el estante de almacenamiento de la cocina.

“Baldosas del techo y rejillas de ventilación sucias con restos de comida acumulados, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho en la cocina.”

“El interior del horno y del microondas de la cocina presenta acumulación de una sustancia negra/grasa/restos de comida.”

“Sistema de fontanería en mal estado. Se observó que el grifo del lavamanos estaba suelto en la cocina.”

“El empleado manipuló equipo o utensilios sucios y luego participó en la preparación de alimentos, manipuló equipo o utensilios limpios o tocó artículos desechables sin envolver sin lavarse las manos. Se observó al empleado limpiando el interior del horno en la línea de cocción y luego pasando utensilios limpios para remover la comida en la línea de cocción sin lavarse las manos previamente.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos seguros, excepto asados ​​de carne enteros, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. 1. Se observó arroz (62 °F - mantenido caliente) sin control de temperatura sobre el mostrador de la cocina. Cocinado hace menos de una hora, según el operador.”

“El empleado se lavó las manos en un lavabo distinto al lavabo autorizado. Se observó al empleado lavándose las manos en un lavabo triple.”

“No hay jabón en el lavamanos de la cocina.”

**PITA FRESH

7758 N. KENDALL DR.

KENDALL

ORDEN DE CIERRE 16/9

Se detectaron 13 infracciones.

“Se emitió una orden de suspensión de venta en alimentos con control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria debido al abuso de temperatura. Se observó una cámara frigorífica con una temperatura ambiente de 49 °F, con los siguientes alimentos TCS almacenados en su interior: pollo crudo (55 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); tomate cortado (50 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); tzatziki (48 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); lechuga rallada (47 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); carne de gyros (50 °F - Mantenimiento en frío). Se observó un refrigerador de acceso frontal con una temperatura ambiente de 45 °F, con los siguientes alimentos TCS almacenados en su interior: tzatziki (52 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); tomate cortado (56 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); lechuga rallada (49 °F - Mantenimiento en frío). Se observó un refrigerador frente a una cocina de gyros con una temperatura ambiente de 68 °F, con los siguientes alimentos TCS almacenados en su interior: garbanzos (60 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); tomate cortado (49 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); hummus (55 °F - Mantenimiento en frío); queso feta (49 °F - Mantenimiento en frío). No se observó ningún equipo en el sitio para mantener adecuadamente las temperaturas de mantenimiento en frío de al menos 43 grados Fahrenheit.

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, una sustancia similar al moho o una sustancia viscosa. Se observó que el imán del cuchillo estaba sucio.” Infracción reiterada

“Techo/baldosas/rejillas de ventilación sucias con restos de comida acumulados, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho. Se observó acumulación de polvo en las rejillas de ventilación de la cocina.” Infracción reiterada

“El equipo de refrigeración no se mantiene en buen estado. No almacene alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad en esta unidad hasta que se repare. Se observó una cámara frigorífica con una temperatura ambiente de 49 °F, con los siguientes alimentos TCS almacenados en su interior: pollo crudo (55 °F - Refrigeración); tomate cortado (50 °F - Refrigeración); tzatziki (48 °F - Refrigeración); lechuga rallada (47 °F - Refrigeración); carne de gyros (50 °F - Refrigeración). Se observó un refrigerador de acceso frontal con una temperatura ambiente de 45 °F, con los siguientes alimentos TCS almacenados en su interior: tzatziki (52 °F - Refrigeración); tomate cortado (56 °F - Refrigeración); lechuga rallada (49 °F - Refrigeración). Se observó un refrigerador frente a una cocina de gyros con una temperatura ambiente de 68 °F, con los siguientes alimentos TCS almacenados en su interior: garbanzos (60 °F - Refrigeración); tomate cortado (49 °F - Refrigeración); hummus (55 °F - Refrigeración); queso feta (49 °F - Refrigeración). Tenencia)."

“Número/capacidad insuficiente de unidades de refrigeración para mantener el control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria a las temperaturas adecuadas. Se observó que todos los refrigeradores del establecimiento no mantenían una temperatura de al menos 43 °F. Se observó una cámara frigorífica con una temperatura de 48 °F, y ambos refrigeradores verticales con temperaturas ambiente de 45 °F y 68 °F.”

“El techo/las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado. Se observaron daños por agua en las baldosas de la cocina.” Infracción reiterada.

**PIZZAPIEZ

614 SE 10TH ST

PLAYA DEERFIELD

ORDEN DE CIERRE 15/9

Se detectaron 12 infracciones.

Se detectó actividad de roedores, evidenciada por los excrementos encontrados. 1. Se observó un excremento en un paquete de pasta en la cocina. 2. Se observó un excremento de roedor en una caja de envases individuales en el estante de almacenamiento de la cocina. 3. Se observaron aproximadamente 15 excrementos de roedores frente a la cámara frigorífica, debajo de los estantes de almacenamiento y en las mesas de preparación de la cocina.

“Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. 1. Filtros de campana extractora en la zona de cocción de la cocina. 2. Juntas de las puertas del refrigerador de tres puertas situado frente a la zona de cocción de la cocina.”

“Porciones de pizza surtidas, alimento que requiere control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad, identificado en el procedimiento escrito como un alimento mantenido en espera de forma controlada por motivos de salud pública, no tiene marcación horaria. El operador marcó la hora de 14:30 a 18:30.”

“No hay jabón en el lavamanos de la cocina.”

**CT CANTINA AND TAQUERIA

DANIA POINTE

176 N. DANIA POINTE DR.

Playa Dania

ORDEN DE CIERRE 16/9

Se detectaron 14 infracciones.

Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños vivos. Aproximadamente 1 insecto volador pequeño vivo en la línea de cocción, sobre una bolsa abierta de tortillas. Aproximadamente 50 insectos voladores pequeños vivos en bolsas de cebollas en el área de preparación. Aproximadamente 15 insectos voladores pequeños vivos en el área de lavado de platos, posándose en estantes y platos. Aproximadamente 4 insectos voladores pequeños vivos en el comedor de clientes, posándose en las mesas. Se habló con el operador para eliminar todos los insectos voladores y limpiar y desinfectar las áreas.

“Los alimentos se enfriaban mediante un método no aprobado, como lo demuestra la velocidad de enfriamiento inadecuada durante la inspección. En la línea de cocción, la lechuga cortada (56 °F - Enfriamiento Ambiente) se enfrió a la 1:20 desde las 12:30 hasta los 55 °F a las 2:00. A esta velocidad de enfriamiento, el producto no alcanzará los 41 °F en 4 horas, según se comentó con el operario que colocó una bolsa de hielo sobre el producto. En la cámara frigorífica, la carne de cerdo molida cruda en una bandeja metálica grande con tapa (55 °F - Enfriamiento) se enfrió a la 1:20 desde las 12:00 hasta los 53 °F a la 1:40. A esta velocidad, el producto no alcanzará los 41 °F en 4 horas, según se comentó con el operario que separó los productos en bandejas individuales para permitir un flujo de aire adecuado para el enfriamiento.”

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta para alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad debido a un manejo inadecuado de la temperatura. Los alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad se mantuvieron refrigerados a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. En el refrigerador de la línea de dispensación de refrescos, la salsa de tomate casera (52 °F - Mantenimiento en frío) según el operador, producto que no fue porcionado ni preparado hoy y se mantuvo en la unidad por más de 6 horas, ver orden de cese de venta.

“El desinfectante de cloro del lavavajillas no tiene la concentración mínima adecuada. Suspenda el uso del lavavajillas para desinfectar y configure la desinfección manual hasta que el lavavajillas sea reparado y desinfecte correctamente. El operario del lavavajillas (cloro 0 ppm) puso en marcha la máquina varias veces y en la segunda prueba el lavavajillas (cloro 100 ppm)”

“El suelo presenta agua estancada. Varias zonas de la cocina y la cámara frigorífica tienen agua estancada en el suelo; se habló con el operario para que procediera a su limpieza y desinfección.”

“El empleado no se lavó las manos antes de ponerse los guantes para comenzar una tarea que implicaba manipular alimentos. El empleado manipuló un cubo de basura y, sin lavarse las manos, se puso los guantes y manipuló una tortilla. El operador habló con el empleado, quien le explicó la situación, desechó la tortilla y se lavó las manos.”

“El lavamanos no está disponible para el uso de los empleados en todo momento. En el área de lavado de platos, el lavamanos está lleno de platos sucios; se habló con el encargado, quien retiró los platos.”

“No se proporciona jabón en el lavamanos. No se proporciona jabón en el lavamanos al final de la línea de cocción; se habló con el operador que proporcionó el jabón.”

**VALE FOOD COMPANY

420 N. CARRETERA FEDERAL

FORT LAUDERDALE

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA DENUNCIA

ORDEN DE CIERRE 15/9

7 VIOLACIONES DETECTADAS

Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños vivos. Aproximadamente 25 insectos voladores pequeños vivos se posaron en la pared y los televisores encima de la línea de servicio y la estación de exposición. Dos insectos voladores pequeños vivos se posaron en los recipientes de aluminio para llevar en el estante superior de la ventana de la línea de cocina. Aproximadamente cinco insectos voladores pequeños vivos se posaron en las paredes del fregadero de fregar. Aproximadamente 20 insectos voladores pequeños se posaron en las cajas de artículos individuales en la esquina junto al área de lavado de platos y el almacén de productos secos.

“Utensilio en uso en alimentos que no requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad, almacenados con el mango por encima del contenido del recipiente cerrado. En el recipiente de granola, el mango estaba enterrado.”

“El lavamanos se ha retirado del área de preparación de alimentos y lavado de vajilla. Debe reinstalarse en el mismo lugar donde se retiró, junto al mostrador principal.”

**RIVERSIDE MARKET PLANTATION

6900 CYPRESS ROAD

PLANTACIÓN

ORDEN DE CIERRE 9/9

7 VIOLACIONES DETECTADAS

“Se encontraron pequeños insectos voladores vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 50 pequeños insectos voladores en el bar, posándose en los grifos de cerveza, las encimeras y los vasos limpios.”

“El lavamanos se utiliza para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó que el lavamanos se utilizaba para guardar vasos.”

With six games left in a somewhat strange season, the 78-78 Rangers have a one-game lead over Houston. They have stayed near the top of the division all year, never trailing by more than three games or ahead by more than two.

“A weird one for sure," first baseman Jake Burger said. “The positive side is we've been in the race the entire time. ... We've kind of held our head above water, even if it’s just barely at times. We’ve given ourselves a chance to do something special, and that’s all you can ask for out of a team.”

The Rangers haven't been to the playoffs since winning their only World Series title in 2023, when they were a wild card after Houston matched them at 90-72 on the final day of the regular season. The Astros had the division tiebreaker then, and do again this year when there might not be an available wild-card spot for a second AL West team.

“We’re in position to make the playoffs. It doesn’t matter what the record is, that’s the goal,” first-year Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said. “So if you would have told me that this date in spring training that you had a chance to get into the playoffs, I would have signed up for it.”

It's a good thing Texas is in the American League

With their .500 record, the Rangers would already be eliminated from playoff contention in the National League.

They went into their off day Monday eight games behind Philadelphia, the NL's third wild card, and far behind division winners Milwaukee (20 games), the Los Angeles Dodgers (18) and Atlanta (14).

The Rangers have been close to top of AL West all season

No big league team has stayed within such a tight margin of their division lead like the five-game gap for Texas. The league average between biggest leads and biggest deficits is nearly 16 1/2, with Houston (nine) and Minnesota (9 1/2) the only other teams under 10.

“The good part is we haven't gotten too far away,” right fielder Brandon Nimmo said. “I feel like we're playing good baseball, and if you can get your foot in the door, then that's a dangerous thing.”

Nimmo was on the Mets in 2024 when they overcame a 22-33 start and being 17 1/2 games out of the division lead. They made the playoffs with a late comeback win in the opener of a makeup doubleheader at Atlanta a day after every other team had finished the regular season.

New York then won the NL Wild Card and NL Division Series before losing the NL Championship Series in six games to the now two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers.

“Most of the time it’s just better to be the hot team,” Nimmo said.

Texas has also stayed close to even

The Rangers have never been too far from .500 this year after going 81-81 last season, the only break-even record for the franchise that began as the Washington Senators in 1961 and moved to Texas in 1972.

The low mark was six games under at 25-31 on May 28, when all five AL West teams had losing records. Texas was last three games over .500 at 55-52 on July 28.

Even with a loss Sunday in their series finale against Toronto, the Rangers have won nine of 13 games. They had been first alone in the AL West only one day since the end of July before passing Houston on Saturday.

Texas, which won its last division title 10 years ago, missed a chance for a two-game lead when the Astros were swept by Atlanta on Sunday in their final home series.

The Rangers open a a three-game home series against the Mets on Tuesday, then play three games at Minnesota. Houston has two games in Seattle, then four against the Athletics.

“It doesn't matter what the macro view of it has looked like. We’re in the micro moments of making or breaking a season,” Burger said. “As far as we’re concerned, we’re playing playoff baseball, backs-against-the-wall type mentality. It doesn’t matter what the record was the first 140 games.”

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AP Sports Writer Schuyler Dixon contributed to this report.

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We will have a chance for storms all week, although later this week we should see fewer of them with some drier air trying to sneak in. This could lower humidity slightly for next weekend, but it won’t be much.

Polo could bring heavy rain, rough surf and tropical-storm-force winds to parts of Mexico late Tuesday into early Wednesday, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.

On Monday, Polo was moving east. But forecasters said it would make a “sharp turn” in a west-northwest or northwest direction by late Tuesday, according to an advisory. The hurricane was expected to travel along the coast of western Mexico but stay offshore.

Polo was centered about 270 miles (435 kilometers) south-southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico, and 190 miles (306 kilometers) south-southwest of Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Maximum sustained winds were 80 mph (129 kph).

The forecast called for 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of rain, with isolated totals near 12 inches (30 centimeters), across coastal portions of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Michoacán through Thursday. Flooding and mudslides were possible.

Farther west in the Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Odalys was far from land but expected to become a hurricane by midweek.

Odalys had maximum sustained winds Monday of 45 mph (72 kph). It was located just over 1,400 miles (2,253 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. It was moving northwest at 12 mph (19 kph).

In the Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Storm Fay was weakening. Top winds were down to 50 mph (80 kph) and Fay was 430 miles (692 kilometers) southwest of the Azores.

No Atlantic hurricanes have formed yet this year, and this year has set a record for the longest a season has begun without a hurricane. The effects of this year's El Nino crush storms before they get going.

Every year as top government officials attend the United Nations General Assembly and business executives flock to New York City Climate Week sessions, global warming generates lots of talk but little action.

This time two new forces — the rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence and data centers and higher fossil fuel prices from wars in Iran and Ukraine — should change the discussion, experts and activists said. That's on top of the usual climate-driven disasters that reached new levels of destruction, with more than 1,300 killed in sudden flooding caused by a collapsing glacier on the Nepal-China border.

“We’ve gone from seeing the fingerprints of climate change in individual events to seeing the handprint of climate change on the whole world,” said scientist Bill Hare, CEO of the organization Climate Analytics.

The effects of rising prices

Climate change is “driving up food prices and wider inflation,” U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell said on Monday. “Billions of people around the world are realizing that fossil fuel dependence is hitting them hard at the fuel pump.”

Protests about high prices have sparked worldwide. In the U.S., consumer confidence is plunging while gas prices have reached record highs. Stiell said energy shortages due to the Iran war have cost American consumers more than $100 billion in higher fuel prices.

Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, said there are two climate stories happening at the same time: “One is extremely hopeful. Renewable energy is booming, technology is improving and the economics of clean energy increasingly make sense without anyone having to make a moral argument for it.”

“The other is terrifying. Climate impacts are accelerating faster than our political and financial systems are responding,” Adow said. “New York needs to bring those two stories together.”

During a Climate Week event, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said “the global community cannot afford to be frozen in time while the world warms around us.”

A spotlight on AI and data centers

The environmental footprint of artificial intelligence and data centers is a big topic this week.

That's because of the fear that the data center boom will mean a surge in fossil fuels, even though data centers can be powered by renewable energy.

U.N. officials are blunt in describing the matter.

“ Energy-guzzling artificial intelligence is driving up planet-heating pollution from coal, oil and gas, while ratcheting up energy costs for households and businesses,” Stiell said. “AI leaders are now on thin ice when it comes to license to operate, and sinking deep underwater when it comes to public support.”

But at a business-oriented Climate Week kickoff event, Siemens Head of Sustainability Eva Riesenhuber and MIT Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang said AI is too important to humanity, and it will help tackle climate change. They predicted that eventually data centers will not add to the world's carbon dioxide emissions or use extra water. Wang told The Associated Press that data centers are five years away from being water neutral and about a decade away from no longer adding to the warming problem.

Data centers adding to climate and water problems “is not forever,” Wang said. “We're not that far away.”

Acknowledging the strain on resources, Riesenhuber said, “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible because we are hooked on the intelligence, and we do need the intelligence to design the future that this planet needs.”

The AI issue touches on fairness, as well as the growing gap between rich and poor, said Jennifer Morgan, an analyst at Tufts University. The issue represents more construction in people's backyards, which reaches people who are less worried about climate change, she said.

AI is becoming more vilified in climate talks than the fossil fuel industry, which “has always been good at deflection,” Morgan said.

There will be several AI protests throughout the week.

The Turkish government, which is running UN climate negotiations scheduled for November, announced the Antalya Pledge on Artificial Intelligence, a political promise on managing the powering and deployment of AI for nations to join. No further details were offered on this pledge.

World leaders to discuss renewable rollout

The world can still meet its 2023 goal of tripling renewable power capacity by the end of the decade, but it must move much faster, according to a new report released Monday.

The International Renewable Energy Agency, the Global Renewables Alliance and Turkey — as the host of this year’s U.N. climate talks — found that despite record growth in renewables last year, the world must build more renewable power capacity from 2026 to 2030 than in all previous years combined.

The amount of renewable power added globally peaked at 693 gigawatts in 2025, about half the installed power in the U.S., IRENA found. At the same time, there was a sharp rebound of fossil fuels when compared to 2024 driven by China adding coal power.

“The journey so far on renewables is remarkable,” said Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. “It’s particularly impressive given that it’s succeeding despite unfair competition. Because it’s competing with heavily-subsidized fossil fuel-based energy and electricity systems.”

Unfortunately, Rockström said, renewables are meeting a growing demand for electricity but not “bending the curve” to reduce oil, coal or gas use — which is necessary to cut carbon pollution and meet climate targets.

Paradoxically, military action waged by U.S. President Donald Trump in Venezuela and Iran and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Ukraine — both big fossil fuel advocates — have caused oil and gas shortages that have driven up prices, spurring countries to switch to renewables faster, he explained.

United Kingdom Secretary of State Edward Miliband said Monday that transitioning to clean energy isn't just about jobs or energy security — it's also about national security.

“My argument to you today is we need to take the next step and recognize the national security imperative too,” he said.

The climate breakdown “must be an issue for foreign ministers and prime ministers, as well as energy and climate ministers. The security community, not just the activist community. The generals, not just the green campaigners,” he said.

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“They just are sneaky,” said Tanner, who lives in Salt Lake City. “I purchased a handful of these and then somehow I've collected ones I've never purchased, and I don't really know where they've come from.”

Reusable totes are intended as durable alternatives to single-use plastic bags. But it's easy to accumulate too many, from freebies at events to giveaways at the grocery store.

The environmental impact of a reusable bag is relatively small, so ending up with a sizable stash isn't a significant problem. Still, paring down can declutter cupboards and lead to a smaller collection that'll actually get used. As for the excess, donate to food banks and thrift stores.

“You don’t want an entire closet of reusable bags,” said sustainability scientist Shelie Miller with the University of Michigan. “You want well-loved reusable items, and that’s really what gives the environmental benefit.”

Reusable bags are helpful but can accumulate

Single-use plastic grocery bags aren't meant to last. They become urban tumbleweeds or break down in the environment, releasing harmful microplastics. Single-use plastic shopping bags are banned across 12 U.S. states, and several more cities and towns have instituted their own initiatives, including bag taxes.

As a result, many people stock up on reusable bags made from canvas, cloth or thicker plastic. A few solid, durable bags used for errands or groceries can stand the test of time. Environmental economist Kimberly Oremus uses hers for up to a decade. But whether we intend to or not, additional bags of various shapes and sizes worm their way into our homes.

Just like any product, reusable bags require energy and resources to make — like the water that’s used to grow cotton. Researchers have found that the number of times a bag needs to be reused to offset the environmental cost of its production varies widely based on what the bag is made of.

There isn't a magic number of uses to strive for, but durable bags that look and feel thicker tend to accrue more environmental debt than flimsy plastic totes and need to be reused more times to pay it off.

Reusables “are generally good for the environment, with the caveat that they have to be reused,” said Miller.

Save your best reusables and donate the rest

The simplest way to cut down on a reusable bag supply is to avoid getting new ones. But life gets in the way, and people get stuck at the store empty-handed. When Oremus forgets to bring a reusable bag to the store, she asks the employees if they have any empty cardboard boxes for her to use.

“If you forget it, it's not the end of the world,” Oremus said. She tries to use her reusable bags until they can't be used anymore, then donates the scraps to textile recycling centers.

If you've already accumulated a crowded kitchen cupboard, save the best and give away the rest.

Home organizer Tanner tells clients to pick out their favorites and assign a job to each. Reserve one bag for library books, a handful for groceries and another for packed lunches. After using one, put it back where it came from — be it the trunk of a car or inside a purse — so it's ready for the next use.

