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It happened Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of the Walmart located at 7900 W. McNabb Rd. in North Lauderdale.

According to officials, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and North Lauderdale Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene after receiving reports about a shooting.

Upon arrival, deputies said they found a man who had been shot, and that man was rushed by paramedics to a nearby hospital with injuries that were considered life-threatening.

Authorities said a woman was detained for questioning, but no arrests have been made.

One Walmart shopper told Local 10 News that he heard screaming after the shooting.

“She became fearful and distraught, and then after she shot him, they were screaming and someone called police and the police came out,” the shopper said.

Walmart shoppers told Local 10 that the shooting happened during a dispute over a parking space, but authorities have not yet confirmed that information.

Detectives from BSO’s Violent Crimes Unit are investigating the circumstances that led up to the shooting.

Anyone with information is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

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The desperate search for survivors through the rubble has gone on for days after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela.

On Monday night, family members said Carlos Miguel Colmenares Gutierrez was rescued after being stuck in the rubble for five days.

Cellphone video captured the boy being taken away by crews on a stretcher.

A crowd gathered all around them, applauding, marveled by what they saw.

The boy was later shown being taken away by ambulance to a Caracas hospital.

His second cousin, Mayra Heredia, said he’s in stable condition in the ICU with no serious injuries even though he was trapped for so long.

He was home in his apartment when the earthquakes struck, and a fallen fridge had shielded him from the collapsed roof.

“By Sunday, they pretty much said the building was a loss,” said Heredia. “They presumed everyone dead.”

But Monday, crews heard the boy yelling out his name, and their cameras confirmed he was in there, leading to the rescue.

“It’s a miracle,” said Heredia. “We’re all in shock he’s alive. He survived with no life-threatening injuries -- he’s just very dehydrated.”

While the family is grateful for the boy’s rescue, they know that for so many in Venezuela, it’s not the same story.

“It’s still a bittersweet feeling knowing yes, we found him, but there’s thousands of others who might still be alive under there that we haven’t been able to fully locate,” said Heredia.

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On Tuesday, the global superstar, pop icon and South Florida native began a new tour right here in her hometown.

Grande opened her Eternal Sunshine Tour, her first in seven years, at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise.

Fans were at the arena early on Tuesday, excited to see the “Wicked” star perform.

Local 10’s Jason Carter was there, and his full report can be seen at the top of this page.

Starting Wednesday, the federal government is offering a selection of the brand name medications to certain Medicare and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries for $50 a month through a new trial called Medicare GLP-1 Bridge.

The temporary program, which runs until the end of 2027, is the first opportunity for most older adults to get GLP-1s, short for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, covered by insurance when used strictly for weight loss. But there are weight and health requirements, and those who already get GLP-1s covered for diseases like diabetes and sleep apnea won’t qualify.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said he hopes the program can help his agency collect data to potentially work toward longer-term coverage, while providing immediate relief to cash-strapped older Americans.

“The sheer cost of these medications is a huge barrier to access,” he said in a call with reporters. “That ends today.”

Eligibility is based on BMI and other conditions

Of the more than 70 million Americans enrolled in Medicare, at least 10 million are overweight or obese, said Juliette Cubanski, vice president and director of the program on Medicare policy at the healthcare research nonprofit KFF. But, she said, a narrower slice of that group will have access to this program.

There's no good data on how many people it can benefit — and Oz declined to speculate on the number with reporters. He said data from the program will reveal how many eligible beneficiaries choose to take the drugs, a number his team is keen to learn.

To qualify, besides having Medicare drug coverage, you must have a body mass index of 35 or higher, or a BMI of 27 or higher alongside another health condition, such as a past heart attack or stroke, prediabetes or another from a list on the CMS website. BMI measurements are counted at the start of GLP-1 therapy — so even people who fall below the threshold now can qualify if they can show they had a high enough BMI when they began taking the drugs.

Medicare beneficiaries who have sleep apnea, diabetes or fatty liver disease can’t access the program, but their Medicare Part D insurance might cover their GLP-1s separately based on those diagnoses.

If you think you might qualify, the first step is to contact your health care provider, CMS says on its website. The provider must send a prescription for one of the covered GLP-1 drugs to a pharmacy and fill out a prior authorization form.

Only some GLP-1s are included

The covered medications include drugmaker Eli Lilly’s Foundayo tablets and Zepbound KwikPens and Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy injections and tablets. Those GLP-1s have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for weight loss, Cubanski said.

For those in the program, the cost is $50 per month, regardless of dosage. But those payments won’t contribute to their insurance deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums. That’s because Medicare, rather than the Part D insurer, is subsidizing the prescription.

Longer-term coverage of GLP-1s remains uncertain

The program is scheduled to sunset after Dec. 31, 2027. And since Congress hasn’t authorized Medicare to cover weight loss drugs permanently, the federal government is limited in its options to keep the access flowing.

Congress could pass a law to allow the drugs to be covered. CMS also could move forward with a different, voluntary pilot program for covering the drugs called BALANCE, which the agency indefinitely delayed earlier this year when many Part D insurers were reluctant to sign up.

Oz told reporters that CMS plans to “carefully track participation and outcomes” to see whether an extension of the Bridge program or another solution is the best way to move forward. He told The Associated Press a federal law permanently allowing the coverage is “not essential right now” but something “for Congress to debate amongst themselves.”

“We can’t decide what’s going to happen long term with Bridge until we see some of the data,” he said, noting that other negotiations with drug companies to lower costs are ongoing.

Program is life-changing for some, frustrating for others

GLP-1s have soared in popularity in recent years, and they've spurred dramatic weight loss in many patients. But their cost — sometimes hundreds of dollars a month for higher doses — has been a barrier.

For 78-year-old California resident Gloria Dralla, who told the AP she’s lost some 40 pounds after buying lower-cost Wegovy in Europe, the Bridge program means being able to continue a treatment that has improved her life.

“This drug should be made available at a reasonable price for everybody who’s got weight loss problems,” she said.

But not everyone will have access to the drugs at an affordable price. Katie Smith, 71, in Virginia isn’t so sure she will be eligible for the program. She has a BMI of 33 but isn’t sure if she has another health condition that would allow her to meet the requirements.

Smith, whose mobility and ability to exercise were severely limited by a spinal cord injury in her 20s, said she has looked into getting the medications but was quoted $700 a month, a price she can't afford.

“I cannot tell you how frustrated I am,” she said. “I have the drive and I have the willingness and I have the motivation, but I have not been able to lose weight in all the conventional ways.”

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The shooting happened near the McDonald’s at Stirling Road and the Davie Road Extension after deputies attempted to arrest the suspect, who authorities said was armed and fled from deputies.

That suspect has since been identified as Napolian Marquez Powell, 27, of Lauderhill.

Records show Powell has an extensive criminal history that includes drug charges, along with charges of grand theft and resisting arrest.

Witnesses described hearing a rapid barrage of gunfire during the confrontation.

“They keep telling him to put his hands up – ‘Let me see your hands,’” witness Gregory Jackson said. “I guess the guy didn’t reply. Next thing I know, I hear almost 30 shots coming from the guns. I dropped my phone and ran.”

Jackson said he scrambled for cover as the shooting unfolded.

“Once I heard those gunshots, man, I went for cover,” he said. “I went to take cover up under my car, got skinned up in the process.”

On Tuesday, investigators returned to the scene, focusing their attention on the bushes and the fast food restaurant’s drive-thru as they searched for additional evidence.

“It was a crazy, horrific sight that I seen yesterday,” Jackson said. “I’ve never seen nothing like it.”

According to Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, deputies initially encountered Powell in the parking lot of a Wawa across the street while attempting to serve an active arrest warrant. He said the suspect ran from deputies while holding a gun.

Deputies pursued the man for roughly 100 feet before tackling him in an effort to take him into custody, Tony said.

According to the sheriff, Powell was wanted for fleeing and eluding police and detectives believed DNA evidence may connect him to other crimes. He did not provide details about those investigations.

The sheriff also said investigators had intelligence indicating Powell previously told others that if law enforcement attempted to arrest him, he intended to force a “suicide by police” confrontation.

It’s unclear whether the suspect fired his own gun during the confrontation.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.

Meet the Orchidteers.

At Flamingo Gardens in Davie, this volunteer force has transformed a single mounted orchid into a collection of thousands blooming across the 60-acre property.

“We have over 5,000 orchids mounted here and we started with 1 — and now we’re over 5,000,” said Lucy Matos Lodato, Flamingo Gardens’ Chief Orchidteer.

Their battlefield stretches from tree trunks to winding garden paths, where volunteers spend each week mounting, protecting and rehabilitating orchids throughout the grounds.

Before the work begins, the group gathers to talk strategy. Then they fan out across the gardens, each heading to a different section with a mission to tend the collection.

“We’re really a community of orchid lovers that come together for the purposes of making flamingo gardens an orchid destination. It’s conservation. Education. And community,” Lodato said.

Some volunteers head into the gardens. Others report to the facility where newly arrived or struggling orchids are cared for before returning to the landscape — part headquarters, part hospital for plants.

“I’ve been growing orchids for decades so it’s, like, fantastic to work on something special like that with other people that have that interest and learn more,” said Cindy Ransing, who joined the group in January.

Every Orchidteer has a different story about what first drew them to the flower. Some are lifelong growers. Others are beginners looking to learn. What connects them is a shared appreciation for the plant — and for the people who care for it alongside them.

“First of all, it’s beautiful. Breathtaking. It’s more like the orchid teaches you how to grow it. The orchid is in charge. You have to make it happy, what does it need?” Lodato said.

To submit an idea for What Connects Us, email whatconnectsus@wplg.com.

Osaka, whose fashion reveals have become an event of their own at Grand Slam tournaments, wore a less elaborate outfit for her walk-on than the “Kill Bill” inspired kimono she sported for her opening-round match on Monday.

It still drew plenty of attention as she made the walk from the locker room to No. 2 Court, trailed by photographers and fans wanting to take their own photos.

This all-white outfit featured a long train that trailed behind her, which the four-time major winner took off as she began warming up for her match against Anastasia Gasanova.

Osaka's match was among the early starts on the outside courts as the second round got under way at Wimbledon.

Later, defending men's champion Jannik Sinner was set to play Nuno Borges in the first match on Centre Court. That will be followed by women's French Open winner Mirra Andreeva facing 2024 Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova before Novak Djokovic takes on Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka faces McCartney Kessler on No. 1 Court before Coco Gauff plays Solana Sierra.

On Tuesday, Serena Williams made her return to Centre Court but lost in three sets to Maya Joint in her first singles match in nearly four years. Williams is set to play doubles with sister Venus later in the week.

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“Our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete,” Twain wrote in 1905. “The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”

In these rabidly partisan times, those who think President Donald Trump deserves their support and those who don’t are joining in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Whether all the partying to come gives the nation a breather from disunity or aggravates it is an open question.

It's a proud and loud moment, sown with division and doubt.

Love of country comes in different flavors, of course. Some love it as is. Some love what it could become and press on with their activism and protest in pursuit of history's call for a “more perfect union." Some love what it used to be and might be once more — the underpinning of MAGA.

But overall, belief in American exceptionalism has waned. More people in the U.S. think there are better countries in the world than those who think the United States is the best. That’s according to an April poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that found 44% endorsing the United States as just one of the best.

This is not the America of, say, Teddy Roosevelt, whose presidential library Trump is visiting in North Dakota on Wednesday. Roosevelt mirrored the brashness and ambition of a country surging in innovation, industry, influence, military muscle and spirit.

In its place is a country where the president is his own brand of brash, but millions of the people he leads wonder if it's all coming apart.

Who’s in charge here?

For the 250th, the division starts at the top, with two organizations claiming to be the one leading the commemoration and all but ignoring the other.

A decade ago, Congress created the bipartisan America250 group and charged it by law with planning the country’s local, national and international events for the 250th. Trump stepped on that with an executive order making his Freedom 250 group “the” national organization in charge.

Marquee events like the Fourth of July fireworks at the National Mall, the parade of tall ships in New York and the Great American State Fair along the National Mall are the province of Trump's Freedom 250. Musical stars who had been lined up for the splashy opener of the fair last week withdrew, concerned Trump, a Republican, would make the festivities political and very much about him.

He stepped forward to fill the void, declaring himself the “No. 1 attraction," and he delivered a speech there June 24 on American glory and his achievements. He'll headline the official July Fourth events in the capital as well, for what he called “the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all."

Poems, art and a message in a bottle go underground for 250 years

America250, meantime, put together America's Block Party — a series scheduled simultaneously around the country anchored by a Fourth of July benefit concert in Los Angeles hosted by Queen Latifa, with Chris Stapleton and the Smashing Pumpkins among the acts.

By congressional mandate, America250 also sank a 900-pound (400-kilogram) time capsule in Philadelphia with items from all states and branches of government, to be pried open in 250 years.

The people of 2276 will then see a major league baseball lineup from 2026, poems from Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky and more, postcards from Colorado and Maine, beaded artwork from Montana, an Oklahoma belt buckle, a message in a vintage Coco-Cola bottle, a pocket Constitution signed by the U.S. justices, a George Washington Lord’s Prayer gold medal from Utah given out at the Wedding of the Rails event celebrating completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and more.

In Philadelphia, where the founders signed the declaration and birthed the nation, 250 people will form the contours of the Liberty Bell in a parade with 50 marching bands and Miss America delegates, formerly called contestants, representing every state.

Ain't that America: Celebrations sprout from the grassroots, too

Though there are official events galore, it's not as if Americans, of all people, need the government to show them a good time.

In one of thousands of gatherings under the national radar, Evans, Pennsylvania, will hear the Circle of Friends Choir perform patriotic songs a cappella in an event also featuring a patriotic trivia contest and a barbershop quartet.

In Pocatello, Idaho, drag queens organized a reading of patriotic picture books for young people, including the story of Katharine Lee Bates. Bates returned from the Colorado Rockies, where the spacious skies, purple mountain majesties and fruited plains inspired her to write the poem that became “America the Beautiful.”

Twain, the scold and satirist of American government and of imperialism, shared Bates' love of his country's natural beauty. He loved the nature of its people, too — sometimes. “We glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us,” he wrote.

But a century before Make America Great Again grabbed the political zeitgeist by the lapels, he was speaking of good old days lost.

“We are called the nation of inventors," he said. “And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.”

The Leaf also faces a familiar challenger. The Chevrolet Bolt is back for 2027 after a three-year hiatus. Its 2027 overhaul adds updated technology features and more range. Both of these small EVs have starting prices around $30,000 and are compelling choices if you can’t commit to pricier picks from Hyundai, Tesla and Toyota. But which is best for you? Edmunds’ auto experts tested them to find out.

Range, performance and charging

The 2027 Bolt is capable of going 262 miles on a single charge, according to the EPA’s estimates. That’s certainly enough for routine driving and to make the occasional road trip feasible. The Leaf holds a potential edge with its EPA-estimated maximum of 303 miles. However, these two EVs were more closely matched in Edmunds’ standardized real-world range test. Here, the Bolt traveled 290 miles and the Leaf covered 310 miles.

Acceleration is similar — both went from zero to 60 mph in about 7 seconds in Edmunds’ testing — but the Bolt is the EV that Edmunds prefers to drive. The Chevy’s nimble handling makes it ideal for threading tight city streets, while the Leaf feels a little too harsh and bouncy over rough asphalt.

If you’re charging at public fast-charging stations, the Bolt will potentially get you back on the road a bit sooner. In Edmunds’ testing, the Bolt was able to regain range more quickly than the Leaf.

Winner: Bolt

Technology features

Gadget-minded drivers will probably prefer the Leaf. It comes with a 12.3-inch touchscreen, another 12.3-inch display for digital gauges, and an option to upgrade both screens to 14.3 inches. The Leaf also has wireless connectivity for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration, allowing you to easily use many of your smartphone’s apps right on the touchscreen.

The Bolt has dual 11-inch displays but no option to upgrade in size. It also lacks Apple CarPlay and Android Auto functionality and instead uses Google Built-In, an integrated Android-based operating system. Popular apps such as Waze and Apple Music can be downloaded from the Google app store, but overall Edmunds prefers the convenience of having Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.

The Bolt does have one potential advantage with its available Super Cruise feature. When active, Super Cruise enables hands-free driving on highways to help reduce driver fatigue during tedious conditions, such as in slow-moving traffic or on long highway drives. But overall, the Leaf maintains its edge here.

Winner: Leaf

Interior space and utility

The Bolt and Leaf share crossover-style designs with tall roofs, ample cabin space and similar headroom. Rear seat passengers can stretch out more in the Bolt thanks to its additional 7.3 inches of legroom compared to the Bolt. That’s also advantageous if you have small kids and need to install a bulky rear-facing child safety seat.

The Leaf compensates with more cargo space behind its rear seats. It has 20 cubic feet behind the rear seat compared to the Bolt’s 16.2 cubic feet. Nissan also includes a handy underfloor storage system, so you can securely stow valuables or smaller items.

Winner: Leaf

Price and value

The Chevy Bolt LT starts at $28,995, including the destination fee, making it today’s most affordable new EV. Chevy includes the basic convenience features plus plenty of standard advanced driver aids such as adaptive cruise control and blind-spot warning and intervention. Go with the Bolt RS for a few thousand more and you get upgrades such as synthetic leather upholstery, a power-adjustable driver’s seat and a heated steering wheel.

The Leaf S+ trim, starting at $31,535, is also a good deal. It has a similar collection of standard features and advanced driver aids. It also has a standard surround-view camera system, which is helpful for parking in tight spots. But typically you’ll be paying more for a Leaf. A fully loaded Leaf Platinum+ will cost you around $40,000 while a loaded Bolt RS will be around $37,500.

Winner: Bolt

Edmunds says

The Bolt and the Leaf are both solid choices for an affordable EV. In fact, they ended up with the same overall score in Edmunds’ ratings. Choose the Leaf for its longer range, more useful tech and bigger cargo area, or go with the Bolt for its better value for the money and more agile handling around town.

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This story was provided to The Associated Press by the automotive website Edmunds.

Dan Frio is a contributor at Edmunds.

The 96,000-square-foot library opens over the weekend on July 4, the pinnacle date of celebrations this year honoring the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But Trump is coming early to see the $450 million project, a push of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum from when he was governor of North Dakota, and bringing the official celebrations of the nation's birth to a region synonymous with its westward expansion.

All living presidents were invited to the grand opening of the library, which joins more than a dozen such libraries throughout the country examining the lives and legacies of U.S. presidents from Ronald Reagan in California, to Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York to Herbert Hoover in Iowa. The Obama Presidential Center recently opened in Chicago, bringing together four former presidents for the occasion.

Trump will be the library’s first official visitor, Library Executive Director Robbie Lauf said, and will speak at a nearby Western-themed amphitheater at an event run by Freedom 250, the Trump-created group billed as nonpartisan that he has tapped to organize the festivities he will participate in this week. On Friday, Trump also plans to visit South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore for Independence Day fireworks, as he did in 2020.

The president has often praised, and even compared himself favorably, to Roosevelt, declaring in 2020 that he was, “The number one environmental president since Teddy Roosevelt.”

Trump began his second term by trumpeting construction of the Panama Canal during the Roosevelt administration. He even suggested that the U.S. might seek to take back the waterway from Panama to curb influence from China — though that’s a goal that was overshadowed by his suggestions that Washington might seize control of Greenland or that Canada could become America's 51st state.

In the run-up to staging a UFC fight on the White House lawn for his 80th birthday, Trump said he was aware of Roosevelt holding far lower-key boxing matches in the White House — though he made no mention of Roosevelt having detached the retina of his left eye during one such sparring session.

The trip also underscores the president's esteem for Burgum, who has become a key face of and cheerleader for the president’s expansive renovation projects around Washington.

Roosevelt was a New York native with a strong connection to North Dakota

Roosevelt visited Dakota Territory in 1883 to hunt bison. On Valentine's Day the next year, his mother and wife died hours apart in the same house.

Devastated, the New York native came to Dakota where he ranched cattle and hunted big game in the West during visits mostly from 1884 to 1887.

He underwent deep personal growth from his experiences, including chasing boat thieves down a river, standing up to a bully in a bar and working alongside cowboys who ridiculed him for wearing eyeglasses.

Roosevelt, who served from 1901 to 1909, later said he never would have been president were it not for his experiences in North Dakota.

Near the library is Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Visitors can hike trails and drive a scenic route through the colorful, rugged Badlands where bison and wild horses roam.

In 2019, Burgum championed the library to North Dakota's Republican-led legislature when he was governor, touting its tourism potential. The legislature approved a $50 million operations endowment, requiring library planners to raise $100 million in private donations, a goal met in 2020. Donations total about $354 million as of early 2026.

Donors include oil executive Harold Hamm, the Waltons of Walmart fame, Citadel founder and CEO Kenneth Griffin and Burgum himself.

Burgum also has lobbied for Roosevelt’s induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, saying during an event previewing the Roosevelt library, “Keep your fingers crossed.”

That’s a nod to Roosevelt — who had become alarmed at the number of injuries and deaths of college football players — convening a 1905 White House meeting featuring the presidents of Harvard, Yale and Princeton to urge safety improvements in the sport. The discussions eventually helped sparked the founding of the NCAA, college’s sports governing body.

The library will showcase Roosevelt's ideas and artifacts

Visitors will learn about Roosevelt's conservation ideas and his Rough Riders regiment of the Spanish-American War, but also his “horrific comments” about Native Americans and other issues "that have obviously aged poorly," Lauf said.

Artifacts, many of them out of public view for decades, will tell Roosevelt's story. Visitors will see his Rough Riders uniform; the 1884 diary grieving his terrible loss; and the eyeglasses case, speech and shirt from the 1912 assassination attempt against him.

Organizers hope the library draws families and thousands of school children from the region, as well as some of the millions of motorists who travel to Yellowstone National Park and the Black Hills.

“It's a feature, not a bug, that we are in a county of 1,000 people and a town of 120,” Lauf said. “TR came here for that purpose.”

The Dakota Resource Council on Tuesday hosted several conservation leaders who criticized Burgum and Trump for policies they say contradict Roosevelt's conservation principles, such as cutting staff and budgets and prioritizing energy development on public lands.

Last year Burgum signed an order prioritizing the openness and accessibility of parks to the public amid the workforce cuts. He has compared America's public lands and natural resources to “assets” that should be responsibly developed to exert “energy dominance.”

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Associated Press writer Will Weissert in Washington contributed to this report.

The report appeared aimed at underlining Tehran’s claims to control the strait, which has long been considered by the world as an international waterway and saw a fifth of all oil and natural gas pass through it in peacetime.

Iran has used its ability to choke off the narrow waterway as a key source of leverage since the war began, disrupting global markets for energy and other critical goods.

The report also came as U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, were in Doha, Qatar, for talks over reaching a permanent end to the Iran war.

Technical talks between diplomats began Wednesday in Qatar, said two regional officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door discussions. Those discussions see negotiators aiming to nail down specifics to pave the way for top leaders to seal an agreement, though the differences over the strait and Lebanon still loom large.

Iran offered no immediate acknowledgment of the negotiations starting.

The Strait of Hormuz is a key sticking point in talks

Iran and the United States agreed as part of an interim deal to allow ships to pass uncharged for 60 days, but Tehran insisted it must control the routes of the vessels and later charge fees for passage, upending decades of practice in the waterway. The U.S. and many Gulf Arab states say they won't agree to the charges. An effort by Oman and a U.N. agency to launch a new route near Oman's shore sparked attacks across the Mideast over last weekend, highlighting the tensions still gripping the Mideast.

Iranian state TV said the ship “ran aground with its cargo because of shallow waters along the route it had chosen and was unable to continue sailing.” It said shippers needed to follow the instructions of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in the strait.

The Guard's navy “has repeatedly warned captains, shipowners and officials of shipping companies around the world that any entry or exit through routes other than the ‘Route of Authority’ in the Persian Gulf could lead to irreparable incidents,” it said. The report did not mention the two ships Iran attacked in recent days for daring to head out through the strait without Tehran's permission, including one that was carrying crude oil from Qatar.

US negotiators are in Qatar and Iranians are expected

Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Qatar on Tuesday ahead of talks with Qatar mediating. While Iran has insisted it planned no meetings with the Americans, their comments left open the possibility of so-called “indirect negotiations,” in which the two nations pass messages through Qatari officials. That has happened multiple times during negotiations in the second Trump administration.

Qatar early Wednesday morning acknowledged a meeting between the Americans and its foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. A readout from Qatar's Foreign Ministry said the men talked about the interim deal “along with the efforts aimed at promoting security and stability in the region through dialogue and diplomacy.” Lebanon also was discussed, another key point in a final deal as Iran has been insisted that all fighting between the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah and Israeli military forces end.

Iran also has called for Israel to give up the land it occupies in southern Lebanon now. Israel insists it must hold the territory and have a free hand to attack Hezbollah, which has been launching attacks into northern Israel.

Iran did not immediately acknowledge any talks on Wednesday. However, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a key negotiator, told Iranian state television overnight that work continues to try to reach a permanent end to the war.

“We are engaged in dialogue, but if they refuse to implement what has been agreed through dialogue, we are prepared for war,” Qalibaf said.

More ships get out of Strait of Hormuz

While ship traffic in the strait dropped after this weekend's attacks, more countries say their vessels have gotten out.

Thailand’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that 10 out of 11 Thai-flagged vessels or vessels chartered by Thai operators have departed the Strait of Hormuz safely. South Korean officials say all but two of the country’s 26 vessels that were stranded have left safely.

Iraq shoots down drone over Baghdad

Also Wednesday, Iraqi authorities shot down a small drone over Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, where many embassies and government buildings are located, two Iraqi security officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly. One of the officials said the drone was unarmed and likely was being used for surveillance. No group immediately claimed the drone as theirs.

After the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran in late February, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias launched frequent attacks on U.S. military and diplomatic facilities in Iraq. The drone being shot down overnight Wednesday was the first security incident in Baghdad since the U.S. and Iran agreed to a ceasefire.

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Associated Press writers Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, Samy Magdy in Cairo, Najib Jobain in Doha, Qatar, Jintamas Saksornchai in Bangkok, Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad and Tong-hyung Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.

Police are investigating whether negligence during ongoing construction work caused the collapse that left another eight children injured and hospitalized in stable condition.

Residents and preliminary police findings indicate the tutoring center was operating in an aging building. Investigators believe the unfinished roof of the second floor may have collapsed because of poor construction.

At least two people, including the building owner, were arrested as investigators tried to determine who was responsible, senior police official Kamran Faisal said, adding that negligence by the owner and construction workers appear to have caused the collapse.

“We are still investigating to determine exactly whose negligence resulted in this tragic incident,” Faisal said.

Funeral prayers for the children, who were up to 14 years old, began before dawn and continued through Wednesday morning. Most of the victims were buried in a local graveyard, while some families planned to take the bodies to their native towns for burial.

Ambulances transported the victims’ bodies overnight to their homes in Kahna, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore. As the bodies were returned to their families, cries echoed through the neighborhood. Mothers and female relatives sat beside the bodies throughout the night while classmates and friends of the victims stood nearby in tears.

The funeral mourners Wednesday morning included Mohammad Ashfaq, a laborer whose 7-year-old son and nephew were killed in the collapse.

“I cannot express my pain and grief in words,” Ashfaq said through tears as relatives tried to comfort him.

Nearby, Muhammad Farooq mourned the loss of his young daughter.

“Yesterday she went to her tuition class at around 4 p.m.,” Farooq said. “Around 4:45 p.m., my family called me and said the roof of the tuition center had collapsed. They told me many children were trapped under the debris. Fourteen children were killed, and the injured were taken to the hospital.”

Local resident Mohammad Tahir said neighbors were the first to respond after the roof gave way.

“Rescuers arrived quickly, but before they reached us, neighbors rushed in with shovels and even dug through the debris with their bare hands,” Tahir said. “We also pulled children from the rubble, but many could not be saved.”

Building collapses are common in Pakistan, where construction standards are often poorly enforced. Structures are frequently built with substandard materials and safety regulations are sometimes ignored to reduce costs.

Grief has turned to anger for some people. Residents blamed the owner of the tutoring center for holding classes in what they described as an old and unsafe building despite ongoing construction and demanded strict punishment for those responsible.

“We don’t know whose funeral to attend first or whose home to visit first to offer condolences,” Tahir said.

Xi Jinping, now in his 14th year in power, noted that China achieved in a few decades what it took centuries for rich countries to do.

“We advocate the building of a community with a shared future for humanity, providing Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions and Chinese strength for addressing major issues facing humanity,” he said at an event marking the 105th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Communist Party.

China, which has long bristled at U.S. dominance of the international system, has said it doesn't want to replace the global order but change it to better represent the interests of developing countries. Xi's government went head-to-head with the U.S. last year and forced President Donald Trump to scale back import tariffs that he had imposed on imports from China.

The world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, putting humanity at a crossroads, Xi said. He repeated past pledges to push forward the construction of a new type of international relations to promote world peace and development.

His remarks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing echoed many of the themes of his speech on the party's 100th anniversary in 2021, including the importance of a strong military and of bringing Taiwan under China's control.

He emphasized the need to elevate the military more quickly to world-class standards, while also upholding the Communist Party's leadership of the armed forces. Several senior generals have been removed in recent years in a corruption purge that is also seen as a way to ensure loyalty in the military.

So have other Venezuelan earthquake survivors.

They, like others across the northern state of La Guaira, have the same question: Who is in charge? Venezuela's self-described socialist government, which long prided itself on being protector and provider, has been neither when it mattered most, many said.

The powerful back-to-back earthquakes on June 24 have brought to the forefront t he inability of the party that has ruled the country for 27 years — now with acting President Delcy Rodriguez at the helm — to carry out basic governmental functions.

“We’ve been abandoned,” Mundrain said, sitting in a chair on the street Tuesday in front of what remained of the 11-story building she once called home. “We feel helpless. What we have seen is a lack of organization, a lack of empathy, a lack of everything.”

In the critical 72 hours after residential buildings, food joints, pharmacies, hotels and convenience stores imploded in La Guaira state, Caracas and surrounding regions, the on-the-ground response was primarily focused on directing traffic, with police officers, intelligence agents and members of the armed forces manning intersections.

Residents take on rescue and recovery amid government failure

Civilians, mostly alone and some with the help of foreign rescuers, searched for loved ones among piles of rubble. Ambulances were stuck in miles-long (kilometers-long) traffic jams. Hospitals were undersupplied and understaffed. Emergency personnel responded with little to no equipment.

A week later, many residents in coastal communities of La Guaira were attributing most rescues and recoveries to fellow Venezuelans and foreign teams with know-how and equipment like thermal cameras and sound detectors as well as trained dogs. They also pointed out that while civilians and foreign rescuers worked, men and women in Venezuelan uniforms stood watching and state workers took selfies.

Tulane University professor David Smilde, who has studied Venezuela for three decades, said the tragedy has made clear that the stunning Jan. 3 capture of then-President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces was not a one-off “in which the Venezuelan state was not able to defend itself at all.”

“It also can’t do anything like get started with digging people out," he said, adding that it should be a worrying concern for Rodriguez, who was sworn in after Maduro was deposed and taken to New York to face drug trafficking charges.

Smilde said the dismal response is linked to the huge numbers of people who have left the public sector because of extremely low pay as well as corruption, such as the many people who are included in the government’s payroll but who have not worked in months or years. In a functioning government, he added, people have specific duties to design protocols spelling out procedures in case of emergencies, including earthquakes.

“It’s like trying to have a baseball team with three people on the field. You’re not sure who’s going to be the pitcher, who’s going to be catching, and who’s going to be outfielder,” he said of the government's lack of organization.

Wealth and government connections mean some get help

Wealth and government connections also influenced the government’s response, with some sites given preferential treatment.

When one collapsed building was teeming with police and military school students, people accurately guessed that officials or politically connected individuals must have lived there. The police officers from a neighboring state were indeed searching for a captain, while the students and a few members of the national guard were hoping to locate a major general.

A telescopic crane, like the one Mundrain needs for the recovery of her family, was parked for several hours in what was that building’s entrance. The relatives of the well-off families who lived in the building were able to rent it. Mundrain cannot.

“I think that if there were someone in a position of authority in each of these apartments, there would be a well-oiled machine working like they have in other residences,” Mundrain said pointing to her building.

People's anger over the response has also led to altercations between residents and machine operators. In one instance, when a government-provided excavator tried to leave the site of a flattened public housing building, people blocked traffic to keep it in place and even pulled the operator from the cab.

The government has reported that 1,943 died and more than 10,500 were injured in the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck June 24. Thousands more have been reported missing.

Rescuers on Tuesday continued to free some survivors from mountains of debris, offering anguished families a sliver of hope even as the likelihood of finding people alive diminished with each passing hour. The first 48 to 72 hours after a natural disaster are crucial to rescue efforts, though survival can be extended if people have access to food and water.

Electrician Daniel Castillo was able to pull his mother and son alive from their second-floor apartment in a collapsed public housing building in La Guaira just hours after the earthquake struck. The body of his brother remained inside for another day until he could reach him.

On Tuesday, he decried the government’s response while he waited in line to get a free bag of hygiene products, including toilet paper and soap, from a tent staffed by the Venezuelan armed forces.

“You see the guards, and their uniforms are spotless, not dirty at all,” Castillo said, contrasting members of Venezuela's National Guard with dust-covered civilians and foreign rescuers who have dug through rubble for days. “The government did nothing.”

En un hospital de la región de París, los paramédicos de urgencias lo necesitaban para sumergir a los pacientes en baños de agua fría y bajarles rápidamente la temperatura, para que no se sumaran al creciente número de muertos por una ola de calor que batió récords. Pero, al no contar con una máquina para hacer hielo, ¿de dónde conseguirlo?

