According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the shooting happened early Monday morning outside the Pearl Dadeland Apartments at 7440 N. Kendall Drive.

An arrest report states that an MDSO deputy responded to the area just after 3:30 a.m. after receiving reports of a gunshot. A bystander flagged down the deputy “and reported that a group of individuals had been involved in an altercation but left the area minutes before deputies arrived.”

At about the same time, South Miami police reported that the victim arrived at Baptist Health South Miami Hospital with a gunshot wound, deputies said.

The victim would tell deputies that he delivered food to a woman living at the building about an hour before and “engaged in a brief conversation with (her) and took a liking to her,” according to the report.

Deputies said he returned at around 3:25 a.m. “in an attempt to see the (woman) again and possibly obtain her phone number,” but was unsuccessful.

As the man was going back to his car, deputies said the woman’s boyfriend, Khuslen Saruultuya, pulled up in a Chevrolet Corvette.

Deputies said Saruultuya ordered the victim “to lie on the ground” as he pointed a handgun at him.

“The victim complied and laid flat on the ground (and Saruultuya) fired one round, which grazed the victim on his right buttock,” the report states. “While the victim remained on the ground, (Saruultuya) struck him on the back of the head with the buttstock of the handgun, causing a two-inch open wound.”

According to the report, Saruultuya then ordered the man to stand and pointed the gun at his head, telling him, “I am going to kill you.”

The report states that Saruultuya’s girlfriend, witnessing the incident, pleaded with him, yelling, “Babe, please stop!”

The victim told deputies that Saruultuya “chased” him around the Corvette, still pointing the gun at him, as the woman “attempted to hold (Saruultuya) back.”

Authorities said they were able to trace the Corvette’s license plate back to Saruultuya and, after the victim picked him out of a photo lineup, went to his unit at the nearby Palmer Dadeland Apartments to take him into custody.

Deputies said during a “cursory sweep” of his unit at the building, located at 8217 SW 72nd Ave., they found a trove of illegal drugs, including Xanax, Adderall, oxycodone, amphetamines, ketamine, cocaine, MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana.

They said Saruultuya also had 16 pills of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis and two bags of the party drug tusi, also known as “pink cocaine.”

Besides attempted murder, the Mongolia-born Saruultuya is now facing a host of other charges, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and nine felony drug trafficking charges, according to jail records.

As of Tuesday morning, he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set.”

“Technology is reshaping what’s possible,” CEO Greg Foran wrote in a memo to employees on Monday. “The way work gets done is changing across every industry; we must adapt and take advantage of technology. We need to adopt capabilities, reduce duplicative work and look closely at where work is best fit to be done.”

Kroger last month outlined its AI strategy, meant “to improve the customer experience, make work easier for associates and produce better business outcomes.”

Cincinnati-based Kroger is the largest standalone U.S. supermarket chain with 409,000 employees and more than 2,700 stores operating under various brands, including Ralphs, King Soopers, Smith’s and Fred Meyer.

Kroger named former Walmart executive Foran CEO in February, 11 months after the abrupt resignation of its previous CEO.

Foran has a reputation for being tech-savvy and detail-oriented. He led Walmart’s U.S. division from 2014 to 2019, where he focused on cleaning up stores, ensuring items were in stock and improving the fresh produce selection. He also introduced online ordering and pickup, and accelerated Walmart’s digital capabilities.

Walmart has become a larger challenge to Kroger and other traditional grocers as Americans increasingly pick up their groceries along with other general goods that Walmart sells.

Kroger has also felt pressure from fast-growing discount chains like Aldi and Lidl and online behemoths like Amazon.

Kroger proposed a merger with Albertsons in 2022 as a way to better compete with its rivals. But the Federal Trade Commission and two states — Washington and Colorado — sued to block the merger in 2024, saying it would raise prices and lower workers’ wages by eliminating competition. Judges ultimately ruled that the merger should not proceed.

A day after their merger collapsed, Albertsons filed a lawsuit against Kroger, seeking a $600 million termination fee as well as billions of dollars in legal fees and lost shareholder value.

Kroger said the claims were “baseless” and that Albertsons was not entitled to the fee.

Kroger shares fell 1.6% in morning trading Tuesday, to $61.66.

Bill Russell, Bob Cousy and Tom Heinsohn showed in Boston that having a superstar trio on the same team can work wonders. So, too, did Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Worthy with the Los Angeles Lakers. Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish in their Celtics era. Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman in Chicago. Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili in San Antonio. Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant in Golden State. There have been plenty of others.

And in Miami, there was Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James.

They spent four years together with the Heat, went to four NBA Finals, won two championships and were the biggest thing in basketball. Many thought it would be easy. It wasn't. Miami started 9-8 in the trio's first season together and the road was rocky for much longer than anyone imagined.

“It's a wild ride,” Bosh said.

James, as he now gets set to be part of another Big Three — a Big Four, really, alongside the likes of fellow superstars Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Jaylen Brown on the now star-studded Philadelphia 76ers — remembers those early Miami days well. Perhaps that's why he sounded the alarm about what the next few months could be like for these 76ers.

“Everyone wants instant oatmeal,” James said. “You just put the oatmeal in the bowl, you put some water and then throw it in the microwave. In a minute and a half, you've got something to eat, you’re ready to go. If you want to do something special, it takes time. ... In order for us to be great, we have to do things that are just not comfortable.”

Translation: Get ready, 76ers.

Such is Big Three or Big Four life.

“You really have to stay solid within the team,” said Bosh, who might have sacrificed more stats than anyone during that four-year run in Miami. “At the end of the day, the main stat was the ‘W’ and putting one in the ‘W’ column. You can average a bunch of points and be out of the league. You can average a bunch of points and not be competing for a championship. They’re going to have to remember the priority.

"And when tough times come — not if, but when — handle it and talk about it, communicate, and remember why you’re there.”

Stats will be sacrificed

There are statistical sacrifices that will have to be made if the 76ers are going to get to where they want to go this season and win the title that has eluded Philly since 1983. Even with Embiid missing more than half of the 2025-26 season, he topped the 1,000-point mark — as did James (with the Los Angeles Lakers), Brown (with Boston), Maxey and Philly's star-in-waiting in VJ Edgecombe. There hasn't been a championship team with five 1,000-point scorers on the roster since the 1978-79 Seattle SuperSonics.

Combined, James, Maxey, Embiid, Edgecombe and Brown took 234 shots in clutch situations — game margin within five points, five minutes or less on the clock in the fourth quarter — last season. That simply won't happen this season, since most teams don't combine for that many shots in clutch times over a whole season. There will be moments where Philly's star players are used to having the ball in their hands — but now will see teammates in those roles at times.

It's a fine line. The Warriors won a title in 2017 with Curry, Thompson, Durant and Draymond Green all needing to adjust their roles, at least on some level. But as Curry pointed out when that title series was over, that didn't mean any of them could suddenly become passive.

“We all needed to be aggressive and be the players that we are in what we bring to the table every single night,” Curry said after that series — against James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. “We can all show up every night and be ourselves and really achieve the potential that we all have together.”

Roles will change as well, at times

James set the tone for this Philly team over the summer when he took a pay cut of roughly 92% from last season and agreed to play this season for the bargain price of $3.9 million. He doesn't need more money. The lure of becoming the first player in NBA history to win a championship with four different franchises seems to be enough motivation.

And, in fairness, it's also easy for the player who holds the NBA scoring record to say that stats don't matter. Officially, he took only one shot from the field in his preseason debut with the 76ers; he also drew enough fouls to get eight more shots from the line. (He made them all, for what it's worth.) Nobody knows what'll happen this season, but it seems highly unlikely that James will clamor for more shots. That's never been his style. It would be ideal if everyone in Philly felt the same way.

“My focus is winning,” Brown said over the summer. “Other people’s focus may be scoring. My focus going into every practice, every meeting, every shootaround, every film session is like, ‘How do we win, night in and night out?’ Sometimes that may change, sometimes it may look different, but whatever it takes.”

It's reasonable to think that Maxey, Embiid, Brown and James could all see their scoring averages drop this season for the greater good. There will be nights when the spotlight won't be on certain individuals. There will be nights when someone gets a ton of shots and someone gets very few. The most successful Big Threes all figured out how to handle such things.

Philadelphia will have to do the same.

“We’ve got the talent. Whatever,” Maxey said. “If we’re not willing to sacrifice, if we’re not willing to put in the work, it ain’t going to mean nothing.”

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See AP’s full NBA coverage here

Zacharia, a conservative commentator who most recently worked for President Donald Trump’s social media company, was named to the job on Friday, succeeding Karoline Leavitt, who left in August and is taking a job with Fox News Channel.

Zacharia told reporters her goal is to “amplify” what Trump is doing and that the president is “his own best spokesperson.”

She quickly proved that Tuesday, appearing for only 14 minutes and taking questions from just three outlets before telling reporters they could go ask the president their questions on the South Lawn of the White House as he prepared to leave for a campaign trip.

“In fact, I am going to end it because President Trump is heading out to Marine One for our historic trip to Alaska, and we can ask him all of the questions out there," she said.

Before taking the questions, Zacharia read slowly from an opening statement that began with a focus on Trump’s recent campaign rallies ahead of the midterm elections and his policies on energy, tariffs, immigration and more since he returned to office.

In naming Zacharia, who has a law degree from Pepperdine University, Trump described her as “a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning.” She briefly worked as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year and has been a commentator for Fox News and Newsmax.

She told reporters that she viewed her role as press secretary to be no different than the way she advocated for Trump while outside the government.

“I get to do what I was doing on the outside already, which was hoping to amplify, multiply and expand upon President Trump’s incredible agenda for the American people,” she said.

She also thanked Trump and said, “I have wanted to work for him for a very long time.”

She took her first question from Breitbart News, the right-wing outlet which has become more influential in the Trump era, and committed to keeping the “new media” rotation created under her predecessor to bring additional media outlets into news briefings and the White House press pool.

But Zacharia did make some big news: she said that Trump had asked for the resignation of Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, after a series of reports alleging she has engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens.

“She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well,” Zacharia said.

According to an FHP arrest report, the driver was identified as Brendley Jerome, 21, of Miami Gardens, who was taken into custody following the crash that sent him and two passengers to the hospital.

The incident began around 4:13 a.m. Monday, Oct. 12, when a trooper spotted a silver BMW traveling at a high rate of speed on the Palmetto Expressway, just east of Northwest 57th Avenue, authorities said.

The trooper reported the BMW was traveling at approximately 120 mph before he activated his emergency lights and siren to initiate a traffic stop.

Instead of pulling over, Jerome accelerated to more than 130 mph and began making evasive maneuvers, according to the report.

The trooper then notified dispatchers that he was initiating a pursuit, the report stated.

According to the arrest report, Jerome continued driving at excessive speeds, weaving across traffic lanes and nearly colliding with a semi-truck as he approached Northwest 154th Street.

Investigators said Jerome attempted to take the Northwest 154th Street exit from the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway, but lost control while navigating a curve.

The BMW veered off the roadway and rolled over into a ditch along the exit ramp.

The trooper reported slowing down before driving his marked patrol vehicle into the ditch and “intentionally” making contact with the BMW.

After the crash, authorities said the trooper approached the BMW with his department-issued gun and ordered the occupants out of the vehicle.

According to the report, one passenger climbed out through a rear passenger-side window, while Jerome exited through the vehicle’s rear windshield.

The trooper ordered both individuals to lie on the ground before handcuffing Jerome, the report stated.

Additional troopers arrived and helped remove a second passenger through a rear passenger-side window.

Fire rescue crews transported all three occupants to Palmetto General Hospital.

FHP previously confirmed that the three occupants suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening. The trooper was not injured.

According to the arrest report, Jerome was medically cleared at the hospital before being transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

He faces charges of fleeing and eluding a police officer at a high speed and excessive speeding.

As of Tuesday morning, Jerome remained held at TGK. Online jail records listed his total bond as “to be set.”

Broward County Regional Communications received a call at about 9:15 a.m., reporting the crash near Southwest Third Street and Southwest 12th Avenue, according to deputies.

A tow truck was removing a marked BSO Dodge Charger patrol car from the northbound lanes of Southwest 12th Avenue, also known as South Andrews Avenue, near Third Street.

There was also a black sedan with back damage at Third Street, facing northbound on South Andrews Avenue, just outside of the South Andrews Center at 290 SW 12th Ave.

Fire rescue personnel took the deputy to the hospital as a precaution, according to deputies. The driver of the other car wasn’t injured and waited for deputies to arrive, according to deputies.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.

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El gobierno del presidente Javier Milei concretó el pedido ante el organismo judicial con sede en Hamburgo después del vencimiento del ultimátum de dos semanas que le había concedido a Londres para que frenara un proyecto encabezado por la empresa británica Rockhopper Exploration y la firma israelí Navitas Petroleum Development and Production Limited.

El proyecto Sea Lion cuenta con el aval de las autoridades de las islas situadas en el Atlántico Sur que están bajo dominio británico y se denominan Falklands en inglés. Argentina, que las reclama desde 1833, libró una guerra con Gran Bretaña por su soberanía en 1982 en la que resultó derrotada.

Un comunicado de la Oficina del Presidente señaló que la presentación busca preservar los derechos soberanos de Argentina sobre su plataforma continental y evitar que "las actividades autorizadas de manera unilateral e ilegal por el Reino Unido agraven la controversia reconocida por las Naciones Unidas”.

Precisó que la medida se enmarca en el proceso arbitral que el gobierno inició el 28 de septiembre bajo la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar y se sustenta en un artículo de esa normativa que estipula que mientras se encuentre pendiente la constitución de un tribunal arbitral “cualquiera de las partes en la controversia podrá solicitar... medidas provisionales” para preservar sus derechos.

En medio de la creciente tensión bilateral, el primer ministro británico Andy Burnham dijo la víspera ante la Cámara de los Comunes que hará “lo que sea necesario” para respetar la voluntad de los isleños de "seguir siendo británicos”.

Destacó que insistió en este punto en su reciente encuentro con el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump y en su discurso ante la Asamblea General de la ONU.

Trump, aliado de Milei, afirmó en una entrevista periodística a principios de septiembre que podría reconsiderar la neutralidad histórica de Estados Unidos sobre la soberanía de las Malvinas, que en los hechos se ha traducido en un alineamiento con la administración británica de las islas.

Envalentonado por esa afirmación, Milei presentó un proyecto de ley para sancionar a petroleras que operen en Malvinas sin autorización de Argentina y anunció la instalación de una base naval en la provincia de Tierra del Fuego, el punto continental más cercano al archipiélago.

El gobierno británico le comunicó luego a la embajadora argentina en Londres, Mariana Plaza, “que los esfuerzos por obstaculizar la actividad económica lícita” en las islas eran “intentos deliberados de socavar la seguridad económica de un pueblo autónomo”.

Londres afirmó entonces que las actividades relacionadas con los hidrocarburos en la plataforma continental de las islas Malvinas están reguladas por la legislación del archipiélago y se llevan a cabo de conformidad con el derecho internacional, incluida la Convención sobre el Derecho del Mar.

But mainland U.S. hurricane strikes tend to have harder bookends that fall within the prescribed June to November season. The earliest official mainland U.S. hurricane landfall from the National Hurricane Center’s historical database – coined HURDAT 2, which extends back to 1851 – was Hurricane Alma that struck the Florida Big Bend on June 9^th, 1966. The latest landfalling mainland U.S. hurricane was Hurricane Kate on November 21^st, 1985, that struck the Florida Panhandle.

While other out-of-season U.S. hurricanes have been documented – such as the retroactively named Hurricane Amanda uncovered by researchers in 2013 that struck the Florida Panhandle on May 28^th, 1863 – no mainland U.S. hurricane landfalls outside of the June to November hurricane season are officially listed in NHC’s historical HURDAT 2 record.

When do we typically see the last mainland U.S. landfall?

As we’ve written about in previous newsletters, the last U.S. hurricane landfall often precedes or even helps to usher in the start of South Florida’s dry season, which typically arrives around the middle of October.

Examining all hurricane landfalls in the satellite record (since 1966), 90% of seasons see their last hurricane landfall by around the middle of October (October 18^th). For named storms, which include both tropical storms and hurricanes, we’re usually done with mainland U.S. hits by the end of October.

That of course doesn’t mean we haven’t seen or can’t see November threats from tropical storms and hurricanes. They’re just far less common than any other month of the season and about a once-every -decade-or-less event (as we discussed in yesterday’s newsletter, November U.S. hurricanes are about a once-in-50-year event).

So let’s get through the next few weeks and then we can rest a little easier knowing the threats from hurricane season are mostly in the rearview mirror.

No development expected deep into October

Our longer-range computer models don’t show any viable candidates over the next week or two across the Atlantic basin.

Each week is especially meaningful this time of year and gets us closer to November when U.S. landfalls become the exception, rather than the norm.

At Miami Crab & Seafood Bakery, inspectors documented rodent droppings in several storage areas, including where single-service items, flour, sugar and seasonings were stored, and found rodent bait on the floor outside a covered, tamper-resistant bait station.

At Keke’s Breakfast Cafe in Parkland, inspectors observed approximately 45 small flying insects landing on clean utensils, equipment, walls and soda boxes near the dishwashing area.

Meanwhile, at Miami Shores Golf Club, inspectors found rodent droppings on top of clean dishes and mahi-mahi, and salmon held at 53 and 58 degrees, respectively.

China Spring III in Coral Springs also had rodent droppings in the kitchen and a dead roach in the food preparation area. All four establishments were ordered shut following inspections. Below is a list of violations and some of the most concerning findings.

**MIAMI SHORES GOLF CLUB

10000 BISCAYNE BLVD.

MIAMI SHORES

INSPECTION BASED ON COMPLAINT

ORDERED SHUT 10/9

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed approximately 20+ rodent droppings in dry storage area on floor and on top of clean dishes. Observed approximately 5 rodent droppings on floor near single service article storage area. Observed approximately 10+ rodent droppings on floor inside managers office.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed one dead roach inside empty plastic bin at the warehouse washing area.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Observed white cutting board in back food prep area with cut marks and no longer cleanable.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed reach in cooler door handle soiled with food debris at the cook line.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed mahi mahi (53F - Cold Holding); salmon (58F - Cold Holding) inside reach in cooler drawers at the cook line. As per operator, product has been there for about 2 Hours. Product was placed inside walk in cooler for rapid cooling. Observed cole slaw (54F - Cold Holding) inside plastic bin on prep table.”

“Employee with no beard guard/restraint while engaging in food preparation. Observed employee engaged in food preparation with no beard guard.”

**MIAMI CRAB & SEAFOOD/ BAKERY

20723 NW 2ND AVE

MIAMI GARDENS

ORDERED SHUT 10/12

8 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. Observed 75+ rodent droppings on the floor of the kitchen storage room where single service items are stored, 10+ rodent droppings on the shelves where employee store personal items, 5+ rodent droppings on the floor behind the front counter reach in cooler, 7+ rodent droppings on the floor in the back storage room where flour, sugar and seasonings are stored in.”

“Rodent bait not contained in a covered, tamper-resistant bait station. Observed bitten rodent bait on the floor in the kitchen storage room.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed microwave and oven door handle soiled.”

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

**KEKE’S BREAKFAST CAFE

7609 STATE ROAD 7

PARKLAND

ORDERED SHUT 10/12

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Live, small flying insects found. At dishwashing area, approximately 45 small flying insects, landing on clean utensils equipment, walls and boxes of soda. At dining room- bar counter area -approximately 3 small flying insects landing on walls.”

“Raw fruits/vegetables not washed prior to preparation. At cookline area- in use unwashed strawberries constantly one of actively being cut and portioned.”

“Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. -Observed Employee pick up soiled equipment from floor. Employee proceeds to clean grill then handle ham from the flip top cooler and engaged in food preparation without changing their gloves or washing their hands.”

“Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. At Expo station -Employee touched her face and then proceeded to handle clean equipment and bottles of hot sauce without washing their hands -educated operator employee washed their hands.”

“Employee rubbed hands together for less than 10-15 seconds while washing hands. At expo station- Employee handled dirty dishes than Proceeded to wash their hands for approximately eight seconds then engage in handling clean utensils, and equipment.”

“Employee dried hands on clothes/apron/soiled towel after washing. At cook line area, employee handled, soiled wiping cloth, and then proceeded to prepare food for order without washing their hands -educated operator-employee wash their hands properly.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. -Observed in flip top cooler cooked peppers (45F - Cold Holding). Per operator not prepared or portioned today. Per operator out of temperature due to service for approximately 15min. Operator placed in freezer to quick chill.”

**CHINA SPRING III

8100 WILES ROAD

CORAL SPRINGS

ORDERED SHUT 10/8

15 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. At kitchen / cook line area- approximately 20 rodent droppings on the floor - underneath prep tables, containers of food and reach in coolers. At dry storage shelf near cook line - approximately 4 rodent droppings on can of sauce.”

“Dead roaches on premises. At kitchen prep area- 1 dead roach on the floor - operator removed. At bathroom- 1 dead roach on the floor.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. At reach in cooler raw shell eggs stored over cooked chicken- operator removed and stored properly.”

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

“Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. At dishwashing/prep area -employee handled dirty dishes, then proceeded to handle clean dishes and engage in handling food without washing their hands-educated operator-employee wash their hands.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Repeat Violation.”

“Required employee training expired for all employees.”

According to court documents obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday, John Mario Galvin was arrested after disembarking the Celebrity Reflection on Saturday.

A federal criminal complaint states that customs officers pulled Galvin, 42, aside and searched his Samsung cellphones and tablet.

It states that agents found more than 90 photos and videos showing boys and girls, some as young as “infants and toddlers,” being raped and sexually abused.

Authorities said they had received nine tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children “associated with (his) telephone number” regarding child sexual abuse material.

According to the complaint, Galvin “declined to speak with law enforcement” before his arrest on two federal charges related to the possession and transportation of child sexual abuse material.

As of Tuesday morning, records show he remained held in the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service.

His entry in the online federal court docket did not list any past or impending hearings. His case has been assigned to a Fort Lauderdale federal judge.

Officials said a good Samaritan spotted the man and reported the sighting over a Marine emergency radio channel used by boaters to call for help.

They said Marine units from Miami and Fort Lauderdale responded alongside the Coast Guard. Crews located the man, provided emergency assistance and arranged for a medical evaluation.

Authorities said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics evaluated and medically cleared the man before he was transferred to the USCG cutter Melvin Bell for further processing.

Coast Guard officials have not disclosed the man’s age or identity.

Los hechos ocurrieron el viernes. Un video muestra un BMW blanco frente a un complejo de apartamentos en Doral.

Según la policía, la víctima ya le había comprado un iPhone por Facebook Marketplace a un hombre, y la transacción había salido bien. Ese mismo vendedor lo contactó para ofrecerle más teléfonos, y la víctima aceptó.

Ese sospechoso fue identificado después como Lazaro Nunez-Martinez, de 31 años y residente de Miami Gardens.

El encuentro fue frente al edificio de apartamentos de la víctima. Según la policía, cuando la víctima abrió la puerta del pasajero del vehículo de Nunez-Martinez, alguien que estaba acostado en el asiento trasero se levantó de repente y le apuntó con un arma.

“El pasajero del asiento trasero le apuntó con un arma de fuego a nuestra víctima y le dijo que se subiera al carro”, dijo el jefe de la policía de Doral, Matthew Castillo.

Ese sospechoso fue identificado después como Darian Ernesto Morejon Rodriguez, de 39 años.

Según la policía, Nunez-Martinez arrancó con la víctima en el asiento del pasajero, amenazada con el arma, a pesar de que intentó escapar varias veces.

“Trató de escaparse del vehículo dos veces y llegaron a ahorcarlo”, dijo Castillo.

Finalmente, el vehículo empezó a bajar la velocidad en la zona de la calle 66 y la avenida 78 del noroeste. Entonces la víctima tomó los $4,000 en efectivo que había llevado para la compra y los lanzó fuera del carro, según la policía. Morejon Rodriguez se bajó para recoger el dinero.

Según las autoridades, la víctima aprovechó ese momento para salir del vehículo a empujones.

“Nuestra víctima buscaba la manera de sobrevivir, y una de ellas fue tirar el dinero por la ventana, y eso hizo”, dijo Castillo.

Según la policía, después de escapar, la víctima recibió un mensaje de texto amenazante de Nunez-Martinez: “Ni se te ocurra hacer nada porque te vamos a buscar, sabemos dónde vives. Cerramos el negocio aquí y nos olvidamos de todo”.

Unas horas después de la primera comparecencia de Nunez-Martinez ante el tribunal, los agentes arrestaron a Morejon Rodriguez. Fue el lunes, durante una parada de tránsito en Hallandale Beach.

Nunez-Martinez enfrenta cargos por delitos graves de secuestro con arma de fuego, robo con arma de fuego o arma mortal y hurto mayor de tercer grado. También se le acusa de manipulación de una víctima o testigo y de agresión.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, Nunez-Martinez permanecía en el Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, con la fianza “por determinar”. Morejon Rodriguez fue trasladado al condado de Miami-Dade el martes por la mañana, donde le espera una audiencia de fianza.

Existing home sales rose 1.5% last month from August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.99 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. One of the factors in the monthly increase is that sales in August were revised lower.

Sales fell 2.2% compared with September last year. The latest sales tally is slightly above the 3.98 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet.

Home sales have been mostly hovering close to a 4-million annual pace going back to 2023, far short of the historic norm that is closer to 5.2-million. September is the second month in a row that the annual sales pace has remained below 4 million.

Home prices continued to rise nationally last month. The U.S. median sales price increased 1.3% in September from a year earlier to $417,500, an all-time high for the month of September based on data going back to 1999, NAR said. Home prices have risen on an annual basis for 39 months in a row.

“This is a very tough market out there, especially with mortgage rates rising,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.

The U.S. housing market has been in a slump since 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes were essentially flat last year, stuck at a 30-year low.

This year, sales have been in a rut in large part due to rising borrowing costs, as mortgage rates have marched higher in the months since the war between the U.S. and Iran started in late February. Expectations of higher inflation amid surging oil prices have pushed up the long-term bond yields that lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans, driving mortgage rates higher.

The average rate on the benchmark 30-year mortgage hit 7.4% last week, its highest level in nearly three years. It briefly dipped below 6% before the war started.

The sharp rise in mortgage rates, which can add hundreds of dollars a month in costs for borrowers, has led many would-be home shoppers to put their home shopping plans on hold.

However, those who can afford to buy at current rates, or pay all cash, have a much wider selection of homes to choose from than they've had in years as properties sit on the market longer.

Although home inventory levels remain below historical norms, there were 1.6 million unsold homes at the end of last month — the highest level of unsold inventory on the market since November 2019, NAR said.

All told, unsold home inventory rose 1.9% last month from August and climbed 4.6% from September last year, NAR said.

September’s month-end inventory translates to a 4.8-months’ supply at the current sales pace. Traditionally, a 4- to 6-month supply is considered a balanced market between buyers and sellers.

Según los agentes, Prince-Charm Allison fue visto por última vez el 4 de octubre en la cuadra 1300 de Northeast 110th Terrace. Llevaba una camisa azul y un short rojo.

Los agentes lo describieron como un joven de raza negra, de 5 pies y 7 pulgadas de estatura y unas 150 libras de peso. Tiene los ojos color café y el pelo negro.

Las autoridades dijeron que el adolescente no se ha comunicado con su familia ni con sus amigos desde su desaparición. Podría necesitar asistencia.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero puede llamar al agente A. Madrigal al 305-715-3300 o escribir a u307222@mdpd.net. También se pueden dar datos de forma anónima a Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Miami, poco antes de las 6 a.m. alguien les hizo señas a unos agentes cerca de la avenida 7 y la calle 27 del noroeste. Les avisó de un peatón que había sido atropellado por un vehículo.

Los paramédicos de Miami Fire Rescue acudieron al lugar y trasladaron a la víctima al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital.

La policía dijo que el peatón no respondía, pero respiraba cuando llegaron los equipos de emergencia.

Las autoridades no han revelado la identidad de la víctima ni más detalles sobre el vehículo involucrado.

Las circunstancias del accidente siguen bajo investigación.

Cualquier persona con información puede comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Miami o con Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers al 305-471-8477.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Guilfoyle had resigned.

But Zacharia, in her first press briefing, said Guilfoyle “has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.”

Guilfoyle’s requested departure comes after its possibility was previewed to The Associated Press over the weekend and President Donald Trump registered his unhappiness with reports about Guilfoyle’s alleged conduct on Monday.

“Well, we’re looking at it,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if he was considering firing Guilfoyle. “We’re not happy.”

Those comments came a day after The Associated Press, citing a senior U.S. official, reported that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are “extremely pissed off” by Guilfoyle’s reported conduct and will likely decide on her future this week.

In a series of stories dating to late last month, The Wall Street Journal has reported questionable conduct by Guilfoyle, including an alleged threat to a host country official, accepting improper gifts and services and offering to use her influence inside the administration in return for the payment of a large credit card bill.

Guilfoyle has not addressed the reports directly. But in a statement released late Sunday, her lawyers denied she had done anything wrong and claimed that the money she was seeking from a Trump donor was payment for services — public appearances and speaking engagements that predate her ambassadorial nomination — that had not been paid.

The lawyers, David Schwartz and Jesse Binnall, also rejected allegations of impropriety related to Guilfoyle’s travel on private planes, saying that before every such trip she “sought, obtained and followed State Department guidance and followed the Department’s travel regulations."

Rubio defended Guilfoyle and berated journalists who asked about her

After defending Guilfoyle following the first report, Rubio has declined to comment publicly on the growing allegations. Last week, Rubio said: “Our ambassador has been a strong ambassador here.”

But after another report appeared later, Rubio on Thursday before leaving Athens berated journalists for asking about the allegations, saying he didn’t know if they were true and that he would not respond if he could not confirm them.

“You guys walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me. That’s not the way we do things,” Rubio said at the foot of his plane as Guilfoyle, who was there to see him depart, looked on.

The allegations began surfacing weeks ago

A second U.S. official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said the State Department’s inspector general is looking into the allegations, which first began surfacing in the Journal late last month and have since multiplied.

The second official could not say if a formal IG probe had begun. Inspectors general often conduct informal inquiries into complaints against staffers and many times those inquiries do not result in a full-on investigation, which can result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.

The State Department has declined to comment on a potential IG investigation.

Democrats have called for an investigation

The top two Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees, Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, as well as the ranking member on the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform, Robert Garcia, D-Calif., have already called for an investigation into Guilfoyle.

Since late September, the Journal has detailed numerous accounts of questionable conduct by Guilfoyle. Its first report said that she had told guests at a reception that the U.S. could undermine the Greek government if it chose to, promoted the business interests of one particular Greek construction and energy company, and allowed its lobbyist into private diplomatic meetings.

While Rubio was in Athens, the Journal reported — citing text messages — that Guilfoyle had asked a Trump donor and supporter to pay a $100,000 credit card bill just before her confirmation hearing, promising him access to administration officials if he did.

The Journal then reported that Guilfoyle had been enraged about not being invited to a Greek-themed event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this year and demanded to attend while boasting about luxury travel to France with energy company executives.

Another report, from the British tabloid The Daily Mail, said that Guilfoyle had alienated staff at the U.S. Embassy in Athens and had pushed the bounds of behavior appropriate for the top representative of the U.S. government to Greece.

Guilfoyle is a former Fox News Channel host and California prosecutor who was once married to California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and was engaged to Trump’s son Donald Jr.

El distrito queda al oeste de Las Olas Boulevard, cerca de Southwest Second Avenue y Southwest Second Street. Es conocido por su vida nocturna y por sus numerosos bares y restaurantes, que atraen a grandes multitudes.

Pero varios incidentes recientes con disparos han generado preocupación por la seguridad en la zona. Entre ellos hubo un tiroteo mortal y otro que dejó cinco heridos.

Se espera que el alcalde de Fort Lauderdale, Dean Trantalis, y el jefe de la policía, William Schultz, hablen en una conferencia de prensa a las 10 a.m. Explicarán los esfuerzos para mejorar la seguridad pública.

También se espera la participación de representantes de la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida y de agentes de la Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco, Armas de Fuego y Explosivos (ATF).

Tiroteos recientes generan preocupación

Uno de los incidentes más recientes ocurrió el 6 de septiembre, alrededor de las 3:30 a.m. Hubo disparos cerca de Southwest Second Street y Southwest Third Avenue.

Según la policía de Fort Lauderdale, los agentes intentaban separar una pelea cuando escucharon un disparo.

Varias personas fueron detenidas y los agentes recuperaron un arma de fuego. Sin embargo, al principio no encontraron a ningún herido en el lugar.

Poco después, un hombre llegó a un hospital cercano con una herida de bala que no ponía en riesgo su vida.

Los testigos describieron los momentos de miedo mientras la multitud intentaba escapar.

“Yo solo quería divertirme y pasaron muchas cosas. Todo pasó muy rápido”, le dijo a Local 10 News una persona que estaba en el lugar. “Todo el mundo empezó a correr”.

Otro testigo dijo: “Vi que todo el mundo corría y yo también corrí”.

El tiroteo ocurrió unos dos meses después de un incidente mortal en un garaje de estacionamiento cerca del distrito.

A principios de julio, un hombre de 43 años recibió un disparo alrededor de las 4:30 a.m. dentro del garaje del Governmental Center, cerca de Southwest Second Street y Southwest First Avenue.

La víctima fue llevada de urgencia a un hospital, donde murió más tarde.

Según la policía, los investigadores recuperaron un arma y detuvieron a una persona de interés.

Cinco heridos en un tiroteo masivo en diciembre

Otro hecho violento ocurrió en diciembre de 2025 frente a Dicey Riley’s Irish Pub.