As for the extras, give some to a friend or offload a larger amount by donating. Reusable bags generally can't be recycled through curbside programs.

Tanner brings her extras to thrift stores. Other stores or food banks may also accept donations.

Las Vegas Books accepts reusable bag donations to hand out when customers at the used book store in Nevada need one. Burbank Animal Shelter in California uses larger totes for food, toys and other pet care supplies.

The Community FoodBank of New Jersey has collected reusable bags since 2022 for neighbors who visit their food pantries. They welcome bag donations as long as the items are reasonably clean and not ripped.

“They're always something that our pantries need, and that we have available on hand whenever we can,” said the organization's president, Elizabeth McCarthy.

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According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, someone called 911 around 7 p.m. to report a possible stabbing near the 200 block of Northwest 14th Street.

Deputies responded and made contact with a man suffering from a stab wound. Pompano Beach Fire Rescue also responded and transported the victim to an area hospital. His injuries were listed as non-life-threatening.

According to investigators, the victim was involved in an altercation with a woman when the stabbing occurred.

On Sunday, deputies arrested Felisha Fisher, 37, on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon domestic violence and pretrial release condition violation for domestic violence.

BSO’s Special Victims and Crime Scene units are investigating.

Meanwhile, Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani when Trump travels to the city for the upcoming U.N. General Assembly. The meeting is scheduled for Monday and at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence. The two will discuss issues affecting the city and New Yorkers. The White House confirmed the meeting will take place but did not offer more details.

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Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson draws jabs from opponent for post that linked high costs to Iran war

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, who is in a competitive race for Iowa’s open Senate seat, linked high costs to the Iran war in a post Monday. Iowans “shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran,” she said in the post on X, Hinson called for actions to lower costs “ASAP” and a “successful and immediate end” to the war.

The post promptly received pushback from Hinson’s opponent in the race for retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s seat. Democrat Josh Turek said on X that “it’s easy to send a tweet” and criticized Hinson for her votes against a war powers resolution to halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without lawmakers’ approval.

Two of Hinson’s colleagues in the Iowa delegation, Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted for the resolution last week after previously voting against it. In statements, both pointed to high costs and said they could no longer support an open-ended war. Hinson did not join them.

Vance says CNN, MS NOW and Politico lost their “special access” to the White House but are not banned

Speaking with reporters accompanying him on a campaign trip to North Carolina, Vance said the three news outlets can still report on the White House and talk to people in the administration or outside of government.

He argued that Trump’s decision was about “basic fairness” and is not a violation of the constitutional right to free speech and freedom of the press.

Trump attributed the ban to reporting he described as “fake news.” Vance said the reporting is “effectively far left propaganda.”

“It’s about basic fairness,” Vance said. “They can still report. They still have the access to free speech. They’re just not going to get an office in the White House anymore.”

The White House has deactivated access badges for journalists for the three organizations, meaning they cannot get onto the grounds to file reports. Reporters for MS NOW and CNN have been filming their live shots from street corners near the White House.

Rubio kicks off shortened UNGA week with a flurry of meetings

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has begun a truncated visit to New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly session, with a flurry of meetings before President Donald Trump arrives.

Rubio began Monday by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and then headed immediately into talks with Bolivia’s president and then a three-way meeting with the Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers. Later he is to see the Italian foreign minister, meet with his counterparts from Arctic nations and then hold talks with Kenya’s president and Iraq’s prime minister.

Rubio will depart New York on Wednesday, much earlier than either he or his predecessors have done in the past, in order to return to Washington for Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Illinois governor says he's lost 80 pounds with GLP-1 medication

Gov. JB Pritzker disclosed his regimen in a series of interviews this weekend. The Democrat has long struggled with his weight and turned to the new medications after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Pritzker’s girth has led him to be regularly mocked by President Trump. He now says he’s lost 80 pounds (36 kilograms) on the medication.

A possible 2028 presidential candidate, Pritzker said his health has always been on his mind since his father died of a heart attack at age 39. He’s stepped up his exercise routine after the diabetes diagnosis as well.

Trump has been more aggressive toward the media in his second term

The president and his Republican administration have upped the ante and punished certain media outlets. Trump has also lashed out at individual reporters in person or over social media, sometimes in strikingly personal terms — insulting them in briefings or in his recent speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Melania Trump and China’s first lady to visit the Smithsonian

Melania Trump’s office says she and Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, will visit the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art on Thursday.

The visit will take place while President Trump and Xi meet at the White House.

The museum holds one of North America’s largest and most comprehensive collections of Asian art, according to its website.

Xi will be in Washington later this week on a state visit to the United States.

A grand arrival ceremony for him at the White House on Thursday will end with a military flyover featuring a B-2 Spirit and four F-22 Raptors, according to a detailed rundown from the first lady’s office of White House plans for Xi’s visit.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico sue over denied White House access, citing the First Amendment

CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Monday sued President Donald Trump’s administration after they were barred from covering the White House, saying the selective ban was “a blatant violation” of the First Amendment.

The administration’s announcement of the bans Friday and the White House’s subsequent actions over the weekend represented a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage he finds objectionable. They were also the latest test of First Amendment protections in the United States, where the government is constitutionally forbidden from restricting the press.

The Constitution, the banned news outlets said in their lawsuit, “does not allow a president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on his dislike of the content of their reporting.”

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In a social media post, Trump says he’s attacking ‘FAKE NEWS’

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the news outlets’ lawsuit, which was expected to be filed later in the morning. But on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote Monday morning that he cherished what he called a free press.

“The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish,” the president said in his post. “It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America. It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!”

On Monday morning, the banned news outlets were reporting from outside the White House

They were at an intersection just outside the White House complex.

Also Monday, CNN was removed from its pool duties, which are shared by the major networks. It had been scheduled to cover the president’s trip to New York. In an email, the TV pool, which consists of the five major networks, wrote that there would be no replacement coverage following the White House actions.

Trump shattered Canada’s old US relationship. Carney is building a new one in Europe

For nearly four decades, Canada built its economy around closer integration with the United States. President Trump has turned that dependence into leverage, imposing tariffs, threatening Canada’s sovereignty and openly seeking to pull Canadian industrial production south.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved on. Rather than return to trade talks or wait for the next U.S. president to restore the old relationship, he’s urgently building a future in which Canada is less dependent on America.

Last week, Carney embraced the prospect of Canada becoming the European Union’s first associate member, not as a step toward full membership, but as a way to reduce Canada’s dependence on any single country without ceding control over its own decisions.

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White House Correspondents’ Association president calls for news outlets’ access to be restored

“The implications extend beyond these organizations: a standard used to exclude one news outlet because of its coverage could be applied to any outlet in the future,” Jacqui Heinrich said. “The American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favorably.”

US futures climb as oil prices drop and investors await expected Trump-Xi meeting

The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week in Washington could cover trade, artificial intelligence and geopolitics.

Futures for the S&P 500 gained 0.7% on Monday, while those for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8%. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1%.

Oil prices fell more than 3% Monday as vessel traffic and energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz picked up, although the Strait has remained largely closed and uncertainty persisted over U.S.-Iran tensions. Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed that Yemen’s Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that’s opened a new front in the Iran war.

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Trump decries Democrats as ‘communists,’ even as he looks to impress China’s communist leader

Communism, President Donald Trump says, is the greatest threat the U.S. has ever faced.

This summer, citing similarly grave concerns, he took the rare step of delivering a primetime address to the nation, accusing China of “sinister election meddling” in 2020 and reviving his yearslong push to dispute his loss in that year’s election.

Even as Trump seeks to decry Democrats as communists ahead of November’s midterm elections, he's rolling out the red carpet this week for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country.

The state visit comes as the president himself has increasingly directed his administration to take large stakes in private companies to try to stimulate the economy — something even some Republicans decry as corporate socialism.

The contradictions between Trump’s words and actions risk muddying Republican attack lines on Democrats.

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Trump and Mamdani plan to meet in New York during the president’s upcoming UN visit

Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani when Trump travels to the city for the upcoming U.N. General Assembly.

The meeting is scheduled for Monday and at Gracie Mansion, the official mayoral residence, according to Anna Bahr, Mamdani’s communications director.

Bahr said the two will discuss issues affecting the city and New Yorkers. The White House confirmed the meeting will take place but did not offer more details.

Mamdani, a democratic socialist who upset former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary before winning the general election in November, has been a favorite and frequent political foil for Republicans.

But Trump has often been warm to Mamdani and seemed charmed by the young mayor. Their first meeting after Mamdani’s election was quite cordial, with Trump saying at the White House that the then-mayor-elect would “surprise some conservative people.” The Republican president had called Mamdani a “100% Communist Lunatic” during the 2025 campaign.

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CNN, MS NOW, Politico say they’ve notified Trump they’re suing over denied White House access

CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday they’ve notified President Donald Trump’s administration that they’re filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access.

Reporters from the three major news organizations were blocked from the White House on Saturday, a day after Trump said he was barring them because of reporting he found to be “fake news.”

The actions were a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionable and were the latest test of First Amendment protections in the United States. Trump had said Friday he would ban all three outlets because of coverage he disliked.

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It’s an especially notable destination for the former vice president. Michigan was one of seven battlegrounds she lost to Donald Trump two years ago, and it's now one of six states that will start Democrats' next presidential nominating process. Harris has additional rallies scheduled in Nevada and Georgia, two other key places on the political map.

Her campaigning could serve to solidify or undermine her status as a potential Democratic front-runner. Although she's one of the nation's best-known politicians and a barrier-breaking figure, there are others eager to turn the page after she failed to defeat Trump when she replaced President Joe Biden on the top of the ticket.

“I think she’s run her course,” said Barry Goodman, a Democratic National Committee member from Michigan who raised money for Biden and then Harris. “I just don’t think her running again would be the right thing for America moving forward.”

Some Democratic candidates, especially in places Trump won handily, have curtly dismissed any possibility of campaigning with Harris. “No thanks,” Iowa gubernatorial nominee Rob Sand told Politico. “Let’s move on. We need some new leadership.”

But plenty of Democrats, including some influential Black women who helped convince Biden to select Harris as his running mate in 2020, said she has more than earned the space to consider her options without being rushed or pilloried. Underscoring her unique position, California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently told CNN that he would not seek the nomination if Harris does.

“Kamala isn’t under any deadline to run for anything,” said Donna Brazile, a former Democratic National Committee chair who managed Al Gore’s presidential campaign in 2000. She called it a “waste of time” to relitigate Harris’s truncated 2024 campaign and said any White House hopefuls “should follow Kamala’s lead and get out there" by trying to help midterm candidates.

Harris has not announced any upcoming trips to South Carolina, where Democrats will hold their first primary. Antjuan Seawright, a political consultant in the state, said she could make a strong case for herself but another campaign would need to look and sound different.

“She’s going to have to admit that she was wrong about some things,” he said.

Michigan presents risk and opportunity

Harris has painful political history in Michigan. During the 2024 campaign, the state's prominent Arab American communities were outraged over Biden's support for Israel's military operations in Gaza, and they were disappointed when Harris did not break with him after she became the party's nominee.

El-Sayed, on the other hand, is an outspoken critic of Israel who has described the war as a genocide against Palestinians, an accusation rejected by Israel. He's been viewed warily by some Jewish voters, which he's tried to address by apologizing for some past controversial comments.

El-Sayed told MSNOW that "there were some hurt feelings” in Michigan over the 2024 election, with some Black voters feeling like Arab Americans didn't do enough to help Harris.

With the former vice president coming to visit, he said it's a chance "to bring communities together that have often been torn apart by recent events.”

Their joint appearance will be closely scrutinized for other reasons too. Harris has a strained relationship with the party's progressive wing, which includes El-Sayed, and El-Sayed is eager to solidify establishment support during his campaign against Republican nominee Mike Rogers, a former congressman.

“We can build together on the areas of agreement, and we can come to understand each other far better on the areas where we might have seen eye to eye, and I think her coming into town will help us to do that,” El-Sayed said.

Harris' political travel has been light compared to potential presidential candidates like Pete Buttigieg, who ran in 2020 before serving as Biden’s transportation secretary. He recently visited South Carolina and he's been stumping for other Democrats in the midterms.

Harris went to South Carolina in the spring, but for smaller, local party events. She recently spoke on an organizing call aimed at registering and turning out 1 million more Black voters.

“There’s value in doing a lot of stuff behind the scenes instead of being front and center, especially for her," said Bre Maxwell, a Democratic National Committee member from South Carolina. She said there's little benefit for Harris to insert herself into news cycles knowing “she’s still a target of Donald Trump right now.”

Jaime Harrison, a South Carolinian who served as national party chair when Biden and Harris were in the White House, said the former vice president’s stature affords her the advantage of time that other potential candidates will not have.

“Many of these folks who do get in quickly would love to have that type of name ID, would love to have that type of network, to have that type of email list,” Harrison said.

Harris herself has said multiple times, including in an Associated Press interview last year, that she feels no rush to decide her next move. “Right now – midterms, midterms, midterms,” she told Megan Rapinoe on a recent podcast. Harris spokesman Eduardo Negrón declined comment when asked about her timeline.

Harris' other campaign events this fall include stops for Nevada’s Democratic candidate for governor, Aaron Ford, and Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, who has generated 2028 chatter of his own as he seeks reelection.

“She is certainly being strategic,” said Seawright, the South Carolina political consultant.

He noted that Harris’ tour for her campaign memoir, “107 Days,” hit virtually every major Southern city in states where Black voters hold strong sway in presidential primaries that come early in the nominating process.

Meanwhile, Goodman said he’s heard no evidence that Harris is working the party’s top donor network. Harrison said he hasn’t heard from her since last December.

Past campaigns offer Harris lessons

Harris first ran for president in the 2020 cycle, when she was a U.S. senator from California. But she dropped out late in 2019, before any primary votes were cast.

Some progressives saw the former prosecutor as part of a criminal justice establishment that disproportionately imprisons Black men. Some moderates saw her as another San Francisco liberal.

Biden chose Harris as his running mate, and she became the first woman and Black person to serve as vice president.

When Biden dropped his reelection bid after a disastrous debate performance, Harris generated visible enthusiasm, drawing crowds that rivaled or exceeded Trump’s. She delivered a convention address and debate performance that most analysts lauded.

But she could not distance herself from Biden on inflation or immigration. Harris infamously told friendly interviewers on “The View” that she couldn’t think of anything she’d have done differently than Biden. Trump hammered her with advertisements exploiting her support for transgender rights, saying “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you."

If she runs again, Seawright said, Harris would need to emphasize moderate positions and "be willing to say, you know, ‘I’ve rethought some things.’” Voters, he said, “reward that kind of authenticity and humility.”

Harrison argued it would be easier for Harris to articulate her own agenda than when “she was a sitting vice president, somebody else’s No. 2.” But, he warned, she would also have to shed the pomp and circumstance of the vice presidency, not just its political burdens.

“You can’t act like a sitting vice president, standing up on that stage,” he said. “I’d tell her she has to run hard, just as hard as everybody else, working every rope line, taking every selfie.”

Unlike Biden's handoff to her in 2024, Harrison said, “This is going to be the wild, wild west.”

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Officials in the court's host country, the Netherlands, have been notified that the sanctions are imminent and are looking at ways to help the tribunal keep operating, including paying staff, protecting witnesses and maintaining the detention facility, diplomatic and government officials with knowledge of the briefings told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Washington has already sanctioned more than a dozen current and former staff members, including half of the court’s sitting judges, in what U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has described as a “sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court.”

The U.S. and Israel have strongly objected to the court's arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the war in Gaza. The U.S. also has opposed investigations into its military actions in Afghanistan.

Like Russia, China, India and Israel, the United States is among countries that have never joined the panel, with Washington citing fears of politically motivated prosecutions of its military. The court currently has 125 member states.

The sanctions could prevent the court from accessing financial and IT services, and even paying its U.S. employees. When the court’s former chief prosecutor was sanctioned in 2025, he lost access to his Microsoft email, his bank accounts were frozen and he was barred from entering the United States.

According to two sources familiar with the situation, U.S. officials warned their Dutch counterparts that sanctions would be levied as early as Monday and encouraged the court’s host state to withdraw from the institution.

Two U.S. officials told the AP that more ICC sanctions may be coming, but stressed that the scale and scope of the penalties had not yet been finalized and that no announcement is expected this week. The officials were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The ICC was established in The Hague in 2002 as the court of last resort to prosecute individuals responsible for the world’s most heinous atrocities: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression. It takes on cases when nations are unable or unwilling to prosecute crimes on their territory.

U.S. officials did not immediately reply to a request for comment. “The Trump Administration has been clear: the International Criminal Court is a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement when announcing sanctions on the court president last month. “We will not tolerate its assault on state sovereignty.”

The ICC has been preparing for months for the possibility of sanctions. Earlier this year, the court migrated off Microsoft products onto a German software provider, according to three ICC staff members who were not authorized to speak on the record. The tribunal has also changed insurance and other financial providers to companies without a footprint in the United States, they said.

Dutch and court officials are hoping for a six-month grace period before the sanctions come into effect, arguing that the institution needs time to sever itself from American companies, which could face huge financial penalties if they are found to be in violation.

Beyond migrating to European-based alternatives, the Netherlands and the European Union have few options to protect the institution.

The EU “blocking statute” can be used to protect European court staff by preventing European companies from complying with the U.S. measures, though it’s unclear whether the statute would shield the ICC itself, because it’s an international body, not a European one. EU citizens are entitled to a basic bank account, but that doesn’t provide access to credit cards or U.S. payment facilities.

A small but growing number of the global tribunal’s member states have announced plans to leave the institution in recent months, including Venezuela and Chad.

Chad specifically cited the United States in its decision to withdraw. Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Sabre Fadoul said in a statement that during a phone call with a U.S. official in July, “the American side expressed its concerns regarding the functioning of this institution and requested that Chad reconsider” its membership.

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The acquisition of The Turf was described by Wrexham’s ownership — fronted by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac — as a “continuation of the strategy to protect the future of the club and its interests by ring fencing key areas related to the life of the club.”

It was inside The Turf where Wrexham AFC was founded in 1864, when the pub was called the Turf Hotel. It has a central role in the TV docuseries that is into its fifth season and has helped to make Wrexham a popular club around the world.

The deal for The Turf “allows for the preservation of the history and traditions of the historic public house that is inexorably linked to the Racecourse Ground and Wrexham AFC Football Club,” the club said in a statement, and incorporates it with the club and the stadium under a single ownership.

Reynolds and Mac have regularly been filmed in The Turf alongside other celebrity actors like Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, while Prince William once went behind the bar to pour a pint.

The pub’s landlord, Wayne Jones, has become a celebrity in his own right owing to his frequent appearances in TV series and Wrexham said he will continue to run The Turf on a day-to-day basis.

“I look forward to continue running The Turf,” Jones said, “and bringing its unique mix of history, atmosphere and sometimes Hollywood stardust to the next generation of Wrexham fans and locals alike.”

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Thanks to President Donald Trump, “there’s more money in our pockets,” the registered Republican said. The Iran war might have spiked gas prices, but Gonzalez is still confident that the U.S. economy is getting stronger.

The Jackpot Bar & Grill, located about 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) from the Las Vegas Strip, is in the heart of Nevada's 3rd Congressional District, where Democratic Rep. Susie Lee is trying to fend off a challenge from Republican candidate Marty O’Donnell. The state has the highest concentration of tipped workers in the country because its economy is driven by the hospitality and tourism industries, making Trump's “no tax on tips” policy a critical part of his party's midterm pitch here.

The question for Nevada voters is whether they're seeing more benefit from lower taxes or more pain from the country's economic troubles, such as energy costs and declining tourism.

Lee’s district is a top target for the Republican Party in its fight to maintain control of the House. With a mix of working-class and high-income neighborhoods, it’s the most competitive of Nevada's four congressional seats. In 2024, both Lee and Trump won the district.

Lee has held the seat since 2019, campaigning as a moderate and highlighting her bipartisan record. O’Donnell, a composer known for his work on the “Halo” video game series, became his party's nominee this year with help from Trump and a $3 million personal loan.

The race has caught the attention of Trump-aligned super PACs. Safety and Affordability, an offshoot of MAGA Inc., committed this month to spending almost $3.2 million on advertising to help O’Donnell, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. The total effectively matches the $3.1 million O’Donnell’s campaign has already spent on advertising reservations through November.

The heavy commitment puts pro-O’Donnell forces ahead by more than $1 million in the ad spending race in the district, where Lee’s campaign has spent $2.9 million and the Democratic House leadership super PAC House Majority Fund has put in $2.3 million.

Nevada is the birthplace of ‘no tax on tips’

Trump first announced his policy proposal at a June 2024 campaign event in Nevada, and he has repeatedly said that he was inspired by a Las Vegas server who suggested the idea.

“So we’re eating, and this beautiful young lady walks over, and I said, ‘How are you doing, everything good?’” Trump said in August. “'Sir, they’re taxing me to death.' I said, ‘Really? What are they taxing?’ ‘They’re taxing my tips. Sir, they should have no tax on tips.’”

The proposal was included in a sweeping package of tax breaks, social-services cuts and immigration enforcement that Trump signed into law last year.

O'Donnell has centered his attack against Lee for her vote against that bill.

“When she had an opportunity to vote for things that would actually help the people of the district, she said no,” O’Donnell told The Associated Press.

Lee attributed her vote to what she says were harmful and unpopular policies in the package. She also noted that the “no tax on tips” part of the legislation expires at the end of 2028.

