Hayden, 73, who headed the Library of Congress from 2016-2025 and worked in libraries for much of her adult life, cited her profession as a vital bridge between writers and the general public.

“Libraries are where storytelling meets opportunity,” she told the audience gathered for the Guild's annual dinner-gala, held at Cipriani Wall Street. “They are where a child discovers a first favorite book, where a new American finds language and belonging and where research uncovers hidden history, and where communities see themselves in the pages of literature. Libraries do more than house books. You know that. They connect people to ideas, to knowledge, and to one another. They ensure that storytelling is not reserved for the few, but shared by all.”

Hayden, was among three honorees, along with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Percival Everett and “The Joy Luck Club” author Amy Tan. Hayden, the first woman and first Black person to be appointed Librarian of Congress, didn’t refer to Trump or her ouster during her brief remarks. But her speech was an implicit rebuttal to Trump's attacks against what he calls “woke" culture that have been directed at her and at such cultural institutions as the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institution.

She praised libraries as “engines of accessibility and inclusion” and as havens for free expression at a time of record-high book bans.

“In many places today, librarians are under attack for believing in the power of the written word and in the principle that free people should be able to read freedom,” she said. “Yet librarians remain steady and hopeful.”

The gala was a forum for opposing bans and for other causes crucial to the Guild and to the thousands of published writers its represents. Author David Baldacci was among those who denounced AI, which has been the subject of various lawsuits filed by writers against Microsoft,OpenAI and other companies that alleges their work had been used without their permission for AI generative programs. Baldacci was among several writers present who have been plaintiffs in legal action, and his name was invoked later in the evening: It was attached to the prize given to Everett, the Baldacci Award for Literary Activism.

Everett, 69, whose “James” won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, is a prolific author and longtime academic who joked that receiving an honor for activism was like being called an athletic chess player. His books are known for their cutting and provocative takes on racism and other subjects, and he referred indirectly to Hayden's departure by picturing a future — one he finds all too plausible — in which the only kinds of works available at the Library of Congress are the writings of Ayn Rand and other conservative favorites.

“That is where we are, and I can't tell you how sad I am about this,” Everett said.

Tan, 74, was cited for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community. Besides writing “The Joy Luck Club” and such novels as “The Kitchen God's Wife” and “The Bonesetter's Daughter,” she also has a long history of supporting emerging writers and for helping young people pay for treatment for Lyme disease, which she has suffered from for decades.

Tan offered a deeply personal account of the importance of writing, thinking and how she came to think of herself, and other writers, as “political.” As a girl, she was chastised by a minister for reading the allegedly immoral “The Catcher in the Rye.” The minister then assaulted her, an attack that left her devastated, an “unwanted life lesson" that made her question everything and set her on a path to storytelling that was compassionate and intrinsically “political” because of its power to change minds.

“Books, by their nature, have far reaching consequences regardless of our conscious intentions. Books have readers, readers have reactions and what they do with those reactions is of consequence,” said Tan, a daughter of Chinese immigrants who summarized herself as a “writer, an American writer, an American who uses her freedom of expression."

Four years after the queen’s death, the shop is doing a brisk business in mugs, tea towels and key rings bearing the likeness of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch as the nation marks the centenary of her birth on Tuesday. Items featuring her son King Charles III? Well, not so much.

“We still sell more than the king any day,’’ said Ismail Ibrahim, the store’s manager.

The late queen’s memory looms over the monarchy after a 70-year reign that saw her evolve from the glamorous young sovereign who cheered Britain during the gloomy post-war years to the beloved national grandmother who rallied the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Still ‘the queen’

When she died in September 2022, Elizabeth was the only monarch most Britons had ever known. Even now, mention of “the queen” is more likely to evoke thoughts of Elizabeth than of Queen Camilla, Charles' wife.

But the passage of time has also tarnished the late queen’s legacy. While she is celebrated as a symbol of tradition and continuity who helped unite Britain as the end of empire, economic struggles and mass migration changed the nation’s perception of itself, revelations about the former Prince Andrew’s links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have raised questions about why she let the problem fester for years.

“Despite her absence, Elizabeth II remains this key presence whenever we think about the monarchy,’’ Ed Owens, author of “After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?’’ told The Associated Press.

“She’s certainly the most significant figure in the history of the institution in the last 100 years and, I think, therefore deserves probably the attention that’s going to be focused on her in connection with what would have been her 100th birthday.”

The festivities include a Buckingham Palace reception where Charles will congratulate centenarians who share the late monarch's birthday, and the dedication of a memorial garden at Regent's Park in central London. An exhibit of the queen's fashions is already underway.

An unexpected reign

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor wasn’t meant to wear the crown. Born on April 21, 1926, she started her long life not in a castle but at 17 Bruton St., a townhouse in London’s Mayfair district.

As the elder daughter of King George V’s second son, Elizabeth was expected to live the life of a minor royal. Dogs and horses, a country house, a suitable match — a comfortable but somewhat anonymous life — seemed her future.

But destiny intervened. A decade after Elizabeth’s birth, her uncle King Edward VIII abdicated to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Elizabeth’s father became King George VI, thrusting the young princess into the spotlight as heir to throne.

Elizabeth became queen the day her father died on Feb. 6, 1952. Just 25, she heard the news in Kenya and hurried home to take up her duties.

Global ambassador

For decades, she presided over the annual opening of Parliament in crown and ermine robe, hosted banquets for visiting leaders at Buckingham Palace and made thousands of appearances across the U.K., often wearing brightly colored suits to make sure the people could catch a glimpse of their queen.

She also became a global ambassador for brand Britain, making more than 200 overseas trips that helped bolster ties with one-time colonies from India to Tanzania, former enemies Germany and Japan and long-time friends such as the United States.

Late in life, the queen became an internet star when she and James Bond star Daniel Craig used moviemaking sleight of hand to parachute into the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics and teamed up with Paddington Bear to celebrate her 70 years on the throne

In a world of relentless change, she moved with the times — applauding the nation’s successes and consoling Britons during difficult times, while remaining above the fray of politics, Robert Hardman, author of “Elizabeth II: In private. In public. The Inside Story,’’ told the AP.

Scandal's shadow

But those accomplishments make her failure to end the scandal surrounding her second son even more glaring.

Despite concerns about his boorish behavior, questionable business dealings and unsavory friends, Andrew spent 10 years as Britain’s special envoy for international trade and remained a prince of the realm until the details of his relationship with Epstein were revealed last year. In an effort to shield the monarchy from the continuing fallout, Charles finally stripped his younger brother of his princely title. He is now known simply as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

“He was problematic and that gave her cause for worry,’’ Hardman said. “But I do think people let him have an easy ride because they thought if they came down hard on him, they might somehow upset the queen. Now that’s partly attributable to her, but partly attributable to others.”

Besides, her “great achievements’’ far outweighed any errors, Hardman said.

Elizabeth took the throne as a young woman with two small children at a time before jet travel existed and no one had even thought of going to the moon, then remained a constant presence in British public life across generations.

“She just reigned through this vast span of the ages and was as authoritative and loved and respected at the end as she was at the beginning,” Hardman said. “And she was working till the very end, ‘til her last day.”

As historians debate the queen’s legacy, members of the public are making their own judgements.

Take Sylvie Deneux, and her daughter Clara, who stopped by Cool Britannia during a visit to London from their home in Lille, France.

They praised the late monarch for her elegance and described her as an icon. But when asked about Mountbatten-Windsor, Sylvie Deneux, 49, paused and looked at her daughter. Failing to quickly quash the scandal was a mistake, she said. But Deneux could still muster sympathy for Elizabeth, because she made those decisions as a mother, not as a queen.

“Can we blame her?’’ she asked. “I’m not sure.”

La lista está integrada por los abogados Néctor Guilebaldo de León, Zoila Tatiana Morales, César Avila, Julio Rivera Clavería, Beyla Estrada y Gabriel García Luna. Arévalo deberá tomar su decisión a más tardar el 16 de mayo, último día de Porras en el cargo.

La comisión —integrada por los decanos de las facultades de derecho del país, el colegio de abogados y la presidenta de la Corte Suprema de Justicia— revisó los expedientes de 48 candidatos a fiscal general y recibió duras críticas por modificar los criterios para calificar a los aspirantes.

Debido a estos cambios, la comisión no otorgó valor alguno a los 25 años de experiencia como juez del ministro de Gobernación Marco Villeda, uno de los hombres de confianza de Arévalo.

El panel, integrado por 15 personas, postuló a los 12 candidatos con la mayor calificación. Porras alcanzó la nota más alta con 92 puntos, pero no recibió el apoyo de los miembros de la comisión.

Porras buscaba su tercer periodo a pesar de que ha sido objeto de sanciones de más de 40 países, incluidos Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea, por socavar la democracia de guatemalteca y obstaculizar la lucha anticorrupción.

Porras intentó impedir la llegada de Arévalo al poder en 2023, a pesar de ganar las elecciones. La fiscalía lo acusó en su momento de presunto fraude electoral y otros delitos, e incluso llegó a secuestrar boletas, solicitándole a un juez que proscribiera al partido político con el que llegó al poder.

La Relatora Especial sobre la Independencia de los magistrados y abogados de Naciones Unidas, Margaret Satterthwaite, cuestionó en 2015 a la fiscalía —a cargo de Porras— por mantener una política de criminalización contra colectivos, operadores judiciales, líderes sociales y periodistas como represalia por sus denuncias de corrupción.

“El presidente de la república está al tanto y espera la lista definitiva para continuar el proceso de evaluación de perfiles”, señaló la oficina de presidencia después de darse a conocer los nombres de los aspirantes.

El exfiscal Juan Francisco Sandoval, quien denunció desde el exilio a Porras por presuntos actos de criminalización, señaló que la lista de candidatos “sin duda” marca el cierre de un ciclo de ocho años que estuvo profundamente cuestionado por el grave daño que causó al sistema de justicia”.

“Se abre una oportunidad real para redefinir el rumbo del Ministerio Público”, subrayó.

Añadió, sin embargo, que el proceso ha provocado inquietudes al haber pasado por alto a abogados con trayectoria y capacidad que debieron ser considerados, especialmente a los perfiles de jueces. Afirmó que su omisión "transmite un mensaje equivocado sobre el valor de la carrera judicial".

Sandoval agregó que la decisión del presidente será determinante. “No se trata únicamente de nombrar a una persona, sino de decidir si el país apuesta por la reconstrucción institucional del Ministerio Público o por la continuidad de las prácticas que tanto daño le han hecho a la justicia guatemalteca”.

Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last week announced the newspaper's sale to a nonprofit foundation that said it was committed to keeping it open. A news outlet that predates the U.S. Constitution was due to close on May 3, which would have made the Steel City the nation's largest community without a city-based paper.

Weeks earlier, the alternative Pittsburgh City Paper, whose staff learned on New Year's Day that it was closing after 34 years, roared back to life under new ownership.

They were rare positive developments for a local news industry that has seen its share of the opposite over the past two decades — newsrooms shuttered or thinned out, journalists thrown out of work, consumers drifting away. No one is pretending that a true turnaround will be easy in Pittsburgh. One thing that may help is that the city faced a news abyss and was forced to prepare for it.

“It's human nature that sometimes you have to be shaken a bit to realize what's important in your life,” said Halle Stockton, co-executive director and editor-in-chief of the digital news outlet Public Source.

The many incarnations of the Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Gazette was born on July 29, 1786, the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains. It went through several names with the expansion and contraction of a newspaper market that supported seven at the beginning of the 20th century. There was The Commercial Gazette, the Gazette-Times and, briefly, the Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser.

A consolidation caused by the closing of the Pittsburgh Post in 1927 made it the Post-Gazette, which has remained its name for 99 years.

It had a solid reputation, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for its coverage of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting. “The Post-Gazette is really the paper of record for this city,” said Kevin Acklin, chief of staff to a former Pittsburgh mayor and former president of the Penguins hockey team. The other longtime “paper of record,” The Pittsburgh Press, closed in 1992 after a Teamsters Union strike.

Labor woes marred the Post-Gazette's last few years as well. Much of the staff was on strike between 2022 and 2025, though the newspaper limped along. Its owner, Block Communications, Inc., announced the closing on the same January day that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected its appeal of a ruling on health benefits seen as favorable to former strikers.

Since then, rumors about its future ebbed and flowed. Acklin worked this winter with other investors to buy the newspaper, but a potential deal fell through when Block insisted the union not be part of it.

To anyone watching closely, a clue to the newspaper's future was revealed across town in mid-March.

“You thought we were dead and gone, didn't you?” Ali Trachta, top editor at the Pittsburgh City Paper, wrote on the outlet's revived website. “So did I. But, to be honest, only very briefly.” She announced that the paper was returning to cover community news, politics, the arts “and the creative, weird and uniquely Pittsburgh stories” that have defined it since its founding in 1991.

A new nonprofit, Local Matters, led by a former engineering manager at Apple, had gathered investors to buy the City Paper. It would return to printed editions on a monthly basis and was launching a membership program for readers to pledge support. Most of its staff would return. The paper used to print weekly until its previous owner in 2025 said it would shift to only four printed editions a year.

That former owner? Block Communications.

A new nonprofit enters Pittsburgh's civic arena

When Block announced its sale of the Post-Gazette last week, it was also to a nonprofit. The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which publishes the digital success story The Baltimore Banner, bought the Post-Gazette even though Block said it was not the highest bidder. Many in Pittsburgh feared it would be sold to a hedge fund notorious for stripping newspapers of resources.

Does that make Block, long seen as a villain in the local journalism industry, a hero in this story?

“For better or worse, the Blocks will never get credit for that," said Andrew Conte, a journalism professor at Point Park University who runs Pittsburgh's Center for Media Innovation. “But it does seem like they made an effort to come up with the best outcome they could as they were leaving Pittsburgh. They could have just walked away and said, ‘You know, we’re done.'”

Now the work begins. Venetoulis officials did not return inquiries from The Associated Press. The institute's benefactor, hotel magnate Stewart Bainum Jr., has said that he plans to invest $30 million in both the Banner and Post-Gazette over the next five years. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh said it hopes to be part of the process of rebuilding. Whether the union will be invited is uncertain.

“This is going to be one of the most closely-watched newspaper acquisitions in years,” said Tim Franklin, founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University. “Can a money-losing newspaper with serious labor strife be saved and resurrected as a non-profit? If Stewart Bainum and his team pull this off — and I hope they do — it could be a model for the nation.”

Anticipating a Pittsburgh without the Post-Gazette, other news sources in the city had begun making plans to fill gaps in the marketplace, and they're not necessarily changing them because of the sale.

Another area newspaper, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, will reinstate a Sunday print edition in Pittsburgh on May 9. It had stopped printing in the city a decade ago. The Trib is also going ahead with adding about a dozen new journalists to boost its coverage of business, health care, transportation and education, said Jennifer Bertetto, its CEO. Based in Greensburg, 30 miles to the east of Pittsburgh, some city residents view the Trib as an outsider.

Stockton's Public Source, launched in 2011 primarily as a home for investigative news stories, is widening its outlook. The outlet has also convened town halls over the past few months for residents to talk about what they want in local news, and published a list of 40 to 50 small news outlets in the region that focus on subject areas like the arts and business, or different neighborhoods and towns.

People less engaged in news were looking for new ideas. “People are actively interested in where they get their information and who they can trust for it,” Stockton said. “So we're leaning into that.”

With their careers in limbo the past several months, Post-Gazette content editor Erin Hebert and photographer Steve Mellon were among several journalists meeting regularly as the Pittsburgh Alliance for People-Empowered Reporting, or PAPER, seeing if they could create a digital news site. Hebert said it hasn’t been decided what will happen now with those plans.

Conte can walk a few blocks from the university to show office space set aside for journalists from small, local publications. He hopes to convince the Tribune-Review to print a periodic insert featuring the best reporting from these outlets.

Talk to someone young, and the challenge is obvious

A clue to the challenge faced by news organizations in 2026 is obvious when speaking to students in Conte’s journalism class. When they're asked how many had checked the Post-Gazette's website that morning, only a couple of hands tentatively go up.

Sites like Instagram or TikTok are often their destinations for news. It’s more convenient and without pay walls, said Gabriela Wait. The journalism students know to check with more reliable sources if they’re not sure they can believe what they see. Many of their friends don’t.

Makenna Smith recalled her grandparents and parents reading newspapers when she was growing up, keeping them informed and entertained. Few people her age have the same habit.

A study released earlier this month by the Pew Research Center showed that public interest in news is a problem for all ages. Pew found that 37% of Americans in 2016 said they followed local news very closely. That dropped to 21% in 2025.

To Conte, that reinforces the need for news organizations to cooperate. A former Trib reporter, he recalled his paper's bitter competition with the Post-Gazette.

“Literally, they were trying to kill each other,” he said. “I don't think any of us want to go back to a point where we're doing that. We've evolved. We're trying to work together. Even if we're competing for scoops and clicks and dollars, there's also a benefit to having us get around the same table once a month.”

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David Bauder writes about the intersection of media and entertainment for the AP. Follow him at http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social.

Many advocates in the aftermath of the deadly shootings have said the tragedies pointedly highlight troubling underlying trends where Black women are more likely to experience domestic violence — and they see the killings as an opportunity to confront how disparities in access to care and resources make some women and children more vulnerable to violence in the home.

On Sunday morning, a man police identified as Shamar Elkins fatally shot seven of his children and another child in Shreveport, Louisiana. A relative has said Elkins was in the midst of separating from his wife who was wounded.

And last Thursday, police found the bodies of former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and his estranged wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, in their suburban Washington, D.C., home. Justin Fairfax shot his estranged wife and then himself, and their two children in the home at the time were unhurt, police said. Like Elkins, Fairfax was in the process of separating from his wife and had faced a judge's upcoming deadline to move from the house.

While it's not clear what prompted the Shreveport killings or the apparent murder-suicide in Annandale, Virginia, experts say that the harrowing details of the killings echo familiar patterns that play out in homes across the country — and underscore the need for solutions that address the root causes of the disparate violence.

A ‘silent epidemic’

Sunday wasn’t the first time that Elkins’ family had suffered from gender-based gun violence: Shaneiqua Elkins and the other woman who was shot, Keosha Pugh, were sisters, and lost their mother to gun violence when they were under age 10, according to their uncle Lionel Pugh.

“It’s sad. It just breaks you down," Pugh said.

Shreveport Councilman Grayson Boucher said at a news conference Monday that the Louisiana killings were emblematic of “a true epidemic of domestic violence" across the small southern city of roughly 180,000 people.

Those trends go well beyond Shreveport as experts have pointed out how both race and gender make Black women in particular more vulnerable to domestic violence.

More than four in 10 Black women experience physical violence from an intimate partner during their lifetimes — a much higher rate than women who are white, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander — according to a 2014 study by the Centers for Disease Control.

Paméla Tate is the executive director of Black Women Revolt, which runs programs to prevent abuse and offers survivors' resources. She said a logical skepticism about police and government child services agencies based on a history of institutionalized racism makes Black women reluctant to seek help — and especially vulnerable to domestic violence.

Additionally, Black women are two times more likely to be murdered by men than their white counterparts, according to a 2025 study published by the Violence Policy Center, based on federal government data from 2023. Those men are more often than not familiar to their victims, according to the study, which found that more than nine in 10 Black female victims knew their killers, with the majority of those killings being carried out with guns.

Ultimately, Tate said, “domestic violence doesn't see color," and is primarily driven by the prevalent belief among men — across racial demographics — that women are subjects or property.

“Domestic violence is about exerting power over someone that you profess to love and controlling their behavior,” Tate said.

Lack of resources for Black men

There has been intense speculation about the role that mental health crises might have played in both shootings.

A relative of Elkins' wife told The Associated Press that Elkins had voluntarily checked into a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in January for about a week and a half for mental health help.

In Virginia, Justin Fairfax was a rising star in the Democratic Party until two women accused him of sexual assault, casting doubt on his trustworthiness as a political leader. The former lieutenant governor's “mental and emotional health” suffered before he killed his wife and himself, according to court documents, which say he drank heavily and withdrew from his family after the allegations were made public in 2019.

Adult and child psychiatrist Christine Crawford hasn’t examined the killings in Shreveport or Annandale, but said financial troubles, marital issues and problems at work — in addition to underlying mental health vulnerabilities — can lead someone to “crack."

“It makes some think about the amount of pain, distress and hopelessness they found themselves in at that time,” said Crawford, who practices at the Webster Clinic in Boston and is interim chief medical officer at the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

She noted many Black people find themselves priced out of programs and care for mental health for such reasons as private care costs and a lack of insurance.

That level of desperation can make some people feel “completely out of options on how to deal with the pain he was in at that moment," Crawford said. T

Some have said that there are social dimensions to these economic trends, too.

“Mental health disparities in the Black community is not accidental,” said University of Michigan Social Work Professor Daphne C. Watkins. “They are the predictable result of structural racism” in schools, employment and other aspects of society.

Watkins, founder of the YBMen Project which provides young Black men with a safe place to discuss their mental health, manhood and social support, said studies show that 10% of Black adults experience moderate to severe depression, while 18% experience anxiety disorders.

But Black men tend to forego mental health treatment due to cultural expectations, in addition to costs, said Watkins. Without an outlet, stressors from family, work and relationships can pile up.

“For a long time, in the Black community, we didn’t talk about anxiety. Now, you have to talk about it hand in hand along with depression.”

Mental health not an excuse, some say

Others have emphatically said that mental health is not an excuse for domestic violence.

“To say they’re mentally ill, that doesn’t cut it,” Tate said. “There are people who are depressed or people who have schizophrenia and don’t harm the their partners, much less kill them.”

Shaneiqua Elkins and Cerina Fairfax could have been struggling with mental health challenges too, Tate added, and they both “had the same access or ability to go and purchase a gun” but chose not to.

“The mental illness is not what we’re talking about here,” she said.

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Associated Press writer Sophie Bates contributed in Shreveport, Louisiana.

A proposed constitutional amendment backed by Democratic officials would bypass the state's bipartisan redistricting commission to allow use of new congressional districts approved by state lawmakers in this year's midterm elections.

The referendum tests Democrats' ability to push back against President Donald Trump, who started the gerrymandering competition between states after successfully urging Texas Republicans to redraw congressional districts in their favor last year. Virginia would be the second state, after California last fall, to put the question to voters.

It also tests voters' willingness to accept districts gerrymandered for political advantage — coming just six years after Virginia voters approved an amendment meant to diminish such partisan gamesmanship by shifting redistricting away from the legislature.

Even if Democrats are successful Tuesday, the public vote may not be the final word. The state Supreme Court is considering whether the redistricting plan is illegal in a case that could make the referendum results meaningless.

Virginia Democrats are following California's lead

Congressional redistricting typically is done once a decade after each U.S. census. But Trump urged Texas Republicans to redistrict ahead of the November elections in hopes of winning several additional seats and maintaining the GOP's narrow House majority in the face of political headwinds that typically favor the party that is out of power during midterms.

The Texas gambit led to a burst of redistricting nationwide. So far, Republicans believe they can win up to nine more House seats in newly redrawn districts in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.

Democrats think they can win up to five more seats in California, where voters approved a mid-decade redistricting effort last November, and one more seat under new court-imposed districts in Utah. Democrats hope to offset the rest of that gap in Virginia, where they decisively flipped 13 seats in the state House and won back the governor’s office last year.

Leaders of both major parties see Tuesday’s vote as crucial to their chances to have a House majority in the fall. Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, rallied with opponents of the measure Monday night, calling the redistricting plan “dishonest” and “brazenly deceptive.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters at the Capitol earlier in the day that a vote to approve the redraw “will serve as a check and balance on this out-of-control Trump administration.”

He said he expected the election to be close.

The back-and-forth battle over congressional districts is expected to continue in Florida, where the Republican-led legislature is scheduled to convene April 28 for a special session that could result in a more favorable map for Republicans.

A lobster-like district could aid Democratic efforts

In Virginia, Democrats currently hold six of the 11 U.S. House seats under districts that were imposed by the state Supreme Court in 2021 after a bipartisan commission failed to agree on a map based on the latest census data.

The new plan could help Democrats win as many as 10 seats. Five are anchored in Democratic-heavy northern Virginia, including one shaped like a lobster that stretches into Republican-leaning rural areas.

Revisions to four other districts across Richmond, southern Virginia and Hampton Roads dilute the voting power of conservative blocs in those areas. And a reshaped district in parts of western Virginia lumps together three Democratic-leaning college towns to offset other Republican voters.

The Virginia redistricting plan is "pushing back against what other states have done in trying to stack the deck for Donald Trump in those congressional elections,” Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger said during an online rally last week.

