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According to the Lauderhill Police Department, officers responded to the 1500 block of Northwest 33rd Avenue at around 1:15 p.m. and found the wounded victim.

Police said medics took Steve Joseph, 23, to Broward Health Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Neighbor Verdis Whitehead ran out of his home after hearing what he thought was someone knocking on a door. Instead, he realized they were gunshots.

“I went over there to see what was going on and the guy was on the ground. He was bleeding out of his mouth and out his nose,” he said.

Whitehead told Local 10 that he tried to help Joseph who had been shot just a few houses away.

Neighbors told Local 10 News they heard about four gunshots.

“I heard shots fired. Then I started to hear the girl crying and screaming. Then when I came outside, I saw the deceased person on the stretcher, blood was coming out his nose and head,” neighbor Alsia Shakir said. “I was just in the house watching a movie and then I just hear shots fired. I hurry up and run to the living room, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh!’”

Investigators have since determined that the shooting stemmed from a dispute involving individuals who knew one another. They said during the incident, a confrontation occurred between multiple people, which ultimately resulted in Joseph being shot.

Detectives identified 22-year-old Roderick Daniel Thomas Jr. as the person who discharged the gun. Investigators said they contacted Thomas who willingly came in to speak with detectives about the incident.

Following the interview, Thomas was arrested for a violation of probation related to possession of a firearm, according to detectives. He has not been charged in connection with Joseph’s death at this time.

Based on the evidence gathered so far, including sworn witness statements, detectives continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting, including whether the use of deadly force was legally justified.

Authorities said once the investigation is complete, the case will be presented to the Broward State Attorney’s Office Homicide Unit for review and a determination on whether additional criminal charges are warranted.

Anyone with information on the “active” investigation is asked to call LPD at 954-497-4700 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

An LPD spokesperson said a “motive is currently unknown.”

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“I just want people who haven’t been voting to get out and vote,” one voter said.

Poll workers are preparing for the start of early voting Saturday, practicing to ensure the process runs smoothly.

“This is the most convenient time to vote in person because you can go anywhere in Broward County,” Broward County Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott said.

Early voting will be available at 21 locations across Broward County from Saturday through Aug. 16. The polls will remain open on those dates from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Scott said registered voters need to bring a valid form of identification to vote in person.

“If you have a state ID, driver’s license, that’s the best bet,” Scott said.

Voters can also drop off their mail-in ballots at any early voting location in Broward County during the early voting period. They do not have to use a location in the area where they are registered.

“Vote-by-mail ballots, we actually compare the signatures with the signature we have on file,” Scott added.

Early voting in Broward County begins nearly a week after early voting started in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

Scott said Broward County’s schedule is based on historical voter participation and the county’s goal of managing taxpayer dollars responsibly.

“In Broward County, we basically set up our voting system for early voting to match the population of people who are participating historically, and this is to be a good steward of the taxpayer dollars,” he said.

VIEW LOCAL 10’S 2026 VOTING GUIDE for more information about early voting in South Florida. Early voting in Broward County begins Saturday.

Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam hosted the candidate forum, and Local 10 News Anchor Calvin Hughes was the moderator at the City Hall’s Commission Chambers at 2300 Civic Center Place.

About the candidates

OLIVER G. GILBERT III

Wilson, 83, endorsed Oliver G. Gilbert II, a Miami-Dade commissioner and former commission chair who served as the mayor of Miami Gardens from 2012 to 2020.

Gilbert, 53, who grew up in Miami Gardens, earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and a juris doctor from the University of Miami.

SHEVRIN JONES

Florida Sen. Shevrin “Shev” Jones served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 to 2020, when he started his service in the Florida Senate.

Jones, 42, who was born in Hollywood and grew up in Miami Gardens, earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida A&M University. He also earned master’s and doctorate degrees in education from Florida Atlantic University.

KENDRICK MEEK JR.

Kendrick Meek Jr. is following in the footsteps of his father, former U.S. Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, who served Florida’s 17th Congressional District from 2003 to 2011, and his grandmother, the late former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek, who served Florida’s 17th Congressional District from 1993 to 2003.

Meek, 29, earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and a J.D. from the University of Miami. He interned with the House Administration Committee in 2015 and the House Judiciary Committee in 2021. He also worked as a White House aide on healthcare policy initiatives under the Biden administration.

RUDOLPH MOISE

Retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Col. Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Moise, a Haitian-American physician, served as ambassador-at-large for investment for the Republic of Haiti in 2014.

Moise, 71, was born in Port-au-Prince, and he was 17 when he moved to Chicago. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he earned a doctorate in osteopathy from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also earned a juris doctor and a master of business administration from the University of Miami.

JEAN MONESTIME

Jean Monestime served as a Miami-Dade County commissioner from 2010 to 2022, including as chairman from 2014 to 2016.

Monestime, 63, was born in Haiti’s Saint-Louis du Nord, and he was 17 when he moved to the U.S. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and a master of business administration from Nova Southeastern University.

RODERICK D. VEREEN

Roderick “Rod” Vereen, a criminal defense attorney, served as an assistant federal public defender for the Northern District of Florida in Pensacola and as assistant state attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit.

Vereen, 64, grew up as a U.S. Army brat, and he earned a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and a juris doctor from the Southern University Law Center.

MARSHAL L DAVIS SR.

Marshal L. Davis, Sr., serves as the director of the Marshal L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center in Miami’s Liberty City. It’s since 1963.

“We’ve got to look at what we consider to be the problem because with any problem, there is a solution,” Davis, 76, said. “We have to look at our potential and be expansive, and we’ve got to govern ourselves by principles.”

The mail-in ballot request deadline was Aug. 6. Early voting started on Aug. 8. The Democratic primary is on Aug. 18, and the general election is Nov. 3.

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Grupo Centro, the healthcare organization that owns Sanatorio Centro, a hospital in Rosario, Argentina, announced Jorge Messi died on Saturday morning.

“Our hearts are with our captain, Leo, and the entire Messi family,” a spokesperson for Inter Miami CF wrote in the team’s statement.

The South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, and Rosario’s Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys also released condolences messages.

Jorge Messi was a midfielder who reached the youth ranks of Newell’s Old Boys. He was his son’s agent and was involved in Leo Messi’s contracts with Barça, Paris Saint-Germain, and Inter Miami CF.

“I had the privilege of knowing and working with Jorge. He was a man of his word, and my thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time. Miami has embraced the Team Messi family as our own, and we mourn with them today,” Francis X. Suarez, a former Miami mayor, wrote in a statement on X.

During the FIFA World Cup, Lionel Messi told reporters that he was in tears over “a reason unrelated to sports” after going “through some difficult, complicated days.”

In June, Messi’s family released a statement reporting that Jorge Messi was “experiencing a health issue.”

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Our hearts are with our captain, Leo, and the entire Messi family. pic.twitter.com/nJ3umEpirU

— Inter Miami CF (@InterMiamiCF) August 8, 2026

La CONMEBOL lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento de Jorge Messi, padre del futbolista argentino Lionel Messi.

Acompañamos con respeto y afecto a Lionel, a su familia, amigos y seres queridos en este momento de profundo dolor.

Que descanse en paz. pic.twitter.com/QpTWIAgdBU

— CONMEBOL.com (@CONMEBOL) August 8, 2026

El Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys despide con profundo dolor y pesar a Jorge Messi, quien falleció a los 68 años de edad en la ciudad de Rosario.

Reconocido hincha leproso, empresario y padre del capitán del seleccionado argentino, Lionel Andrés Messi.

Jorge fue el sostén y la… pic.twitter.com/8dFPMRdM9Z

— Newell’s Old Boys (@Newells) August 8, 2026

My deepest condolences to Leo Messi and the entire Messi family on the passing of his father, Jorge.

I had the privilege of knowing and working with Jorge. He was a man of his word, and my thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time. Miami has embraced…

— Francis X. Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) August 8, 2026

In the third quarter of the Fever's 90-86 win over the Sky, Clark made contact with a referee when she was forced out of bounds and was called for a technical foul.

After the game, Clark said the contact was inadvertent and that no words were exchanged. She was hopeful the WNBA would rescind the foul.

“She said I ran into her,” Clark said of the referee. “I have already watched it on the tape. So, we’ll let the league decide. But, it wasn’t anything intentional or anything. So, I hope it gets rescinded. And, nothing was said.”

The Fever's next game is on Tuesday against New York.

“That's a bad call, incidental contact when you're flying out of control,” Fever coach Stephanie White said. “I thought her teammates should have come up and talked to her about that as well. I think that’s really bad. that (expletive) happens all the time in the game. you know, officials have to have some awareness in those moments, and it didn’t happen.”

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U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart released statements marking what he described as “the beginning of a new chapter for Colombia and its people” under Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella.

Diaz-Balart, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Terry Cole, the DEA administrator, were part of the U.S. delegation that attended De La Espriella’s inauguration on Friday in Cali.

“Yesterday was the start of a new friendship and partnership working as a team in the fight against drug trafficking and furthering our relationship in countering threats to our national security and public safety,” Blanche wrote in a statement released on X on Saturday.

Cole, a former Virginia secretary of public safety, also released a statement on Saturday saying that the U.S.-Colombia partnership had changed history before.

“DEA is ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with Colombia again. We will hunt down those who profit from cocaine, corruption, violence, and terror,” Cole wrote. “There will be no safe haven, no protected trafficking route, and no immunity for those who poison our communities.”

De La Espriella, 48, holds dual U.S. and Colombian citizenships.

The U.S. delegation also included Hugo Guevara, of the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá; Sara Carter, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Cliff Sims, a national security advisor to the vice president; Viviana Bovo, the acting principal deputy assistant secretary of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Joseph M. Humire, deputy assistant Secretary of War for Americas Security Affairs; and Kris Jarvis, the chief of international operations of the Joint Task Force Vulcan.

The Colombian military reported that a faction of the leftist guerrillas blew up a car bomb at a toll booth and injured two guards, The Associated Press reported on Saturday.

Also on Saturday, Colombian Gen. Jorge Mora stepped in as the country’s new minister of defense. His promise: “Recovering security, order, and tranquility will be our priority,” he wrote in a statement. “Colombia will once again live without fear.”

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— DEA HQ (@DEAHQ) August 8, 2026

Con la firma de mi posesión como Ministro de Defensa reafirmo un compromiso que no admite dudas ni retrocesos: trabajar sin descanso por la seguridad de los colombianos y respaldar a nuestros soldados y policías.

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— General Jorge Mora (@generaljmora) August 8, 2026

El representante estadounidense Mario Díaz-Balart emitió declaraciones que, según describió, marcan “el comienzo de un nuevo capítulo para Colombia y su pueblo” bajo el mandato del presidente colombiano Abelardo De La Espriella.

Díaz-Balart, el fiscal general de Estados Unidos, Todd Blanche, y Terry Cole, el administrador de la DEA, formaron parte de la delegación estadounidense que asistió a la toma de posesión de De La Espriella el viernes en Cali .

“Ayer comenzó una nueva amistad y una colaboración para trabajar en equipo en la lucha contra el narcotráfico y fortalecer nuestra relación para contrarrestar las amenazas a nuestra seguridad nacional y la seguridad pública”, escribió Blanche en un comunicado publicado en X el sábado.

Cole, exsecretario de seguridad pública de Virginia, también emitió un comunicado el sábado en el que afirmaba que la alianza entre Estados Unidos y Colombia ya había cambiado la historia anteriormente.

“La DEA está lista para apoyar nuevamente a Colombia. Perseguiremos a quienes se lucran con la cocaína, la corrupción, la violencia y el terror”, escribió Cole . “No habrá refugio seguro, ni ruta de narcotráfico protegida, ni inmunidad para quienes envenenan nuestras comunidades”.

De La Espriella, de 48 años, tiene doble ciudadanía estadounidense y colombiana.

La delegación estadounidense también incluyó a Hugo Guevara, de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Bogotá; Sara Carter, directora de la Oficina de Política Nacional de Control de Drogas; Cliff Sims, asesor de seguridad nacional del vicepresidente; Viviana Bovo, subsecretaria adjunta principal interina de la Oficina de Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental; Joseph M. Humire, subsecretario adjunto de Guerra para Asuntos de Seguridad de las Américas; y Kris Jarvis, jefe de operaciones internacionales de la Fuerza de Tarea Conjunta Vulcan.

Según informó Associated Press el sábado, el ejército colombiano declaró que una facción de la guerrilla de izquierda detonó un coche bomba en una caseta de peaje e hirió a dos guardias.

También el sábado, el general colombiano Jorge Mora asumió el cargo de ministro de Defensa del país. Su promesa: “Recuperar la seguridad, el orden y la tranquilidad será nuestra prioridad”, escribió en un comunicado . “Colombia volverá a vivir sin miedo”.

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— DEA HQ (@DEAHQ) August 8, 2026

Con la firma de mi posesión como Ministro de Defensa reafirmo un compromiso que no admite dudas ni retrocesos: trabajar sin descanso por la seguridad de los colombianos y respaldar a nuestros soldados y policías.

La seguridad es una obligación, una decisión y una responsabilidad… pic.twitter.com/Kryoid7x4E

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El incendio fue reportado alrededor de las 3:30 a.m. en un complejo de apartamentos en Northwest 19th Street, justo al lado de State Road 7, en la comunidad Lauderhill East para personas de 55 años o más.

Las autoridades dijeron que equipos de Lauderhill Fire Rescue y del Departamento de Bomberos de Plantation respondieron con decenas de bomberos para combatir el incendio.

Un video de celular obtenido por Local 10 News muestra grandes columnas de humo saliendo del apartamento.

Aproximadamente una hora y media después de la llamada inicial, algunos camiones de bomberos comenzaron a retirarse de la escena, aunque una importante presencia de equipos de emergencia permaneció mientras los bomberos trabajaban para extinguir los puntos calientes.

Funcionarios de rescate de bomberos dijeron que no podían proporcionar muchos detalles sobre el incendio, pero confirmaron que todos estaban bien.

El incendio parecía estar contenido en una sola unidad de apartamento, aunque la unidad abarca dos niveles. Los daños causados por el humo eran visibles en todo el apartamento y al menos una ventana del primer piso parecía haber sido destrozada.

La policía permaneció en la escena mientras los bomberos continuaban trabajando para extinguir los puntos calientes restantes.

The record is part of ongoing birthday celebrations for Houston, who would've turned 63 on Sunday.

There's also the fifth annual Whitney Houston Legacy of Love gala, taking place Saturday night, and a Whitney Houston Barbie — her first, ever, courtesy of parent company Mattel — releasing Sunday.

“It's a dream come true,” says Pat Houston, the executor of Whitney Houston’s estate and her sister-in-law.

In this interview, Pat Houston discusses the No. 1 hits collection, the new Barbie, if a “Michael”-style biopic is on the table and more. It has been edited for clarity and brevity.

AP: Why a collection of her No. 1 hits and why now?

HOUSTON: Whitney always believed that the ultimate collection represented the very best of her career. And you know, it brought together songs that defined generations. It broke records. It touched hearts around the world. And those kinds of hits were not just chart toppers, they were the soundtrack to millions of lives and a testament to a voice that will never be duplicated. So, you know, celebrating her No. 1s is really a no-brainer.

AP: There's also the first Whitney Houston Barbie arriving Sunday. She's wearing her 1987 “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” music video look.

HOUSTON: It is her first ever Barbie. And let me tell you something, what made this journey special is because Whitney and I had conversations about Barbie more than 20 years ago. And to see this vision finally come to life decades later is both emotional and very much inspiring. You know, it served as a beautiful reminder that some dreams take time. And when they’re rooted in love and purpose, you can transcend generations and that’s what this Barbie is doing.

Visiting the showroom and working hand-in-hand with Mattel’s talented team, it was an honor to witness how much they care about the creativity and the commitment they had behind celebrating Whitney’s legacy to make this such a meaningful experience.

AP: Music industry giant Clive Davis died in June. His legacy is inextricable from Whitney Houston's legacy. How do you view him?

HOUSTON: You can’t mention Whitney Houston and not mention Clive Davis and you can't mention Clive without mentioning Whitney Houston. Every conversation that Clive Davis has in music, he ultimately speaks about Whitney Houston. He played a very, very important role in her life. And it went beyond the music. They truly loved one another. He was a part of her and still is a part of her legacy.

Whitney would tell you herself, “I had the talent and the craft, but this is someone that revered my career.” And he did until the day that he died. And I so appreciate that from Clive.

AP: Next year is the 35th anniversary of “The Bodyguard.” Any big plans?

HOUSTON: There are some things that we’re working on. Until the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed, I never like to say.

AP: The Michael Jackson biopic was a smash this year. Would you want to do something similar with Whitney? Maybe a two-part film?

HOUSTON: Whitney’s catalog is incredible and that voice is matchless. Of course there’s plenty of things that can be done, but you don’t want to do an overkill. You don’t wanna oversaturate the industry without having purpose. It has to have purpose in order for us to put something out there or deliver something to you.

But yes, different things come to the table all the time, but we’re cautious and careful.

AP: And 2027 marks 15 years since Whitney Houston's death. How do you hope people view her legacy?

HOUSTON: Never forgetting that voice and what she represented to the music industry. Forget about everything else, it’s what she brought to the industry. Whitney’s voice showcased passion. Her artistry is incredible.

And there are live shows that some people have never seen before. I would love to come up with or produce some of the shows and present some of those shows that have never been seen before, because it would blow you away to see that gifted talent. That's probably one of my ultimate goals, I guess. It's not just movies. But just releasing music and shows that people in other parts of the world have seen, but North America hasn't seen, if you can understand what I'm saying.

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Fire rescue personnel from Lauderhill and Plantation responded to the fire in the area of Northwest 19th Street, just off State Road Seven, in the Lauderhill East community.

A witness recorded a video showing large plumes of smoke billowing from the townhouse. No one was injured, according to fire rescue personnel.

The cause of the fire remained under investigation on Saturday afternoon.

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The Republican-led Senate voted 50-49 to make Blanche the second confirmed attorney general since Trump returned to the White House last year with a stated desire to use the law enforcement agency to investigate his political enemies. While Blanche has already been leading the department in an acting capacity, his confirmation could free him to pursue the administration’s agenda even more aggressively.

Blanche said on social media that he was “deeply honored by the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me,” adding that he was “grateful” to senators for working late to confirm him.

The vote followed a tumultuous confirmation fight that exposed deep concerns — from some Republicans as well as Democrats — about installing Trump’s close ally atop a Justice Department that historically prided itself on its independence from the White House.

In the end, Blanche was confirmed by the narrowest of margins, opposed by two Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — and by every Democrat.

The path to confirmation for Blanche was unusually rocky, due in large part to Republican concerns about a controversial settlement of Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS.

Under pressure, Blanche publicly promised in writing that the department would abandon Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion compensation fund for the president’s allies, including those who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and rein in another piece of the settlement designed to shield Trump and his family from IRS tax audits.

His appeals were enough to win over Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, the decisive vote who threw his support behind Blanche on Friday morning. Cassidy said no other nominee may be able to run the department better under Trump and suggested Blanche’s role as Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer can make him more effective at pushing back on the Republican president’s demands.

“This is not a referendum on President Trump. It is a decision regarding Mr. Blanche in very specific circumstances,” said Cassidy, who lost his primary this year to a Trump-backed challenger.

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said confirming Blanche would be a “serious mistake.” He begged his colleagues not to be on the “wrong side” of history.

“If there is ever a moment in history when we need an Attorney General above reproach, who is clearly dedicated to ending corruption, even at the highest level of our government, it’s right now,” Durbin said.

Blanche’s loyalty to Trump left senators skeptical

The vote capped off a bruising confirmation fight, with Blanche’s loyalty to Trump at the center of the stalemate.

Blanche was elevated to the top Justice Department post in an acting capacity after Trump fired Pam Bondi in April. Blanche moved swiftly to advance the president’s interests, accelerating investigations into Trump’s perceived foes and announcing the settlement that created the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate people who feel mistreated by the criminal justice system and provided Trump and family members with immunity from tax audits.

The controversial settlement threatened to torpedo Blanche’s nomination until he formally rescinded the fund in writing under pressure from Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The deal reached between the senators and the department unlocked a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which advanced Blanche’s nomination earlier this week

Even after the deal, Blanche faced opposition from some Republican senators concerned with the settlement fund and the tax audit immunity.

Murkowski announced early Friday that she would join Collins in opposing Blanche’s nomination, saying the country needs an attorney general “who will check the worst impulses of this administration.”

Former prosecutor rises as Trump’s defender

A former federal prosecutor in New York, Blanche rose to public prominence as a lead attorney on Trump’s defense team, including during the Republican’s hush money trial in New York. He also defended Trump against criminal charges in the two federal cases brought by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice — an experience Blanche has said provided him a firsthand look at what he contends was the weaponization of the criminal justice system against Trump.

Blanche entered the Justice Department last year as deputy attorney general under Bondi, overseeing the agency’s day-to-day operations and serving as the public face for high-profile and controversial matters, like the release of millions of investigative files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Democrats have accused Blanche of prioritizing his loyalty to Trump above all else through investigations against Trump foes such as former FBI Director James Comey and a radical reshaping of the department. Under Bondi and Blanche’s leadership, the department has lost thousands of employees through firings, resignations or voluntary departures.

Blanche’s supporters say his experience as a federal prosecutor and the trust he earned from Trump in the courtroom make him better equipped than Bondi to explain to the White House the legal constraints of its demands. Republicans have also touted his efforts to bring down violent crime, tackle illegal immigration and combat violent cartels and drug trafficking.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary Committee chairman, gave a full-throated endorsement of Blanche ahead of voting, saying he’s led the Justice Department with distinction. “Mr. Blanche is the right choice,” said Grassley, R-Iowa.

It is unclear whether Blanche will fare any better in delivering on Trump’s desire for retribution than Bondi, whom Trump fired amid resistance from judges, grand jurors and the department’s own workforce as prosecutors sought to establish criminal conduct by one Trump foe after another.

Shortly after Blanche took the top post, the Justice Department moved to indict Comey on charges of threatening the 47th president by posting a social media photograph of seashells in the numerical arrangement of “86 47.” Comey’s lawyers are pressing to have the case dismissed, accusing the department of misleading judges, submitting documents containing false statements and withholding key facts.

Blanche has also appointed Joseph diGenova, a former Justice Department prosecutor from the Reagan administration, to oversee a Florida-based investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired over the last decade to undermine Trump. But it remains uncertain whether that probe will result in any criminal charges.

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Cunningham, who is white, was shooting a fast-break layup in the first quarter when Carrington, who is Black, came from behind and hit her in the head and neck, knocking her to the court as the shot went in.

Cunningham got up immediately, charged toward Carrington and pushed her as she was held back by a teammate.

The play was reviewed and upgraded to a Flagrant 2 after the referee said there was windup, impact and follow-through on the foul.

Indiana beat Chicago 90-86.

In the third quarter, Fever star Caitlin Clark was assessed a technical foul after she made contact with a referee when she was forced out of bounds. The technical was Clark's eighth of the season, triggering a one-game suspension for Indiana's next game.

After the game, Clark said the contact was inadvertent and that no words were exchanged. She was hopeful the WNBA would rescind the foul.

“She said I ran into her,” Clark said of the referee. “I have already watched it on the tape. So, we’ll let the league decide. But, it wasn’t anything intentional or anything. So, I hope it gets rescinded. And, nothing was said.”

Fever coach Fever coach Stephanie White said it was “a bad call.”

Cunningham has frequently come to Clark's defense after physical play by opponents and has become one of the higher-profile players in the league this season. In an ESPN article published last month, she voiced support for barring transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s sports, which led to small protests and rallies outside Fever games in Seattle and Portland.

In a memo to teams on Friday, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the league would have ongoing discussions about the issue of transgender participation in women's basketball.

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The Friday morning crash of a Sikorsky Skycrane helicopter in the Fishlake National Forest ignited a new fire that spread to connect with the existing blaze that has now scorched nearly 174 square miles (nearly 451 square kilometers).

Officials battling the fire said they decided not to place additional lives at risk until the fire is more under control, so they have not been able to confirm the status of the two people aboard the helicopter. The National Interagency Fire Center said the pilot and crew member were fatally injured in the crash, but they didn't respond immediately to questions about the source of that information.

“The site is now inside the fire perimeter itself,” the fire incident management team said Saturday afternoon.

The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the helicopter crash once their team can examine the wreckage. Officials urged the public not to speculate or spread rumors about the cause at this early stage. It will likely take the NTSB a year or more to determine that.

In Washington state, the National Park Service closed down access to the Sunrise and White River areas of Mount Rainier National Park after a new wildfire burned less than a third of a square mile (less than a square kilometer). Firefighters were working to gain control of that fire on Saturday.

The larger fires near Spokane have now burned more than 15.63 square miles (over 40 square kilometers), but firefighters constructed more than 75 miles (over 120 kilometers) of containment line to help control those flames.

Meanwhile in Oregon, hot and dry conditions helped an uncontrolled fire spread beyond 30 square miles (77.7 square kilometers).

Firefighters were still trying to identify the best places to set up containment lines around the Wrights Spring fire as they mourned the death of 47-year-old Jason Ensign, who was killed while operating a bulldozer for a timber company. The blaze grew rapidly Thursday and cut off Ensign’s escape route.

And north of the border in British Columbia, more than 20,000 people had to evacuate ahead of another fast-moving wildfire.

El siniestro ocurrió en la madrugada, cuando una miniván que se trasladaba por el kilómetro 250 de la carretera entre Cusco y Arequipa se impactó contra un tráiler que presumiblemente presentó una avería mecánica y quedó varado en el borde de la vía, indicó a la prensa el coronel Carlos Guisado, jefe policial de la región del Cusco.

Entre las víctimas se encuentra el conductor de la miniván, al que se identificó como Rómulo Guamaní, de 36 años. El conductor del tráiler, que habría rendido su versión, fue detenido, agregó Guisado.

Los heridos son atendidos en el hospital de Arequipa, y los cuerpos se encuentran en la morgue para las pericias forenses, explicó el mando de la policía. La investigación sobre las causas del percance está en marcha.