"More importantly, they came at the cost of cutting Medicaid and SNAP and healthcare,” Lee told the AP at a recent canvassing launch in Las Vegas.

She and other Nevada Democrats support a separate proposal that would make permanent “no tax on tips” while also fixing what they say are issues with the current policy.

Slump in tourism lessens ‘no tax on tips’ impact

Lee said the tax cut isn't helping because tourism is falling off.

“When people are feeling the pinch at home all across this country, the first thing they cut is their trip to Vegas,” Lee said.

Nevada’s tourism fell 7.5% from 2024 to 2025, according to Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority CEO and President Steve Hill. Las Vegas hosted the Super Bowl and the second annual Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2024.

At a recent economic forum, Hill said high rollers are continuing to visit the city but lower-income visitors are not. The number of international visitors has also dropped significantly, especially Canadians who watched Trump feud with their country over trade and other issues.

O'Donnell said Las Vegas tourism is on the “comeback.” He said Trump's tariffs served as a necessary way to negotiate with countries “that have been absolutely ripping us off.”

The composer blames the high cost of living on Democrats. He recently told a crowd at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas that one good job used to be enough to raise a family, buy a house and “live a comfortable, fulfilling life while getting ahead.”

“Somewhere along the way, that deal got broken,” he said. “Now many need two incomes just to tread water, and we’re still digging our way out of Biden’s inflation crisis.”

Nevada's powerful labor unions are backing Lee

While O'Donnell has help from Republicans' national war chest, Lee has the support of the political powerhouse that is the Culinary Workers Union, representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada.

Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge said the current “no tax on tips" policy brings some relief but is “deeply flawed.” A married couple filing jointly can deduct only up to $25,000 of their tipped income, Pappageorge said. The policy also does not apply to automatic gratuities that are charged to large parties, he said. Lee and other Nevada Democrats want to fix that, he said.

“There's a history of our Democrats here fighting for fair taxation,” Pappageorge said.

On a recent weekend in Lee's district about 50 days before the election, members from the Culinary Union, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations knocked on voters' doors, hoping to sway those still undecided.

Paul Peterman, president of the local chapter of the National Association of Letter Carriers, wearing a blue union T-shirt, a lanyard and shorts, walked to union households, carrying flyers supporting Lee and other Democrats. He asked a resident who he planned to vote for. “All Republican,” said the man, hidden behind his screen door. Peterman asked if he could leave a non-Republican flyer, and the man said, “No.”

“Sorry to bother you,” Peterman said as the door closed.

At the next door, the voter identified as an independent but said he'd vote for Lee. A voter at another house said who he plans to vote for was private. Nobody answered at the next few doors.

Peterman has been canvassing these neighborhoods for years, describing it as important union work.

“It sends a message that we’re all united, and you also need every hand on deck, too, to be successful in what you want to achieve,” Peterman said.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ Web & App Activity, a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, and in their Location History, a service that maps places they've been with their mobile phones.

Regulators also found the company failed to be lawful, fair and transparent when it processed personal data in its Location Accuracy feature in the Android mobile operating system.

Ireland is the lead regulator for Google in the 27-nation EU because the U.S. tech giant's European headquarters is based in Dublin.

The investigation, which opened six years ago, examined how Google applied the EU privacy rule book, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, from the time it took effect in 2018 until February 2020.

“This case centers around historical policies that have since been updated," Google said in a statement. "From 2019 onwards, we’ve significantly evolved our practices and launched robust tools that make managing location data simple.”

Regulators said that location data is a type of personal data that's collected by Google and can be used to infer someone's location.

“Location data can bring both benefits and harms to individuals,” Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said. "It can greatly enhance the utility of online services, but it can also reveal a significant amount of information about an individual, including information that is inherently private."

It's the fourth biggest EU privacy fine issued by the Irish watchdog, which has previously handed out bigger fines to TikTok and Meta, including a 1.2 billion euro fine for Meta.

The regulator said it still has three other ongoing privacy investigations involving Google.

Proske, who co-founded the scrappy company in 2014, is making her Met debut in the highest-profile assignment imaginable: opening the season directing a new production of Verdi’s “Macbeth” with an all-star cast.

The job came her way less than a year ago after another director bowed out. Planning for new productions typically starts two or more years in advance.

“I was aware of Louisa’s success at Heartbeat, and she had been on my radar,” Met general manager Peter Gelb said. “In terms of who was available on relatively short notice, Louisa was an obvious choice.”

As Proske recalled her conversation with Gelb, “He said, ‘Can you do it very, very fast? The design was due yesterday.’”

“I said it’s a big challenge,” she added. “But I love impossible challenges.”

Impossible challenges are nothing new for Proske

She had plenty of those at Heartbeat, which developed a reputation for reimagining the classics in eye-opening ways while operating on a shoestring budget.

Luckily she was able to recruit partners she had already worked with: costume designer Montana Levi Blanco and set designer Jon Bausor — both with previous Met experience — and choreographer Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson. “That sealed the deal,” she said.

It also helped that Proske was intimately familiar with the Shakespeare play, having written her thesis on it at the University of Cambridge.

Now for the past few weeks, she has put her knowledge and imagination to work, immersing her cast — which includes a contingent of dancing witches — in what she calls “a terrifying tale for terrifying times.”

A Met newcomer who took charge like a veteran

And if she felt any trepidation about taking on such a huge challenge at a huge house, it wasn’t apparent in rehearsal.

“If this had been my first outing with the Met, I would have guessed that she’d been working here for at least a few years,” said baritone Quinn Kelsey, who portrays Macbeth. “She doesn’t come in there like a drill sergeant, but when she needs everyone’s attention, she gets it.

“It’s obvious she’s excited,” he said, “and wanting to show us all these wonderful ideas she’s come up with for us to portray our characters.”

Kelsey heads a cast that includes soprano Lise Davidsen as Lady Macbeth, tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Macduff, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Banquo. Met music director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts the orchestra and chorus in the production, which opens Tuesday and runs for 10 performances. The Saturday matinee on Oct. 17 will be broadcast live to movie theaters around the world.

‘Macbeth’ shows a society in collapse

To Proske the opera is about “the corrupt lust for power, the disintegration of the society, the slide into tyranny, all things that I think Shakespeare wrote very acutely about.

“I think it expresses the agony of living in times that you don’t really understand anymore,” she continued. “That it only takes three steps for all guardrails to be gone, the world descending into total savagery and bloodshed. And I do think this is a very current sentiment.”

She has taken inspiration from Verdi’s remark that the story has three major characters: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth — and the witches, who in this production act as what Proske called “greedy voyeurs of the Macbeths’ descent into crime and bloodshed.”

“Sometimes they just lurk in the shadows, and you have a sense that they’re there,” she said. “Almost like insects, or mold, they sort of creep through the walls, more and more invading those spaces as rules are broken and values transgressed.”

Bausor’s set suggests a modern war-torn landscape, with a false proscenium like a giant concrete wall with a huge hole blasted through it and rubble piled at the sides. Within the gap, scenes in the castle and on the battlefield play out on the revolving turntable.

In contrast, Blanco’s costumes evoke Shakespeare’s era, with plush robes, gowns and tunics. “To me there’s something exciting about these grand clothes from Renaissance England,” Proske said. “How they speak about power.”

Keeping true to the values of Heartbeat Opera

Despite the bigger budget and the bigger stage, Proske has aimed to bring the same values to the Met that flourish at Heartbeat.

“The core of Heartbeat was always the desire for exact, inventive, visceral storytelling,” she said. “So I feel like that was my playground and my deep passion for the first years of being an opera director, and it’s where I cut my teeth and developed a whole vision of what opera can be.”

She left the company in 2021 and returned to her native Germany, where she spent four seasons directing at Oper Halle in the northeastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. More recently, she has been freelancing in Europe and the U.S.

Her old friends at Heartbeat have watched her rise with pride.

Jacob Ashworth, the company’s artistic director, said he laughs when some fans ask if he isn’t disappointed by Proske’s move uptown. “There have been people who say, ‘But isn’t the Met the enemy?’” he said. “Of course we don’t think that at all.

“In this business it’s the downtown renegades and radical companies that toss out the ideas that then eventually trickle up to the big companies,” Ashworth said. “So it’s kind of fun when the actual people also trickle up.”

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This story has been updated to correct that Proske left Heartbeat Opera in 2021, not 2018.

2 cups all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon kosher salt

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

3 large eggs

2 cups good quality buttermilk

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled

In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.

In another bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients.

Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Pour in the wet ingredients. Gently whisk together the ingredients. Do not overmix but don’t leave lumps either.

Heat a waffle iron. Brush with a little oil or use cooking spray. Pour the batter into the waffle iron and spread it out a little to try and prevent overflow. Cook until golden.

Serve with your favorite toppings. (We served our waffles with chocolate ganache, whipped cream and dried raspberries.

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 garlic cloves, minced

¾ cup diced yellow onion, small diced

3 cups of your favorite tomato sauce

heavy pinch oregano

heavy pinch crushed chili flakes

1 teaspoon salt, if desired

6 eggs

¼ cup grated parmesan cheese

¼ bunch basil

We served our eggs with thinly sliced and toasted Italian bread.

In a large skillet over medium-low heat, add the oil. Cook the onion and garlic until soft. Add the tomato sauce, oregano and chili flake. Season if needed.

When hot, crack an egg in a small bowl; using a spoon make a well in the sauce and pour in the cracked egg. Repeat with the remaining eggs.

Season with salt and pepper, cover and cook for about 4 minutes or until the whites are just set.

Remove from the heat and top with parmesan cheese and basil.

Serve with toasted bread.

Five months later, diGenova has left his position without charging a single case, clouding the future of an investigation that has animated right-wing commentators eager to prove an ill-defined theory of a “deep state” conspiracy to take down the Republican president.

Justice Department officials are pressing forward despite diGenova's departure, with a flurry of subpoenas to former law enforcement and intelligence officials expected to yield grand jury testimony in the weeks ahead at the Fort Pierce, Florida, home court of a favored Trump-appointed federal judge.

Yet whether anyone ultimately will be charged, and for what, remains an open question. Investigators face not only legal hurdles and personnel upheaval but an impatient White House after more than a year of fits and starts.

The investigation known familiarly as the “grand conspiracy” case is the clearest example yet of the Trump administration’s efforts to leverage law enforcement powers to enact retribution on the president’s adversaries. The tumult that has defined the probe exposes a familiar gap between White House demands for speedy action and the Justice Department's ability to craft the president's litany of grievances into a prosecutable case.

DiGenova's departure injects fresh uncertainty into the investigation

The investigation has always been a tough task, aiming to knit together separate FBI probes of Trump — including related to Russian election interference and his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida — into a coherent narrative of a government conspiracy. Prior efforts to investigate the investigators have failed to uncover the kind of criminal misconduct the conspiracy probe aims to prove.

“The idea of connecting all those different investigations into one single conspiracy, there's no basis for that,” retired federal prosecutor Randall Eliason said. “Then, maybe more importantly, there's no basis for an allegation that any one of them was actually a criminal act against Trump. They've all been verified and upheld in one way or another.”

If the mandate is unusual, so, too, was the person picked to lead it.

DiGenova, who's 81, was a top prosecutor in President Ronald Reagan’s administration but had been out of government for decades. He made headlines in 2020 after he said a cybersecurity official who attested to the legitimacy of the election Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden should be “drawn and quartered.” DiGenova apologized after being sued.

A prominent booster of the theory that Trump was victimized by a “deep state” conspiracy, diGenova was appointed in April shortly after Trump ousted Pam Bondi as attorney general after she struggled to prosecute his foes.

The appointment was heralded by Trump allies who regard the probe as a long-awaited reckoning for former officials they believe wronged the president. Attorney General Todd Blanche, who took the reins of the department after Bondi's firing, also trumpeted diGenova's arrival, writing on social media: “Welcome to the fight, Joe!”

By Sept. 10, diGenova was gone amid Trump administration frustration with the pace and management of the probe. His parting comments suggested he didn't see a pathway for imminent indictments.

“If you want indictments where there’s no evidence, you have an ethical problem,” he told the New York Post.

DiGenova told The Associated Press those comments were taken out of context, adding: “There’s plenty of evidence in all of these cases to prove the theories of prosecution. It just takes time to get there, and some people want to get there a little faster than others — and you can’t do that.”

DiGenova was sworn in days after a career national security prosecutor, Maria Medetis Long, was removed from the investigative team after conveying concerns about an investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan.

A lawyer for Brennan has seized on the upheaval, pointing to the departures as proof that prosecutors who have assessed the evidence have been unpersuaded and pushed aside by a Justice Department angling for indictments at all costs.

“I’ve spent decades in and around the Justice Department. I’ve never even conceived of a situation like this,” attorney Ken Wainstein said, in which the Justice Department is “blatantly trying to frame somebody for a crime that is complete fiction.”

He made the comments to a judge last week as he put prosecutors on notice that he intended to attack any indictment of Brennan on the grounds of vindictive prosecution.

The Justice Department has not announced a replacement for diGenova, but a team of prosecutors and agents remains at work, including Kurt Olsen, an attorney who unsuccessfully pushed the Justice Department in 2020 to back Trump's false election fraud claims.

Trump has long cast himself as the victim of a ‘deep state’ conspiracy

As the Justice Department reeled last year from the bungled handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, officials eager to change the topic announced a new investigation and a directive from Bondi, then the attorney general, to present evidence before a grand jury.

The topic was hardly a surprise to anyone tracking Trump's grievances.

The president has long been infuriated by a U.S. intelligence community assessment that found that Russia interfered on his behalf in the 2016 election, including by stealing politically damaging Democratic emails and orchestrating their release through WikiLeaks, and spent much of his first term shadowed by an investigation into whether his campaign had colluded with Moscow.

A 2019 Justice Department special counsel report described wide-ranging Russian interference but found insufficient evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Subsequent investigations by an inspector general and Justice Department prosecutors identified errors by FBI agents but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by senior law enforcement officials nor proof of an anti-Trump conspiracy.

Frustrated by those outcomes, Trump has amplified his demands for retribution, calls the Justice Department heeded by directing that prosecutors use a grand jury. A team in Florida was assigned to hunt for a conspiracy.

Potential targets of the conspiracy investigation are unclear, though lawyers for Brennan have said they’ve been informed he's one, with prosecutors examining whether he misled Congress during testimony about the intelligence community assessment. Brennan and his attorneys deny that allegation.

Investigators have drilled into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, with witnesses asked about the preparation of the intelligence community assessment and what's called the “Steele dossier,” a collection of research files about Trump and Russia compiled by a former British spy that included salacious rumors and unproven assertions.

Subpoenas for records or testimony have been issued during the course of the investigation to a broad array of former FBI and intelligence officials involved in the Russia case, including ex-national intelligence director James Clapper and Brennan, who was recently summoned to appear before the grand jury on Oct. 15.

The Justice Department, meanwhile, has sought interviews with law enforcement officials involved in the 2022 FBI search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The search underpinned an indictment of Trump that was ultimately dismissed by Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed jurist whose Fort Pierce court is where the Justice Department anchored its investigation — a move Wainstein has called “judge-shopping.”

Despite the investigation's turmoil, there's no reason to expect the Justice Department to back down given the political pressures, said John Fishwick Jr., a former U.S. attorney in Virginia.

“President Trump wants action in certain cases, and this seems to be one of them,” he said.

Polo had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph (65 kph) and was forecast to strengthen rapidly over the next few days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Polo was expected to become a major hurricane by midweek.

Polo was moving toward the east-northeast near 5 mph (7 kph). A turn toward the east was expected Tuesday and a sharp turn toward the north and northwest on Wednesday.

Heavy rain was forecast for the Mexican states of Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco through Thursday.

Polo was centered about 270 miles (435 kilometers) south of Manzanillo, Mexico, and 270 miles (435 kilometers) southwest of Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

A tropical storm also formed Sunday in the northern Atlantic Ocean, and another in the Pacific, but both were far from land.

Tropical Storm Fay had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) and was centered about 385 miles (620 kilometers) southwest of the Azores. It was near hurricane strength but was forecast to weaken.

Tropical Storm Odalys was far southwest of Mexico, about 1,350 miles (2,170 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.

It had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane in the next day or so.

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Video obtained by Local 10 shows the boat, named the “Promiscuous,” fully engulfed in flames. The fire appeared to be concentrated toward the stern.

The fire unfolded in the 100 block of Hendricks Isles in Fort Lauderdale. According to fire rescue officials, residents called in the fire around 6:05 a.m.

Smoke could be seen billowing into the air for miles as crews rushed to the scene.

Residents told Local 10 they woke up to a small fire that grew within seconds. At one point, they said they heard what sounded like an explosion as the boat was consumed by flames.

Nearly 20 Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue units responded, according to officials.

Video from the scene shows crews using tools to cut into the boat and access hot spots that continued to smolder.

According to residents, the “Promiscuous” was up for sale for about $1 million.

No injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The extraordinary ban of the three news outlets' reporters, which began over the weekend, represented a clear escalation of Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage he finds objectionable or, in his words, “fake news.” They were also the latest test of First Amendment protections in the United States, where the government is constitutionally forbidden from restricting the press.

The Constitution, the banned news outlets said in their lawsuit, “does not allow a president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on his dislike of the content of their reporting.”

The three outlets filed the joint lawsuit two days after their reporters were blocked from the White House and prevented from doing their jobs. The reporters' entry badges were disabled on Saturday, a day after Trump had suddenly announced he was barring the outlets because of reporting he found to be “fake news.”

On Monday morning, the banned TV networks were reporting from an intersection just outside the White House complex. CNN, meanwhile, was removed from its pool duties, which are shared by the five major networks. It had been scheduled to cover the president's trip to New York for the U.N. General Assembly. In an email to members, the TV pool wrote there would be no replacement coverage following the White House actions.

“Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” said the email, seen by The Associated Press. “This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place."

CNN's chief White House correspondent, Kaitlan Collins, explained on air that this meant: “When the president does anything today, there will be no TV camera with the president that is broadcasting and sharing this footage" to the viewing public.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit. But on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote Monday morning that he “cherished” what he called a free press.

“The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish,” the president said in his post. “It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS, something that has grown like Cancer in our beloved United States of America. It is corrupt, purposeful, pervasive, fully coordinated, and totally out of control. It is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!”

Trump has been more aggressive toward the media in his second term

In his second term, Trump and his Republican administration have upped the ante and punished certain media outlets. Trump has also lashed out at individual reporters in person or over social media, sometimes in strikingly personal terms — insulting them in briefings or in his recent speech at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

“This morning, we notified the government that we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes,” the outlets said in a joint statement posted early Monday on X.

“Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists' credentials because it objected to our reporting," they said. "Left unchallenged, this threatens press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free from government interference.”

In the joint complaint, the outlets said: “This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles.”

They say they're being banned from doing their jobs at the White House “for one simple reason: (Trump) dislikes the content of the coverage of him and his administration.”

“President Trump has said in no uncertain terms that he would prefer only to be covered by news organizations and reporters who praise his administration," says the complaint, filed in the name of the three outlets and three correspondents who were denied access Saturday.

It went on: “But the Constitution does not allow a president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on his dislike of the content of their reporting.”

In legal terms, that’s known as “viewpoint discrimination” — the government singling out specific media outlets for the content of what they say or publish. That legal principle is at issue in many of the court cases around Trump’s treatment of the media and would likely be at play this time.

Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, called the White House move "an attack both on press freedom and the public’s right to independent information about the government.”

"The president’s decision to bar news organizations from the White House for the content of their reporting is a flagrant violation of the First Amendment,” said Jaffer, whose institute is filing a brief to support the lawsuit. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump nominated during his first term in the White House.

Reporters were barred Saturday

On Saturday, White House reporters from the two cable networks — Betsy Klein of CNN and Akayla Gardner of MS NOW — went live to report they’d been turned away, their press badges deactivated, when arriving for their jobs at the White House. Soon after, Politico said its White House reporter Cheyenne Haslett was also denied entry and had her badge confiscated.

All three organizations that were banned covered the White House's actions extensively during the weekend.

The WHCA’s president, Jacqui Heinrich, called on the Trump administration to immediately restore the three outlets’ access.

“The implications extend beyond these organizations: a standard used to exclude one news outlet because of its coverage could be applied to any outlet in the future,” Heinrich said. “The American people, through a free and independent press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government officials view it favorably.”

The move follows the president’s decision last year to bar AP reporters from the Oval Office, Air Force One and other events in retaliation for the news outlet’s decision not to follow his lead in changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico, which lies partially in Mexican and other waters. The AP said it would note when appropriate that Trump had ordered it renamed the “Gulf of America.”

The AP filed suit and the case is ongoing. Since returning to office, Trump has pursued other legal action against a variety of different outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC. His administration is also involved in a long-simmering confrontation involving ABC over renewal of its broadcast licenses.

Over the weekend, the AP expressed solidarity with the banned news outlets.

“No news organization — or person — should be retaliated against by the government over the words they use,” said a statement from the news cooperative.

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Associated Press reporter Michael Kunzelman contributed to this story.

That head-to-head could come even earlier in next year's swimming world championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Yu took the 200-meter individual medley in 2 minutes, 6.10 seconds in the Tokyo Olympic pool. That is just off the world record of 2:05.70 held by McIntosh. Yu also won the 200 butterfly on Sunday, and she'll swim the 400 IM later in the week.

She said winning never gets old.

“I felt the same. I’m just as excited today,” Yu said. “The result reflects all the hard work I’ve put in during training with my coaching team.”

She said she got many congratulatory messages after Sunday's victory, but she had to keep her focus.