Un restaurante de comida rápida ayudó la semana pasada y señaló que el hospital podía llevarse su hielo. El personal también compró hielo en el supermercado. El Hospital Paris-Saclay ya encargó su propia máquina de hielo, que el servicio de urgencias espera con impaciencia ante un futuro embate de calor sofocante.

Tanto si eso ocurre la próxima semana, como dice el servicio meteorológico de Francia que podría suceder, o en los meses de verano por venir, los médicos y los administradores hospitalarios son plenamente conscientes de que la batalla que acaban de lidiar, debido al cambio climático, se verá seguida por otras. Así como se preparan para la temporada anual de gripe, saben que combatir las olas de calor se está convirtiendo en su nueva normalidad.

Así que, mientras recuperan el aliento tras lo que el director del hospital público describió como una semana “horrible”, él y su equipo también se están preparando para la siguiente ronda.

“Pensábamos que estábamos listos. En realidad no lo estábamos”, afirmó el director, Cédric Lussiez.

“El hospital estaba funcionando las 24 horas del día porque teníamos que encontrar nuevas soluciones en muy poco tiempo”, explicó. “Ya aprendimos algunas lecciones”.

Los hospitales se preparan para más olas de calor inevitables

Los esfuerzos por tapar algunos de los agujeros que dejó al descubierto la ola de calor —que, tras azotar a Francia, Reino Unido y otros países, se desplazó hacia el este a otras partes de Europa— también se están acelerando a nivel nacional.

Cuando Francia se cocía durante sus días más calurosos registrados la semana pasada, el primer ministro francés, Sébastien Lecornu, anunció un gasto de 100 millones de euros (114 millones de dólares) a partir de este verano en sistemas de refrigeración para hospitales y otros trabajos para mantener las unidades en funcionamiento.

Y, en la más reciente de una serie de reuniones de crisis por la ola de calor, indicó el lunes que el gobierno comprará 30.000 unidades de aire acondicionado para instalaciones sanitarias, con las primeras entregas previstas “a finales de esta semana, comienzos de la próxima”.

“Para nosotros es una prioridad absoluta que, si la ola de calor regresa, la situación en los hospitales esté mucho menos tensionada”, manifestó.

La Organización Mundial de la Salud describió la ola de calor el martes como “un ensayo general” para veranos que “serán más duros”.

“Europa se está calentando a más del doble del promedio mundial. Las olas de calor ya no son episodios aislados y extraños”, señaló. “Cada verano en el que no nos preparamos para ellas es un verano que pagamos con vidas”.

Aumentan los infartos y otras urgencias por exposición al calor

En el Hospital Paris-Saclay, los pacientes que sufrían exposición al calor empezaron a llegar en oleada el 20 de junio, contó el doctor Nicolas Gonzales, jefe del servicio de urgencias.

“Fue como una gran montaña”, relató. “Fue así durante siete días. Así que fue muy intenso”.

“En invierno, sabemos que tendremos epidemias de gripe y probablemente también COVID. Y ahora, en verano, vamos a tener la crisis climática”, añadió.

El primer paciente que atendió en esta ola de calor fue una salida de emergencia: un hombre de 50 años en coma en su casa y con una temperatura de unos 40 grados Celsius (104 grados Fahrenheit). Su familia dijo que parecía estar bien, y de pronto estaba inconsciente, explicó Gonzales. Fue trasladado de urgencia al hospital para recibir cuidados críticos.

Luego llegó el aluvión: infartos, deshidratación, fallos renales y otros problemas relacionados con el calor, que afectaron a todos los grupos de edad, desde niños hasta personas mayores que viven solas.

“El calor es una agresión física. Es una agresión física al cuerpo”, explicó Gonzales. “Y cuando el cuerpo ya no puede adaptarse —o, por desgracia, ya no es capaz de resistir esa agresión—, no lo ves venir y el corazón puede dejar de latir”.

Los hospitales refuerzan con urgencia sus defensas contra el calor

El Hospital Paris-Saclay es nuevo y tiene aire acondicionado, pero tres hospitales más antiguos que forman parte de su grupo, que dirige Lussiez, no están tan bien protegidos contra el calor. La ola los puso a prueba duramente.

Para evitar que los medicamentos se estropearan, tuvieron que enfriarlos con una solución temporal de ventiladores eléctricos y bloques de hielo. Se reclutó a estudiantes de enfermería para ayudar con el trabajo de mantener hidratados a los pacientes. El termómetro alcanzó los 33 ºC (91 ºF) en el piso superior, el más expuesto, de una unidad psiquiátrica, indicó Lussiez.

Ahora está equipando con urgencia esa unidad con una sala fresca para pacientes en cada piso y organizando otras obras de renovación y cambios, incluido el traslado de un departamento para pacientes de edad avanzada al hospital nuevo.

“Estaremos en una situación mejor la próxima semana de lo que estuvimos la semana pasada”, aseguró.

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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.

At a Paris-region hospital, emergency medics needed it to plunge patients into cold-water baths to speedily bring down their temperatures so they wouldn't join the growing tally of dead from a record-smashing heat wave. But lacking an ice-making machine, where to get it?

A fast-food restaurant helped out last week, saying the hospital could take its ice. Staff also bought ice from the supermarket. The Paris-Saclay Hospital has now ordered its own ice machine, eagerly awaited in the emergency department for a future attack of sizzling heat.

Whether that hits next week, as France's weather service says it might, or in summer months ahead, medics and hospital administrators are acutely aware that the battle they've just endured will, because of climate change, be followed by others. Just as they brace for the annual flu season, they know that fighting heat waves is becoming their new normal.

So as they catch their breath from what the director of the public hospital described as a “horrible" last week, he and his staff are also gearing up for the next round.

“We thought we were ready. We were not actually,” said the director, Cédric Lussiez.

“The hospital was working on a 24-hours-a-day basis because we had to find new solutions in a very short delay,” he said. “We already learned some lessons.”

Hospitals are preparing for more inevitable heat waves

Efforts to plug some of the holes exposed by the heat wave that shifted eastward to other parts of Europe after battering France, the United Kingdom and other countries are accelerating on a national level, too.

When France was baking through its hottest days on record last week, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced a 100-million euro ($114-million) spend from this summer on cooling systems for hospitals and other work to keep wards functioning.

And at the latest in a series of heat-wave crisis meetings, he said Monday that the government is buying 30,000 air-conditioning units for health facilities, with the first deliveries expected “at the end of the week, beginning of next week.”

“It's an absolute priority for us that, if the heat wave returns, the hospital situation be a lot less strained," he said.

The World Health Organization on Tuesday described the heat wave as “a dress rehearsal” for summers that “will be harder."

“Europe is warming at more than twice the global average. Heat waves are no longer one-off freak events,” it said. “Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.”

Heart attacks and other heat-exposure emergencies surge

At the Paris-Saclay Hospital, patients suffering from heat exposure started arriving in a surge on June 20, said Dr. Nicolas Gonzales, head of the emergency department.

“It was like a big mountain,” he said. “It was like that for seven days. So it was very intense.”

“In winter, we know we’ll have influenza epidemics and probably COVID as well. And now, in the summer, we’re going to have the climate crisis," he said.

The first patient he treated in this heat wave was an emergency call-out, for a 50-year-old man in a coma at home and with a temperature of about 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). His family said he seemed fine one minute, but was unconscious the next, Gonzales said. He was rushed to the hospital for critical care.

Then came the flood: heart attacks, dehydration, kidney malfunctions and other heat-related problems, impacting all age groups, from children to older people living alone.

“Heat is a physical assault. It is a physical assault on the body," Gonzales said. “And when the body can no longer adapt — or, unfortunately, is no longer able to fight off that assault — you don’t feel it coming, and the heart can stop beating."

Hospitals are urgently upgrading heat defenses

Paris-Saclay Hospital is new and has air-conditioning, but three older hospitals that are part of its group, which Lussiez heads, aren’t so well defended against the heat. It tested them arduously.

To prevent medicines from spoiling, they had to be cooled with a temporary solution of electric fans and blocks of ice. Student nurses were recruited to help with the work of keeping patients hydrated. The thermometer hit 33 C (91 F) on the top, most exposed floor of a psychiatric unit, Lussiez said.

He's now urgently equipping that unit with a cool room for patients on each floor and organizing other renovation works and changes, including moving a department for elderly patients to the new hospital.

“We’ll be in a better situation next week than we were last week,” he said.

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That's meant to safeguard the summit, but also to display strength and underscore Turkey’s commitment to the military alliance, even as it is often portrayed as an outlier within it.

On July 7–8, leaders from all 32 member states are expected convene in the Turkish capital, including U.S. President Donald Trump, whose threats to withdraw from NATO and reduce U.S. troop levels have cast uncertainty over the alliance’s future.

Turkey has also unveiled a new VIP airport, converted from a former military airfield, specifically to host NATO leaders.

Allies will aim for unity

At the Ankara summit, NATO members are expected to address questions over defense spending and the U.S.’s evolving role in the alliance.

The main agenda will center on unity after Trump has criticized allies for failing to support the U.S.-led war on Iran and efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

“The important aspect of the meeting is to what extent the rift between the United States and Europe can be healed or narrowed during the summit,” said Fatih Ceylan, a former Turkish ambassador to NATO and security analyst at the Ankara Policy Center. “We should not expect miracles, but nonetheless if there is a convergence of ideas emphasizing the importance of NATO, that should be seen as a success.”

Turkey's role as host seems to have helped win an appearance by Trump, who has a close rapport with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“Well, except for the fact that it was being held in Turkey by President Erdogan, I don’t think I would have gone to it,” he told reporters following a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House.

Turkey has often acted independently in NATO

In the run-up to the summit, Erdogan described Turkey as a reliable ally that consistently shoulders responsibility on NATO’s southeastern flank and will continue to play a leading role in the alliance. He said his country was working to ensure that the Ankara Summit “will stand as a reference point in NATO’s history.”

A NATO member since 1952, Turkey has the alliance’s second-largest army after the United States, a fast-growing defense industry, and a strategic location the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East, the Black Sea, and the Caucasus.

Yet it has often acted independently, frustrating allies by refusing to participate in sanctions on Russia, engaging in disputes with Greece, and purchasing Russian missile defense systems — a move that led to its expulsion from the U.S.-led F-35 program in 2019.

Turkey also delayed Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership until it secured concessions on counter-terrorism cooperation and the lifting of arms export restrictions, and blocked the appointments of NATO chiefs Anders Fogh Rassmussen in 2009 and Mark Rutte in 2024 until other demands were met.

But Turkey's independent streak has also enabled it to play a mediating role, from brokering a deal to ship grain across the Black Sea between Ukraine and Russia in 2022 to supporting recent initiatives aimed at ending the war in Iran.

Ankara, too, has at times been frustrated with its NATO allies, particularly over what it saw as the alliance’s lack of solidarity during a failed coup attempt in 2016, and the arms sales restrictions imposed on Turkey after its intervention in Syria.

Murat Aslan, an analyst at the Ankara-based SETA think tank, said Turkey learned to “play it alone” due to its turbulent relations with the United States and Europe, adding that Europe is now also talking about “strategic autonomy” from the U.S.

Turkey can help NATO navigate U.S.–Europe tensions by showing how to “balance” independence with alliance commitments, he said.

Ankara is tilting back toward the West

More recently, however, Turkey has leaned closer to NATO, whose importance was underscored during the Iran war when alliance missile defenses intercepted four missiles fired from Iran into Turkish territory. Weeks before the summit, Italy and Germany deployed air defense systems to help Turkey respond to heightened threats.

“Turkey wishes to distinguish itself as a foreign policy actor that is independent of NATO and the West,” wrote Hamish Kinnear, principal Middle East and North Africa analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft, in a note. “While Turkey is not abandoning its balancing approach, it is tilting closer to the West, primarily because of NATO.”

Authorities roll out strict security measures

In Ankara, strict access restrictions will be imposed on several of the city's main arteries, around airports, the presidential complex where the summit will be held, and around hotels hosting the delegations, severely disrupting life in the city of nearly 6 million.

As the country prepares for the summit, Erdogan unveiled a new airport which was transformed from a former military airfield into a modern facility with expanded runways. The new Ankara Airport is expected to remain a VIP airport after the summit and is not expected to serve the general public, officials have said.

Facades of houses along the route from the new airport have been painted over as part of city beautification efforts, the newspaper Cumhuriyet reported.

With a history of terrorist attacks, Turkey's capital is no stranger to tight security, but the measures being taken in connection with NATO appear to go beyond the usual.

Authorities have also banned demonstrations, concerts, and graduation ceremonies during the summit, while nonessential state employees have been placed on leave to ease congestion.

Security units have detained more than 200 people suspected of links to extremist groups, including the Islamic State group, authorities said. Media reports said that several activists, lawyers and an academic were caught up in the sweep.

A Turkish court, meanwhile, blocked access to websites critical of NATO and the summit on security and public order grounds, according to Engelli Web, a website that tracks websites banned in Turkey. Several journalists from Turkish opposition-leaning media organizations were denied accreditation to cover the summit, sparking outrage from media rights groups.

“In the history of the organization, we have never witnessed security measures as stringent and suffocating in a host city for a summit as we are seeing this time in Ankara,” wrote Namik Tan, a former Turkish ambassador and legislator from Turkey's main opposition party.

Personal trainer Selin Karakoc said she breathed a sigh of relief after she was told that her wedding on July 5 falls just before the start of the restrictions.

“Ours could be one of the last weddings in Ankara that week,” she joked.

The survey's so-called diffusion index rose to 22 from 17 in the previous quarter, the BOJ said. The index for large non-manufacturers, such as services, edged up to 37 from the last tankan 's 36.

The survey is an indicator of companies foreseeing good conditions minus those feeling pessimistic.

Higher fuel prices due to the Iran war have added to inflationary pressures in Japan, though crude oil prices have fallen since the U.S. and Iran agreed on an interim deal to end the war.

Although a weak yen raises the value of exports’ earnings when converted into yen, a boon for Japan’s giant exporters, that positive is starting to be countered by the big negative of rising energy prices.

Japan imports nearly all of its oil and gas, and the yen’s recent decline to near a 40-year low has added to those concerns given recent high oil prices.

The U.S. dollar was trading at about 162 yen on Wednesday.

Last month the Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1%, a three-decade high, citing challenges stemming from a weak Japanese yen and higher prices. The central bank has been trying to normalize monetary policy lately after decades of keeping interest rates near or below zero.

Analysts say Japan's economic indicators, such as investments, remain relatively strong despite longer term problems such as a chronic labor shortage due to an aging and declining population.

“Sales remain firm, especially for large enterprises, but profits are expected to weaken,” said Amova Asset Management Chief Global Strategist and Chief Economist Naomi Fink said about the tankan.

“Fixed investment plans are strong for large and mid-size firms but less so for small firms.”

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Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in Manhattan federal court to say Trump is unjustly trying to further delay release of the money after the Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal of the 2023 civil jury verdict.

The amount has grown to nearly $5.8 million with interest and should be required by the court to be disbursed, the lawyers wrote, saying Trump has resumed his defamatory attacks against Carroll as his lawyers considered asking the high court to reconsider its decision.

The jury reached its verdict in a trial that Trump did not attend after Carroll testified that she was sexually abused by Trump in spring 1996 in the dressing room of a midtown Manhattan luxury department store after a flirtatious and friendly chance encounter between them turned violent.

Carroll, 82, first talked about the attack publicly in 2019 while Trump was president. He repeatedly insisted that he never knew Carroll. He also accused her of trying to sell books at his expense and having political motives.

Trump promised on social media Monday to keep fighting what he called a “Weaponization and Lawfare Case” after the Supreme Court's rejection became known.

They said lawyers for Trump contacted Carroll's attorneys minutes after Trump published a response to the high court's action, asking that the payout be delayed while the Supreme Court is asked to reconsider its decision.

But Carroll's lawyers — Roberta Kaplan, D. Brandon Trice and Maximilian T. Crema — said in their court filing that there was no reason to delay the payment, especially since the Supreme Court expressed no division in its decision not to hear the case.

“To date, Carroll has agreed to each of Defendant’s many requests to delay the payment he owes her. Given the extraordinary lengths he has taken to avoid such payments and that each of those efforts has been denied in full, that cooperation ends today. It is time for him to pay Carroll,” they wrote.

Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump is also appealing $83 million in defamation compensation granted to Carroll from a separate Manhattan jury after a January 2024 trial at which Trump briefly testified.

At that trial, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is unrelated to Carroll's attorney, required that jury to accept the findings of the previous jury and only determine how much money, if any, Trump owed Carroll for comments he made about her as president.

Hincapié was sent off in the 95th minute of Ecuador’s 2-0 loss to Mexico Tuesday in the round of 32. He was shown the red card following an exchange with Mexico forward Santi Giménez.

FIFA established the new rule to prevent players from hiding abusive comments to opponents by covering their mouth.

Paraguay’s Miguel Almirón was the first player to be punished under the new rule when he was sent off in a group stage match against Turkey last week.

While Ecuador’s tournament is over, Hincapié will be suspended for the team's next international match.

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Last month, the Education Department announced it would offload oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose comments on the limits of disabilities such as autism have drawn sharp rebukes from advocates and lawmakers.

Meanwhile, following a White House push to police homelessness, the Department of Justice released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability.

Taken together, the actions signal a worrying return to a reality where people with disabilities are pushed to the margins of society, advocates said.

“It’s a direct, frontal assault on the rights of people with disabilities to live their lives the way that people who are nondisabled live their lives,” said Selene Almazan, legal director for the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. “I can't imagine that as a country, that would be something that we would agree we should go back to.”

The move away from confining people with disabilities

Since the 1960s, legislation and court decisions have progressively expanded supports and protections for people with disabilities to go to school with nondisabled peers and to live and work in their communities. Before that, people with mental illnesses or developmental and intellectual disabilities were largely confined to institutions.

Advocates have pushed back on what's known as the “medical model,” where an individual's disability is viewed as a defect to be cured. Instead, under a “social model” of disability, differences can be accommodated and supported, as people with and without disabilities learn and work alongside each other.

Families and advocates have warned that moving special education to a health department marks a return to the medical model. They've also been angered by Kennedy's attempts to link vaccines to autism, going against decades of research that show no such link, and his framing of autism as a debilitating disease.

Kennedy's comments last year, where he said children with autism would never write a poem, pay taxes or hold a job, raised questions about how he would oversee an agency meant to help students develop those skills. Kennedy later said he was referring to people with " severe autism ″ or those who are nonverbal.

“Many of the things he said autistic people will never do, (special education) is in charge of making sure students with disabilities have the opportunity to do,” said Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. “Will he execute that faithfully, or does he consider disabled students a lost cause until we find some medical cure?”

The Supreme Court weighs in

In 1999, the Supreme Court ruled that segregating disabled people who are otherwise able to live in their community with proper supports was a form of discrimination. The Olmstead v. L.C. decision led to requirements that government agencies provide disability services in the most integrated setting possible — in mainstream schools, homes and workplaces.

But in a memo issued in June, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel upended that guidance. It argued that neither the Americans with Disabilities Act nor Section 504, two major disability rights laws, requires states to provide services in the most mainstream setting. While the memo does not change the law, it signals how federal agencies may interpret and enforce civil rights issues related to the topic — and it could embolden states or school districts to decline to support people with disabilities in mainstream environments.

The White House has already acted on a similar philosophy. Last year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on homelessness that endorsed civil commitment, where a court orders individuals into involuntary hospitalization or treatment programs. Trump directed HHS to reduce barriers to institutionalizing people with mental illnesses.

In its memo, the Justice Department acknowledged its interpretation of the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision is “out of step" with the common understanding. If a state starts to provide services in institutional settings, legal challenges likely would follow, the DOJ said.

The Trump administration's steps fit a worldview in which the government has no obligation to support people with disabilities, said Claudia Center, legal director at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.

“It's dark, and it's awful,” Center said. “And I think it's contrary to the majority view in our country. ... It's out of touch with where our society is."

Families say their kids thrive in mainstream classes

The moves have created a deep sense of uncertainty for students with disabilities.

Lindsey Althaus says home and community-based services in northwest Ohio have been instrumental to her family. Her 12-year-old son, Whitman, has autism and a neurological disorder called apraxia, in which the brain struggles to tell muscles how to move to form words or perform other motor skills. For some of his school career, with proper support services, Whitman was able to spend much of his school day in a classroom that included kids without disabilities.

Through a Medicaid waiver program, Althaus pays her mother to care for Whitman in her absence. That allows him to spend time out in the community with his grandmother while Althaus and her husband are working or away with their daughter.

Under the Justice Department's new interpretation of Olmsted, states would have fewer obligations to fund and support those programs. And Kennedy, in testimony to lawmakers on Capitol Hill earlier this year, criticized similar programs as subject to fraud.

“We want to be able to have him in the community,” said Althaus, who works as a disability rights advocate. “It's just starting to feel like Whitman's not going to be welcome anymore. We're going back to this: You're either perfect, or you're not in the light.”

For many students with disabilities, schools are where they receive the majority of support services and where they are integrated among their peers. Before Magda Nakassis's 8-year-old son, who is autistic and nonverbal, started public school in Maryland, his preschool experience had largely been defined by being kicked out of things, she said.

In school, Nakassis said, she found teachers and staff members who understood her son's needs and told her to stop apologizing for them. A program at his school called Fantastic Friends teaches mainstream fifth graders about autism, and they spend recesses with children in the autism program. Every year, Nakassis said, there is a waitlist to be a Fantastic Friend.

Nakassis said that it has been difficult to see the ways autism in particular has become politicized. Every child is entitled to a public education in this country, Nakassis said, and special education is a response to the fact that some children have differences that require additional support.

Regardless of his diagnosis, his right to an education is not a medical issue, she said, but rather a question of equity and access in a society that often pushes disabled people to the margins.

“There are lots of kids like him out there, and I sometimes wonder, ‘what did we use to do?’” Nakassis said. “I can't believe it was better.”

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The hearing comes nearly a year after the shooting last July outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas, which wounded a police officer and included the group setting off fireworks during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

In all, more than a dozen people have been convicted or pleaded guilty over the shooting at the facility, which the U.S. Justice Department has alleged was carried out by members of the leftist militant group antifa.

Attorneys for the protesters have denied antifa links, and family members have expressed shock over the stiff sentences handed down in Texas.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor called the protest an “assault on democracy” before he and another judge handed down lengthy prison sentences to eight demonstrators who were convicted by a federal jury on terrorism charges.

On Wednesday, six other defendants faced sentences of up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty instead of going to trial. Each pleaded guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists, including a man who testified at the trial of the other demonstrators that he spray-painted a guard shack and vehicles in the parking lot.

The case has been closely watched by critics who say the prosecution could have wide-reaching impact on protests and First Amendment free-speech rights.

For the past year, attorneys for the defendants have said there was no planned ambush and that protesters who brought firearms only did so for their own protection. They argued the gathering was planned as a late-night demonstration with fireworks to show support for immigrants.

Prosecutors told jurors at trial that the group’s actions — including bringing firearms, first aid kits and wearing body armor — were signals of nefarious intent.

Benjamin Song, a former U.S. Marine reservist who was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting, was sentenced to 100 years in prison, and seven others received prison terms ranging from 30 to 70 years in prison.

Another person awaiting sentencing on Wednesday was convicted at trial. Ines Soto, whose wife was also convicted, faces up to 60 years in prison after being convicted on charges of providing material support to terrorists, riot and explosives. At trial, attorneys for the couple said they arrived late and left when confronted by guards.

The Society of St. Pius X, which opposes modernizing reforms in the Catholic Church, went ahead with a ritual-filled ceremony at its seminary in Econe, Switzerland, despite a last-ditch appeal by Leo to call it off. The American pope warned in a letter Tuesday that consecrating bishops without his approval amounted to a “sin of extreme gravity” that will actually harm their faithful.

And yet bells tolled through the misty Alpine mountain valley as hundreds of priests processed two-by-two to the altar under a tent at the start of the service, which was attended by thousands of faithful Catholics who prefer the traditional Latin Mass over modern liturgies.

The Mass, rich in velvet and gold-trimmed vestments, chant and incense, was livestreamed on the society's YouTube channel, with simultaneous translation in several languages. The highly organized religious extravaganza underscored the society's international reach, despite its schismatic outsider status, and appeal to conservative, traditionalist Catholics wary of the modern, secular world.

The consecrations amount to a major crisis for Leo, who has prioritized church unity and healing tensions with traditionalists that worsened during the Pope Francis pontificate.

The SSPX, as the society is known, is a threat to the Holy See since it represents a parallel, ultra-Catholic, pre-Vatican II church. It now has six bishops, 751 priests, 264 seminarians training in five seminaries, 145 religious brothers, 88 oblates and 250 religious sisters representing 50 nationalities, according to SSPX statistics.

At the start of the Mass, a priest read aloud a statement justifying the consecrations as a necessary “sacred duty” and dismissing the resulting penalties. “We consider every punishment and censure brought to bear against this step will have no validity,” he said.

Midway through, Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta, who himself was consecrated without papal consent in 1988, placed his hands on the head of the four new bishops. The ritual laying of the hands confers the Holy Spirit from one bishop to another and recalls Christ’s gesture to his apostles.

According to church law, the mere act of consecrating a bishop without a papal mandate incurs the harshest penalty in the Catholic Church: automatic excommunication for the four new bishops and the bishop administering the rite. It also amounts to a schismatic act, or an intentional rupture of the unity of the Catholic Church.

A society founded in opposition to Vatican II

The French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had founded the SSPX in opposition to the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. Among other things, the 1960s church meetings revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with other Christians, Jews and people of other faiths, and allowed Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.

In 1988, exactly 38 years ago Wednesday, Lefebvre consecrated four bishops without papal consent. The Vatican promptly excommunicated Lefebvre and the four bishops and declared the consecrations a “schismatic act.” Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 lifted the excommunications, but the SSPX today has no legal standing in the church.

The SSPX has accused the modern church of being rife with heresies and errors, including modernism, liberalism and ecumenism. The society insists that only the SSPX is upholding the true faith of Christ and has justified the consecrations, citing a “state of necessity” to minister to its faithful.

It identified the new bishops as Pascal Schreiber of Switzerland, Michael Goldade of the United States, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry of France and Marc Hanappier, also of France.

In his homily, SSPX superior the Rev. Davide Pagliarani defended the consecrations as necessary for the salvation of souls but also insisted they served Leo and the church.

“We are accused of not respecting the pope," Pagliarani said. "But it is precisely because we love the pope as the vicar of Christ, as the head of the church, that we don't want to see the pope humiliated anymore, on the side of false shepherds representing false religions.”

The Vatican didn't immediately comment.

A rupture but a celebration nevertheless

And yet everything about Wednesday’s ceremony had the air of a joyous celebration, even though a downpour eventually doused the faithful in the field outside the tent. The website for its consecration has had a countdown clock running for days. Participants received a baseball cap with the “Econe2026” seal on it.

And in perhaps the most obvious sign of a celebration, registered participants were able to purchase a souvenir set of wine to commemorate the “historic” event. The 75 Swiss franc ($92.50) “Cuvee des Sacres” gift box features pinot noir, Syrah, Petit Arvine and Fendant, each bottle with a bishop-themed label: an image of a bishop’s pointed miter hat, his ring, cross or crozier staff.

The field, located under giant power lines, was awash in smiling nuns, priests posing for photos, Girl Scouts handing out water bottles, black-clad security guards with earpieces and orange-vested volunteer escorts keeping journalists on a short leash, occasionally cutting short interviews with faithful. Morning mist coated the nearby Rhone River that snakes through the Alpine valley as worshippers flocked in.

Arlina Onglao, a 71-year-old travel agent who trekked from her home in Manila, the Philippines, said she wanted to come to Econe for the “historic event” and didn't care about the prospect of excommunications.

“For me, because the Vatican has lost -- well, should I say this? -- has lost credibility, I don’t think it’s going to scare any of us. Me, I’m not scared,” she said. “I feel like I’m on a safer road to heaven.”

Medical researcher Wulfran Lindzondzo, 42, a native of Gabon who today lives in France, said he wanted to “re-discover tradition” through the society, noting its presence in the African country.

“The Holy Father doesn’t really agree with it, but I hand over – I will pray to the Good Lord that the authorities in Rome can one day accept coming back to the church’s traditions,” he said before the Mass began.

Other traditionalists and conservatives oppose the consecrations

For the society itself, neither the threat of a declared schism nor an excommunication matters. “We don’t fear it. It pains us immensely, but we believe that the good we seek is greater than the pain that will be inflicted upon us,” said Marc-André Mabillard, SSPX media manager.

In a late response to Leo's letter, the SSPX urged Leo to wait before declaring any penalty.

But many Catholics, including conservative and traditional ones, opposed the consecrations as an act of severe disobedience to the pope that hurts the church.

“You can’t serve tradition while disobeying the church and her authority,” said the Rev. Robert Gahl, an ethics expert at the Catholic University of America.

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Winfield contributed from Rome.

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Fuel rationing has been introduced in many regions, with hourslong queues of cars snaking beside roads. Social media videos show drivers aghast at the lines or swearing at empty gas pumps and rising prices. The mayor of the Siberian city of Irkutsk even ordered portable toilets brought in to accommodate those in line.

The fuel crisis — unprecedented for a nation that is one of the world's biggest energy producers — has brought Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine home to ordinary Russians like few other events in the war, now in its fifth year.

It drew a rare admission from President Vladimir Putin, who acknowledged that “problems persist for both motorists and businesses,” and “there are still queues at petrol stations, and finding the right grade of petrol isn’t always easy.”

Putin insisted the shortages are “not critical” and “temporary.”

But that appeared to do little to reassure at least one motorist in Moscow, the wealthy capital typically better-insulated from economic shocks than the rest of the country.

“I think the situation is not very good,” the motorist waiting in line told The Associated Press on Monday, the day after Putin's televised remarks.

“They say one thing on television, and in reality it’s another. ... People are queueing everywhere,” he added, declining to identify himself out of concern for his safety.

Ukraine hits energy targets multiple times

An AP count shows over 50 reported attacks by Ukraine on oil refineries, depots, terminals and other oil infrastructure in Russia and the illegally annexed Crimean Peninsula since late March. Often, the same facility is hit more than once -– such as the refinery in the Black Sea town of Tuapse, which was struck four times in just over two weeks.

As a result, the amount of crude oil Russia processed into fuel in June was down 25% from a year ago, to 3.95 million barrels per day — the lowest level in over two decades, said Gary Peach, oil markets analyst at Energy Intelligence.

“The outages are extraordinary,” he said.

Gasoline production has fallen 17% to 850,000 barrels a day, from 1.03 million a day a year ago — far short of what’s needed for the domestic market. Russia exports relatively little gasoline.

About a third of Russia's oil refining capacity is offline, said Chris Weafer, CEO of Macro-Advisory Ltd. Consultancy, noting that because refineries don't publicly confirm the extent of the damage, his estimate comes from anecdotal evidence and oil industry sources.

“It comes at a very critical time for the Russian economy, in that the agriculture season, particularly the harvest season, is now starting to ratchet up,” increasing demand, Weafer said.

Ukrainian officials describe the strikes as a campaign to pressure Moscow to end the war by undermining its military logistics and supply lines and weakening its ability to mount assaults along the front.

In particular, Kyiv has sought to isolate Crimea, which was seized from Ukraine in 2014 in a move that most nations do not recognize. Attacks earlier this year forced the Moscow-installed authorities to enact fuel rationing on the peninsula in May and halt sales to civilians there altogether several weeks later. Limited sales later resumed in the city of Sevastopol.

Attacks — and fuel shortages — spread

Ukraine has carried out major drone strikes on Russia’s two largest cities, embarrassing the Kremlin with images of black plumes of smoke that circulated widely online, despite regulations restricting their publication.

A June 3 attack on an oil terminal in St. Petersburg darkened the sky as Putin prepared to host his annual economic forum to attract foreign investment. On June 18, a similar cloud rose from the Moscow Oil Refinery on the outskirts of the capital, sending greasy black droplets raining down.

By late June, some form of gas rationing was reported in over half of Russia's regions. Some of them slapped strict limits on all gas stations; in others, gas station chains limited how much fuel could be bought.

Officials blamed hoarding and panic-buying, urging motorists to fill their tanks only when needed.

Exports of gasoline and aviation fuel have been restricted, and authorities weighed banning diesel fuel exports, too.

Importing fuel was being considered, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying contacts with some countries were “underway.” He described the move as “another step toward stabilizing the market and aimed at reducing panic-buying.”

Shortages in Siberia

The shortages have reached distant Russian regions where no refineries have been hit by Ukraine's drones.

Viktor Shkurenko, who owns retail stores in the Omsk region and other businesses, called announcement on limits on gasoline sales there to 40 liters (10.5 gallons) per vehicle “unexpected.”

“Nothing was bombed here. We have the biggest oil refinery in Siberia right here, and it gave us confidence that this fuel crisis won’t come to us,” he said, expressing worry about how limits could affect his businesses. As of Saturday, however, he said his company has not had any problems refueling its vehicles.

In the Siberian region of Zabayakalye, east of Lake Baikal, media reports said a garbage hauler suspended pickups and some bus services were curtailed.

In addition to ordering portable toilets outside gas stations, the city of Irkutsk raised public transport fares as of Wednesday, citing rising fuel costs.

Pavel Kharitonenko, acting head of the Irkutsk branch of the opposition Yabloko party, told AP he now finds it easier to walk or use public transport.

“I don't have the fuel, and I don't want to queue at gas stations,” he said. The Irkutsk region, home to a Rosneft oil refinery, has experienced acute shortages for several days, with lines growing, Kharitonenko said.