Alrededor de las 2 a.m., los disparos hicieron que la multitud saliera corriendo por el distrito de entretenimiento.

Cinco personas resultaron heridas de bala y fueron trasladadas a un hospital de la zona.

Los testigos describieron el caos que se desató cuando sonaron los disparos.

“Bajé a buscar algo de comer y casi me disparan”, le dijo un testigo a Local 10 News.

Otro recordó haber visto a uno de los heridos.

“Había un señor en el piso que estaba conmigo. Le dispararon en el brazo”, dijo el testigo.

Un tercer testigo contó que la multitud huyó tras escuchar unos seis disparos.

La ciudad ya había aprobado restricciones al alcohol

La nueva reunión llega después de que las autoridades de Fort Lauderdale tomaran medidas a principios de este año por la seguridad en el distrito.

Tras una serie de tiroteos, la policía de Fort Lauderdale aumentó su presencia en la zona.

En febrero, los comisionados de la ciudad también aprobaron una ordenanza que prohíbe los envases abiertos de alcohol y la venta de bebidas alcohólicas al aire libre en el distrito de vida nocturna.

Algunos dueños de negocios se opusieron a la medida. Argumentaron que limitar el consumo de alcohol al aire libre cambiaría el ambiente y la vida nocturna del distrito.

El jefe de la policía dijo anteriormente que en 2025 el departamento recibió más llamadas por incidentes en el distrito de entretenimiento que en cualquier otro año desde 2021.

Lo que se espera de la reunión

Se espera que la conferencia de prensa del martes se centre en posibles medidas para reducir la violencia y el consumo de alcohol entre menores en el distrito.

Trantalis, Schultz y representantes de otras agencias policiales explicarán sus esfuerzos para que este popular destino de vida nocturna sea más seguro.

Se esperan más detalles sobre las iniciativas propuestas durante el anuncio de las 10 a.m.

El negocio, uno de los favoritos del sur de Florida desde que abrió en 1956, recibirá a los clientes desde las 8 a.m. del martes. Este año abre dos meses antes que el anterior.

Aunque abría a las 8 a.m., hubo clientes que pasaron la noche afuera del negocio para asegurarse de llevarse sus productos el día de la apertura.

Eiby Mendez, la primera en la fila, le contó a Local 10 News que llegó a las 7:37 p.m. del lunes.

“Es algo que uno espera con ilusión”, dijo. “Solo abren por temporada y me gusta ayudar a la comunidad. Le llevo los rollos a mucha gente que no puede venir por el trabajo, por la familia o por otras cosas, y claro, todos quieren sus rollos de canela”.

Los visitantes encontrarán las mismas recetas queridas que han convertido a la granja en un clásico por generaciones. También notarán algunas mejoras para reducir el tiempo de espera.

Cambios para agilizar las filas

Knaus Berry Farm añadió una cuarta caja registradora, con su cajero, para atender más rápido.

Mientras esperan en la fila, los clientes también tendrán más carteles con el menú y códigos QR. Así podrán revisar el menú en su teléfono antes de llegar al mostrador.

Otro cambio de esta temporada es un límite de cuatro docenas de rollos de canela por cliente, una medida para que las filas avancen más rápido.

El estacionamiento también mejora y ahora tiene casi el doble de espacio para los visitantes.

70 temporadas de dulce tradición

Pese a los cambios, la granja mantiene las recetas y las caras conocidas que la han convertido en una tradición del sur de Florida durante décadas.

Su equipo de cocina suma más de 140 años de experiencia en repostería.

La temporada de este año también será más larga. Durará 30 semanas, lo que dará a los clientes más oportunidades de disfrutar de los productos horneados de la granja.

Cuándo y dónde visitarla

Knaus Berry Farm abre el martes de 8 a.m. a 5 p.m.

La granja está ubicada en el 16790 SW 177th Ave., en el condado de Miami-Dade.

A high impact storm system is possible for part of the weekend into next week. A strong front will stall out over Florida. We will be on the south side, which will allow endless amounts of tropical moisture flow onshore. Expect numerous thunderstorms that hug the coastline. This could create a flooding threat Sunday and Monday. There will also be wind gusts of 30-40 mph those days. We’ll fine tune the details as we get closer.

According to the Miami Police Department, officers were flagged down shortly before 6 a.m. near Northwest Seventh Avenue and Northwest 27th Street regarding a pedestrian who had been struck by a vehicle.

Miami Fire Rescue medics responded to the scene and transported the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

Police said the pedestrian was unresponsive but breathing when emergency crews arrived.

Authorities have not released the victim’s identity or provided additional details about the vehicle involved.

The circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Miami Police Department or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

According to deputies, Prince-Charm Allison was last seen Oct. 4 in the 1300 block of Northeast 110^th Terrace. He was wearing a blue shirt and red shorts.

Deputies described Allison as a Black male, who is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. He has brown eyes and black hair.

Authorities said the teen has not made contact with family or friends since his disappearance and may be in need of services.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Deputy A. Madrigal at 305-715-3300 or email u307222@mdpd.net. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

The strikes marked a fresh escalation in the widening Middle East crisis and came shortly after a coalition spokesman urged residents to evacuate the area for their safety. Witnesses in Sanaa reported hearing explosions. It was not immediately clear which facilities were hit.

In a rare statement, the coalition urged civilians in the Houthi-controlled capital to leave the Yemeni Oil Company site and nearby storage areas ahead of a possible strike.

Houthi officials appeared to anticipate an attack on the site. The oil company said its storage facilities were empty and that a Saudi strike would not affect oil reserves or supplies for residents.

Shortly after the warning, Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said on Telegram that any Saudi attack on Sanaa would be met with a “firm and painful” response in Riyadh.

The area to be evacuated in western Sanaa, al-Subaha, is on a hill overlooking the capital. It is not a populated area, but the fuel station nearby is used by the public.

The back-and-forth threats come as Saudi Arabia is scrambling to determine how its air defenses failed to intercept a barrage of missiles and drones fired by the Houthis, including an attack on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday that killed at least 13 people and wounded over 300.

The latest conflict between the Saudis and the Houthis began last month after the rebels seized key areas along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical waterway for the transport of Gulf oil and other goods at the southern end of the Red Sea off Yemen.

The Saudi-led coalition, backing forces aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognized government, has been trying to retake them.

Earlier Tuesday, the Houthis renewed their warning against using Saudi airspace, Houthi-controlled media reported. Several airlines have suspended service to the kingdom because of the Houthi attacks on airports.

In a statement published by the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency, the Houthi-run foreign ministry referred to Saudi Arabia as the “Kingdom of the Horn of Satan” and said the kingdom “must realize that security, stability, and sovereignty must belong to everyone; otherwise, no one will enjoy them.”

Meanwhile, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty called for the Houthis to immediately halt attacks on Saudi Arabia.

“There is no justification for these attacks, and they cannot be accepted,” Abdelatty told Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in a phone call Tuesday.

Abdelatty also called for prioritizing diplomacy and a political solution to the conflict between Iran and the United States to avert “further escalation and instability” in the region, according to the Egyptian readout of the call.

The Saudi-led coalition said earlier Tuesday that three drones were intercepted north of Riyadh. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify that claim.

Saudi Arabia has been pushing for the U.S. military to provide more direct support in the fight against the Houthis.

The U.S. has provided intelligence sharing, target identification and planning for a Saudi-led offensive, but has held off on carrying out strikes against the Houthis.

A U.S. intervention could prompt the Houthis to try to halt shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb, restricting the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf.

President Donald Trump told reporters in Washington on Monday that the Houthis were “misbehaving very badly,” but didn’t say anything about whether the U.S. would respond to the rebels.

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AP writers Samy Magdy in Cairo and Aamer Madhani in Jerusalem contributed.

The high court is intervening for a second time in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s case, which seeks access to DOGE records from its operations in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term. The Trump administration asked the court to hear the case.

Last year, the high court reined in a district court’s order for the government to produce DOGE-related records to CREW. The high court’s conservative majority concluded in June 2025 that U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled too broadly in ordering documents to be turned over to the group.

CREW claims DOGE is a federal agency and therefore is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

The Trump administration argues that DOGE is exempt from FOIA’s requirements as a presidential advisory body.

Cooper ruled in CREW’s favor and ordered expedited processing of the group’s records request. An appeals court panel also sided with CREW.

The Trump administration claims the panel ignored the Supreme Court’s direction to consider separation-of-powers concerns and intruded on the “autonomy and confidentiality” of presidential advisers.

“Subjecting advisory bodies to intrusive discovery triggers the very concerns that Congress sought to avoid by excluding presidential advisory bodies from FOIA’s reach,” Justice Department attorneys wrote.

The administration also says the appeals court impermissibly authorized the plaintiffs to take a sworn deposition of DOGE acting administrator Amy Gleason.

CREW says the appeals court fully complied with the Supreme Court’s previous order. The group also asserts that the public has a right to know how DOGE helped the administration carry out a sweeping overhaul of government operations in 2025.

“Undisputed facts in the public record — including the President’s statements — confirmed that (DOGE) was wielding enormous independent authority across the federal government,” its attorneys wrote.

In a statement Tuesday, CREW attorney Nikhel Sus said the lower courts have uniformly ruled that it is entitled to records that could help the court determine whether DOGE wields the type of authority that would make it subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

“We will continue to pursue transparency for the American people, who deserve to know the details of the Trump Administration’s efforts to unilaterally remake the federal government,” Sus said in the statement.

But even as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs reported higher profits from a year ago, they warned about the long-term impact of higher interest rates as well as the impact higher prices could have on the consumer if inflation is not brought under control.

JPMorgan posted a $15.3 billion profit in the third quarter, or $5.57 a share, up from $14.4 billion or $5.07 a share, in the same period a year earlier. The results missed analysts’ expectations, with Wall Street looking for the bank to earn $5.93 a share.

It was a rare earnings miss for JPMorgan and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. The last time the bank missed analysts’ expectations was nearly three years ago. The investment banking division of JPMorgan was to blame this quarter, as its fixed income trading desks saw a slowdown in activity compared to both earlier this summer as well as last year. Still, shares rose 0.8% in early trading.

“The U.S. economy continued to be fueled by strong business investment and ongoing consumer spending,” Dimon said in a statement. “However, large fiscal deficits, sticky inflation, elevated asset prices, rising interest rates and geopolitical conditions continue to shift under the surface.”

The big banks typically kick off the quarterly earnings season, and this is a key one for the stock market given that robust corporate profits have helped propel the S&P 500 to record levels. Analysts expect companies in the S&P 500 to deliver overall growth of nearly 30% in earnings per share from a year earlier, according to data provider FactSet. If they’re correct, it would be the third consecutive quarter of growth that exceeds 25%.

Goldman Sachs, whose third-quarter profits rose sharply due to a sharp rise in stock-trading revenue, also reported that its bond trading activity slowed last quarter. The bank posted a profit of $5.29 billion, or $17.01 a share, compared to $4.1 billion, or $12.25 a share, a year earlier. Goldman shares rose 1.9%.

The bond market saw significant levels of volatility and turmoil this summer, as investors became increasingly worried about government spending and inflation. The yield on cornerstone financial instruments like 10-year and 30-year Treasurys rose to levels not seen in years. Higher diesel, technology and food prices gave the Federal Reserve reason to raise interest rates last month, despite pressure from the White House to not do so.

Citigroup said its third-quarter profits jumped 40% from a year ago, beating Wall Street expectations. The bank posted higher revenue from investment banking and wealth management, while the bank's credit card division profits were flat. Citi shares dipped 0.7%.

Wells Fargo posted a profit of $5.95 billion, or $1.87 a share, beating Wall Street forecasts. The San Francisco-based bank has seen its profits climb steadily in recent quarters after federal bank regulators removed the asset cap that had been imposed for several years after the bank's sales practices scandal nearly a decade ago. Wells shares dropped 1.5%.

The man who died Monday was 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, according to Cobb County police.

Visitors at the theme park near Atlanta described watching the man being tossed from the coaster train and falling to his death, causing the theme park operator to temporarily close nine similar roller coasters nationwide.

Several other people were hurt but officials have not released any information about their injuries or conditions.

Authorities and Six Flags did not identify the ride associated with the man's death, but local TV stations showed video of passengers being evacuated from the Goliath roller coaster.

The park already was scheduled to be closed Tuesday. One of Goliath's trains remained on its track Tuesday, seemingly where it stopped as it was climbing the ride's first hill.

Witnesses describe seeing a man fly out of the roller coaster

Logan Conner said he was on Goliath with his fiancée when he saw the man come out of his seat.

“The man started levitating in the air sideways,” he told NBC. “We made direct eye contact with him.”

Britny Landry had been on the ride earlier Monday and was waiting in line to go again.

“We just look, and I just see somebody fly out,” she told KTVU-TV. She said she wasn't sure at first what she saw. “Maybe somebody had a bag or something.”

Cobb County Police Department detectives are among those investigating.

Lisa Cupid, Cobb County Board of Commissioners chairwoman, said the man's next of kin have been notified.

“I cannot imagine the horror the patrons and employees witnessed today, and my heart aches for the family who lost a loved one,” Cupid said. “We are all grappling with how something so devastating could happen at a place that has given generations of families such happy memories.”

Six Flags closes roller coasters elsewhere

Six Flags Entertainment Corp. temporarily closed nine roller coasters across six amusement parks “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a company spokesperson, who said staff members and local authorities responded immediately and that the park is cooperating with the investigation.

“We are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today,” the spokesperson said, adding that the company is providing support to guests and staff who were impacted.

Police and Six Flags did not immediately respond to messages seeking additional information Tuesday. A message seeking comment also was sent to Georgia's Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, which oversees ride inspections.

Goliath, which opened in 2006, reaches a top speed of 70 mph (113 kph) with a height of 200 feet (61 meters), according to the park’s website. The park in suburban Atlanta opened in 1967.

Riders “navigate through razor-sharp turns and soar over colossal hills,” during the more than 3-minute ride, the website says.

Other recent roller coaster deaths and safety claims

The death is at least the seventh at the Georgia park since 1989, including two people who were in restricted areas and struck by roller coasters and two who died in auto accidents, according to the Doan Law Firm, which tallies amusement park accidents and represents victims.

In 2006, a man died after likely having a heart attack on the Goliath coaster, the law firm said.

The latest death comes less than two weeks after Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California announced the retirement of its X2 roller coaster following lawsuits alleging riders suffered serious brain injuries. The park settled one wrongful-death lawsuit with the family of a 22-year-old man who died after riding the coaster in 2022.

Last year, a 32-year-old man died from blunt impact injuries after riding a high-speed roller coaster at the Universal Epic Universe theme park in Florida. His death was ruled accidental.

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Associated Press writers Kate Brumback in Atlanta, Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.

The district, located west of Las Olas Boulevard near Southwest Second Avenue and Southwest Second Street, is known for its nightlife, with numerous bars and restaurants drawing large crowds.

But recent incidents involving gunfire, including a deadly shooting and another that left five people injured, have raised concerns about safety in the area.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis and Police Chief William Schultz are expected to speak at a 10 a.m. news conference about efforts to improve public safety.

Representatives from the Florida Highway Patrol and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are also expected to participate.

Recent shootings raise safety concerns

One of the most recent incidents happened Sept. 6, when gunfire erupted near Southwest Second Street and Southwest Third Avenue around 3:30 a.m.

According to Fort Lauderdale police, officers were attempting to break up a fight when they heard a gunshot.

Several people were detained, and officers recovered a firearm, but no shooting victim was initially located at the scene.

A short time later, a man arrived at a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound that was not considered life-threatening.

Witnesses described the frightening moments as crowds scrambled to get away.

“I was just ready to have fun and a lot happened. It happened so quick,” one bystander told Local 10 News. “Everyone started running.”

Another witness said, “I seen everybody run and I ran.”

The shooting came approximately two months after a deadly incident at a parking garage near the district.

In early July, a 43-year-old man was shot around 4:30 a.m. inside the Governmental Center parking garage near Southwest Second Street and Southwest First Avenue.

The victim was rushed to a hospital, where he later died.

Investigators recovered a gun and detained a person of interest, according to police.

Five injured in December mass shooting

Another violent incident occurred in December 2025 outside Dicey Riley’s Irish Pub.

Around 2 a.m., gunfire sent crowds running through the entertainment district.

Five people were shot and transported to an area hospital.

Witnesses described the chaos that unfolded as shots rang out.

“I came downstairs for something to eat and I almost got shot,” one witness told Local 10 News.

Another recalled seeing someone who had been wounded.

“There was a gentleman on the ground I was with. He got shot in the arm,” the witness said.

A third witness described a crowd fleeing after hearing approximately six gunshots.

City previously approved alcohol restrictions

The latest discussion comes after Fort Lauderdale officials took steps earlier this year to address safety concerns in the entertainment district.

Following a series of shootings, Fort Lauderdale police increased their presence in the area.

In February, city commissioners also approved an ordinance banning open containers and outdoor alcohol sales in the nightlife district.

The measure faced opposition from some business owners who argued that restricting outdoor drinking would change the district’s atmosphere and nightlife experience.

The police chief previously said the department received more calls for incidents in the entertainment district in 2025 than in any year since 2021.

Officials expected to discuss next steps

Tuesday’s news conference is expected to focus on possible measures to reduce violence and address underage drinking in the district.

Trantalis, Schultz and representatives from other law enforcement agencies are expected to discuss their efforts to make the popular nightlife destination safer.

Additional details about any proposed initiatives are expected during the 10 a.m. announcement.

Integrantes de Greenpeace África y de Extinction Rebellion cuestionaron los esfuerzos por presentar a África como una nueva frontera para el desarrollo de combustibles fósiles, al sostener que una mayor inversión agravaría el cambio climático y pondría en riesgo a comunidades que ya lidian con sus efectos.

“Las petroleras extranjeras han obtenido miles de millones en ganancias solo este año a costa de la vida de las personas, a costa de los ecosistemas, a costa de vidas africanas”, denunció Siya Myeza, activista de Greenpeace África.

Dijo que el encuentro, que oficialmente se llama "Semana de la Energía de África", se debería llamar “Semana de la Explotación de África” y acusó a la industria de impulsar la destrucción ambiental y la pobreza. La policía retiró a los manifestantes, que llevaban camisetas con el lema “Hagan que los contaminadores paguen”.

Las protestas se producen mientras Sudáfrica busca ampliar el desarrollo de petróleo y gas para atraer inversión y reforzar la seguridad energética. El gobierno presenta el gas natural como un complemento de la energía renovable y afirma que las plantas a gas podrían suministrar electricidad cuando disminuya la generación eólica y solar.

Pese a reveses legales, el gigante energético británico Shell planea perforar hasta cinco pozos en aguas profundas en el bloque Northern Cape Ultra Deep, frente a la costa oeste de Sudáfrica, para explorar y evaluar yacimientos de petróleo y gas. El proyecto, sin embargo, ha enfrentado problemas legales.

Los manifestantes afirman que esos planes corren el riesgo de prolongar la dependencia de los combustibles fósiles en un momento en que los países deberían estar reduciendo las emisiones.

Judy Scott-Goldman, representante de Extinction Rebellion en Ciudad del Cabo, reconoció que la energía renovable tendría presencia en la conferencia, pero indicó que los activistas se oponen a promover nueva exploración de petróleo y gas.

Manifestó que ampliar el uso de combustibles fósiles iría en contra de los compromisos del acuerdo climático de París para reducir las emisiones.

“Estamos aquí para decir que no queremos ver ninguna exploración de petróleo y gas en este continente”, dijo Scott-Goldman a la AP.

Mencionó incendios, inundaciones y el aumento de los precios de los alimentos como consecuencias del cambio climático, y advirtió que sus efectos también podrían impulsar la migración y el malestar social.

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It happened on Friday, when video shows a white BMW outside of a Doral apartment complex.

According to police, the victim was contacted by someone he had previously conducted a successful Facebook Marketplace transaction for an iPhone with to see if he wanted to purchase additional phones, which he did.

That suspect has since been identified as Lazaro Nunez-Martinez, 31, of Miami Gardens.

The meeting occurred outside the victim’s apartment building, and according to police, as the victim opened the passenger side door of Nunez-Martinez’s vehicle, someone who had been laying down in the back seat suddenly got up and pointed a gun at the victim.

“The passenger in the rear seat pointed a firearm at our victim and told him to come inside the car,” said Doral Police Chief Matthew Castillo.

That suspect has since been identified as 39-year-old Darian Ernesto Morejon Rodriguez.

Nunez-Martinez then drove off with the victim being held at gunpoint in the passenger seat, police said, despite the victim making multiple attempts to escape.

“He tried to escape the vehicle twice and was actually strangled,” said Castillo.

Eventually, when the vehicle began to slow down in the area of Northwest 66th Street and 78th Avenue, the victim took the $4,000 in cash he had brought for the purchase and threw it outside the car, which prompted Rodriguez to get out of the car and pick up the money, according to police.

The victim then used the opportunity to push his way out of the vehicle, authorities said.

“Our victim was trying to keep up ways to survive and one of those was throwing the cash outside the window, which he did,” said Castillo.

After escaping, police said the victim received a threatening text from Nunez-Martinez, which stated, “Don’t you dare do anything because we will look for you, we know where you live. We will close the business here and we will forget everything.”

A few hours after Nunez-Martinez made his first court appearance, officers arrested Rodriguez during a traffic stop Monday in Hallandale Beach.

Nunez-Martinez is facing felony charges of kidnapping with a firearm, robbery with a firearm or deadly weapon, third-degree grand theft, tampering with a victim or witness and battery.

As of Monday afternoon, Nunez-Martinez was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set.” Rodriguez, meanwhile, was transferred to Miami-Dade County Tuesday morning, where a bond hearing awaits him.

Trump's new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, dropped big news in her very brief first press conference: Kimberly Guilfoyle has been asked to resign as ambassador to Greece, following allegations of improper and possibly illegal conduct. Guilfoyle denied doing anything wrong.

Most Americans think Donald Trump is profiting off the presidency in unethical or illegal ways and is focused more on his wealth than helping people like them, a new AP-NORC poll finds.

Trump on Tuesday is planning to devote a big chunk of his dwindling time ahead of crucial midterm elections to fly all the way to Alaska, attempting to bolster a Republican incumbent senator in another sign that the GOP fears losing control of Congress.

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Trump going to Kentucky on Saturday

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia said the president’s midterm election blitz will take him to Kentucky on Saturday.

The Republican National Committee said in an email that Trump will appear at a rally in Highland Heights, in a congressional district that has been of special interest to Trump. The president campaigned against the Republican incumbent, Rep. Thomas Massie, who broke with the president on a slew of issues.

Republican Ed Gallrein won the GOP primary and is running against Democrat Melissa Strange and Jeremy Todd, a libertarian.

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being filled up — again

Water is again flowing into the Reflecting Pool, after months of repair, restoration and damage.

The pool has been drained, filled and drained again since earlier this summer, when Trump launched what was supposed to be a beautification and repair project in time for the 250th anniversary of American independence.

Instead, within days of the project’s initial completion last month, the water was beset by an algae bloom and pieces of the new coating appeared to be peeling off the bottom.

Former Olympian David Hearn was accused of vandalizing the pool. But the charges were later dropped, and Trump said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro had “choked” and “folded like an umbrella.”

Trump recently said that a second round of renovations had been completed.

No arrests made after protester with Epstein shirt is shoved at Trump rally

An Ohio law enforcement department said Tuesday it made no arrests after a person wearing a “Release the Epstein Files” shirt disrupted President Donald Trump’s rally.

Before the person was escorted from the event, video showed other attendees grabbing, shoving and pulling the protester’s hair.

Mahoning County sheriff spokesperson Gerry Ricciutti said no one was arrested and there was no additional information about the disruption at the Monday rally in Youngstown.

The president mocked the protester from the stage and said people who disrupt his rallies are “scum.”

Vance says he ‘did not have advance notice’ of Omar search

Asked by reporters about the search of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday at Joint Base Andrews that he and Trump “largely try to stay out of Department of Justice investigations and other prosecutions.”

With questions mounting about the search of the Trump critic’s home just three weeks before Election Day, Vance said “We try to let the law follow the facts, rather than creating facts just to prosecute people we don’t like.”

He went on to reference “some serious allegations” against Omar, adding, “We’re going to look into those.”

Vance was headed to Texas to campaign with GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton.

New press secretary takes just three formal questions

After a lengthy wind-up, Zacharia fielded questions from just three outlets: Breitbart News, Fox News and the Daily Mail.

Breitbart asked about her commitment to “new media” in the White House press corps and the president’s future travel plans.

Fox News queried her about Ukraine, and Zacharia deferred, saying “I’ll have to get back to you on that.”

It was in response to the third question, from the Daily Mail, that Zacharia dropped major news: that the administration has asked the embattled Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign.

“She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well,” Zacharia said.

New WH press secretary ends her first briefing after about 15 minutes, having taken few questions

Zacharia said her job inside the administration would be no different than her advocacy for Trump while outside the government.

“I get to do what I was doing on the outside already, which was hoping to amplify, multiply and expand upon President Trump’s incredible agenda for the American people,” she said.

Zacharia said her goals is to “amplify” what Trump is doing and that the president is “his own best spokesperson.”

Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump’s ambassador to Greece, is asked to resign

Trump appointee Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, has been asked to resign from her post, Zacharia said Tuesday, after coming under severe criticism over allegations she has engaged in improper and possibly illegal conduct before and during her tenure in Athens.

Guilfoyle’s requested departure comes after its possibility was previewed to The Associated Press over the weekend and the president registered his unhappiness with reports about Guilfoyle’s alleged conduct.

“Well, we’re looking at it,” Trump told reporters on Monday. “We’re not happy.”

The Associated Press, citing a senior U.S. official, had reported that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were “extremely pissed off” by Guilfoyle’s reported conduct.

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Zacharia’s first question is to Breitbart

The new press secretary took her first briefing question from Breitbart News, the right-wing outlet who has become more influential in the Trump era.

Breitbart is sitting in the briefing room as part of the “new media” rotation, which was created under her predecessor to bring additional media outlets into news briefings and the White House press pool.

“We are absolutely going to keep it,” Zacharia said of the new media seat. The White House will expand it to the extent possible, she added.

Zacharia starts with prepared remarks on Trump’s midterm blitz

Zacharia read slowly from an opening statement that began with a focus on Trump’s recent campaign rallies ahead of the midterm elections. She cited what she called a “blockbuster” rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday along with planned visits to Alaska, Arizona and Montana, where Zacharia said she will join him.

“He is an energetic president,” Zacharia said.

Her prepared remarks went on to cover a range of other topics including Trump’s policies on the economy and the U.S. border.

Saudi Arabia has been pushing for more direct US military support in fight against Houthi

The U.S. has provided intelligence sharing, target identification and planning for a Saudi-led offensive, but has held off on carrying out strikes against the Houthis.

A U.S. intervention could prompt the Houthis to try to halt shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb, restricting the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf.

Trump told reporters in Washington on Monday that the Houthis were “misbehaving very badly,” but didn’t say anything about whether the U.S. would respond to the rebels.

Saudis and Yemen’s Houthi rebels exchange threats to escalate regional conflict

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and a Saudi Arabia-led coalition threatened Tuesday to carry out new strikes against each other, a fresh escalation in the widening crisis in the Middle East.

The coalition asked civilians in Houthi-controlled Sanaa to evacuate a Yemeni Oil Company site ahead of a possible strike. Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree responded that any attack on Sanaa would be met with a “firm and painful” response in Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia is scrambling to determine how its air defenses failed to intercept a barrage of missiles and drones fired by the Houthis, including an attack on Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday that killed at least 13 people and wounded over 300. The latest conflict began after rebels seized key areas along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and threatened transports of Gulf oil through the Red Sea.

Zacharia begins first briefing as press secretary

Katie Zacharia started the job Monday after Trump announced last week that he had chosen her to replace Karoline Leavitt, who left the post in August.

Zacharia is a conservative commentator who previously worked as a senior communications adviser for Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the president’s Truth Social platform.

Supreme Court sides with Trump administration in lawsuit seeking records about Elon Musk’s DOGE

The Supreme Court, siding with the Trump administration, agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments in a watchdog’s lawsuit seeking public records about billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The high court is intervening for a second time in the case brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which seeks access to records from DOGE operations in the early days of Trump’s second term.

Last year, the high court reined in a district court’s order for the government to produce DOGE-related records to CREW. The high court’s conservative majority concluded in June 2025 that U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled too broadly in ordering documents to be turned over to the group.

AI data centers are coming for federal land. They’re roiling the Nevada governor’s race

Voters across the United States are worried about the effects artificial intelligence data centers are having on electricity bills, water and the environment.

The data center issue has dominated the competitive governor’s race in Nevada, where 80% of the land is owned by the federal government. Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is fighting Democratic challenger Aaron Ford, the state’s attorney general. The winner will see the state through the push by Trump’s Republican administration for AI data center development including on public lands.

Lombardo doesn’t outright oppose building data centers on public lands, as long as they have community support. Ford pledges to oppose data centers on public lands.

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A curious mix of policing, policy and politics is playing out on the US-Mexico border

The Army has been inviting reporters to the Rio Grande Valley as it deploys hundreds more soldiers to the region this month by shifting some of the thousands of troops already serving along the 2,000-mile border. U.S. officials said the troop surge follows signs of elevated activity from drug cartels and has been accompanied by increased cooperation from the Mexican military.

With Republican candidates facing headwinds due to Trump’s unpopularity, persistently high prices and the fallout from the war in Iran, border security has remained a relative bright spot in Trump’s polling numbers, with about half of Americans saying they approve of his performance there.

But some experts question the need for such a large military presence. Illegal border crossings have plummeted due in part to asylum restrictions that began before Trump returned to the White House, and a large percentage of the drugs seized along the border is being smuggled through checkpoints.

Speaker Mike Johnson plans to stay put as House GOP leader

The House speaker recently told CBS News that win or lose the House majority, he plans to run again to lead House Republicans in the party’s internal elections this fall.

“In the unlikely scenario where we lost the majority, I would expect my colleagues would ask me to continue leading this conference,” Johnson told CBS News.

Johnson, who is crisscrossing the country to campaign for Republicans, caught attention last week after having quipped to Fox News that if Republicans lose power he may return to his Shreveport, Louisiana hometown and start a lawn care business, if that’s God’s plan for him.

The speaker remains upbeat that House Republicans will retain their majority despite what’s traditionally a difficult midterm election for the party in power.

US law requires halting Russian oil imports. Trump has other plans

Congress approved legislation in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in spring of 2022 to ban the import of Russian energy products as the financial fuel for Putin’s military assaults. It passed the House 414-17 and unanimously passed the Senate before President Joe Biden signed it.

The law says the president can seek to lift the prohibition only if an agreement has been reached to withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine and cease military activity — and even then such a proposal would need to be reviewed by Congress and to have been “accepted by the free and independent government of Ukraine.”

“Trump is directly violating that law,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, the bill’s chief sponsor, in a statement Monday.

Last month, Congress approved a sweeping Russian sanctions bill, named after the late GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, that would slap tariffs on countries that continue importing Russian oil. Trump signed the bill into law.

Trump rally in Ohio included scuffle with protester

A protester wearing a “Release The Epstein Files” shirt disrupted Trump’s Ohio rally on Monday night.

Before the person was escorted from the event, video showed other attendees grabbing, shoving and pulling the protester’s hair.

The president mocked the protester from the stage and said people who disrupt his rallies are “scum.”

Messages seeking more information were left with the Youngstown police and Mahoning County sheriff’s office.

New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia to hold first briefing

Zacharia officially started the job on Monday and watched from the sidelines as Trump answered questions from reporters as he departed the White House for a campaign trip to Ohio.

Her first press briefing was scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Zacharia is a conservative commentator and had been a communications adviser to the media company that Trump owns and operates his social media site.

Trump announced her appointment last week. Zacharia succeeds Karoline Leavitt, who stepped down in August following the birth of her second child.

FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was at a mental facility

Republican officials and conservative social media users spread unfounded rumors in recent days that state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee in a competitive Texas Senate race, had suffered a mental health crisis.

Questions about Talarico’s whereabouts began spreading after the candidate was not seen in public for nine days. But he and his campaign have repeatedly attributed his absence to the flu.

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CLAIM: Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico was being treated in an Ohio mental health facility last week.

THE FACTS: This is false. The facility where he was said to have been treated has denied he was ever a patient there. Both he and his campaign have said he was recovering from the flu. Talarico has type 1 diabetes, which means he has a higher risk of developing complications from the flu. Regardless, Talarico’s schedule doesn’t align with what was presented as evidence of his stay at the mental health facility and images reviewed by The Associated Press showed Talarico at home over several days last week.

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Federal judge orders Trump administration to halt work for a day on historic DC golf course

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Monday ordered a 24-hour halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course, a historic D.C. course that has been part of President Donald Trump’s plans to remake the city.

Reyes issued the order following a tense three-hour hearing in which she harshly criticized the government for having deceived her with its actions over the holiday weekend.

Reyes said the 24-hour temporary order could be extended to 14 days if necessary. It was limited to one day while the government tries to find a key Trump administration official to discuss why a massive tree-cutting at the park needed to occur over the holiday weekend, with little notification to plaintiffs in a lawsuit trying to halt renovation plans or the judge.

It’s the latest example of the erosion of trust between the government and the independent judiciary, as the Trump administration tries to steamroll scrutiny of its actions, from the White House ballroom to immigration enforcement.

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Trump is heading all the way to Alaska in a sign of just how close its Senate race may be

It’s a long way from Washington, has a small population and hasn’t backed a Democrat for Senate in nearly 20 years.