“I don’t want to get too confident,” she said. “I’ll just keep working hard.”

McIntosh won three gold medals in the Paris Olympics in 2024, all in the same races that Yu contests. McIntosh also holds the world marks in all of those events: the 200 fly (2:01.65), the 200 IM (2:05.70) and the 400 IM (4:23,65).

As a 12-year-old at the World Championships a year ago in Singapore, Yu finished fourth in her three events, and won a bronze medal in a relay.

She made more headlines earlier this year when she defeated American Regan Smith in the 200 fly in a meet in China. Smith was the silver medalist in the event in the 2024 Olympics.

Asian Games officials said it was unclear if Yu is the youngest gold-medal winner at the event, which dates from 1951 in New Delhi, because records are incomplete.

She's not even the youngest contestant entered this time. That is believed to be 11-year-old Yuki Kurihara, who competes for Japan in esports.

China's dominance in swimming in Asia

China won six of the seven gold medals on Sunday, It was not quite as commanding on Monday, but still won gold in five of seven events. In the 100 breaststroke, China's Dong Zhihao and Shin Ohashi of Japan tied with the same first-place time (58.64).

China won 28 gold medals in swimming in the Asian Games three years ago in Hangzhou, China, with South Korea getting six and Japan with five. It looks set to at least match that mark.

Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong, the two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 100 and 200 free, repeated her Asian Games titles in the 200 free.

“I am very happy to win another gold medal,” she said. “That’s a really precious moment. Just happy to be here.”

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Kadeem Hardison still hears about that impact nearly four decades later.

“I’m learning that every day still,” said Hardison, who played the mathematically gifted, flip-shade-wearing Dwayne Wayne. He said people would approach him, saying they went to college because of the show, became engineers because of him or even gained the confidence to pursue relationships after watching Dwayne and Whitley Gilbert’s famously winding romance.

Now a new generation is discovering Hillman College, including some of the original actors bringing it back to life. The 10-episode sequel series premieres Sept. 24 on Netflix.

Cornell Young IV, one of six young stars leading the series, played college football in Missouri and said his own college decision was largely driven by which schools recruited him. But after filming the series at historically Black colleges and universities — Clark Atlanta, Spelman College and Morehouse — in Atlanta, Young found himself reconsidering the path he took.

“I wish I would have been more like, ‘Yo, here go my tape. Like, I’m trying to come here,’” said Young, who plays Shaquille Johnson, the son of original character Ron Johnson.

The sequel follows Deborah Wayne (Maleah Joi Moon), the youngest daughter of Dwayne and Whitley, as she begins her freshman year at Hillman. The new class also includes Rashida Duvall (Alijah Kai), Amir Rodale (Jordan Aaron Hall), Hazel Henry (Kennedi Reece) and Kojo Achebe (Chibuikem Uche).

Young said being immersed in an HBCU environment offered something he hadn’t fully understood before: a place where students could feel “protected,” “covered” and “seen” while figuring out who they wanted to become.

The Hillman effect

The original “A Different World,” a spinoff of “The Cosby Show,” premiered in 1987 and ran for six seasons. Set at the fictional Hillman College, the series introduced many viewers to HBCU life while tackling subjects ranging from apartheid and HIV/AIDS to racism and sexual assault.

The sequel's creator and showrunner, Felicia Pride, grew up among the viewers the original series reached. She remembers watching it with her family on Thursday nights and becoming captivated by a step-show episode. As a young dancer who had never seen stepping, she recorded it on a VCR and repeatedly played it back until she learned the routine.

“That changed something in me, being able to see myself on screen,” Pride said.

Nearly 40 years later, she wants to create the possibility of that kind of recognition for someone else. She wants the new Hillman to speak just as directly to the generation entering college now.

The sequel takes on social media and the pressures of living digitally, along with isolation, immigration, campus safety, sexual orientation and sexual health. Pride said conversations with young people repeatedly revealed how technology can leave them feeling connected and disconnected at the same time.

Some of Hillman’s concerns remain unchanged. The series also explores grief, heartbreak, friendship and the uncertainty of figuring out who you are away from home.

“The timing was so perfect now for the show to come back to be a connecting force for us,” Pride said.

Creating their own ‘Different World’

The new cast is less interested in recreating the old Hillman than making this one recognizable to their generation.

For Moon, that starts with Deborah. She studied what she called the “beautiful flaws” of Dwayne and Whitley but resisted simply blending their personalities together.

“These are big shoes to fill,” Moon said.

She wanted Deborah to stand on her own — an original character whose flaws, impulses and experiences reflect what it means to be a young Black woman coming of age now.

For Reece, that includes the constant comparison fostered by social media. She said young women are growing up with greater pressure around appearance because images of other people, and opportunities to measure themselves against them, are always within reach.

Kai sees another side of this generation’s experience: more freedom for Black women to define how they present themselves. She said there is greater room to experiment with hair, fashion, color and texture rather than conform to ideas of what others consider palatable.

She brought some of that sensibility to Rashida herself, contributing ideas for the character’s nails and changing hairstyles.

Together, their characters are not intended to offer a single definition of young Black womanhood.

The experience is “both universal, but not a monolith,” Moon said.

Can the new Hillman create its own legacy?

Hardison knows the new cast will be measured against the one that came before. He thinks that misses the point.

“Let the kids cook,” he said.

Hardison stressed that the new “A Different World” is a sequel, not a reboot. He likened comparing the two casts to comparing Michael Jordan and LeBron James — different generations playing under different circumstances.

For all the reverence surrounding the original today, Hardison remembers that it took time to become the show people now celebrate. The series underwent a major creative shift after its first season, when Debbie Allen became executive producer.

“Our first season was trash, yo,” Hardison said with a laugh. “Let the kids have some time and give them some grace.”

That may be harder to come by in today's television business.

The original had more than 20 episodes in most seasons and years to develop its characters. The new series has 10 episodes to establish itself in an entertainment landscape where streaming services, social media, YouTube and other platforms are constantly competing for attention.

“We have to do well out the gate,” Pride said. “The times that we’re in are much more unforgiving.”

For Pride, that leaves little room for a slow start.

“We don’t have the benefit of, you know, growing with the show and the show figuring itself out,” she said. “So I hope people show up. I hope they watch it together.”

The relentless daily attacks underscore the lack of significant progress in diplomatic efforts to end the fighting more than four years after Russia invaded its neighbor.

There is no sign the war is abating as world leaders gather this week at the U.N. General Assembly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the annual event in New York. Russian President Vladimir Putin is not due to attend.

Trump on Monday called the war “ridiculous” and said Moscow had “unfortunately lost control” of its diesel oil production as Ukraine targets Russian refineries with long-range drones.

“A large number of (Russian) diesel refineries have been blown up and are, at least temporarily, out of commission,” he said in a social media post.

Earlier this month, Trump urged Zelenskyy to halt the refinery strikes, saying the attacks are causing a global shortage and price spikes.

Zelenskyy responded to Trump in a post on X, noting that Kyiv has offered “dozens of diplomatic proposals on how to end this war with dignity, guarantee security, and prevent new Russian invasions.”

“Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure, and our food exports must stop being targets for Russia, and this will lead to matching de-escalation steps on our part,” he said.

European leaders, fearing Moscow has malicious intentions on their continent, are keen to put further pressure on Putin to withdraw from Ukraine, but the Russian leader has given no indication he is ready to give up his goals.

Russia hits apartment blocks and a shopping mall, officials say

The Russian bombardment of Zaporizhzhia late Sunday hit apartment blocks, a university and a shopping mall, among other sites, and wounded five people, Zelenskyy said on social media Monday.

Russia also struck nine other regions of Ukraine, he said.

A Russian drone struck a home in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Monday, killing a 45-year-old woman and seriously injuring her 13-year-old son, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service.

“Russia is not backing down from its escalation and is sending many signals that it is ready to expand the war,” Zelenskyy said. “At the U.N. General Assembly, we will discuss how we can achieve peace through joint efforts.”

The Russian military overnight targeted Ukrainian logistics hubs, warehouses and ports, among other military-related sites, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Monday.

The attacks came after Ukraine launched a huge swarm of drones at Russia from Saturday to Sunday, including hundreds aimed at Moscow, as voters turned out for the third and last day of a carefully orchestrated parliamentary election.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that its air defenses overnight downed 244 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and the waters of the Black Sea.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air force said Monday it shot down or suppressed 148 Russian drones in an overnight attack.

Moldova reports another drone incursion

During the aerial barrages, drones have repeatedly strayed into neighboring countries, unnerving leaders who are wary of Russia and fear being dragged into conflict.

Moldova’s Ministry of Defense said Monday that part of the country's airspace in the north was temporarily closed overnight after surveillance systems detected an “aerial object” entering its national airspace shortly after midnight.

In recent weeks, Moldova’s airspace has been violated multiple times, and drone debris has been found on its territory. With electronic jamming knocking drones off course, it was not clear whether the drones were Russian or Ukrainian, though officials have often singled out Moscow for blame.

Moldova’s pro-Western President Maia Sandu has repeatedly condemned Russia for its war on Ukraine, and earlier this month said Moscow’s “brutal war is reaching our border” following Russian strikes along Moldova’s frontier with Ukraine.

Drone incursions into Romania’s airspace have also increased significantly.

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AI Film Production Limited is suing Wilson in the New South Wales state Supreme Court alleging she undermined and blocked the release of the film, causing the Britain-based production company financial and reputational damage.

The film's release was shelved in 2024, after Wilson fell out with co-producers Amanda Ghost, her husband Greg Cameron and Vince Holden. It was eventually released in April this year.

The star of the “Pitch Perfect” films and “Bridesmaids” won a defamation suit in the Federal Court in Sydney in July. That suit had been brought by the star of the “The Deb,” Australian actor Charlotte MacInnes.

Wilson’s social media posts in July 2024 are at the center of both suits.

The three AI Film co-producers alleged Wilson accused them of inappropriate behavior conduct toward MacInnes, embezzling money and trying to block the film's release.

They said that Wilson and her company Camp Sugar Productions breached consumer law concerning misleading conduct and breached various contracts by making allegedly defamatory statements about them to her 11 million Instagram followers.

Wilson was accused of preventing the film's release by undermining negotiations with potential distributors and threatening an injunction against showing the film in Australia.

AI Film is seeking unspecified damages as well as an apology from Wilson for misleading and deceptive conduct. AI Film is also seeking corrective advertising.

In a cross-claim, Wilson and Camp Sugar alleged the three co-producers' involvement in the film was marked by “a troubling pattern of illicit egregious behaviors, including theft, bullying and sexual misconduct.”

Wilson said that Ghost broke verbal agreements over writing credits and a soundtrack album deal. Wilson also alleged Cameron and Holden embezzled 900,000 Australian dollars ($642,000) from a joint venture company set up to make the movie.

Wilson sat at the back of the courtroom on Monday and frequently typed on her phone as her lawyer Dauid Sibtain questioned the first witness, Holden.

The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday.

In the previous federal court case, MacInnes had alleged Wilson defamed her or breached her confidence in four social media posts from September 2024 to July 2025, by falsely suggesting she had withdrawn a sexual harassment complaint against Ghost to advance her career.

MacInnes denied ever making such a complaint, but a judge ruled that none of Wilson’s posts were defamatory.

The lions were discovered Friday in the Ndutu part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, according to the conservation group overseeing the site.

“Preliminary findings suggest the animals may have died after ingesting poison,” the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority said in a statement.

An investigation is underway to establish the definitive cause of the deaths inside the area where wildlife including lions, elephants and black rhinos live in proximity with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies lions as vulnerable and says their numbers are declining. Threats facing the species include habitat loss, declining prey populations and human-wildlife conflict.

Welcome to raccoon boot camp, where the goal is to help sick or injured animals learn to survive in the south Mississippi wilderness — a skill set they would have learned from their mothers, most of whom died or were separated from their kits by storms, traffic accidents or other traumatic events.

It's a challenge that's left Woodside Wildlife Rescue’s founder, Paula Woodside, with cuts from scared, defensive raccoons and their sharp claws, and when she isn’t able to save a kit, emotional scars too.

“When these babies come in, and they’re so desperate, it’s heartbreaking,” said Woodside, who most days is covered in sweat from caring for the animals in the Mississippi heat, and dirt from curious kits crawling up her legs and onto her shoulders. “It’s really important for them to get a little bit of a head start.”

Wildlife rescue staff teach the raccoons by example

Woodside, a former U.S. merchant mariner, opened the rescue in 2019 after she helped rehabilitate a baby raccoon found aboard her ship. The rescue in the coastal city of Pass Christian typically raises dozens of kits each year, 76 so far this year, alongside other indigenous wildlife.

City animal control and citizens call Woodside, or the rescue’s director, Raquel Priest, when they find a raccoon in need of saving. Together, they attempt to reunite the kits with their mothers, if they can find them, or bring the kits to the rescue.

The youngest raccoons will spend a few weeks mostly indoors being bottle-fed by rehabbers until they’re vaccinated for diseases carried by cat colonies and dogs and are ready to move to outdoor pens.

Though the kits stay close to their adoptive human parents, they’re eventually allowed to roam free during the day on the rescue’s rural 20-acre (8-hectare) property, a sprawling mix of meadows and thick forest spotted with ponds and a nearby river. Thanks to that setting, Woodside and Priest can take their troops on learning excursions, a luxury many wildlife rescues don't have, Woodside said.

Woodside and Priest teach by example. They hide worms in the dirt to show the kits how to dig for food, and break open pine cones or acorns to reveal the seeds inside. The raccoons' eyes light up when they encounter a new tasty food, and they run to show their discovery to their rehabbers before hurrying back to fend off other kits who might try to steal their find.

Where a drill sergeant might yell, ‘Attention!,’ Priest and Woodside give a shrill trilling sound, mimicking the raccoon call for danger, that sends the kits running up trees to safety. A short whistle lets the troops know the coast is clear.

The kits also practice fishing in shallow pools, their uncoordinated paws tentatively patting the water until they're quick enough to snag a snack. A live quail hunt provides hunting experience. While these are skills raccoons would likely learn on their own, Woodside’s staff hopes the training gives the kits a greater chance of survival.

On the property's pond, the raccoons learn to swim, a critical skill in hurricane-prone south Mississippi. The rehabbers take to kayaks and encourage the kits to swim back and forth. They also take trips to the deep woods, where kits learn to run from tree to tree to avoid being seen by birds of prey and to have a quick escape route from snakes or other dangers on the ground.

Raccoons graduate to ‘Pomp and Circumstance Marches’

For their final lesson, a volunteer — who isn't Woodside or Priest — traps the raccoons in cages, scaring them enough to encourage them to avoid traps and humans. The experience helps the young raccoons wean themselves from their human rescuers, a process Priest said naturally occurs as they mature.

When a group of kits is ready for release, about six months after their rescue, Woodside and Priest host a graduation ceremony. They play Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance Marches,” and read a roll call of each graduating kit's name.

A reverend then blesses their journey as they're released onto a different section of the rescue's forest-covered property. For kits that die in care, the staff holds a second ceremony to bless and scatter their ashes.

“It's like watching your children leave home,” Priest said. “It's important to see them prosper and go and be the mischievous creatures they were meant to be.”

With over 95% of the vote counted, the top Kremlin party, United Russia, stands to get more than three-fourths of the seats in the lower house, the State Duma, a record high.

It was the first parliamentary election since President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and the first to include residents of four regions of that country that were seized and illegally annexed by Moscow later that year. At a polling station in the Russian-held part of the Donetsk region, voters dropped their ballots in a box under the gaze of an armed Russian soldier.

Voting also was held in Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Kyiv denounced the voting in those regions as illegal.

The government was “able to carry out the campaign and the voting the way it wanted, with the most optimal output,” said Tatyana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in an online commentary.

The election followed a crackdown on dissent

The Kremlin wanted the balloting to underline public support for its military action in Ukraine, and it sought to avoid any political risks by stamping out even the slightest sign of dissent.

A massive state media campaign and tight control over the vote allowed the Kremlin to maintain and even strengthen its political dominance despite economic troubles and long-range Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries and warehouses belonging to top online retailers that brought the conflict home for millions.

Preliminary results indicated that United Russia would get 355 out of 450 Duma seats, according to the Central Election Commission. It polled just under 58% of the vote for the 225 seats apportioned by parties, and also won 208 single-seat races filling the other half of the chamber.

Several smaller parties representing the “systemic opposition” that vote in sync with the Kremlin's wishes on all key issues are set to fill most of the remaining seats. Just a handful will go to candidates who ran without a party affiliation.

The balloting was spread over three days from Friday to Sunday to boost turnout, which exceeded 59%, the highest for a parliamentary election in over a decade.

Electronic balloting was available in many regions and encouraged by authorities. Critics argued that it made it easier for the government to control the outcome.

Final results will be announced Friday.

Criticism of the war was silenced

The liberal Yabloko party, the only registered political entity that dared to publicly criticize the war, was removed from the ballot last month by Russia’s Supreme Court, and only had a few dozen candidates in the single-seat races.

Additionally, some anti-war politicians were imprisoned or forced to flee abroad ahead of the campaign.

Preliminary results indicated that no Yabloko candidates won a seat. Despite the failure, Yabloko pointed out that five of its candidates in Moscow came second in their races with more than 10% of the vote each. It was a sign that “demands for peace and freedom enjoy significant support,” said Ivan Bolshakov, head of the party's analytical center.

Yabloko and the Communist Party, which has criticized some aspects of government policy but carefully avoided any criticism of Putin, said many of their observers were turned away from polling stations.

Russia didn’t invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, with the Foreign Ministry accusing the group of “double standards” for its criticism of the country. OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President Pere Joan Pons said the decision was a breach of Russia’s commitments as a member of the organization.

The election came amid Ukrainian attacks

The election took place against the backdrop of incessant Ukrainian drone attacks. On Sunday, Russia's Defense Ministry reported that it downed 1,110 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 450 drones were downed while approaching the city in what he described as “the largest ever” attack on the capital in a failed attempt to disrupt the vote, which damaged an oil refinery and a residential building.

Three people were killed in the wider Moscow region, Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said, and the Health Ministry reported 38 others were injured and received medical treatment.

Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes over the summer pounded oil refineries, triggering a widespread fuel crisis, and set ablaze sprawling warehouses of online retailers Wildberries and Ozon.

“Putin, of course, will interpret United Russia's results as confirmation of the (public) support of the war, even though it is not the case: The overall demand for ending the war is growing,” said Stanovaya of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.

“The main question is: What now? There are great concerns about mobilization, new repressions, harsher measures, and escalation," she wrote.

“I partially agree that Putin may perceive the election results as a green light for ‘anything for the victory,' but I think the role of the elections here is greatly exaggerated," she added. "Everything depends much more on the military situation, the American factor (I don’t believe new negotiations will work out), and the overall picture, where everyone is escalating.”

Now Britain’s prime minister is about to hold his first meeting with the U.S. president, with Ukraine and the soaring cost of conflict in the Middle East at the top of his agenda.

U.S. officials say the two leaders will hold talks on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Burnham is set to address the annual gathering of world leaders on Tuesday, setting out his vision of Britain’s place in an increasingly fractured world order.

Burnham’s only other foreign trip since taking office in July was to Kyiv, and he has said he will urge Trump to send interceptor missiles to bolster Ukraine’s air defenses ahead of another winter of war.

The British government also wants to discuss ways to restore free movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, largely blocked since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in February. The closure of the key route has sent oil prices spiking, complicating Burnham’s efforts to jump-start Britain’s sluggish economy and ease the cost of living.

Burnham says he'll seek common ground

Like many Labour Party politicians, Burnham was strongly critical of Trump in the past. In 2017 Burnham, as the mayor of Greater Manchester, said the president wouldn’t be welcome in the city. Two years later he said he would refuse to meet Trump if he visited.

After becoming prime minister in July, Burnham said he always tries to find “common ground” with other politicians.

Burnham and Trump have spoken twice since Burnham replaced Keir Starmer at the helm of the center-left governing party. Trump has called Burnham “a nice guy,” but has also recently needled U.K. officials by expressing support for Irish unification and musing about the future of the Falkland Islands that are claimed by both Britain and Argentina.

Labour Party chairwoman Bridget Phillipson said Burnham would be “pragmatic.”

“We won’t agree with the U.S. administration on everything,” Phillipson told Times Radio on Sunday. "We are from different political traditions, we have different approaches. But maintaining that relationship is critical for our national interest and I know that that’s the approach Andy Burnham will always take, putting our country first.”

Starmer went out of his way to flatter Trump, presenting him in the Oval Office in February 2025 with an invitation from King Charles III for an unprecedented second state visit to the U.K.

British officials felt Starmer’s approach was vindicated when the U.K. struck a trade deal with the Trump administration. But Trump soured on Starmer over his refusal to join the Iran war. The president also has repeatedly criticized the U.K.’s immigration and green-energy policies, urging the country to open more of the North Sea up to oil drilling.

Burnham is expected to announce a decision soon about whether to approve new oil and gas fields off Scotland.

U.K. officials also are braced for criticism of Britain’s ban on trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and efforts to regulate big American technology firms.

"Burnham has a bit of a tightrope to walk," said Olivia O'Sullivan, director of the U.K. in the World program at the Chatham House think tank.

"He’ll want to build rapport. He’ll want to impress upon Trump and the U.S. administration the European line on Ukraine and the need for continued support to Ukraine. And he’ll probably want to use the rest of his time at the U.N. General Assembly to highlight the U.K. government’s ongoing concerns about Gaza” and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

“But he’ll want to avoid that becoming a bone of contention with the U.S. government,” she said.