Repairing refineries will take time

Putin said Russia's stockpiles of gasoline are only 4% lower than what it had last year. Weafer, the analyst, says that "reportedly, there are good supplies of fuel around the country. The problem is it’s in the wrong place."

Supplies need to be reallocated to regions experiencing shortages, and in a big country like Russia, “it's not something that can be done overnight," Weafer said.

“There should be enough, but it will take several weeks to get it from where it is to where it’s needed,” he says. “It’s just a huge logistics operation to do that.”

Fixing the war-damaged refineries is complicated. Ukraine's attacks damaged specialized equipment that is often sourced abroad, making repairs time-consuming and expensive as workarounds or replacements are sought by evading sanctions.

“They manage to get these things up and running, not necessarily at full capacity,” Peach said. “But the extent of the damage this time is so extensive that they won’t get back to winter levels of refining this summer.”

Some refineries won't be worth repairing until there’s a ceasefire or armistice, he said, because they will just "get knocked down again.”

Repairing the Moscow Oil Refinery, which supplied 40% of the fuel to the capital and the surrounding region, is expected to take at least three months, Weafer said.

If there's no further damage to Russia's oil infrastructure, he estimated the shortages will last “probably throughout the summer" because demand from agriculture will likely remain high into September.

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Associated Press writers David McHugh in Frankfurt, Germany, and Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed.

In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory. Yet more than 120 days since at least one U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there remains no final accounting of what happened.

The Trump administration has yet to directly accept the blame or formally release findings of a Pentagon investigation into the bombing, even though the military possessed evidence almost immediately that the site of the school had been struck, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss an ongoing investigation, told The Associated Press.

The AP has reconstructed the story of the attack, beginning in the schoolyard on the morning of Feb. 28, drawing from open-source information, video footage, human rights reports and interviews with researchers and civilians inside and outside Iran to reveal previously unreported details about the bombing in Minab, including the diversity of children killed.

Still, many details about the blast remain elusive, as a lack of information from the Pentagon and politicization of the attack by Iran’s theocracy have complicated independent reporting efforts. That has created an accountability vacuum, leaving the families of the victims without resolution. Among the mysteries remaining are the number of munitions that hit the school and a complete list of the dead.

When asked last week about the incident, President Donald Trump said he hadn't read the Pentagon's report and had seen nothing to make him believe the U.S. had carried out the attack.

“I don’t know that they’re ever going to solve that problem in terms of whose fault was it, because there were missiles flying all over the place,” he said. “I don’t think it was us."

Iran's mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment from the AP.

Video evidence, interviews and other sources yield a fuller picture

The reconstruction draws from interviews with U.S. officials, Iranian human rights workers, a resident of Minab, an international representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Union and researchers from major international rights groups.

Several people who spoke to the AP were in direct contact with the families of victims and rescuers who rushed to the scene. Most requested anonymity for fear of retribution against them and those with whom they spoke.

Teachers called parents to pick up their kids. Then the bomb fell

Skies over the city of Minab, located in southeastern Iran about 16 miles (25 km) from the Strait of Hormuz, were clear and bright on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 28, a school day in Iran. It was Ramadan.

Students of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school, Farsi for “Good Tree,” jostled past the colorful murals lining the schoolyard and into the building. Boys and girls filtered into separate spaces with brightly painted desks.

The school they entered was one of over 30 with the same name established to serve children from families closely tied to Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard or other state institutions, said Shiva Amelirad, the international union representative who also worked as a teacher in Iran for 18 years and has been in contact with people in Minab.

Though most schools in Iran operate within guidelines proscribed by the Islamic Republic, the Shejareh Tayyebeh schools were more explicitly oriented toward reproducing and reinforcing the Guard’s worldview, she said, adding that children are civilians regardless of their family backgrounds, and "any attack targeting a school is unequivocally condemnable."

The school lay within the same walled compound as a Guard base, according to an AP assessment of satellite imagery and open-source mapping. It was once part of that neighboring base, before it was fenced off and converted over a decade ago.

Though some of its pupils were the children of Guard officers working on the nearby base, others were local children from Minab, which is populated predominantly by people of the majority-Sunni Baluch ethnic minority who often face repression from the Iranian government, said the Balochistan Human Rights Group.

Hundreds of students are believed to have been inside the building by the time teachers and administrators received the news that bombs had begun falling on Tehran around 9:40 a.m.

Teachers and administrators thought it prudent to send the children home. They called parents on landline phones, summoning them for an early pickup, two people told the AP. A recently released report by Airwars, a London-based independent group that tracks recent conflicts, also found that parents were called to pick up their children.

At 10:15 a.m., Iran’s state media sent out an advisory, closing schools across the country.

One father, who lived a short distance away, went immediately to pick up his 10-year-old son, said a resident of Minab, who relayed the stories of several families to the AP. The AP verified details of the residents’ stories against available lists of the dead and rights groups' chronologies of the day’s events.

The father noticed his 6- and 7-year-old relatives among the students waiting for their parents, said the resident. He asked them if they’d like a ride home and they said no, that their own father was on the way.

He left with his child and headed to the supermarket. Ten minutes later, he heard the explosions.

Multiple munitions pummeled the compound, striking at least five buildings, according to an AP analysis of satellite imagery. Hundreds of pounds of explosives collapsed the school.

A tiny arm, suspended in the rubble

The father raced back to a scene of chaos, where onlookers gathered, screaming, as men pawed through smoking rubble to dig out bodies, according to video of the aftermath circulated by Iranian state media.

Eventually, the father made out two burned figures he believes were those of his relatives, but he couldn’t be sure.

People kept coming. One man from a nearby Sunni village arrived to search for his nephew after receiving a panicked call from the boy's mother. In the rubble, he found her dead son.

Rescuers found small backpacks and children’s drawings, colored pencils and worksheets. Gently suspended, a tiny arm lay in the wreckage.

Men carried disfigured limbs and torsos to the local hospital, said the Balochistan Human Rights Group, whose staff spoke with two families of those killed. The AP has not been able to verify how many munitions specifically hit the school, but the attack had left flesh so mutilated that many body parts were unrecognizable.

By the end of the day, doctors at the hospital estimated they had at least 108 bodies, but cautioned that it was likely an undercount, said the resident of Minab.

By the next day, state media was saying around 150 had been killed. Soon, it was reporting a death toll of 168.

‘They called the kids martyrs’

Three days after the bombing, state TV showed thousands of Iranians packing a Minab roundabout, where the crowds faced a podium and a large portrait of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic.

The gathering might have been mistaken for a demonstration, if it were not a funeral. All the parents of victims, regardless of ethnicity or religion, had to participate, said the Minab resident. Most women in the crowd donned the black chador garment customary to the Islamic Republic, even though it’s not typically worn by Baluch people at funerals.

Parents were told they'd be permitted to take their children’s bodies back to their villages and conduct their own observances, said the resident. In the end, though, many decided to bury their children together.

In footage captured by drone cameras and circulated by state media, workers broke ground on an earthen lot, creating a grid of tiny, identical, unmarked graves.

“The state media advocated a narrative based on IRGC interest,” said Amelirad. “You can tell because they called the kids martyrs.”

The story grows harder to tell

Strikes continued to ravage Iran, targeting more sites in its opening days than the start of recent U.S. or Israeli military campaigns, including in Gaza, an Airwars analysis found.

Racing to document the ongoing bombardment, journalists and rights groups struggled to verify details from Minab. They had no access to the target site. Government restrictions in Iran prevented most foreign journalists from entering the country. The opening day of the war, Iran shut down the internet, making it nearly impossible to hear from ordinary civilians.

As the war progressed and the Strait of Hormuz became a major battlefield, the situation in the province grew more tense, said the resident. All branches of the military were deployed heavily in the area. Families of the victims feared retribution for speaking out. People were reportedly being detained for trying to communicate with foreign media.

That left Iran's government in control of the messaging around the strike.

Iran’s soccer team wore golden “#168” pins on their jackets upon their arrival at the FIFA World Cup.

The Iranian team negotiating for a pause to the war with the U.S. named itself “Minab 168.”

The children were depicted as animated Lego figures in viral videos made by pro-Iran groups trolling the U.S.

“In the aftermath of the attack, Iranian authorities ... exploited the suffering of victims’ families and surviving children for propaganda purposes,” wrote Amnesty International in a March report investigating the deaths.

Through it all, there remained no public list of the names of the dead.

The Pentagon finds clues in archive

Locked out of Iran, researchers focused on the question of responsibility.

Iran blamed the U.S. Trump cast doubt on American culpability and pointed the finger at Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said only that the Pentagon was investigating.

Internally, the U.S. military knew more than it initially let on. The clues were buried in their archives.

When the news first surfaced, the U.S. military knew they had conducted strikes in the vicinity — though it took the military time to verify the Iranian claims that a school was struck and begin a formal investigation, said a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing inquiry.

It appears that while the building housing the school was identified as such by one analyst as early as seven years ago, that discovery was not sufficiently made known across different intelligence and military staffs and agencies, the U.S. official said.

Ultimately, the building was not known among target developers as a school, revealing potential systematic shortfalls in the target analysis and review process, they said.

One former Pentagon official, similarly speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bombing came as a natural result of changes made by the Trump administration to reduce staff to mitigate civilian harm and Hegseth’s emphasis on lethality.

When Hegseth took charge, he slashed the size of an office called the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, created at the direction of Congress in late 2022. That stopped the office’s work on updating “no-strike lists,” which are lists of protected sites such as hospitals, schools, churches and mosques, that the Pentagon keeps, said Wes Bryant, who began working at the office in 2024 as the Branch Chief of Civil Harm Assessments.

When he was working at the Pentagon, it was well known that the list was out-of-date, he said.

The search for more answers from Minab

In the last weeks, researchers have made some progress. Airwars, the conflict research group, spent months combing through open-source information to verify the identity of victims. The group determined the names and identities of 157 of the dead, including 123 children, all 13 or younger, and 34 adults. Among the adults are 26 school staff members (one of whom was pregnant) and five parents — each of whom lost at least one child.

The group puts the death toll between 157 and 168 and says between 95 and 111 people were injured.

It’s unclear if the formal results of the military’s Minab investigation will be published. Much of the investigative work has been completed, but the U.S. military’s Central Command, which commissioned the investigation, is currently reviewing the findings.

Findings from similar past investigations have been more timely. When a Hellfire missile killed 10 civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29, 2021, the Defense Department claimed responsibility and gave details on its operations in less than a month.

When asked about the Minab investigation last week, Trump said, “I don’t know that they’re ever going to solve that problem." Hegseth said the report would be divulged “when the appropriate time is right.”

Some members of Congress still push for transparency.

In a recent interview, Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican from South Dakota and a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said Congress has not gotten enough information on the bombing and expected a full report.

The issue “has not gone away,” he said.

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Associated Press writers Konstantin Toropin, Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro in Washington, Sarah El Deeb in Beirut and Amir Hussein Rajdy in Cairo and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.

Kausen, a chef and cooking teacher in Irvine, California, is more discerning and often uses her sense of smell before deciding what to do with the milk.

“I’ll put some thought into it, and if we’re talking about meat and poultry, I’m very cautious about that and for sure will do the smell test and the touch test,” she said.

The debate playing out in Kausen’s kitchen is repeated in homes across California and the country, where varying phrases on food packaging have long left shoppers unsure whether food is simply past its peak quality or unsafe to eat. The state is aiming to cut down on confusion — and the food waste it creates when people throw away food early — with a new food labeling law starting Wednesday.

It bans the use of “sell by” labels on food packaging, which experts say act as a guide for retailers on how long to display products on the shelves but are not an indicator of whether they are still safe to consume. Now, manufacturers selling food in California must use two standardized labels — a “Best if Used By” label for peak quality and “Use By” label for product safety.

Food manufacturers can choose to use either label or both, said Democratic Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, the author of the bill.

California became the first state in the U.S. to standardize food labels when it approved the law in 2024 that seeks to reduce food waste and the state’s climate-warming emissions. New York state lawmakers recently approved a similar law that's awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature.

Legislation addressing food labeling also has been proposed in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and South Carolina, though it has not passed in those states.

Nick Lapis, director of advocacy at Californians Against Waste, which co-sponsored the bill, said food labels are the leading cause of household food waste. The “sell by” date labels have also been a problem for food banks in California because people consider those dates as meaning the food has expired, he said.

“We don’t need to build some kind of huge infrastructure and invest tons of money to solve this. We just need companies to use the same words across brands,” he said.

There are more than 50 different date labels on packaged food sold in stores, according to a 2022 report on food waste published by the University of Maryland. The information in the labels is largely unregulated and often does not relate to food safety.

“Consumers get confused and they just default to assuming that whatever date is on the package means ‘don’t eat it and throw it away’,” said Kumar Chandran, policy director at ReFED, a nonprofit focused on reducing food waste.

Chandran said California and New York’s approval of food-labeling laws has added momentum to the push for a national standard. A bipartisan bill that would establish uniform food labels is pending in Congress. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommended a decade ago that food sellers should switch to “Best if Used By” labeling.

Currently, the only product that is regulated federally with date labels is infant formula.

With no federal regulations dictating what information labels should include, the stamps have led to consumer confusion — and nearly 20% of the nation’s food waste, according to the Food and Drug Administration. In California, that’s about 6 million tons of unexpired food that’s tossed in the trash each year.

Nate Rose, a spokesperson for the California Grocers Association, said some grocers have had to overhaul their labeling systems, but as a whole, the association has been supportive of the change.

The new labels will result in “a win-win where we can reduce food waste and consumers will find these decisions a little bit simpler,” he said, adding that shoppers will still find old labels in stores for months to come as grocers sell through the products that already have them.

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The euro cost $1.1403, down from $1.1426.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 added 0.6% to finish at 70,474.96. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.6% to 8,722.90. South Korea's Kospi dropped 2.0% to 8,303.41. The Shanghai Composite edged up 0.4% to 4,112.45. Trading was closed in Hong Kong.

Crude oil prices drifted as two U.S. envoys arrived in Qatar for talks with mediators about the implementation of the deal with Iran. The Americans will not be having direct negotiations with Iranian diplomats while in Doha.

“While oil markets are currently priced for a gradual return to supply normalization, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has yet to recover to pre-war levels,” said Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade.

Benchmark U.S. crude lost 70 cents to $68.80 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 63 cents to $72.32 a barrel.

On Tuesday, the S&P 500 gained 0.8%, though it still recorded its first losing month following two fabulous ones. The Dow added 0.3%, to its record, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 1.5%.

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The Ohio Bureau of Investigation and local sheriff's department searched a home in the small village of Hamden, where they found the kids in what officials called “deplorable" conditions."

“Conditions you cannot even imagine people being in, let alone children being in,” Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said at a news conference.

Law enforcement arrested Gary Siders Jr., Gary Siders Sr., Christina Siders and Elizabeth Siders. They have not yet been arraigned and assigned public defenders.

Vinton County prosecuting attorney William Archer said they were being charged with second-degree felony child endangering because it involves “serious physical harm.”

Officials did not confirm if the children were related but said it was not a human trafficking situation. They said the adults were not locals and appeared to have been traveling.

Hamden has a population of less than 1,000 people and is about 60 miles (97 kilometers) southeast of Columbus.

The children ranged from ages 1.5 to 18 and included both boys and girls, officials said. Several were in serious conditions when found, and two had to be flown to level one trauma centers because of their injuries.

Wilson said it was the worst scene he had ever encountered in his entire career, describing what he saw as “pure evil.”

Law enforcement were also executing a secondary search warrant at the home Tuesday, and the investigation is ongoing. The four adults will appear in court Wednesday morning.

“Justice will be served for these children,” Wilson said.

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Lauderhill police said the incident happened around 11:15 a.m. in the 5300 block of Northwest 19th Street.

According to investigators, an officer was alerted by an individual who said a man attempted to attack him while armed with a knife.

Police said officers quickly located a person matching the suspect’s description, but the suspect fled on foot into a residential neighborhood near the 1700 block of Northwest 55th Avenue.

Officers said they quickly established a perimeter and began searching the area.

Police said they later received a 911 call from a passerby who reported that a man was lying on the ground after suffering from apparent stab wounds.

Police said while canvassing the area, they found a second man with apparent stab wounds.

They said one victim was taken to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The second victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.

A man named Nelson told Local 10’s Roy Ramos that one of the victims killed was his neighbor, who used a wheelchair.

“He was a good, good man,” said Nelson. “This man is a really nice man. He doesn’t give any trouble to nobody. He has one foot (and) he is a handicap.

Investigators said the search continued with assistance from the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Sunrise Police Department. Lauderhill police said K-9 units eventually located the suspect, who was taken into custody without further incident.

The sister of one of the victims told Ramos she believes her brother did not know his attacker.

No other details about the victims or suspect were immediately released.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Lauderhill Police Department at 954-497-4700 or Broward Crime Stoppers at-954-493-8477.

Cavalli struck out Contreras looking on a full-count pitch in the top of the fourth of what eventually became an 8-1 victory by the Nationals. The 27-year-old right-hander then shouted at Contreras as Contreras made his way back to the Boston dugout.

Red Sox manager Chad Tracy said he heard Cavalli yell “Sit down, boy” after fanning Contreras.

Asked what his specific words to Contreras were, Cavalli told reporters, “I don’t know. I just lose my head in it. I’m competitive. I just told him to sit down.”

The term “boy” has a racially charged history in the U.S. Contreras, who is Venezuelan, demurred when asked if he felt there was a racial component to Cavalli's word choice.

“To be honest, I don’t know,” Contreras said, later adding he plans to "let MLB handle that.”

Contreras, who hit a three-run homer off Washington's Miles Mikolas on Monday and celebrated with a massive bat flip that he later apologized fo r, then approached Cavalli on the mound. The two jawed at each other as both dugouts emptied.

“He struck me on a good pitch, I was walking back to the dugout, and then he did what did, and the rest was history,” Contreras told reporters afterward, later adding, "He was like, instigating, and I snapped.”

Boston catcher Carlos Narvaez tried to hold Contreras back, but Contreras broke loose long enough to leap and throw his batting helmet in Cavalli's direction.

Things settled down quickly after that, though the brief dustup ended with Contreras, Boston interim manager Chad Tracy, Boston outfielder Nate Eaton and Mikolas being ejected.

Cavalli pointed to an incident at the end of the top of the first when Contreras nearly ran into the pitcher as both exited the field as the spark that set things in motion.

“He's just been doing stuff," Cavalli said of Contreras. “In the first inning, he just runs past me and brushes me. It's just something you don't do in baseball. I think he knows that. I didn't say anything. I just looked at him. And a few words were said after the strikeout. It's part of the game. And he's going to let everybody run out there and try and do whatever he does, throw a helmet and get himself tossed.”

Cavalli stayed in the game and allowed one run on one hit with 13 strikeouts over seven innings in what became an 8-1 romp.

“After everything that happened, the people that they chose that were going to leave the game, I just felt like the other pitcher should have been one of them too,” Tracy said. "That was my biggest complaint.”

The early exit was the second in as many nights for Contreras, the first time that's happened to a Red Sox player in the club's 126-year history. The 34-year-old Venezuela native — who acknowledged he is having a difficult time while his native country tries to recover from a pair of devastating earthquakes last week — was ejected in the second inning on Monday for mimicking an appeal call after striking out on a checked swing.

“I feel like everything is against me right now,” Contreras said. "I got ejected last night from nothing. I got ejected today even though I was walking back to the dugout.”

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As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday this weekend, the legislative branch has momentarily called it quits.

The House leadership on Tuesday abruptly canceled votes and sent lawmakers home early for the holiday recess, Speaker Mike Johnson ’s majority once again ground to a standstill by a Republican revolt over their own party’s agenda.

In this case, it's a standoff blocking the annual defense bill — with pay raises for the troops and other matters at a time of war — as the renegade Republicans push to include President Donald Trump’s own priority, the SAVE America Act, a strict voter ID bill. Last week, the Senate similarly shuttered after Trump's demands.

The emptying Capitol provides another snapshot of the imbalance of power in Washington as a headstrong executive confronts a weakened Congress.

For the second time in as many weeks, the House has simply given up.

“It’s a relatively bad time in Congress,” Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota said recently. “A lot of my colleagues have forgotten how to govern.”

The scene is far different than last year's Fourth of July

A year ago this weekend brought a wholly different scene in Washington, as Trump gathered Republican lawmakers outside the White House for an ebullient July Fourth ceremony to sign what they called the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” of tax breaks and spending cuts.

It was a celebratory moment for Trump and the slim Republican majority — and for Johnson, who many doubted could pass the bill over the objections of Democrats who viewed it as tax giveaway at the expense of billions of dollars in cuts to health care and food stamps for Americans in need.

Johnson was so reliant on Trump's power to help push the bill to approval that he gifted the president a speaker's gavel, which Democrats and others saw as a worrisome symbol of the transference of power from one branch of government to the other.

“We’re not dealing with Speaker Mike Johnson,” Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, the caucus chairman, said in a recent interview. “Unfortunately, Speaker Donald Trump does not want us in this week.”

Trump makes conflicting demands on his party in Congress

As Johnson works to keep Trump close, the president's demands seem to grow in ways the Republican speaker can't always deliver.

The president’s insistence on the SAVE America Act, which doesn't have enough support in the Senate to pass, has interrupted almost all other business in Congress. Trump has refused to sign a popular bipartisan housing bill that cleared both chambers until the voting bill is also approved. He calls the housing bill a “yawn.”

Johnson spent four hours last week at the White House and said he spent another two hours with the president this week on a path forward.

“I told him, ‘Mr. President, I don’t have any tattoos, but if I did, it’d say SAVE America on my shoulder,’ OK?” Johnson said over the weekend on Fox News.

“We passed it three times in the House already. We’re going to pass it again.”

But by Tuesday, a House vote to advance the legislation collapsed. Republicans led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida argued that Johnson's plan to attach the voting bill to the defense bill was essentially a doomed strategy that would be rejected in the Senate.

“That’s disappointing,” acknowledged Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who insisted the GOP would try again.

“We’re going to keep trying because we have to,” he said. “We’re not done doing big things.”

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Congress is adrift

The founders of the new democracy clearly had aspirations for the Congress, putting it first in the Constitution as the Article One branch of government, ahead of the executive and judicial branches.

But as lawmakers face voters this fall, they will have to answer for these dwindling days on their calendar.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the problem is not the Congress, it's the GOP.

“Donald Trump is fighting with Senate Republicans, Senate Republicans are fighting with House Republicans, and House Republicans are fighting with each other,” said Jeffries, who is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control in fall.

“It’s not the Congress that’s struggling. It’s House Republicans who are struggling,” he said.

Jeffries said Democrats are fighting “to make life more affordable for the American people.”

As they left the Capitol for an extended recess, lawmakers voiced frustration with the House’s dysfunction.

Rep. Kevin Kiley, who left the Republican Party to become an independent earlier this year, said the situation in the House is “frustrating.”

“It’s just like déjà vu where many times now we run into some sort of obstacle," he said, “then the solution is just to go home.”

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The Dodgers are in the midst of playing 13 games in 13 days, and Roberts wanted to make sure that the Japanese sensation got a break. Ohtani is slated to pitch in San Diego on Friday.

“If there’s any opportunity to give him some extra rest, we’re going to try to take advantage of it,” Roberts said. “So pushing him to Friday allows us to have him still take two starts before the break and get on two division opponents. In that vein, there’s just no downside. This made too much sense.”

Ohtani is 8-2 with a 1.58 ERA in 13 starts this season. The four-time MVP has 82 strikeouts and 24 walks in 79 2/3 innings this season.

Roberts indicated that Ohtani will be the Dodgers designated hitter for the series finale against the A’s on Wednesday.

“It’s mostly schedule-driven,” Roberts said. “We talked to Shohei and he was agreeing to whatever we felt, knowing it’s best for him. There’s no downside with him losing starts, get more rest. That was the whole driver.”

Roberts said the Dodgers will go with a bullpen game in Ohtani’s absence on Wednesday.

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Cleveland's left fielder lost track of the number of outs in the seventh inning and threw the ball into the stands, allowing the Texas Rangers to score the go-ahead run in a 4-2 victory over the Guardians on Tuesday night.

“Obviously, I feel terrible,” Ingle said, his face flushed red on a warm, humid night. "It’s a pretty embarrassing feeling.”

With a runner at second base and one out in the seventh, the 24-year-old Ingle, making just his second major league start as an outfielder, caught a routine fly ball hit by Rangers left fielder Alejandro Osuna off Cleveland starter Tanner Bibee for the second out.

Thinking it was out No. 3, Ingle briefly glanced at the ball in his glove before throwing it over the protective netting to fans as a souvenir.

The umpires immediately ruled the ball was dead and Osuna was awarded home plate.

It wasn't until then that Ingle realized his mistake and he walked back to his position in shocked disbelief. He was charged with an error.

“Yeah, honestly when I threw the ball out, I heard a bunch of yelling,” Ingle said. “Happens sometimes, but just got to learn from it and not make the same mistake."

Guardians manager Stephen Vogt, who has had to plug rookies into his starting lineup all season, offered his unwavering support to Ingle.

“These things happen,” Vogt said. "Rookie. Non-rookie. It’s happened to Hall of Famers. They’ve done it. We’re going to keep learning. We’re going to keep getting better."

Vogt was proud of the way Ingle's teammates quickly rallied around him following the bone-headed play.

“It’s a mistake. Lost track of the outs. Pretty big spot,” he said. “We’ll learn from it and can’t control it once it happens. That’s why I was like, flush it. And I just want to give a credit to the dugout. Every one of his teammates, when he came back in, same messaging.”

One of the first to talk to Ingle was Guardians catcher Austin Hedges, who told him to keep his chin up.

“I’ve made so many mistakes,” Hedges said. “I can’t even remember half of them. I’ve embarrassed myself a billion times on the field. I mean, just check my offensive numbers for my career. It’s not super easy to go through that, but that’s the big leagues.”

After his mistake, Ingle said he immediately apologized to Bibee (2-9), who battled Jacob deGrom for seven innings. Bibee's response to his teammates was to try and make things right.

“I just told him to go tie the game right back up,” Bibee said. “Obviously, we all make mistakes. Everyone in this locker room has made multiple mistakes in the big leagues, whether you’re (rookie) Khalil (Waston) or me or Hedgie. It’s tough.”

Ingle was only brought up from Triple-A Columbus last week. He made his big-league debut on June 26 and got his first major league hit the next day, a two-run single against Seattle.

After his fielding foible, Ingle came up in the bottom of the seventh and grounded out. He got another chance to avenge his gaffe in the ninth, but struck out looking for the game's final out.

What's most important now is that he move forward.

“Obviously learn from it and think about it,” he said. “It’s not something that makes you feel great, but things like that happen for a reason and learning from those things and moving on and getting better from them, it’s pretty much the only thing you can do.”

Vogt said the mistake doesn't affect his belief in Ingle.

“We’re going to help him through it. That’s what we’re here for,” he said. "You’re playing in your second game in the outfield in the big leagues and a mistake like that. Let’s learn. So what? It’s over. Flush it. We’re not going to be mad at him.

“We’re not going to hold it against him. He’s going to be right back out there the next time it’s his turn to play outfield. This was a mistake. This isn’t a judgment or anything like that, but we know how good of a player Coop is and we’re going to stick with him and we’re going to keep helping him.”

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The cause of death for Chase, 35, was acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, according to online medical examiner records from this week that listed her last name as Schwallier. “Chronic polysubstance abuse” was listed under “other significant conditions.”

Chase was known for voicing the lead role of Lilo in Disney's “Lilo & Stitch” and her performance in the 2002 horror film “The Ring.”

After her death in a Los Angeles hospital, her father John David Schwallier, confirmed to The New York Times that she died from complications of bacterial meningitis and a blood infection. She was homeless in Los Angeles with her boyfriend, he said.

Chase struggled with drugs since she was 13 years old, Schwallier told the Times. He said his daughter was estranged from her parents, who are divorced.

In a text message to The Associated Press on Tuesday about AIDS being the cause of death, her father said, “I know with her lifestyle that was probably the conclusion so I'm not surprised.”

Calling her death tragic, he added, “It would've been nice for all of you to find her and try and help her that would've been a nicer story than this.”

Chase auditioned for Lilo at age 8. For her role as the long-haired Samara in “The Ring,” she won an MTV Movie Award for best villain.

Chase also voiced another lead in the 2001 animated film “Spirited Away.” She had roles in the 2001 movie “Donnie Darko” and the 2003 show “Oliver Beene,” according to her profile page on the internet movie database IMDb.com.

She was born in Las Vegas and raised in the small town of Albany, Oregon. She began singing and dancing at age 3, according to IMDb.

The Americans will look to change that narrative on Wednesday as they attempt to win their first World Cup elimination game in 24 years when they face Bosnia-Herzegovina in the round of 32 in Santa Clara, California.

The Americans last, and only, knockout win came on June 17, 2002, when they defeated Mexico 2-0 in the round of 16 in South Korea.

The good news for the Americans is they should have a healthy Christian Pulisic after the star missed the second game with a calf injury and played only 33 minutes as a sub in the final group match against Turkey.

“I feel good and ready to go for tomorrow,” Pulisic said.

The U.S. will once again play a knockout round match at a home World Cup in the San Francisco Bay area. The 1994 team made it out of group stage and faced Brazil at Stanford Stadium — less than 15 miles away from the site of this year’s game in Santa Clara — only to lose 1-0 to the eventual champions.

Since that round of 16 win over Mexico in 2002, the U.S. is 0-3 at that stage but are favored to advance against Bosnia, according to oddsmakers.

“We understand what it means, you win or you go home. There definitely needs to be a lot of focus and attention detail this week,” Pulisic said. “But I think the vibe feels good. We’ve still kept it light and we still are going to be ready to battle once the whistle blows.”

The U.S. has one win in 21 games against European teams with seven draws and 13 losses since making it back to the World Cup in 1990 for the first time in 40 years.

England will face Congo and Belgium will play Senegal in the other elimination games on Wednesday.

The round of 32 continues on Thursday with Spain playing Austria, Portugal taking on Croatia and Switzerland facing Algeria, and then concludes on Friday with Australia up against Egypt, Cape Verde playing Argentina and Colombia facing Ghana.

The eound of 16 begins on Saturday.

What to watch on June 30

— England vs. Congo, noon EDT in Atlanta (Fox/Telemundo/Peacock)

— Belgium vs. Senegal, 4 p.m. EDT in Seattle (Fox/Telemundo/Peacock)

— United States vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 8 p.m. EDT in Santa Clara, California (Fox/Telemundo/Peacock)

England battling mounting injuries entering round of 32

Injuries are mounting for England, which is missing its first- and second-choice right backs for the round of 32 game against Congo.

Reece James is out with a hamstring injury and backup Jarrell Quansah twisted his ankle in England’s 2-0 win over Panama on Saturday.

It could see Djed Spence move over from the left to cover, but coach Thomas Tuchel is confident James and Quansah will both soon return — so long as England can advance beyond Congo.

“They’re getting closer and closer,” Tuchel said. “The race was close even to make it into my squad this time. So we need to make sure that we have more matches. That is the main focus, and then that will be very soon.”

Congo is playing in the knockout round of the World Cup for the first time. It already held Portugal to a 1-1 draw in the group stage and beat Uzbekistan to advance.

“It is true we are looking at a difficult match, but in no way insurmountable. We have proven this against teams that were supposed to be superior to us, that we could actually put in a good performance,” Congo coach Sébastien Desabre said. “So we are focusing on our strengths, we are walking our path and once you get to this point in the competition, it’s difficult for everyone.”

Bukayo Saka, who came into the tournament carrying an injury, is fit to start, Tuchel said.

US coach Mauricio Pochettino apologizes for curt tone to media after loss

U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino opened his news conference on Tuesday by asking the media to forgive him for his curt tone following the U.S. team’s 3-2 loss to Turkey.

The loss came after the U.S. had clinched the top spot in the group.

“I want to apologize to the guys that were in my last press conference,” Pochettino said. “I was so frustrated. I was disappointed. I thank you and am sorry. It was my problem, not your problem. I was upset after the defeat.”

Pochettino called out the media in the post-match news conference last week for not praising him and his team for having already won the group before the loss to Turkey.

“For you not say congratulations that we won the group, that is a little bit sad,” Pochettino told reporters after the game.

Belgium looks to return to 2018 glory when it faces Senegal

By advancing to the knockout round atop Group G, Belgium has already improved upon its woeful performance at the World Cup four years ago.

After a historic third-place finish at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Belgium did not advance past the group stage in Qatar. With its 5-1 victory over New Zealand on Friday night, Belgium has already achieved what coach Rudi Garcia expected at the bare minimum from his team.

Ahead of Wednesday’s knockout round match against Senegal, Garcia expressed satisfaction, as well as desire for more. Belgium won one game and played to two draws in group play.

“We wanted to finish first in the group stage and we succeeded,” Garcia said in French. “Of course we wanted to win more — we know the story of our World Cup so far. Now it is time for the knockout phase. Senegal is a big team. But, you have to beat them, too, if you want to go far in a World Cup.”

More World Cup news

— France forward Kylian Mbappé scores his 17th and 18th World Cup goals, one back of Lionel Messi

— Haaland scores deciding goal as Norway wins its 1st World Cup knockout game, beating Ivory Coast 2-1

— Netherlands coach Koeman resigns after penalty shootout loss marked team’s quickest World Cup exit

— Iran heads home after a heartbreaking World Cup knockout, but fans say players should be proud

— False hope and schadenfreude: Familiar feelings for Germany after another World Cup flop

— World Cup in photos, Day 20

Stat of the day

— Prior to Monday's loss to Paraguay on penalty kicks, Germany had been 17 for 18 in World Cup shootouts and had converted 15 in a row. In the 1982 semifinals, Uli Stielike was blocked by France goalkeeper Jean-Luc Ettore with Germany’s third shot. But Germany made its next three and won 5-4. Germany was 4-for-4 in the 1986 quarterfinals against Mexico, 4-for-4 in the 1990 semifinals against England, and 4-for-4 in the 2006 quarterfinals against Argentina — winning all of those contests.