Yet Trump on Tuesday will devote a big chunk of his dwindling time ahead of crucial midterm elections to head all the way to Alaska — attempting to bolster a Republican incumbent senator in another sign of GOP fears about retaining control of Congress after Election Day on Nov. 3.

Trump is headlining a rally for Sen. Dan Sullivan in Wasilla, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Anchorage — famous for being the hometown of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and the headquarters of the Iditarod sled dog race across the state.

Trump’s stop is part of a western swing also taking him to rallies in Arizona and Montana on Wednesday.

“Dan Sullivan’s a great senator,” Trump said last week, adding, “You look at the things he’s done. He would call me all the time because I think — I definitely know — nobody has helped Alaska like Donald Trump.”

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Trump’s diesel deal with Putin draws criticism from a frustrated Congress

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood before Donald Trump during his first term at the White House and pointed a finger, declaring that with this president, “All roads lead to Putin.”

The stark assessment years ago from Pelosi echoed anew after Trump’s surprise announcement last week that he struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import tons of Russian diesel to the U.S. as a way to ease sky-high prices at the pumps for Americans ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump’s diesel deal with Putin has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as fueling Russia’s war against Ukraine, violating existing U.S. laws and drawing the U.S. closer to Russia. It joins a growing list of instances where the president has sided with Putin, often at the expense of Ukraine — and America’s own standing.

“The harm to the Ukrainians is real,” said William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, in an interview Monday.

“And the cost to us, the United States, is high.”

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The socio-economic conditions continue to worsen in Cuba and the Cuban government has no answers for improving them. Even with the 176 economic reforms they introduced months ago, they have been very slow to implement them.

The only answers the Cuban government has is to increase their propaganda of blaming the U.S. for all their problems, which the Cuban people on the island no longer believe.

Without foreign investment, it will be very difficult for them to survive. In addition, their infrastructure continues to collapse from their electrical plants, water system, food supply, and lack of safe buildings for people to live in.

As the midterm elections get closer in the U.S., I don’t see us taking any action against Cuba. Their only hope is that Raul Castro dies in the months to come and that someone within their inner circle of power becomes a true political reformer that can begin to transform their totalitarian system.

Oct. 8: Social Challenges Facing Cuba

In 2014, I wrote a book with that title.

Today, the social challenges facing Cuba are even greater.

When we speak of creating a democratic government in Cuba’s future, there are three variables that must be taken into consideration.

1) The history of the country

2) The culture of the country

3) The personal experiences of the population

That is why it’s very difficult to apply a transition of another country to Cuba or any other country that has lived under a totalitarian regime for so long.

Today, Cuba’s population is about 8.3 million. Many have left seeking a better future. Some factors that are often forgotten is the fact that about 60% of the island is Black or Mulato, while in exile, that percentage is about 5%. Today, Cuba has the lowest birth rate in all of Latin America and, at the same time, one of the oldest population in Latin America.

As we have seen from recent statistics, about 1 million Cubans left last year, seeking a better life. I suspect if and when there is a change in Cuba’s regime, the young generation will not stay on the island to help rebuild their country. They will go elsewhere, seeking better opportunities.

The last challenge is how to change people’s minds to support a democracy when it has been years, even before the Revolution of 1959, that there was a democracy in Cuba.

The ideology of the Cuban Revolution is gone. However, there is a lack of any clear ideology that Cubans believe in, which makes it more difficult when trying to develop a civil society in the future that can support a democratic government.

Oct. 6: Cuba prepares for possible U.S. intervention as talks stall

Cuba’s Chargé d’Affaires in Washington, D.C., Lianys Torres Rivera, gave an interview to Reuters and said that, given the lack of progress in conversations with the U.S., the Cuban military has begun preparations for a possible U.S. intervention.

Cuba fully understands that, if such an intervention were to come, it would not be an invasion as many expect, but rather an aerial drone and missile attack. According to military experts and sources at the Pentagon, such an attack could take less than forty-eight hours to neutralize Cuba’s military.

The U.S. military has also incorporated preparations and contingency plans to deal with Cuban drones if any were launched against the U.S. mainland. My own personal belief is that Cuba would first target the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, which is located very close to one of Cuba’s main military installations near Santiago de Cuba.

Oct. 5: Cuba will not negotiate regime change with U.S.

Over the weekend, Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, made it very clear that Cuba will not negotiate regime change with the U.S. In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Cuban government that if they don’t change their regime, the consequences would be worse.

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This leaves the U.S. with limited options moving forward. 1) Wait until Raul Castro dies and see what happens. 2) Strengthen the opposition inside the island. 3)Take military action against the island nation.

None of these options lead to a clear and quick path to a quick change in their system of government. A military invasion of Cuba by the U.S. could lead to a prolonged stay on the island until some form of government can be established from within the island and with the support from the Cuban exile community. However, there are some in the exile opposition that consider themselves possible leaders in a free Cuba, which could further complicate things.

Lastly, the extended war with Iran and the mid-term election results in the U.S. could also complicate what the U.S. does with Cuba.

Oct. 2: Who is driving U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba?

In the last several months, we have witnessed Secretary of State Marco Rubio continuing to sanction top officials of the Cuban government and their organizations, trying to force them to change or come to the table and negotiate with the U.S.

On the other hand, we just learned that the White House authorized a sale of 3.2 million barrels of oil to Cuba supposedly going to Cuba’s private sector. Are you kidding?

When dealing with Venezuela and Cuba, Trump has clearly shown that making money is more important than regime change in these two countries.

Oct. 1: Robberies and delinquencies increase in Cuba

According to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (14yMedio), this past Monday a bank was robbed in Lawton, Cuba in the middle of a major power failure.

The robbers got away with the money that was to be paid the next day to people who had retired. At the same time, many solar panels that have been installed around Cuba to help with the growing electrical shortages are being stolen at night by robbers.

The Cuban government is concerned that as socio-economic conditions continue to get worse on the island nation, these practices will increase. So far, no one has been caught.

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Rosa Flores, 19, was a passenger in a car when it was involved in a violent crash outside Miami Dade College’s Kendall Campus on Sept. 3.

“When they were turning into the campus, they were gonna turn in, they were struck by a truck,” said Martinez.

Flores was rushed to a hospital in critical condition, where she remained in a medically-induced coma for three weeks.

“She had bleeding inside the skull, so they had to go in there to drain her,” said Martinez. “She had bruises all over.”

Flores was a freshman at MDC, aspiring to work in MRI technology.

The teen underwent several surgeries, and doctors told her mother she will have to re-learn how to walk, swallow and even speak again.

Flores still has a feeding tube and is in a rehab facility, but is far from recovered.

Rodriguez said she had to quit her job to be Flores’ full-time caregiver.

“I don’t know when I’m going to be able to work again,” she said. “She needs assistance 24/7.”

Martinez believes Flores will have a full recovery and pursue her college and career goals. She hopes her daughter’s story touches someone and is a reminder to drive safe.

Anyone looking to help can donate to a GoFundMe page created by the family.

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It comes after jurors heard from Hill himself last week, speaking on his divorce and battery case.

Hill’s attorney called multiple witnesses meant to cast doubt on claims of abuse by his estranged wife, Lakeeta Vaccaro, who says he was abusive to her over the course of their 18-month marriage.

One witness was a Sunny Isles Beach police officer who said he was called out to an incident at the couple’s condo.

Vaccaro’s mother called 911 after she said things became physical between Hill and her daughter.

Vaccaro filed for divorce the next day. Hill was not arrested.

Another witness on Monday testified to being with the Davie Police Department in January of 2024 when she was called to Hill’s home in Southwest Ranches.

About a week earlier, the home caught fire.

The former officer testified about being called to the home for a domestic violence incident, but said there were no signs of violence in the home, or on Vaccaro.

Another officer, this one with the Orlando Police Department, said he responded to a call for help at a hotel. He said the couple argued over a post-nuptial agreement and as part of their investigation, Vaccaro was photographed.

Court will resume on Tuesday, which is expected to be the final day of the trial.

Ken McCallum, who leads the U.K.’s domestic security service, said Tehran is seeking to intensify its attacks in Britain beyond the traditional targets of Iranians opposed to the country's Islamic authorities.

That has included arson and sabotage attacks on Jewish sites that Britain says were carried out by Iranian proxies.

McCallum said another “major shift this year has been Iranian ambitions to come at harder targets, like military sites.”

The incident at RAF Fairford “is not unique. There have been other examples, not just in the U.K. but around the world,” McCallum said.

McCallum delivered his annual speech outlining major threats to the U.K. as counterterror detectives investigate a suspected terror plot against the U.S.-run base in western England, which has been used to bomb Iran during this year’s war.

Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base on Sept. 27 as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swarmed the rural area. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans at the site, but no explosives.

Seven men in their 20s have been arrested and released on bail under investigation. In all, more than 50 people have been arrested over Iran-linked plots in the past year, McCallum said.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday that the apparent plot was “almost certainly” directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, or IRGC. Iran has denied involvement, although it has previously said that it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target.

The U.S. pulled its bombers from RAF Fairford after the incident, and the Trump administration said it believed the base faced Iranian threats intended to kill as many American troops and destroy as many U.S. planes as possible.

British officials have not confirmed that, and McCallum said that, in the U.K., Iran has so far used low-level criminal proxies who lack the capacity to mount a sophisticated large-scale attack. But he said Iran’s IRGC has shown stronger capabilities in countries closer to Iran, “so it would be foolish for a person in a role like mine to discount the possibility.”

MI5 says AI could bring bioweapon risk

In a stark speech, McCallum argued that the U.K. faces a “new era of national security,” with a generational shift equivalent to the 9/11 attacks a quarter century ago. He said the myriad threats to national security now range from “arson, sabotage cyberattacks, coercion, violence” to “what online algorithms are feeding your teenagers in their bedrooms.”

McCallum said his agency’s work countering state threats – chiefly from Russia, Iran and China – has quadrupled in the past decade, and claimed that both Russia and Iran are escalating hybrid warfare campaigns against the U.K. and other European countries.

He said Russia has been linked to attacks including an attempt to use an explosives-laden drone at Germany's Leipzig airport, and is “using tactics that stop short — though sometimes not much short — of conventional conflict.”

Meanwhile, technology is racing ahead, with artificial intelligence “supercharging” the cybersecurity battle between attackers and defenders, he said.

McCallum said terror plotters have used artificial intelligence for reconnaissance and attacks, including AI-enabled drones. Even more concerning, he said, is “AI’s potential to change the stakes on existing or even new bioweapons.”

After the speech he told journalists at MI5's London headquarters that terror groups “would dearly love” to have chemical, biological or radiological weapons, but these are hard to obtain.

“One risk is that AI could enable dangerous knowledge to get into the hands of people we would all rather didn’t have that knowledge,” he said. “A second and different risk … is the possibility that AI could generate novel pathogens not previously seen.”

McCallum said MI5 has set up a new AI Threat Assessment Center to try to keep ahead of the risks.

“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. It is capable of outthinking us. This is genuinely novel, and deserves the serious attention it is getting, including in MI5,” he said.

No Limit Records and Cash Money Records have hit the road for a can’t miss throwback tour.

Considered some of the most influential record labels in hip hop, their music continues to find new audiences even after three decades.

“Man, it’s a blessing,” said No Limit founder Percy Miller, known to the culture as Master P. “I just got to give all the glory to God because, especially where I come from, growing up in the projects in New Orleans, to be able to sell 100 million records.”

Together, the two New Orleans label titans reshaped the entire music industry in the late 90s, proving that independent artists could own their master recordings, run national distribution deals, and dominate the Billboard charts on their own terms.

“Well, you know how it goes,” said Master P. “We just do what we do.”

The southern hip-hop pioneer reflected on his journey, the legacy he has built and the legacy he’s leaving.

“It is a blessing because to be able to be here still 30 years later with the power of the internet,” he said. “Now kids are going online, singing, ‘Make them say uh’ and ‘No Limit Soldiers,’ and it’s like, you know, I’m just thankful, humble and grateful that I could go to arenas and sell out arenas like November 6th (in Sunrise). I mean, we’ve been selling out everywhere like from Houston to New Orleans to Atlanta to Indiana to Detroit to Dallas, and now we’re coming to Miami to turn up, y’all, one more time for the streets.”

Answer: The pope.

The Vatican has detailed laws, rituals and norms to transfer papal power if a pope dies or resigns. But none of them apply when he is sick or even unconscious, as Pope Leo XIV will be when he undergoes surgery Tuesday to remove a nodule on his lung.

As a result, Leo remains pope and very much in charge even when he goes under general anesthesia at Rome's Gemelli hospital, where he arrived Tuesday afternoon for what is expected to be a weeklong stay.

The pope’s role is universal by design

The pope is the successor of the Apostle Peter, the head of the college of bishops, the Vicar of Christ and the pastor of the universal Catholic Church on Earth, according to the church’s in-house canon law.

Nothing changes in his status, role or power since Leo was elected the 267th pope on May 8, 2025.

The Vatican bureaucracy already helps him govern

Leo may be in charge, but he already delegates the day-to-day running of the Vatican and church to a team of officials who operate whether he is in the Apostolic Palace or not, and whether he is conscious or not.

Chief among them is the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. In a sign that Leo’s hospitalization foresaw no change to the governance of the church, Parolin wasn’t even in the Vatican on Tuesday. He was speaking at a conference nearby.

“We were all struck by the serenity with which the pope announced this procedure,” Parolin told reporters as he arrived for the conference. “Am I worried? Yes, because I certainly didn’t expect something like this.”

But Parolin said he had spoken with the pope Monday night and was reassured.

“It’s something that, thank God, we noticed right away. And normally, when these things are caught in time, they can be resolved,” he said. “But these are, as the pope said, God’s surprises.”

Other Vatican functions are proceeding normally, including the announced appointments of two new bishops on Tuesday, albeit with some modifications for events where the pope had been expected to attend.

When a pope gets sick, nothing changes legally

Canon law has provisions for when a diocesan bishop gets sick and can’t run his diocese, but none for a pope. Canon 412 says a diocese can be declared “impeded” if its bishop — due to “captivity, banishment, exile, or incapacity” — cannot fulfill his pastoral functions. In such cases, the day-to-day running of the diocese shifts to an auxiliary bishop, a vicar general or someone else.

Even though Leo is bishop of Rome, no explicit provision exists for the pope if he similarly becomes “impeded.” Canon 335 declares simply that when the Holy See is “vacant or entirely impeded,” nothing can be altered in the governance of the church. But it doesn’t say what it means for the Holy See to be “entirely impeded” or what provisions might come into play if it ever were.

Past popes have written instructions just in case

In 1965, Pope Paul VI wrote letters to the dean of the College of Cardinals hypothesizing that if he were to become seriously ill, the dean and other cardinals should accept his resignation.

Paul foresaw the possibility that as popes continued to live longer, they could become incapacitated by stroke, dementia or another long-term, progressive ailment that would make it impossible for them to do their job and unable to freely resign. The letter was never invoked, since Paul lived another 13 years and died on the job.

Pope Francis confirmed in 2022 that shortly after he was elected pope he wrote a letter of resignation, to be invoked if he became medically incapacitated. Francis said he gave it to the then-secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and assumed Bertone had delivered it to Parolin’s office when he retired.

The text was never made public and the conditions Francis contemplated for a resignation were unknown. It also is not known if such a letter would be canonically valid. Canon law requires a papal resignation to be “freely and properly manifested,” as was the case when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in 2013.

Power transfers only when a pope dies or resigns

The only time papal power changes hands is when a pope dies or resigns. At that time a whole series of rites and rituals comes into play governing the “interregnum,” the period between the end of one pontificate and the election of a new pope.

During that period, known as the “sede vacante,” or “empty See,” the camerlengo, or chamberlain, runs the administration and finances of the Holy See. He certifies the pope’s death, seals the papal apartments and prepares for the pope’s burial before a conclave to elect a new pope.

The position is currently held by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the head of the Vatican’s laity office.

The camerlengo has no role or duties if the pope is merely sick or otherwise incapacitated.

In fact, in these days Farrell is presiding over a Vatican conference on family ministry that Leo had been attending up until his surprise hospitalization.

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Greenpeace Africa and Extinction Rebellion campaigners challenged efforts to position Africa as a new frontier for fossil fuel development, arguing that further investment would worsen climate change and threaten communities already grappling with its effects.

“Oil companies from overseas have made billions in profits this year alone at the expense of people’s lives, at the expense of ecosystems, at the expense of African lives,” Siya Myeza, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Africa, told The Associated Press.

Myeza branded the gathering “Africa Exploitation Week,” accusing the industry of driving environmental destruction and poverty. Police removed the protesters, who wore T-shirts bearing the slogan “Make polluters pay.”

The protests come as South Africa seeks to expand oil and gas development to attract investment and bolster energy security. The government presents natural gas as a complement to renewable energy, saying gas-fired plants could provide electricity when wind and solar output drops.

Despite legal setbacks, British energy giant Shell plans to drill up to five deepwater wells in the Northern Cape Ultra Deep block off South Africa’s west coast to explore for and assess oil and gas deposits. The project’s environmental approval has drawn appeals.

Protesters say such plans risk prolonging dependence on fossil fuels at a time when countries should be cutting emissions.

Judy Scott-Goldman, a representative of Extinction Rebellion in Cape Town, acknowledged that renewable energy would feature at the conference but said campaigners opposed promoting new oil and gas exploration.

She said expanding fossil fuel use would run counter to commitments under the Paris climate agreement to reduce emissions.

“We’re here to say we don’t want to see any exploration of oil and gas on this continent,” she told the AP.

She pointed to fires, floods and rising food prices as consequences of climate change, warning that its effects could also drive migration and social unrest.

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The longtime South Florida favorite, which first opened in 1956, will welcome customers beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, two months earlier than last year’s opening.

But despite the 8 a.m. opening, customers were camped out outside the business overnight to ensure they got their hands on the goods on opening day.

Eiby Mendez, who was first in line, told Local 10 News that she got in line at 7:37 p.m. Monday.

“It’s something to look forward to,” she said. “They only open seasonal(ly), and I like to help the community. I do deliver to a lot of people that are not able to make it because of work, because of family and because of other things, and of course they want to get their hands on the cinnamon rolls.”

And while visitors can expect the same beloved recipes that have made the farm a staple for generations, they’ll also notice some improvements designed to reduce wait times.

New changes aimed at shorter lines

Knaus Berry Farm is adding a fourth cash register and cashier to help speed up service.

Customers waiting in line will also have access to additional menu signs and QR codes, allowing them to browse the menu on their phones before reaching the counter.

Another change this season is a limit of four dozen cinnamon rolls per customer, a measure intended to help keep lines moving.

Parking is also getting an upgrade, with nearly twice as much space available for visitors.

Celebrating 70 seasons of sweet traditions

Despite the changes, the farm is keeping the recipes and familiar faces that have made it a South Florida tradition for decades.

Its kitchen team brings more than 140 years of combined bakery experience.

This year’s season will also be longer, extending to 30 weeks and giving customers more opportunities to enjoy the farm’s baked goods.

When and where to visit

Knaus Berry Farm will open Tuesday, at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m.

The farm is located at 16790 SW 177th Ave. in Miami-Dade County.

The EU budget, known as the multiannual financial framework, amounts to around 1.2% of the 27-nation bloc’s gross national income. The MFF is financed mostly by the member countries based on the size of their economies.

The spending plan is the cash point where EU ambitions, conflicting policy priorities and economic realities collide and must be endorsed by all member countries and the European Parliament.

The 2028-2034 budget is being negotiated as the EU faces outside challenges including supporting Ukraine as it fights off the Russian invasion and remaining competitive in the face of high energy prices and trade tensions with the United States and China.

Inside the union, elections in France, Italy, Poland and Spain later this year and next year could test the resilience of the world’s biggest trading bloc, with the hard right leading in opinion polls in France and results in Poland and Spain difficult to predict.

The EU presidency tables a new proposal

Over the weekend, Ireland, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, proposed to set the budget at 1.62 trillion euros ($1.81 trillion). That is a 30% increase over the current seven-year package, but 8% less than what the European Commission wants.

Sweden, one of about eight countries known as net contributors paying more into the budget than they receive back in allocations, insists “several hundred billion euros” more in cuts are needed.

“It’s wildly unaffordable, and the volume must go down,” Sweden’s EU Affairs Minister Jessica Rosencrantz said as she and her counterparts met to chew over the Irish presidency proposal ahead of an EU leadership summit later this week.

The Irish plan would mean “a 60% increase in the Swedish contribution” that amounts to “a fee for the Swedish taxpayers to pick up, which limits us to make the necessary priorities back home,” Rosencrantz said.

On Sunday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, Europe’s biggest economy and a major net budget contributor, welcomed Ireland’s “tireless efforts” but said “we are still a long way from reaching an agreement.”

“The EU budget must be affordable for those who bear the main burden of financing,” said Merz, who will from Thursday join his counterparts in Brussels for two days of talks. “Everyone must contribute to the necessary adjustments.”

Something has to give or money must be found elsewhere

That “everyone” was a reference to countries rejecting cuts to cohesion funds for Europe’s poorer regions, or to agriculture policy, which subsidizes the continent’s farmers. Combined, this money accounts for about two-thirds of the budget.

Ultimately, if countries aren’t willing to stump up more cash, then either farm or cohesion spending must shrink or Europe’s ambitions on defense, competitiveness and other priorities scaled back. Unless money can be found elsewhere.

Despite the uncertainty, Ireland’s EU Affairs Minister Thomas Byrne thinks the presidency has laid a good foundation for negotiations in the days and weeks ahead.

“That was our task, to find that basis,” he told reporters in Luxembourg before chairing Tuesday’s meeting. “We weren’t asked to find a basis for agreement. That will come later.”

Indeed, most of the parties involved are complaining more or less equally and none of them have yet walked away, which may be a good sign.

“Nobody’s going to get everything that they want. But we hope that there’ll be something there for everybody,” Byrne said.

Desperately seeking Europe's ‘own resources’

Still, the negotiations are gathering pace just as ambitions for the EU in an uncertain world are on the rise but room for fiscal maneuver in many countries is disappearing.

The MFF is tiny compared with national budgets, but France, Italy and Belgium are mired in debt and oppose paying more.

As a bloc, the EU is not allowed to levy taxes, but does earn revenue from mechanisms such as customs duties and value added tax. The commission is looking for new ways to raise its “own resources” through the carbon emissions trading system and a new tobacco duty, among other measures.

Whatever happens, missing the end of December “deadline” does not mean that money runs out. Nations have another year, but much time is needed to adopt legislation on spending programs and approve it all so money can be flowing by January 2028.

In a letter inviting leaders to the summit, European Council President António Costa said clinching a “timely agreement” is “essential to provide our economies with the predictability and stability they need in an unstable and unpredictable world.”

“I count on your leadership and collaborative spirit,” Costa wrote.

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So over the summer, she joined with other residents to successfully oppose plans for one of the giant computing warehouses that have popped up around the country.

But their victory was short-lived. The developers withdrew their application and instead sought adjacent land owned by the federal government — and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management signed off.

“Not only did we not get to decide anything or have a say,” Sorenson said, “we were just really kept in the dark.”

The Townsite data center was the first in the country to be approved on federal public land, though construction is stalled after a judge ruled that the government couldn’t use an old environmental review from when the project was intended to be a solar farm.

Tech companies are eager for vast tracts to build data centers that can be as large as 70 football fields, and Townsite could set a precedent for similar projects on federal property with more than a dozen others in the planning stages. President Donald Trump has been a steadfast supporter of the artificial intelligence industry, which he views as a source of economic growth and part of a global competition with China.

However, data centers have been unpopular in many communities as voters worry about higher electricity bills, declining water supplies and other impacts. In Nevada, where 80% of the land is owned by the federal government, Townsite and other projects have become a dominant issue in the battleground state's closely watched governor's race.

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, one of his party's most vulnerable incumbents, doesn't outright oppose building data centers on public lands, as long as they have community support. He recently signed an agreement with Trump's Republican administration to streamline infrastructure projects, which could include data centers on federal lands.

Democratic nominee Aaron Ford, the state attorney general, has pledged to oppose data centers on public lands, saying affordable housing should be the priority.

Both say the projects, whether on public or private land, must follow state rules, such as requiring data centers to cover their own energy costs and protecting water supplies, or they would lose eligibility for state tax abatements.

Voters across the political spectrum unite against data centers

Sorenson, the Boulder City resident, considers herself to be liberal, but she said her conservative neighbors are on the same page as she is.

“We’re all aligned on this,” she said.

Autumn McGrath-Shook, who lives in the same town, said she recently left the Republican Party and registered with the Green Party over data centers, though she still identifies as conservative. Worried about the environmental impact on wildlife, she joined forces with “these crazy libs” to oppose the project.

Data centers have quickly become a “catalyzing issue” in the midterms, catching many politicians flat-footed, said David Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Some state leaders who were previously supportive of data centers have rushed to respond. For example, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott paused data center approvals until audits are completed, and Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order removing data center proposals from a fast-track permitting process and requiring them to receive local approval before seeking state approval.

In August, Ford announced his plan to pause new tax abatements for data centers while an audit is conducted to see if the projects have fulfilled promises about producing tax revenue and economic benefits.

In September, Lombardo, who has said data centers provide enormous economic opportunity for Nevada, signed an executive order placing more guardrails on data centers and requiring them to pay more taxes to support schools.

The two have successfully “muddied the waters” on their data center positions, Damore said.

Lombardo criticized Ford for co-sponsoring 2015 legislation that created the state’s tax abatement program for data centers, a measure that received bipartisan support. Ford criticized Lombardo for giving more than $200 million in tax breaks to data centers, which is connected to the legislation that Ford co-sponsored.

Ford told The Associated Press that he would use “every tool” at his disposal to prevent data centers from skirting state guardrails, including withholding tax abatements and pursuing litigation.

Lombardo, whose campaign declined to make him available for an interview, has a similar pitch. His office said he would not hesitate to confront the federal government to advocate for Nevadans.

But that's not good enough for McGrath-Shook, who is on the fence in the governor's race. She thinks Ford is soft on crime, but she views Lombardo as more pro-data centers.

“I would much rather vote for Lombardo than Aaron Ford in a normal world,” she said. “But with the looming data centers, it really changes the landscape — and literally.”

Data centers on public lands are the latest effort in AI race

Last year, Trump signed an executive order to accelerate permitting for artificial intelligence data centers, and his administration has rolled back the National Environmental Policy Act, saying the bedrock law needlessly delays federal approval for energy and infrastructure projects.

Dan Diorio, executive vice president of state policy and government affairs for the Data Center Coalition, said the industry wants to be a part of the conversation regarding responsible development on federal lands.

“The good-faith actors in this space are going to be approaching that development responsibly,” he said, “ensuring that it’s going to do no harm on important federal lands.”

But environmentalists are concerned about data centers developing on federal lands to skirt environmental protections and laws and circumvent permitting processes. They're generally opposed to using public lands for the projects in the first place.

“We believe that public lands are reserved for public good and should be protected and kept in trust for future generations,” said Olivia Tanager, director of the Sierra Club’s Toiyabe Chapter. “And the idea of using public lands for data center construction totally flies in the face of that set of values.”

She said Congress should pass legislation with new standards for environmental reviews and public engagement that could slow development.

“Short of some type of legislation to that effect," Tanager said, “we’re staring down the barrel of having many data centers move forward on public lands over the next few years.”

Zelenskyy characterized the barrage on the capital as “particularly vile,” and emphasized that receiving intelligence from Ukraine's partners on such ballistic missile attacks “helps save lives, and this is one of the most critical issues.”

"This is precisely what helps prevent people from being killed — when there is an early warning about ballistic missiles,” he wrote. He did not apportion blame for the lack of warning.

Russia's war in Ukraine hasn’t seen major shifts on the ground since last year, but Ukraine is struggling to fend off Moscow's intensified aerial attacks on cities that include speedy ballistic missiles and high-flying jet-powered drones.

Zelenskyy said Russia had attacked Ukraine with more than 100 weapons since Monday evening. Among the damage was a residential building in the northeastern city of Kharkiv that was destroyed, killing four people despite an all-night rescue operation, he said.

Russia has increasingly used attacks on civilian infrastructure such as energy facilities to deny Ukrainians power, heat and running water during the 4 1/2-year war, hoping to wear down public support for Ukraine’s response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine is respecting energy ceasefire

U.S. President Donald Trump has blamed Ukraine's earlier strikes on Russian oil refineries for record U.S. diesel prices — rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran — and struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to import diesel from Russia in an attempt to bring fuel prices down ahead of U.S. midterm elections.

Meanwhile, Trump claimed on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed on an “energy ceasefire” in which both parties would refrain from striking each other's energy infrastructure. Russia has not confirmed the existence of such a deal, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday saying only that “contacts on this matter continue.”

Zelenskyy on Tuesday said Ukraine had not struck Russian oil refineries or other energy sites in the two days since Trump announced the purported deal. He criticized Moscow for what he said were Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities and critical infrastructure in the time since Trump's announcement.

“These are absolutely clear signals that they have no intention of refraining from strikes on Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said.

The claim that Ukraine has halted its strikes on energy sites could not be independently verified, but neither Russian officials nor media have reported Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries since the energy truce was announced.

Strikes on Kharkiv kill 4, injure 41

Russian strikes across Ukraine caused injuries and deaths overnight Monday and into Tuesday, with Zelenskyy saying that in addition to the four deaths in the apartment building in Kharkiv, 41 people were wounded in the city in one evening alone.

A woman was wounded in a Russian strike on a private home in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district, the Kyiv city military administration said, while a Russian drone hit a residential building in the village of Murovane, near the western city of Lviv, during a morning attack Tuesday, Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said.

One person was killed in the Fastiv district of the Kyiv region and at least two others were hurt in a Russian attack on the area, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the regional military administration.

A Russian drone struck an educational institution in the center of Rivne in northwest Ukraine, wounding 14 people, according to Oleksandr Koval, head of the Rivne regional military administration.

The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that its forces overnight “launched coordinated strikes using ground-based precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, logistics centers, railway and port infrastructure, as well as vessels involved in delivering military cargo to Ukraine.”

The ministry also said a bulk carrier headed to the port of Mykolaiv with military cargo on board was hit in the estuary of the Bug river along the Black Sea.

The Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday said its air defenses overnight shot down 604 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and the Sea of Azov.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 417 drones targeted the Moscow region. Most were downed far away, while 65 were intercepted as they approached the Russian capital.

A school, two private houses and a car were damaged in the attack in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow, Gov. Vladislav Shapsha said.

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It happened at around noon, a few miles west of Miami Executive Airport, near Krome Avenue and Southwest 122nd Street.

According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, nobody was hurt.

Authorities have not yet said what led the pilot to put the plane down.

Federal Aviation Administration records show it’s a Cessna 172R Skyhawk single-engine plane manufactured in 1997 and registered to Silver Express, doing business as Flight Academy, which is based at Miami Executive.

As Trump's family business pulls in record money from new ventures helped by his policies, the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that when it comes to allegations that Trump is profiting from the presidency, about 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe he is either illegally profiting or doing something unethical but not illegal. Only about 2 in 10 think the Republican president is doing nothing wrong, while a similar share say they don't know enough to say.

At the same time, just over half of Americans say Trump has prioritized his personal financial interests “a lot” since returning to the White House, while only about one-quarter say he puts the same emphasis on the country as a whole. Few U.S. adults, about 1 in 10, say he's focused “a lot” on people like them.

“His wealth increases,” said 87-year-old retiree Barbara Thaxton, an independent from Summerfield, Florida, “but the people in the country are just barely getting by.”

Trump derided the issue of conflicts of interest at the start of his second term, telling The New York Times that “I found out that nobody cared.” Unlike in his first term, he's lifted a self-imposed ban on his family striking private-sector deals overseas and started several new crypto businesses.

The poll results suggest that most U.S. adults think growing his personal fortune has been a focus for Trump in his second term, at least to some extent. Only about one-quarter of U.S. adults say he's prioritizing his personal business interests “only a little” or “not at all," including less than half of Republicans.

The White House says Trump is not profiting, but most Americans see red flags

The White House has repeatedly dismissed accusations that Trump and his family business are benefiting financially from his office as a fake problem, stating categorically that he has zero conflicts and acts only in the interest of the country.

In a required federal disclosure of his financial holdings that Trump filed in June, he reported taking in more than $1 billion from new crypto businesses after he loosened regulation on the industry.

One of his biggest crypto ventures got a half-billion-dollar investment after he was elected from a United Arab Emirates business tied to the royal family. It also got help from a cryptocurrency company founded by a Chinese billionaire in trouble with the law in the U.S.

On the real estate side of the business, the Trump Organization has struck eight foreign deals in the first year of his presidency, including many in authoritarian or one-party states with influence over private business and eager to keep Trump happy, U.S. tariffs low or the U.S. military protecting it — or all three.

Overall, about 4 in 10 U.S. adults say Trump is doing something illegal, while about 2 in 10 think he’s doing something unethical but not illegal. Democrats are especially likely to believe he has broken the law, with about 8 in 10 saying that.

Oscar Delgado, a 50-year-old Democrat who voted for Trump in 2024 because he thought he could improve things, now accuses Trump of “turning greedy.”

“He's not putting the country first," said Delgado, who lives in Lansing, Michigan, and works in a Ford metal stamping factory. “I wanted a change, but I didn’t expect this change."

Republicans are less convinced Trump is doing something wrong

Independents and Republicans are much less convinced than Democrats that Trump is breaking the law. Only about 3 in 10 independents and about 1 in 10 Republicans say he's doing something illegal. About 2 in 10 independents and a similar share of Republicans think his behavior is unethical but not illegal.

Most Republicans think he is doing nothing wrong or say they don't know enough to judge.