Middle powers look to build stronger alliances

Trump’s threats to seize Greenland alarmed the U.K. and other European allies earlier this year, and Burnham was among leaders expressing relief at the announcement of a deal between Greenland, Denmark and the U.S. to bolster the American military presence there but keep the Arctic island under Danish control.

Trump has other, more high-profile, international meetings this week, including one at the White House with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Burnham’s trip comes as middle-sized powers, led most vocally by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, try to forge closer alliances in the face of Trump’s “America first” foreign policy. Burnham’s government wants Britain to be bolder on the world stage, and to restore some of the ties with Europe severed when the U.K. left the European Union in 2020.

Ed Davey, leader of the centrist Liberal Democrats, urged Burnham to “do what the Europeans are doing, what the Canadians are doing, and start saying to Donald Trump, ‘the way you’re treating our country, the way you’re treating the world, is not acceptable.’”

“I want him to stand up to Trump. It’s really clear that’s the only language the president respects,” Davey said.

Pope Leo XIV is expected to make a similar appeal to protect life when he visits France this weekend and also prays at Lourdes. One of Christianity’s most-visited pilgrimage destinations is especially popular for sick people because of its association with miraculous cures.

Leo’s message will likely land differently, since France’s National Assembly in 2024 enshrined abortion as a constitutional right and recently gave final approval to a bill allowing adults with incurable illnesses to receive lethal medication. It was the culmination of years of debate over end-of-life care in France and comes as other countries in Europe and the Americas have increasingly legalized assisted dying, though British lawmakers recently voted down a bill allowing it.

Catholic teaching holds that life must be defended from conception until natural death. It insists that chronically ill patients, including those in vegetative states, must receive “ordinary” care such as hydration and nutrition, but that “extraordinary” or disproportionate care can be suspended if it is only prolonging a precarious and painful life.

With Leo’s blessing, French bishops decided the official motto of his trip would be “That the world may have life,” suggesting that protecting human life and human dignity will be an overarching theme of the visit.

Leo has emphasized the need to protect the dignity of all human life, from immigrants to the sick and unborn, most significantly in his inaugural encyclical on safeguarding human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence.

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, president of the bishops’ conference, said he expected Leo would raise the issue. “We already know that the question of life and respect for life — not only from an ethical standpoint, but in many ways — is at the heart of the pope’s message and aligns very closely with the message of the Gospel.”

A secular but Catholic country

France is a traditionally Catholic country, but adheres to a strict form of secularism in public life based on a 1905 law separating church and state.

And like many countries in the once-traditionally Christian West, France has seen the influence of the Catholic Church wane amid secularizing trends and the impact of the clergy sexual abuse scandal on its credibility.

Yet French bishops have expressed astonishment at the level of interest in the pope’s Sept. 25-28 visit and say they expect 1 million people will see him. Due to larger-than-expected crowds, organizers lengthened the perimeter for Leo's main Mass at the central Place de la Concorde, extending the site beyond the 1.9-kilometer (1.2-mile) length of the Champs-Elysees where he'll parade down in his popemobile.

Leo elicited a similar level of interest in secular Spain in June, where he received a seven-minute standing ovation after his speech to the Spanish Parliament.

“I think nobody many months ago or a few months ago would have imagined” the level of interest, said Sister Nathalie Becquart, a top Vatican official from France. “But they see what happened in Spain.”

Like Spain, France has seen a trend of new adult baptisms in recent years, particularly among conservative young adults, many of whom are attracted to more traditional forms of worship including the old Latin Mass.

More than 13,000 adults were baptized at Easter this year in France, where the number of adult baptisms has more than tripled since 2016, the French bishops’ conference reported. Leo will meet with some of these new converts in a special audience.

But experts caution these numbers don't counteract the overall generational trend of the children of practicing French Catholics no longer going to Mass or baptizing their babies.

In 1980, there were 513,000 baptisms in France; in 2024, a total of 186,000. “The new phenomenon of adult baptisms is put into perspective; in fact, it represents only a very modest rebound,” said Christian Marquant, a traditionalist Catholic who blames the secularizing crisis in the French church on the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

AI and peace also on Leo's itinerary

Leo is bookending his trip to France with two events to broaden his message to an international audience. On Day 1, he visits UNESCO to speak about artificial intelligence and the value of education and art.

In his AI encyclical “Magnificent Humanity,” Leo called for robust AI regulation and for developers to slow down — a stance they have recently taken as a group. Leo's position on AI has put him at odds with the Trump administration, which has encouraged AI innovation so the U.S. can compete with and surpass China.

The visit to UNESCO by the American pope is significant, given the Trump administration has once again announced it is withdrawing from the U.N. cultural agency, part of its broader retreat from international organizations.

On his final day, Sept. 28, Leo will visit the northern French city of Metz, the birthplace of Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of European integration.

Leo will participate in a meeting with other faith leaders and then speak at a European conference on peace, at a time of war in Ukraine and beyond.

Clergy sexual abuse on the agenda

The Vatican took the unusual step of announcing ahead of time that Leo would meet with victims of clergy sexual abuse while in France. The gathering of seven survivors includes one who was an adult when abused, a recognition of the new frontier of the abuse crisis facing the church.

The French church has endured a brutal reckoning with its legacy of abuse. An independent report in 2021 estimated 330,000 children had been abused over 70 years by some 3,000 priests and church workers.

Despite criticism of the report's methodology and conclusions, French bishops nevertheless put in place an independent system of compensation for victims that to date has recommended the church pay out more than 20 million euros.

In Lourdes, Leo will be reminded of a prickly abuse case inherited from Pope Francis.

The façade of one of the Lourdes basilicas was designed by the Rev. Marko Rupnik, one of the Catholic Church’s most famous mosaic artists.

Rupnik is currently on trial in a Vatican court, accused by more than two dozen women of having psychologically, spiritually and sexually abused them starting in the 1990s, including during the creation of his artworks.

His case was covered up for three decades by his Jesuit superiors, and even Francis was suspected of having protected his fellow Jesuit. Amid a media outcry, Francis in 2024 ordered a canonical trial, which is ongoing.

The Rupnik case posed the question of what to do with his mosaics, which adorn basilicas around the world.

In 2024, Lourdes Bishop Jean-Marc Micas decided to no longer illuminate the façade of the Notre Dame du Rosaire Basilica at night. He subsequently ordered the decorated doors covered, and more recently decided to cover the façade’s mosaics entirely. He reasoned that abuse victims who come to Lourdes for healing shouldn't be forced to see them.

Since some of the abuse was allegedly committed during the creation of the mosaics, “it is impossible to separate the work of art from the abuse,” said Laura Sgro, attorney for five women who accused Rupnik and have welcomed Micas' decision to cover the mosaics.

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South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the explosion occurred during an unspecified operation near the military demarcation line in the western section of the border buffer zone, commonly known as the DMZ.

The cause of the blast was not immediately clear, the ministry said.

South Korean officials did not say whether it was possible the explosion was caused by a land mine planted by North Korea, which has added mines, anti-tank barriers and other front line fortifications in recent months as relations between the war-divided rivals have sharply deteriorated. Seoul’s Defense Ministry didn’t immediately respond when asked by The Associated Press whether the incident prompted the military to enhance border security.

Two of the officers were airlifted from the site by helicopter, while the third was transported by land before being airlifted, according to the ministry. The officers are being treated at a military hospital near the capital Seoul.

The DMZ, which is 248 kilometers (155 miles) long and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) wide, is one of the world’s most heavily armed borders. An estimated 2 million mines are peppered inside and near the border, which also is guarded by barbed wire fences, tank traps and combat troops on both sides. The zone is a legacy of the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, which ended with an armistice but not a peace treaty.

Tensions have increased along the border

North Korea has dialed up animosity with a run of military displays this month, including short-range ballistic missile launches on Sunday, live-fire missile and artillery exercises, and the commissioning of a new warship, as leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his growing nuclear program despite U.S. calls to revive diplomacy.

There have been growing concerns in South Korea about increased activity by North Korean soldiers near the military demarcation line as the North strengthens its border defenses during prolonged tensions between the countries. The South Korean military has not officially confirmed media reports that North Korean soldiers crossed the demarcation line more than 20 times during front line operations in August alone.

The South’s military fired warning shots to repel some 10 North Korean soldiers who crossed the demarcation line at the eastern section of the DMZ in April 2025. The North Korean soldiers retreated after the South broadcast audio warnings and fired the shots and there were no clashes. In June 2024, North Korean troops crossed the border three times, prompting South Korea to fire warning shots.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in recent years has suspended virtually all cooperation and diplomacy with South Korea while declaring Seoul as his most hostile enemy during a stalemate in his larger nuclear negotiations with Washington.

North Korean mines in past years have occasionally washed down a swollen river into South Korea, killing or injuring civilians. In August 2015, land mine blasts maimed two South Korean soldiers and caused tensions between the two Koreas to flare.

Minutes after polls closed on Sunday, the unpopular Merz said he planned to stay on as leader of both Germany and his center-right party, and said that he would push through reforms to Europe’s biggest economy.

Hours later, final results underlined the extent of what Merz conceded was a “disaster” in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, an eastern region on the Baltic Sea coast. His center-right Christian Democratic Union fell just below the 5% of the vote needed to keep seats in the regional parliament, the first time that has happened in 77 years of modern Germany’s federal republic, after losing more than half its support. The far-right Alternative for Germany finished as the strongest party.

In Sunday's other election, the CDU dropped to second place in Berlin behind the hard-left Left Party, which is in pole position to lead the next city government — though Merz’s party could, depending on how coalition talks go, still retain city hall.

But after days of speculation about Merz's future, there were no prominent public calls Monday for his departure and no sign of a challenge. The chancellor said no one raised any “personnel questions” in party leadership meetings Sunday or Monday.

“It is the historic task of the (governing) coalition here in Berlin and the political center as a whole to make our country fit for the coming years,” Merz said. “Extremists suggest that there are easy solutions. But everyone who has ever governed knows there are no easy solutions.”

At the same time, he acknowledged that the CDU needs to work on its profile. He said that it “no longer has satisfactory answers to too many questions, and we will and must change that.”

A far-right party gains again

Neither of the states that voted Sunday is a political heavyweight. The CDU's 2023 win in Berlin was its only one in the past 25 years in the capital, which has tended to lean left. The party was already weak in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

But the results added to the headwinds Merz faces after a stinging defeat by the far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, two weeks ago in Saxony-Anhalt, another region in the formerly communist east, damaged his authority and set off speculation that he might be replaced.

While AfD was the strongest party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the center-left Social Democrats — the junior party in Merz's national governing coalition — were fairly close behind after a campaign focused squarely on the state governor, Manuela Schwesig, as a bulwark against the far right. That polarization helped squeeze other mainstream parties, including the CDU.

A left-leaning three-party coalition under Schwesig would have a majority in the new regional legislature.

Questions over how Germany should be reformed

Schwesig and others in the governing parties have cast doubt on aspects of the federal government's reform agenda, which is meant to bolster a chronically sluggish economy. The reform plans include a potentially painful overhaul of the creaking pension system and of the healthcare system. A proposal to scrap a rule allowing people who have paid pension contributions for 45 years to retire early without taking a financial hit has drawn particular criticism.

The Social Democrats' national leaders said Monday that they stand by the coalition. But they made clear that they will seek at least some changes to the plans.

Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil, who is also the finance minister, said that “saying we will ignore what voters told us in three state elections won't work.”

“We need reforms, but these reforms must be fair and they need support in the population,” he said. The party's other co-leader, Labor Minister Bärbel Bas, said the plans need a “reality check” and a “fairness check,” but that she was optimistic of finding solutions on the pension system reform, the most controversial plan.

“There would be nothing more lethal than letting this coalition break apart over some technical question,” Bas said.

Merz said he wouldn't speculate about “where we must make corrections.”

There are at least no more electoral tests this year. However, five state elections are scheduled next year, three of them in April.

They include one in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, currently led by a prominent CDU figure often cited as a possible successor to Merz, Hendrik Wüst. None of the five elections is in the east, where AfD is strongest.

Looking forward, much will depend on the CDU's influential regional leaders. But there was no sign of a challenge to Merz Monday from them or others.

“You get the feeling that the stronger figures are trying to stay away from Berlin at the moment,” Thomas Poguntke, a longtime political science professor at the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf, told Phoenix television.

“Swapping out a leadership figure wouldn't achieve so terribly much now,” he added, but the chancellor has made avoidable mistakes in the past, “and the government's handicraft simply must improve.”

The strikes near the countries’ shared border marked a renewed escalation in tensions, raising the prospect of further cross-border hostilities. They also threatened to complicate mediation efforts by regional powers, including China.

The strikes came after Pakistan warned that it could target militants inside Afghanistan following two deadly attacks on Pakistani security forces near the border in recent days.

The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, known by its acronym UNAMA, said in a social media post on X that it had confirmed that “at least three civilians, including a man, a woman and a girl, were killed and four injured in apparent airstrikes” in Afghanistan’s Kunar province in the early hours of Monday.

UNAMA said it had documented over 1,100 civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan from cross-border violence so far this year.

“We reiterate our call for respect for international humanitarian law to prevent civilian casualties,” it added.

Escalating tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Pakistan’s Information Ministry said security forces conducted a planned, intelligence-driven ground operation in the northwest following a series of militant attacks in the country. The operation was followed by “calibrated airstrikes against the hideouts and safe havens of terrorist organizations responsible for these attacks.”

The ministry said in a post on X that the airstrikes killed 28 militants along the Afghan border. Afghanistan’s government said the strikes killed three civilians and wounded four others — a toll confirmed by the UN.

Militant attacks targeting Pakistan’s police and security forces have surged in recent years. The escalation follows months of military action. Hundreds of people have been killed in cross-border fighting since February, when Afghanistan launched retaliatory strikes after Pakistan carried out airstrikes inside Afghan territory.

Authorities in Islamabad have blamed the Pakistani Taliban and allied militant groups for most of the violence. The Pakistani Taliban are separate from but allied with the Afghan Taliban that returned to power in 2021.

Afghanistan vows to respond

Afghan government spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid condemned the airstrikes in a post on X and said there would be a response.

“We condemn this aggression and oppression, regarding it as a repetition of such crimes. Pakistani military circles have once again committed such a crime to divert attention from their country’s security failures,” he wrote. “The Afghans will give a fitting response to this, God willing.”

Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry summoned Pakistan's chargé d’affaires in Kabul and lodged a formal protest about the strikes.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regards these attacks as a clear violation of Afghanistan’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemns them in the strongest terms,” the ministry said in a statement. “The Islamic Emirate once again categorically rejects allegations that recent security incidents in Pakistan originate from Afghan soil.”

Afghan deputy government spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said the strikes occurred around 3 a.m. in Nurgal district of Kunar province and Barmal district of Paktika province. Citing preliminary information, Fitrat said a local resident's home was struck, killing three family members and wounding four other relatives.

Fitrat said strikes in the Rakhah and Tor Kundi areas of Barmal destroyed a shop and an unoccupied house, but caused no casualties.

Attacks come after days of violence

The strikes came a day after six Pakistani security personnel, including two army officers, were killed in a shootout with militants in Hangu, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border.

On Friday, a suicide bomber struck a mosque inside a police compound in the Pakistani city of Kohat. Eight gunmen stormed offices, setting off a 20-hour gunbattle during which at least 21 people, most of them police officers, were killed and more than 100 were wounded, Pakistani officials said.

Pakistan calls on Kabul to dismantle militant sanctuaries

Pakistan’s Information Ministry warned on Saturday that the country could strike militants inside Afghanistan in response to attacks on Pakistan. It blamed the Kohat attack on militants allegedly based in Afghanistan and accused the Afghan Taliban government of sheltering and supporting groups that carry out attacks in Pakistan.

Afghanistan has long denied Pakistan's claims that it provides shelter or support to militants.

“Pakistan has both the will and the capability to eliminate terrorist threats wherever they are,” the ministry said. It also called on Kabul to take “credible, verifiable and sustained measures” to dismantle what Pakistan describes as militant sanctuaries and recruitment and training networks in Afghanistan.

No group had claimed responsibility for the attacks in Kohat or Hangu by the time of Monday’s strikes. Suspicion fell on the Pakistani Taliban, formally known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which has intensified attacks on police and other security forces in Pakistan in recent years.

Pakistan has repeatedly accused the Taliban government in Kabul of sheltering TTP leaders and allowing militants to launch cross-border attacks. Afghanistan’s government denies the allegations.

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Afghan reported from Kabul, Afghanistan. Associated Press writer Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece contributed to this report.

Williams and Daniels already were linked together as Heisman Trophy winners selected with the first two picks of the 2024 NFL draft. Now, the two franchise quarterbacks are dealing with potentially significant injuries at the same time after getting hurt on Sunday.

That’s bad news for Chicago, Washington and the NFL, which loses two of its young stars.

There’s hope Williams avoided a serious injury. He was seen walking around the locker room after the game with only a slight limp. But the Bears won’t know the severity of it until he gets an MRI on Monday.

It’s possible he could return to the lineup sooner than later but the Bears will likely be cautious with Williams, whose mobility is a big part of his game.

A worst-case scenario would be an injury similar to what Dak Prescott suffered midway through the 2024 season. Prescott needed surgery because a hamstring tendon tore away from a bone. That required a four-month recovery process.

Seeing Williams visibly emotional, sitting on a cart with a towel draped over his face was a scary moment for Bears fans, his coaches and teammates. After a rough rookie season, Williams had a breakout year with coach Ben Johnson in 2025 and led Chicago to an NFC North title and playoff win.

“I’m actually happy it’s nothing with the knee, that was my first inclination,” Johnson said. “But yeah, the hamstring could be pretty damaging as well. So, we’ll see how bad it is and we’ll go from there.”

Daniels has been through this before, which could prolong his recovery. He dislocated his left elbow in Week 9 last season, returned in Week 14, tweaked it again and missed the last four games.

Daniels was the AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2024 when he led the Commanders to the NFC championship game against Philadelphia. But injuries limited him to only seven starts last season.

Commanders coach Dan Quinn said imaging showed Daniels didn’t suffer a fracture and he’ll have more tests Monday.

It has to be concerning that Daniels’ left elbow has twice bent the wrong way on a fall in less than a year.

Dr. David Chao, an orthopedic surgeon and former team physician for the Chargers, wrote on X: “Joint comes out easier 2nd time. Original ligament tear heals ‘looser.’”

Quinn summed it up succinctly: “It sucks.”

The Bears (1-1) scored 59 points in Week 1 before losing 9-3 to the Vikings. With Williams, they have high expectations. They would turn to Tyson Bagent in his absence. If his test results provide positive news, Williams has an extra day to rest because the Bears host Philadelphia (2-0) next Monday night.

Marcus Mariota will replace Daniels for the Commanders (0-2). They weren’t expected to be contenders even with Daniels. Without him, things look bleak in a tough NFC East.

Here are some other takeaways from Sunday’s games:

Shaky Packers can win without Parsons

The Packers overcame a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter and beat the Jets 20-17 in overtime to finally win a game without Micah Parsons. Green Bay was 0-6 without the All-Pro pass rusher, including a playoff loss to Chicago. Parsons is still recovering from ACL surgery. The problem wasn’t defense against New York. The offense sputtered, managing just 199 yards. Jordan Love threw two TD passes but the Packers converted on third down just once in nine tries.

Resilient Saints are playoff contenders

After nearly rallying New Orleans from a 21-0 deficit in Week 1 against Detroit, Tyler Shough led the Saints to a 24-17 comeback win at Baltimore on Sunday. The second-year pro guided a 16-play TD drive for the go-ahead score in the fourth quarter. The Saints are going to compete in a weak NFC South.

Bengals’ defense is for real

Cincinnati’s revamped defense led by Dexter Lawrence and Jonathan Allen kept Houston out of the end zone in a 20-6 win. The Bengals sacked C.J. Stroud four times, forced five punts and four turnovers on downs. If the defense continues to play this well, Joe Burrow and the Bengals are Super Bowl contenders.

Mahomes is Superman

Patrick Mahomes had surgery to repair a torn ACL and LCL nine months ago. He looks like his old self already. Mahomes threw for 382 yards and three TDs in Kansas City’s 33-30 overtime win over Indianapolis. He ran twice for 17 yards, moved around in the pocket and made big plays.

Denver’s defense bounces back

The Broncos held the Jaguars to 268 yards and gave Trevor Lawrence trouble throughout the game in a 20-13 comeback win against Jacksonville. After a terrible start in Week 1, Denver’s stingy defense returned to form.

Raiders are Kirk’s team

Kirk Cousins fired three TD passes to lead Las Vegas to a 26-14 victory on the road against the Chargers. He’s got six TD in two games and the Raiders are off to a 2-0 start after going 3-14 last season. No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza is going to have to wait his turn because Cousins is playing well.

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The S&P 500 rose 1.5% and pulled within 0.4% of its all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 348 points, or 0.7%, as of 2:20 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.2% higher.

They got help from the price for a barrel of Brent oil falling 3.4% to $100.29. While that’s still much higher than its roughly $72 price from earlier this summer, it’s down from the nearly $110 it touched last week.

Oil prices are swinging up and down as some crude from the Middle East is able to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, though nowhere nearly as much as the industry and customers would like because of the war with Iran. Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson said another leg higher in prices for oil, gasoline and other refined products is the main risk he sees in the near term that could keep the U.S. stock market from rising to his forecasted target for the year’s end.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline across the United States has already climbed to nearly $4.48, according to AAA. That's up from less than $4.32 just a week earlier and from $3.18 a year ago.