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Surveillance video provided to Local 10 by Jones’s family member purportedly show her outside of Scarlett’s Cabaret off Hallandale Beach Boulevard They believe it shows some of the last moments of the 31-year-olds life.

In a missing person’s flyer first issued by North Miami Beach Police, they say Jones was last seen at 6 a.m. Friday morning at Dean’s Gold off 163rd Street in North Miami Beach.

NMBPD investigators then said they believed she booked a rideshare and came to Scarlett’s. It was the last place she was seen.

Three days later, Jones’ body was found in the waters off Biscayne Bay near a NOAA research building on Virginia Key, sources told Local 10 News.

The FBI is now investigating the circumstances surrounding her death.

Jones’ family, who is mostly from Michigan, said they are in disbelief and are looking for answers about who she was last with and how she ended up dead.

Investigators are working to piece together the timeline as they try to determine what happened to Jones.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to call the FBI at 1-800-225-5324.

Neon said Tuesday that it bought the film following a bidding process. Amazon dropped the nearly complete $40 million film, starring Andrew Garfield as Altman, earlier this month, a surprise move that came just months after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI.

Amazon said then that “Artificial” would “be better served if it were released by a different studio.”

Neon said Tuesday that it will release “Artificial” this year and “compete in this year's Oscar race.” The film, which chronicles the days leading up to the 2023 firing and reinstatement of Altman as OpenAI chief executive, also stars Monica Barbaro, Yura Borisov and Academy Award winner Mark Rylance. Ike Barinholtz plays Elon Musk.

In late February, Amazon signed an expansive multiyear partnership with the artificial intelligence startup. Then earlier this month, Amazon MGM said it would put the film up for sale to find it a new home.

Neon has established an enviable awards-season track record with Oscar winners like “Parasite” and “Anora.” The specialty label has backed the last seven Palme d'Or winners at the Cannes Film Festival. The studio declined to disclose how much it paid for the worldwide rights to “Artificial.”

“The acquisition underscores Neon’s commitment to partnering with visionary filmmakers, and bringing ambitious cinema to audiences around the world,” the studio said in a statement.

It adds up. The United States trades $1.9 trillion a year — $5 billion a day — worth of goods and services with its neighbors, Canada and Mexico. They have supplanted China to become America's top two trading partners.

So the stakes are high when it comes to fiddling with the rules that govern trade between the three countries. And after a year of President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies, many U.S., Canadian and Mexican businesses would welcome the return of stability across North America.

They are not likely to get it.

The regional trade pact — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA — that Trump negotiated and boasted about in his first term comes up for renewal Wednesday, a process that is likely to last months, maybe longer.

And the path forward is lined with landmines.

"There’s going to be a lot of drama this summer," Diego Marroquín Bitar, a fellow in the America’s program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said last week at a USMCA forum sponsored by the Cato Institute.

A bumpy road ahead for North American trade

The U.S. is making demands that could effectively force Canada and Mexico to surrender some automaking production to the United States. That might bring more auto factory jobs to the United States. But it would also upend established supply chains and would push up U.S. prices for new cars that now average nearly $50,000 at a time when American consumers are already frustrated about the high cost of living.

Trump, characteristically, has added to the tension by threatening to pull out of his own agreement altogether.

In 2020, the USMCA replaced the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which tore down most trade barriers between the three North American countries.

Trump and other critics had called NAFTA a job killer because it encouraged U.S. companies to move factories south of the border to take advantage of low-wage Mexican labor, then ship goods back to the United States duty free.

His USMCA ended up being similar to NAFTA — though it pressured factories to pay higher wages and make sure that more of what they made originated in North America in an effort to prevent Chinese products from slipping across regional borders duty free.

North America trade deal comes up for renewal every six years

The USMCA included a novel provision requiring the pact to be renewed every six years. That deadline is Wednesday, but "nothing is going to happen July 1,'' said Oscar Ocampo, director of economic development at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.

Negotiators could agree Wednesday to renew USMCA as it is for another 16 years. But that is considered highly unlikely. Instead, they are expected to keep working on ways to improve it; they have until 2036 to reach an agreement — or the pact expires.

Meantime, any USMCA country can pull out of the pact provided it gives its two partners six months’ notice — a red buzzer that Canada and Mexico, dependent on trade with the United States, fear Trump just might push.

Trump, after all, said in June that he was “not looking to renew’’ the trade pact with Canada and Mexico. "We don’t need anything that they have,” he said.

Ocampo suspects that Trump doesn't really want to drop the treaty; he just wants to use the uncertainty to keep pressure on Mexico over security and immigration issues.

Canada is out in the cold — so far

The United States and Mexico have held talks on renewing the trade agreement. But Canada has so far been stuck on the sidelines.

Patrick Childress, a partner at the Holland & Knight law firm and a former U.S. trade negotiator, said: "The danger for Canada is this: that the U.S. government and the Mexican government reach agreement on changes to core provisions of the treaty and then show up in Ottawa and say: ‘Here’s what we’ve agreed to. You can take it or leave it.’’’

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that the three trading partners plan to meet virtually on Wednesday, adding: “I’m not looking for my pen.”

Carney later said in French his priority is to do an update to USMCA and that it is impossible for the U.S. to have a new agreement without the approval of Congress.

Pushing production to the United States

The U.S. wants a refreshed trade pact to do more to make sure that Chinese goods don’t get in through the back door. But the most contentious issue is a U.S. push to require that more products are made in North America — and specifically the United States.

USMCA included a requirement that automotive products must be 75% made in North America — up from 62.5% under NAFTA — to qualify for duty-free treatment.

The U.S. wants to push the 75% threshold even higher but it won’t be easy. Automakers already "have been fine-tuning their supply chains for years to be able to hit that 75% mark," Childress said. They would need time to meet the higher standard.

The U.S. is also seeking a brand-new requirement: that 50% of cars be made in the United States, Carney confirmed in early June. Currently, none of the USMCA countries gets a guaranteed share of production. "It’s a red line for both Mexico and Canada, and it goes against the spirit and the letter of regional integration," Ocampo said.

Marcos Carias, an economist at the credit insurer Coface, said only 1 in 5 Mexican and Canadian cars imported into the United States would currently meet the 50% standard.

Vehicle models likely to be hit with higher costs under the plan, he said, include Ford’s Maverick compact pickup truck, Chevrolet’s mid-size Equinox SUV and some Nissan sedans — all made in Mexico. Carias’ "back of the envelope" calculations suggest that prices could increase 5% - 7% on the most-affected models.

Businesses want stability

A lot of companies just want relief from Trump’s ever-changing tariffs. “My interest in this USMCA renewal is just consistency, right?" said Shawn Miller, co-founder of PKGD Group, which imports agave spirits (tequila, mezcal and raicilla) from family producers in Mexico. “If the rules change, the rules change. But we’d really like to know (what they're going to be) and we’d like them to stay that way for a while."

Business is booming for PKGD. Sales at the Holland, Michigan-based firm are up 62% so far this year after surging 100% in 2025 and 300% in 2024.

But last year was chaotic.

Trump hit Mexican and Canadian goods with a 25% import tax in February only to turn around a month later and exempt products that were eligible for preferential USMCA treatment. The USMCA allows the Mexican spirits into the United States duty free.

Amid the tumult, three truckloads of Mexican spirits imported by PKGD crossed the border into the United States and got hit with the 25% tariff. The cost came to $105,000. "For us, it was one unfortunate day!'' Miller said.

Not knowing what tariffs Trump might conjure up next, PKGD huddled with its Mexican producers to figure out how to respond. “What can we absorb? What can they absorb?" Miller said. “How can we mitigate this?"

Miller said he and his Mexican suppliers “are not large multinational corporations with dedicated trade departments, teams of lawyers, or lobbyists focused on trade policy."

Kerry Mellin can sympathize.

In 2014, the veteran Hollywood costume designer started a business in Ventura County, California, selling silicone grips that enable people with disabilities (such as cerebral palsy and Parkinson’s) to hold things — spoons, cups, pens, toothbrushes.

But sales floundered when she introduced her EazyHold grips in Canada, where she has dual citizenship. She thinks it’s because the silicone she imports from Asia kept her grips from having enough North American content to qualify for USMCA’s duty-free treatment when they crossed the border from the United States.

Mellin suspects EazyHold could meet the USMCA standards, “but the rules are complex and unpredictable enough that I genuinely can’t be sure without hiring a trade attorney."

Mellin believes the USMCA’s rules of origin should be loosened, not tightened, to help small businesses that can’t afford costlier raw materials from North America.

“I do understand why the rule exists -- to stop companies from routing Chinese goods through Mexico," she said. “I just wish it could tell the difference between that and a small family business in California making grip aids for people who can’t hold a fork. I’m not the problem they were trying to solve."

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AP Writers Maria Verza in Mexico City and Rob Gilles in Toronto contributed to this story.

Pochettino began his news conference before Wednesday's game against Bosnia-Herzegovina by asking the media to forgive him for his curt tone following the U.S. team's 3-2 loss to Turkey in a match that had no impact on the Americans after they had already clinched the top spot in the group.

“I want to apologize to the guys that were in my last press conference,” Pochettino said. “I was so frustrated. I was disappointed. I thank you and am sorry. It was my problem, not your problem. I was upset after the defeat.”

Pochettino called out the media in the post-match news conference last week for not praising him and his team for having already won the group before the loss to Turkey.

“For you not say congratulations that we won the group, that is a little bit sad,” Pochettino told reporters after the game.

“What we need to remember is we won first place in this group,” Pochettino added while speaking in Spanish and English. “We ended up being No. 1, and we managed all the pressure and the expectations quite well."

Pochettino knows the expectations are even higher now that his team has reached the knockout round and goes into the game against Bosnia as the favorite to advance.

He has preached to his team that “relaxation brings concentration” and has told them to approach every game as if it was the final.

“If we don’t see it in this way, I think we are going to struggle,” he said. “We are seeing already in all the games after the group stage how difficult it is. ... We don’t have another opportunity if we fail. It’s all in and knowing that game is the final of the World Cup. And if we were capable to go through, the next one is going to be another final of the World Cup.”

Bosnia has already played host Canada to a draw in Toronto in the opening match and now faces a U.S. team on American soil as the underdogs. Former U.S. national team goalkeeper Tim Howard said Bosnia is “better off not even getting on a plane and going to San Francisco” for a match he believes they have no chance of winning.

But the Bosnians already defied the odds by beating four-time champion Italy in the European playoffs and now have a chance to spoil the World Cup for the U.S. team.

“I'm not concerned with things like that,” Bosnia coach Sergej Barbarez said about Howard's comments. “I have to admit, things like that happen on a daily basis. We are a small country and things like that sometimes happen. I have no problem. My boys don’t have a problem with that. ... We are playing to go into the round of 16. Is that not motivation enough? I don't notice things like that.”

Injury updates for the US team ahead of match

Pochettino had some injury updates for his team ahead of the match, saying he hoped Auston Trusty could be available after injuring his ankle late in the last game against Turkey. Trusty scored his first goal for the national team in that game.

Pochettino said it would be more difficult for Cristian Roldan (quadriceps strain) and Mark McKenzie (foot irritation) to be available for the game but a final decision won't be made until Wednesday.

Christian Pulisic said he is ready to start after missing the second group game with a calf injury and playing only 33 minutes as a sub in the final group match.

“I feel good and ready to go for tomorrow,” Pulisic said.

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La desesperada búsqueda de sobrevivientes entre los escombros ha continuado durante días tras los devastadores terremotos en Venezuela.

El lunes por la noche, miembros de la familia dijeron que Carlos Miguel Colmenares Gutiérrez, de 12 años, fue rescatado después de haber quedado atrapado en los escombros durante cinco días.

Un video grabado con celular muestra al niño siendo trasladado por los equipos de rescate en una camilla.

Una multitud se reunió alrededor, aplaudiendo, asombrada por lo que veían.

Más tarde, se muestra al niño siendo trasladado en ambulancia a un hospital en Caracas.

Su prima segunda, Mayra Heredia, dijo que está en condición estable en la UCI y sin lesiones graves, a pesar de haber permanecido atrapado tanto tiempo.

Él estaba en su apartamento cuando ocurrieron los terremotos, y un refrigerador caído lo habría protegido del techo colapsado.

“Para el domingo prácticamente dijeron que el edificio era una pérdida”, dijo Heredia. “Dieron por hecho que todos estaban muertos”.

Pero el lunes, los equipos de rescate escucharon al niño gritar su nombre, y sus cámaras confirmaron que estaba allí dentro, lo que llevó al rescate.

“Es un milagro”, dijo Heredia. “Estamos en shock de que esté vivo. Sobrevivió sin lesiones que pongan en riesgo su vida, solo está muy deshidratado”.

Aunque la familia está agradecida por el rescate del niño, saben que para muchos en Venezuela la historia no es la misma.

“Es un sentimiento agridulce porque sí, lo encontramos, pero hay miles de otros que podrían seguir con vida bajo los escombros y que no hemos podido localizar completamente”, dijo Heredia.

The Selma-to-Montgomery marches galvanized passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which did away with most barriers such as poll taxes and other forms of voter discrimination targeting Black Americans in the Deep South.

A delegation of five people brought dozens of flower lei with them from Hawaii to Alabama in March 1965. Images of King wearing lei, garlands that are synonymous with Hawaiian culture, have been previously published -- but most of the photos displayed in Hawaii’s new exhibit have never been seen before. Some photos have subtle variations, while others include figures who may have been deemed unimportant at the time. The exhibit runs through July 7.

One of the lei-bearers was Charles Campbell, a high school teacher and chairman of the Hawaii Civil Rights Conference, who a March 20, 1965 article in The Honolulu Advertiser quoted as saying: "Selma has the capability of becoming a real sore that could affect the entire nation.”

King was photographed wearing lei about two weeks after the event known as Bloody Sunday when state troopers violently attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on March 7, 1965.

The photos were taken by Civil Rights photographer Matt Herron, whose widow donated them to Hawaii's Department of Accounting and General Services for the state's archives.

After the photos were unveiled, Steven Springel stared at a photo of his mother, Nona Ferdon, who was a divorced mother of two children and a graduate student when she traveled to Selma.

Springel remembers he was just about to turn 7 and only realized as an adult how important her trip was. Growing up in Hawaii, “we never experienced segregation or racial inequality,” he said of his and his sister’s childhood. Ferdon died in 2021.

The exhibit, part of Hawaii's programming to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, is a reminder people from the Aloha State participated in an important event in history, said Keith Regan, who oversees the department as the state's comptroller and presided over the photo unveiling as acting governor while Gov. Josh Green is out of state.

The small delegation traveled thousands of miles “to be a part of the Civil Rights movement, to show ‘aloha’ to the world that Hawaii was there holding hands with our fellow brothers and sisters to ensure equality and justice were heard throughout the nation,” he said.

The Hawaii members also wore lei during first day of the 50-mile (80.46-kilometer) march. Mothers of Kawaiahaʻo Church in Honolulu strung together fragrant plumeria plucked from church grounds to assemble the lei.

Giving lei, a word that is both singular and plural in the Hawaiian language, continues to be a way to share the “aloha” spirit. People in Hawaii give and receive lei for all kinds of reasons, including to celebrate birthdays and promotions, or to show appreciation or recognition.

Tomi Knaefler, who had traveled with the delegation as a reporter with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, planned to attend Tuesday's news conference. But at 96 years old, she wasn't feeling up to it, said her daughter, Pamela MacDonald, who did attend.

MacDonald said she was 14 when her mother went on the assignment, “the one that she holds dearest to her heart."

The exhibit comes at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2026 term, which included a ruling gutting the remaining piece of the Voting Rights Act, setting off a wave of partisan gerrymandering in states in the South and endangering generations of gains in Black political representation.

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This version corrects that the number of people in the Hawaii delegation was five, not four.

“I don't consider this stuff a personal victory," Norman Wong told The Associated Press. “It’s an obligation and a duty for every American to care about this because ultimately we’re not fighting for the rights of Chinese or Japanese or whatever. We’re fighting for rights for all Americans because these are fundamental rights.”

Wong, 76, has become an unexpected public face of the movement to protect birthright citizenship. He began giving speeches and interviews in January 2025 — shortly after President Donald Trump issued his executive order declaring children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

In a 6-3 decision, a divided Supreme Court upheld a broad interpretation of birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s arguments.

In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court held that the long-settled understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, adopted after the Civil War, makes anyone born in the U.S. a citizen, with very limited exceptions.

Dissenting Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have upheld Trump’s proposed restrictions. The Fourteenth Amendment “was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support,” Thomas wrote.

Trump said the decision was “too bad for our Country” and wrongly suggested that Congress could “easily” address it with legislation. The majority decision rests on constitutional grounds. It would take an amendment to overcome the decision.

Wong called the executive order Trump issued on the first day of his second term an unconstitutional “decree.”

“If it didn’t fly in the face of the Constitution, the Supreme Court would have ruled differently today,” Wong said. “That’s unfortunate that we have a leader that wants the United States to be in his image, but that’s not what we’re supposed to be. He’s supposed to conform to what we the people believe in.”

Maintaining birthright citizenship as a right and a family legacy

In the late 1800s, birthright citizenship was legally expanded to the children of immigrants.

Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco in 1873, was returning by steamship from China in 1895 and was denied reentry. He sued and the Supreme Court in 1898 ruled in his favor. The court held that under the Fourteenth Amendment, a child’s citizenship depends on birth in the U.S., not a parent’s citizenship.

Norman Wong has always been social justice-minded. While attending the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s, he joined the multiracial student-driven Third World Liberation Front. He saw how the term “Asian American” rallied Asian student groups to join forces.

It wasn't until he was in his 50s that he learned Wong Kim Ark was his great-grandfather. His father had spoken very little about family history. But journalists from Chinese-language newspapers approached his father for an interview after seeing his name in old court records.

He never pictured lobbying for another movement in his 70s. But last year, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, the same organization that funded Wong Kim Ark's legal fight, invited him to speak at a press conference. Since then, Wong, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, has given interviews, speeches and even traveled to Washington in April to hear the Supreme Court arguments.

“I consider myself lucky enough to actually have a meaningful role," Wong said. “All that citizenship grants is the stuff that was the promise of America, which is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Is birthright citizenship status secure now?

In April, the birthright citizenship court proceedings also marked the first time a sitting U.S. president attended Supreme Court oral arguments. California Attorney General Rob Bonta recalls sitting in the same row as Trump.

Since Trump's executive order, Bonta, the first state attorney general of Filipino descent, has heard from “hundreds” of people born in the U.S. who have been worried about being stripped of their citizenship because of a parent's immigration status. Most of them have been people of color — Black, Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander. The high court's decision, while affirming, does not mean they should be less mindful of their rights.

“Everyone who believes in the rule of law, believes in the U.S. Constitution — its durability, its strength, its potency — should breathe a little easier today,” Bonta said. “But, the attacks on lawful immigration status, on the U.S. Constitution's protections, rights and freedoms afforded to people, including birthright citizenship, they will continue.”

Chinese American daughter of immigrants makes the case

The Justice Department said in a statement that it’s “committed to tackling illegal birth tourism schemes by working diligently with U.S. Attorneys across the country to uphold the law.”

“Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice,” the department said in a post on the social platform X.

Cecillia Wang, the national director of the American Civil Liberties Union who argued for birthright citizenship in front of the Supreme Court, said in a statement the court "reaffirms a fundamental American promise — if you are born here, you are a citizen.”

“A president cannot change the Constitution by executive fiat," Wang said. "Our brave clients and our legal team stand with millions of people around our country who spoke up for one of our most cherished rights."

Bonta previously worked with Wang at the same San Francisco law firm. He described her as brilliant and said that having immigrant parents “was an added dimension to Cecillia's incredible advocacy.”

Wang is American-born with parents who legally came to the U.S. from Taiwan as graduate students. The fact that she was the one who got to argue the case nearly 130 years after his great-grandfather won his case makes today's decision even better, Wong said.

“It’s kind of sweet because — especially for Chinese Americans — they were at the forefront of all this anti-Asian hate,” Wong said. “There are certain aspects of my life where I think what happened actually prepared me for what’s happening now.” ___ Associated Press reporter Mark Sherman in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.

Según Reuters, las autoridades venezolanas informaron que más de 1,700 personas han muerto y al menos otras 5,000 resultaron heridas tras los devastadores terremotos.

Global Empowerment Mission, que ha estado recolectando donaciones en su almacén de Doral, publicó nuevas fotografías que muestran palés con suministros de ayuda llegando a un almacén que la organización habilitó en Caracas.

Funcionarios de Global Empowerment Mission dijeron a Local 10 que ya no necesitan donaciones de agua embotellada porque han recibido un suministro suficiente. En su lugar, la organización está solicitando donaciones monetarias, lo que permitirá a los equipos de ayuda comprar y distribuir los suministros más urgentes directamente en las zonas afectadas.

Consulta horarios, lugar de entrega, y artículos necesarios.

Mientras tanto, integrantes de la Florida Task Force 1 de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue permanecían en Venezuela, trabajando junto a equipos internacionales en una de las zonas más afectadas, Playa Grande, en el estado La Guaira.

La Florida Task Force 1 (#FLTF1) de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue se encuentra en Playa Grande, La Guaira, Venezuela, junto a una comunidad marcada para siempre por los devastadores terremotos.

La misión es compleja, pero clara. Está impulsada por la posibilidad de que aún se pueda salvar una vida.pic.twitter.com/u8NxodanHd

Los equipos de búsqueda continuaban utilizando perros especialmente entrenados para detectar el olor de personas atrapadas bajo los escombros.

En medio de la destrucción generalizada, los rescatistas celebraron un inusual momento de esperanza después de que equipos de emergencia de Jordania rescataran con vida a un niño de 3 años de entre los escombros de un edificio colapsado, seis días después del desastre.

El menor fue trasladado de inmediato para recibir atención médica mientras los rescatistas celebraban el rescate.

También seguían aumentando las dudas sobre el colapso de un hotel donde se alojaban más de 100 personas deportadas recientemente desde Estados Unidos.

Un vuelo de repatriación con unas 146 personas llegó a Venezuela el 24 de junio, apenas unas horas antes de que ocurrieran los terremotos. Las autoridades informaron que muchos de los deportados fueron llevados al hotel, que posteriormente colapsó, dejando a las familias buscando respuestas sobre el paradero de sus seres queridos.

“No nos están dando respuestas sobre dónde está ella, si en un hospital o en la morgue”, dijo Luis Armando Dasilva, cuya hermana, Amanda Donizete, según indicó, trabajaba como mesera en Georgia.

Las familias aseguran que han recibido información contradictoria sobre cuántas personas sobrevivieron al colapso.

“Por favor, actúen rápido. Queremos que encuentren a nuestros familiares, como sea que estén”, dijo Dasilva.

La Organización Mundial de la Salud informó que el sistema de salud de Venezuela continúa bajo una presión significativa debido a los daños en hospitales y la escasez de personal.

La Embajada de Estados Unidos en Caracas también publicó una fotografía del USS Fort Lauderdale, que, según el Comando Sur de Estados Unidos, permanece atracado en el puerto de La Guaira.

El buque está proporcionando capacidades médicas adicionales y funciona como centro de comunicaciones para apoyar las operaciones de ayuda.

Mientras continúan las labores internacionales de rescate, organizaciones del sur de Florida trabajan para hacer llegar más alimentos, agua y otros suministros esenciales a los sobrevivientes de los terremotos en Venezuela.

Haga clic aquí para ver los centros de entrega en todo el sur de Florida que están recolectando bienes y suministros para las víctimas del terremoto.

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Mbappé had his third two-goal game of this World Cup and set a career scoring record for the tournament's knockout rounds, leading Les Bleus over Sweden 3-0 on Tuesday to set up a round of 16 match against Paraguay.

“I personally haven't seen a better team,” Sweden coach Graham Potter said. “The quality they have all over the pitch and then the options for them off the bench are very, very strong, so they’ve got as good a chance as anybody, I would suggest.”

France's 27-year-old star scored the go-ahead goal with a brilliant crossover step in the 45th minute and added his sixth goal of the tournament in the 74th to tie Lionel Messi for the tournament scoring lead. He has 18 goals in 18 World Cup games, one behind the Argentine's career scoring record of 19 in 29 matches.

In between, Bradley Barcola had a 53rd-minute goal for France, which became the first nation to score three or more goals in five consecutive World Cup matches.

“I’m very aware of who I am, how I play, what I shall do, but it’s not just about me,” Mbappé said through a translator. "The entire team is aware of what should be done. It is a new competition that has started today. We did play well, but we were timid. We could have done better at the beginning."

Mbappé’s 10 knockout round goals are two more than the previous high by Brazilian greats Leonidas and Ronaldo.

France coach Didier Deschamps bowed when Mbappé came to the bench after he was substituted in the 85th minute.

“We’re on a mission — so am I with them,” Deschamps said through a translator.

France has outscored opponents 13-2. Michael Olise has five assists, the most in a World Cup since Germany's Thomas Hassler had five in 1994.

“They are skilled at knowing when to change the pace and increase it, when to possess the ball, went to fall back,” Sweden captain Victor Lindelöf said through a translator.

Seeking to reach its third straight World Cup final, France plays Paraguay on July 4 in Philadelphia. The winner advances to a quarterfinal against Canada or Morocco five days later at Foxborough, Massachusetts.

It was 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius), sunny and humid at the 5 p.m. kickoff with poor air quality at the site of the July 19 final. Many fans in the club areas stayed inside their air-conditioned suites.

France outshot Sweden 25-7 in the first World Cup meeting between the nations, including 15-3 in the first half.

Mbappé hit a post in the 32nd minute, raising both hands in disgust, and France nearly went ahead four minutes later on Olise’s spectacular bicycle kick from just inside the penalty area, which also clanked off a post.

“I said I think we needed a couple of miracles. We had a couple, but we ran out of them," Potter said. “So we needed a few more.”

Mbappé scored after goalkeeper Jacob Widell Zetterström tipped Olise’s shot just outside the post.

Olise played a short corner kick to Ousmane Dembélé, who passed to Mbappé near the byline. Mbappé took a crossover step to get around Viktor Gyökeres and from just outside the 6-yard box sent a diagonal shot inside the far post.

Mbappé ran up the center of the field to celebrate, colliding with Dembélé, and jogged to the bench to hug Deschamps, who returned for the match after going to France for his mother’s funeral.

“He knows that he will never be alone with us, and we will support him,” Mbappé said.

Gustaf Lagerbielke lost the ball ahead of France’s second goal. Aurélien Tchouaméni passed to Olise, who nutmegged Lagerbielke, and Barcola took a centering touch and sent the ball past Zetterström’s outstretched right hand.

Mbappé entertained the crowd with a backheel pass to Barcola in the buildup to France’s third goal, the 62nd of his international career. Barcola passed to Olise, who sent the ball forward as Mbappé sprinted into the penalty area, took a touch and fired the ball inside the far post.

“We continue to deliver great performances,” Mbappé said.

A crowd of 80,663 raised the record total for the expanded 104-match tournament above 5 million. A majority of fans wore France’s blue, with a pocket in Sweden’s yellow at one end.

“I have no complaints to the players whatsoever. I said to them after the game I don’t think it’s a disgrace to lose to France," Potter said. “For us it’s about using this as a foundation to go forward and to be proud of what we’ve done so far.”

Speaking just after the final whistle, Mbappé wasn't quite ready to turn his attention to Paraguay just yet.

“I’m looking forward to the changing room and the AC," he said.

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AP Sports Writer Stephen Whyno contributed to this report.

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El martes, la superestrella global del pop comenzará una nueva gira aquí mismo en su ciudad natal, en el sur de Florida.

Grande inaugurará su Eternal Sunshine Tour, su primera gira en siete años, en el Amerant Bank Arena en Sunrise.

Los fanáticos llegaron temprano al arena este martes, emocionados por ver a la estrella de “Wicked” presentarse.

Jason Carter de Local 10 estuvo allí, y su reportaje completo puede verse en la parte superior de esta página.

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According to Reuters, Venezuelan authorities said more than 1,700 people have been killed and at least 5,000 others injured following the devastating earthquakes.

Global Empowerment Mission, which has been collecting donations at its warehouse in Doral, released new photos showing pallets of relief supplies arriving at a warehouse the organization secured in Caracas.

Global Empowerment Mission officials told Local 10 they are no longer in need of bottled water donations because they have received an ample supply. Instead, the organization is asking people to make monetary donations, which will allow relief teams to purchase and distribute the supplies most urgently needed on the ground.

Read the drop off time, location, and items needed below.

Meanwhile, members of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Florida Task Force 1 remained on the ground in Venezuela, working alongside international crews in one of the hardest-hit areas, Playa Grande in La Guaira state.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Florida Task Force 1 (#FLTF1) is on the ground in Playa Grande, La Guaira, Venezuela, standing alongside a community forever changed by the devastating earthquakes.

The mission is complex but clear. It's driven by the possibility that a life can still be… pic.twitter.com/u8NxodanHd

— Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (@MiamiDadeFire) June 28, 2026

Search teams continued using specially trained canines to detect the scent of people trapped beneath the rubble.

Amid the widespread destruction, rescuers celebrated a rare moment of hope after emergency crews from Jordan pulled a 3-year-old child alive from beneath a collapsed building six days after the disaster.

That child was rushed for medical treatment as rescuers cheered.

Questions also continued to mount over the collapse of a hotel that was housing more than 100 recently deported people from the United States.

A repatriation flight carrying about 146 people arrived in Venezuela on June 24, just hours before the earthquakes struck. Officials said many of the deportees were taken to the hotel, which later collapsed, leaving families searching for answers about their loved ones.

“They are not giving us answers about where she is. If at a hospital or at the morgue,” said Luis Armando Dasilva, whose sister, Amanda Donizete, he said worked as a waitress in Georgia.

Families say they have received conflicting information about how many people survived the collapse.

“Please act quickly. We want our relatives to be found, however they are,” Dasilva said.

The World Health Organization said Venezuela’s health care system remains under significant strain because of damaged hospitals and staffing shortages.

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas also released a photo of the USS Fort Lauderdale, which U.S. Southern Command said is berthed at the Port of La Guaira.

The ship is providing additional medical capabilities and serving as a communications hub to support relief operations.

As international rescue efforts continue, organizations in South Florida are working to get more food, water and other essential supplies into the hands of earthquake survivors in Venezuela.

Click here to view the drop-off locations across South Florida that are collecting goods and supplies for earthquake victims.

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— Department of State (@StateDept) June 29, 2026

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“Hard for the parents, hard for us,” said Leslie Novoa, owner of A World of Discovery Academy, while holding back tears.

Novia said the boy attended her daycare, located at 7025 Northwest Fourth Street, where she and staff members had known his family for more than six years.

“Every single child that comes through our school becomes part of our family, and we are destroyed,” said Carolina Quecano, an assistant director of the daycare.

Novoa said the boy’s father arrived at the daycare Monday afternoon to pick up his son, but staff quickly realized something was wrong.

“I went out to confirm that the baby was never dropped off at the school and that’s when we found out,” Novoa said.

According to Novoa, the father then opened the vehicle and made the heartbreaking discovery.

“He was screaming outside, ‘Oh my God! Oh my God!’ He was really sad,” she said.

Novoa called 911, and Plantation police responded, surrounding the SUV with crime scene tape as detectives investigated. A Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office van later arrived while investigators processed the scene.

The daycare administrators told Local 10 that the boy was the youngest of three siblings. His two older siblings also attended the school, and staff said they had developed a close relationship with the family over the years.

“They are very nice, never a problem, always supportive,” Quecano said. “The children are very happy. You could see very loved children.”

As police continue investigating the circumstances surrounding the child’s death, Quecano urged the community to show compassion.

“We don’t know what people are going through and it’s a very important message to put to our community is that we should be supportive, not judgmental,” she said.

Other parents at the daycare also shared their condolences.

“As a parent you never want to lose a child,” one mother said.

Plantation police have said only that the case remains an active investigation and that no additional details are being released at this time.

“Difícil para los padres, difícil para nosotros”, dijo Leslie Novoa, propietaria de A World of Discovery Academy, mientras contenía las lágrimas.

Novoa dijo que el niño asistía a su guardería, ubicada en 7025 Northwest Fourth Street, donde ella y el personal conocían a su familia desde hace más de seis años.

“Cada niño que llega a nuestra escuela se convierte en parte de nuestra familia, y estamos destruidos”, dijo Carolina Quecano, subdirectora de la guardería.

Novoa dijo que el padre del niño llegó a la guardería el lunes por la tarde para recoger a su hijo, pero el personal rápidamente se dio cuenta de que algo estaba mal.

“Salí a confirmar que el bebé nunca había sido dejado en la escuela y ahí fue cuando nos enteramos”, dijo Novoa.

Según Novoa, el padre entonces abrió el vehículo y hizo el desgarrador hallazgo.

“Estaba gritando afuera, ‘¡Oh Dios mío! ¡Oh Dios mío!’. Estaba muy triste”, dijo.

Novoa llamó al 911, y la policía de Plantation respondió, rodeando el SUV con cinta de escena del crimen mientras los detectives investigaban. Una camioneta de la Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado de Broward llegó más tarde mientras los investigadores procesaban la escena.

Los administradores de la guardería dijeron a Local 10 que el niño era el menor de tres hermanos. Sus dos hermanos mayores también asistían a la escuela, y el personal dijo que habían desarrollado una relación cercana con la familia a lo largo de los años.

