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Those killed have since been identified by authorities as Ryan Charles Whiten, 42; Melanie Lauren Hyer, 46; Savannah Whiten, 11; and Sienna Whiten, 8.

According to MDSO, Doral police responded to a home in the gated Doral Isles community in the area of Northwest 111^th Court and 72^nd Terrace just after 7:30 p.m. after receiving a call to check on the welfare from a family friend of the people who live there.

Authorities said officers entered the house and found four people who had stab wounds and were unresponsive.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel also responded to the home and pronounced all four dead at the scene.

Detectives said they believe the four were killed in a murder-suicide, but they have not identified which person they believe was the killer.

A representative for Downtown Doral Charter Schools confirmed that both girls were students there.

“Our community is mourning the loss of two of our beloved students. Our heartfelt sympathies are with their families, friends, faculty and staff at our schools. These students will be deeply missed,” the representative said in a statement. “To support our students and staff, the school has arranged to have grief counselors on campus and will continue to provide support as needed. We encourage parents to talk openly with their children and closely monitor their well-being. Parents with any concerns or in need of additional support should contact the school.”

Doral Mayor Christi Fraga released a statement on social media, saying the loss hits especially close to home as she personally knew Hyer.

“Our Doral community is heartbroken by the unimaginable tragedy that has impacted a local family and taken the lives of a mother and her two young daughters,” Fraga said in part. “As a mother, and as someone who personally knew and admired the loving and dedicated mother at the center of this tragedy, this loss feels especially close to home. My heart aches for their loved ones, classmates, teachers, friends, neighbors, and everyone grieving during this incredibly painful time.”

Fraga added, “This tragedy is also a painful reminder that we must continue having honest conversations about mental health, domestic violence, emotional wellness, and the importance of speaking up when something feels wrong.”

Parents who live nearby were also shaken to learn of the incident.

“I live super close to their house and I didn’t even know,” said parent Anderina Zerpa. “That is a tragedy that is a worst nightmare for a parent.”

Court records obtained by Local 10 News show that Whiten and Hyer were divorced in April 2024 after just over two years of being married.

“I cannot believe things like that, but sometimes people do that, and mental health is something that needs to be discussed,” said parent Areal Boveda.

Fraga also shared the following resources for those experiencing domestic violence or mental health struggles:

• Miami-Dade Domestic Violence Hotline: 305-285-5900

• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233)

• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988

MDSO Homicide Bureau detectives have taken over the investigation into the deaths.

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Officers with the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department arrested Apolonia Crumpton on Tuesday at Miami Northwestern Senior High School, located at 1100 NW 71st St. in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood.

An arrest report states that Crumpton, of northwest Miami-Dade, was at the school due to her daughter being involved in a fight.

Police said Crumpton, described as an “irate parent,” remarking that she “had that s--- in her bag,” led school security officers to believe she was potentially armed. According to the report, she also told a security officer, “I got hands and bullets. Whichever one they want.”

After searching her bag, officers said they found a black 9mm firearm and ammunition inside.

Crumpton was charged with one felony count of possession of a firearm on school property.

As of Wednesday afternoon, she was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with bond listed as “to be set.”

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Pino, 55, is facing the charges in connection with the September 2022 death of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.

Miami-Dade Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez heard final motions from both sides on a range of topics, from mentions of alcohol on board the Robalo to what passengers who were on board the boat the day of the 2022 crash can testify to and more.

“They can describe how they feel, what they heard, what they saw,” Tinkler Mendez said.

Jurors will also be able to see the boat in person by taking a site visit to a location 13 miles away near North Miami Beach.

“This is not like a group field trip, though. This is just the jurors, the parties,” Tinkler Mendez said. “I don’t need to bring the clerk, as far as I know. I’m going to bring my court reporter, although there will be no conversations that take place during the viewing at all.”

Prosecutors had asked the court to allow jurors to visit the site, in part to get a better grasp of the size of the vessel.

The boat, operated by Pino, had his wife and 12 teenage girls, including his daughter, on board. After crashing into a channel marker, Fernandez became trapped beneath the capsized boat and drowned. Several others suffered varying injuries.

“The jurors would be in a marked area,” Tinkler Mendez said. “They have their notebooks if they wish and (they’re) free to meander about for a certain set period of time.”

The goal is to finalize the jury by Friday and, if accomplished, to have opening statements on Monday.

The trial is expected to stretch into the fourth week of June.

To create more affordable housing and additional income, some residents in South Florida have been using RVs as rental properties.

Daniel Castillo has two RVs at his home in Miramar. He said a code enforcement officer stopped by to tell him that he couldn’t have an RV in front of the house.

“I told him that I sold it and the RV is going to be leaving the property,” Castillo said.