Ads for the “yes to redistricting” campaign featuring former President Barack Obama have flooded the airwaves.

Opponents have distributed campaign materials citing past statements from Obama and Spanberger criticizing gerrymandering, but those were before Trump pushed Republican states to redraw their congressional maps in advance of this year's midterms.

Democrats “were all against gerrymandering before they were for it,” Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff Ryer said.

Virginia court weighs whether lawmakers acted illegally

Virginia lawmakers endorsed a constitutional amendment allowing their mid-decade redistricting last fall, then passed it again in January as part of a two-step process that requires an intervening election for an amendment to be placed on the ballot.

In February, they passed a new U.S. House map to take effect pending the outcome of the redistricting referendum. Republicans have filed multiple legal challenges against the effort.

A Tazewell County judge ruled that the redistricting push was illegal for several reasons. Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. said lawmakers failed to follow their own rules for adding the redistricting amendment to a special session.

He ruled that their initial vote failed to occur before the public began casting ballots in last year’s general election and thus didn’t count toward the two-step process. He also ruled that the state failed to publish the amendment three months before that election, as required by law.

If the state Supreme Court agrees with the lower court, the results from Tuesday's vote could be rendered moot.

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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.

Chadwick Scott Willacy, 58, is scheduled to receive a three-drug injection starting at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison near Starke for the 1990 killing of Marlys Sather. Willacy was sentenced to death a year later upon a 9-3 jury recommendation after being convicted of first-degree murder, burglary, robbery and arson.

Court records indicate Sather had returned to her Palm Bay home for her lunch break in September 1990 and found Willacy burglarizing her home. He struck her in the head with a blunt object, fracturing her skull, and then bound her hands and ankles with wire and tape, according to investigators.

Willacy attempted to strangle Sather with a telephone cord, and when that didn’t work, he doused her in gasoline and set her on fire, records show. An autopsy determined that Sather had died from smoke inhalation, indicating she was still alive when she was set ablaze.

Willacy also stole Sather’s car and other items from her home, and used the woman’s ATM card to steal cash, officials said. When Sather failed to return from her break, her employer caller her family. Her son-in-law went to check on her and found her body.

The Florida Supreme Court ordered a new sentencing in 1994 because the trial judge failed to allow defense attorneys a chance to rehabilitate a potential juror who indicated she could not recommend the death penalty. Willacy was resentenced to death in 1995 with an 11-1 recommendation by a new jury.

This would be Florida’s fifth execution in 2026 following a record 19 executions in the state last year. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis oversaw more executions in a single year in 2025 than any other Florida governor since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The previous record was set in 2014 with eight executions.

The Florida Supreme Court denied appeals filed by Willacy last Wednesday. He had made claims based on the state's refusal to grant public records requests about executions and lethal injection.

Willacy's final appeals were pending before the U.S. Supreme Court as the execution date loomed.

A total of 47 people were executed in the U.S. in 2025. Florida led the way with a long line of death warrants signed by DeSantis. Alabama, South Carolina and Texas tied for second with five executions each.

Another execution has been scheduled in Florida for later this month. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, is scheduled to received a lethal injection on April 30. He was convicted of beating and choking his 13-year-old niece to death.

All Florida executions are by lethal injection using a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart, according to the Department of Corrections.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency confirmed that it has asked prosecutors to request a court warrant for Bang’s arrest. Representatives of Bang’s agency, HYBE, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Bang has been under investigation since November over allegations that he misled investors in 2019 by telling them HYBE had no plans to go public, inducing them to sell their shares to a private equity fund before the company proceeded with an initial public offering. Police believe that the fund may have paid Bang around 200 billion won ($136 million) in a side deal that promised him 30% of post-IPO stock sale profits.

Bang, a music executive and producer who founded HYBE as Big Hit Entertainment in 2005, is widely seen as one of the most powerful figures in K-pop, overseeing some of the industry’s most popular acts, including Seventeen, Le Sserafim and Katseye in addition to BTS.

Bang’s legal troubles are a major public relations setback for HYBE, coming as BTS embarks on a global tour after a nearly four-year hiatus as its members served for mandatory military service.

BTS performed in front of tens of thousands of international fans at a free comeback concert in Seoul last month and have also held several concerts in South Korea’s Goyang city and Tokyo. The group is to kick off a series of U.S. events with a concert in Tampa, Florida, later this month.

It happened Saturday night along Southwest 272nd Street and 127th Avenue.

Authorities said a driver lost control and slammed their vehicle into a tree.

That collision caused the car to split in half, officials said.

Two people, a 33-year-old and a 9-year-old, were taken by helicopter to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in stable condition.

The lackluster start to trading Tuesday followed a modest retreat on Wall Street. But U.S. futures edged higher.

With the fate of talks between Iran and the U.S. on ending the war unclear, the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil remained above $95, slipping just 0.4% to $95.10 per barrel.

U.S. benchmark crude oil lost 0.9% to $86.66 per barrel.

In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 climbed 1.1% to 59,485.54 on strong gains for tech-related companies like Tokyo Electron, which rose 4.4%. Tech and energy giant SoftBank Group Corp. gained 5.5%.

South Korea's Kospi jumped 1.8% to 6,327.73 and Taiwan's Taiex advanced 1.7%.

The Hang Seng in Hong Kong edged 0.1% lower, to 26,382.30 and the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.3% to 4,068.28.

Australia's S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.1% to 8,942.80.

U.S. President Donald Trump attacked critics after a second round of talks with Iran was thrown into doubt by the U.S. Navy’s seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship. Trump said Vice President JD Vance would be going to Islamabad, but the Iranian side made no commitment to more talks.

Oil prices climbed Monday following the latest rise of tensions between the United States and Iran, but the moves were more modest than they were earlier in the war. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, gave back a bit of their record-breaking rally.

On Monday, the S&P 500 slipped 0.2% from its all-time high and the Dow industrials edged less than 0.1% lower. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%.

Worries over disruptions of supplies of oil from the Persian Gulf if Iran continues to block tankers from exiting the Strait of Hormuz are clouding investor sentiment.

The next big deadline is looming on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Eastern time, which is early Wednesday Tehran time, when a ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran is scheduled to expire.

“The current dynamic is one of a precarious balance of truce,” Mizuho Bank said in a commentary, so “as the ceasefire draws to its 2-week deadline, the all-consuming question is whether both sides can seize on the talks to land on a US-Iran deal that ends the war.”

For now, oil prices remain well below the $119 per barrel level for Brent crude when fears were at their highest. And the S&P 500 is still above where it was before the war.

On Wall Street on Monday, United Airlines sank 2.8%, and American Airlines fell 4.2% after American said it’s not interested in a merger with United. Airline stocks had flown higher last week following a report saying United wanted to combine with its rival.

On the winning side was TopBuild, a distributor of insulation and building products, which jumped 19.4%. QXO is buying it in a deal valued at roughly $17 billion that it said would make it the continent’s second-largest publicly traded building products distributor. Its stock fell 3.1%.

U.S. companies have been reporting big profits for the first three months of 2026, helping to support the market.

Several of the biggest U.S. banks said last week that they see the U.S. economy remaining resilient, particularly because of solid spending by U.S. consumers.

About a tenth of companies in the S&P 500 have already reported their results for the start of 2026. Nearly nine out of 10 have delivered a bigger profit than analysts expected, according to FactSet.

If the rest of the companies in the index match analysts’ expectations, overall earnings per share for S&P 500 companies will end up 13% higher than a year earlier, it estimates.

Other companies scheduled to report their results this week include UnitedHealth Group on Tuesday, Tesla on Wednesday and Procter & Gamble on Friday.

In other dealings early Tuesday, the U.S. dollar rose to 158.98 Japanese yen from 158.82 yen. The euro slipped to $1.1782 from $1.1789.

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AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Stan Choe contributed.

Potential jurors were sent home around 1:30 p.m. after the judge in the case said the families had resolved the matter.

The case is related to a crash and a fire that killed Edgar Monserratt Martinez and Barrett Riley, both 18 years old, in May of 2018.

Monserratt Martinez was a front-seat passenger in the 2014 Tesla Model S that Riley was driving at 116 mph in a 30-mph zone in Fort Lauderdale.

Riley crashed the Tesla into a wall along Seabreeze Boulevard.

In 2022, Riley’s parents claimed Tesla designed the defective batteries that were to blame for the fire that followed. That lawsuit was dismissed.

Riley’s parents also claimed Tesla installed a device to prevent travel above 85 mph, and a Tesla technician in Dania Beach removed it without their consent.

Attorneys representing Tesla denied both accusations and focused on Riley’s driving record during that trial.

A jury ruled Riley was most responsible, so Tesla was only liable for $105,000.

In this most recent civil lawsuit, Monserratt Martinez’s family claimed negligence by both Riley and Tesla, and that they were to blame for the tragedy.

Monserratt Martinez and Riley were only about 18 days away from earning their high school diploma from Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale when they died.

The judge and the attorneys in the case declined to disclose any details about the settlement.

All of those negotiations happened behind closed doors and that information was not presented to the jurors before they were dismissed.

McCollum led a late surge that was almost for naught when he missed two free throws with 5.6 seconds remaining. The Knicks rushed the ball up the court without any timeouts left, but Mikal Bridges missed a jumper as time expired.

“It’s a long game,” McCollum said. “You’ve got to play to zero.”

The Hawks had trailed the whole second half and were down 12 after three quarters. Atlanta chipped away and a basket by McCollum gave the Hawks a 101-100 lead — their first of the series in the second half — with 2:09 to play. He made another for a three-point lead, and after Jalen Brunson tied it with a 3-pointer, McCollum answered with another jumper to make it 105-103 with 33 seconds to play.

Jonathan Kuminga added 19 points off the bench and Jalen Johnson scored 17, including a basket with 10 seconds left for a four-point lead for the No. 6 seeds, who host Game 3 on Thursday.

Brunson had 29 points for the Knicks and Karl-Anthony Towns added 18.

The Knicks are trying to reach the second round for a fourth straight season, their longest stretch since the 1991-92 to 1999-2000 seasons, and seemed well on their way.

“This is a game we should have won,” New York's Josh Hart said. “In the playoffs you can’t give away games.”

The Knicks had been 40-1 in the postseason since the advent of the shot clock in 1954-55 when leading by 12 or more after three quarters. The only loss was when Reggie Miller scored 25 points in the fourth for Indiana in Game 5 of the 1994 Eastern Conference finals.

Towns, who had four points in the first half, scored 14 in the third quarter as the Knicks extended the lead to 78-64. They were still ahead by eight with under five minutes remaining.

But their young players who sparked the Hawks' surge after the All-Star break finally made some plays before McCollum — ignoring profane jeers after he and Jose Alvarado went nose-to-nose and were each given technical fouls in the third quarter — then closed it out.

McCollum was acquired from Washington in the January trade for Trae Young, the Hawks star who was a former playoff villain at Madison Square Garden. He filled the role perfectly Monday, outplaying Brunson in the second half and stealing a game that looked lost.

Hart had 15 points, 13 rebounds and six assists.

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Two pilots were killed in a collision between a plane and a fire truck on an active runway.

Officials have since revealed that the fire truck did not have a crucial tracking device, a transponder, that is standard for vehicles at many airports.

At Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, more than 30 million people take off and land annually.

Supported by airport data, tracking transponders are essential for safety at both FLL and Miami International Airport.

“If it detects an object close to or near especially the runway environment, it alarms,” said FLL Chief Operating Officer Mike Nonnemacher. “It lets the air traffic controller know there’s a potential conflict.”

There are busy areas of an airport that travelers may never see, but Local 10 was given access to some of those movement areas of FLL.

It’s a constant ballet of speed, timing and trust.

FLL has six fire trucks equipped with transponders onboard, tracking planes second-by-second.

There are 26 operational vehicles that are a part of that system that go out to check runways, and another 21 maintenance vehicles, at FLL.

That’s because on the ground, the work never stops. Lightbulbs, pavement, signs and many other small fixes are all part of a very big system.

And backing it all up is another set of eyes, an airport surface detection radar that is silently, constantly searching.

According to the FAA, the installation of transponders was only guidance, but not mandatory.

“The FAA is actively encouraging airports to voluntarily equip vehicles with VMATS,” the FAA said in a statement to Local 10.

Similarly to FLL, Miami International Airport also has a surface detection system.

By the numbers, MIA has 51 vehicles with transponders that handle ramp access, wildlife control, electrical work, pavement issues and more.

As for fire and emergency vehicles, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue has nine emergency response vehicles at MIA, but without transponders.

Local 10 has been told that transponders have recently been ordered; MDFR and the Miami-Dade Aviation Department said they are working together to get it done.

It was Sunday morning when Alexandra Anaya heard a clicking sound coming from the battery pack of the new electric wheelchair she’d bought at a thrift store.

After hearing the noises, to be safe, she moved it outside of her home located along the 5900 block of N Farragut Drive.

Surveillance video captured her watching the wheelchair for a moment and then sprinting away just before it exploded and caught fire.

Fortunately, it was away from the home and the blaze didn’t spread any further.

Anaya’s mother passed away recently, and in this close call, she said she believes her mom was watching out for her.

“She’s just gotta be looking over me,” Anaya said. “There was just too much coincidence here to be a coincidence.”

Hollywood Fire Rescue said her actions saved her and her family from catastrophe, confirming that it was a dangerous lithium battery fire.

Anaya hopes her story helps prevent disaster from happening to someone else.

“Don’t leave this stuff charging when you’re not home,” Anaya said. “Always do it when you’re home and you can keep an eye on it, because stuff explodes. This could’ve happened to anybody.”

Officials with Hollywood Fire Rescue said if you hear clicking, popping or hissing on one of those devices, immediately stop using it and move it to an area like outside if you can.

Investigators with the Homestead Police Department said Samantha Morales, 34, drunkenly opened fire after confronting the victims after they walked out of Dr. Limon Ceviche Bar, located at 2508 NE 10th Court ― within the large Homestead Pavilion shopping plaza.

According to police, the victims told investigators that after they “exited the restaurant and began to say their goodbyes,” Morales drove up in a Tesla and asked them whether they were “good” or “OK.”

An HPD report doesn’t state whether or how Morales knew the women.

After one of the victims replied, “Yes, I’m OK. Are you?,” police said Morales retorted, “Yes, b----. But it looks like you have a problem.”

Police said Morales opened her car door and pulled out a gun, asking, “What are you gonna do about it?”

After one of the victims asked Morales whether she was going to “intimidate” them with the gun, police said the group continued to argue until Morales opened fire, shooting two of the women.

According to the report, one of the women “lunged” at Morales in an effort to disarm her.

“The two then began to fight and were separated by the police,” a detective wrote. “The victim then noticed she was shot.”

Detectives said Morales told them that she “she did not remember the incident but claims she was fighting for her life” and “admitted to having three alcoholic beverages.”

Authorities arrested Morales on three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and one count of using a firearm ― all felonies ― plus misdemeanor charges of improper exhibition of a firearm and using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol.

As of Monday, she remained behind bars at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center after a Miami-Dade judge ordered her held without bond.

Andre Bernard, 35, was hospitalized after the crash on Tuesday.

“They came straight into me, so I just braced myself for impact, held my seatbelt ― boom ― that was it,” he said. “I woke up on the ground.”

Bernard says he is very sore, walks with a limp and is covered with road rashes, deep cuts and needed stitches on his right arm.

He told Local 10’s Sanela Sabovic he was trying to make a U-turn when another driver hit him.

The crash happened in the area of Southwest 16th Street and Fourth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.

The impact ejected Bernard from his postal truck.

He remembers waking up on the ground and neighbors rushing in to help him out.

Cell phone video shows Bernard on the street with people tending to him, pieces of mail and glass shards scattered all over the roadway.

He was rushed to Broward Health Medical Center for treatment.

Bernard said he’s never had anything like this happen before.

The father of three small children is thankful to be alive and to be spending this time recovering with them.

“It means a lot because I feel like I have a second chance at life,” he said. “Home with kids, stay strong and keep going.”

Bernard will be out of work for 45 days or so.

He said he is so thankful to all of the residents in the neighborhood who rushed in to help him out.

For those who wish to assist Bernard during his recovery, visit Bernard’s GoFundMe page.

Martinook — who was stopped on a penalty shot in the first OT — kept the winning play alive by chasing down a loose rebound toward the boards to keep the possession in the offensive zone. Moments later, Nikolaj Ehlers found Martinook between the circles to beat Ullmark, who was partially shielded by Carolina captain Jordan Staal at the top of the crease.

That set off a mob celebration by the Hurricanes around Martinook in a corner of the ice, ending a game that saw them hang on despite blowing a 2-0 lead and having an apparent winner by Mark Jankowski waved off in the first overtime due to an offside call on review.

Making matters worse, the Hurricanes still had a chance to win it after the overturned goal, only for Ullmark to stop Martinook on the NHL's first OT postseason playoff shot since 2020.

No matter, the Eastern Conference's top seed managed to protect home-ice advantage — barely — as the series moves to Canada’s capital for Game 3 on Thursday.

Logan Stankoven and Sebastian Aho also scored for Carolina, while Frederik Andersen shook off giving up two second-period goals to finish with 37 saves and multiple key stops late.

Drake Batherson and Dylan Cozens scored for Ottawa, while Ullmark finished with 43 saves and was terrific all night. He had multiple big stops in the second period, one when he extended his glove to knock down a hammered one-timer from Taylor Hall as the puck shifted cross-ice to his left side. Another came in the final seconds of regulation when he got his left shoulder on Staal's shot from the top of the crease.

The Hurricanes appeared to have pushed through late in the first OT, with Jankowski skating in to pounce on a loose rebound and beat Ullmark on the left side with 2:42 left to send the home crowd into a frenzy. But officials reviewed the sequence and determined that Staal didn’t have possession and control of the puck as he entered the zone, coming as Martinook skated through the middle across the blue line for a 1-on-1 chance on Ullmark.

That sequence ultimately led to a hooking penalty on Warren Foegele, with Carolina scrambling an extra attacker and getting Jankowski’s offside-overturned score.

The Senators played without defenseman Artem Zub, who left Game 1 with an undisclosed injury. He had been considered a game-time decision.

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The 19-year-old Martone became the sixth-youngest player in NHL history to score in each of his first two playoff games when he beat Stuart Skinner deep into the second period to put Philadelphia in front. Garnet Hathaway added a short-handed goal a few minutes later, and Luke Glendening chipped in an empty-netter late in the third.

Vladar made it stand up as the red-hot Flyers, who needed a scorching finishing stretch just to reach the playoffs, frustrated the suddenly offensively challenged Penguins all night.

“He’s been like that all year for us,” Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said of Vladar. “Guys enjoy playing for him.”

Game 3 is Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

Pittsburgh, the NHL's third-highest scoring team during a resurgent regular season, again struggled to get pucks on net against Vladar. The Penguins, who had just 17 shots in a Game 1 loss on Saturday night, vowed to come out with more jump.

While Pittsburgh controlled long swaths of the game after another slow start, including sustained pressure in the third, it could not find a way to slip the puck past Vladar.

“(We) should be frustrated, we just lost two games at home,” Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse said. "But with frustration it’s how are you going to respond. ... Nobody is happy. Nobody should be.”

The 28-year-old Vladar, who had never won a playoff game in his six-year career before this series, held firm as the Flyers headed home with momentum.

Pittsburgh shuffled its top two lines midway through the game looking for a jolt. While it created more opportunities, it did not result in more goals. The Penguins went 0 for 5 on the power play to fall to 0 for 7 with the man advantage during the series.

Stuart Skinner made 20 saves for the Penguins, including a couple of breakaways that could have broken things open, but it wasn't against the young Flyers, who seem to be gaining confidence with each passing game.

Martone, who was playing collegiately at Michigan State last month, scored his fifth goal in 10 games as a pro when a rebound off a Travis Konecny shot came right to his stick. Martone powered it into the open net to put Philadelphia in front with 6:21 to go in the second.

“I made this jump because I believed I could help this hockey team,” Martone said. "I hopped on a moving train and it’s been good ever since.”

The Flyers were on the penalty kill just over four minutes later when they doubled their lead. Owen Tippett fought off a pair of Penguins to keep the puck in the Pittsburgh zone and then fed Hathaway, who deposited it into the open net on a night the only place Philadelphia dominated was the scoreboard.

“Sometimes in the playoffs you have to win those ugly games,” Tocchet said. "It was an ugly game for us. ... Sometimes you’ve got to win games like that.”

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Evan Mobley had 25 points and eight rebounds for the Cavaliers, who had at least three players score at least 25 points in a postseason game for the second straight season and fourth time overall.

“They threw the kitchen sink at us, gave us a lot of different looks and (we) kept our poise,” Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson said. “Donovan and James closed it for us, but I thought our defense kind of forced them to go small. This is what the playoffs are about. They came at us hard and we responded.”

Cleveland — which never trailed — has won 12 straight playoff games against Toronto, tying the NBA postseason record for consecutive wins against an opponent. The streak began in the 2016 Eastern Conference finals, when the Cavaliers took the final two games. Cleveland swept Toronto in four games in the second round in 2017 and '18.

The Cavaliers also have 12-game winning streaks against Detroit and Atlanta, while the Los Angeles Lakers had a 12-game run against Seattle from 1980 through '89.

Scottie Barnes led Toronto with a playoff career-high 26 points. RJ Barrett had 22 points and nine rebounds.

The Raptors had 16 fast-break points after being held to a season-low three on Saturday. But Toronto committed a season-high 22 turnovers that led to 22 Cavaliers points.

“The only time the game got away was when we made a lot of turnovers. We played super hard, we adjusted to how the game was going, and did certain things that helped us,” Barnes said.

The series shifts to Toronto for Game 3 on Thursday night.

Harden had four assists to move into seventh place on the playoff career list with 1,139. He also had five steals, the fourth time he’s had at least that many in a playoff game.

A driving layup by Barnes got Toronto within 99-90 midway through the fourth quarter. Mitchell responded with seven straight points to put it away.

The Cavaliers had a 73-57 advantage midway through the third quarter before the Raptors countered with a 16-6 run.

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After years away from the professional circuit, Patton James, who was played with raw intensity by Daniel MacPherson, is a man living a quiet life as a commercial fisherman.

But when his brother lands in trouble, James is forced back into the ring.

The film three years in the making and was almost a no-go.

MacPherson isn’t alone in this fight. He’s joined by Oscar-winner Russell Crowe, who also co-wrote the script.

Crowe plays Sammy, a trainer who stops at nothing to see James emerge victorious.

Shot on location in Sydney and during live events in Bangkok, “Beast” promises a level of authenticity rarely seen in sports.

From the brutal choreography to the emotional stakes, it’s a comeback story that hits hard.

Local 10 News’ Jason Carter chopped it up with the film’s leading man, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

Ralph de la Rosa, de Imperial Freight Brokers, con sede en un almacén en Doral, tiene clientes que importan aluminio, ventanas, puertas y productos alimentarios, entre otros. Explicó que sus clientes están ansiosos por recibir el reembolso de aranceles.

“Tengo algunos clientes que van a recuperar decenas de millones de dólares, y otros que quizás tenían menos, pero varios van a recuperar una buena cantidad de dinero”, dijo.

Esos clientes están presentando solicitudes a través de un portal en línea que el Servicio de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de EE.UU. lanzó este lunes. Esto ocurre un año después de que el presidente Donald Trump anunciara aranceles generalizados —en un día que llamó “Día de la Liberación”— que la Corte Suprema de EE.UU. anuló en gran parte como inconstitucionales en febrero.

“Hoy, creo que mis clientes pensarían que es su ‘Día de la Liberación’, porque pudimos comenzar a presentar, esta mañana, el proceso por el cual pueden reclamar los cientos de millones pagados por los importadores estadounidenses”, dijo de la Rosa. “Hoy he recibido correos electrónicos muy felices de mis clientes.”

En cuanto a si esos dólares se traducirán en ahorros para el consumidor, la situación es más complicada. De la Rosa explicó que muchos importadores absorbieron el costo de los aranceles, lo que hace difícil determinar cuánto podrían trasladar al consumidor final.

Un desafiante Trump dijo que seguirá adelante por otros medios, incluyendo la imposición de un arancel global del 10% mediante orden ejecutiva. Los funcionarios del gobierno han dicho que los reembolsos se esperan en un plazo de 60 a 90 días, aunque de la Rosa advirtió que posibles impugnaciones legales podrían complicar el proceso.