“Son muy amables, nunca un problema, siempre solidarios”, dijo Quecano. “Los niños son muy felices. Se podía ver que eran niños muy queridos”.

Mientras la policía continúa investigando las circunstancias que rodean la muerte del niño, Quecano pidió a la comunidad mostrar compasión.

“No sabemos por lo que la gente está pasando y es un mensaje muy importante para nuestra comunidad: debemos ser solidarios, no juzgar”, dijo.

Otros padres de la guardería también compartieron sus condolencias.

“Como padre nunca quieres perder a un hijo”, dijo una madre.

La policía de Plantation ha dicho únicamente que el caso sigue siendo una investigación activa y que no se están revelando más detalles en este momento.

According to NBA insider Chris Haynes, the Heat are going to sign free agent swingman Tim Hardaway Jr.

Free agent sharpshooter Tim Hardaway Jr. will be signing with the Miami Heat to provide the organization with the spacing needed for Giannis Antetokounmpo, league sources tell me. pic.twitter.com/ZS5wLdcCeG

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 30, 2026

Hardaway Jr. is the son of former Heat star shooter Tim Hardaway.

The younger Hardaway has played 13 seasons in the NBA for five teams: The New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks, Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets.

He’s a career 41.9% shooter from the field and 36.5% shooter from three-point range.

Last season with Denver, Hardaway averaged 13.5 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.4 assists while shooting 44.7% from the field and 40.7% from downtown.

Hinkle — one of the oldest arenas in the country — is iconic, and more than fits the billing that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and other league officials were looking for when he said the league was searching for “storied college arenas” to play host to the Cup final.

The 2026-27 title game, to be played Dec. 11, will mark the first time the Cup final is held outside of Las Vegas — which hosted the final for the first three in-season tournaments.

“Hinkle Fieldhouse offers a special setting to capture the excitement and drama of the Emirates NBA Cup Championship,” NBA Head of Global Events Kelly Flatow said. “Playing the championship in an iconic basketball environment like this will further establish it as a signature moment on the NBA calendar.”

The arena, which has about 9,100 seats, has played host to at least six U.S. presidents — Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush — along with the first U.S. vs. Soviet Union basketball games, circuses, tennis matches, ice shows and even was used as a barracks for the U.S. military during World War II.

“Hinkle Fieldhouse gets loud,” Boston Celtics basketball operations president Brad Stevens said when he coached at Butler, “and it gets as loud as loud gets.”

Hinkle also was home of the famed Indiana high school basketball tournament for decades, including 1954 when tiny Milan High beat Muncie Central High to win the state title in the story that served as the inspiration for the classic basketball movie “Hoosiers” — which used Hinkle as the set for its championship game.

Indianapolis native Oscar Robertson also played there; his Crispus Attucks High team won state titles in that arena in 1955 and 1956 as well. It also has been the site of NBA games in the past, along with some WNBA games in 2022.

The Los Angeles Lakers won the inaugural NBA Cup in 2023; the event was simply called the in-season tournament that year. Milwaukee won in 2024 and New York beat San Antonio for the 2025 title — in a preview of this season's NBA Finals, in which the Knicks topped the Spurs again.

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Se cree que un video de vigilancia publicado por los investigadores muestra algunos de los últimos momentos de vida de Keisha Jones, de 31 años.

Los investigadores dijeron que el video fue grabado la mañana del viernes afuera de Scarlett’s Cabaret, cerca de Hallandale Beach Boulevard.

Indicaron que esa misma mañana, alrededor de las 6 a.m., Jones también fue vista en Dean’s Gold, en la 163rd Street en North Miami Beach.

Tres días después, el cuerpo de Jones fue encontrado en las aguas frente a Biscayne Bay cerca de un edificio de investigación de la NOAA en Virginia Key, informaron fuentes a Local 10 News.

El FBI ahora investiga las circunstancias que rodean su muerte.

La familia de Jones, en su mayoría de Michigan, dijo que está en estado de incredulidad y busca respuestas sobre con quién estuvo por última vez y cómo terminó muerta.

Los investigadores trabajan para reconstruir la cronología mientras intentan determinar qué le ocurrió a Jones.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso es instada a llamar al FBI al 1-800-225-5324.

Wednesday will offer a cloud/sun mix with showers and storms developing as the day unfolds. Localized flooding would be a concern with any slow-moving downpours. Temperatures will make a run for the low 90s.

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“Tens of thousands of people are missing, two thousand are dead,” said Rep. Jared Moskowitz.

Moskowitz is asking the U.S. State Department to deploy hospital ships to Venezuela.

The USNS Comfort and Mercy are fully equipped floating emergency rooms, a resource Moskowitz says is desperately needed on the ground.

“There are two specific resources we have that are closer than any other country,” he said. “Hundreds of doctors, hundreds of nurses, surgery rooms, triage, they could immediately help people get medical attention (and) save lives.”

Meanwhile, South Florida Republican Congressman Carlos Gimenez said he has major concerns about how Venezuela’s interim government is responding the disaster response and raising doubts about acting president Delcy Rodriguez’s handling of U.S. aid.

“This government has proven to me that they’re incapable, they’re incompetent, but they’re also thieves, so let’s not kid ourselves,” said Gimenez.

Among the missing and feared dead are a group of more than 100 migrants who had just been deported from the United States on a flight from South Florida.

They were reportedly being held in a hotel just outside of Caracas when the quakes hit.

South Florida Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the Trump administration should pause deportations to Venezuela.

“He should reinstate Venezuelan TPS today,” she said. “There were two major earthquakes, more than 7 points on the Richter scale.”

TPS was not a partisan issues, as Gimenez said this is the exact kind of disaster the TPS program is made for, and he plans to encourage President Trump to reinstate those protections in the wake of these earthquakes.

“Hay decenas de miles de personas desaparecidas y dos mil fallecidos”, afirmó el representante Jared Moskowitz.

Moskowitz está pidiendo al Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. que despliegue barcos hospital en Venezuela.

El USNS Comfort y el Mercy son salas de emergencia flotantes completamente equipadas, un recurso que Moskowitz dice que es desesperadamente necesario en el terreno.

“Hay dos recursos específicos que tenemos que están más cerca que los de cualquier otro país”, dijo. “Cientos de médicos, cientos de enfermeras, quirófanos, triaje, podrían ayudar inmediatamente a las personas a recibir atención médica (y) salvar vidas”.

Mientras tanto, el congresista republicano del sur de Florida Carlos Giménez dijo que tiene grandes preocupaciones sobre cómo el gobierno interino de Venezuela está respondiendo a la respuesta ante el desastre y está generando dudas sobre el manejo de la ayuda de EE. UU. por parte de la presidenta en funciones Delcy Rodríguez.

“Este gobierno me ha demostrado que son incapaces, son incompetentes, pero también son ladrones, así que no nos engañemos”, dijo Giménez.

Entre los desaparecidos y los que se teme que estén muertos hay un grupo de más de 100 migrantes que acababan de ser deportados de Estados Unidos en un vuelo desde el sur de Florida.

Según los informes, estaban siendo retenidos en un hotel a las afueras de Caracas cuando los terremotos golpearon.

La congresista demócrata del sur de Florida Debbie Wasserman Schultz dijo que la administración del presidente Trump debería pausar las deportaciones a Venezuela.

“Él debería restablecer el TPS venezolano hoy”, dijo. “Hubo dos grandes terremotos, de más de 7 puntos en la escala de Richter”.

El TPS no era un tema partidista, ya que Giménez dijo que este es exactamente el tipo de desastre para el que está hecho el programa TPS, y planea alentar al presidente Trump a restablecer esas protecciones tras estos terremotos.

The NFL sent a memo to all 32 teams on Tuesday informing them that Sorsby, a quarterback whose college career ended when the NCAA banished him for gambling activity that included wagers on his own team while on the roster at Indiana in 2022 and betting on pro sports, will not seek legal action against the NFL after the league denied his petition to enter the supplemental draft.

“I accept 100% responsibility for my actions,” Sorsby posted on Instagram on Tuesday evening. “I did not have control of my gambling problem and it took getting caught to realize that, but it was truly the best thing that could have happened to me.”

Sorsby, who moved from Indiana to Cincinnati to Texas Tech before revelations about an extensive gambling problem surfaced, tried to enter the draft just three days before the scheduled deadline. The league, which hasn't held a supplemental draft since 2023 and hasn't had a player selected in it since 2019, denied the petition.

“The issues presented by your Petition are too significant, and too closely tied to the League’s core integrity interests, to permit meaningful review within the timeline presented,” NFL attorney Lawrence P. Ferazani Jr. wrote in a letter to Sorsby last week.

The 22-year-old Sorsby, who cannot play in the Canadian Football League in 2026, is now considered “draft-eligible” for the 2027 NFL draft. Sorsby will not be eligible to sign an NFL contract until the draft's conclusion.

The NFL has no plans to discipline Sorsby for any currently known prior misconduct but holds the right to investigate Sorsby. The league can also take Sorsby's college misconduct into account should it find cause to discipline Sorsby in the future.

Sorsby's decision to not challenge the NFL in court leaves him with 10 months on his hands to prepare. Sorsby had planned to play at Texas Tech this year before the NCAA declared him ineligible for making thousands of bets on sporting events worth at least $90,000 during his college career. Those included at least 40 bets on Indiana while he was a freshman there in 2022, though none on the games in which he played for the Hoosiers that season.

“I am fully committed to being the best version of myself that I can be while getting ready for the 2027 draft,” Sorsby wrote. “God makes no mistakes and I look forward to seeing the good that is to come from this.”

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Thriving on a hot, humid afternoon, Mbappé scored his 17th and 18th career World Cup goals in France’s 3-0 rout of Sweden on Tuesday, moving one back of Messi’s record of 19. With six in the tournament, Mbappé tied the Argentina star in the race for the Golden Boot.

Asked coming off the field if he was already looking forward to facing Paraguay, Mbappé quipped, “I’m looking forward to the changing room and the AC.” It was 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) for the 5 p.m. kickoff, so steamy that Lucas Digne let himself be doused by a sprinkler during the first-half hydration break.

Before halftime, Mbappé scored one for the highlight reel. In the 45th minute, Mbappé engaged in a give-and-go with Ousmane Dembélé, crossed over Viktor Gyökeres and fired his shot past goalkeeper Jacob Widell Zetterström.

“It goes without saying that Mapp is an absolute top, top player,” Sweden coach Graham Potter said. “His goal was a fine example of the speed and the change of direction and the way he can get the shot off quick. It’s an incredibly high level.”

That broke a tie with Brazilian greats Leonidas and Ronaldo for the most goals in the knockout stage of the World Cup with nine. Mbappé added to his record with his 10th, scoring in the 74th minute off a feed from Michael Olise.

Celebrating the first goal, Mbappé ran immediately to coach Didier Deschamps after scoring. This was Deschamps’ first game back on the sideline after missing the group stage finale to fly back to Europe for his mother’s funeral.

“We know that the head coach had to face a really tough, tough challenge,” Mbappé said. “Everyone will go through that one day. It goes beyond football. He knows that he will never be alone with us, and we will support him.”

With 18 goals in 18 World Cup games, Mbappé has scored at an even faster clip than Messi, who has played in 29 games at the tournament. Deschamps bowed to Mbappé when he was substituted out in the 85th minute.

That kept Mbappé from chasing a hat trick, but he also could have scored in the 32nd minute. Instead, the 27-year-old banged a shot off the left post and even began to celebrate before watching it bounce back.

Scoring twice later allowed Mbappé not to regret that missed opportunity at a World Cup he is trying to soak in while playing some of his best soccer.

“I did say that I wanted to enjoy this World Cup to the fullest,” Mbappé said. "I’m not saying that the other World Cup I didn’t enjoy, but I was younger. I was focused then into delivering the best performances, and today I believe I can do both: delivering great performances and obviously enjoying.”

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AP Sports Writer Ron Blum contributed to this report.

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After years of failed IVF attempts, Heidy Willis decided to explore another option — a procedure that is not legal in the U.S. but gave her and her husband, Josh, the chance to have their own biological children.

Willis says her journey to motherhood was one she was willing to do whatever it took for.

“I was ready to fly to Ukraine during the war. That’s how badly we wanted this,” she said.

Willis started trying to have children around the age of 30, but in her late 20s, she learned she had polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS.

Doctors recommended intrauterine insemination and eventually IVF.

“I did six rounds of IVF here in the United States,” she said. “I tried different doctors, different clinics.”

But after multiple failed IVF attempts, Heidy Willis said she was left searching for answers.

“Once we started the IVFs and we had multiple, multiple failed IVFs, we were like, there’s something wrong,” she said. “The doctors would just tell us, you know, it must be your poor egg quality because of your PCOS, but no real diagnosis.”

Willis said doctors would retrieve dozens of eggs, but they would not develop as expected.

“They would retrieve 30 eggs, and then at retrieval, when they would study them in the lab, they weren’t mature,” she said. “Like, how can we have 30 plus eggs and not have one that fertilized?”

Doctors eventually suggested she consider donor eggs, but instead, Heidy started researching other possible causes.

“I found an article that said that there could be infertility genetic mutations that directly affect your fertility,” Willis said.

That research led her to doctors in Ukraine who performed a procedure called mitochondrial replacement therapy, or MRT.

The procedure is not approved for clinical use in the United States.

The National Institutes of Health says a federal legislative provision prevents the Food and Drug Administration from reviewing or approving clinical trials involving MRT because of concerns about potential safety risks, including genetic abnormalities and the fact that genetic changes can be passed down.

But as Heidy was preparing to move forward, war broke out in Ukraine.

The doctors relocated to Albania, and Willis followed.

“So, we met at the clinic, and they said they had brought the donor with them from Ukraine,” she said.

Willis describes MRT as a process sometimes called “three-parent IVF.”

“They remove the DNA from that donor egg, they transfer my DNA into that donor egg and then fertilize it with the sperm, and then they create an embryo which is then transferred over to me and then I carry on the pregnancy like any other IVF transfer,” she said.

The doctors who performed the procedure, Uliana Dorofaeva and Birol Aydin, said MRT is intended for patients who have exhausted other options.

“That means they have many IVF trials. They are not having good quality of embryo or blastocyst or no embryo transfer,” Aydin said.

“It’s not a 100% magic tool for solving fertility, but it’s improving a lot where it’s really reasonable and needed,” Dorofaeva said.

The doctors said Heidy’s case was complicated, but she refused to give up.

“I didn’t want to 15 years from now see that I could have had biological children and regret my decision,” Willis said.

Heidy and Josh traveled to Albania, spending several days making sure they were comfortable with the procedure. They returned home to South Florida and waited — without telling anyone what they had done.

“We kept it super top secret,” Heidy Willis said.

She said they wanted to protect their family from disappointment if it did not work.

“We just felt like, you know, we didn’t want to disappoint them again or get their hopes up and then again, it doesn’t work,” Heidy Willis added.

But this time, it did.

“So, I tested right away and I saw a very faint line and I was like, I think it must have worked,” she said.

Heidy was pregnant — with twins.

Aubrey and Aspen became the first twins born following MRT, according to the family.

“To this day I see them and I see so many pairs of shoes at the door,” Willis said. “I can’t believe they’re mine.”

Heidy Willis says she is grateful to the doctors who helped make her dream of becoming a mother a reality.

“I want them to know how badly we wanted them and how much we tried for them to be here,” she said. “So just to be grateful to us for how hard we tried to get answers.”

Heidy and Josh’s journey did not end there. They later decided their family needed one more addition.

Heidy returned to Albania for the procedure again. The couple says it was successful, and their family is now complete with their youngest child, Nolan.

If you would like to contact Heidy, you can find her on Instagram at Eggsquisiteembryo.

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Tras años de intentos fallidos de fecundación in vitro (FIV), Heidy Willis decidió explorar otra opción: un procedimiento que no es legal en Estados Unidos, pero que le dio a ella y a su esposo, Josh, la oportunidad de tener hijos biológicos.

Willis asegura que estaba dispuesta a hacer lo que fuera necesario para convertirse en madre.

“Estaba lista para volar a Ucrania durante la guerra. Así de grande era nuestro deseo de lograrlo”, dijo.

Willis comenzó a intentar tener hijos alrededor de los 30 años, pero cuando tenía poco más de 20 le diagnosticaron síndrome de ovario poliquístico (SOP).

Los médicos recomendaron primero la inseminación intrauterina y posteriormente la fecundación in vitro.

“Hice seis ciclos de FIV aquí en Estados Unidos”, dijo. “Probé con diferentes médicos y diferentes clínicas”.

Pero después de múltiples intentos fallidos de FIV, Heidy Willis dijo que comenzó a buscar respuestas.

“Cuando empezamos con la FIV y tuvimos múltiples fracasos, pensamos que había algo más”, dijo. “Los médicos solo nos decían que probablemente era por la mala calidad de mis óvulos debido al SOP, pero nunca hubo un diagnóstico real”.

Willis explicó que los médicos lograban extraer decenas de óvulos, pero estos no se desarrollaban como se esperaba.

“Extraían 30 óvulos y, cuando los analizaban en el laboratorio, no estaban maduros”, dijo. “¿Cómo es posible que tengamos más de 30 óvulos y ni uno solo logre ser fecundado?”.

Con el tiempo, los médicos le sugirieron considerar óvulos donados, pero Heidy decidió investigar otras posibles causas.

“Encontré un artículo que decía que podía haber mutaciones genéticas relacionadas con la infertilidad que afectaban directamente la fertilidad”, dijo Willis.

Esa investigación la llevó a médicos en Ucrania que realizaban un procedimiento conocido como terapia de reemplazo mitocondrial (MRT, por sus siglas en inglés).

El procedimiento no está aprobado para uso clínico en Estados Unidos.

Los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NIH) indican que una disposición legislativa federal impide que la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) revise o apruebe ensayos clínicos relacionados con la MRT debido a preocupaciones sobre posibles riesgos de seguridad, incluidas anomalías genéticas y el hecho de que los cambios genéticos pueden heredarse.

Pero mientras Heidy se preparaba para continuar con el procedimiento, estalló la guerra en Ucrania.

Los médicos trasladaron su clínica a Albania y Willis viajó hasta allí.

“Nos encontramos en la clínica y nos dijeron que también habían llevado a la donante desde Ucrania”, recordó.

Willis describe la MRT como un proceso conocido en ocasiones como “fecundación in vitro de tres padres”.

“Extraen el ADN del óvulo de la donante, transfieren mi ADN a ese óvulo y luego lo fecundan con el esperma. Después crean un embrión que es transferido a mi útero y yo continúo el embarazo como en cualquier otro tratamiento de FIV”, explicó.

Los médicos que realizaron el procedimiento, Uliana Dorofaeva y Birol Aydin, dijeron que la MRT está destinada a pacientes que han agotado todas las demás opciones.

“Eso significa que han pasado por muchos intentos de FIV y no logran obtener embriones o blastocistos de buena calidad, o simplemente no consiguen embriones para transferir”, dijo Aydin.

“No es una herramienta mágica que resuelva al 100% la infertilidad, pero mejora mucho las posibilidades cuando realmente es razonable y necesaria”, dijo Dorofaeva.

Los médicos señalaron que el caso de Heidy era complejo, pero ella nunca dejó de luchar.

“No quería que dentro de 15 años descubriera que sí podía haber tenido hijos biológicos y arrepentirme de la decisión que tomé”, dijo Willis.

Heidy y Josh viajaron a Albania, donde permanecieron varios días asegurándose de sentirse cómodos con el procedimiento. Después regresaron al sur de Florida y esperaron los resultados sin contarle a nadie lo que habían hecho.

“Lo mantuvimos completamente en secreto”, dijo Heidy Willis.

Explicó que querían proteger a su familia de una nueva decepción si el procedimiento no funcionaba.

“Sentíamos que no queríamos volver a ilusionarlos para que luego, otra vez, no funcionara”, agregó.

Pero esta vez sí funcionó.

“Me hice la prueba enseguida y vi una línea muy tenue. Pensé: creo que funcionó”, recordó.

Heidy estaba embarazada de gemelos.

Según la familia, Aubrey y Aspen se convirtieron en los primeros gemelos nacidos tras un procedimiento de terapia de reemplazo mitocondrial.

“Hasta el día de hoy los veo y veo tantos pares de zapatos en la puerta”, dijo Willis. “No puedo creer que sean mis hijos”.

Heidy Willis asegura sentirse profundamente agradecida con los médicos que hicieron posible su sueño de convertirse en madre.

“Quiero que sepan cuánto los deseábamos y cuánto luchamos para que pudieran estar aquí”, dijo. “Quiero que sepan cuánto nos esforzamos por encontrar respuestas”.

Pero el camino de Heidy y Josh no terminó ahí. Más adelante decidieron que su familia aún necesitaba un integrante más.

Heidy regresó a Albania para someterse nuevamente al procedimiento. La pareja asegura que fue exitoso y que ahora su familia está completa con la llegada de su hijo menor, Nolan.

Si desea comunicarse con Heidy, puede encontrarla en Instagram como Eggsquisiteembryo.

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Mere startups when he took the oath of office, the new ventures have now eclipsed in revenue much of his vast property portfolio that took him decades to accumulate. Fueling their rise were billionaire investors and Trump’s own move to quash a federal crackdown on the industry.

Trump got more than $500 million from his World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including “governance tokens,” according to the required annual disclosure report with the Office of Government Ethics. It also showed another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, took in more than $600 million from sales of souvenir-type “meme” coins stamped with his face.

Both the tokens and the coins have plunged in value since the sales.

Trump also took in millions last year from selling Trump-branded Bibles, sneakers and other small items in another unprecedented move for the presidency. The sale of Trump-branded watches alone brought in $4.7 million.

The 927-page disclosure form paints a stark, if incomplete picture of the massive growth of the president’s wealth since taking office last January through a web of business interests — many of which have benefited from the policy moves of Trump’s own government. Trump has insisted that his sons direct his finances but the arrangement rejects the conflict of interest protections that his recent predecessors in office had instituted.

Forbes estimates Trump's net worth at $6 billion, up from $2.3 billion in 2024.

The Trump business is growing abroad

The rise of crypto relative to Trump’s property is especially noteworthy because he first rode to office boasting of his property wins. It's also remarkable because that mainstay business also boomed last year. Trump took in tens of millions in fees from a flurry of new hotel, resort and condo deals overseas that amounts to the biggest property expansion ever in the century since the family business was founded.

Many of those countries were negotiating with the U.S. over tariffs, military aid and other important matters while the family business was striking the deals.

A property in the United Arab Emirates generated $10.4 million for the Trump business last year. One in Saudi Arabia being built by a real estate developer close to the ruling family sent the president’s company $9 million. And one in Bucharest, Romania, and another in Qatar sent him $5 million each.

One of his prominent domestic properties, Mar-a-Lago in Florida, notched big growth last year, too.

Trump took in $77 million from the property, a 50% jump from the year earlier when he was just another citizen, as heads of state and business people flocked to it in his new term.

The disclosure report doesn't give profit figures, just revenue, so it's impossible to know how much he is earning.

Trump is now the billion-dollar crypto man

After taking office last year, Trump reversed the Biden administration's tough stance on the crypto industry and pushed policies friendly to the industry.

But regulators still had some concerns. Before Trump's World Liberty began selling “governance tokens,” they issued warnings about this new kind of crypto asset, saying that unlike stocks, the tokens offer no ownership stake in the issuing company, just voting power on certain corporate policies, and are difficult to value.

Buyers pounced anyway, including a Chinese billionaire who spent $75 million on the tokens and $200 million on the souvenir coins. In February last year, a federal lawsuit charging him with duping investors was paused before being settled for a $10 million fine.

The billionaire, Justin Sun, has repeatedly denied his spending on Trump businesses had anything to do with his federal case, while World Liberty has dismissed the notion of a conflict of interest.

Meanwhile, investors have seen the value of their Trump-tied holdings drop significantly.

The price of World Liberty tokens has fallen 80% since they started trading in September. And the Trump souvenir coins that spiked to more than $74 in the days after launching in January 2025 now sell for $1.68.

The White House says Trump only acts in the public interest

The White House has repeatedly said Trump put his business in a trust managed by his sons and is not involved in its decisions and that there are no ethics issues to discuss.

“Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged — or will ever engage — in conflicts of interest,” spokeswoman Anna Kelly said. “All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people.”

The Trump umbrella company, the Trump Organization, has said its deals overseas were with private companies, not with governments.

Still, it is difficult to know what is truly private in countries ruled by authoritarians, royal families and one-party governments.

For a new Trump resort in Vietnam, the report shows Trump took in $5 million last year after the ruling Communist Party sent its deputy prime minister to sign off on the deal and, according to The New York Times, pushed farmers off the land to make way for the construction.

Whether the deals played any role in changing U.S. policies in ways these countries sought is nearly impossible to know, but the countries did get what they wanted.

Vietnam got tariff relief. Qatar got access to advanced U.S. technology previously off limits, and Saudi Arabia got U.S. fighter jets it had coveted for years.

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U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Massachusetts vacated the U.S. Education Department's changes, saying they overstepped the agency's power and threatened to violate First Amendment protections for free speech. The ruling came in response to a pair of lawsuits filed by more than 20 states along with a coalition of nonprofit groups and cities.

In Washington, D.C., District Judge Amir Ali in Washington issued a similar ruling in a case brought by nonprofit organizations. The rulings came a day before the new rules were set to take effect.

Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent said the department was evaluating next steps.

“The Department stands behind this commonsense policy to ensure that taxpayer dollars are never used to subsidize illegal activities,” Kent said in a written statement.

Congress created Public Service Loan Forgiveness in 2007 to encourage college graduates to work in government and nonprofit jobs. It promised to forgive their federal student loans after they worked in public service jobs for 10 years.

Last year, the Trump administration moved to add new eligibility rules that would strip the benefit from workers whose employers are deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose.”

The overhaul targeted nonprofits and government organizations that support causes at odds with the Trump administration's priorities.

It gave the education secretary power to exclude groups from the program if they engage in the trafficking or “chemical castration” of children, illegal immigration or supporting terrorist organizations. Its definition of “chemical castration” included using hormone therapy or drugs that delay puberty.

The overhaul amounted to a major reworking of a program that has canceled loans for more than 1 million Americans. Nonprofits and government groups said it undercut an important benefit that helped attract college graduates to jobs that traditionally pay less than the private sector.

“This decision is a win for the communities that depend on local nonprofits and for the workers who serve them,” said Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, one of the plaintiffs in the Massachusetts case.

One of the plaintiffs in the Washington case, Student Defense, said the judge's ruling is a victory for student loan borrowers.

“Public servants should not have to worry that the federal government will punish them because of their employer’s mission or perceived political views,” said Aaron Ament, Student Defense's president.

Joun said the new rules threatened to impose the administration's policy views on employers. The judge also faulted the department for failing to connect its definitions of illegal activity to criminal statutes.

“The Department cannot create new criminal prohibitions through rulemaking,” he wrote.

The judge also questioned the department's stated rationale for proposing the new rules, drawing on its own estimates that fewer than 10 employers would be barred from the program per year.

“The Department offers no explanation for why a Final Rule with such sweeping consequences is necessary to address the possibility that, at most, ten employers each year may be engaging in illegal activity,” Joun wrote.

In his ruling, Joun noted that more than 100 supporting briefs were filed on behalf of the groups challenging the rules, while none were filed in support of the Trump administration's change.

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The 20-year-old Joint had said there was “always a part of me that wanted to experience playing against her."

After getting what she wished for — a first-round meeting with the tennis icon — Joint delivered on the biggest stage.

The Michigan-born Australian showed few nerves in winning the biggest match of her life — defeating Williams 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 on Tuesday to spoil the 44-year-old Williams' singles comeback at the All England Club.

“I didn’t get much sleep last night. I was up until like 2 a.m. just thinking about it," Joint said in her on-court interview.

The 87th-ranked Joint certainly looked calm on the outside but said she had serious butterflies walking onto Centre Court alongside the GOAT of women's tennis.

During warmups, she felt like her legs “weren’t moving.”

"I really don’t know how I got a pretty good start in the match," Joint said. “She has such an aura, she’s just a legend and this court has so many huge names that have played on it. I’ve been dreaming about this moment since I was a little kid, so this is pretty crazy."

Joint notched her first Wimbledon singles win and just her third Grand Slam singles victory. By the time Joint was born in 2006, Williams had already won seven major titles, completing a career Grand Slam in the process. Williams has won 23 major singles titles — seven at Wimbledon.

“Just the start was very nerve-racking and then trying to finish out the match, as well. She definitely lifted her level and she played some really great tennis there," Joint said.

Joint had chances to end it earlier.

At 5-5 in the second set, Joint squandered four break point opportunities as Williams held serve. Joint then won the next game to love, including back-to-back aces to force a tiebreaker.

Joint had her first match point at 6-5 in the tiebreaker but Williams hit a winner and then won the next two points.

Joint got the key break to go up 4-2 in the deciding set. She sealed the win on her third match point.

“I think I tensed up a little bit when I got close to winning, but I think I played my best tennis when I needed to, which was good,” she said.

Slowed by a back injury earlier this year, Joint at one point lost 10 consecutive matches.

“Even though I didn’t win many matches this year, I still felt like I could win," Joint said. “I had the belief and I just took advantage of the moment and enjoyed it, didn’t really think about the previous matches I’ve played.”

She later added: “If you’re playing Serena, you have nothing to lose. It makes sense that people play their best game against her.”

Last year, Joint won the grass-court Eastbourne tournament ahead of her debut at Wimbledon, where she lost in the first round to Liudmila Samsonova. Joint's only two other victories in majors came at the U.S. Open.

Joint, who represents Australia through her father, joins a list of unheralded players to have eliminated Williams in Wimbledon’s first round.

Harmony Tan was ranked 115th when she beat Williams in 2022. A year prior, it was Aliaksandra Sasnovich, ranked No. 100 at the time, who emerged victorious when Williams retired from the match with a leg injury.

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The convention will be held in Dallas on Sept. 9 and 10.

Although both major parties traditionally hold blockbuster conventions during presidential campaigns, Trump has long floated the idea of a similar gathering this year to focus voters' attention on a sprawling collection of House and Senate races.

If Democrats regain control of either chamber, they will be empowered to block Trump’s agenda and launch investigations into his administration for the final two years of his term.

Republicans have only slim majorities in Congress, and the party in power normally loses ground in the midterms. And without Trump on the ballot, Republican leaders worry that it could be hard to galvanize their voters.

Trump hopes the convention would help change that dynamic, and he’s been talking about it since last year. He floated in a social media post that Republicans would use the event “to show the great things we have done since the Presidential Election of 2024.”

“We will also have lots of Great Entertainment — It will be a RALLY like none other!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post announcing the convention details.

The Democratic National Committee considered hosting a similar midterm convention but ultimately rejected the idea. An expensive soiree could have strained the DNC’s finances, which are struggling with lackluster fundraising and millions in debt.

Democrats have said the GOP convention will be a chance for them to tie Republican House and Senate candidates to Trump, whose approval rating is underwater.

Locating the convention in Texas places a spotlight on the state’s Senate race, which pits Democratic nominee James Talarico against Republican nominee Ken Paxton.

Paxton is the state attorney general who, with Trump’s backing, defeated longtime Sen. John Cornyn in a primary earlier this year. Republican Senate leaders fear that Paxton’s history of scandals — including an extramarital affair, an impeachment and a securities fraud case that did not lead to a conviction — could undermine his candidacy and turn a winnable race into a drain on party resources.

It also highlights the aftereffects of Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push that began in Texas, an effort to secure more seats for Republicans in this fall’s elections.

The Republican National Committee began laying the groundwork earlier this year, voting at its winter meeting in January to make such an event possible by amending procedures centered around quadrennial presidential nominating conventions.

Democrats considered holding a similar gathering ahead of the midterms but tabled the idea. However, the party did hold such conferences in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Weston resident Jose Infante said the smell from the smoke was strong and lingered for several days.

“It was a thick smell -- very pronounced like burning oil and it lingered for about two or three days,” Infante said.

Infante said he takes regular walks but decided not to on Tuesday because of the smoky conditions.

“I usually walk every day and I didn’t go out. It was just too thick,” he said.

Other residents shared different levels of concern, noting that brush fires and their impact on air quality are not uncommon in western Broward communities.

Weston resident Leslie Armstrong said smoky conditions can sometimes happen in the area but usually improve.

“The morning sometimes is a little smoky, but it goes away by the afternoon,” Armstrong said.

Another resident said the smoke can be more concerning for those with health issues.

“People (can) have breathing conditions or asthma like my wife does so she’s very reluctant to go outside. I don’t have asthma. I go out, but I don’t stay outside and sit around the pool,” the resident said.

While the fire showed little visible activity Tuesday, officials stressed it remains an active wildfire.

Dr. Rohan Dang of Optimize Medical Primary Care in Coral Springs said the effects of wildfire smoke on health are not always immediately noticeable.

“There’s actually longer-term issues or more serious issues you can get from the Smoke because of the particulate matter that you breath in,” Dang said.

He said people with conditions including asthma, COPD and sleep apnea, as well as those with heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, may face a higher risk from exposure to wildfire smoke.

Dang said the best way to reduce exposure is to limit time outdoors.

“The key is really the simple thing – stay inside,” he added.

Dang also recommended keeping air conditioning systems set to recirculate instead of bringing outside air indoors, using air filters and keeping medications updated and on hand.

He said people should avoid unnecessary outdoor activities while smoke continues to impact air quality.

“If you have optional things that you could be doing outdoors, whether it’s sports or activities or things like that, now is not the time,” Dang said.

Thomas also criticized WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert for not doing more to protect the league's players when she spoke with reporters on Tuesday at the team's practice facility.