Monday’s pullback in oil prices helped lower the pressure coming from the bond market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury eased to 4.97% from 5.01% late Friday after it crossed above the 5% threshold last week for the first time in three years.

Yields have been on the rise because of worries about inflation, big debt loads for governments worldwide and other factors. That hurts the economy because high yields make it more expensive not only for the U.S. government to borrow money to pay its bills but also for households and businesses.

Worries remain about how much oil is available for customers worldwide, ING commodities strategists Ewa Manthey and Warren Patterson wrote in a commentary on Monday. However, they said profit-taking by investors after the recent jump in oil prices, together with hopes for constructive discussions at this week’s U.N. General Assembly and at a meeting between China’s and the United States’ leaders, helped improve optimism.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters following talks Sunday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York that the U.S. had “a very successful engagement” with the Chinese side. Bessent said talks with China touched on trade and AI. China and the United States have been discussing reciprocal tariff reductions on $30 billion worth of goods from each side.

In Beijing, China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday confirmed that Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States between Sept. 23 and 25. Experts and policymakers believe trade, tariffs, and AI safety are likely among the topics to be on the agenda. The war in Iran and developments in the Middle East and ties between China and Iran could also be discussed.

On Wall Street, stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry continued to stabilize following their worldwide slide at the start of last week. Leaders of the AI industry have recently warned a slowdown is needed in the industry’s development for the safety of humanity.

Advanced Micro Devices rallied 8.8% and could finish the day with a total market value above $1 trillion, while Nvidia added 2.2%.

Stocks enmeshed in the cryptocurrency industry, meanwhile, rallied after bitcoin's price rose back above $85,000 and returned to where it was in January. Coinbase Global jumped 4.8%, and Robinhood Markets rose 4.2%.

Skydance-owned Paramount fell 1.6% as it reached a settlement in a lawsuit challenging its buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery, which jumped 10.8%.

Stock indexes around the world also climbed thanks to the easing of oil prices and bond yields. Indexes gained 0.9% in France, 1.2% in Hong Kong and 1.6% in South Korea.

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AP Business Writers Chan Ho-him and Michelle Chapman contributed to this report.

Will they eventually enter the Hall of Fame as part of the same class?

The first question is whether both will retire after this season. The 43-year-old Verlander has already announced this is his final year. He's made only one start in a reunion season with the Tigers, although Detroit fans are hoping he can return for another this coming week.

Scherzer's future is less clear. The 42-year-old right-hander is slated to start Tuesday at Baltimore as the Blue Jays try to keep their flickering playoff hopes alive, but Scherzer has posted ERAs over 5.00 both this season and last. He's on a one-year contract with Toronto.

Some other prominent players may also have made — or might be making — their last appearances in the major leagues. Trey Mancini signed a one-day contract to retire with the Orioles and was celebrated this past weekend in Baltimore. Andrew McCutchen and Carlos Santana, both 39, were released last month. Craig Kimbrel, now 38, has pitched for 10 different big league teams in the last six seasons.

Paul Goldschmidt is 39, but his team — the New York Yankees — is heading to the playoffs. And he may be more important than expected if Aaron Judge is out.

With a lockout possible after this season, there could be some retirements we don't anticipate. Rick Sutcliffe, Bo Jackson and Hall of Famer Goose Gossage, for example, never played again after the 1994 strike but didn't actually retire until the following year.

Trivia time

Who is the most recent player voted into the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA whose primary team was the Tigers? (The drought is likely to end soon with Miguel Cabrera and then Verlander.)

Performance of the week

Angel Martínez homered from both sides of the plate and had four hits in Cleveland's 12-6 win over the Athletics on Saturday night. The Guardians have won five straight and are closing in on a postseason spot. They have a one-game lead over the Chicago White Sox atop the AL Central, and it's another three games back from the White Sox to Toronto and Houston in the race for the last wild card.

In the National League, Philadelphia leads Arizona by four games for the final wild card, so anyone rooting for chaos this coming week may be disappointed.

Comeback of the week

Detroit was down 8-2 in the fifth inning Friday night before scoring nine unanswered runs to win 11-8 over the White Sox. Kevin McGonigle hit a three-run triple, and both Hao-Yu Lee and Riley Greene added two-run homers during the comeback. Detroit's win probability was down to 3.2% in the fourth inning according to Baseball Savant.

That's the only game the Tigers have won out of their last five. They've been eliminated from the playoff race, the end of a frustrating season in which nothing seemed to go as planned.

Team of the week

The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres both went 6-1, with the Dodgers posting the superior run differential. A three-game sweep of San Francisco leaves the Dodgers four games ahead of Atlanta for the second bye in the National League as they try for a third consecutive World Series title.

There are still health concerns for the Dodgers, with Shohei Ohtani on the injured list and Blake Snell having left his last start after one inning.

Los Angeles did get Edwin Diaz back, and he threw scoreless innings on back-to-back days Friday and Saturday.

Trivia answer

Al Kaline, who was inducted in 1980.

George Kell, Hal Newhouser, Jim Bunning, Sparky Anderson, Jack Morris and Alan Trammell have been elected since then with the Tigers as their primary team, but they weren't voted in by the BBWAA.

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Jurors convicted Richard Allen of murder in 2024 in the deaths of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, known as Abby and Libby. The case in the tiny town of Delphi went unsolved for more than five years before Allen was arrested, becoming a magnet for true-crime enthusiasts.

After Allen told investigators he had been on the trail near where the girls died, authorities found any way they could to convict him and make sure no evidence surfaced that any other man was on that walkway, attorney Mark Leeman told a three-judge panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals on Monday.

“We live in a world where one or two things happen here," Leeman said. "A pharmacy tech with no criminal history goes out for a walk to watch a stock ticker and look at fish and decides to gruesomely murder two girls. Or, we live in a world where the police through confirmation bias failed to find the right guy.”

Judges have plenty of questions about the trial's fairness

The three judges handling the appeal questioned why the trial judge didn't allow the defense to call an expert to testify that it looked like the girls were killed by unknown participants in a pagan ritual. They also asked why a police sketch of someone seen near the trail was omitted from trial, noting that the sketch looked nothing like Allen.

The panel also questioned why a defense expert wasn’t allowed to question whether marks on an unfired bullet can be traced to a specific gun, as prosecutors had asserted. And given that videos of Allen’s odd behavior in prison were shown to jurors, the appeals judges wanted to know why the trial judge did not allow the audio to be played as well, audio in which Allen claimed to be a king and that he had started World War III.

But the judges also asked the state several times if the decisions were harmless and whether the jury would have convicted Allen anyway even if the trial decisions being weighed had gone his way.

Indiana Deputy Attorney General Ellen Meilaender said Allen provided the strongest evidence himself when he told police before he was arrested that he was on the trail, but said he didn't see the girls.

“Allen denied seeing Abby and Libby there, even though the timeline evidence indisputably shows he must have done so, which was consciousness of guilt,” Meilaender said.

The judges will rule at a later date.

Crime scene had plenty of strange evidence

The girls’ bodies were found down a steep hill from an abandoned railroad trestle on a hiking trail just outside of Delphi on Feb. 13, 2017. The eighth graders were dropped off and never made it to their pickup point.

The teens’ throats were cut, and a few branches were scattered over their bodies. One was found nude while the other was wearing the first victim’s clothes. There was no evidence they had been sexually assaulted.

One of the girls took a brief video of a suspicious man nearby saying, “Down the hill."

Prosecutors said Allen was armed with a gun and forced the girls off the hiking trail. They said he confessed to planning to rape them before a passing van made him change his mind and kill them. An expert testified an unspent bullet found between the teens’ bodies “had been cycled through” Allen’s handgun.

Defense lawyers at his trial said no witness explicitly identified Allen as the man seen near the trail the afternoon the girls went missing. They also said no fingerprint, DNA or forensic evidence linked Allen to the murder scene. They wanted to call an expert to dispute that guns can mark bullets in unique ways, but weren't allowed.

Allen's lawyers say isolation led to mental breakdown and false confessions

Allen was held in solitary confinement while awaiting trial. He denied killing the girls for months, but his attorneys said mental stress from isolation led to a steep psychological decline. Eventually, his mental state became so bad he convinced himself he killed the girls and confessed several times, his lawyers said.

Prosecutors said the statements coincided with Allen seeing evidence in the case including the conditions of the teens' bodies.

Expert testimony of possible pagan ritual also excluded

Allen's trial attorneys wanted to put an expert witness on the stand to testify the killings appeared to be a ritual sacrifice by people who worshipped Odin, the king of the gods in Norse mythology.

The expert was expected to say the positioning of the bodies, the branches on the remains, the outdoor location of the crime and knife wounds to the victims all were indications of pagan rituals.

Prosecutors said the expert had limited examples and that defense lawyers shouldn't be able to present just any theory without evidence to back it up. They said it would have turned the trial into a sideshow.

Gerber died at a rehab facility, according to online records of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.

The death was confirmed by Allie Jenkins, a representative for Crawford and Rande Gerber, who were married in 1998.

“The family is asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time,” Jenkins said in an email Sunday night.

Gerber was a model and the older brother of model and actress Kaia Gerber.

Mahomes finished with 382 yards passing and three touchdowns, Walker ran for 117 yards, and Travis Kelce looked like a younger version of himself with nine catches for 101 yards and a score as the Chiefs improved to 2-0.

“The ball bounces funny ways. Things happen,” said Chiefs coach Andy Reid, whose team was on the wrong end of a lot of one-score games last season. “I'm sure there are going to be other ones down the road that will be a fight like that.”

Daniel Jones had 210 yards passing with a touchdown and a pick for the Colts. Jonathan Taylor had 92 yards rushing and two TDs.

The Chiefs thought they had won the game earlier in overtime on a bizarre sequence of events.

Butker kicked a 31-yard field goal to give them the lead, and the Colts (0-2) responded on their possession by having Jones throw deep to Laquon Treadwell, who had beaten L'Jarius Snead. Treadwell appeared to be bobbling the ball as he hit the ground, got up after he had completed the catch, had the ball popped loose and watched as the Chiefs pounced on it.

The play was ruled a fumble on the field, but the officials reviewed it and determined Treadwell was down by contact. That gave the Colts a chance to score a go-ahead touchdown, but three plays left them facing fourth-and-8 and a decision.

“Had a play called. Had to love the look to run it there,” Colts coach Shane Steichen said. “We took the delay and kicked the field goal.”

That gave the Chiefs another chance with 3:11 left in the extra session, and they handed off to Walker on three straight plays to reach midfield. But the backbreaker for Indianapolis was a 22-yard pass to the running back, which set up Butker's winning kick.

“I mean, I think guys were resilient, and we just strained to finish,” Mahomes said. “It wasn't always pretty. There were times we didn't execute at a high level. But guys continued to fight and continued to push and we found a way at the end.”

The Colts had chalked up a disastrous defensive performance against Baltimore in Week 1 to communication problems, and they hoped to solve them by having linebacker Akeem Davis-Gaither relay the play calls rather than safety Cam Bynum. But the tweak didn’t seem to make much difference as Kansas City was marched up and down the field throughout the game.

Each of the Chiefs’ first four drives would have produced points had Butker not missed a 51-yard field goal try.

Yet the Colts were able to match Mahomes and Co. blow-for-blow over the first 30 minutes. Tyler Warren had three catches and a touchdown, Josh Downs picked apart a Chiefs secondary missing safety Chamarri Conner for a second straight game, and Taylor had 75 of his rushing yards — the highlight a 24-yard touchdown scamper that gave Indianapolis a 20-17 lead at the break.

The Chiefs allowed Denver to run for just 61 yards total in their 31-10 win last week.

Kansas City finally slowed the Colts’ offense by refusing to give them the ball. The Chiefs held it for all but 2:22 of the third quarter, getting a go-ahead TD pass to Jalen Royals and setting up Butker’s field goal to start the fourth.

Indianapolis answered with an 8 1/2-minute drive that Taylor finished with his second TD run to tie it at 27l with 5:37 to go.

Neither offense could produce points down the stretch, though, leaving the game to be decided in overtime.

“It was great that the guys competed for four quarters,” Reid said. “You're going to have this. The parity in this league is crazy. You're going to have some once-score games. You have to bear down and and our guys did that.”

Injuries

Colts: WR Alex Pierce was carted to the locker room with a left heel injury early in the second quarter. ... DE Michael Clemons left late in the first half with a toe injury. ... CB Charvarius Ward hurt his groin early in the second half.

Chiefs: RT Jaylon Moore left briefly in the third quarter but was able to finish the game.

Up next

Colts: Host the Texans next Sunday.

Chiefs: Visit the Dolphins next Sunday.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved on. Rather than return to trade talks or wait for the next U.S. president to restore the old relationship, he is urgently building a future in which Canada is less dependent on America.

Last week, Carney embraced the prospect of Canada becoming the European Union’s first associate member, not as a step toward full membership, but as a way to reduce Canada’s dependence on any single country without ceding control over its own decisions.

“There is now a price to be paid for access to the United States market,” Carney said Sunday, pointing to tariffs, U.S. investment commitments and demands for domestic policy changes.

Carney told the European Parliament on Thursday that countries need enough economic strength to keep any one power from dictating their choices.

Building options beyond the US

He carried that argument into a meeting Sunday with French President Emmanuel Macron in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the French territory just off Newfoundland’s coast.

“Canada and Europe will build an alliance for the future that will strengthen our collective resilience so we can live our lives as we choose based on the values that we share,” Carney said while standing alongside Macron.

Carney’s relentless schedule reflects the urgency of his push to build alternatives to the United States.

He began last week in Toronto hosting some of the world’s biggest investors, flew to Strasbourg, France, for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union address, raced to Liverpool, England, to meet Britain’s new prime minister and returned to Strasbourg to address the European Parliament.

He met Macron in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon before flying back to Ottawa to meet Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. On Monday, he is set to open a new session of Parliament before heading to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

Europe becomes the alternative

Trump has suggested Canada’s closer relationship with the EU could amount to a “hostile act” and threatened “very heavy tariffs” on Europe if he judged the move unfriendly.

Canada could become a test case for other middle powers trying to avoid being pushed around by larger countries. In his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Carney argued that “middle powers must act together,” warning that “if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”

Støre echoed Carney on Sunday, saying tariffs should not become “a weapon to be used against countries, because we will all end up losers.”

The next major step in shaping that proposed relationship is an Oct. 29-30 Canada-EU summit in Montreal.

Unwinding 40 years of dependence

For Canada, that means undoing some of the reliance developed over nearly 40 years.

The 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and later NAFTA deepened integration, creating cross-border supply chains in autos, energy and manufacturing. Roughly 70% of Canada’s exports went to the U.S. Europe remains nowhere close to replacing the U.S. market.

Trump underscored that pressure again Monday, saying the United States was working on a deal to buy potash, a key fertilizer ingredient, from Belarus at prices “substantially less” than it pays Canada. The U.S. relies heavily on Canadian potash: Canada accounts for 79% of U.S. potash imports, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Carney walked away from trade negotiations in August rather than accept terms he said Ottawa could not live with. The talks remain suspended, and Carney said Friday that leaving the table was the right decision.

“It was easy business, but it meant we relied too much on one economic partner,” Carney said recently. “That time is over.”

Investment chair wants to ‘crank the non-US’

Dominic Barton, Carney’s pick to chair Invest in Canada and a former global head of McKinsey & Co., said diversification does not mean abandoning the United States.

“We can’t complacently count on it,” Barton said. “It’s not about, let’s not do stuff with the U.S. It’s let’s crank the non-U.S. Let’s be way more ambitious on that side.”

Barton, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said Canada has been too inward-looking.

“We are not very global,” he said, calling Trump’s pressure a “jolt” Canada should use to build more global companies.

Carney wants to double non-U.S. trade over the next decade and aims for a free-trade deal with India by year’s end. He said Canada’s tariff-free access to 1.5 billion consumers could double within six months.

Canada sells the trust America is losing

Carney is seeking to turn growing doubts about the U.S. as a predictable place to invest into an advantage for Canada. His pitch to global capital is increasingly clear: While Trump’s America uses tariffs and uncertainty as leverage, Canada offers stability, the rule of law and reliability.

“The most sought-after commodity today is trust,” Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said. “The world has changed and America has changed. And I think the world has taken notice.”

Trump may ultimately have done Canada a favor by forcing it to confront its economic dependence on the United States, Barton said.

“Maybe in 20 years, we’ll thank Trump for shaking us out of our complacency,” Barton said. “Let’s use the moment.”

The ambition has limits. EU “associate membership” does not yet exist, and Europe cannot quickly replace a U.S. market that buys nearly three-quarters of Canadian exports.

But Carney is hardly alone in concluding that Canada must rely less on the United States.

Former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the government “had no choice but to take this path.”

Harper said that conclusion was particularly difficult for him as “one who has long been and known to be a great admirer of America” and who regarded Canada’s close relationship with the U.S. as “among this country’s most precious assets.”

He said the Trump administration views the countries’ economic integration as incompatible with Canada maintaining its sovereignty, he said.

“Thus, to maintain that sovereignty, we must pursue diminished reliance on the United States,” Harper said. “I do find this all very sad, just as equally necessary.”

The annual high-level gathering at the U.N. General Assembly will also be consumed with major wars in Iran, Gaza, Ukraine,Sudan, Congo and Myanmar and a persisting question: Can the leaders do anything to end them?

And what can they do about the relentless rise of global warming threatening the future of the planet, the growing inequalities within and among nations, and shocks to the global economy as blocked shipping routes and supply chains increase the cost of living and slow growth?

The future of the United Nations will also definitely be on the agenda. At 81, its powers are still the victorious nations from World War II, not the 21st century’s major global players. The U.N.’s 193 member nations have agreed to a wide-ranging reform package that includes updating key institutions such as the powerful U.N. Security Council, where the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France hold inordinate sway because of their veto power. Reform, however, is easier said than implemented.

Behind the scenes, there will be speculation about who will lead the United Nations next. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ second five-year term ends Dec. 31 and no clear successor has emerged.

This meeting is still pivotal

There is still no question that the U.N. remains THE gathering place for its 193 member nations and their leaders. Some 130 heads of state and government are expected to speak at the General Assembly starting Tuesday along with dozens of ministers.

Among the headliners will be U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emanuel Macron. Both will speak Tuesday after Guterres’ opening “state of the world” address. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian speak Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — whom New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani wanted arrested for his treatment of Palestinians in Gaza until he learned he has no such authority — will address the assembly on Thursday. For a second year, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas won’t be coming to the U.N. because the U.S. has refused to give him a visa. He will nonetheless address the assembly by video the same day.

The United States, under its agreement with the U.N. to host the organization, is required to allow diplomats from all member nations to attend meetings.

Equally telling is who else isn’t coming. China’s President Xi Jinping is meeting Trump in Washington on Wednesday, yet he is skipping — some diplomats say snubbing — the U.N. gathering and sending a vice president instead. Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t coming either, and Indian President Narendra Modi has backed out.

France's U.N. ambassador, Jerome Bonnafont, said it is “extremely critical” for world leaders this week to support the U.N. as the place where the world’s nations meet — especially at a time of such polarization.

“We believe in multilateralism," he said, "and we believe that the high-level week is the occasion for countries in the world to reaffirm that they prefer cooperation and dialogue to confrontation.”

United Nations has not had a great year

There is no doubt it’s been a tough year for the world body. It has been pushed to the sidelines when it comes to its key responsibility of ensuring international peace and security and trying to end major conflicts in the Mideast and Ukraine. The U.S. failure to pay billions of dollars in outstanding arrears has left the organization’s finances in rocky shape.

But veteran U.N. watcher Richard Gowan, the International Crisis Group’s global issues and institutions program director, says 2025 was even worse.

A year ago, he said, people were contemplating that Trump would use his U.N. speech to announce that the United States would leave the world organization. Trump didn’t announce a pullout last September and the U.N. muddled through the past 12 months with financial troubles that forced cutbacks to its peacekeeping operations and humanitarian aid.

In recent days, the U.S. paid $725 million of its dues to the U.N.’s regular operating budget for this year, enough to keep the Trump administration from losing its vote in the General Assembly. The payment was a strong indication Trump will keep the U.S. in the United Nations.

The U.N. is no longer “in freefall,” Gowan said, but it “is stuck in an open-ended or permanent crisis.” Put more graphically, he said, “The U.N. may not be in emergency care like it was last year, but it does seem to be trapped in a trauma center for the foreseeable future.”

Former U.N. deputy secretary-general Mark Malloch-Brown, a United Nations Foundation board member, said, “While the world still trusts the U.N., the global public is eager for change."

AI is pushing toward the center of the agenda

The future of artificial intelligence has pushed to the forefront of global concerns, with its speeding advances and the dawning recognition that there are no industry controls, let alone any global guardrails for a technology that has many advantages but also many disadvantages and unknowns.

Days before the global gathering, leaders of three major AI companies warned about the technology getting out of human control and called for a pause, but Trump dismissed their concerns as “a hoax,” and urged continued advances to keep the U.S. ahead of China.

The U.N. Security Council added a high-level meeting on AI to its agenda on Wednesday afternoon, a sign of the growing apprehension and need to address the issue. It was already slated to hold a high-level meeting on Ukraine with Zelenskyy on Wednesday morning.

For the U.N. chief, this will be his last assembly meeting with global leaders. He previewed his speech last week, telling U.N. reporters that power is shifting in “an era of deep uncertainty."

“At a time when the world faces three existential threats," he said, “international cooperation is more necessary than ever.”