Lenny Feldman, socio gerente del bufete de abogados especializado en comercio y aranceles Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg, coincidió en que la situación podría cambiar. “Por ahora es un gran comienzo, un buen día, pero podría haber una apelación a este caso judicial que podría poner fin a estos reembolsos de aranceles”, dijo, añadiendo que los empresarios deben prepararse para más turbulencias arancelarias en el futuro.

Richard Trent, director ejecutivo de Main Street Alliance, una red nacional de defensa para pequeños empresarios, señaló que los aranceles han encarecido los costos y perturbado las cadenas de suministro para los negocios pequeños, que tienen menos capacidad para absorber nuevos impuestos. “Pueden imaginar la urgencia que sienten los pequeños empresarios que tuvieron que pagar esencialmente impuestos ilegales por recuperar su dinero”, dijo.

Arman Motiwalla, de 37 años y residente de Plantation, era un exitoso ejecutivo de seguros y padre de familia que trabajaba en Synergy Insurance Affiliates LLC, ubicada en 350 Camino Gardens Blvd. en Boca Raton.

El 8 de abril, mientras salía del trabajo en horas de la madrugada, Motiwalla recibió múltiples disparos y fue asesinado en el estacionamiento del negocio.

En el momento de su muerte, Motiwalla estaba involucrado en una amarga batalla legal con su antiguo empleador, la empresa Innovative Partners, con sede en Coral Springs.

“Fue despedido por objetar o negarse a participar en una práctica o política que violaba una ley, regla o reglamento”, dijo su abogado, G. Ware Cornell Jr.

Los registros muestran que Motiwalla presentó el caso de denuncia de irregularidades el verano pasado, e Innovative Partners LLC incluso contrademandó negando categóricamente las acusaciones de manejo indebido de fondos.

Cornell dijo que el asesinato del ejecutivo de seguros ocurrió apenas nueve días antes de que nueva evidencia estuviera programada para ser presentada en el tribunal relacionada con la demanda.

Esto solo ha añadido al misterio del asesinato, con algunas personas incluso especulando que Motiwalla estaba trabajando con las autoridades federales para ayudar a desmantelar a su antigua empresa.

“Nunca me dijo que fuera ningún tipo de testigo o participante en nada que involucrara algún tipo de agencia policial”, dijo Cornell.

Mientras el caso sigue bajo investigación, la policía ha calificado el tiroteo en el estacionamiento como un incidente aislado, y Cornell no señala a nadie como responsable.

A raíz del asesinato, un juez desestimó la demanda original por denuncia de irregularidades.

No se conoce ninguna conexión entre la demanda y el asesinato de Motiwalla. La policía dijo que aún investiga el caso y que no se han realizado arrestos.

El Comité de Ética de la Cámara está programado para reunirse el martes con el fin de recomendar un castigo, luego de dictaminar que la demócrata del sur de Florida cometió más de dos docenas de violaciones éticas.

La investigación de dos años del panel bipartidista encontró lo que describe como evidencia clara y convincente de que Cherfilus-McCormick, de 47 años, robó $5 millones en fondos de alivio de COVID-19 de FEMA y canalizó ese dinero hacia su campaña.

La demócrata ha negado categóricamente los cargos y le dijo a Glenna Milberg de Local 10 en “This Week in South Florida” que el intento de expulsarla es parte de un ataque político.

“Les dije a todos desde el principio que todo esto estaba políticamente motivado para generar titulares escandalosos”, dijo Cherfilus-McCormick.

Pero las exigencias hacia Cherfilus-McCormick desde el Congreso no han hecho más que crecer. El representante federal Greg Steube, republicano de Florida, encabeza el impulso por la votación de expulsión y escribió en redes sociales: “Expulsar a alguien que le robó $5 MILLONES a los contribuyentes debería ser el voto más fácil en el Congreso.”

Forzar la salida de Cherfilus-McCormick del cargo requeriría que una ola de demócratas cruce las líneas partidistas. Hasta ahora, el líder de la minoría en la Cámara, Hakeem Jeffries, se ha negado a pronunciarse.

“Tendremos una conversación como caucus después de la recomendación, que anticipamos será bipartidista del comité de ética”, dijo Jeffries.

La votación del comité de ética llega tras una serie de salidas poco ceremoniales del Congreso. El representante republicano Tony Gonzales y el representante demócrata Eric Swalwell renunciaron la semana anterior después de enfrentar crecientes acusaciones de conducta sexual inapropiada.

Los casos están aumentando la presión sobre los legisladores para que rindan cuentas a sus colegas, incluso los de su propio partido.

“Ya basta de esta basura”, dijo el senador federal Ben Ray Luján, demócrata de Nuevo México. “Ya basta de proteger a la gente, ya basta de tanto maquillaje. La gente está aquí con la confianza del pueblo americano y actúan así.”

Estas renuncias han mantenido al Comité de Ética extraordinariamente ocupado en las últimas semanas. Este lunes, el panel publicó un comunicado diciendo que debe haber cero tolerancia para la conducta sexual inapropiada de cualquier tipo en los pasillos del Congreso, y pidió a quienes hayan experimentado conducta inapropiada en el Capitolio que se comuniquen con ellos.

Ya existe desde hace meses una moción para expulsar a Cherfilus-McCormick en la Cámara.

El legislador que la presentó dijo que esperaría a que el Comité de Ética concluyera su proceso para llevarla a votación.

Eso podría ocurrir muy pronto, ya que según se informó, los miembros recibieron instrucciones de estar listos para votar sobre la expulsión de la congresista el miércoles por la tarde.

The vote, during a routine meeting of Luxon’s center-right National Party lawmakers, was held privately. Luxon emerged afterward, however, to tell reporters he had called for a confidence vote, in which he was successful.

“The last week, there has been intense media speculation about my leadership,” Luxon said, adding that he had called for a confidence vote “to put that media speculation to rest.”

He did not give a breakdown of the vote or say that it had been unanimous.

National has governed New Zealand in a right-wing coalition government since the 2023 election. Luxon, a former airline executive who entered Parliament in 2000, has led the party since 2021.

The vote among his lawmakers happened months before New Zealand’s next national election, scheduled for Nov. 7. Recent drops in the polls for National had prompted speculation from analysts that he would face a leadership challenge.

After an unusually long meeting of his caucus at Parliament in Wellington, which lasted two and a half hours, instead of the usual hour, Luxon read from a brief statement about the vote. He departed without taking questions from reporters.

While two recent New Zealand prime ministers — National's John Key and Labour's Jacinda Ardern — have voluntarily quit the post, it would have been extremely unusual for lawmakers to oust a sitting prime minister.

Luxon blamed reports of unrest within his part's ranks on news outlets, but one political poll released days ago appeared to have made a discussion of leadership unavoidable. The 1News-Verian poll suggested slumping support for Luxon and for National in a hypothetical election.

The levels of support in the most recent poll implied the right-wing bloc led by his party could come in behind the left-wing bloc led by Labour if an election were held immediately, though the vote won’t occur for more than another six months.

“If the media want to keep focusing on speculation and rumor, I am not going to engage,” Luxon said Tuesday.

“I felt like I was back in the Northwest League,” manager John Schneider said before Monday night’s series opener against the Los Angeles Angels. “But we made the best of it, we all got here safe, and we’re ready to go.”

Schneider said he was informed by Blue Jays traveling secretary Rodney Hiemstra of the mechanical problem at about 4 p.m. on Sunday, as the Blue Jays were finishing a 10-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

“There was an issue with the joystick, which is pretty important — apparently, it’s used for takeoffs and landings,” Schneider said. “So the options were to get a new plane, which would have had to fly down from Vancouver and wouldn’t have landed until 10 p.m., or drive. We took a team vote, and the team voted to bus.”

While pitcher Dylan Cease, who was Monday night's scheduled starter, flew commercial from Phoenix to Orange County, the team had to unload all the luggage and food from the charter plane and drive it all back to Chase Field. There, it was loaded onto three buses — two for players and one for the rest of the traveling party of about 40, which included the coaching staff.

“The math was a little off,” Schneider said. “It worked out way better for the players, but there was a whole lot of doubling up for us. I had my own two seats, and I still had cases of water around me, and you feel bad reclining on people.”

Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer was on the losing side of the vote — he preferred the team fly to Orange County — but the veteran right-hander was still able to find some humor in the situation.

“I got reprimanded by Max for electing to travel that way,” Schneider said as he showed reporters a letter Scherzer printed out for the manager. “So we’re going to go to a trial in kangaroo court.

“I was like, ‘Max, why don’t you just buy a plane? You've got plenty of cash.’ Most of the guys who were playing (Monday night) wanted to get out of there.”

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That patient’s grieving widow spoke to Local 10’s Jeff Derderian, saying she hopes that doctor never treats another patient again.

Beverly and Bill Bryan, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, had been married for 33 years.

But the two kept a rental place in Miramar Beach ― in Florida’s Panhandle.

One day, a trip to the hospital revealed that Bill Bryan, 70, needed surgery.

Beverly Bryan said Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky performed that surgery, but something went terribly wrong.

A deadly mistake, she said.

Prosecutors say Shaknovsky, 44, removed her husband’s liver instead of his spleen by accident, which led to complications.

“His spleen was completely intact,” said Beverly Bryan. “He had a small cyst that ruptured.”

She said afterward, Shaknovsky held her hand, prayed with her and then lied about what happened.

“He offered his condolences, said Bill was in a better place and the Lord would take care of him,” she said.

Beverly Bryan said her husband wanted to go back to Alabama for the surgery, but she said the doctor insisted, pressing and urging them to do it now.

She recalled her last words to her husband.

“I told him that I loved him and he said he loved me,” she said.

Records show Shaknovsky’s Florida medical license is not currently active.

According to a lawsuit, Shaknovsky said that in the chaos and shock of that operating room, he could not identify the organ.

He now faces a second-degree manslaughter charge.

“No surgeon that we’ve talked to can make sense of what he did,” said Bryan’s attorney Joe Zarzaur. “It doesn’t make sense, because no one in the trained field can make sense of it all.”

Beverly Bryan said her husband was literally hours away from being cremated when the medical-mistake was brought to her attention, otherwise she may have never had known.

When asked if the doctor has ever apologized, Bryan didn’t hesitate.

“Not once,” she said. “Not a word.”

Michael Bailey had departed from Tampa North Aero Park in the Cessna 401B, and he crashed in a Wesley Chapel neighborhood, according to the FAA.

He was 59, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.

“I think that the pilot is a hero,” Galbiati told reporters on Monday. “He knew that it was going down, and he found a perfect spot to land.”

The Cessna 401B crashed near Aldus Drive in the Grand Oaks area and caught on fire.

“He went straight in between houses, which I imagine is a pretty hard thing to do,” Galbiati said. “He landed right in between those two unfenced yards. It takes seconds to make that decision.”

There was property damage, but no one was injured. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating.

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“Braylon, he’s not here,” she recalled one of her students saying Monday.

Braylon Snow, who just turned 5, was one of seven siblings who were fatally shot Sunday by their father in an attack that also killed their cousin. The shooting rattled classrooms in Shreveport where teachers like Hall on Monday came face-to-face with distraught parents and a messy stew of emotions.

In Hall's classroom at Johnnie L. Cochran Head Start, it's likely students noticed Braylon's absence immediately. Each day, Hall instructs her students to look around for friends who aren't there.

“When they come back tomorrow, we can tell them, ‘Hey, we missed you, we’re glad you’re back'” she tells them.

But Hall wasn't ready to tell the students that the boy she described as a “cool little dude” wasn't returning. She kept circle-time moving. Numb and heartbroken, she lasted until noon and then went home.

“I’m no good to my babies right now because I just feel like I need to be in a moment of silence and just pray,” she said.

Preschool comes to an end

At Head Start, preparation's for next month's graduation ceremony have been in full swing. Hall, an organist and pianist at her local Baptist church, wrote a song for the ceremony.

Students, who dress in caps and gowns for the festivities, have been busy learning the words, excited about the prospect of starting kindergarten in the fall. Hall was working hard to make sure they were ready.

Just last Thursday, she pulled Braylon's mother aside during morning drop-off, boasting that Braylon was writing his first and last name. Braylon also was getting so independent, squirting syrup for his pancakes onto his plate by himself. He didn't even need a reminder to wash his hands.

“Braylon doesn’t give me any problems,” she told his mother.

Braylon greeted Hall — known to her students as “Mrs. Hall” — each day with a small wave.

As the year progressed, she nudged more gap-toothed smiles from him. He loved his time on the playground — playing chase, tag and even partaking in "a little wrassling.” She laughed as she remembered it.

“He was for the majority of the time kind of a quiet little soul in the classroom," she said. "When he did get a little extra energy or something, it was just a joy to see him smile and laugh."

News of the shooting emerges

But then came Sunday. After church, she went to her mother's house. It was then that she stumbled across an article about the shooting.

The number of victims was so high she struggled to comprehend it. Then she learned Braylon was among the victims. She also knew one of his brothers. He had been a Head Start student at the school last year.

“I just broke down and just started crying,” she said.

The same thing happened Monday morning at drop off when she locked eyes with a parent. Neither could say anything; the preschoolers were all around them.

“I just immediately broke down,” she said. So too did the parent and a teacher's aide.

She is relying on her faith now. She prays for the dead, for the families and also for the teachers.

“And I’m just praying for all the educators that were connected to these children because it’s tough because my parents’ babies, they become my babies. And I treat them like they’re my own. So I’m just really praying that he sustains us all during this time.

“Just give us that strength."

The procedure will be performed Wednesday at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles, and Díaz is not expected back until the second half of the season.

The Dodgers placed the 32-year-old right-hander on the 15-day injured list and recalled left-hander Jake Elder from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Elder, was acquired from the Washington Nationals on April 1 for cash, has allowed two runs in 5 1/3 innings this season with Oklahoma City.

Díaz is 1-0 with a 10.50 ERA, 10 strikeouts and four saves in five opportunities over seven appearances. He gave up three runs without recording an out in Sunday's 9-6 loss at Colorado. He has allowed three earned runs in each of his past two appearances.

“It gives other guys opportunities, but losing your closer is a big loss,” manager Dave Roberts said after the Dodgers beat the Rockies 12-3 on Monday night. “Other guys are going to have to step up. Fortunately for us, we’ve got a lot of depth and we’ve got some other guys who should be coming here in the next few weeks.”

The Dodgers signed the three-time All-Star to a three-year, $69 million deal last December after he opted out of the final two years and $38 million of his contract with the New York Mets.

The two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers split their four-game series at Colorado. Their seven-game trip continues with a series at San Francisco that starts Tuesday.

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The charges were filed Monday, but the allegations in the disturbing case stretch back to 2023 — just a year after the singer's first single made it onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The 21-year-old's defense attorney pleaded not guilty on his behalf during an arraignment Monday afternoon.

Here's a look at the timeline of the investigation, the allegations and the career of D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke.

2022: Burke's music goes viral

Burke, a content creator who began making his own music to accompany the video game montages he would post online, goes viral on TikTok for his song “Romantic Homicide.” The song ultimately peaks at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, and Burke signs with Darkroom and Interscope Records.

Sept. 7, 2023: Prosecutors say the abuse begins

Burke allegedly begins the continuous sexual abuse of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had just turned 13, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. The girl has been described by authorities as a runaway, and court documents say she lived with Burke in Los Angeles.

April 5, 2024: Rivas Hernandez is reported missing

Rivas Hernandez's family reports the seventh grader missing from her home in Lake Elsinore, a town about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, for the last time. They had reported her missing several times before.

April 11, 2025: Burke makes his Coachella debut

Burke performs at the music festival Coachella and goes viral again — this time for face-planting hard on the stage during a failed backflip attempt. In an interview with The Associated Press during the festival, Burke talked about using social media feedback from fans to refine his set lists. “I am my fans and my fans are me. And we work in tandem with each other and it's such a beautiful poetic kind of thing that we have,” he said.

April 23, 2025: Rivas Hernandez is last known to be alive

The charging documents filed by prosecutors in the case against Burke have few details, but they do allege he killed Rivas Hernandez “on or about” April 23, the day they say she was last heard from. Prosecutors say Burke killed Rivas Hernandez because she posed a threat to his career.

April 25, 2025: Burke releases debut album, ‘Withered'

Burke releases his first album, “Withered.” In social media posts and media interviews, he describes using a recurring motif in his music and videos — an alter ego character he calls “IT4MI,” after “itami,” a Japanese word for pain. “He's basically like the evil version of me," Burke said in a YouTube interview with the “Tape Notes” podcast published May 2025. Burke's videos sometimes depict the character blindfolded, in a shirt that appears covered in blood.

May 5, 2025: Authorities say Rivas Hernandez's remains are mutilated

One of the felony charges against Burke is “unlawful mutilation of human remains." Prosecutors say Rivas Hernandez's arms and legs were severed from her body on or around May 5.

Aug. 5, 2025: Burke launches tour

Burke's tour for the album “Withered,” begins with a show in Del Mar, California. He also released an official Fortnite anthem, “Locked & Loaded,” on Sept. 3. The collaboration with video game creator Epic Games echoed his start in the music world, when he would create and post Fortnite montages online.

Sept. 8, 2025: Celeste Rivas Hernandez's body is discovered

One day after she would have turned 15, Rivas Hernandez's badly decomposed remains are discovered in body bags inside the trunk of a Tesla registered to Burke, prosecutors say. The 2023 Tesla Model Y had been towed from an upscale neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills where it had been sitting, seemingly abandoned. Police searching the vehicle found a cadaver bag covered in bugs with Rivas Hernandez's head and torso inside. A second bag containing her arms and legs was found underneath the first, according to court documents.

Sept. 19, 2025: Burke’s remaining tour dates are canceled

The remaining dates of Burke's tour, which had been scheduled to wrap up Nov. 4 in Warsaw, Poland, are canceled. The Associated Press confirmed that D4vd was also dropped by his label, Interscope Records, at some point in 2025.

Oct. 6, 2025: A funeral service is held for Rivas Hernandez

Multiple news outlets reported that Rivas Hernandez's family held a funeral service for her on at the Queen of Heaven Cemetery and Mortuary in Rowland Heights, California.

Nov. 24, 2025: Police block release of coroner's report

In an unusual move, police block the release of the coroner's report on Rivas Hernandez's death. The medical examiner's office said in a statement that it had received a “court order, initiated by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), to place a security hold” on the case. The order said no records or details, including the cause and manner of death, could be released until further notice.

February 2026: Burke revealed as the target of a secret grand jury probe

The grand jury investigation into the case was kept under seal, as is standard in grand jury proceedings. But some documents were made public by an appeal of subpoenas by Burke's mother, father and brother that was filed in Texas. The court filings said the Tesla was registered in Burke's name at the address of his subpoenaed family members, and that the “target may be involved in having committed the following criminal offenses against the laws of the State of California, to wit: One count of murder.”

April 16, 2026: Burke is arrested

Burke is arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with Rivas Hernandez's death and is held without bail. The Los Angeles Police Department announces the arrest on social media pages, posting photos of several officers wearing tactical gear and holding weapons approaching a home.

April 20, 2025: Burke is charged with murder

Burke is formally charged with murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body. The charging documents also allege several factors connected to the crimes that could lead to a harsher sentence if Burke is convicted. Those circumstances include allegations that Burke was “lying in wait” for Rivas Hernandez, who entered his home and was never seen again; that she was a witness to an investigation into the lewd and lascivious acts committed against her; and that Burke allegedly killed her for financial gain.

“When she threatened to expose his criminal conduct and devastate his musical career, Burke allegedly murdered her,” the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office wrote in a statement.

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Boone reported from Boise. AP Music Writer Maria Sherman and journalist Liam McEwan contributed.

Miami-Dade Schools Police School Resource Officer Anthony Davila said he treats the kids there as if they were his own.

It was on March 11 when he put his life-saving skills to the test, saving 13-year-old Alex Sanabria from choking.

Now the two have an inextricable bond.

“Oh, I thought it’s over,” said Sanabria. “I was gonna turn blue and fall on the ground. It’s over.”

Sanabria was having lunch at school when he began choking on potato chips, and immediately ran toward the one person he knew could help save his life.

“I knew this child’s life was in my hands,” said Davila. “I performed back blows, and when that wasn’t working, I switched to the Heimlich.”

“I knew in that moment I was gonna be OK,” said Sanabria. “When he was doing the Heimlich.”

“And luckily he threw the object up and regained breathing,” added Davila. “Right there, I realized that I saved his life. It didn’t kick in until that moment. It could have gone so many ways.”

And that realization left Sanabria with no choice but to throw his arms around the man who saved him.

“Because he saved my life and I was very grateful,” he said. “Because if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be here today.”

“It melted my heart,” said Davila. “Especially the hug at the end. It touched right here.”

Now the two are bonding further over their shared love of law enforcement.

Sanabria says he wants to be an officer someday.

“I just don’t like seeing people do bad things to other people so I wanna send the bad guys to jail,” he said.

Davila was recognized on Wednesday for his life saving actions, a moment he says he’ll remember forever.

“This impacted me a whole lot, knowing I saved Alex’s life,” he said. “I see these students as my kids. And I wanna make sure they get home to their parents and families every day safely.”

Sanabria said he already knows the Heimlich maneuver and wants to learn CPR next.

Reza Dindar, 44, was indicted in 2014 on charges that include conspiracy, smuggling and money laundering. He was arrested last July in Panama at the request of U.S. authorities and flown to Seattle last Thursday, the DOJ said. It's unclear where Dindar had been in the intervening years or why he had not been arrested sooner.

Dindar made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in the afternoon, and his arraignment was set for May 1. One of his attorneys, Farhad Alavi, told The Associated Press on Monday that he had no comment.

According to the indictment, which was unsealed Friday, Dindar ran a business called New Port Sourcing Solutions in Xi’an, China. In 2011 and 2012, he and others “used deception to purchase parts for three military sonar systems from a business in the Western District of Washington” by concealing that the items were ultimately destined for Iran and by claiming that no license was needed to export them, prosecutors said.

The company bought the sonar systems for $97,600, had them shipped to China and then surreptitiously sent them to Iran, according to the indictment. The conduct violated sanctions on Iran first imposed in 1995 and renewed in 2001, it said.

The U.S. and Israel launched a war on Iran Feb. 28 during talks over Tehran’s nuclear program. Since then at least 3,000 people have been killed in Iran, more than 2,290 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Fifteen Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and 13 U.S. service members throughout the region have been killed.

In an unrelated case, federal prosecutors said a 44-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested Saturday night at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of helping Iran traffic weapons to Sudan, which is in its fourth year of a bloody civil war.

Two months ago, Pembroke Pines police officers rescued a trio of puppies.

“The conditions were deplorable,” Capt. Adam Feiner said. “These animals were at or near death.”

Angela Goodwin, the president of Pooches in Pines, said the case was the worst she had ever seen.

“Just to the conditions of the dogs, just severely, severely malnourished, covered in feces and urine, just sitting in it, weak, unable to even move around, they were just so weak,” Goodwin said.

Jaylen Holmes, the animal abuse suspect, faced 12 misdemeanor charges when prosecutors decided to add two felonies after the puppies were assessed.

The nonprofit trusted Paula and Ramin Kordi with Lana as foster parents -- at first.

“We just fell in love with her, like the moment that I saw her, she was like a little thing this big, skin and bones,” Paul Kordi said. “She curled up to me and I was like, ‘OK this is it!’”

The couple renamed her Lulu, and she gets along wonderfully with her new 10-year-old sister Stella.

“It just broke my heart, it was absolutely horrible,” Paula Kordi said. “I couldn’t believe someone could do that to these beautiful animals.”

When Lana arrived, she weighed four pounds. Last checked, Lulu, a ball of puppy energy, weighed a very healthy 15 pounds.

“She walked in here, and she was like, ‘This is my house now! I live here! You’re not letting me go, lady,’” Paula Kordi said. “This is it!”

In Tamarac, Ashley Conon and Catina Moretti, also started as temporary foster parents and decided to adopt Lulu’s sibling, Sasha.

Conon and Moretti renamed her Luca. At 20 pounds, the puppy, an “only child,” loves to trade treats for tricks and has plenty of space to play.

“She looks so much bigger, so much healthier, her coat is much shinier, and she just has a lot more confidence,” Conon said.

In Fort Lauderdale, Alexa Goldman adopted Peaches and renamed her Ginger.

“It was her face, you know, it’s like she got me at ‘Hello,’” Goldman said.

The playful Frenchie has three new brothers: Riley, Tanner, and Tito. Goldman said they were “standoffish” at first, but they love her now.

“Once they have that love ... and they have their people, they are just like, ‘Yeah, I can do this ... I am ready,’” Goldman said about Ginger’s healing.

Holmes appeared in Broward County court on Monday as prosecutors move forward with the case.