“It's unfortunate that it's come to this over basketball," Thomas said. "A lot of us — myself included — didn't even know the play took place until after the game. Now we're being painted as thugs. There's death threats out on us. It's really unacceptable. It's something that needs to change in this league and I'm just really sick and tired of it.”

Engelbert released a statement Tuesday night.

“The WNBA vehemently condemns any and all forms of hate. The safety and well-being of everyone in our community is always the league’s top priority," Engelbert said. "We are aware of Alyssa Thomas’ comments, and what she and her teammates have experienced is completely unacceptable and not representative of the WNBA community. The league and our security team have been in contact with the Phoenix Mercury organization and remain committed to protecting all players.”

Thomas called the play a “complete accident," but said her main concern wasn't the suspension. The six-time All-Star said she didn't know she was being suspended until 10 minutes before it was released on social media.

“It’s not even about the suspension,” Thomas said. “If that’s what they felt was necessary in that moment, then so be it. But I think there’s a lot of other plays that you can say the same about. The biggest thing is about our safety. We’re so concerned about the safety on the court, but time and time again, we’re having people threaten our lives. Leaking addresses out there. Putting crazy pictures that have nothing to do with basketball.”

The play happened with 6:52 left in the second quarter in a game against Clark's Indiana Fever on Wednesday and was deemed to be a non-basketball act. The league gave Thomas a Flagrant Foul 2 penalty for it.

No foul was called on the play by officials in the moment. The WNBA is allowed to review a game to reclassify a Flagrant foul or to classify as Flagrant any foul not called as such during a game.

"People are sending racial slurs and all types of stuff,” Thomas said. “There's a difference between trolling and there's a difference between hatred. The hatred that we're experiencing over a play that, honestly, was a complete accident, no one even knew it happened. It's just unfortunate. The league has to do better in this instance.”

Thomas and Engelbert exchanged text messages last week to talk about the security issue, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday night. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the discussion. The person said that Engelbert immediately directed league security to get in touch with Phoenix security once she heard about the threats.

Thomas served her suspension on Saturday when the Mercury visit the Toronto Tempo.

The Fever renewed their call for player safety in a statement on Thursday.

The two teams had played a few days before the Thomas-Clark incident and there were six technical fouls called and one ejection. Clark picked up her fifth technical of the season in that game. The team petitioned the league to have it rescinded, but the WNBA confirmed that the technical will stand.

“It was egregious. The fact that it was a no-call … You got to call it,” Fever coach Stephanie White said after the game. “You’re coming in here aware of what happened two nights ago and that (expletive) still happens? Absolutely unacceptable.”

The Mercury and Fever play again on July 9 in Phoenix.

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El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional fue tajante: las condiciones eran “peligrosas”, ya que el índice de calor —una combinación de la temperatura del aire y la humedad— superó los 37,8 grados Celsius (100 grados Fahrenheit) en algunas zonas. El organismo advirtió sobre el riesgo de enfermedades relacionadas con el calor, especialmente entre las personas que no cuentan con aire acondicionado.

El Servicio Meteorológico indicó que la temperatura del aire en Detroit sobrepasaba con creces los 32,2 °C (90 °F) y que incluso podría llegar a 37,7 °C (100 °F) en algún momento hasta el jueves. La ciudad informó que una docena de centros recreativos estaban abiertos, algunos hasta las 11 p. m., para que la gente pudiera refrescarse. Grandes zonas de Michigan, así como Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky y gran parte de Iowa, estaban bajo una advertencia de calor extremo.

El noreste del país, donde se encuentran las ciudades de Nueva York y Boston, será el siguiente en sentir un calor importante durante el feriado del 4 de Julio. Norristown, Pensilvania, a 32 kilómetros (20 millas) de Filadelfia, canceló un desfile programado para el sábado debido al clima.

Filadelfia declaró una emergencia de miércoles a sábado debido al calor, e informó que 50 centros de enfriamiento operarán con horario extendido. La ciudad señaló que los visitantes encontrarán carpas con rociadores de agua, estaciones para rellenar botellas y puestos médicos en el festival gratuito para aficionados del Mundial en East Fairmount Park.

Cuando aprieta el calor, la gente se adapta

El Museo de Historia de Chicago ofreció entrada gratuita a los residentes del estado que buscaban un espacio fresco el martes. En algunos lugares de Illinois, las carreteras se deformaron por el calor. Cuando la superficie no tiene espacio para expandirse con el calor, puede levantarse y agrietarse.

A las 9:15 a. m., el limpiavidrios Stephen Mason, de 72 años, quitaba insectos del vidrio en una tienda de conveniencia de Detroit. Empezó temprano para evitar las peores condiciones del día, pero a esa hora, la temperatura ya era de 29,4 °C (85 °F).

“Es la única manera de ganarle. Pero ya está empezando a hacer mucho calor aquí afuera”, afirmó.

Adam Schubatis, de 36 años, un corredor que iba sin camiseta en el vecindario Indian Village de Detroit, comentó que había recortado su ruta a 9,6 kilómetros (6 millas).

“Sé dónde están todas las fuentes de agua”, dijo. “Mi esposa pensó que estaba loco. Se ofreció a pasar por mí si me cansaba o si había algo que estuviera haciendo que no fuera seguro”.

El día puede ser “terrible” para los perros

En Milwaukee, más de 100 bomberos pasaron horas controlando un incendio en una escuela bajo el calor extremo. El jefe de bomberos Aaron Lipski explicó que los equipos se iban turnando y se quitaban sus gruesos chaquetones mientras se rehidrataban.

Las temperaturas mínimas nocturnas estuvieron entre 21 y 26,7 °C (70 °F) en muchos lugares, lo que no le da al cuerpo la oportunidad de enfriarse de manera natural, señaló la doctora Kisha Davis, funcionaria de salud del condado de Montgomery, Maryland.

“El estrés por calor se irá acumulando día tras día”, afirmó Davis, quien añadió que el alcohol y los refrescos, que son bebidas populares en los días festivos, deshidratan.

En Jackson, Mississippi, donde el índice de calor por la tarde superó los 37,7 °C (100 °F), enormes ventiladores intentaban mantener frescos a unos 100 perros en un antiguo almacén de colchones que funciona como refugio de Community Animal Rescue and Adoption.

“Es terrible… Tratamos de mantener a todos hidratados allá atrás. Perros y personas”, manifestó la encargada de las perreras, Raquel Burney.

Enfriamiento en cadena

George Liller, de 64 años, fue un héroe en Grosse Pointe Park, un suburbio de Detroit. Instaló aire acondicionado en su casa, así que ofreció gratis una unidad de ventana en Facebook, con todo y el cable de extensión y el control remoto.

“Probablemente estuvo en mi porche unos 15 minutos”, contó Liller. “Ese aire acondicionado me lo regalaron. Pensé: ‘Alguien lo necesita’. Sé lo que se siente estar en una casa vieja cuando hace tanto calor”.

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Los periodistas de The Associated Press Sophie Bates en Jackson, Mississippi; Hannah Fingerhut en Des Moines, Iowa; y Kathy McCormack en Concord, Nueva Hampshire, contribuyeron a este despacho.

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José Infante, residente de Weston, dijo que el olor del humo era intenso y permaneció durante varios días.

“Era un olor muy fuerte, muy marcado, como a aceite quemado, y permaneció durante unos dos o tres días”, dijo Infante.

Infante comentó que suele salir a caminar todos los días, pero decidió no hacerlo el martes debido a las condiciones provocadas por el humo.

“Normalmente camino todos los días y no salí. Estaba demasiado denso”, dijo.

Otros residentes expresaron distintos niveles de preocupación y señalaron que los incendios de vegetación y su impacto en la calidad del aire no son algo inusual en las comunidades del oeste de Broward.

Leslie Armstrong, residente de Weston, dijo que en ocasiones se presentan condiciones de humo en el área, pero que normalmente mejoran.

“Por la mañana a veces hay un poco de humo, pero desaparece por la tarde”, dijo Armstrong.

Otro residente indicó que el humo puede ser más preocupante para las personas con problemas de salud.

“Hay personas con problemas respiratorios o asma, como mi esposa, por lo que ella es muy reacia a salir. Yo no tengo asma. Salgo, pero no me quedo afuera sentado junto a la piscina”, dijo el residente.

Aunque el martes el incendio mostraba poca actividad visible, las autoridades enfatizaron que sigue siendo un incendio forestal activo.

El doctor Rohan Dang, de Optimize Medical Primary Care en Coral Springs, dijo que los efectos del humo de los incendios forestales sobre la salud no siempre son evidentes de inmediato.

“En realidad existen problemas a largo plazo o más graves que pueden surgir por el humo debido a las partículas que se inhalan”, dijo Dang.

Explicó que las personas con asma, enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC), apnea del sueño, enfermedades cardíacas, presión arterial alta o diabetes pueden enfrentar un mayor riesgo por la exposición al humo de los incendios forestales.

Dang señaló que la mejor manera de reducir la exposición es limitar el tiempo al aire libre.

“La clave es algo muy sencillo: permanecer dentro de la casa”, agregó.

Dang también recomendó mantener los sistemas de aire acondicionado en modo de recirculación en lugar de introducir aire del exterior, utilizar filtros de aire y tener los medicamentos actualizados y disponibles.

Añadió que las personas deben evitar actividades al aire libre que no sean necesarias mientras el humo continúe afectando la calidad del aire.

“Si tienen actividades opcionales al aire libre, ya sean deportes u otras actividades, este no es el momento para hacerlas”, dijo Dang.

The biggest pressure cooker of them all: the penalty kick shootout. Exhausted players and goalkeepers face off in a tense one-on-one confrontation that carries the hopes and dreams of entire nations.

Two of the first four matches in the round of 32 were settled by shootouts: Morocco beat the Netherlands and Paraguay bested Germany.

A miss can mean humiliation. A goalkeeper's save or the final bulge of the ball in the back of the net can bring tears of joy to millions.

That kind of pressure can reach “inhumane” levels, almost all of it focused on the penalty takers, said Geir Jordet, a professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and author of the book, “Pressure: Lessons from the Psychology of the Penalty Shootout.”

“In our research, the only emotion everyone agrees is present is anxiety,” Jordet said.

Expect more shootouts, more pressure, more anxiety.

A record five games at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar were settled by penalty kicks, including the final when Argentina beat France.

“As you go into knockout football it’s something that becomes more prominent in the games,” England winger Noni Madueke said. "So like every part of our game we want to be at the highest level when it comes to that.”

The physical and mental distance from spot to goal

This tense battle of wills is fought over a 12-yard (11-meter) distance between the penalty spot and the goal line. The shootout was added to the game in 1970 and has settled several of the world's biggest tournaments.

The first World Cup final to be settled by penalty kicks was Brazil’s 1994 victory over Italy. That shootout also produced one of the most infamous misses in soccer history when Italy great Roberto Baggio sent the final kick over the crossbar.

The penalty taker

Techniques vary.

Some take the kick quickly. Others pause, taking deep, calming breaths before they approach. Some run and strike it hard. A popular variation is the stutter-step, waiting for the goalkeeper to commit to which way he's going.

The penalty taker faces the most pressure in the moment because he's expected to score, Jordet told The Associated Press by email.

Research shows that the players who start toward the ball almost immediately after the referee's whistle more often miss than those wait between two and five seconds, he said.

“We suspect this is because those who (wait) extremely short sometimes do so because they, understandably, just want to get this stressful situation done and over with,” Jordet said.

It takes guts to be in that moment, United States forward Christian Pulisic said.

“For the people that go up and shoot, it takes a lot of courage. It’s not easy,” Pulisic said. “Goalkeepers get better and better every single year."

The view from goal

Standing between the posts, goalkeepers have three basic choices. Dive left, dive right or stay in the middle in a guessing game of anticipation.

Morocco keeper Yassine Bounou did something critically different. On the decisive save against the Netherlands, he moved to his right while standing up.

By staying upright, Bounou used his left hand to easily swat away the kick from Crysencio Summerville, who was shooting for the upper corner. Had Bounou dives, the ball would have easily found the net.

The best goalkeepers are “creative, deliberate and volatile” in their attempts to disrupt the shooter, Jordet said.

Tactics can include throwing the ball away, verbal insults and physical confrontation at the penalty spot. The mind games can get so hostile they can result in a yellow card for the goalkeeper.

He noted Bounou's well-timed body twitches and hand fakes to disrupt shooters' timing. The “master” of the mind games, Jordet said, is Argentina keeper Emiliano Martinez, who has won his last six penalty shootouts, including the 2022 World Cup final.

Picking the lineup has its own pressure

Selecting the lineup for a shootout has its own rhythms and risks for a coach and a team. It is a delicate balance between analytics, experience and gut feeling.

Some players will be automatic choices. Imagine France in a shootout without Kylian Mbappé or Argentina without Lionel Messi with the World Cup on the line.

“The guys who feel the most confident to go up and shoot will want to go shoot. I think that’s normal," Pulisic said. “We haven’t been in many shootouts with these guys, but like I feel it’s a pretty brave, courageous team.”

A shootout lineup should be decided and discussed well beforehand, and not a call for volunteers in the moment, Jordet said.

After Germany and Paraguay were still even after five penalty attempts each, Germany captain Joshua Kimmich asked his teammates who wanted to take the sixth. Jonathan Tah stepped up for the first penalty attempt of his career and launched the ball over the bar.

Players should rehearse the critical moment months ahead of time, Jordet said.

“Make sure that when you are called to take a kick, you have a strong and robust penalty technique, and you have a rehearsed and stable pre-shot routine that can help you lock your attention,” Jordet said. “With that type of focus, you have done what you can, and the outcome will be what it will be.”

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La policía de Lauderhill informó que el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 11:15 a.m. en la cuadra 5300 de Northwest 19th Street.

Según los investigadores, un agente fue alertado por una persona que dijo que un hombre intentó atacarlo armado con un cuchillo.

La policía dijo que los agentes localizaron rápidamente a una persona que coincidía con la descripción del sospechoso, pero este huyó a pie hacia un vecindario residencial cerca de la cuadra 1700 de Northwest 55th Avenue.

Los agentes informaron que establecieron rápidamente un perímetro y comenzaron a buscar en el área.

La policía dijo que posteriormente recibió una llamada al 911 de un transeúnte que reportó que un hombre estaba tendido en el suelo con aparentes heridas de arma blanca.

La policía indicó que, mientras recorrían el área, encontraron a un segundo hombre con aparentes heridas de arma blanca.

Informaron que una de las víctimas fue trasladada a un hospital local, donde posteriormente fue declarada muerta. La segunda víctima fue declarada muerta en el lugar.

Un hombre identificado como Nelson dijo a Roy Ramos, de Local 10, que una de las víctimas mortales era su vecino, quien utilizaba una silla de ruedas.

“Era un hombre muy, muy bueno”, dijo Nelson. “Este hombre era realmente una buena persona. No le hacía daño a nadie. Tenía una sola pierna y era una persona con discapacidad”.

Los investigadores dijeron que la búsqueda continuó con la ayuda de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward y del Departamento de Policía de Sunrise. La policía de Lauderhill informó que unidades K-9 finalmente localizaron al sospechoso, quien fue puesto bajo custodia sin más incidentes.

La hermana de una de las víctimas dijo a Ramos que cree que su hermano no conocía a la persona que lo atacó.

Por el momento, las autoridades no han divulgado más detalles sobre las víctimas ni sobre el sospechoso.

Cualquier persona con información debe comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Lauderhill al 954-497-4700 o con Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

El tiroteo tuvo lugar cerca del McDonald’s situado en la esquina de Stirling Road y Davie Road Extension, después de que los agentes intentaran detener al sospechoso, quien, según las autoridades, iba armado y huyó de ellos.

Los testigos dicen haber escuchado una rápida ráfaga de disparos durante el enfrentamiento.

«No paraban de decirle que levantara las manos: “Déjame ver tus manos”», explicó el testigo Gregory Jackson. “Supongo que el tipo no respondió. Lo siguiente que recuerdo es que oí casi 30 disparos. Se me cayó el móvil y eché a correr”.

Jackson contó que corrió a ponerse a cubierto mientras se desarrollaba el tiroteo.

“En cuanto oí esos disparos, tío, me puse a cubierto”, dijo. “Fui a ponerme a cubierto debajo de mi coche y, al hacerlo, me hice unos rasguños”.

El martes, los investigadores regresaron al lugar de los hechos y centraron su atención en los arbustos y en el servicio de drive-thru del restaurante de comida rápida mientras buscaban pruebas adicionales.

“Fue una escena de locos, horrible, la que vi ayer#, dijo Jackson. ”Nunca había visto nada igual".

Según el sheriff de Broward, Gregory Tony, los agentes se encontraron inicialmente con el sospechoso en el aparcamiento de un Wawa al otro lado de la calle mientras intentaban ejecutar una orden de detención vigente. Explicó que el sospechoso huyó de los agentes mientras empuñaba un arma.

Los agentes persiguieron al hombre durante unos 100 pies antes de derribarlo en un intento por detenerlo, explicó Tony.

Según el sheriff, el sospechoso era buscado por huir para evadir a la policía y los detectives creían que evidencia de ADN podría vincularlo con otros delitos. No ofreció detalles sobre esas investigaciones.

El sheriff también dijo que los investigadores contaban con información de inteligencia que indicaba que el sospechoso había dicho anteriormente a otras personas que, si las autoridades intentaban arrestarlo, pretendía provocar una confrontación de “suicidio por policía”.

No está claro si el sospechoso disparó su propia arma durante el enfrentamiento.

El Departamento de Cumplimiento de la Ley de Florida (FDLE) investiga la balacera. Las autoridades aún no han revelado la identidad del sospechoso.

With vastly different backgrounds and policy experience, they have moved along separate paths to stake out territory: Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants with a long history in the Senate and major interest in Latin America, and Vance, a child of the Midwest and Marine Corps veteran who served in the Senate for only two years before being tapped as Trump's 2024 running mate, with a message of opposing foreign wars.

While deferential to each other — and with the White House and State Department denying any suggestion of a rift — Vance and Rubio appear the most divergent on the Middle East.

In discussing Iran, Vance has several times been critical of Israel and its actions in Lebanon, saying Trump has been frustrated by Israeli actions against the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah that have angered Iran and made negotiations with Tehran more difficult.

Rubio, meanwhile, has remained supportive of Israel or held his tongue, particularly over the situation in Lebanon — an issue he has taken the lead on and resulted in a preliminary framework agreement last week.

Vance takes the lead on Iran negotiations and Rubio on Lebanon

"The talk about differences is not idle speculation," said Dan Fried, a former assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Poland who is now with the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank. “There is definitely something to it.”

The White House fired back at any suggestions of a rift.

“Why is the legacy media obsessed with driving a wedge between Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio that does not exist? There is one camp — President Trump’s camp — and the entire administration is fully behind the president’s efforts to ensure Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott added that "Rubio and the entire administration is 100% in lockstep behind President Trump.”

Yet, according to Trump administration officials familiar with the matter, Rubio was so skeptical of obtaining an acceptable deal with Iran that he declined to head the U.S. delegation to the first ceasefire negotiations in April in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Vance, however, seeing an opportunity to burnish his foreign policy credentials, jumped on it, asking Trump twice to take the lead before Trump agreed, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations.

Vance did lead the U.S. delegation to the inconclusive meeting in Pakistan, then again this month to talks in Switzerland, which followed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. The truce agreed to in that document is very fragile, tested by repeated exchanges of fire between the sides in recent days.

“It’s rather unusual for the VP to be given the lead role in a negotiation, but it’s quite possible that Rubio is happy to let him. It’s a pig in a poke. It’s a loser job,” said Ian Kelly, a retired career diplomat and ambassador during the first Trump administration.

He added that both men seem to “have equal ambitions to replace” Trump, but that the president’s semi-joking comments this month that he would blame Vance if the Iran talks do not succeed appeared to suggest that he was being “set up for failure.”

Vance and Rubio deny any division between them

Vance has talked up the chances of success for a broad agreement with Iran, albeit with caveats, while Rubio, although publicly supportive, has repeatedly taken a more agnostic line while denying any division.

“We’re all focused on the jobs in front of us. I think the president loves to stir the pot a little bit and loves the entertainment of it,” Vance said.

“I love Marco,” he said. “I think he’s a great secretary of state. He’s become a very, very dear friend. I think both of us are very much focused on accomplishing the American people’s business right now.”

Rubio also has rejected that there is any schism.

“When it comes to foreign policy and national security, we have no drama. We have no games,” Rubio told reporters last week during a trip to Bahrain, the last of a three-nation tour of the Arab Gulf countries that have been most directly affected by the Iran war.

“We have a group of people that work very well together and closely to execute on the president’s directives, which is why I think we’ve had good outcomes and good achievements, and we’re going to continue to have good outcomes and good achievements,” Rubio said. “Everyone has an important role to play, and everyone is playing that role and doing it in a collaborative process.”

That has not stopped Trump from fanning the flames of potential rivalry, repeatedly asking crowds of supporters who they would prefer to succeed him and suggesting at one point they might be an unbeatable ticket.

There is little doubt that the men do not share the same worldview, however.

“Rubio speaks within the rubric of the Ronald Reagan construct of the free world and its importance,” Fried said. “Vance is not interested in the free-world construct. He speaks in the language of not wanting to fight what he believes are abstractions.”

Fried said it is impossible to predict how that would translate into policy but warned that “we’re headed toward a bad place in Iran, which is giving up any support for Iranian civil society and not being terribly good at containing Iran.”

“Instead, we seem to be allowing ourselves to be backed into a ‘sphere of influence’ situation where Iran is weaker but ends up better off than before. I can’t imagine Rubio agreeing to that,” Fried said.

Aides to Rubio point out that he has said several times he would defer to the vice president should Vance choose to run for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination.

At the same time, Rubio has used his dual perch as Trump's top diplomat and national security adviser to make over the National Security Council, installing several close allies in top White House positions in recent weeks.

Those include his former State Department counselor, Mike Needham, who is now deputy national security adviser. Also, Jeremy Lewin, who oversaw the dismantlement of the U.S. Agency for International Development for Rubio and took charge of foreign assistance last year, is soon to join the NSC as a deputy for the Western Hemisphere. The head of NSC communications, Dylan Johnson, also serves as assistant secretary of state for public affairs.

The court's two Black justices notably had very different views on U.S. citizenship in the context of Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Tuesday's decision rejects an order President Donald Trump issued at the start of his second term, declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The majority, composed of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, determined that birth on U.S. soil plus being subject to U.S. law is enough for citizenship.

Several dissenters, including Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, say birth alone is not enough — the child's parents must have a deeper political allegiance or relationship to the U.S.

Jackson’s direct disagreement with Thomas' dissent highlights a major rift between the legal minds. Here are the justices in their own words:

Chief Justice John Roberts

Much of Roberts' opinion was a history lesson on English common law, in which he concluded that birthright citizenship has always depended primarily on birthplace — not on parents’ immigration status or domicile.

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, citing congressional debate over the amendment, “We keep that promise today.”

“We break no new ground today,” Roberts said on the bench as he read the court's majority opinion.

Justice Clarence Thomas

Thomas, who wrote the main dissent, disagreed with the majority's opinion and argued that American-born children are not automatically American citizens.

The basis of his argument, among other things, is that the court ignored evidence from Reconstruction debates that suggested citizenship depended on a deeper relationship to the country. After the Civil War, the U.S. underwent a series of political and constitutional battles over how to define the civil rights and citizenship status of formerly enslaved Black Americans.

“The Citizenship Clause was enacted for people who were born in this country and called it home. It was enacted for freed slaves such as Dred Scott, who had ‘a domicile’ here and therefore were entitled to sue as citizens,” Thomas wrote in his dissent, concluding that Reconstruction was a targeted remedy for freed slaves to restore citizenship to a wrongfully excluded group.

“In my view, the Citizenship Order is not facially unconstitutional,” Thomas wrote, referring to Trump's executive order. “The Order is consistent with the original meaning of the Citizenship Clause, at least insofar as it applies to children born to parents, here lawfully or unlawfully, who are not domiciled in the United States.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed with the opinion in full, but wrote to respond to Clarence Thomas' dissent, arguing that Thomas fundamentally misunderstands what the Reconstruction Amendments — the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments — are trying to accomplish.

“Despite his longstanding endorsement of a ‘colorblind’ Constitution, Justice Thomas, now surprisingly suggests that the Citizenship Clause was a race-conscious remedial measure, relating only to ‘freed slaves such as Dred Scott’ — but that narrow vision of the Fourteenth Amendment bears little relationship to the history of its ratification.”

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anti-caste, anti-subordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

“The Court’s conception of a color-blind Constitution and the Government’s (and principal dissent’s) cramped, group-specific reading of the Citizenship Clause are two sides of the same coin, stemming from a basic misunderstanding of the relevant history.”

The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs" between June 2022 and March 2025. In particular, their investigation found that the companies coordinated on what bids they would submit to Urner Barry Publications, a company that runs an index key to determining how much grocery stores, restaurants and others pay for billions of eggs each year.

In turn, that meant “higher prices for eggs sold to consumers,” alleged the complaint, which was filed in Iowa on Monday, the day the settlement terms were announced.

“When powerful corporations collude behind the scenes to raise prices, working families suffer the costs,” New York Attorney General Letitia James, who helped lead the investigation, said in a statement. “These egg producers manipulated the market to squeeze even more profit out of consumers and businesses."

None of the companies admitted wrongdoing under the settlements. But to settle the states' claims, Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman's will collectively be on the hook for $3.3 million and 53 million eggs, James and others said. Those eggs would be donated by the companies and make their ways to food banks and nonprofits. The money will be distributed to the states.

The Justice Department and the states also outlined actions the companies will need to take, including adopting antitrust compliance programs and banning communicating with competitors on pricing and bidding strategies.

The settlements would still need court approval. The Justice Department's Omeed A. Assefi said Tuesday that the proposed settlements “resolve years of conduct that dragged on Americans’ finances and their everyday lives.”

Average U.S. egg prices soared to a record high of about $6.23 per dozen in March 2025, amid a bird flu epidemic that forced farmers to slaughter millions of egg-laying chickens. Egg producers blamed price spike on the outbreak, but critics accused big companies of taking advantage of their market dominance and the government began its investigation.

Monday’s complaint notes that price quotations “dropped significantly” after Cal-Maine, Versova and Hickman’s learned of the Justice Department’s investigation and were instructed to preserve documents in March 2025. Consumer egg prices also later tumbled — to under $2.20 per dozen as of May 2026 — as replenished flocks caught up despite the ongoing outbreak.

Cal-Maine maintained Monday that allegations of price manipulation were “baseless” and that it believes its conduct has been legal. It also noted that while it was part of a cooperative with the other egg producers, it left the group in May 2024.

Still, Cal-Maine CEO Sherman Miller said the company's settlement agreement “enables us to move forward so we can devote our full attention to what matters most: delivering affordable, high-quality eggs and egg-based prepared foods to consumers nationwide.”

Miller added the period the Justice Department reviewed “was a particularly challenging time” — noting that, beyond avian flu, the COVID-19 pandemic, weather and other market conditions have contributed to temporary supply shocks and high prices in recent years. He said Cal-Maine “took numerous steps to protect and grow its hen flock” in that time.

Versova echoed a similar sentiment, particularly pointing to the toll the bird flu has had on its farmers, who it noted “don’t set the wholesale price of eggs.” Instead, Versova said the price of most of its eggs depends on cost fluctuations of grain used in hen feeds.

Meanwhile, Hickman's owner Mantiqueira USA, which acquired the egg producer in November, said the “conduct referenced in the complaint predates our acquisition," noting that it is committed to complying with the law.

Some advocacy groups say the proposed settlements aren't enough.

“Consumers paid record prices while dominant egg producers reported extraordinary profits, yet the result is another settlement that corporations can treat as the cost of doing business rather than meaningful accountability,” said Angela Huffman, president of Farm Action.

Cal-Maine — the only of the three companies that is public and reports quarterly financials — reported a profit of $1.22 billion for the 2025 fiscal year. Under its settlement agreement with the states, the company would pay $1.5 million and donate 30 million eggs.

Meanwhile, per court documents, Versova would provide 20 million eggs and $800,000, and Hickman's would be on the hook for 3.25 million eggs and $1 million.

In addition to New York, these states were party to the settlement agreements: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Then the reality quickly set in that they would soon be back in the spotlight themselves, with a round of 32 match against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday that will go a long way to determining how successful this World Cup will be.

“In the moment you’re a fan, and then afterward you realize that this is also the same tournament that we’re playing. I think it’s a weird dynamic,” U.S. defender Chris Richards said Tuesday before the team's final practice ahead of the knockout round. “But we saw an upset yesterday, so it’s making sure that we don’t allow that to happen to us.”

After starting the tournament with convincing wins over Paraguay and Australia that clinched the top spot in the group before a meaningless loss to Turkey last week, the Americans enter this knockout round as the favorites to advance for a change against a Bosnian team that has never made it past the group stage before this year.

US has only one World Cup knockout round win ever

But history is against the team as the U.S. men have had little success in the past in the knockout round of the World Cup or against European opposition.

While the Americans made it to the semifinals at the inaugural tournament in 1930 by winning their group, their only win ever in a knockout round came in 2002 when they beat rival Mexico 2-0 in South Korea before losing to Germany in the quarterfinals.

In the eight other tournaments since the U.S. returned to the World Cup in 1990 for the first time in 40 years, the U.S. lost its first knockout game — the round of 16 instead of the round of 32 — four times, failed to make it out of the group three times and failed even to qualify in 2018.

Christian Pulisic said the approach doesn't change in this round and that mood around the team remains light even with the high stakes in this part of the tournament. Pulisic said he's healthy and ready to start after missing one game with a calf injury and playing the last game as a second-half substitute.

“You just want to extend it as long as you can, because some of the best memories I have in my life was last World Cup in Qatar,” Pulisic said. “Now being here, it’s just special to be here. You just don’t want it to end. So there’s definitely a lot of enthusiasm within the team.”

US has struggled against European teams

The U.S. lost its knockout game four years ago to the Netherlands 3-1. That came after a 2-1 loss to Belgium in 2014 and is part of a long run of futility against European teams.

The U.S. is 1-13-7 against European teams at the World Cup since 1990, with the only win coming in 2002 in the opener against Portugal. The Americans are winless in their last 13 matches against European squads at the tournament since then.

While Bosnia, 61st in the FIFA rankings, lacks the pedigree of many of those past European opponents, the Americans know this matchup won't be easy. The Bosnians secured a spot in the World Cup for the second time ever by winning penalty shootouts against Wales and four-time World Cup champion Italy in the European playoffs and then advanced out of the group thanks to a draw in Toronto against host Canada and a 3-1 win over Qatar.

“Every team brings different challenges,” Richards said. “Ultimately the Bosnia team, they were good defensively and good going forward. It’s making sure that we take care of business on both ends. They have a very experienced attack so it’s making sure we do our best in the back to take that away from them.”

With a victory on Wednesday, the U.S. team would advance to the round of 16 next Monday in Seattle against the winner of Wednesday's game between Belgium and Senegal.

It only gets tougher after that with powerhouses like Spain still alive in their half of the bracket, but the results so far in this tournament with teams like Germany and the Netherlands getting knocked out early show what's possible.

“It’s our chance to go farther in this tournament,” Richards said. “We’ve seen two big boys fall. So it’s just a matter of us getting through this game and putting in a good performance and hopefully we continue that. It’ll start to open up. So it is very exciting for us.”

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The defense attorney for Duane “Keffe D” Davis tried to bar the 2019 memoir “Compton Street Legend” from being used in trial, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 10, as well as statements Davis had made to police in 2008 and 2009.

Davis, 63, faces one charge of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in the drive-by shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas.

Shakur was in a black BMW on Sept. 7, 1996, in Las Vegas with Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight when a white Cadillac pulled up beside them at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip, and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later, while Knight survived with minor injuries.

Shakur’s death is considered one of the most notorious unsolved murders in the United States. The case had gone cold until Davis began making public statements about it, including in a book he co-wrote in which he said he was in the Cadillac and provided the weapon used to shoot Shakur. The book revived detectives’ investigation, and Davis was arrested in September 2023. Davis pleaded not guilty.

The state’s case hinges on the book Davis co-authored about his time in the gang South Side Compton Crips and statements he made in YouTube interviews.

Michael Sanft, his attorney, argued that the book was fictionalized to make a profit, and that it was unclear which parts — if any — Davis actually wrote. He also argued that statements Davis made to police in 2008 and 2009 should not be used in trial because Davis thought he had immunity due to a proffer agreement that allowed him to speak to detectives without being prosecuted.

Judge Carli Kierny determined that Davis adopted the statements in the book as his own, regardless if he wrote the whole book. She said he made multiple statements describing the book as the “real truth.” She also found the statements he made to law enforcement to be voluntary, but expressed concern that Davis was told in 2008 that he would not be prosecuted for what he said in the interview.

Marc DiGiacomo, chief deputy district attorney in Clark County, said those interviews were no longer considered inadmissible when Davis chose to write and speak about the events. The state has the right to prove that what Davis wrote is true by using those interviews, he said.

“Had he decided to never write the book, he would not, probably, have ever been prosecuted for the crime,” DiGiacomo said.

By a 6-3 vote, the court struck down Trump’s order. A bare majority of five justices, in an opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that the long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, makes a citizen of anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions,

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, citing congressional debate over the amendment, “We keep that promise today.”

A sixth justice, Brett Kavanaugh, disagreed about the constitutional ruling, but pointed to a federal law that he said broadly conveys birthright citizenship.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have upheld Trump’s proposed restrictions.

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President’s Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a 91-page dissent, more than three times as long as Roberts’ opinion. “In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support.”

The Republican president’s restrictions had been blocked by several lower courts and had not taken effect anywhere in the U.S.