El siniestro ocurre una semana después del choque entre dos autobuses que dejó cinco personas muertas, también en el sur de Perú.

La vigilancia del transporte por carretera en este país es débil y el auxilio es lento. En 2025, se registraron 3.428 muertos producto de incidentes de tránsito, según datos oficiales.

El coronel Guisado hizo un llamado a los conductores a tener responsabilidad sobre la seguridad vial y admitió que aunque la policía de carreteras realiza patrullajes “no se dan abasto por lo extenso de la carretera”.

Shanahan has been working his way back to full speed since the car crash on July 14 that left him with a concussion, broken ribs, a broken nose, a broken hand and more than 40 stitches to close a cut over his eye. In his first news conference of training camp, he said he has just a few remaining symptoms from the concussion.

“I’m doing real good,” he said. “My body feels good. Just got to get this annoying cast off. My ribs feel good, except when I sneeze, and my head feels so much better. Concussions do linger a little bit. The only things I really deal with now is just headaches and fatigue. That’s why I’m not always exactly on the same routine, but pretty damn close.”

Shanahan has been at practice every day this summer and said that the loud music that bothered him at the beginning of camp is no longer an issue. He has only addressed the full team at meetings a few times and didn't feel ready to hold a news conference until after practice on Saturday.

But he said he has been doing the most important parts of his job and that he will be on the sideline for the exhibition opener against Tennessee.

“One thing I haven’t missed anything of is film,” he said. “I watch every single play with the coaches after with the players. I have had a few team meetings. Normally I do it every day. But I do lose a little when I do stuff, so I’ve just had to pick and choose a little bit more. But as far as the film and everything, being out there for all the practice periods of going against each other, those are to me the most important things in my job. I’ve been able to do those every day.”

The 49ers are entering a crucial part of the summer with a joint practice on Tuesday with the Titans ahead of the exhibition opener. The Niners are scheduled to have another joint practice the following week with the Chargers before their second exhibition game and then wrap up the preseason on Aug. 27 against Las Vegas. The team the leaves the following week for Australia, where the 49ers will open the season on Sept. 11 against the Los Angeles Rams.

Shanahan said he thought he would have been back at full strength sooner but is glad he has taken the extra time. He said being patient was easier because of the confidence he had in acting coach Chris Foerster, along with coordinators Klay Kubiak, Raheem Morris and Brant Boyer.

“It made it really easy for me not to worry about me having to do something,” he said. “Our guys are awesome. We have a pretty well-oiled machine. We’ve been here for, this is our 10th year. Those guys made it very easy for me to not do anything stupid.”

Shanahan took the blame for the crash into a car driven by a 21-year-old woman in Palo Alto last month, saying it happened when he reached for his phone. Shanahan was the only person who needed to be hospitalized and police didn't issue him a ticket for the cellphone use.

“Any time you cause an accident that can be avoided, you’d feel pretty stupid, especially when you have a chance to hurt someone else,” he said. I think you get mad when you get a ticket at yourself. So it was kind of the same."

Shanahan said he was driving about 20 mph and his Tesla was in autopilot mode when the crash happened but said he still shouldn't have taken his eyes off the road when he reached behind his seat for his phone.

“I’ve had autopilot for nine years, so I’m pretty comfortable with it,” he said. “Who knows what happened when I turned around, whether it malfunctioned or whether I knocked it off. That’s something that I don’t know yet. But regardless, that is always your fault, whether you’re in autopilot or not. You can’t take your eyes off the road. It’s a partnership driving. You don’t just turn it over to a computer. It’s a good lesson, no matter how comfortable I am with that, that I believe someday could save my life or someone else’s.”

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“Healthcare shouldn’t bankrupt you, housing should not feel impossible, polluters shouldn’t pass their bill to us and artists should not be replaced by AI,” Smith said. ”That’s why I’m supporting Tom Steyer for governor.”

But Smith started the video with a disclaimer: “This is an ad, and honestly, I wish more political content said that first.” His caption specified that he was paid by Steyer’s campaign.

California is one of two states, along with Texas, that have passed policies requiring content creators to say if they’ve been paid by a political campaign to post, and the Golden State is considering cracking down by fining people who don’t.

Campaigns have long worked with celebrities and major influencers to win over voters, but now they are teaming up with smaller creators — sometimes with fewer than 100,000 followers — to reach more tailored audiences. That has sparked debates about whether disclosure rules for political advertisements should apply to content creators, who are expected to play prominent roles in the upcoming midterms and the 2028 presidential election.

“If you’re running for president and you are not currently trying to court some of these people or lining up your own people to act as surrogates for you, you’re already behind,” said Mike Nellis, a Democratic strategist who worked for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.

Campaigns tap creators to spread their message

Questions about transparency have been fueled by high-profile instances of influencers making content intended to change minds or votes without disclosing they were paid for it.

In 2022, the campaign of then-Senate candidate John Fetterman paid Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi of “Jersey Shore” to record a video teasing his GOP rival for leaving New Jersey before announcing his run in Pennsylvania. In 2023, content creators were paid by an influencer marketing agency with conservative ties to defend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, after he was impeached for alleged bribery and other accusations of misconduct, according to the Texas Tribune. The payments weren’t clearly disclosed in either case.

Steyer, a Democratic billionaire who spent more than $215 million of his own money in his unsuccessful bid for governor, took fire from rivals for paying content creators. He wasn’t the only hopeful in the race paying influencers, but he faced much of the blowback since he’d already been accused of trying to buy the election. Many of the creators who worked with Steyer’s campaign disclosed that they were paid, but the state’s campaign finance watchdog is investigating several other instances in which creators allegedly didn’t.

There are no federal disclosure rules

California Sen. Adam Schiff introduced federal legislation last month, but it hasn’t received a vote yet. Some outside groups are urging the Federal Election Commission to pass its own rule.

California’s law requiring disclosure, passed in 2023, is difficult to enforce. The state’s campaign watchdog can seek a court order compelling an influencer to disclose that they were paid, but that can take months.

That prompted Democratic Assemblymember Marc Berman to write a new bill to penalize content creators and political committees if the creator fails to state they were compensated. The bill would give the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission the power to fine influencers and committees if they are found to have violated the law, allowing the commission to bypass the court process. They could face fines of up to $5,000 per violation, according to the commission.

“Voters should have a right to know whether or not campaigns are paying for the messaging that they’re seeing,” Berman said.

Texas’ campaign watchdog passed a rule in 2024 requiring content creators to include disclaimers when they are paid for political advertisements, and the New York Legislature is considering a similar requirement. Other disclosure bills failed in recent years in Utah and Georgia.

Influencer says his ad had an impact

Smith, the L.A. influencer, hadn’t committed to a candidate for governor when a trusted friend told him to look into Steyer. That friend had been paid to post about Steyer.

Smith liked Steyer’s promise to increase taxes on billionaires and his refusal to accept donations from corporate political action committees.

He ended up doing two paid ads, both of which included compensation disclaimers that the Steyer campaign told him were a requirement.

Smith wouldn’t say exactly how much the campaign paid him, but he said it was in the thousands of dollars. He thinks the posts had an impact on his followers, with only a few detractors pushing back.

“They kind of trust my voice,” he said of his audience. “They knew that if I’m saying it, it’s at least something they should look into.”

Creators respond to proposed policy changes

Dustin Torreverde, a content creator in Southern California who hasn’t been paid by a political campaign for social media posts, said it’s important for influencers to be transparent with their audiences. But the bill could pose an unfair burden on creators who are just trying to make a living, he said.

“A lot of us are very small creators,” he said. “So if we were to get penalized and we have to get lawyers, stuff like that, it’s going to be very difficult for us.”

Adina Flores, a libertarian content creator in Northern California who votes for both parties, said influencers should have to disclose if they are paid and she generally supports penalties. She worries that some people may take money to post political content without doing a “deep dive into the candidate to make sure that’s somebody they should support.”

Saurav Ghosh, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit focused on protecting U.S. democracy, hopes disclosure requirements passed by states will lead to federal rules.

“Transparency is one of the most important pillars of our election system,” he said.

Grupo Centro, la organización de atención médica propietaria del Sanatorio Centro, un hospital en Rosario, Argentina, anunció que Jorge Messi murió la mañana del sábado.

“Nuestros corazones están con nuestro capitán, Leo, y con toda la familia Messi”, escribió un portavoz de Inter Miami CF en el comunicado del equipo.

La Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol, CONMEBOL, y el Club Atlético Newell”s Old Boys de Rosario también emitieron mensajes de condolencias.

Jorge Messi fue mediocampista y llegó a las categorías juveniles de Newell”s Old Boys. Fue agente de su hijo y estuvo involucrado en los contratos de Leo Messi con el Barça, Paris Saint-Germain e Inter Miami CF.

“Tuve el privilegio de conocer y trabajar con Jorge. Era un hombre de palabra, y mis pensamientos y oraciones están con su familia durante este momento difícil. Miami ha acogido a la familia del Team Messi como propia, y hoy lamentamos su pérdida junto a ellos”, escribió Francis X. Suarez, ex alcalde de Miami, en un comunicado en X.

Durante la Copa Mundial de la FIFA, Lionel Messi dijo a los periodistas que estaba llorando por “una razón no relacionada con el deporte” después de pasar “por algunos días difíciles y complicados”.

En junio, la familia de Messi emitió un comunicado informando que Jorge Messi estaba “atravesando un problema de salud”.

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the agreement in the Saudi holy city of Mecca on Friday. It states that an attack on one would be considered an attack on all three.

The “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” brings together oil-rich Saudi Arabia and nuclear power Pakistan as well as Turkey, which has NATO’s second-largest army and a rapidly growing defense industry. It deepens cooperation and deterrence at a time of increased regional uncertainty and threats from the war in Iran.

In an interview with Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan insisted that the three countries do not view any particular state as an adversary unless they take hostile action against them.

“We don’t have anything written down — nothing we’ve signed — that defines a common threat,” Fidan said. “Any country that does not attack us is not a target for us.”

The Turkish minister described the agreement's clause on mutual defense as being “technically the same” as NATO's Article 5, under which an attack on one of the 32 members is considered an attack on them all.

Asked how the mechanism would work, Fidan said a member would need to formally request help and that the other two countries’ assistance could range from intelligence sharing to logistic support — or the deployment of military units depending on the threat.

“These are multi‑layered matters that vary according to the scale of the threat,” Fidan said. “This is the perspective we have set out so far in our work.”

The Turkish minister said other nations — which he did not name — have expressed interest in joining the agreement, adding that he expects Egypt, which he described as a “natural partner,” to participate “at the next stage.”

Under the deal, the foreign and defense ministers of the three countries, along with their military chiefs, would hold regular committee meetings. The three countries would also establish a secretariat, to be based in Saudi Arabia, Fidan said.

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Reports say Jorge Messi died around 2 a.m. Saturday at Grupo Centro, a medical center in his hometown of Rosario, Argentina. The Messi family has not publicly disclosed the cause of death.

Newell’s Old Boys confirmed his death Saturday in a statement expressing “deep sorrow and grief” over the loss of Jorge Messi, whom the club described as a lifelong fan, businessman and father of Argentina/Inter Miami CF captain Lionel Messi.

“Jorge was the pillar and the person who supported with vision, rigor and affection the career of the greatest player of all time alongside his wife, Celia Cuccittini,” the club said. “His constant companionship and behind-the-scenes leadership were essential in backing every step of Lionel, from his beginnings at Malvinas to the pinnacle of world football glory.”

Jorge Messi played a central role in his son’s life and career, supporting Lionel from his early years in Rosario through his rise to global soccer stardom. He also served as his son’s agent and adviser for much of his professional career.

The Messi family confirmed to ESPN in June that Jorge Messi was dealing with a health issue and was under medical supervision.

“He is currently under medical supervision, recovering, and progressing favorably within his current condition,” the family said in a statement at the time.

Lionel Messi became emotional after scoring his first goal against Algeria in Argentina’s opening match of the 2026 World Cup, later saying his tears were connected to personal matters outside of soccer.

“Our hearts are with our captain, Leo, and the entire Messi family,” said Inter Miami in a statement.

In Rosario, a sign at the VIP Rosario restaurant, one of the Messi family’s gastronomic ventures, indicated that it was closed for the day.

The president of Argentina’s soccer federation, Claudio Tapia, on Saturday issued a lengthy statement in which he recognized Jorge Messi “for having raised a person of values: humble, respectful, and deeply committed to others.”

The organization ordered a moment of silence to be observed at all matches across all categories of Argentine soccer and mandated that players, referees and coaching staff wear black armbands.

No other details about Jorge Messi’s death were immediately released.

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Getting benched three times in the NFL helped him get there.

“Marty Schottenheimer, one of the greatest coaches and motivators to ever coach this game and who belongs here in Canton,” Brees said Saturday. “Marty was my biggest fan. He would tell me all the time, even as he benched me three times and made me fight for my job every year with two greats, Doug Flutie and Philip Rivers.

“The first two times I got benched, I deserved it. The third time, I still don’t think I deserved it, Coach. But nonetheless, it lit more than a fire. It forced me to access a place in my mind and heart that I had not yet been. The adversity was not expected, but very necessary. I would never have reached the heights I did without it. I knew I needed to play better, but more importantly, I knew he believed I would play better.”

Brees eventually left the San Diego Chargers and joined the New Orleans Saints, where he won a Super Bowl playing for coach Sean Payton and became one of the most prolific passers in NFL history, to the delight of fans who filled the Superdome with chants of “Who dat?”

Payton took time off from coaching Denver to introduce Brees on stage.

Brees got emotional thanking Payton.

“You always had a plan and vision for every player you coached,” Brees said. “I’m not sure if this is how you envisioned my journey or how big a role you would play in it, but I love you for it.”

Brees has the second-most yards passing (80,358) and touchdown passes (571) in league history, behind only Tom Brady. He was a first-ballot selection and joined a class that includes Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, Adam Vinatieri and Roger Craig.

“I often ask myself how in the world did I play 20 years in the NFL,” Brees said. “Yes, it was for the love of the game. Yes, it was a relentless attempt to master my craft. Yes, it was the grind and challenge of preparation and the thrill of game day. But you want to know what it really was: for the love of my teammates. I would wake up every day with a burning desire to commit, sacrifice and command in a way that would give them everything they deserved.”

Larry Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald was the first player to have his bronze bust revealed on stage Saturday at Tom Benson Stadium.

The 11-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, who played his entire 17-year career for the Cardinals, was introduced by the oldest of his three sons, Devin.

He finished his speech with a message to his boys that’s applicable to everyone.

“Don’t just pursue excellence for yourself,” Fitzgerald said. “Help other people pursue it, too. That’s the part of this story that matters the most. Not the likes. Not the fame. But the people you travel with. The values you uphold. In the end, it’s not just about the excellence. It’s about the people who help get you there.”

Being drafted No. 3 overall in 2004 by Cardinals coach Dennis Green reunited Fitzgerald with the man who was Minnesota’s coach when he was a ball boy for the Vikings.

“When coach Green hired me as a ball boy, I grew up watching legends being built right in front of me,” Fitzgerald said. “Hall of Fame players like John Randle, Chris Doleman, Randall McDaniel and Warren Moon, who taught me what it means to demand more of yourself than anyone else ever would. Plus, they saw me.”

Fitzgerald thanked Hall of Fame receivers Cris Carter and Randy Moss for their influence on his career during his time working for the Vikings as a kid. He singled out former Cardinals teammates Emmitt Smith and Kurt Warner for showing him how to be a professional.

“Kurt, when you demanded that I elevate my preparation, consistency and accountability, you dragged me to the winner’s circle,” Fitzgerald said. “The timing couldn’t have been better for an impressionable kid, and I continue to aspire to be the kind of man you are.”

Fitzgerald is second on the NFL’s career list in receptions (1,432) and receiving yards (17,492). His 121 touchdown catches are sixth.

Adam Vinatieri

Vinatieri became only the third full-time placekicker to be inducted into the Hall, joining Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen.

He may have a new career in comedy.

Vinatieri drew plenty of laughs and cheers with jokes about Bill Belichick, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.

“And Peyton, thank you for generously donating your forehead for today’s teleprompter,” Vinatieri cracked. “A gigantic forehead means big brain and your football IQ is unmatched.”

Manning nodded his head with a smile from his seat among the Hall of Famers.

Vinatieri retired with NFL records of 2,673 career points and 599 field goals. Only George Blanda (26) and Andersen (25) had longer NFL careers than Vinatieri’s 24 seasons.

“When people hear the word greatness, they usually think about the biggest names on the biggest stages,” Vinatieri said. “But greatness isn’t created under bright lights. Greatness is built on empty practice fields when it’s below zero. Greatness is sacrificing temporary fun for meaningful outcomes. Greatness is turning doubt into belief. Preparation matters. Character matters.

“And to all the doubters, thank you. Your criticism became fuel. Your doubt became motivation. You helped make me better.”

Colts owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon introduced Vinatieri, who won his fourth Super Bowl with Indianapolis after earning three championship rings in New England.

Luke Kuechly

At 35, Kuechly became the second-youngest player inducted into the Hall. Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers was 34 when he was inducted in 1977.

Introduced by his father, Tom, Kuechly was inducted on the same field where he led St. Xavier High School to a state championship in 2007.

Known for his intense study habits, Kuechly was a five-time All-Pro linebacker, the 2012 AP Defensive Rookie of the Year and 2013 AP Defensive Player of the Year during his eight-year career with the Carolina Panthers. Kuechly decided to retire in part to preserve his brain health after suffering several concussions.

“This game teaches you a lot if you’re willing to observe and listen,” Kuechly said. “It’s taught me resilience, consistency, toughness, the value of communication, how to find common ground, and most importantly how to enjoy it along the way cause often times the best moments are the ones you are in.”

Roger Craig

Craig, who revealed in a video speech that he has vascular dementia, became the first player in NFL history to have 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yards receiving in a season. Only Marshall Faulk and Christian McCaffrey have done it since.

“You spend your whole life trying to prove you belong and one day you’re told you’re one of the all-time greats. Man, it’s overwhelming,” Craig said.

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La familia de la jueza “recibe con satisfacción la decisión que pone fin de manera definitiva el proceso seguido en su contra y restituye plenamente su libertad, cerrando formalmente un caso que nunca debió existir”, dijeron en un comunicado conjunto su hermano Nelson Afiuni y la abogada Thelma Fernández.

“Este desenlace representa el final de un largo y doloroso capítulo marcado por graves violaciones a los derechos humanos y el debido proceso”, resaltó el escrito.

Afiuni fue apresada el 10 de diciembre de 2009 por ordenar la libertad provisional del exbanquero Eligio Cedeño, quien había estado encarcelado por casi tres años a la espera de un juicio por la entrega irregular de dólares a una empresa de computación. Horas después de la sentencia Cedeño huyó del país.

El caso de la jueza alcanzó notoriedad luego de que el entonces presidente Hugo Chávez acusó en televisión a Afiuni de corrupción.

En 2013 Afiuni recibió medidas cautelares para poder ser atendida por problemas de salud, sin embargo, tenía prohibido salir del país y debía presentarse cada dos meses en los tribunales.

En marzo de 2019, luego de un retardo procesal que se extendió por más de una década, un tribunal condenó a Afiuni a cinco años de prisión por corrupción. Entonces se esperaba que fuese liberada puesto que ya había estado en prisión más del doble de ese tiempo, pero la orden de excarcelación nunca llegó.

La notificación de la libertad de Afiuni se produjo un día después de que delegaciones de la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela y exlegisladores de la oposición instalaron formalmente conversaciones sobre una agenda conjunta para fortalecer la democracia y restituir derechos fundamentales tras casi tres décadas de gobiernos socialistas.

El nuevo ciclo de conversaciones, que cuenta con la mediación de Estados Unidos, está encabezado por miembros de la actual Asamblea Nacional, de mayoría oficialista, y un grupo de exlegisladores opositores que en su momento intentaron destituir al ahora depuesto presidente Nicolás Maduro.

El proceso contra la jueza fue condenado por varias instancias internacionales y organizaciones de derechos humanos.

In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC broadcast late on Friday, Hunter Biden grew emotional as he discussed his father’s condition, describing it as very sad to watch.

“The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” he said. ”It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating in many respects.”

Joe Biden, 83, was the oldest man to serve as U.S. president and his age was a source of concern for much of his four years in office. He and his White House advisers have faced intense criticism for allegedly concealing the extent of his problems, especially after he was forced to abandon his bid for re-election after a disastrous debate with his eventual successor, Donald Trump.

The former president revealed his cancer diagnosis in May of last year, less than four months after he left the White House.

Hunter Biden said the diagnosis had been tough on the family.

“It’s really sad to watch,” Biden said. “The only thing that I’d say about my dad, about his health right now, is I wish he would complain more, because it’s not good.”

But Biden said his father remains “out there,” speaking publicly about the issues that are important to him.

“He’s still doing his thing,” he said. “He so believes in this country.”

The former president will publish a memoir, “Promise Me, America,” after the mid-term elections.

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Bessent, 19, was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation with five conditions.

Once released, Bessent’s driver’s license will be revoked for 10 years, and he will be prohibited from operating a vehicle for 10 years. He also was ordered to pay a laboratory fee of about $200 and approximately $1,000 to the prosecution.

Bessent must also pay restitution to the estate of Maria Tellez Valderrabano and five other victims. The court did not determine the restitution amount Friday.

Nicole Bessent, the 19-year-old’s stepmother, testified that she and Jah’Kobe’s father tried to gain custody of him after noticing behavioral issues when he was a child.

Family members testified Thursday that Bessent’s home life was troubled, something they said his father tried to steer him away from.

The court also heard about Bessent’s school history, which included more than 40 behavioral incidents.

A local psychologist testified that Bessent’s troubled upbringing and ADHD diagnosis made him more susceptible to the path that led to his crimes. The psychologist also told the court there was physical abuse in the home.

Bessent was sentenced in connection with an August 2022 crash that killed Maria Tellez Valderrabano, a 35-year-old single mother of three.

Prosecutors said Bessent, who was 15 at the time, was driving a stolen vehicle while fleeing from police. Authorities said Bessent and another teenager first broke into a home while the residents were sleeping and stole a vehicle before crashing it, killing Valderrabano.

Bessent has 30 days to appeal his conviction and sentence. If he does not file an appeal within that period, he waives his right to appeal.

While they wrapped up many key priorities in the overnight votes, advancing Trump’s SAVE America Act was not among them.

Instead, Republican senators who had brought the chamber to a standstill spoke to Trump late in the evening about an alternative plan: They would try again to approve elements of the voting bill as part of a broader GOP budget package to fund the Iran war and replenish the Pentagon when they return to work in September.

“Obviously, with the president at his direction, this is what he wants to do,” said Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the GOP budget committee chairman, flanked by Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., after their phone call with the president.

The sudden wind-down after weeks of Trump ramping up his demands shows just how deeply the president is able to reach into the halls of Congress to set the agenda or disrupt it, the executive directing the affairs of the legislative branch. While Trump is often seen as a de facto speaker of the House, he is invariably trying his hand at mastering the Senate.

Trump had poked and prodded Senate Majority Leader John Thune for weeks to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill that does not have enough support from the Republicans who hold majority power, let alone the Democrats whose votes would be needed to advance it in the Senate.

The president has gone so far as to insist the Senate abandon its filibuster rules to jam the SAVE America Act past the 60-vote threshold that is typically needed to advance legislation in the chamber — something Thune and most senators have no interest in doing.

“John’s trying. He’s trying hard. I really believe that. But if he doesn’t get there, it would be unfortunate,” Trump said in an interview with Punchbowl News that posted Friday.

Trump’s pressure couldn’t overcome Thune’s reality

Thune himself has worked to carefully balance the often unusual demands of the president with the political reality of his slim GOP majority. Republicans are down one vote with the prolonged absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the former leader, who said this week he was released from a rehabilitation center and is recovering at home.

“I think everybody’s, for the most part, on the same page,” Thune, R-S.D., said about the trio’s call with Trump, adding that eventually the Senate would have to tackle another budget bill.

During a daylong session that dragged for nearly 20 hours, Thune successfully powered through a lengthy list of other Trump priorities. Senators confirmed the president’s pick of Todd Blanche as the attorney general, passed a sweeping Russian sanctions package to aid Ukraine, and approved a bipartisan package to fund the government into December in an early step toward avoiding a government shutdown.

The Republicans also tried to push forward a slimmer voting bill that would require people to show IDs before casting ballots for federal elections. It failed to advance, largely on a party-line vote with Democrats opposed.

But the failure to make progress on the SAVE America Act had erupted as an online crusade for Trump’s allies in Congress, amplified by activists urging them on.

Led by Lee, a growing group of senators was refusing to adjourn for the summer break without passing Trump’s priority voting bill.

At dinnertime, Thune gathered all the Republican senators for a meeting as the standoff deepened at the Capitol. There was no immediate way forward for the SAVE America Act or the broader budget bill. Thune encouraged the trio of senators to talk to the president, which they did, before regrouping back at Thune’s office.

“We had about a two-hour conference meeting trying to figure out, you know, what we need to do to, to come to an agreement, to accomplish what the president wanted,” Johnson said. “Then we had discussion with the president, he agrees.”

Lee acknowledged he was disappointed by the outcome, but said he understood the political reality of the situation.

“We are not in a position right now where we have the wherewithal to pass it,” Lee told reporters at the Capitol, after the three senators emerged from Thune’s office following their call with Trump.

Near daybreak, when the Senate did call for the vote to adjourn, Lee and others objected with hearty nos.

On the simple voice vote, the ayes had it, and the motion to adjourn was adopted.

Bessent, de 19 años, fue declarado culpable de todos los cargos y sentenciado a 10 años de prisión, seguidos de 10 años de libertad condicional con cinco condiciones.

Una vez que sea liberado, la licencia de conducir de Bessent será revocada durante 10 años y tendrá prohibido conducir un vehículo durante 10 años. También se le ordenó pagar una tarifa de laboratorio de aproximadamente $200 USD y aproximadamente $1,000 USD a la fiscalía.