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The complaint stems from a massive leak in a 72-inch (183-centimeter) pipeline, called the Potomac Interceptor. The pipe collapsed Jan. 19, shooting sewage out of the ground and into the river just north of Washington in Montgomery County, Maryland. The leak spilled 244 million gallons (924 million liters) of raw sewage into the Potomac River and shined a fresh light on the country's aging infrastructure.

The local water authority, DC Water, said it knew the pipe, first installed in the 1960s, was deteriorating, and rehabilitation work on a section about a quarter-mile (400 meters) from the break began in September and was recently completed.

The complaint alleges that DC Water failed to properly operate and maintain its sewer system in a manner that keeps untreated sewage out of the Potomac River and tributaries, and other areas with risk of human contact.

“After decades of use and years of neglect, including at least eight years of DC Water knowing about severe corrosion requiring immediate repair, a section of the Potomac Interceptor known by DC Water to be severely corroded catastrophically failed,” the filing said.

"DC Water's failure to maintain the Potomac Interceptor resulted in raw sewage flowing into the Potomac River and the surrounding environment, posing a direct risk to public health," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam Gustafson in a statement. “As cities grow and infrastructure ages, cities must invest in their wastewater system to prevent such catastrophes.”

The complaint was one of two filed against DC Water Monday. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown filed a separate action in Montgomery County Circuit Court seeking civil penalties and damages for costs from the contamination of the river.

“The utility must take full responsibility for the damage caused and take immediate and lasting action to prevent future spills," said Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary Serena McIlwain in a statement.

DC Water said in a statement that it was “fully committed to the long-term rehabilitation” of the Potomac Interceptor. The agency added that its highest priority was to contain the overflow and repair the damaged section of the pipe, which it did in fully stopping “all discharges to the Potomac River within 21 days. The repairs of the affected segment were completed in 55 days. DC Water is working now to accelerate the rehabilitation of more than 2,700 linear feet of pipeline in this area that was previously scheduled for improvement.”

The statement declared that both lawsuits were “under review.”

The leak sparked political recriminations from President Donald Trump — who blamed local Democratic leaders, focusing especially on Maryland's Democratic Gov. Wes Moore. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser declared an emergency in February and asked Trump for help. He issued an emergency declaration days later that provided a rush of federal assistance.

The pipe was returned to operation last month after emergency repairs were completed.

The leak is largely under control, but it could take months to fully repair the pipe. DC Water, along with the EPA, has been working to repair the leak and monitor the impact on the river.

The House Ethics Committee is set to meet Tuesday to recommend a punishment after ruling the South Florida Democrat committed more than two dozen ethics violations.

The two-year investigation from the bipartisan panel found what it calls clear and convincing evidence that Cherfilus-McCormick, 47, stole $5 million in FEMA COVID-19 relief funds and funneled that money toward her campaign.

The Democrat has fiercely denied the charges, telling Local 10’s Glenna Milberg on “This Week in South Florida” that the push to expel her is part of a political attack.

“I told everybody from the beginning that this was all politically motivated to have salacious headlines,” Cherfilus-McCormick said.

But demands to Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress have only grown louder. U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Florida is leading the charge on the expulsion vote, writing on social media: “Expelling someone who stole $5 MILLION from taxpayers should be the easiest vote in Congress.”

Forcing Cherfilus-McCormick out of office would require a wave of Democrats to cross party lines. So far, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has refused to weigh in.

“We’ll have a conversation as a caucus in the aftermath of the recommendation which we anticipate will be bipartisan from the ethics committee,” Jeffries said.

The ethics vote comes after a flurry of unceremonious exits from Congress. Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell both resigned the week prior after facing mounting sexual misconduct allegations.

The cases are turning up the pressure on lawmakers to hold fellow members accountable, even those in their own party.

“Enough of this garbage,” said U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico. “Enough of guarding people, enough of all the sugarcoating here, man. Like, people are here with the trust of the American people and they want to act like this.”

These resignations have kept the Ethics Committee extraordinarily busy in recent weeks. Just Monday, the panel released a statement saying there should be zero tolerance for sexual misconduct of any kind in the halls of Congress and they are asking anyone who has experienced misconduct on Capitol Hill to speak with them.

There has already been a motion to expel Cherfilus-McCormick in the House for months.

The lawmaker who introduced it said he would wait until the Ethics Committee wraps up its process to bring it forward for a vote.

That could happen very quickly, with members reportedly being told to be ready to vote on expelling the congresswoman Wednesday afternoon.

Ralph de la Rosa of Imperial Freight Brokers, based out of a Doral warehouse, has clients who include a range of importers who bring in things like aluminum, windows and doors and even work in the food industry.

Speaking to Local 10’s Christina Vazquez, he explained how his clients are eager to get a tariff refund.

“We have expanded this quite a bit because people are putting cargo here because of tariffs,” he said. “I have some clients that are getting tens of millions of dollars back and I have others than maybe had less but several are getting a good bit of money back.”

Those clients are filing claims through an online portal U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched on Monday.

This comes one year after President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs ― on a day he dubbed “Liberation Day” ― that, in February, the U.S. Supreme Court largely struck down as unconstitutional.

“Today, I think my clients would think it is their ‘Liberation Day’ because we were able to start filing, this morning, the process by which they can reclaim the hundreds of millions that was paid by the U.S. importer because, at the end of the day, the ones who pay this are the companies that are importing these goods,” said de la Rosa. “So today, I have gotten very happy emails from my clients.”

As for how those dollars could translate to the consumer, things get a bit trickier.

“Many times, they ate the tariff, so it is difficult to gauge how much they can possibly pass back to the ultimate consumer,” said de la Rosa. “It is not the easiest thing to track.”

A defiant Trump said he will press forward by other means, including imposing by executive order a 10% global tariff.

“The problem is nobody can predict the future, and we do know that this administration has shown that it does want to impose tariffs to the importing community, and so you are almost waiting to see what is going to happen next,” said de la Rosa.

Government officials have said refunds are expected in 60-to-90 days.

“Sixty-to-ninety days ― if there is no further court challenge, which will remain to be seen,” said de la Rosa. “Another variable. It is almost like being on a roller coaster ride. You don’t know if it is going to be nice or quiet or take an unexpected turn.

“I think people are just hoping that they can get some predictability because that is what business wants, predictability. Even if it is a tariff, if they know what it is going to be and it is going to be for a set amount of time, then they can adjust. What they don’t want is unpredictability.”

That is, if it survives a potential legal challenge, explained Lenny Feldman, Managing Partner of the customs - trade and tariff law firm of Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg.

“For now, it is a great start, a good day, but there might still be an appeal to this court case which might put an end to these tariff refunds,” he said.

Plus, when you consider legal challenges facing the other means by which the president said he would press forward with tariffs, Feldman said business owners need to prepare for the situation to remain fluid.

“You have to probably prepare for another storm, there are going to be various tariff tempests coming through,” he said. “Now we are settling up, cleaning up the pieces of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Now we have another one called Section 122 and that is already in court. We may have to do through this process again if the courts find those are unlawful, and then the bridge is to the next set of tariffs, Section 301, and we have to see if those are going to be able to take root or not, so it is going to be much of the same and I think tariffs are going to be in play pretty much at the same figures.”

Local 10 News also spoke with Richard Trent, the executive director for Main Street Alliance, a national advocacy network for small business owners.

“The worst thing that you can do to a small business owner, is make their day to day unpredictable and unstable,” he said. “Larger businesses have the benefit of navigating uncertainty with massive teams and the economies of scale. It’s just like a little kerfuffle for them.”

Trent said tariffs have driven up costs and disrupted supply chains for small businesses who found it especially difficult to absorb the new tax given their already slim margins.

“You can imagine for small business owners that had to pay essentially taxes illegally, there’s an urgency around getting their money back,” he said. “Some claims are still being reviewed by customs and aren’t actually subject to refund at this time, so there’s still a lot of spottiness that Main Street entrepreneurs are trying to navigate.”

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With the 14-day ceasefire to expire Wednesday, Trump whipsawed in telephone interviews and social media posts between measured optimism that a deal could soon be reached and warning that “lots of bombs” will “start going off” if there’s no agreement before the ceasefire deadline.

Trump indicated that he still expects to dispatch his negotiating team, led by Vice President JD Vance, to Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad for a second round of talks, even as Iran insisted it would not take part until Trump dialed back his demands.

Iran’s chief negotiator and parliament speaker, Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf, accused the United States of wanting Iran to surrender and added that on the contrary, Iran has been preparing “to reveal new cards on the battlefield.”

“We do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats,” Qalibaf wrote in a post on X early Tuesday.

Trump insisted he feels no pressure to end the war until Iran agrees to his terms.

“I am under no pressure whatsoever,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform, “although, it will all happen, relatively quickly!”

Pakistani officials moved ahead with preparations for a new round of talks between the U.S. and Iran as the tenuous ceasefire was further strained over the weekend by renewed conflict around the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump told Bloomberg News he was “highly unlikely” to renew the ceasefire.

Iran holds out on resuming negotiations

Tensions flared after the U.S. Navy attacked and seized a ship on Sunday that it said was trying to evade its blockade of Iranian ports. On Saturday, Iran fired at vessels and abruptly stopped traffic in the strait, abandoning its promise to allow some ships to pass and claiming the U.S. was not holding up its side of the ceasefire.

The U.S. actions are “incompatible with the claim of diplomacy,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday in a social media post.

He gave no indication what Iran will do after the ceasefire expires or whether Iran will return to a second round of negotiations with the U.S.

Over the weekend, Iran said it had received new proposals from the U.S. but suggested that a wide gap remains between the sides. Issues that derailed the last round of negotiations included Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, its regional proxies and the strait.

Iran has throttled traffic through the strait, which connects the Persian Gulf to the open seas, since shortly after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28 to start the war. The U.S. has also instituted a blockade of Iranian ports. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil trade normally passes through the strait.

Trump swipes at war critics, seeks to calm investors

The U.S. president lashed out at war critics at home who are urging him to wrap up the conflict that began more than seven weeks ago.

“How bad is it that when you are in the middle of negotiations and you have got the Iranians in a perfect position, including being militarily defeated, and you have Democrats and some Republicans asking to settle it now?” Trump told the New York Post.

Even as Trump bristled at his detractors, he sought to soothe jittery investors as U.S. stocks slipped modestly Monday, following the chaotic weekend in the Persian Gulf.

The president found himself remonstrating his energy secretary, Chris Wright, who on Sunday said American motorists might not see gas prices fall back into the $3 per gallon range until late this year or next year.

“I disagree with him totally. I think it’ll come roaring down if it ends,” Trump told PBS. “If we end it, if Iran does what they should do, it will come roaring down.”

Israel-Lebanon talks to resume, official says

Meanwhile, historic diplomatic talks between Israel and Lebanon were set to resume Thursday in Washington, an Israeli, a Lebanese and a U.S. official said. All three spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the behind-the-scenes negotiations.

The Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors met last week for the first direct diplomatic talks in decades. Israel says the talks are aimed at disarming Hezbollah and reaching a peace agreement with Lebanon.

A 10-day ceasefire began Friday in Lebanon, where fighting between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants broke out two days after the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran. Fighting in Lebanon has killed more than 2,290 people.

In two separate encounters on Monday, the Israeli air force struck and killed Hezbollah militants that the military said approached its troops in a threatening way. Israel has carried out several airstrikes since the ceasefire went into effect.

Hezbollah said it detonated explosives Sunday in an Israeli convoy inside Lebanon.

Iran says more than 3,000 have been killed in the country so far

Since the war started, at least 3,375 people have been killed in Iran, according to a new toll released Monday in official Iranian media by Abbas Masjedi, the head of Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization.

He did not break down casualties among civilians and security forces, saying instead that 2,875 were male and 496 were female. Masjedi said 383 of the dead were children 18 years old and younger.

Additionally, 23 people have died in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Fifteen Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and 13 U.S. service members throughout the region have been killed.

Oil prices on the rise again after renewed conflict in Strait of Hormuz

Iran’s grip on the strait has sent oil prices skyrocketing and given rise to one of the worst global energy crises in decades.

Oil prices were up again Monday, with Brent crude, the international standard, at just over $95 a barrel — up from about $70 a barrel before the war started.

Iran said it had reopened the strait to ships Friday, but traffic halted after Trump refused to lift the U.S. blockade.

Sunday’s U.S. seizure of the Iranian cargo was the first such interception under the blockade. Iran’s joint military command called the armed boarding an act of piracy and a ceasefire violation.

Trump said the blockade will remain “in full force” until Tehran agrees to a deal. The U.S. military said on Monday that it has directed 27 ships to return to Iranian ports since the blockade began last week.

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Ahmed reported from Islamabad, and Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. Associated Press journalists Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; David Rising in Bangkok; Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv, Israel; Josef Federman in Jerusalem; Joshua Boak and Matthew Lee in Washington; and Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

But beyond the lights and cameras, Davis is also a steady shoulder for those navigating the toughest storms of life.

From now through May 15, she’s standing in the gap for people battling blood cancer. Davis is participating in the Visionaries of the Year fundraising campaign for Blood Cancer United, formerly The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). It is the largest nonprofit dedicated to creating a world without blood cancers.

“Accepting the nomination to be part of this campaign was not a swift decision,” shared Davis. “I thought about how various forms of cancer have impacted my loved ones. My father beat bladder cancer. My sister’s mother-in-law succumbed to Acute Myeloid Leukemia.”

Davis took time to research and engage in intimate “chats with God,” as she described it, before committing to the campaign. Two weeks after she confirmed her participation, Davis learned that another family member had received a cancer diagnosis.

“I took this devastating news as a divine sign that this fundraising campaign for Blood Cancer United is absolutely worthy of my attention,” said Davis.

Davis will be fundraising for research to advance lifesaving treatments, drive advocacy policies that protect patient access to treatments and provide patients and families with guidance, education and support.

If you would like to support this cause and help Davis reach her fundraising goal, click here.

The deadline to donate is May 15.

“This is an organization making an impact with the dollars it raises, and I am proud to assist,” added Davis. “I hope you join me.”

Victor Wembanyama — as expected — was announced Monday as the league's top defensive player. The San Antonio center was second in the voting for DPOY as a rookie, was the favorite last season until a medical condition ended his season prematurely, then left no doubt this year.

At 22, he's the youngest winner of the award.

“The real struggle might have been getting to 65 games,” Wembanyama said — referring to the number he needed for award eligibility — on NBC Sports Network. “But I’m super, super happy to win this award and actually super proud to be the first-ever unanimous.”

Oklahoma City's Chet Holmgren was second and Detroit's Ausar Thompson was third after both helped their teams secure No. 1 seeds for the playoffs. But this was never in doubt, not after the 7-foot-4 — or maybe taller — Wembanyama led the NBA in blocked shots for a third consecutive season and generally terrorized opponents any time they wanted to score.

“Best player in the world,” Spurs forward Keldon Johnson said.

The NBA will continue its award announcements Tuesday when the Clutch Player of the Year — either Minnesota's Anthony Edwards, Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander or Denver's Jamal Murray — is revealed. Wembanyama is also a finalist for MVP, with the winner of that trophy not set to be revealed until next week at the earliest.

First, the league got this announcement out of the way. And Wembanyama's win was accompanied by a slew of milestones.

— Every other winner of the award had been at least 23. Wembanyama doesn't turn 23 until next January.

— The Spurs became the first franchise with four players to win DPOY, which was first handed out in the 1982-83 season. The others? Alvin Robertson in 1986, David Robinson in 1992 and Kawhi Leonard in 2015 and 2016.

— Wembanyama joins Robinson and Michael Jordan as the only players to win both Rookie of the Year and DPOY.

“I’ve had the chance to have great coaches over my career who have taught me great habits on defense,” Wembanyama said.

The biggest accomplishment may be this: Wemby got every voter to agree.

Golden State's Stephen Curry was the unanimous MVP in 2016 and in the 10 seasons that have followed, there have been only two instances of a player collecting 100% of the first-place votes for an award.

Those were Wembanyama for Rookie of the Year in 2024, and now this.

No player in at least the last 50 seasons — and maybe ever, since it's hard to say with certainty because some full voting results for awards handed out generations ago are not known publicly — has won two major individual awards unanimously.

It's the 10th known unanimous pick in any vote for MVP, Rookie of the Year, Sixth Man of the Year, Most Improved Player, DPOY or Coach of the Year. And some of biggest names, including LeBron James and Michael Jordan, never won a major award unanimously.

“I feel like he is one of the hardest workers that I’ve ever been around,” Johnson said. “He takes his craft very seriously. I feel like this is just a small token of what’s to come for Victor. He’s a special player now. He’s a special player on the court and even more special person off the court as well. This is just a small token, small flowers that’s given to him for Defensive Player of the Year.”

Holmgren and Thompson both got votes for the first time; a panel of reporters and broadcasters who cover the league were asked to pick their top three in the category, with ballots due last week before the playoffs started.

Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert — a four-time DPOY winner — was fourth, followed, in order, by Toronto’s Scottie Barnes, Boston’s Derrick White, Oklahoma City’s Cason Wallace, Houston’s Amen Thompson, Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels and New York’s OG Anunoby.

There was a three-way tie for 11th between Detroit’s Jalen Duren, Golden State’s Draymond Green — the 2017 winner — and Miami’s Bam Adebayo.

Wembanyama is an MVP finalist (along with Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the reigning MVP, and three-time winner Nikola Jokic of Denver), which almost certainly means he'll be an All-NBA first-team selection. And the DPOY win means he'll also be on the All-Defensive team, so the Frenchman is assured of no fewer than four trophies from this year's award season.

“We often overlook the team aspect,” Wembanyama said. “I’m sitting here. I happen to be the guy who’s put in the spotlight, but I am part of a system and I couldn’t get this award and I couldn’t do what I do if it wasn’t for my teammates ... and my coaching staff.”

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AP freelance writer Raul Dominguez contributed to this report.

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Under a proposal submitted Monday to a state judge in Texas, The Onion would be granted an exclusive, temporary license to the intellectual property of Infowars' parent company, Free Speech Systems, allowing the outlet to put its own content on the Infowars website and social media accounts.

Ben Collins, chief executive of The Onion, said the deal could be in place around April 30, if approved by Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin. He said The Onion has already hired people to run Infowars as a parody site including Tim Heidecker, one half of the comedy duo Tim and Eric known for their work on the Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” shows.

“We’ll build this into a bigger comedy network,” Collins said in phone interview Monday, adding the Sandy Hook families would receive profits from the new operations.

“A big part of it for us is that the way people consume news now is they see somebody who has no idea what the (expletive) they’re talking about staring into their camera and just like coming up with conspiracy theories or telling you health hacks that will actually get you poisoned, things like that," he said. "We’re going to create a bunch of characters and worlds around those kinds of things."

After the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, Jones called it a hoax staged by “crisis actors” in an effort to increase gun control. Many relatives of the victims, along with an FBI agent who responded to the shooting, sued Jones and his company for defamation and infliction of emotional distress.

On his show Monday, Jones vowed to fight the licensing proposal in court but acknowledged he and his crew could be kicked out of the building at the end of the month. He said he would continue his shows in another studio he is preparing, and they would air on his personal X account and other new social media accounts and websites, as well as dozens of radio stations. He also has set up new websites for the merchandise he sells, including dietary supplements and clothing that bring in millions of dollars a year.

“I’m going to continue the exact same show," he said. "It’ll just be called the ‘Alex Jones Show.’ So, it’s the same satellite, same system. It's a different news site and news studio. So I’m not going anywhere.”

The licensing deal with The Onion would be for six months, with the right to renew it for another six months as a court-appointed receiver works to eventually sell the assets of Infowars’ parent company, Austin-based Free Speech Systems, and give proceeds to the Sandy Hook families. The receiver is supporting the plan, which calls for The Onion to pay $81,000 a month to cover the rent for the building housing Infowars' studios, along with utilities and other costs.

During a trial of the defamation suit in Connecticut in 2022, victims' relatives testified that people whom they called followers of Jones subjected them to death and rape threats, in-person harassment and abusive comments on social media over the hoax claims. Jones argued there was never any proof that linked him to the actions of others.

A jury and judge awarded the families and the FBI agent more than $1.4 billion in damages. In a similar lawsuit in Texas, the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook were awarded nearly $50 million. Jones appealed both awards. He lost his challenges to the Connecticut judgment, while his appeal of the Texas award is still pending.

Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022. In those proceedings, an auction was held in November 2024 to liquidate Infowars’ assets to help pay the defamation judgments, and The Onion was named the winning bidder. But the bankruptcy judge threw out the auction results, citing problems with the process and The Onion’s bid.

The attempt to sell off Infowars’ assets later moved to the state court in Texas, where Guerra Gamble appointed a receiver to liquidate the assets of Jones' company. Jones is also appealing that ruling, which has put a hold on the liquidation.

A lawyer for the Sandy Hook families who sued Jones in Connecticut said they support The Onion's plan.

The Sentry was canceled last January on drought-stricken Maui when the grass on the Plantation course at Kapalua was dying due to restrictions brought on by a dispute with the company in charge of a century-old water delivery system.

Two staff members at Kapalua, which is operated by Troon Golf, were notified Monday of the decision not to return. The PGA Tour confirmed it when contacted by The Associated Press.

The Sony Open on Oahu was in the final year of its sponsorship. It had leaned on being the week after Kapalua since 1999 to help attract players for a two-week stay in Hawaii.

The Sony Open is working toward becoming a PGA Tour Champions event to be packaged with the Mitsubishi Electric Championship on the Big Island.

“We are grateful to The Plantation Course at Kapalua, Kapalua Resort, Maui County and the state of Hawaii for their longtime support of our season-opening PGA Tour event, as well as the fans, partners and volunteers across Maui who have supported the event throughout the years,” the tour said in a statement.

It said it would share more details on the 2027 schedule at a later date. The tour also confirmed it was in conversations with the Sony Open about a spot on the PGA Tour Champions schedule, without further comment.

Kapalua began as a winners-only start to the PGA Tour season in 1999, a favorite among players for its wide fairways and endless views of the ocean on the west end of Maui.

Wisconsin-based Sentry took over as title sponsor in 2018, and its most recent extension takes it through 2035.

The most likely landing spot for Sentry is Torrey Pines in San Diego, where several executives attended this year. The previous sponsorship for Torrey Pines with Farmers Insurance ended this year without any intention of renewing.

Stephanie Smith, the company’s chief marketing and brand officer in charge of the golf partnership, did not mention future plans, only to say Sentry was proud of its eight-year run at Kapalua.

“We have said from the beginning, we love Maui and Maui is a Sentry community not unlike our hometown of Stevens Point, Wisconsin,” she said. “We cherish the friends and partnerships we have formed over the past several years. Our commitment to the island runs deep, and we remain committed to being active in the community.”

Hideki Matsuyama was the last winner at Kapalua. The final stroke was an 8-foot birdie putt that set the PGA Tour record for score to par at 35 under.

The tour had been subsidizing the purse increase to $20 million when it became a signature event, and The Sentry was among the most expensive operations because of shipping so much equipment to Maui. Attendance was moderate at best.

The water dispute involved accusations from the Kapalua owner, Japanese billionaire Tadashi Yanai, homeowners and Hua Momona Farms that Maui Land & Pineapple had not maintained the water delivery system.

MLP then filed a countersuit and alleged Kapalua was violating water restrictions.

The Sony Open dates to 1965 and had been played continuously since 1971, played at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, along the ocean down from Diamond Head. It took over as the season opener this year when The Sentry was canceled, won by Chris Gotterup.

The most famous moment in tournament history was Isao Aoki holing out from the fairway for eagle to win in 1983. Ernie Els became the first player to sweep the tour’s Hawaii events in 2003 when he won at Kapalua and Waialae.

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The attack on Sunday morning unfolded in two homes in a Shreveport neighborhood. The gunman, identified as 31-year-old Shamar Elkins, died after a police pursuit that ended with officers firing on him, authorities said.

Police have not provided a motive for the killings. Family members said Elkins and his wife were separating and community leaders called for a reckoning over domestic violence as the shooting reverberated across the city, including in the classrooms where the children attended school.

Here's what to know about the attack.

Shootings began before sunrise

The attack began before dawn in a neighborhood south of downtown Shreveport.

Police received the first report around 5:55 a.m. from a caller stating they were on top of a house where someone had been shot, Shreveport Police Chief Wayne Smith said. Five minutes later, police were told that Elkins had shot everyone inside the 79th Street house.

Troy Brown, Elkin's brother-in-law, said his wife and his 12-year-old daughter had escaped through the home’s roof.