Trump said the decision was “too bad for our Country” and wrongly suggested that Congress could “easily” address it with legislation. The majority decision rests on constitutional grounds. It would take an amendment to overcome the decision.

During arguments in April, both conservative and liberal justices questioned the order’s legality in a momentous case that was magnified by Trump’s unprecedented attendance in the courtroom.

The case framed another test of Trump’s assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court with a conservative majority and a robust view of presidential power that has largely ruled in his favor. In the notable exceptions when the court has not, Trump has responded with starkly personal criticisms of the justices.

The justices ruled on Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions.

The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed on the first day of his second term, is part of his administration’s broad immigration crackdown.

Birthright citizenship was the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.

Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.

He also seemed to recognize the court was likely to rule against him on birthright citizenship, too, using his Truth Social platform to criticize “dumb judges and justices” and wealthy pregnant women from China and elsewhere who come to the U.S. to give birth so their newborns will have American citizenship.

Trump’s order would have upended widely held views that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on everyone born in the U.S., excluding only the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.

The amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” it reads.

In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down Trump’s executive order as illegal. The decisions have invoked the high court’s 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.

Roberts, joined by Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the three liberal justices, said the amendment’s language, the historical context and the 1898 case make clear that children born to parents illegally or temporarily in the U.S. “are citizens at birth.”

But there was only a bare majority of five justices on the constitutional question.

Kavanaugh sided with the majority because of a federal law that makes those children citizens. But he joined the dissenters in finding that Trump’s order does not violate the Constitution. His view would enable a future Congress to change the law to restrict birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration had argued that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore are not entitled to citizenship.

More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would have been affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.

While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright citizenship restrictions also would have applied to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.

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But he also emerged from the term with even greater power.

His immigration crackdown was largely upheld, his call to redistrict for partisan advantage marched ahead and his ability to control federal regulatory agencies expanded dramatically when the court overturned a 90-year-old precedent. The court's conservative majority also seemed willing to look past Trump’s invocation of racial tropes and boundary-pushing moves as it handed down decisions in line with its own conception of a powerful presidency.

The conservative majority seems fully behind the unitary executive theory

The court's ruling Monday gave the president effective control over independent regulatory agencies by allowing him to fire their leaders at will.

Several federal laws, some more than 100 years old, sought to protect agency independence by requiring the president to identify a cause, like negligence, before firing the leaders. The court struck down those provisions as unconstitutional limits on presidential power.

The decision could give the president the ability to reshape agencies Congress created to operate independently of the executive branch. It also could be a threat to the federal workforce, well below top executives, that has been covered by the civil service system, if future decisions allow the president to fire lower-level workers.

One agency that still appears beyond Trump's reach is the Federal Reserve. Though many experts have said there is no principled distinction, the court ruled Monday that the Fed's leadership can't be fired at will. It said Cook can remain in her job while she challenges efforts to oust her over allegations of mortgage fraud, which she denies.

The Voting Rights Act has been hollowed out

It was the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement: the 1965 federal law that finally opened the ballot box to Black Americans and other minorities and eventually led to the election of thousands of Black officeholders across the country.

But since 2013, the court has systematically and severely cut back on the ability of minority voters to invoke the law's protections to challenge election changes, saying the need for those protections had largely passed.

In April, the court made it much harder for minority voters to challenge electoral districts that result in reduced opportunity to elect candidates of their choosing, unless they can effectively prove intentional racial discrimination.

The decision meshed with Trump's call for Republicans to redraw as many districts as possible to try to hold on to their slim majority in the House.

Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee eliminated largely Black districts in response to the decision, including an Alabama district that was created in response to a Supreme Court ruling three years ago.

The immigration crackdown has been at the center of Trump's agenda

The Trump administration notched a series of wins on immigration this term: The justices allowed the Department of Homeland Security to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians and to employ a restrictive policy limiting the number of people seeking asylum each day at the southern border.

They also allowed border officers wider latitude in cases of green-card holders accused of crimes, in a case that started during the Obama administration.

In the birthright citizenship case, Trump pushed for limits no president had sought before, and certainly not through an executive order that would bypass Congress. In the end, six justices ruled he had gone too far.

But four justices adopted the administration's reading of the 14th Amendment that it would permit denying citizenship to children born to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.

Trump's crude racial and religious stereotypes get a pass from the court

Conservative justices have repeatedly discounted or taken the best possible view of Trump’s words and actions. Critics call it sanewashing.

In last week's decision stripping protections from Haitian migrants, Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan sparred over the role of race in Trump's statements depicting Haitians as “poisoning our blood” and amplifying false rumors of them eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio, among other graphic comments.

“None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary was overtly racial,” Alito wrote, contending they could have neutral explanations.

Kagan countered: “The statements fairly shout, in their racial undertones and overtones alike, that race entered into the President’s resolve to remove Haitians from this country.”

The findings echo the 2018 travel ban case where Chief Justice John Roberts said Trump's comments about Muslims were beside the point in the court's review of a “Presidential directive, neutral on its face, addressing a matter within the core of executive responsibility.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor saw things differently. “The full record paints a far more harrowing picture, from which a reasonable observer would readily conclude that the Proclamation was motivated by hostility and animus toward the Muslim faith,” she wrote.

The court also looked past the allegations against Trump when it ruled for him in the 2024 case that helped him avoid prosecution. Two of Trump's appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, had little interest in discussing Trump's effort to undo the 2020 election results and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol that followed. “We’re writing a rule for the ages," Gorsuch said. Kavanaugh added later: “I’m not focused on the here and now of this case. I’m very concerned about the future."

The court rejected Trump's global tariffs

A six-justice majority of three liberal and three conservative justices ruled in February that an emergency powers law doesn’t let Trump bypass Congress. No president had ever tried the tactic before.

Trump responded to the loss by sharpy criticizing the justices who ruled against him, referring to those he nominated as an “embarrassment to their families.”

Meanwhile, he has continued threatening tariffs under other authorities. And new tariffs he imposed in response to the high-court ruling remain in effect even as they, too, have been challenged.

Gun rights get a modest boost

The justices backed Second Amendment rights in a pair of rulings. One found that people can't be barred from owning firearms just because they regularly use marijuana. While the federal ban wasn't often enforced in broad terms, the court's decision recognized that cannabis is now used by millions of people and said it can't automatically be considered dangerous.

Another decision struck down a Hawaii law that had required people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels. A handful of other states have similar laws, some of which have already been blocked in court.

They're the latest in a line of gun cases to reach the court since the justices expanded Second Amendment rights in a landmark 2022 decision.

And a major new case on gun rights is looming. The court also announced Tuesday it will decide whether state and local bans on semiautomatic rifles commonly known as assault weapons violate the Second Amendment.

“You can’t spend quality time or go out with your family, give attention to your children, visit relatives, or have a day like going to a restaurant to have lunch together," said Alexandre Garrido, 49, who has been a bus driver for 20 years.

A proposal to limit the working week to five days is currently in the hands of the Senate after approval from a lower house in May, and is backed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as part of his reelection bid in October.

Currently, many Brazilians work five eight-hour days and another four hours on a sixth day. Others have two days off but still work a total of 44 hours per week. The constitutional amendment seeks to establish a 40-hour weekly limit without reducing pay.

If approved, it would transform the lives of millions of mostly poor Brazilians and likely give a boost to Lula’s campaign. Other Latin American countries have made similar reforms, while Argentina has moved in the opposite direction.

“Those who support working six days a week are in favor of modern slavery,” said Rick Azevedo, a city councilor in Rio who attended the protest Tuesday and who founded the movement Life Beyond Work, one of the driving forces behind the measure.

In addition to the bus drivers' strike called by a local union, which emphasizes increased pay as their main demand, Azevedo's movement also organized protests across Brazil on Tuesday.

Lower income workers most affected

About 14 million Brazilians work six days a week, including 26-year-old Fernanda Sousa. Every day except Tuesdays, she makes her way down the sprawling Rocinha favela at around 5:30 a.m., drops off her 6-year-old son at his godmother's, and takes the metro to the wealthy neighborhood of Gavea to serve Brazilian cheese bread and other snacks in a bistro.

“Going to work on a Sunday when everyone is with their families breaks my heart,” Sousa said, as she made her way home on a recent Friday night, her son in tow. She said she also struggles to balance employment and housework — a predicament shared by many women around the world but accentuated by the longer workweek.

Different studies in Brazil show workers of lower income and in lower-skilled jobs are more often bound to the grueling 44-hour schedule.

Matheus Paulo Costa da Silva, 28, works as a home furnishings store supervisor in Rio. He recently tried to attend an evening IT course, but fatigue stopped him.

“I can’t see my family, I can’t go to the gym, I can’t study. I live to work,” said da Silva.

Businesses are reluctant

Lawmaker Erika Hilton, who led the way for Brazil's lower house to approve the amendment in May, said even some of her conservative adversaries now support the changes, though other opponents seek to kill the move in the Senate.

“Ending the six-day workweek allows us to care for workers who are under attack since Brazil’s slavery days,” said Hilton, in a reference to a period of almost 400 years that ended in 1888.

Workers should be able to travel, go to the beach, attend church or spend time with their friends in their spare time, she added.

Brazil's businesses, however, are sounding the alarm. The country’s National Confederation of Industry argues the annual labor costs could jump by up to 267 billion reais ($52 billion), an increase of up to 7%, if the current workweek is reduced. That alone could slow the South American nation's economy by 0.7%, the confederation says.

Experts say small businesses could be hit hardest. Sebrae, an institution that supports them, says they make up about 97% of enterprises in Brazil, providing half of the country's formal jobs.

Marcelo Pierini, the 52-year-old owner of a pie restaurant in downtown Sao Paulo, is already worried. He employs five people, closes only on Sundays, and has thin profit margins.

“This change could mean one of two things: closing on Mondays and losing some profit or sharing my bill with the customers,” Pierini said. “It is hard. I want some rest too, but I can't afford it.”

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La junta propone pagar en efectivo y ofrecer la emisión de nuevos bonos a los tenedores que no han llegado a un acuerdo y que reclaman unos 8.500 millones de dólares.

El plan ofrece 1.400 millones de dólares más de lo ofrecido previamente.

La Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica de Puerto Rico ha intentado reestructurar su deuda durante casi una década, después de que el territorio de Estados Unidos anunció en 2015 que no podía pagar su deuda de más de 70.000 millones de dólares. Eso llevó al Congreso estadounidense a crear la junta federal en 2016. Un año después, el gobierno de Puerto Rico se acogió a la mayor quiebra municipal en la historia del país.

Desde entonces, la junta y los acreedores de la compañía eléctrica están enfrentados por la compensación, y han fracasado múltiples intentos de mediación.

Robert F. Mujica Jr., director general de la junta, afirmó que “Puerto Rico debe poder cerrar este último capítulo de su crisis fiscal y avanzar”.

Subrayó que reestructurar la deuda de la compañía “es esencial para la recuperación de Puerto Rico — para contar con electricidad confiable y asequible, y con la nueva inversión que sus residentes y empresas merecen”.

La junta reconoció que aún no ha identificado la fuente para financiar el acuerdo propuesto.

A algunos les preocupa que los fondos puedan provenir de un aumento en las facturas de electricidad, que ya se encuentran entre las más altas de cualquier jurisdicción de Estados Unidos, mientras persisten los apagones crónicos.

La junta señaló que los acuerdos previos alcanzados con varios acreedores y algunos tenedores de bonos en el caso de la compañía eléctrica siguen vigentes.

La junta indicó que, en general, ha completado 12 reestructuraciones de deuda para el gobierno de Puerto Rico, eliminando más de 55.000 millones de dólares en pagos de deuda a lo largo de 40 años.

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INTER MIAMI

The Inter Miami CF Foundation, in partnership with the city of Doral and Global Empowerment Mission, is collecting essential relief supplies for victims through a donation drive at Nu Stadium on Wednesday.

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Event organizers say the drive-through event will run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. People donating are asked to stay in their vehicles and allow volunteers to unload supplies.

Several public figures are expected to support the effort, including Jess Judith, Lele Pons, Jay Wheeler, Zhamira Zambrano, Mau Montaner and Ricky Montaner.

Donations can be dropped off at Nu Stadium, located at 1000 Stadium Drive in Miami. Attendees should follow signs to the Inter Miami CF Team Store.

Organizers are asking for essential items including canned food, bottled water, hygiene products, baby supplies, pet supplies and new emergency items such as blankets, tents, sleeping bags, flashlights, batteries and first aid kits.

Additional donation opportunities will be available through Friday at Inter Miami locations in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.

MIAMI MARLINS

The Miami Marlins are also joining relief efforts during their July 7-9 homestand against the Seattle Mariners at loanDepot park.

Fans will have several ways to help, including donating requested relief items at collection boxes located at the Home Plate Entrance.

The Marlins are also offering fans a chance to purchase $5 tickets through Marlins.com/WeLoveVenezuela by bringing a requested donation item to the game. For every qualifying ticket purchased, the team will make a $5 donation to the We Love Venezuela Foundation.

The Marlins’ 50/50 Raffle proceeds from all three games will also benefit the foundation.

The organization has committed $100,000 to Global Empowerment Mission, with corporate partners including loanDepot, Goya Foods, neaū water and Kellanova also contributing monetary and in-kind donations.

Both teams are encouraging South Florida residents to come together and support relief efforts for those affected by the earthquakes.

Click here to view the drop-off locations across South Florida that are collecting goods and supplies for earthquake victims.

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The Miami Dolphins Foundation also donated $100,000 to assist with relief efforts following the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela.

Uno de los bomberos fallecidos trabajaba para el Servicio de Incendios Forestales de Estados Unidos, creado este año sin la habitual aprobación del Congreso al reasignar personal de cuatro agencias del Departamento del Interior. Las víctimas eran miembros de un equipo de élite, especializado en el uso de helicópteros, que quedó atrapado el sábado en un incendio forestal de rápido crecimiento cerca de la frontera con Utah mientras combatían el fuego desde tierra.

Las autoridades señalan que los fallecidos formaban parte de un grupo de cinco bomberos que intentaron protegerse desplegando refugios de emergencia tipo tienda de campaña cuando las llamas sobrepasaron su posición. Dos sobrevivientes fueron hospitalizados con lesiones por quemaduras.

La consolidación de miles de efectivos en el servicio de incendios ha sembrado confusión entre algunos bomberos sobre quiénes son sus jefes y cuáles deberían ser sus responsabilidades, según exfuncionarios del gobierno.

Y el énfasis del gobierno en la “supresión total” de nuevos incendios marca un giro brusco respecto de una tendencia de décadas hacia aceptar las llamas como una herramienta para quemar vegetación vieja y crecimiento acumulado que actúa como combustible y reducir el riesgo de incendios catastróficos avivados por el calentamiento del planeta.

Los cambios benefician a las empresas privadas de aviación contra incendios, que son clave para atacar los siniestros con rapidez.

Las autoridades federales no han divulgado detalles sobre las circunstancias previas a las muertes ocurridas el fin de semana, como el objetivo de los bomberos en el lugar donde fueron superados por el fuego.

“La cuestión es: ¿por qué estaban atacando ese incendio en primer lugar?, preguntó Timothy Ingalsbee, exbombero federal y cofundador del grupo de defensa Firefighters United For Safety, Ethics and Ecology. “¿Qué era lo que realmente estaba en riesgo? Si era un montón de arbustos en cimas remotas, ¿cuál era el riesgo real que justificaba poner a esos bomberos en peligro?”

98% de los incendios se extinguen

Los incendios forestales iniciaron durante la última semana en todo el Oeste tras meses de clima seco y una falta récord de nieve en algunos lugares.

Al actuar bajo una orden del secretario del Interior, Doug Burgum, el Servicio de Incendios Forestales utilizará la supresión total “para cada incendio forestal bajo su gestión”, indicaron autoridades federales en un comunicado enviado a The Associated Press.

“Cualquier incendio forestal que represente una amenaza para la vida, la propiedad, la infraestructura o el medio ambiente debe extinguirse lo más rápido posible”, se indica en el comunicado. “Nuestros experimentados responsables de manejo de incendios conservan la autoridad para seleccionar las tácticas más seguras y eficaces según las condiciones en el terreno”.

Pero los críticos sostienen que el gobierno intenta arreglar algo que no está roto: las cuatro agencias de las que se extrajo a los bomberos —la Oficina de Administración de Tierras, el Servicio Federal de Pesca y Vida Silvestre, la Oficina de Asuntos Indígenas y el Servicio de Parques Nacionales— logran extinguir el 98% de los incendios que atienden, según sus antecedentes.

La nueva agencia y la política no eliminarán los incendios forestales catastróficos que ocurren debido a bosques densos a los que la gente se muda cada vez más y al clima extremo causado por el cambio climático, señaló Steve Ellis, quien se jubiló como subdirector de la Oficina de Administración de Tierras y preside la Asociación Nacional de Jubilados del Servicio Forestal. Los administradores de tierras deben ser parte de la solución, agregó.

“Separar la gestión forestal y a los gestores forestales de la supresión de incendios hará que el combate de incendios sea menos seguro y pondrá a las comunidades en mayor riesgo”, advirtió.

Los otros dos bomberos forestales muertos en Colorado trabajaban para el Servicio Forestal del Departamento de Agricultura, que atiende la mayoría de los incendios forestales en Estados Unidos y que también opera bajo una política de supresión total. Trump había querido que la nueva agencia incluyera a los bomberos del Servicio Forestal, pero el Congreso bloqueó esa parte del plan.

Las empresas de aviación contra incendios impulsaron la consolidación

En el gobierno de Trump, las autoridades federales han incorporado aeronaves con mayor rapidez una vez que se inician los incendios, indicó Austin Moeller, analista aeroespacial sénior del grupo Canaccord Genuity, una firma de inversión.

“Cualquiera que tenga un avión cisterna se beneficia de esta actividad de contratación más agresiva”, explicó Moeller.

Uno de los beneficiarios principales es Bridger Aerospace, una empresa con sede en Montana fundada por el senador de Estados Unidos Tim Sheehy. Antes de su elección en 2024, Sheehy contrató cabilderos en un intento fallido de persuadir a la Asamblea Legislativa de Montana para crear un servicio estatal de incendios análogo al que acaba de crearse a nivel federal. Un mes después de asumir el cargo federal, propuso un proyecto de ley para convertir en norma la consolidación de los bomberos federales en una sola agencia.

Sheehy se apartó de su empresa durante la campaña de 2024 y colocó sus activos de Bridger en un fideicomiso confidencial, señaló el portavoz de Sheehy, Tate Mitchell.

Mitchell afirmó que Trump estuvo detrás de la idea de crear una nueva agencia de incendios, pero que Sheehy la respalda.

“Una de las principales prioridades del senador Sheehy en el Senado es usar su experiencia para detener los incendios catastróficos que destruyen comunidades estadounidenses y no se disculpará por ello”, sostuvo Mitchell.

Bridger se describe como una de las principales empresas de combate aéreo de incendios del país. Su director general, Sam Davis, ha dicho que la flota de aviones Super Scooper de la compañía, sus aeronaves de vigilancia y su tecnología de observación de incendios la colocan en una posición “única” para responder al renovado énfasis en atacar los incendios para sofocarlos.

La nueva política de supresión total se remonta a décadas atrás

Las aeronaves ayudarán a la nueva política de supresión total del gobierno, que evoca una norma de 1935 conocida como la regla de las 10 a. m. porque exigía a las agencias que apagaran los nuevos incendios antes de las 10 de la mañana del día siguiente.

Michael Dudley, exdirector de incendios, aviación y gestión aérea del Servicio Forestal, señaló que esa política antigua es la razón por la que los bosques hoy están demasiado densos.

Los incendios forestales cumplen una función: eliminan material pequeño y muerto. Pero, según explicó, las autoridades se volvieron tan eficaces apagando incendios que los bosques siguieron creciendo y se acumuló más combustible; por eso, cuando ahora se produce un incendio, es fácil que se salga de control.

Científicos que estudian los incendios forestales afirman que intentar detener todos los incendios es irrealista, ya que algunos de los siniestros más destructivos de los últimos años han eludido los esfuerzos por apagarlos. Algunos incendios simplemente crecen demasiado rápido, están demasiado lejos, o son resultado de múltiples focos de ignición, lo que los hace imposibles de detener.

“La narrativa de que si simplemente nos esforzamos más vamos a hacer que estos incendios desaparezcan no es cierta”, señaló David Calkin, exinvestigador del Servicio Forestal sobre incendios forestales. “La paradoja del fuego no se puede vencer: cuanto más haces que el fuego desaparezca, más combustible se acumula. Cuanto más combustible se acumula, más difícil es hacer que los incendios desaparezcan”.

La nueva agencia necesita ajustes, dicen bomberos

Los bomberos de la agencia consolidada trabajan bajo el recién nombrado jefe del Servicio de Incendios Forestales, Brian Fennessy, quien se desempeñó como jefe de la Autoridad de Bomberos del Condado de Orange, en California, desde 2018.

“Hay un nivel de confusión mientras todos intentan ordenar responsabilidades y quién está al mando y a quién le reportas”, señaló Dudley.

Un portavoz del Departamento del Interior indicó que Fennessy era muy respetado y contaba con décadas de experiencia, incluida la gestión de algunos de los desafíos de incendios más complejos del país en el densamente poblado sur de California.

Luke Mayfield, fundador del grupo Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, dijo que, en su opinión, la consolidación servirá mejor a los bomberos, pero que aún queda un importante trabajo para que la nueva agencia funcione plenamente.

“Todos eran conscientes del potencial de combustible y de las condiciones de incendio que enfrentamos esta temporada”, expresó Mayfield. “Esas condiciones están apareciendo y han producido muertes de bomberos, con condiciones meteorológicas que no van a ceder en el futuro cercano”.

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Avi Loeb, a cosmologist who studied black holes and served as head of Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020, was recently appointed to helm a new scientific advisory council tasked with investigating the origins of mysterious orbs and other objects reported by military personnel in recent years. It's part of President Donald Trump's push to declassify more information about the issue.

Loeb's team will report to a new White House panel focused on UFOs, now often referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

“It’s like a detective story,” Loeb said in an interview. “It’s a lot of fun, as long as you don’t pay too much attention to the critics.”

For the last decade, Loeb has been scanning the skies and seas for evidence of intelligent alien life. He began the quest in 2017 as scientists puzzled over an interstellar object soaring by Earth. While others proposed it was a comet or ice chunk, Loeb said it could be a thin “light sail” detached from an alien spacecraft.

His theories have won praise in UFO circles but often put him in conflict with academic peers. Other astronomers accuse him of making exotic claims with little evidence. Some chafe at his habit of skipping the peer review process and bringing claims directly to the public.

Steve Desch, an Arizona State University astrophysicist who has challenged some of Loeb's theories, said Loeb uses flawed methods to reach wild conclusions about alien life — all while shunning a more established branch of science searching for life beyond Earth.

Loeb's role on the White House panel casts doubt on the entire endeavor, Desch said.

“I don’t know what’s going to come of this, but we’re not going to get any closer to answering these questions with him in charge,” Desch said.

The team includes scientists, UFO activists and a billionaire

Loeb brushes his critics aside, saying they lack the imagination to consider new ideas. He's promising a grounded approach to his work for the White House. As he analyzes UAP, he's starting with the assumption that they're the work of humans, he said, approaching it from a national security perspective.

Nonetheless, he envisions an outcome where his work could lead to something bigger. If the government invests in better data collection on UAPs, Loeb said, it could settle the alien debate once and for all.

His hand-picked team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists. Among them is Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by “nonhuman intelligence,” claiming the United States has recovered crashed aircraft. Also on the team is Ben Lamm, a billionaire working to revive extinct species.

After its first meeting last month, the team sent a request to the Pentagon asking for more than 50 videos, images and other documents related to known UAP incidents. Loeb's group meets behind closed doors, but he has vowed to brief the public and create a website to share findings.

“At a time when science is not so much celebrated, this is an opportunity to actually do good for all sides involved,” Loeb said.

New UAP board created in response to Trump's order for transparency

Earlier this year, Trump directed his administration to provide more transparency on questions of UFOs and alien life. So far, the Pentagon has released three batches of files ranging from decades-old FBI reports to more recent military videos showing orbs darting or soaring through the sky.

Trump's directive led to the creation of a UAP Governance Board overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The board met for the first time in June, and is supported by Loeb's team and several other advisory groups, the office said.

It comes as a bipartisan group in Congress pushes the White House to go further, with some Republicans amplifying claims the U.S. is hiding evidence of alien encounters. The White House has encouraged anyone with information to come forward. A Pentagon office that investigates UAP says it has seen no evidence of alien life.

Loeb said he doesn't buy into cover-up theories. “My impression is the government is baffled by not being able to infer the nature of some of these objects,” he said.

Before looking for aliens, Loeb studied black holes and galaxies

Before he became known for his alien theories, Loeb was a respected cosmologist who authored hundreds of papers, specializing in black holes and the birth of galaxies. He served as chair of Harvard's astronomy department for nearly a decade.

Loeb's career took a turn with his “light sail” theory in 2017, which he presented in a paper and later a book. He went on to found the Galileo Project at Harvard, with a stated mission to search for artifacts from alien civilizations.

His team drew attention in 2023 when they used magnets to retrieve hundreds of small spheres from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, near the possible site of a 2014 meteor crash. After analyzing the metallic “spherules,” Loeb suggested they came from a distant planet or, alternately, from alien technology.

Other scholars challenged the claim, saying it was probably volcanic rock or coal ash.

Sean Kirkpatrick, a physicist who previously investigated UAP at the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, said Loeb is “not viewed favorably” in the scientific community and lacks national security experience. He said the makeup of Loeb's team suggests the White House is more interested in fringe theories than hard science.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the criticism.

Loeb, meanwhile, said he aims to follow the science without distraction. “Let’s keep our eyes on the orbs,” he said, “not the social media.”

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Overall tropical activity from the Gulf and Caribbean to the wider Atlantic is the lowest to-date in seven years.

Of course, even though we’re already through about 16% of the hurricane season based on the calendar, historically 98% of tropical activity occurs after June.

And as we’ve discussed extensively in newsletters in previous seasons, early season activity (either high or low) isn’t a meaningful predictor for what could happen later in the season.

Only once we get into late July and August does activity to-date start to provide any meaningful clues about what the peak months of the season could hold.

Nevertheless, the paltry start to the Atlantic hurricane season is in line with what we would expect with a much earlier arriving and historically strong El Niño across the eastern Pacific.

The subtropical jet stream has been relentless through the tropical belt of the Atlantic this month — including into parts of the Gulf and Caribbean — and will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.

Watching off the southeast to start July

As we detailed in Thursday’s newsletter, some of our forecast models – namely Google’s machine learning-based DeepMind hurricane model – are hinting at a small development window off the southeastern U.S. for the middle part of next week.

Odds remain low for now (10% or less), but best chances will come from next Tuesday to Thursday if anything tries to spin up.

The catalyst for what we’ll be watching next week will be a dying front draped over the warm waters off the southeast U.S.

Some models are hinting at a Mesoscale Convective System or MCS — a large cluster of thunderstorms — forming inland, diving off the coast, and getting tangled up on the frontal boundary, which could promote some development.

We won’t know the exact details for a few days, but regardless the odds are low enough that NHC hasn’t added it to its outlook just yet. Given lighter upper-level winds east of Florida along with near-record warmth in the waters for the time of year, it’s worth monitoring the trends.

Interestingly, a similar setup (old front with an embedded MCS) is what spawned Hurricane Arthur in 2014, a similarly slow-starting season as 2026.

Even the handful of models that do suggest development don’t point to significant development or a strong system, however, so for now it’s not anything to worry about.

In the meantime, enjoy the quiet weekend and quiet end to June.

Editor’s note: The original version of this article incorrectly stated that it’s been the least active start to the Atlantic hurricane season since 2014. Through June 26 (the original publication date), the Atlantic hurricane season had recorded its least active start since 2019.

El incidente ocurrió la tarde del martes en el estacionamiento del Walmart ubicado en el 7900 de West McNabb Road, en North Lauderdale.

Según las autoridades, agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward (BSO) y equipos de North Lauderdale Fire Rescue respondieron tras recibir reportes de una balacera.

Al llegar al lugar, los agentes encontraron a un hombre que había recibido un disparo. Paramédicos lo trasladaron de urgencia a un hospital cercano con heridas consideradas de riesgo para su vida.

Las autoridades informaron que una persona fue retenida tras la balacera, pero hasta el momento no se han realizado arrestos.

Detectives de la Unidad de Crímenes Violentos de la BSO investigan las circunstancias que llevaron a la balacera.

El presidente uruguayo Yamandú Orsi remarcó la intención de que el bloque sea “más moderno, más dinámico" y orientado a generar resultados “concretos” para la ciudadanía, al recibir la presidencia durante el próximo semestre de manos de su colega paraguayo Santiago Peña, anfitrión de la Cumbre del Mercosur que se celebró en la localidad de Luque, en las afueras de Asunción.

Al encuentro asistieron además los mandatarios de Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz; de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; de Chile, José Antonio Kast, y de Ecuador, Daniel Noboa. El argentino Javier Milei no participó y estuvo representado por su canciller.

Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay fueron los miembros fundadores del Mercosur en 1991, mientras Bolivia es miembro desde 2024 y cuenta con un plazo de cuatro años para adoptar la normativa del bloque. Chile y Ecuador son Estados asociados.

En la cumbre estuvieron además otros Estados asociados —como Panamá— y Trinidad y Tobago, aspirante a ese estatus que permite una mayor cooperación económica, entre otras ventajas.

Orsi señaló que los acuerdos comerciales adquieren verdadero sentido cuando se traducen en crecimiento económico, inversiones y empleo. Señaló además que los objetivos del Mercosur serán la integración fronteriza y la seguridad regional.

En una declaración difundida al término del encuentro, Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay resaltaron el lanzamiento de las negociaciones para un acuerdo entre el Mercosur y Japón, que se encuentra entre los 10 principales socios comerciales del bloque. El intercambio comercial entre ambas partes fue de 13.700 millones de dólares en 2025.

El pacto permitirá una zona de libre comercio de aproximadamente 400 millones de personas, así como ampliar el acceso a los mercados de bienes agrícolas y no agrícolas, la cooperación y las inversiones recíprocas, señalaron.

Mercosur negocia además acuerdos de libre comercio con Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Canadá, así como uno de preferencias arancelarias con Vietnam.

A principios de año el Mercosur concretó con la Unión Europea un acuerdo comercial que entró en vigor de forma provisional en mayo, creando la zona de libre comercio más grande del mundo.

Located in the state of Nuevo León, Monterrey is the only Mexican host city not to feature the country's national team — but this hasn’t stopped swaths of fans from wearing dark green and enjoying the World Cup spectacle in their hometown.

“It’s a good deal for the country and also for the city,” said Manuel Pérez, a resident of Monterrey who attended the round of 32 game between Netherlands and Morocco on Monday. “We are all together in this special moment."

No matter who is playing at Estadio BBVA, Mexican fans control the atmosphere through their various chants.

“It’s part of a culture, and we support each and every team that comes here,” said Sebastian Roa, a fan who traveled from Guadalajara.

During the match between the Netherlands and Morocco, Mexican fans could be heard throughout the stadium chanting “no era penal” (it wasn't a penalty) and “Mexico.”

The phrase “no era penal” was coined at the 2014 World Cup, during Mexico’s round of 16 match against the Netherlands.

In that game, the Netherlands earned a penalty in stoppage time when the referee deemed that Dutch winger Arjen Robben was clipped in the box by Mexico’s Rafael Márquez. The penalty was converted by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, eliminating Mexico. However, many Mexican fans are convinced that Robben dived and a penalty should not have been awarded.

Within the first 10 minutes of the match on Monday, which was also the anniversary of that game, the Mexican fans reminded the world of their 12-year grudge against the Oranje.

Morocco coach impressed by Monterrey fans

While local fans in the United States and Canada have also attended other nations’ matches, the Mexican fans have taken complete initiative in showcasing their country.

Their dedication toward the sport has not gone unnoticed by visiting teams.

“I’ve always said that the 1986 (World Cup in Mexico) made me fall in love with the sport,” Morocco head coach Mohamed Ouahbi said. “I want to say that hopefully at the next World Cup — when it’s played in Morocco — I think (the Moroccan people) want to have Mexican fans and make them feel at home.”

The 2030 World Cup will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

In addition to the round of 32, Monterrey featured five teams in the three group stage games it hosted: Sweden, Tunisia, Japan, South Korea and South Africa.

While some sets of fans were larger than others, like Japan and South Korea, there was never a game that lacked Mexican green in the crowd.

“We love watching every game,” Roa said. “Even if it’s (other teams) like Cabo Verde or Uzbekistan, you’re gonna see us.”

In Guadalajara, South Korea’s opening day win against Czech Republic was headlined by empty seats, which FIFA blamed on several fans watching the game from the stadium concourses. But Monterrey’s Estadio BBVA featured sell-out crowds of 51,243 fans in three of its four matches.

“I didn’t go to (a game in Guadalajara) because the prices were crazy high,” Roa said. “But I managed to get a ticket here.

Mexico became the first nation to host three World Cups: 1970, 1986 and 2026. But for many locals it’s the first time they’ve seen the tournament in-person.

“It’s a special moment to come to the World Cup and enjoy the match,” said Alejandro Cuellar, who attended Sweden vs. Tunisia with his brother. “We don’t know when it’s going to be here again.”

The craving for international soccer in Monterrey is not reserved only for the World Cup.

A state of the art stadium

Monterrey has drawn high attendance numbers in other international matches. Estadio BBVA held over 49,000 spectators in the inter-confederation playoff between Iraq and Bolivia.

