La advertencia surge luego de que cuatro tortugas laúd en peligro de extinción murieran recientemente tras ser impactadas por embarcaciones en la vía intracostera del condado Palm Beach.

Desde marzo hasta octubre, aproximadamente 40,000 tortugas marinas llegan al condado Palm Beach para anidar.

Pero justo cuando comenzó la temporada, conservacionistas aseguran que cuatro tortugas laúd murieron tras ser impactadas por embarcaciones.

“La pérdida de uno de esos individuos es una gran pérdida para la especie en general”, dijo la doctora Heather Barron.

Barron señaló que los impactos de embarcaciones pueden dañar el cerebro, la médula espinal, las extremidades e incluso los órganos internos de una tortuga.

“Pero una cosa es segura”, dijo. “Casi todos son bastante graves en términos del impacto en el animal. Y el pronóstico para el animal suele ser bastante crítico”.

Y durante la temporada de anidación y apareamiento, esos impactos pueden hacer que una población ya vulnerable sea aún más frágil.

“Si muchas de las tortugas marinas que anidarían en esta área son impactadas por embarcaciones y mueren, habrá cada vez menos animales que regresen aquí”, dijo Barron.

Andy Dehart es director ejecutivo del Loggerhead Marine Life Center.

“Estamos afectando críticamente a estas especies que vienen aquí durante este momento tan valioso de sus vidas”, dijo Dehart. “Estamos muy lejos de los tiempos en que las tortugas quedaban atrapadas accidentalmente o eran capturadas para hacer sopa. Estas no son lesiones intencionales contra las tortugas. Simplemente son accidentes. Pero lo que esperamos es que la gente aprenda”.

Con el Día de los Caídos y el 4 de Julio acercándose, dijo que los navegantes desempeñan un papel clave para prevenir estas tragedias.

“Es muy prevenible si las personas simplemente controlan su velocidad”, dijo Dehart. “No hay un límite de velocidad establecido. No estamos abogando por un límite específico, pero sí por monitorear, navegar de forma segura durante la primera milla y media desde la costa, usar gafas polarizadas y, si es posible, tener un observador”.

Una zona voluntaria de protección de tortugas marinas permanecerá vigente hasta el 31 de octubre y abarca las 45 millas del condado Palm Beach desde la costa hasta una milla mar adentro.

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Police said Terrell Barry is the suspect who has been busted.

They also say he linked to 10 cases connected to a string of Facebook Marketplace robberies all following the same MO.

Local 10 News spoke to one of Barry’s alleged victims.

She said she traveled with her father to 15221 NE Sixth Avenue after a woman on the website had expressed interest in an iPhone 17 Pro Max

After arriving, she said she received a message from the suspect stating, “I have my boyfriend coming down.”

According to police, there are many victims out there who police said had MacBooks and iPhones stolen just like that.

The charges are piling up on Barry, who was arrested by police and placed behind bars.

Police officers always advise people to make these exchanges at a safe place like a police station, and this story shows just how dangerous these interactions could be.

La Policía informó que Terrell Barry es el sospechoso que fue arrestado.

También indicaron que está vinculado a 10 casos relacionados con una serie de robos en Facebook Marketplace, todos siguiendo el mismo modus operandi.

Local 10 News habló con una de las presuntas víctimas de Barry.

Ella dijo que viajó junto a su padre hasta el 15221 de la avenida NE Sixth luego de que una mujer en el sitio web expresó interés en un iPhone 17 Pro Max.

Tras llegar, dijo que recibió un mensaje del sospechoso que decía: “Tengo a mi novio bajando”.

Según la Policía, hay muchas víctimas a las que les robaron MacBooks y iPhones de la misma manera.

Los cargos siguen acumulándose contra Barry, quien fue arrestado por la Policía y encarcelado.

Los agentes siempre recomiendan a las personas realizar estos intercambios en un lugar seguro, como una estación de Policía, y esta historia demuestra cuán peligrosas pueden ser estas interacciones.

Agentes respondieron al área de Northwest Third Avenue y 14th Street, según Carey Codd, portavoz de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward.

Cerca del lugar, Blanche Ely High School, ubicada en 1201 NW 6 Ave., salió a las 2:40 p.m., según Nadine Drew, portavoz de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Broward.

La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Sofia Mendez, contribuyó a este informe.

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He famously owned the Atlanta Braves, leveraging his ownership of the TBS superstation to broadcast their games across the country, all while showcasing his outsized personality at a time when many owners stayed behind the scenes.

Turner, who died Wednesday, bought the struggling Braves in the 1970s, put the team on his then-tiny TV station and then sold the signal to cable systems nationwide.

“He effectively transformed the Braves into a team with a national reach and set the table for ways that local teams have now gained more of a national footprint,” said Travis Vogan, a sports media professor at the University of Iowa.

With a burgeoning fanbase that stretched far beyond the South, the Braves turned into a World Series mainstay during the 1990s, and Turner finally hoisted the Commissioner’s Trophy in 1995 before selling the franchise the next year.

In a statement Wednesday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred called Turner a “visionary whose impact on the media landscape transformed how fans experience sports.”

Turner also once owned the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers, and the rest of his sports interests were about as varied as could be — everything from professional wrestling to sailing to the Olympics.

He tried to make the 1964 Olympic sailing team, won a world sailing championship in 1971 off the coast of Long Island and skippered the winning entry in the 1977 America’s Cup — the most famous yachting competition in the world.

“There will never be a time in my life as good as this time,” he said when told he would skipper in the America’s Cup that year. “I can’t believe all this is really happening to me.”

A ‘swashbuckling’ owner

Turner always wanted to be part of the action and famously named himself owner-manager of the Braves in 1977. Atlanta had lost 16 straight, and Turner told manager Dave Bristol to take a few days off. Turner took over, and the Braves lost 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates to extend their losing streak.

“I wanted to see what it’s like down in the trenches,” Turner said that night.

Major League Baseball intervened and put a stop to Turner’s managerial career after that one game — just as they had forced Turner to stop putting “Channel” on the back of the jersey of pitcher Andy Messersmith, who wore No. 17.

But Turner continued to lean into his identity as “Captain Outrageous,” helping to set a model for “swashbuckling” modern-day owners who use their ownership to shape their public image, said Vogan, the Iowa professor.

Larger-than-life sports moguls like Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, former Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer “have all emulated Turner by being these kinds of celebrity entrepreneurs that use sports to build their own identities and to build their own kind of brands in the popular imagination," Vogan said.

“Our good friend and former owner, Ted Turner, was one of a kind,” read a statement from the Braves on Wednesday.

A new international competition

Turner’s competitive drive wasn’t satisfied by owning teams, though.

He founded the Goodwill Games, born in large part out of his frustration with the U.S. boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and then the Soviets leading a boycott of the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles. He brought the inaugural Goodwill Games to Moscow in 1986, with about 3,000 athletes from 79 countries taking part.

The Goodwill Games would be held five times in all, ending in 2001. There was also a Winter Goodwill Games, held only once — at Lake Placid, New York, in 2000.

“There’s nothing better for kids than sport,” Turner said at the opening ceremony of those Lake Placid Games.

Vogan said the Goodwill Games showcased Turner's “audacity,” even if it didn't work out.

“The fact that he was involved in an initiative like that says a lot about his ambitions and his role as a disruptive force in media,” Vogan said.

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The wreck happened at a home in the 5800 block of Southwest 62nd Terrace, in an unincorporated area between South Miami and Coral Gables.

Deputies said they were pursuing the suspect, whose vehicle was suspicious, after reported burglaries in the area.

They said the driver was injured after the crash and taken to the hospital.

Authorities said while an original call about a home burglary in progress was unfounded, detectives did recover items stolen in a nearby vehicle burglary.

It isn’t known if the driver, who wasn’t publicly identified as of Wednesday afternoon, will be charged.

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Deputies responded shortly after 2:15 p.m. to the 1300 block of Northwest Third Avenue, according to Carey Codd, a spokesman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

“On scene, deputies located a teenage male with a gunshot wound to the leg. Paramedics transported him to a nearby hospital for treatment of the injury which is not expected to be life-threatening,” Codd wrote in a statement.

Nearby, Blanche Ely High School, at 1201 NW 6 Ave., was dismissed at 2:40 p.m., according to Nadine Drew, a spokeswoman for Broward County Public Schools.

“The shooting suspect is still being sought,” Codd wrote. “The investigation revealed that the individuals involved in the incident are known to each other.”

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The warning comes after four endangered leatherback turtles were killed in recent boat strikes in the Palm Beach County intracoastal waterway.

From march through October, roughly 40,000 sea turtles come to palm beach county to nest.

But just as the season began, conservationists say four leather backs were killed by boat strikes.

“The loss of one of those individuals is a really great loss to the species as a whole,” said Dr. Heather Barron.

Barron says boat strikes can damage a turtle’s brain, spinal cord, limbs, and even internal organs.

“But one thing is certain,” she said. “They’re almost all pretty bad in terms of their impact on the animal. And the prognosis for the animal is often quite grave.”

And during nesting and breeding season those strikes can make an already vulnerable population even more fragile.

“If many of the sea turtles that would nest in this area are hit by boats and killed that will be fewer and fewer animals that will ever come back here,” said Barron.

Andy Dehart is a CEO of Lagerhead marine life center.

“We’re critically affecting these species that come here for this valuable time in their life,” said Dehart. “We’re a long way from where we used to be where turtles were caught in bycatch and turtles were caught for soup. This isn’t targeted injuries on turtles. It’s just an accident. But what we do hope is that people learn.”

With Memorial Day and the Fourth of July approaching, he says boaters play a key role in preventing these tragedies.

“It’s very preventable if people just monitor their speed,” said Dehart. “There’s no set speed limit. We’re not advocating for a set speed limit, but monitor, go safe in that first mile and a half from shore, put on polarized glasses, and if you can, have a spotter.”

A voluntary sea turtle protection zone remains in place until Oct. 31 and spans all 45 miles of Palm Beach County from shore to one mile out at sea.

The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday to stay its decision supporting the award so that Trump won’t have to pay writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals to the high court.

A Manhattan jury awarded Carroll the payout in January 2024. Another jury in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding Trump sexually abused her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in 1996 and then defamed her after she published her account of it in 2019.

Trump has vehemently denied sexually abusing Carroll or ever knowing her and has repeatedly accused her of making accusations against him for political purposes or to promote her memoir.

In court papers filed with the 2nd Circuit, Smith told the appeals court that Carroll's lawyer does not oppose the request for a stay as long as Trump increases the bond posted after the verdict by $7.4 million to cover any post-judgment interest that would accrue during a possible Supreme Court review.

Attorney Roberta Kaplan, who represents Carroll, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Smith told the 2nd Circuit that Trump “will suffer irreparable harm” if he must pay Carroll now because she has said publicly that she plans to give the award away, meaning the president would not be able to recover the money if the high court reverses the verdict.

Smith said there was a “reasonable probability” that the Supreme Court will take up an appeal in part based on Trump's insistence that he has absolute immunity from a lawsuit stemming from statements he made while he was president.

In support of his request, Smith cited arguments in a dissent by three 2nd Circuit judges to a decision last week in which the appeals court refused to put the case before all of the court's active judges, leaving standing a three-judge panel's September decision upholding the verdict.

He wrote that there was “at least a fair prospect that the Supreme Court will reverse the Panel.”

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Miramar police took Riyadh Gabbara, 70, into custody on fraud and grand theft charges on Tuesday, stemming from allegations dating back to 2023.

He was already facing charges in a similar case in Pembroke Pines ― and that city’s police force had arrested him on a grand theft charge in November.

In the Miramar case, investigators said the Iraqi-born Gabbara, who owns a company called ME Global Oil Holding LLC, signed a contract with a victim to sell him jet fuel for $140 million.

The victim agreed to make a $200,000 deposit, according to an arrest report. But authorities said he never got the fuel and he never got his deposit back.

“No evidence was found showing any legitimate business activity,” the report states.

Meanwhile, in the Pembroke Pines case, authorities said a victim made a deal with Gabbara to buy crude palm oil in April 2022.

In a similar deal, authorities say the victim agreed to buy the product, made a deposit and never got the oil.

Pembroke Pines police said Gabbara had given the victim a $125,000 check that bounced because Gabbara’s account was almost running on empty: It only had $200.52.

Eventually, police said Gabbara wired the man only $5,000 and the victim lost a total of $82,100 from the fraud.

That case remains pending in the Broward court system.

After his latest arrest, records show Gabbara was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $50,000 bond as of Wednesday afternoon.

La Policía de Miramar arrestó el martes a Riyadh Gabbara, de 70 años, por cargos de fraude y robo mayor, derivados de acusaciones que se remontan a 2023.

Gabbara ya enfrentaba cargos en un caso similar en Pembroke Pines, donde la Policía de esa ciudad lo arrestó por un cargo de robo mayor en noviembre.

En el caso de Miramar, los investigadores indicaron que Gabbara, nacido en Irak y propietario de una empresa llamada ME Global Oil Holding LLC, firmó un contrato con una víctima para venderle combustible para aviones por $140 millones USD.

La víctima aceptó hacer un depósito de $200,000 USD, según un informe de arresto. Pero las autoridades dijeron que nunca recibió el combustible ni recuperó su depósito.

“No se encontró evidencia que demostrara alguna actividad comercial legítima”, indica el informe.

Mientras tanto, en el caso de Pembroke Pines, las autoridades informaron que una víctima hizo un acuerdo con Gabbara para comprar aceite de palma crudo en abril de 2022.

En un acuerdo similar, las autoridades dijeron que la víctima aceptó comprar el producto, hizo un depósito y nunca recibió el aceite.

La Policía de Pembroke Pines indicó que Gabbara le entregó a la víctima un cheque por $125,000 USD que fue rechazado porque la cuenta de Gabbara casi no tenía fondos: solo tenía $200.52 USD.

Eventualmente, la Policía indicó que Gabbara transfirió al hombre solo $5,000 USD y la víctima perdió un total de $82,100 USD debido al fraude.

Ese caso sigue pendiente en el sistema judicial de Broward.

Tras su arresto más reciente, los registros muestran que Gabbara permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal de Broward con una fianza de $50,000 USD hasta la tarde del miércoles.

“The goal is to protect Brazil’s population, prioritize the country and maintain constructive dialogue,” Durigan told state broadcaster EBC. “Expectations for the trip are very positive.”

The encounter at the White House follows a crisis in bilateral relations last year, after the Trump administration imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods and tied the measure to the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro for his involvement in a coup plot.

Lula sharply defended Brazil's sovereignty and Trump later loosened tariffs on Brazil as part of his effort to lower consumer costs for Americans.

Trump and Lula started mending fences at the United Nations General Assembly in September, which was followed by their first private meeting in Malaysia in October and subsequent phone conversations.

The Brazilian government’s handling of the 50% tariff likely raised the country's leverage with the Trump administration, said Ana Garcia, an international relations professor at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

“The Trump administration likely sees Brazil as a partner that must be taken somewhat seriously, but will continue to pressure it to make concessions,” Garcia said.

An ongoing point of contention between the two governments is the Trump administration's reported consideration of designating Brazil’s largest criminal factions — Red Command, or CV, and the First Capital Command, or PCC — foreign terrorist organizations.

The designations would give the U.S. more power “to act as a political or economic actor in Brazil,” said Leonardo Paz Neves, an international relations professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a think-tank and university. “It’s a defensive issue for Brazil that doesn’t serve Brazil’s interests at all.”

A Brazilian government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they are not allowed to discuss the matter publicly, said that both sides appeared to be committed to deepening cooperation on the fight against organized crime rather than opting for unilateral actions.

Another key item likely to be on the meeting’s agenda is access to Brazil’s rare earth deposits. The South American country has the world’s second-largest reserves of rare earth minerals, used in a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, solar panels and jet engines.

Durigan on Wednesday again reiterated Brazil’s position that the nation does not want to be simply a raw material exporter.

“Countries in the global north ... are thirsty for this raw material.” Durigan said. But “while foreign investment is welcome, we want industrial development within Brazil: creating jobs in partnership with our universities.”

The trip to the U.S. is taking place in a difficult domestic scenario for Lula, who last week suffered two blows dealt by Congress. The lower house overrode his veto on a law seeking to reduce Bolsonaro’s time in prison, while the Senate rejected his nomination to the Supreme Court — a first in more than 100 years.

The 80-year-old leader will seek a fourth, nonconsecutive term in the October elections. Polls currently show him neck to neck with Bolsonaro’s Senator son, Flávio.

Lula departed for Washington D.C. early afternoon local time Wednesday, and is expected to arrive in the evening.

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About 15 years after the murder of Bryan Pata, a 22-year-old defensive lineman for the Miami Hurricanes, Segovia moved to arrest Rashaun Jones, a former Miami Hurricanes cornerback.

Jones’s defense claimed that an outside firm found evidence that Segovia had an Instagram account linked to his phone number, email, and IP address, that he had used in violation of a court order.

On Monday, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda granted the defense’s emergency motion to prevent the deletion of the Instagram account and its comments.

Jones has been awaiting a retrial after his trial for Pata’s murder in February ended with a hung jury.

Segovia, who is also a member of the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees, did not respond to Local 10 News requests for comment.

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“I went to Spain to do PRP,” Doncic told reporters. “Everybody knows that its one of the best countries to do that. Obviously, you know, we talked with the Lakers doctors, so everybody agreed for me to go there.”

Each injection required four days of rest in-between, calling for an extended stay in Spain, he said.

“I know and trust lots of people in Spain that I used to work with before," he said. "I needed four days in between every shot. I did it four times, so that’s why I stayed longer.”

Doncic said he's been running, but he's yet to reintroduce any contact.

The Lakers lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 1 of their Western Conference Semifinals series 108-90 on Tuesday.

Doncic said it has been hard to watch while knowing he can't yet participate.

“It's very frustrating. I don't think people understand how frustrating it is," Doncic said. "All I want to do is play basketball, especially this time. It's the best time to play basketball. It's very frustrating to see what my team is doing, I'm very proud of them, but it's been very tough to watch.”

At the same time, the six-time NBA All-Star is aware that coming back too soon would put him at risk.

“It's a tough one for me. I've come back from injuries too soon before, and it wasn't the best result," he said. ”This is the first time I have a hamstring injury. It's not the same like other injuries. You have to be very careful. I'm doing everything to come back."

The Thunder host the Lakers in Game 2 on Thursday night.

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El polémico streamer e influencer, conocido por promover el “looksmaxxing”, enfrenta un nuevo cargo criminal, esta vez en el condado Miami-Dade.

El Miami New Times informa que los cargos contra el joven de 20 años, cuyo nombre real es Braden Eric Peters, están relacionados con un incidente en marzo en los Everglades en el que aparentemente disparó a un caimán muerto. La publicación informa que los fiscales presentaron los cargos “discretamente” el 29 de abril.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Peters, junto con otras dos personas, enfrenta un cargo menor por descarga ilegal de un arma de fuego tras el incidente del 26 de marzo en los Everglades y el área de manejo de vida silvestre Francis S. Taylor.

Peters terminó en la cárcel en un condado al norte más tarde ese mismo día por una razón no relacionada: la policía de Fort Lauderdale lo arrestó en conexión con una orden judicial de Florida central.

En ese caso, agentes del condado Osceola dijeron que él “instigó” una pelea entre su novia, Violet Marie Lentz, y una mujer de 19 años en un Airbnb cerca de Kissimmee.

Peters publicó la pelea del 2 de febrero en redes sociales “para explotar a las dos mujeres”, dijeron los agentes.

Lentz, de 24 años, también enfrentaba un cargo menor en relación con el incidente, dijeron las autoridades.

En abril, Peters —quien ha sido abierto sobre el uso de drogas como metanfetamina— fue hospitalizado en Miami tras una sobredosis.

En cuanto al caso de los Everglades, los registros muestran que Peters tiene previsto comparecer ante un juez de Miami-Dade el 20 de mayo.

Hill, de 32 años, compareció ante el tribunal vestido con una camisa blanca, sentado junto a sus abogados y manteniendo una expresión seria durante todo el proceso. Hall y su equipo legal estaban sentados al otro lado de la sala.

Según una demanda de 15 páginas, Hall y Hill se conocieron en mayo de 2023 después de que él la invitó a pasar varios días en su casa de Southwest Ranches. La demanda alega que Hall participó en ejercicios de línea ofensiva junto a Hill y su entrenador durante la visita.

El documento afirma que las tensiones aumentaron después de que Hall presuntamente empujó a Hill hacia atrás durante uno de los ejercicios, lo que hizo reír a los presentes, incluidos miembros de la familia de Hill. La demanda también alega que Hill se sintió avergonzado y, poco después, embistió a Hall durante una jugada posterior, causándole una fractura en la pierna derecha.

Hall, de 36 años, fue sometida a una cirugía que incluyó “implantación de hardware metálico”, según la demanda, y ahora asiste semanalmente a terapia física. Ella alega que continúa experimentando dolor persistente y debilidad.

También afirmó que Hill no le brindó atención médica cuando ocurrió el incidente.

Ella busca hasta $50,000 USD en daños, alegando agresión, agresión física, imposición intencional de angustia emocional y negligencia.

El equipo legal de Hill negó haber actuado incorrectamente, argumentando en documentos judiciales que Hall fue negligente al participar en lo que describieron como ejercicios de fútbol americano extenuantes y potencialmente peligrosos.

La selección del jurado continúa. Se espera que el caso avance a juicio una vez que se conforme el panel.

Hill fue liberado de los Dolphins en febrero después de pasar cuatro temporadas con el equipo.

Lea la demanda en el documento a continuación.

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The controversial streamer and influencer, known for promoting “looksmaxxing,” is facing a new criminal charge, this time in Miami-Dade County.

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The Miami New Times reports the charges against the 20-year-old, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, come in connection with a March incident in the Everglades in which he appeared to shoot a dead alligator. The publication reports that prosecutors “quietly” filed the charges April 29.

Court records show Peters, along with two others, is facing a misdemeanor charge of unlawful discharge of a firearm after the March 26 incident at the Everglades and Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area.

Peters would end up in jail one county to the north later that day for an unrelated reason: Fort Lauderdale police arrested him in connection with a warrant out of central Florida.

In that case, Osceola County deputies said he “instigated” a fight between his girlfriend, Violet Marie Lentz, and a 19-year-old woman at an Airbnb near Kissimmee.

Peters posted the Feb. 2 fight on social media “to exploit the two women,” deputies said.

Lentz, 24, was also facing a misdemeanor charge in connection with the incident, authorities said.

In April, Peters ― who has been open about using drugs like methamphetamine ― was reportedly hospitalized in Miami after an overdose.

As for the Everglades case, records show Peters is set to face a Miami-Dade judge on May 20.

In a statement to Local 10 News, Peters’ attorneys said in part that the streamer was “following the instructions of a licensed airboat guide.”

“He relied on that guidance,” the statement reads. “No animals or people were harmed. We are confident that once the full picture is understood, people will see this for what it is.”

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According to the Hallandale Beach Police Department, Jesus Robert was reported missing but has since reunited with his loved ones.

Authorities have not said what led to his whereabouts.

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Hill, 32, appeared in court dressed in a white shirt, seated with his attorneys and maintaining a serious expression throughout the proceedings. Hall and her legal team were seated across the courtroom.

According to a 15-page complaint, Hall and Hill met in May 2023 after Hill invited her to spend several days at his Southwest Ranches home. The lawsuit alleges Hall participated in offensive line drills alongside Hill and his trainer during the visit.

The filing claims tensions escalated after Hall allegedly pushed Hill backward during one of the drills, which made observers laugh, including members of Hill’s family. The suit also alleges that Hill became embarrassed and, shortly after, charged into Hall during a subsequent play, causing a fracture to her right leg.

Hall, 36, underwent surgery that included “metal hardware impantation,” according to the lawsuit, and now attends weekly physical therapy. She alleges she continues to experience persistent pain and weakness.

She also claimed that Hill failed to get her any medical attention when the incident occurred.

She is seeking up to $50,000 in damages, alleging assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence.

Hill’s legal team has denied wrongdoing, arguing in court filings that Hall was negligent in participating in what they described as strenuous and potentially dangerous football drills.

Jury selection is ongoing. The case is expected to proceed to trial once a panel is seated.

Hill was released from the Dolphins in February after spending four seasons with the team.

Read the lawsuit in the document below.

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The San Francisco-based company said in March that it would offer extra compensation to U.S. and Canadian drivers as part of a temporary program to offset a sharp increase in gas prices due to the Iran war. The national average for a gallon of gas on Wednesday was $4.53, up 44% from a year ago, according to AAA.

DoorDash said demand for deliveries remained strong in the January-March period despite higher gas prices. Total orders rose 27% to 933 million. But that fell short of Wall Street’s forecast of 954 million, according to analysts polled by FactSet.

Revenue also fell short of expectations. DoorDash said its revenue rose 33% to $4.0 billion, which was shy of the $4.15 billion analysts were forecasting.

The company said the gas price relief is being funded by adjusting investments in other areas. DoorDash said in November that it would be investing heavily in new products and services this year, including the addition of restaurant reservations in its app and robot deliveries.

DoorDash said its net income fell 5% to $184 million, or 42 cents per share, for the January-March period. That was partly due to a 30% increase in research and development costs compared to the same period last year.

That beat analysts' forecast of a 36-cent per share profit, according to FactSet.

DoorDash's shares rose more than 11% in after hours trading Wednesday.

Según el Departamento de Policía de Hallandale Beach, Jesús Robert fue visto por última vez en el área de Southeast Third Avenue y Southeast Third Street. Las autoridades indicaron que podría necesitar asistencia.

Robert es descrito como una persona de 5 pies y 10 pulgadas de estatura y aproximadamente 280 libras de peso, con cabello marrón y ojos marrones, según los investigadores.

La Policía informó que fue visto por última vez vistiendo una camisa gris de manga corta, pantalones negros y tenis negros, y llevaba una mochila negra.

Cualquier persona que vea a Robert o tenga información sobre su paradero debe llamar al HBPD al 954-764-4357 o al 911.

Las pistas anónimas pueden enviarse a Broward County Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

Seung Ho Han, 69, has also been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following Tuesday's shootings in the Koreatown neighborhood of Carrollton, police said.

Police said Han acknowledged he was the shooter in an interview with detectives and said he was angry at the people he shot because of financial disagreements over their business dealings. They declined to release the names of the victims and said they were still investigating the motive.

Carrollton, with about 130,000 people, is 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Dallas. More than 4,000 residents are of Korean descent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Han was being held Wednesday in Denton County Jail. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.

The first shooting happened just before 10 a.m. Tuesday at a shopping center, police said. When police arrived, they found four adults who had been shot, including a man who died. While they were investigating, another shooting was reported at an apartment complex roughly 4 miles (6 kilometers) away. Responding officers found a dead man inside one of the apartments.

Police said Wednesday that the three injured people were hospitalized in stable condition.

Investigators determined that Han carried out both of the shootings, police said. He was arrested at a nearby grocery store after a short chase on foot.

Jaylan A. Davis was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in the wake of Sunday night's shooting, which erupted after an apparent argument broke out amid a large crowd gathered at Arcadia Lake in the north Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond, its police chief said.

Edmond Police Chief J.D. Younger announced the arrest at at a news conference and said the initial charge against Davis was in the process of being upgraded to felony murder following the death of an 18-year-old woman who was shot. Police identified the deceased woman as Avianna Smith-Gray.

Davis was being held in the Edmond jail on a $1 million bond and listed in jail records as an Oklahoma City resident.

There was no lawyer listed for Davis in court documents, and the Oklahoma County Public Defender’s Office said Davis would not be assigned an attorney until the upgraded charges have been filed.

Detectives believe the incident began with an argument between two women attending the gathering and escalated into an altercation between rival gang members, the police chief said. Younger also said police think there is at least one more suspect.

In addition to the 18-year-old woman killed, authorities said, others suffered gunshot and shrapnel wounds as dozens of shots were fired at the popular boating, fishing and swimming lake some 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of downtown Oklahoma City.

Six of the victims are juveniles, some as young as 15, Younger said.

Davis turned himself in Wednesday morning after police produced an arrest warrant, the chief said.

“We’re trying to find justice for 23 people that were shot, one that’s deceased and even the people that were involved. I think it’s important not to demonize or separate the parties here,” Younger said.

He added that multiple people discharged weapons and that more than 80 rounds were fired.

The woman who died, Smith-Gray, was a high school senior just looking forward to walking the stage at graduation, her family said on a fundraising page for her funeral expenses. The family said she loved to dance, sing, do hair and much more. Her sisters described her as a loving, smart person who was good with kids and “so full of life.”

The party had been promoted across social media and drew a large crowd of mostly young adults from around the Oklahoma City area to a picnic pavilion beside the lake. The shooting occurred just as officers were responding to a noise complaint about the party, police have said.

Authorities noted that organizers hadn't sought the necessary reservations for such an event.

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The emergency assistance through case management services at the center includes help with rent, mortgage, and utilities.

Related link: Online application

The centers are open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• The Northwest Center is at 10077 NW 29 St., in Coral Springs. For more information, call 954-357-5000.
• The North Center is at 2011 NW 3rd Ave., in Pompano Beach. For more information, call 954-357-5340.
• The South Center is at 4733 SW 18th St. in Hollywood. For more information, call 954-357-5650.
• The Central Center is at 900 NW 31st Ave., in Fort Lauderdale. For more information, call 954-357-5001.

LAYOFFS

With more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020, the bankruptcy filings followed in 2024 and 2025, and the shutdown was on Saturday after a last-minute $500 million government bailout failed.

“We have 18,000 people that live in this country that are great people and great employees,” President Donald Trump said about Spirit Airlines employees nationwide on April 23 at the White House.

Spirit Airlines filed the layoff notices on Monday with the FloridaCommerce, the state’s lead agency for workforce, and reported laying off more than 4,850 employees in Florida.

That included more than 3,260 layoffs in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. There were 2,529 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 551 at the Spirit Support Center in Dania Beach, and 181 at Miami International Airport.

Related document: Notice of layoff (May 2-13)

Helpful link: Spirit Airlines launches restructuring page

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Upcoming job fairs

The Hospitality Industry Job Fair is from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday at the CareerSource Broward at 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard. Admission and parking are free.