Officers arrived within minutes but another call at 6:07 a.m. reported a second attack on nearby Harrison Street, where the caller said Elkins had shot her before fleeing, according to Smith. Police then received word the gunman had stolen a car, leading to a pursuit and eventually an exchange of gunfire.

Elkins was pronounced dead about an hour after police received the first call. It was not clear whether he was killed by officers or from a self-inflicted gunshot, Smith said.

Gunman had felony gun conviction

Court records showed that Elkins was placed on probation in 2019 after pleading guilty to illegal use of weapons. A police report for that case said Elkins fired five rounds at a vehicle and told police that someone inside it had pulled a gun on him.

Under Louisiana law, a person convicted of illegal use of a weapon is banned from having a gun for at least 10 years after completing their sentence and probation. Investigators were not aware of other domestic violence issues involving Elkins, said police spokesperson Chris Bordelon.

Authorities have not said how or where Elkins obtained the weapon used in Sunday's attack.

Elkins had served in the Louisiana National Guard from 2013 to 2020, held the rank of private and had no deployments, a guard spokesperson said. He was a signal support system specialist and a fire support specialist.

Elkins had voluntarily checked into a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in January for just over a week, according to Brown. He said Elkins appeared “better when he came home” and seemed fine a day before the shooting.

The murdered children were all under 12

The eight children ranged in age from 3 to 11. Besides Elkins' seven children, his nephew was among the slain, according to the Caddo Parish coroner’s office.

Family members described the gunman’s wife, Shaneiqua Elkins, as a doting mother who celebrated her children’s success in school and carefully dressed them before family events.

Francine Monro Brown, a cousin of Shaneiqua Elkins, said she would often see the children playing in the yard on Sunday mornings when she drove past the house on her way to church. She called them “happy” and “joyful.”

Family member says couple was separating

Elkins and his wife were separating and had been arguing about their relationship before the shooting, said Crystal Brown, a cousin of a woman shot in the attack.

The shooting in Shreveport was the deadliest in the U.S. since January 2024, when eight people were killed in a Chicago suburb, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

Felipe Llanos Colon was driving a U-Haul van after stealing from the Franky Diamonds booth at 7900 NW 27 Ave., in the West Little River area, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputy’s report.

“The victim jumped onto the hood of the offender’s vehicle, and the assailant proceeded to drive away, with the victim mounted on the hood of the van,” the deputy wrote, according to the report.

Llanos Colon fled with a $39,500 watch at about 1:05 p.m. on April 13; Miami police officers arrested him on Friday for another case; and deputies re-arrested him for the theft.

“Screenshot images of the defendant’s face from the video were obtained and later submitted to the MDSO real-time operations center, which used facial recognition software to identify the defendant,” a deputy wrote, according to the report.

The victim at the flea market’s Franky Diamonds booth reported that Llanos Colon ran away after putting on the watch, so he chased him to the parking lot and attempted to stop him by jumping onto the van’s hood.

LLanos Colon “drove off the property through a cutout in a fence, leading to Northwest 30th Avenue, where he proceeded southbound ... while the victim maintained a grip on the hood of the van,” according to the report.

Llanos Colon stopped at Northwest 79th Street, got out of the van, ran westbound, and vanished near the MetroRail area, according to the report.

After Miami police officers arrested Llanos Colon on Friday at 1280 NW 60 St., in Liberty City, Miami-Dade corrections booked him at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Llanos Colon appeared in court on Saturday, and a judge ordered him to stay away from the Franky Diamonds booth employee and ordered house arrest with an electronic monitor.

Miami-Dade prosecutors filed two criminal cases against Llanos Colon on Saturday, according to county court records.

Llanos Campos faced charges of second-degree grand theft and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. His bond was $20,000. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Ariel Rodriguez was set to preside over this case.

For the arrest in Liberty City, Llanos Campos faced charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and knowingly driving with a suspended license. His bond was $500. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Julie Nelson was set to preside over this case.

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

Christian Q. Bouie, the burglary suspect accused of shooting Appie in the shoulder on Saturday night, was at the Broward County Main Jail on Monday.

After the shooting, another police dog bit Bouie, 30, during his arrest, and fire rescue personnel took him to the Broward Health Medical Center.

Bouie faced four charges: Use of a deadly weapon on a police animal, interfering with law enforcement with violence, possession of a weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon, and resisting arrest without violence.

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The county purchased the Southcliff Estates housing project, located at 95295 Overseas Highway in Key Largo, using money from a $35 million pool of Tourist Development Council bed tax funds from the post-COVID tourism boom.

“It’s frustrating for all of us because we were so excited about this project,” said Monroe County Mayor Michelle Lincoln. “We were like, ‘This is going to be amazing. We’re going to be able to help people right away. We’re not going to have to wait until it’s constructed and to go through permits.’ And it’s empty.”

Designed for workers in the Florida Keys tourism industry, the application process for the 11 one-bedroom, one-bathroom units opened in August at a rate of $2,995 a month.

The initial rental rate gave some residents a dose of sticker shock.

But even after commissioners amended the rental price to nearly $1,900 a month, not a single unit has been rented.

Lincoln said the county will look to update its survey process to more accurately reflect the needs of workers in the Keys.

“We have now tapped the brakes, and we are now going to update the studies we did years ago for specifically what are the housing needs,” she said.

A county spokesperson said marketing is being updated to include a more visible banner on the property, social media posts and ads on real estate website Zillow.

En una ceremonia en Santiago, representantes de los dos países suscribieron una enmienda a la Carta de Acuerdo sobre control de narcóticos y cumplimiento de la ley, que contempla el fortalecimiento de las capacidades institucionales para enfrentar amenazas como el narcotráfico, el ciberdelito y el lavado de dinero a través de la cooperación técnica, la capacitación y la coordinación entre agencias.

El instrumento, firmado por el subsecretario de Seguridad chileno Andrés Jouannet, y el subsecretario de Estado para el Control de Armas y la Seguridad Internacional de Estados Unidos, Thomas DiNanno, prevé además el aporte de un millón de dólares de Washington para modernizar el equipamiento tecnológico y logístico de Chile, como vehículos, ordenadores y otros aparatos de investigación.

“Estos recursos son una inversión directa en la seguridad cotidiana de las personas”, dijo el canciller de Chile, Francisco Pérez Mackenna, en una rueda de prensa.

El ministro indicó además que la medida “posibilita la creación de un equipo interinstitucional entre la Policía de Investigaciones de Chile y el FBI (buró federal de investigaciones)", que “representa un salto cualitativo” en la cooperación bilateral.

Por su parte, el representante de Washington dijo que la iniciativa permitirá asegurar un hemisferio “más seguro”.

“En nombre del presidente Trump y del secretario de Estado Rubio, Estados Unidos está deseoso de colaborar con la administración del presidente Kast para promover un hemisferio más seguro, más fuerte y más próspero”, aseguró DiNanno.

El acuerdo marca “una nueva era dorada en las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y Chile”, agregó.

DiNanno explicó que, con el pacto, “Estados Unidos lanzará un nuevo programa bilateral en Chile” para “debilitar y, en última instancia, desmantelar las operaciones de organizaciones criminales transnacionales”.

“Me complace anunciar que Estados Unidos destinará un millón de dólares para establecer una unidad especializada en la lucha contra el crimen organizado transnacional, incluyendo al Tren de Aragua”, añadió sobre el grupo criminal que se originó en Venezuela y se ha extendido en la región.

Desarrollo de minerales críticos

En la misma ceremonia, Santiago y Washington suscribieron un Memorándum de Entendimiento sobre minerales críticos para un futuro acuerdo que busca promover la inversión, el intercambio de experiencias y el desarrollo de capacidades en distintas etapas de la cadena de valor.

“A través de él compartiremos experiencia en desarrollo de minerales críticos y recursos de tierras raras y buscaremos proyectos que podamos apoyar en ambos países”, dijo el embajador estadounidense en Chile, Brandon Judd. “También ayudaremos a fortalecer las cadenas de suministro para asegurar que ni Chile ni Estados Unidos dependen jamás de un solo país para estos recursos”.

La firma de estos acuerdos se enmarca en los esfuerzos impulsados por el gobierno del ultraderechista José Antonio Kast durante los primeros 90 días de gestión para impulsar la inserción internacional de Chile y diversificar mercados.

"Hoy hemos suscrito dos instrumentos que, aunque distintos en su materia, son expresión de una misma convicción, que la cooperación bilateral profunda, fundada en valores compartidos y beneficio mutuo, es el camino para enfrentar los desafíos del siglo XXI”, destacó Pérez Mackenna.

The earlier requests were for ballots and other records from 2020, the presidential election President Donald Trump lost, while the fresh request is for the last round of voting in a swing state Trump won.

The letter, from the head of the department's Civil Rights Division, appears to be a widening of Trump's grievances over his false claims that widespread fraud cost him the 2020 election while at the same time looking ahead to this fall's critical midterm election, when control of the U.S. House and Senate is in the balance.

In a statement issued Sunday joined by Michigan's Democratic governor and secretary of state, Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel derided the move as “weaponizing the Justice Department” in an attempt to “interfere in state elections.”

"If this administration wants to bring this circus to our state, my office is prepared to protect the people’s right to vote,” Nessel said.

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon's letter, dated April 14, demanded 2024 ballots and other records from Wayne County, which includes the strongly Democratic city of Detroit. Nessel said nearly 865,000 votes were cast there in 2024.

Dhillon said the reason for the demand is to ensure no fraud occurred in the 2024 balloting, citing three instances of fraudulent votes in 2020 and a civil lawsuit filed over absentee ballot processing. According to a response by Nessel, Michigan officials identified and prosecuted the three cases and a judge dismissed the lawsuit after finding that “sinister and fraudulent motives” were alleged which were “incorrect and not credible.”

“Michigan’s elections are safe and secure," Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said in the joint statement. “This demand is a poorly disguised attempt to justify more doubt and misinformation about our elections as well as direct federal interference.”

Michigan officials' failure to produce the records within 14 days of receiving the request could mean the U.S. Justice Department would seek a court order, but Nessel appears in no hurry to comply. She objected to a number of issues she believes preclude a response, including the age of the fraud incidents cited, how rare such cases are and that the request was made of Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett, while ballots are in the possession of 43 local clerks across the county.

An emailed request for comment from Garrett did not receive an immediate reply.

Federal pressure yielded election records in the earlier swing states. The FBI, acting on a search warrant signed by a judge, in January searched the election office of heavily Democratic Fulton County, Georgia, which has been a target of election conspiracy theories related to Trump's 2020 loss. Fulton County officials have since been in court attempting to regain possession of the seized records.

A grand jury subpoena last month forced the Arizona state Senate to turn over to the FBI records related to a contentious audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. Democrats in the state criticized the GOP Senate president for complying, noting he is aware of multiple reviews, independent investigations and legal challenges over the election that have shown no evidence of widespread fraud.

Arman Motiwalla, 37, of Plantation, was a successful insurance executive and father who worked at Synergy Insurance Affiliates LLC at 350 Camino Gardens Blvd. in Boca Raton.

But on April 8, while leaving work in the overnight hours, Motiwalla was shot multiple times and killed in the parking lot of the business.

At the time of his death, Motiwalla was involved in a bitter legal battle with his former employer, the Coral Springs-based company Innovative Partners.

“He was terminated for objecting to or refusing to participate in a practice or policy that violated a law, rule, or regulation,” his attorney, G. Ware Cornell Jr., said.

Records show Motiwalla filed the whistleblower case last summer, and Innovative Partners LLC even countersued in a strong denial of allegations of mismanaging funds.

Cornell said the insurance executive’s murder was just nine days before new evidence was set to be introduced in court tied to the lawsuit.

This has only added to the murder mystery, with some people even speculating Motiwalla was working with federal authorities to help bring down his former company.

“He never told me that he was ever any kind of witness or participant in anything involving any kind of police agency,” Cornell said.

While the case remains under investigation, police have called the parking lot shooting an isolated incident and Cornell isn’t pointing the finger at anyone.

Because of the murder, a judge has now dismissed the original whistleblower lawsuit.

There’s no known connection between the suit and Motiwalla’s murder. Police said they’re still investigating but no arrests have been made.

Chavez-DeRemer is the third Trump Cabinet member to leave her post after Trump fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in March and ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month.

In a statement posted on social media, Chavez-DeRemer praised Trump and wrote, “I am proud that we made significant progress in advancing President Trump’s mission to bridge the gap between business and labor and always put the American worker first.”

Unlike other recent Cabinet departures, Chavez-DeRemer’s exit was announced by a White House aide, not by the president on his social media account.

“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said on the social media site X. “She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their lives.”

He said Keith Sonderling, the current deputy labor secretary, would become acting labor secretary in her place. The news outlet NOTUS was the first to report Chavez-DeRemer's resignation.

Labor chief, family members faced multiple allegations

Chavez-DeRamer’s departure follows reports that began surfacing in January that she was under a series of investigations.

A New York Times report last Wednesday revealed that the Labor Department’s inspector general was reviewing material showing Chavez-DeRemer and her top aides and family members routinely sent personal messages and requests to young staff members.

Chavez-DeRemer’s husband and father exchanged text messages with young female staff members, according to the newspaper. Some of the staffers were instructed by the secretary and her former deputy chief of staff to “pay attention” to her family, people familiar with the investigation told the Times.

Those messages were uncovered as part of a broader investigation of Chavez-DeRamer’s leadership that began after the New York Post reported in January that a complaint filed with the Labor Department’s inspector general accused Chavez-DeRemer of a relationship with the subordinate.

She also faced allegations that she drank alcohol on the job, and that she tasked aides to plan official trips for primarily personal reasons.

Late Monday, on her personal X account, Chavez-DeRemer posted, “The allegations against me, my family, and my team have been peddled by high-ranked deep state actors who have been coordinating with the one-sided news media and continue to undermine President Trump's mission.”

Both the White House and the Labor Department initially said the reports of wrongdoing were baseless. But the official denials got less full-throated as more allegations emerged — and when Chavez-DeRemer might be out of a job became something of an open question in Washington.

At least four Labor Department officials have already been forced from their jobs as the investigation progressed, including Chavez-DeRemer’s former chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, as well as a member of her security detail, with whom she was accused of having the affair, The New York Times reported.

“I think the secretary demonstrated a lot of wisdom in resigning,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said Monday after her departure was made public.

She enjoyed union support — rare for a Republican

Confirmed to Trump’s Cabinet on a 67-32 vote in March 2025, Chavez-DeRemer is a former House GOP lawmaker who had represented a swing district in Oregon. She enjoyed unusual support from unions as a Republican but lost reelection in November 2024.

In her single term in Congress, Chavez-DeRemer backed legislation that would make it easier to unionize on a federal level, as well as a separate bill aimed at protecting Social Security benefits for public-sector employees.

Some prominent labor unions, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, backed Chavez-DeRemer, who is a daughter of a Teamster, for Labor Secretary. Trump’s decision to pick her was viewed by some political observers as a way to appeal to voters who are members of or affiliated with labor organizations.

But other powerful labor leaders were skeptical when she was tapped for the job, unconvinced that Chavez-DeRemer would pursue a union-friendly agenda as a part of the incoming GOP administration. In her Senate confirmation hearing, some senators questioned whether she would be able to uphold that reputation in an administration that fired thousands of federal employees.

She was a key figure in Trump's deregulatory push

Aside from reports of wrongdoing in recent months, Chavez-DeRemer had been one of Trump’s more lower-profile Cabinet picks, but took key steps to advance the administration’s deregulatory agenda during her tenure.

For instance, the Labor Department last year moved to rewrite or repeal more than 60 workplace regulations it saw as obsolete. The rollbacks included minimum wage requirements for home health care workers and people with disabilities, and rules governing exposure to harmful substances and safety procedures at mines. The effort drew condemnation from union leaders and workplace safety experts.

The proposed changes also included eliminating a requirement that employers provide adequate lighting for construction sites and seat belts for agriculture workers in most employer-provided transportation.

During Chavez-DeRemer’s tenure, the Trump administration canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Labor Department division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world, ending their work that had helped reduce the number of child laborers worldwide by 78 million over the last two decades.

In her statement Monday, Chavez-DeRemer said, “While my time serving in the Administration comes to a conclusion, it doesn’t mean I will stop fighting for American workers.”

The Labor Department has a broad mandate as it relates to the U.S. workforce, including reporting the U.S. unemployment rate, regulating workplace health and safety standards, investigating minimum wage, child labor and overtime pay disputes, and applying laws on union organizing and unlawful terminations.

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Associated Press writers Steven Sloan and Will Weissert in Washington, and Cathy Bussewitz in New York, contributed to this report.

Cook, 65, will turn the CEO duties over to Apple’s head of hardware engineering, John Ternus, on Sept. 1 while remaining involved with the Cupertino, California, company as executive chairman. That’s similar to the transitions made by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Netflix’s Reed Hastings after they ended their highly successful tenures as CEO.

To allow Cook to assume his new job, Arthur Levinson will relinquish his role as Apple's non-executive chairman while remaining on its board of directors.

“It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company," Cook said in a statement. “I love Apple with all of my being, and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with a team of such ingenious, innovative, creative, and deeply caring people.”

Ternus, 50, has been with Apple for the past quarter century, including the past five years overseeing the engineering underlying the iPhone, iPad and Mac — a role that made him a prime candidate to succeed Cook.

“I am profoundly grateful for this opportunity to carry Apple’s mission forward,” Ternus said in a statement.

Cook and Ternus may have more to say about the changing of the guard on April 30 when Apple is scheduled to release its financial results for the first three months of the year.

The transition to a new CEO comes at a pivotal time for Apple. Artificial intelligence has unleashed the most upheaval within the industry since Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007. Apple has gotten off to a rough start in AI after stumbling in its efforts to deliver new features built on the technology, as promised nearly two years ago.

Earlier this year, Apple finally turned to Google — an early leader in the AI race — for help making the iPhone's virtual assistant Siri into a more conversational and versatile helper.

“Cook created a major legacy at Apple but it was ultimately time to pass the torch to Ternus with the AI strategy now the focus,” Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said.

Although he never shook the perception that he lacked Jobs’ vision, Cook leveraged the popularity of the iPhone and other breakthroughs orchestrated by his predecessor to lift Apple to heights that seemed unfathomable when it was on the brink of bankruptcy during the mid-1990s.

Not long after Cook took over, Apple became the first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion, then became the first to be valued at $2 trillion and $3 trillion, too.

But after Apple's slow start in AI, chipmaker Nvidia rode the feverish demand for its processors that power that technology to be the first company to reach the $4 trillion threshold and then the first to break through the $5 trillion barrier, too. Apple is currently valued at $4 trillion, up from $350 billion when Tim Cook took over in August 2011, shortly before Jobs died after a long bout with cancer.

“Steve Jobs was never going to be an easy act to follow, yet Tim Cook took Jobs’ legacy and transformed Apple into a durable, resilient financial powerhouse,” said Forrester Research analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee.

Besides guiding Apple to a phenomenal run of financial success, Cook also made his mark in an October 2014 essay acknowledging his homosexuality – a disclosure by the leader of a renowned company that was hailed as a breakthrough for the gay rights movement.

Before his death, Jobs spent time grooming Cook to be his successor – a move that reflected the Apple co-founder’s respect and admiration for an executive that he hired in 1998 to oversee the company’s supply chain. Knowing his successor would likely be measured against his legacy, Jobs advised Cook to be guided by his own instincts and never bother musing, “What would Steve do?”

Cook, an Alabama native who previously worked at Compaq Computer and Apple’s former nemesis, IBM, masterminded the intricacies of an international supply chain that plumbed the cheaper labor and efficiency of China’s manufacturing plants. It has played an instrumental role in the production of the Mac computers, iPods, iPhones, iPads and other products that account for most of Apple’s annual revenue of $416 billion – up from $108 billion when Cook became CEO.

But most of Apple’s best-selling devices were all conceived while Jobs was still CEO, raising questions about whether Cook was more of a logistics man than an idea man.

“While Cook has kept Apple’s growth trajectory moving at a steady clip, he has not overseen a step-change innovation that would reset Apple’s competitive position for the next two decades, as Jobs did with the iPhone,” Chatterjee said.

The company did create the two popular new product lines – the Apple Watch and wireless AirPod headphones – and a still-niche Vision Pro headset for experiencing virtual reality, but none of them have been the kind of breakthroughs that became Jobs’ trademark. Meanwhile, other ballyhooed projects such as Apple’s effort to build a self-driving car never materialized after years of research and investments.

Apple’s reliance on overseas manufacturing required Cook to master the art of political diplomacy, particularly while President Donald Trump waged trade wars with China during both his terms in the White House. After persuading Trump to exempt the iPhone and other products from Trump’s first-term tariffs, he faced a more daunting challenge during the current administration.

While insisting that Apple shift its iPhone manufacturing from China to the U.S., Trump imposed some tariffs on the device this time around. But Cook still managed to minimize the fees by shifting the production of iPhones destined for the U.S. market to India and also winning some exemptions after promising Apple would invest $600 billion in the U.S. during Trump’s second administration.

Nathan Romero was driving a black Toyota Corolla on Interstate 95, and he was “reversing into” a black Mitsubishi sports utility vehicle, near Miami Gardens Drive, according to the arrest report.

Romero, of Kissimmee, drove “towards both victims ... in an apparent attempt to run them over ... Both victims began running away and were able to jump out of the way,” according to the arrest report.

Romero “struck the concrete wall ... drove forward and placed the vehicle in reverse ... attempted to run them over again,” and struck the Mitsubishi and a sergeant’s unmarked car, according to the arrest report.

Romero got out of the Toyota, armed “with a knife,” and the sergeant “pointed his firearm” at him and shouted orders: “Stop! Drop the knife!”

Romero “tossed the knife,” and surrendered, according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took Romero to Jackson Memorial North Hospital before corrections booked him shortly after 7:55 p.m. on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers documented the crashes.

On Monday, Romero faced three new charges: Aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

A judge denied Romero bond for the charge of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and set the bond for the other two charges at $15,000.

Romero also had a warrant case for reckless driving with damage to property or person. His bond was $500.

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

The 46-year-old author and the vice chair of the Clinton Foundation ran the 26.2-mile (42.195-kilometer) race in 3 hours, 40 minutes, 52 seconds. Joining former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to meet her at the finish line was 2014 champion Meb Keflezghi — the last American man to win the race.

According to athlinks.com, Chelsea Clinton has run six other marathons, including New York four times, and Monday's run was a personal best.

Other notable participants who ran in Monday's record-setting race included astronaut Suni Williams, who finished in 5:52:49; hockey Hall of Famer Zdeno Chara, who ran it in 3:18:00; 2018 Boston winner Des Linden, who finished second in the women's masters division in 2:35:49; and 1968 men's winner Amby Burfoot, who finished in 5:11:29.

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Mohammad Sharifullah is accused of scouting the bomber's route to the airport before the attack that killed nearly 200 people, including 13 U.S. service members, at the end of America’s longest war. FBI agents interviewed him for hours over the course of several days after his capture.

But one of Sharifullah's lawyers said he had no role in the bombing plot and suggested that the Afghan national gave a false confession.

“The U.S. government got the wrong man,” defense attorney Geremy Kamens said during the trial's opening statements. “That is why we are proud to represent Mohammad Sharifullah in this trial.”

Justice Department prosecutor John Gibbs said Sharifullah, also known as Jafar, spoke to a journalist about killing American “crusaders” who invaded his home country after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

“The feeling was just to catch the crusaders and kill them,” Sharifullah told the journalist, according to Gibbs.

Sharifullah told FBI agents that he joined an Islamic State regional branch known as ISIS-K around 2016. Although he denied having a planning role in the Kabul airport bombing, he told the agents that he had done “a lot of other things” on behalf of ISIS-K, Gibbs said.

President Donald Trump announced Sharifullah’s capture during his State of the Union address in March 2025. Sharifullah arrived in the U.S. a day later to face prosecution and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

Twelve jurors and three alternates were picked Monday in Alexandria, Virginia, for Sharifullah's federal trial on one count of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization resulting in death. The trial is expected to last about a week.

U.S. troops were conducting an evacuation operation at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26, 2021, when a lone suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device near an entry point known as Abbey Gate. Approximately 160 Afghans were killed in the attack along with the 13 U.S. service members.

A review by U.S. Central Command found that the Abbey Gate bomber was Abdul Rahman al-Logari, an Islamic State militant who had been released from an Afghan prison by the Taliban. Sharifullah recognized the alleged bomber as an operative he had known while incarcerated, according to an FBI affidavit.

A former Marine testified to Congress that he and others had spotted two possible suspects behaving suspiciously on the morning of the bombing but didn't get permission to act. However, the Central Command review concluded that the snipers hadn't seen the actual bomber and that the attack was not preventable.