“His family has probably benefited, but I don’t think he has,” said Republican Audra Pelsue, 52, dismissing Trump critics as too angry to see straight. “It’s Trump derangement syndrome."

Pelsue, a manager at a laundry machine maker from Syracuse, New York, sees a double standard among Trump critics, pointing to what she says was insufficient outrage over President Joe Biden's son.

“Look at Hunter Biden!” she said, referring to his position as director at Ukrainian energy company Burisma when his father, a Democrat, was vice president. “It was OK for Biden kids to benefit, but it’s not OK for Trump's?”

Most Americans think Trump puts his financial interests ahead of the country's

Even if they don't think his behavior is illegal, Americans are much likelier to say Trump is prioritizing his personal business interests, compared with the country overall or people like themselves.

Just over half, 56%, of U.S. adults say Trump has put “a lot” of emphasis on his personal businesses since taking office again, while a similar share, 54%, say this about the business interests of his friends and family.

In contrast, only about one-quarter of Americans say he's prioritized the country as a whole “a lot” since returning to the White House, and even fewer, about 1 in 10, say he's focused “a lot” on people like them.

Republicans are likelier to think Trump has prioritized the country, with about half saying he's put “a lot” of emphasis on this since taking office, while about one-quarter say he's given that amount of focus to his personal business interests. But only about one-quarter of Republicans say he's emphasized people like them “a lot.”

John Bartus, a Republican from Twin Falls, Idaho, notes that Trump has agreed to donate his salary, which comes to $400,000 a year.

“It seems like his business interests are a part of his life, but it doesn’t seem like he lets that interfere with what’s going on in the country,” said Bartus, a 67-year-old part-time supermarket worker. “He puts it on the back burner.”

But Lisa Fernandez, a Democrat from Edinburg, Texas, said Trump is using the power of the presidency but not in ways to help others.

“He's exploiting it for his own needs and his family and making a profit off the people who he is supposed to be serving," said Fernandez, 57, a retired math teacher. “His whole reason for being is to enrich himself and take what he can take without consequences."

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The royal couple will then travel to Melilla, Spain’s other North African exclave, on Wednesday. It will be the first visit by a Spanish monarch to the two cities since Felipe’s father, Juan Carlos I, toured them in 2007.

Their visit comes after about 80,000 migrants crossed Ceuta’s border in July, with more than 140 people dying.

While most of the people who pushed across the frontier quickly returned, thousands still remain in the Spanish city of 84,000 residents perched on the Mediterranean Sea. It’s unknown how many remain, though the mayor has estimated that there are still as many as 15,000.

Their presence has become a source of social tension in Ceuta and a political issue across Spain, where opposition parties hope to use migration concerns to unseat the progressive government in elections next month.

During a recent visit to Ceuta, the AP found many underage migrants still living on the streets.

Some migrants have also come forward with abuse allegations, which the Spanish government is investigating following the publication of an Amnesty International report that detailed allegations of mistreatment and torture by Spanish soldiers. One migrant told the AP that soldiers beat him so badly that he needed staples in his head for his injuries.

Residents of the city, meanwhile, have felt abandoned by national authorities, as the crisis remains visible on their streets.

The official royal agenda says that the king and queen will “show the support of the Crown for Ceuta’s institutions and society.”

The royals will meet with local officials, make a public appearance in a central square and visit a school located “in a multicultural setting that respects different religions."

Ceuta had been a place of religious coexistence, but the AP has found that the border crisis has exposed its Christian-Muslim fault lines.

The royals will also visit a cemetery to show their respects to the people who died in the attempted crossings on July 30 and 31. Dozens of unidentified migrants who died in the crossing were buried there.

The border fences separating Ceuta and Melilla are under constant pressure by migrants both from Morocco and sub-Saharan countries who see the Spanish cities as a key step toward their ultimate hope of making it to mainland Europe.

Morocco does not recognize Spain's sovereign claim on the specks of land that have been under Spanish control for centuries, and diplomatic watchers in Spain will be keen to see if Morocco reacts to Felipe’s visit.

While Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has defended Morocco’s role in helping resolve the crisis, many in Spain have questioned if Rabat could have done more to impede the mass crossing.

The suspects, whose names were not released in line with Polish privacy rules, were arrested in Germany, Polish officials said Monday. They are accused of deliberately setting fire to Starlink infrastructure on Sept. 23 in Wola Krobowska, Poland, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Warsaw.

“We have no doubt that Russian intelligence services are behind this act of sabotage,” Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland’s minister overseeing intelligence services, said in a news release, noting that Russian intelligence services are increasingly turning to people with ties to the criminal underworld.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in a post on X, called the incident “another act of hybrid warfare.”

Other details were not immediately available.

The Poland arson in September was one of more than 210 incidents across Europe that Western officials consider sabotage and malign activity linked to Russia tracked by The Associated Press since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

A British court last year found three men guilty of arson in a March 2024 plot that targeted a London warehouse with Starlinks for Ukraine inside. British prosecutors said it was masterminded by Russia’s intelligence services.

Officials say one goal of the attacks is to undermine support for Ukraine, spread fear and discord in European societies and drain investigative resources. Russia often uses proxies for such attacks and some perpetrators say they have no idea they have been hired by Moscow.

Tech titan Elon Musk has allowed the Ukrainians to use his Starlink satellite communications system inside their own territory, including in Russian-occupied regions, but has restricted use of the satellite system inside Russia. Starlink has become deeply embedded in Ukraine’s military operations, with commanders and soldiers relying on satellite connectivity to communicate and coordinate operations.

Polish spy chief says Ukraine's allies are facing near-constant Russian subversion

Russia’s intelligence services are carrying out almost “daily acts of subversion,” Siemoniak said Tuesday at a security conference in Warsaw.

“There is not a week where activities do not happen,” and the same goes for other European countries, he said, adding that the activity is aimed at countries that support Ukraine.

He said Russia’s covert malign activity in Poland started in early 2024 as Russia recruited disposable agents on platforms like Telegram to carry out attacks, including against a shopping center.

“Our enemy — that is Russia’s intelligence services — changes its methods of operation and has unlimited resources,” Siemoniak said.

Fighting against Russia’s intelligence services is not like taking down an organized crime group where the group is convicted and the case is closed, he said. In the case of subversive activity, as soon as you cut one head off, another grows and “you never know what direction they will pursue next,” he said.

“In cases of the subversive activity, it’s like the story of the dragon whose heads keep growing and you never know which direction they pursue next,” Beate Gangås, Norway's director-general of the Police Security Service, told the conference. “We are in the most serious situation since the Second World War.”

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The announcement of a 10-year-deal to hold an African Grand Prix in Rwanda comes after a campaign by President Paul Kagame to bring F1 to the continent for the first time since 1993.

“This partnership is long overdue,” Kagame said at a launch event in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. “But it is a success and a milestone for the entire continent, especially for the African fans. Ultimately, what we want is for the African Grand Prix to pave the way for other races to be hosted on the continent.”

Racing in Africa will fulfil a long-held ambition for seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, the only Black driver in F1. The 41-year-old British driver has said he has been “fighting in the background” for years to have a race in Africa.

Exactly when the first race will be held in Rwanda remains unclear. F1 said a purpose-built circuit was expected to be completed “early in the next decade” in Bugesera, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Kigali.

The track will be built near an under-construction airport serving the capital and will “work in harmony with the natural landscape,” using hills and dips in the landscape to challenge drivers, F1 said.

“Today is a landmark moment for Formula 1," F1 President and chief executive Stefano Domenicali said. “With Rwanda joining the calendar from the next decade our sport will race in every inhabited continent, bringing the world championship closer than ever to fans around the globe.”

The last time F1 raced in Africa was the South African Grand Prix in 1993.

Rwanda aims for challenging circuit and economic gains

Rwanda becomes the first confirmed new host nation for F1 since Qatar and Saudi Arabia joined the schedule in 2021.

With a GDP per capita of just over $1,100, Rwanda will stand out on a race calendar that features glitzy destinations like Las Vegas, Miami, Monaco and Abu Dhabi.

Kagame said the country aims to use the race to develop sports infrastructure and tourism and to diversify revenue.

Under Kagame, Rwanda has sponsored major European soccer teams and developed a basketball partnership with the NBA, as well as hosting the world cycling championships.

It’s all aimed at promoting a positive image of a country still often known internationally because of the 1994 genocide.

Hosting F1 would take that strategy to a new level.

“Look, our country will be watched on the global stage. And this comes with investments and creations of jobs, especially for the youth,” Betty Mukamurenzi, a university IT student in Kigali, told The Associated Press.

Businessman James Ruzindana said that “for businesses, it is a challenge for us to up our game in terms of having the right products that can be consumed by those who are visiting.”

The F1 spotlight could also bring renewed scrutiny of Rwanda's human rights record and accusations of “sportswashing.”

Human rights groups have accused Kagame of repressive methods keep his grip on power. The U.N. has accused Rwanda of backing rebels in neighboring Congo, and Congolese officials have condemned its soccer sponsorships.

Rwanda set to outpace South Africa

There have been rival projects to bring F1 back to Africa, with plans in recent years regarding three different potential venues in South Africa and one in Morocco.

South Africa Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie issued a statement last week congratulating Rwanda, even before the decision was official, but still insisted his country “will get F1,” too.

“We are happy for Rwanda’s 2030 F1. They have worked on it longer than SA and deserve it,” McKenzie wrote on X. “Remember though that one country, Italy, has had two F1s a year, and some react like a continent of 55 countries can only get one. SA will get F1, even before 2030.”

There was no mention of South Africa in F1’s statement on Tuesday.

F1 racing in Africa was linked to apartheid

Many of F1’s previous races in Africa were overshadowed by the policy of apartheid in South Africa.

F1 and its teams faced increasing criticism through the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in some teams boycotting the 1985 race in South Africa, which was facing various international sanctions and boycott campaigns at the time.

As South Africa began to dismantle the system of racial segregation and oppression, F1 returned for two more races at the Kyalami circuit in 1992 and 1993, the last of those less than a year before the country’s first democratic elections where millions of Black South Africans were able to vote.

F1 also held a Moroccan Grand Prix in 1958, the only time Morocco was part of the world championship. A project was announced last year to build a track to bring F1 back to the North African nation but there have been few updates since.

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Some analysts see the development as an encouraging sign for American businesses following Chinese leader Xi Jinping's meetings with President Donald Trump during a state visit to Washington last month.

The San Francisco-based payment processing company said the long-awaited approval marked “a significant step forward in Visa’s long-standing commitment to China.”

“We greatly appreciate the important role of the leaders of the United States and China in pursuing a constructive and strategically stable relationship between the world’s largest economies,” Visa CEO Ryan McInerney said in a statement.

China's official Xinhua news agency said authorities require that Visa complete preparatory work within one year. After that it can apply to commence its domestic bank card clearing business operations in the country.

Mastercard and American Express have already started domestic clearing in China under joint ventures.

President Donald Trump said he raised the issue of access for Visa during his visit to Beijing in May.

McInerney was part of the guest list at the White House Trump-Xi dinner during Xi's Washington trip, alongside Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach.

George Chen, partner and chair of digital practice at The Asia Group, said the approval could be viewed as a goodwill gesture from China toward the United States ahead of an expected November meeting between Xi and Trump in Shenzhen, China, which would be their third in-person meeting this year.

“The timing is notable,” Chen, of the Washington-based consultancy that advises companies on doing business in markets including Asia, said in written comments. “The move suggests that Beijing is keen to demonstrate tangible progress for American businesses before Trump’s next visit to China.”

Greater market access in financial services has long been a priority for Washington, he added, and Visa’s approval can be viewed as a positive sign of China’s willingness to expand opportunities for foreign companies.

He can numbly list talking points for media and gun violence panels. But thinking about her absence each day is one reason Jones does not want to see Payton Gendron sentenced to death.

“I really think that he should just sit and have to think about it year after year after year and just be miserable,” said Jones, who plans to attend the trial. “When I was younger, I probably was more prone to say ‘kill him.’ But, at this point, I mean, he's still got well another 20 to 30 years of appeals.”

The final phase of jury selection began Tuesday in the federal trial in which Gendron faces a potential death penalty if convicted. The attack at the Tops Friendly Market in 2022 is believed to be the deadliest hate-motivated shooting targeting Black people in the U.S. by a lone gunman in the past century.

Gendron has pleaded not guilty to two dozen federal hate crime charges and more than a dozen firearms charges. Life imprisonment is typically the alternative to death in a federal capital murder case. Gendron is already spending life in prison after pleading guilty to state murder charges in a 2023 trial where he tearfully admitted to the crimes and renounced his past views.

His defense team does not dispute his guilt. Their sole objective is to ensure Gendron is spared from execution.

“Nothing will change the fact that Payton Gendron will die in prison,” the federal public defender’s office said in a statement. “At trial, we will offer mitigating evidence about Payton that the jury needs to consider in making its decision. Nothing we say or do is intended to be disrespectful or insensitive to the victims, the survivors, or their loved ones.”

Some victims' family members, however, are not entirely against the death penalty.

“I’ve never been like out here like, ‘Yay! Go for the death penalty.’ That’s never been me,” said Buffalo Common Council member Zeneta Everhart, who ran for office over a year after her son, Zaire, survived the shooting. “Ten people died that day in an egregious way and in an awful, terrible, traumatic way.”

Her son, now 25, and the two other survivors had their lives irrevocably altered, she added.

How racist conspiracy theories played a role in the attack

On May 14, 2022, Gendron, then 18, drove over 200 miles (320 kilometers) from his home in Conklin, a predominantly white, rural town, to Buffalo. He fired around 60 shots from a semiautomatic rifle at supermarket employees and shoppers. Video revealed Gendron apologized to a white store worker after shooting him in the leg. He surrendered to police as he exited the supermarket.

Investigators found past social media posts and other writings by Gendron dedicated to planning an attack to frighten people who were non-white and non-Christian into leaving the U.S. He also promoted a baseless “great replacement theory” that people of color will replace white people through higher birth rates and immigration.

The victims who were killed were all Black and between the ages of 32 and 86. Besides Chaney, they included Geraldine Talley, Katherine Massey, Pearl Young, Andre Mackneil, church deacon Heyward Patterson, Ruth Whitfield, Roberta Drury, Margus Morrison and Aaron Salter, a retired Buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard.

Under President Joe Biden, the U.S. Justice Department in 2024 decided to pursue a death sentence. It was the first capital case overseen by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, who had previously put a moratorium on the death penalty.

Gendron and his legal team said he would plead guilty in his federal case in exchange for a life sentence. The Justice Department rejected that proposal.

Anti-Black crimes still lead in hate crime data

The 2022 shooting stands apart as one of the deadliest acts of anti-Black violence in modern U.S. history. It also reflects a grim reality represented in national bias crime statistics.

Black people have comprised the “No. 1 numerical target” annually since the FBI began collecting data in 1991, said hate crime analyst Brian Levin of the California Association of Human Relations Organizations. The record high was 3,670 anti-Black bias incidents in 1996.

According to FBI data released in August, law enforcement agencies reported over 2,800 anti-Black hate crime incidents in 2025, nearly three times the number targeting Latinos. The FBI also reported a 7% decline in hate crime incidents from 2024 to 2025.

The Buffalo shooting and the 2015 Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting, in which a white gunman killed nine Black churchgoers, show how online radicalization also made it a terrorism matter.

“Unfortunately, he (Gendron) fits the pattern of young, mostly white males undertaking targeted massacres which are then justified by manifestos, which are also part of a continuing chain that references prior attacks often but seeks to encourage future ones,” Levin said.

Everhart, whose son still has shrapnel in his body after being shot in the neck, says hate crime enhancements might be the only deterrent.

“This isn't a shooting over a robbery or a domestic violence situation. This is domestic terrorism,” Everhart said. “It is important we go after the death penalty in this case. But if he doesn't end up getting it, I know that justice will be served.”

Garnell Whitfield lost his 86-year-old mother, Ruth, in the shooting. He has no thoughts on whether capital punishment should be issued because “this is the federal government doing what they deem they have to do.”

He's spent the past four years honoring his mother's memory by working with church groups, victims' rights groups, gun lobbyists and others to address white nationalist movements and racial violence.

Whitfield said he hopes trial testimony reveals more about “the support that he (Gendron) might have had, the radicalization, social media and societal ills that caused people to hate and be violent that are inherent in our society” that preceded the killing.

“Those are the things that I care about,” he said.

The reported strikes came hours after air raid sirens sounded and explosions were heard in the Saudi capital.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Tuesday. Read our full coverage here.

Houthis say airstrikes hit areas in Yemen under their control

The rebel-run al-Masirah satellite television said Tuesday that two airstrikes hit the Houthi-held Red Sea island of Kamaran, while a third hit Qanawis district, 55 kilometers (34 miles) northwest of the port city of Hodeida.

The station also reported airstrikes in the province of Jawf, which borders Saudi Arabia.

Al-Masirah blamed Saudi Arabia for the strikes, but didn’t provide further details.

The rebels also said they shot down a Saudi drone over the Houthi stronghold province of Saada, which is in northern Yemen on the border with Saudi Arabia.

There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.

The strikes came hours after Saudi Arabia sounded air raid sirens Monday evening in the capital, Riyadh, and residents heard explosions.

The Houthis also said they fired a ballistic missile toward King Khalid International Airport, which has been hammered by a string of deadly attacks in recent days.

Think tank says Iran targeting ship-to-ship oil transfers

The Institute for the Study of War said Tuesday Iran appears to be targeting vessels carrying out ship-to-ship oil transfers in and near the Strait of Hormuz to hobble their ability to move energy through the strait.

The think tank posted on X that Iran has increased its threats against vessels in the strait in order to reestablish control over the waterway by deterring vessels from using non-Iranian-approved routes.

It also said Iran may be developing its anti-ship missile capabilities to improve its ability to target vessels.

The U.K.'s Maritime Trade Operations Centre posted on X Monday that at least three vessels were attacked by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier. The organization did not identify the ships and there were no immediate claims of responsibility for any of the attacks.

But Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s top security body, told state TV on Saturday that Iranian forces were striking five “smuggling ships” every night on average over recent months.

Rezaei appeared to be referring to U.S. efforts to guide oil shippers through the strait before they are used to transfer oil to larger tankers waiting in the Gulf of Oman.

Airlines warned against using Saudi airspace

International airlines were warned by Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Foreign Ministry on Tuesday that flights to Saudi airports were “unsafe” except those serving the holy sites of Mecca and Medina.

The ministry said the kingdom “must realize that security, stability, and sovereignty must belong to everyone — otherwise, no one will enjoy them,” a statement published by the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency said.

Meanwhile, Air India has announced cancellation of all its flights to and from Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah until Oct. 17.

Israeli strike in Gaza kills 1

An Israeli strike Tuesday killed one person in the Gaza Strip.

Health officials at Shifa Hospital said they received a body that was partially charred. The Israeli military said the strike, in the Tuffah area of Gaza City, targeted a military operative.

The death is the latest since a ceasefire took effect just over a year ago. Nearly 1,500 Palestinians have been killed since then, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry does not distinguish between militants and civilians in its count, but says more than half of those killed were women and children.

Egypt, Iran foreign ministers discuss Mideast de-escalation

Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty called Tuesday for an immediate halt to Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.

Abdelatty said during a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, that there was “no justification for these attacks and they cannot be accepted.”

Abdelatty also urged prioritizing diplomacy and finding a political solution to the conflict between Iran and the U.S. to avert “further escalation and instability” in the region, according to the Egyptian readout of the call.

Turkish, Pakistani top soldiers discuss regional developments

Turkey's Defense Ministry said Tuesday the country's army chief of staff spoke by telephone with his Pakistani counterpart as both countries weigh dispatching military support to Saudi Arabia under a trilateral defense agreement.

The ministry said Turkish Gen. Selcuk Bayraktaroglu and Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, discussed “bilateral relations and regional issues,” without providing details.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said last week that Turkey and Pakistan were considering military support for their ally under the deal but ruled out sending combat troops. He added that Turkey was also trying to resolve the issue through diplomacy.

Qatar's emir urges greater Gulf coordination on security

Qatar’s emir on Tuesday called for closer security coordination among Gulf countries as the conflict between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia escalates following months of Iranian attacks across the region during its war with the U.S. and Israel.

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani also called for stepped-up efforts to secure maritime routes in the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and energy infrastructure, which has been a main target of attacks since the Iran-U.S. war began on Feb. 28.

Speaking to the Shura Council, the emir accused Israel of committing crimes in Gaza that constitute “genocide,” a charge Israel vehemently denies.

The emir called for holding Israeli officials accountable.

IMF raises global growth forecast but sees fuel price risks

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that the global economy held up better than expected in the first half of 2026, but warned that high energy and fuel prices continued to squeeze household incomes.

The IMF's World Economic Outlook projects inflation will rise to 4.7% this year before easing to 4.1% in 2027.

It warned that a prolonged stalemate or further escalation in the Middle East “could keep energy and food prices elevated and volatile, revive inflationary pressures, worsen fiscal and external balances, and weigh on growth.”

Global growth is projected to slow to 3.1% in 2026 from 3.5% last year, before rebounding to 3.4% in 2027, the IMF said.

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The 22-year-old was hurt just before halftime of the Bruins' 17-15 victory over Oregon on Saturday when he scrambled for a first down and was sandwiched between two defenders.

“I'm going to wait for our doctors to make the final call,” Chesney said Monday at his weekly news conference. “There is some serious concern at the moment. But at the same point in time, there's nothing that has been fully ruled at this moment. There's still other opinions and other people we want to talk to, to make sure everyone sees it the same way.”

The No. 12 Bruins (5-0, 3-0 Big Ten) host Wisconsin (4-1, 2-0) Saturday at the Rose Bowl.

Iamaleava has thrown four touchdowns, four interceptions and completed 62.1% of his attempts for 982 yards on the season. He's also a threat as part of the Bruins' rushing attack in his second season in Westwood since transferring from Tennessee.

Backup Ty Dieffenbach replaced Iamaleava in the second half and threw for 43 yards and a touchdown against the Ducks. Sophomore Madden Iamaleava, Nico's younger brother, is another option at QB for the Bruins. Neither backup has started a Football Subdivision Game.

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The Guinea-Bissau-flagged cargo ship Dignity sank after it was hit by a military strike. Five sailors were rescued, while a search for the other 11 crew members continues, Varna district governor Mario Smrkov said.

Rescuers evacuated all 15 crew members from the Ukrainian-operated coastal freighter Chelsea 3, sailing under the Maltese flag, with five receiving treatment for minor injuries, Radev said in a video posted to social media.

The crew, which included seven Ukrainian citizens and eight Azerbaijan citizens, reported the ship’s deck and hull were hit by three aerial drones.

The strikes on the two ships occurred 20 miles and 21 miles (32 and 34 kilometers) from the Bulgarian coast.

During an emergency meeting of Bulgaria’s Security Council on Tuesday, Radev called the attacks “absolutely unacceptable” and said Bulgaria was seeking NATO and European Union assistance.

While authorities do not possess clear evidence on who was responsible for the drone attacks, “it makes no sense for Ukraine to destroy its own ships in the Black Sea, and the results of these strikes favor Russia's interests,” Radev told the Russian Ambassador in Sofia during a meeting on Tuesday, the government’s press office reported.

The ambassador said that she does not have any information from the Russian defense ministry related to the recent attacks on commercial vessels in the Black Sea but added that she did not rule out the possibility that “these attacks represent a provocation by a third party.”

Radev has said that such attacks are unacceptable and that Bulgaria will continue to investigate the attacks together with its EU and NATO allies to establish the truth.

Radev said that Bulgaria is suffering significant economic and financial damage and added that his country will initiate talks with neighboring Romania and Turkey on joint proposals to guarantee the safety of shipping in the Black Sea.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha in a post on X on Tuesday blamed Russia for the attacks.

“Russia’s latest attack on commercial vessels near Bulgaria’s territorial waters, which injured Ukrainian and Azerbaijani citizens, once again demonstrates Moscow’s deliberate disregard for civilian lives and maritime security in the Black Sea,” Sybiha wrote.

“The Black Sea is a lifeline for global food security. Russia is attacking it to weaponize hunger and hold the world hostage. This must be met with strength,” Sybiha wrote.

“NATO will continue to work closely with our Allies in the Black Sea,” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte wrote on X. He added that NATO had already strengthened its posture along the eastern flank and will continue to monitor the security environment, adjusting its deterrence and defense posture as needed.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “strongly condemned” the drone incidents and said the Black Sea “has become another front of escalation” in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“This is unacceptable. I strongly condemn the drone attacks on merchant ships near Bulgaria’s coast. Putting the lives of the crew in grave danger and threatening security in the Black Sea,” she said in a post on X.

“We stand with Bulgaria and thank its rescuers for their swift response. Those responsible should be held accountable.”

European Council President Antonio Costa said in a social media post that the EU stood in full solidarity with Bulgaria following the attacks.

Costa said the growing number of Russian hybrid activities would be discussed at the European Council meeting scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Brussels.

The attacks came exactly a week after sea and aerial drones attacked two other commercial vessels in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea. A Togo-flagged ship sank, while a Bulgarian ferry evacuated the 18-member crew of a Pulau-flagged vessel.

A day earlier, a Turkish-owned cargo ship carrying corn caught fire following a drone attack and later sank in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania. Two people died and 11 crew members were rescued, Romanian authorities said.

Then they unraveled in a hurry.

Drew Rasmussen squandered a two-run lead on the mound, Tampa Bay's bullpen let the game get away and the Rays stumbled to a 7-3 loss against the Cleveland Guardians in their American League Championship Series opener Monday night.

Staked to a 2-0 advantage, Rasmussen gave up a leadoff homer to rookie Chase DeLauter in the sixth but retired the next three batters.

With two relievers ready and the bottom of the Guardians order due up, manager Kevin Cash sent out Rasmussen for the seventh. His first pitch was launched 436 feet to center field by light-hitting catcher Patrick Bailey for a tying home run that chased the All-Star right-hander.

“Cashy checked in with me and I told him I was good,” said Rasmussen, who had permitted just one run over 27 2/3 innings until DeLauter went deep. “Unfortunately, it just didn’t unfold the way we wanted.”

Nothing went right for the Rays after that.

José Ramírez reached on an infield single to start the eighth and DeLauter drilled a double off losing pitcher Tyler Wells, putting runners at second and third. One out later, left-hander Ian Seymour entered to face left-handed hitter Nathaniel Lowe and allowed a two-run single on an 0-2 fastball as the Guardians grabbed a 4-2 lead.

It was the first deficit this postseason for the AL East champion Rays, who had four days off following a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees in their Division Series. In the opener of that matchup, Rasmussen carried a no-hitter for 7 2/3 innings on the way to a 1-0 victory.

This time, Tampa Bay fell apart late.

After a home run by Cedric Mullins trimmed the deficit to 4-3 in the bottom of the eighth, Cole Sulser yielded a leadoff single to slumping Angel Martínez in the ninth and balked him to second base. Two outs later, Ramírez's soft RBI single made it 5-3.

But the Guardians weren't done.

Ramírez advanced on a wild pitch by Sulser, who then walked DeLauter. Rays sinkerballer Kevin Kelly entered to face Jo Adell, and Ramírez took off from second on a 1-2 pitch.

Third baseman Junior Caminero left his position to cover the bag, and Adell’s hard-hit grounder through the spot vacated by Caminero turned into a two-run double that put Tampa Bay in a 7-3 hole.

“You know what? We were throwing behind,” Cash said. “We were going to throw to second base. DeLauter had gone the first time. I haven’t spoke to Cami about it. We were going to go to second base. I’m guessing Cami recognized that DeLauter didn’t take off and attempted to go to third base. Totally understand how it seemed like the perfect play for the Guardians."

It was a stunning meltdown at Tropicana Field for the Rays, who matched Milwaukee for the best home record in the majors during the regular season.

They hadn't lost a game started by Rasmussen since July 9, a string of 13 straight wins.

“I thought he was outstanding. I thought he threw an incredible ballgame,” Cash said. “You've got to give credit to Cleveland’s lineup. They really put some pitches on him and some longer at-bats early on. But I felt like after the third or fourth inning, he really settled in.”

After giving up a total of 12 hits to the Yankees in three games, Rays pitchers allowed 14 in Game 1 alone against the Guardians.

“The guys have done everything they needed to do with the time off to keep their deliveries intact. We’re going to give up some hits at times,” Cash said. “That’s a very good team over there. They put a lot of pressure on pitchers and can foul balls off and lengthen out at-bats.”

Things nearly got even worse for the Rays in the ninth, when Caminero and left fielder Jonny DeLuca collided while chasing Brayan Rocchio’s foul ball.

Caminero, who had 42 homers, 101 RBIs and an .885 OPS during the regular season, was shaken up on the play but remained in the game after a brief delay.

Cash said he thought the All-Star slugger “just got the wind knocked out of him” and seemed to be “totally fine now.”

“I feel good overall. Just my head hurts a little bit, but overall good,” Caminero said. “I was just hit in the chest.”

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After the quick drive from the Vatican, Leo walked into the hospital through the main entrance and waved to dozens of well-wishers who had gathered to greet him. The Vatican said the surgery would be performed later in the afternoon by a team led by Gemelli’s chief thoracic surgeon, Dr. Stefano Margaritora.

The 71-year-old American pontiff has offered a rare level of transparency about the first publicly disclosed major health problem of his 17-month papacy. He revealed the discovery of the small, localized nodule during his Sunday noon prayer and announced that he would have it removed.

Oncologists say even if the nodule turns out to be cancerous, Leo’s prognosis is “excellent” since it will have been removed at an early stage.

The surgery, which is usually performed under general anesthesia, will require a weeklong hospital stay and the Vatican on Monday canceled all Leo’s audiences through Oct. 20.

“These are things that can be treated very well, if the words he used reflect the clinical situation,” said Dr. Lorenzo Spaggiari, director of thoracic surgery at the European Institute of Oncology, or EIO, in Milan, who is not involved in the pope’s care but knows the team at Gemelli.

A churchman who saw Leo on Monday, Tokyo Cardinal Kikuchi Tsutomu, said Leo told him he felt fine and decided to have the surgery immediately to avoid altering his upcoming travel plans to Latin America.

But the decision clearly came as a surprise: While Gemelli has a specific papal apartment that past popes have used, complete with a private chapel on the 10th floor, Leo will actually be staying in a nearby room since the papal apartment is currently undergoing renovations, according to the Vatican press office.

Robotic technology could permit a biopsy before surgery

Spaggiari said he expected the team at Gemelli would perform a biopsy to determine whether Leo has lung cancer followed by the removal of a section or lobe of the lung where the nodule is located.

Both could be done using robotic techniques, and could be performed consecutively, under the same anesthesia, with different specialist teams, Spaggiari said.

A sophisticated robotic bronchoscopy technology called ION allows a biopsy on nodules as small as 3 millimeters (1/10 inch), Spaggiari said. Both the Gemelli and the EIO have the technology, which has been available in Italy for just two years.

Gemelli also has robotic surgical technology, allowing the operation to remove the nodule to proceed “using a minimally invasive technique,” he said.

The technique involves the surgeon making four small incisions in the chest through which the instruments of the so-called da Vinci robot are inserted, he said. The surgeon then controls the robotic arms looking at a screen providing high-definition, 3D views of the surgical site.

“It’s a very well-established technology. This is something we have been doing for 20 years,” he said.

It wasn't known for certain what technique would be used on Leo. Gemelli has documented using both robotic procedures to diagnose and operate in under four hours.

The biopsy risk is “virtually zero,” while the surgical risk is very small, carrying a 0.6% to 0.8% mortality rate for patients in otherwise good health with good heart and lung function, Spaggiari said.

Tests will determine whether more treatment is needed

During the surgery, doctors would also remove lymph nodes that drain the segment or lobe. “If all those lymph nodes turn out to be negative, so stage one, then the outlook is very good,” he said, adding that no other treatment would be necessary.

The nodule was discovered during regular checks, the Vatican has said.

“I think he has had a bit of luck. They found something that was asymptomatic — a lung nodule, possibly a tumor. He might call it something else; we call it luck,” he said.

Recovery could allow November travel to South America

EIO advises patients not to fly for three weeks after surgery — which would give the pope just the interval needed to make his planned Nov. 6-17 trip to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, depending on his recovery. The current itinerary for the trip is ambitious and the longest of his papacy to date, calling for Leo to clock just over 31,000 kilometers (19,000 miles) on a dozen flights and two helicopter rides, and a significant altitude change in Peru.

"He has decided to undergo surgery soon in order to not change his plans for future overseas trips, so there is no need to worry, as it is not an emergency,” Kikuchi wrote on the Facebook page of the Tokyo archdiocese.

A lung nodule is a small abnormal area measuring less than 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) that sometimes appears on a CT scan of the chest or abdomen. Often, the scans are done to investigate trauma or a lung infection, unrelated to a lung cancer screening. A nodule can be benign or malignant, and oftentimes surgical removal is recommended both to establish whether it is cancer and to treat a malignancy while it is still localized.

Pope was hospitalized for typhoid fever in 1985

This is believed to be the second hospitalization for Leo, who is known to be sporty and in good shape, with weekly tennis games and swimming.

As a young missionary priest, he came down with typhoid fever in 1985, soon after arriving in Chulucanas, Peru. The illness and hospitalization were a cathartic moment for him to decide to stay in the poverty and discomfort of Peru after living in relative comfort in Rome — a decision that ultimately paved the way to his papacy, according to an interview Leo gave to Elise Ann Allen in 2025 for “Pope Leo XIV: The Biography.”

According to the book, Leo said he prayed to God to let him die rather than suffer the “horrible” pain of the fever. “I was hooked up to an IV, and I said, ‘If this is your sense of humor, Lord, I think you could do a little better.’