Miramar is hosting a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 20 at the Miramar Cultural Center, at 2400 Civic Center Place. Admission and parking are free. For more information, visit the Evenbrite page.

The Port Everglades Career Fair & Expo is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 27 at the Broward County Convention Center at 1950 Eisenhower Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Admission and parking are free. Here is a list of the participating companies >

Resources

• Broward County has four Family Success Centers to help with housing and utilities.
• Department of Labor: Rapid response services includes guidance on COBRA continuation coverage
• American Airlines launches “Supporting Spirit” career page
• United Airlines launches program to prioritize former Spirit Airlines employees when hiring. Here is the career page >
• Southwest Airlines was recruiting on this page.
• JetBlue’s jobs page
• JetBlue announced an extension of the “jumpseat agreement for the next two weeks, subject to space availability and limited to cabin seating” for those who were stranded while working for Spirit Airlines, and also announced “preferential employment interviews.”
• Delta releases statement of help
• For more information about help from the Association of Flight Attendants, call 1-800-385-3920
• CareerSource Broward offers services such as job placement and career coaching at three centers at 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard, and 7550 Davie Road Extension in Hollywood.
• Employ Miami-Dade has services for job seekers.
• CareerOneStop has a database for job centers
• To file an unemployment benefits claim in Florida, call 1-800-204-2418 or visit this page.
• Find your local food bank, on this Feeding America page

Vantara solicitó a finales de abril al gobierno colombiano que reconsidere la aplicación de la eutanasia para 80 hipopótamos, como una forma de control de su población que se reproduce sin depredadores, y que permita su traslado al centro de rescate ubicado en Jamnagar, Gujarat.

Las autoridades calculan que en Colombia hay aproximadamente 200 hipopótamos descendientes de los cuatro individuos introducidos al país ilegalmente por el capo Pablo Escobar en la década de 1980 para su zoológico personal en Puerto Triunfo, un municipio en el noroeste del país.

La solicitud de Vantara se da en medio de un fuerte debate en Colombia sobre el manejo de los hipopótamos, luego de que el gobierno aprobara un protocolo para aplicar en los próximos meses la eutanasia, asegurando que las gestiones para llevarlos a zoológicos o santuarios animales no habían sido exitosas.

Algunos científicos que defienden la eutanasia han recibido amenazas por su posición, mientras que animalistas se oponen al “asesinato” y habitantes de Puerto Triunfo temen que sacrifiquen a los hipopótamos que atraen miles de turistas durante todo el año.

Tras el ofrecimiento de Vantara, el gobierno colombiano radicó una petición formal al gobierno de la India buscando saber si autorizan o no el traslado de hipopótamos al centro Vantara, asegurando que deben cumplir con la Convención sobre el Comercio Internacional de Especies Amenazadas de Fauna y Flora Silvestres (CITES).

El Ministerio de Ambiente indicó el miércoles en un comunicado que sostuvieron una reunión con Vantara en la que acordaron una visita a Colombia por parte de una delegación de expertos y veterinarios especializados en el manejo de hipopótamos, para evaluar sus condiciones, y trabajarán con las autoridades colombianas en la construcción de un plan de posible traslado.

La ministra Irene Vélez enfatizó que buscarán avanzar en las gestiones con Vantara sin suprimir la posibilidad de la eutanasia como medida de control de los hipopótamos, que se suma a la traslocación y al confinamiento.

“Vantara expresó su interés de apoyo integral al plan de manejo, el cual contempla dos protocolos: por un lado, la reducción de la especie a través de la eutanasia y, por otro lado, la reducción de la especie a través de su traslado. Estas medidas deberán implementarse de manera simultánea y complementaria”, aseguró Vélez en un video difundido a la prensa.

Los hipopótamos se han dispersado aproximadamente 43.000 kilómetros cuadrados, dado que la mayoría se mueven con libertad, especialmente por la cuenca del río Magdalena, uno de los principales afluentes del país.

El Ministerio de Ambiente calcula que, de no aplicarse medidas de control, para 2030 serán más de 500 hipopótamos, declarados como una especie invasora.

DeVaux and owners decided to skip the Preakness and set their sights on the Belmont Stakes on June 6 at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. DeVaux, who became the first woman to train a Derby winner, is from Saratoga Springs, which is hosting the Belmont for a third and final time this year.

“We are incredibly appreciative of the excitement and support surrounding the possibility of a Triple Crown run,” DeVaux said in a statement. “Golden gave us the race of a lifetime in the Kentucky Derby, and we believe the best decision for him moving forward is to give him a little more time following such a tremendous effort. His health, happiness and long-term future will always remain our top priority.”

Golden Tempo is the third Derby winner in the past five years not to be entered in the Preakness. For various reasons, it is the sixth time in eight years the Preakness will happen with no chance of a Triple Crown on the line. American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018 are the only horses to sweep all three races over the past four decades.

The two-week turnaround from the Derby to the Preakness, which used to be commonplace, is considered a nonstarter for many trainers and owners given that most elite thoroughbreds now typically go a month or more between races. It has caused endless debate in horse racing circles about the spacing of the Triple Crown in modern times.

Maryland racing officials are considering moving the Preakness back from the third Saturday in May to the fourth to increase the chances of not just the winner but other horses from the Derby being considered for the second leg of the Triple Crown. None of the 18 who ran this year at Churchill Downs are heading to the Preakness, with Golden Tempo the only one considered.

The Preakness is taking place at Laurel Park between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., this spring while its longtime home, Pimlico Race Course, is rebuilt as part of a massive construction project that included demolishing the debilitating old structure. Pimlico is set to become the site for year-round racing in Maryland beginning next year when the state takes control from 1/ST Racing, with Laurel becoming a training venue.

Golden Tempo won the Kentucky Derby as a 23-1 long shot in spectacular fashion, making a charge from the back of the pack down the stretch to the finish line a neck ahead of morning line favorite Renegade. DeVaux and co-owner Daisy Phipps Pulito said they would see how the colt came out of the race before making any decisions.

They followed the lead of trainer Bill Mott and Godolphin Racing, which last year chose to bypass the Preakness with Derby champion Sovereignty to give him extra rest for the Belmont. Sovereignty rewarded them by winning the Belmont and the Travers Stakes and is back racing as a 4-year-old.

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The finding escalates the Trump administration's ongoing standoff with UCLA, which has focused mostly on the main campus’s response to allegations of antisemitic harassment.

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA said in a written statement that its admission process is “based on merit” and that it is committed to complying with state and federal laws. It said it is reviewing the Justice Department findings.

Affirmative action in college admissions has been illegal since a 2023 Supreme Court ruling forbade it. The same ruling said colleges could continue to assess how applicants’ backgrounds might speak to broader characteristics, but Trump has accused colleges of using applicants’ personal statements and other proxies to consider race in admissions, which conservatives view as illegal discrimination.

In March, the Justice Department opened investigations into possible race-based discrimination in medical school admissions at Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego. The Trump administration previously targeted undergraduate admissions at selective colleges, demanding they collect data to show they are complying with the Supreme Court ruling.

A year-long investigation into UCLA by the Justice Department found its medical school discriminated against white and Asian American students by favoring Black and Hispanic applicants.

As part of its evidence, the department cited data showing admitted students who were Black or Hispanic had lower average grade-point averages and test scores in 2023 and 2024. Among Black students admitted in 2024, the average GPA was 3.72, for example, compared with 3.84 for Asian Americans and 3.83 for white students.

The department says that’s evidence the medical school was using non-academic factors to achieve diversity goals.

“As a result of these practices, highly qualified White, Asian, and other students were denied admission on the basis of their race,” said Harmeet Dhillon, head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, in a letter of findings.

The department also took issue with an application document inviting students to volunteer whether they are part of a marginalized group and, if so, to discuss its impact. The question was included in the application process in 2024 and 2025, the department said.

California voters ended affirmative action in college admissions in a 1997 ballot measure. In a brief filed in the Supreme Court case, the UC system said the change led to a precipitous drop in underrepresented minorities, especially at the system’s most selective campuses.

The brief said UC went on to implement “numerous and wideranging race-neutral measures designed to increase diversity of all sorts, including racial diversity.” Even so, the system said it had struggled to increase campus diversity.

The Trump administration finding sets the stage for a voluntary resolution to bring UCLA into compliance with the Justice Department’s legal interpretation or, if none can be reached, potential legal action. Penalties could include a loss of federal funding.

In March, a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showing they aren’t considering race in admissions.

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Tuesday started with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explaining how the U.S. military was protecting stranded ships so they could traverse the Strait of Hormuz. He insisted it was a defensive operation and the truce was still in place even though Iran had launched missiles and drones at U.S. forces, which sank Tehran’s small attack boats.

That afternoon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters at the White House that the military operation was “concluded” and that the U.S. achieved its objectives. But in almost the same breath, he said President Donald Trump was still seeking a “path of peace” that required Iran to agree to a deal to reopen the vital oil shipping corridor.

By Tuesday evening, Trump announced that the effort to protect ships was paused to see if an agreement could be reached. Then on Wednesday morning, he again warned that bombing would resume if Tehran didn't agree to U.S. terms.

The Trump administration’s shifting and often contradictory messaging throughout the Iran war has produced ever more confusion this week as the president and his aides presented a dizzying narrative over the U.S. strategy to unblock the Strait of Hormuz and wrap up the war that drastically changed over the course of mere hours.

Administration officials have been trying to walk a fine line between maintaining the ceasefire and reopening the strait, where 20% of the world’s oil normally flows. The economic fallout is growing as fuel prices rise, with Republicans facing increasing pressure to find solutions to higher costs ahead of the midterm congressional elections.

Aides are trying to sell Trump's strategies

The Trump administration has struggled with its messaging because the war wasn't well planned, said Elizabeth Dent, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

“Because it happened very quickly, it wasn’t sold to the American public in a way that I think was palatable,” said Dent, a former official in the State Department and Pentagon. “Now I think Trump is sort of doing everything he can to prevent a return of hostilities because he saw how unpopular the war was.”

Throughout the conflict, the president has shifted his priorities and his perspectives on victory. He's offered a murky definition of a ceasefire. And he's provided his own interpretation of a law that requires congressional approval for military operations after 60 days.

The confusion is fueled in part by Trump’s tendency to make off-the-cuff statements that essentially make policy, Dent said. Aides like Rubio and Hegseth must then explain Trump's statements.

The whirlwind 24 hours of decision-making by the Trump administration also reflects a realization that any alternative to an agreement “is going to range from unpalatable to outright ugly” at a moment of great political importance for the Republican president, said Ali Vaez, Iran director at the International Crisis Group.

“This is not an administration that operates based on a policy process. It operates based on impulse. And the president seems now both tired of this war and reluctant to continue investing his political capital into it,” Vaez said.

The administration's narrative whipsaws on the Strait of Hormuz effort

The last couple of days have been emblematic of how the Trump administration's statements can seem out of sync and hard to follow.

The president said Sunday that U.S. forces would safely guide hundreds of stranded commercial vessels out of the strait, which Iran has effectively closed by firing at ships off its coast.

On Tuesday, Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, said two American-flagged freighters transited the waterway to lead the effort, but Iran fired at U.S. ships and the military sank six Iranian small attack boats.

When asked about the fire from both sides, Hegseth said, “No, the ceasefire is not over.” Caine also said Iranian attacks did not reach the level of “restarting major combat operations.”

Rubio later insisted Trump's preference was diplomacy.

“Operation Epic Fury is concluded. We achieved the objectives of that operation,” he said, referring to the code name for the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. “What the president would prefer is a deal.”

A deal seemed closer at hand when Trump said Tuesday night on social media that he was halting the operation in the strait to see what would happen with negotiations. But on Wednesday morning, Trump threatened Iran once again.

“If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before,” he wrote on Truth Social.

The U.S. military said Wednesday that it shot at and disabled an Iranian oil tanker as it tried to breach the blockade of Iran’s shipping.

Seeking help from other countries in the strait

Another confusing element is the administration's efforts to persuade allies to deploy warships to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump has been lashing out at countries unwilling to do more, telling them to “go get your own oil” and saying it was not America’s job to secure the strait. But administration officials have begun actively soliciting help while toning down their language.

Rubio said the issue is not a lack of interest, but that many are unable to provide the necessary resources.

“A lot of countries would love to do something about it. But they don’t have a navy, right? Or they can’t get there in time,” he said.

After Trump's abrupt suspension of the initiative, two U.S. officials said the administration was still deciding whether, and how, to proceed with planning, following the State Department’s formal request for support from countries last week.

The officials, who spoke on Wednesday on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said Trump’s announcement had not been expected and that they had not been offered detailed guidance on whether to withdraw the requests for support.

U.S. allies like Britain and France have rejected on-again, off-again suggestions from Trump that they become militarily involved, but they have led the formation of a separate international maritime coalition to secure the strait — but only once the threat to shipping ends.

The issue only has been more complicated by Trump’s trip to Beijing next week.

“Going to China while the strait remains closed is humiliating for President Trump and puts China in a position of strength vis-a-vis the United States, because President Trump would have to, as he has done recently, ask for China’s help to resolve a problem that didn’t exist before he launched a war,” Vaez said.

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Amiri reported from New York.

Just don't let that be confused with complacency.

The world's No. 2-ranked player said he feels “more motivated" than ever heading into a major stretch that includes the PGA Championship next week outside of Philadelphia and the U.S. Open next month at Shinnecock Hills. First up though is this week's Truist Championship at Quail Hollow, where McIlroy earned his first PGA Tour victory 16 years ago and has won four times.

“I'm excited for the road ahead,” the six-time major champion said Wednesday after his Pro-Am round.

It's been more than three weeks since McIlroy slipped on the green jacket for a second time after becoming just the fourth player in 90 years to go back-to-back at the Masters.

He described this year's post-Masters break from golf as “less hectic" than last year's whirlwind tour.

The 37-year-old McIlroy spent most of his time at his home in Jupiter, Florida, although he did visit New York with his wife Erica Stoll and attended a White House state dinner held for King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

But it's what he didn't do that has left him feeling refreshed.

He didn't travel back home to Northern Ireland to celebrate his Masters win like he did in 2025, largely because his parents were already in the United States to see it in person. They skipped last year's Masters so as not to jinx their son's chances of completing the career grand slam after years of disappointment.

He also didn't do the media rounds, electing for more “chill” time at home, allowing him to take his daughter Poppy to tennis lessons.

“I gave myself a good 10 days to enjoy myself and then thought I needed to get back on the range and start to practice and get ready for this stretch coming up,” McIlroy said.

The stretch begins Thursday with the tuneup at Quail Hollow, a place where McIlroy is adored by fans and often serenaded with the “Happy Birthday” song given the tournament often falls during his birthday.

He was 20 when he won his first PGA tournament here, earning him immediate popularity in Charlotte.

In some ways, he's become the city's adopted golfer.

He has won here four times on a course that sets up perfectly to complement his length off the tee, including a dominant seven-shot victory in 2015 in which he established a new tournament record at 21-under 267 after a third-round 61.

“I really feel like this tournament got my career going,” McIlroy said. “This is 16 years I’ve been coming here, so it’s been a fun place, I’ve had success. It’s somewhere I always love coming back to.”

He enters this week as the slight favorite to win (+600) over the red-hot Cameron Young (+850), who won last week at Doral.

McIlroy feels good about his chances despite the three-week layoff that included skipping the RBC Heritage and the Cadillac Championship.

He won the Truist Championship by five shots over Xander Schauffele the last time it was played at Quail Hollow in 2024, but surprisingly struggled here at the 2025 PGA Championship, finishing tied for 47th.

“Slightly different setup than the PGA last year, and slightly different conditions,” McIlroy said. “It’s been very dry here by all accounts, so the greens are very firm. The rough is down a little bit. Sort of more, probably more in keeping with what the golf course was like in 2024, when the tournament was last here. The course is great.”

McIlroy said returning to action after winning the Masters a second time feels much different than a year ago.

“I felt like winning the Grand Slam was going to be this life-changing thing and in some ways it was, but in other ways I had to remember like, ‘No, I still have a lot of my career left and I want to keep playing and keep competing,’” he said. “So this year I think winning was validation for all the work that I’ve put in over the last few years to get myself back to this place where I’m winning majors.”

Schauffele said it will be a tall task beating McIlroy this week and moving forward if he plays the way he did at Augusta National.

“His best club (driver) was his worst club, and he still won the tournament," Schauffele said. "That’s a little scary, obviously, if you’re competing against him.”

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La asistencia de emergencia que se ofrece a través de los servicios de gestión de casos en el centro incluye ayuda con el alquiler, la hipoteca y los servicios públicos.

Enlace relacionado : Solicitud en línea

Los centros están abiertos de 8:30 a 17:00.

• El Centro Noroeste está ubicado en 10077 NW 29 St., en Coral Springs. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5000.
• El Centro Norte está ubicado en 2011 NW 3rd Ave., en Pompano Beach. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5340.
• El Centro Sur está ubicado en 4733 SW 18th St., Hollywood. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5650.
• El Centro Central está ubicado en 900 NW 31st Ave., en Fort Lauderdale. Para más información, llame al 954-357-5001.

Con pérdidas superiores a los 2.500 millones de dólares desde 2020, las solicitudes de quiebra se presentaron en 2024 y 2025, y el cierre se produjo el sábado después de que fracasara un rescate gubernamental de última hora de 500 millones de dólares.

“Tenemos 18.000 personas que viven en este país que son personas estupendas y excelentes empleados”, dijo el presidente Donald Trump sobre los empleados de Spirit Airlines en todo el país el 23 de abril en la Casa Blanca.

Spirit Airlines presentó el lunes los avisos de despido ante FloridaCommerce , la principal agencia estatal encargada de la fuerza laboral, e informó del despido de más de 4.850 empleados en Florida.

Esto incluyó más de 3260 despidos en los condados de Broward y Miami-Dade. Hubo 2529 en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, 551 en el Centro de Apoyo de Spirit en Dania Beach y 181 en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.

Documento relacionado: Aviso de despido (del 2 al 13 de mayo)

Enlace útil : Spirit Airlines lanza una página de reestructuración.

Historias relacionadas

• Spirit Airlines informa de más de 4,850 despidos en Florida.
• Mientras aún visten los uniformes de Spirit Airlines, los solicitantes de empleo comienzan a pedir ayuda.
• Ex empleados desempleados de Spirit Airlines marchan en Dania Beach.
• Spirit Airlines pide a los pasajeros que no acudan al aeropuerto, o de lo contrario, no se realizarán cambios de reserva.

Próximas ferias de empleo

La feria de empleo del sector de la hostelería se celebrará el miércoles de 10:00 a 12:00 en CareerSource Broward, ubicada en 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos.

Miramar organiza una feria de empleo el 20 de mayo, de 10:00 a 14:00, en el Centro Cultural de Miramar, ubicado en 2400 Civic Center Place. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos. Para más información, visite la página de Eventbrite .

La Feria y Exposición de Empleo de Port Everglades se llevará a cabo el 27 de mayo de 9:00 a 13:00 en el Centro de Convenciones del Condado de Broward, ubicado en 1950 Eisenhower Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos. Aquí encontrará una lista de las empresas participantes >

Recursos

• Departamento de Trabajo: Los servicios de respuesta rápida incluyen orientación sobre la cobertura de continuación de COBRA.
• American Airlines lanza la página de empleo “Supporting Spirit”.
• United Airlines lanza un programa para dar prioridad a los exempleados de Spirit Airlines en sus contrataciones. Aquí está la página de empleo >
• Southwest Airlines estaba reclutando en esta página .
• Página de empleos de JetBlue
• JetBlue anunció una extensión del “acuerdo de asientos auxiliares durante las próximas dos semanas, sujeto a la disponibilidad de espacio y limitado a los asientos de cabina” para aquellos que quedaron varados mientras trabajaban para Spirit Airlines, y también anunció “entrevistas de empleo preferenciales”.
• Delta publica un comunicado de ayuda
• Para obtener más información sobre la ayuda que ofrece la Asociación de Auxiliares de Vuelo , llame al 1-800-385-3920.
• CareerSource Broward ofrece servicios como colocación laboral y orientación profesional en tres centros ubicados en 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard y 7550 Davie Road Extension en Hollywood.
• Employ Miami-Dade ofrece servicios para quienes buscan empleo .
• CareerOneStop tiene una base de datos de centros de empleo.
• Para presentar una solicitud de beneficios por desempleo en Florida, llame al 1-800-204-2418 o visite esta página .
• Encuentra tu banco de alimentos local en esta página de Feeding America.

Her remains were never found and she was declared legally dead in 2002. Paul Flores was convicted in October 2022 and ultimately sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the search in the central coast town of Arroyo Grande is related to the ongoing investigation into Smart’s disappearance. Flores’ mother, Susan Flores, lives at the home, according to public records and reporting by a podcast that has closely followed the case.

“The Sheriff’s Office remains committed to bringing Kristin home to her family,” the sheriff's statement said. “No further information is available.”

The “Your Own Backyard” podcast, which helped investigators crack the case by bringing forward additional witnesses, first reported the search and said the home belongs to Flores' mother. Attempts to reach Susan Flores for comment were not immediately successful. The search was ongoing Wednesday afternoon.

Kristin Smart went missing from California Polytechnic State University in May 1996. Prosecutors alleged she was killed during an attempted rape and that the last person she was seen with was Flores, a fellow student.

Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, were arrested in 2021.

Prosecutors alleged Smart’s remains were buried on Ruben Flores’ property and later moved. He was acquitted of accessory charges. That property is different from the one searched on Wednesday.

Paul Flores was sentenced in March 2023 to prison, where he has been physically attacked at least twice.

In 2024, a judge ruled that Paul Flores must pay just over $350,000 to Smart's family for costs they incurred after her death.

The family has said it would forgo restitution if Flores would tell them where Kristin’s body was. Flores’ attorney, Harold Mesick, said in 2024 that the defense did not know where her remains are. Flores maintains his innocence.

The county district attorney’s office said it was helping the sheriff's office with the investigation.

“While those responsible for Kristin’s death — and those with knowledge of her whereabouts — could provide answers at any time, we remain firmly committed to using every lawful tool available to locate Kristin’s remains and to support her family until she is brought home,” District Attorney Dan Dow said in a statement.

La emergencia sanitaria a bordo del barco, anclado al otro lado del océano, se produce mientras Argentina registra un aumento de casos de la enfermedad que muchos investigadores locales de salud pública atribuyen a los efectos, recientemente acelerados, del cambio climático. Argentina, desde donde partió el crucero hacia la Antártida, ha sido clasificada constantemente por la Organización Mundial de la Salud como el país con la mayor incidencia en América Latina de esta rara enfermedad transmitida por roedores.

El aumento en las temperaturas amplía el alcance del virus, en parte, porque a medida que sube el calor y cambian los ecosistemas, los roedores que portan el hantavirus pueden reproducirse en más lugares, señalan expertos. Las personas suelen contraer el virus por exposición a excrementos, orina o saliva de roedores.

“El cambio climático entró a Argentina y al haberse tropicalizado Argentina trajo muchos problemas, como dengue, zika, chikunguña y fiebre amarilla. Ese cambio a lo mejor ha favorecido una mayor floración y una mayor cantidad de semillas que son el alimento de estos ratones”, señaló Hugo Pizzi, un destacado especialista argentino en enfermedades infecciosas. “Pero no hay ninguna duda de que, a medida que transcurre el tiempo, es como que se va diseminando cada vez más”.

El Ministerio de Salud argentino informó que se registraron 101 infecciones por hantavirus desde junio de 2025, aproximadamente el doble de los casos contabilizados en el mismo período del año anterior.

Un hantavirus presente en Sudamérica, llamado virus de los Andes, puede causar una enfermedad pulmonar grave y a menudo mortal denominada síndrome pulmonar por hantavirus. La enfermedad provocó la muerte en casi un tercio de los casos el último año, según el Ministerio de Salud argentino, por encima de una tasa de mortalidad promedio de 15 en los cinco años previos.

Las autoridades dijeron que pasajeros del barco MV Hondius dieron positivo al virus de los Andes.

Aún se investiga la causa de la infección

Las autoridades argentinas intentan precisar por qué partes del país viajaron los pasajeros infectados antes de embarcar en el crucero de bandera neerlandesa en Ushuaia, una ciudad del sur de Argentina conocida como el fin del mundo. Una vez que conozcan los itinerarios, aseguran que rastrearán contactos, aislarán a los contactos estrechos y realizarán un monitoreo activo para evitar una mayor propagación.

La OMS, que es la agencia de salud de la ONU, indicó que la primera muerte a bordo, un hombre neerlandés de 70 años, ocurrió el 11 de abril. Su esposa, también neerlandesa y de 69 años, murió el 26 del mismo mes. La tercera pasajera, una mujer alemana, falleció el 2 de mayo.

El virus puede incubarse en un plazo de entre una y ocho semanas. Eso dificulta saber si los pasajeros contrajeron el virus antes de salir de Argentina hacia la Antártida el 1 de abril, durante una parada programada en una remota isla del Atlántico Sur o a bordo del barco.

En la provincia de Tierra del Fuego, donde la embarcación estuvo atracada durante semanas antes de partir, nunca se ha registrado un caso de hantavirus. Antes de embarcar, la pareja neerlandesa hizo turismo en Ushuaia y viajó a otros lugares de Argentina y Chile, señaló la OMS.

La principal hipótesis del gobierno argentino es que la pareja contrajo el virus durante una salida de observación de aves en Ushuaia, según dos investigadores que hablaron bajo condición de anonimato porque no estaban autorizados a informar a la prensa mientras revisaban evidencia aún fragmentaria. Las autoridades también siguen los pasos de los turistas neerlandeses por las laderas boscosas de la Patagonia, en el sur de Argentina, donde se concentran algunas infecciones.

Debido a que los síntomas iniciales se parecen a la fiebre y los escalofríos de una gripe, “un turista, tal vez, dijo no, estoy resfriado, no le dio importancia. O sea, tiene todos los condimentos para ser un virus muy peligroso”, señaló Raúl González Ittig, profesor de genética en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba e investigador del organismo científico estatal CONICET.

El gobierno de la provincia de Río Negro informó que Bariloche, la ciudad turística de montaña que es el punto de entrada más común al norte de la Patagonia, registró el martes su primer caso humano de hantavirus de 2026. El paciente fue hospitalizado el miércoles.

El cambio climático envía a los roedores a nuevas fronteras

Argentina sufrió en los últimos años una sequía histórica. Pero también tuvo episodios de lluvias inesperadamente intensas como parte de un patrón más amplio de clima extremo que los científicos atribuyen al cambio climático.

Parte de esta variabilidad ha creado condiciones que permiten que el hantavirus prospere, según expertos. Los períodos secos obligan a los animales a salir de sus hábitats habituales en busca de alimento y agua. Las enormes cantidades de lluvia provocan crecimiento de vegetación, dispersando semillas que atraen a roedores que se alimentan de hojas.

“Entonces, cuando hay aumento de la precipitación, aumenta la disponibilidad de alimento. Y eso lleva a que aumentan las poblaciones de roedores. Y ahí si hay algún caso, hay algún roedor infectado, aumenta la posibilidad de que transmita el virus a otros roedores” y, eventualmente, a los humanos, explicó Ittig.

Aunque los casos de hantavirus antes se limitaban a los extremos australes de la Patagonia, ahora el 83% de los casos se encuentra en el extremo norte de Argentina, según el Ministerio de Salud. En enero, el ministerio emitió una alerta por varios brotes mortales de hantavirus, incluso en Buenos Aires, la provincia más poblada.

“Con el cambio climático, el panorama epidemiológico ha cambiado completamente”, sostuvo Pizzi. “Yo creo que lo del barco puede ser un caso excepcional. Pero el virus no va a desaparecer”.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

More than two years after a tumultuous first proceeding ended in mistrial, Jason Meade is once again awaiting a jury's verdict. The former Franklin County sheriff's deputy and Baptist pastor, who is white, is charged with murder and reckless homicide for shooting Goodson, who was Black, five times in the back as he tried to enter his grandmother’s house in December 2020.

Goodson's death, one of several involving Black people killed by white Ohio law enforcement officers over the previous decade, came at the end of a year in which mass protests swept the nation over the murder of George Floyd.

Goodson’s family in 2024 reached a $7 million civil settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county.

Meade’s defense team opted not to have him testify this time around. During his first trial in 2024, Meade testified that he pursued Goodson after he waved a gun as the two drove past one another, fearing his life and the lives of others were in danger. Meade said he eventually shot Goodson because he turned toward him with a gun.

“Jason had to decide, ladies and gentlemen, whether the gun he had already seen twice was going to be the gun that killed him,” defense attorney Mark Collins told jurors during closing arguments Wednesday. “He had no pause button. He had no crystal ball. And he had no duty to wait for the first shot. The law does not require perfection from our law enforcement officers. It requires reasonableness.”

He said the jury must acquit.

Special prosecutor Howard Tim Merkle, a lawyer for the state, asked jurors, "Who’s got a motive here to deceive?” He argued that the defense had failed to make its case that Meade was defending his life when he shot Goodson.

“So what evidence is there against the idea, the suggestion that Casey turned and pointed the gun?” Merkle asked. “We can start with he's got six shots in his back. They're not in his front." One of the six shots was in Goodson's side.

There is no bodycam video of the shooting, and prosecutors have repeatedly asserted that Meade is the only person who testified Goodson was holding a gun. His family and legal team have said he was holding a Subway sandwich bag in one hand and his keys in the other when he was fatally shot. They do not dispute that Goodson may have been carrying a gun but note that he had a license to carry a firearm.

Goodson’s weapon was found under his body on his grandmother’s kitchen floor with the safety mechanism engaged.

Stacey Price, the nonprofit’s executive director, reported that a portion of the clinic’s ceiling collapsed on Saturday afternoon due to termite damage.

“This moment highlights the realities of an aging facility and the importance of investing in modern, resilient infrastructure to support the lifesaving work that happens here every day,” Price wrote in a statement. “Plans for relocation for a new facility are in place, though still a few years from becoming a reality.”