Miramar Commissioner Yvette Colbourne was the first to propose a measure to add new parking restrictions on RVs in residential zones.

Mayor Wayne M. Messam, Vice Mayor Carson “Eddy” Edwards, and Commissioners Maxwell B. Chambers and Avril Cherasard have expressed support.

Miramar Police Chief Delrish Moss and his leadership focused on dozens of parked RVs.

The ordinance’s first reading passed on April 22. The second reading was on May 20. It was set to continue after the commission meets at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Pino, de 55 años, enfrenta los cargos en relación con la muerte de Lucy Fernandez, de 17 años, ocurrida en septiembre de 2022.

La jueza de Miami-Dade, Marisa Tinkler Mendez, escuchó las mociones finales de ambas partes sobre una variedad de temas, desde las referencias al alcohol a bordo de la embarcación Robalo hasta lo que los pasajeros que estaban en el bote el día del accidente de 2022 podrán testificar, entre otros asuntos.

“Pueden describir cómo se sintieron, lo que escucharon y lo que vieron”, dijo Tinkler Mendez.

Los miembros del jurado también podrán ver la embarcación en persona durante una visita a un lugar ubicado a unas 13 millas de distancia, cerca de North Miami Beach.

“Esto no es como una excursión grupal. Solo estarán los miembros del jurado y las partes involucradas”, dijo Tinkler Mendez. “Hasta donde sé, no necesito llevar al secretario judicial. Sí llevaré a mi taquígrafo judicial, aunque no habrá ninguna conversación durante la inspección”.

Los fiscales habían solicitado al tribunal que permitiera al jurado visitar el lugar, en parte para comprender mejor el tamaño de la embarcación.

El bote, operado por Pino, llevaba a bordo a su esposa y a 12 adolescentes, incluida su hija. Después de chocar contra una baliza de canal, Fernandez quedó atrapada debajo de la embarcación volcada y murió ahogada. Varias otras personas sufrieron lesiones de diversa consideración.

“Los miembros del jurado estarán en un área delimitada”, dijo Tinkler Mendez. “Tendrán sus libretas si así lo desean y podrán desplazarse libremente durante un período determinado de tiempo”.

El objetivo es finalizar la selección del jurado para el viernes y, si se logra, comenzar con los alegatos iniciales el lunes.

Se espera que el juicio se extienda hasta la cuarta semana de junio.

Altarac was 18 when she left her native Sarajevo with her husband and traveled to Italy, France, Algeria, and Canada. She eventually moved to the U.S. in 1966.

Altarac, who has three daughters, seven grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and 17 great-great-grandchildren, was a guest of honor on Wednesday.

“It brings me such joy to see all of our efforts help these survivors reach 100 with dignity, with family, and surrounded by celebration,” said Masha Pearl, the executive director of The Blue Card Fund, a nonprofit organization that helps survivors.

Altarac, Hanna Gaon, and Leon Schagrin — the author of “The Horse Adjutant: A Boy’s Life during the Nazi Holocaust” — were among the nearly 130 guests at an early celebration on Wednesday of Holocaust Survivor Day at Temple Beth Emet in Cooper City.

The global celebration to honor the resilience of the survivors of the state-sponsored genocide of six million Jewish people between 1933 and 1945 has been observed annually on June 4 since 2021.

Schagrin, who was born in Grybów, Poland, turned 99 on Oct. 30. His memoir describes how he was forced to spend his childhood in ghettos and concentration camps, including Tarnów, Szebnia, and Auschwitz III.

The Blue Card Fund and Goodman Jewish Family Services of Broward County, a social services organization based in Davie, organized a busy itinerary that included a Medal of Honor ceremony, a student choir, and time for intergenerational dancing.

“You think about their stories, their perseverance, things they’ve experienced in their lives, the stories they could share, the stories they can tell,” said Randy Colman, the president and chief executive officer of Goodman JFS. “It’s important that we never forget and we always remember.”

Gaon, 88, also from Sarajevo, said her father was detained and held in a concentration camp in Croatia. She and her mother were in a labor camp before fleeing to the U.S. without him.

“They came to get my father in September of 1941,” Gaon said during the event.

Liliana Ferber, Betty Eisdorfer, Saul Dreier, David Elefant, Herman Haller, Rosa Lindenberg, Frances Gaspar, Altarac, and Schagrin, who turns 100 on Oct. 30, were inducted into the survivors’ Centenarian Club.

Ferber, who was born in Poland, is 100. She survived in a ghetto and in hiding, and her journey forced her to learn to speak five languages: Polish, Hebrew, German, French, and English.

Dreier, who was born in Poland, is 101. He is a drummer. He and his fellow survivor, Reuwen “Ruby” Sosnowicz, co-founded the Holocaust Survivor Band.