Bessent también deberá pagar restitución al patrimonio de Maria Tellez Valderrabano y a otras cinco víctimas. El tribunal no determinó el viernes el monto de la restitución.

Nicole Bessent, madrastra del joven de 19 años, testificó que ella y el padre de Jah”Kobe intentaron obtener su custodia después de notar problemas de conducta cuando era niño.

Familiares testificaron el jueves que la vida familiar de Bessent era problemática, algo de lo que, según dijeron, su padre intentó alejarlo.

El tribunal también escuchó detalles sobre el historial escolar de Bessent, que incluía más de 40 incidentes de conducta.

Un psicólogo local testificó que la difícil crianza de Bessent y su diagnóstico de TDAH lo hicieron más susceptible al camino que lo llevó a cometer sus delitos. El psicólogo también dijo al tribunal que hubo abuso físico en el hogar.

Bessent fue sentenciado en relación con un accidente ocurrido en agosto de 2022 que causó la muerte de Maria Tellez Valderrabano, una madre soltera de 35 años con tres hijos.

Los fiscales dijeron que Bessent, quien tenía 15 años en ese momento, conducía un vehículo robado mientras huía de la policía. Las autoridades dijeron que Bessent y otro adolescente primero irrumpieron en una vivienda mientras los residentes dormían y robaron un vehículo antes de estrellarlo, causando la muerte de Valderrabano.

Bessent tiene 30 días para apelar su condena y sentencia. Si no presenta una apelación dentro de ese período, renuncia a su derecho a apelar.

The conglomerate that legendary investor Warren Buffett built reported its second-quarter earnings Saturday morning and disclosed that its cash holdings had shrunk to $365.5 billion from nearly $400 billion at the end of March.

Berkshire’s report suggested that it had added more than $21 billion worth of commercial, industrial and other stocks to its portfolio, but the earnings report doesn’t name the stocks it bought. That won’t be revealed until a separate filing later this month.

Abel took over as CEO in January when Buffett retired after six decades leading the company. But Buffett remains chairman.

CFRA Research analyst Cathy Seifert said investors should be encouraged by the amount of shares Berkshire’s repurchased although Geico’s performance was a concern because its underwriting profits fell 45% and lagged far behind other big auto insurers.

“I think there are two key takeaways that should encourage investors: The fact that they bought back shares after not having done things of this magnitude for several years now. And the other positive thing is the ability to produce the 10% operating revenue growth in the quarter,” Seifert said.

Abel announced in March that Berkshire had resumed buying back its own shares for the first time in more than two years, but investors were underwhelmed when the company only repurchased about $234 million worth of Berkshire stock in the first quarter.

The purchases in the second quarter that were disclosed Saturday demonstrate that Berkshire is serious about buybacks, but it is on the low end of the range that investors were expecting. Buffett watchers had been predicting repurchases somewhere between $5 billion and $11 billion based on a filing Buffett made when he announced his annual charitably donations in July.

The company’s standard is that it only repurchases shares when Abel and Buffett believes they are selling for less than they are worth. They do not plan to spend a specific amount like many companies do. Most of Berkshire’s repurchases were made in June. They may not be buying much now as the stock just hit a new 52-week high on Thursday.

Berkshire previously repurchased $78 billion worth of its own stock between 2018 and 2024.

In addition to the Google stock Berkshire bought this spring, the Omaha, Nebraska-based company also completed a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison but that didn’t close until July so it’s not reflected in these quarterly figures.

Berkshire’s bottom line profit more than doubled to $25.667 billion, or $17,868.44 per Class A share, on a big paper gain in the value of its investments as the company lapped last year’s $3.8 billion writedown in the value of its Kraft Foods stake. A year ago Berkshire reported earning $12.37 billion, or $8,600.89 per Class A share,

But Buffett has long urged investors to pay more attention to Berkshire’s operating earnings to get a better sense of how its dozens of companies are performing because those numbers exclude investments. By that measure, Berkshire’s operating profit grew to $12.983 billion, or $9,038.30 per A share, from $11.16 billion, or $7,759.58 per Class A share.

Berkshire owns several major insurers, including Geico, a collection of big utilities, BNSF railroad and a varied assortment of manufacturing and retail companies, including Precision Castparts and See’s Candy.

With former teammate Jorge Posada catching him, Rivera threw 11 pitches to four batters. The 56-year-old faced Mickey Rivers, Johnny Damon, Nick Swisher and Shane Spencer in the exhibition game, which returned last season for the first time since 2019.

“They’re still moving,” Rivera said about his pitches on the YES Network broadcast. “That’s good and the reaction is good.”

Rivera, who hit an inside-the-park homer in his 2019 appearance, also took an at-bat against Mike Stanton and jogged to first when he flew out to center field.

Rivera was introduced last, just as Joe DiMaggio used to be. To the strains of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” the Hall of Fame closer doffed his cap and waved to the fans.

Rivera, baseball’s career leader in saves, underwent surgery after getting hurt playing center field last year. During an at-bat by Willie Randolph, Rivera took a step and fell to the ground in shallow center field behind second base.

“It was tough, but I still have to do it,” Rivera said. “We continue going and moving better. I’m here. I’m good enough to be here.”

Rivera tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in May 2012 while shagging fly balls in batting practice in Kansas City. He returned for his final season in 2013 and finished with 652 saves in the regular season and 42 in the postseason, including 11 in the World Series.

He was a setup man for John Wetteland in 1996 and took over the closer’s role the following year, helping the Yankees win three straight titles from 1998 to 2000 and another title in 2009.

The Yankees were outscored 12-1 in the first two games against the Braves at Yankee Stadium in 1996 before winning three straight in Atlanta and taking the series at home in Game 6.

“We never gave up,” Rivera said about the 1996 team. “We were a team that never gave up literally. As a matter of fact in the World Series, we were down 2-0 going into Atlanta with those big monsters on the mound and we were able to overcome that and seal the deal here in New York. It sounds easy, but it wasn’t easy."

Rivera also threw the last pitch of New York’s most recent World Series title against the Phillies in Game 6. Since then, New York’s lone World Series was a five-game loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024.

The ceremony featured 11 players from New York’s 1996 World Series title team, including Bernie Williams, Posada, and Paul O’Neill along with manager Joe Torre. Derek Jeter did not attend for the second straight year after appearing in 2023 and 2024, when the format was a question and answer session with WFAN broadcaster Suzyn Waldman.

There were four first-time attendees, including David Weathers, whose son Ryan is 5-7 with a 3.79 ERA in 22 starts in his first season with the Yankees. Also in attendance for the first time were current YES Network broadcasters Dellin Betances, Todd Frazier and Adam Ottavino.

“For your kid to be a part of it is way better than when I played,” David Weathers said.

The event began with a tribute to longtime radio announcer John Sterling, who died in May. The widows of five-time manager Billy Martin, captain Thurman Munson and Bobby Murcer were also introduced as part of an event that began in 1947 when Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth first appeared.

Tommy John not in attendance, posts message about health on social media

Tommy John, who won 91 games in two separate stints for the Yankees, did not attend and shared a vague message about his health.

In a lengthy social media post that did not detail an exact health issue, the 83-year-old John wrote that he wanted to say goodbye to everyone, along with all the friends and fans who followed him throughout his 26-year career.

John was 288-231 with a 3.34 ERA in 760 appearances. Besides eight seasons with the Yankees, John pitched for the White Sox, Dodgers, Angels, Guardians and Athletics.

He also underwent elbow ligament replacement surgery in 1974 that was named after him and has been performed on numerous pitchers.

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The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys announced his death in a social media post that said he had undergone treatment in recent months for an unspecified illness. The post described him as “the pillar and the person who, with vision, rigor and affection, supported the career of the best player of all time, alongside his wife, Celia Cuccittini.”

The South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL, in a statement also offered its condolences “with respect and affection for Lionel.”

Lionel Messi led Argentina to a runner-up finish in this year’s World Cup. In the team’s first match, against Algeria, he was visibly emotional after scoring the first of his three goals. He said later that he wept for “a reason unrelated to sports.”

“I went through some difficult, complicated days,” he said. “I am grateful to the delegation, to all my teammates, because they were always by my side wishing me strength so that I would be OK.”

Media reports at the time outraged the Messi family, which days later released a statement confirming that “Jorge is experiencing a health issue,” without specifying the nature of his condition.

“A person’s health and the peace of mind of their loved ones should not be the subject of speculation or irresponsible media interest,” according to the statement, which also expressed “discomfort at the lack of sensitivity, respect and scruples with which some people have treated a strictly private and family matter.”

Jorge Messi was a chemical technician and worked as a steelworker. He played soccer as a midfielder and reached the youth ranks of Newell’s Old Boys but had to abandon the sport to complete his mandatory military service in Argentina.

He played a fundamental role in his third son’s career, serving as his agent and managing his business affairs. He was the one who traveled with a young Messi to Barcelona in the early 2000s for the trial that would open the doors to La Masia, the club’s youth academy. Lionel Messi made his professional debut in 2005 and went on to win eight Ballon d’Or awards. He led Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title.

“My dad was always by my side,” Lionel Messi said in a 2007 interview with Radio del Plata. “Sometimes I would lock myself in my room to cry when we arrived in Barcelona, or my dad would do the same without me seeing him, or thinking I didn’t see him. We pretended we were both OK, but we weren’t. My dad even asked me what I wanted to do when we were feeling down, if I wanted to stay or go back, and I wanted to stay, and he stayed with me.”

His father negotiated the contracts with Barça and later his transfers to Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Miami, while also managing the use of his famous son’s image rights and his numerous investments in real estate, hotels, and restaurants.

In 2013, father and son were accused by a Spanish prosecutor of trying to conceal earnings from the player’s image rights. Jorge Messi paid more than than 5 million euros ($6.6 million) on Aug. 14 to cover alleged back taxes and interest.

In Rosario, a sign at the VIP Rosario restaurant, one of the Messi family’s gastronomic ventures, indicated that it was closed for the day.

The president of Argentina’s soccer federation, Claudio Tapia, on Saturday issued a lengthy statement in which he recognized Jorge Messi “for having raised a person of values: humble, respectful, and deeply committed to others.”

The organization ordered a moment of silence to be observed at all matches across all categories of Argentine soccer and mandated that players, referees and coaching staff wear black armbands.

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Barreiro reported from Montevideo, Uruguay.

The former San Francisco 49ers star running back spoke in a prerecorded video message while he sat on stage wearing his gold jacket at Tom Benson Stadium on Saturday. Presented by former teammate Jamie Williams, he received a standing ovation from the crowd and hugs from the many Hall of Famers on stage.

Nearly eight minutes into a nine-minute speech, Craig announced his diagnosis, saying his doctors believe “it may be related, at least in part, to the concussions” he experienced during his playing career.

“The changes were gradual,” Craig said. “At first, they were easy to dismiss as normal aging. Over time, my family noticed, too.”

Symptoms of vascular dementia, according to the Mayo Clinic, include: confusion; trouble finding the right words; difficulty paying attention; trouble organizing thoughts or actions; difficulty planning and following through with plans; slowed thinking; uncertainty about what to do next; and memory issues.

“Two things could be true,” Craig said. “Football gave me opportunities beyond anything I can imagine. It helped shape the man I became. At the same time, we know more today about brain health than when I played. I hope sharing my story encourages people to pay attention to their health and seek help when something doesn’t feel right.

“I want people to know that this diagnosis doesn’t define me. I am still Roger Craig. I am still a father, still a husband, a teammate, a friend and someone who loves this game and the people who brought it to my life. If sharing my story helps even one family or one former player, then it’s worth it. Football gave me everything: opportunity, discipline, lifelong friends and the platform to grow as a man. This honor belongs to my parents who started it all.”

Selected by the 49ers in the second round of the 1983 draft as a fullback out of Nebraska, Craig become one of the most versatile players in league history.

He excelled as a runner, receiver and blocker, helping the 49ers win three of their five Super Bowls.

In 1985, Craig became the first player in NFL history to have 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yards receiving in a season. He was the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year in 1988.

“When I learned that Bill Walsh wanted me, that meant something because he saw something in me that others didn’t,” Craig said. “He didn’t just want a running back, he wanted a complete football player. He trusted me to do whatever the team needed. That’s why a 1,000-yard rushing, 1,000-yard receiving season means so much to me. We weren’t chasing numbers. We were chasing wins. I didn’t realize I was making history. It just felt like we were doing something special as a team. Looking back, I can appreciate how difficult it is and how few players have done it since.

“What means the most is knowing we helped expand what people thought a running back could be. None of that happens without great teammates. What made those 49ers teams special: We weren’t selfish. We didn’t care who got the credit. We cared about winning.”

Craig was selected from the seniors category and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 with Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly and Adam Vinatieri.

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But whether the public will get to see that footage remains largely up to ICE.

The agency defended its body-worn camera policy amid questions about provisions allowing ICE leadership to withhold or indefinitely delay footage after serious injuries or deaths in custody. Acting Director David J. Venturella said the restrictions are intended to protect investigations and privacy and are consistent with federal law and policies at other federal law enforcement agencies.

Venturella’s statement came in response to an Associated Press report on ICE policy, including a provision calling for the expedited release of footage after a serious injury or death in custody when doing so is determined to be in the “best interests of the agency.”

Venturella said the AP “mischaracterized” the policy by conflating that provision with ICE’s broader authority to release body-camera footage. He said the policy clarifies that footage should not be released when doing so could compromise investigations or privacy.

The AP report did not say the provision governs every release of body-camera footage. It focused on ICE’s policy for releasing footage after some of the most consequential encounters with the public: those involving serious injury or death.

The AP sought comment from ICE before its initial story on Friday. The agency provided partial responses, without addressing the provision that footage would be released when in its “best interests.”

ICE has been under heightened scrutiny since the fatal shooting in July of a 25-year-old motorist in Maine by an ICE officer with a history of violent behavior. Days earlier, another ICE officer shot and killed a Houston homebuilder driving to work. Neither shooting was recorded with body cameras.

Venturella said ICE was “committed to transparency and accountability” and was “on track to equip every officer and agent in the field with body-worn cameras by the end of August.”

The AP quoted Christopher Schneider, a sociology professor at Brandon University in Canada, who said that selective releases are routine in some law enforcement agencies but usually not so clearly contemplated in policy. “In some ways, ICE is saying the quiet part out loud,” he said.

The story noted that ICE’s sister agency, Customs and Border Protection, has not released footage of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January. CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott told lawmakers that it was part of an investigation and would be made public “when it’s appropriate."

Gabriel Lahijani and Karendeep “Karina” Bath allege the front seats of certain Mercedes AMG vehicles have a design defect where the raised metallic AMG logo is “reasonably expected to contact an occupant’s upper back, neck, or shoulder,” according to the court document filed earlier this week in the U.S. District Court of California’s Western division.

The plaintiffs want Mercedes to compensate them for any medical expenses, as well as any pain, suffering and emotional distress they can prove at trial. They also want Mercedes to pay for other owners to have the logo removed from their cars.

Mercedes-Benz couldn’t be reached immediately for comment.

Lahigani, a Los Angeles resident, had leased a new 2026 Mercedes-AMG E-Class vehicle from an authorized Mercedes-Benz dealership in Los Angeles, according to the suit. He reported receiving second-degree burns on his back on May 31, after entering his vehicle wearing a tank top. A board-certified dermatologist subsequently documented first- and second-degree burns, describing the injury as “AMG inscribed.”

Roughly six weeks later, Bath, a Chatsworth, California resident, received similar burns allegedly from the logo design while wearing a sleeveless top. After parking her Mercedes-AMG vehicle in Los Angeles, Bath returned to the vehicle and entered the driver’s seat, the suit said. Her shoulder immediately touched the logo, causing a burning sensation. In the following days, a mark in the shape of the AMG logo “darkened and became visible on her skin, consistent with a thermal contact burn,” the lawsuit said.

In December, Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimer AG agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations that the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests, according to an announcement by a coalition of attorneys general.

According to the coalition, between 2008 and 2016 the German automaker equipped more than 211,000 diesel passenger cars and vans with software devices that optimized emission controls during tests but reduced the controls during normal operations.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill, agentes respondieron a la cuadra 1500 de Northwest 33rd Avenue alrededor de la 1:15 p.m. y encontraron a la víctima herida.

La policía dijo que paramédicos trasladaron al hombre al Broward Health Medical Center, donde los médicos lo declararon muerto. Las autoridades aún no han divulgado su nombre.

Un portavoz del Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill dijo que “el motivo se desconoce actualmente” y que la policía no había identificado a ningún sospechoso.

Se pide a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre la investigación “activa” que llame al Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill al 954-497-4700 o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

Los reportes indican que Jorge Messi murió el viernes por la noche en un hospital de su ciudad natal de Rosario, Argentina. La familia Messi no ha divulgado públicamente la causa de muerte.

Newell’s Old Boys confirmó su muerte este sábado en un comunicado en el que expresó “profunda tristeza y dolor” por la pérdida de Jorge Messi, a quien el club describió como un aficionado de toda la vida, empresario y padre del capitán de Argentina, Lionel Messi.

“Jorge fue el pilar y la persona que apoyó con visión, rigor y afecto la carrera del mejor jugador de todos los tiempos junto a su esposa, Celia Cuccittini”, dijo el club. “Su constante compañía y liderazgo tras bastidores fueron esenciales para respaldar cada paso de Lionel, desde sus inicios en Malvinas hasta la cima de la gloria del fútbol mundial”.

Jorge Messi desempeñó un papel central en la vida y carrera de su hijo, apoyando a Lionel desde sus primeros años en Rosario hasta su ascenso al estrellato mundial del fútbol. También se desempeñó como agente y asesor de su hijo durante gran parte de su carrera profesional.

La familia Messi confirmó a ESPN en junio que Jorge Messi enfrentaba un problema de salud y se encontraba bajo supervisión médica.

“Actualmente se encuentra bajo supervisión médica, recuperándose y evolucionando favorablemente dentro de su condición actual”, dijo la familia en un comunicado en ese momento.

Lionel Messi se emocionó después de anotar su primer gol contra Argelia en el partido inaugural de Argentina en la Copa Mundial de 2026, y posteriormente dijo que sus lágrimas estaban relacionadas con asuntos personales fuera del fútbol.

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El Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys despide con profundo dolor y pesar a Jorge Messi, quien falleció a los 68 años de edad en la ciudad de Rosario.

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— Newell’s Old Boys (@Newells) August 8, 2026

Style Saves, una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Miami dirigida por Rachael Russel Saiger e Isabela Grutman, celebra el sábado y domingo su 16º evento anual de regreso a clases en el Centro de Convenciones de Miami Beach.

Los organizadores esperan que más de 20,000 familias asistan al evento, que ha sido transformado con una temática de selva. Los estudiantes pueden recibir gratuitamente mochilas con kits de 21 útiles escolares, uniformes escolares, tenis, calcetines, cinturones y sudaderas con capucha.

El evento también incluye un mercado que ofrece comidas calientes y alimentos para que las familias se los lleven a casa. Los organizadores dijeron que los socios participantes están proporcionando alimentos y otros artículos de primera necesidad, incluidos productos frescos y alimentos empacados.

Style Saves también está proporcionando servicios de cuidado personal y belleza, incluidos productos para el cabello, las uñas y el cuidado de la piel. Saiger dijo que el objetivo es darles a los estudiantes confianza y un sentido de dignidad al comenzar el año escolar.

Desde su fundación, Style Saves dice haber atendido a más de 250,000 estudiantes y familias y haberse convertido en lo que los organizadores describen como la mayor entrega gratuita de artículos para el regreso a clases del país.

El evento de Miami Beach se realiza de 10 a.m. a 4 p.m. el sábado y domingo en el Salón D del Centro de Convenciones de Miami Beach. La capacidad para el sábado estaba agotada, mientras que los organizadores dijeron que quedaba espacio limitado para el domingo. Las familias deben registrarse con anticipación y recibir un código QR para ingresar.

En el condado Broward, los preparativos para el regreso a clases van más allá de los uniformes y útiles gratuitos, ya que el distrito escolar destaca programas diseñados para preparar a los estudiantes para carreras en industrias especializadas.

En Miramar High School, los estudiantes comienzan el nuevo año escolar con un programa ampliado de Space Academy que los coloca en escenarios del mundo real relacionados con la industria aeroespacial, la aviación y la ingeniería.

Loli Formoso, directora de instrucción, dijo que el programa está diseñado para conectar directamente a los estudiantes con múltiples industrias y exponerlos a posibles trayectorias profesionales.

Space Academy forma parte de un enfoque más amplio en programas magnet y oportunidades de aprendizaje inmersivo en las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward, mientras los educadores preparan a los estudiantes para el inicio de clases el lunes.

El superintendente del condado Broward, Howard Hepburn, dijo que los maestros ya estaban de regreso en las aulas preparándose para recibir a los estudiantes.

“Estamos emocionados de darles la bienvenida de regreso a todos nuestros estudiantes”, dijo Hepburn. “Nuestros maestros ya están de regreso; están preparando las aulas, alistándose para recibir a sus estudiantes”.

Los estudiantes dijeron que esperaban con entusiasmo las oportunidades que tenían por delante.

Cole Etter, estudiante de Miramar High, dijo que no estaba completamente preparado para el inicio de clases, pero que estaba emocionado por otro año en el programa de aviación. Dijo que podría verse trabajando como mecánico de aviación en el futuro.

Zahara Afflick dijo que estaba lista para el nuevo año escolar, mientras que su compañero Kareen Pierre dijo que estaba emocionado por conocer gente nueva y comenzar el año.

Pierre dijo que espera convertirse en ingeniero aeroespacial, particularmente diseñando sistemas aeroespaciales.

El distrito dice que programas como Space Academy proporcionan a los estudiantes un plan de estudios especializado, así como posibles vías para obtener pasantías y otras oportunidades profesionales.

En otra parte del condado Broward, Brotherly Love Foundation celebró el sábado su primera Feria Anual de Uniformes, Salud y Empleo en Reverend Samuel DeBois Park en Fort Lauderdale. El evento ofrece uniformes y útiles escolares gratuitos a las familias que asistan con sus hijos, además de asistencia laboral y recursos para los padres.

La feria se realiza de 10 a.m. a 2 p.m. Los organizadores dijeron que no es necesario registrarse.

Los eventos se llevan a cabo mientras las familias del sur de Florida hacen los preparativos finales para el inicio del nuevo año escolar, con organizaciones sin fines de lucro, escuelas y socios comunitarios trabajando tanto para reducir los costos de preparar a los estudiantes como para ampliar las oportunidades que pueden dar forma a su futuro.

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His former teammate, turned accused killer, has rejected a plea deal.

A jailhouse informant, George Jones, has claimed that Rashaun Jones (no relation) confessed to the 2006 killing of Pata, 22, while the two were cellmates in Miami. However, George Jones has refused to testify, saying he fears for his safety.

Prosecutors now say George Jones told police and federal agents that a defense attorney tried to pay him $15,000 to keep him from testifying in Jones’ upcoming retrial, according to ESPN.

According to the court filing, the attorney is Jeremy McLymont, a Miami defense attorney who is not part of Rashaun Jones’ defense team, ESPN reported.

ESPN also reported that McLymont has been in communication with Jones’ lead attorney, Sara Alvarez, and previously represented George Jones in 2022 when he provided a statement to a detective about the alleged confession.

A judge has now ordered an investigation into the alleged attempted bribery.

Depending on the outcome of that investigation, McLymont could potentially become a witness in the case, which could raise questions about his involvement and his communications with the defense.

McLymont has denied the allegations.

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According to an arrest report, Rodencia Thomas went to his son’s home on Wednesday to collect $240 that his son owed him after Thomas bailed him out of jail the previous week.

The son told deputies he could only pay $120 at the time and planned to pay the remaining $120 at the end of the month, the report states.

Deputies said the two got into an argument that turned physical at the doorway of the home.

They said the son told deputies that Thomas poked him in the eye before he struck Thomas in the face. The two then fell inside the home during a tussle, where the son said Thomas used his forearm to choke him, the report states.

Deputies said Thomas’ girlfriend told deputies she entered the home after hearing the argument and saw the two men fighting. They said she was able to separate them.

The report states that Thomas then walked toward his girlfriend’s black pickup truck and allegedly pulled a handgun from inside the vehicle and turned to run back into the home, according to the report.

The son said he fell in the grass while trying to escape but made it to the doorway. He told deputies that Thomas raised the gun, pointed it toward him and fired one round but the shot missed, according to investigators.

Deputies said they found what appeared to be a bullet hole in the lower right portion of the exterior wall near the doorway where the victim had been standing.

They said the victim’s girlfriend also provided deputies with a statement. She said she knew Thomas kept a gun in the center console of her truck and followed him toward the vehicle, repeatedly telling him not to do anything “stupid” as she tried to de-escalate the situation, the report states.

The suspect’s girlfriend told deputies that she saw Thomas retrieve the gun, point it toward his son and fire one round, deputies said.

They said the victim had scratches around his throat and the back of his neck, as well as a large scratch on his back. Deputies also documented damage inside the home, including a hole in a wall near the floor where the two men had fallen.

The victim told deputies he believed Thomas intended to kill him but said he did not want to pursue criminal charges against his father, according to the report.

Deputies said there was probable cause to arrest Thomas on suspicion of attempted felony murder. The report states Thomas had an opportunity to leave after the physical altercation but allegedly returned with a gun and fired at his son.

They said a records check showed Thomas had three active warrants related to child support.

Jail records show he is facing charges of domestic battery by strangulation and attempted felony murder, along with three writs of arrest.

As of Saturday morning, he was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail.

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Style Saves, a Miami-based nonprofit led by Rachael Russel Saiger and Isabela Grutman, is hosting its 16th annual back-to-school event Saturday and Sunday at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

Organizers expect more than 20,000 families to attend the event, which has been transformed with a jungle theme. Students can receive backpacks filled with 21-piece school supply kits, school uniforms, sneakers, socks, belts and hoodies at no cost.