Still, the carnage led to sharp criticism of how Democratic President Joe Biden's administration handled the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan after a war spanning two decades. On the campaign trial, before he won a second term in the White House, Trump repeatedly condemned Biden’s role in the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal and blamed him for the Abbey Gate attack.

One of the prosecutors assigned to the Abbey Gate case was fired by the Justice Department last year after a right-wing commentator publicly criticized him over his work during the Biden administration. Michael Ben’Ary's ouster was part of a broader purge of Justice Department veterans deemed to be insufficiently loyal to Trump, a Republican.

Sharifullah is accused of participating in other attacks linked to ISIS-K. The FBI said he provided instructions on the proper use of firearms before other ISIS-K members carried out a March 2024 attack at a Moscow concert hall that killed roughly 140 people.

Kamens suggested that Sharifullah gave a false confession under duress while in Pakastani custody. The defense lawyer told jurors that the airport bombing was likely an “inside job” aided by sympathetic Taliban extremists who were in power and helping with airport security that day.

“The Pakistanis wanted him to confess, and their intelligence service tortures people,” Kamens said.

According to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Monday, two of them are now in custody: Joseph Marsicek, 55, and girlfriend Lisa Bulinski, 53, both of Zephyrhills, are each facing felony charges.

Investigators said they, along with Marsicek‘s mother, Mary Ann MacPherson, moved out of the home and to Pasco County on Feb. 15. Three days later, investigators said the victim was trying to show her friend her collection when she realized the coins had vanished, leading her to call the Hollywood Police Department.

According to investigators, the victim and MacPherson had known each other since the 1980s, when they both worked part time at a jewelry store. Police said about four years ago, MacPherson “called complaining her living situation” in Zephyrhills and said she wanted to come back to South Florida, so the victim allowed MacPherson to stay with her under the condition that she pay rent and get a job.

But police said MacPherson also arrived with Marsicek, making the victim “uncomfortable.” Nevertheless, police said the victim let MacPherson stay in a room and Marsicek sleep in his car, and later a tent, outside. Authorities said he then began dating Bulinski.

All three are accused of stealing the valuable coins and taking them to a gold and jewelry buyer.

They made about $72,000 from selling the coins as they complained about money and lived on the dole, police said, but detectives suspect that represents a fraction of what they stole.

“I believe the suspects are still in possession of a large quantity of the victim’s property,” HPD Officer Mark Robbins wrote in a report.

The victim, police said, believes the trio took about $400,000 worth of coins.

Records show that Hollywood police arrested Marsicek and Bulinski on Thursday in the 5900 block of Taft Street. It wasn’t immediately clear how they were located.

MacPherson, who records show is also slated to face charges in the case, did not appear in Broward or Pasco jail records as of Monday afternoon.

As of Monday, Marsicek and Bulinski remained jailed in Broward on charges of first-degree grand theft, pawning items with false information and dealing in stolen property.

Their bonds were set at $125,000. But they’ll have to prove any funds they may post come from a legitimate source before being released.

Schlittler has overcome similar threats to experience success against the Red Sox in the postseason spotlight, so he has reason to carry confidence into his first game at Fenway.

Schlittler grew up a Red Sox fan in Walpole, Massachusetts. Despite his background with the Red Sox, Schlittler told the New York Post that he and his family have received death threats leading up to Thursday night's game. He compared the threats to normal trolling from fans and said he hasn't felt the need to get police involved.

“Most normal fans could care less, right?” Schlittler told the newspaper. "It’s just those diehards that just have nothing else in their lives other than baseball or sports that really care about this, and the fact that I play for the Yankees makes it worse for them.”

After his family was targeted with hurtful comments on social media during last season's AL Wild Card Series against the Red Sox, Schlittler responded with a dominant performance. He became the first postseason pitcher with at least eight scoreless innings and 12 strikeouts without allowing a walk, pitching New York to a 4-0 clinching win over Boston in New York.

This season, the 6-foot-6 Schlittler has enjoyed more success. The 25-year-old is 2-1 with a 1.95 ERA in five games. He has 36 strikeouts in 27 2/3 innings.

He says his strong start will only encourage more venom from Red Sox fans.

“It’s gonna be bad, it’s gonna be bad," Schlittler told the Post. "I’m not nervous about it, but it’s gonna be loud. ... They’re gonna probably have dudes that are my age or a little bit younger, sitting right outside the bullpen, yelling whatever, probably throwing stuff at me, trying to grab me.

“That’s kind of what I expect. So I know the guys are excited for it and I’m excited for it.”

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El evento ocurrió pasadas las 11:30 de la mañana, cuando un hombre que se encontraba en la plataforma situada en lo alto de la Pirámide de la Luna comenzó a disparar contra turistas que estaban a su mismo nivel y contra otros que bajaban por las escalinatas, según explicó a The Associated Press un guía turístico que se encontraba en el lugar que pidió el anonimato por razones de seguridad.

El agresor, quien posteriormente se quitó la vida, fue identificado como Julio César Jasso, un mexicano de 27 años, dijo a la AP un funcionario estatal que habló en condición de anonimato al no estar autorizado para discutir el caso.

“Algunas personas, como estaban asustadas,se tiraron pecho a tierra y todos los demás empezamos a bajar”, comentó el guía al relatar cómo el tirador, al ver descender a los turistas por las escalinatas de la pirámide, disparó e hirió a varias personas.

Otro grupo quedó tendido sobre la plataforma de la pirámide sin moverse para evitar ser atacado por el tirador.

La canadiense Brenda Lee contó a una televisora de su país que ella y otras siete personas se encontraban a la espera para poder comprar un recuerdo cuando escucharon las detonaciones. “Oímos lo que pensamos que eran petardos y, antes de que nos diéramos cuenta, alguien gritó: ‘no, son disparos, corran’, y vimos a gente saltando desde lo alto".

Lee relató que la tensión se apoderó rápidamente del lugar mientras la gente intentaba escapar. “Había miles de personas y se oían muchos disparos que no paraban”, señaló.

La mujer y su grupo se alejaron de la zona siguiendo las indicaciones de su guía turístico. Lee aseguró que el incidente no cambia su percepción de México como destino turístico. “No nos hemos sentido inseguros en ningún lugar y esto, sinceramente, podría pasar en cualquier parte del mundo”, agregó.

Las autoridades del Estado de México, donde se encuentra la zona arqueológica, indicaron en un comunicado que entre los heridos hay seis estadounidenses, tres colombianos, entre ellos un niño de 6 años que recibió dos impactos de bala en la tibia y el peroné derecho; una canadiense, dos brasileños y un ruso. Siete de los heridos sufrieron lesiones por disparo de arma de fuego.

Los primeros en responder al tiroteo fueron los policías que prestan seguridad dentro de las ruinas arqueológicas, y poco después llegó un grupo de la Guardia Nacional en una camioneta para atender la emergencia.

El tirador “no tenía como una percepción de lo que estaba haciendo”, indicó el testigo.

Hasta el momento se desconocen las causas del ataque. En el lugar las autoridades decomisaron un arma de fuego, un arma blanca y cartuchos.

El Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia anunció la noche del lunes en un comunicado que la zona arqueológica de Teotihuacan permanecerá cerrada hasta nuevo aviso.

La zona arqueológica de Teotihuacan es uno de los destinos turísticos más importantes del país y el año pasado atrajo a más de 1,8 millones de visitantes internacionales, según datos del gobierno. A pesar del gran número de turistas que recibe todos los días, el lugar tiene poco personal de vigilancia, no cuenta con detectores de metales ni se hace una revisión a los visitantes, según constató la AP.

La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum publicó en X que “lo ocurrido hoy en Teotihuacán nos duele profundamente. Expreso mi más sincera solidaridad con las personas afectadas y sus familias. Estamos en contacto con la embajada de Canadá”.

Al lamentar los hechos, la canciller canadiense Anita Anand, expresó en su cuenta de la red social que “como consecuencia de un terrible acto de violencia armada, una ciudadana canadiense ha perdido la vida y otro ha resultado herido en Teotihuacán”, y que “sus pensamientos están con sus familiares y seres queridos”.

En videos difundidos en las redes sociales se observa a un hombre que desde lo alto de la Pirámide de la Luna comienza a disparar mientras decenas de turistas se esconden entre las ruinas prehispánicas y otros corren.

Teotihuacán es conocido por su enclave arqueológico del mismo nombre que es Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad y uno de los atractivos turísticos de la zona es sobrevolar las impresionantes pirámides del Sol y la Luna en globo.

Fue una gran ciudad con más de 100.000 habitantes que se extendía por unos 20 kilómetros cuadrados entre el año 100 a. C. y 750 d. C. pero fue abandonada por razones todavía inciertas antes del ascenso de los aztecas en el siglo XIV.

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El periodista de The Associated Press, Jim Morris, contribuyó a este despacho desde Vancouver.

Ariyoshi, a Democrat who led the state from 1973 to 1986, died peacefully while surrounded by family on Sunday night, according to a statement Monday from current Gov. Josh Green.

“Governor Ariyoshi devoted his life to Hawaiʻi with humility, discipline and an unwavering sense of responsibility to the people he served,” Green said. “He led our state during a pivotal moment with quiet strength and integrity, and his legacy as a trailblazer and public servant will endure for generations."

Ariyoshi was a three-term governor who first rose to the position in October 1973. Three years earlier, he had been elected lieutenant governor, and he then became acting governor when Gov. John Burns fell ill with cancer.

Ariyoshi won the office outright in 1974 and was reelected in 1978 and 1982. Hawaii governors are now subject to a two-term limit. His political career coincided with the Democratic Party's rise to power in Hawaii.

Democrats wrested control of the Legislature from Republicans in 1954, the year Ariyoshi won the first of two terms in the Territorial House of Representatives. He won a territorial Senate seat in 1958, becoming a state senator the following year when Hawaii became a state.

Ariyoshi won three more state Senate races — in 1964, 1966 and 1968 — before becoming lieutenant governor.

Ariyoshi was born March 12, 1926, in a two-room tenement near Honolulu Harbor to parents who immigrated to Hawaii from Japan. He grew up in the hardscrabble neighborhood of Kalihi, near downtown Honolulu.

His father, Ryozo, a sumo wrestler from Fukuoka Prefecture, became a stevedore and owner of a dry cleaning shop in Hawaii. His mother, Mitsue, came from Kumamoto, Japan.

In his 1997 autobiography, “With Obligation to All,” Ariyoshi wrote about growing up with a lisp.

“The fact that we had no money did not seem to be a barrier, but I had a barrier of a different kind," he wrote, describing how he wanted to grow up to become a lawyer if he could learn to speak properly.

Following graduation from McKinley High School in 1944, Ariyoshi served as an interpreter with the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service in Japan at the end of World War II.

After the war, Ariyoshi attended the University of Hawaii before transferring to Michigan State University, where he received a bachelor's degree in history and political science in 1949. Ariyoshi earned a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1952.

Going to school on the U.S. mainland, Ariyoshi didn’t feel a sense of being treated differently. “On the contrary, I enjoyed the fact that Hawaii had a reputation even then for people of different backgrounds coming together and living harmoniously,” he wrote in his book.

He began practicing law in Hawaii the year after he graduated from law school. Ariyoshi withdrew from private practice and resigned various corporate directorships after he was elected lieutenant governor.

He said his decision to seek the position was influenced by a desire to break the barrier for minorities.

“The new state of Hawaii had produced United States representatives and senators of Caucasian, Chinese and Japanese ancestry, reflecting our diversity,” he wrote. “But only Caucasians had been governor.”

Ariyoshi’s time as governor was marked by Hawaii becoming a tourist destination and a booming population. “I was convinced that neither our infrastructure nor our environment would support this rate of growth,” he wrote.

In 1975, Ariyoshi and his wife, Jean Hayashi Ariyoshi, attended their first National Governor’s Conference in Washington, D.C., where they were invited by President Gerald Ford to a black-tie dinner at the White House.

Jean Ariyoshi wrote in her book, “Washington Place: A First Lady’s Story,” that as the couple jitterbugged on the dance floor, she stood on tip-toe and whispered in his ear: “Look at the little girl from Wahiawa dancing at the White House.”

He replied: “And she’s dancing with the kid from Kalihi.”

John Waiheʻe, who became Ariyoshi’s lieutenant governor in 1982, went on to be elected the first governor of Native Hawaiian ancestry in 1986 with Ariyoshi’s support.

In addition to his wife Jean, Ariyoshi is survived by daughter Lynn and sons Donn and Ryozo.

The shooter was identified as 27-year-old Julio Cesar Jasso of Mexico, a state official told the AP on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak about the case. Jasso later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said, and security officials found a gun, a knife and ammunition.

The local government said seven people were wounded by gunshots. How the other people were injured was not disclosed, but those taken to hospitals for treatment were six Americans, three Colombians, one Russian, two Brazilians and one Canadian, the local government said. The youngest person who was injured was 6; the oldest was 61, Mexican authorities said.

Video and photos published by local media showed a man standing with a gun on top of a pyramid while people ducked for cover. A number of gunshots rang out in the videos.

The shooting took place shortly after 11:30 a.m. when dozens of tourists were at the top of the Pyramid of the Moon. A man standing on the structure’s platform began firing upward, according to a tour guide who was at the scene and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for safety reasons.

“Some people, because they were scared ... threw themselves face down on the ground, and the rest of us started to go down,” the guide said, recounting how the shooter, upon seeing the tourists descending the pyramid’s steps, began firing.

Another group of visitors lay motionless on the pyramid’s platform to avoid being targeted by the shooter, who authorities have not yet identified.

Brenda Lee, of Vancouver, British Columbia, said she was waiting to buy a souvenir when she and others in her group thought they heard firecrackers.

"Before we knew it, someone said, ‘No, that’s gunfire, run,’ and we saw people coming off the top,” she told CTV News, one of Canada’s national television broadcasters.

“There were thousands of people there and there were a lot of gunshots that just kept coming,” Lee said.

The scene quickly turned chaotic as people tried to escape, Lee said.

“And then a fellow jumped,” she said. “It was someone trying to get away, and he dropped to the next level, but he fell on his back, and it was ... it just was awful.”

In past years, staff at the archaeological site carried out security scans before people entered the area but have since stopped.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on social media that the shooting would be investigated and that she was in touch with the Canadian Embassy.

“What happened today in Teotihuacán deeply pains us. I express my most sincere solidarity with the affected individuals and their families,” she wrote.

Anita Anand, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, said on X that as a “result of a horrific act of gun violence, a Canadian was killed and another wounded in Teotihuacán” and that her “thoughts are with their family and loved ones. ”

The Teotihuacán pyramids are a series of massive structures on the outskirts of Mexico City built by three different ancient civilizations. As one of Mexico's most important touristic destinations, the site drew more than 1.8 million international visitors last year, according to government figures.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that the Teotihuacán archaeological site will remain closed until further notice.

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Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Amazon in San Francisco Superior Court in 2022 accusing the company of violating the state’s antitrust and unfair competition laws. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next year but Bonta is asking the judge to order Amazon to cease its practices immediately.

According to the filing, the alleged price fixing scheme generally begins with the Seattle-based company demanding vendors to fix or look into prices of products on other websites and request that those prices be increased or else face penalties such as promotion restrictions or even removal of products from Amazon's site.

For example, the filing alleges that Amazon, apparel company Levi Strauss & Co. and Walmart agreed to fix prices on khaki pants. Amazon sent the denim retailer links to pants that were priced lower on Walmart.com, saying it “hop(ed) these can get resolved over the next few days.”

The next day, Levi Strauss reported having talked to Walmart to increase prices back to $29.99, according to the filing.

“This is about protecting Californians from paying more than they should for everyday products, especially at a time when affordability feels farther and farther out of reach,” Bonta, a Democrat, said Monday at a virtual news conference.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Amazon dismissed Bonta's motion as “a transparent attempt to distract from the weakness of its case” with “supposedly ‘new’” evidence.

“Amazon is consistently identified as America’s lowest-priced online retailer, and we’re proud of the low prices customers find when shopping in our store. Amazon looks forward to responding in court at the appropriate time,” the statement said.

A Walmart spokesperson said in an email that it does "not comment on litigation in which we are not a party. We will always work hard on behalf of our customers to keep our prices low.”

Levi Strauss did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Bonta said that his office is focused on Amazon because “the unlawful conduct stems from and originates from Amazon” but reserved the right to go after other retailers and vendors in the future.

The alleged price fixing involves a wide assortment of goods, including home decor, garden products and pet care, according to the filing.

The hearing for the motion for a preliminary injunction is in July.

Contabilizadas el 93,5% de las actas de las elecciones del 12 de abril, la derechista Keiko Fujimori, del partido Fuerza Popular, lidera con 17,05% de votos; el progresista Roberto Sánchez, de Juntos por el Perú, es segundo con el 12,00% y le pisa los talones el ultraconservador López Aliaga, de Renovación Popular, con 11,91%, según la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE).

Los comicios se caracterizaron por la participación inusual de 35 aspirantes a la presidencia.

“Hay que dar tiempo a los candidatos que pasan a la segunda elección para que revisen su propaganda y los debates que se tienen que generar para que la ciudadanía tenga conocimiento de sus planes de gobierno y sus propuestas”, dijo el vocero del tribunal Jorge Valdivia en una conferencia de prensa.

El funcionario indicó que más de una semana después de los comicios de primera vuelta, se recibieron 27.227 actas observadas de unas 65.000 actas que se espera que lleguen desde la ONPE, organizadora de las elecciones, tras cuestionamientos diversos que incluyen votos mal contados u otro tipo de observaciones.

Valdivia explicó que cada acta electoral observada puede contener como máximo 300 votos o menos si proviene del territorio peruano. Si proviene del extranjero los votos podrían ser más de 300. Indicó que el número de votos de cada acta es distinta, por lo cual no pueden realizar una estimación total.

El conteo de resultados electorales en Perú es lento en comparación con otros países de la región. En las presidenciales de 2021, el Tribunal Electoral los anunció el 18 de mayo, 37 días después de la primera vuelta. En aquel entonces, la separación entre los candidatos que ocupaban el segundo y tercer lugar fue amplia desde el inicio y no existió el suspenso de ahora.

Las recientes elecciones de primera vuelta se prolongaron hasta el lunes 13 de abril luego que más de 52.000 personas no pudieron votar el día anterior en más de una decena de centros de sufragio de Lima y dos centros de las ciudades de Orlando y Paterson, en Estados Unidos, por falta de papeletas de votación.

López Aliaga, quien lucha por llegar al segundo lugar, ha señalado sin mostrar pruebas que en Perú se ha producido un “fraude electoral único en el mundo” y ha proferido insultos homófobos contra el presidente del Tribunal Electoral, Roberto Burneo, a quien le dio un plazo de 24 horas para que anulara las elecciones. Además, pidió la captura del jefe de la ONPE, Piero Corvetto, a quien insulta llamándolo “ladrón”. También calificó a Burneo y a Corvetto como “un asco” y “la vergüenza nacional”.

En sus redes sociales ha ofrecido dinero a funcionarios electorales para que le entreguen pruebas de un posible fraude, lo que luego borró, y sostenido que si las irregularidades se consuman convocará en todo Perú a una “insurgencia civil”. También ha pedido que una misión de observación electoral de la Unión Europea (UE) salga del país "de una vez”.

La misión de observación electoral de la UE dijo la semana pasada en una conferencia de prensa de que no existe ninguna prueba de fraude en Perú.

López Aliaga exigió la víspera a las autoridades a que convoquen a “elecciones complementarias antes del 3 de mayo para que voten todos los peruanos que no han votado”.

De acuerdo con documentos judiciales obtenidos por Local 10 News el lunes, dos de ellos están ahora bajo custodia: Joseph Marsicek, de 55 años, y su novia Lisa Bulinski, de 53, ambos de Zephyrhills, enfrentan cargos de delito grave cada uno.

Los investigadores dijeron que ellos, junto a la madre de Marsicek, Mary Ann MacPherson, se mudaron de la casa al condado Pasco el 15 de febrero. Tres días después, los investigadores dijeron que la víctima intentaba mostrarle su colección a una amiga cuando se dio cuenta de que las monedas habían desaparecido, lo que la llevó a llamar al Departamento de Policía de Hollywood.

Según los investigadores, la víctima y MacPherson se conocían desde la década de 1980, cuando ambas trabajaban a tiempo parcial en una joyería. La policía dijo que hace unos cuatro años, MacPherson “llamó quejándose de su situación de vivienda” en Zephyrhills y dijo que quería regresar al sur de Florida, por lo que la víctima le permitió quedarse con ella bajo la condición de que pagara renta y consiguiera trabajo.

Pero la policía dijo que MacPherson también llegó con Marsicek, lo que incomodó a la víctima. Sin embargo, la policía dijo que la víctima dejó a MacPherson quedarse en una habitación y a Marsicek dormir en su auto, y luego en una carpa, afuera. Las autoridades dijeron que él luego comenzó a salir con Bulinski.

Los tres están acusados de robar las valiosas monedas y llevarlas a un comprador de oro y joyas.

Obtuvieron alrededor de $72,000 por la venta de las monedas mientras se quejaban de dinero y vivían de ayudas del gobierno, dijo la policía, pero los detectives sospechan que esa cifra representa solo una fracción de lo que robaron.

“Creo que los sospechosos aún tienen en su poder una gran cantidad de los bienes de la víctima”, escribió el oficial de la policía de Hollywood, Mark Robbins, en un informe.

Los registros muestran que la policía de Hollywood arrestó a Marsicek y Bulinski el jueves en el bloque 5900 de Taft Street. No quedó claro de inmediato cómo fueron localizados.

Hasta el lunes, Marsicek y Bulinski permanecían detenidos en Broward bajo cargos de robo mayor de primer grado, empeño de artículos con información falsa y comercialización de bienes robados.

Sus fianzas fueron fijadas en $125,000, pero deberán demostrar que cualquier dinero que utilicen para pagarla proviene de una fuente legítima antes de ser liberados.

MacPherson, quien según los registros también está programada para enfrentar cargos en el caso, no aparecía en los registros de las cárceles de Broward ni de Pasco hasta el lunes por la tarde.

Esta vez, Tasshay Mills enfrenta cargos de participar junto a otra mujer en un esquema de “crimen minorista organizado” que apuntaba a tiendas Ulta Beauty en los condados Miami-Dade y Broward.

Los registros muestran que Mills, de 31 años y residente de Miami, fue ingresada al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. La policía arrestó a su presunta cómplice, Jessica Lidia Duarte, de 33 años, del noroeste de Miami-Dade, en enero.

Las autoridades dicen que los cargos en Miami-Dade se derivan de un robo ocurrido el 3 de noviembre de 2025 en el Ulta Beauty ubicado en 11751 S. Dixie Highway en Pinecrest.

La policía dijo que Mills, de Liberty City, y Duarte, residente del área no incorporada de Brownsville, tomaron “múltiples botellas de perfumes variados” por un valor de casi $3,000, las metieron en bolsos y se fueron sin pagar.

Los investigadores dijeron que Mills y Duarte luego apuntaron a tiendas Ulta en Pembroke Pines, Davie, Fort Lauderdale y Deerfield Beach. Ambas mujeres enfrentan ahora cada una un cargo de robo mayor en Miami-Dade.

Pero para Mills, el caso se suma a serios problemas legales previos.

Hasta el lunes, aún enfrentaba cargos de abuso y negligencia infantil relacionados con un incidente ocurrido el 5 de septiembre de 2024 en Hialeah.

La policía dijo que Mills se enfureció con su hija de 1 año después de que la niña “derramó champú en el asiento trasero” de su vehículo, lo que la llevó a golpear a la pequeña.

Las autoridades dijeron que los llantos de la niña durante la golpiza enfurecieron aún más a Mills, quien tenía 29 años en ese momento. Dijeron que empujó a la pequeña sobre la calzada cerca de Northwest 37th Avenue y 54th Street y se alejó conduciendo.

Según la policía, una mujer y su novio que estaban detrás de Mills en un semáforo en rojo ayudaron a rescatar a la pequeña de la calle. La policía dijo que mientras los buenos samaritanos atendían a la niña ensangrentada, Mills dio una vuelta en U, arrebató a su hija y se fue, lo que provocó una alerta de niño desaparecido.

La policía detuvo posteriormente a Mills, quien figuraba en los documentos de arresto como residente de Opa-locka en ese momento, en Miramar.