Estadio BBVA, which was built in 2015, is considered to be one of the most modern in Mexico. Those sitting in the northwestern section of the stadium get a perfect view of a nearby mountain called “El Cerro de la Silla,” which is one of the biggest attractions for foreigners visiting the stadium.

“We already know the type of stadium that we have,” Pérez said. “It’s so beautiful to know that many people are (starting to know) this big stadium worldwide.”

Estadio BBVA regularly hosts Liga MX games as the home ground for Rayados. But the atmosphere at the World Cup is completely different.

“It’s another whole new level because here you have international people,” Roa said. “It’s pretty exciting for all of us Mexicans, because we breathe soccer and we love partying. So it’s two things combined that we just love.” __

Maya Koluder-Ramirez and Ethan Wilcox are students in the University of Georgia’s Carmical Sports Media Institute.

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Two months, and only one major, are all that remain for the PGA Tour in 2026 to find some definition. There have been good tournaments, great finishes, redemptions and breakthroughs, and Scottie Scheffler as steady as he has always been.

It's just that no one has stood out this year.

Rory McIlroy became only the fourth back-to-back Masters champion, and the first since Tiger Woods in 2002. It was an example of how much freedom he felt from finally having the green jacket and the career Grand Slam. But that's his only win this year, and except for a late rally at Riviera, he really hasn't come close.

The eight signature events were won by eight players, no different from last year when seven players won the seven $20 million tournaments. But a year ago, all seven winners were among the top 25 in the world when they won. This year that applied to only three winners — Collin Morikawa (19) at Pebble Beach, Matt Fitzpatrick (7) at Hilton Head and Cameron Young (4) at Doral.

It also is not unusual to start a season with three different major champions — that's been the case each of the past 11 years. But it's the first time since 2010 that two of the three major champions were not among the top 30 when they won.

Aaron Rai was at No. 44 when he captured his first major at the PGA Championship, and Wyndham Clark was at No. 34 when he won at Shinnecock Hills for his second U.S. Open title.

(This requires an asterisk because Brooks Koepka was No. 44 when he won the 2023 PGA Championship. He was No. 19 when he left for LIV, and his two wins came with no ranking points).

There were two multiple winners of individual tournaments last year at this point — Scheffler and McIlroy. There are four this year with Clark, Young, Fitzpatrick and Chris Gotterup.

The last two months, highlighted by the final major at the British Open and three FedEx Cup playoff events, should go a long way toward shaping the season. Scheffler and Xander Schauffele won the British Open each of the past two years, and it was their second major of the season.

Even in a game that moves slowly, outlooks can change quickly.

Scheffler looks about the same minus the trophies

Scheffler began his year with a four-shot victory in The American Express. Thirteen tournaments later, he still only has one victory.

He still leads the PGA Tour in overall strokes gained and tee-to-green, though his numbers are down from a year ago. Scheffler has nine finishes in the top 5 in his 14 starts. His playoff loss to Viktor Hovland at The Travelers Championship was his fourth runner-up of the year.

Take only the money from those four runner-up finishes — $8.9 million — and that would rank him at No. 4 on the PGA Tour money list. He hasn't been as sharp at times. He had a bad habit of giving the field too much of a head start. But he doesn't appear to be going anywhere.

The other Fitzpatrick seizes on the opportunity

Fitzpatrick leads the PGA Tour in victories this season with three because one of them was Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where he teamed with younger brother Alex to win. That gave Alex Fitzpatrick a two-year exemption, seen at the time as one of the great gifts ever from big brother.

Instead of flying to Turkey for the next European tour event, Alex Fitzpatrick headed to Doral for a signature event. And he got in the next one, and the one after that. He went from that supposed “gift card” to registering four top 10s in the signature events against the strongest fields.

His world ranking has gone from No. 140 to No. 62. More importantly, he is at No. 17 in the FedEx Cup and a lock for all the big stuff next year — and all the majors if he reaches the Tour Championship.

Clark has to be the front-runner for player of the year

Clark is dangerous when he gets on a heater, and he's on a heater.

He won his first U.S. Open in 2023 a little over a month after dusting the field at Quail Hollow. He shot 60 to win at Pebble Beach in 2024, then was runner-up two straight weeks to Scheffler at Bay Hill and The Players Championship the following month.

Clark had another closing 60 to win at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, followed that with contending late Sunday afternoon in the Memorial and early Sunday afternoon in the Canadian Open, and then he stood down a hostile gallery at Shinnecock to win the U.S. Open. And then running on fumes, he got within two shots of the lead late Sunday at the Travelers and tied for fifth.

How long will it last? Two more months and it might be enough to end Scheffler's four-year run as PGA Tour player of the year.

But that depends on Scheffler.

He is the defending champion at the British Open, and a victory by him or a half-dozen others could be what it takes to bring some clarity to the season.

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Hardest hit would be Asian economies that depend on crude oil, fuel and natural gas from the Persian Gulf, supplies that have been largely choked off by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to the risk of Iranian attack. And poorer countries where people spend more of their incomes on fuel and food would also be severely affected, the OECD said.

But the consequences of sharply higher energy prices and inflation would be felt around the world. Global growth would slump to levels not seen except for major setbacks like the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis and recession of the late 2000s. Under the OECD’s prolonged disruption scenario, global growth slows from 3.4% last year to 2.1% this year and 1.8% in 2027, potentially pushing some economies into or close to recession.

Under a different OECD scenario for a time-limited disruption, in which energy production and shipments from the Gulf start to return to pre-war levels in the middle of this year, growth would slow to 2.8% this year and rebound to 3.1% next year.

“The global economy entered 2026 with robust momentum, but the outlook has weakened significantly since the start of the conflict in the Middle East, with effects likely to be felt for some time,” OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. “The longer the disruptions last, the larger the economic and social costs become.”

Cormann warned that government spending aimed at relieving energy costs needed to be aimed at those most in need and temporary, to avoid running up excess government debt and preserving incentives to save energy.

Despite repeated outbreaks of violence, a declared ceasefire in the war between the US and Iran remains officially in place. The ongoing risk to shipping however means that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dwindled to a trickle, down more than 90% compared to before the war. That has disrupted about a fifth of the world’s supplies of crude oil and fuel products as well as of natural gas.

The OECD report follows a UN study warning that higher energy prices will impact almost billion people in poorer countries and small island states that depend on imported fuel, forcing tradeoffs between covering energy bills and investing in essential public services. More than 30% of people in those countries already live below the extreme poverty line, defined as living on $3 or less a day.

The OECD is an international intergovernmental organization and policy forum of 38 democracies with market-based economies, headquartered in Paris.

La escena policial estaba ubicada frente a A World of Discovery Academy, en el 7025 de Northwest Fourth Street, en Plantation.

Según la policía, los primeros en responder llegaron tras recibir reportes de un niño fallecido dentro de un vehículo.

Al llegar, equipos del Departamento de Bomberos de Plantation localizaron el vehículo y declararon al niño sin vida, dijeron autoridades.

Según los investigadores, al padre del niño le informaron que su hijo había sido marcado como ausente y que nunca había sido dejado en la guardería.

La policía indicó que el padre abrió la parte trasera de su SUV y encontró a su hijo en el interior.

Leslie Novoa, propietaria de A World of Discovery Academy, dijo a Jeff Derderian, de Local 10, que el niño provenía de “una familia muy amorosa”.

“Es una situación devastadora para la familia. Supongo que para los padres que traen a sus hijos a esta escuela, cuando llegaron y vieron todo esto, a los agentes, debió ser realmente preocupante”, dijo Viviana Alarcón, quien trabaja cerca del lugar.

Una madre cuyos hijos también asisten a la guardería y que pidió no ser identificada dijo a Jeff Derderian, de Local 10, que el niño y su familia están en sus oraciones.

“Lamento mucho lo ocurrido y no puedo imaginar esa pérdida. Es devastador”, dijo la madre. “Nunca quieres perder a un hijo, y sé que será muy difícil aceptar algo así”.

Las autoridades no han confirmado información adicional, incluidas las circunstancias que llevaron a la muerte del menor ni si alguien enfrentará cargos.

“Nunca había escuchado nada malo sobre esa escuela”, dijo Alarcón. “La verdad es que tiene una buena reputación”.

He noted that the newly unveiled reforms were neither mentioned nor discussed in earlier talks between the two nations.

“The recently announced (measures) are a matter of total and absolute sovereignty,” Rodriguez said. “We have neither listened to nor are we interested in the U.S. government’s opinion on them.”

But he said it was striking that they “were met with a new package of unilateral coercive measures ... against Cuba.”

Earlier this month, the U.S. slapped new sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel and other officials, as well as on companies key to the island’s crumbling economy.

Some of the sanctions were announced after Cuba’s Communist Party and the National Assembly of People’s Power approved 176 economic measures representing the biggest economic shift since the revolution. They align with some of the demands made by the United States, which is pressuring for a change in Cuba’s political and economic model.

The reforms include more space for private businesses, free hiring of personnel and authorization for private banks and investment by Cubans abroad.

Rodriguez added that while the conduct of U.S. government officials was “generally respectful” during earlier talks, he said it is accompanied by “constant aggressive statements against Cuba, threats of military aggression, and the imposition of additional coercive measures.”

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rodríguez made the statements during a press conference in which he announced a July 7 debate at the U.N. General Assembly on the energy embargo imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump in late January.

“The blockade and the policy of aggression and hostility of the United States government against Cuba are a threat to the existence and well-being of the Cuban people, and to the exercise of their human rights,” Rodríguez said.

He also denied that Cuba is a threat to the U.S., which he called “a major military and nuclear power.”

The oil blockade has further paralyzed Cuba’s economy, leading to prolonged blackouts, fuel rationing, internet outages, and the suspension of public transportation and flight cancellations. Basic services such as garbage collection and water delivery have been suspended, and workdays have been reduced.

NPR attributed the error by reporter Nina Totenberg, on the final day of the court's session, to a misunderstanding of a statement by Chief Justice John Roberts that led to previously prepared copy being posted live. The erroneous news was also broadcast on NPR. It was live on the organization's website for about five minutes, though some member stations had it up longer, NPR said.

An editor's note posted by some NPR affiliates said: “Earlier today, we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Neither Alito nor the court’s public information office has announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story.”

Later, a longer statement from Editor-in-Chief Tommy Evans said NPR regretted the error and the confusion it may have caused. “Due to a misunderstanding, NPR’s Supreme Court and Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg incorrectly reported that Justice Samuel Alito had retired. Neither Justice Alito nor the Supreme Court Public Information Office has announced his retirement,” Evans said.

“As soon as the error was realized, the story was retracted and removed from NPR’s website and an on-air correction was broadcast. We regret the error and any confusion this may have caused,” Evans said.

Breaking down the error

Interviewed later on NPR's “All Things Considered,” Totenberg explained how what she called “the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism” came about.

Reading aloud from a letter of apology she'd sent to Alito, Totenberg said she'd rushed out of the courtroom early after announcements of court opinions, and when she realized that others had not rushed out, she asked what was happening and was told “retirement announcements.” She then mistakenly assumed it was Alito who was retiring.

“This was a rookie mistake,” Totenberg noted in the interview.

“I scared everybody half to death for about five minutes, and it's entirely on me,” she said.

Evans, also appearing on “All Things Considered,” said that he too felt responsibility, and noted that NPR would be looking at newsroom systems to determine “where we could do better and be better.”

The error was also detailed in a column by NPR's public editor, Kelly McBride, who explained how when Totenberg misheard the announcement, the organization posted some previously written “preparedness” — copy that news organizations often prepare in advance of major expected events and notable deaths.

"Alito is not retiring. The story was wrong," McBride said in her column. "Totenberg misheard Roberts’ statement."

McBride continued: “Totenberg spoke with both her intern, who was at the court with her, and NPR Executive Editor Krishnadev Calamur and told them what she heard. Calamur surfaced the story that NPR had previously prepared for the day Alito did announce his retirement and published it. The information was also broadcast on NPR’s airwaves.”

Retirements were mentioned, though

On a busy day for the court, Roberts had announced the retirement of several court employees, as he customarily does after the court’s final opinions are out. But Alito's name was not among them.

Speculation had swirled about the justice’s future plans earlier this year, but Fox News and CBS reported this spring that he planned to remain on the bench.

Alito has been on the court since 2006, when he replaced Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He was nominated by President George W. Bush, a Republican.

McBride, in her column, said she didn't expect the mistake to endure in the public consciousness.

"For most news consumers, the error is a blip, something that flashed across their feed or they heard on their radio," she wrote. “It was corrected quickly and will not have lasting consequences.”

“This is unbelievable. This is history,” Haaland said on the field after the game.

A slight tap from Haaland's left foot in the 86th minute was the difference as Norway beat Ivory Coast 2-1 on Tuesday, setting up another World Cup match against five-time champion Brazil — 28 years after a victory that many consider the greatest ever for the Norwegians.

For now, they prefer to enjoy their latest accomplishment.

“What we’re going to think about now is to enjoy the win today. We’re really happy and proud of ourselves,” said Martin Odeegaard, the team's captain who banged the drum to set the pace for the postgame row. “Hopefully we can keep dreaming and keep believing and keep performing like we did.”

Antonio Nusa scored the opening goal in the first half with a curling kick for Norway, which in its fourth World Cup will next play in the round of 16 against Brazil on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

“This is really a dream come true,” Nusa said in translated remarks.

Norway is in its first World Cup since that 1998 appearance, when the team got to the knockout round only after scoring goals in the 83rd and 89th minutes for an incredible 2-1 comeback win over then-reigning World Cup champion Brazil in the group finale.

Amad Diallo, who had prevented Norway from taking a two-goal lead earlier in the second half, evened the match for Ivory Coast with a left-footed kick in the 74th minute.

Even after Haaland’s go-ahead goal, his Norway-record 60th in 53 matches, Ivory Coast kept pressing and had a chance to equalize with a direct free kick by Diallo in the sixth minute of stoppage time. Orjan Nyland made a leaping stop, the last of his four saves, when he deflected the ball away as he extended his left hand across his body.

“After their equalizer, it was easy to panic. But we got our players in the right position and managed to play our game again,” Norway coach Ståle Solbakken said.

Haaland's 27 touches were the fewest of any Norway player who played the full match, but he was open after three defenders converged when Patrick Berg moved into the penalty area with the ball before making a quick pass. It was a slow roll over the line after coming off the foot of Haaland, who lunged forward as if he might have to kick it again.

It was his Haaland's fifth goal in three games at this year’s tournament. That is one behind Lionel Messi, who has six for Argentina and scored three of those in two group games at the home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.

Haaland, who won the Golden Boot in the Premier League last season with 27 goals for Manchester City, has scored in 13 straight competitive international games — a total of 25 goals in that span.

The youthful Elephants, ranked 31st by FIFA, had never before won twice in the same World Cup. This was the fourth World Cup appearance for the West African nation, the same as Norway.

“We are proud for what we achieved,” Diallo said. “But a big disappointment because we knew we have quality in the team, we have players that can make a difference anytime.”

Nusa scored his first World Cup goal in the 39th minute when he took a few strides past the left corner of the penalty area and sent a right-footed kick between two defenders toward the far post.

Ivory Coast goalkeeper Yahia Fofana made a diving attempt at the ball that was just beyond his extended reach, and he was still in air when he turned his head back to see the ball curl into the net. It was Nusa’s ninth international goal in 28 games for Norway.

Diallo evened the score at 1-1 after a give-and-go with Nicolas Pepe, who had scored both Ivory Coast goals in its previous game and was stopped by Nyland in the 55th minute. Diallo found space for his left-footed blast.

That came only about eight minutes after Torbjorn Heggen had a shot for Norway that was deflected away by Diallo, who was right next to his keeper.

Nusa's yellow card in stoppage time before the half set up a free kick by Pepe, but the ensuing header went left of the post.

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On Tuesday, Florida acquired goaltender Jacob Markstrom and forward Angus Crookshank from the New Jersey Devils in exchange for forwards Evan Rodrigues, Jesper Boqvist and Ben Steeves.

“Jacob is an established veteran leader in this league who possesses size and a relentless drive to win,” Panthers President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Zito said in a statement Tuesday. “We are excited for him to compete alongside our established group and return to South Florida.

“We also want to extend our sincere gratitude to Evan and Jesper for their contributions to our organization,” Zito added.

Markstrom, 36, appeared in 44 games for the Devils in 2025-26, posting a 23-19-1 record and one shutout.

Markstrom was originally selected by Florida in the second round (No. 31 overall) of the 2008 NHL Draft.

Late Monday, the Panthers acquired goaltender Akira Schmid from the Vegas Golden Knights, likely as the replacement for Daniil Tarasov, who appeared in 33 games for Florida last season.

Tuesday’s trade could mark the end of Sergei Bobrovsky’s remarkable run in South Florida.

Both Bobrovsky and Tarasov are unrestricted free agents and are expected to hit the open market Wednesday.

The Panthers signed Bobrovsky as an unrestricted free agent from the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2019, and his seven-year tenure included back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the only titles in franchise history.

This is a developing story; stay tuned for updates.

INTER MIAMI

La Fundación Inter Miami CF, en alianza con la ciudad de Doral y Global Empowerment Mission, está recolectando suministros esenciales para las víctimas mediante una campaña de donaciones en Nu Stadium este miércoles.

Los organizadores informaron que el evento tipo “drive-through” se realizará de 9 a.m. a 7 p.m. Se pide a las personas que hagan donaciones permanecer dentro de sus vehículos mientras los voluntarios descargan los suministros.

Se espera la participación de varias figuras públicas para apoyar la iniciativa, entre ellas Jess Judith, Lele Pons, Jay Wheeler, Zhamira Zambrano, Mau Montaner y Ricky Montaner.

Las donaciones pueden entregarse en Nu Stadium, ubicado en el 1000 de Stadium Drive, en Miami. Los asistentes deben seguir las señales hacia la tienda oficial del Inter Miami CF.

Los organizadores solicitan artículos esenciales como alimentos enlatados, agua embotellada, productos de higiene, artículos para bebés, suministros para mascotas y artículos nuevos para emergencias como mantas, tiendas de campaña, sacos de dormir, linternas, baterías y botiquines de primeros auxilios.

También habrá oportunidades adicionales para donar hasta el viernes en las sedes del Inter Miami en Miami y Fort Lauderdale.

MIAMI MARLINS

Los Miami Marlins también se unen a los esfuerzos de ayuda durante su serie en casa del 7 al 9 de julio contra los Seattle Mariners en el loanDepot park.

Los aficionados tendrán varias formas de ayudar, incluida la entrega de los artículos solicitados en cajas de recolección ubicadas en la entrada Home Plate.

Los Marlins también ofrecerán a los aficionados la oportunidad de comprar boletos de $5 USD a través de Marlins.com/WeLoveVenezuela al llevar uno de los artículos solicitados al partido. Por cada boleto elegible comprado, el equipo donará $5 USD a la Fundación We Love Venezuela.

Lo recaudado en la rifa 50/50 durante los tres partidos también beneficiará a la fundación.

La organización ha comprometido $100,000 USD para Global Empowerment Mission. Además, socios corporativos como loanDepot, Goya Foods, neaū water y Kellanova también contribuirán con donaciones en efectivo y en especie.

Ambos equipos están animando a los residentes del sur de Florida a unirse y apoyar los esfuerzos de ayuda para las personas afectadas por los terremotos.

Haga clic aquí para ver los centros de entrega en todo el sur de Florida que están recolectando bienes y suministros para las víctimas del terremoto.

MIAMI DOLPHINS

La Fundación Miami Dolphins también donó $100,000 USD para apoyar los esfuerzos de ayuda tras los mortales terremotos en Venezuela.

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Sheinbaum ratificó en su habitual conferencia diaria que México, al igual que Canadá, insistirá en la ampliación por otros 16 años del T-MEC –vigente desde el 1 de julio de 2020—.

La revisión se dará en medio de un clima de tensión generado por los aranceles que impuso el presidente Donald Trump a varios países, entre ellos a sus socios, desde el inicio de su segundo mandato en 2025.

México ha logrado sortear buena parte de los gravámenes que Washington implementó, pero los productos mexicanos que no están cubiertos por el T-MEC, así como los camiones medianos y pesados, enfrentan un impuesto de 25%. También está vigente un gravamen de 50% al acero y el aluminio y una cuota compensatoria del 17% al tomate mexicano.

“Estamos tranquilos en el sentido de que hemos hecho todo lo que tenemos que hacer”, dijo la mandataria y agregó que, independiente de la decisión que tome la administración Trump, “eso no quiere decir que se acabe el tratado mañana”.

El secretario de Economía de México, Marcelo Ebrard, confirmó en un vídeo que difundió en su cuenta de X que el miércoles sostendrá una reunión virtual con sus pares de Estados Unidos y Canadá sobre los siguientes pasos que se seguirán para la revisión del T-MEC.

Ebrard detalló que entre los caminos que se están considerando está una revisión dentro de seis años con una ampliación de la vigencia del tratado hasta 2042 - que respaldan México y Canadá -, o mantener el T-MEC hasta 2036 y hacer una revisión cada año con un alcance cada vez más limitado de las evaluaciones.

Alterno al proceso de revisión del tratado, México y Estados Unidos tendrá el 20 de julio en la capital mexicana la tercera ronda de diálogos bilaterales en materia comercial que se iniciaron en mayo.

Durante las dos primeras las partes abordaron asuntos relativos a las reglas de origen, la seguridad económica, la agricultura y la industria automotriz.

Sobre las conversaciones bilaterales, Sheinbaum manifestó que su administración está trabajando para que Washington “disminuya de manera importante” los aranceles impuestos a los productos mexicanos y continúe el T-MEC.

¿Cómo llega México a la revisión?

Además de las tensiones en materia comercial, México ha enfrentado en los últimos meses fuertes presiones y reclamos de parte de Estados Unidos en asuntos de seguridad y migración que también han perturbado las relaciones.

Las fricciones se crisparon tras la muerte de dos agentes de la CIA en abril en un accidente automovilístico en el estado fronterizo de Chihuahua luego del desmantelamiento de un laboratorio de droga. En esa oportunidad México reclamó a Washington que no había sido informado de la presencia en el país de los dos agentes estadounidenses ni de sus actividades.

Las tensiones se elevaron tras anunciarse a fines de ese mismo mes que la fiscalía de Nueva York había acusado de narcotráfico al gobernador oficialista del estado de Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha, y a otros nueve funcionarios activos y retirados, y solicitó su detención preventiva con fines de extradición.

Ante ese contexto Ildefonso Guajardo, exsecretario mexicano de Economía y quien participó en las negociaciones con Estados Unidos que llevaron al T-MEC, afirmó que México llega al proceso de revisión en un “grado alto de vulnerabilidad” y en medio de una “incertidumbre creciente” que ha impactado los compromisos de inversión en América del Norte.

Guajardo manifestó dudas de que se llegue al fin del tratado trilateral, pero “el problema es con qué calidad de T-MEC nos vamos a quedar”.

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It took place at Bayfront Park during the match between Brazil and Japan.

The Round of 32 knockout stage game was a great one.

It remained tied until the final moments, when Brazil pulled out a thrilling 2-1 victory.

Local 10 News’ Liane Morejon was there for all the fun, and her report can be seen at the top of this page.

Las negociaciones "no muestran progreso”, aseguró Rodríguez al anunciar el martes en rueda de prensa la realización de un debate en la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas sobre el cerco energético impuesto por la administración del presidente Donald Trump en enero contra la isla.

El bloqueo petrolero ha ocasionado un fuerte impacto en la isla y su economía se encuentra semiparalizada con largos apagones, combustibles racionalizados, cortes de internet y suspensión del transporte público o cancelación de vuelos. Servicios básicos como la recogida de basura o la entrega de agua no pueden ser satisfechos, mientras que las jornadas laborales fueron recortadas.

Ambos gobiernos reconocieron que negociaban y se hicieron públicas visitas de delegaciones estadounidenses a la isla y hasta un encuentro entre el equipo del secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, con el nieto del retirado líder Raúl Castro en San Cristóbal y Nieves en febrero. No trascendieron detalles o una hoja de ruta.

“La conducta de las delegaciones del gobierno de los Estados Unidos que generalmente es respetuosa en esas conversaciones, está acompañada de constantes declaraciones agresivas contra Cuba, de amenazas de agresión militar, de la aplicación de medidas coercitivas adicionales”, indicó Rodríguez.

A mediados de junio, el Partido Comunista de Cuba y la Asamblea del Poder Popular, el Parlamento, aprobaron un paquete de medidas económicas de apertura al mercado y la iniciativa privada inusitadas para el sistema socialista local, aunque en sintonía con algunas de las exigencias realizadas por Estados Unidos que aspira a un cambio de modelo en la nación caribeña.

El esquema político de partido único no fue considerado en el plan impulsado por las autoridades.

“Las transformaciones recientemente anunciadas son total y absolutamente soberanas, ni hemos escuchado ni nos interesa la opinión del gobierno de los Estados Unidos sobre ellas”, señaló Rodríguez. Agregó que llamaba la atención de que hayan sido respondidas con un nuevo paquete de medidas coercitivas unilaterales contra la isla.

El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos no respondió de inmediato a una solicitud de comentarios por parte de The Associated Press.

Poco después de la aprobación, Estados Unidos emitió un anuncio de s anciones contra firmas cubanas que se sumaron a las preexistentes del último año. Trump y su secretario Rubio dijeron que el gobierno cubano era inepto, su modelo ineficiente y la isla un peligro para sus seguridad nacional.

Rodríguez informó, además, que la isla había pedido una sesión a la Asamblea General de la ONU para denunciar el cerco energético de Estados Unidos contra la nación caribeña que agudizó una severa crisis y semiparalizó la economía.

La sesión en la ONU se realizará el 7 de julio y según el canciller, Estados Unidos buscó boicotearla.

“Cuba no es ni puede ser una amenaza a la seguridad nacional de los Estados Unidos, que es una gran potencia militar y nuclear”, expresó el jefe de la diplomacia cubana. “Cuba no es una amenaza, el bloqueo sí. El bloqueo y la política de agresión y hostilidad el gobierno de los Estados Unidos contra cuba es una amenaza para la existencia y el bienestar del pueblo cubano, para el ejercicio de sus derechos humanos”, acotó.

One of the killed firefighters worked for the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, established this year without customary congressional approval by drawing personnel from four agencies within the Interior Department. The victims were part of an elite, helicopter-based crew that got trapped Saturday in a fast-growing wildfire near the Utah border as they attacked the blaze on the ground.

Five firefighters, including the ones who died, tried to shield themselves by deploying tentlike emergency shelters as flames overran their position. The two survivors were hospitalized with burn injuries.

The consolidation of thousands of personnel into the fire service has sown confusion among some firefighters about who their bosses are and what their responsibilities should be, according to former government officials.

And the administration’s focus on “full suppression” of new fires marks a sharp reversal from a decades-long trend toward embracing flames as a tool — to burn off old vegetation and growth that acts like fuel and lessen the risk of catastrophic blazes being stoked by a warming planet.

The changes benefit private fire aviation companies that are key to hitting blazes fast.

Federal officials have not released details on the circumstances preceding the weekend deaths, including the firefighters’ objective at the site where they were overrun.

“The question is, why were they attacking that fire in the first place?” asked Timothy Ingalsbee, a former federal firefighter and cofounder of the advocacy group Firefighters United For Safety, Ethics and Ecology. “What was actually at risk? If it was a bunch of shrubs on remote mountaintops, what was the real risk that justified putting those firefighters at risk?”

98% of fires are extinguished

Wildfires ignited over the past week all across the West following months of dry weather and a record lack of snow in some places. Authorities in southern Colorado said Tuesday that a wind-driven fire northwest of Colorado City had burned more than 35 square miles (90 square kilometers) and destroyed more than 150 structures, including at least 55 homes.

Under an order from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the Wildland Fire Service plans to use full suppression “for every wildfire under its management,” federal officials said in a statement to The Associated Press.

“Any wildfire that represents a threat to life, property, infrastructure or the environment should be extinguished as quickly as possible,” the statement said. “Our experienced fire managers retain the authority to select the safest and most effective tactics based on conditions on the ground.”

But critics say the administration is trying to fix something that isn’t broken: The four agencies the firefighters were drawn from — the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and National Park Service — have a record of extinguishing 98% of the fires they handle.

The new agency and policy won’t eliminate catastrophic wildfires that occur due to dense forests where people are increasingly moving and extreme weather caused by climate change, said Steve Ellis, who retired as a Bureau of Land Management deputy director. Land managers must be a part of the solution, he said.

“Severing forest management and forest managers from fire suppression will make firefighting less safe and put communities at greater risk,” Ellis said.

The two other wildland firefighters killed in Colorado worked for the Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, which handles most U.S. wildfires and is also operating under a full suppression policy. Trump had wanted the new agency to include Forest Service firefighters, but Congress blocked that part of the plan.

Fire aviation companies pushed for the consolidation

Under Trump, federal officials have been bringing in aircraft more quickly once fires ignite, said Austin Moeller, an aerospace analyst for the investment firm Canaccord Genuity.

“Anyone that has an air tanker benefits from this more aggressive contracting activity,” Moeller said.

A chief beneficiary is Bridger Aerospace, a Montana-based company founded by U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy. Before his 2024 election, Sheehy hired lobbyists in a failed attempt to persuade the Montana Legislature to create a statewide fire service analogous to the one just created at the federal level. Within a month of taking federal office, he sponsored a bill to codify the consolidation of federal firefighters into one agency.

Sheehy stepped away from his company during the 2024 campaign and put his Bridger assets into a blind trust, said Sheehy spokesman Tate Mitchell.

Mitchell said Trump was behind the idea to create a new fire agency, but Sheehy supports it.

“One of Senator Sheehy’s top priorities in the Senate is using his experience to stop the catastrophic fires destroying American communities and he won’t apologize for it,” Mitchell said.

Bridger describes itself as one of the nation's leading aerial firefighting companies. CEO Sam Davis has said the company's fleet of Super Scooper aircraft, its surveillance aircraft and its fire observation technology make it “uniquely positioned” to respond to the renewed emphasis on attacking fires to put them out.

New full suppression policy dates back decades

The aircraft will help the administration's new full suppression policy, which harkens back to a 1935 policy known as the 10 a.m. rule because it required agencies to put out new fires by 10 a.m. the following day.

Michael Dudley, a retired director of fire, aviation and air management at the Forest Service, said that old policy is why forests today are overgrown.

Wildfires serve a purpose — they clear out the small and dead material. But officials became so good at putting out fires that the forests kept growing and more fuels built up, so when a fire hits now, it's easy for it to get out of control, he said.

Scientists who study wildfires say trying to stop all fires is unrealistic since some of the most destructive blazes in recent years have evaded efforts to put them out. Some fires simply grow too fast, are too remote, or result from multiple ignitions that makes them impossible to stop.

“The narrative that if we just try harder, we’re gonna make these fires go away isn’t true,” said former Forest Service wildfire researcher David Calkin. “The fire paradox is not beatable: The more you make fire go away, the more fuel accumulates. The more fuel accumulates, the harder it is to make fires go away.”

Firefighters: New agency needs work

Firefighters in the consolidated agency are working under newly appointed Wildland Fire Service Chief Brian Fennessy, who had served as chief of California's Orange County Fire Authority since 2018.

“There’s a level of confusion as everyone’s trying to sort out responsibilities and who’s in charge and who do you report to,” Dudley said.

An Interior spokesperson said Fennessy was highly respected with decades of experience, including managing some of the nation's most complex fire challenges in densely-populated southern California.

Luke Mayfield, a founder of the group Grassroots Wildland Firefighters, said he believes the consolidation will better serve firefighters, but significant work remains to get the new agency fully running.

“Everyone was aware of the potential fuel and fire conditions we face this fire season,” Mayfield said. “Those conditions are surfacing and have resulted in firefighter fatalities with weather conditions that won’t let up in the near future.”

El evento se realizó en Bayfront Park durante el partido entre Brasil y Japón.

El partido de eliminación directa de la ronda de 32 fue un gran encuentro.

Se mantuvo empatado hasta los momentos finales, cuando Brasil logró una emocionante victoria por 2-1.

Liane Morejon, de Local 10 News, estuvo allí para toda la diversión, y su reportaje puede verse en la parte superior de esta página.

“Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” the l atest book on the Trump presidency, written by political journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, has sold more than 300,000 copies in its opening week, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.

They’re the kind of sales that numerous works about Trump reached during his first term, but had been rare during his second term. Publishers had speculated that the public had tired of Trump books, believing there was little left to know.

The total figures include preorders, print book sales, ebooks, and e-audiobooks and orders that have yet to be fulfilled because of demand, the publishing house said. Simon & Schuster said the book is into its third hard copy printing, with 200,000 copies on order, after it sold out quickly in bookstores and on Amazon. It's the best first-week clip of any hardcover nonfiction book in 2026.

The book covers the first 14 months of Trump's second presidency and takes readers inside the West Wing, White House residence and Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, aboard Air Force One and on foreign trips with the president.

Trump, who has a long history with Haberman from her days covering him as a New York City business and society figure, has trashed the book as “mostly made up.” Haberman and Swan are now New York Times reporters.

Their manuscript depicts meticulous details of Trump's military decisions, how he's wielded the power of the Justice Department against his political opponents, his conversations with other power players, and the time and attention he's devoted to remaking the aesthetics and structure of the White House.

The book spells out a thesis that Trump himself believes: Had he not lost the 2020 election, he would not be as powerful in his second term as he is now — emboldening him to trample norms, dismantle established institutions and push the limits of presidential power.

Haberman and Swan have been featured regularly across news talk shows promoting the book and sharing details of their reporting, including a sit-down with Trump in which he boasted about being compared to some of history's great villains.

Sean Manning, vice president and publisher at Simon & Schuster, said the book “has entered the national conversation” and will hold up as “a work of historic importance.”