The event also includes a marketplace offering hot meals and groceries for families to take home. Organizers said participating partners are providing food and other necessities, including fresh produce and packaged goods.

Style Saves also is providing personal-care and beauty services, including hair, nails and skincare products. Saiger said the goal is to give students confidence and a sense of dignity as they begin the school year.

Since its founding, Style Saves says it has served more than 250,000 students and families and has grown into what organizers describe as the nation’s largest back-to-school giveaway.

The Miami Beach event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in Hall D of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Saturday’s capacity was sold out, while organizers said limited space remained for Sunday. Families are required to register in advance and receive a QR code for entry.

In Broward County, the back-to-school push extends beyond free uniforms and supplies, with the school district highlighting programs designed to prepare students for careers in specialized industries.

At Miramar High School, students are entering the new school year with an expanded Space Academy program that puts them in real-world scenarios connected to aerospace, aviation and engineering.

Loli Formoso, an instructional director, said the program is designed to connect students directly with multiple industries and give them exposure to potential career paths.

The Space Academy is part of a broader focus on magnet and immersive learning opportunities across Broward County Public Schools, as educators prepare students for the start of classes Monday.

Broward County Superintendent Howard Hepburn said teachers were already back in classrooms preparing for students.

“We’re excited to welcome all our students back,” Hepburn said. “Our teachers are already back — they’re preparing classrooms, readying themselves to welcome their students.”

Students said they were looking forward to the opportunities ahead.

Cole Etter, a Miramar High student, said he was not completely prepared for the start of school but was excited about another year in the aviation program. He said he could see himself working as an aviation mechanic in the future.

Zahara Afflick said she was ready for the new school year, while fellow student Kareen Pierre said she was excited to meet new people and begin the year.

Pierre said she hopes to become an aerospace engineer, particularly designing aerospace systems.

The district says programs such as Space Academy provide students with specialized curriculum as well as potential pathways to internships and other career opportunities.

Elsewhere in Broward County, the Brotherly Love Foundation hosted its first annual Uniform, Health and Job Fair Saturday at Reverend Samuel DeBois Park in Fort Lauderdale. The event offers free uniforms and school supplies to families who attend with their children, along with job and resource assistance for parents.

The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers said registration is not required.

The events come as South Florida families make final preparations for the start of the new school year, with nonprofit groups, schools and community partners working both to offset the costs of getting students ready and to expand opportunities that can shape their futures.

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Fire rescue officials said they responded around 12:14 p.m. to a home near the 17000 block of Northwest 16th Street after receiving a report of a child found in a pool.

According to Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue, the child was out of the pool when crews arrived and was responsive and breathing.

Fire rescue officials said the child appeared to “have been underwater for a very brief period” and clarified that the child was not drowning when crews arrived.

The child was transported by medics to Memorial Hospital Miramar for further evaluation.

No additional information about the child’s age, gender or condition was immediately available.

“We have very clear expectations about how we want to practice, how you go about our business,” coach Klint Kubiak said. “We violated that yesterday, so we held those guys out. That's all I'm going to say about it. We addressed it with the team and we're moving on.”

Cousins and Crosby had to be separated by teammates after the fight. The 37-year-old quarterback appeared upset that Crosby tipped his pass, forcing an incompletion, and then charged the 6-foot-5, 256-pound defensive end, who is three inches taller and 42 pounds heavier.

The Raiders are off Sunday before returning Monday morning, so their starting quarterback and star pass rusher will compete against each other again, though, Kubiak hopes, without any punches.

Mendoza has ups and downs against first-team defense

With Cousins watching Saturday, Mendoza — the Heisman Trophy winner at Indiana who was taken first overall in the NFL draft — threw touchdown passes to tight ends Brock Bowers and Michael Mayer and wide receiver Tre Tucker.

He also had some misfires while facing the starting defense for the first time, but showed agility in eluding pressure to find open receivers.

“Fernando continues to improve, and the thing I think we're very pleased about is from spring to the start of camp, there were some parts of this game we wanted him to improve upon and he has as we've added different layers and dimensions,” quarterbacks coach Mike Sullivan said. “He's not repeating mistakes, which is always a good thing. It's a long process. We're pleased with how he's developing.”

Kubiak has said Mendoza, brought to Las Vegas to be the franchise quarterback, would be able to run the first-team offense at some point in camp.

The timing of getting that chance Saturday probably doesn't hurt, given that the Raiders open their preseason schedule Thursday night when they host the Arizona Cardinals. Kubiak hasn't made any announcements on how he plans to use his quarterbacks, but Mendoza probably will at least see the field early and possibly start.

Cousins likely will be the starter when the season begins, but even then, Kubiak has made no promises. The Raiders are expected to turn to Mendoza at some point this season.

“The visual and verbal communication he's made, certainly the ability to take snaps under center, those are things we've seen him improve upon,” Sullivan said. “He's going to continue to work on and we want him to still want him to be even better. But we're pleased with where that's at right now.”

Injury updates

Wide receiver Jalen Nailor returned to practice after sitting out Friday with an unspecified injury, but defensive ends Kwity Paye and Keyron Crawford as well as wide receiver Dont’e Thornton Jr. remained out.

Caleb Rogers, who is competing with Jackson Powers-Johnson at right guard, appeared to injure his left arm or elbow, but wound up returning.

“I feel great,” Rogers said, without going into specifics.

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Funcionarios de Bomberos y Rescate dijeron que respondieron alrededor de las 12:14 p.m. a una vivienda cerca de la cuadra 17000 de Northwest 16th Street después de recibir un reporte de un menor encontrado en una piscina.

Según el Departamento de Bomberos y Rescate de Pembroke Pines, el menor ya estaba fuera de la piscina cuando llegaron los equipos de emergencia y respondía y respiraba.

Funcionarios de Bomberos y Rescate dijeron que el menor parecía “haber estado bajo el agua durante un período muy breve” y aclararon que el menor no se estaba ahogando cuando llegaron los equipos de emergencia.

El menor fue trasladado por paramédicos al Memorial Hospital Miramar para una evaluación adicional.

No había información adicional disponible de inmediato sobre la edad, el sexo o el estado de salud del menor.

Johnson missed four days of training camp this week for personal reasons before he returned Friday.

The 36-year-old Johnson was a first-round pick in 2013 and was a first-team All-Pro in 2017 and 2022. He earned second-team honors in 2021, 2023 and 2024.

Johnson took a leave of absence during the 2021 season as he battled anxiety and depression and has since shared his story at mental health clinics in the area.

He said his latest leave had more to do with family issues, specifically taking care of his parents, and that his priorities had shifted more toward life outside football.

“I'm looking potentially this is probably going to be my last year,” Johnson said after Saturday's practice. “Just because I am getting to that point of, those priorities away from football are starting to merge. Not that I don't enjoy (it), I love everything about this game, preparing for it, but it's kind of where I'm at in my career.”

Johnson has been a pillar at right tackle and won a pair of Super Bowls with the Eagles.

“I still feel like I can be a premier tackle in this league,” Johnson said. “My movement and everything feels good.”

Johnson, a six-time Pro Bowl selection, said his potential retirement came into focus last season after conversations with his family and an injury-plagued season. He missed Philadelphia’s final seven regular-season games and the wild-card playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

Johnson was suspended for 10 games by the NFL in 2016 for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. He was also suspended the first four games of the 2014 season for violating the policy.

He said his teammates already knew he was considering ending his career.

“I feel like planning on having a really good last year,” Johnson said. “I'm trying to soak in these last six months, seven months.”

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El debate se centra en los tres actores que han interpretado a Spider-Man: Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield y Tom Holland.

Maguire, quien protagonizó la trilogía original de Spider-Man, tiene la ventaja de la nostalgia para muchos fanáticos. Su interpretación suele ser elogiada por momentos memorables y por su versión de Peter Parker.

La versión de Garfield aportó un estilo diferente, con fanáticos destacando su agudeza y humor sarcástico como Spider-Man.

Holland, mientras tanto, ha recibido elogios por combinar las dos facetas del personaje: el adolescente Peter Parker y el superhéroe detrás de la máscara.

Puede que no haya una respuesta definitiva, pero la nostalgia parece estar desempeñando un papel importante en el debate.

Entonces, ¿cuál Spider-Man es el mejor? Los fanáticos pueden emitir su voto y opinar en el debate.

Michael Simpson, de 51 años y residente de Miami Beach, ofreció una conferencia de prensa en Miami la mañana del viernes.

Los agentes dijeron que el incidente ocurrió el 29 de julio durante la minitemporada de langosta frente a Fisher Island, mientras el buzo Hunter Cofer estaba en el agua buscando langostas.

Indicaron que, durante una disputa por un lugar para bucear, Simpson se enfureció y amenazó con cerrar el suministro de aire de Cofer, y luego cumplió la amenaza.

Pero Simpson dijo que eso no fue en absoluto lo que ocurrió. El viernes, dijo que había nadado hasta el lugar para ver por qué el padre de Cofer, quien según él se comportaba de manera agresiva, le gritaba a su hijo. Simpson dijo que el padre del adolescente cerró accidentalmente el suministro de aire mientras intentaba tirar de un flotador.

“Él tira de él y la máquina se apaga. Hace una especie de movimiento, resbala, cae sobre el borde del bote y cae al agua”, dijo Simpson. “Inmediatamente, el hombre sale a la superficie y da una brazada hacia mi hijo para cerrar el aire. Es mentira. Es una mentira al 100%. ¿Por qué tendría el padre que mentir diciendo que saltó al agua? Se cayó frente a todos”.

Simpson dijo que el adolescente que estaba bajo el agua se había enredado. Los agentes dijeron que no hubo heridos. Simpson mostró a los medios un video en el que agentes estatales de vida silvestre hablaron con él posteriormente sin incidentes. Dijo que no huyó de la escena, sino que simplemente se alejó unos 300 yardas en su embarcación.

Simpson contrató al abogado Howard Srebnick, quien recientemente encabezó una defensa exitosa en otro caso marítimo de alto perfil en el condado Miami-Dade: en junio, un jurado declaró a su cliente, George Pino, no culpable en un caso de homicidio con una embarcación.

Simpson y Srebnick han prometido luchar contra los cargos.

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Police said the incident happened Thursday morning near Northeast 52nd Street and 26th Avenue after two dogs escaped from a fenced yard and began roaming the neighborhood.

They said one of the dogs attacked a small spaniel named Brody outside a nearby home. Brody’s owner and neighbors tried to stop the attack but were unable to separate the animals, police said.

The owner then retrieved a gun and shot and killed the attacking dog.

A newly released 911 call captures the confusion in the immediate aftermath.

“There’s one dog that’s dead that got shot,” the caller told a dispatcher.

The caller said Brody, the injured dog, was inside the home and that the family was trying to get the animal to a veterinarian.

“It’s my neighbor’s dog,” the caller said. “We’re trying to get the dog to the vet.”

The caller then warned that another dog had been traveling with the one that was shot.

“That just bit another neighbor,” the caller said.

When the dispatcher asked where the dog was, the caller said it was still loose.

“It’s wandering the street right now and someone’s going to kill it if we don’t figure out what’s going on,” the caller added.

Police said the second dog later encountered another resident nearby and bit her in the leg, causing a puncture wound. Lighthouse Point Fire Rescue medics evaluated the woman at the scene, and she later chose to seek additional medical treatment independently.

They said the second dog eventually returned to its residence and was secured by its caretaker. Broward County Animal Care workers responded and placed the dog in quarantine.

Police identified both loose dogs as American Staffordshire mixes.

Neighbors told Local 10 News they heard screams and rushed outside, where they saw the larger dog attacking Brody by the neck.

“The dog was not letting up,” one neighbor said. “It grabbed his neck really good.”

Brody suffered serious injuries and was taken by his owner to a local veterinary hospital for treatment.

Police said they are investigating where the two dogs came from and the circumstances that led to the attack.

No charges had been filed as of Thursday, police said. The investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Lighthouse Point Police Department at 954-942-8080.

La policía dijo que el incidente ocurrió la mañana del jueves cerca de Northeast 52nd Street y 26th Avenue, después de que dos perros escaparan de un patio cercado y comenzaran a deambular por el vecindario.

Dijeron que uno de los perros atacó a un pequeño spaniel llamado Brody afuera de una casa cercana. El dueño de Brody y vecinos intentaron detener el ataque, pero no pudieron separar a los animales, dijo la policía.

El dueño entonces buscó un arma y disparó y mató al perro atacante.

Una llamada al 911 recientemente divulgada capta la confusión inmediatamente después del incidente.

“Hay un perro muerto al que le dispararon”, dijo la persona que llamó a un operador.

La persona que llamó dijo que Brody, el perro herido, estaba dentro de la casa y que la familia intentaba llevar al animal a un veterinario.

“Es el perro de mi vecino”, dijo la persona. “Estamos tratando de llevar al perro al veterinario”.

La persona luego advirtió que otro perro había estado acompañando al que recibió el disparo.

“Acaba de morder a otro vecino”, dijo la persona.

Cuando el operador preguntó dónde estaba el perro, la persona dijo que seguía suelto.

“Está deambulando por la calle ahora mismo y alguien lo va a matar si no averiguamos qué está pasando”, agregó la persona.

La policía dijo que el segundo perro luego se encontró con otra residente cercana y la mordió en la pierna, causándole una herida punzante. Paramédicos de Lighthouse Point Fire Rescue evaluaron a la mujer en el lugar y posteriormente ella decidió buscar tratamiento médico adicional por su cuenta.

Dijeron que el segundo perro finalmente regresó a su residencia y fue asegurado por su cuidador. Trabajadores de Broward County Animal Care acudieron al lugar y pusieron al perro en cuarentena.

La policía identificó a ambos perros sueltos como mezclas de American Staffordshire.

Vecinos dijeron a Local 10 News que escucharon gritos y salieron apresuradamente, donde vieron al perro más grande atacando a Brody por el cuello.

“El perro no se detenía”, dijo un vecino. “Lo agarró muy fuerte por el cuello”.

Brody sufrió heridas graves y fue llevado por su dueño a un hospital veterinario local para recibir tratamiento.

La policía dijo que está investigando de dónde provenían los dos perros y las circunstancias que llevaron al ataque.

Hasta el jueves, no se habían presentado cargos, dijo la policía. La investigación continúa.

Se pide a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el incidente que se comunique con el Departamento de Policía de Lighthouse Point al 954-942-8080.

Según un informe de arresto, Rodencia Thomas Jr. fue a la casa de su hijo el miércoles para cobrar $240 USD que su hijo le debía después de que Thomas pagara su fianza para sacarlo de la cárcel la semana anterior.

El hijo dijo a los agentes que en ese momento solo podía pagar $120 USD y que planeaba pagar los $120 USD restantes a finales de mes, indica el informe.

Los agentes dijeron que ambos comenzaron una discusión que se tornó física en la entrada de la casa.

Dijeron que el hijo contó a los agentes que Thomas le metió un dedo en el ojo antes de que él golpeara a Thomas en el rostro. Luego, ambos cayeron dentro de la casa durante el forcejeo, donde el hijo dijo que Thomas usó su antebrazo para estrangularlo, indica el informe.

Los agentes dijeron que la novia de Thomas les contó que entró a la casa después de escuchar la discusión y vio a los dos hombres peleando. Dijo que pudo separarlos.

El informe indica que Thomas luego caminó hacia la camioneta negra de su novia y presuntamente sacó una pistola del interior del vehículo y se dio la vuelta para correr nuevamente hacia la casa.

El hijo dijo que cayó sobre el césped mientras intentaba escapar, pero logró llegar a la entrada. Dijo a los agentes que Thomas levantó el arma, apuntó hacia él y realizó un disparo, pero la bala no lo alcanzó, según los investigadores.

Los agentes dijeron que encontraron lo que parecía ser un agujero de bala en la parte inferior derecha de la pared exterior cerca de la entrada donde había estado la víctima.

Dijeron que la novia de la víctima también proporcionó una declaración a los agentes. Dijo que sabía que Thomas guardaba un arma en la consola central de su camioneta y que lo siguió hacia el vehículo, diciéndole repetidamente que no hiciera nada “estúpido” mientras intentaba calmar la situación, indica el informe.

La novia del sospechoso dijo a los agentes que vio a Thomas sacar el arma, apuntarla hacia su hijo y realizar un disparo, dijeron los agentes.

Dijeron que la víctima tenía rasguños alrededor de la garganta y en la parte posterior del cuello, además de un rasguño grande en la espalda. Los agentes también documentaron daños dentro de la casa, incluido un agujero en una pared cerca del piso donde los dos hombres habían caído.

La víctima dijo a los agentes que creía que Thomas tenía la intención de matarlo, pero dijo que no quería presentar cargos penales contra su padre, según el informe.

Los agentes dijeron que había causa probable para arrestar a Thomas bajo sospecha de intento de asesinato grave. El informe indica que Thomas tuvo la oportunidad de marcharse después del altercado físico, pero presuntamente regresó con un arma y disparó contra su hijo.

Dijeron que una revisión de los registros mostró que Thomas tenía tres órdenes de arresto activas relacionadas con manutención infantil.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta cargos de agresión doméstica por estrangulamiento e intento de asesinato grave, además de tres órdenes de arresto.

Hasta la mañana del sábado, permanecía detenido sin derecho a fianza en la cárcel principal del condado Broward.

“Solo quiero que las personas que no han estado votando salgan y voten”, dijo un votante.

Los trabajadores electorales se preparan para el inicio de la votación anticipada el sábado, practicando para garantizar que el proceso se desarrolle sin problemas.

“Este es el momento más conveniente para votar en persona porque puedes ir a cualquier lugar del condado Broward”, dijo Joe Scott, supervisor de Elecciones del condado Broward.

La votación anticipada estará disponible en 21 centros en todo el condado Broward desde el sábado hasta el 16 de agosto. Las urnas permanecerán abiertas durante esas fechas de 10 a.m. a 7 p.m.

Scott dijo que los votantes registrados deben llevar una forma válida de identificación para votar en persona.

“Si tiene una identificación estatal o licencia de conducir, esa es la mejor opción”, dijo Scott.

Los votantes también pueden entregar sus boletas de voto por correo en cualquier centro de votación anticipada del condado Broward durante el período de votación anticipada. No tienen que utilizar un centro en el área donde están registrados.

“En el caso de las boletas de voto por correo, comparamos las firmas con la firma que tenemos registrada”, agregó Scott.

La votación anticipada en el condado Broward comienza casi una semana después de que iniciara en los condados Miami-Dade y Monroe.

Scott dijo que el calendario del condado Broward se basa en la participación histórica de los votantes y en el objetivo del condado de administrar responsablemente el dinero de los contribuyentes.

“En el condado Broward, básicamente configuramos nuestro sistema de votación anticipada para que corresponda con la cantidad de personas que históricamente participan, y esto es para administrar responsablemente el dinero de los contribuyentes”, dijo.

CONSULTE LA GUÍA DE VOTACIÓN 2026 DE LOCAL 10 para obtener más información sobre la votación anticipada en el sur de Florida. La votación anticipada en el condado Broward comienza el sábado.

La perra de 2 años y 47 libras había estado esperando varias semanas en el refugio. Tina, una mezcla de perro de Carolina que también podría tener algo de husky, era conocida por sus llamativos ojos azules y su personalidad dócil.

Wachter dijo que Tina era fácil de pasear y sería una buena compañera para alguien que busca un perro con quien disfrutar de paseos tranquilos. Parecía estar entrenada para hacer sus necesidades fuera de casa y no tiraba de la correa.

Tina podía ponerse nerviosa en el auto y podría haber necesitado algo de tiempo para adaptarse a una nueva familia, dijo Wachter. Conoció a una familia mientras estaba en el refugio y se llevó bien con los niños, pero finalmente la familia decidió que ella no era la indicada.

El refugio también tiene dos hermanos de 6 meses, Adam y Drew, que buscan un hogar juntos. Los gatitos negros son descritos como cariñosos, con Adam siendo más extrovertido y Drew un poco más reservado.

El departamento de adopciones de HSBC abre todos los días a las 11 a.m. Los posibles adoptantes pueden completar una solicitud de preadopción a través del sitio web del refugio antes de visitarlo.

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The 2-year-old, 47-pound dog had been waiting several weeks at the shelter. A Carolina dog mix that may also have some husky, Tina was known for her striking blue eyes and gentle personality.

Wachter said Tina was easy to walk and would make a good companion for someone looking for a dog to enjoy leisurely walks with. She appeared to be house-trained and did not pull on the leash.

Tina could be nervous in the car and might have needed some time to adjust to a new family, Wachter said. She had met one family while at the shelter and did well with the children, but the family ultimately decided she was not the right fit.

The shelter also has two 6-month-old brothers, Adam and Drew, who are looking for a home together. The black kittens are described as affectionate, with Adam being more outgoing and Drew a little more reserved.

HSBC’s adoption department opens daily at 11 a.m. Potential adopters can complete a pre-adoption application through the shelter’s website before visiting.

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According to detectives, Francel Swain was reported missing around 6 p.m. Friday, in the 1900 block of Southwest 57th Avenue in West Park. He has since been located.

Authorities have not said what led to his disappearance.

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The debate centers on the three actors to have played Spider-Man: Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland.

Maguire, who starred in the original Spider-Man trilogy, has the advantage of nostalgia for many fans. His portrayal is often praised for memorable moments and for his take on Peter Parker.

Garfield’s version brought a different style, with fans highlighting his quick wit and sarcastic humor as Spider-Man.

Holland, meanwhile, has earned praise for combining the character’s two sides: the teenage Peter Parker and the superhero behind the mask.

There may be no definitive answer, but nostalgia appears to be playing a major role in the debate.

So, which Spider-Man is the best? Fans can cast their vote and weigh in on the debate.

“I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women’s basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention,” Engelbert wrote in the memo, which was sent Friday afternoon and obtained by The Associated Press. “I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who have responded to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism.”

The memo said the topic will be discussed further by a task force of team presidents and general managers at a previously scheduled meeting next week.

In an ESPN article published last month, Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham voiced support for barring transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s sports. Cunningham's comments sparked small rallies and protests in Seattle and Portland when the Fever were on the road last week.

There was a lone protester at the Fever's home game against Las Vegas on Thursday night. Indiana visits Chicago on Saturday. Members of two conservative groups are planning a rally in support of Cunningham ahead of that game.

The league hasn’t made any public comments on the issue.

Engelbert wrote that the league will “always approach this topic thoughtfully, respectfully, and in alignment with the longstanding values of our league. Second, our player eligibility rules, unlike the eligibility rules of some other leagues and governing bodies, are collectively bargained. Lastly, preserving the integrity of our game and ensuring fair competition will always remain among the league’s highest priorities.”

The league's collective bargaining agreement states that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” but it does not include any more specific language about gender identity or sex assigned at birth. On Friday, two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, declared themselves eligible for the WNBA draft, saying they identify as women.

“We recognize that this is a complex and nuanced topic, and we will continue to have important conversations with all of you and the Players Association in the weeks and months ahead,” Engelbert said in the memo. “We also plan to convene additional discussions and offer listening sessions for any team leaders who would like to participate. Your perspectives and feedback are invaluable, and I appreciate those who have already reached out to share their thoughts.”

The WNBA players' association released a statement on social media Friday that emphasized diversity and inclusion while saying the group “will not be used as political pawns.”

“We embrace justice equity, diversity, and inclusion,” the statement read. “Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women’s sports while creating transformational change. Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns.”

Some WNBA players and coaches have come out in support of transgender athletes, including Seattle Storm center Stefanie Dolson and Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve.

“We need to protect trans kids,” Reeve said on Aug. 1. “To me, it’s a human rights issue. Every kid has a right to sports.”

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La explosión se registró en el peaje de Mandiva, ubicado en la vía Panamericana, la principal arteria vial del suroeste del país. El ejército detalló que dos vigilantes que cuidaban la infraestructura sufrieron heridas leves.

El reporte agregó que, según uno de los vigilantes, se trató de la detonación de un vehículo que fue abandonado por una persona que luego huyó en una motocicleta.

De acuerdo con información preliminar del ejército, el ataque habría sido perpetrado por las facciones Dagoberto Ramos y Jaime Martínez de las disidencias de la extinta guerrilla Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), que no se acogió al acuerdo de paz firmado hace una década con el Estado.

En tanto, militares resguardan la zona donde, junto a canes entrenados, recorren el área para descartar la presencia de otros artefactos explosivos, indicó el ejército en su cuenta de X.

La ministra de Transporte, Elsa Noguera, condenó el “atentado terrorista” y aseguró en X que “Colombia no se va a arrodillar ante la violencia ni va a permitir que destruyan las obras que conectan a nuestras regiones”. Añadió que se trabaja para restablecer la movilidad en la zona.

El ataque sucedió en la vía que comunica a los departamentos de Cauca y Valle del Cauca, cuya capital, Cali, fue la anfitriona del acto de juramentación De la Espriella en una ceremonia en que delineó su política de seguridad y advirtió a los grupos ilegales que "tienen dos caminos: someterse al imperio de la ley o enfrentar la fuerza pública”.

Tras la posesión, se realizó en Cali el primer consejo de seguridad del nuevo gobierno. Según la gobernadora del Valle del Cauca, Dilian Francisca Toro, se decidió articular la fuerza pública para “ejercer un verdadero control sobre las economías ilícitas y recuperar la seguridad de nuestros territorios”.

Traslado de prisioneros

De la Espriella, quien descartó el diálogo con los armados que impulsó su antecesor Gustavo Petro, anunció el sábado el traslado de 117 prisioneros vinculados a los procesos de paz del anterior gobierno hacia prisiones de máxima seguridad.

Se trata de una medida que busca “recuperar el control permanente de las cárceles” y “contener cualquier capacidad de las estructuras criminales” para coordinar acciones ilícitas desde las prisiones, citó en un comunicado el Instituto Nacional Penitenciario (INPEC).

Los privados de libertad fueron llevados a ocho centros penitenciarios de alta seguridad en las ciudades Bogotá, Medellín, Girón, Valledupar, La Dorada, Palmira, Ibagué y El Barne.