En cuanto a su caso más reciente, la policía de Pinecrest dijo que había realizado “numerosos” intentos de encontrarla en el condado Miami-Dade. No está claro dónde las autoridades la encontraron el domingo, pero desde su regreso al TGK, Mills estaba detenida con una fianza de $2,500 y dos órdenes de arresto pendientes, una de ellas proveniente de fuera de Miami-Dade.

Mientras tanto, los registros de la cárcel indican que Duarte “no se encuentra detenida en ninguna instalación del condado.”

Launches of the huge New Glenn rocket are grounded until Blue Origin and the Federal Aviation Administration complete their investigation.

The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday. The recycled first-stage booster performed well, landing on an ocean barge several minutes into the flight. But the upper stage was unable to put the satellite into a high enough orbit to begin operations.

Preliminary data indicate that one of the upper stage engines failed to produce enough thrust, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said.

The satellite was supposed to join AST SpaceMobile's orbiting network of satellites designed to provide direct space-to-smart phone service.

The rocket’s upper stage and satellite reentered the atmosphere Monday, according to the U.S. Space Force. No additional detail was available.

It was only the third flight for New Glenn, Blue Origin's hulking rocket for delivering spacecraft to orbit. NASA is counting on New Glenn to launch Blue Moon lunar landers for the Artemis moon program. SpaceX's Starship is also in the running to land astronauts on the moon as early as 2028.

Towering more than 320 feet (98 meters), the rocket is named for John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.

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Last year, an American Airlines jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft. That crash on Jan. 29, 2025, put the spotlight on midair collisions, which are rare in commercial flights where the planes are equipped with systems to alert pilots about a potential collision.

Most of the close calls that happen every year involve small planes that don’t have those systems, but the Federal Aviation Administration couldn’t immediately provide a number for how many happen annually. There are typically several collisions involving small planes every year like the one that happened in February 2025 in Arizona that killed two people.

Both of the Southwest pilots involved in this incident over the weekend told the air traffic controller that they received alarms from their collision avoidance systems that directed them to take action with one plane climbing while the other descended to avoid the potential midair collision, according to audio posted by www.LiveATC.net.

Location data from these two planes show their flight paths converging after one pilot decided to abort landing and circle around to try again. The controller directed that plane to turn into the path of the other Southwest plane that had just taken off. By the time the controller recognized the threat and tried to direct the plane that had just taken off to stay below 2000 feet (609 meters), the pilot reported that he was already above that level.

That location data appears to show these planes getting as close as 500 feet (152 meters) apart with one of them flying just over the top of the other plane, according to FlightRadar24, so that would fit the official definition of a near midair collision. But it may not be clear exactly how close they planes got until after the incident is reviewed.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating. The agency said the pilot of Southwest flight 507 “received instructions from air traffic control that put the flight in the path of another airplane that was departing from a parallel runway. Both flight crews responded to onboard alerts.”

But the FAA did not say how close the planes got during the incident that happened around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

Southwest Airlines spokesperson Lynn Lunsford said gusty winds at the Nashville International Airport prompted the first pilot to perform a go around. He said both pilots followed the directions from the air traffic controller and their onboard collision avoidance systems to avoid running into each other.

“Southwest appreciates the professionalism of its pilots and flight crews in responding to the event. Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees,” Lunsford said in a statement.

El abogado de Hochstein presentó una declaración de no culpabilidad en su nombre.

El juez, mientras tanto, dijo que se fijó otra audiencia para el 8 de junio y que se espera que el juicio comience el 21 de junio.

Hochstein se entregó a las autoridades el miércoles en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight antes de salir bajo fianza.

Según la orden de arresto de Hochstein, ella y su exnovio Jody Glidden instalaron un dispositivo de grabación en el piso del asiento del conductor del SUV Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 plateado 2023 del doctor Leonard “Lenny” Hochstein en marzo de 2023, después de que la estrella de telerrealidad le pidió prestado el vehículo a su pronto exesposo alegando que pensaba comprar uno similar.

Lenny Hochstein, un destacado cirujano plástico del sur de Florida, le dijo a los detectives en mayo de 2023 que informó de inmediato a su abogado tras descubrir el dispositivo, y que el abogado contrató luego a un investigador privado para examinarlo, según la orden.

De acuerdo con la orden, se recuperaron un total de 98 grabaciones del dispositivo, incluyendo una conversación entre Lisa Hochstein y Glidden mientras el aparato era “colocado a presión”.

Glidden también enfrenta el mismo cargo que Lisa Hochstein.

Jayne Weintraub, abogada defensora de Lisa Hochstein, y los abogados Howard Srebnick y Frank Gaviria, defensores de Glidden, publicaron un comunicado conjunto a Local 10 News la semana pasada en el que dijeron: “Este asunto es parte de un contencioso proceso de divorcio y no pertenece a un tribunal penal.”

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Talbi finished in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds in the men's race. McClain finished in 2:20:49 in the women's competition. There were seven American men and 12 American women in the top 20, including four women in the top 10.

“I think we’re in an era in distance running, on the men and women’s sides, but especially the women’s side, where we’re all making each other so much better every time we line up with one another,” McClain said. “And I think it’s just going to get stronger and stronger.”

That's what's it's going to take, Talbi said, to take American distance running to the next level.

“We need to push each other, everyone needs to be in the pack,” said Talbi, who competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics for Morocco and became an American citizen last year.

Both were pleasantly surprised by their fast times. Talbi said he was more focused on trying to catch the runner ahead of him, which pushed him to run faster. McClain said she tries to ignore her watch during a race.

Talbi won the Houston Marathon in January in 2:05:45, a course record. He said he felt confident heading into Boston since he had achieved his personal best times at races this year.

“Everything was clicking, everything was good,” he said. “And I was like, this is the day.”

McClain finished seventh in her Boston debut last year and was the top American woman that time, too.

“Obviously I wanted to come in and defend the first American title, and to do that on a day like today with amazing conditions and to run the time that I knew was in me, at some point in the wheelhouse of what I can do, is really awesome,” she said.

Defending champion John Korir broke the Boston Marathon course record to win the men's race in 2:01:52 — the fifth-fastest marathon of all time. Sharon Lokedi joined her fellow Kenyan as a back-to-back champion, winning the women’s race in 2:18:51.

Last month at the U.S. half marathon championships in Atlanta, McClain was ahead by a wide margin with about 1.5 miles to go when she and three other runners followed the guide vehicle on a wrong turn. Track and field’s international governing body decided to allow seven Americans — instead of the usual four — to compete at the world championships in Denmark.

McClain said she made a far smaller U-turn on Monday, too. She dropped her bottle and went back to pick it up, then had to catch up with the lead pack.

“We all know what happened in Atlanta, I’ve been a half mile off course, so a few seconds is not going to throw me,” she said.

The previous records for American runners in Boston were set by Ryan Hall in 2011 and Shalane Flanagan in 2014.

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The ruling by a divided seven-judge panel of the appellate-level Commonwealth Court is a major victory for Planned Parenthood and abortion clinic operators who first sued Pennsylvania over its Medicaid funding restrictions in 2019.

While the case initially centered over state Medicaid limitations, the stakes significantly expanded after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 ended nearly a half-century of federal abortion protections by overturning Roe v. Wade.

The court's finding on Monday marks the first time that the right to an abortion is protected by the Pennsylvania constitution, joining a handful of states where reproductive rights advocates have found success in protecting abortion access by pointing to state constitutions.

The case could still be appealed to Pennsylvania's Supreme Court.

“Today, our Commonwealth Court, looking at the Pennsylvania constitution, held that there is a right to reproductive autonomy, and it’s the highest possible level of a right,” said Susan Frietsche, executive director of the Women's Law Project, which helped represent the clinics.

A spokesperson for Attorney General David Sunday, a Republican, said the office was reviewing the decision and did not say whether it would appeal.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, praised the decision.

“I’ve long opposed this unconstitutional ban, and as Governor, I did not defend it — because a woman’s ability to access reproductive care should never be determined by her income,” Shapiro said in a statement.

In 2019, plaintiffs asked the court to order the state’s Medicaid program to begin covering abortions, without restriction, arguing that a 1982 Pennsylvania law restricting state Medicaid funding violated the constitutional equal protection rights of low-income women.

The case has since taken several turns, with a lower-court ruling in 2021 that the plaintiffs did not have standing and also saying that they were bound by a state Supreme Court 1985 decision upholding the 1982 law.

However, in 2024, the state Supreme Court overturned the lower court's ruling and also determined that previous court decisions did not fully consider the breadth of state constitutional protections against discrimination beyond those provided by the federal constitution.

The seven judges on the lower court who heard the case largely sided with the plaintiffs on Monday. The majority opinion said the state should invest in maternal and infant health care and other resources if it believes that women should carry a pregnancy to term.

The attorney general's office had argued that the state had an interest in “protecting fetal life” and that the Medicaid coverage exclusion helped support that goal.

“If the state believes certain medical procedures may psychologically harm women, the state can license, regulate, and educate around such care. That is less intrusive than taking an entire medical procedure off the table categorically for some women, some of whom may benefit from that procedure — a fact the Attorney General does not dispute," the majority opinion said.

Abortion opponents quickly criticized Monday's decision.

“By declaring a sweeping constitutional ‘right to reproductive autonomy’ and mandating taxpayer-funded abortion through Medicaid, the court has overstepped its authority, ignored the plain text of our state constitution, and forced millions of Pennsylvanians who believe life begins at conception to subsidize the killing of unborn children," said Michael Geer, president of Pennsylvania Family Institute, which opposes abortion rights.

In Pennsylvania, abortion is legal under state law through 23 weeks of pregnancy.

El encuentro h abía trascendido en medios de prensa a fines de la semana pasada, pero Cuba no se había referido al asunto.

“Puedo comentar que, en días pasados, tuvo lugar en La Habana una reunión bilateral entre altos funcionarios de Cuba y Estados Unidos a nivel de viceministro de Relaciones Exteriores y secretarios adjuntos del Departamento de Estado”, indicó Alejandro García del Toro, subdirector de asuntos estadounidenses de la Cancillería cubana, en declaraciones enviadas a The Associated Press y luego publicadas en el periódico oficial Granma.

García, sin embargo, desmintió que hubiera mensajes de ultimátum o conminatorios como se publicó en medios de Estados Unidos. “No hubo tono o planteamiento impositivo alguno, tampoco plazos conminatorios contrario a lo que se ha dicho por algunos medios de prensa. El intercambio fue serio y respetuoso”, aseguró.

Según los transcendidos publicados en los medios a partir de fuentes estadounidenses no identificadas, en la reunión los funcionarios norteamericanos habían exigido a Cuba la liberación de presos políticos y reformas económicas a fin de aliviar las sanciones. Igualmente en las conversaciones, según esos reportes, se habló de la posibilidad de permitir internet satelital Starlink en la isla.

Aunque no ofreció detalles sobre lo conversado, el diplomático cubano señaló que los temas tratados fueron de interés “binacional” y “se deliberó sobre temas en los que hay diferencias”.

“Para Cuba, la prioridad es poner fin al bloqueo energético que impone un castigo colectivo extraordinario e injustificado sobre el pueblo de Cuba”, afirmó. “Además, plantea una amenaza coercitiva contra todo Estado, que en uso de sus prerrogativas soberanas se proponga exportar combustibles a Cuba”.

El presidente Donald Trump impuso un cerco energético tras atacar a inicios de enero a Venezuela y capturar al entonces presidente Nicolás Maduro, privando a la isla de un aliado ideológico y estratégico clave, la última vuelta de tuerca sobre unas sanciones que pesan sobre la isla desde hace seis décadas y que ya habían ocasionado una severa crisis en este lustro.

Cuba pasó más de tres meses sin poder importar combustible hasta que un buque ruso atracó los últimos días de marzo. La nación caribeña apenas produce el 40% del combustible que necesita para su desenvolvimiento diario.

Las consecuencias en estos meses fue la agudización de la crisis económica con largos apagones y desabastecimiento. El combustible para los vehículos está racionado y la isla luce semiparalizada en sus principales actividades.

De acuerdo con los reportes de los medios estadounidenses, el encuentro de funcionarios de ambos países incluyó a Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, nieto del ex presidente y líder revolucionario, Raúl Castro, quien no ocupa un cargo oficial pero tiene una fuerte presencia simbólica.

Funcionarios estadounidenses han dicho previamente que el secretario de Estado estadouniense, Marco Rubio, hijo de inmigrantes cubanos y férreo crítico del gobierno de Cuba, se reunió en febrero pasado con Rodríguez Castro en la nación caribeña de San Cristóbal y Nieves.

Las conversaciones se dieron a conocer después de que Trump declaró en los últimos días que su gobierno podría centrar su atención en Cuba una vez que concluya su guerra en Irán y tras varias amenzas de “tomar” a la nación caribeña.

El jueves, el presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, dijo que Estados Unidos no tiene un argumento válido para llevar a cabo un ataque militar en contra de la isla ni para tratar de deponerlo, y sostuvo que el país estaba preparado para luchar y defenderse en caso de que fuera necesario.

El mandatario cubano ofreció sus declaraciones ante cientos de personas que acudieron a un evento para conmemorar el 65to. aniversario de la declaración del carácter socialista de la Revolución cubana.

This time, Tasshay Mills is accused of joining another woman in an “organized retail crime” scheme targeting Ulta Beauty locations in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Records show that Mills, 31, of Miami, was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Police arrested accused co-conspirator Jessica Lidia Duarte, 33, of northwest Miami-Dade, in January.

Authorities say their Miami-Dade charges stem from a Nov. 3, 2025 theft at the Ulta Beauty at 11751 S. Dixie Highway in Pinecrest.

Police said Mills, of Liberty City, and Duarte, who lives in the unincorporated Brownsville area, took “multiple bottles of assorted perfumes” worth nearly $3,000, put them in tote bags and left without paying.

Investigators said Mills and Duarte later targeted Ulta stores in Pembroke Pines, Davie, Fort Lauderdale and Deerfield Beach. Both women are now each facing a grand theft charge in Miami-Dade.

But for Mills, the case is adding to notable legal woes.

As of Monday, she still faced child abuse and neglect charges in connection with a case stemming from a Sept. 5, 2024 incident in Hialeah.

Police said Mills became angry at her 1-year-old daughter after she “spilled shampoo on the rear seat” of her vehicle, leading her to beat the toddler.

Authorities said the girl’s cries during the beating only further enraged Mills, then 29, even more. They said she pushed the little girl onto the road near Northwest 37th Avenue and 54th Street and drove off.

According to police, a woman and her boyfriend who were behind Mills at a red light helped rescue the toddler from the street. Police said as the good Samaritans were tending to the bleeding girl, Mills made a U-turn and snatched her daughter back and drove off, prompting a missing child alert.

Police later took Mills, listed in arrest documents as living in Opa-locka at the time, into custody in Miramar.

As for her latest case, Pinecrest police said they had been making “numerous” attempts to find her in Miami-Dade County. It’s not clear where authorities found her on Sunday, but since her return to TGK, Mills was being jailed on a $2,500 bond and on two outstanding warrants, one of which was from outside of Miami-Dade.

Meanwhile, jail records list Duarte as “not being held in a county facility.”

Hochstein’s attorney entered a not guilty plea on her behalf.

The judge, meanwhile, said another hearing has been set for June 8 with the trial expected to begin on June 21.

Hochstein surrendered to authorities Wednesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center before bonding out of jail.

According to Hochstein’s arrest warrant, she and her ex-boyfriend Jody Glidden planted a recording device in the driver’s seat floorboard of Dr. Leonard “Lenny” Hochstein’s silver 2023 Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 SUV in March 2023 after the reality star asked if she could borrow the vehicle from her soon-to-be ex-husband because she was thinking of purchasing one of her own.

Lenny Hochstein, a prominent plastic surgeon in South Florida, told detectives in May 2023 that he immediately informed his attorney after discovering the device and the attorney then hired a private investigator to examine it, the warrant states.

According to the warrant, a total of 98 recordings were recovered from the device, including a conversation between Lisa Hochstein and Glidden as the device was being “wrestled into place.”

Glidden is also charged with the same crime as Lisa Hochstein.

Jayne Weintraub, Lisa Hochstein’s defense counsel, and attorneys Howard Srebnick and Frank Gaviria, Glidden’s defense counsel, released a joint statement to Local 10 News last week, saying, “This matter is part of a contentious divorce proceeding and does not belong in criminal court.”

Pittsburgh general manager Omar Khan said Monday the team remains in regular communication with the four-time MVP, who guided the Steelers to the AFC North title in 2025.

“Nothing's changed,” Khan said. “It's all been positive and good. He knows how we feel about him and we know how he feels about us."

It just hasn't rendered any definitive answer from Rodgers, and none appears to be coming before the NFL draft descends on Pittsburgh on Thursday. The 42-year-old quarterback didn't sign with Pittsburgh until just before the start of mandatory minicamp last June. Rodgers' uncertain status, however, is unlikely to play a factor in what the Steelers plan to do with their 12 selections that begin with the 21st overall pick.

“That doesn’t change our evaluation process,” Khan said. “We’re still putting the guys up where they need to be and we’ll just see how it shakes out.”

What was once considered a quarterback-rich draft a year ago looks far different now, with no safe bets outside of Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza of Indiana going No. 1 to Las Vegas.

The Steelers currently only have two quarterbacks under contract in last year's sixth-round pick Will Howard — whose rookie season a year ago was marred by a hand injury sustained early in training camp — and longtime backup Mason Rudolph.

Pittsburgh will almost certainly add to that depth in the draft. Penn State's Drew Allar, Miami's Carson Beck and North Dakota State's Cole Payton have all been in for pre-draft visits, though all figure to be later-round selections whenever they hear their name called.

Mike McCarthy, a Pittsburgh native hired to replace Mike Tomlin in January, has a lengthy resume as quarterback whisperer of sorts. The list of players McCarthy has worked with in the past include Rodgers, Dallas' Dak Prescott and former No. 1 overall pick Alex Smith, who spent a year with McCarthy in San Francisco in 2005.

“We speak on it as being the most important position in football,” McCarthy said. “And I think it’s important to always try to add to it if you can (but) it has to fit.”

The Steelers do have several needs outside of a young quarterback, including a versatile receiver to team with veterans DK Metcalf and Michael Pittman Jr., and at offensive tackle, a position that's in a state of flux as left tackle Broderick Jones — their first-round pick in 2023 — recovers from a neck injury that forced him to miss the last seven games of 2025.

There is no timetable on when Jones might be ready, though he was with his teammates on Monday as part of the “medical group” as the Steelers held informal workouts.

Khan said Jones was still “early in the process” and the injury means Pittsburgh will almost certainly decline Jones' fifth-year option for 2027, meaning they might head into the draft eyeing a longer-term solution to protect whoever might end up being the franchise quarterback the club has been searching for since Ben Roethlisberger's retirement in early 2022.

Pittsburgh's dozen picks give Khan the option to use some of them as collateral if the team decides to trade up. There's also the chance he could trade down early in the draft to accumulate more capital.

McCarthy seems fine either way. While he called the current roster a “nice mix” of older and younger players, the chance to add quality depth is never a bad thing.

“Being above 10 (picks) I think would be awesome personally,” McCarthy said. “I’ve always felt that the more players you have to develop, I think it definitely is, for the long term, a good process.”

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The subpoenas were issued in recent days and represent an effort by the Justice Department to press forward with the investigation even as a Florida-based career prosecutor who'd been helping lead the inquiry left the case after expressing doubts about the legal viability of a potential criminal prosecution.

Joseph diGenova, a former Justice Department lawyer who served as a top prosecutor in the 1980s and later supported legal efforts by President Donald Trump to overturn his 2020 election loss, has since been sworn in to serve as a special counselor to the attorney general, and is expected to work on the investigation.

The months-old Brennan investigation is one of several criminal probes the Justice Department has opened over the last year against Trump's perceived adversaries. It centers on one of the Republican president's chief grievances — a U.S. intelligence community finding that Russia interfered on his behalf during his successful 2016 presidential campaign.

The subpoenas were described by people with knowledge of them who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation. At least three were said to have been issued, said two of the people. CBS News earlier reported the issuance of subpoenas.

Brennan served as CIA director under President Barack Obama and was in that role when the intelligence community in January 2017 published an assessment detailing Russian interference aimed at helping Trump defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. An investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russia meddled on Trump's behalf and that his campaign welcomed the assistance, but it did not find sufficient evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy.

The Justice Department last year received a criminal referral from Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, alleging that Brennan made false statements before the panel in 2023 about the preparation of the intelligence community assessment. Brennan and his lawyers have vigorously denied any wrongdoing and have called the investigation politically motivated.

The investigation has been unfolding for months in Florida, with investigators lining up interviews and issuing subpoenas for records. The latest subpoenas seek grand jury testimony in Washington, an indication that prosecutors expect they would have to bring any criminal case in Washington since that is where Brennan's testimony took place.

On Friday, it was revealed that a key national security prosecutor in Florida who'd been handling the investigation, Maria Medetis Long, left the case. She expressed doubts about the case and was removed, another person familiar with the matter said.

The Justice Department has tapped diGenova, 81, a Trump loyalist who served as the U.S. Attorney in Washington for part of the 1980s, to serve as a special counselor to the attorney general. He was sworn in Monday in Florida and is expected to work on the Brennan investigation.

DiGenova supported Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. He made headlines that year when he said Chris Krebs, a top Trump administration cybersecurity official who had determined that the 2020 election was free of major fraud or interference, should be killed. diGenova later apologized and a lawsuit filed against him by Krebs was withdrawn.

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An estimated 1,000 activists from around the country came to Ridglan Farms in rural Blue Mounds in an attempt Saturday to free an estimated 2,000 beagles kept there about 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Madison. They were met by police who repelled them with tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray. The Dane County Sheriff's Department said 29 people were arrested.

More than 100 protesters were met outside of the Capitol hallway that leads to the offices of Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul by police officers who handed out constituent contact forms for Wisconsin residents to complete.

Evers and Kaul did not immediately return messages seeking comment. No one from their offices spoke directly to the protesters, some of whom carried pictures of Evers, Kaul and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin interacting with dogs.

Aidan Kankyoku, a co-leader of the Coalition to Save the Ridglan Dogs that organized the effort, said they were hoping that both Evers and Kaul would break their silence about the dog breeder. Kankyoku said activists also wanted Kaul to execute a search warrant on the facility to investigate allegations of ongoing animal cruelty.

Ridglan has denied mistreating animals but agreed in October to give up its state breeding license as of July 1 as part of a deal to avoid prosecution on animal mistreatment charges. A special prosecutor determined that Ridglan was performing eye procedures on the dogs that violated state veterinary standards.

Under that settlement, Ridglan will no longer be able to sell beagles to outside researchers starting July 1.

Ridglan says it has served as a biomedical research facility “that supports health studies benefitting both humans and animals” for more than 60 years. Nearly all of its current research is aimed at improving veterinary medicine, according to its website.

Ridglan said in a statement Monday that activists “have spread false and highly misleading claims about our research and our deep commitment to animal welfare, fueling dangerous levels of anger and hatred.” Ridglan said staff members have been threatened and followed as they leave the facility.

Many of those who were at the facility on Saturday returned to the Capitol on Monday to decry law enforcement’s reaction. Some of them showed off bruises they said were caused by rubber bullets.

Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett defended the actions of his officers, telling The Associated Press on Monday that their response was “appropriate and decisive” to the risk posed by between 300 and 400 protesters who attempted to break into the facility.

“We were outnumbered,” Barrett said of the 26 officers on scene.

The activists were organized into three groups, with one willing to commit felony breaking and entering, another willing to be arrested for trespassing, while others were there to peacefully protest, the sheriff said.

The sheriff's department released a video that showed a truck driving through Ridglan's gate, which Barrett said put officers and Ridglan staff who were in its path at risk. Barrett said another video released Monday showed an activist taking a baton away from an officer as protesters tried to rush the gate to the facility.

Protesters previously broke into the facility in March and took 30 dogs. Twenty-seven people were arrested on trespassing and other charges.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan last week questioned U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. during a House Appropriations Committee hearing about federal grants going to organizations that use beagles from Ridglan Farms.

Kennedy said he had a hard time believing what Pocan was telling him but that he would look into it.

Pocan on Sunday called on state officials to work with Ridglan on a plan for releasing the dogs that won't overwhelm placement groups and prevent the beagles from being euthanized.

Kankyoku said if Ridglan would release the dogs, homes and veterinary care could be found for them.

“We just want the dogs out,” he said.

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This story has been updated to correct that Pocan's social media post was Sunday, not Monday.

Aubrey, a former professional soccer player whose NFL career started when he was 28, will get $20 million guaranteed while becoming the first kicker with a $7 million annual average, agent Todd France said.