The center, which holds more than 500 animals, closed portions of the clinic for assessment and repairs. For more information about how to help, visit this page.

Here is a list of other places to take injured animals:

• Pelican Harbor
• Sawgrass Nature Center
• Crow Clinic

Related link: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on injured and orphaned wildlife

Local 10 News Reporter Christina Vazquez contributed to this report.

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Prosecutors said those charged in two indictments, including “corporate attorneys and other financial professionals,” stole “and used confidential information on nearly 30 merger and acquisition deals from several of the nation’s premier law firms, including a firm headquartered in Massachusetts.”

Authorities said they arrested 19 of the defendants on Wednesday. Two are on the run in Russia and Israel, they said.

Federal prosecutors said attorneys Nicolo Nourafchan, 43, of Los Angeles, and Robert Yadgarov, 45, of Long Beach, New York, “recruited other attorneys and insiders to serve as sources of inside information” on major acquisitions and “paid their sources kickbacks consisting of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.”

Authorities said the two also provided information “to a network of traders and middlemen whom they also enlisted to join the scheme.”

According to a news release, one of the middlemen was from South Florida: Gavryel Silverstein, 43, of Hollywood.

Besides Silverstein, the following defendants from Broward and Miami-Dade counties are facing charges:

• Brian Fensterszaub, 45, of Hollywood
• Mark Fensterszaub, 47, of Hollywood
• Simon Fensterszaub, 50, of Fort Lauderdale
• Baruch Igal Hatanian, 39, of Fort Lauderdale
• Yisroel Horowitz, 50, of Hollywood
• Joseph Suskind, 39, of Sunny Isles Beach

Besides Nourafchan and Yadgarov, the other non-South Florida residents publicly identified as charged in the scheme are:

• Pedram Fejal, 39, of Brooklyn, New York
• Ilya Gavrilov, 56, of Russia
• God Izraelov, 46, of Israel
• David Makary, 35, of Covina, California
• Nowel Milik, 52, of Brea, California
• David Moradi, 35, of Brooklyn, New York
• Lorenzo Nourafchan, 38, of Los Angeles
• David Ostrov, 49, of Clifton, New Jersey
• Nicholas Rudela, 30, of Covina, California
• Yechiel Salzberg, 51, of Far Rockaway, New York
• Abe Shilian, 35, of Brooklyn, New York
• Stjepan Vinski, 30, of Glendora, California

“Charges against nine other defendants for securities fraud conspiracy were also unsealed” on Wednesday, prosecutors said.

Investigators said the conspirators “transferred proceeds and kickback payments in cash and through intermediaries and shell companies, in locations like Panama and Switzerland” and disguised them as “loans” or business transactions.

The suspects each face multiple federal charges, including securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and money laundering conspiracy, that could land them in federal prison for decades.

Read the indictments:

Los fiscales dijeron que los acusados en dos acusaciones formales, incluidos “abogados corporativos y otros profesionales financieros”, robaron y utilizaron “información confidencial sobre casi 30 acuerdos de fusiones y adquisiciones de varios de los principales bufetes de abogados del país, incluido uno con sede en Massachusetts”.

Las autoridades informaron que arrestaron a 19 de los acusados el miércoles. Dos están prófugos en Rusia e Israel, indicaron.

Los fiscales federales dijeron que los abogados Nicolo Nourafchan, de 43 años, de Los Ángeles, y Robert Yadgarov, de 45 años, de Long Beach, Nueva York, “reclutaron a otros abogados y personas internas para servir como fuentes de información privilegiada” sobre grandes adquisiciones y “pagaron a sus fuentes sobornos de hasta cientos de miles de dólares en efectivo”.

Las autoridades dijeron que ambos también proporcionaron información “a una red de operadores e intermediarios a quienes también reclutaron para unirse al esquema”.

Según un comunicado, uno de los intermediarios era del sur de Florida: Gavryel Silverstein, de 43 años, de Hollywood.

Además de Silverstein, los siguientes acusados de los condados Broward y Miami-Dade enfrentan cargos:

• Brian Fensterszaub, de 45 años, de Hollywood
• Mark Fensterszaub, de 47 años, de Hollywood
• Simon Fensterszaub, de 50 años, de Fort Lauderdale
• Baruch Igal Hatanian, de 39 años, de Fort Lauderdale
• Yisroel Horowitz, de 50 años, de Hollywood
• Joseph Suskind, de 39 años, de Sunny Isles Beach

Además de Nourafchan y Yadgarov, los otros acusados no residentes del sur de Florida identificados públicamente en el esquema son:

• Pedram Fejal, de 39 años, de Brooklyn, Nueva York
• Ilya Gavrilov, de 56 años, de Rusia
• God Izraelov, de 46 años, de Israel
• David Makary, de 35 años, de Covina, California
• Nowel Milik, de 52 años, de Brea, California
• David Moradi, de 35 años, de Brooklyn, Nueva York
• Lorenzo Nourafchan, de 38 años, de Los Ángeles
• David Ostrov, de 49 años, de Clifton, Nueva Jersey
• Nicholas Rudela, de 30 años, de Covina, California
• Yechiel Salzberg, de 51 años, de Far Rockaway, Nueva York
• Abe Shilian, de 35 años, de Brooklyn, Nueva York
• Stjepan Vinski, de 30 años, de Glendora, California

“Los cargos contra otros nueve acusados por conspiración para fraude de valores también fueron revelados” el miércoles, dijeron los fiscales.

Los investigadores dijeron que los conspiradores “transfirieron ganancias y pagos de sobornos en efectivo y a través de intermediarios y compañías ficticias, en lugares como Panamá y Suiza” y los disfrazaron como “préstamos” o transacciones comerciales.

Los sospechosos enfrentan múltiples cargos federales, incluidos fraude de valores, conspiración para cometer fraude de valores y conspiración para lavado de dinero, que podrían llevarlos a prisión federal durante décadas.

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The debate, broadcast on CNN, was one of their last chances to pitch themselves to voters and stand out from the pack in their primary election bids to succeed Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who terms out in January. Mail voting is already underway, and voters have until June 2 to cast their ballots. The top-two vote getters will advance to the general election in November, regardless of party.

Though California hasn’t had a Republican governor in more than a decade, the specter hangs over the race as the field is still crowded with less than a month to go.

Candidates who took part in the debate include Democrats Xavier Becerra, a former health secretary for the Biden administration; Katie Porter, a former congresswoman; Tom Steyer, a billionaire climate activist; Matt Mahan, the mayor of San Jose; and Antonio Villaraigosa, the former mayor of Los Angeles; as well as Republicans Steve Hilton, a conservative commentator; and Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff.

Here's how they responded on some of the key issues:

Universal healthcare

The candidates sparred over whether they'd eliminate private health insurance in favor of a state-run system, an idea that has failed repeatedly in Sacramento.

Porter, who backs a government-run healthcare system, pressed Becerra on his stance since he's wavered on the issue recently.

“Do you support CalCare — California having its own state-run, single-payer system, yes or no?” Porter asked.

Becerra gave a vague answer.

“The most important thing about having a Medicare for All plan is that it includes everyone,” he said. “What we have to do is get to the point where we are covering everyone with something like Medicare for All.”

Mahan, who opposes a state-run system, later chimed in and said Becerra “was unable to clearly answer the most important question on healthcare.”

Becerra contested: “I did answer that question.”

Steyer joined Porter in saying he'd support it, while Bianco, Hilton, and Villaraigosa said it wasn't practical or would cost too much.

When the debate turned to healthcare access for immigrants, the candidates were divided.

Steyer, Porter and Becerra said they supported state-funded healthcare coverage for low-income immigrants without legal status, which Newsom passed then pared back. Bianco called the policy “ridiculous.”

Immigration

Other arguments about immigration fell largely along party lines.

The Democrats sharply rebuked the Trump administration's immigration raids.

Steyer said the state should prosecute federal agents and immigration enforcement leaders who racially profile or use violence against Californians. Mahan said business owners in San Jose have lost customers because many immigrants are afraid to leave their house.

But Bianco said he supported Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, saying agents were enforcing the law and working to deport people he referred to as “criminals” in the country illegally.

Hilton, who's from England, pointed out that he was the only immigrant on stage. The candidates shouldn't conflate legal and illegal immigration, he said.

“Although it is the federal government's responsibility to determine and implement immigration policy, I think it's important that all the laws are peacefully enforced,” Hilton said. “As governor, I would make sure that we work with the federal government to enforce our laws.”

President Donald Trump

The Democrats each emphasized they would fight Trump on immigration policy in particular.

Neither Hilton, whom Trump has endorsed, nor Bianco, invoked him much except to say that Democrats unfairly blame him for the state’s woes.

Becerra mentioned Trump the most, noting he sued the administration many times while serving as state attorney general from 2017 to 2021, when he was appointed health secretary under then-President Joe Biden.

“I’m going to repeat Donald Trump as often as I have because he’s the menace,” Becerra declared.

When Villaraigosa pressed Hilton to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Hilton refused to answer.

“Endlessly going on about Donald Trump doesn’t serve the needs of the struggling families and small businesses,” Hilton said.

Mahan sought to find middle ground. He said Becerra was wrong to blame high gas prices solely on Trump, but also noted that San Jose has sued the Trump administration over immigration policy. He said it was disqualifying for the Republican candidates to support Trump’s “cruel and ineffective policies.”

Porter, meanwhile, put it simply: “Donald Trump sucks.”

Gas tax and proposed billionaires tax

Steyer was the only candidate on stage to say he’d vote for a proposed billionaires tax expected to appear before voters in November. The one-time tax proposal aims to backfill funding cuts signed into law by Trump that reduced healthcare access for low-income people.

Porter also supports some increased taxes on California’s ultrawealthy but called the proposed tax a temporary fix to a long-term problem.

Meanwhile Mahan said he would suspend the gas tax because it unfairly burdens working families.

Hilton would make people's first $100,000 free of income tax.

Mahan and Steyer said they'd tax artificial intelligence companies and use the money to support workers, for example through workforce development training.

“The answer is to tax these companies, not to regulate them to the point that they simply go to other places,” Mahan said.

The FBI confiscated the Tennessee Republican's cellphone in August 2024 to examine issues with his campaign finance reporting, but it had agreed not to review material from it and his personal email account as he challenged the matter in court.

A judge had not yet ruled on Ogles' challenge when defense lawyers revealed in a court filing on Tuesday that the Justice Department had voluntarily agreed to “promptly” return his phone and destroy the information it had obtained from it and his Google email account.

The investigation, started under President Joe Biden, a Democrat, had remained open under President Donald Trump, a Republican, but had stalled while the government awaited the judge’s ruling on whether investigators could examine Ogles’ phone and emails. The Justice Department's criminal division last year, led at the time by acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti, had concluded the investigation should move forward even after local prosecutors in Tennessee withdrew from the case, a criminal division prosecutor wrote in an email last July urging the Tennessee attorneys to reconsider.

The move comes as the Justice Department is facing intense scrutiny over its pursuit of Trump’s perceived political enemies, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat.

The Department of Justice didn't immediately respond to questions on Wednesday about its decision and whether it was formally closing the Ogles investigation. Ogles' lawyers told the court they were notified of the decision during discussions with the department's criminal division, now led by Assistant Attorney General Tysen Duva.

Ogles called it a “complete win for the responsible exercise of prosecutorial discretion and respect for the Constitution’s Separation of Powers.” Ogles is still facing a House Ethics Committee investigation.

“From the day the FBI showed up, I said this investigation should never have happened and that the Biden DOJ had no right to rummage through a sitting congressman’s legislative communications," Ogles said in a statement. "Today the Justice Department has effectively acknowledged I was right."

At the time his phone was seized, Ogles said his understanding was that the FBI was investigating “mistakes" in his initial financial filings that had been “widely reported for months.”

Ogles reported making a $320,000 loan to his campaign committee in 2022. He later amended his filings to show that he only loaned his campaign $20,000, telling news outlets that he originally meant to “pledge” $320,000 but that pledge was mistakenly included in his campaign reports.

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On Wednesday, the Coral Gables-based nonprofit organization announced Attorney Rachael Curran filed a petition to initiate an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

In a statement, Curran, who represents Miami Waterkeeper in the appeal, said the nonprofit was asking the court to ensure that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting public health and safety related to nuclear energy, “meaningfully evaluates and mitigates, as required by law, the real risks” of extending operations at the Turkey Point facility from 2032 through 2053.

Rachel Silverstein, the chief executive officer of Miami Waterkeeper, highlights that the Turkey Point nuclear plant and its cooling canals, on the edge of Biscayne Bay, sit atop the Biscayne Aquifer, the primary source of drinking water for millions in South Florida.

“The NRC’s decision to allow this risky nuclear license extension to remain does not resolve the serious environmental risks posed by operating this facility for decades longer, like ongoing groundwater contamination into our drinking water supply, and operating into an era of climate risks like sea level rise, high temperatures, and stronger storms,” Silverstein said.

The Florida Power & Light Company reports that Turkey Point generates “enough power to supply the annual needs of more than 900,000 homes.“ It has been in operation since 1972.

For more information about Miami Waterkeepers’ efforts, visit this page.

Related document: The 96-page petition filed

Related link: County guide to ‘prepare for a nuclear power plant emergency’

More from Don’t Trash Our Treasure

• Turkey Point: Is it safe in this age of climate change?
• New underwater monitoring system aims to detect water quality threats early

Local 10 News Reporter Christina Vazquez contributed to this report.

For the moment, that's just a formality based on results. The 41-year-old Vonn is still at least a year and a half — along with an ACL surgery — away from even thinking about returning to the World Cup circuit.

She may also retire. She's still sorting all of that out.

Vonn has already undergone eight surgeries since her crash in the women's downhill race on Feb. 8 at the Milan Cortina Games. She suffered a complex tibia fracture that nearly led to amputating her left leg. Vonn was competing in the race on a torn left ACL, which she injured in a crash leading into the Winter Olympics.

The nomination process is the first phase of making the U.S. Ski & Snowboard team. Those ski racers who accept the nomination, and meet the requirements, will be officially announced to the team in October. The opening World Cup races take place with a giant slalom in Söelden, Austria, in late October.

Other athletes who were nominated include Mikaela Shiffrin, the reigning World Cup overall champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist, along with Olympic downhill champion Breezy Johnson. On the men's side, Ryan Cochran-Siegle, who captured his second Olympic super-G silver medal in Italy, was selected.

Paula Moltzan and Jacqueline Wiles also earned a nomination to the A-team after combining to take an Olympic bronze in the women's team combined. Johnson and Shiffrin finished fourth in that event. Lauren Macuga is on the nomination list, too. She missed the Milan Cortina Games after tearing her ACL.

Vonn, a three-time Olympic medalist, came out of retirement in November 2024 after nearly six years away. She was feeling healthy and strong again following a partial titanium implant in her right knee.

She found her speed, too, winning two World Cup races during the 2025-26 season and recording three other podium finishes in five races. She was leading the World Cup downhill standings before her crash at the Olympics. She wound up fifth.

Vonn, who's won 84 World Cup races, has maintained she's not ready to decide her future. Instead, she's focused on healing. Vonn recently attended the Met Gala, using only a cane.

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Back in 1998, McGwire hit 70 homers to edge out Sosa's 66 as both players blew past Roger Maris’ single-season major league record of 61. The duel between the St. Louis Cardinals slugger and his Chicago Cubs counterpart helped rejuvenate baseball.

College softball has a similar home run race going on this year, providing an opportunity to boost an already rising sport.

Laura Espinoza's single-season record of 37, set for Arizona way back in 1995, could fall in the coming days. Oklahoma's Kendall Wells leads the pack with 36. A pair of UCLA seniors also are in the mix — Megan Grant has 35 homers and Jordan Woolery has 33 as the teams head into their conference tournaments.

Grant said pitching speeds increased in recent years and the hitters have caught up. UCLA and Oklahoma both have 173 home runs, having already shattered Oklahoma’s single-season record of 161 set in 2021.

Woolery said the game evolves in cycles.

“I think it’s just kind of one of those years or like, probably the next few years where we’ll see a lot of offensive power,” she said. “Then maybe in four years, when this freshman class is seniors, we’ll some more dominant pitching and go back to those 1-0 games. I think it’s going to ebb and flow throughout time.”

The trio of sluggers aren’t the only ones hitting the long ball. Teams this season have exceeded last year's home run total across Division I softball with an entire month of action remaining. As of Monday, the national average of 0.80 home runs per game would top the record of 0.77 home runs per game set in 2015.

Wells, Grant and Woolery can add to their numbers this week. Oklahoma will play LSU or Georgia in its Southeastern Conference tournament opener on Thursday. UCLA will play Northwestern or Penn State on Thursday in its Big Ten Tournament opener.

Grant and Woolery may have more homers ahead, despite being seniors. Grant was selected fourth in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League draft on Monday (Portland Cascade), while Woolery was chosen sixth (Utah Talons).

Grant said she and Woolery don't compete against each other.

“Honestly, we know we help each other and we both want to win more than anything,” Grant said. “And so it’s just nice watching one of my best friends be able to achieve her dream.”

Woolery said her improvement has been gradual. She hit 23 homers last year and has 77 in her career.

“I feel like as I’ve gotten older and just better and more refined in my craft, I think I’ve realized I don’t need to work as hard to hit, maybe, borderline pitches,” she said. “So seeing the pitch more over the heart of the plate, I think makes it easier to get a little bit more power.”

Grant bats second in UCLA’s order and Woolery hits third, so Woolery takes advantage of Grant's ability to get on base. Espinoza’s record of 132 RBIs, also set in 1995, is also in jeopardy because Woolery has 106 heading into league tournament play.

What makes Wells’ production so shocking is that she was in high school last year. Oklahoma’s Jocelyn Alo set the career record of 122 home runs in 2022, and Wells is on pace to eventually catch her.

“To be able to put up those numbers is quite literally insane, but also to do it as a freshman — I mean I can’t give her enough kudos,” Grant said. “She is really changing the game as we speak, and it’s just been really awesome to hear about.”

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The 76ers had listed their center as probable to play, mentioning only the ankle, before adding the hip problem and ruling him out on the injury report about six hours before trying to even the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Embiid struggled through a short night in the Knicks' 137-98 romp in Game 1, scoring 14 points on 3-for-11 shooting in 25 minutes before the starters were benched with the game out of reach.

Embiid had been listed as probable to play in that game with a bruised right hip before being cleared, and the Knicks repeatedly took advantage of his lack of mobility to create open shots.

Embiid returned from a late-season appendectomy during Game 4 of Philadelphia's first-round series against Boston and helped the 76ers overcome a 3-1 deficit to win the series. He has averaged 25.2 points in five games thus far.

It's unclear whether the pain around Embiid's hip is replated to the appendectomy. He winced and grabbed his abdomen at one point in Game 1 after Knicks guard Mikal Bridges collided with him on a screen in the first half.

Embiid later said he felt the contact was unnecessary.

“Obviously based on what’s been going on I guess I’ve got to protect it more,” Embiid said. “I don’t know if it was dirty or not, so I guess I’ve got to do a better job of protecting, especially that part.”

Embiid's absence leaves the 76ers without him against Knicks All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns and likely means Philadelphia will need much more from Tyrese Maxey. The speedy point guard also struggled through Game 1, going 3 for 9 for 13 points after averaging 26.9 in the first round.

The 76ers, however, are used to playing without Embiid. It has been years since the former MVP has truly been healthy.

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The main reason drivers are paying more at the pump is because the war has stranded oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passage through which a fifth of the world’s crude oil normally passes. The price of crude oil, which is the main ingredient in gasoline, climbed for most of the past two months because Iran has effectively shut the waterway located off its coast.

In mid-April, U.S. gasoline prices fell daily for almost two weeks amid signs the conflict could be winding down.

“After the announcement of the initial ceasefire, there was kind of optimism that this really could be the beginning of the end of the conflict,” said Rob Smith, director of global fuel retail at S&P Global Energy. “And so crude prices came down correspondingly, gasoline spot prices followed, and so on and ... the retailers lowered prices as well.”

But gasoline prices reversed course and began increasing again as deepening hostilities over the strait between the U.S. and Iran kept oil supplies constrained.

“There’s a fundamental shortfall that will exist globally or fundamental struggle to meet that demand that will drive up price,” Smith said. “No matter what a government says or what any market person thinks, there is a true kind of upward pressure that’s being exerted on prices every day the Strait of Hormuz is constrained. And it is still severely constrained.”

Who sets gasoline prices

Gas station owners set prices at the pump, but a lot of factors go into what they decide to charge.

The main ingredient in gasoline cost is the price of a barrel of crude oil. In the U.S., oil prices represented about 51% of the price of a gallon of gasoline in 2025, according to the Energy Information Administration.

That means when crude oil prices rise, gasoline prices generally follow. Less oil on the market means higher prices for oil and gasoline.

Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the war triggered the largest supply disruption in the history of oil markets, according to the International Energy Agency, pushing oil prices as high as $112 a barrel in early April.

Oil prices fell below $100 a barrel Wednesday after the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving closer to an initial agreement to end the war. That could pull gasoline prices down as well, if the trend continues.

Bob Kleinberg, adjunct senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, compared the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. with the price for a barrel of WTI, the U.S. benchmark oil, over the past few weeks, and said their price changes generally matched up.

“Not much of a mystery here,” Kleinberg said. “It's not exactly proportional but the shape of the curves follows the same pattern, and really with very little delay.”

Federal and state taxes contributed about 17% of the oil price, refining costs and profits contributed 14% and distribution and marketing contributed 17%, the EIA said. In some states, such as California, higher taxes and refining costs push the price of gasoline well above the national average.

What caused renewed march in gasoline prices

One event that could have changed the trajectory of gasoline prices occurred in April, when the U.S. blocked Iranian ports to stop the country from exporting oil.

“Iran had been moving an unusually high amount of oil to global markets, so that was helping moderate prices," said Jim Krane, energy research fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute. "The Trump administration decides they’re going to punish Iran, and try to put more pressure on Iran by blocking their exports, so of course that does put pressure on Iran, but also puts pressure on global oil prices and forces them up. That was probably a big factor.”

What refineries and traders are willing to pay for oil swings wildly after news breaks about attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf or diplomacy talks stalling. “The oil market is exquisitely sensitive to what’s coming out of the White House,” Kleinberg said.

Back in early March, at the beginning of the Iran war, the price of gasoline jumped 48 cents in a week. The highest weekly jump was in March 2022, when the price jumped 60 cents in a week after Russia invaded Ukraine, AAA said.

No quick fix

No one can predict how high gasoline prices will climb. A gallon of regular in the U.S. costs more now than it did in early May of 2022, and back then, the price kept climbing through Memorial Day, AAA said.

The longer the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is hindered, the higher prices will go and the longer it will take to get back to normal, Smith said.

“Even if there was a true and lasting resolution of the conflict, both sides agree to play nice and truly do commit to keeping Hormuz open, it will still take months to get back to what it was pre-war, if not even longer,” Smith said. “There will still be within the industry a risk premium associated with going through that region. Not that it was ever a perfectly safe journey, but the past few months have shown that it’ll be hard to convince shippers and insurance companies that the risk level will be similar to what it was in February. It’ll be a long time before anyone can be convinced of that.”

Why U.S. oil production alone can’t solve the problem

The U.S. exports more oil than it imports, and oil is the main ingredient in gasoline. But oil is traded on a global market, so events happening in other parts of the world impact prices for everyone. Also, nearly 70% of U.S. refineries are set up to process heavy, sour crude, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), a trade association. And much of the oil produced in the U.S. is light, sweet crude, which was unlocked during the shale revolution.

As a result, just 60% of the oil processed in U.S. refineries comes from domestic oil fields, according to the AFPM. Retooling domestic refineries would cost billions of dollars, the group said, and would require shutting down those refineries temporarily, which generally raises gasoline prices.

The health emergency aboard the ship that's moored across the ocean comes as Argentina sees a surge of hantavirus cases that many local public health researchers attribute to the recently accelerating effects of climate change. Argentina, where the cruise to Antarctica departed, is consistently ranked by the World Health Organization as having the highest incidence of the rare, rodent-borne disease in Latin America.

Higher temperatures expand the virus’ range because, in part, as it gets warmer and ecosystems change, rodents that carry the hantavirus can thrive in more places, experts say. People typically contract the virus from exposure to rodent droppings, urine or saliva.

“Argentina has become more tropical because of climate change, and that has brought disruptions, like dengue and yellow fever, but also new tropical plants that produce seeds for mice to proliferate,” said Hugo Pizzi, a prominent Argentine infectious disease specialist. “There is no doubt that as time goes by, the hantavirus is spreading more and more.”

The Argentine Health Ministry on Tuesday reported 101 hantavirus infections since June 2025, roughly double the caseload recorded over the same period the previous year.

A hantavirus found in South America, called the Andes virus, can cause a severe and often fatal lung disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. The disease led to death in nearly a third of cases in the last year, Argentina’s Health Ministry said, up from an average mortality rate of 15 in the five years before that.

Authorities said passengers on the MV Hondius ship tested positive for the Andes virus. Argentina on Wednesday said it was sending genetic material from the Andes virus and testing equipment to help Spain, Senegal, South Africa, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom detect it.

The cause of infection remains under investigation

Argentine officials say they’re trying to pin down where infected passengers traveled in the country before boarding the Dutch-flagged cruise liner in Ushuaia, a city in southern Argentina known as the end of the world. Once they know the itineraries, they plan to trace contacts, isolate close contacts and actively monitor to prevent further spread.

The U.N. health agency, or WHO, says that the first death on board, a 70-year-old Dutch man, happened on April 11. His 69-year-old wife, also Dutch, died on April 26. The third passenger, a German woman, died on May 2.

The virus can incubate for between one and eight weeks. That makes it hard to know whether the passengers contracted the virus before leaving Argentina for Antarctica on April 1; during a scheduled stop to a remote South Atlantic island; or aboard the ship.

The province of Tierra del Fuego, where the vessel docked for weeks before departing, has never seen a case of hantavirus. Before boarding, the Dutch couple went sightseeing in Ushuaia, and traveled elsewhere in Argentina and Chile, WHO said.

The Argentine government’s leading hypothesis is that the couple contracted the virus during a bird-watching outing in Ushuaia, according to two investigators who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, with the investigation ongoing. Authorities are also tracing the Dutch tourists' footsteps through the forested hillsides of Patagonia in southern Argentina where some infections are clustered.

Because early symptoms resemble the fever and chills of a flu, “tourists might think they just have a cold and not take it seriously. That makes it particularly dangerous,” Raul González Ittig, genetics professor at the National University of Córdoba and a researcher at state science body CONICET, said.

Climate change sends rodents to new frontiers

Argentina in recent years endured a historic drought. But it also had bouts of unexpectedly intense rainfall, part of a broader pattern of wild weather that scientists attribute to climate change.

Some of this variability has created conditions that have allowed hantavirus to flourish, experts say. Dry spells drive animals out of their usual habitats in search of food and water. Huge amounts of rain lead to vegetation growth, scattering seeds that attract leaf-munching rodents.

“When precipitation increases, food availability increases, rodent populations grow, and if there are infected rodents, the chance of transmission between rodents — and eventually to humans — also increases,” Ittig said.

Although hantavirus cases once were limited to the southern reaches of Patagonia, now 83% of cases are found in Argentina’s far north, according to the Health Ministry.

Argentina issued alerts early this year

The ministry issued an alert in January about several fatal outbreaks, including in the most populous province of Buenos Aires.

With rural hospitals underequipped, residents had no clue what hit them.

Daisy Morinigo and David Delgado said they initially thought their 14-year-old son had the flu when he came down with a fever and body aches. Doctors who first saw Rodrigo in the town of San Andrés de Giles sent him home with ibuprofen and orders to rest.

But the feisty fourth grader's breathing worsened. On Jan. 1, they rushed Rodrigo to intensive care. He died just two hours after a hantavirus test came back positive.

"I wouldn’t wish this pain on anyone in the world,” Delgado said.

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A Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report states the incident happened at HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, located at 11750 SW 40th St., on Tuesday night.

The report states that Michael Stevenson, 50, of Key Largo, backed into the victim’s vehicle “and when he approached him, (Stevenson) became irate and slapped him in the face.”

Authorities said Stevenson then picked up the victim’s phone from the ground and “launched” it at a fence. They said he then grabbed an expandable baton from his vehicle and launched it at the victim.

“The victim expressed he feared for his life and thought the weapon was a machete and ran towards to the hospital entrance to advise the on duty officer,” the report states.

Deputies said as they took Stevenson into custody, he kept trying to move his handcuffs to the front and was behaving “disorderly.”

According to the report, while being restrained, Stevenson said to a deputy, “I will f---ing kill you.”

Deputies said Stevenson also told them that he is in the Aryan Nation neo-Nazi gang. They said he had a service dog with him, which was handed over to Miami-Dade Animal Services.

Stevenson now faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, death threats to a law enforcement officer, battery and criminal mischief.

Records show he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $7,500 bond.

Un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade indica que el incidente ocurrió en el hospital HCA Florida Kendall, ubicado en 11750 SW 40th St., el martes por la noche.

El informe señala que Michael Stevenson, de 50 años, de Key Largo, retrocedió contra el vehículo de la víctima “y cuando este se le acercó, (Stevenson) se enfureció y le dio una bofetada en la cara”.

Las autoridades dijeron que Stevenson luego recogió el teléfono de la víctima del suelo y lo “lanzó” contra una cerca. Indicaron que después tomó un bastón extensible de su vehículo y lo arrojó contra la víctima.

“La víctima expresó que temió por su vida y pensó que el arma era un machete, y corrió hacia la entrada del hospital para avisar al agente de turno”, indica el informe.

Los agentes dijeron que mientras detenían a Stevenson, este intentaba mover las esposas hacia el frente y se comportaba de manera “desordenada”.

Según el informe, mientras era inmovilizado, Stevenson le dijo a un agente: “Te voy a matar”.

Los agentes dijeron que Stevenson también les dijo que pertenece a la pandilla neonazi Aryan Nation. Indicaron que tenía un perro de servicio con él, el cual fue entregado a Miami-Dade Animal Services.