“Obviously, I survived; I recovered, but it turned out to be a very significant moment for me, because it was like, ’Well, you’ve already dealt with the illness; you already see what the needs are here — the order, the Augustinians, the church are telling you, ‘We need you here; go for it.’ I never looked back.”

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Barry reported from Milan.

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But on a recent afternoon, the area is quiet. American soldiers gather at a border monitoring post in Roma, Texas, where an infantry vehicle with camouflage netting sits between houses. A Blackhawk helicopter drops soldiers onto an island in the river, while U.S. Border Patrol agents breeze by on fan-propelled boats.

“At any given time, there would be multiple rafts full of people trying to get to this side,” Richards said of the area before U.S. forces made it a priority last year.

The Army has been inviting reporters to the Rio Grande Valley as it deploys hundreds more soldiers to the region this month by shifting some of the thousands of troops already serving along the 2,000-mile border. U.S. officials said the troop surge follows signs of elevated activity from drug cartels and has been accompanied by increased cooperation from the Mexican military. The U.S. Coast Guard said it recently encountered gunfire from the Mexican side of the river, prompting the Americans to fire back.

In this small patch at the southern edge of the United States, a slow saga is playing out — a curious mix of policing, policy and politics.

Some question a troop surge just weeks before midterm elections

While Republicans face increasing headwinds because of President Donald Trump’s unpopularity, persistently high prices and the fallout from the war in Iran, border security has remained a relative bright spot in Trump's polling numbers, with about half of Americans saying they approve of his performance there.

But some experts have questioned the need for such a large military presence. They suggest it's less about effective strategy and more about political theater.

Illegal crossings have plummeted due in large part to asylum restrictions that began before Trump returned to the White House. Meanwhile, a large percentage of the fentanyl, cocaine and heroin seized along the border was being smuggled in cars and trucks passing through checkpoints, not the areas in between.

David Shirk, a University of San Diego political science professor, said the Trump administration wants to remind voters it's been very aggressive on border security.

“I don't dispute there’s some benefit to having personnel in areas at risk for people smuggling and drug trafficking,” Shirk said. “But the vast majority of that is now happening at ports of entry.”

Dessa Bergen-Cico, a professor of public health at Syracuse University who studies drug trafficking, said street prices for cocaine and fentanyl are still low, suggesting the drug flow remains unimpeded.

But Army Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor, who commands the military's southern border task force, said the work has been vital and effective, particularly for targeting human trafficking.

The moral argument for the Army's mission is “dismantling this marketplace of human trafficking that is bringing people into the border,” Taylor said. “An added benefit of that is there’s an awful lot of drugs moving with that human trafficking.”

Efforts to secure a former epicenter of illegal crossings

Roma, a city of about 10,000 people, lacks a border wall in some places because homes sit close to the steep slopes along the Rio Grande. Directly across the water is Miguel Alemán, a town in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas that’s been plagued by decades of cartel violence. From Roma, it's a football field's distance across the river at best and much less in some places.

In 2021, Roma became a center of illegal crossings when thousands of families and unaccompanied children arrived each day to seek asylum. Border crossings fell sharply after President Joe Biden introduced severe asylum restrictions in 2024 and dipped after Trump suspended asylum at the border.

After Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the Army and Coast Guard expanded operations to back up the Border Patrol, which remains the lead agency for border security. The Army now commands some 8,000 U.S. troops along the entire border, while the U.S. Coast Guard and Texas law enforcement have brought in more personnel.

Army officials said people still try to cross into Roma despite multiple obstacles. A barrier of strung-together buoys, each the size of a hay bale, stretched along the river. Concertina wire lined the U.S. river bank, while a surveillance blimp hung in the sky. A river island was recently cleared of trees that hid people trying to cross.

Army Sgt. Nathaniel Decker said he recently saw people on three rafts set out from the Mexican side at dusk. He reported to Border Patrol that one group had cleared the buoys. They were eventually caught by a house in Roma.

Mexico also has sent more troops

The U.S. has stopped many of the drones used by the cartels to surveil the border and ferry drugs, by electronically jamming or capturing them or shooting them down with a laser.

The U.S. has gotten better at tracking them and coordinating with Mexican officials to locate the drones' operators. But some still get across.

“We have reduced a lot of the flights,” said Richards, the Army lieutenant colonel, who has deployed with the Massachusetts Army National Guard. “But in the middle of the night, those drones can fly into the U.S. airspace, and that’s a true threat to any soldier on the ground.”

Under pressure from Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has cracked down more heavily on crime than her predecessors. Mexico this month sent 500 National Guard and military officers to Tamaulipas as part of a coordinated effort with the U.S. to prevent drug and human trafficking.

Mexico's deployment “is based on intelligence gathered regarding the movements of criminal groups,” a federal official in Mexico told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the matter.

As part of the operation, the Mexican Army is using two UH-60 helicopters, drones and anti-drone equipment.

The U.S. Coast Guard has also boosted patrols on the Rio Grande, bringing in more than 300 personnel in October of last year. While stopping a boat on the river last month, the Coast Guard encountered gunfire from the Mexican side of the water near Garceno, Texas, the service said in a statement. The Americans returned fire. None were hurt.

U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Jeff Miller wouldn't give additional details about the exchange of gunfire, except to say the personnel are “working in a very challenging environment" and are authorized to use force to protect themselves.

On a recent patrol, the scene along the river was quiet. A Coast Guard boat armed with machine guns motored along the greenish water. Two men fished from a small boat. A privately funded border wall, made from galvanized steel, lined the American side. In Mexico, there was a park with soccer goal posts, homes and a woman waving.

A Coast Guardsman driving the boat, who declined to give his name, said he's seen kids on the Mexican side get excited as if a fire truck were passing. Others have offered the Americans cold beer. Some have reacted with offensive gestures.

Joel Garcia, Border Patrol's acting deputy chief patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley, said the agency has proof that U.S. operations have been effective based on the amount of drug seizures, the number of people apprehended and decreasing traffic within certain areas.

“Border security, when done right, if we have truly secured the line, should be boring,” he added. “It should look as if no one is crossing and nothing is happening.”

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Associated Press writers Fabiola Sánchez and Megan Janetsky in Mexico City contributed to this report.

Yet President Donald Trump on Tuesday will devote a big chunk of his dwindling time ahead of crucial midterm elections to head all the way to Alaska — attempting to bolster a Republican incumbent senator in another sign of GOP fears about retaining control of Congress after Election Day on Nov. 3.

Trump is headlining a rally for Sen. Dan Sullivan in Wasilla, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Anchorage — famous for being the hometown of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and the headquarters of the Iditarod sled dog race across the state.

Trump's stop is part of a western swing also taking him to rallies in Arizona and Montana on Wednesday.

“Dan Sullivan’s a great senator,” Trump said last week, adding, "You look at the things he’s done. He would call me all the time because I think — I definitely know — nobody has helped Alaska like Donald Trump.”

Democrats last won a Senate seat in Alaska in 2008, and the state hasn't elected a governor from that party since 1998. The only time Alaska didn’t vote Republican for president was during Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide 1964 reelection.

Yet high gasoline prices from the Iran war and persistently elevated inflation have damaged Trump's approval ratings enough to leave Democrats dreaming of Alaska upsets.

Trump and Vance have been trying to boost Sullivan repeatedly

Seeking his third Senate term, Sullivan faces Democrat Mary Peltola, a former congresswoman running to put “Alaska First,” emphasizing cost-of-living issues.

Alaska pollster Ivan Moore said he's seen a decline in Trump's support statewide that mirrors the president's falling approval ratings nationally — meaning the Senate race may be decided by Trump 2024 voters who are now unsure they still back him.

“The visit is certainly appropriate. Whether the visit will be effective or not is another matter," said Moore, who said when he first heard that Trump would visit Alaska, he didn't believe it would actually happen.

The Trump administration has prioritized the opening of more of Alaska to oil and gas drilling. Vice President JD Vance already campaigned in Fairbanks for Sullivan.

The senator also recently joined Trump in the Oval Office where the president announced a $54 billion investment by South Korea's government into an Alaska natural gas project. That's despite South Korea saying the deal, and its total value, haven't been finalized.

Still, Trump trekking four time zones west to get to Sullivan’s home turf — an unusually long trip so close to the midterms — is his strongest show of support.

Trump last campaigned in Alaska to try to defeat a fellow Republican

Alaska is home to around 740,000 people, making it slightly less populous than Denver. It ranks 48th out of 50 states in population, smaller than all but Vermont and Wyoming.

Trump nonetheless headlined a 2022 rally in Anchorage opposing Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski after she voted to convict him on a charge of incitement of insurrection during his second impeachment trial, following the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump endorsed Kelly Tshibaka, who challenged Murkowski that year, but that didn't stop incumbent Murkowski from winning reelection.

This year, there are two Dan Sullivans on the ballot

Trump has complained about Alaska’s unique elections system. The state has open primaries, in which the four top vote-getters — regardless of party affiliation — advance to the general election, which uses ranked choice voting.

That's led to a scenario where there also will be another Dan Sullivan on the ballot on Nov. 3: retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan, whom Trump and other allies of Sen. Sullivan have called a sham candidate. Dan J. Sullivan has denied this.

At his rally, Trump also plans to stump for Republican Rep. Nick Begich. Begich is facing a competitive challenge from Bill Hill, an independent.

Alaska has a history of rewarding candidates with an independent streak — something Vance acknowledged during his trip to Fairbanks last week. “In very deep red years, Alaska is competitive. In very deep blue ​years, Alaska is still competitive,” Vance said. “I think it’s just a reality of the politics of the ‌state.”

Independence has been hard to find in the Republican Party where Trump for years had total control. Some Republicans facing tough elections have begun tiptoeing away from Trump on key issues like Iran and tariffs, but not Sullivan, who has been vocal in supporting both.

In a post last week, Trump questioned why three Republicans were running against a Democrat for governor. “How stupid are we to do this?” he said on social media. This comes at the same time state Republican party leaders are urging voters to rank Republicans on the ballot and leave the Democrats blank.

“We want to be clear: we do not support ranked choice voting. It is a confusing, burdensome and costly voting scheme,” party leaders, including GOP chair Carmela Warfield, said in a statement Saturday. “That said, ranked choice voting is the system Alaska will use for the 2026 General Election, and we must work within it for this election to keep Alaska’s recent momentum going strong.”

Trump's trade war with Canada may also be a factor

Trump has also triggered a trade war with Canada, which shares a 1,500-plus-mile (2,450-kilometer) border with Alaska and is among the state's most important trading partners.

The U.S. banned nearly $1 billion worth of imports from its neighbor to the north — including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles — after previously imposing 50% tariffs on about $20 billion in Canadian products. Canada has responded with reciprocal bans and its own import levies, and the back-and-forth could raise prices for Alaska consumers.

Making Canada an enemy of sorts is "discomforting" for many Alaskans, said pollster Moore.

“We associate, I think, probably more closely with the Canadians — more than a lot of the Lower 48," he said.

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Weissert reported from Washington.

The train was traveling from the southern port city of Karachi to the northwestern city of Peshawar when it derailed in Sher Shah city in Punjab province, railway spokesman Kaleem Akhtar said.

Rescuers recovered all four bodies and evacuated the injured from the train’s 14 cars, he said. The injured were taken to a hospital for treatment, but one died before he could be transported, rescue officials said. Emergency responders and paramedics were dispatched to the scene, he said.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed grief in separate statements and urged authorities to provide the best possible medical care to the injured.

Train accidents are relatively common in Pakistan, where the railway system has suffered from decades of underinvestment, outdated tracks and aging signal systems. In 2023, ten cars of a passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan, killing 30 people and injuring more than 90 others.

Instead, it's focused on the unprecedented parental challenge of handling the near-certain prospect that children will hear of or see footage of the Dec. 3 U.S. execution by firing squad of Nidal Malik Hasan if the Trump administration follows through with plans to livestream the event.

The danger stretches beyond the broadcast itself, because history shows graphic video from the event could be clipped, copied and pushed into children’s social feeds even if the original stream is restricted.

Experts suggest that grownups who care about children start by setting aside matters of politics and public policy — like the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections and the debate over capital punishment. Focus instead on how witnessing someone's death by firing squad might land with young viewers — and how best to reassure and protect them.

Here are some guidelines that might help.

Keep empathy for kids in mind — and facts at hand

Mis- and disinformation reach children, too. It's important for parents to have credibility with them, especially because their real, unspoken question might be: Are we safe? Have in hand some basic facts about the case and state them gently.

“It will be easier to have a position, share your family’s values, and discuss things with a potentially overwhelmed child once you’ve taken the time to gather accurate, up-to-date info and assess your child’s needs,” according to Common Sense Media, which advises parents on entertainment and technology.

Trump approved Hasan's execution by firing squad Dec. 3 at Fort Hood. A few days later, the Pentagon announced the event would be livestreamed.

“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Real America's Voice, a conservative outlet.

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was convicted of killing 13 people there in 2009 when he walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting checkups and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. He said it was an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims. He made almost no effort to defend himself at trial. The U.S. military has not carried out the death penalty since 1961.

The last widely recognized public execution took place on Aug. 14, 1936. Kentucky, the last state to permit them, outlawed the practice in 1938.

Stay updated on the plans

Also, experts suggest, parents should stay updated on how a livestreamed execution would unfold. Many questions remained unanswered, such as whether the moment of death and its aftermath will be shown, whether any age restrictions will apply, and whether there will be a broadcast delay or a threshold for stopping the feed.

Be informed about the technology involved. While the government often uses YouTube to carry its livestreams, including those embedded within government websites, YouTube prohibits content that is “violent or gory” and “intended to shock or disgust viewers,” and doesn’t allow livestreams that show someone holding, handling or transporting a firearm.

YouTube does make exceptions in select cases for content it deems to be in an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context or that it determines to be in the public’s interest. In such cases, the content may be age-restricted. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding how its policies relate to the execution.

But the danger to kids spills beyond the live broadcast to unexpected exposure on social media in the form of memes, for example.

It’s unclear whether the Trump administration is considering children in its decision-making. Emails over two days asking White House spokespeople for thoughts from the president and first lady Melania Trump on the prospect of children seeing the execution went unanswered. Trump said that he’ll soon make a decision on the plan to livestream the event.

Assume kids will at least hear about the execution, if not see it

From the old-fashioned grapevine to social media, grisly news has a way of reaching school-aged children, experts agree. Consider their need for calm and age-appropriate guidance, they suggest.

“With young kids, parents should keep it short and focus on reassurance over explaining the events,” said Jill Murphy, chief content officer at Common Sense Media. “Reassure them that they are safe. With teens, ask honestly what they have heard first, then ask whether they need to watch it.”

Remember you are your child's parent, not their friend — and don't overexplain, advises Dr. David Rosenberg, chair of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Michigan. Answer the questions children ask, and don't be afraid to assert parental authority by, for example, restricting or banning a child's access to the footage.

“It's okay to say, 'I don't have all the answers. But here's what we know, you're safe, you're secure, this is what we believe,'” Rosenberg said.

“Where parents get into trouble is when they talk too much, and they usually do that because they're anxious and insecure," he added. "What makes a child feel safest, or an adolescent, is can I count on my parents to be calm in challenging situations and give me the information I need?”

Choosing to watch the footage, one physician said, doesn’t necessarily indicate a child is psychologically ready to do so.

Timothy Lesaca, a Pittsburgh-area psychiatrist, cited a series of studies showing that repeatedly watching footage of events like the Boston Marathon bombings, at least part of an ISIS beheading video and the Oklahoma City bombing can be linked to post-traumatic stress, if not PTSD, in adults and children. He argues that making Hasan’s execution public is a medical and public health issue.

“Ongoing anxiety, trouble sleeping or problems with daily life should be taken seriously," Lesaca wrote in KevinMD.com, an online publication by physicians.

Watch how this event interacts with existing conditions

The people most at risk of negative long-term effects are those who already have clinical depression or anxiety, or who have already been exposed to other traumatic situations, Rosenberg said. That’s because repeat exposure to trauma can cause cumulative damage.

The part of the brain that handles executive decision-making, emotional regulation, impulsivity and empathy doesn’t finish developing until around age 24, and so parents should consider having proactive conversations even with their older children who may be away at college or living on their own, Rosenberg said.

“We have to at least offer help in these circumstances to be the leaders, to be the decision-makers, to at least help them make informed decisions."

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Associated Press journalist Kaitlyn Huamani contributed.

The stark assessment years ago from Nancy Pelosi echoed anew after Trump’s surprise announcement last week that he struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import tons of Russian diesel to the U.S. as a way to ease sky-high prices at the pumps for Americans ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump’s diesel deal with Putin has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as fueling Russia’s war against Ukraine, violating existing U.S. laws and drawing the U.S. closer to Russia. It joins a growing list of instances in which the Republican president has sided with Putin, often at the expense of Ukraine — and America’s own standing.

“The harm to the Ukrainians is real,” said William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, in an interview Monday.

“And the cost to us, the United States, is high.”

It’s not at all clear the Trump-Putin deal will deliver the supply boost the president is seeking to bring down prices. Energy experts have said the flow of Russian diesel is unlikely to lower prices in the U.S., which have escalated largely due to disruptions from the U.S. war against Iran. But the agreement underlines a message at home and abroad that Trump is an unreliable ally as Ukraine battles Russia.

A bipartisan group of six senators urged Trump over the weekend to reverse course, saying the U.S. “should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline.” Trump, however, held fast to his deal with Putin and lashed out, blaming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for America's high diesel costs and asserting he should step aside — something Ukraine's leader has no intention of doing.

“Anything that could help our farmers, our ranchers, I like,” Trump said Monday outside the White House.

Asked about Republican criticism of the Russia deal, Trump said they "can’t really be serious.”

Trump also insisted that an energy ceasefire is in place for Ukraine and Russia, despite Zelenskyy saying that Moscow continued to strike his country’s energy sites.

An AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll published Oct. 1 found that Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Iran war and blame him for higher prices.

Congress voted to halt Russian imports, but Trump has other plans

Congress swiftly approved legislation at the outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in spring of 2022 to ban the import of Russian energy products, which are widely viewed as providing the financial fuel for Putin’s military assault on Ukraine.

The bill passed the House on an overwhelming 414-17 vote and the Senate without a single senator opposed. The law says the president can seek to lift the prohibition if an agreement has been reached to withdraw Russian troops from Ukraine and cease military activity. Such a proposal would need to be reviewed by Congress and to have been “accepted by the free and independent government of Ukraine.”

“Trump is directly violating that law,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, the bill's chief sponsor, in a statement Monday.

He said Trump "illegally rewards his pal Putin while once again blaming Zelensky for not capitulating to Putin.”

More recently, Congress last month approved a sweeping Russian sanctions bill, named after the late GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, that would slap tariffs on countries that continue importing Russian oil. Trump signed the bill into law.

The bulk of the law’s provisions go into effect Oct. 18, the end of the administration’s 30-day review period. But such action now appears to be in question since Trump's diesel deal with Putin will allow the flow of Russian energy.

In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Senate leaders from both parties last week said the most urgent priority for the U.S. must be to tackle the “shadow fleet” of tankers that Moscow is using to transport oil and bypass America’s sanctions.

But that was before Trump announced his deal with Putin, which he said would unleash hundreds of tons of diesel.

Treasury did not immediately respond Monday to a request for comment.

Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson, who faces a competitive race for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Josh Turek in Iowa, where $6 a gallon diesel prices have become an issue, said, “It makes me a little bit nervous anytime we’re talking about relieving a sanction on Russia.”

Trump, Russia and Pelosi’s stand

Almost seven years ago this week, Pelosi stood before Trump and a roomful of U.S. officials during a heated White House meeting and leveled her accusation, suggesting the president's policy favored Putin.

The powerful House speaker led the first impeachment of Trump on corruption charges over his administration’s decision to withhold congressionally approved aid to Ukraine in 2019 as it faced Russian aggression at its border. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate.

Since Trump's return to the White House, he has seesawed between pressuring Zelenskyy to make concessions and showing frustration with Putin’s hard-line stance on the war. Trump often complains that he thought his good relationship with his Russian counterpart would have made it easier to end the war.

A year ago, Trump reversed his long-held position that Ukraine would have to give up land and suggested it could win back all the territory it has lost to Russia — only later to call on Kyiv and Moscow to “stop where they are” and end the war.

In July, Trump praised Zelenskyy and Ukraine for their wartime resilience. But by September, Trump was expressing frustration about strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

Trump insisted Monday the sides agreed to a ceasefire on the energy systems. “They agreed,” Trump said. “Because I said, 'You agree.'”

When pressed about the attacks by Russia, Trump said he'd have to take a look, "because there’s been violations on both sides.”

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Associated Press writers Collin Binkley and Josh Boak, and Steven Sloan in Dyersville, Iowa, contributed to this report.

Davis, 63, was convicted in August of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon. He is the only person ever charged in the death of Shakur, whose popularity was peaking at age 25. Davis faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

On the night of Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was in the passenger seat of a black BMW with music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight when a white Cadillac pulled up at a red light, and shots erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later, while Knight survived.

Shakur is considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time and had a burgeoning film career as an actor at the time of his death. His legend has only grown since. His songs still resonate among fans with themes of hardship, love and Black struggles.

The killing went unsolved for years until Davis, a former leader of the South Side Compton Crips, gave interviews and published his role in the shooting in his 2019 tell-all memoir. He explained how Shakur and his entourage beat up Davis' nephew hours before the shooting in Las Vegas. He said he sought retaliation, and that he was in the passenger seat of the Cadillac and passed the gun to the backseat, where shots were fired. Davis had spoken to detectives years before but avoided prosecution because of an agreement he made with law enforcement.

During the weekslong trial, prosecutors relied on Davis' own statements he made to law enforcement and documentarians. They argued Davis orchestrated the shooting and provided the gun used in Shakur's death, which was the result of a rivalry between the South Side Compton Crips and Mob Piru. Davis' defense attorney pointed to a lack of physical evidence that connected his client to the 30-year-old crime, and he portrayed Davis as a liar who was trying to make money.

After nine days of hearing testimony in August, the jury deliberated for three hours before turning over the guilty verdict. Davis said in court that he plans to appeal.

Shakur was an icon, a brother

Shakur's family is expected to speak at the sentencing, including his siblings Maurice “Mopreme” Shakur and Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur.

Following the verdict, prosecutor Binu Palal said that to many people, Shakur was an icon or an idea, "but to the family, Tupac Shakur was a brother, a son, a cousin, a loved person ripped from them 30 years ago.”

Palal said the family had to sit through years of Davis “bragging about killing someone they loved.”

"They loved that man. And the arrogance that Mr. Davis had in expressing his joy in killing that man ultimately was his undoing,” Palal said.

Prosecutors say they have insufficient evidence to charge anyone else

Davis is the only person to be charged and convicted in the killing of Shakur. The three other people who allegedly were in the Cadillac — including Davis' nephew Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson who Davis said was the one who pulled the trigger — have died.

Sean “Diddy” Combs and his alleged role were brought up often throughout the trial. Witnesses testified Combs used members of the South Side Compton Crips for security for Bad Boy Records. In his book and public statements, Davis alleged Combs offered him money to kill Shakur and Knight. Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence after being convicted of prostitution-related offenses, has repeatedly denied any involvement in the death of Shakur.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said his office doesn't believe it has sufficient evidence to charge anyone else.

“But like any other case, if we come into more information, more evidence, we can always consider filing additional charges,” he said following the guilty verdict. “But today, we don't believe that's the appropriate move to make.”

James Robertson, 63, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and waived all appeals in the 2008 strangling of Frank Hart. Robertson is set to receive a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke starting at noon.

Robertson was supposed to be one of two executions carried out by Florida on Tuesday, but Gov. Ron DeSantis withdrew a death warrant last week for William Lee Thompson. The Republican governor did not provide a reason for withdrawing Thompson’s death warrant but had temporarily stayed his execution last month pending a psychiatric evaluation.

Records show that this is the first time DeSantis has withdrawn a death warrant, which does not technically change Thompson’s sentence. He will remain on death row, and a new death warrant could be signed for him in the future.

Robertson's execution comes at a time of escalating attention on the death penalty in the U.S. In Tennessee, Christa Pike survived an execution attempt two weeks ago despite receiving two lethal doses of pentobarbital. And last week, the Pentagon announced that the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan would be livestreamed.

Florida Department of Corrections spokesperson Jordan Kirkland was asked at a press conference early Tuesday how the state planned to make sure what happened to Pike in Tennessee wouldn't happen in Florida.

“Florida has a sound lethal injection process and protocol,” Kirkland said, noting he can’t speak to Tennessee’s lethal injection procedure. “We are very committed to carrying that out in a humane and dignified manner.”

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

Robertson wanted to be executed

According to court records, Robertson was incarcerated at Charlotte Correctional Institution, north of Fort Myers, in December 2008 when he tied several socks together and strangled Hart while the other man slept. Robertson told investigators that the attack was unprovoked and that he killed his cellmate so that he would be sentenced to death, rather than having to live out his days in prison.

Robertson was 17 years old when he went to prison in 1980 for burglary and assault. Years of convictions for escape, battery and weapons while in prison kept adding time to his total sentence. Hart was sent to prison in 2003 following a sexual battery conviction.

Robertson pleaded guilty and waived a penalty phase, where a jury would recommend the death penalty or life in prison. A judge sentenced Robertson to death, and he later waived all post-conviction proceedings. Robertson reiterated his position during a hearing earlier this month, telling a judge that he understood his execution had been scheduled and that he didn't want to make any final appeals to the Florida Supreme Court or U.S. Supreme Court.

Opponents of the death penalty say Robertson's case undermines claims that executions deter murder. Maria DeLiberato, the legal and policy director for Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said Hart deserved to be safe in prison and argued that “the existence of the death penalty may have caused the very violence it purportedly prevents.

A rare reprieve leaves another Florida prisoner on death row

Meanwhile, DeSantis is the third Florida governor to sign a death warrant for Thompson. Bob Graham and Bob Martinez both scheduled executions for Thompson in the 1980s, but years of appeals and stays allowed him to avoid the electric chair, the state's method of execution at the time. The 74-year-old death row inmate was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual battery in the 1976 killing of 23-year-old Sally Ivester.

Thompson will remain on Florida’s death row, and a new death warrant could be signed for him in the future. His attorneys have said he has dementia, and his health is failing. They said he should be relocated to an adequate medical facility to get the care he needs.

Only one other Florida inmate remains alive following a death warrant signed by DeSantis. James Dailey, 80, was scheduled to die in late 2019 for the murder of a 14-year-old girl, but a federal judge halted the execution as attorneys argued against his guilt. The stay was eventually lifted, but DeSantis didn't sign a new death warrant. The state halted all executions during the COVID-19 pandemic and didn't restart until 2023.

Florida has the nation's busiest death chamber

DeSantis, who leaves office in January, oversaw 19 executions in 2025, more than any other Florida governor in a single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Robertson would be the state's 17th execution of 2026, with two more already scheduled, not counting Thompson.

DeSantis has made few public comments about the unprecedented number of executions, but explained previously that his goal is to bring justice to victims’ families who have waited decades for the death sentences to be carried out.

William Reaves, 77, is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 20, followed by Jesse Guardado, 64, on Nov. 5. Reaves was convicted of fatally shooting a deputy after dropping a gun in front of the law enforcement officer in 1986. Guardado was convicted of robbing and killing a woman in order to buy drugs in 2004.

If Robertson, Reaves and Guardado are all executed as planned, that would match the state’s 2025 total, with eight weeks remaining in 2026.

A total of 47 people were executed in the U.S. in 2025. Besides leading all other states last year, Florida has carried out more than half the 30 total executions in the U.S. so far this year. In July, Florida executed two prisoners in one day, the first state in nearly a decade to do so.

But why bring back Opal, and why now? For one, two of its records “had disappeared” and he wanted to rerelease them, Eno told The Associated Press in his home studio. (Collectors are aware: 2005's “Another Day on Earth” and 2001's “Drawn From Life” have been hard to locate outside of Japan.)

Revisiting old records is an opportunity to reflect for the legendary artist. And below, Eno discusses the future of Opal Records, artificial intelligence, his legacy and the recent news that rapper Macklemore was dropped as an opener for Ed Sheeran’s tour because of the rapper’s onstage pro-Palestinian comments.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

AP: Aside from releasing these two records, what else are you going to do with Opal?

ENO: I had an idea recently to release a 12-album set. I’ve got so much music I’ve made that I’ve never released and a lot of it fits together. It’s sort of similar utilitarian music and it’s the kind of thing you put on if you want to clean the house or read a book or something like that. You want some kind of music that helps you get the right atmosphere for a task of some kind. I’m now thinking about that. We could do that and I wouldn’t have to twist anybody’s arm.

AP: Your music already soundtracks so many different kinds of spaces and events.

ENO: It's interesting to me that (my album) “Music For Airports,” which is now 48 years old, it is still very current. It’s still selling. People like it and I sometimes meet young people who’ve only just heard it and who think I’ve only just released it.

AP: Why do you think 'Music for Airports' still feels current?

ENO: I suppose because, you know, you often tell the age of something by certain stylistic and technical things that you unconsciously associate with that time. For instance, you can tell pretty much any pop record from the '80s just from the way the snare drum is treated. “Music for Airports” is such a stripped-down piece. It doesn’t really have many of those signatures on it. It could have been made today, actually. Probably somebody is making a version of it today, something called “Music for Trains” or “Electric Bicycles” or something.

AP: A difference between when Opal was first around and now is that artificial intelligence is everywhere. What do you make of it?

ENO: I’m fascinated by the possibility of working with it. My problem with AI is the ownership of it and what I know are the moral and social values of the people who own it. And they are really some of the worst people to be in charge of something as powerful as that. And of course, the other problem is because they’re all so chasing the dollar so earnestly, they’re in competition with each other, so they’re trying to outdo each other only in terms of winning that particular competition, not in terms of what benefits the world.

The evolution of a technology, that means the time when it is emerging, is very important. And it’s very important that the public is somehow engaged in that. Otherwise, you end with this ludicrous situation we have now, of agentic AIs that are far too powerful for any of us to understand at the moment, including the people who make them. It's a real failure of regulation.

AP: Last year you organized a “Together for Palestine” Concert. What did you make of the Ed Sheeran and Macklemore situation from a few weeks ago?

ENO: The people we should really be pointing at are the people who didn’t permit the show to go on. I mean, Ed, I think, was weak. He could have said “I’m an artist. You hired me as an artist. That means you get my decisions about what the band should be and who I’m playing with.” He could have insisted on that.

Though I have to say, also, that’s a very hard decision to make when tens of thousands of fans have got their tickets and have made their travel plans and their hotel plans and everything else. So, it’s not an easy thing for him to do. Nonetheless. He should have made some kind of reaction.

I was born on May the 15th, 1948, which is the day of the Nakba. It’s the day when Palestinians were forced out of their homes in Israel and told that they no longer belonged there. So, I have a very long connection, a lifetime connection, with that.

AP: You've been releasing music for many decades now. Do you think about legacy?

ENO: Not unless there’s an occasion to. For instance, somebody just recently asked me some questions about working with David (Bowie) in Berlin and France for those late ‘70s records we made. I thought, “OK I’ll have a go at answering.” And actually, it was quite fun. I didn’t expect it to be, but suddenly trying to remember how those things actually came about was interesting. But I don’t do it naturally. There’s always enough going on now to not keep revisiting the past. Maybe when I’m really old I will.

There’s more and more to do actually. I would really love to retire. But I don’t know what I’d do if I retired.

AP: So, no bucket list?

ENO: The only thing I’ve ever really wanted to do that I’ve never done is to get into a warm bath of olive oil.

I’ve never really been very much a goal-oriented person. I like thinking about how things are made, rather than what comes out at the end. So, I’m more of a means person. I like inventing new ways of doing things.

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AP Music Writer Maria Sherman in New York contributed to this report.

The Bills' defense — and Greg Rousseau's outstretched hand — somehow gave him one more chance, and Allen again did everything necessary to get Tyler Bass in position to kick the field goal that ended a memorable evening.

Allen accounted for 331 total yards and two touchdowns, Bass made a 45-yard field goal with 1:55 left in overtime shortly after Rousseau blocked the Rams’ field goal attempt, and the Bills outlasted Los Angeles for a 37-34 victory.

“That’s the beautiful thing about football: You get another drive,” Allen said. “All you can do is keep moving forward. You’re hoping someone on defense or special teams can make a play, and that’s what happened. Greg Rousseau made a play.”

Allen passed for 210 yards and rushed for 121 more for the Bills (4-1), who rallied to win a back-and-forth thriller befitting the teams with the NFL’s last two MVPs at quarterback. Buffalo is off to a 4-1 start for the sixth time in eight seasons, but the first under rookie head coach Joe Brady.

The Bills appeared to be in trouble after James Cook fumbled early in OT, but Rousseau gave Allen another chance — and the star quarterback finally won an overtime game for the first time in his career while besting Matthew Stafford, who passed for 383 yards and three touchdowns.

“That overtime kind of showed the type of character of who our team is,” Brady said. “You don’t want to fumble. That can’t happen. But we just keep playing.”

Cook scored his second touchdown with 1:39 left in regulation for Buffalo, but Kyren Williams scored on a 1-yard surge with 4 seconds left to force overtime. The Bills began OT by driving again, but Aaron Donald recovered Cook’s fumble after Nate Landman punched it out.

Stafford drove the Rams to the Buffalo 30, but Sean McVay made a curiously conservative play-call on third down before Harrison Mevis missed his second field goal attempt of the night when Rousseau got a piece of it.

“The kicking game, with our PAT, field goal (unit) — not even close to good enough,” McVay said. “It cost us the game tonight. ... I'm going to evaluate everything.”