Others will be vying for the spotlight on issues from rising sea levels and funding education to the fight for gender equality. Hundreds of private meetings will also convene in U.N. cubicles, hotels, diplomatic missions and restaurants.

Esther Brimmer, a senior fellow in global governance at the Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in the Obama administration, said in-person meetings can help countries hash out ideas that get implemented months later.

She called the situation in 2026 “much more serious and complex than in decades past."

“With that said, I’m also not without hope as well,” Brimmer said. “Over the past decades we’ve learned a lot about international cooperation.”

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Edith M. Lederer has covered international affairs for The Associated Press for more than a half century.

This summer, citing similarly grave concerns, he took the rare step of delivering a primetime address to the nation, accusing China of “sinister election meddling” in 2020 and reviving his yearslong push to dispute his loss in that year's election.

Even as Trump seeks to decry Democrats as communists ahead of November's midterm elections, he is rolling out the red carpet this week for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leader of the world’s most powerful communist country.

The state visit comes as the president himself has increasingly directed his administration to take large stakes in private companies to try to stimulate the economy — something even some Republicans decry as corporate socialism.

The contradictions between Trump's words and actions risk muddying Republican attack lines on Democrats.

“I do think that we’re not offering a clear contrast," said Marc Short, who was chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence and worked in Trump's White House in his first term.

Trump and the GOP argue Democrats have moved too far left

During the recent Republican midterm convention in Dallas, the president repeatedly branded Democrats as communists, even proclaiming, “It’s going to be a communist country if they win.”

“In state after state, the Democrat establishment has been overthrown and replaced by crazed lunatics and radicals,” he said, adding, “America has beaten communism before, and we will beat it again."

That's a reference to candidates aligned with democratic socialists who won Democratic primaries in Michigan, Colorado, New York, Florida and Pennsylvania. Trump and other Republicans argue it shows the party is too extreme, although they exaggerate many of the political realities.

It is a way to shift the narrative in the face of a series of drags on the popularity of Trump and his party with Election Day looming. Those include an increasingly unpopular war in Iran, concerns about inflation remaining high and Trump’s approval ratings retreating to near historic lows.

Meanwhile, Trump has taken government stakes in private companies

The White House secured agreements giving the federal government stakes in more than 30 companies — including nuclear power producer Westinghouse, metals and element concerns and chipmaker Intel. It has ignored the criticism that this strategy aligns it more with centrally planned economies than capitalist ones.

“If socialism is government owning the means of production, wouldn’t the government owning part of Intel be a step toward socialism?” Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and frequent Trump antagonist, wrote on X.

During a recent House committee hearing, Connecticut Democratic Rep. Jim Himes told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, “I can think of no administration in the last 50 years that is quite as communist as the Trump administration."

The president insists more such agreements are coming. “I will make deals like that for our Country all day long,” he posted.

The White House didn't answer questions on whether it saw discrepancies between Trump talking about denouncing Democrats as communists while expressing fondness for Xi and having the government take large stakes in private companies.

Short, the former Pence aide who is now chairman of the conservative advocacy group Advancing American Freedom, said he thinks Republicans are taking “very legitimate attack lines" by painting Democrats as being too far left.

But he said the administration risks “picking winners and losers in the economy" with its private company stakes, as well as with Trump's proposal to send $5,000 to every adult American if the GOP retains control of Congress after November, and his push for price controls on goods such as pharmaceuticals.

“I think those policies, you know, lead to enormous, enormous intervention from the government into the economy," Short said. But he made it clear that he believes the measures don't come close to making the U.S. into a socialist economy like China.

Trump rushed to finish White House helipad in time for Xi

Even as he criticizes Democrats for cozying up to communists, Trump has bragged about his close relationship with China's leader, his chief global rival. When he was in Beijing in May, the president talked effusively about what “an amazing time" he had.

He’s not been shy about underscoring that he was building a helicopter landing pad he calls a “work of art” on the south lawn of the White House to impress Xi, while lamenting that his White House ballroom wouldn't be completed in time.

“I can tell you this: It’s too bad we don’t have the ballroom open,” Trump said Friday.

The president also has recalled visiting the Great Hall of the People while in China, and suggested the ballroom might become the “Great Hall of the United States.”

Trump's admiration for Xi is part of his fascination with strongmen, said Marc Selverstone, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. Trump has also boasted about his warm relationships with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“His interest in strongmen who are communist and strongmen who are not communists,” Selverstone said. “That’s constant, and playing to them is not unfamiliar to Trump.”

Trump criticized Obama for welcoming Xi to the White House

There is often some disconnect between the high and delicate diplomatic stakes of a summit during an election season — as evidenced by Trump himself the last time Xi came to Washington for a state visit.

In 2015, as then-President Barack Obama was preparing to host Xi, Trump — in the midst of his first run for president — criticized the pomp.

“Just take them to McDonald’s and go back to the negotiating table,” Trump said then, during a rally in South Carolina. He later conceded on Fox News Channel that Xi might at least be worthy of getting "probably a double-size Big Mac.”

After he won the presidency, though, Trump's tone has shifted. By 2018, he was even marveling at Xi's position in communist China, remarking that “He’s now president for life," during a GOP fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump's July speech was critical of China. But that didn't last

Trump briefly appeared to buck his soft spot for Xi in July during his national address when he announced the declassification of documents he said showed a pattern of China interfering in U.S. elections.

“Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen,” Trump said, without criticizing Xi or calling for penalties against China.

The documents ultimately didn’t reveal much new information, or support Trump's claims. And the president has since tried to downplay the alleged election meddling.

"It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then,” Trump said days after the speech.

Senior administration officials declined to comment on whether accusations of Chinese meddling in the 2020 election would come up during Trump’s discussions with Xi. But it's unlikely that the politics of the midterms will have much impact on the summit, said Ali Wyne, a senior research and advocacy adviser on U.S.-China relations at the International Crisis Group.

“President Trump was very quick, in the aftermath of the (July) speech, to focus his ire on the mainstream media, Democrats. He didn’t condemn President Xi,” Wyne said, further noting that, when it came to Beijing, Trump made it "clear that the U.S. relationship was still on track.”

There is just one problem: Tigrino, as he has been affectionately dubbed, doesn’t like the attention.

The small, spotted feline with large, leopardlike spots is easily stressed, so caretakers at the wildlife sanctuary near La Paz keep him out of public view, turning away the crowds eager for a closer look. When The Associated Press visited Sunday, Tigrino cautiously emerged from his shelter, sniffed the air and paced around for a few minutes before slipping back into the foliage.

Tigrino belongs to Leopardus tilcayo, the first living wild cat species described by scientists in more than a century. At just 18 inches (46 centimeters) from head to the base of his tail and 3 pounds (1.4 kilograms), he is smaller than the average house cat.

The discovery published Thursday in the journal Current Biology set off a flurry of excitement on social media. Visitors from across Bolivia and beyond have flocked to the Senda Verde Wildlife Sanctuary, where Tigrino has lived since 2017, when a family brought him there after trying unsuccessfully to make a house cat of him.

“Tigrino has become, in just a few days, an ambassador for conservation,” said sanctuary co-founder Marcelo Levy, adding that the new species designation has helped raise awareness about the need to protect wild cats and their habitat in Bolivia’s tropical forests.

“He’s such a tiny animal, and he has become something so important,” Levy said.

Moroccan young people’s struggles to find jobs and opportunity drove Gen Z-led protests last year and a surge of migration to Spain’s Ceuta this summer. Candidates like Yassine Moujane see youth concerns as central to the campaign for Wednesday’s vote.

“I used to plead for my clients in court, and now, the time has come to plead for Moroccans in parliament,” Moujane told The Associated Press in Sidi Moussa El Majdoub, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the capital, Rabat. “Young people can do politics.”

The 28-year-old attorney came to Sidi Moussa El Majdoub, the hometown of a fellow candidate on his party list, for the funeral last week. The candidates paid condolences, listened to grievances — and quietly asked for votes.

Some mourners welcomed their pledges and attention, while others remained skeptical.

Moujane is among the youngest candidates in the elections, running with the Democratic and Social Movement, a pro-establishment party. He has two small children.

The World Cup and jobs are priorities for Morocco's leaders

Moroccan voters will choose from among 7,288 candidates from 27 political parties competing for 395 seats in the House of Representatives, and the next prime minister will come from the party that wins the most seats.

The vote will be the first since the deadly youth-led protests nearly a year ago and a mass attempt to cross Morocco’s borders into the Spanish territory of Ceuta.

Young Moroccans were among the dozens of people who died trying to reach Ceuta, including a factory worker seeking a better job to pay his mother’s medical bills, a struggling soccer player and a high school student dreaming of a better future, according to AP interviews with their families and friends.

The next government will be under the global spotlight as it will oversee billions of dollars in infrastructure and development projects as Morocco prepares to co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

But it will face more immediate domestic challenges: addressing inflation and unemployment, and showing young Moroccans that the country’s economic transformation can translate into higher incomes and improved public services.

Morocco has developed a large automotive and aeronautics industry and its high-speed rail network is expanding. Tanger Med port has become a major global container hub.

The World Bank expects Morocco's gross domestic product to expand by 4.2% this year, but the growth has not generated enough jobs.

Few young people are registered to vote

The gap is particularly stark for young people. Official data put Morocco’s unemployment at 13% in 2025, but the rate among people aged 15 to 24 was 37%, while unemployment among higher-education graduates stood at 19%.

“Politicians don’t care about us. They only care about their own interests,” said Yassine Hasnaoui, a 28-year-old unemployed man from Sidi Moussa El Majdoub. “They come from higher social classes than us.”

People aged 18 to 24 account for roughly 12% of the country’s population but make up just 4% of its 15.8 million registered voters. Reaching the voting age of 18 does not automatically place citizens on the electoral rolls; they must actively register to vote.

For young Moroccans interviewed by AP, the frustration is less about political ideology than about everyday concerns: finding a job, affording a decent life and getting access to functioning schools, hospitals and infrastructure. Those are the same grievances voiced by migrants in Ceuta and by the Gen Z protesters.

Hassan Challaoui, a 32-year-old boilermaker from the same village, wants a school bus for children in his rural area. He said they have to walk about 10 kilometers (6 miles) each day — in the sun, rain and cold — to reach school.

He said he has watched the same political figures remain in power for years. “People didn’t change, but we want change,” he said.

Youth say they're angry at politicians, not the monarchy

Morocco is a constitutional monarchy in which King Mohammed VI retains broad powers, including key decisions on foreign policy, national security and strategic affairs. The constitution also gives the king the power to appoint the head of government from the party that wins most seats in parliamentary elections.

“Political power remains highly centralized in the monarchy, and parties are widely perceived by youth as unresponsive,” said Steven Höfner, head of the Rabat office at the German think tank Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

“As a result, many young people neither vote nor participate in parties, often citing lack of political knowledge, disinterest, and poor communication from political elites.”

Yet some young Moroccans said they see value in voting, in hopes it can influence decisions on issues like minimum wages, public sector hiring and family law.

When Gen Z-led protests erupted across Morocco last year, young demonstrators focused their criticism on the government and political parties seen as responsible for poor healthcare and education, rather than on the royal palace.

They called on the king to oversee reforms and viewed the monarchy as an anchor of stability. That set them apart from larger Arab Spring protests in the 2010s that called for limits on the king’s powers and a stronger parliament.

It's hard for young candidates to secure a seat

Moujane said he volunteered to defend protesters arrested during the Gen Z demonstrations.

“They had the same demands that we plan to address in our party platform: better schools, hospitals, housing and a better environment,” Moujane said. “They are valid claims.”

Securing his party’s nomination was no easy task. Unproven and unknown in political circles, Moujane said he had to make relentless phone calls to win over skeptical party leaders.

Now, running a low-budget campaign, he is attempting to break into a parliament where the average age among lawmakers is 53.

Tigrino pertenece a la especie Leopardus Tilcayo, la primera en ser descrita en más de 100 años. Este ejemplar —origen del descubrimiento— vive en el santuario de vida silvestre Senda Verde, en las inmediaciones de un río, en los bosques nubosos de los Yungas, cerca de La Paz, Bolivia.

The Associated Press visitó el domingo a Tigrino, a quien sus cuidadores guían con mucho cuidado. Salió tímidamente de su casita, la cual está protegida por una red, para no incomodarlo. La revista científica Current Biology acaba de dar a conocer su descubrimiento.

Sale a olfatear, se estira y, al sentir la presencia de alguien extraño, se pone nervioso y se mueve de un lado al otro. Pronto se oculta en medio de los árboles. Mide unos 46 centímetros (18 pulgadas) de longitud y pesa 1,4 kilos (3 libras), menos que un gato doméstico promedio. Tiene pelaje moteado, orejas redondeadas y cola larga.

Una familia encontró a Tigrino en la selva hace 10 años y lo tuvo como mascota, pero, al ver que no se comportaba así, lo llevó a Senda Verde, que lo custodia, dijo a la AP Enzo Aliaga. Él es coautor del estudio, el cual fue realizado por un equipo internacional.

A este santuario llegan animales con diferentes historias, tristes en su mayor parte, y se les apoya para restablecer su salud física y emocional. Cuando se recuperan, se permite que los centenares de personas que visitan el lugar aprecien a varios de ellos.

En el caso de Tigrino nunca estuvo expuesto al público para no estresarlo, señaló Aliaga, ya que, al ser un gato pequeño, se pone muy nervioso.

“Tigrino se ha convertido en pocos días en un embajador de la conservación de la protección… es un animalito tan pequeño que se convierte en algo tan importante”, apuntó Marcelo Levy, cofundador de Senda Verde. Él y su esposa Vicky Ossio fundaron este lugar en 2003 con el fin de ayudar a los animales silvestres.

En la actualidad viven en el refugio 1.200 animales de más de 70 especies.

Los científicos esperan que la designación de esta nueva especie llame la atención sobre la importancia de preservar su hábitat, el cual está amenazado por la deforestación y la minería en Bolivia.

“We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats,” Bessent told reporters after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York. “We think that just like any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the No. 1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important.”

Trump has resisted calls to slow down AI development, saying that would help China catch up to U.S. companies.

Standing together in the soaring lobby of the JPMorgan Chase headquarters late Sunday, Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the groundwork had been laid for talks between Xi and Trump set to take place on Thursday. They said the two sides had agreed to operationalize a new “Board of Trade” that the two leaders had discussed when they met in Beijing in May.

“Today those notions have become reality,” Greer said.

Greer said the countries were still discussing what “nonsensitive” items could be considered for lower tariffs, but that the list could potentially include consumer and agricultural goods, energy products and medical devices.

Chinese state media Xinhua said Bessent and the vice premier talked about issues “relating to AI” without mentioning specifics and also had “candid, in-depth and constructive” discussions on key economic and trade issues.

“The fact that both sides agreed to continue the dialogue is significant,” said George Chen, a partner and chair of digital practice at The Asia Group consultancy, in written comments. “The initial outcome — an AI risk notification mechanism — sets a precedent that other countries may follow.”

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Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong and Huizhong Wu in Bangkok contributed to this report.

It was the first Major League Soccer match with new manager Kily González in charge.

The match began with San Diego applying immediate pressure, forcing Miami deep into its own box as the Herons struggled to get out of their half.

That pressure finally paid off in the 12th minute.

San Diego found Anders Dreyer with a pass from 35 yards out, and the forward slipped behind Casemiro and Maximiliano Falcon before chipping the ball over Dayne St. Clair to give San Diego an early 1-0 lead.

It was far from the start Miami wanted, but conceding the goal appeared to wake the Herons up.

Lionel Messi quickly became the center of Miami’s attack, helping create chance after chance and winning several corners as the Herons began to take control of the match.

After roughly 10 minutes of sustained pressure, Miami won a dangerous free kick, and there was no question who would take it.

Messi stepped up.

The crowd at Nu Stadium went silent as the Argentine star lined up the shot.

Then came a moment of Messi magic.

Messi curled the free kick into the top-left corner, leaving the San Diego goalkeeper completely frozen as the ball found the back of the net.

The crowd erupted, filling the stadium with chants of “Messi, Messi, Messi” as Messi celebrated with his teammates.

Just like that, the match was level at 1-1.

After both teams found the back of the net, the pace began to settle down. Neither side wanted to give up another goal before halftime, and the match became increasingly physical as the clock wound down.

It remained chippy until the halftime whistle, with the teams heading into the break tied 1-1.

Miami came out of halftime looking unsettled, giving San Diego a free kick in a dangerous area early in the second half.

Fortunately for the Herons, the whipped-in ball caused no real danger and was cleared out of the box.

But Miami’s problems continued.

San Diego caught Miami sleeping in the backfield and found the back of the net, only for the goal to be ruled offside.

Ten minutes into the second half, the Herons still had not found their rhythm. Miami misplaced passes, gave the ball away too easily and struggled to maintain possession.

The Herons soon earned another dangerous free kick after a reckless foul by a San Diego defender.

And once again, Messi stood over the ball.

His free kick deflected off the wall and nearly found its way into the net, but the shot sailed just wide of the left post and out for a corner.

Messi took the resulting corner, but it came to nothing.

Miami’s pressure continued to build as the Herons pressed higher and repeatedly won the ball back. Messi had another opportunity moments later, but his shot went just wide.

Chance after chance came for Miami, but the San Diego goalkeeper continued to stand in the way, making save after save to keep the match level.

San Diego continued to create chances of its own, but Miami’s defense managed to block and clear nearly everything that came its way.

Eventually, the pressure finally broke through.

In the 75th minute, some excellent ball movement opened up the San Diego defense. Rodrigo De Paul found Luis Suárez inside the box, and Suárez made no mistake, slotting the ball into the left corner to put Miami ahead 2-1.

For the first time all night, Miami had the lead.

Now, the Herons had to protect it.

With at least 15 minutes remaining, Miami looked to slow the match down and do enough to secure Gonzalez’s first MLS victory as manager.

But once again, Miami couldn’t hold on.

Less than six minutes after taking the lead, the Herons’ defense collapsed.

Dreyer found space behind the Miami back line and raced through one-on-one with St. Clair. The San Diego forward calmly finished the chance to tie the match at 2-2.

Once again, Miami had let a late lead slip away.

The Herons entered the match looking to put an end to their recent string of late-game collapses, but instead found themselves in the same position once again.

Messi was fouled near the box, giving him another opportunity to put Miami back in front from a free kick.

For the third time in the match, Messi stood over the ball.

This time, instead of shooting, he whipped a pass into the box. San Diego managed to clear it away, sending the ball out for a corner.

The corner led to nothing, and Miami’s window to find a winner was quickly closing.

In the 94th minute, Messi nearly provided one final chance, forcing a save from the San Diego goalkeeper, who tipped the ball out for another corner.

Then, in the final seconds, Miami nearly suffered an even worse fate.

San Diego broke forward on a four-on-one counterattack, leaving the Herons dangerously exposed. But a poor final pass gave St. Clair enough time to make the save and keep Miami from suffering a defeat.

The final whistle sounded with the score tied 2-2.

The result marked Miami’s fourth straight MLS draw and the third consecutive home match in which the Herons entered the final 10 minutes with a lead before conceding the tying goal.

Miami will look to finally break that trend in its final match before the international break, when the Herons face Columbus Crew on Sunday.

Prescott's record-breaking 249th TD pass was his second TD of the game to CeeDee Lamb, who had 153 yards receiving. Tight end Jake Ferguson had the other two scoring catches.

The Cowboys (1-1) led 17-10 with the Commanders on the Dallas 1-yard line with 3 seconds remaining in the first half. Left guard Chris Paul stepped on Daniels’ foot as he backed away from center, and Daniels’ non-throwing elbow appeared to bend the wrong way as he braced himself and threw a wild pass that was incomplete as time expired.

Daniels stayed down momentarily, then started to walk to the sideline before going to the turf again. Upon seeing a video replay of the injury, Fox NFL analyst Tom Brady uttered a profanity.

Daniels’ head was covered in a towel as he left the field on a cart several minutes after all the Dallas players and most of the Washington players had gone to their locker rooms. After the game, Commanders coach Dan Quinn confirmed the dislocation but said imaging showed no fracture and that Daniels would fly home with the team.

Daniels missed all but one game in the second half of last season after dislocating his left elbow in a blowout loss to Seattle last November.

Marcus Mariota replaced Daniels, and he connected with Stefon Diggs for his second TD catch of the game to get Washington (0-2) within 30-20 with 9 minutes remaining.

Prescott led an 11-play drive the other way that ended with Lamb's 24-yard touchdown. The 33-year-old in his 11th season went 26 of 32 for 279 yards without an interception and extended his home winning streak against NFC East rivals to 20 games.

Before the injury, Daniels kept the Commanders close with his mobility. He had an 18-yard scramble on a drive that ended in a field goal and then a 20-yarder before his 4-yard touchdown pass to Diggs.

The Commanders were out of timeouts when they had a first down at the Dallas 1 trailing 17-10 with 12 seconds left in the first half. Daniels threw two incompletions, leaving 3 seconds for the play on which he was injured.

Daniels had 69 yards on seven carries while going 11 of 17 for 96 yards passing.

After Mariota led the Commanders to a field goal to start the second half, his second drive ended on the first play when Dallas rookie linebacker Jaishawn Barham forced a fumble by Dyami Brown on a screen pass. Dee Winters recovered inside the Washington 20, and Prescott's second TD pass to Ferguson for a 27-13 lead came two plays later.

Injuries

Cowboys: S P.J. Locke was helped off the field after injuring a foot away from contact on Dallas' first defensive series and didn't return. ... CB Cobie Durant injured a hamstring in the first half and didn't return.