Stevenson ahora enfrenta cargos de agresión agravada con arma mortal, amenazas de muerte a un agente del orden, agresión y daño criminal.

Los registros muestran que permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $7,500 USD.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced “Project Freedom,” a way for the U.S. to “guide” ships to exit the strait. Two ships made the transit, but by Tuesday Trump abruptly paused the effort to allow time for a deal to end the war.

Meanwhile, the risks for ships and crew haven't faded. A cargo container ship operated by the CMA CGM Group was damaged when it came under attack while attempting to transit the strait, the French shipping company said Wednesday, and concerns about Iranian speedboats and drones are leading major ship owners and operators to say the strait remains too dangerous.

“Ultimately, it’s still going to come back to the primary issues of risk and safety," that shippers have to evaluate, said Sean Pribyl, a maritime attorney at Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C. ”It seems as though we’re not anywhere near to returning to a free flow of traffic and navigation through the strait," he added.

Costs pile up as goods, oil and ship workers remain stranded

Before the Iran war, 100 to 135 vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz daily, according to research firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence, but that has slowed to a trickle as Iran has demanded that vessels go through a vetting process run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to receive safe passage. The process requires ships to follow a route near Iran’s coast, submit information on crew and cargo, and in at least some cases, pay a fee. Meanwhile, paying the IRGC risks running afoul of sanctions from the U.S. and the EU, which have designated it a terrorist organization.

Goods stranded in the strait include oil and oil products such as fertilizer, not to mention thousands of ship workers. Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday there are more than 1,550 vessels with about 22,500 mariners on them inside the Persian Gulf.

To pressure Iran, the U.S. Navy is blockading Iran's ports, enforcing the blockade outside the strait in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.

Holland & Knight’s Pribyl said shippers and ship insurers are likely still assessing the scenario in the strait. Ships carry two main types of insurance: protection and indemnity, which covers property and third-party liabilities, and — during a conflict — war risk insurance that covers damage and losses due to war.

Insurance costs have shot up for vessels in the region due to the risk of attack, jumping from less than 1% of the value of goods on a ship to anywhere from 3% to 10% during the conflict, said Ed Anderson, a professor of supply chain and operations management for the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. But even with insurance, most shippers have deemed the crossing too unsafe.

“Ferrying out a couple of ships has not really affected the shipping industry in any way whatsoever,” he said.

Companies weigh costs and risks

Hapag-Lloyd AG, one of the world’s largest container shipping companies, says the Hormuz situation is costing it $60 million a week, particularly in skyrocketing prices of fuel and insurance. It has a fleet of 301 ships, including four stranded in the Persian Gulf. The company has also had to suspend some of its transport services and find alternate routes either to safe harbors or over land. “These options are however limited in capacity and cannot completely replace the regular maritime routes through the region,” the company said in a statement.

The Maersk shipping company said its U.S.-flagged Alliance Fairfax vehicle carrier exited the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz “accompanied by U.S. military assets” on Monday. “The transit was completed without incident, and all crew members are safe and unharmed,” the company said in a statement.

A long return to normal

Oil prices and shipping are unlikely to return to normal until it’s clear the risk of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have receded, cautioned Kaho Yu, head of energy and resources at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.

“Even with diplomatic engagement continuing, energy markets are unlikely to return quickly to precrisis assumptions,” he said. “Refiners, shippers, and commodity traders will remain cautious until there is clearer evidence that Hormuz disruptions will not re-escalate.”

A meeting on Wednesday between Iranian and Chinese diplomats emphasized de-escalation. But “Hormuz remains the real metric that will be watched,” Yu added. “Tanker traffic and energy flows over the coming weeks and months are likely to matter more than diplomatic language in assessing whether Beijing can translate influence with Tehran into practical stability.”

If the ceasefire holds and ships gradually begin transiting the Strait of Hormuz again, shipping won't “snap back overnight,” warned Razat Gaurav, CEO of Kinaxis, a supply chain management company.

“Even when conditions improve, carriers, insurers, and shippers need confidence that stability will hold before capacity and routes fully normalize," he said. “Air cargo can recover relatively quickly, but ocean shipping typically takes weeks or months because of longer lead times and contractual constraints.”

He said shipments of certain categories like liquid natural gas and sulfur, where the Middle East is a major source of supply, are likely to move more quickly as backlogs clear, but “most shippers will remain cautious until stability proves durable,” he said.

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McHugh reported from Frankfurt, Germany.

El miércoles, la organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Coral Gables anunció que la abogada Rachael Curran presentó una petición para iniciar una apelación en el Tribunal de Apelaciones de Estados Unidos para el Circuito de D.C.

En un comunicado, Curran, quien representa a Miami Waterkeeper en la apelación, dijo que la organización solicita al tribunal que garantice que la Comisión Reguladora Nuclear, la agencia federal encargada de proteger la salud y la seguridad pública en relación con la energía nuclear, “evalúe y mitigue de manera significativa, como exige la ley, los riesgos reales” de extender las operaciones en la instalación de Turkey Point de 2032 a 2053.

Rachel Silverstein, directora ejecutiva de Miami Waterkeeper, destacó que la planta nuclear Turkey Point y sus canales de enfriamiento, en el borde de la Bahía de Biscayne, se encuentran sobre el acuífero Biscayne, la principal fuente de agua potable para millones en el sur de Florida.

“La decisión de la NRC de permitir que esta riesgosa extensión de la licencia nuclear se mantenga no resuelve los serios riesgos ambientales que plantea operar esta instalación por décadas adicionales, como la continua contaminación de aguas subterráneas en nuestro suministro de agua potable, y operar en una era de riesgos climáticos como el aumento del nivel del mar, altas temperaturas y tormentas más fuertes”, dijo Silverstein.

La Florida Power & Light Company informa que Turkey Point genera “suficiente energía para abastecer las necesidades anuales de más de 900,000 hogares”. Ha estado en operación desde 1972.

Para más información sobre los esfuerzos de Miami Waterkeeper, visite esta página.

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El choque ocurrió en una vivienda en la cuadra 5800 de Southwest 62nd Terrace, en un área no incorporada entre South Miami y Coral Gables.

Los agentes dijeron que perseguían al sospechoso, cuyo vehículo era sospechoso, tras reportes de robos en el área.

Indicaron que el conductor resultó herido después del choque y fue trasladado al hospital.

Las autoridades dijeron que, aunque una llamada inicial sobre un robo en progreso en una vivienda resultó infundada, los detectives recuperaron artículos robados en un robo de vehículo cercano.

No se sabe si el conductor, que no ha sido identificado públicamente hasta la tarde del miércoles, enfrentará cargos.

Esos residentes del desarrollo Plantation Trace, ubicado en la cuadra 700 de la avenida 132, están molestos porque dicen que el Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos no está haciendo nada al respecto.

Recientemente, bajo la cobertura de la noche, cámaras de seguridad captaron un auto retrocediendo hacia un espacio de estacionamiento junto a una fila de buzones. Segundos después, un par de sujetos con capucha emergieron.

Está claro que los delincuentes pudieron obtener acceso al buzón rápidamente antes de huir con correspondencia perteneciente a los residentes.

“Es un poco intrusivo”, dijo el residente Alex Ruane. “La primera vez nos robaron algo material, pero luego empezamos a escuchar sobre tarjetas de crédito a nombre de personas y documentos del IRS y cosas así. Es una sensación un poco aterradora”.

Ruane es uno de muchos residentes dentro del desarrollo que han sido víctimas de este delito, un ciclo que se ha repetido cinco veces en los últimos dos años.

“¿Cuál es la solución? No hay una, así que terminamos gastando fondos de la asociación de propietarios para instalar cámaras, lectores de placas, y así fue como captamos el auto la última vez que ocurrió”, dijo Ruane.

Carli Pierson es la abogada que representa a la Asociación de Propietarios de Plantation Trace.

“Esto está siendo perpetrado por una organización criminal”, dijo Pierson. “Se mueven rápidamente y claramente tienen acceso a algún tipo de llave maestra”.

Pierson ha ayudado a orientar a los propietarios sobre cómo reportar adecuadamente los robos a la policía y al Inspector Postal de Estados Unidos, pero todos los esfuerzos para frenar el delito hasta ahora han chocado con un obstáculo.

“No podemos cambiar las cerraduras de los buzones nosotros mismos porque eso es manipulación, lo cual es un delito federal, y el servicio postal no le dice a la comunidad cuándo va a cambiar las cerraduras, así que están ahí como un blanco fácil”, dijo Pierson.

Los residentes esperan que el video de este último robo ayude a llevar a los delincuentes ante la justicia.

“No quiero enviar cosas a mi casa”, dijo Ruane. “Si voy a comprar algo, ¿lo voy a enviar a otro lugar? ¿Lo voy a enviar al negocio de mi esposo o a la casa de mis padres donde no tenga que preocuparme de que lo roben?”

Un equipo de Local 10 News estaba afuera de Cube Motors, en Northwest 79th Street, entre la Tercera y la Cuarta Avenida, mientras agentes fueron vistos principalmente dentro de la reja del negocio.

Empleados de un gimnasio contiguo dijeron que los agentes llegaron alrededor de las 6:10 a.m. y anunciaron que eran del FBI, pero la presencia de las autoridades no afectó las clases en el gimnasio.

Los agentes fueron vistos rodeando algunos vehículos afuera de Cube Motors, tomando fotos del exterior de los vehículos, así como del interior de algunos de ellos.

Local 10 también vio a agentes interrogando al menos a dos hombres.

Ambos tuvieron esposas en algún momento, pero ya les fueron retiradas.

No está claro de qué trata la investigación.

El negocio abre diariamente a las 8 a.m., pero había personas en el lugar desde las 6 a.m. para ser interrogadas como parte de la investigación.

Ninguna vía en el área está siendo afectada por la investigación en este momento.

Un portavoz del FBI solo dijo a Local 10 News que el “FBI está llevando a cabo actividades de aplicación de la ley ordenadas por un tribunal en las cercanías de esa ubicación”, pero agregó que “no hay más información disponible en este momento.”

Los fiscales informaron al juez que están trabajando para procesar a Anthony Gonzalez Tovar como adulto. El juez decidió aplazar su liberación un mes más.

Los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Broward publicaron un video de vigilancia del ataque ocurrido el 8 de abril cerca de Golf Club Road.

Los detectives creen que Gonzalez Tovar se estaba masturbando en público y se estaba exhibiendo. El video muestra al atacante quitándose los zapatos antes de la emboscada.

La mujer estaba sentada en el césped cuando el atacante se le acercó por detrás. Ella se defendió hasta que él huyó.

Los agentes arrestaron a González Tovar el 17 de abril, y los servicios penitenciarios lo ingresaron en el Centro de Evaluación Juvenil.

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Prosecutors told the judge that they are working to charge Anthony Gonzalez Tovar as an adult. The judge decided to delay his release for another month.

Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies released surveillance video of the attack on April 8 near Golf Club Road.

Detectives believe Gozalez Tovar had been masturbating in public and was exposing himself. The video shows the attacker taking off his shoes before the ambush.

The woman was sitting on the grass when the attacker approached her from behind. She fought back until he ran away.

Deputies arrested Gonzalez Tovar on April 17, and corrections booked him at the Juvenile Assessment Center.

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Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies took Luis Fernando De Ra Ortiz, 50, of Key Largo, into custody on Tuesday.

According to deputies, they responded to Gilbert’s Resort and Marina located at 107900 Overseas Highway at around 3:30 p.m. after receiving reports of an drunken man with a small child.

Deputies said Ortiz was “causing a scene after the resort declined to service him additional alcoholic drinks” due to staff learning the 5-year-old in his care “was left at the resort beach and swim area, forcing resort employees to care for the child” for an extended period of time that was reported to be several hours.

Resort staff told authorities that when they located Ortiz, he became belligerent, threatening to harm employees with a gun while yelling at them, at one point grabbing one worker, according to MCSO.

Workers also told deputies that Ortiz took the child and boarded a docked boat, causing staff to fear for the safety of the child and others if Ortiz started driving the boat.

When responding deputies spoke with Ortiz, they said he admitted to being drunk while continuing to yell at resort staff and that he “refused to calm down, refused to place his hands behind his back, and resisted being placed into a patrol car.”

Jail records show Ortiz is facing several charges, including misdemeanors for disorderly intoxication in a public place while causing a disturbance, assault, resisting an officer without violence and battery, as well as a felony charge for child neglect without great bodily harm.

His bond information has not been released at this time.

Agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Monroe detuvieron a Luis Fernando De Ra Ortiz, de 50 años, de Key Largo, el martes.

Según los agentes, respondieron a Gilbert’s Resort and Marina, ubicado en 107900 Overseas Highway, alrededor de las 3:30 p.m. tras recibir reportes de un hombre ebrio con un niño pequeño.

Los agentes dijeron que Ortiz estaba “causando una escena después de que el resort se negara a servirle más bebidas alcohólicas” debido a que el personal se enteró de que el menor de 5 años bajo su cuidado “fue dejado en la playa y el área de natación del resort, obligando a los empleados a cuidar del niño” durante un período prolongado que se reportó como varias horas.

El personal del resort dijo a las autoridades que cuando localizaron a Ortiz, este se volvió agresivo, amenazando con dañar a los empleados con un arma mientras les gritaba, en un momento llegando a agarrar a un trabajador, según la MCSO.

Los empleados también dijeron a los agentes que Ortiz tomó al menor y abordó un bote atracado, lo que generó temor por la seguridad del niño y de otras personas si Ortiz comenzaba a conducir la embarcación.

Cuando los agentes que respondieron hablaron con Ortiz, dijeron que este admitió estar ebrio mientras continuaba gritando al personal del resort y que “se negó a calmarse, se negó a colocar sus manos detrás de la espalda y se resistió a ser colocado en una patrulla”.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Ortiz enfrenta varios cargos, incluidos delitos menores por intoxicación desordenada en un lugar público causando disturbio, agresión, resistirse a un agente sin violencia y agresión física, así como un cargo grave por negligencia infantil sin causar gran daño corporal.

La información sobre su fianza no ha sido divulgada hasta el momento.

Sky 10 estaba sobre la escena a las 11:24 a.m. mientras los bomberos trabajaban para contener el incendio que se desató en la cuadra 9600 de Northwest 79th Avenue.

Funcionarios de MDFR dijeron que la llamada inicial se recibió como un reporte de incendio de un vehículo desocupado. Cuando las unidades llegaron, encontraron humo saliendo de un almacén.

Las autoridades dijeron que el incendio ha sido extinguido y las unidades permanecen en el lugar para monitorear puntos calientes.

Funcionarios de MDFR informaron a Local 10 News en un correo electrónico que al menos una persona fue trasladada al hospital.

No se ha divulgado de inmediato más información sobre la víctima, la causa del incendio o posibles daños.

Esta es una noticia en desarrollo. Vea Local 10 News o actualice la página para las últimas actualizaciones.

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Those residents of the Plantation Trace development, located along the 700 block of 132nd Avenue, are upset because they say the U.S. Postal Service isn’t doing anything about it.

Recently, under the cover of night, security cameras captured a car reversing into a parking space next to a row of mailboxes. Seconds later, a pair of hooded subjects emerged.

It’s clear the crooks were able to gain access to the mailbox quickly before getting away with mail belonging to the residents.

“It’s a little intrusive,” said resident Alex Ruane. “The first time we got something materialistic stolen, but then we started hearing credit cards coming up in people’s names and IRS papers and things like that. It’s a little bit of a scary feeling.”

Ruane is one of many residents inside the development who have fallen victim to this crime, a cycle that’s been repeated five times over the past two years.

“What’s the resolution? There isn’t one, so we ended up spending HOA funds to put up cameras, license plate readers, and that’s how we caught the car the last time it happened,” said Ruane.

Carli Pierson is the attorney representing the Plantation Trace Homeowners Association.

“This is being perpetrated by an organized criminal enterprise,” said Pierson. “They move quickly and they clearly have access to some kind of a master key.”

Pierson has helped to guide property owners on how to properly report the thefts with police and the U.S. Postal Inspector, but every effort to curb the crime so far has hit a wall.

“We can’t change the locks on the mailboxes ourselves because that’s tampering, which is a federal offense, and the postal service won’t tell the community when they’re gonna change the locks, so they’re just sitting there like a sitting duck,” Pierson said.

Residents are hoping the video of this latest heist will help bring the crooks to justice.

“I don’t wanna ship things to my house,” said Ruane. “If I’m gonna buy something, am I gonna send it somewhere else? Am I gonna send it to my husband’s business or my parents’ house where I don’t have to worry about it getting stolen?”

Turner died surrounded by his family, according to Turner Enterprises, the company that oversees his vast business interests.

Turner owned professional sports teams in Atlanta, defended the America’s Cup in yachting in 1977 and donated a stunning $1 billion to United Nations charities. He married three women — most famously actor Jane Fonda — and earned the nicknames “Captain Outrageous” and “The Mouth of the South.”

He once bragged: “If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”

He was slowed in later years by Lewy body dementia. Long out of the television business, he concentrated on philanthropy.

His garrulous personality sometimes overshadowed a risk-taking business acumen. By the time he sold his Turner Broadcasting System to Time Warner Inc. in 1996, Turner had turned his late father’s billboard company into a global conglomerate that included seven major cable networks, three professional sports teams and a pair of hit movie studios.

President Donald Trump, reacting to Turner's death, called him “one of the Greats of All Time.”

The creation of CNN

Turner’s signature achievement was creating the Cable News Network, the first 24-hour, all-news television network in 1980. In part, Turner’s own frustration with television news was the instigator. He often worked past 8 p.m., after the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts had already gone off the air.

He took a chance by starting the operation in the early days of cable television, living in an apartment above its Atlanta office.

CNN’s breakthrough moment came during the Gulf War with Iraq in 1991. Most television journalists had fled Baghdad but CNN stayed, capturing arresting images of a war’s outbreak.

Turner was promised a continued role in CNN after his company’s sale to Time Warner but was gradually pushed out, much to his regret.

“The mistake I made was losing control of the company," he later said.

Building TBS SuperStation

Robert Edward Turner III was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Cincinnati. When he was 9, his family moved to Savannah, Georgia, where he grew up. After being expelled from Brown University, Turner came to Atlanta to work for his domineering father’s billboard company, Turner Advertising.

After his father’s 1963 suicide, Turner took over the company. In 1970, he bought an independent UHF station with a weak signal that didn’t even cover Atlanta.

On Dec. 17, 1976, he began transmitting the station to cable systems across the country via satellite. It became the TBS SuperStation.

TBS’ motley collection of old movies and sitcom reruns was augmented by Turner’s acquisition of baseball’s Atlanta Braves. Perennial doormats, the Braves slowly attracted fans nationwide through their superstation exposure.

In the 1980s, Turner went deeply into debt to buy MGM, a move again greeted with skepticism. But the acquisition gave his company a library of vintage movies that eventually were parlayed into the TNT and Turner Classic Movies networks.

He revealed his ambitions as a younger man: “I used to tell people I wanted to become the world’s greatest sailor, businessman and lover all at the same time.”

Acquiring sports teams and land

For much of his life a partying roustabout who wooed beautiful women, the lean, mustachioed sportsman married three times. He was married to Fonda from 1991 to 2001. She tired of his philandering and divorced him, although they remained friends.

Perhaps Turner’s greatest love was for the land. He acquired millions of acres in ranches complete with roaming buffalo and was Nebraska’s largest private landholder. Researchers at Texas A&M University credited his donation of a few bulls in 2005 with helping increase the genetic diversity of the last herd of southern Plains bison.

He had a net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023 but had dropped off Forbes magazine’s ranking of the 400 richest Americans in 2021.

“See, my life is more an adventure than a quest to make money,” Turner once said.

Turner managed to insult many with his shoot-from-the-lip style. An atheist since his only sister died of lupus at age 17, he called Christians “losers” and “Jesus freaks,” later apologizing for both remarks.

Dedication to various causes

Turner, the father of five children, grabbed a leadership role in American philanthropy with his Sept. 18, 1997, pledge to give $1 billion to United Nations charities.

He promoted a range of humanitarian causes. Turner joined former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn to start the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to reducing the threat of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

As he poured millions into nonprofits on a global scale, Turner was also fond of spreading his wealth in small ways. He once gave $500 to a volunteer fire department that helped extinguish a blaze on one of his ranches.

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Bauder, a longtime media writer, retired from The Associated Press in 2026. Former Associated Press correspondent Ryan Nakashima contributed to this report.

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Jail records show the suspect, Antwon Trinard Glenn, 29, has been jailed since Jan. 22 on 29 counts of identification fraud in a separate case.

According to deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the alleged sexual battery occurred on July 5, 2025, while the victim was staying at her grandmother’s home in southwest Miami-Dade in the 11000 block of Southwest 203rd Terrace.

The victim told investigators she was outside the home when Glenn, who was driving a white SUV approached her, grabbed her arm and forced her into the vehicle “against her will,” the report states.

Authorities said the victim reported that she was raped inside the SUV and later taken to a nearby apartment, where the assault continued.

Records show Glenn was interviewed on March 26 at the Metrowest Detention Center in Doral, where he invoked his right to counsel.

Glenn’s arrest report did not state if he was known to the victim.

Court records show Glenn previously faced charges including fraudulent use of identification and multiple counts involving stolen credit or debit cards.

As of Wednesday, he is now facing charges that include sexual battery of a minor and kidnapping, and remains held without bond at the Metrowest Detention Center.

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Sky 10 was over the scene at 11:24 a.m. as firefighters worked to contain the blaze that erupted in the 9600 block of Northwest 79th Avenue.

MDFR officials said the initial call came in as a report of an unoccupied vehicle fire. When crews arrived, they found smoke coming from a warehouse.

Authorities said the fire has been extinguished and units remain at the scene to monitor for hot spots.

MDFR officials told Local 10 News in an email that at least one person was transported to the hospital.

No further information about the victim, the cause of the fire, or possible damage was immediately released.

Los registros penitenciarios muestran que el sospechoso, Antwon Trinard Glenn, de 29 años, está encarcelado desde el 22 de enero por 29 cargos de fraude de identidad en un caso aparte.

Según los agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, la presunta agresión sexual ocurrió el 5 de julio de 2025, mientras la víctima se hospedaba en la casa de su abuela en el suroeste de Miami-Dade, en la cuadra 11000 de Southwest 203rd Terrace.

La víctima declaró a los investigadores que se encontraba fuera de la casa cuando Glenn, que conducía un SUV blanco, se le acercó, la agarró del brazo y la obligó a subir al vehículo “en contra de su voluntad”, según consta en el informe.

Las autoridades indicaron que la víctima denunció haber sido violada dentro del SUV y posteriormente llevada a un apartamento cercano, donde continuó la agresión.

Los registros muestran que Glenn fue entrevistado el 26 de marzo en el Centro de Detención Metrowest en Doral, donde invocó su derecho a un abogado.

En el informe de detención de Glenn no se especificaba si la víctima lo conocía.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Glenn ya había enfrentado cargos, entre ellos el uso fraudulento de identificación y múltiples cargos relacionados con tarjetas de crédito o débito robadas.

Desde el miércoles, se enfrenta a cargos que incluyen agresión sexual a una menor y secuestro, y permanece detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro de Detención de Metrowest.

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A Local 10 News crew was outside Cube Motors -- a used car dealership and auto repair shop -- on Northwest 79^th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenue, as agents were seen mostly inside the business’ gate.

Employees at a gym next door said agents rolled in around 6:10 a.m. and announced they were with the FBI, but the law enforcement presence didn’t impact classes at the gym.

Agents were seen circling some vehicles outside Cube Motors, taking pictures of the vehicles and checking VIN numbers.

Some cars received an X on the windows and were eventually towed away, including a Nissan, BMW, Tesla and others.

Members of the Department of Homeland Security and the National Insurance Crime Bureau were also at the scene.

A K-9 was also spotted sniffing along the fence line.

Local 10 saw agents questioning at least two men.

Both had handcuffs on at one point, but they’ve since been removed.

It’s unclear what the investigation is about.

The business opens daily at 8 a.m., but people were there by 6 a.m. to be questioned as part of the investigation.

No roadways in the area are being impacted by the investigation at this time.

A spokesperson for the FBI would only tell Local 10 News that the “FBI is conducting court ordered law enforcement activity in the vicinity of that location,” but added that “no further information is available at this time.”

Judges praised Boruch's work, including such collections as “Bestiary Dark” and “The Anti-Grief” as affirmations of human genius amid the rise of AI. The prize is overseen by the nonprofit organization Poets & Writers.

“Marianne Boruch renders luminous the expanse and reach of human thought,” the prize citation, released Wednesday by Poets & Writers, reads in part. “In an age of simulated intelligence, Boruch sets to tremble the whole of our collective knowledge where the soul, as she suggests in several poems, is a vastness of wanting and boundless curiosity.”

Boruch, 75, is a resident of West Lafayette, Indiana, who taught for decades at Purdue University, where she founded the school's MFA creative writing program. Previous winners of the Jackson prize, established 20 years ago with a gift from the Liana Foundation, include former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo and the current laureate, Arthur Sze.

The document was released months after his administration published an updated national security strategy that called for the hemisphere to be the top U.S. focus.

“We will not let cartels, Jihadists, or the governments who support them plot against our citizens with impunity. Terrorists of any kind will not be allowed to find safe harbor here at home or attack us from abroad,” Trump wrote in the 16-page document.

Trump's administration has moved aggressively to reshape the region with the ouster of Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's president, dozens of U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats operated by cartels and new pressure on the communist government of Cuba.

Sebastian Gorka, the White House counterterrorism czar who spearheaded the new strategy, said the shift in priorities acknowledges some simple math: Far more Americans have been killed by cartels pushing illicit drugs into U.S. communities than American service members lost in conflicts around the globe since World War II, he said.

“Whether it is strangling their illicit funds, whether it is tracking their drug boats, we will not permit them to kill Americans on a massive scale,” Gorka said in a telephone call with reporters to announce the strategy.

It is the latest example of the administration's efforts to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere even while dealing with worldwide crises.

The Republican administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 191 people in total.

At the same time, Trump has sought to press regional leaders to work more closely with the U.S. to target cartels and take military action themselves against drug traffickers and transnational gangs that he says pose an “unacceptable threat” to the hemisphere’s national security.

According to Gorka and the report, the administration's other counterterrorism priorities include targeting and destroying Islamic military groups that have capabilities to execute operations against the United States; identifying and neutralizing violent secular political groups with ideology that is anti-American, radically pro-transgender or anarchist; and boosting efforts to prevent nonstate actors from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.

Gorka said administration officials would meet with allies later this week to discuss how they can bolster their counterterrorism strategies.

“As the president made very clear, we will measure your seriousness as a partner and ally by how much you bring to the table,” he said. “So we expect more — from our partners in the Middle East, as well as elsewhere.”

Audiences have earned the right to be skeptical when something like “The Sheep Detectives” comes along — everyone involved was too. And yet this family-friendly “Knives Out” with a murder mystery at the center, a starry ensemble including Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson and Nicholas Braun, as well as the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Regina Hall and Patrick Stewart as yes, talking sheep, has caught more than a few off guard for its quirky humor, its sincerity and its unexpected depth.

Chris O’Dowd, who voices Mopple, “the most patient sheep,” noted: “You don’t get a lot of projects that are from the director of ‘Minions’ and the writer of ‘Chernobyl.’ It’s an unusual combination.”

In the film, in theaters Friday, Jackman plays George, a kind, but isolated shepherd in the English countryside who reads his animals murder mysteries at night. Unbeknownst to him, not only do they understand the words, they debate the stories among themselves. So when George dies under mysterious circumstances, the flock take what they've learned to try to help the dimwitted local police officer (Braun) solve the case, language barriers and all.

“What we know from watching this movie now with audiences over and over and over is that people are repeatedly delighted and surprised at how much more there is going on here than just silly sheep doing something silly,” screenwriter Craig Mazin said. “There are some really beautiful moments and themes and things that parents can talk about with their kids … and, most importantly, it is legitimately a movie that is meant for everyone.”

Aiming high with ‘The Sheep Detectives’

The story of how “The Sheep Detectives” got made goes back almost 20 years, when veteran producer Lindsay Doran (“Sense and Sensibility”) told Mazin about Leonie Swann’s novel “Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story.” He was expecting something cute, goofy and silly, but found himself enchanted by how smart, moving and philosophical it was.

It would take nearly a decade to secure the rights, and almost another to get the thing made, and made well thanks to studio executive Courtenay Valenti who, Mazin said, rescued it from rotting on a pile of scripts. Along the way they would find themselves emboldened by the caliber of talent who wanted to be part of it as well.

“Everybody involved was all on the same page of aiming as high as we could and sticking to our guns when it came to quality,” Mazin said. “Phil Lord and Chris Miller came on as producers as well, and their entire career has been about taking things that other people might not make good and making them good.”

Molly Gordon, whose character becomes a primary suspect when she mysteriously shows up in town the night of the murder, had the same reservations as many.

“The script was sent to my agent, and he emailed me, like, ‘This is really profound’ and I was like ‘How could this be profound?’ Like, I just, like, the sheep movie?” Gordon said. “And then within 10 minutes of reading it, I was like, this is one of the best scripts I’ve ever read.”

The real audience test

Mazin’s own kids grew up while “The Sheep Detectives” was getting made. But he still invited his 21-year-old daughter to watch it with him and his wife a few months back. She’s proud of her dad for his career, but, he said, also wouldn’t hesitate to call something of his “mid.”

“When the film ended, they were both just sort of a sobbing, happy mess,” he said. “My daughter, who doesn’t cut me any slack at all, AT ALL … Was like, ‘That is such a good movie.’ I thought, ‘OK’ … if your kids are older, it still works.”

The movie is coming into a fairly healthy theatrical marketplace, where PG-rated movies are often outperforming PG-13 movies and where non-franchise movies with the right buzz have been finding their audience, including another Amazon MGM release, “Project Hail Mary.” Mazin, a veteran screenwriter who also co-hosts the popular “Scriptnotes” podcast, doesn't often hype his own projects like this. Usually he thinks they should speak for themselves.