Allen then made scrambles of 19 and 13 yards, moving the Bills into range before Brady elected to try the field goal on second down with nearly two minutes still on the clock. Bass blasted his kick and ran away to celebrate before the officials signaled it good.

“The confidence I had in T-Bass was, ‘Hey, 45 yards, he’s going to make this kick,'” Brady said of his decision process.

Puka Nacua had a career-high 17 receptions for 138 yards and a score for the Rams (2-3), who are under .500 after five games for the fourth time in five seasons.

Along with McVay's fury over the Rams' latest special teams debacle, the coach rued his decision to get conservative before going to Mevis, whose three missed field goals this season are the most in the league.

“I wish I would have had a better play call and gone for it, got it tighter,” McVay said. “I'm sick right now with myself, and I'm so proud of that group. This is the tough part of sports, but I'm proud of that team. I'm proud of the way we battled, and I'm sick that we came up short.”

With superior special teams play and Allen's relentless effort, Buffalo held on to win another offensive shootout between these teams. The most recent time they met in December 2024, Los Angeles and Buffalo combined for 902 yards in the Rams’ 44-42 win.

After Davante Adams’ second TD catch with 7:14 left for the Rams in a game featuring six consecutive lead changes, Allen drove the Bills 71 yards with two scrambles through Los Angeles’ defense. After Cook scored the tiebreaking touchdown, Stafford completed six of seven throws down to the Buffalo 1, where the Rams eschewed a timeout so Williams could punch it in.

Adams tied Larry Fitzgerald for the sixth-most scoring receptions in NFL history (121). Blake Corum also rushed for a score, and tight end Tyler Higbee had five catches for 83 yards.

Keon Coleman caught Allen's only TD pass for Buffalo.

Buffalo's running game

Cook rushed for 111 yards before his latest fumbling woes for the Bills, while Allen got more than 100 of his yards rushing on scrambles, repeatedly escaping the pocket and rendering useless the Rams’ tenacious secondary coverage. Buffalo finished with 234 yards rushing.

“When it’s there, it’s there,” Allen said. “I don’t want to make a living on that, I understand that, but I do know how much of a backbreaker that can be on a defense when you think you’re in pretty good coverage. I felt like there was some room to maneuver there and keep the chains moving.”

Injuries

Bills: RT Spencer Brown left in the second half with a back injury. ... Top WR DJ Moore sat out with a shoulder injury.

Up next

Bills: At Vegas on Sunday.

Rams: Host Arizona on Sunday.

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The Brewers catcher hit his third homer of the postseason on Monday night, a majestic, 436-foot shot that tied the score in the fifth inning of Milwaukee's 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series.

The three-time All-Star took his time rounding the bases, just as he did each time he went deep in the NL Division Series. MLB posted a video of Contreras rounding the bases, and it appeared to take him roughly 35 seconds.

“More than anything, I try to enjoy the moment,” Contreras said through interpreter Daniel de Mondesert. “I think doing it, it’s most importantly for my teammates. For them to feel the energy, feel the vibes, and for us to feel that together. The celebrations are for them. It’s for the teammates and to keep us going.”

Contreras keeps giving the Brewers reasons to celebrate.

Homer wasn't Contreras' only big hit in Game 2

Conteras went 3 for 4 with three RBIs as the Brewers took 2-0 series lead. He has gone 9 for 23 with four walks this postseason, good for a .481 on-base percentage and a 1.264 OPS.

“He wants to compete every single day, every moment,” Brewers captain Christian Yelich said. “(He) does a great job handling the pitching staff. He’s the fire of our team, just likes the moments, likes the big moments. We’ve got all the confidence in the world in him when he’s out there, whether that’s behind the plate or at the plate.”

That fire was evident from the way Contreras came through in the sixth inning.

Contreras singled home a run against Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the first inning and homered in the fifth off Kris Bubic to tie the game at 4-all. The Brewers had a runner on third with one out in the sixth when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts intentionally walked Brice Turang to set up a possible double play.

That brought up Contreras, who hit an RBI single off Brock Stewart.

“I took it as motivation,” Contreras said. “That was a decision that their manager took, and then I just tried not to get too big or do anything too much. I wanted to put the ball in play. I knew it was a big run there.”

Contreras' competitive fire drives the Brewers

Contreras has been providing that kind of spark since the Brewers acquired him from Atlanta in 2022. The Venezuela native — whose older brother, Willson, is a slugging first baseman for the Boston Red Sox — won a World Series with the Braves the prior season.

He posted an OPS over .800 each of his first two seasons in Milwaukee and finished fifth in the NL MVP balloting in 2024. Contreras also set an example with his work ethic.

Manager Pat Murphy recalled how Contreras wanted to catch every game.

“(He) was ticked if I ever DH’d him,” Murphy said. “He just wanted to be in there. This kid wants it. He doesn’t believe in days off. He doesn’t believe in being injured. He played one year with a broken hand. And he wants to excel. It’s not enough for him to make the All-Star team. He wants to excel. He wants it all. He’s driven to a point where sometimes you have to intervene.”

Contreras’ zest for the game is evident from his home run celebrations.

After hitting his drive over the center-field wall Monday, Contreras laid his bat down and faced the Brewers dugout as he walked to first base. He paused after rounding second base and gestured as he faced the outfield and wall. He stopped to slap hands with third base coach Matt Erickson and lifted his arms skyward while looking up before heading home.

Contreras says he loves playing in Milwaukee in part because the Brewers appreciate the way he plays.

“I think it’s the confidence that Milwaukee instilled in me from day one whenever they acquired me,” Contreras said. “I think going out there and letting me play the game that I do and letting me play the way that I do. I think the only thing I really have to say is just very appreciative to the organization for what they’ve been able to do. I think I’ve been able to have the best years of my career here.”

Contreras loves soaking in big moments with his teammates and fans. He’s hoping they’ll be exulting in the Brewers’ first World Series title a few weeks from now.

That celebration undoubtedly would last quite a bit longer than his trips around the bases.

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When the 22-year-old economics student arrived in the Indian capital, she encountered a city transformed. Metal barricades choked the streets as police moved against young demonstrators, beating some, dragging others into buses and chasing away the rest. Protesters filmed the police violence on their phones, and the videos quickly went viral on social media.

The crackdown was meant to keep crowds of mostly young Indians from gathering to demonstrate against a purge of voter lists they say favors Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party. It did not deter Rawat, who stayed on the streets until evening, keeping out of the reach of police officers.

“We are not going anywhere. We will come back again and make our voices heard,” she said.

Protests led by India’s “Cockroach” youth movement intensified earlier this month over an ongoing review of voter lists that’s already removed more than 130 million names since last year. Critics say the campaign is politically motivated and threatens to disenfranchise millions more. They have demanded the resignation of election chief Gyanesh Kumar.

The Election Commission says the exercise is needed to remove duplicate and ineligible entries.

Modi has not publicly commented on the protests. Some of his party leaders have dismissed the demonstrators as “anarchists” and suggested, without offering evidence, that they are backed by foreign powers.

The dispute has struck at the heart of Indian democracy: the right to vote. It is also testing whether a generation raised under Modi, who has been prime minister for more than 12 years, can turn its growing disillusionment into a sustained challenge to his Hindu nationalist government.

“I don’t see him as almighty,” Rawat said of Modi. “I see him as someone who we have elected. So I don’t understand the reason why we should be scared of questioning that guy.”

A test of India’s democratic institutions

India’s democratic institutions have come under growing pressure under Modi, with critics accusing his government of weakening checks on executive power, curbing dissent and targeting religious minorities, particularly Muslims. Press freedom groups have also raised concerns about pressure on independent media.

The government rejects the accusations, saying its institutions remain robust and law enforcement targets violations of the law, not dissent.

But for many young Indians, the institutions they grew up trusting are falling short of their promise. They see a political culture hostile to dissent, where challenging those in power can result in harm. The voter list dispute has sharpened those frustrations, giving a generation’s discontent a common cause.

Earlier this summer, protesters forced the resignation of Modi’s education minister, offering a rare example of street pressure translating into political change. Their mobilization since then has mirrored a wider wave of youth protests in other countries, particularly in South Asia, where Gen Z demonstrators have challenged political elites.

For Maya Ribeiro, a 19-year-old student, the controversy over voter lists has raised questions about a democratic right they had taken for granted.

At the protests Saturday, where the sociology student was joined by two friends, Ribeiro said they had registered to vote because they believed that participating in a democracy was both a right and a responsibility. But the prospect of more voters being struck from the lists has left Ribeiro worried that their right to vote is not assured. Ribeiro said it has made the fight over the electoral process more urgent.

“When we talk about the institution of voting, it is an important institution, but it is an institution that needs to be cleansed,” Ribeiro said.

Police crackdowns have deepened anger among the young

The sweeping police crackdown has given young Indians another reason to take to the streets, protesters said. They described the response to a planned demonstration as disproportionate in a democracy.

Aryan Kajaniya, a 21-year-old philosophy student, said the dispute reflected a broader disillusionment among young Indians with the country’s political system. He and other protesters, he said, were increasingly unsure how to exercise their right to free expression when authorities could restrict gatherings and detain demonstrators.

“People are actively trying to gather more information about what’s going on in the capital. They are joining in from different cities, but the system is actively trying to suppress us,” he said.

The movement’s reach extends beyond the crowds on the streets. Many protesters said they do not identify with any particular group or political party, but are driven by shared concerns.

Ribeiro said conversations among friends, debates at home and social media exchanges had turned their private frustration into collective action.

After years of feeling powerless, the protests had given young Indians like them a renewed sense of political agency, they said. That shift was visible during the “Cockroach” protests earlier this summer, when demonstrators broke a long-standing taboo by openly mocking Modi.

“I do believe that we are at a point where we have been so disillusioned that we are now more resilient than ever,” Ribeiro said.

Challenging Modi will take more than street protests

Challenging a leader as entrenched as Modi is no easy task. He has dominated Indian politics for more than a decade, and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has built a formidable electoral machine. Opposition parties have struggled to turn previous discontent with his government into a sustained national challenge.

The youth protests have also yet to coalesce into a coherent political alternative. But for many, creating space to question the government has become a fight in itself. And that has come at a cost.

Rawat said politics had become a recurring source of tension in her family. She believes her parents’ views have been shaped by television coverage sympathetic to Modi’s party, and their disagreements have sometimes led her to stop speaking to relatives.

“I do still try my best to have a conversation with them, but I have been failing so far,” she said.

For Ribeiro, the question is whether young Indians can turn their anger into a sustained movement for transparency and accountability. They said the protests have helped young people recognize that their voices can matter.

“I think for the first time in a very long time … I have felt a sort of renewed belief in what democracy can do,” Ribeiro said.

Nathaniel Lowe snapped an eighth-inning tie with a two-run single after Chase DeLauter and Patrick Bailey homered off Drew Rasmussen, and the Guardians rallied past the Tampa Bay Rays 7-3 in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night.

After losing the first two games at home to the Chicago White Sox in their AL Division Series, Cleveland has won four straight in the postseason for the first time since winning their first six playoff games in 2016 on the way to a World Series berth.

“It feels good to see some balls fall, to see some guys get on the barrel, to see some guys have some great at-bats, because the first two games of the White Sox series, we got beat. We did,” Lowe said. “We had to go get our backs against the wall and do something crazy, and this group did. It’s nice to feel some momentum coming here and to take Game 1.”

Jose Ramírez had three hits and DeLauter was a triple shy of the cycle as the Guardians banged out 14 hits against a Tampa Bay staff that allowed just 12 in its entire Division Series against the New York Yankees.

Junior Caminero and Jonny DeLuca had RBI singles in the first and Cedric Mullins hit a solo homer for the Rays, who never trailed in their three-game sweep of the Yankees.

“It’s been a while since we lost, so I think that’s a good thing, and I know the guys will come back and respond tomorrow,” Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said.

Game 2 is Tuesday night at Tropicana Field. Rookie left-hander Parker Messick starts for Cleveland, and right-hander Freddy Peralta takes the mound for the Rays.

Five relievers combined for five innings of one-run, two-hit ball for the Guardians, who became only the 11th team to overcome an 0-2 deficit in a best-of-five playoff series with a victory over the White Sox on Saturday night.

Hunter Gaddis worked a scoreless seventh for the win. Cade Smith, who pitched in all five games against Chicago, tossed a perfect ninth.

“Obviously we came off an emotional series, had a quick turnaround. But these guys come ready to play every day. Couldn’t be more proud of them,” Cleveland manager Stephen Vogt said. “We got punched early. And our pitching staff, credit to them, for stopping it and keeping us in the game as long as they did. And the offense came alive.”

Rasmussen took a 2-0 lead into the sixth before DeLauter led off with an opposite-field homer to left-center. Bailey started the seventh with a towering shot to center that went a projected 436 feet, ending Rasmussen’s night.

Rasmussen carried a no-hitter into the eighth in Game 1 of the ALDS against the Yankees.

Ramírez opened the eighth with an infield single off losing pitcher Tyler Wells, and DeLauter ripped a double to right. After Wells retired Jo Adell on a grounder to second, Ian Seymour entered. Lowe lined an 0-2 pitch up the middle to drive in two, giving Cleveland a 4-2 lead.

Lowe made his major league debut with Tampa Bay in 2019 and won a World Series with Texas in 2023.

“I love coming back here, I really do,” Lowe said. “It’s nice to see some familiar faces on the other side.”

Mullins connected off Erik Sabrowski for a solo shot in the bottom half.

Ramírez, whose two-run homer lifted Cleveland to a 2-0 win in Game 5 against Chicago, provided an insurance run with an RBI single in the ninth off Cole Sulser.

Ramírez then helped the Guardians get two more by breaking for third with two outs and two strikes on Adell. Caminero ran to cover the bag and was out of position when Adell hit a sharp grounder toward third. The ball rolled into left field for a two-run double.

A crowd of 35,361 fans waved yellow rally towels and rang cowbells at the Trop as Tampa Bay made its third ALCS appearance in the franchise's 29-season history.

They were fired up when the 98-win Rays jumped ahead 2-0 in the first and Rasmussen battled to keep it there until the sixth.

Coming off that dominant performance against the Yankees, Rasmussen went six-plus tough innings. The two-time All-Star right-hander, who was four outs from a no-hitter in a 1-0 victory against New York, allowed a hit to the second batter he faced and eight total, striking out seven.

Guardians starter Foster Griffin gave up two runs and five hits in four innings.

Glove work

The Rays helped Rasmussen with outstanding defense.

Nick Fortes threw out Ramírez trying to steal second in the first. Caminero made an excellent play to retire Adell on a hard bouncer to third. Caminero short-hopped the ball with his backhand and fired a strong throw to first.

The Guardians had a runner on first with one out in the third when second baseman Ben Williamson robbed DeLauter of a hit that prevented a first-and-third jam. Williamson, who wasn’t on the ALDS roster, made a diving grab on DeLauter’s sharp grounder, got up and threw him out.

Stranded runners

Rays slick-fielding shortstop Taylor Walls was 0 for 3 and left six runners on base. He struck out with the bases loaded to end the first, lined out with a runner on in the fourth and grounded out with runners on first and second to end the sixth.

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Messick took the loss in Game 1 of the AL Division Series, allowing two runs over 4 1/3 innings. He threw 2 1/3 innings in relief during a Game 4 victory, giving up two runs. Messick had 11 strikeouts in the two appearances. He was 12-9 with a 2.56 ERA in the regular season.

Peralta allowed one run and three hits over 4 2/3 innings in Game 2 of the Division Series vs. the Yankees. He was 5-2 with a 3.25 ERA in 10 starts after joining Tampa Bay at the trade deadline. Peralta was 5-9 with a 4.99 ERA for the Mets this season.

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The IMF says it expects the global economy to grow at a 3.1% pace this year. That's up from its July forecast for 3.0% growth and well below the 3.5% expansion in 2025. Growth in 2027 should rebound to 3.4%, it said in its latest Economic Outlook.

The report, released as world economic and financial leaders gathered in Bangkok for the fall meetings of the IMF and World Bank, predicts that growth in the United States will remain steady at 2.3% in 2026 and 2027.

Collectively, advanced economies will grow 2.1% this year, up from 2.0% in 2025, and then slow to 1.9% growth next year, it said.

The forecasts are based on a nearly 41% increase in oil prices this year, at an average of $96 a barrel. Global inflation is foreseen at 4.7% in 2026, falling to 4.1% next year. They also are based on the assumption that shipments of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz will resume by March, and that the boom in AI demand will moderate.

AI has uneven impacts

The boom in artificial intelligence is offsetting damage from sharply higher prices for oil and gas, IMF economists say, but it also carries risks.

Its benefits are not shared equally: the U.S. and China account for more than three-quarters of net demand for imports of computer chips and other AI-related equipment, the report said.

“The outlook is highly uneven,” Silvana Tenreyro, the IMF's director of research, told reporters in Bangkok.

Growth is increasingly concentrated, with 32 countries accounting for 95% of global growth, the report said. That compares with 54 countries as of April.

“The global economy is not simply slowing or accelerating; rather, growth is being reallocated across countries according to their exposure to the war-induced supply shock and AI-related demand strength,” it says.

Athanasios Vamvakidis, deputy director at the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, said an AI-related correction in stock markets is just one of the risks. Rising bond yields are another evolving problem, along with cyberthreats that could disrupt financial systems, he said.

Underscoring such concerns, sell-offs of AI-related shares swept through Asia on Tuesday, with South Korea's Kospi sinking as much as 7% before it closed 5.5% lower.

AI's effects on employment are another worry, “a slow moving tsunami, but a tsunami nonetheless,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

“The impact over time on jobs globally we estimate to be around 40% — jobs either augmented or downgraded or eliminated. And we are already seeing some of this impact,” she said.

Debt remains a key concern for regional economies

The IMF chief is urging countries to do a better job of improving their national finances and taming mounting levels of debt.

That's especially crucial at a time of high borrowing costs, Tenreyro said.

Countries that are somewhat insulated from the energy shocks of the Iran war and that are benefiting from rapid adoption of AI are managing to keep growth on track. But developing economies and emerging markets more vulnerable to higher costs for oil and gas will see growth slow to 3.7% this year from 4.5% in 2025, the report says. It forecasts they will regain momentum next year, expanding at a 4.4% annual pace.

The situation is much worse in the Middle East and Central Asia, where those regions' economies are expected to contract this year before recovering to a 6.3% rate of growth in 2027.

The 21 European countries that share the euro currency are expected to grow by a meager 1.1% this year and 1.2% in 2027.

China, the world’s No. 2 economy, is expected to expand 4.5% this year, down from 5% in 2025, in line with the government's official target.

India is once again forecast to be the world’s fastest-growing major economy, advancing at a 7% clip, down from a sizzling 7.7% last year.

The IMF is a 191-nation lending organization that works to promote economic growth and financial stability and to reduce global poverty. At the meetings in Bangkok, finance ministers and central bank governors will assess the state of the world economy and discuss strategies to support financial stability and sustained growth.

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Associated Press journalists Haruka Nuga and Tian Macleod Ji contributed.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% and edged a bit further from its all-time high set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 5 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 10:45 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.1% lower.

Those modest moves, though, masked some big swings happening underneath the market's surface.

Goldman Sachs, for example, jumped more than 4% at the start of trading after the bank delivered a profit for July through September that blew past analysts’ expectations. But its stock quickly erased all of it and dipped to a modest loss before later returning to a gain of 1.2%.

Goldman Sachs benefited in the summer from strong growth for its business that offers loans to clients for trading stocks, among other things, even as CEO David Solomon said it's dealing with a “complicated operating environment” created by lots of uncertainty.

Expectations are high for profit growth among all kinds of U.S. companies. Analysts are forecasting overall growth of nearly 30% for companies in the S&P 500 during the summer from a year earlier, according to FactSet. If they're correct, it would be the third straight quarter of growth better than 25%.

And companies need to hit those high numbers to justify the record-setting runs for their stock prices despite the many worries on Wall Street about high inflation, increased pressure from the bond market and the war with Iran.

UnitedHealth Group's stock swung sharply even though it reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. The healthcare company also raised its forecast for profit over the full year of 2026.

After rallying as much as 5.6% shortly after trading began, it erased all of it and dipped 0.3%.

More firmly in the losing column was Wells Fargo, whose stock fell 1.9% after the bank reported weaker revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. CEO Charlie Scharf cited weaker revenue from its venture capital investments, among other things.

But Scharf also said that “our data shows that our consumer and business customers are doing well” despite uncertainty about the economy and recent surveys showing how discouraged Americans are about their finances. That could bode well for the broader economy and future profits for companies across industries.

At the country’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon highlighted “elevated asset prices” as one of the potential risks for the economy. He also mentioned high inflation, rising interest rates and “geopolitical conditions.”

“These forces may be manageable, but we remain prepared for a wide range of outcomes,” he said.

JPMorgan Chase's stock rose 0.6% after flipping between gains and losses in the morning. It reported a weaker profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected, but it also gave a forecast for net interest income in the current quarter that topped Wall Street’s estimate.

Outside of earnings reports, some of the sharpest action was for stocks in the computer chip industry.

Worries have been high for a while about whether chip stock prices have shot too high in the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology, and concerns climbed further following reports that China’s memory chipmaker CXMT is making advances that could challenge industry heavyweights like Micron Technology of Boise, Idaho and Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix of South Korea.

Micron fell 4.6% and was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500. South Korea's Kospi stock index, meanwhile, tumbled 5.5%.

In the bond market, Treasury yields eased after oil prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped to 5.22% from 5.24% late Friday. Trading in the U.S. bond market was closed Monday for a holiday.

Yields sank following a 0.8% dip for the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil to $105.86. Oil prices have been yo-yoing because of uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow the global energy industry to return to normal.

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Yamamoto lasted just 2 2/3 innings for his shortest postseason start as the Dodgers lost 7-4 to Milwaukee on Monday to fall behind 2-0 in the National League Championship Series. The Brewers continually fouled off pitches and drove up Yamamoto’s pitch count before knocking him out of the game.

“I don’t know the exact reason yet,” Yamamoto said through an interpreter. “I need to check the videos and then I can reflect on what happened today.”

It was quite a departure for a pitcher who was virtually unhittable last October.

Yamamoto, the 2025 World Series MVP, entered 8-1 with a 2.14 ERA in 11 career postseason appearances. In Game 2 of the Dodgers’ NLCS sweep of Milwaukee last season, Yamamoto threw a three-hitter and pitched the first playoff complete game since Houston’s Justin Verlander threw one in 2017.

In three previous postseason starts following Dodgers losses, Yamamoto had gone 3-0 with a 1.23 ERA. The Dodgers were banking on him to deliver another gem to tie the NLCS as they continue their quest to become the first NL team to win three straight World Series.

“I think everybody’s so used to him being a robot that if he didn’t go eight innings, no hits, whatever, it wasn’t Yamamoto,” Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts said. “It shows he’s a human being and it’s playoff baseball.”

Yamamoto was unable to protect two Los Angeles leads in the first three innings.

After the Dodgers scored in the top of the first, Milwaukee tied the game in the bottom half when Yamamoto allowed a one-out double to Brice Turang and William Contreras followed with an RBI single.

The turning point of Yamamoto’s night came in the third. The Brewers trailed 2-1 but had runners on first and second with two outs when Jake Bauers stepped to the plate.

Bauers worked the count full and then fouled off six straight pitches from Yamamoto before capping his 12-pitch plate appearance with a walk that loaded the bases.

“It was a blast, honestly,” Bauers said. “It was a blast. Any time you can get that locked in doing anything, it’s to me one of the most enjoyable experiences I think a human being can have.”

It wasn’t very enjoyable for Yamamoto, particularly after Christian Yelich came up next and lined a two-run single to center. Yelich’s hit put Milwaukee ahead 3-2 and knocked Yamamoto out of the game.

Yamamoto ended up allowing two walks and four hits while striking out only one batter. He threw 75 pitches, including 36 in the third inning.

“He just didn’t have it tonight, which is very rare,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

The Dodgers pulled back ahead 4-3 in the fifth, but they couldn’t maintain the lead and then Los Angeles’ lineup had no answers for Milwaukee’s bullpen. Milwaukee relievers Dustin May, JoJo Romero, Abner Uribe and Aaron Ashby combined to retire Los Angeles’ last 15 batters, continuing the Dodgers’ postseason slump.

Los Angeles got just three hits Monday and is 2 for 26 with runners in scoring position during the playoffs. Four-time MVP Shohei Ohtani hit his last homer way back on Aug. 18.

If the Dodgers don’t start hitting, Yamamoto might not get another opportunity to pitch this postseason.

“Our job now is to win several games and give him another chance,” third baseman Max Muncy said, “because I know that next time out he’s going to dominate.”

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The Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami will rise 1,049 feet above Biscayne Boulevard, featuring 100 stories and a distinctive design made up of nine glass cubes stacked at different angles.

The project is already attracting significant interest from buyers, with 93% of its 363 residences sold, according to Christian Tupper, who is involved with the development.

“So because of the brand, because of the location and the state of the market that we’re in, the building has been a great success,” Tupper said.

But as Miami continues to build upward, questions remain about whether the city can keep pace with its rapid growth, particularly when it comes to transportation, infrastructure and housing affordability.

Luxury living more than 1,000 feet above Miami

A temporary construction elevator currently takes workers and visitors 87 floors above the city, offering sweeping views of downtown Miami and even Miami International Airport in the distance.

From that height, Tupper said, the residences offer a unique perspective on the city.

“These are basically homes in the sky,” he said.

The tower will include 363 residences ranging from one to four bedrooms, with standard units priced between $3 million and $11 million.

Penthouses are priced at approximately $25 million, with just three of the building’s eight penthouses still available.

The ninth and highest cube will house penthouse residences.

Tupper said buyers are attracted to the development for different reasons, including investment opportunities and the chance to live in one of Miami’s most recognizable buildings.

“So we have people that are buying like an investment proposition. But many people are buying to live in the unit and to enjoy living in downtown Miami in a unique tower like this,” Tupper said.

The building will also feature a 205-room hotel, which is expected to open during the second quarter of 2028.

Construction on the tower is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2028.

Hundreds of workers bringing the project to life

Construction company Moriarty has approximately 500 workers assigned to the project, with crews typically working six days a week from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The building’s unusual design presents a striking addition to Miami’s skyline.

“We have nine glass cubes -- each one is positioned in a different way,” Tupper said.

The exterior features impact-resistant glass panels that Tupper said can withstand winds of up to 200 mph.

Construction crews are continuing to make progress toward the top of the tower.

Tupper said the building is expected to reach its highest floor in approximately seven weeks.

After the structure is topped off, crews will continue installing glass panels and completing interior work, including walls, plumbing and electrical systems.

The residences will be delivered fully finished, allowing buyers to move in with their furniture and belongings.

Once fully occupied, the residential portion of the building is expected to accommodate approximately 1,300 people.

Is downtown Miami ready for the growth?

The skyscraper represents another major step in downtown Miami’s transformation from a primarily commercial district into a neighborhood where more people live, work and spend their free time.

Tupper said demand for downtown living has increased as more employers establish offices in the area.

“There is a new element where people want to live in downtown Miami because a lot of the jobs have moved to this area, especially in banking, finance, technology,” he said.

He also pointed to how dramatically downtown has changed over the past 25 years.

“The density that we have today makes it very exciting to move here,” Tupper said. “And there are still many things that are coming in the following years.”

Michaeljohn Green, who leads the Miami Downtown Development Authority, believes the city can accommodate the growth but acknowledges that it will require continued investment.

“I think that Miami and downtown Miami are ready for the amount of growth,” Green said. “Growth does come with some growing pains, and so there will be things like mobility.”

Green highlighted several existing transportation options, including Metromover, Tri-Rail, Brightline and Freebee, the latter of which is funded by the Downtown Development Authority.

He said encouraging residents and visitors to use those services will be important as downtown becomes more densely populated.

“I think that one of the things that we have to continue to work on is kind of not taking our foot off the gas or not losing track of any of the balls that we’re juggling,” Green said. “So I think it’s important for us to continue to make those investments in infrastructure, in mobility, in micro-mobility, in connecting the communities.”

Green said cooperation between government agencies, developers and other community partners will be essential to managing the city’s expansion.

Growth raises questions about affordability

While luxury developments continue to reshape downtown Miami, the area’s rising costs have also raised concerns about whether the neighborhood remains accessible to people at different income levels.

When asked whether downtown Miami is being redeveloped for everyone, Green acknowledged the challenges.

“The definition of everyone I think is a little bit difficult,” he said. “What I will say is that this area is attractive and somewhat expensive.”

Green said the cost of land in downtown Miami makes affordable housing projects particularly difficult to develop.

“This area and what land costs in this area, as someone that’s done a lot of work in affordable housing, I think it makes it pretty difficult for that to pencil out,” he said.

He hopes city and county officials will continue exploring creative funding opportunities for affordable housing.

Green also pointed to wages as an important part of the affordability discussion, saying that while the cost of goods has continued to rise, wages have historically struggled to keep pace.

He said downtown’s future depends on balancing economic development with opportunities for existing residents.

“I think the future for Miami and the DDA District is extremely bright, but I do think that we cannot forget about the individuals that were here before us,” Green said. “And continuing to make a Miami for all will be difficult, but it’s 100% possible.”

Another landmark in downtown Miami’s transformation

Green believes the Waldorf Astoria development will add to downtown’s appeal alongside destinations such as Miami Worldcenter, Miami Dade College, Brickell City Centre, Pérez Art Museum Miami and Bayfront Park.

He said having residential developments near businesses, cultural attractions and transportation options helps create a more vibrant downtown.

“It’s difficult to have a business up without a place for people to live,” Green said.

With construction continuing and the building’s completion approaching, the Waldorf Astoria is set to become one of the most prominent features of Miami’s skyline.

But as the city grows taller, local leaders say the challenge will be ensuring the streets, transportation systems and communities below can keep up.

El sismo se registró alrededor de las 6:20 de la tarde, a una profundidad de 10 kilómetros (6 millas) y a unos 18 kilómetros (11 millas) al oeste de Río Grande, en el sur del país.

El temblor se produjo después de que dos potentes terremotos de magnitud 7,7 y 6,6, y una serie de réplicas, sacudieran el sur de Panamá la tarde del viernes. Algunos edificios colapsaron cerca del epicentro y provocaron evacuaciones en todo el país. ___

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About 20 minutes after Bogen, with cameras rolling, tried to visit the BSO training gym, he was denied access.

“You’re keeping me out (of) here, right?” Bogen said.

Tony spoke to the media for the first time since the battle with the county over his budget began making headlines.

“We’re already at one of the most recognized and notable conflicts amongst county government and sheriff’s office,” Tony said, later adding, “I will not allow this organization to be bullied or intimidated.”

BSO controls the building and can deny access. But the commission says that after approving a nearly $900 million core budget for the agency, commissioners want to see inside and how the money is used.

“It’s the gymnasium, the sauna, spa, massage, cold plunge and all the excess amenities that are there,” Bogen said. “Residents of Broward County should see where their money is going.”

In a new twist, the sheriff told Local 10 News reporter Janine Stanwood that the public should know about new allegations.

“Janine, he also mentioned on your show he had two wonderful lunch meetings with me,” Tony said.

The sheriff claims that was when he requested raises for his deputies in late June. In response, he says, the mayor sent him a letter asking for a donation to a political action committee.

Bogen says that characterization is untrue, telling Local 10 News on the phone that the top cop is a “compulsive liar.”

All this comes as commissioners weigh how much BSO should control.

They recently voted to return the fire department to civilian control and hired a firm to study whether to install a new police force, rather than BSO, to guard the airport and seaport.

Afterward, commissioners were all sent subpoenas requesting information on the probe.

Local 10 News reached out to state prosecutors and was waiting to hear back as of Monday afternoon.

Bogen said he and commissioners plan to hold a 9 a.m. vote on Tuesday on whether to take judicial action to get inside the training facility.

Contreras hit a tying homer in the fifth and singled home the go-ahead run an inning later as the Brewers defeated the Dodgers 7-4 on Monday in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series.

Dustin May, JoJo Romero, Abner Uribe and Aaron Ashby combined to retire the last 15 Dodgers batters in order to give Milwaukee a 2-0 lead over the two-time defending World Series champions in this best-of-seven series, which heads to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday.

“They're going against arguably one of the best teams in baseball ever put together, and they don't care,” said Brewers manager Pat Murphy, whose team was swept by Los Angeles in last year's NLCS. “They won't be denied. It starts with the dude behind the dish (Contreras).”

The Brewers are chasing their first World Series appearance since 1982, when they were in the American League.

Los Angeles is trying to become the first NL team to win three straight World Series. The Dodgers last rallied from a 2-0 deficit to win a series in 2020, when they beat the Atlanta Braves in a seven-game NLCS before going on to win the World Series.

“It’s going to be a great series,” said Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman, whose error in the sixth inning led to the go-ahead run. "They know they’ve got a lot on their hands, too. We’ve just got to go out on Wednesday and play better.”

The Dodgers will need more punch from their lineup to have a chance at getting back to the Fall Classic. They mustered just three hits Monday and went 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position to drop to 2 for 26 in those situations this postseason.

Los Angeles couldn’t even get a boost from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who entered 8-1 with a 2.14 ERA in 11 career postseason appearances. Yamamoto lasted just 2 2/3 innings for his shortest postseason start.

“I think everybody’s so used to him being a robot that if he didn’t go eight innings, no hits, whatever, it wasn’t Yamamoto,” Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts said. “It shows he’s a human being and it’s playoff baseball.”

The Dodgers took the lead on three occasions in the first five innings. Milwaukee responded each time, the last coming when Contreras tied it with a 436-foot homer to center field off Kris Bubic in the fifth.