El gobierno ejercerá el control en las prisiones “con autoridad y dentro del marco constitucional”, aseveró la institución estatal.

“I think Darline’s wonderful,” said Kathy Bustos of Mount Pleasant, after attending a Republican forum last week.

But that doesn't mean Bustos wants to vote for her in the state's special primary on Tuesday.

“I think it’s a very nice gesture for her to have the rest of his term to complete, but I’m not sure that she’s really qualified or ready to be elected to the Senate,” she said.

It's a common sentiment among Republican voters pondering an unexpected decision about replacing Lindsey Graham, who was nominated for a fifth term before he died from a tear in his aorta. Darline Graham was often by his side throughout his career, but she remains largely unknown in South Carolina's clubby political circles.

President Donald Trump has endorsed her, and she's backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is running television advertising to support her candidacy.

However, Graham has been largely absent from the campaign trail, spending most of her time in Washington as an interim senator. Her appointment to the role, instead of giving her a leg up over the competition, may ultimately hold her back by preventing her from getting to know voters during a weeks-long sprint to Tuesday.

A crowded field of contenders

She is up against several well-known Republicans, including Representatives Russell Fry and Ralph Norman, as well as former Gov. Mark Sanford. The crowded field makes a runoff more likely, and it would be held on Aug. 25.

All of them spoke at a Friday meeting of the Fourth District Republican Club in Greenville, but Graham sent a video message, saying she was “in Washington working hard for you." She promised to be "a great friend and ally” to Trump and that she wanted to “earn your vote.”

And at a candidate event in Florence on Saturday, where Graham spoke, some of her supporters said they backed the interim senator’s decision to stay in Washington, even if it meant not campaigning.

“She committed to not missing votes or not being there to push forward with those bills,” said Teresa Castrinos, who made the hours-long drive from Bluffton to see Graham. “I feel like she’s putting South Carolina first. She’s wanting to fulfill her time as a senator right now, so I really admire her for that.”

A low profile in Washington — and on the trail

While Lindsey Graham was single and well-known around the world, his sister lived a relatively quiet life with her husband and daughters in Lexington, South Carolina. She spent years in state government, working with people with disabilities and as an agency head of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind.

Before participating in a candidate forum Saturday in Florence, her only public campaign event had been a candidate forum in Lexington. Charles Brentnell of Greenville County, who was still considering his options, said he liked her decision to stay in Washington when the Senate was in session.

“Let’s keep the Senate at the Senate instead of taking a month off for no good reason,” he said.

Appearing alongside other contenders Saturday, Graham apologized for reading from notes from a lectern, pointing to the Senate votes that kept her in Washington until just hours before she headed to meet voters in South Carolina.

“Yes, I have some notes. You know why? Because I haven’t slept in two days, so I’m going to keep my thoughts straight,” Graham said, adding that she opposed Senate recess but lost out to others who wanted to end votes and go home. "I wanted to stay there, and I wanted to get things done."

Graham also participated in one of two televised debates, where she backed Trump's plan to change filibuster rules to make it easier to pass strict proof-of-citizenship voting legislation.

While other candidates came to speak to the media gathered afterward, Graham skipped the session and merely gave a thumbs-up outside when asked how she felt the debate had gone.

In contrast to her loquacious late brother, Graham has not spoken with reporters in Capitol Hill hallways or fielded questions on the stump.

She's spoken at length to Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Trey Gowdy, both of whom eulogized Lindsey Graham at memorial services last month, and granted two interviews to local news outlets.

On Saturday, in her first gaggle with reporters, Graham addressed some of voters' concerns, reiterating her commitment to do Senate work when the chamber is in session.

“I feel like my job is to be in D.C. working for everyone right now. I hate that I can't be here. I want to be here," she said. "That's why I left and didn't sleep at all last night, so I could attend today's event.”

As to the skepticism in sending Graham to Washington for six years, Graham cited her state government experience, plus the past several weeks she's had serving as interim.

“Trust me, I have learned a lot already, so I think I have experience,” she said.

A second debate took place while Graham was in Washington on Tuesday, a date her campaign pointed out had been scheduled despite the senator’s conflict.

Gigi Bray of Charleston said the idea of Darline Graham serving in the interim makes sense, but electing her to a full term does not.

“I think it’s a great honor for her to hold her brother’s spot till November, but it’s time for a change,” said Bray, who backs Sanford. “I don’t think she has a lot of government experience, and I think right now, with the state of our country, I think it’s very important that somebody has experience.”

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Según los detectives, Francel Swain fue visto por última vez alrededor de las 6 p.m. del viernes, en la cuadra 1900 de Southwest 57th Avenue en West Park.

Las autoridades dijeron que Swain mide 5 pies y 7 pulgadas de estatura y pesa alrededor de 150 libras. Tiene cabello gris y ojos marrones y fue visto por última vez vistiendo una camisa polo verde oliva, una gorra verde, pantalones cargo marrones y zapatos marrones.

Según su familia, Swain padece demencia.

Se pide a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre su paradero que se comunique con el detective de BSO Chris Blankenship al 954-321-4268 o con el número de BSO para casos que no sean de emergencia al 954-764-4357.

Su ex compañero de equipo, ahora acusado de asesinato, rechazó un acuerdo de culpabilidad.

Un recluso afirma que Rashaun Jones, de 40 años, confesó haber asesinado a Pata, de 22 años, pero el recluso se ha negado a testificar, diciendo que teme por su seguridad y alegando ante las autoridades federales y estatales que el abogado defensor de Jones lo sobornó para evitar que testificara.

Ahora, un juez dice que se requiere una investigación para indagar sobre el presunto soborno.

El abogado defensor de Jones ahora podría tener que ser apartado del caso e incluso podría convertirse en testigo, dependiendo del resultado de la investigación.

El abogado defensor de Jones ha negado las acusaciones.

Water levels at the reservoir, which straddles the Arizona-Nevada border outside Las Vegas, hit 1,040.4 feet (317.1 meters) above sea level on Friday, according to federal data. That’s just below the record set on July 28, 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

“It's extremely significant and extremely concerning. You have three-quarters of the population of the Colorado River Basin, some 30 million people, who are directly impacted by risks to Lake Mead,” said J.B. Hamby, chairman of the Colorado River Board of California and a board member of the Imperial Irrigation District, the largest user of the river’s water.

Hamby said it is vital for states that use Colorado River water to reduce water use.

Drought and dry conditions have stretched along the length of the Colorado and are particularly intense at its source in the Rocky Mountains.

Melting snow provides important water for the river. This past winter, however, saw the worst snowpack on record for the Colorado River Basin, adding more stress on farmers, industry, wildlife and hydropower producers, as well as the 40 million people across seven U.S. states, tribal nations and Mexico who rely on the waterway.

Years of overuse combined with drought and rising temperatures have been depleting Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir. Both are the lowest they have been in nearly seven decades.

To protect the strained system's ability to produce hydropower, federal officials said Thursday that they will not release cool Lake Powell water from Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona to protect a threatened native fish, the humpback chub, whose habitat is between the reservoirs.

Federal officials recently announced a short-term proposal to stave off a crisis in the beleaguered waterway, after states that rely on it — California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah — failed to reach an agreement on how to share the dwindling resource in the long term.

The federal proposal called for the Lower Basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada to take less water. The Bureau of Reclamation, which released the plan, said it was flexible: Deeper cuts could happen in drier times, while states would have more time to collectively agree on how to manage the scarce resources.

Severe drought in 2022 on Lake Mead, which is held back by Hoover Dam, exposed human remains and forced water officials in Las Vegas to pump water from deeper within the reservoir to continue to supply water to millions of people.

Levels at Lake Powell have dropped so much that it has become difficult to descend far enough to reach the water. Boat ramps have had to move, shut down or be built anew.

Lake Mead and Lake Powell are not alone. Of the 54 Western reservoirs tracked by the Bureau of Reclamation, nine recently recorded their lowest levels in the last three decades.

Federal officials do not believe the record will stay where it is. According to modeling done in July, Lake Mead is forecast to continue dropping through much of the rest of the year.

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The measure has been touted as one that would put guardrails around an escalating spending spree in college sports as the industry struggles to adapt to a new model in which teams can pay players.

“College sports is something that needs to be fixed, they have a good solution,” said Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. “We got it teed up for next month."

The bill has been on a roller coaster since it was introduced in late May but quickly failed to gain support of the two biggest conferences: the Big Ten and SEC.

Those conferences signed on and saved it from near death late last month after a flurry of negotiations. But as quickly as it was revived, it faced a reality check in the Senate, where lawmakers from SEC states, including Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., were among its biggest skeptics.

Then, as the bill neared closer to a vote, the Congressional Black Caucus and AFL-CIO also came out against it. Amendments dealing with issues that were never part of the bill also started coming up.

All that, combined with a packed list of votes including on a short-term funding bill and the narrow confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General, pushed the PCSA toward the back of the Senate's agenda.

Bill co-sponsor Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said “my colleagues and I have worked hard to end the chaos” that surrounds college sports and predicted the bill would receive support of 60 or more Senators to keep it on path to becoming law.

Co-sponsor, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said she was grateful Thune put it on the calendar.

“This bipartisan bill is how we protect women's and Olympic sports,” she said. “I look forward to its passage in September.”

If it passes the Senate, the bill still figures to face a steep climb in the House, which is more narrowly divided and tried for months to bring the less athlete-friendly SCORE Act to a vote and failed repeatedly.

A rethinking of third-party NIL

Among the bill's biggest features would be a redefinition of “third-party” NIL — the name, image, likeness sponsorship deals that most blame for spiraling costs. Under current rules, schools can share revenue of up to $21.3 million among all players across their athletic program.

But there’s an uncapped amount of extra money to be made via these third-party deals, which are often brokered through multimedia rights companies labeled “associated entities” that sell a school’s promotional assets and move some of that cash to the players in exchange for their NIL.

The law would presumably shift some of those arrangements under a newly expanded revenue share of up to $48.8 million while leaving open the possibility of “organic” third-party deals that don’t come from an existing arrangement with the school. A good example: Caitlin Clark got her sponsorship deal with State Farm because she was Caitlin Clark, not because she played for Iowa, which happened to have a deal with State Farm. (The Hawkeyes don't have such a deal.)

Sports leaders hope this new “retention pool” of money curtails runaway costs. The MMR groups aren’t promising it will.

“It’s going to continue to grow,” Christy Hedgpeth, the president Playfly Sports Properties, said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. “We have a lot of data that proves that they don’t have to be nationally recognizable. On an average roster, you’re going to have far more than 20 (players) who are going to have several NIL deals.”

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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed from Washington.

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The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working for less. The blockade, which took place nearly 30 years ago, failed to stop the problem, leading Jackson to decide that he needed to try another way.

“He realized that the only way to change, to change it from the inside, was to be involved,” said Hilton Hafford, a logger who stood with Jackson at the blockade.

That moment set the fifth-generation lumberjack on a path into politics, eventually making him Maine's unlikely Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. He faces longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of a handful of races that could determine control of the chamber in November.

Jackson’s campaign has focused on his ties to Aroostook County, a sprawling, wooded region known as “The County” to Mainers. It's where Jackson, 58, says he watched hard-working people struggle to get ahead, fueling his fight against billionaires and corporations. It also is the place that has elected Jackson to the Legislature while supporting Republican Donald Trump for president.

Defeating Collins, a five-term incumbent who has survived other efforts by Democrats to unseat her, will not be easy.

Jackson is a last-minute replacement for Graham Platner, the initial nominee who exited the race after a sexual assault allegation that he denied. Jackson has accused Collins of looking out for herself instead of Maine and he criticized her vote that paved the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to end the nationwide right to an abortion. Collins, 73, who is also from Aroostook County, has accused Jackson of being too liberal for the state.

Speaking to Maine Democrats while he accepted the party nomination last month, Jackson pointed to his logging background and humble upbringing in a rural county as critical to shaping his desire to fight for the working class.

"What I am is a guy from northern Maine that’s a logger," Jackson said.

The evolution of a liberal lumberjack

Aroostook County, among the poorest in the state, is thinly populated but so large that it could easily contain both Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Tucked in the northern tip of the county is Jackson's hometown of Allagash, where pavement turns into the logging roads and where Jackson went to work as a lumberjack at 19.

Jackson said he worked long, dangerous hours. It was not unusual to wake up at 2:30 a.m. for a 12-hour shift on a job that often did not offer health insurance.

“Everyone in that profession works hard for our families. We did follow the rules. But the harder we worked, the more that companies took from us,” Jackson said during his nomination acceptance speech at a party convention in Bangor. “And further behind we would fall.”

The town saw a steady drop in population as job opportunities dried up. Officials shuttered the school in the mid-1990s, crushing those who remembered the glory days of the school’s prominent basketball team, which won a handful of state championships in the 1970s.

Jackson's disappointment with the logger blockade and other labor demonstrations in the late 1990s further cemented his feeling that something had to change.

He turned his attention to running for state office. Jackson first ran as a Republican but failed to collect enough support in a region that was heavily Democratic at the time. Eventually he won running as an independent and then became a Democrat in 2004. He went on to serve as president of the state Senate.

His political positions evolved over time, particularly on social issues. Early in his political career, Jackson opposed abortion and same-sex marriage. He has since reversed those stances.

“The logging industry is a very, very red industry,” said Louie Pelletier, the brother of Jackson's longtime partner, Lana Pelletier. “That’s the kind of mindset he was in."

Once in office, Jackson started to think he was on the wrong side of those social issues, added Louie Pelletier, who was a logger before taking over his family’s wood shop in Allagash.

“Then he never looked back,” he said.

Allagash is divided on the crucial Senate race

There is just one restaurant in Allagash, while a modest museum alongside the banks of the St. John River displays key moments in the town's history, including a framed photo of Jackson shaking hands with former Democratic President Joe Biden.

As of late July, only one campaign sign for Jackson could be seen from the main road that goes through Allagash. Several Republican gubernatorial and congressional candidates’ signs were prominently displayed.

Taking a break from slinging hamburgers during the weekend lunch rush, Darlene Dumond acknowledged that Allagash remains divided on Jackson. She supports him.

With a population of about 230 people, Allagash is defined by the handful of families who have lived for decades in “Moosetown,” where divisions can fall not only between Republicans and Democrats, but Catholics and Baptists.

Dumond said Collins’ long tenure as senator has been a disappointment even if she helped bring in resources and money to the state. She pointed to Collins’ role in confirming Brett Kavanaugh for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, where he helped overturn the ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.

“Why would our girl from Aroostook County be the deciding vote for the justice that overthrew Roe v. Wade?” Dumond said, shaking her head.

Collins has said she disagrees with the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, but she does not regret her vote to confirm Kavanaugh.

Jackson has repeatedly argued that he will be a strong Senate candidate because he has kept his legislative seat as a Democrat while the region steadily became more Republican, including when Aroostook County swung for Trump.

Still, Jackson has struggled to compete outside Allagash. He failed to secure the Democratic nomination for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in 2014 and came in third place in the June 9 primary for governor. In 2023, he lost a local race in Allagash — a seat for first selectman position — by six votes.

He has butted heads with both Republican and Democratic lawmakers while in the Legislature, including Democratic Gov. Janet Mills. She ran against Platner for the Senate nomination but dropped out, citing a lack of campaign money. Mills has since declined to endorse Jackson.

Some lawmakers who worked with Jackson have criticized him as having a temper, including once throwing a plastic water bottle on the ground in frustration while disagreeing with a female lawmaker. His inner circle is quick to deny he has anger issues, instead describing him as “passionate” and “competitive.”

Asked by reporters about the confrontations, Jackson said “I wear my heart on my sleeve," saying that he took responsibility for his outburst and apologized to those he had confrontations with at the time.

Hafford, who worked alongside Jackson as a logger, has seen that fiery side but chalked it up to strong feelings. He remembers being in meetings with Jackson in the 1990s where loggers were debating what to do to improve working conditions, and encouraging Jackson not to fly off the handle — even though he wanted to.

“Troy would look over at me and he’d say, ‘Is it time yet?’” Hafford said.

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Associated Press writer Patrick Whittle in Portland, Maine, contributed to this report.

1½ cups heavy cream

½ cup milk

1 vanilla bean, split and scraped

pinch salt

5 egg yolks

½ cup granulated sugar

Preheat the oven to 325˚F. Heat the cream, milk, salt and vanilla until warmed through; allow the vanilla to macerate for a few minutes. Discard the vanilla bean.

Whisk the yolks with the sugar. Temper the yolks by adding a ladle of warm cream mixture while whisking. Pour the egg mixture into the rest of the cream mixture and mix to combine. Divide the mixture into ramekins. Transfer the ramekins into a baking dish and pour boiling water into the pan until it reaches about ½ way up the sides of the ramekins.

Bake until just barely set, approximately 30 - 40 minutes, depending on the size of your ramekin. Cool completely and chill in the refrigerator until cold. When ready to serve, top each creme brulee with about a teaspoon of granulated sugar and torch with either a blow torch or broil in an oven until caramelized.

The story of heroism told by police for the first time adds to the list of at least three more people who confronted the gunman with their own weapons as well as numerous others who rushed to comfort victims.

“What happened here was violent, frightening and deeply traumatic,” Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said during a news conference.

The video revealed more details of the chaotic scene last weekend. The gunman walked up to the drive-thru window four times and opened fire, killing an In-N-Out employee, police said.

Ten people were shot — inside the restaurant, directly outside, on an adjacent busy road and at a car charging station in a Twin Falls visitors center lot, Hicks said.

He said investigators still don’t have a motive for the shooting. The gunman, Chad Williams, 24, killed himself.

It should have been a “normal Saturday afternoon,” Hicks said. “Employees showing up for work. Visitors coming to see our beautiful city. Instead they were confronted with chaos, fear and now loss.”

A man who encountered the gunman is a ‘hero’

As the shooting unfolded, employees from nearby stores fled to a walking trail. When the gunman headed to the trail, he came across two people, including one with his hands in the air talking to him, according to the video.

That man distracted the gunman from possibly pursuing others on the trail. Williams subsequently killed himself as police closed in. His body was found near a canyon.

“To that young man, you are a hero,” Hicks said. “Your courage, your composure, your selflessness in that moment likely gave others the time they needed to escape harm. This community is grateful for you, and we will never forget what you did that day.”

Hicks also praised the work of an off-duty state trooper, who shot at Williams from inside the restaurant, and former police officer A.J. James, who was wounded while confronting him. Authorities previously credited an armed civilian who fired back and diverted Williams from the restaurant.

An off-duty officer helps the wounded

James ran toward the sound of gunfire from the drive-thru window, while the off-duty officer inside the In-N-Out exchanged gunfire with Williams through the window and directed workers out of the building, Hicks said.

He acted “heroically and unbelievably” to try to slow down the shooter, the police chief said, declining to release the off-duty officer’s name.

Braxton Steube said he was the person who encountered Williams on the trail after fleeing a Dick’s Sporting Good store.

“I said, ‘I have a family.’ I said, ‘You don’t have to do this. I’ll tell you whatever you want. I’ll do anything,’” Steube told KMVT-TV. “He started to like tear up a bit, it seemed. And he said to me, ‘Just get away from me, man.’”

Steube said the gunman shot at him and missed.

The Twin Falls In-N-Out, 130 miles (210 kilometers) southeast of Boise, the state capital, had opened in July as part of the chain’s expansion into Idaho.

Police identified those killed as Ashley Garibay, 23, of Stockton, California; Dale Schultz, 66, of Salt Lake City; and Christopher Claunch, 59, of Hagerman, Idaho.

Williams had briefly attended the College of Southern Idaho and previously lived in Arizona.

1½ cups heavy cream

½ cup whole milk

½ cup granulated sugar

4 egg yolks

2 cups fresh basil leaves

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

pinch salt

For the Strawberries:

2 cups strawberries, quartered

2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

2 tablespoons brown sugar

fresh basil leaves

Preheat the oven to 300˚F.

Combine the cream, milk, sugar and basil in a small saucepan over medium heat until it comes to a simmer; remove from heat and allow to steep for about an hour, covered.

Strain the cream mixture, pressing on the leaves to extract all liquid. Discard the basil.

In another bowl, whisk the eggs, vanilla, and salt until smooth.

Slowly temper in a little warm basil cream until it warms through.

Pour back into the pan with the rest of the cream mixture.

Pour the mixture into ramekins. Transfer the ramekins into a baking dish and pour boiling water into the pan until it reaches about ½ way up the sides of the ramekins. Bake for about 30-35 or until the center is just slightly wobbly. Remove from the bain marie and allow to come to room temperature then place in a cooler to chill for at least 2 hours.

Meanwhile, warm the balsamic just a little in a small pan or microwave and stir in the brown sugar until it melts. Allow to cool, toss the strawberries into the vinegar and rip some basil leaves into it. Garnish the pot de creme with the strawberries.

5 croissants cut into 1 to1½-inch cubes

2½ cups heavy cream

1 cup whole milk

1 cup granulated sugar

3 large eggs

2 large egg yolks

1 teaspoon fine salt

1 tablespoon vanilla paste

1 cup raspberries

Heat the cream, milk and sugar in a saucepan over medium low heat until it begins to simmer.

Whisk the eggs, yolks, salt and vanilla together in a bowl. Gently pour the warm cream mixture into the eggs, whisking to combine. Add the croissant cubes into the mixture and combine until well coated. Refrigerate overnight.

Heat your oven to 325˚F. Add the raspberries into the mixture and pour into a baking dish with a 2-2.5 quart capacity. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until cooked through. It should puff a little and barely jiggle when shaken. Let cool slightly before serving.

When Howard administrators informed Clark — and hundreds of others — that she was permanently unenrolled for missing a tuition fee deadline, she rode a bus from Cleveland, Ohio, to plea with administrators. She left in tears.

“I didn’t just lose my dream. I lost my way out,” said the 17-year-old, who had pinned her hopes on Howard as a peaceful environment and a path to financial freedom after years of growing up in “survival mode.”

Shortly after that, the university notified Clark she was once again welcome to enroll. But as she moved into the Washington, D.C., campus on Thursday, she remained uneasy. She worries that the university might reverse its decision yet again, and hopes Howard will make changes so that other students aren't wrongfully unenrolled.

“I’m definitely not really over that,” Clark said.

While administrators prefer that students, faculty and alumni focus on the school's new academic year, much of the community's attention is still trained on the unenrollment debacle. More than 500 incoming first-year students were unenrolled for missing a July tuition payment deadline, the university said. About 200 students have had their enrollment restored.

It was also reported Friday that Howard unenrolled the students about a month after offering voluntary early retirement buyouts to 600 eligible employees. But Howard University said in a statement that the employee buyouts were unrelated and part of a plan for “long-term financial sustainability.”

For some in the Howard community, the bitter experience has raised questions about the legacy of one of the country's most revered historically Black colleges and universities. Others say such administrative matters won't lessen the career impact a Howard diploma can have.

The loss of HBCU luster

Zy’Aira Blackmon had her heart set on attending Howard, seen as the preeminent Black university in the nation.

But, after her enrollment status was revoked and then reinstated within days, the 18-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan, doesn’t feel the same way. The luster Howard once held has been dulled.

“After this situation, most people are going to ignore all the good things Howard has to offer,” said Blackmon, who now will study at Western Michigan University.

When Howard took away 17-year-old Yuisa Davis’ enrollment, her mother hopped on a plane July 28 from the family’s Puerto Rico home to get answers. An administrative official told Karina Polen-Davis and her husband, who was on speakerphone, that she couldn’t answer their questions. Then the official called security.

The Davises say they paid what they thought they owed but the university rescinded enrollment without explanation or recourse.

The school never budged.

“It’s very disheartening just because there’s so many opportunities that’s kind of just been taken from me without me being able to" find a resolution, said Yuisa Davis, who often visited Howard as a child.

Now, Davis is working with The New School in New York City on possible financial aid.

“The difference in how we've been treated has been night and day,” Kenneth Davis said.

Families and university officials blame miscommunication

Interim President Wayne A. I. Frederick told The Associated Press last month that Howard simply followed its payment policy, noting that 2,200 students did meet payment requirements.

Unenrolled students and their parents did not properly read school communications about a July 10 deadline for half their unpaid balance, with financial aid factored in, Frederick said.

Those students who did everything correctly “deserve to show up on Aug. 17, the first day of class and meet their professors in class, have their housing assignments taken care of,” Frederick said. Previously, the school had to scramble to find enough student housing and adjunct professors to fill classrooms.

Some students assert they followed the school’s payment requirements.

Blackmon said her scholarship had not been included in her balance owed. After being unenrolled, she constantly called and emailed the school.

“They reinstated me. They really didn’t explain much,” she added.

Ashley Christopher, an attorney and Howard alumna whose son is a sophomore there, thinks Howard shoulders some blame. She is the founder of HBCU Week, a foundation that awards scholarships, and believes students received “bad information" from the school.

“There’s a way to take accountability for a misstep, and also explain that there’s joint responsibility here,” said Christopher, an attorney. “It is not just the parents. It’s not just the students."

Frederick said that how Howard has handled unenrollment and reenrollment can contribute positively to the school’s image.

“All this does is strengthen our legacy and helps us perform as a high-performing institution on the administrative side, as we have been doing in the past,” he said.

A storied and pree

minent HBCU

The nearly 160-year-old Howard is one of about 100 HBCUs in the U.S., with famous alumni including former Vice President Kamala Harris and actor Chadwick Boseman.

Howard has a 6-year graduation rate of 70% and a retention rate of 90%, according to the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. The school consistently ranks among the most prestigious private HBCUs, including as the top-ranked HBCU by Forbes.

The university costs more than $66,000 each year to attend. The median income for four-year graduates is about $73,000, according to the Education Department. Frederick said Howard has graduated more Black doctors than any other school in the country.

The “scandal,” as Christopher calls the unenrollment issue, likely will not impact Howard’s reputation as “The Mecca” of Black education in the long run.