“Nobody needs the guy who wrote something to say, no, it’s really good. This is the first time in my career that I’m like, but actually, no guys. I love this,” he said. “Seeing this movie is a purely positive experience.”

And it needs a little bit of hype. “The Sheep Detectives” is currently tracking for a muted box office debut, in the $10 million to $15 million range. But it’s also a movie that has been underestimated at nearly every step.

“Low expectations are, you know, sometimes a gift,” Mazin laughed.

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Associated Press Writer Lizzie Knight contributed from London.

The search at Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas’ office in Portsmouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state’s recent redistricting effort.

The FBI said only that it was conducting a court-authorized search in Portsmouth. The person who confirmed the FBI’s search was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

A message seeking comment was left Wednesday on a cellphone for Lucas, who has been a state senator for 34 years. Her daughter Lisa Lucas Burke told WAVY-TV that the family had no idea what the federal action was about.

“We're trying to figure it out. That's all I know,” she said.

Besides the search at Lucas' office, which houses her disabilities-services business and is her political base in Portsmouth, agents in FBI T-shirts also went into the nearby cannabis store that she opened in 2021. Several entrances to the Cannabis Outlet's parking lot were blocked by unmarked vehicles with flashing blue lights, as was an entrance to the politician's office.

Lucas, a prominent backer of legalizing marijuana, has said the store sells legal hemp and CBD products. It has drawn scrutiny from local media amid allegations that some products were mislabeled.

Virginia has legalized pot possession, but retail sales of recreational marijuana remain illegal in the state.

State House Speaker Don Scott said he was deeply concerned by the FBI search.

“Right now, there is far more theatrics and speculation than actual information available to the public,” Scott, a Democrat, said in a statement, adding that more facts were needed “before anyone rushes to political conclusions.”

Gov. Abigail Spanberger declined to comment.

Virginia Democrats point to other recent prosecutions

Other Virginia Democrats were quick to note that the search comes as the FBI and Justice Department have opened a spate of politically charged investigations into perceived adversaries of President Donald Trump.

Last week, the Justice Department charged former FBI Director James Comey with making a threatening Instagram post against Trump, an accusation that Comey — who for nearly a decade has drawn the president’s ire — has denied. A court had dismissed federal prosecutors' earlier case accusing Comey of lying to Congress.

A separate mortgage fraud case, also ultimately dismissed by a court, targeted Democratic New York state Attorney General Letitia James, who had brought a major civil fraud lawsuit against Trump and his business. Both she and Comey, who was a longtime Republican but has split from the party in the past decade, denied the charges and said the prosecutions were vindictive.

Such cases “have undermined public confidence” in federal prosecutors in Virginia, state Attorney General Jay Jones, a Democrat, said in a statement.

The FBI and Justice Department have also provoked concerns among Democrats about ongoing election-related investigations, including the seizure by agents of ballots and other information from Fulton County, Georgia.

Lucas has been a vocal leader of Virginia's redistricting effort, which voters approved last month. A sign urging people to “vote yes” to “stop the MAGA power grab” still hung Wednesday on a fence separating her office's parking lot from that of the cannabis shop.

Lucas played a leading role in Virginia redistricting

Amid a national, state-by-state partisan redistricting fight kicked off by Trump’s desire to aid his fellow Republicans, Virginia voters OK'd a Democrat-backed constitutional amendment authorizing new U.S. House districts. The plan could help the party win up to four additional seats.

“We are not going to let anyone tilt the system without a response,” Lucas said after the vote. Trump, meanwhile, denounced the results.

The state Supreme Court let the referendum proceed, but has yet to rule whether the effort is legal. The court is considering an appeal of a lower court judge’s ruling that the amendment is invalid because lawmakers violated procedural requirements.

Voting districts typically are redrawn once a decade, after each census. But Trump last year urged Texas Republicans to redraw House districts to give the GOP an edge in the midterms. California Democrats reciprocated, and redistricting efforts soon cascaded across states.

Lucas, 82, has been a figure in Virginia politics since the 1980s, when she became the first Black woman elected to a city council seat in her native Portsmouth. She now is the first woman and first African American to serve as the Senate’s president pro tempore.

Earlier in life, she was the Norfolk Naval Shipyard's first female shipfitter, according to her biography in the state library. The job entails making, installing and repairing sometimes enormous metal assemblies for vessels.

In recent years, she has been the CEO of a Portsmouth business that runs residences, day programs and transportation for intellectually disabled adults.

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Associated Press writers Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Kentucky; Jake Offenhartz in New York; and Claudia Lauder in Philadelphia contributed.

However, the relief is not automatic or guaranteed, and most taxpayers need to file a claim for a refund or abatement of their tax liability by July 10 to get their money back.

The national taxpayer advocate, an independent watchdog of the IRS, is warning that the deadline to apply for relief is fast approaching after a federal court late last year ruled that taxpayers were not required to file their taxes on time during COVID-19.

The IRS had assessed more than 120 million penalties against tens of millions of taxpayers for filing late returns, failing to pay taxes or failing to make required estimated tax payments between January 2020 and July 11, 2023.

The case, called Kwong v. U.S., decided that COVID-19 emergency laws extended the deadline to file and that the IRS owes penalty payments to taxpayers. The case is still being litigated.

The taxpayer advocate calls the issue “widespread and not limited to a small or specialized group of taxpayers."

Ken Kies, assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, told The Associated Press that President Donald Trump's Republican administration believes that Kwong “was wrongly decided because it is a misreading of the plain language of the statute.”

“We will continue to defend the statutory language as written,” he said in a statement.

Still, as it currently stands, taxpayers should fill out a form to preserve their rights, said Alyssa Maloof Whatley, a director at Frost Law, a tax firm with locations across the U.S.

“Either it holds up or it doesn’t,” she noted of the ruling. ”So by preserving your claim, you’re actually preserving your right to that money.”

How to apply

People eligible for a potential refund or abatement are those who filed a tax return late between Jan. 20, 2020, and July 11, 2023; paid penalties for filing or paying late during that period; owed IRS penalties even if they have not paid them; or filed an international information return late.

In a series of blog posts on its website, the taxpayer advocate is sharing recommendations — including that people review their IRS tax account transcripts through their online account — to check penalty assessments from those periods.

Who's affected

“Many taxpayers affected by this issue have low and moderate incomes,” the taxpayer advocate said. “These taxpayers are less likely to have professional representation and to learn about complex legal developments like this one. As a result, they face a greater risk of missing the opportunity to claim refunds to which they may be entitled.”

Maloof Whatley said people will need to fill out Form 843, which can be found on the IRS website, and send it through snail mail.

According to the IRS, for people who received a penalty during the pandemic, the form must be mailed to the service center where they would be required to file a current year tax return.

Because of the impending July 10 deadline, “taxpayers should not delay reviewing their situation and considering potential claims for refund and abatement,” the taxpayer advocate said.

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Correa was injured Tuesday while taking swings in the batting cage before a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“I was hitting in the cage, normal day, feeling great,” he said. “I went through my whole routine, took a swing and just felt a pop. It just completely snapped on me and then I fell to the ground and couldn’t put weight on it.”

Correa was on crutches and in a walking boot Wednesday morning at the ballpark after seeing a foot specialist. He said he would seek some other opinions before scheduling the surgery.

Correa, 31, said the injury was a complete tear and his recovery is expected to take six to eight months.

“Tough, really tough,” he said. “Not what I was expecting, but now it’s time to deal with it, face it head on and and focus on the rehab.”

Correa has had ankle problems in the past. In 2023, he had huge free agent deals with the San Francisco Giants and New York Mets fall through over concerns with his right ankle that was operated on in 2014. He ended up remaining with the Minnesota Twins after the deals collapsed.

Correa has salaries of $31.5 million this season, $30.5 million in 2027 and $30 million in 2028. As part of the last July's trade, the Twins will pay the Astros $10 million each Dec. 15 from this year through 2028.

His latest injury is yet another blow to an Astros team that has dealt with scores of injuries this season, including an oblique injury to Yainer Diaz that landed the catcher on the injured list Tuesday.

Correa, who is back with the Astros after last summer’s blockbuster trade from the Twins, played third base for Houston last season with Jeremy Peña at shortstop. But Correa has been playing shortstop recently with Peña out with a hamstring injury.

Manager Joe Espada said this week that Peña is close to a return and could begin a rehabilitation assignment soon.

But it's still a huge blow to lose Correa, who is one of the leaders of the team.

“It’s a gut punch,” general manager Dana Brown said. “But it’s not the end of the world. We still have a very competitive team. Thank God we have the depth still in the infield particularly when Jeremy comes back. And so, the team is still built to win, no doubt about it."

Espada said the Astros will miss all that Correa brings to the team.

“It’s just really hard,” Espada said. “Talking to Carlos this morning it was really, really hard. What he means to this team, to this organization, personally to me as his manager, as a friend. I’ve known him for a very long time. It sucks, but we have to move on.”

The Astros had Isaac Paredes playing third base and Braden Shewmake at shortstop for the finale of a series against the Dodgers on Wednesday.

Correa is batting .279 with three home runs and 16 RBIs. The No. 1 pick in the 2012 amateur draft, Correa spent his first seven seasons with the Astros before signing with the Twins where he spent 3 1/2 seasons before last summer's trade.

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Higher-income households, meanwhile, ratcheted up their spending on gas while barely reducing their consumption, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Middle-income households fell in-between.

The gaps between how each group reacted were larger than in 2022, when a similar gas-price shock occurred after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the report found. Higher-income households cut back more on their gas consumption four years ago than in March, while poorer households likely benefited more from government stimulus programs in 2022. Wealthier households have seen significant increases in the value of their stock and real estate holdings since then as well.

The figures suggest the gas-price surge has worsened what many economists call the “K-shaped economy." The K-shape label refers to upper-income Americans continuing to do well while lower-income households fall behind. The disparate outcomes can help explain the generally gloomy attitude most Americans have toward the economy even as headline figures, such as the unemployment rate and economic growth, remain mostly solid.

“We find that households had very different experiences with gasoline spending,” researchers at the New York Fed wrote. “With the sharp increases in gasoline prices in March, a K-shaped pattern in gasoline consumption emerged—showing faster consumption growth for high income households relative to low-income households.”

The Iran war began Feb. 28, and by the end of March gas prices had risen about 25%, according to government consumer price data. Overall gas consumption, according to the New York Fed, fell 3% that month. As of Tuesday, gas prices have leapt 50% since the war began.

Poorer households, defined as those earning less than $40,000, cut their gas consumption by 7%, the report found, but still spent 12% more on gas in March. Higher-income households, defined as those earning $125,000 a year or above, lifted their spending on gas 19% in March, while reducing their overall consumption of gas just 1%. The report didn't specify the middle-income figures.

The figures suggest lower-income Americans have cut back on driving, perhaps by carpooling, taking public transportation, or combining errands into fewer trips, while richer Americans have had to make few, if any, changes.

The New York Fed report estimates that total spending at gas stations jumped 15% in March from the previous month. If sustained, that extra spending on gas will siphon money away from other areas, reducing overall inflation-adjusted spending and slowing the economy. So far, there are only limited signs that is happening. Americans do spend less on gas than in previous decades as cars have become more efficient.

Consumer spending, adjusted for price changes, ticked up 0.2% in March, slightly below February's 0.3% gain, the government said last week.

Still, there is evidence that for many lower-income people, the spike in gas prices is a big drag on their finances. A separate report from the Bank of America Institute, released last week, found that among the poorest one-third of households, one-tenth now spend 10% of their incomes on gas. The figure is far above the average for higher-income households, who spend just 2.7% of their incomes on gas.

Data from the Institute, which compiles reports from the anonymous accounts of its customers, also showed that more expensive gas has pulled some spending away from discretionary items, defined as those outside groceries, gas, and utilities. The annual growth in poorer households' discretionary spending slowed in March from February, while it rose for middle- and upper-income households.

Guido Reichstadter, a Florida-based activist, was seen coming down from one of the arches of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge where he had been camped since May 1. His presence caused periodic traffic jams as Washington police closed lanes and negotiated with him.

Reichstadter’s X account showed photos from atop one of the arches where he had pitched a tent. He announced on the site Tuesday that he would be coming down and expected to be arrested.

“I hope that this action has offered something to motivate and inspire you, and that it can serve as fuel for greater commitment and action in the cause of peace and in the fight for our future,” he wrote.

Washington police charged Reichstadter with crowding, obstructing, or incommoding, unlawful entry and failure to obey an officer.

He staged a similar protest atop the same bridge in 2022 against a Supreme Court decision.

Michael Marx, 45, of Midland, Texas, was shot multiple times during Monday’s confrontation and was in the back of an ambulance on his way to a hospital when he said, “'F—k the White House' and “Kill me, kill me, kill me,'” a Secret Service agent said in an affidavit.

The sworn statement does not specify whether investigators believe Marx had a particular target.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement that her office "will pursue the most serious charges available against anyone who brings gun violence to our streets, particularly when that violence unfolds steps from the seat of our government and the path of the Vice President of the United States.”

Marx was walking along the path of Vance's motorcade when officers spotted him near the intersection of 15th Street and Independence Avenue. The officers were responding to a Secret Service agent's report that Marx was seen near the White House complex with a firearm concealed on the right side of his body, the affidavit says.

Marx pulled a firearm from his waistband as he ran away from Secret Service officers and fired at one of them, but a bystander behind the officer was shot in the leg, the affidavit says. Officers returned fire and struck Marx in his abdomen, a hand and his left arm, according to the filing. It says Marx spit at officers as they provided him with aid after the shooting.

The teenage bystander was not seriously injured and has been released from a hospital, ABC News reported. ABC was first to report what the suspect allegedly said after the shooting.

Marx was charged in a complaint with assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon, discharging a firearm during a violent crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The shooting came just over a week after a California man tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner while armed with guns and knives. Cole Tomas Allen has been charged in that incident with attempting to assassinate the president and firing a gun at a Secret Service officer.

Around the time of Monday's shooting, President Donald Trump was holding a small business event at the White House, which was briefly locked down as authorities investigated.

Online court records did not immediately list the name of a lawyer representing Marx.

Marx has used aliases, including Michael Patrick and Michael Zavici, according to the affidavit. It says Marx had a 2011 drug trafficking conviction in Florida that made it illegal for him to possess a firearm.

Elghandour, the CEO of biotech company Arcellx, had been set to give the May 15 convocation address at the Rutgers School of Engineering, his alma mater.

That invitation was rescinded last week by the school's dean, Alberto Cuitiño, after the university learned that "some graduating students would not attend their graduation ceremony due to concerns about the invited speaker’s social media posts,” a Rutgers spokesperson said in a statement.

The spokesperson declined to specify the offending posts, but confirmed they were focused on Israel.

Elghandour frequently shares news articles and footage of violence in Gaza and the West Bank, along with his own commentary accusing Israel of committing war crimes and upholding a system of apartheid.

In a statement, Elghandour called the decision by Rutgers “heartbreaking and disappointing.”

He noted that the school had previously highlighted his work as the executive producer of the “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” a documentary about a 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed by Israeli Defense Forces.

“They led with my social justice advocacy. Until it was inconvenient," he said. "That's the difference between virtue signaling and principles. One withstands challenge. The other wilts in the slightest breeze.”

The cancellation comes as the springtime commencement season ignites yet another round of debate about student protests against the war in Gaza, which have roiled U.S. campuses in recent years and led to canceled speeches and disruptions during graduations.

Earlier this week, the University of Michigan publicly disavowed a commencement speech delivered by Derek R. Peterson, a history professor, that briefly lauded pro-Palestinian student activists.

That speech sparked threats to strip the university of funding from Republican officials and donors, who said the comments created a hostile environment for Jewish students. The university president’s subsequent apology has drawn condemnation from academic and free-speech groups.

On Tuesday, Elghandour shared a clip on X of Peterson’s speech at the University of Michigan, along with his own caption: “Most people choose convenience. Professor Peterson chose principle. True leadership. Much respect.”

“They’re just so angry,” Gosling once sighed.

And yet, marking its upcoming 10th anniversary this month, “The Nice Guys” has established itself as one of the most beloved comedies of the last decade — a decade in which Hollywood studios largely left the genre for dead. A 1970s-set comic noir directed and co-written by Shane Black, “The Nice Guys” paired Gosling and Russell Crowe as private eyes in a Los Angeles crime caper that, a decade later, keeps getting better.

“There’s a lot of interest in ‘The Nice Guys’ today that wasn’t there when it opened. And the box office will attest to that,” Black deadpanned in a recent interview. “But people find these things. I think there’s kind of a joy of finding a movie on streaming or rental and then suddenly kind of realizing: How did I miss this? And ‘The Nice Guys’ was easy to miss.”

Now, “The Nice Guys” is almost always on, in reruns on cable or streaming services. Whenever it’s on Netflix, it ranks among the most viewed on the platform. As more have become familiar with the comic talents of Gosling, in “Barbie” or “Project Hail Mary,” fans inevitably ask: “But have you seen ‘The Nice Guys?’”

Black has known box-office smashes; he originated the “Lethal Weapon” movies. But he’s come to view films of his that didn’t make money as his favorites. In 2005, he made another cult favorite in “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” which helped revive Robert Downey Jr.’s career. (Downey makes a cameo as a corpse in “The Nice Guys.”)

“There’s something to being the king of the midnight movie,” says Black. “It’s not the most lucrative thing in the world.”

Comedies go dark

Earlier in the 2000s, comedy was a moviegoing staple. The films of Will Ferrell, Judd Apatow and Melissa McCarthy were some of Hollywood’s most lucrative. Movies like “The Hangover,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Bridesmaids” helped define the era.

But as the franchise film grew, and international ticket sales took on greater importance, the big-screen comedy began falling out of favor right around the time Warner Bros.’ “The Nice Guys” (with a $50 million budget) reached theaters, earning about $71 million worldwide at the time. Tastes were also changing. Horror took comedy’s place as the genre of the day.

There are signs that trends may be shifting. This year, “Project Hail Mary” and the just-launched “The Devil Wears Prada 2” have put comedies in front at the multiplex. But over the last decade, funny movies have largely migrated to streaming (Netflix’s pact with Adam Sandler was an early coup) or turned into the stuff of easy-to-miss cult.

Black's initial germ for the film, writing with Anthony Bagarozzi, was inspired by detective stories like those of William Campbell Gault and Brett Halliday. He’s read so many of them, he says, that “it’s almost a superpower.”

“I thought: There’s so much joy here,” Black says. “There’s so much fun in plot and twists and capers. You light a fuse and these guys go on this wild caper, and in the end, it’s just these two guys that are important. You can’t really remember the caper but it was there to service the idea, the shape of: These guys are at it again.”

If “Chinatown” is a detective tale about a Los Angeles private eye without a car, “The Nice Guys” is about a gumshoe who can’t smell. Gosling’s Holland March reluctantly joins with Crowe’s Jackson Healy, an enforcer, on a missing girl case. The movie is bright and colorful but set against a seedy LA and the adult film industry. With Holland also is his young but wise daughter, Holly (a preternaturally good Angourie Rice).

An heir to ‘Midnight Run’

“The Nice Guys” had an expansive cast, including Kim Basinger, Keith David and, in one of her first big roles, Margaret Qualley. But the heart of the movie is Gosling and Crowe. Neither was especially known for their comic skills at that point. Crowe was coming off the not-exactly-hysterical biblical epic “Noah.” But Black, a believer in the Lowell Ganz-Babaloo Mandel school of comedy (“Splash,” “Parenthood”), had an instinct they’d work well together.

“The thing is, Ryan is just a good actor,” says Black. “He’s funny in everything he does. But he didn’t do a lot of outright comedies. For this, the character was not like a ‘Talladega Nights’ or ‘Step Brothers.’ It’s not that kind of comedy where everything is pushed. It was a story that an actor could do and basically play a real character.”

They key for Black is centering the comedy on grounded characters, like the classic buddy movie “Midnight Run,” which paired Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin. That approach may have gone missing in a decade where most of the few studio comedies that got made went for high-concept laughs. (See “Tag,” a 2018 comedy about adult friends playing tag.)

But “The Nice Guys,” sleazy and silly, gave Gosling a jumping-off point for some of the most sublime pratfalls in recent memory. Gosling had shown a knack for comedy before, but “The Nice Guys” is his coming-out party. No one has ever had his arm broken, or reached the same high-pitched squeal of pain, like Gosling does in the film. In another scene, on a toilet, he tries to balance a pointed gun and a lit cigarette while lifting his pants and repeatedly kicking the stall door open. It's a ballet worthy of Buster Keaton.

“My favorite that he walked in with one day was where he said, ‘I saw this movie last night with Abbott and Costello where they meet Frankenstein,’” Black recalls. “He said, ‘I’d like to maybe give that type of energy a try.’ When he said that, what he really meant was: I’m going to do a pitch-perfect Lou Costello impression sitting next to a tree for 60 seconds.”

What about a sequel?

Black is most proud of how much Gosling and Crowe were anxious to do anything that made them look cowardly or stupid or inept. “They wanted to be antiheroes,” says Black. Crowe has spoken fondly of his experience on the film, crediting Gosling as his only co-star to ever regularly get him to break character.

Thus the inevitable question: So why not a sequel?

“It’s one of the most common questions I get,” says Black. “The answer, unfortunately, is nebulous.”

“You’re saying to a studio: Hey, we want to get these two big stars. It’s going to cost even more this time. You’re going to spend maybe twice the money on a sequel to a movie that didn’t get you what you wanted back,” says Black. “It’s a tough sell to take a movie that bombed and make a sequel.”

But would he do it, if he could?

“Of course,” replies Black. “This was designed for that. Like I said, it’s a caper. There’s these two and they get in a bunch of trouble and here they go again. You want to see them do it again. There’s a whole bunch of mystery capers you could throw at these guys. You could make a grounded, potentially very interesting, touching movie set not in the ’70s but perhaps in the ’80s.”

In 2016, Gosling called the London premiere of “The Nice Guys” a momentous occasion.

“I wasn't at the premiere of ‘The Godfather’ or ‘Apocalypse Now,’ but I got a feeling it felt pretty much the same as it does today,” Gosling said. “You're looking down the barrel of cinematic history.”

Gosling, of course, was kidding. But cinematic history? Maybe.

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This story has been updated to correct the release year of “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” It released in 2005.

Registros carcelarios muestran que Nazia Badal, de 44 años, de Arlington, Texas, fue detenida alrededor de las 9:20 p.m. del jueves por alguaciles federales y el Departamento de Policía de Miramar.

Las autoridades dijeron que tenía una orden activa del condado Broward por dos cargos de homicidio por DUI y permanece detenida sin derecho a fianza.

Los cargos se derivan de un choque del 16 de junio de 2013 cerca de la cuadra 2300 de Red Road en Miramar que mató a un hombre identificado por sus familiares como Jose Francisco Zamora.

Un informe de arresto indica que Badal, quien trabajaba como mesera en Tootsie’s Cabaret en el momento del choque, conducía con un nivel de alcohol en sangre de 0.15%, casi el doble del límite legal, y aproximadamente 15 mph por encima del límite de velocidad al momento del choque, que ocurrió cerca de la intersección de Red Road y Renaissance Boulevard.

“En el momento del choque, la acusada tenía una concentración ilegal de alcohol en sangre que afectaba sus facultades normales y su capacidad para operar un vehículo de manera segura”, escribió un agente en su informe de arresto de 2013.

Los investigadores dijeron que el choque resultó en “múltiples lesiones por fuerza contundente” a Zamora, causando su muerte.

El informe indica que un testigo dijo a la policía que Badal conducía de manera errática antes de chocar contra el vehículo de Zamora en lo que fue descrito como una “explosión”.

El testigo dijo que el vehículo de Badal se detuvo con daños severos, mientras que el auto de Zamora quedó reducido a “metal retorcido”, dejándolo atrapado en el interior, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que Badal tenía un “fuerte olor a bebida alcohólica”, que se intensificaba cuando hablaba, y que sus ojos parecían “vidriosos y rojos”.

Según el informe, cuando las autoridades le dijeron a Badal que había una investigación criminal en curso, ella respondió, “¿por qué?, nadie murió”, y “¿quién va a pagar por mi carro?”

La policía también escribió que Badal “parecía estar ajena a la gravedad del choque y no mostró absolutamente ninguna preocupación por el otro conductor, solo por su vehículo”.

Un informe toxicológico reveló que Zamora no tenía drogas ni alcohol en su sistema en el momento del choque.

La sobrina de la víctima dijo a Local 10 News que el caso en gran medida no había recibido cobertura desde el choque fatal.

Registros carcelarios muestran que Badal fue arrestada inicialmente en 2014 y luego liberada bajo fianza. Las autoridades dijeron que no compareció ante el tribunal en 2017, lo que llevó a una orden de arresto pendiente en su contra.

Los registros muestran que Badal, originaria de Trinidad y Tobago, ha sido puesta bajo retención migratoria y permanece detenida sin derecho a fianza en el centro de detención Paul Rein.

Los registros judiciales muestran que tiene programada una audiencia para el martes.

Un informe policial indica que Dayron Ramirez-Mesa, de 21 años, conducía la Cybertruck poco después de las 8 a.m. del 14 de diciembre.

Los investigadores dicen que iba a exceso de velocidad en el área de Southwest 56th Street y 122nd Avenue cuando se pasó la luz roja, impactando a dos vehículos que tenían la luz verde y estaban girando a la izquierda en la intersección.

Las autoridades dicen que poco después del choque, una de las otras conductoras, Dayana Abreu Perez, murió a causa de sus heridas.

La Oficina de la Fiscalía Estatal de Miami-Dade publicó tres nuevos ángulos del incidente, revelando la conducción imprudente en tiempo real.

Un ángulo desde la parte trasera muestra a la Cybertruck pasando rápidamente a varios autos segundos antes del choque.

Otro muestra las consecuencias, con partes volando y una llanta rodando por la calle.

Los investigadores dicen que los datos muestran que tres segundos antes del impacto, Ramirez-Mesa iba a 97 millas por hora, más del doble del límite de velocidad de 40 mph.

Los investigadores dicen que las tres muestras de sangre recolectadas de Ramirez-Mesa después del choque dieron por encima del límite legal en Florida.

Tiene previsto comparecer ante el tribunal a finales de mayo.

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A police report says Dayron Ramirez-Mesa, 21, was driving the Cybertruck shortly after 8 a.m. on Dec. 14.

Investigators say he was speeding in the area of Southwest 56th Street and 122nd Avenue when he ran the red light, hitting two vehicles that had a green light and were making a left turn at the intersection.

Authorities say shortly after the crash, one of the other drivers, Dayana Abreu Perez, died of her injuries.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office released three new angles of the incident, revealing the reckless driving in real time.

A rearview angle shows the Cybertruck zipping past several cars seconds before the crash.

Another shows the aftermath, with parts flying and a tire rolling down the street.

Investigators say data shows that three seconds before the impact, Ramirez-Mesa was going 97 mph, more than double the posted speed limit of 40 mph.

Investigators say all three blood samples collected from Ramirez-Mesa after the crash came back above Florida’s legal limit.

He’s scheduled to appear in court in late May.

Malik, de 18 años, se declaró culpable de homicidio involuntario en la muerte de Lollar, su ex novio, en marzo.

La familia de Lollar había solicitado una sentencia de 30 años. El juez finalmente le impuso 17 años de prisión, con cinco años de libertad condicional.

“Voy a ponerme de pie y honrar a mi hijo y defender a mi hijo”, dijo Darveed Lollar, padre de Yakheim Lollar. “Solo quería ser escuchado. No me gusta la forma en que se manejó este caso”.

Ocurrió el 20 de diciembre de 2024 en el edificio de apartamentos donde vivía Lollar, en la cuadra 6100 de Northwest Sixth Court, en el vecindario Liberty City de Miami.

Malik dijo a la policía que la puñalada fue un accidente, un resultado mortal no intencional de un juego brusco.

“Siempre será un hecho que eres una asesina”, dijo Zeldrina Beecham, tía de Lollar, a Malik. “Eres una semilla del demonio que tus padres trajeron a este mundo para causar sufrimiento a los demás. Qué vergüenza para ellos”.

Nathalie Jean, madre de Lollar, dijo: “Solo queremos lo que mi hijo merecía”.

“Su vida importa. No quiero salir de aquí hoy, su señoría, sintiendo que perdí a mi hijo otra vez”, dijo.

Los fiscales reprodujeron videos de vigilancia en la corte, mostrando los últimos momentos de Lollar después de que Malik lo apuñalara en el pecho con una navaja.

“Entró en la tercera costilla del lado izquierdo, aproximadamente una pulgada de profundidad y alcanzó el corazón”, testificó el sargento del Departamento de Policía de Miami, Juan Santos.

Las imágenes y los sonidos fueron tan angustiantes que algunos salieron de la sala.

Los fiscales habían recomendado 20 años de prisión con 10 años de libertad condicional.

Mientras tanto, los abogados de Malik dijeron que ella estaba arrepentida y querían que fuera sentenciada como delincuente juvenil a un programa tipo campamento.

Malik se disculpó en la corte el martes.

“Estuve mal por lo que hice, y todos los días me siento y pienso en el daño que causé”, dijo. “La familia quiere que esté en prisión, pero estoy en mi propia prisión por el resto de mi vida. Desearía poder regresar y cambiar lo que pasó, pero no puedo, y esa es la peor parte. Ustedes no merecían este dolor y desearía no haber sido yo quien se los causó”.

Además de los años de prisión y la libertad condicional, Malik tendrá que someterse a una evaluación de salud mental y escribir una carta cada 20 de diciembre durante su período de libertad condicional, reconociendo lo ocurrido y cómo ha afectado sus vidas.

Después de la audiencia, las emociones estaban intensas para los seres queridos tanto de Lollar como de Malik.

“Espero que cuando vaya hoy a prisión y sea procesada, se siente y piense en las vidas que destruyó”, dijo Jean.

“Siento que no se hizo justicia esta noche para la acusada, mi sobrina, Jahara Malik”, dijo Gary Malik, tío de la acusada. “Era una delincuente juvenil en el momento en que ocurrió esto, y siento que el tribunal no reconoció eso”.

Malik fue puesta bajo custodia inmediatamente después de que el juez anunciara su decisión.