“We just kept going,” said Brewers designated hitter Christian Yelich, who drove in two runs. “We kept competing.”

That turned the game into a battle of the bullpens, where Milwaukee had the edge. Brewers relievers have allowed one earned run in 28 2/3 postseason innings.

Asked what makes Milwaukee's bullpen so challenging, Freeman offered a simple explanation.

“They all throw 100 (mph) from different angles," Freeman said.

The score was tied 4-all when Milwaukee’s David Hamilton was hit by a pitch from Brock Stewart to lead off the sixth. Stewart attempted a pickoff throw that went off Freeman's glove and into foul territory, advancing Hamilton to second.

After Jackson Chourio grounded out, the right-handed Stewart walked the left-handed-hitting Brice Turang to face the right-handed Contreras, who had homered in his previous plate appearance.

Contreras singled to left this time to bring home Hamilton with the go-ahead run. The three-time All-Star catcher finished 3 for 4 with a walk and three RBIs.

“I took it as motivation,” Contreras said through intepreter Daniel de Mondesert. “That was a decision that their manager took, and then I just tried not to get too big or do anything too much. I wanted to put the ball in play. I knew it was a big run there.”

Turang and Jake Bauers added RBI singles in the eighth to extend Milwaukee's lead.

Neither starter lasts long

An anticipated pitchers’ duel between Yamamoto and rookie Logan Henderson didn’t pan out.

In three previous playoff starts following Dodgers losses, Yamamoto had gone 3-0 with a 1.23 ERA. When he faced the Brewers in last year’s NLCS, he threw the first playoff complete game since Justin Verlander pitched one in 2017.

This time, Yamamoto couldn’t even make it out of the third inning before leaving with the Dodgers behind 3-2.

“He just didn’t have it tonight, which is very rare,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

Henderson entered Monday having not allowed more than three runs in any of his 24 career starts (including the postseason). That streak ended when he gave up four runs over four-plus innings.

Because Henderson committed two errors — matching his previous career total — only two of the runs were earned.

Milwaukee trailed 2-1 in the third when Bauers capped a 12-pitch plate appearance by taking a 3-2 offering in the dirt to load the bases with a walk. Yelich followed by lining a single up the middle that brought home two runs and knocked Yamamoto out of the game.

Los Angeles bailed out Yamamoto by scoring twice in the fifth.

After Kyle Tucker hit a leadoff double, Tommy Edman sacrificed him to third. Henderson fielded the bunt and made a wild throw to first, enabling Tucker to score and moving Edman to second.

Edman advanced to third on Betts' groundout and scored on Freeman’s sacrifice fly.

Henderson also made a wild throw to first on a pickoff attempt in the third that allowed Edman to score from third.

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Robert Gasser (5-5, 3.87 ERA) is expected to start for Milwaukee in Game 3. Blake Snell (4-1, 1.90) is the Dodgers' likely starter.

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“Desde el 20 de septiembre, cuando se formó Odalys, la situación ha sido una locura", declaró Phil Klotzbach, investigador de la Universidad Estatal de Colorado, que pronostica y estudia la actividad de las tormentas. "Este año todo lo que se forma dura mucho tiempo y alcanza una gran intensidad”.

Una de las mediciones clave que usan los meteorólogos para evaluar las temporadas de huracanes se llama energía ciclónica acumulada (ACE, por sus siglas en inglés), la cual incluye la velocidad del viento y la duración de una tormenta. El domingo, una sección del Pacífico al este de la línea de cambio de fecha —que genera tormentas que se encaminan a Hawai, México y la costa oeste de Estados Unidos— superó la marca anterior establecida en 2018. La zona sigue muy activa con el huracán Simón y parece estar a punto de generar otra tormenta que realmente aumentará su intensidad, indicó Klotzbach.

El Pacífico igualará el martes un récord de mayor cantidad de días con un huracán activo, y es probable que lo supere poco después, agregó Klotzbach.

“Da la sensación de que casi todo lo que puede formarse, se forma”, expresó Kim Wood, científica atmosférica de la Universidad de Arizona.

El Niño y el agua cálida están potenciando los huracanes del Pacífico

Varios factores meteorológicos han convergido para intensificar enormemente la actividad en el Pacífico, siendo El Niño el más destacado, según señalaron Klotzbach y otros investigadores de huracanes. El fenómeno de El Niño debilita y modifica los vientos verticales de gran altitud que, de otro modo, podrían atenuar o incluso desmantelar las tormentas. En el Pacífico, esa cizalladura del viento sopla de este a oeste —generalmente en la misma dirección en que se desplazan las tormentas—, por lo que equivale a montar en bicicleta con viento a favor, explicó Klotzbach.

Mientras tanto, el patrón meteorológico ha frenado los huracanes en el Atlántico, donde el ACE es inferior al 18% de lo normal para esta época del año. El Niño hace que la cizalladura del viento en el Atlántico sea como pedalear contra el viento, añadió.

Otro factor es el agua cálida, que sirve de combustible para los huracanes. Por definición, El Niño es un calentamiento del Pacífico ecuatorial que cambia el clima en todo el mundo. En la cuenca de tormentas del Pacífico, está varios grados Fahrenheit más cálida de lo normal, indicó Kristen Corbosiero, profesora de ciencias atmosféricas de tormentas en la Universidad de Albany, en Nueva York.

Por lo general, en el Pacífico el agua extra cálida favorable para tormentas no tiene tanta profundidad como en el Atlántico. Así, cuando una tormenta pasa sobre una zona de agua, hace aflorar agua fría, lo que dificulta que una tormenta posterior que llegue a la misma área logre mantenerse activa, explicó Wood. Pero este año no ha sido así.

El huracán Rachel, cuyos remanentes inundaron Las Vegas el fin de semana, no se debilitó al recorrer aguas por las que había pasado el huracán Polo, de categoría 5, señaló Wood. Agregó que las aguas están cálidas tanto por El Niño como por el cambio climático derivado de la quema de carbón, petróleo y gas.

Otro factor en las tormentas recientes fue un giro oceánico sobre Centroamérica en sentido opuesto a las manecillas del reloj —denominado “gyre”—, el cual genera “semillas” de tiempo tormentoso que pueden convertirse en huracanes. Ese giro generó tanto a Isaias en el Atlántico como a Simón en el Pacífico casi al mismo tiempo, dijeron Corbosiero y Klotzbach.

Cinco huracanes de gran magnitud seguidos

Los últimos cinco huracanes del Pacífico —los duraderos Nolo, Odalys, Polo, Rachel y Simon— han alcanzado todos la categoría de huracán de gran magnitud, con vientos de al menos 178,6 kilómetros por hora (111 millas por hora). Nolo, Odalys y Simon llegaron a la categoría 4, mientras que Polo estableció el récord de tiempo para la categoría 5, en la cual permaneció durante dos días y medio.

Cuando Klotzbach hizo esos cálculos sobre la actividad récord del Pacífico oriental y central, examinó todas las tormentas al este de la línea internacional de cambio de fecha.

Ese es un enfoque ligeramente distinto al de la Oficina Nacional de Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés), que divide esa amplia zona en dos regiones. Ninguna de las regiones definidas por la NOAA está todavía en niveles récord de ACE, pero juntas sí lo están.

Parte de ello se debe a que, a menudo, cuando una de esas subregiones está más activa, la otra no presenta tanta intensidad, pero en 2026 ambas están hiperactivas, observó Wood.

“Este es el primer año en que ambos lados han estado así de activos al mismo tiempo", manifestó Wood. "Por lo general, se concentra más en uno u otro, así que eso habla de la gran extensión en esta región, donde ha habido menor cizalladura, aguas más cálidas y mayor humedad”.

Frente a la costa mexicana hay una perturbación a la que el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos le da un 90% de probabilidad de convertirse en la tormenta tropical Trudy, que luego podría intensificarse hasta volverse algo grande, explicaron Klotzbach y Corbosiero.

“Parece que en esa zona se genera una (tormenta) tras otra. Así que no me sorprendería que hubiera otra tormenta", señaló Corbosiero. "Este año, debido a El Niño, sí tenemos condiciones muy favorables. Así que mientras haya algún tipo de ‘semillas’, ya sea por el giro oceánico o de los remanentes finales de frentes fríos, parece que esto va a continuar cierto tiempo”.

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But behind those distinctive features is a serious health concern that can make something as simple as breathing a daily struggle.

Local 10’s Animal Advocate Jacey Birch met with specialized veterinarian Dr. Boaz Man, who is using advanced laser technology to help French bulldogs and other flat-faced breeds breathe more comfortably.

One of his patients in Boca Raton is Bronco, a 2-year-old French bulldog whose breathing problems had become impossible to ignore.

“His nose is quite short and flat and he’s missing what normal dogs have with longer noses, called frontal sinuses,” Man explained.

Bronco’s breathing sounded like constant snoring, a common symptom among dogs with shortened snouts.

According to Man, the condition can become increasingly serious as dogs get older.

“With time it gets worse, they start hacking, they start open mouth breathing because they can’t breathe through their nose, they start having problems with heat outside,” he said.

The hidden health problems behind those adorable faces

French bulldogs and other flat-faced breeds are prone to a condition known as brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome, or BOAS.

The condition occurs when a dog’s shortened facial structure leaves insufficient room for normal airflow.

“They have too much stuff in too small of a space and they just can’t get air,” Man explained.

The veterinarian said affected dogs can experience breathing difficulties throughout the day and night, including sleep apnea and problems tolerating heat.

“So these dogs have sleep apnea issues, they can’t breathe at night, they can’t breathe during the day -- it’s a major animal welfare issue,” Man said.

For Man, helping animals overcome these challenges has been a lifelong passion.

“Ever since I was little, if I saw a pet that suffered, I wanted to know how we could help that pet,” he said.

A minimally invasive procedure offers relief

To help dogs like Bronco, Man performs a specialized BOAS surgery designed to create more space in the animal’s airways.

The procedure takes approximately 60 minutes and uses a carbon dioxide laser to remove tissue obstructing the throat and nostrils.

According to Man, using the laser helps reduce bleeding, swelling and pain.

“It’s all about making some more space. We just don’t have enough real estate for breathing in there, so we have to open that airway up,” he explained.

During Bronco’s surgery, Man first removed a flap of tissue that was obstructing his throat.

Once the tissue was removed, the veterinarian could clearly see the entrance to the dog’s windpipe.

Next, he turned his attention to Bronco’s nostrils, which were so narrow that very little air could pass through.

“Twenty percent of the problem is the outside, the entrance to the nostril, and then the rest of it is all inside the nostril, and that’s like having a plug in a clogged pipe,” Man said.

Using the laser, he removed excess tissue to widen the openings and improve airflow.

The difference was immediately visible.

By the end of the procedure, obstructive tissue had been removed from Bronco’s upper airway and both nostrils.

Man said the goal was to give Bronco an entirely different breathing experience.

Helping other veterinarians improve dogs’ lives

Although veterinarians have used carbon dioxide lasers for routine procedures, including spaying and neutering, for approximately two decades, Man has spent the past five years using improved laser technology for specialized BOAS surgery.

He has performed the procedure on numerous dogs and now teaches other veterinarians his technique.

The surgery is also covered by pet insurance, according to the report.

For pet owners, the potential benefits go beyond reducing snoring or noisy breathing.

The procedure is intended to improve dogs’ overall comfort and quality of life.

A new beginning for Bronco

After waking from sedation, Bronco was reunited with his owner, Michael Gonzalez, who was thrilled to see his dog recovering.

Gonzalez said watching dogs struggle to breathe is heartbreaking.

“They’re living an absolute miserable life, and I see them and they can’t breathe and they’re foaming from the mouth,” he said.

For Gonzalez, the surgery represents an opportunity to give Bronco a healthier and more comfortable future.

“He’s going to last, I hope, another 14, 15, 16 years, so this is the start of the quality of life for him,” Gonzalez said.

While selective breeding has contributed to the breathing difficulties experienced by many French bulldogs, Man hopes his specialized surgical approach will help more dogs enjoy a better quality of life.

And for Bronco, that means a chance to breathe a little easier.

The Silver Court Mobile Home Park Homeowners Association, the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit, sought injunctive relief, a court-ordered halt on the evictions of vulnerable residents.

Most of the residents, who own their mobile homes and rent the land, “are families and low-wage workers, or elderly and disabled individuals on a fixed income,” Attorneys Carrie J. Feit, Jeffrey M. Hearne, Christopher Duany, and Wilna Coles wrote in the lawsuit, which focused on an alleged lack of government approvals.

Mariana Ochoa, an activist, said the developers’ relocation offers aren’t enough, and the government should step in to prevent more homelessness in Miami.

“We all know how unaffordable this city is becoming, and how much gentrification is a problem,” said Ochoa, a Peruvian-American feature writer who has been published by the Miami New Times, PopSugar, Vix, and Tropicult.

Coral Gables-based Attorney Jorge L. Piedra represented 1989 Sunny Court LLC, a subsidiary of the Marquis Property Company, working with the property manager Urban Group.

“When the harm is purely monetary and can be cured by damages, there is no irreparable harm. Even the potential loss of property is not irreparable harm,” Piedra told Hirsch during the hearing on Monday at the Osvaldo N. Soto Miami-Dade Justice Center.

Piedra argued that the property owner doesn’t need the government’s approval to evict the residents or change the property use.

“It has been a really tough and long fight, but the folks that are here continue to fight,” Ochoa said, adding that some of the residents’ mental health has suffered in the process.

The Urban Group issued a “notice of eviction due to change of land use” on March 11 to be done “on or before Sept. 30” and warned that the notice did not “relieve” them of their “responsibility to pay the lot rental amount that is due each month.”

Duany, Hearne, and Coles are with the Legal Services of Greater Miami, a legal nonprofit, and Feit with the Community Justice Project, also a legal nonprofit. They alleged the property owner violated state law applying to “governmental action affecting removal of mobile home owners.”

“HOA members would be left financially destitute if forced to abandon such investment in their homes in exchange for the statutory abandonment compensation amounts,” the attorneys wrote, also citing the Florida Mobile Home Act, as a law to protect mobile home owners.

Ocho said that dozens of Silver Court residents need more time and money to find their new homes. The lawsuit claims some have invested more than 100,000 in their mobile homes, which they expect will be damaged if moved.

Silver Court residents expressed their deep disappointment after Hirsch denied their request for relief.

Officials did not confirm how the person died, nor how the others were injured or their medical conditions after the incident at Six Flags Over Georgia, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta.

Cobb County Police Department major crimes unit detectives are investigating.

Attractions at the parks that are similar to the coaster in Austell, Georgia, were closed “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a Six Flags Entertainment Corporation spokesperson, who said staff members and local authorities responded immediately and the park is cooperating with the investigation.

“We are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today,” the spokesperson said, adding that the company is providing support to guests and staff who were impacted.

Authorities and Six Flags did not identify the roller coaster. However, local TV stations showed video of passengers being evacuated from the Goliath coaster.

Goliath, which was opened in 2006, reaches a top speed of 70 mph (113 kph) with a height of 200 feet (61 meters), according to the park’s website.

During about 3 1/2 minutes, riders “navigate through razor-sharp turns and soar over colossal hills,” the website says.

Lisa Cupid, Cobb County Board of Commissioners chairwoman, said next of kin of the deceased person have been notified.

“I cannot imagine the horror the patrons and employees witnessed today, and my heart aches for the family who lost a loved one,” Cupid said. “We are all grappling with how something so devastating could happen at a place that has given generations of families such happy memories.”

The park is a major part of the county’s tourism and brings in visitors from across the Southeast, Cupid said.

The death would be at least the seventh at the Georgia park, including one in 2006 in which a man had a likely heart attack on the Goliath coaster, according to the Doan Law Firm, which tallies amusement park accidents and represents victims.

It also comes less than two weeks after Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California announced the retirement of its famous X2 roller coaster following lawsuits alleging serious brain injury caused by the ride. The park settled one wrongful-death lawsuit from the family of a 22-year-old man who died after riding the coaster in 2022.

Last year, a 32-year-old man died from blunt impact injuries after riding a high-speed roller coaster at the Universal Epic Universe theme park in Florida. His death was ruled accidental.

Mayor Spencer Deno has been in office for more than two decades in the village.

“I think I’ve proven myself over the last 23 years as the mayor,” Deno said.

Deno was born and raised in Virginia Gardens, a community of just over 2,300 people near Miami International Airport.

He touts that the village is in the green.

“The village is debt-free,” Deno said. “We don’t owe money to anybody or nothing. Everything we have, we have no debt on it.”

He says he has helped bring in more than $10 million in federal, state and local money for projects making a difference.

“I think the flooding issues over the years here in the village ― that’s a lot of our money that we receive through federal and state funding has gone back to infrastructure here in the village,” Deno said.

His challenger, longtime resident Tim Boylan, is a political outsider who has never held office before. He is a business owner in the marine industry.

“I want you guys to feel like you can come to me and tell me anything and I will have your back,” Boylan said.

Boylan worries about rising costs.

“Well, it is getting more expensive to live here,” he said. “Prices are going up.”

He says his vision, if elected, will be shaped by what the people ask for.

“I want anybody that has issues now that I can discuss with you, and we’ll fix them once I get into office,” Boylan said.

Early voting begins on Oct. 19 and Election Day is on Nov. 3.

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November hurricane strikes can happen – as we most recently saw with Hurricane Nicole on November 10^th, 2022 – but they’re exceedingly rare. Only four hurricanes on record (back to 1851) have hit the U.S. in November, which makes it about a 1-in-50 year event.

Nevertheless, if Isaias last week showed us anything, it’s that strong hurricanes can happen, often quickly, and even during big El Niño years like this one. So it’s worth staying vigilant during the waning weeks of the hurricane season.

Lone area to watch far, far away

The only development candidate showing any consistent signal from our forecast models is way out off Africa in the far eastern Atlantic.

An area of low pressure is producing a large area of storminess west of the Cabo Verde Islands, but strong upper-level winds from the west are keeping the thunderstorm activity disorganized and displaced east of the low-pressure area.

Models are mostly ho-hum about this, giving it only a small chance of development. NHC similarly gives it minimal odds to develop over the next day or two before increasingly hostile upper-level winds overtake it.

Interestingly, some of our forecast models do show a second development window in about a week, but the odds remain low, and regardless, the system will stay over the far corners of the open Atlantic.

Isaias bumps the season to the 3 quietest of the modern record

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season had been the least active season to date – as measured by the Accumulated Cyclone Energy or ACE – of the reliable record (since 1950) until Isaias powered up late last week. The Category 3 hurricane racked up over 7 ACE units, not a significant amount in a typical season, but adding 70% to the 2026 seasonal ACE scorecard.

Through October 12^th, 2026 is running slightly ahead of 1983 and 1994 in terms of overall activity. 1994 and 1983 both recorded more hurricanes than we’ve seen so far in 2026 (3 hurricanes total during each compared to the 1 so far in 2026).

Even if the season ended today, 1983 would still best 2026 as the least active hurricane season of the modern record. Despite both being “quiet” seasons, significant hurricanes still struck the U.S. – Category 3 Alicia in 1983 and Category 2 Isaias last week.

Cameron County Justice of the Peace Cyndi Hinojosa told The Associated Press she declared Mitte dead at about 1:30 p.m. at what she believed was his home in Brownsville, Texas. She said she was unable to provide a cause, but an autopsy will be performed.

Mitte played Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston's chemistry teacher-turned-meth dealer Walter White on nearly every episode of the five seasons of the AMC show, which recently ranked as the best of the 21st century in a New York Times poll.

Cranston said he is in “deep despair” for the loss of his “sweet son.”

“I met him when he was only 14 years old when he was cast as Walter White Jr., a part he played with such joy and enthusiasm,” Cranston said in a Facebook post Monday night. “Born with Cerebral Palsy, he never — ever — allowed that challenge to be an excuse for anything. He met the demanding shooting schedule head on with great determination.”

Mitte told the AP in 2014 that his disability and the surrounding struggles with physical therapy, family problems and exorbitant medical bills — all key subjects on the show — made him better at his job.

“You develop a different mentality and you develop a different look at how the world sees you and how you see the world,” he said. “You’re able to use that. And I think it’s an asset instead of something that would hinder.”

Mitte was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi.

He landed small guest roles on sitcoms after moving to Los Angeles to act in 2006 before landing the role on “Breaking Bad” in 2007. The show ran from 2008 to 2013.

“That kid was pretty raw when we started shooting the pilot,” Cranston said in his post, “but little by little we watched him grow into a really fine actor.”

Cranston added, “I loved him, and thoroughly enjoyed being with him throughout the years on the series, and after the spotlight on Breaking Bad dimmed.”

In a statement announcing his death, Mitte's representatives said he “brought authenticity to the role and built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion.” The statement said he used “his platform to challenge stereotypes and promote greater representation.”

Mitte's later credits included the ABC Family series “Switched at Birth” and the superhero satire series “Guardians of Justice.”

He was also a producer of several independent films.

As an advocate, he served as an ambassador for United Cerebral Palsy and Shriners Children's. He was also president of his own Mitte Foundation supporting philanthropic and community initiatives around disabilities.

The two sides faced off in court Monday as a judge heard arguments over whether Jacobs forfeited his seat by failing to maintain residency in Pembroke Park after buying a home in Fort Pierce.

Jacobs insists he has never abandoned his Pembroke Park residence, where he testified he has lived since 2016. The town argues that records tied to the Fort Pierce property, including a VA-backed mortgage and homestead tax exemption filings, show he moved his primary residence to St. Lucie County.

The non-jury trial before Broward Circuit Judge Shari Africk Olefson focused on the town charter’s residency requirements and whether Jacobs continued to meet them while serving as mayor.

The town’s case: Mortgage and tax records

Town Attorney Michael Garcia argued that Jacobs forfeited his office by no longer maintaining residency in Pembroke Park.

Garcia pointed to a home Jacobs and his wife purchased in Fort Pierce in December 2024 for approximately $565,000, according to property records previously reviewed by Local 10 News.

The purchase was financed with a mortgage backed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The mortgage documents identify the Fort Pierce property as a primary residence and include requirements for the borrower to occupy the home.

The town also pointed to homestead and veteran disability tax exemption paperwork filed in St. Lucie County. Those filings, Garcia argued, were inconsistent with Jacobs’ claim that his permanent residence remained in Pembroke Park.

Garcia cited other records tying Jacobs to St. Lucie County, including vehicle registrations and cellphone billing information. He argued that Jacobs had moved there with his wife and children and no longer satisfied the residency requirements for his elected office.

The town’s position is that the charter requires Jacobs to maintain residency in Pembroke Park throughout his time in office — and that he forfeited his seat when he stopped doing so.

Local 10 investigation, followed by removal of major tax exemption

The residency dispute drew increased scrutiny after a Local 10 News investigation published in January 2026 examined the Fort Pierce property, the tax exemptions claimed there and records showing Jacobs remained registered to vote in Broward County using his Pembroke Park address.

A homestead application signed by Jacobs in January 2025 listed the Fort Pierce property as his homestead and answered “No” when asked whether he claimed residency in another county or state.

The property also received a substantial tax benefit for a totally and permanently disabled veteran. St. Lucie County records showed a disability exemption that removed more than $535,000 from the property’s taxable value. The property also had a homestead exemption and an additional military disability exemption.

After Local 10 began asking questions about Jacobs’ residency and the tax exemptions, the $535,000-plus veteran disability exemption was no longer listed in the county’s online property records.

Local 10 subsequently reported that the exemption had been removed following the station’s investigation. The property’s taxable value was later listed at approximately $509,000.

The change was significant because the exemptions had substantially reduced the property’s taxable value. With the exemptions applied, the property had previously been listed with no property taxes due, according to records reviewed by Local 10.

The removal of the exemption does not, by itself, establish that Jacobs violated the law or resolve where he lived. But the tax filings and mortgage documents have become central to the town’s argument that his permanent residence was no longer in Pembroke Park.

Local 10 also reported that the St. Lucie County Property Appraiser’s Office opened a formal investigation into a possible improper homestead exemption after the station raised questions about the property.

Jacobs says he never changed his residence

Jacobs took the stand Monday and testified that his residence remains a mobile home in Pembroke Park.

His attorney, Michael Pizzi, described the case as straightforward and argued there was no basis to remove Jacobs from office.

Pizzi said Jacobs has lived in Pembroke Park for about 10 years and maintained that his residency there had never changed.

Jacobs testified that he keeps clothes and a car at the Pembroke Park residence and remains registered to vote in Broward County at that address.

When Pizzi asked whether he had ever changed his residence, Jacobs answered, “I have not.”

Jacobs said the Fort Pierce home was purchased to provide a safe place for his wife and children. He testified that it was never his intention to make that property his permanent residence.

He also described being harassed and said the circumstances surrounding his family’s move played a role in the purchase.

Jacobs testified that he and his wife are separated but not divorced. He said they have no plans to divorce and are working on their relationship.

The mayor also testified that St. Lucie County contacted him about the exemption paperwork and that the paperwork was later corrected. He said his wife met with the county and received the exemption.

Judge questions Jacobs about VA mortgage

The mortgage documents became a key point during Garcia’s cross-examination of Jacobs.

Garcia questioned the mayor about signing the VA-backed mortgage in December 2024 and whether he told the lender he did not intend to make the Fort Pierce property his primary residence.

Jacobs said the lender understood that he was not making the home his primary residence. When Garcia pressed him on whom he had told, Jacobs said he had no clue.

Garcia questioned whether Jacobs had misled the lender. Jacobs denied doing so.

During the exchange, Jacobs challenged the line of questioning, asking whether he was on trial for mortgage fraud. Olefson admonished him about his behavior during the exchange, according to the courtroom proceedings.

The issue before the judge is not whether Jacobs has been found to have committed mortgage fraud or tax fraud. Rather, the court must determine whether the evidence establishes that he failed to meet the residency requirements for his office.

How the case reached trial

The dispute intensified earlier this year after town officials sought to consider whether Jacobs had forfeited his seat.

A special commission meeting was scheduled to consider his eligibility, but Jacobs filed a lawsuit seeking to block the town from declaring his office vacant.

Olefson subsequently ruled that the Town Commission could not decide Jacobs’ eligibility through a commission vote. That ruling did not determine where Jacobs actually lived or resolve whether he met the charter’s residency requirements.

The town then pursued the dispute in court, asking a judge to determine whether Jacobs had forfeited his office.

At the center of the case is the interpretation of the Pembroke Park town charter. Jacobs has argued that the residency language governing his election does not support the town’s effort to remove him. The town maintains that he was required to remain a resident throughout his term and that the evidence shows he did not.

The judge must weigh the competing testimony and documentary evidence, including the mortgage, tax filings, voter registration and records relating to Jacobs’ Pembroke Park residence.

The outcome could determine whether Jacobs remains eligible to serve as mayor and a town commissioner.

Olefson did not make a decision Monday. She is expected to issue a ruling sometime next week.

Temperatures are forecast to drop to the mid-70s Tuesday morning and climb to the upper 80s during the afternoon. The day will offer mostly sunny skies and north-northeast winds, sustained 5 to 10 mph with gusts to 15 mph. The rain chance remains low.

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Is this political retribution?

Trump has not been shy about wanting to use federal law enforcement to target his perceived political enemies. He's pushed prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York's Democratic Attorney General, Letitia James, following earlier probes the two launched against him. Omar, a left-wing firebrand, has been a longtime target of Trump and Republicans in general.

Omar was born in Somalia and is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Trump has especially targeted Somali immigrants in Minnesota, posting on social media last week that the people of the state must “fight back” against them. The state has reeled from several federal fraud cases sometimes involving Somali-run nonprofits in Minnesota. Many of those cases were filed by former President Joe Biden's Department of Justice. Omar is not involved in them.

Omar has long criticized Trump, and the president has likewise gone after her repeatedly over the years. Trump late last week alluded to possible action against the congresswoman. At a rally in Tennessee on Saturday, Trump referred pejoratively to Omar as coming from a country of “crime and squalor” and suggested that Vice President JD Vance “and our people” were investigating her.

Justice Department protocol has long been to avoid legal action against politicians in the final weeks before their election. The Trump administration's violation of that added to Democratic criticism that this is simply political payback.

“For years, Donald Trump and far-right extremists have relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Omar with vile personal attacks and baseless accusations,” said a joint statement issued from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other top congressional Democrats.

“Now, less than 30 days until the midterm election, his violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.”

Asked about the search, Trump deferred to the Justice Department, saying “that has nothing to do with me.”

“I’ve always found her to be very crooked, personally,” he said.

Is this about immigration?

The agents who searched Omar's home, pursuant to a federal search warrant, were Homeland Security investigators, indicating the investigation regards immigration issues. Several Trump officials have suggested that is how they intend to pursue Omar.

Vance has suggested before that Omar committed immigration fraud. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin last month cited an “ongoing investigation” that he suggested was examining potential fraud on her family’s immigration paperwork.

“Something’s going to happen,” he said at the time.

The Department of Justice on Monday was typically tight-lipped, giving few details about the case other than saying it was a criminal investigation.

Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old, five years after she arrived with her family after obtaining asylum in the United States.

What happens next?

The election is in 20 days. Omar's district in Minneapolis is deep blue and she's in little actual peril on Nov. 3.

We don't know enough about the next steps in the investigation. It's likely, however, that conservatives will continue slamming Omar. Now, however, she has one more way to hit back — by arguing she's being persecuted by her political opponents.

In a statement on X on Monday, Omar called the search an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.”

“For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” she said. “I will not be silenced.”

Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said Monday the Avalanche have granted Hakstol permission to speak with Arizona State about the position and a decision could come later this week.

Arizona State placed coach Greg Powers on administrative leave last month as it conducts an investigation into the collapse of 21-year-old Matthew Mayich, who is unlikely to recover from external heat stroke that reduced the flow of oxygen to his brain.

Hakstol had two stints as an NHL head coach, leading the Philadelphia Flyers from 2015 to 2018 and the Seattle Kraken from their inaugural season in 2021 to 2024. He is in his second season as an assistant to Bednar and leads the team's power play.

Hakstol was the head coach at North Dakota for 15 seasons, leading his alma mater to the Frozen Four seven times. He's also worked two stints as an assistant for the Toronto Maple Leafs and was head coach of the Sioux City Musketeers of the United States Hockey League from 1996-2000.

Arizona State played its home-opening series last weekend without Powers or assistant coach Alex Hicks, who was present at the workout when Mayich collapsed.

Arizona State has asked former Arizona State Supreme Court chief justice Scott Bales to lead an independent review of the incident, requesting that it be completed by early December.

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El lunes, Manuel Antonio Farfán Cabello permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward, en Fort Lauderdale, acusado de apuñalar mortalmente a su madre, Ylda Lucia Cabello Ynocente, el viernes en Tamarac, según muestran los registros.

“Mi sobrino es esquizofrénico y es doloroso. Sé que las personas pueden verlo y no entender. Pueden juzgarlo, pero mi sobrino, como dice la ley, también tiene derechos”, dijo en español a Local 10 News Rocio Untiveros, tía de Farfán Cabello, quien vive en Perú.

Una cuenta de Facebook mostraba fotografías y videos de Cabello Ynocente y Farfán Cabello compartiendo su pasión por el fútbol. Ella se identificaba como originaria de Huancayo, Perú, donde había estudiado contabilidad en la universidad pública de esa ciudad.

“Él estudiaba en Boca High School. También era futbolista. Era muy bueno”, dijo a Local 10 News Oscar Montero, ex esposo de Cabello Ynocente, sobre Farfán Cabello.

Vecinos de Tamarac dijeron que un video de vigilancia muestra a Farfán Cabello corriendo de casa en casa pidiendo dinero la tarde del viernes.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO) arrestaron a Farfán Cabello en la vivienda de dos habitaciones ubicada en 5301 NW 28 Ave., después de que el personal de bomberos y rescate declarara muerta a Cabello Ynocente alrededor de las 7:45 p.m. del viernes, según los registros.

El sábado, un equipo de buzos de la BSO buscó pruebas en un canal a lo largo de Prospect Road, cerca de Northwest 28th Avenue.

El juez del Tribunal de Circuito del Condado Broward, George Odom, estaba previsto para presidir el caso de homicidio capital que los fiscales presentaron contra Farfán Cabello el sábado, según los registros judiciales.

Farfán Cabello enfrentaba un cargo de asesinato premeditado en primer grado. Compareció ante un tribunal de fianzas la mañana del domingo. Un juez le negó el derecho a fianza y ordenó una evaluación de salud mental.

Farfán Cabello cumple 29 años el 16 de octubre. Untiveros dijo que quiere ayudar a reunirlo con su familia y asegurarse de que Cabello Ynocente tenga un funeral y sea sepultada en Perú.

Noticias relacionadas

• Hombre apuñala mortalmente a su madre en Tamarac, según agentes del sheriff
• Agentes del sheriff de Broward revelan identidad de madre que, según detectives, fue asesinada por su hijo en Tamarac
• Hombre de Tamarac acusado de apuñalar mortalmente a su madre comparece por primera vez ante tribunal

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On Monday, Manuel Antonio Farfán Cabello was at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, accused of fatally stabbing his mother, Ylda Lucia Cabello Ynocente, on Friday in Tamarac, records show.

“My nephew is schizophrenic, and it’s painful. I know that people might look at him and not understand. They may judge him, but my nephew, as the law says, he has rights too,” Farfán Cabello’s aunt Rocio Untiveros, who lives in Peru, told Local 10 News in Spanish.

A Facebook account showed photos and videos of Cabello Ynocente and Farfán Cabello sharing a love of soccer. She identified as a native of Huancayo, Peru, who had studied accounting at the public university there.