The 31-year-old Aubrey's six field goals of at least 60 yards are the most in league history. He is also among the most accurate, with a career rate of 88.2% (112 of 127).

Aubrey, who was a restricted free agent, went to high school in the Dallas area and played soccer at Notre Dame before he was taken by Toronto FC in the MLS draft in 2017.

He was working as a software engineer in Arlington, where the Cowboys play at AT&T Stadium, when his wife encouraged him to pursue a kicking career. Aubrey spent two years in the USFL and signed with the Cowboys before training camp in 2023.

The first NFL record Aubrey set was the most made field goals without a miss to start a career at 35. He became the first with three field goals of at least 55 yards in the same game against Detroit last year, when he was also the first with three from at least 60 in the same season.

Aubrey set the franchise record with a 65-yarder against Cleveland in 2024. That's now 3 yards shy of the longest in NFL history, behind a 68-yard field goal from Jacksonville's Cam Little last season.

Houston's Ka'imi Fairbairn has an average annual value of $6.5 million in his contract, with Harrison Butker of Kansas City right behind him at $6.4 million.

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Fernando Mendoza embraced it. He did the interviews, made the rounds and firmed up his draft night plans with his trademark smile and positive attitude. Now all he can do is wait to see what happens Thursday night.

The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback and overwhelming favorite to be taken No. 1 overall said Monday he's enjoyed each step along the path as he anticipates starting the next chapter of his football journey — whether it's in Las Vegas backing up Kirk Cousins or going to some other team.

“ It's been long, but it's been great because a job interview usually is a couple of weeks or even a single day in the office, but this job interview has been a couple of months," Mendoza told The Associated Press. “The teams know everything about you, and that's been my favorite part. They can peel back the layers and see the true you. It's been great to test my football IQ, my football knowledge.”

The Raiders — or any of the three other teams he spoke to — likely found little to quibble with.

In fact, Mendoza and pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced Monday they had formed a new partnership with the quarterback becoming a spokesman urging people to get early cancer screenings. It seems a natural pairing given that he has watched someone close to him battle cancer, his mother is still battling multiple sclerosis and his father is a doctor.

Two commercials have been cut and are scheduled to air Thursday night, and Mendoza said he expects this campaign, Every Breakthrough Matters, to expand, potentially into other health battles.

Still, Mendoza's mind is mostly on football though he's not dropping any hints about whether he knows what the Raiders are thinking.

While he's met three times with Las Vegas officials since leading the Indiana Hoosiers to their first national title in mid-January, the Boston-born Mendoza also met his boyhood favorite, Raiders minority owner Tom Brady, who got an in-person look at Mendoza at the championship game.

He's also spoken with the New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals and Cleveland Browns, who hold the second, third and sixth overall picks and could be in the market for a new franchise quarterback.

But he also denied suggestions he's been studying a Las Vegas playbook, explaining the rumors started after he sought help from former NFL quarterback and quarterbacks coach Brian Griese to get a head start on some elements of what he expects to see wherever he lands. Mendoza and Griese attended the same Miami high school — Christopher Columbus — decades apart.

“We knew each other and I reached out to him and said ‘Hey, I’ve got to get ready for this. I don't care what my Pro Day looks like, I just want to help my guys on Pro Day and I want to be the best quarterback come September, can you help me with this?'” Mendoza said. “He (played) in the West Coast offense so we were able to install a lot of West Coast concepts, just general concepts and under center concepts every single team runs.”

But Mendoza also wants to keep Thursday night low key.

Instead of traveling to Pittsburgh where the draft will be held, he wants to spend some time completing this journey with those who helped him reach this point, including his younger brother, Alberto. They'll all be surrounding Fernando Mendoza in Miami on Thursday night.

“I've done so much traveling this year, it's a lot easier for my mom and her health is at the forefront,” Mendoza said. “We need to hop on a plane the next day for whatever team drafts me and to be there with the village that's poured into me — friends, family, coaches, mentors — to be there with all of them and to share the start of this NFL journey, it's going to create the best memory for our family.”

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Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested William Rowlett, of Atlanta, on Thursday afternoon near Northeast 13 Court and Garfield Street in Hollywood.

“You are dead man: Steal my money I am going to kill you dog. I am going to stab you 17 times until you have no blood left. You won’t even see it coming. And Yes I just threatened your kids,” Rowlett wrote in a text message, according to a BSO deputy’s arrest report.

Rowlett also allegedly told the victim that he would slit his throat and stab him 13 times so he would bleed to death, according to the deputy’s report.

“Rowlett became upset after the victim refused to provide him with money to go to the Hollywood Casino to gamble,” a deputy wrote, according to the report.

Broward prosecutors filed a case against Rowlett on Friday on a second-degree felony charge of intimidation-written threat to kill or injure. His bond is $10,000.

Broward County Circuit Judge Michael Ian Rothschild was set to preside over the case.

The crash, following an operation to destroy a clandestine drug lab in a rural area, has reignited a debate over the extent of U.S. involvement in Mexican security operations. Speculation was only fueled by Sheinbaum, local officials and the U.S. Embassy appearing to contradict each other and at times themselves, and offering sparse details about the U.S. officials who died.

“It was not an operation that the security cabinet was aware of,” Sheinbaum told journalists. “We were not informed; it was a decision by the Chihuahua government.”

It comes at a key moment for the relationship between the two neighboring nations as Mexico faces escalating pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump crack down on cartels and Sheinbaum underscores Mexico’s sovereignty.

Sheinbaum said her government would investigate the incident to ensure no laws were broken after the deaths on Sunday, adding that state governments must have authorization from Mexico's federal government to collaborate with U.S. and other foreign entities “as established by the Constitution.”

A mountainside car crash

Chihuahua Attorney General César Jáuregui said Sunday the officials died while returning from the operation to destroy labs of criminal groups. They were driving in the middle of the night through rugged mountain territory connecting Chihuahua to the state of Sinaloa, when the truck “appears to have skidded at some point and fell into a ravine, exploding.”

He said the four who died were two local Mexican investigative officials and two U.S. Embassy instructors who were participating in routine “training work.”

The U.S. Embassy on Monday declined to identify who the U.S. officials were or which entity of the U.S. government they worked for, but said the officials were “supporting Chihuahua state authorities’ efforts to combat cartel operations.” U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson expressed his condolences on social media but he and other officials provided few details of the incident.

Jáuregui said that the operation came following months of investigation by state prosecutors and Mexico's federal military, indicating there was at least some level of involvement in the operation from Sheinbaum’s security forces. Hours later, the Mexican Security Cabinet confirmed that the army and state prosecutor’s office carried out a joint operation over the weekend in Chihuahua dismantling drug labs in the same location, Morelos.

After locating the labs using drones, officials found tons of material to manufacture drugs but no people, who were likely alerted beforehand and fled, the prosecutor added.

The local official later backtracked and clarified to press that there “were no U.S. agents in the operation to secure the narco-lab," and said the embassy officials joined the group after the operation and were several hours away from where the action took place.

A resurfaced debate

Sheinbaum said her government would provide more information when it has more details, but insisted Monday that “there are no joint operations on land or in the air" in Mexico. She said there is only sharing of information between her government and the U.S., carried out within a “well-established” legal framework.

While U.S. officials’ training of Mexican security forces is common, their presence on Mexican territory has been the subject of ongoing debate, which has intensified after Trump’s military actions in Venezuela and Iran.

Trump has repeatedly offered to take action on Mexican cartels, intervention which Sheinbaum has said was “unnecessary. ” The Trump administration has already launched joint military operations in Ecuador, a country that has been roiled by violence by drug gangs in recent years.

Last year, Sheinbaum said the U.S. had conducted surveillance drone flights at Mexico’s request after a series of conflicting public statements on the issue, also sparking alarm among observers.

The most recent controversy surfaced in January over the detention in Mexico of former Canadian athlete Ryan Wedding, one of the United States’ most wanted fugitives. While Mexican officials claim he surrendered at the U.S. Embassy, U.S. authorities have described his capture as the result of a binational operation.

The recent debacle comes at a pivotal time in U.S.-Mexico relations. The second round of negotiations between the United States and Mexico on the United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, the USMCA, was slated to begin in Mexico City. The U.S. delegation is led by Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who was scheduled to meet with the president on Monday.

That same day, the Trump administration also announced it was imposing visa restrictions on family members of the Cartel de Sinaloa.

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Mahomes tore the ACL and LCL in his left knee on Dec. 14 in the final minutes of a loss to the Chargers, which effectively eliminated the Chiefs from playoff contention. Mahomes soon had surgery in Dallas with noted orthopedist Dr. Dan Cooper, and the rehabilitation began almost immediately back in Kansas City, where he has been working all offseason.

“So he goes to the meetings. He can lift, do all that. Rehab. That's the phase he's in right now," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “We'll just see. Kind of play it by ear. See where he's at. He's doing great, but we've just got to be smart with this thing.”

Mahomes previously told local reporters that “that's the goal, to play Week 1 and have no restrictions.”

The first phase of the voluntary offseason program is limited to strength and conditioning, team meetings and rehab work, and it began Monday for a two-week period. The last few years, the Chiefs have allowed Mahomes to conduct players-only workouts at his home in Texas, but that changed this year since he stayed in Kansas City to work with the Chiefs' own training staff.

Then comes the second phase of the offseason program: three weeks of on-field work at a walk-through pace and with no live contact, which means Mahomes should be able to take part in some of the work without having to risk hurting his knee again.

The third phase is organized team activites, where the offense can face the defense but there is still no live contact. The Chiefs have scheduled six of those workouts from May 26-28 and June 1-3 ahead of their mandatory minicamp on June 9-11.

The schedule is a little different from other years because Arrowhead Stadium will be hosting World Cup matches in June.

The full NFL schedule is expected to be announced in mid-May. The opening game is expected to be Sept. 10, which means the Chiefs could play their opener a few days later — about nine months after Mahomes sustained his injury.

“Knowing me, I’m going to push it to the exact limit every single day,” Mahomes said of his rehabilitation effort. “There’s places you can’t go yet. You want to but you can’t go yet. And they’re doing it for a reason."

The Chiefs last month added some insurance should Mahomes need a couple of extra weeks, sending the New York Jets a sixth-round pick in next year's draft for Justin Fields. They also picked up $7 million of his guaranteed $10 million salary.

The 27-year-old Fields signed a two-year, $40 million deal — with $30 million guaranteed — with the Jets last March, and he was the starter for most of the season until getting benched in favor of Tyrod Taylor in Week 12. He didn’t play another game for the Jets, ending the season by being placed on injured reserve in late December with a knee injury.

Still, Fields is an experienced starter in the NFL, and he is expected to at least give the Chiefs a chance to win should he need to start any games.

“We've had this extended offseason and we've been able to really dive in there and really work with the plan for this coming season,” Reid said. “We think we've got good direction in which we're going, and we'll see how it all formulates by the time we get out of these OTAs and into camp, and then out of camp and into the season.”

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The enormous hot air balloon, with a pilot and passengers in the basket, descended perfectly Saturday on a small plot of grass at a home in Temecula. Hunter Perrin said he had no idea that he had visitors until a neighbor alerted him.

“I was watching TV and my wife was doing yoga,” Perrin told The Associated Press. “There was a man standing in front of my door saying, ‘They just landed.’ What? I was very confused.”

But there they were, a group of anxious people suddenly relieved to be on solid ground. Perrin's grassy backyard patch is only about 10 feet (3 meters) wide.

“It was unbelievable, like something out of a Disney fairy tale,” Jenna Perrin said. “The balloon didn't hit our house or our trees. It was kissing the fence.”

Brianna Avalos and her husband were riding in the balloon to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. She said the pilot informed passengers that he needed to make an emergency landing because of low fuel and a shift in winds.

“At first I was like, ‘Oh my God! We’re in a backyard! This is crazy!’” Avalos told KABC-TV.

The blue balloon with gold stars and a crescent moon image was a spectacle as it came to rest in the backyard, towering over Perrin's home. The pilot disembarked the passengers, returned aloft and then landed the balloon nearby in the street, where it was dismantled.

“He was an amazing pilot,” Avalos said.

Denni Barrett, the owner of Magical Adventure, which provides the balloon rides, declined to identify the pilot but said he had “exercised great judgment” and “done the right thing.”

“Most of our landings are in wine country,” Barrett said, referring to vineyards in California's Riverside County. “Usually they're bigger backyards.”

The charges revealed key details and were among the first concrete public moves made in a grisly and horrific case that had been under a largely secret investigation in the seven months since Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found dead.

The 21-year-old D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, was charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. A defense lawyer entered not guilty pleas to all counts on behalf of Burke, who made his first court appearance Monday. He appeared behind glass in a custody area, dressed in black. A judge said he would continue to be held without bail.

The girl's parents appeared at the hearing. They looked down as they entered the courtroom and sat in the audience. They did not speak to reporters outside court.

Alleged child sex abuse during a career on the rise

Authorities alleged the Houston-born alt-pop singer killed Rivas Hernandez to protect a career on the rise after she threatened to report their sexual relationship. His debut album, “Withered,” was released just two days after authorities said she was last known to be alive. She was reported missing by her family in 2024, when she was 13. That was her age when, according to allegations in a criminal complaint, the singer engaged in continuous sexual abuse of her for at least a year from September 2023 to September 2024. California law penalizes abuse of a child under 14 especially harshly.

Authorities, who described her Monday as a “runaway,” said Rivas Hernandez was 14 when she was killed with a sharp object on or around April 23, 2025, a day she was at Burke's house in the Hollywood Hills.

Prosecutors allege Burke mutilated her body about two weeks later.

The murder charges include special circumstances — lying in wait, committing crime for financial gain and murdering the witness in an investigation — that could carry the death penalty. Prosecutors haven’t announced whether they will seek it.

The witness Burke is alleged to have killed is Rivas Hernandez herself, who could have given testimony about the sex crime allegations.

Defense says D4vd ‘did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez’

“We believe the actual evidence will show David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez,” lead defense attorney Blair Berk said in court. “We would like to have the evidence come into the light of day.”

Berk told the judge that after media reports of months of secret grand jury proceedings, she would like a public preliminary hearing to take place as soon as possible so a judge can decide whether there is enough evidence for trial.

Burke is entitled under California law to have the evidentiary hearing within 10 court days of his arraignment. Nearly all defendants waive their right to have it happen that fast, but he didn’t. A hearing to work out what will happen next was scheduled for Thursday.

“We’ll be very happy to put on the evidence that we’ve collected," said Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman, the lead prosecutor.

A missing child and the grisly discovery of a body

The case is a “a parent’s nightmare,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said at a news conference Monday announcing the charges.

The long-dead body of Rivas Hernandez was found inside a Tesla that was towed from the Hollywood Hills on Sept. 8, when Burke was on tour in support of his album. It was a day after she would have turned 15.

Her family had reported her missing from her hometown of Lake Elsinore, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.

The singer had been under investigation by an LA County grand jury looking into the death. The probe was officially secret, but its existence — and Burke's designation as its target — was revealed in February when his mother, father and brother objected in a Texas court to subpoenas demanding they testify. The 2023 Tesla Model Y was registered in the singer’s name at their address, according to court filings. Authorities did not publicly acknowledge him as a suspect until his arrest Thursday.

Police investigators searching the Tesla in a tow yard found a cadaver bag “covered with insects and a strong odor of decay,” court documents said. Detectives partially unzipped the bag and found a head and torso.

Investigators from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office removed the bag and “discovered the arms and legs had been severed from the body,” according to court documents. A second black bag was found under the first, and dismembered body parts were inside it. No cause of death has been publicly revealed, and police got a judge to block the release details of the autopsy. The court order was expected to be lifted after the charges.

“I had the chance to meet with some of the family members of Celeste and their grief is incalculable as to what happened to their daughter,” Hochman said.

D4vd was a social media-savvy singer making breakthroughs

D4vd, pronounced “David,” gained popularity among Gen Z for his blend of indie rock, R&B and lo-fi pop. He went viral on TikTok in 2022 with the hit “Romantic Homicide,” which peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart. He then signed with Darkroom and Interscope Records and released his debut EP “Petals to Thorns” and a follow-up, “The Lost Petals,” in 2023.

The Associated Press confirmed that D4vd was dropped by Interscope last year.

When the body was discovered, the singer continued his North American tour, but when reports of his possible involvement spread widely, he canceled the final two shows and a European tour that was to follow.

On April 11, about two weeks before the killing, he made his debut appearance at the Coachella music festival, where he talked to the AP.

“I was such an internet kid. The internet is really what I claim as my home,” he said. “My neighborhood was Instagram and the society was the internet.”

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Investigadores del Departamento de Policía de Homestead dijeron que Samantha Morales, de 34 años, abrió fuego en estado de ebriedad tras confrontar a las víctimas cuando estas salieron del Dr. Limon Ceviche Bar, ubicado en 2508 NE 10th Court, dentro del gran centro comercial Homestead Pavilion.

Según la policía, las víctimas le dijeron a los investigadores que después de que “salieron del restaurante y comenzaron a despedirse”, Morales llegó en un Tesla y les preguntó si estaban “bien” u “OK”.

El informe de la policía no indica si Morales conocía o no a las mujeres ni de qué manera.

Después de que una de las víctimas respondió “Sí, estoy bien. ¿Y tú?”, la policía dijo que Morales replicó: “Sí, b----. Pero parece que tú tienes un problema”.

La policía dijo que Morales abrió la puerta del auto y sacó un arma, preguntando: “¿Y qué vas a hacer al respecto?”

Después de que una de las víctimas le preguntó a Morales si las iba a “intimidar” con el arma, la policía dijo que el grupo continuó discutiendo hasta que Morales abrió fuego e hirió a dos de las mujeres.

Según el informe, una de las mujeres “se abalanzó” sobre Morales en un intento de desarmarla.

“Las dos comenzaron a pelear y fueron separadas por la policía”, escribió un detective. “La víctima entonces se dio cuenta de que había sido baleada.”

Los detectives dijeron que Morales les contó que “no recordaba el incidente, pero afirma que estaba luchando por su vida” y “admitió haber tomado tres bebidas alcohólicas”.

Las autoridades arrestaron a Morales por tres cargos de agresión grave con arma de fuego, dos cargos de agresión agravada con arma mortífera y un cargo de uso de arma de fuego —todos delitos graves— además de cargos de delito menor por exhibición indebida de un arma de fuego y uso de arma de fuego bajo los efectos del alcohol.

Hasta el lunes, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight después de que un juez de Miami-Dade ordenara mantenerla presa sin fianza.

Según los oficiales de rescate contra incendios, el fuego estalló alrededor de las 7:30 p.m. en el bloque 5700 de Northwest 15th Street.

Una larga fila de camiones de bomberos se extendió por la escena, con la policía de Lauderhill también respondiendo al área.

Un total de 16 residentes fueron desplazados de sus hogares.

Los vecinos se reunieron afuera, observando mientras los equipos trabajaban para extinguir las llamas. Un hombre que vive a dos puertas de distancia dijo que el incendio era imposible de ignorar.

“Estaba oscuro. Tenía un olor particular, como a electricidad”, dijo el hombre, identificado solo como Maxwell. “Humo negro. Quizás unos 10 o 15 pies.”

No se reportaron heridos.

La Cruz Roja Americana está ayudando a 13 de los desplazados por el incendio, entre ellos ocho niños y cinco adultos.

“La Cruz Roja está brindando asistencia financiera de emergencia, servicios de salud y salud mental, apoyo individualizado para conectar a las personas con la asistencia de recuperación disponible, y continuará ofreciendo apoyo adicional a las familias para atender sus necesidades causadas por el desastre”, dijo la organización en un comunicado de prensa. Da clic aquí y dona a la Cruz Roja.

De acuerdo con un informe de arresto del Departamento de Policía de Miami, Sophia Grace Majher, de Miami, y varias personas de su grupo estaban siendo escoltadas fuera del local en North River Drive poco después de las 10:30 p.m. por personal de seguridad y empleados cuando ocurrió el ataque.

La policía dijo que la víctima ayudaba a escoltar al “grupo escandaloso” fuera del establecimiento cuando Majher se le acercó por detrás y le golpeó en la parte trasera de la cabeza con el cuadro.

Según el informe, un oficial fuera de servicio que trabajaba en el restaurante fue testigo de cómo escoltaban al grupo y luego vio a la víctima parada cerca con sangre chorreando de una herida en la cabeza, cubriéndole el rostro y empapando su ropa.

La policía dijo que la víctima parecía angustiada y sostenía un trapo en la cabeza para intentar controlar el sangrado.

La víctima fue atendida en el lugar por personal de Miami Fire Rescue, aunque no está claro si también fue trasladada al hospital.

La policía dijo que el ataque quedó grabado en video de vigilancia.

Majher fue arrestada bajo un cargo de agresión grave con arma mortífera.

Compareció ante el tribunal de fianzas el lunes, donde fue ordenada a permanecer detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $2,500. El juez también ordenó que Majher se mantenga alejada de la víctima y de Kiki on the River.

Governing body the FIA said the changes were agreed in a meeting with the F1 teams, engine manufacturers and Formula One Management, after consulting drivers. They're subject to approval from the FIA's World Motor Sport Council, which is typically a formality when changes have broad support.

F1's greater emphasis on electrical hybrid power has prompted a backlash from some drivers that qualifying is too focused on strategic recharging of the battery and not enough of a test of driving skill.

One package of changes allows faster recharging at high speed and reduces the maximum amount that can be recharged per lap. A key aim is “reducing excessive harvesting (of energy) and encouraging more consistent flat-out driving,” the FIA said on Monday.

That largely matches recommendations last week by Mercedes' George Russell, who's started 2026 as a title contender.

After a dramatic crash at the Japanese Grand Prix where Oliver Bearman went off track to avoid Franco Colapinto's much slower car, the FIA said there's now a cap on the extra power from the overtake “boost” mode, and other limits to electrical power in certain areas.

“These measures are designed to reduce excessive closing speeds while maintaining overtaking opportunities and overall performance characteristics,” the FIA said.

Those measures, and safety changes for wet-weather driving, will be ready for the Miami GP on May 3. Other changes to reduce the risk of a crash on the starting grid will be trialed in Miami, including a boost for slow-starting cars and a visual warning.

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According to the Athens-Clarke County jail log, Branch was released Sunday on a combined $39 bail on the charges of obstructing public sidewalks/streets and the obstruction of a law enforcement officer.

The arrest, coming only four days before the NFL draft, was poor timing for Branch, who has been projected to be selected on the second day of the draft.

The Athens-Clarke County Police released a statement to The Associated Press that provided details of the incident. It says police were summoned at about 12:20 a.m. because a large crowd had gathered outside an Athens bar.

“The crowd was blocking the entrance, and individuals were attempting to enter the establishment despite it not being open for entry at that time,” according to the police statement.

“Officers issued multiple lawful commands directing the crowd to clear the sidewalk. Zachariah Branch was specifically given verbal commands to disperse but refused to comply. As a result, Mr. Branch was placed under arrest and charged with obstruction. He was also cited for obstructing a public sidewalk.”

Branch’s representatives with Excel Sports did not immediately respond to a request from The Associated Press for comment.

On Saturday, Branch attended Georgia's G-Day spring football game at Sanford Stadium.

Branch boosted his draft stock by running the 40-yard dash in 4.35 seconds at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis.

He led Georgia with 81 receptions for 811 yards and six touchdowns as a junior in 2025 following his transfer from Southern California. Branch's brother, safety Zion Branch, also transferred to Georgia from USC.

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The case goes back to a crash and a fire that killed 18-year-olds Edgar Monserratt Martinez and Barrett Riley on May 8, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale.

Monserratt Martinez was a front-seat passenger in the 2014 Tesla Model S that Riley was driving at 116 mph in a 30 mph zone, records show.

Riley crashed the Tesla Model S into a wall along Seabreeze Boulevard.

In 2022, Riley’s parents, James and Jenny Riley, claimed Tesla designed the defective lithium-ion batteries that were to blame for the fire that followed.

The lawsuit was dismissed.

Riley’s parents also claimed Tesla installed a device to prevent travel above 85 mph, and a Tesla technician in Dania Beach removed it without their consent.

Attorneys representing Tesla denied both accusations and focused on Riley’s driving record during the 2022 civil trial. A jury ruled Riley was most responsible, so Tesla was only liable for $105,000.

In the more recent civil lawsuit, Monserratt Martinez’s family claimed negligence by both Riley and Tesla were to blame for the tragedy.

Monserratt Martinez and Riley were only about 18 days away from earning their high school diploma from Pine Crest School when they died.

The civil trial is set to continue with opening statements on Tuesday morning in Fort Lauderdale.