The brash television pioneer who died Wednesday made his greatest mark on the news business when he launched CNN nearly a half-century ago and with it, the 24-hour cable news cycle — a revolutionary moment that transformed the industry.

His media empire grew to include CNN International, the Cartoon Network, TNT and Turner Classic Movies. Then he used his riches to become one of America’s most extensive landowners, dedicating his final years to preserving natural habitats, saving endangered species and reducing nuclear weapons.

Turner died at age 87 while surrounded by his family, according to Turner Enterprises, which oversees his vast businesses and investments. A cause was not released. He was diagnosed in 2018 with Lewy body dementia, a progressive neurological disorder.

A Southerner with outspoken wit, he earned the nicknames “Captain Outrageous” and “The Mouth of the South” during his youthful years.

“If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect," he once bragged.

Turner was a celebrity in his own right when he married actor Jane Fonda in 1991, just before being named Time magazine’s Man of the Year.

“He swept into my life, a gloriously handsome, deeply romantic, swashbuckling pirate and I’ve never been the same,” Fonda wrote Wednesday on Instagram.

Slowed late in life by his illness and long out of the television business, Turner concentrated on philanthropy — donating a stunning $1 billion to United Nations charities — and his more than 2 million acres (800,000 hectares) of property, including the nation’s largest bison herd.

His garrulous personality sometimes overshadowed a driven, risk-taking business acumen. By the time he sold his Turner Broadcasting System to Time Warner Inc. in a 1996 media megadeal, Turner had turned his late father’s billboard company into a global conglomerate that included seven major cable networks, three professional sports teams and a pair of hit movie studios.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called him “one of the Greats of All Time.”

The creation of CNN

Turner’s signature achievement was creating CNN, the first 24-hour, all-news television network in 1980. It was born of frustration — he often worked late after network newscasts had gone off the air, and was in bed by the time his local stations did their own news.

He took a chance by launching what some called the “chicken noodle network” in the early days of cable television, living in an apartment above its Atlanta office.

“I was going to have to hit hard and move incredibly fast and that’s what we did — move so fast that the (broadcast) networks wouldn’t have the time to respond, because they should have done this, not me,” Turner recalled in a 2016 interview with The American Academy of Achievement. “But they didn’t have the imagination.”

CNN’s breakthrough came during the Gulf War with Iraq in 1991. Most television journalists fled Baghdad. CNN stayed, capturing images of the war’s outbreak, with anti-aircraft tracers streaking across the sky and correspondents flinching from the concussion of bombs.

“His first love was family and he had five children. But very close behind, he’s always told me that his greatest achievement was CNN. But he had so many over the years,” Tom Johnson, CNN's president from 1990 to 2001, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Turner was promised a role in CNN after his company’s sale to Time Warner for $7.3 billion in stock but was gradually pushed out, much to his regret.

“I made a mistake,” he later said. “The mistake I made was losing control of the company.”

That same year — 1996 — saw the birth of Fox News Channel and arrival of a new dominant mogul in cable news, Rupert Murdoch. Turner once compared Murdoch to Adolf Hitler. The bitter rivals later reconciled over environmental concerns.

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Wednesday called Turner a visionary and a trailblazer.

“Ted’s entrepreneurial spirit, creative ambition and willingness to take risks changed the media industry forever,” Zaslav said in a note to employees at Warner, CNN’s parent company, which is nearing a mega merger with Paramount.

Building TBS SuperStation

Robert Edward Turner III was born Nov. 19, 1938, in Cincinnati. When he was 9, his family moved to Savannah, Georgia. After being expelled from Brown University for sneaking a female student into his room, Turner came to Atlanta to work for his father’s billboard company.

His ambitions at that point were broad, he later recalled: “I used to tell people I wanted to become the world’s greatest sailor, businessman and lover all at the same time.”

After his father’s 1963 suicide, Turner took over the company. In 1970, he bought an independent UHF station with a signal so weak it didn’t even cover Atlanta.

On Dec. 17, 1976, he began transmitting the station to cable systems across the country via satellite. It became the TBS SuperStation. “It was the start of something bigger than we ever imagined,” Turner said.

TBS’ collection of old movies and “The Andy Griffith Show” reruns was augmented by Turner’s acquisition of baseball’s Atlanta Braves, which slowly attracted fans across the nation and declared themselves “America’s team.”

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Turner transformed how fans experience sports.

In the 1980s, Turner went deeply into debt to buy MGM, another move greeted with skepticism.

But the acquisition gave his company a huge library of vintage movies that eventually launched the TNT and Turner Classic Movies networks. His devotion to older movies earned Turner a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. He was also criticized for adding color to classic movies like “Casablanca,” which he said he did to appeal to a younger audience.

TBS also acquired the Hanna-Barbera animation library, which led to the Cartoon Network.

“He sees the obvious before most people do,” Bob Wright, former president and CEO of NBC, told The New Yorker in 2001. “We all look at the same picture, but Ted sees what you don’t see. And after he sees it, it becomes obvious to everybody.”

Asked to share the secret to his success, Turner said: “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.”

Acquiring sports teams and land

Married three times, the mustachioed Turner wooed beautiful women with a roguish charm. He was married to Fonda from 1991 to 2001. She quit acting while married to Turner, but tired of his philandering and divorced him, although they remained friends.

“He was sexy. He was brilliant. He had 2 million acres by the time I left. It would have been easy to stay,” Fonda once said.

He struck up friendships with world leaders, bonding with Cuban leader Fidel Castro over hunting and arguments about politics.

Turner's sports empire included professional baseball, basketball and hockey teams in Atlanta, but he was best remembered at the helm of the Braves, turning the perennial doormats into world series champions in 1995. Their former stadium, built for the 1996 Olympics, was named Ted Turner Field.

He acquired millions of acres in ranches complete with roaming buffalo. He spoke often of reviving the West’s bison herds, and in 2002 started a restaurant chain serving bison burgers, Ted’s Montana Grill.

Forbes estimated his net worth at $2.8 billion at the time of his death.

He had enough time, and money, to devote his energy to such lofty goals as promoting world peace and protecting the environment.

“See, my life is more an adventure than a quest to make money. Adventure is going out and doing something for the pure hell of it,” Turner once said. “You just want to see if you can do it, period. There’s no thought of gain other than your own satisfaction.”

‘The Mouth of the South’

Through the years, Turner’s antics occasionally overshadowed his business activities.

Fresh from skippering his boat “Courageous” to the 1977 America’s Cup title, a very inebriated Turner was captured by TV cameras stretched out on the floor at the victory celebration.

Turner managed to insult many with his shoot-from-the-lip style. An atheist since his only sister died of lupus at age 17, he called Christians “losers” and “Jesus freaks,” later apologizing.

He once suggested in a speech that unemployed Black people be used to haul mobile missiles with ropes “like the Egyptians building the pyramids.” He said he was joking after civil rights leaders demanded an apology. And he once told an audience in Berlin that “you Germans had a bad century.”

“You were on the wrong side of two wars. You were the losers. I know what that’s like. When I bought the Atlanta Braves, we couldn’t win, either. You guys can turn it around. You can start making the right choices. If the Atlanta Braves could do it, then Germany can do it,” Turner said, according to The New Yorker.

Dedication to humanitarian causes

Turner's 1997 pledge to give $100 million a year for 10 years to United Nations charities made him a leader in American philanthropy. He made good on his promise even as his fortune shrank after the AOL Time Warner merger, calling it the best hope for peace.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called Turner “a visionary whose conviction, generosity and audacious spirit left a lasting imprint on the United Nations and our world.”

Turner promoted a range of humanitarian causes. He joined former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn to start the nonprofit Nuclear Threat Initiative.

“If I had to predict, the way things are going, I’d say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct in 50 years,” Turner said in 2003. “Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.”

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Bauder, a longtime media writer who retired from The Associated Press in 2026, was the principal writer of this story. Seewer reported from Toledo, Ohio. Former Associated Press correspondent Ryan Nakashima and AP writers R.J. Rico in Atlanta, Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed.

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Malik, 18, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Lollar, her ex-boyfriend, in March.

Lollar’s family had asked for a 30-year sentence. The judge ended up giving her 17 years behind bars, with five years of probation.

“I’m gonna stand up and honor my son and defend my son,” Darveed Lollar, Yakheim Lollar’s father, said. “I just wanted to be heard. Man, I don’t like the way this case was handled.”

It happened on Dec. 20, 2024 at the apartment building where Lollar lived in the 6100 block of Northwest Sixth Court, in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood.

Malik told police the stabbing was an accident — a deadly, unintended result of horseplay.

“It will always be a fact that you are a murderer,” Zeldrina Beecham, Lollar’s aunt, told Malik. “You are a demon seed that your parents brought into this world to bring suffering on everybody else. Shame on them.”

Nathalie Jean, Lollar’s mother, said, “We just want what my son deserved.”

“His life matters. I do not want to leave here today, your honor, feeling like I lost my son all over again,” she said.

Prosecutors played surveillance videos in court, showing Lollar’s final moments after Malik stabbed him in the chest with a pocket knife.

“It went into the third rib on the left side, approximately one inch in depth and hit the heart,” Miami Police Department Sgt. Juan Santos testified.

The sights and sounds were so distressing, some fled the courtroom.

Prosecutors had recommended 20 years of prison with 10 years probation.

Meanwhile, Malik’s attorneys said she was remorseful and they wanted her sentenced as a youthful offender to a boot camp program.

Malik apologized in court Tuesday.

“I was wrong for what I did, and every day I sit and think about the damage I caused,” she said. “The family wants me in prison, but I’m in my own prison for the rest of my life. I wish I can’t go back and change what happened, but I can’, and that’s the worst part. Y’all didn’t deserve this pain and I wish I hadn’t been the one to give it to y’all.”

Besides the years of prison and probation, Malik will have to undergo a mental health evaluation and write a letter on every Dec. 20 during her probation term, acknowledging what has occurred and how it has affected their lives.

After the hearing, emotions were running high for loved ones of both Lollar and Malik.

“I hope when she goes today to go to prison and get processed, she’s going to sit there and think about the lives that she destroyed,” said Jean.

“I feel that justice was not served tonight for the defendant, my niece, Jahara Malik,” said Gary Malik, the defendant’s uncle. “She was a youthful offender at the time that this happened, and I feel that the court did not recognize that.”

Malik was remanded immediately after the judge announced her decision.

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Jail records show Zonia Beatriz Reatgui was arrested Tuesday by the Miami Police Department.

According to investigators, the victim, who is unable to drive, relied on Reatgui — a longtime friend of about 20 years — for transportation to medical appointments.

On Dec. 9, 2025, police said Reatgui drove the woman to a hospital for treatment related to a foot condition.

Before the victim was admitted, they said Reatgui offered to hold onto her bracelets to prevent them from being lost. The victim agreed and handed over the jewelry.

After the victim was discharged days later, police said she asked for the bracelets back.

They said Reatgui initially claimed she was traveling to Peru and would return the items later. Over the following weeks, she allegedly gave multiple excuses before ultimately telling the victim the jewelry had been “stolen” from her home, the report states.

Investigators said Reatgui asked the victim not to tell her family and promised reimbursement, but never followed through.

A review of pawn shop records later showed that bracelets matching the victim’s jewelry were pawned on Dec. 9 and Dec. 20, 2025, for $500 each, police said. They said the items were identified through photos and unique charm configurations and were placed on hold.

During a recorded interview, police said Reatgui admitted to pawning the jewelry and confirmed she never retrieved it.

They said the victim later provided a statement and identified Reatgui as the person she entrusted with the jewelry.

Records show she is facing one count of third-degree grand theft, as well as two counts each of dealing in stolen property and secondhand dealer violations involving failure to verify ownership of items valued over $300.

As of Thursday, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where her bond was listed as “to be set.”

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Zonia Beatriz Reatgui fue arrestada el martes por el Departamento de Policía de Miami.

Según los investigadores, la víctima, quien no puede conducir, dependía de Reatgui —una amiga de larga data de unos 20 años— para transporte a citas médicas.

El 9 de diciembre de 2025, la policía dijo que Reatgui llevó a la mujer a un hospital para tratamiento relacionado con una condición en el pie.

Antes de que la víctima fuera admitida, dijeron que Reatgui se ofreció a guardar sus pulseras para evitar que se perdieran. La víctima accedió y entregó las joyas.

Después de que la víctima fue dada de alta días más tarde, la policía dijo que pidió que le devolvieran las pulseras.

Indicaron que Reatgui inicialmente afirmó que estaba viajando a Perú y que devolvería los artículos después. Durante las semanas siguientes, presuntamente dio múltiples excusas antes de finalmente decirle a la víctima que las joyas habían sido “robadas” de su casa, según el informe.

Los investigadores dijeron que Reatgui le pidió a la víctima que no le dijera a su familia y prometió reembolso, pero nunca cumplió.

Una revisión de los registros de casas de empeño mostró posteriormente que pulseras que coincidían con las joyas de la víctima fueron empeñadas el 9 y el 20 de diciembre de 2025 por $500 USD cada una, dijo la policía. Indicaron que los artículos fueron identificados mediante fotos y configuraciones únicas de dijes y fueron puestos en retención.

Durante una entrevista grabada, la policía dijo que Reatgui admitió haber empeñado las joyas y confirmó que nunca las recuperó.

Dijeron que la víctima posteriormente proporcionó una declaración e identificó a Reatgui como la persona a quien le confió las joyas.

Los registros muestran que enfrenta un cargo de hurto mayor en tercer grado, así como dos cargos de tráfico de propiedad robada y dos cargos por violaciones de comerciante de segunda mano por no verificar la propiedad de artículos valorados en más de $300 USD.

Hasta el jueves, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “por establecer”.

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Jose Suarez and Jose Canto, former executives with the Bayfront Park Management Trust, claimed Carollo retaliated against them for exposing financial mismanagement, misuse of public funds and corruption.

Carollo, 71, left office in December after a fourth-place finish in the race for Miami mayor, an office he held on two previous occasions.

Suarez and Canto alleged that public trust money was spent on Carollo’s political office and allies, including $60,000 to the commissioner’s Little Havana Fridays event and $150,000 to a broadcaster with ties to Carollo.

The lawsuit alleged that Carollo pushed Suarez and Canto out of their jobs “(a)fter diligently working to bring transparency and ethics.”

The pair “were attacked, defamed and constructively discharged,” they claimed.

Tuesday’s filing does not indicate how much money they settled for.

José Suárez y José Canto, ex ejecutivos del Bayfront Park Management Trust, afirmaron que Carollo tomó represalias contra ellos por exponer mala gestión financiera, uso indebido de fondos públicos y corrupción.

Carollo, de 71 años, dejó el cargo en diciembre tras quedar en cuarto lugar en la contienda por la alcaldía de Miami, cargo que ocupó en dos ocasiones anteriores.

Suárez y Canto alegaron que dinero público fue gastado en la oficina política de Carollo y sus aliados, incluyendo $60,000 USD para el evento Viernes de la Pequeña Habana del comisionado y $150,000 USD para un comunicador con vínculos con Carollo.

La demanda alegaba que Carollo obligó a Suárez y Canto a dejar sus trabajos “después de trabajar diligentemente para llevar transparencia y ética”.

El dúo “fue atacado, difamado y despedido de manera constructiva”, afirmaron.

El documento del martes no indica por cuánto dinero se llegó al acuerdo.

“That's not a figure of speech, sadly,” the country star told The Associated Press. “I was really, really badly hurt, and it was a bad enough injury that there was a chance that I wouldn’t have been able to perform ever again.”

It was 2021. She was riding in Montana, and fell, landing on her head. The accident — so severe that she ended up in an emergency room — resulted in a concussion and stitches to her scalp. At the time, she couldn't walk without assistance.

In the years since, McBryde thought about all of the songs she and her band rip through on stage but hadn't yet committed to record. “What if I keep letting them not be on records? What if something had happened and now somebody never hears “Water in the River”? Somebody never hears “Rattlesnake Preacher.” Somebody never hears “Creosote” because I let myself be discouraged in this way or that way from putting those on the record?”

And so “Wild” — her new album out Friday, produced by John Osbourne and recorded with her live band Deadhorse — became their home.

Heading into the “Wild”

The live tracks that gave birth to “Wild” are barn burners, a rowdy good time. So, McBryde knew she needed to find a way to strike some balance. She pursued divination practices like reading runes, going to a tarot reader, doing anything and everything she could to have her fifth album reveal itself to her. The answer was in the experimentation, a “playful, curious” writing process with her band.

“The more we looked at the songs that we had felt like playing — and doing a good job of delivering — (we found they) were true stories about my life,” she recognized. “It's terrifying to be known.”

But it's also cathartic — as is the realization that “whatever it was that I was going through, I’m not unique. There’s nothing I’ve been through that most of us haven’t been through or are going to go through,” McBryde explains. “It’s not about me, it’s about us.”

Getting deep

McBryde's last album, 2023's “The Devil I Know,” had a rebellious streak to it — as does “Wild” and the bulk of her discography. When critics said something “was too rock, we turned that up. They said something that was too country, then we put a toothpick in its mouth. And I think by the time we got to ‘Wild,’ I didn’t care anymore. It was that level of defiance,” she said. “It's none of my business. My job is to make sure these songs get heard.”

She calls this album her most rock ‘n’ roll — sonically, like what is found on the first four tracks — and emotionally, embodying her fiery spirit on the cutting treatise on domesticity, “Lines in the Carpet,” the heartfelt mission statement of the title track and everywhere in-between.

“Does the wild call out to you from a distance?” she starts her first chorus on “Wild.” Then, the revelation: “Do you miss the fire and the freedom? / When there wasn’t anything keeping / You from being wild.”

“There are people out there with natural ability and there are people that dedicate every waking hour to honing their craft. Ashley is both,” Osbourne said in a press statement. “Never settling. Always reaching. The perfect combination of vulnerable and fearless.”

That combination is also evident on the songs that appear to detail her struggles with addiction. McBryde got sober in 2022, the specter of past indiscretions heard on the beery ballad “Bottle Tells Me So” and the gut-wrenching “Behind Bars.”

“I was terrified that I was gonna suck,” she says about songwriting after getting sober. “It’s not like I’d get hammered to write a song, but I would have drinks while writing songs.” And maybe a couple did suck, she guesses, “because they were just from such angry or unsatisfied places.” But she's worked on herself, and now, “these songs are just grown. And I'm glad. I got out of my way.”

It's good advice for anyone, and a central theme of the album. She wants “Wild” to shake something loose, to inspire her listeners to take a chance on themselves.

“Let’s say that someone doesn’t get to be what they wanted to be when they grow up. I will shoulder that for you,” McBryde says.

She wants to access that dreamer. “I want that to wake up in you when you hear this record,” she says.

Call it catharsis, call it enthusiasm, call it whatever you want. McBryde has her own word for it: “It's a recognition.”

Detroit’s selection is the result of the tight relationship the PWHL has with the city’s Ilitch family, whose holdings include the Red Wings. And it reflects the success the league has enjoyed in playing four neutral-site games at the NHL team’s home.

“I think from the get-go, we have really felt the passion that this city and state have for hockey and the PWHL,” executive vice president of business operations Amy Scheer told The Associated Press. “I think it’s the perfect place for us to grow.”

Detroit hosted the PWHL’s first neutral-site game during its inaugural season in 2024, which Scheer credited for inspiring the league launching its multicity “Takeover Tour” the past two years. The four games at Little Caesars Arena, which will serve as the team’s home, attracted a combined attendance of 53,626, including 15,938 in March in the PWHL’s first game broadcast to a U.S. national TV audience.

A half-hour news conference took place inside Little Caesars Arena, and featured a video with a car revving over video of downtown Detroit and scenes from past Takeover Tour games.

“The PWHL didn’t have to guess whether Detroit was ready. Detroit made it obvious,” said Chris Ilitch, CEO of Ilitch Companies, which also owns baseball’s Detroit Tigers. “The wait is over. Detroit has a team. Let’s go.”

Ilitch addressed a crowd that included his mother, Marian, one of only a handful of women to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup.

The PWHL also announced Detroit will host the league’s draft and awards ceremony in mid-June. The draft on June 17 will feature a highly anticipated class of prospects brimming with U.S. talent, including gold medal-winning Olympians in Caroline Harvey and Laila Edwards, the first Black female player to represent Team USA.

Plans to add up to four teams

Detroit’s addition grows the PWHL to nine teams, and comes a year after adding franchises in Seattle and Vancouver. And there’s more to come, with the PWHL previously saying it plans to expand by between two and four markets.

Scheer would not reveal how more teams will be added, though the expectation remains four to be announced in the coming weeks.

Denver is considered a front-runner, with the PWHL targeting the city since a Takeover Tour game in January 2025 attracted 14,018 fans, who chanted “We want a team!” Another contender is Las Vegas, with the NHL’s Golden Knights having spent the past two years lobbying for a franchise.

And then there’s Hamilton, Ontario, whose potential addition would give the PWHL three teams in Ontario, rounded out by Toronto and Ottawa. Hamilton is an hour west of Toronto, and the PWHL is confident the region’s population of 570,000 is large enough to not draw fans away from the Sceptres.

The league has also expressed interest in Washington, D.C., Dallas, Chicago, the Alberta cities of Calgary and Edmonton, Quebec City and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Washington and Calgary have issues regarding arena availability and space, making it difficult to fit in an extra team.

Motor City meets PWHL criteria

Detroit meets several key PWHL expansion criteria, with the arena having a training facility attached to it, while the city’s location helps fill the travel gap between Toronto and Minnesota.

The Motor City is home to a large corporate base, including current league partners Ally Financial and the Meijer grocery store chain.

Detroit also has a rich history of girls developmental hockey programs. Among U.S. states, Michigan ranks second behind Minnesota in producing PWHL talent.

The PWHL can boast beating the state’s colleges in adding women’s hockey. The state does not have a Division I women’s hockey team, though the University of Michigan is in discussions to establish one.

“I hope it follows, right? I hope we can be a catalyst to continue to grow the game here,” PWHL executive vice president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford said. “We’re excited about the impact we’re going to be able to have here in Detroit on hockey in general, but certainly on women’s hockey.”

The yet-to-be named team’s primary colors will be black and silver, with a red accent in a nod to the Red Wings. The jerseys will also feature an Ally Financial patch.

Post-Olympic surge

The latest round of expansion comes during the Walter Cup playoffs and the league enjoying a major boost following the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The PWHL’s 120-game regular-season schedule attracted more than 1.1 million fans, representing a 28% jump over last year and marked the first time the league topped 1 million in one season. Online merchandise sales surged by more than 50% over last season, including a 190% jump following the Olympics as compared to the same period a year ago.

The league’s YouTube channel’s viewership increased by 77% this year, and now reaches 154 countries.

Adding three U.S. markets to its four existing American cities — rounded out by Newark, New Jersey, and Boston — would better position the PWHL to land a U.S. national broadcast partnership.

This season, Scripps Sports agreed to broadcast various games, including the playoffs, on ION, which is accessible to 126 million American households. League and Scripps officials have expressed interest in establishing a more permanent partnership for next season.

The PWHL is centrally controlled and privately backed by Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter and wife Kimbra, who have invested hundreds of millions of dollars.

Scheer said this round of expansion before Season 4 meets the Walters’ vision in building a sustainable league.

“While it might be fast in terms of the way other leagues have done things, for us it’s measured and calculated,” Scheer said. “So we feel good at the pace that we’re moving, and feel confident in the way we’re growing. We’ll be here for a while.”

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Three people have died and one body is still on the Dutch ship at the center of the outbreak, the MV Hondius, which is now heading for Spain’s Canary Islands. The patients were evacuated via the Cape Verde islands off West Africa.

About 150 passengers are isolating in their cabins, and officials say those on board show no symptoms.

The World Health Organization says the outbreak's global risk is low, with the organization’s top epidemic expert telling The Associated Press, “This is not the next COVID.” There have been eight cases, five of them confirmed by laboratory testing, the WHO says.

Hantavirus is a rare, rodent-borne illness that usually spreads when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings. The Argentine government’s leading hypothesis is that a Dutch couple contracted the virus during a bird-watching tour at a garbage dump before boarding the cruise, according to two officials.

Here’s the latest:

The illness starts with flu-like symptoms

An infection can rapidly progress and become life-threatening. Experts say it can start with symptoms including fever, chills, muscle aches and maybe a headache — much like the flu.

Symptoms of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome usually show between one to six weeks, or more, after contact with an infected rodent. As the infection progresses, patients might experience tightness in the chest as the lungs fill with fluid.

The other syndrome caused by hantavirus — known as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, which can cause bleeding, high fever, and kidney failure — usually develops within a week or two after exposure.

Death rates vary by which hantavirus causes the illness. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is fatal in about 35% of people infected, while the death rate for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome varies from 1% to 15% of patients, according to the CDC.

2 British passengers who left the ship before the outbreak are now self-isolating

The U.K. Health Security Agency says “a small number” of contacts of the two cruise passengers are also self-isolating.

Both the passengers and their contacts aren’t showing any symptoms. People who came into contact with them on their journey back to Britain are being traced.

The hantavirus incubation period can be one to six weeks, or more.

Some 19 British nationals and four British crew members were listed as being on the cruise. They’ll be flown back once the vessel arrives in the Canary Islands, as long as they do not have symptoms, the agency said.

The first 2 patients had a long, winding path before the cruise

Argentina’s Ministry of Health says it’s working with authorities across the country to retrace the winding path of the Dutch couple that became the first to fall ill with hantavirus on the cruise ship before dying.

The ministry said the couple arrived in Argentina on Nov. 27 last year and traveled 40 days by car before crossing into Chile on Jan. 7. They returned to Argentina on Jan. 31 for a road trip through various provinces, including Neuquén, in north-central Patagonia, and Misiones in the far northeast. On March 13, they visited Uruguay and returned a week later to Argentina’s southernmost town of Ushuaia, from where the stricken Atlantic cruise sailed.

Pursuing a hypothesis that the couple was infected by exposure to rodent droppings during a bird-watching tour at a landfill in Ushuaia, the government said it will send technical teams from the state-funded Malbrán Institute to analyze the possible presence of the virus in Ushuaia and the surrounding Tierra del Fuego Province. Tierra del Fuego has never reported a hantavirus case in its history.

A German passenger is going to a specialized hospital in their home country

Prof. Dr. Torsten Feldt, head of the tropical medicine department at University Hospital Duesseldorf, said the passenger ″has had contact with an infected individual’’ and ″to the best of our knowledge, is asymptomatic.”

He said the person would undergo an initial medical assessment and virological testing.

Another patient from the ship arrived Wednesday night at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, according to Dutch national broadcaster NOS. The hospital did not identify the patient for privacy reasons.

Associated Press journalists saw two patients from the cruise ship arrive Wednesday evening at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. One of them was taken away in a German ambulance, and the other in a Dutch ambulance.

The two patients were covered head-to-toe in white biohazard suits as they walked across the tarmac, flanked by people in similar protective clothing.

Passenger shares empty ship scenes as people on board isolate

The World Health Organization said passengers are isolating in their cabins.

“Our days have been close to normal, just waiting for authorities to find a solution,” passenger Qasem Elhato, 31 — who sent AP the video footage — said via WhatsApp.

“But morale on the ship is high and we’re keeping ourselves busy with reading, watching movies, having hot drinks and that kind of things,” he said.

The Dutch government is studying virus risks

Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen said Wednesday that experts are assessing all risks from the passengers aboard the cruise ship, and the Dutch government is working with the WHO and the ship operator to manage the situation.

He spoke Wednesday evening, when two patients disembarked from a medical evacuation flight at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport for treatment in Dutch and German hospitals.

“It is important that we ensure we manage this as well as possible,” he said, according to Dutch national broadcaster NOS.

A lot of unknowns about the illness and treatment

Frannie Twohig, a researcher and doctoral candidate, prepares samples of inactivated material as part of hantavirus research at the Center for Global Health at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Monday, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

There is no specific treatment or cure, but early medical attention can increase the chance of survival.

Despite years of research, many questions have yet to be answered, including why it can be mild for some people and severe for others and how antibodies are developed. Some researchers have been following patients over long periods of time in hopes of finding a treatment.

“In the Americas, hantavirus infection is very serious, but it’s also quite rare,” Bradfute said. “And so for a time that probably led to less research into it because of funding priorities, but I know there’s been a lot of interest in funding hantavirus work of late.”

What researchers do know is that rodent exposure is key.

The best way to avoid the germ is to minimize contact with rodents and their droppings. Use protective gloves and a bleach solution for cleaning up rodent droppings. Public health experts caution against sweeping or vacuuming, which can cause virus particles to get into the air.

Two patients taken away in ambulances

After the medical evacuation flight landed at Amsterdam airport Wednesday evening, one patient disembarked and was put into a German ambulance and driven away.

Then a second patient got off the plane and was put into a Dutch ambulance and driven away. Other emergency vehicles remained on the tarmac nearby.

Hantavirus infections have been relatively uncommon globally

The WHO reported that in 2025, eight countries within the Americas had documented 229 cases and 59 deaths. In Argentina, the health ministry said hantavirus led to 28 deaths nationwide last year.

In the U.S., federal health officials began tracking the virus after a 1993 outbreak in the Four Corners region — the area where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah meet. It was an astute physician with the Indian Health Service who first noticed a pattern of deaths among young patients.

Most U.S. cases are in Western states. New Mexico and Arizona are hot spots, likely because the odds are greater for mouse-human encounters in rural areas.

Medical evacuation flight lands at Amsterdam airport

The cruise ship operator had said two of the passengers who were evacuated “remain in a serious condition.” The third has no symptoms but was “closely associated” with a passenger who died May 2.

Hantavirus is on the rise in Argentina

Many local public health researchers attribute the increase to the recently accelerating effects of climate change.

Higher temperatures expand the virus’ range because, in part, as it gets warmer and ecosystems change, rodents that carry the virus can thrive in more places, experts say.

“With the climate changing, the epidemiological picture has completely changed,” said Hugo Pizzi, a prominent Argentine infectious disease specialist. “The ship may be an isolated case. But this virus isn’t going anywhere.”