“He was at Boca High School. He was a soccer player too. He was very good,” Oscar Montero, Cabello Ynocente’s ex-husband, told Local 10 News about Farfán Cabello.

Neighbors in Tamarac said a surveillance video shows Farfán Cabello running from house to house asking for money on Friday afternoon.

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Farfán Cabello at the two-bedroom house at 5301 NW 28 Ave., after fire rescue personnel declared Cabello Ynocente dead at about 7:45 p.m. on Friday, records show.

On Saturday, a BSO dive team searched for evidence in a canal along Prospect Road, near Northwest 28th Avenue.

Broward County Circuit Judge George Odom was set to preside over the capital homicide case that prosecutors filed against Farfán Cabello on Saturday, according to court records.

Farfán Cabello faced a first-degree premeditated murder charge. He appeared in bond court on Sunday morning. A judge denied him bond and ordered a mental health evaluation.

Farfán Cabello turns 29 on Oct. 16. Untiveros said she wants to help reunite him with family and to make sure that Cabello Ynocente has a funeral and burial in Peru.

Related stories

• Man stabs mother to death in Tamarac, deputies say
• Broward deputies release identity of mother detectives say was killed by son in Tamarac
• Tamarac man accused of fatally stabbing his mother makes first court appearance

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On Saturday, police officers responded shortly after 5:55 p.m. to the Aston Martin Residences to review security’s surveillance video, according to a police officer’s arrest report.

The video showed Victor Montesinos “entering the employees-only kitchen of the deck restaurant” and stealing from the liquor cooler at about 10:50 p.m. on Sept. 27 on the tower’s 55th floor, according to the arrest report.

Miami police officers arrested Montesinos, whose leg tattoos showed in the video, shortly after 7:25 p.m. on Saturday on the 34th floor of 300 Biscayne Boulevard Way, according to a police officer’s arrest report.

Prosecutors filed a felony case against Montesinos on Sunday in Miami-Dade County. He faced two charges: Burglary of an unoccupied structure and theft of property valued at $750 or more, but less than $5,000.

Montesinos appeared in court on Sunday, and a judge set his bond at $10,000 and ordered him to stay away from the deck restaurant. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda is set to preside over the case.

The court set Montesinos’s arraignment at 9 a.m. on Dec. 9.

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El sábado, agentes de policía acudieron poco después de las 5:55 p.m. a Aston Martin Residences para revisar un video de vigilancia del personal de seguridad, según un informe policial de arresto.

El video mostró a Victor Montesinos “entrando a la cocina exclusiva para empleados del restaurante de la terraza” y robando botellas de licor de un refrigerador alrededor de las 10:50 p.m. del 27 de septiembre, en el piso 55 de la torre, según el informe de arresto.

Agentes de la Policía de Miami arrestaron a Montesinos, cuyos tatuajes en las piernas eran visibles en el video, poco después de las 7:25 p.m. del sábado en el piso 34 de 300 Biscayne Boulevard Way, según un informe policial de arresto.

Los fiscales presentaron un caso por delitos graves contra Montesinos el domingo en el condado Miami-Dade. Enfrentaba dos cargos: robo con allanamiento de una estructura desocupada y robo de propiedad valorada en $750 USD o más, pero menos de $5,000 USD.

Montesinos compareció ante el tribunal el domingo y un juez fijó su fianza en $10,000 USD y le ordenó mantenerse alejado del restaurante de la terraza. La jueza del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Cristina Miranda, está designada para presidir el caso.

El tribunal programó la lectura de cargos de Montesinos para el 9 de diciembre a las 9 a.m.

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After several mail thefts, investigators left the GPS tracker inside a Priority Mail parcel in a cluster mail box unit at the San Sherri Apartments, according to police.

Arturo Martinez, a resident at the apartment complex, said some of the mail stolen over the past few months at 440 East Mowry Drive had credit cards and passports.

“When they break in, we don’t get mail for like three days to a week, and if we are waiting for something important, we are not going to get it,” Martinez said.

Shortly before 4 a.m. on Thursday, detectives followed the GPS tracker to a gray Nissan Rogue with Brandon Morgan, the driver; Teisha Richardson, a passenger; and 134 pieces of mail that belonged to 34 victims, according to a police report.

Related report: Homestead mail thieves wreck after getting caught, police say

Homestead police officers attempted a traffic stop near Northeast 15th Street and Homestead Boulevard. Morgan fled and crashed into a vehicle before hitting a tree at Southwest 296th Street and U.S. 1 in Miami-Dade, according to police.

Homestead police officers arrested Morgan, 35, and Richardson, 19, and corrections booked them on Thursday afternoon at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center near Doral.

Morgan, who turned 36 on Sunday, has an arrest record in Miami-Dade going back to an aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in 2009 and fleeing and eluding Florida Highway Patrol troopers in 2010.

Morgan appeared before Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer on Friday in court, and she ordered him to stay away from the San Sherri Apartments and show that the funds used for bail aren’t linked to his alleged crimes.

Prosecutors filed the cases against Morgan and Richardson on Friday.

Morgan faced 39 charges: Unlawful possession of five or more items of identifying information, criminal mischief, driving with a suspended or revoked license, resisting arrest, trespassing, and 34 counts of taking or removing mail. Glazer set his bond at $95,900.

Richardson also faced 34 counts of taking or removing mail. Her bond was $34,000. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mariano Corcilli was set to preside over her case.

On Monday afternoon, Morgan remained at the Miami-Dade County Pretrial Detention Center, according to inmate records. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Alberto Milian was set to preside over his case.

Después de varios robos de correo, los investigadores colocaron un rastreador GPS dentro de un paquete de Priority Mail en un conjunto de buzones comunitarios del complejo de apartamentos San Sherri, según la policía.

Arturo Martinez, residente del complejo de apartamentos, dijo que parte del correo robado durante los últimos meses en 440 East Mowry Drive contenía tarjetas de crédito y pasaportes.

“Cuando fuerzan los buzones, no recibimos correo durante unos tres días o hasta una semana, y si estamos esperando algo importante, no lo vamos a recibir”, dijo Martinez.

Poco antes de las 4 a.m. del jueves, los detectives siguieron el rastreador GPS hasta un Nissan Rogue gris en el que se encontraban Brandon Morgan, el conductor; Teisha Richardson, una pasajera; y 134 piezas de correo pertenecientes a 34 víctimas, según un informe policial.

Informe relacionado: Ladrones de correo en Homestead chocan después de ser descubiertos, según la policía.

Agentes de la Policía de Homestead intentaron detener el vehículo cerca de Northeast 15th Street y Homestead Boulevard. Morgan huyó y chocó contra otro vehículo antes de impactar contra un árbol en Southwest 296th Street y U.S. 1, en Miami-Dade, según la policía.

Agentes de la Policía de Homestead arrestaron a Morgan, de 35 años, y Richardson, de 19, quienes fueron ingresados la tarde del jueves en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, cerca de Doral.

Morgan, quien cumplió 36 años el domingo, tiene antecedentes de arrestos en Miami-Dade que se remontan a un caso de agresión agravada con un arma mortal en 2009 y a otro por huir y evadir a agentes de la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida en 2010.

Morgan compareció el viernes ante la jueza del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Mindy Glazer, quien le ordenó mantenerse alejado del complejo de apartamentos San Sherri y demostrar que los fondos utilizados para pagar su fianza no están relacionados con los delitos que presuntamente cometió.

Los fiscales presentaron los casos contra Morgan y Richardson el viernes.

Morgan enfrentaba 39 cargos: posesión ilegal de cinco o más documentos con información de identificación personal, daños a la propiedad, conducir con una licencia suspendida o revocada, resistencia al arresto, entrada ilegal a una propiedad y 34 cargos por sustraer o retirar correo. Glazer fijó su fianza en $95,900 USD.

Richardson también enfrentaba 34 cargos por sustraer o retirar correo. Su fianza fue fijada en $34,000 USD. El juez del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Mariano Corcilli, estaba designado para presidir su caso.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, Morgan permanecía detenido en el Centro de Detención Preventiva del condado Miami-Dade, según los registros de reclusos. El juez del Tribunal de Circuito del condado Miami-Dade, Alberto Milian, estaba designado para presidir su caso.

Esto ocurre después de que los miembros del jurado escucharan la semana pasada el testimonio del propio Hill, quien habló sobre su divorcio y el caso de agresión.

El abogado de Hill llamó a varios testigos con el objetivo de poner en duda las acusaciones de abuso de su esposa, de quien está separado, Lakeeta Vaccaro, quien afirma que él la maltrató durante los 18 meses que duró su matrimonio.

Uno de los testigos fue un agente de la Policía de Sunny Isles Beach, quien dijo que respondió a un incidente en el condominio de la pareja.

La madre de Vaccaro llamó al 911 después de afirmar que la situación entre Hill y su hija se había tornado física.

Vaccaro solicitó el divorcio al día siguiente. Hill no fue arrestado.

Otra testigo declaró el lunes que trabajaba para el Departamento de Policía de Davie en enero de 2024, cuando recibió una llamada para acudir a la vivienda de Hill en Southwest Ranches.

Aproximadamente una semana antes, la vivienda se había incendiado.

La ex agente testificó que acudió a la residencia por un incidente de violencia doméstica, pero dijo que no había señales de violencia en la vivienda ni en Vaccaro.

Otro agente, esta vez del Departamento de Policía de Orlando, dijo que respondió a una llamada de auxilio en un hotel. Explicó que la pareja discutió por un acuerdo posnupcial y que, como parte de la investigación, se tomaron fotografías de Vaccaro.

El juicio se reanudará el martes, que se espera sea el último día del proceso.

The recordings, obtained Monday by The Associated Press through a public records request, show that precious minutes elapsed as officials and responders tried to figure out whether a request for emergency help in the execution chamber was legitimate.

The initial 911 call came in at 8:40 p.m. on Sept. 30, just over an hour after the attempted lethal injection got underway. But the caller was unable to provide a code that would help verify the legitimacy of the request.

“Per supervisors here at the DEC (Department of Emergency Communications) we have been informed it is a false call,” a dispatcher says at 9:03 p.m. “There is no medical assistance needed at Riverbend Prison.”

It wasn’t until about half an hour after the initial call — close to 9:11 p.m. — that prison officials affirmed it was real and began letting responders through the gates.

Neither the Tennessee Department of Correction nor Pike’s legal team immediately responded to requests for comment.

The prisoner becomes a patient

Pike, 50, was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state tried to execute her for the 1995 stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. She was 18 when she tortured and killed Slemmer with her boyfriend, becoming one of the youngest women to be sentenced to death.

State protocol calls for a second dose of pentobarbital if the first doesn’t result in death, but it doesn’t spell out what to do if an inmate survives the second injection.

The first 911 call, released only as a written transcript, reported that Pike was unconscious and not breathing normally.

After being taken to a hospital, Pike was on a ventilator for several days. At one point, her attorneys did not expect her to survive. She regained consciousness last Tuesday and began talking limitedly and walking with assistance, they said. Pike was discharged from the hospital and returned to the women’s prison where she was housed for 30 years, her lawyers said Saturday.

Confusion begins with the initial 911 call

The initial call came from a person whose name and title were redacted. The caller told a dispatcher that they were at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution where they had tried to execute someone, but she was still alive.

As emergency responders worked to verify the call, they were in touch with representatives of the prison’s Central Control, who said they “would have been the ones to call in" and they "did not make that call,” according to a recording time-stamped at 9:07 p.m.

Around the same time, a first responder could be heard over the radio saying, “Somebody is outside the gate at the prison telling us that it’s real and demanding us to go in. They say they are some sort of state official. I need somebody to get out to the gate and talk to those people.”

Central Control confirmed the call was legitimate a few minutes later, clearing the way for responders to enter through the gates at about 9:11 p.m. An AP reporter witnessed an ambulance and fire trucks pull up to the building inside the prison campus at 9:14 p.m.

At 9:34 p.m., as medics were transporting Pike to a hospital, one asked dispatch to make sure the prison knew where they were taking her.

"Just ’cause there’s been so much other confusion, I want to make sure they are aware of this,” the responder said.

Two other calls were made

The Nashville Department of Emergency Communications released with some redactions the batch of audio recordings from dispatchers. Police said the audio from the first 911 call was exempt from public disclosure under state law.

Two subsequent emergency calls were made, including one at 9:08 p.m. by one of Pike’s attorneys, Kelly Gleason.

“My client, Christa Gail Pike, is undergoing a state execution. She has completed the stages of the protocol and last we knew from the attorney who is present, she is still alive and breathing and needs immediate life-saving care,” Gleason said on the call.

Further executions paused pending review

The Tennessee Department of Correction has not said what went wrong in the attempted execution. Gov. Bill Lee paused further execution attempts pending a review. It’s unclear whether the state will try executing Pike again.

Medical experts have raised a few possibilities that could explain how Pike was able to survive, including potential drug quality issues and the placement of IV lines causing the drug to pool in her tissue.

Before the execution attempt, Pike’s attorneys told courts and prison officials that she had a blood disorder that could cause clotting at injection sites.

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Johnson reported from Seattle and Schoenbaum from Salt Lake City.

“Since September 20th, when Odalys formed, it’s been berserk,” said Colorado State University researcher Phil Klotzbach, who forecasts and studies storm activity. “This year just everything that forms is just lasting a long time and getting really powerful.”

One of the key measurements meteorologists use to judge hurricane seasons is called accumulated cyclone energy, or ACE, which includes a storm’s wind speed and longevity. On Sunday, a section of the Pacific east of the date line, which brews storms headed for Hawaii, Mexico and the U.S. West Coast, passed the old mark set in 2018. The area is still going strong with Hurricane Simon and appears on the verge of spawning another one that will really ramp up in strength, Klotzbach said.

On Tuesday, the Pacific will tie a record for most days with a hurricane spinning and is likely to break it soon after that, Klotzbach said.

“It feels like almost everything that can spin up does spin up,” said University of Arizona atmospheric scientist Kim Wood.

El Niño and warm water are boosting Pacific hurricanes

Several meteorological factors have come together to supercharge the Pacific, chief among them the El Niño, Klotzbach and other hurricane researchers said. An El Niño weakens and shifts the high altitude vertical winds that otherwise can dampen or even decapitate storms. In the Pacific, that wind shear runs east to west, generally with the direction storms travel, so it's like riding a bicycle with a tail wind, Klotzbach said.

Meanwhile, the weather pattern has dampened hurricanes in the Atlantic, where the ACE is less than 18% of what's normal for this time of year. El Niño makes the wind shear in the Atlantic like riding into a headwind, he said.

Another factor is warm water, which serves as hurricane fuel. By definition El Niño is a warming of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather worldwide. In the Pacific storm basin, it's several degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal, said Kristen Corbosiero, a professor of storm atmospheric sciences at the University at Albany in New York.

Usually in the Pacific, the extra warm storm-friendly water doesn't run as deep as it does in the Atlantic. So when one storm goes over a patch of water, it brings up cold water and makes it hard for a subsequent storm in the same area to stay alive, Wood said. But not this year.

Hurricane Rachel, whose remnants swamped Las Vegas over the weekend, didn't suffer as it went over, churned up by Category 5 Hurricane Polo, Wood said. She said the waters are warm from both El Niño and climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

Another factor in recent storms was a counterclockwise atmosphere spin over Central America — called a gyre — that spits out seeds of stormy weather that can form into hurricanes. It spit out both the Atlantic's Isaias and the Pacific's Simon at about the same time, Corbosiero and Klotzbach said.

Five major hurricanes in a row

The last five Pacific hurricanes — long-lasting Nolo, Odalys, Polo, Rachel and Simon — have all reached major status with winds of at least 111 mph (178.6 kph). Nolo, Odalys and Simon hit Category 4, while Polo set the record for time spent at Category 5 at two-and-a-half days.

When Klotzbach made those calculations on the record-breaking activity of the eastern and central Pacific, he looked at all storms east of the date line.

That's a slightly different approach from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which breaks that broad area into two regions. Neither NOAA-defined region is quite at record levels for ACE yet; put together they are.

Part of that is because often when one of those subregions is more active, the other isn't quite as crazy, but in 2026 they both are hyperactive, Wood said.

“This is the first year that both sides have been this active together,” Wood said. “Usually it’s kind of focused more on one or the other, so that speaks to just the wide extent across this region of where there’s been that lower shear, those warmer waters, and that higher moisture.”

Off the Mexican coast is a disturbance that the National Hurricane Center gives a 90% chance of becoming Tropical Storm Trudy, which then could power up to something big, Klotzbach and Corbosiero said.

“It seems like that area is just one after another. So I would not be surprised to have another storm,” Corbosiero said. “This year, because of the El Niño, we do have very favorable conditions. So as long as there’s some sort of the seeds either from the gyre or from remnant ends of cold fronts, it seems like this is going to continue for a bit.”

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Unos 20 minutos después de que Bogen intentara visitar el gimnasio de entrenamiento de BSO, frente a las cámaras, se le negó el acceso.

“Me están impidiendo entrar aquí, ¿verdad?”, dijo Bogen.

Tony habló con los medios de comunicación por primera vez desde que la disputa con el condado por su presupuesto comenzó a ocupar los titulares.

“Ya estamos ante uno de los conflictos más reconocidos y notorios entre el gobierno del condado y la Oficina del Sheriff”, dijo Tony, y luego agregó: “No permitiré que esta organización sea acosada ni intimidada”.

BSO controla el edificio y puede negar el acceso. Sin embargo, la comisión afirma que, después de aprobar un presupuesto básico de casi $900 millones USD para la agencia, los comisionados quieren ver el interior de las instalaciones y cómo se utiliza el dinero.

“Es el gimnasio, la sauna, el spa, los masajes, las piscinas de inmersión en agua fría y todas las comodidades adicionales que hay allí”, dijo Bogen. “Los residentes del condado Broward deberían ver a dónde va su dinero”.

En un nuevo giro, el sheriff dijo a la reportera de Local 10 News, Janine Stanwood, que el público debería conocer nuevas acusaciones.

“Janine, él también mencionó en su programa que tuvo dos maravillosas reuniones durante el almuerzo conmigo”, dijo Tony.

El sheriff afirma que fue durante esas reuniones, a finales de junio, cuando solicitó aumentos salariales para sus agentes. En respuesta, asegura que el alcalde le envió una carta solicitando una donación para un comité de acción política.

Bogen afirma que esa versión es falsa y dijo a Local 10 News por teléfono que el máximo jefe policial es un “mentiroso compulsivo”.

Todo esto ocurre mientras los comisionados evalúan cuánto control debería tener BSO.

Recientemente votaron a favor de devolver el departamento de bomberos al control civil y contrataron a una empresa para estudiar la posibilidad de establecer una nueva fuerza policial, en lugar de BSO, para brindar seguridad al aeropuerto y al puerto marítimo.

Posteriormente, todos los comisionados recibieron citaciones judiciales solicitando información sobre la investigación.

Local 10 News se comunicó con los fiscales estatales y, hasta la tarde del lunes, esperaba una respuesta.

Bogen dijo que él y los comisionados planean realizar una votación el martes a las 9 a.m. para decidir si emprenden acciones judiciales con el fin de obtener acceso al centro de entrenamiento.

Rosa Flores, de 19 años, viajaba como pasajera en un automóvil cuando se vio involucrada en un violento accidente frente al campus Kendall del Miami Dade College el 3 de septiembre.

“Cuando estaban girando para entrar al campus, iban a ingresar cuando una camioneta los impactó”, dijo Martinez.

Flores fue trasladada de urgencia a un hospital en estado crítico, donde permaneció en coma inducido médicamente durante tres semanas.

“Tenía una hemorragia interna y en el cráneo, así que tuvieron que intervenirla para drenar la sangre”, dijo Martinez. “Tenía moretones por todo el cuerpo”.

Flores cursaba su primer año en el Miami Dade College y aspiraba a trabajar en el campo de la tecnología de imágenes por resonancia magnética.

La joven fue sometida a varias cirugías y los médicos le dijeron a su madre que tendrá que aprender nuevamente a caminar, tragar e incluso hablar.

Flores todavía tiene una sonda de alimentación y se encuentra en un centro de rehabilitación, pero aún está lejos de recuperarse.

Rodriguez dijo que tuvo que renunciar a su trabajo para convertirse en la cuidadora de Flores a tiempo completo.

“No sé cuándo podré volver a trabajar”, dijo. “Ella necesita asistencia las 24 horas del día, los siete días de la semana”.

Martinez cree que Flores se recuperará por completo y podrá continuar con sus estudios universitarios y sus metas profesionales. Espera que la historia de su hija conmueva a alguien y sirva como recordatorio de la importancia de conducir con precaución.

Cualquier persona que desee ayudar puede hacer una donación a través de una página de GoFundMe creada por la familia.

Trump also gave a shoutout to Rep. Max Miller, the Republican congressman who refused to stop running for reelection after facing accusations of domestic abuse, pointing him out in the audience.

“Thank you, Max, for coming,” Trump said. “Thank you. Very good.”

Trump focused, however, on a favorite issue — immigration. Trump has long targeted Minnesota's large population of Somali immigrants and on Monday he linked that group to Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. During a presidential debate two years ago, Trump falsely accused the latter group of eating pets. Referencing those allegations Monday, Trump said “I was right” and boasted that Haitians were being driven out of the country by his administration's policies.

“If you want to stop Ohio from being plundered, ransacked and destroyed like Minnesota is being destroyed, we’re going to stop it,” Trump said. “Just like we did with Springfield, we’re going to stop it, we’re not going to let it happen.”

Trump's remarks came on the same day Homeland Security agents searched the Washington home of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant who represents a Minnesota district.

The president visited Youngstown less than a week after rallying in Dayton. The intense focus on Ohio, a state Trump won by 11 percentage points, shows the challenging environment Republicans are navigating in the midterms amid the Iran war and lingering inflation. In addition to the Senate contest, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is locked in a close governor's race with Democrat Amy Acton.

The rally was also a reminder of the extent Trump is willing to go to boost his allies — he announced a new submarine component manufacturing center will be located in nearby Cleveland during the rally — and his persistent focus on Black immigrants.

Back in 2018, Trump privately complained about immigrants from countries like Haiti — using an expletive to describe them — and wondering why the United States couldn't get more migrants from places like Norway. The statement was condemned as racist and Trump denied making it at the time.

But Trump admitted using the phrase last year, and his second administration has focused on restricting immigration and barring any refugees except white South Africans.

During the rally, he celebrated what he contended was an exodus of Haitians out of Springfield. The Trump administration ended a program that allowed more than 350,000 Haitians to stay in the country legally, which some of the roughly 15,000 Haitians who arrived in Springfield, population 60,000, in recent years.

“They're getting their town back,” Trump said about the original residents of Springfield, as he also stood by his debunked statement at the 2024 presidential debate that the Haitians were eating local pets. That claim was based on a secondhand Facebook post whose author deleted it and apologized, saying she had no evidence it was true.

Trump devoted even more time to insulting immigrants from Somalia, where he claimed that people were “low IQ” and “don't have pants to wear.”

Trump's main goal was to boost Husted, who was appointed to replace Vice President JD Vance in the Senate in 2024 and faces a tough challenge from Brown, a longtime senator who lost his seat to Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024.

The presidential visit came after mailers, sponsored by Enough Promises Ohio PAC, began arriving in voters’ mailboxes in recent days. They promote independent candidate Greg Levy over Brown with messages such as “Join the Revolution” and “Send a Worker to the Senate.” Levy describes himself as “Socialist running for the U.S. Senate to represent Ohio in 2026” on his X account.

Levy condemned the fliers for falsely impersonating his campaign and engaging in “dirty tricks” designed to mislead voters. He said he is considering legal action.

“This is a highly undemocratic practice and does a disservice to voters in Ohio and throughout the country,” he wrote on X.

According to Federal Election Commission filings, Enough Promises Ohio was founded Sept. 29. It has not yet had to disclose its contributors, but additional federal filings lay out a trail of associations linked to Republicans.

Enough Promises paid the firm Seven Farms more than $397,000 on two dates last week for printing, postage and mail services either supporting Levy or opposing Brown. Seven Farms, also a new entity, lists as its address the same South Carolina business suite as the one used by Whistlestop Strategies LLC.

Whistlestop is a direct mail outfit operated by Big Dog Strategies LLC, the strategy firm that advises Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC and that managed Moreno's successful campaign against Brown in 2024.

Enough Promises Ohio and Big Dog did not respond to requests for comment.

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Volusia Sheriff’s Office divers found 3-year-old Kashh Williams and 5-year-old Elijah Hawkins dead in a retention pond on Sunday morning, according to the Daytona Beach Police Department.

“The mother, she is a single mother, she fed the children at about 11 a.m. They ate breakfast. She turned around and put out lunch for them at about 5 p.m. She then went to lie down to take a short nap,” Chief Jakari E. Young said on Monday afternoon during a news conference.

When the mother woke up on Saturday evening, the boys had vanished — despite a child-safety lock at the apartment’s door in Daytona Beach’s Clyde Morris area, according to Young.

Surveillance video showed the boys and the family dog going into the retention pond shortly after 5:55 p.m. on Saturday, and both boys drowning minutes later, according to Young.

“At 6:06 p.m., we can see mom searching the area, and she calls for the dog because she can still see the dog,” Young said, adding that she called 911 shortly before 6:20 p.m.

There was a search in the area of The Reserve at Clyde Morries Landings, an apartment complex at 1361 North Clyde Morris Boulevard, according to police.

Elijah, who was diagnosed with autism, was a student at Turie T. Small Elementary School, at 839 Loomis Ave., according to Young.

“Several teachers, as well as the principal, came out. Once they found out what was happening, they participated in the search. And in my opinion, they went above and beyond their call of duty as educators because they are also a part of this community,” Young said.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement had activated a statewide missing child alert before DBPD announced that VCSO divers had found the boys dead early Sunday morning in the pond south of LPGA Boulevard and east of North Clyde Morris Boulevard.

“I think there was maybe approximately an hour in between locating one from the other ... the emotional toll it takes on them as first responders and their very difficult job, to get down in that water and recover those kids, I can’t thank them enough,” Young said about the VCSO divers who met with a therapist on Sunday.

Mourners dropped off balloons, plush toys, and candles in a grassy area on Sunday near the retention pond. There was a vigil on Sunday evening.

“This is still an ongoing investigation ... there is no obvious signs of foul play ... This appears to be an extremely tragic accident,” Young said.

Detectives asked anyone with information about the case to call the DBPD at 386-671-5100.

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Buzos de la Oficina del Sheriff de Volusia encontraron sin vida a Kashh Williams, de 3 años, y Elijah Hawkins, de 5 años, en un estanque de retención de aguas pluviales la mañana del domingo, según el Departamento de Policía de Daytona Beach.

“La madre es soltera. Alimentó a los niños alrededor de las 11 a.m. Desayunaron. Luego, alrededor de las 5 p.m., les sirvió el almuerzo. Después se fue a acostar para tomar una siesta corta”, dijo el jefe de policía Jakari E. Young durante una conferencia de prensa la tarde del lunes.

Cuando la madre despertó la noche del sábado, los niños habían desaparecido, a pesar de que la puerta del apartamento tenía un seguro de protección infantil en el área de Clyde Morris, en Daytona Beach, según Young.

Un video de vigilancia mostró a los niños y al perro de la familia entrando al estanque de retención poco después de las 5:55 p.m. del sábado, y a ambos niños ahogándose minutos después, según Young.

“A las 6:06 p.m., podemos ver a la madre buscando por el área y llamando al perro porque todavía podía verlo”, dijo Young, y agregó que llamó al 911 poco antes de las 6:20 p.m.

Se realizó una búsqueda en el área de The Reserve at Clyde Morris Landings, un complejo de apartamentos ubicado en 1361 North Clyde Morris Boulevard, según la policía.

Elijah, quien había sido diagnosticado con autismo, era estudiante de la escuela primaria Turie T. Small, ubicada en 839 Loomis Ave., según Young.

“Varios maestros, así como el director, acudieron al lugar. Una vez que se enteraron de lo que estaba sucediendo, participaron en la búsqueda. Y, en mi opinión, hicieron mucho más de lo que les correspondía como educadores porque también forman parte de esta comunidad”, dijo Young.

El Departamento de Aplicación de la Ley de Florida había activado una alerta estatal por menores desaparecidos antes de que el Departamento de Policía de Daytona Beach anunciara que buzos de la Oficina del Sheriff de Volusia habían encontrado a los niños sin vida la madrugada del domingo en el estanque ubicado al sur de LPGA Boulevard y al este de North Clyde Morris Boulevard.

“Creo que transcurrió aproximadamente una hora entre el hallazgo de uno y el otro, el impacto emocional que esto tiene en ellos como socorristas y el trabajo tan difícil que realizan, al tener que entrar en esa agua y recuperar a esos niños, no puedo agradecerles lo suficiente”, dijo Young sobre los buzos de la Oficina del Sheriff de Volusia, quienes se reunieron con un terapeuta el domingo.

Personas que acudieron a rendir homenaje a los niños dejaron globos, peluches y velas en una zona de césped cerca del estanque de retención el domingo. Esa noche se realizó una vigilia.

“Esta sigue siendo una investigación en curso, no hay señales evidentes de que se haya cometido un delito, todo parece indicar que se trató de un accidente extremadamente trágico”, dijo Young.

Los detectives pidieron a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre el caso que llame al Departamento de Policía de Daytona Beach al 386-671-5100.

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The shooter in Friday's attack was Matthew Stone Sr., 45, according to Erie County coroner Lyell Cook. Stone took his own life at the home, Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said.

According to Cook, the adult victims were Michelle Stone, 44; Angelina Stone, 24, who was due to give birth Monday; Jonathan Stone, 19; Matthew Stone, 21, and two women who lived at other addresses: Lora Roberts, 37, and Twila Tanner, 51. He said a 5-year-old boy and a 1-year-old girl also died, but that state law prevented him from releasing their names.

At a memorial to the victims, Julius Windham said his daughter Amarianna was the toddler who was killed. The girl's mother was Angelina Stone, who was also the mother of the boy who died, he said, noting that attacker was a grandfather and the family patriarch.

Family friend Nicole Eller said Roberts frequently went to the house to help during the pregnancy of her niece and neighbor, Angelina Stone.

Roberts, identified by friends as a mother of five who was engaged to be married, was a volunteer and former board member for a community group that helped homeless people. She wrote a July 15 Facebook post decrying recent shootings in Erie.

“Erie we need to do better!!" she wrote. "Life is precious and its heartbreaking to see so much pain and violence. Check on the people you love, and always choose kindness.”

Video and audio evidence recovered by investigators included muffled gunshot sounds coming from inside the home just before two “distressed” women arrived and began pounding on the door, Lorah said. The gunman then came out and shot them as they ran toward him, before returning inside.

Roberts and Tanner, who was the only non-relative, were killed outside the home, Lorah said.

The police chief hasn't said what the gunman's possible motives were, but he suggested that his mental health could have been a factor. He said investigators would talk to relatives and examine the cellphones of the women who were killed outside the home.

Erie is about 120 miles (190 kilometers) north of Pittsburgh.

She pleaded not guilty Monday night to two counts of assault for state charges involving the officer and the nurse. And she faces separate federal charges based on what happened on the flight, which her representatives say was brought on by a severe medical emergency.

Blair, 54, was detained by police at around 11 p.m. Sunday after the Delta Air Lines jet parked at the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.

Blair and one of the flight attendants were taken to a hospital for evaluation, the Port Authority said.

A police officer taking her to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center said in charging documents that while she was securing Blair to a stretcher, Blair pulled a leg from the straps and kicked her repeatedly around the face, neck and chest, causing serious pain and substantial swelling. Later, a nurse moving Blair said the actor kicked her in the chest, causing substantial pain.

She was arraigned on two counts of second-degree assault late Monday at a court in Queens, where her lawyer entered a not guilty plea on her behalf. She appeared to cry as she stood in court in handcuffs, wearing jeans and a white hooded sweatshirt.

Her attorney Shawn Barnes told a judge her actions were not intentional. He said the actor, who has multiple sclerosis, missed several doses of “a powerful medication that controls severe neurological symptoms,” according to the New York Daily News and New York Post.

He said she had gotten on the flight in Los Angeles after a heavy workload, and hit her head during the flight. He said these factors along with the altitude led to “a state of severe confusion and disorientation.”

The judge set her bail at $20,000 cash or $60,000 bond and set the next hearing for January. She left court with her lawyers.

Details of what happened aboard the aircraft weren’t immediately disclosed by the airline, police or the FBI, which was investigating, but Delta said in a statement it “has zero tolerance for unruly or unlawful behavior, as the safety of our customers and crew always comes first.”

In air traffic communications, the Delta pilot asked the tower to have medical personnel waiting at the gate to treat bite marks and a bloody nose, but said ambulances were not necessary.

“It sounds like the disruptive passenger also bashed her head on the bulkhead or something like that,” the pilot told the tower, according to audio posted on the ATC app. “So we’ll obviously have to get her potentially checked out as well as involved with law enforcement.”

The FBI also issued Blair a notice charging her with assault related to her actions aboard the aircraft, according to a federal law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

Those charges will be handled through the petty violations court in federal court in Brooklyn. No date has been set for Blair’s appearance.

It's not the first time Blair has had issues aboard a plane. In 2016, Blair apologized for making statements she later regretted during a flight from Cancun to Los Angeles. She said she had mixed alcohol with medication, causing her to black out.

Blair had major roles in films including 1999's “Cruel Intentions,” 2001's “Legally Blonde” and 2004's “Hellboy.”

In recent years, she has advocated for disability rights after getting her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2018. In 2023, she joined President Joe Biden at the White House to celebrate the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Yamat reported from Las Vegas and Dalton from Los Angeles. AP Transportation Writer Josh Funk contributed to this report.