“Howard has been the blueprint for HBCUs, graduated the best and the brightest — not saying they’re the only one who does that," she said. "When it comes to overall impact of HBCU institutions, Howard stands at the top of that list.”

___ Tang reported from Sunnyvale, California. Williams reported from Detroit.

So did Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The three ex-presidents joined a roster of historians and authors in contributing to the In Pursuit project, a 250th-anniversary series that had each writer produce an essay about a president or first lady.

Though the project was explicitly designed to transcend today’s politics, some of its essays nevertheless reflect anxieties that are flaring in the era of President Donald Trump over the use of power, the health of the democracy and the integrity of the presidency.

The project is being curated by Colleen Shogan, the U.S. archivist who was fired without explanation by Trump last year. She instructed contributors not to be partisan or ideological. “Everybody took those instructions and that guidance very seriously,” she told The Associated Press. The goal was for all Americans to “feel welcome to be able to read these lessons and essays and learn something from them.”

The mission, Shogan said, “is to surface the lessons from the past 250 years of American history, so that we can learn from those lessons, from both our successes and our failures, so we can plan for the present and the future. It’s what has been described as debriefing the American story.”

The essays cover 43 presidents — all but Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Trump — and 30 first ladies. They are being published chronologically and weekly into December.

Trump and Biden were judged too fresh to be appraised by history, a call that may have also set aside passions of the moment.

Without naming Trump, Bush’s essay is difficult to read without thinking of Trump’s reluctance to cede power after his 2020 election defeat and his musings about a third term in defiance of the Constitution’s two-term limit.

Bush hails the heroism of humility

Bush's essay celebrates George Washington, the original “No Kings” guy. Bush, a Republican, hails a man whose legacy only grew larger because he modeled the limits of the presidency for centuries to come.

“Our first president could have remained all-powerful,” Bush writes, “but twice he chose not to. In so doing, he set a standard for all presidents to live up to.” First, Washington resigned as commander in chief of the Continental Army, then set the precedent of serving only two presidential terms before that limit was enshrined in the Constitution.

Bush went on: "George Washington’s humility in giving up power willingly remains among the most consequential decisions and important examples in American politics.” Bush's essay, released Presidents Day as the first in the series on Substack, drove heavy engagement.

Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who led U.S. and international forces in the Afghanistan War, sized up a fellow general, Ulysses S. Grant, in another essay that drew much attention for its parallels with today.

History offers lessons on ‘law over loyalty’

McChrystal presents the Union general and post-Civil War president as a leader who displayed “an absolute commitment to principles larger than personal ambition" and who, before his presidency, resisted pressure on military leaders to “align with political factions and be loyal to a person rather than the Constitution.”

The emphasis on personal loyalty resonates in a time when Trump has repeatedly demanded fealty from officials in his administration.

The “temptation to bend institutions toward personal power is not unique to Grant’s era,” McChrystal writes. “Our future still depends on whether our leaders choose law over loyalty.”

This month, in the latest In Pursuit installment, Democrat Clinton writes about Theodore Roosevelt, focusing on that president's drive to expand the universe of “we the people” at the expense of powerful corporate interests, while also emphasizing Roosevelt's exclusionary views on Black and Indigenous people.

The essays frequently address presidents’ failures alongside their accomplishments, a contrast with Trump’s calls for federal cultural institutions to stick to patriotic interpretations of American history.

Presidents, the chief justice and first ladies contribute

Among the In Pursuit contributors are Chief Justice John Roberts (writing about William Howard Taft, the only president who also served on the Supreme Court); Hillary Clinton ( Eleanor Roosevelt ); Michelle Obama ( Jacqueline Kennedy ); GOP operative Karl Rove ( William McKinley ); documentarian Ken Burns ( Franklin D. Roosevelt ); and historian Michael Beschloss ( Lyndon Johnson ). Democrat Barack Obama presents Abraham Lincoln.

The project is being staged by More Perfect, a nonpartisan alliance of dozens of presidential centers along with academics and organizations dedicated to advancing democracy. It is where Shogan now practices her archivist craft that Trump shut down by firing her in February 2025.

She still has not been told why. Nor has Congress apparently been notified of the reason. The law requires Congress to be told but does not specify a deadline. The National Archives is the central repository of federal documents both precious and routine, and its leader has discretion over which records to preserve and display, and how.

“That is a position that used to be a nonpartisan position, much like the Librarian of Congress, the secretary of the Smithsonian,” she said. “And I took that very seriously and acted the entire time when I was archivist in a nonpartisan way.”

The White House did not respond when asked why Trump fired the archivist and whether the administration will tell Congress the reason.

Trump has long begrudged the archives for notifying the Department of Justice of his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left office following his first term, though Shogan was not working for the agency then.

Shogan sees hunger for history without a slant

Shogan said she has been overwhelmed with the public response to the series so far and figures that speaks to a hunger for history shorn of partisanship. The essays have received more than 1 million cumulative views on Substack and her podcast of the same name registered 160,000 audio downloads and nearly 64,000 YouTube views at last count. A documentary about the series is scheduled to air on PBS in October.

In the essays, readers learn something new not just about the giants, but about presidents such as Millard Fillmore — “a historic punchline — best remembered, ironically, for being so forgotten,” in the words of his essayist, former New York congressman Steve Israel.

Then there was Franklin Pierce, presented by his essayist as a pro-slavery president and “permanent victim” of Washington's alcohol-soaked culture.

Yale history professor David W. Blight recounts how Pierce won the presidency for the Democrats in 1852 despite vicious trolling by the Whigs. Fielding Mexican War veteran Gen. Winfield Scott in that election, they labeled Pierce, who also served in the war, the “hero of many a well-fought bottle.”

“Traveling with kids is a whole new world," said Dr. Shannon Thompson, a pediatrician at Cleveland Clinic Children's, adding that it's important to “enjoy your kiddo on your trip” as much as you can.

Here are some tips and tricks for parents to travel safely with young children — and have fun with them, too.

Look for amenities like cribs and high chairs before you book

Before you decide where to stay, consider your options for baby-proofing.

Check whether items like portable playpens, cribs and high chairs are offered to guests. If you are staying somewhere with stairs, a balcony or a pool, inquire about baby gates; if they are not provided, see if they are available for rent nearby or consider bringing travel-friendly foldable mesh gates. Pack electrical outlet covers and wipes to clean any dirty surfaces your kiddo might touch.

For babies, safe sleeping is still essential on vacation. Children younger than 1 should sleep on their back on a flat, firm surface such as a mattress in a bassinet, crib or playpen with nothing more than a fitted sheet, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The organization also recommends babies sleep in the parents' room — but not in the parents' bed — for at least the first six months.

You should also consider how you will get to your lodging: Will you fly in and rent a car or take a taxi, or take public transit from the airport? Will you mostly be driving or walking? For parents, these factors can determine whether you want to bring a stroller and a car seat, both of which you can gate check for free when you fly, or rely on using a sling or baby carrier.

Plan for snacks and diaper changes on the plane

“Flying with kids is one of those big, intimidating things,” said Thompson, the pediatrician. “I think the biggest thing to think about is always safety and then of course their comfort.”

While children under two can fly in their parents’ lap, the Federal Aviation Administration recommends securing them in their own safety seat, such as a car seat certified for use on planes. This requires buying a seat for your child.

For long-haul or international flights, ask the airline if they have bassinets available.

Food and drink for babies and toddlers, including breast milk, formula and puree pouches, are considered medically necessary liquids by the Transportation Security Administration. That means they are not subject to the standard 3.4-ounce (100-milliliter) limit for carry-on liquids. The same goes for ice packs used to keep such liquids cool. Let the TSA officer know if you have these in your carry on when you go through security screening.

In addition to snacks, don't forget to carry on diapers, wipes, a portable changing pad and sealable plastic bags for disposal. Bring extra clothes to layer or change in case of accidents or messy spills.

Swallowing and chewing can help with ear pressure, so nursing little ones or giving them a bottle or pacifier can ease discomfort during take-off and landing.

Speak with your pediatrician beforehand if your kiddo is prone to ear infections, and before traveling abroad, ask them what vaccines may be recommended.

Keep kids entertained on and off the plane

For flights with young kids, Christy Slavik, owner of the travel agency Mom Approved Travel, recommends “having little surprises that you can distract them with” — such as sticky mats for travel-sized play doh, suction cup toys and other games that are small and light to pack.

If sightseeing once at your destination, think about ways to make activities more fun and interactive. For art museums, bring notebooks that kids can draw in, or ask them what types of animals they can find in the paintings, Slavik said.

“Kids need a mission. They need games,” she said. “You have to get creative sometimes when you're traveling."

Exposing children to other cultures, foods and languages can also be fun. Some may enjoy picking out snacks at markets, for example, or learning foreign words for their favorite dishes and activities.

There are options for places to stay that are family friendly, with amenities such as pools or games. For those traveling abroad on a budget, many hostels offer private rooms for families so they don’t have to share a dorm-style room with bunk beds. Hotels and hostels provide the opportunity to meet other travelers, including fellow children who can become playmates.

The perks of traveling with extended family

Helping moms actually enjoy their vacation — and relax amid the stress that can come with planning and traveling — is a core goal of Slavik's travel agency.

One way parents can get a break is by planning trips with grandparents or other family members. This helps with babysitting duties, while also allowing loved ones to have special bonding time with kiddos. Just make sure they also have their own down time and aren't wearing themselves out, Slavik said.

“When you bring grandparents to a vacation, you're giving them the opportunity to experience those moments together,” she said.

De La Espriella, 48, who promised a “Homeland Miracle,” delivered his first speech as the president of Colombia in southern Cali, at the Pichincha Battalion, one of the country’s most historic army units.

“I do not believe in assemblies convened to alter the rules of the Republic, prolong the exercise of power, or remake institutions at the whim of those who govern,” De La Espriella said during his 75-minute speech.

Gustavo Petro, the outgoing left-wing president who did not attend the ceremony in Cali, had aimed to convene an assembly to change Colombia’s 1991 Constitution and failed.

“My government will never attack or challenge judges,” De La Espriella said. “I will respect the independence of each branch of government.”

De La Espriella accused Petro, who had exited the presidential Casa de Nariño on Friday in Bogotá, of mocking democracy, dividing the country, and ruling for the FARC, a communist guerrilla that divided into factions after a 2016 peace accord.

“I think that people have the feeling that the previous government, in trying to negotiate with criminal organizations and insurgent groups, they basically allowed them to grow,” said Sandra Borda, an associate professor of political science at the University of the Andes in Bogotá.

To start his fight against crime, De La Espriella, who campaigned as “The Tiger,” announced that his administration was preparing to issue a list of “narcoterrorist” groups.

“One of my first acts of government will be to sign the Shield of the Americas,” De La Espriella, who holds dual Colombian and U.S. citizenship, said during his speech about President Donald Trump’s America’s Counter-Cartel Coalition, or ACCC, an alliance against narcoterrorism.

De La Espriella also promised “Colombia’s heroes,” the nation’s military and law enforcement, with “legal safeguards” to ensure that they would not be persecuted for carrying out their duties.

“Under my administration, mega-prisons will be built to house those who pose the greatest threat to the people’s safety,” said De La Espriella, an admirer of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and his massive anti-gang crackdown.

De La Espriella warned growers of coca plants that his administration planned to increase herbicide spraying. He said the chemicals to “eradicate” the illicit crops won’t harm humans or affect the environment.

De La Espriella also promised fiscal responsibility and announced that he planned on signing a decree to “freeze” public spending.

“The outgoing administration drove excessive spending growth, fueled by borrowing,” De La Espriella said. “That weakened national finances. Before undertaking the major transformations Colombia needs, we must put our house in order. That will be my government’s first duty.”

De La Espriella said he will authorize “responsible and sustainable” fracking to extract oil and natural gas, while “adhering to the highest” technical and environmental standards, to restore Ecopetrol, the country’s largest petroleum company.

“I believe in the energy transition,” De La Espriella said about a long-term goal to move away from fracking. “I am convinced that we must move toward increasingly clean, efficient, and diversified energy sources, but this transition must be built from a position of strength, not weakness.”

De La Esprialla said his administration was also ready to present a structural overhaul of the tax system.

“The wealth tax will be eliminated,” the president said. “We must stop penalizing those who create jobs.”

De La Espriella’s guests included acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Spain’s King Felipe VI, Argentine President Javier Milei, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, Chilean President José Antonio Kast, Dominican President Luis Abinader, and FIFA’s Gianni Infantino.

“I will be the president of all Colombians — those who honored me with their vote and those who placed their trust in other political options,” De La Espriella said. “Those who did not believe in my proposal will find, through my actions, proof that this project serves the common good.”

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Here’s a look at developments across the Middle East on Saturday. Full coverage can be found here.

Iran says the strait won't open until the US ‘corrects’ its behavior

Iran's politburo-like body known as the Supreme National Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States “corrects its behavior," issuing new demands that could shake up talks on a deal to manage the waterway and traffic on it.

Iran's state broadcaster published the statement by the council’s secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, who is also a commander in the powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The United States must never threaten Iran again, the statement said, and must permanently end the war with Iran and its armed allies in the region. The U.S. must lift the naval blockade of Iranian ports and withdraw its military from the area. It also must “completely compensate” Iran for war damage, lift sanctions and “unconditionally” release frozen assets.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S., which has wanted an acceptable deal first on the strait before ending the blockade. According to the interim deal signed in June, a schedule to end sanctions and plan on compensation would be part of the final deal, and negotiations would address frozen assets.

A 60-day period to negotiate a final deal will end in just over a week but could be extended.

Iran has said it was close to reaching a separate deal with Oman to manage the strait, which runs between the two countries.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi earlier Saturday said they were close to reaching an agreement on navigation, “specifically the determination of a transit route.” But the waterway’s reopening is contingent on other conditions, he said in remarks shared on social media, and blamed the situation on what he called the U.S. violation of the interim deal.

Oman, a mediator Gulf Arab country which has said relatively little on the talks, said in a statement Saturday that the discussions were ongoing “in a positive and constructive atmosphere,” and condemned attacks on ships on the strait.

The strait, crucial to global supplies of oil and natural gas, had been considered an international waterway before the war. Ship transits remain low.

Iran attacks a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE says

A vessel owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-owned ADNOC oil and gas company was attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Emirati authorities said earlier Saturday. The Foreign Ministry said Iran fired the missile as part of attacks on commercial shipping.

ADNOC in a statement said there were no casualties following the attack early Saturday. The company said over a dozen of its vessels have been attacked by missiles and drones while transiting the strait since the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran in February. One crew member has been killed and 20 others wounded, it said.

ADNOC didn’t elaborate on the attack's location or any damage.

Later, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said a vessel east of the town of Khasab, Oman, had been struck by a projectile that caused a fire that was put out, with the vessel and crew safe. It was not clear whether this was the ADNOC incident.

A defense deal is not aimed at any third country, Turkey says

A defense agreement that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey signed on Friday is not aimed against any third country, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said. It says an attack on one would be considered an attack on all three.

Fidan told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency on Saturday that the countries do not view any state as an adversary unless it takes hostile action against them: “We don’t have anything written down — nothing we’ve signed — that defines a common threat."

Asked how the mutual defense mechanism would work, Fidan said a member would formally request help and the two countries’ assistance could range from intelligence-sharing to logistics support or the deployment of military units. The mechanism would establish a secretariat to be based in Saudi Arabia, Fidan said.

He said other nations, which he did not name, have expressed interest in joining the agreement, adding that he expects Egypt, which he described as a “natural partner,” to participate “at the next stage.”

Yemen's military attacks Iran-backed Houthis

The attacks were in response to the Houthis’ recent strikes in central and eastern Yemen. Col. Majed al-Nazili, spokesperson for Yemen’s military, said the attacks targeted the rebels’ “sites and capabilities” on multiple front lines, without elaborating.

The escalation between the Houthis and Yemen's internationally recognized government and its backer, a Saudi-supported coalition, threatens to reignite Yemen’s civil war following a 2022 truce.

Turkey’s Kurdish peace bill wins approval in parliament

A Turkish draft law aimed at advancing a peace effort with the country's Kurdish insurgents passed its first hurdle in parliament on Saturday. A committee approved the measure. It is expected to be approved in the general assembly next week.

Last year, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, declared its decision to disarm and disband as part of the peace initiative aimed at ending the decades-long conflict with the Turkish state.

The draft legislation defines the procedures for the group’s disarmament and rehabilitation of some PKK members. The measures would come into effect once Turkey’s National Security Council confirms that the group has disbanded and surrendered all weapons.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people since it began in the 1980s. Turkey and its Western allies consider the group a terrorist organization.

The late-summer action on a funding fix is unusual. Normally, Congress waits until the final days or hours of a funding deadline to pass short-term patches, but this time senators acted nearly two months before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.

The 90-6 vote showed lawmakers are still smarting from the two historic shutdowns that occurred this past year and want to avoid another before voters go to the polls.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune wanted the funding dealt with before senators went home for the next five weeks to focus on their reelection campaigns and other matters. It got caught up with other issues that pushed votes into the night, but the bill had broad bipartisan support. The House will also have to approve the measure when members return from their August recess before it can go to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.

The bill generally funds the federal government at current levels though Dec. 11, but includes a variety of exceptions that senators negotiated with the White House.

Democrats secured language to ensure no money could be transferred to the Border Patrol. They also rejected the White House’s request of $1 billion for early work on a new “Trump-class” battleship that the administration announced on Dec. 22.

“The only person who wants these golden ships is Donald Trump so he can slap his name on them,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said.

Hemp provision became a point of contention

The bill also includes language delaying a national ban on most intoxicating hemp products. That one-month delay prompted outrage from some Senate Republicans who say that too many such products are falling into the hands of often unsuspecting children. The packaging of the products often relies on bright colors and intentionally mimics popular snack brands to attract consumers.

Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., said that since 2017 there has been nearly a 10-fold increase in cannabis-related emergency room visits by minors in his home state.

“This is a public health crisis that deserves this Senate’s immediate attention,” Budd said. “Our children should never be the testing ground for an industry willing to exploit a loophole in federal law for profit.”

But the hemp industry said the delay buys time for Congress to craft legislation that protects hemp farmers and businesses while also putting in place safeguards to protect children.

Trump himself has called Budd to discuss the issue, though the president did not specifically ask the senator to drop his effort, Budd’s spokesman said.

“Senator Budd had a friendly phone call with President Trump discussing the legislative efforts regarding THC,” said spokesman Christian McMullen. He said the senator outlined his concerns about “any delay to closing the hemp loophole.”

Budd tried to strip the hemp delay from the bill, but the Senate turned aside his effort.

The bill delays a Trump administration rule on grants

Democratic lawmakers, along with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, also got language in the bill that would block, for the duration of the funding patch, new regulations on federal grants. The regulations would require a senior political appointee to review grants before they are awarded to ensure, among other things, that they advance the president’s policy priorities. Democrats worry it’s an effort to kill grants destined for Democratic-leaning states.

“They are not interested in making our tax dollars work better — they just want them to work for Donald Trump,” said Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The White House Office of Management and Budget says its effort is about improving accountability to ensure taxpayer dollars aren’t wasted or misused. The issue is sure to be a topic of future negotiations on a full-year spending measure.

But Collins said the vast majority of the nearly 500,000 people and groups weighing in on the rule are opposed to it.

“I don’t think in my time that I’ve been privileged to serve in the Senate that I have ever seen a proposed rule generate that many negative comments,” Collins said.

Back-to-school weather will feature a chance of mainly morning showers again on Monday, but a drier-than-normal week is in store, with rain chances only around 20% to 30% each day. Temperatures will be typically hot for August, however, with highs in the lower to middle 90s each day.

If you’re headed to the beach this weekend, be advised that there’s a rip current advisory in effect, so only swim at guarded beaches and don’t go in too deep.

All remains quiet in the tropics for now.

The freed captives, mostly women and children, were among over 300 kidnap victims freed by Nigerian forces this week.

They were handed over to the authorities by security forces in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara state, on Friday for medical attention and routine checks, and were anticipating their return home to reunite with their families.

Mary Ishaya recalled days without food, and being asked alongside others to bury other hostages who died in captivity.

The 44-year-old, who had never touched a dead body or buried one before, said: “I still cannot find the right words to describe what has happened to us. We saw death and suffering.”

The Nigerians were abducted on Feb. 3 when jihadi militants stormed the village of Woro, killing over 160 others.

In the hospital where they were receiving medical attention, the freed captives looked emaciated with many laying on the floor, barely able to stand, while others had injuries and emotional scars from their ordeal. Some of the women were informed that their husbands had been among those killed during the February attack.

Some told The Associated Press how they had given up on any hope of returning home. Others recounted people falling sick, being beaten by the rain, and told to hide whenever Nigerian military helicopters flew over the forest hideouts where the captors held them.

Amira Saliu, a nurse who was among those freed, said she helped about 10 pregnant women deliver their babies in the forests.

“I had no choice but to use my bare hands,” she said.

Locals in Woro said they suspected the killings and kidnapping were a punishment for their resistance to the preachings of the jihadis.

Hauwa Saliu recalled how the captors constantly asked the abductees if they had accepted those preachings. Saliu, whose husband was killed in the attack, said she refused to accept them.

“We prayed to God to help us go back home, but it never really crossed our minds that we were going to go back home,” the 30-year-old said.

‘Largest rescue operation ever’

February's attack was one of the deadliest in Nigeria in recent years, and showed how militants who had previously focused their activities in the north are moving south through Africa’s most populous nation, where gangs compete for territory and control of natural resources in villages where they outnumber the country’s overstretched security forces.

The U.S. is providing military support to Nigeria under an agreement it says aims to protect Nigerian Christians, though much of that support is restricted to logistics and intelligence-gathering at the heart of the violence in the north.

Mass kidnappings have come to define Nigeria's security issues, with schoolchildren also targeted.

The victims in the Muslim-majority Woro were rescued this week alongside 145 other victims who had been kidnapped, mostly from the neighboring Niger state.

Local authorities did not say how the captives were rescued from the dense, expansive forest of the Kainji Lake National Park.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu described it as the “largest rescue operation ever” undertaken on a single day, and promised to intensify operations against armed gangs.

Recruitment drive and pay rises for the military

Some of the jihadi militants in Nigeria have presented themselves as an alternative to the government in areas with limited government and security presence.

A key issue in Nigeria is the poor welfare of the country's overstretched and underpaid security forces, which Tinubu has sought to address by recently announcing pay rises and mass recruitment for the military.

The government must find ways to act on intelligence and prevent militant attacks, rather than simply responding to them, according to Sekinat Ojeniyi, a senior analyst at global risk consultancy Africa Practice.

“It is time for us to recheck how much our security apparatus does to prevent” attacks, said Ojeniyi.

Four people, including a child, were killed in the overnight strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region. Ukrainian forces hit Russian oil facilities.

Zelenskyy arrived in Belgrade on Friday for his first official visit to Serbia.

Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade with Zelenskyy, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic described Ukraine as a “friendly nation” and said he was honored to welcome the Ukrainian leader — the first visit by a Ukrainian president in eight years.

The two leaders discussed their countries’ efforts toward joining the European Union, bilateral ties and ways to expand cooperation.

Kyiv’s residents face regular drone and missile barrages that Ukraine’s depleted air defenses are struggling to counter amid Moscow’s 4-year-old full-scale invasion, while repeated Ukrainian strikes on oil facilities have caused fuel shortages and rattled Russians.

Paperwork holds up missile production licenses

Vucic, who has maintained close ties with Moscow and refused to sanction Russia over the invasion — drawing pressure from the EU to change course — reiterated that Serbia respects Ukraine’s territorial integrity and said that position would not change.

“The situation in Ukraine is difficult,” Zelenskyy said at the press conference. “There was another missile strike last night — ballistic missiles targeting our infrastructure. There were also attack drones.”

Zelenskyy said that deliveries of Patriot air defense interceptors — the sole air defense weapon in Ukraine’s arsenal able to shoot down ballistic missiles — have slowed compared with a year ago.

“There are fewer of these missiles in 2026. In 2025 there were more, I’ll tell you honestly, in terms of monthly supplies,” he said.

Zelenskyy said Washington has agreed to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defense interceptors, but that they are “stuck dealing with paperwork.”

“The process for some of these licenses is also taking a long time,” he said.

Boy killed with grandparents in Kyiv region

The talks in Belgrade came after multiple Russian drones destroyed the home of a family in the Brovary district, northeast of Kyiv, killing a 3-year-old child and his grandparents, local officials said.

Three other members of the same family and a neighbor who came to their aid were hospitalized, local authorities said. The attack reduced the house to rubble and wrecked outbuildings and cars.

Zelenskyy said at least one other person died in a “strike involving six ballistic missiles against civilian infrastructure” in the capital.

In its daily report, Ukraine’s air force said it had downed or intercepted 135 of 151 drones launched by Russia overnight. The attack also involved six ballistic missiles and other guided missiles.

Russia has relentlessly pounded civilian areas of Ukraine, even though Moscow insists its forces target only military facilities.

Ukraine’s air defenses shot down around 5,300 drones and missiles last month, Ukraine’s defense ministry said Friday, just under 60% of the around 9,000 attack drones and missiles Russia fired in the same period.

Moscow is exploiting Ukraine’s critical shortage of interceptors for the U.S.-made Patriot systems, the sole air defense weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down ballistic missiles.

Zelenskyy has pleaded with other countries, especially the U.S., to send more of the ammunition made scarcer by the Iran war. Failing that, he wants to make Patriot ammunition in Ukraine or win permission from Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide strikes inside Russia that can hit its missile launchers.

Following the latest attacks, Zelenskyy appealed on X for more sanctions to “prevent the production of these ballistic missiles,” along with “anti-ballistic capabilities” and “interceptor missiles.”

Ukraine strikes Russian oil facilities

In Russia, six people were wounded when a fire broke out at the Ilsky Oil Refinery, in the southern Krasnodar region, due to debris from a falling drone, local officials said.

Ukraine's General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck the refinery in Krasnodar, along with the Syzran Oil Refinery in the Samara region, more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) inside Russia.

Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, governor of Russia’s Samara region, said drones hit an “industrial enterprise,” but he did not mention the refinery.

Ukraine’s almost daily long-range drone and missile strikes using domestically developed weapons have battered Russian oil facilities for months. The operation has brought a fuel crisis that is embarrassing the Kremlin.

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Yurchuk reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Associated Press writer Elise Morton in London contributed to this report.

The 14-year-old opened fire at around 10 a.m. Friday at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province northwest of the Thai capital before apparently taking his own life. He also appeared to have killed his two grandparents at his family home earlier in the morning, officials said.

The girl, 12, died after hospitalization, the Health Ministry said. The school had posted a message on Facebook Friday seeking blood donations for two students, including the girl, who was in seventh grade.

Fourteen people remain hospitalized, of whom seven remain in critical condition Saturday, according to Thailand’s Health Ministry. Most of those wounded were between 12 and 14 years old.

Relatives claimed the bodies of eight people from Bangkok’s Institute of Forensic Medicine: five school staff, the accused shooter, and his grandparents. Emergency workers brought out a coffin and loaded it onto an ambulance, which will transport the bodies to their hometowns for funeral rites.

The young girl’s body is still to be released.

Wiroon Supasingsiripreecha, head of the institute, said most of the victims suffered a single fatal gunshot wound to a vital area, including the chest or head.

He said the gunshot wound found on the alleged shooter was consistent with the weapon he had used. More detailed forensic findings, including toxicology results, are expected later, he said.

Officials said the gun, described as small and compact, was legally registered to the boy’s grandfather.

There were reports that the boy, who lived with his grandparents, had shown signs of stress connected to school, although some of his relatives told Thai media that they were unaware of any troubles he might have been facing.

The co-educational state school, which has about 3,000 students enrolled aged 12 to 18, said all classes would be suspended between Aug. 10-14 and school staff were instructed to work from home during that time.

A few mourners laid flowers Saturday morning at the school's gate, where a few police officers could be seen.

Charin Siriananchai brought his two sons, ages 9 and 6, to pay their respects. He said while his sons do not study here, he lives in the neighborhood and drives past this school almost every day, often stopping to allow students to cross the road.

“Everyone was saddened and shocked, because it was unexpected that this would happen in Thailand, and also it’s quite a great loss,” he said.

Some parents also came with their children to collect their belongings left behind after the shooting. A father, who declined to identify himself, said his son, who was at the school during the shooting, was still in shock and could not sleep alone.

Thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Asia, second only to Pakistan and far surpassing its Southeast Asian neighbors.

Data collected in 2017 by the groups Small Arms Survey and GunPolicy.org in their last extensive international study found civilian gun ownership in Thailand was about 15.1 guns per 100 people, compared with less than one per 100 in neighboring Malaysia.

Thailand had 3.49 deaths by firearms per 100,000 people, according to 2023 statistics published by World Population Review. That puts it well behind parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, but relatively high in Asia. Only the Philippines is higher in Southeast Asia.

While shootings involving indiscriminate killings are not common, the country has seen an uptick in high-profile shooting deaths in recent years.

In February, a 17-year-old stole a gun from police and opened fire at a public high school in southern Thailand, briefly taking people hostage in a two-hour attack that killed one person and wounded two others.

A 14-year-old boy was accused of a 2023 shooting at a major Bangkok shopping mall.

The event on the Bir-Hakeim Bridge has also exposed the fragility of that ambition: Organizers suspended training Thursday when traces of hydrocarbons were detected upstream. By Friday, the French Swimming Federation said the affected area had been treated, allowing athletes to return to the water and the event to proceed as planned.

High diving concludes Saturday with the final two rounds and medal events, while the broader European Aquatics Championships run through Aug. 16.

“There are things that are within our control, and there are uncertainties that are inevitably linked to any outdoor activity,” said Maxime Sauvage, Paris deputy mayor in charge of sports, sports facilities and equal access to sport.

Among the things within the city’s control, he said, are the massive investments made before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games to make the river safe for swimming, from work to prevent sewage from flowing directly into the Seine to improvements in stormwater management.

“There is always a small risk, but that is also part of what makes outdoor events special,” Sauvage said. “When they work, it is magical.”

Hundreds of people gathered along the riverbanks Friday to watch the divers. Some stopped during their lunch break, while others stumbled across the competition by chance.

Among them was Rebecca Kapogiannis, a 45-year-old visitor from London, Ontario, who was visiting Paris with her daughter to celebrate her graduation. Her daughter had even packed a bathing suit in case she got the chance to swim in the Seine.

“We just headed down to the (Eiffel) Tower today and thought we would walk along the Seine and stumbled upon this and thought it was a really cool activity to watch,” she told The Associated Press.

“I was not expecting a competition to take place in the Seine, but I think it’s such a cool use of this water that runs right through the city.”

For Cynthia Matz, who was visiting Paris with her husband, Sean, the setting itself was part of the draw. She said they probably would not have sought out the competition had it been held inside an aquatics center.

“Anybody can go. I don’t have to know anything about diving. I can just say, ‘This is really cool to see,’” Matz said.

“Having it out in public, people will just stop and go, ‘Huh, what’s going on?’ and stop and spend some time and enjoy it.”

That ability to stumble across elite sport in the middle of the city reflects a broader transformation Paris officials have been pushing for years: turning the Seine from a river associated largely with commerce, transport and tourism into a place where people can also swim, play and compete.

The 38th European Aquatics Championships, from July 31 to Aug. 16, mark the centenary of the inaugural championships, held in Budapest in 1926. For Paris, they are a return of another kind: The French capital last hosted the event in 1931.

More than 1,000 athletes are competing across five disciplines: swimming, diving, artistic swimming, open-water swimming and high diving.

The Seine is hosting both open-water swimming and high diving, placing the river back at the center of a major international sporting event two years after the Paris Olympics.

Swimming in the Seine was officially banned in 1923 amid pollution and the dangers of river traffic. Public swimming returned only in 2025, after Paris and its partners mobilized 1.4 billion euros to make the river swimmable, an effort accelerated by the Olympics.

For many French people, former President Jacques Chirac’s 1988 pledge, when he was mayor of Paris, to make the Seine clean enough for swimming again seemed like a distant dream.

But since the 2024 Olympics, images of athletes competing — and now residents swimming — in the river have become almost familiar.

Around 70,000 people used the city’s designated Seine swimming areas in July, according to Paris City Hall, compared with nearly 100,000 during the entire summer last year, suggesting growing public interest in reclaiming the river for recreation.

Bringing sport into daily Parisian life has been an objective across successive city administrations. Under Emmanuel Grégoire, elected mayor in March, Sauvage said the mission is to “make the entire city increasingly favorable to physical activity and sport.”

“For decades, the Seine was limited to economic purposes, tourism with sightseeing boats, and logistics with ships loading and unloading goods in Paris,” Sauvage said. “It was a river with high levels of pollution that also had a significant impact on its biodiversity.”

Now, he says, the aim is to add another identity to the river without erasing the others.

“Paris is not just a postcard image, it is also a magnificent sporting venue,” Sauvage said. “It is a city that people come to visit, but it is also a city to be experienced by bike, through running, through sport, through play and through swimming.”

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Associated Press writer Thomas Adamson in Paris contributed

The Los Angeles Dodgers lost their season-high seventh game in a row in a stunning collapse on Friday night after the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied for a 4-3 win when rookie Ryan Waldschmidt hit a two-run, walk-off homer against closer Edwin Diaz.

“A loss is a loss but to get walked off never feels good,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “We didn't play a clean game, a great game, on either side of the baseball, but we did enough to put ourselves in position to win a game.

"Unfortunately, we couldn't finish it.”

It was another rough outing for Diaz, who has an 11.00 ERA over 11 outings this season. The 32-year-old is a three-time All-Star, but hasn't been able to help the Dodgers much after signing a $69 million, three-year deal during the offseason.

Waldschmidt connected on Diaz's hanging slider, hitting it into the left-center field seats for his second career homer and first big league walk-off.

“It's the slider,” Diaz said. “The fastball was great today, but I missed the slider right in the middle. I think I was trying to be perfect with the pitch and I'm missing right in the middle — I've got to be better. I'm a big league pitcher so I've got to make pitches.”

The Dodgers were swept by the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs coming into Friday night's game. They still have a comfortable lead in the NL West — 7 1/2 games in front of the Diamondbacks — despite a 10-16 record since July 5.

Roberts acknowledged that Diaz has been struggling since his return from the injured list on July 29, but the manager wasn't necessarily ready to try a new closer. His reasoning was simple: there's no clear-cut alternative.

“Honestly, you've got to look at the options,” Roberts said. “The way some of these guys are throwing, they're not throwing great, either."

The Dodgers still look like a formidable team, particularly after adding ace left-hander Tarik Skubal in a trade-deadline deal with the Detroit Tigers last week. Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell is also slated to return on Tuesday after missing most of the season with injuries.

And the lineup still has plenty of star power with Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and Kyle Tucker.

Roberts said before Friday's game that the remedy for the recent troubles was simple.

“We've just got to play better,” Roberts said. “I don't think the standings — I mean they're important, they matter — but I just feel like with the talent we have, we've just got to play good baseball and it'll take care of itself. It always does.”

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New York improved to 2-8 in extra-inning games, halting an eight-game winning streak overall for the NL East leaders.

Yankees left-hander Max Fried pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings in his first outing against his former team, but Tyler Mahle matched him with six shutout innings in his Atlanta debut.

Austin Riley homered in the eighth and Matt Olson went deep in the ninth to give the Braves a 2-0 lead. With the Yankees down to their final out, slumping Austin Wells doubled home a run off All-Star closer Raisel Iglesias.

Amed Rosario walked before Rice singled on a 1-0 changeup.

Heliot Ramos was hit by a pitch to load the bases before Dylan Dodd entered and retired Luis García Jr. on a groundout to send the game to extra innings.

New York's rally began when rookie George Lombard Jr. reached on an infield single with one out and advanced to third on Iglesias' throwing error.

David Bednar (5-3) pitched a scoreless 10th, helped by Lombard's off-balance throw from shortstop on Sean Murphy’s grounder and García's over-the-shoulder catch at first base on Ronald Acuña Jr.'s popup to end the inning.

With one out in the bottom half, rookie Spencer Jones was intentionally walked and Lombard worked a walk from Tyler Kinley (6-5) that loaded the bases. García, the automatic runner, scored easily on McMahon's sac fly to deep right field on a full-count pitch as the Yankees improved to 5-42 when trailing through eight innings.

The start was delayed by heavy rain and thunderstorms for 1 hour, 55 minutes.

It was the eighth time in 10 games a Yankees starter permitted no more than one run.

Fried spent his first eight major league seasons with the Braves before leaving as a free agent to sign a $218 million, eight-year contract with New York in December 2024.

Up next

In a marquee matchup of Cy Young Award winners, Atlanta LHP Chris Sale (12-6, 2.08 ERA) pitches Saturday for the first time since July 29 when he faces New York RHP Gerrit Cole (5-5, 3.42) on Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium.

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Waldschmidt connected on a slider, hitting a shot to left center that barely cleared the wall. Diaz walked Max Kepler to start the ninth before striking out Tim Tawa, but Waldschmidt followed with the biggest hit of his young career.

Diaz — a three-time All-Star — has given up 11 earned runs in nine innings this season.

The Dodgers trailed 2-0 early in the game but rallied. Andy Pages' solo homer to lead off the eighth gave them a 3-2 lead.

D-backs right-hander Merrill Kelly took a no-hitter into the sixth before Tommy Edman led off with an infield single. Freddie Freeman brought home a run later in the inning on a fielder's choice, cutting Arizona's lead to 2-1, and Kelly had to leave the game with cramping in his right leg.

The Dodgers tied it at 2 in the seventh on Edman's RBI single and had the bases loaded before Shohei Ohtani grounded into an inning-ending double play.

Roki Sasaki gave up two runs on five hits and a walk over six innings. He struck out five.

Nolan Arenado gave the D-backs a 1-0 lead in the second with a solo homer that barely cleared the left field fence and the glove of Teoscar Hernandez. It was Arenado's 17th homer of the season.

In the third, Corbin Carroll robbed Edman of a ying homer, leaping high above the right field fence to make the grab.

Up next

The Diamondbacks were set to start RHP Brandon Pfaadt (6-1, 3.66 ERA) vs. Dodgers RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (11-7, 2.76) on Saturday.

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Judge Bryan Biedscheid fined the company $567 million in his ruling Thursday, but he also prescribed steps to clean up what he described as its byproducts. He ordered new safety measures, including a time limit of 90 hours per month for users under 18, AI chatbot restrictions, and mandatory warnings on the platforms.

How easily those features can be implemented, and how effective they could be at protecting young users from mental health harms, are unresolved questions. They also would apply only to children in New Mexico, Meta has no deadline to introduce them, and the company has said it will appeal the ruling.

But the judge’s order showed a possible path forward for other court fights around the country as Meta faces mounting legal, regulatory and public pressure to do more to protect young people.

The ruling came in the second phase of a trial in a lawsuit the state of New Mexico filed against the social media giant. The new financial penalty is in addition to the $375 million in civil penalties that jurors ordered against Meta in March after determining the company knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

Meta said in a statement Thursday that it works to keep people safe on its platforms and has been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors and harmful content.

“We remain confident in our record of protecting teens online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent the facts,” the company said.

Implementation of court-ordered measures poses challenges

Many of the changes ordered by Biedscheid hinge on strong age-verification measures. The ruling says Meta must improve its age assurance models and tools in New Mexico and proactively request proof of age for users they know or estimate to be under 13.

What that proof of age could look like, however, is unclear.

Age verification “can be done well in a privacy-protective way, but it is not easy,” said Peter Ormerod, an associate professor of law at Villanova University.

Federal children’s privacy laws prevent Meta from applying age-verification tools to children under 13. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act means the court cannot order Meta to request children to submit personal data or be passively tracked online, even for age verification purposes.

Identifying which users are in New Mexico, and subject to the court-ordered protections, could also pose a challenge. Ormerod said Meta could likely check if a user is accessing the platform from an IP address associated with New Mexico, a solution “that works reasonably well enough.”

Meta has several safety tools already in place. Instagram Teen Accounts, for one, have built-in protections to limit who can contact teens and what content they can see, and give parents the ability to set time limits.

Brooke Istook, the president and chief strategy officer at the advocacy organization Heat Initiative, said she was glad to see the judge's reforms will be court-supervised.

“Now, we will have someone in an official capacity checking the homework of these companies,” she said. “The fact that we have the court now involved, they’re able to evaluate how they’re implemented, whether or not they’re effective and whether or not they are actually working to keep kids safe online.”

Experts say the ruling leaves out some of the most harmful features

Meta's critics say some of the most recognizable and potentially harmful aspects of Instagram and Facebook's designs are untouched by the ruling.

Features like autoplay, infinite scroll and algorithmic content recommendations have been the prime targets of legal arguments that social media platforms are designed to be addictive. But Biedscheid wrote in his ruling that these features are used across the social media industry on other platforms, so restricting Meta's features but not those of its competitors would harm the company.

That was disappointing to see for Sophia Choukas-Bradley, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

“Those design features have played a very important role in what leads to problematic use of social media by adolescents and, in turn, mental health problems,” Choukas-Bradley said.

Still, Choukas-Bradley said she was in favor of several safety measures in the ruling, especially one that orders the “like counts” on the apps be hidden by default on minors' accounts, a setting that could only be overridden by a parent or guardian. She also supports a measure that would create a stronger separation between children and “unconnected” adults on the platforms. Meta would not be able to recommend a child's account to an adult's account, and adults who are not “friends” or followers of a minor's account would be barred from messaging the child.

“There are just too many documented cases of sextortion, sexploitation and sex trafficking that start in the online context for us to ignore this any longer,” Choukas-Bradley said.

It is unclear which features on social media platforms are most harmful for children's mental health, said Sonia Livingstone, a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. There is ample evidence, however, that more vulnerable children are more susceptible to the companies' design features, she said.

“Tested one by one, the evidence for each design feature will be weaker, as it is the combination of features that really will make the difference for children’s outcomes,” said Livingstone, who leads the Digital Futures for Children research center.

Some hope New Mexico's actions lead to further regulations

Because the measures in the judge's order are specific to users in New Mexico, experts say piecemeal rulings and inconsistent legislation at the state level could create a new crop of issues.

“It really needs to be uniform at the congressional level, it causes all sorts of problems,” said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers. “It just doesn’t make sense in today’s era of technology.”

Some advocates say they hope similar rulings in other states could stir action in Congress, and spur new efforts to pass federal legislation.

For parents in New Mexico, the ruling could change the conversations with their teens about social media use. Heather Statum, an Albuquerque mother of a 13-year-old girl, says her daughter is constantly requesting access to various social media platforms.

Statum has heard horror-stories about predators lurking on Instagram or Snapchat. She's also aware that among her daughter’s peers, discussions of suicide and other mental health issues are prominent online and worries about her daughter being exposed to disturbing content.

“The stuff (social media companies) have in place to protect them, I don’t think any of it actually works,” Statum said. “It does cause major problems between us because she thinks that I’m too strict.”

Statum says the platform-level changes from the ruling could promote safe usage, but said it will be hard to balance safety with freedom. She believes educating kids on dangers is the best path forward.

A Supreme Court decision in June struck down a previous attempt at restricting birthright citizenship, but Thursday’s orders were made with “adjustments” keeping the decision in mind, President Donald Trump said.

Still, some of the restrictions announced by the White House are expected to face legal challenges.

The 14th Amendment, which makes a citizen of anyone born in the country, and two subsequent Supreme Court decisions interpreting it provide guidelines that already exclude certain births from receiving the citizenship benefit.

Trump's new attempt to restrict birthright citizenship even after the Supreme Court loss highlights the administration's drive to limit who can become an American.

New categories of restricted citizenship benefits

Birthright citizenship is guaranteed under current law for anyone who is born on U.S. soil, with a few exceptions.

The executive order released Thursday was narrower in scope than the previous one shot down by the Supreme Court and appeared to focus on restricting automatic citizenship to specific categories of people, including children born to adults with connections to foreign embassies or organizations as well as anyone considered an “alien enemy” of the United States.

U.S. immigration law says babies born to a “foreign diplomatic officer accredited to the United States” are not entitled to birthright citizenship under the Constitution, including ambassadors, ministers, chargés d’affaires, counselors, secretaries and attachés of embassies and legations, and members of the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities.

Trump’s orders Thursday would sharply expand those exemptions.

One order disqualifies babies who are products of “birth tourism.” The other applies to children of anyone working in a foreign embassy or representing a foreign government and employees of the United Nations or other international organizations. Children of parents tied to groups that are deemed terrorist organizations, like Antifa or Tren de Aragua, are also excluded.

“How is the federal government going to decide that a child is born to a member of a designated terrorist organization?” said César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University. “These are not organizations that are sharing the membership lists if they even have them.”

Citizenship through surrogacy has become a concern for Republican members of Congress, some of whom proposed a bill this year that would restrict citizenship for children of noncitizen parents born to surrogates in the U.S.

García Hernández said he believes the new executive order addressing surrogacy could raise new legal questions. “Neither the 14th Amendment nor any of the Supreme Court’s decisions about how to interpret the 14th Amendment mentions or hints at surrogates,” the law professor said.

Questions over the scope of birth tourism

Trump’s executive order defines birth tourism as someone who enters the United States on a “nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil.”

Birth tourism is already considered fraud and grounds to restrict a visa if someone seeks one specifically to come to the U.S. and obtain citizenship for a child.

Advocates said the executive order would give immigration officers discretion to deny entry to pregnant women suspected of wanting to give birth in the U.S. without providing clearly defined guidelines.

The president did not offer data indicating the scope of the problem, but said Thursday: “I’ll tell you right now, hundreds of thousands, OK? Hundreds of thousands."

Although there's no official estimate of how many births can be considered “birth tourism” cases, experts say Trump’s approximation is exaggerated.

“The hundreds of thousands just seems like an overestimate based on the sort of limited data that we have available,” said Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, an associate policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in 2024 nearly 9,600 children were born to foreign mothers with an official address outside the country. Another estimate from the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that advocates for lower immigration, estimated that 20,000 to 26,000 birth tourists come to the U.S. each year.

Facilitators of birth tourism targeted

The order provides a sweeping indictment of “birth tourism operators” with no evidence of how widespread they are or how or why anyone accused of using their services would be exempt from constitutional protection.

Those efforts are not new either. Previous administrations have also sought to prosecute so-called “birth tourism” schemes that helped women hide their pregnancies while traveling to the United States to give birth.

“Birth tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entice foreign nationals to travel to the United States for the purpose of giving birth on American soil,” the order says.

“They promise citizenship; access to public benefits; and short-term stays in specialized facilities, hotels, or rentals, but often fail to deliver on these promises. These operators coach their clients to misrepresent the purpose and duration of their travel to consular and border officials to obtain visas authorizing entry into the United States.”

The Republican Party has embraced the mission. In late July, the office of the attorney general in Texas announced a “sweeping investigation” into potentially unlawful birth tourism schemes after some south Texas hospitals advertised birthing services in Mexico.

Legal challenges expected

Asked Thursday how his orders would survive Supreme Court scrutiny when his last attempt failed, Trump deferred to White House staff secretary Will Scharf, who, like his boss, sounded alarms about “birth tourism.” He emphasized consular discretion to grant visas.

“What we’re doing is taking legally validated means that are clearly within our disposal and targeting them to this birth tourism industry. There’s absolutely nothing here that runs afoul of any of the Supreme Court rulings on the subject,” Sharf said.

Advocates against the proposed changes said they believe the constitutional amendment and Supreme Court decisions will again stop the administration's efforts to restrict birthright citizenship.

“The bottom line is that the Supreme Court already considered the Trump administration’s plea to rewrite the Constitution and rejected it,” said Cody Wofsy, deputy director at the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants’ Rights Project.

“Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, and no amount of executive orders is going to change that.”

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Se estima que los vientos máximos sostenidos de la tormenta alcanzan los 162 kilómetros por hora (101 mph). Dolphin descargará fuertes lluvias, lo que acarrea un riesgo de inundaciones graves, así como de deslaves, y se espera que a última hora del domingo afecte a la provincia de Zhejiang y al norte de la vecina provincia de Fujian. Shanghái también está en la trayectoria del tifón.

Los meteorólogos pronosticaron que algunas zonas podrían recibir entre 200 y 400 milímetros (7,9–15,7 pulgadas) de lluvia en los próximos días.

Las autoridades nacionales declararon una respuesta de emergencia de grado III, el segundo nivel más bajo.

Muchos destinos turísticos de Zhejiang permanecerán cerrados el sábado y el domingo, y se han suspendido la actividad acuática, incluidos los ferris y los cruceros.

Las autoridades de la ciudad de Ningbo, una de las más grandes de la provincia, ordenaron el cierre de las escuelas y otras instalaciones educativas este fin de semana y la suspensión de todas las actividades relacionadas con el agua. Unas 800 embarcaciones están atracadas en el puerto.

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The storm’s maximum sustained winds were estimated at about 162 kilometers per hour (101 mph). It will bring heavy rains, creating a risk of severe flooding as well as landslides and is expected to hit Zhejiang province and northern parts of neighboring Fujian province late Sunday. Shanghai is also in the path of the storm.

Forecasters predicted that areas could see 200-400 mm (7.9–15.7 inches) of rainfall over the next few days.

National authorities declared a level III emergency response, the second lowest level.

Many tourist destinations in Zhejiang are shut Saturday and Sunday, as well as all water-based activities, including ferries and cruises.

Authorities in the city of Ningbo, one of the province's largest, ordered schools and other educational facilities shut this weekend and all water-related activities to halt. Some 800 ships are docked at the port.

En un discurso durante su investidura, De la Espriella manifestó que el gobierno colombiano impulsará una transición energética —un giro para alejarse del petróleo, el gas y el carbón hacia fuentes de energía más limpias como la eólica y la solar—, pero insistió en que no debe hacerse a costa de la industria petrolera y gasífera del país.

“Creo en la transición energética”, manifestó. “Pero esta transición debe erigirse desde la fortaleza y no desde la debilidad; desde la autosuficiencia y no desde la dependencia”.

Las declaraciones refuerzan un giro marcado respecto del expresidente Gustavo Petro, quien dejó de adjudicar nuevos contratos de exploración de petróleo y gas mientras orientaba a Colombia hacia las energías renovables y convertía la protección de la Amazonía en un eje central de su agenda ambiental. Hace apenas cuatro meses, el gobierno de Petro organizó una cumbre internacional en la ciudad caribeña de Santa Marta con el objetivo de sumar apoyo a una transición global para alejarse de los combustibles fósiles.

Los compromisos reflejan promesas que De la Espriella hizo durante toda su campaña presidencial, cuando reiteradamente se comprometió a ampliar la producción de petróleo y gas y revertir elementos clave de la política energética de Petro.

Al calificar la seguridad energética de asunto de soberanía nacional, De la Espriella sostuvo que Colombia no podía esperar prosperidad a largo plazo si deja sus recursos naturales sin desarrollar.

Señaló que reconstruir Ecopetrol —la petrolera de Colombia de la que el Estado es propietario mayoritario, y una de las mayores fuentes de ingresos fiscales y de ganancias por exportaciones del país— sería “una prioridad definitiva y absoluta”, tras acusar al gobierno anterior de debilitar a la compañía.

El nuevo presidente también confirmó que su gobierno autorizará el fracking —un método de extracción de petróleo y gas que consiste en inyectar agua, arena y químicos bajo tierra para fracturar formaciones rocosas— bajo lo que describió como “los más altos estándares técnicos y ambientales”. Dijo que también ampliará la exploración de petróleo y gas para reconstruir las reservas en declive de Colombia, garantizar la seguridad energética del país y atraer nuevamente inversión al sector.

De la Espriella advirtió que el sistema energético colombiano se encuentra “en una situación crítica”, al citar la disminución de las reservas de petróleo y gas, los retrasos en proyectos energéticos y el aumento de la demanda de electricidad.