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After evacuating 3 patients, Cape Verde says its duties under international regulations are complete

The cruise ship has been cleared to continue its voyage and the three patients were evacuated from the country “with maximum safety,” National Director of Health Angela Gomes said in a statement Wednesday.

Cape Verde is a group of islands about 450 miles (725 kilometers) off the west coast of Africa.

WHO says the body of a dead passenger will remain on the ship

A German passenger’s body will be taken to Spain’s Canary Islands, where the cruise ship is set to be received, a World Health Organization official told the AP on Wednesday.

“The Cape Verdean authorities here could not take care of the body to cremate it. So it’s kept in a cold room and it’s going with the boat,” Ann Lindstrand, the WHO representative in Cape Verde, said.

The WHO has not yet verified if that passenger was a confirmed case of hantavirus.

WHO says confirmed cases rise to 5, including 2 passengers evacuated Wednesday

The World Health Organization had previously confirmed three cases and five suspected ones.

Ann Lindstrand, the WHO representative in Cape Verde, said in a phone interview that a sample from the third patient evacuated from the ship is still being checked.

“So far of all the cases related to this boat, the eight cases, we now have five confirmed with laboratory testing for Andes virus,” she said. “So it’s quite a lot.”

Health officials are tracking down dozens of people in South Africa who might’ve been near infected passengers

Two passengers left the cruise ship at different islands in the South Atlantic and traveled to South Africa. One has died and the other remains hospitalized.

Health officials in that country have identified 62 people — airplane passengers, airport workers, health workers, hospital cleaners, port of entry officials and others — who likely had contact with those two patients.

So far, officials have tracked down 42 of them, and none tested positive for hantavirus. However, some of the 20 people still being traced may have traveled to other countries, the health ministry said in a report.

Evacuation plane will stop to refuel in the Canary Islands

A plane evacuating two of the patients with suspected hantavirus infections from the cruise ship off Cape Verde is stopping at an airport in the Canary Islands to refuel, the Spanish health ministry said.

A flight tracker showed the small plane circling near the island of Gran Canaria where it is expected to make its short stop before continuing on to the Netherlands.

WHO confirms it’s the Andes type of hantavirus

Samples taken earlier from the patients now evacuated from the ship were examined and also confirmed to be the Andes type, the World Health Organization said at a briefing Wednesday.

The WHO says the Andes virus is found in South America, primarily in Argentina and Chile, and can spread between people, though that’s rare and only through close contact.

The cruise ship will be leaving Cape Verde in around two hours and has gotten medical reinforcement after its doctor became sick and was evacuated, Ann Lindstrand, WHO representative in Cape Verde, said at the briefing.

“One medical doctor from WHO ... will be taking care of patients if there will be more cases on board,” Lindstrand said.

‘This is not the next Covid’

The World Health Organization’s top epidemic expert told the AP that the risk to the public is low, and the Andes type of the hantavirus is known — even if the WHO has never seen a hantavirus outbreak on a ship.

“This is not the next Covid, but it is a serious infectious disease,” Maria Van Kerkhove said. “Most people will never be exposed to this.”

For those on the ship, access to clinical care is important, she said, because infected people can develop severe acute respiratory distress and need oxygen or mechanical ventilation. The hantavirus incubation period can be one to six weeks, or more, she added.

Investigators say a couple on cruise ship possibly got hantavirus while bird-watching in Argentina

Two Argentine officials investigating the origins of the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship that sailed from southern Argentina say the government’s leading hypothesis is that a Dutch couple contracted the virus during a bird-watching outing in the city of Ushuaia before boarding.

They said the couple visited a landfill during the bird-watching tour where they may have been exposed to rodents carrying the infection.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media, with the investigation ongoing. Previously authorities said that Ushuaia and the surrounding province of Tierra del Fuego had never recorded a case of the hantavirus.

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Hondius cruise company confirms 3 patients have left the ship

Oceanwide Expeditions says they are being taken by specially equipped planes to “locations able to provide specialized care and appropriate medical screening.”

A Dutch hospital has confirmed it will take one of the people, and German authorities say they are preparing to pick up a second from the Netherlands.

The Dutch company says two of the people medically evacuated “remain in a serious condition.” The third has no symptoms but was “closely associated” with a passenger who died May 2.

The company also says that it is “expanding medical care on board with two infectious disease physicians, arriving today by plane from the Netherlands.”

A Dutch hospital is preparing to take one patient from Hondius

The Leiden University Medical Center says the department where the patient will be seen is well prepared.

In a statement posted on its website, the hospital said, “In addition to isolation rooms for patients, all protective equipment for our staff is available. Treatment takes place in strict isolation, following the applicable protocols. The LUMC has specialized isolation facilities."

It also seeks to reassure other visitors to the hospital, saying patients or visitors “run no risk of infection. You do not need to take any special measures. You can continue to visit as usual.”

Düsseldorf University Clinic to test person who came in contact with a hantavirus case on board

In Germany, the Düsseldorf University Clinic said that one of the three passengers who was evacuated from the ship and is being flown to the Netherlands, who was in contact with one of the hantavirus cases on board the ship, would be brought to the hospital for testing later Wednesday.

It said in a statement that the person would be brought to Düsseldorf from an unspecified Dutch airport with the help of specialists from the city’s fire service.

The hospital stressed that the patient is asymptomatic and that the testing is a precaution.

Spanish officials say the remaining passengers and crew members are all without symptoms

The arrival of the boat “won’t represent any risk for the public,” Spanish Health Minister Mónica García said.

She said that the boat will arrive at a secondary port on the island of Tenerife, which is located 10 minutes from an airport. From there, the roughly 140 passengers will be repatriated to their home countries.

García said that the operation to send the passengers and crew home will be overseen by the European Union’s civil protection program.

The 14 Spaniards who are on board will be flown by military plane to the mainland, where, if necessary, they will be kept in quarantine.

Canary Islands regional president warns of lack of protocol for receiving ship passengers

The regional president of Spain’s Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, said Wednesday that the Hondius had requested permission for the ship to dock on the island of Tenerife on May 9.

Clavijo, however, expressed his surprise that the passengers were being forced “to travel for three days” instead of flying to their homes from the airport in Praia.

He also complained that central authorities in Madrid had not informed him of the details of the circumstances on board the vessel, a situation that limited local health officials’ ability to prepare for its arrival.

“We still don’t know the status of all the passengers,” he said. “There is no protocol for this.”

Evacuation plans are still unclear

Oceanwide Expeditions said Tuesday evening that two specialized aircraft were flying to Cape Verde to evacuate two people who need urgent medical care and one person who was traveling with a German woman who died on board Saturday. They were to be taken to the Netherlands, though exactly when that would happen was not immediately clear.

Once the medical evacuation happens, the ship plans to sail to the Canary Islands, either Gran Canaria or Tenerife, a voyage of some three days, the company said in its statement, adding that “discussions are ongoing with relevant authorities.”

Spanish health officials had said in an earlier statement that they were monitoring and that “the most appropriate port of call will be decided. Until then, the Ministry of Health will not adopt any decision, as we have informed the World Health Organization.”

An altered journey

The World Health Organization has said the ship had an itinerary that included stops across the South Atlantic Ocean, including mainland Antarctica and the remote islands of South Georgia, Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena and Ascension.

The cruise company has only announced some details of two stops: at St. Helena, where the body of the Dutch man suspected to be the first hantavirus case on board was taken off the ship. His wife also left the ship at St. Helena and flew to South Africa, where she died.

The company said a British man was later evacuated from the ship at Ascension Island and taken to South Africa, where he is in an intensive care unit.

The company has not said if other people left the cruise ship at those or other locations.

The cruise ship is waiting to sail to Spain

The cruise ship will be welcomed to Spain’s Canary Islands, according to Spanish authorities, as the vessel waited off the coast of West Africa for a third day Wednesday for sick passengers to be evacuated.

The regional president of Spain’s Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, said Wednesday that he was worried the arrival of the ship could put the local population at risk and demanded an urgent meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

“Neither the populace nor the government of the Canary Islands can rest assured because it is clear that the danger to the population is real,” Clavijo told Onda Cero radio.

South African tests first confirm the Andes virus

South African health authorities said they identified the Andes strain of hantavirus in two passengers who were on the ship, and Swiss authorities said they identified the same virus in their affected patient.

The World Health Organization says the Andes virus, a specific species of hantavirus, is found in South America, primarily in Argentina and Chile.

The Andes virus can be spread between people, though this is rare and the spread of the disease is typically contained because it would spread only through close contact, such as by sharing a bed or sharing food, experts say.

The South African Department of Health said its results came from tests performed on the passengers after they were removed from the ship and flown to South Africa.

One of the passengers, a British man, is in intensive care in a South African hospital. Tests were performed on the other passenger posthumously after she died in South Africa.

3 patients evacuated from cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak, new case confirmed in Switzerland

The cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak and which is stuck off the coast of Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board was waiting Wednesday to head to Spain’s Canary Islands. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Africa and Switzerland identified a strain of the virus that can be transmitted between humans in rare cases.

Three passengers have died and several others have been sickened by hantavirus on board the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius cruise ship. Hantavirus usually spreads by inhaling contaminated rodent droppings.

The ship left Argentina on April 1 on an Atlantic cruise and was scheduled to include stops in Antarctica, the Falkland Islands and other locations. However, the itinerary appears to have changed because of the situation on board.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said three patients with suspected hantavirus cases have been evacuated from the ship and are on their way to the Netherlands.

The deployment puts Europe’s most powerful warship closer to the strait whose effective closure has come to epitomize the war in Iran, stranding hundreds of ships and triggering what the International Energy Agency calls the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.

The defensive effort is distinct from the U.S. “Project Freedom” that launched Monday and was paused by President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening.

The repositioning of the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle and its escorts comes as part of a proposed mission championed by France and Britain to restore maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz as soon as conditions allow.

It "may help restore confidence among shipowners and insurers,” Macron said on X. “It remains distinct from the parties at war.”

Macron, who spoke with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday, said he also intends to raise the matter with Trump.

“A return to calm in the Strait will help advance negotiations on nuclear issues, ballistic matters, and the regional situation,” Macron wrote. “Europeans… will play their part.”

Col. Guillaume Vernet, spokesperson for the French armed forces chief of staff, stressed that the Hormuz coalition — drawn up by France, Britain and more than 50 nations — will not begin operating until two thresholds are cleared: The threat to shipping must come down, and the maritime industry must be reassured enough to use the strait.

Even then, he told The Associated Press, any operation would require the agreement of neighboring countries. That would include Iran, which borders the strait and effectively closed it by attacking and threatening ships after the war began on Feb. 28 with attacks by the U.S. and Israel.

Vernet did not specify when the carrier would reach its destination. He said the carrier was being positioned to be close enough to act if and when the conditions are met: “The French position is the same since the beginning — defensive posture, respecting international law."

War-risk insurance premiums for transits of the strait have risen four to five times above preconflict levels, according to industry estimates.

For now, insurance premiums are so high that "not a single ship will jeopardize their trip or go there,” Vernet said.

Washington has not been part of the French-British planning, which observers have said echoes the European “coalition of the willing” that Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer assembled to support Ukraine.

“We want to send the message that not only are we ready to secure the Strait of Hormuz, but that we are also capable of doing so,” a French top official said, speaking anonymously in line with the French presidency’s customary practices.

Early in the war, France sought a multinational initiative to reestablish freedom of navigation in the strait. Macron and Starmer hosted dozens of countries at a Paris summit on April 17, and military planners from more than 30 nations later finalized operational details.

The Charles de Gaulle had been ordered from the Baltic to the eastern Mediterranean soon after the war began in what the French presidency described as an “unprecedented” mobilization that also includes eight frigates and two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships.

Meanwhile, French Rafale fighters based at Al Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates have been intercepting Iranian drones and missiles over the Gulf state since the war began under a long-standing defense pact with Abu Dhabi that puts some 900 French personnel on the Gulf’s southern shore.

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Associated Press writer Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.

Las señales de “Calle cerrada” bloqueaban la entrada al edificio de oficinas corporativas que albergaba la sede de la aerolínea desde abril de 2024, en 1731 Radiant Drive.

Marco A. Salvino, Sr., vicealcalde de Dania Beach, dijo que Spirit Airlines aportó alrededor de 1,2 millones de dólares en impuestos sobre la propiedad y servicios públicos a Dania Beach.

“Es una gran pérdida para nuestra ciudad”, dijo Salvino.

Dania Pointe , un centro comercial vecino, se benefició de tener la sede de la aerolínea de ultra bajo coste a tan solo 5 minutos a pie .

“Esto afectará a los restaurantes”, dijo Salvino.

La anterior sede de Spirit Airlines estaba ubicada en 2800 Executive Way, en el Miramar Park of Commerce.

Con pérdidas superiores a los 2.500 millones de dólares desde 2020, las solicitudes de quiebra se presentaron en 2024 y 2025, y el cierre se produjo el sábado después de que fracasara un rescate gubernamental de última hora de 500 millones de dólares.

“Tenemos 18.000 personas que viven en este país que son personas estupendas y excelentes empleados”, dijo el presidente Donald Trump sobre los empleados de Spirit Airlines en todo el país el 23 de abril en la Casa Blanca.

Trump y el secretario de Transporte, Sean Duffy, criticaron al gobierno del expresidente Joe Biden por bloquear la venta de Spirit Airlines a JetBlue por 3.800 millones de dólares en 2024.

Spirit Airlines presentó el lunes los avisos de despido ante FloridaCommerce , la principal agencia estatal encargada de la gestión laboral. Se registraron más de 3260 despidos en los condados de Broward y Miami-Dade.

Los registros muestran que el aviso incluía 2.529 casos en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood y 181 en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.

Los otros fueron el vuelo 796 en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Orlando y el vuelo 796 en el Centro de Operaciones y Control de Tráfico Aéreo de MCO en Orlando.

Documento relacionado: Aviso de despido (del 2 al 13 de mayo)

Enlace útil : Spirit Airlines lanza una página de reestructuración.

Historias relacionadas

• Spirit Airlines informa de más de 4.850 despidos en Florida.
• Mientras aún visten los uniformes de Spirit Airlines, los solicitantes de empleo comienzan a pedir ayuda.
• Ex empleados desempleados de Spirit Airlines marchan en Dania Beach.
• Spirit Airlines pide a los pasajeros que no acudan al aeropuerto, o de lo contrario, no se realizarán cambios de reserva.

Próximas ferias de empleo

La feria de empleo del sector de la hostelería se celebrará el miércoles de 10:00 a 12:00 en CareerSource Broward, ubicada en 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos.

Miramar organiza una feria de empleo el 20 de mayo, de 10:00 a 14:00, en el Centro Cultural de Miramar, ubicado en 2400 Civic Center Place. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos. Para más información, visite la página de Eventbrite .

La Feria y Exposición de Empleo de Port Everglades se llevará a cabo el 27 de mayo de 9:00 a 13:00 en el Centro de Convenciones del Condado de Broward, ubicado en 1950 Eisenhower Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale. La entrada y el estacionamiento son gratuitos. Aquí encontrará una lista de las empresas participantes >

Recursos

• Departamento de Trabajo: Los servicios de respuesta rápida incluyen orientación sobre la cobertura de continuación de COBRA.
• American Airlines lanza la página de empleo “Supporting Spirit”.
• United Airlines lanza un programa para dar prioridad a los exempleados de Spirit Airlines en sus contrataciones. Aquí está la página de empleo >
• Southwest Airlines estaba reclutando en esta página .
• Página de empleos de JetBlue
• JetBlue anunció una extensión del “acuerdo de asientos auxiliares durante las próximas dos semanas, sujeto a la disponibilidad de espacio y limitado a los asientos de cabina” para aquellos que quedaron varados mientras trabajaban para Spirit Airlines, y también anunció “entrevistas de empleo preferenciales”.
• Delta publica un comunicado de ayuda
• Para obtener más información sobre la ayuda que ofrece la Asociación de Auxiliares de Vuelo , llame al 1-800-385-3920.
• CareerSource Broward ofrece servicios como colocación laboral y orientación profesional en tres centros ubicados en 4941 Coconut Creek Parkway, 2550 West Oakland Park Boulevard y 7550 Davie Road Extension en Hollywood.
• Employ Miami-Dade ofrece servicios para quienes buscan empleo .
• CareerOneStop tiene una base de datos de centros de empleo.
• Para presentar una solicitud de beneficios por desempleo en Florida, llame al 1-800-204-2418 o visite esta página .
• Encuentra tu banco de alimentos local en esta página de Feeding America.

Lo que antes se consideraba un pasatiempo transmitido de generación en generación ahora está teniendo un resurgimiento claramente moderno, impulsado por las redes sociales, la fascinación de celebridades y un creciente apetito local por la conexión en persona.

Clubes de mahjong están surgiendo en todo el sur de Florida y Mahjong Club Miami está organizando lecciones semanales con llenos totales y eventos sociales de juego.

El club comenzó con algo mucho más pequeño: un pequeño grupo de amigos jugando por diversión. El grupo de cinco se reunía semanalmente, rotando de casa en casa para encuentros íntimos de mahjong hasta que la noticia se difundió demasiado.

“La gente quería venir a jugar con nosotros en nuestra casa”, dijo la cofundadora Gabriela Leon. “Así que empezó a hacerse cada vez más grande y más grande hasta que un día dijimos: ‘No, esperen, no podemos invitar a más personas aquí. No podemos’”.

Leon dijo que su propia curiosidad por el mahjong surgió hace años por un momento memorable de la cultura pop: la dramática escena final de la película de 2018 “Crazy Rich Asians”, en la que el juego ocupa un lugar central.

Aprendió a jugar, enseñó a sus amigos y en poco tiempo, las pequeñas reuniones en casa se convirtieron en algo mucho más grande.

A través del boca a boca y las redes sociales, los amigos se convirtieron en instructores, atrayendo a recién llegados de todo el sur de Florida que querían aprender el juego y unirse a la creciente comunidad que lo rodea.

“No estamos en nuestros teléfonos”, dijo Leon. “Simplemente estamos conectando con las personas con las que estamos, así que se trata de comunidad”.

Asistimos al evento de Mahjong Club Miami en Ironside Cafe Bistro, que se ha convertido en un importante punto de encuentro en el sur de Florida para reuniones sociales de todo tipo, desde clubes de ajedrez y noches de juegos hasta eventos sociales de mercado público. Puede verlos en Instagram haciendo clic aquí.

El mahjong combina memoria, estrategia y velocidad, a menudo descrito por los entusiastas como una mezcla de ajedrez, póker, dominó y rummy.

Pero para muchos jugadores, el atractivo va más allá de las fichas.

A medida que los clubes de mahjong, eventos temáticos y lecciones para principiantes continúan multiplicándose en todo el país, el juego se ha convertido tanto en una salida social como en un símbolo de estatus, en partes iguales tradición, competencia e iniciador de conversaciones.

En el sur de Florida, eso significa una cosa está clara: el juego más antiguo en la sala podría ser la obsesión más nueva.

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What was once considered a pastime passed down through generations is now having a distinctly modern revival, fueled by social media, celebrity fascination and a booming local appetite for in-person connection.

Mahjong clubs are popping up across South Florida and Mahjong Club Miami is hosting packed lessons weekly and social play events.

The club started with something much smaller: a small group of friends playing for fun. The group of five met weekly, rotating home to home for intimate Mahjong meetups until word spread too far.

“People wanted to come play with us at our house,” said co-founder Gabriela Leon. “So it started to become bigger and bigger and bigger until one day we were like, ‘No wait, we cannot invite more people here. We cannot.’”

Leon said her own curiosity about mahjong was sparked years ago by a memorable pop culture moment - the dramatic closing scene of the 2018 film “Crazy Rich Asians,” in which the game takes center stage.

She learned to play, taught her friends, and before long, the small home gatherings turned into something much larger.

By way of word-of-mouth and social media, the friends became instructors, attracting newcomers from across South Florida who wanted to learn the game and join the growing community surrounding it.

“We’re not on our phones,” Leon said. “We’re just connecting with the people we are with, so it’s about community.”

We attended the Mahjong Club Miami event at Ironside Cafe Bistro, which has become a major south Florida hub for social gatherings of all kinds — from chess clubs and game nights to public market socials. You can check them out on Instagram by clicking here.

Mahjong blends memory, strategy and speed — often described by enthusiasts as a mix of chess, poker, dominoes and rummy.

But for many players, the draw goes beyond the tiles.

As mahjong clubs, themed events and beginner lessons continue multiplying nationwide, the game has become both social outlet and status symbol — equal parts tradition, competition and conversation starter.

In South Florida, that means one thing is clear: The oldest game in the room may just be the newest obsession.

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By Mother’s Day weekend we will introduce a stray shower or two into the forecast, but nothing widespread. Most of the weekend looks hot and dry. A higher chance for pop up thunderstorms holds off until Monday and Tuesday.

En el condado Miami-Dade, Wynwood Marketplace se convirtió en una gran fiesta callejera el martes.

Desde tacos hasta música en vivo y calles llenas, la fiesta estaba en pleno apogeo por la tarde.

El reportero de Local 10 News, Jason Carter, estuvo allí para toda la diversión, y su informe completo se puede ver en la parte superior de esta página.

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In Miami-Dade County, Wynwood Marketplace turned into one big street party Tuesday.

From tacos to live music and packed streets, the fiesta was in full swing by the afternoon.

Local 10 News’ Jason Carter was there for all the fun, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.

Electricity from solar and wind energy can power cars, however ships and aircraft largely run on liquid fuels made with a large percentage of oil or gasoline. When burned, those emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes global warming. Biofuel, refined from organic material like plants or algae, is a potential option to change the fuel makeup.

One kind of biofuel comes from kelp. Through a process that uses heat and pressure to produce fuel, known as hydrothermal liquefaction, this humble seaweed could power ships and aircraft without any petroleum.

“We need other sources of energy that are sustainable, we can’t just rely on petroleum,” said Scott Lindell, a marine scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution about a 90-minute drive south of Boston. “There’s hardly anything simpler, or anything that grows quite as fast and as sustainably, as seaweed.”

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is a collaboration between the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and The Associated Press.

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Existing biofuels, like corn-derived ethanol, primarily work as gasoline additives. Corn crops require agricultural land, fresh water and pesticides while kelp, by contrast, can be grown in the ocean with minimal resources.

Although any bioethanol — whether produced from corn or kelp — releases hazardous gases when burned, such as acetaldehyde, these fuels produce fewer greenhouse gases overall compared to petroleum-based fuels.

Researchers like Lindell have successfully bred kelp varieties that in some cases produce up to three times more biomass than conventional strains. Yet energy companies are hesitant to invest in large-scale aquaculture projects without demonstrated demand, and farmers are reluctant to scale up without a guaranteed buyer, forming a circular problem that has slowed industry development.

Government interest in biofuels is inconsistent

Aquaculture farms today remain small, supplying kelp primarily to restaurants, cosmetics companies and fertilizer producers. Hauke Kite-Powell, an engineer and economic analyst at Woods Hole, said scaling kelp production to support a biofuel economy would require sustained government support, beyond just the private sector.

While oil price volatility, driven in part by international conflicts such as the war in Iran, has led to bursts of renewed interest in energy independence, government support for options like biofuel fluctuates in the United States. In 2016, a program run by the Department of Energy set out to develop tools for kelp-based biofuel production.

The program, known as MARINER — Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources — consisted of projects ranging from developing heat-resistant kelp strains that can withstand warming oceans to studies on seaweed genomes. The Department of Energy often backs exploratory, high-risk high-return projects, and researchers involved in MARINER said they made progress, such as increasing kelp yields.

The program mirrored a similar feasibility-testing venture that began in the 1970s, which was swiftly terminated once oil prices stabilized. Lindell’s lab, funded by MARINER, focused on improving crop yield by selectively breeding kelp with desirable qualities — such as nonreproductive capabilities to prevent interbreeding with wild kelp — so that, down the line, farmers could scale up their kelp production.

Lindell’s MARINER funding lasted six years, finishing in 2024. Since then, federal research funding opportunities have been fewer and delayed. But the urgent need for sustainable energy remains, he said. “I don’t think things have changed incredibly since the first oil crisis.”

A middle market for kelp has yet to materialize

Farmers note the difficulties of finding consistent kelp buyers. Oliver Dixon, a shellfish farmer based in Point Judith, Rhode Island, grows kelp to supplement his oyster business during the winter. As of this month, he expects to harvest about 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilograms) of kelp, selling most of it to local restaurants and seafood markets.

“The buyers come in and out, it’s pretty discouraging,” Dixon said. His 9-acre (3.6-hectare) farm is hundreds of times smaller than what would be needed to produce biofuel, and without proven demand from the energy sector, he has no plans to expand.

Bren Smith, an ocean farmer and co-founder of GreenWave, a nonprofit supporting ocean farmers, argues that the issue isn’t a lack of demand, but instead where kelp makes sense economically: Kelp is currently more viable in products like cosmetics or food, rather than fuel, which remains one of its lowest-value uses.

“We’ve made this mistake before, right?” Smith said, referring to large-scale investments in kelp research focused on fuel production instead of the seaweed's myriad other uses. “Competing with the most technically advanced, subsidized industry on the globe, the fossil fuel industry.”

Red tape slows expansion, but researchers bet on the long game

Even with a guaranteed buyer, expanding kelp farming would face regulatory hurdles, according to Kite-Powell. In the United States, coastal waters are largely prioritized for recreation, fishing and conservation, making it difficult to obtain permits for large aquaculture projects. By contrast, countries in Asia often prioritize extensive seaweed farms, sometimes covering entire bays.

For now, most U.S. farms remain small and nearshore. Dixon said that he cannot obtain a permit to keep his farm infrastructure in the water year-round, requiring him to remove his lines and anchors each spring and reinstall them in the fall.

Moving farms further offshore could allow for larger operations, but it introduces engineering and environmental challenges, including the risk of entangling marine animals and the possibility that farmed kelp could compete with other marine life for nutrients.

“We don’t yet have a full understanding of what all the ecological side effects of very large-scale ocean farming might be,” Kite-Powell said.

Even so, scientists like Lindell remain confident that their work will be applied to a biofuel industry in the future. Around Lindell’s lab are glass vials and flasks of over 2,600 strains of sugar kelp collected from across New England, which he continues to study and breed selectively in hopes of the energy industry transitioning to renewable sources. To him, volatile fuel prices and the finite nature of resources like oil point to an eventual change.

“We’ll come to the realization that things have shifted in the marketplace,” Lindell said, “and we can’t squeeze any more oil out of the earth in 30 years' time.”

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But that success may not help Republicans' odds in November's midterm elections, when Trump's sagging poll numbers, lingering inflation and frustration over the war with Iran have boosted Democrats' chance of retaking control of Congress. Some Republicans are worried that intraparty fights are costing time and money that should be focused on defending their majorities in Washington.

“Every dollar going toward keeping seats we already have, and not winning ones we don’t, really matters,” said Rick Tyler, a Republican strategist who has been critical of the president.

However, Trump doesn't seem to have any second thoughts about purging his party of dissenters. Indiana's primary will likely bolster his confidence in other primaries this month, as he tries to oust U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

It also ratchets up the pressure on Republican lawmakers in other states to move aggressively to redraw congressional district boundaries this year. Alabama and Tennessee have already begun special sessions that could limit Black voters’ strength in Democratic-leaning districts, and some of Trump’s allies in South Carolina want to follow suit.

State Sen. Linda Rogers, one of the Indiana lawmakers who voted against redistricting and lost her seat Tuesday, said the outcome of this week's primary “will probably discourage others in other states.”

“If someone is going to ask you to take a tough vote, you may think twice about your conscience and what’s best for your community and instead what’s best for you and your career,” she said.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, who sided with Trump, said it was a “historic night” and he thanked Republican voters who “stood with me and President Trump to nominate some great America First conservatives.”

Trump started the redistricting competition

Redistricting efforts began last year when Trump saw an opportunity to give Republicans an additional edge. Indiana stood out as a Republican-run state that declined to give Trump what he wanted, even as GOP- and Democratic-led states traded gerrymandering maneuvers in a national competition.

After the Indiana Senate rejected the redistricting plan in December, Trump pledged to punish defiant lawmakers. His allies spent more than $8.3 million on races that usually see very little spending.

Andy Zay, a state senator who voted for redistricting, resigned in January to become chair of a state utility commission. He was a target of harassment and threats in the months leading up to the vote, and he said Trump's influence and heavy spending made it tough for incumbents to hang on in the primaries.

“Trump matters and money matters,” he said.

Five of Trump's targets lost their races. One won. One race was too close to call.

Trump allies celebrated the results and warned other Republicans who might be thinking of opposing the president.

“Redistrict ASAP for the November election or you face a real risk of losing your seat. No excuses,” Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist, wrote on social media. “Reschedule primaries if you must but redraw the map. Voters demand action NOW, not weakness.”

Redistricting efforts were supercharged last week when the U.S. Supreme Court gutted a provision of the Voting Rights Act that influenced how political lines are drawn in areas with large nonwhite populations.

James Blair, one of Trump’s top political advisers, posted an image from the movie “Gladiator” depicting Russell Crowe’s ancient Roman character Maximus exulting after a combat victory.

In Congress, Massie and Cassidy have stood up to Trump

Trump himself was relatively restrained on social media. He shared a series of photos celebrating the victories of candidates he endorsed in Indiana and Ohio, which also held primaries Tuesday. But he otherwise passed on boasting or renewing his attacks on Massie or Cassidy.

Massie has been among the members of Congress who frustrated the president by pressing for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files, challenging Trump for taking military action in Iran without congressional approval, and voting against the party’s sweeping tax-and-budget bill last year.

“I vote with the Republican Party and this president 90% of the time, and the 10% of the time that I’m not voting with the party or the president, I’m keeping the promises that the president and I campaigned on,” Massie recently told Kentucky's PBS affiliate.

Explaining his vote against Trump's signature domestic achievement, Massie called it “a big spending bill” and said he has voted consistently “not to bankrupt this country.”

Trump has endorsed Massie's challenger, retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, and campaigned for him before the May 19 primary. In Louisiana, Trump backs Rep. Julie Letlow over Cassidy in their May 16 primary, which includes a third candidate, state Treasurer John Fleming.