Up next

Commanders: Defending Super Bowl champion Seattle visits next Sunday.

Cowboys: Plays Baltimore in Rio de Janeiro next Sunday.

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This set up will not break Monday afternoon. Similarly to Sunday afternoon, Monday afternoon will bring the chance of showers and storms ramped up by the heating of the day.

Watch for additional flood advisories to go in effect. Some storms could produce heavy rain that could onset localized flooding. Highs will peak near normal in the upper 80s and lower 90s.Rain chances will subside by the end of the week as a cold front is set to bring in a drier airmass.

Christian McCaffrey became the fourth-fastest player in the Super Bowl era with 100 career touchdowns, Brock Purdy played a near-perfect game and the 49ers overwhelmed the Miami Dolphins 35-13 on Sunday.

The 49ers showed no signs of fatigue after beating the Los Angeles Rams 27-7 in the opener in Australia and began the season with back-to-back wins of at least 20 points for the first time in franchise history.

“That’s what I was real proud of the guys,” coach Kyle Shanahan said. “That was the biggest challenge of this, just the human nature of what all went into Week 1 and the travel and everything and coming back after five days off. ... But we got a really cool team in terms of how much guys care about football how into it they are.”

The 49ers scored touchdowns on their first five drives and dominated the Dolphins, who spent the week since losing the opener in Las Vegas by practicing in nearby Napa.

Avoiding the travel was little help to an overmatched Miami team that came into the season with a record of more than $180 million in dead money on the salary cap.

Purdy went 20 for 22 for 287 yards, two touchdown passes and one TD run, completing 18 straight passes at one point. He connected on a 12-yard touchdown pass to George Kittle and a 6-yarder to Kyle Juszczyk on the first two drives of the third quarter to break the game open.

“For me, every play, every drive mattered. It wasn’t like we went out there and just blew these guys out. It was a game. and ... That where my head space was at. How can I move the ball, take the right looks and keep us ahead of the chains. That’s what my mindset is at.”

McCaffrey scored on a pair of 1-yard runs to give him 100 touchdowns in 114 games, with only LaDainian Tomlinson (89 games), Emmitt Smith (93) and Shaun Alexander (96) getting their faster in the Super Bowl era.

McCaffrey, who has 50 touchdowns with both Carolina and San Francisco, joined Marshall Faulk and Randy Moss as the only players to score at least 50 TDs with two franchises.

“It’s kind of crazy to hear that,” McCaffrey said. “I watched all those guys growing up. Marshall Faulk was somebody that I’ve probably seen every single snap he’s played. I don’t take it for granted. Randy Moss I played with a ton of time with Madden growing up. Those are huge, huge honors.”

Malik Willis went 14 for 23 for 197 yards for Miami but took four sacks and was unable to lead a touchdown drive until his 77-yard pass to Ryan Miller with 2:30 remaining in the game.

“They’ve got great players who are experienced and have been running this system for a very long time,” said Miami coach Jeff Hafley, who was an assistant for the 49ers in Shanahan's first two seasons in 2017-18. “When I saw Kittle and Juice after the game, they were here when I was here in 2017. So great players, great play-caller, consistency and continuity in one scheme over time usually equals success. That’s a really good team.”

Both defenses struggled to get off the field in the first half with the main difference being the Niners finished off their drives with touchdowns. Riley Patterson missed a 51-yard field goal on Miami's opening drive and the Dolphins settled for two field goals in the red zone on their other two possessions in the first half.

San Francisco got in the end zone with McCaffrey scoring on a 1-yard run and Purdy on a 2-yard run on the two drives for the 49ers, who led 14-6 at the half.

Injuries

Dolphins: RB Jaylen Wright (stinger) left in the first half. ... WR Caleb Douglas (ankle) left in the second half.

49ers: WR Demarcus Robinson and DT James Thompson Jr. left with what Shanahan believes were high ankle injuries and could miss some time. ... WR Mike Evans left in the second half with a hip injury but likely could have returned if the game had been closer.

Up next

Dolphins: Host Kansas City on Sunday.

49ers: Host Arizona on Sunday.

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Pulisic scored in the 14th minute to help lead Milan to a 3-0 home win over Lecce in the Italian league.

Pulisic had made two other appearances with Milan this season in all competitions, coming off the bench in both at halftime.

Pulisic's last goal for Milan had been in December 2025 in a league win over Verona.

“It hasn’t been an easy year,” he told DAZN. “I’m happy about the goal today, but right now all that matters is to keep winning.”

Milan had won only one home game since March and was booed off the field in a 2-0 home loss to Benfica in the Europa League on Wednesday.

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Coach Dan Quinn said imaging showed the dislocation but no fracture for Daniels, who was taken off the field on a cart at the end of the first half of the Commanders’ 37-20 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. The quarterback was set to fly home with the team and undergo more testing Monday, Quinn said.

“It sucks, and you can’t even really put it into words,” said veteran backup Marcus Mariota, who took over for Daniels. “You watch that kid battle through all that he’d been through last year, just very, very unfortunate. ... He’s got an incredible support system. We’re gonna do everything we can to get him back and get him right.”

Daniels missed all but one game in the second half of last season after dislocating the elbow in a blowout loss to Seattle on Nov. 2. That injury occurred when Daniels used his non-throwing arm while trying to brace himself on a fall, and the same thing happened against the Cowboys.

“I was just disheartened for him. I know what he’s gone through,” Quinn said, though he added that Daniels was in good spirits.

The Commanders were trying to score from the Dallas 1-yard line with 3 seconds remaining before halftime when left guard Chris Paul stepped on Daniels’ foot as he backed away from center.

Daniels’ left elbow appeared to bend the wrong way as he braced himself and threw a wild pass that was incomplete as time expired. Daniels stayed down momentarily after the play, then started to walk to the sideline before going to the turf again.

Upon seeing a video replay of the injury, Fox NFL analyst Tom Brady uttered a profanity.

“It took the air out of us a little bit,” receiver Terry McLaurin said. “One thing I know about him, he’s really resilient. And, you know, we have a lot of season left, so he’s going to be able to come back. We’ll be ready for him in his return.”

Daniels’ head was covered in a towel as the cart left the field several minutes after all the Dallas players and most of the Washington players had gone to their locker rooms.

Daniels endured several injuries last season after he was honored as NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2024 and led the Commanders to the NFC championship game. The elbow injury came after earlier issues with a knee and hamstring.

Before the injury, Daniels was keeping the Commanders close with his mobility. He had an 18-yard scramble on a drive that ended in a field goal and then a 20-yard run before his 4-yard touchdown pass to Stefon Diggs.

Daniels had 69 yards on seven carries while going 11 of 17 for 96 yards passing.

The Commanders were out of timeouts when they had a first down at the Dallas 1 trailing 17-10 with 12 seconds left in the first half. Daniels threw two incompletions, leaving 3 seconds for the play on which he was injured.

“I don’t regret the call. Obviously, any time someone’s injured you play the what-if game. I don’t think this is one of those times for me,” said Quinn, who at the time had not seen a replay of the injury. “I wasn’t hesitant about going in that spot. I thought we’re going to be aggressive.”

Washington center Nick Allegretti knew something was wrong as soon as he saw Daniels’ face and started waving for trainers to come out on the field. He spoke briefly with his quarterback after the game.

“He said he’ll be all right,” Allegretti said. “That’s all I needed to hear.”

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The man was in serious but stable condition at a hospital after being shot once in the torso on the capital city's north side, Austin officials said at a news conference.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, confirmed the man was in stable condition and “in federal custody pending removal.”

Homeland Security Investigations, with FBI assistance, is investigating “the officer involved shooting of an illegal alien from Venezuela, who illegally entered our country under the Biden administration and had a final order of removal,” the department said in a statement.

City police officers were not involved in the operation or the shooting, which occurred after a traffic stop, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said while briefing reporters along with the city's mayor and other officials.

Mayor says he wants city's police involved in investigation

Mayor Kirk Watson, a Democrat, said he wants the city's police department to have a role in the investigation so it can provide “clear, third-party eyes” in the process. Watson said he does not think it would be appropriate for ICE to conduct an investigation on its own.

Austin residents have “a right to feel safe in their city,” Watson said. A proper investigation will only enhance credibility, he added.

The chief said there were not many facts she could provide so soon after the incident but added that her department’s special investigation unit was at the scene.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said it received a request from ICE for assistance in a vehicle pursuit around 12:50 p.m. By the time DPS troopers arrived, the shooting had already taken place, the department said in a statement Sunday evening.

Attorney says man shot is from Venezuela

An immigration attorney representing the man’s family identified him as Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a 28-year-old Venezuelan man.

Attorney Kate Lincoln Goldfinch said in a video posted to her Instagram account that she believed he had no criminal history and no final order of removal from the U.S., but she later told The Associated Press that she did not know his current immigration status.

The man’s family has struggled to get any information from the hospital about his status or location, Lincoln-Goldfinch said.

Just before 7 p.m., the man’s wife was informed by the hospital’s attorney that the man had been released into ICE custody a few hours earlier, Lincoln-Goldfinch wrote in a text to AP.

“No one bothered to update her,” she wrote.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the man remained hospitalized while in ICE custody or if he had been transferred elsewhere.

Protesters turn out at the scene

A dark blue Toyota Corolla was parked under an overpass with damage to its passenger-side door and what appeared to be bullet holes. The car was towed away in the early evening and traffic began moving again.

A large law enforcement presence was present along with a crowd of about a hundred protesters. Some demonstrators cursed at police officers holding riot shields, while others yelled out as passing cars honked in support of the protest. One man held a sign saying, “Nobody is safe” and, on the other side, “ICE Nazi.”

Asked if Austin authorities knew where the involved federal agent is, given that agents have left states after previous shootings nationwide, the mayor said: “We do not know that. But my hope would be that, an agent that’s involved in an officer-involved shooting would not leave the city. Certainly not leave the state.”

The office of Travis County District Attorney José Pompa Garza asked that local police and prosecutors be included in the investigation.

“We further request cooperation from the federal government in giving us access to the evidence,” the DA's office said in a statement Sunday evening.

U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, a Democrat representing parts of Austin, called for transparency as the shooting is investigated.

“It is awful that this horror has come to our doorstep,” Casar told reporters. “For Austin to be safe, ICE should end its surge here.”

ICE enforcement surged around the nation over the summer

The shooting comes as ICE surges enforcement across the country this summer, producing more than 50,000 arrests a month for the first time in its history in July and August.

In July, an ICE officer fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, of Houston, after federal agents driving unmarked vehicles pursued him while he was taking his construction crew to a job site.

Also in July, 25-year-old Johan Sebastián, a Colombian man, was shot by an ICE officer in Maine. The officer is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told AP.

The administration’s enforcement efforts were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.

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Weber reported from Los Angeles and Boone from Boise, Idaho. Associated Press journalists Kimberlee Kruesi in Providence, Rhode Island, and Tim Sullivan in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

Officials ruled he was stopped on third down and scored on fourth — it could well have been the reverse — and that was good enough for the New Orleans Saints.

Shough scored on a fourth-down sneak with 1:28 remaining, and the Saints rallied to a 24-17 win over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. After Shough didn't score on third down, New Orleans elected to go for it on fourth instead of kicking for a three-point lead. The second sneak was called a touchdown, and that decision was upheld after a review.

“It's a hard play on the goal line because ... sometimes they lose sight of the football. I think it's a challenging play for everyone,” Saints coach Kellen Moore said. “Fortunate for us to get that. Obviously we're going to go for it in that situation. Chance to score a touchdown. If not, we're forcing them to be on the minus-1 and go the long way.”

New Orleans (1-1) had first down from the 2 before a penalty and a costly incomplete pass allowed Baltimore — with only two timeouts left — to stop the clock after the next two plays. Shough finally scored on a 1-yard sneak.

The Ravens, who didn't have a first down on either of their previous two drives, made it to the New Orleans 37, but Lamar Jackson's deep pass was intercepted by Julian Blackmon with 13 seconds left.

Baltimore had a 17-9 lead and forced a three-and-out with sacks by Trey Hendrickson and Mike Green. That gave the Ravens the ball at the New Orleans 49 late in the third quarter with a chance to make it a two-score game.

But Baltimore went backwards 16 yards and punted, then the Saints drove to tie it with 9:42 remaining on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Shough to Chris Olave. After a penalty on the Ravens (1-1) moved the 2-point conversion to the 1-yard line, Travis Etienne Jr. ran the ball in to make it 17-all.

After another Baltimore three-and-out — Jackson curiously threw long on third-and-1 and his pass to Chris Moore was broken up by Kool-Aid McKinstry — the Saints took over at their own 32 with 8:06 remaining.

“A play that we liked, thought we had a shot there for an explosive,” Ravens coach Jesse Minter said. “Obviously, didn’t work out, so it’s always going to be, you know, looking at it after the fact.”

New Orleans then drove about as methodically as possible, converting two third downs and two fourth downs to seize the lead.

“We'd like to not make it as close,” Shough said.

The Saints had to sweat out a review on the touchdown.

“We exhausted all available angles and could not prove clear and obvious that he did not break the plane of the goal line,” Mark Butterworth, NFL vice president of instant replay, told a pool reporter.

Baltimore beat Indianapolis 41-23 in Minter's debut as coach, but in Week 2 the Ravens did many of the things that got John Harbaugh's staff fired, collapsing in the fourth quarter and dropping yet another home game. Baltimore was 3-6 at M&T Bank Stadium last season.

The Ravens were without top receiver Zay Flowers against the Saints. Baltimore did have offensive linemen Ronnie Stanley and John Simpson after their status was in question, but Stanley (toe) left the game in the second half.

New Orleans lost left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr. to an ankle injury, but at the end the Saints moved the ball just fine.

Derrick Henry opened the scoring with a 1-yard run in the first quarter for Baltimore. After the Saints decided to kick a field goal on fourth-and-3 from the 5, Baltimore drove 80 yards and took a 14-3 lead on Jackson's 22-yard scoring strike to Rashod Bateman with 24 seconds left in the half.

Barion Brown's 53-yard kickoff return set up a New Orleans field goal before the end of the second quarter, and the Saints started the third with another three points on a 51-yard kick by Daniel Carlson. Tyler Loop connected from 49 for the Ravens to make it 17-9.

Saints go down to the wire, again

New Orleans lost in overtime at Detroit in Week 1 when its attempt at a game-winning 2-point conversion failed. This one came down to a huge play near the goal line as well.

The Saints trailed 21-0 in the second half before rallying to force OT against the Lions. Against the Ravens, they had 10 first downs to Baltimore's two in the fourth quarter.

“Our guys stuck with it all the way to the end, both games,” Moore said. “For both games to come down to one opportunity at the end, one possession, it's a good experience for our guys.”

Injuries

In addition to Banks, the Saints lost cornerback Martin Emerson Jr. to a shoulder injury.

Up next

Saints: Host Las Vegas next Sunday.

Ravens: Face Dallas in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.

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Los sospechosos serán juzgados en Florida, según Jason Reding Quiñones, fiscal federal del Distrito Sur de Florida.

“Hoy marca la siguiente gran fase en nuestra búsqueda de rendición de cuentas por el asesinato del presidente Jovenel Moïse”, escribió Quiñones en X. “Seguiremos la evidencia adondequiera que nos lleve, hasta quienes lo financiaron, lo facilitaron, lo respaldaron o cometieron delitos para hacerlo posible. Cinco años después, seguimos llevando a los acusados ante tribunales estadounidenses, y no hemos terminado”.

Quiñones no identificó a los sospechosos, y el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos no comentó al respecto.

Entre los sospechosos que permanecían en Haití a la espera de juicio figuraban 17 soldados colombianos y Joseph Badio, un exempleado del Ministerio de Justicia de Haití que formaba parte de una unidad anticorrupción. Badio, considerado un sospechoso clave, fue arrestado en Haití en octubre de 2023 después de estar prófugo durante más de dos años. Abogados defensores en Estados Unidos de otros sospechosos han afirmado que Badio fue el autor intelectual de un plan para usar el arresto del presidente para asesinar a Moïse.

Las autoridades han dicho que algunos de los sospechosos imaginaban un golpe de Estado, no un asesinato, y los soldados colombianos han testificado en Haití que fueron golpeados, amenazados de muerte y obligados a firmar documentos en un idioma que no entienden.

Familiares de los sospechosos sorprendidos por la extradición

El fiscal señaló que 30 personas han sido acusadas formalmente por el asesinato de Moïse; mientras que el agente especial a cargo del FBI, Brett Skiles, indicó que el domingo se realizaron múltiples arrestos en Estados Unidos y en el extranjero.

Skiles manifestó que el FBI y otros organismos “se mantienen firmes para garantizar que todas las personas que presuntamente buscaron lucrar con el asesinato de un jefe de Estado rindan cuentas plenamente”.

El Ministerio de Justicia y Seguridad Pública de Haití dijo en un comunicado que entregó a los sospechosos “para permitir su juicio”.

“Con el fin de llevar a una conclusión exitosa los procedimientos judiciales... el gobierno haitiano ha decidido fortalecer su cooperación con las autoridades judiciales estadounidenses”, indicó, señalando que los procedimientos en Haití “siguen enfrentando dificultades significativas”.

La esposa de uno de los sospechosos, Diana Marcela Arbeláez Llano, declaró en una entrevista telefónica el domingo desde Colombia que la extradición la pilló a ella y a los familiares de los otros sospechosos por sorpresa.

“Nunca pensamos que los Estados Unidos se los iban a llevar así de un momento a otro”, dijo, añadiendo que espera que tengan la oportunidad de demostrar su inocencia.

Arbeláez dijo que todos los colombianos detenidos están muy enfermos dadas las notoriamente inhumanas condiciones en las cárceles haitianas, y que, aunque espera que su salud mejore en Estados Unidos, sigue preocupada.

“No sé con qué fines los Estados Unidos se los habrán llevado”, dijo. “Es una incertidumbre total”.

Familiares de los sospechosos colombianos ya se habían quejado previamente de los repetidos retrasos en el proceso judicial haitiano tras su detención en 2021, con la investigación estancada por la violencia de bandas, amenazas de muerte y un sistema judicial en ruinas.

Funcionarios de justicia en Haití pidieron ayuda a Estados Unidos y Canadá en octubre de 2025, después de que un tribunal local de apelaciones ordenó una nueva investigación sobre el asesinato de Moïse, la tercera pesquisa de este tipo desde que recibió 12 disparos en su residencia privada en julio de 2021 en un ataque que también hirió a su esposa. Las investigaciones anteriores se estancaron porque jueces haitianos renunciaban una y otra vez al caso temiendo por su vida, y las pandillas tomaron el control del tribunal en el centro de Puerto Príncipe, donde los jueces estaban interrogando a los sospechosos.

EEUU impulsa las acusaciones

La extradición se produce mientras Estados Unidos continúa procesando y condenando a otros múltiples sospechosos en el caso.

En mayo, un jurado en Florida declaró culpables a cuatro hombres por el asesinato, y al menos otros cinco se han declarado culpables y cumplen condenas de cadena perpetua.

Entre los condenados recientemente figuran Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla y James Solages, todos los cuales se declararon inocentes. Un jurado los halló culpables de conspirar para matar o secuestrar al líder electo de Haití y de brindar apoyo material al complot.

Aún está pendiente de juicio Christian Sanon, un ciudadano haitiano-estadounidense a quien, según las autoridades, los presuntos conspiradores eligieron inicialmente para reemplazar a Moïse. Una vez en el poder, el plan era que otorgara contratos a una empresa conocida como CTU para proyectos de infraestructura, fuerzas de seguridad y equipo militar.

Ortiz e Intriago eran directivos de CTU, sigla de Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy y Counter Terrorist Unit Security. Mientras tanto, Veintemilla era directivo de Worldwide Capital Lending Group. Ambas empresas tenían su sede en el sur de Florida.

Entre los sospechosos que anteriormente se declararon culpables ante un tribunal federal en Estados Unidos figuran un oficial retirado del ejército colombiano y un empresario haitiano-chileno que en su momento fue informante del gobierno estadounidense.

Las autoridades indicaron que entre los prófugos clave del caso está Dimitri Hérard, exjefe de seguridad del Palacio Nacional de Haití, quien escapó hace dos años después de que una poderosa federación de pandillas asaltó las dos prisiones más grandes de Haití.

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Williams got hurt on a scramble deep in Minnesota territory with about 7 1/2 minutes left. The No. 1 pick in the 2024 draft was helped off the wet field on a rainy afternoon at Soldier Field.

“I mean you could kind of see in real time. I’m actually happy it’s nothing with the knee,” Bears coach Ben Johnson said. “That was my first inclination. But yeah, a hamstring can be pretty damaging as well. We’ll see how bad it is tomorrow and we’ll go from there. It’s quickly you’ve got to turn the page.”

The 24-year-old Williams had a towel draped over his head as he was carted to the locker room. He took the towel off as the cart moved along the sideline and pumped his right arm to rev up the sullen crowd of 58,914.

Williams was 15 for 26 for 138 yards with an interception. He also had five carries for 42 yards.

"As a teammate and as a good friend of mine, the connection we’ve built over the years, it’s super unfortunate to see him go down,” backup quarterback Tyson Bagent said.

Bagent came in, and the drive ended when Cairo Santos' 23-yard field goal was blocked by Isaiah Rodgers — preserving Minnesota's 6-3 lead.

Williams was coming off a terrific performance in a 59-37 win over Carolina in Week 1. He was 21 for 29 for 269 yards and two touchdowns against the Panthers. He also rushed for 65 yards and two TDs in the highest scoring opener in franchise history.

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