Indicó que el fenómeno meteorológico de El Niño que se aproxima, que por lo general trae sequías prolongadas y puede reducir la generación hidroeléctrica, significa que hay poco tiempo para actuar.

“El fenómeno de El Niño no da espera. Para superarlo, es imperativo implementar soluciones urgentes”, manifestó.

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It follows reporting last month, including from The New York Times, on security concerns over the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One, including that it lacked the advanced antimissile capabilities of its predecessor.

Kendall told The Associated Press late Friday that he was “completely mystified” by the revocation.

“I’ve always been extremely careful to not say anything classified, and as far as I know I have not,” Kendall said. “No one has said anything to me about what I’m asserted to have revealed and I can’t imagine what it could be.”

The plane underwent a $400 million retrofit and upgrade. It has been put into service domestically and President Donald Trump also flew on it to Turkey last month. But he used an older model Air Force One jet to leave the NATO summit, as the U.S. launched airstrikes on Iran and Tehran attacked three Gulf Arab states.

The Times reported that the president made the switch at the urging of the Secret Service and that the newer plane lacked some of the advanced security features of the older Air Force One aircraft. Trump denied to reporters that the swap was due to security concerns, although he also said he is under threat "all the time” and is Iran’s “No. 1” target.

In the Times article, Kendall, who served under President Joe Biden, is quoted as saying that the time for upgrades to the plane would not have been enough for “all the normal Air Force One modifications” and he was surprised that the plane was used outside the U.S.

Kendall said Friday, “I’ve been comfortable being on the record with reporters and on national television about the Qatari 747 because I’m confident that I haven’t said anything classified.”

In response to the reporting, the Justice Department subpoenaed the Times' reporters to try to compel them to out their sources, which stirred fears over press freedoms. The department, after criticism from the judge for sloppy legal work, grudgingly withdrew the subpoenas last month.

The Air Force has argued that the rapid conversion of the jet was done “without accepting any risk regarding security, safety, or secure communications,” but it also has acknowledged the different capabilities. It said “several highly complex engineering modifications” required for the new U.S.-made Air Force One aircraft were intentionally excluded in the modifications to the plane from Qatar. The Air Force acknowledged it did not widen the doors leading out of the aircraft or include multiple stairs built into the hull of the plane.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell didn't specify in a post on X which media outlet Kendall was accused of sharing classified information with.

“Safeguarding classified information is a non-negotiable duty,” he wrote. “Those who violate that trust forfeit the privilege of access and any role requiring it.”

It’s not the first time the Trump administration has revoked security clearances, including of 37 then-current and former national security officials last year. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also pulled security protections and clearance for Gen. Mark Milley, retired Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, soon after the administration took office.

Parnell didn't say if Kendall was being referred for prosecution, and the Pentagon declined to provide more information. Typically, such accusations are partnered with referrals for prosecution over violations of the Espionage Act.

A well-known example was when the Obama administration filed charges against Edward Snowden, a former intelligence agency contractor who publicly disclosed a massive trove of secret documents about U.S. surveillance operations before fleeing to Russia.

More recently, a federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison in 2024 for leaking classified military documents about the war in Ukraine. That was the most consequential national security breach in years.

La decisión fue anunciada el viernes por la embajada de Estados Unidos en México que indicó en un comunicado que la reactivación de actividades oficiales se acordó con base a los compromisos asumidos por el gobierno de México, las medidas de seguridad activadas en Michoacán y la evaluación continua de las autoridades estadounidenses.

El anuncio se da un día después de que México anunciara el envío de 1.557 efectivos del ejército y la Guardia Nacional a Michoacán para reforzar la seguridad.

Las inspecciones que realizan funcionarios estadounidenses para la verificación de los aguacates se reanudarán parcialmente en las localidades de Tancítaro, Tacámbaro, Uruapan y el corredor entre las ciudades de Morelia, capital de Michoacán, y Pátzcuaro, señaló el comunicado.

Cerca del 90% de las exportaciones de aguacate de México se venden en Estados Unidos, su principal mercado. Como parte de las relaciones comerciales y los mecanismos de control bilaterales, el Departamento de Agricultura estadounidense (USDA, por sus siglas en inglés) envía inspectores que vigilan las plantaciones y empacadoras en México para garantizar que el producto exportado no lleve plagas que puedan afectar a los agricultores estadounidenses.

Michoacán es el principal exportador de aguacates a Estados Unidos y una región con un alto nivel de violencia donde operan al menos cuatro cárteles de la droga que el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump catalogó el año pasado como organizaciones terroristas. Los grupos delictivos mexicanos no sólo se dedican al narcotráfico sino también a diferentes actividades ilícitas como la extorsión, entre otros a los productores de aguacate.

El gobierno estadounidense indicó que continuará trabajando para generar las condiciones necesarias para reanudar la totalidad de las actividades, pero no ofreció detalles.

En el comunicado Estados Unidos agradeció la cooperación del gobierno mexicano y las acciones que acordaron para fortalecer la seguridad del personal estadounidense y de los habitantes de Michoacán.

“Continuaremos evaluando las condiciones y ajustando nuestras operaciones según corresponda”, señaló el escrito en el que se reconoció que un “sector agrícola seguro beneficia a nuestras dos naciones al garantizar la producción de alimentos, fortalecer las cadenas de suministro y apoyar la prosperidad económica”.

Más temprano, el director de la Asociación de Productores y Empacadores Exportadores de Aguacate de México (APEAM), Luis Javier de ⁠la Rocha, informó a la prensa que se había llegado a un acuerdo con las autoridades estadounidenses para liberar más de 1.000 toneladas de aguacates para la exportación.

A mediados de semana la embajada estadounidense anunció en una alerta de seguridad la suspensión de operaciones en Michoacán, pero no especificó cuál era la amenaza.

Al respecto, el gobernador de Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, informó en sus redes sociales que la paralización había sido para salvaguardar la integridad de sus trabajadores después de recientes detenciones vinculadas con la extorsión.

Gladys Machado and her two daughters, 4-year-old Daniela Padron and 8-year-old Julia Padron, died on Nov. 10, 2012, at their home in the area of Northwest 73 Avenue and Fourth Street, according to deputies.

Machado had given a neighbor access to the home, and the neighbor followed a putrid smell to a bedroom closet, found their bodies, and called 911 on Nov. 13, 2012, according to deputies.

Deputies arrested Alberto Sierra, then 28, on Nov. 19, 2012. Detective Rosie Cordero-Stutz, now the Miami-Dade Sheriff, talked to reporters about the case after the arrest.

“He used a plastic bag to asphyxiate Gladys,” Cordero-Stutz said. “And after that, he sexually assaulted her.”

Detectives searched for Machado’s 6-year-old son, who also lived at the home, but wasn’t there on Nov. 13, 2012. They found him safe with his grandmother.

Miami-Dade prosecutors filed the felony case against Sierra on Nov. 20, 2012, and he pleaded not guilty on Nov. 29, 2012.

The nine charges: Three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of kidnapping, two counts of abuse of a dead human body, and armed burglary.

The state is seeking the death penalty. Jury selection in the capital penalty phase is Aug. 17. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez has been presiding over the case.

Local 10 News Photojournalist Tim McFarland contributed to this report.

The Florida primary ballot includes Miami Referendum 1: “Charter Amendment to Move the City Elections from Odd-Numbered to Even-Numbered Years.”

The question for voters: “Shall the City Charter be amended to change the General and Runoff Elections from odd-numbered years to evennumbered years commencing in the years 2034 and 2036, and every four years thereafter, so the General Election is concurrent with any statewide or countywide election; modify the qualification period and clarify that the terms of office of those elected in the years 2031 and 2033 shall be reduced to 3 years due to said change?”

Charles Zelden is a political science professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Halmos College of Arts and Sciences.

“The people who run the elections for the parties have decided that they are better off if they bring in all the voters as opposed to some of the voters,” Zelden said about the reason behind the referendum.

A majority is required to adopt the measure. Zelden said the odd-year elections could favor a candidate.

“An odd year election allows you to be the big dog, the one that everyone is focused on,” Zelden said. “But, only a small percentage of the voters will be actually focusing.”

Zelden said he suspects the majority of voters will vote in favor of even-year elections.

“Voters will say, ‘Well, that makes sense! Why aren’t we voting that way already,’” Zelden said.

Any concession would be tough for the Republican president, who has insisted there is no truth to his sagging poll numbers, the sluggish economy and the U.S. military’s dwindling stockpiles of key weapons following the Iran war he launched with Israel more than five months ago.

“He divides the world into winners and losers, and this would make him a loser,” said Eliot Cohen, who served as counselor of the State Department in the George W. Bush administration. “And the image of being a loser, I think, would be intolerable for him.”

The sticking point has been over control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil normally flows. While both sides say a deal is close, the Trump administration has ruled out any arrangement that would cement Iran’s grip over the Persian Gulf waterway, including Tehran charging fees.

But Iran has insisted on some measure of control, saying the strait will not go back to being an open international waterway as it was before the war. Despite thousands of U.S. strikes, Iran can still fire drones and missiles at vessels, giving it a chokehold over commercial shipping.

Cohen said yielding ground to Iran would be difficult for the president, even if the conflict keeps gasoline prices elevated and poses problems for Republicans in November’s midterm elections.

But David Schenker, a former State Department official in the first Trump administration, said the increasing economic pressure may actually prompt Trump to compromise on the strait, even if it’s likely to have profound implications on global trade.

“There will be a lot of spin both ways, but my guess is that the president has tipped his hand as to the urgency for him of resolving the crisis,” said Schenker, now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “This is a concession he may very well be willing to make.”

Trump says weapons stockpiles are ‘a little bit tighter’

Trump, however, has so far conceded little about the war.

He posted on social media Thursday that the U.S. military still has “massive amounts” of weapons and that large amounts are being manufactured. He threatened jail time for the alleged “leakers” of information on the nation’s weapons stockpiles.

Trump was referencing a Washington Post story that reported his frustration with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the shrinking inventories of advanced weapons, as the Cabinet had gathered at Camp David last week.

A senior administration official said there had been a “robust and healthy” discussion about Iran in the Cabinet meeting and would not provide additional details except to say there had not been a “knock-down, drag-out fight” over the matter. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations.

Experts say the U.S. military is running short on weapons like advanced missile interceptors that have defended American troops from Iranian attacks. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, has released reports on declining inventories based on budget documents and other public information.

When asked later about weapons stockpiles, Trump told reporters that “we need more all the time.” He claimed that certain kinds of munitions are in “virtually unlimited supply” and others are “a little bit tighter.” He didn’t offer more specifics.

He insisted that “we’re in great shape. But, with that being said, we always want more. We have to have more,” noting that the military could tap into U.S. supplies of munitions around the world if needed.

Hegseth was on Capitol Hill this week, meeting privately with Republican senators as he makes the case for billions of dollars in additional Pentagon spending as part of a major GOP budget package.

Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and former Navy pilot, said the weapons shortfall stems from a war that lacked a well-defined goal and strategy beyond striking more than 14,000 targets.

“My contention on this is, if you knew what the goal is, maybe the target list would have been 500 targets. Maybe it would have been 200 targets,” Kelly said, adding the Pentagon wants ”billions and billions of dollars to fix their self-inflicted problem.”

Trump has made a dubious claim about polling

Trump also has claimed in a social media post Tuesday that his polling numbers are the best “they have ever been.” He cited accomplishments including employment numbers and the “Denuclearization of Iran.”

But about two-thirds of U.S. adults say the war with Iran has not been worthwhile, according to a poll from late July by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That includes the vast majority of Democrats and independents, as well as about 37% of Republicans.

On employment, the United States had nearly 159 million jobs in June, not including farmworkers, which was a record. In Trump’s second term, however, job growth has slowed considerably.

Trump also continues to claim that the Strait of Hormuz is open to commercial shipping. He said Thursday that the strait is “sort of open right now” and pointed to the Navy’s blockade of Iranian ports.

“But they can always shoot something, they always have something or drop a mine,” Trump said of Iran. “And if you have one mine sitting out there, you sort of mess things up because people don’t want to take their billion-dollar boats and accidentally get hit by a mine.”

At least two ships were hit in the Strait of Hormuz in the past week, while several others reported near misses or warnings from entities claiming to represent Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, according to maritime data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence.

Vessel traffic through the strait increased to 84 transits last week, up from 45 the week before. But traffic is still far below the more than 700 transits seen in a typical week before the crisis, Lloyd’s List said.

A deal over the Strait of Hormuz could hinge on fees

U.S. and Iranian officials say they are close to reaching an agreement to reopen the strait. That is even as the U.S. military insists the strait is open through a route it helps oversee near Oman’s coast, saying this week that it “remains free and open for all commercial vessels seeking to transit the international waterway.”

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the potential deal is being portrayed as a temporary solution to the dispute over the strait, and that it would allow ships to enter the Persian Gulf through an Iranian-controlled route and exit through an Omani-controlled route.

The Trump administration has said repeatedly that it is strongly opposed to any arrangement that would see Iran charge fees.

Any temporary routes through the waterway will not have tolls, charges or other impediments, according to a U.S. official not authorized to comment publicly who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity. The official said Trump’s preferred choice is diplomacy and he “holds all the cards” in dealing with Iran.

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Miami-Dade and Broward counties can expect partly cloudy skies Friday night as east-southeast winds stir. An isolated, passing shower is not completely out of the question. Temperatures are forecast to drop to 80°F overnight.

There may be some spotty showers along the east coast Saturday morning, followed by sunshine, scattered clouds and a subtle, southeast breeze during the afternoon. Temperatures will make a run for the low 90s -- humidity could make it feel hotter than 100°F.

Sunday may feature “here/there” showers in the morning , then sunshine, patchy clouds and east-southeast winds (sustained 5 to 10 mph) during the afternoon. Temperatures are forecast to reach the low 90s -- humidity will make it feel like triple digits.

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Michael Simpson, 51, of Miami Beach, held a news conference in Miami on Friday morning.

Deputies said the incident happened on July 29 during lobster mini-season off Fisher Island while diver Hunter Cofer was in the water searching for lobsters.

They said in a fight over a diving spot, he became irate and threatened to turn off Cofer’s air supply, then made good on the threat.

But Simpson said that’s not at all what happened.

He said of his time in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center: “To sit in that facility and read my arrestor report, it’s devastating.”

Simpson was part of a boater education task force. He said that safety has always been a priority and says the allegations are lies.

On Friday, he said he had swam over to see why Cofer’s father, whom he said was being belligerent, was yelling at his son. Simpson said that the teen’s father accidentally turned off the air supply while trying to pull on a float.

“He pulls it, and the machine turns off. He kind of does this shuffle. He slips. He falls on the edge of the boat and falls into the water,” Simpson said. “Immediately, the gentleman comes up and does one stroke towards my child to turn off the air. It’s a lie. It’s (a) 100% lie. Why would the dad need to lie that he jumped in? He fell in front of everybody.”

Simpson said the teen underwater was tangled. Deputies said there were there no injuries. Simpson showed media outlets a video where state wildlife officers spoke to him later on without incident. He said he didn’t flee the scene; he just motored away about 300 yards to get away.

Simpson has retained attorney Howard Srebnick, who recently led a successful defense in another high-profile maritime case in Miami-Dade County: Jurors found his client, George Pino, not guilty in a vessel homicide case back in June.

Simpson and Srebnick have promised to fight the charges.

Meanwhile, the attorney for the teen’s family, Tonja Haddad, said in a statement that the family “We would like to allow the office of the state attorney, the (Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office) and whomever else is involved to conduct their investigation without interference.

“However, we do refute the recitation given by the defendant in his press conference.”

Hunter Nicholas Hines, 37, of Pembroke Pines, was charged with attempted sexual battery and lewd and lascivious molestation of a child in connection with the Jan. 4, 2025 incident at the popular retail hub, located at 11401 NW 12th St. in Sweetwater.

He’ll also serve 15 years of sex offender probation.

Investigators said Hines, then 35, approached the boy as he was washing his hands, grabbed him and “escorted” him into a stall. Investigators said Hines held the boy with one hand, pulled down his pants with the other and molested him.

Authorities said the victim kicked Hines and escaped after he tried to perform oral sex on him.

Hines did all this while out on bond for committing a similar crime on Florida’s Treasure Coast on Nov. 7, 2022, when he was 33. It would earn him the status of sexual predator.

In that case, Indian River County deputies said Hines victimized a 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome whom he met through the app Grindr.

Deputies said Hines drove the teen to a neighborhood, then pulled down the boy’s pants and began performing oral sex on him. He then forced the boy to perform the same act on him.

Records show Hines pleaded no contest to three charges in that case, including child sexual battery, this May. In that case, he also received a 12-year sentence with 15 years of sex offender probation, with credit for time served.

As part of his plea, an Indian River County judge signed an order declaring him a sexual predator.

Hines, prior to his legal troubles, was a microbiologist with a doctorate degree who gained a social media following for posts about his research.

Records show he was being held in Miami-Dade’s Metrowest Detention Center as of Friday morning.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether his Miami-Dade sentence would run concurrently with his Indian River sentence.

That's not necessarily a surprise given Mahomes underwent surgery to repair torn ligaments in his left knee in December.

Mahomes has been ahead of schedule in his rehab work ever since the injury, though, participating in the entire offseason program before reporting to training camp on time. He was given the all-clear late last month by Dallas-based surgeon Dr. Dan Cooper, who performed the procedure, to participate in practices without any restrictions.

“There's a pretty good chance I don't play him,” Reid said. “Percentages are leaning that way. I don't know if I will play him the second or third game — I don't know that — but percentages probably lean against doing that.”

On one hand, Mahomes hardly needs the work given his experience. On the other hand, the competitive nature of the quarterback may be enough to convince Reid to put him on the field at least for a couple of snaps in the second game against Tampa Bay.

Mahomes has said he's looking forward to taking his first real hit to feel fully back to football.

The Chiefs have no shortage of quarterbacks in need of preseason work. They traded with the Jets for veteran Justin Fields to serve as their primary backup, and he could use some game experience in the new offense. So could Garrett Nussmeier, the once-heralded LSU quarterback, whom they chose in the seventh round of the draft as a project.

“We've got new people ... behind (Mahomes) that need some work,” Reid said. “The more reps they get, the better.”

The Chiefs, who have another practice Saturday before taking Sunday off, have a number of players missing due to injuries.

The latest to join the list was two-time Pro Bowl offensive guard Trey Smith, who was examined by a hip specialist as a precaution after it started to bother him this week. Reid downplayed the severity of the injury, saying “he's going to be OK.”

In fact, none of the other injuries appear to be long-term problems. Defensive end Ashton Gillotte has a hamstring strain, linebacker Jeffrey Bassa a groin injury, linebacker Drue Tranquill some back pain and wide receiver Xavier Worthy a shoulder issue, while defensive back L'Jarius Sneed continues to manage a knee problem and cornerback Mansoor Delane a shoulder injury.

Wide receiver Cyrus Allen, the Chiefs' fifth-round pick who had been turning some heads, was back at practice for the first time since bruising his shin during Monday's workout. But he was held out of drills that involved contact with the defense.

“He did a good job when he was back in there, so that's a positive,” Reid said. “He's at all the meetings. He's focused in. He wants to get out there. He doesn't want to miss. He's been working hard. We'll just ease him back in, like I said.”

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Jamel Donna dijo que realizaba un patrullaje de rutina en Doral cuando vio a Lucas Gomez Quintero junto a su automóvil y a Daniel Dominguez dentro del vehículo.

“Corrí detrás de ellos y pude tomar una foto del automóvil”, dijo Donna.

Donna dijo que Dominguez luego le disparó cuatro veces.

Una bala atravesó los pantalones de Donna, dejando un agujero que sirve como recordatorio de lo cerca que estuvo de resultar gravemente herido. Donna dijo que estaba escondido detrás de su carrito de golf cuando se realizaron los disparos.

La policía arrestó a Gomez Quintero y Dominguez.

En corte, se le informó a Gomez Quintero que había sido arrestado en dos casos y que enfrenta un cargo de robo en una estructura o vehículo desocupado. También enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato en primer grado con un arma mortal.

Donna dijo que le dispararon cuatro veces y está agradecido de que ninguna de las balas lo impactara.

Ambos sospechosos ahora enfrentan múltiples cargos.

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Jamel Donna said he was conducting a routine patrol in Doral when he saw Lucas Gomez Quintero by his car and Daniel Dominguez inside the vehicle.

“I ran after them and I was able to get a picture of the car,” Donna said.

Donna said Dominguez then fired four rounds at him.

A bullet tore through Donna’s pants, leaving behind a hole that serves as a reminder of how close he came to being seriously injured. Donna said he was hiding behind his golf cart when the shots were fired.

Police arrested Gomez Quintero and Dominguez.

In court, Gomez Quintero was told he was arrested in two cases and is charged with burglary of an unoccupied structure or conveyance. He is also charged with attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon.

Donna said he was shot at four times and is thankful none of the bullets hit him.

Both suspects are now facing multiple charges.

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Miami Fire Rescue and Miami Police responded to the scene at 1818 SW 1st Ave. after receiving reports of a possible structure collapse.

According to Miami Fire Rescue PIO Lt. Pete Sanchez, no one was injured and that the top part of the crane fell into a pool.

Officials said it was a crane being assembled, but it had some sort of failure.

Crews are evaluating the situation.

Miami Fire Rescue y la Policía de Miami respondieron a la escena en 1818 SW 1st Ave. después de recibir reportes de un posible colapso estructural.

Según el portavoz de Miami Fire Rescue, el teniente Pete Sanchez, nadie resultó herido y la parte superior de la grúa cayó en una piscina.

Funcionarios dijeron que se trataba de una grúa que estaba siendo ensamblada, pero sufrió algún tipo de falla.

Los equipos están evaluando la situación.

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Despite being pepper-sprayed, police said the Good Samaritan was able to tackle the suspect, identified as Yagiz Dogan.

Investigators said he first swindled a woman on July 18. Police said a woman met with Dogan in front of the Chase Bank at 1450 Brickell Ave. to sell him a $15,000 diamond ring after messaging on Facebook Marketplace.

Police said she let Dogan, who lives in a condo building a few blocks south, hold the ring and certificate and he ran off.

On Thursday, cops said he struck again but did not get away.

This time, they said Dogan “approached” another woman in the area of the same bank branch “attempting to buy her two bracelets.”

When she handed them over to let him see them, police said he ran off and the victim yelled for help.

The bystander joined the chase and caught up with Dogan, who sprayed him with pepper-spray, an arrest report states.

But the victim wasn’t deterred and managed to tackle him, police said.

Officers took Dogan into custody on grand theft and battery charges. In court on Friday, a judge set his bond at $11,000.

A pesar de haber sido rociado con gas pimienta, la policía dijo que el buen samaritano logró derribar al sospechoso, identificado como Yagiz Dogan.

Los investigadores dijeron que primero estafó a una mujer el 18 de julio. La policía dijo que una mujer se reunió con Dogan frente al banco Chase ubicado en 1450 Brickell Ave. para venderle un anillo de diamantes de $15,000 USD después de intercambiar mensajes en Facebook Marketplace.

La policía dijo que ella permitió que Dogan, quien vive en un edificio de condominios unas cuadras al sur, sostuviera el anillo y el certificado, y él salió corriendo.

El jueves, la policía dijo que volvió a atacar, pero no logró escapar.

Esta vez, dijeron que Dogan “se acercó” a otra mujer en el área de la misma sucursal bancaria “intentando comprarle sus dos pulseras”.

Cuando ella se las entregó para que pudiera verlas, la policía dijo que él salió corriendo y la víctima gritó pidiendo ayuda.

La persona se unió a la persecución y alcanzó a Dogan, quien lo roció con gas pimienta, indica un reporte de arresto.

Pero la víctima no se dejó disuadir y logró derribarlo, dijo la policía.

Agentes arrestaron a Dogan por cargos de robo mayor y agresión. En corte el viernes, un juez fijó su fianza en $11,000 USD.

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said the 29-year-old basketball player's death was accidental.

Clarke was found dead inside a home near Los Angeles on May 11. A person familiar with the terms of the investigation told The Associated Press after the Grizzlies announced Clarke’s passing that drug paraphernalia was found at the residence. The person had spoken on condition of anonymity because those details had not been released publicly.

Clarke was under contract to be with the Grizzlies through the 2026-27 season.

About six weeks before he died, Clarke was arrested in Arkansas on charges of speeding, reckless driving and possessing a controlled substance. He was with Memphis for all seven of his pro seasons after finishing his college career at Gonzaga.

Deputies and Oakland Park Fire Rescue personnel responded to the parking lot shortly after 2:45 p.m., at 1701 West Oakland Park Boulevard, according to dispatch records.

BSO patrol cars blocked a white work van with a rusty roof that was parked in the middle of a road in the parking lot. The driver’s door was open.

An OPFR fire truck was parked outside the Home Depot’s entrance, near rows of grills.

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

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

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The students who will be in the school’s magnet programs in a few days were able to play with the latest flight simulators and small drones.

The upcoming 2026-2027 academic school year doesn’t start until Monday, and the visit was part of Hepburn’s busy back-to-school itinerary.

“Traffic is going to be heavy with buses, and parents and students on the road, so we want to make sure our students go to school safely and come home safely as well,” Hepburn said.

Cole Etter and Kareen Pierre were among the students who met Hepburn. Cole said he dreams of becoming an aviation mechanic.

“I want to be an aerospace engineer, mostly like designing,” Kareen said.

Loli Formoso, a former principal and instructional director, said the high school participates in the Space Florida Academy program.

“This partnership is about connecting students directly with multiple industries, which include aerospace, aviation, and engineering,” Formoso said.

The program is also launching at eight other public high schools in Broward: Blanche Ely in Pompano Beach, Boyd H. Anderson in Lauderdale Lakes, Coral Glades in Coral Springs, Charles W. Flanagan in Pembroke Pines, Northeast in Oakland Park, Piper in Sunrise, Plantation, and Coral Springs.

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