Cassidy was among the Republican senators who voted to convict Trump on 2021 impeachment charges after the Jan. 6 riot. But he also has given Trump consistent support. Most notably, the Baton Rouge physician advanced Robert Kennedy Jr.'s controversial nomination as Trump's health secretary.

The two-term incumbent is campaigning aggressively against Trump's chosen candidate without mentioning the president in his attacks on Letlow.

“Sen. Cassidy is running like he's 10 points down and is pounding the pavement every day,” Cassidy campaign manager Katie Larkin said in a statement.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., noted Wednesday that Trump has gone after Massie before, only for the congressman to win reelection.

“Thomas Massie has been very popular in his district,” McCarthy said during a “Fox & Friends” interview. Still, he warned, it is not an ideal situation for any Republican to run without Trump's backing.

Indiana shows how far Trump will go to purge GOP

It is unusual for a sitting president to be focused on attacking and defeating his own party members this deep into a midterm election year. And it's yielded notable spending that is not directed at Democrats. In Louisiana, Letlow, Cassidy, and other campaign organizations have plowed more than $28 million into attack ads.

“It's a lot of dollars spent on taking on fellow Republicans,” said Marc Short, who worked for former Vice President Mike Pence, a onetime Indiana governor.

Short said it wasn't clear that Trump's involvement would help Republicans' chances in November.

“There've been questions before, when he engages in these inner-party contests, will they work out as well when we get to the general election?”

Rogers, the Indiana state senator, faced almost $670,000 in television ads against her, funded by political action committees associated with Braun and U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind.

Yet even in defeat, she said she does not regret her vote against redistricting.

“It would have been easy for me to hit that ‘yes’ button,” she said. “To hear the number of people who asked me not to, then the number of people who thanked me, would mean I wasn’t representing them.”

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Beaumont reported from Des Moines, Iowa, and Barrow from Atlanta.

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This story has been corrected to reflect that Andy Zay, while in the Indiana state Senate, had voted for redistricting.

The attack occurred as Iran and the U.S. are officially in a ceasefire and as the two countries seemed to be approaching an agreement to end the war. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with a new wave of bombing if a deal is not reached that includes opening the critical Strait of Hormuz.

Hours after he threatened to bomb Iran into submission, Trump said they want to make a deal and “we’ll see if we get there.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared before a House committee for a closed-door interview over his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. Lutnick has given contradictory statements about his relationship with Epstein but says he has done nothing wrong.

So far, lawmakers emerged from the private interview with vastly different assessments of Lutnick’s answers. The committee chairman, GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, said Lutnick had been “forthcoming” in describing limited interactions with Epstein.

Democrats accused Lutnick of lying and evading their questions.

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Lutnick is departing Capitol Hill

The commerce secretary has left the room where he was being interviewed by the House Oversight Committee on his previous contacts with Jeffrey Epstein.

The interview lasted just over four hours, but that’s relatively short by the standards of the committee. Lawmakers have kept some interviewees for hours as they try to wear them down with relentless questions.

So far, lawmakers emerged from the private interview with vastly different assessments of Lutnick’s answers. The committee chairman, GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, said Lutnick had been “forthcoming” in describing limited interactions with Epstein.

Democrats accused Lutnick of lying and evading their questions.

Lutnick interview is not being recorded on video

The commerce secretary’s interview with lawmakers will be released via transcript, but not video. The committee has video recorded depositions for others, including former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state.

Democrats slammed that decision and said it allowed Lutnick to escape the same level of scrutiny that has been applied to others.

But the committee’s Republican chair. Rep. James Comer countered that it makes the committee’s investigation easier when subjects like Lutnick voluntarily sit down for an interview, rather than resist the committee’s requests and potential subpoenas.

“Nobody wants to be videoed. If you come in, you work with us, then you know, you might not have to be videoed,” he said.

Trump says deal with Iran is ‘very possible’

Hours after he threatened to bomb Iran into submission, Trump said they want to make a deal and “we’ll see if we get there.”

“We’ve had very good talks over the last 24 hours and it’s very possible that we’ll make a deal,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office after he summoned them to see the UFC fighters he’d been meeting with.

“This is very simple: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” the president said.

Israeli strikes kill five across Gaza, hospitals say

Five Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, including incidents near the so-called “Yellow Line,” a boundary dividing Israeli-controlled areas from the rest of the enclave, local health officials said.

One person was killed in Khan Younis when a strike hit a car, according to Nasser Hospital. In Gaza City, three people, including a 16-year-old, were killed earlier in the day when a strike hit an area where residents had been setting up tents, Al Ahli Hospital said. A fifth fatality was reported later in Gaza City after a strike hit a street about 200 meters from the Yellow Line, the same hospital added.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

At Al-Ahli hospital, relatives wept over bodies laid out on hospital beds, some clinging to each other in grief as they said their final goodbyes.

At the strike site in Khan Younis, smoke billowed as people ran in panic.

The deaths come amid a fragile ceasefire that has largely reduced heavy fighting but has not stopped near-daily Israeli fire. Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes and frequently fire on Palestinians near military- held zones, killing at least 837 Palestinians, including at least 226 children and 179 women, according to Gaza health officials.

Democrats accuse Lutnick of evading their questions about contact with Epstein

Democratic lawmakers who are questioning Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick behind closed doors emerged from the room saying that Lutnick is refusing to acknowledge that he made misleading statements in the past about his contacts with Jeffrey Epstein.

“He was evasive, nervous. He was dishonest,” said Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia. “He would not admit to lying, which he clearly did.”

The lawmakers said that the public should be able to observe Lutnick’s demeanor as he was answering questions, but the Republican-controlled committee is not video recording the interview.

The Republican committee chair, Rep. James Comer, said that the lack of video kept with the committee’s practice for voluntary interviews and that a transcription of the interview will be released later.

Iran’s foreign ministry says Tehran is still examining the latest US ceasefire proposal

The ministry’s spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told state media Wednesday that Iran had already “strongly rejected” proposals that the Axios news outlet reported the US had put forward for the agreement with Iran.

Axios had reported earlier that the deal included Iran agreeing to a moratorium on nuclear enrichment.

Israel strikes Beirut suburbs for first time since ceasefire was announced

Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs Wednesday for the first time since a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group was announced on April 17.

Fighting has continued since then in southern Lebanon.

The last attacks in Beirut were before that, on April 8, when a series of massive Israeli strikes, including in central Beirut, killed more than 350 people.

A statement released by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday’s strike, which came without warning, targeted a commander in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force. Hezbollah did not immediately comment.

US military fires on Iranian-flagged oil tanker in Gulf of Oman

An American fighter jet shot out the rudder of an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday as it tried to breach the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, the American military said in a social media post.

The attack occurred as Iran and the U.S. are officially in a ceasefire and as the two countries appear to be moving closer to an initial agreement to end the war. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to pressure Tehran with threats of a new wave of bombing if a deal is not reached.

American forces issued multiple warnings and informed the ship it was violating the blockade, U.S. Central Command said in its post.

Trump says question is whether Iran can make a deal ‘that’s satisfactory to us’

The president insisted that Iranian officials want an agreement to end the war, suggesting as he did previously over social media that U.S. actions could ultimately force a settlement.

“We’re dealing with people that want to make a deal very much, and we’ll see whether or not they can make a deal that’s satisfactory to us,” Trump said at a Mother’s Day lunch at the White House.

The president added: “And if they don’t agree, they’ll end up agreeing shortly thereafter.”

Trump called the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz a “wall of steel,” as both countries jockey to use the stoppage in oil and natural gas shipments as a way to pressure the other side.

AP source: Office of Virginia Senate leader searched by FBI as part of corruption probe

The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s office on Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation, a person familiar with the matter said.

The search at Virginia Sen. L. Louise Lucas’s district office in Portsmouth comes after the Democrat helped lead the state’s recent redistricting effort.

The FBI said only that it was conducting a court-authorized search warrant in Portsmouth. The person who confirmed the FBI’s search was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

A message seeking comment was left on a cellphone for Lucas.

Amid a national, state-by-state partisan redistricting fight, Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment on April 21 authorizing new U.S. House districts. Backed by Democrats, the plan could help the party win up to four additional seats.

Lucas has been a vocal leader of the effort.

The state Supreme Court let the referendum proceed but has yet to rule whether the effort is legal. The court is considering an appeal of a lower court judge’s ruling that the amendment is invalid because lawmakers violated procedural requirements.

—By Eric Tucker and Jennifer Peltz

UAE urges UN to take action against Iran if it keeps blocking shipping and attacking neighbors

Mohamed Abushahab, the United Arab Emirates’ U.N. ambassador, said the Security Council must “compel Iran’s compliance” with its March resolution demanding that Tehran stop attacking its Gulf neighbors and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

He told reporters Wednesday that Iran attacked the UAE on May 4 -- while a ceasefire is in place -- with 12 ballistic missiles, three cruise missiles and four drones which resulted in a fire on critical energy infrastructure in the Fujairah oil industry zone.

The United States and its Gulf allies including the UAE have circulated a new Security Council resolution threatening Iran with sanctions or other measures if it doesn’t stop attacks and open the critically important strait, where about 20% of the world’s crude oil had transited.

The proposed resolution was drafted under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter which can be enforced militarily. A watered-down resolution aimed at opening the Strait of Hormuz, which was stripped of Chapter 7 language, was vetoed by Russia and China hours before Washington and Tehran announced a temporary ceasefire in early April.

The UAE’s Abushahab was asked whether he thought Russia and China would agree to the new draft under Chapter 7. “Not only is it possible, but it’s necessary,” he replied.

GOP chair of oversight panel says Lutnick was not ‘truthful’ about Epstein ties

Rep. James Comer, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, told reporters as he entered the closed-door interview that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had in the past not been “100% truthful” about whether he had ever visited Epstein’s infamous private island.

Lutnick said on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein following a 2005 tour of Epstein’s home that disturbed Lutnick and his wife. But the release of case files on Epstein showed that Lutnick had kept in contact with Epstein and met up with him a couple of times in 2011 and 2012.

Under questioning from Democrats during an unrelated hearing earlier this year, Lutnick said he had visited Epstein’s private island with his family in 2012 for lunch.

AP-NORC poll: Many Americans have conflicting views on birthright citizenship

This poll comes as the Supreme Court weighs President Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship.

The AP-NORC poll finds about two-thirds of U.S. adults say automatic citizenship should be granted to all children born in the country. Most Democrats and independents back that view, but Republicans are more doubtful: just 44% support birthright citizenship.

The poll also shows that some people are conflicted, saying in general that they support birthright citizenship but also that they oppose it in some specific circumstances.

For instance, the poll found about three-quarters of U.S. adults say they support automatic citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country legally on work visas, while only about half support it for those born to parents who are in the country illegally.

Trump’s commerce secretary arrives for interview in congressional Epstein investigation

Howard Lutnick is answering questions from House lawmakers today about his relationship with his former neighbor, Jeffrey Epstein.

The commerce secretary is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration, besides Trump himself, to appear in the Epstein case files.

Lutnick has said he barely knew Epstein and has welcomed the closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee, but his story on his interactions with Epstein has changed. He met with Epstein a couple times and exchanged emails with the financier, even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

French navy moving to support shipping through the strait

France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential future mission as part of a French-British plan for the Strait of Hormuz, a senior French military spokesman told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The repositioning of the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle puts France’s only carrier closer to the Persian Gulf chokepoint where Iran has effectively halted commercial traffic since early March. The French effort is distinct from the U.S. “Project Freedom” mission launched Sunday and paused by Trump on Tuesday evening.

“Going south of Suez is new for us,” said Col. Guillaume Vernet, spokesman for the French armed forces chief of staff.

The wider Hormuz coalition — drawn up by France, Britain and more than 50 nations — will not begin operating until the threat to shipping eases and the maritime industry is reassured enough to use the strait, Vernet said, adding that any operation would also require the agreement of neighboring countries.

An attack damaged a French-operated cargo ship and injured its crew, company says

A cargo container ship operated by the CMA CGM Group was damaged when it came under attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, the French shipping company said Wednesday.

Multiple crew members were injured in the attack on the CMA CGM San Antonio, the company said without providing details. The injured crew were taken off the ship and are receiving medical treatment.

Trump is going to Beijing. Iran’s foreign minister got there ahead of him

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s visit comes ahead of Trump’s planned high-profile summit on May 14 and 15 with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first such trip by a U.S. president since Trump visited in 2017.

In a televised interview Wednesday with Iran’s state media from Beijing, Araghchi said his discussions with Chinese officials included the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions imposed on Tehran. And he said Iran has attained “an elevated international standing,” having proven its capabilities and strength.

China’s Foreign Ministry said after the meeting that it values Iran’s pledge not to pursue nuclear weapons while affirming its “legitimate right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had expressed hope on Tuesday Beijing would reiterate the need for Iran to release its chokehold on the strait, its main source of leverage, as Trump demands a major rollback of its disputed nuclear program.

Trump’s Indiana wins show his power over GOP with more primaries and redistricting debates ahead

Five months ago, Trump was stinging from a political defeat as Republican state senators defied him on redistricting in Indiana. Now he has proved he can still punish wayward party members after the slate of challengers he endorsed defeated almost every one of those lawmakers.

The results will likely bolster Trump’s confidence heading into upcoming Republican primaries where he wants more incumbents ousted, including Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

Indiana’s primary results also ratchet up pressure on Republican lawmakers in other states to move aggressively to redraw congressional district boundaries in time for the November elections.

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Shipper either loses millions or risks sanctions for paying Iranians for safe passage

Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is costing it around $60 million a week, in particular in costs for fuel and insurance, as it remains too risky to permit its ships to try getting through.

Insurance costs have shot up due to the risk of attack from Iranian drones and small boats. Alternate routes to safe harbors or overland are “limited in capacity and cannot completely replace the regular maritime routes through the region,” a company statement said.

The number of ships passing the strait has dwindled to a trickle. Iran has demanded that vessels go through a vetting process run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp that involves passing to the north near the Iranian cost, submitting information on crew and cargo, and in some cases paying. But paying the IRGC risks running afoul of sanctions from the US and the EU, which have designated it a terrorist organization.

Shipping industry and oil traders see no quick return to normal

Oil prices and shipping are unlikely to return to normal until it’s clear the risk of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have receded, cautions Kaho Yu, head of energy and resources resources at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.

“Even with diplomatic engagement continuing, energy markets are unlikely to return quickly to pre-crisis assumptions,” he said. “Refiners, shippers, and commodity traders will remain cautious until there is clearer evidence that Hormuz disruptions will not re-escalate.”

Despite the Iran-China meeting’s emphasis on de-escalation, “Hormuz remains the real metric that will be watched,” he added. “Tanker traffic and energy flows over the coming weeks and months are likely to matter more than diplomatic language in assessing whether Beijing can translate influence with Tehran into practical stability.”

Poll: Most believe the US is no longer a great place for immigrants

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say the United States is no longer a great place for immigrants, according to the AP-NORC poll.

Roughly 3 in 10 say the U.S. is a great place for immigrants, while about 1 in 10 say it never was. The belief that America is no longer great for immigrants is more common among Democrats and independents.

Nick Grivas, a 40-year-old Democrat from Massachusetts, said he worries that federal immigration policies could discourage new arrivals from investing in their communities, especially if they don’t believe they will be allowed to remain.

“You’re less willing to commit to the project if you don’t think that you’re gonna be able to stay,” he said.

White House says it believes an agreement with Iran is near

The White House believes it is nearing an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum to end the war, according to reporting by Axios.

There is not an agreement yet, but the provisions include a moratorium on Iranian uranium enrichment, a lifting of U.S. sanctions and the distribution of frozen Iranian funds and the opening of the Strait of Hormuz for ships.

The White House did not respond to questions about the possible agreement.

Trump threatens Iran with bombing if it doesn’t reopen Strait of Hormuz

Trump posted on social media that the war with Iran could soon end and oil and natural gas shipments could restart. But that all depends on Iran accepting a reported agreement that the U.S. president did not detail.

“If they don’t agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before,” Trump said.

Trump said that it was “perhaps a big assumption” that Iran would agree to the terms being offered by the United States.

The International Court of Justice is holding a week of hearings between the South American neighbors who both lay claim to the Essequibo region, which is rich in gold, diamonds, timber and other natural resources and is located close to massive offshore oil deposits.

An 1899 decision by arbitrators from Britain, Russia and the United States drew the border along the Essequibo River largely in favor of Guyana. The U.S. represented Venezuela in part because the Venezuelan government had broken off diplomatic relations with Britain. Venezuela contends that the Americans and Europeans conspired to cheat the country out of its rightfully owned land.

Venezuela has considered Essequibo as its own since the Spanish colonial period when the jungle-draped region was within its boundaries. The country argues a 1966 agreement sealed in Geneva to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the 19th-century arbitration.

“Guyana presents itself as the true, legitimate heir to British and Dutch territories, but the reality is that it is the beneficiary of colonial dispossession, formalized through fraudulent arbitration. The Geneva Agreement seeks to correct this century-old injustice,” Venezuela's representative, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, told the world court.

He said that Venezuela rejects the court's jurisdiction that was “erroneously imposed” in a 2020 decision and said the 1966 agreement “establishes a framework” for a negotiated resolution.

As hearings opened Monday, Guyana's foreign minister, Hugh Hilton Todd, told the panel of international judges that the dispute “has been a blight on our existence as a sovereign state from the very beginning.” He said that 70% of Guyana's territory is at stake.

The court, based in The Hague, is likely to take months to issue a final and legally binding ruling in the case.

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This story has been corrected to show that the first name of Guyana’s foreign minister is Hugh, not High.

The Cabinet member was the latest powerful political figure to appear before the House Oversight Committee. He has previously given contradictory statements about his relationship with Epstein, but he said he has done nothing wrong and welcomed the closed-door interview with lawmakers.

The transcribed interview is a test of how much scrutiny lawmakers will apply to powerful men who kept company with Epstein even after his conviction. Trump's administration has tried unsuccessfully for more than a year to move past the issue.

Lawmakers emerged from the private interview with vastly different assessments of Lutnick's answers. The committee chairman, GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, said Lutnick had been “forthcoming” in describing limited interactions with Epstein. Democrats accused Lutnick of lying and evading their questions.

Lutnick is the highest-ranked administration official, besides President Donald Trump, to be named in the Epstein case files. The Republican president has consistently denied any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and has said he ended their relationship years ago. Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Several Democrats have called for Lutnick to resign. A few Republicans, including Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, have said he should at least testify before the committee.

“He was evasive, nervous. He was dishonest,” said Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va. “He would not admit to lying, which he clearly did.”

Epstein's private island

Lutnick has played down his ties to Epstein, who was once his neighbor in New York City. Under questioning from Democrats during an unrelated hearing earlier this year, Lutnick described their contact as a handful of emails and a pair of meetings in 2011 and 2012.

But that admission came after Lutnick had previously claimed on a podcast last year that he had decided to “never be in the room” with Epstein after a 2005 tour of Epstein’s home, which included a massage table, disturbed Lutnick and his wife.

In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to state sex offense charges in Florida, including soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

“I did not have any relationship with him. I barely had anything to do with him,” Lutnick told senators in February when he was asked about Epstein during a subcommittee hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

But Lutnick, who was previously the head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, actually had an hourlong engagement at Epstein’s home in 2011. His family then visited Epstein’s private island in 2012 for lunch.

Committee Democrats asked Lutnick repeatedly about that visit, but came away from the interview frustrated with Lutnick and accused him of evading their questions. They said Lutnick said he remembered little about the island visit and did not see anything that raised concern.

During a break in the interview, Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., said Lutnick “claims that when he said, ‘I would never be in a room again with Jeffrey Epstein,’ he meant only him and Jeffrey Epstein.”

The federal release of case files on Epstein also showed that Epstein and Lutnick had kept in contact through email. Lutnick in 2018 emailed Epstein about a proposed expansion of a museum in their neighborhood that would have blocked the view from their homes. Epstein also gave $50,000 to a 2017 dinner honoring Lutnick, while Lutnick invited Epstein to a 2015 fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. In 2013, they both invested in the same business venture.

“I haven't seen wrongdoing in the email correspondence, but he wasn't 100% truthful with whether or not he had been on the island,” Comer said. He added that the committee planned to later release the transcript of the interview and “let the American people judge whether the credibility was damaged or not.”

Democrats said Lutnick also backed away from his statement in an interview last year that Epstein was the “greatest blackmailer ever."

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said Lutnick told him that he was only “speculating” when Lutnick made the blackmail claim.

No video recording of the interview

The interview was not recorded on video, as the committee has done with depositions for others, including former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, a former secretary of state. Comer said the decision not to video the interview, for which Lutnick volunteered, was keeping with the committee's practice.

To Democrats, that decision allowed Lutnick to escape the same kind of scrutiny as others had.

“The level of the lies that are taking place inside that room without video is unbelievable and part of this egregious cover-up,” said Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz.

Comer said Democrats were only trying to score political points. “This is a serious investigation,” he said.

The chairman argued it made the committee's inquiry easier when subjects consented to an interview, rather than resist congressional demands.

“Nobody wants to be videoed. If you come in, you work with us, then you know, you might not have to be videoed,” he said.

The White House has continued to express support for Lutnick, who is one of the biggest boosters of Trump's tariff strategy. He has been close to Trump for years and helped raise money for his 2020 and 2024 campaigns.

The committee is also scheduled to hear testimony on May 29 from Pam Bondi, who was pushed out as attorney general last month.

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La tormenta, que atravesó las Montañas Rocosas y se adentró en las Grandes Llanuras, debía debilitarse antes de terminar el miércoles por la tarde. Varias localidades en zonas de mayor altitud recibieron alrededor de 61 centímetros (2 pies) de nieve.

Se mantenía vigente una advertencia de tormenta invernal, y se esperaban de 5 a 10 centímetros (entre 2 y 4 pulgadas) adicionales de nieve en Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver y Castle Rock, informó el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional.

Los viajeros en Denver lidiaban con carreteras resbaladizas. La Patrulla Estatal reportó algunos choques, pero no había informes de lesiones graves. Los meteorólogos advirtieron que ramas de árboles cargadas de nieve podrían quebrarse. “Evite estacionar debajo de los árboles”, publicó la oficina del servicio meteorológico en Denver.

Nieve acumulada en partes de Colorado

El pueblo de Estes Park, cerca del Parque Nacional de las Montañas Rocosas, registró de 56 a 71 centímetros (22 a 28 pulgadas) de nieve, indicó el servicio meteorológico.

En Boulder, algunos puntos recibieron 30 centímetros (un pie) de nieve y las autoridades advirtieron a los residentes sobre árboles y ramas caídos.

Denver enfrentaba lo que podría ser su mayor nevada de la temporada. El Aeropuerto Internacional de Denver registró casi 14 centímetros (5,5 pulgadas) de nieve después de algunos retrasos y cancelaciones de vuelos a primeras horas, informó el servicio meteorológico.

Las temperaturas también se desplomaron. Denver, que rondaba los 0 grados Celsius (en la gama baja de los 30 grados Fahrenheit) el miércoles por la mañana, activó su plan de refugios por frío. El distrito escolar más grande del estado, Denver Public Schools, y otros distritos importantes y universidades de la región cancelaron las clases. Se vaticinan temperaturas más cálidas para el jueves.

El pronóstico ominoso no disuadió a miles de asistir al espectáculo de David Guetta en el anfiteatro Red Rocks el martes por la noche, aunque los organizadores adelantaron la hora de inicio una hora. Los asistentes al concierto se abrigaron con abrigos invernales de pelo y gorros mientras esperaban en la fila para entrar al recinto al aire libre.

La tormenta obligó a los Colorado Rockies a reprogramar dos juegos contra los New York Mets. Pero eso ocurre con más frecuencia de lo habitual durante la temporada primaveral de béisbol en Denver, incluidas cuatro ocasiones en 2015, según MLB.

Las nevadas de mayo no son inéditas en Colorado. Son aún más comunes en la capital de Wyoming, Cheyenne, que está casi 300 metros (1.000 pies) más alta que Denver y es más fresca y ventosa, y donde la nieve suele acumularse.

La tormenta es bienvenida durante una sequía

Abril fue más cálido y seco de lo habitual: el mes pasado a Denver le faltó 2,5 centímetros (una pulgada) de lluvia y 7 centímetros (2,8 pulgadas) de nieve en comparación con lo normal.

Para algunos agricultores, que han sentido la presión de la sequía en Colorado, la nieve fue una oportunidad.

Adam Jones, quien dirige Unsung Family Farms en Longmont, había sembrado semillas de zanahoria días antes para aprovechar la precipitación.

“Con líneas de goteo o aspersores no se logra una distribución tan uniforme”, comentó a KMGH-TV. “No hay nada como iniciar semillas con nieve o agua”.

Sin embargo, Jones tuvo que trasladar al interior los cultivos más sensibles al clima, y usó un calefactor para mantenerlos calientes.

Tormentas en otros lugares

El tiempo inestable no se limitaba a las Montañas Rocosas. El miércoles podrían registrarse tormentas eléctricas severas, algunas capaces de producir tornados, en el sureste, y se vaticinaban algunas de las tormentas más fuertes para la franja desde Arkansas hasta Georgia.

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McCormack reportó desde Concord, Nueva Hampshire. La corresponsal Jaimie Ding contribuyó desde Los Ángeles.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

The ADL tallied 1,694 antisemitic incidents on U.S. college campuses in 2024, after pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist student protests proliferated due mostly to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. That figure fell by 66% in 2025, to 583, as many colleges and universities — under pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration — took steps to curb such protests.

With the drop in on-campus incidents a major factor, the ADL’s latest annual audit — released Wednesday — says there were 6,274 incidents of antisemitic assaults, harassment and vandalism overall in 2025. That’s down 33% from the record-high 9,354 incidents counted for 2024.

The states with the most antisemitic incidents in 2025 were New York (1,160), California (817) and New Jersey (687), the ADL says.

The ADL’s methodology in tallying such incidents has added grist to an intense and divisive debate among American Jews and others over the extent to which vehement criticism of Israeli policies and of Zionism should be considered antisemitic. Some critics say the ADL’s criteria is too broad.

2025 incidents included 3 killings, record number of assaults

Despite the decrease in total incidents, the ADL’s national director and CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said 2025 “was one of the most violent years for American Jews,” with a record-high 203 incidents of physical assault tallied in the audit.

“Numbers that would have shocked us five years ago are now our floor,” Greenblatt said. “People are being murdered because of antisemitism on American soil, and thousands more are threatened.”

Greenblatt was referring to the two Jewish people killed in a May 21 shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., and the 82-year-old Jewish woman who died from injuries sustained in a June 1 firebombing attack at an event in Boulder, Colorado, aimed at raising awareness of Israeli hostages held in Gaza.

Campuses are under scrutiny from groups with varying views

In the ADL's report for 2024, antisemitic incidents related to Israel or Zionism accounted for 58% of the total, marking the first time since the annual audit began in 1979 that more than half the incidents fit this category. The change arose from widespread opposition to Israel's intensive military operation in Gaza that was launched after Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

In 2025, 45% of all antisemitic incidents were related to Israel or Zionism. The ADL said anti-Israel rallies featuring “extreme anti-Israel rhetoric that crossed the line into antisemitism” decreased significantly — by 67% overall and by 83% on college campuses.

Starting in 2024, the ADL launched a Campus Antisemitism Report Card, assigning grades reflecting its assessment of how colleges address antisemitism and whether they adopt ADL-recommended policies. Seeking to raise pressure on colleges, the ADL filed several lawsuits and — in cooperation with two other Jewish organizations — reached a settlement in a complaint against Pomona College.

“We welcome any decrease in antisemitic incidents on college campuses or in other settings. It is indisputably a good thing, and we hope this is just the beginning of a downward trend,” Greenblatt told The Associated Press via email.

“Yet, let me be very clear: this is not a moment for relief or complacency. Yes, ADL recorded a 66% decline of antisemitic incidents on college campuses in 2025. But here is the critical context: campus incidents in 2025 are still nearly four times higher than they were in 2021.”

In its new report, the ADL says it is “careful to not conflate general criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism with antisemitism.” But there are gray areas. For example, the ADL contends that vilification of Zionism — the movement to establish and protect a Jewish state in Israel — is a form of antisemitism, yet some Jews are among the critics of Zionism and of the ADL itself.

The ADL's approach “emerges from their genuine concern that anti-Zionism is a genuine threat to the safety and security of American Jews,” said antisemitism expert Aryeh Tuchman. “There are a lot of people who would disagree with that. ... It's important that there be room for multiple approaches.”

Tuchman formerly led the ADL’s Center on Extremism, the group behind the annual audit, and now is director of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism at the Nexus Project, a watchdog group that promotes a more nuanced definition of antisemitism than the ADL uses.

Responding to the pressure on colleges from the ADL and Trump administration, the Council on American-Islamic Relations launched an “Unhostile Campus Campaign” aimed at ensuring that pro-Palestinian students, faculty, and staff enjoy free speech and academic freedom and are not penalized for their viewpoints.

Schools rated “most hostile” in CAIR's latest report were Columbia University, the City University of New York, and the University of Michigan.

Worries about antisemitism deepen in Britain and Australia

The new ADL report surfaces amid growing concern about antisemitism elsewhere in the world.

In Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said tougher action is needed against people chanting certain phrases at pro-Palestinian protests, as concerns grew over the safety of British Jews after the stabbings of two Jewish men in London.

The stabbings were the latest in a string of incidents, including recent arson attacks on synagogues and other Jewish sites in London. The U.K.’s senior police officer said British Jews are facing their greatest ever threat, and blamed social media for making antisemitism more mainstream.

— In Australia, a wide-ranging inquiry commission examining antisemitism after a massacre at a Hanukkah celebration heard this week from Jews who said escalating hatred has left them fearful and vulnerable. Fifteen people were killed when two gunmen opened fire at the celebration on Bondi Beach in December. The Commission says there has been a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents nationwide since the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, 2023.

— According to a recent study by Tel Aviv University, the total of 20 deaths in Australia, Britain and the United States made 2025 the deadliest year for antisemitic attacks since 1994. That's when the bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina killed 85 people.

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