Elefant, who was born in Romania, is 101. He survived Auschwitz, Hirschberg, and Bunzlau. He lived in Israel and moved to the U.S. in 1984.

Haller, who was born in Germany, is 101. He survived Auschwitz, and the Death March to Breslau before U.S. soldiers freed him on April 11, 1945.

Eisdorfer, who was born in Germany, is 101. She credits the survival of her and her younger brother to a Kindertransport to England in 1939.

Lindenberg, who was born in Germany, is 102. She fled to Belgium after Kristallnacht and lived in England and New York.

Gaspar, who was born in Czechoslovakia, is 105. She survived in the Nazi’s Budapest ghetto. She lived in Israel and moved to the U.S. in 1957.

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Owners last week made their first cap proposal since 1994, when a 7 1/2-month strike caused the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years. Manfred was a junior lawyer on the owners' bargaining team in those negotiations.

Players have vowed to fight a cap as long as it takes. Asked whether he is concerned the events of 1994-95 will be repeated, Manfred responded: “Of course I do.”

"We’re open to whatever ideas people have, but we need a realistic framework that addresses the fans' concerns about competitive balance and you just can’t ignore that financial penalties have not gotten it done for us," he said Wednesday at a news conference during an owners’ meeting.

Baseball owners and players started the current luxury tax system for the 2003 season and in subsequent agreements have increased tax rates while adding surcharges.

“We have tried mightily over several rounds of bargaining to use a competitive balance tax to address competitive concerns and sometimes you got to admit you failed,” Manfred said.

More teams have been willing to exceed tax thresholds in recent years, with a record nine teams paying the penalty in both 2024 and 2025, when the Dodgers were hit with a $169.4 million bill. Total tax rose from $78.5 million in 2022 to $222.8 million the following year, $311.3 million in 2024 and $402.6 million last year.

“We never thought about the CBT as a revenue-generating device," Manfred said. “And when you see more and more tax getting paid, you realize that it is not the kind of speed bump that would help on the issue of competitive balance.”

Baseball's five-year collective bargaining agreement, agreed to in March 2022 after a 99-day lockout, expires on Dec. 1. Management is expected to impose a lockout, which would bring free-agent signings and trades to a halt.

Manfred wouldn’t publicly say whether management thought a stoppage would be worth the cost to obtain a cap.

“I’m not going to speculate about work stoppages,” he said. “I think that the proposal we’ve made is grounds for constructive dialogue and back and forth with the MLBPA about how we can address the number one concern of our fans and that is a lack of competitive balance in the game.”

MLB would limit spending in 2027 to $245.3 million, using figures for luxury tax payrolls that include $20.1 million for benefits and the pre-arbitration bonus pool. It also would establish a payroll floor of $171.2 million, forcing some teams to spend more. The Dodgers had a $415.2 million payroll on opening day this year.

Players asked for expanded free agency and salary arbitration rights along with almost doubling the major league minimum and increasing revenue sharing.

Baseball has had nine work stoppages since 1972, the last the 99-day lockout that slightly delayed the 2022 season.

The NFL has had a cap since 1994, the NBA since 1984-85 and the NHL since 2005-06.

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The team also agreed to terms with San Diego State cornerback Chris Johnson, the 27th overall pick and Miami’s second first-round selection, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.

The exact terms of their deals weren’t immediately released.

Proctor, 21, played three seasons at Alabama, where he started 40 games at left tackle. He helped the Crimson Tide win the SEC championship in 2023 and reach the College Football Playoff in 2023 and 2025.

He is expected to begin the season at left guard next to offensive tackle Patrick Paul.

Proctor was a consensus All-American and first-team All-SEC selection in 2025 after earning SEC All-Freshman Team honors in 2023 and second-team All-SEC recognition in 2024.

Johnson, a 6-foot, 193-pound defensive back, joined the Aztecs in 2022 and made an immediate impact, appearing in 12 games as a freshman before earning a larger role in the seasons that followed. He began to emerge in 2024, recording one interception, 67 tackles and three forced fumbles.

His senior season marked a true breakout.

Johnson, 21, started 11 games and recorded four interceptions, 49 tackles (36 solo), one sack, 13 passes defended, and 1 forced fumble. He also had two interceptions returned for touchdowns.

Johnson is expected to compete for a starting cornerback position.

The signings come one day after the Dolphins announced agreements with 10 members of their 2026 draft class: wide receivers Chris Bell, Kevin Coleman Jr. and Caleb Douglas; guard DJ Campbell; tight end Will Kacmarek; edge rushers Max Llewellyn and Trey Moore; linebackers Kyle Louis and Jacob Rodriguez; and safety Michael Taaffe.

The only remaining unsigned member of Miami’s 2026 draft class is tight end Seydou Traore, of Mississippi State, who was selected 180th overall.

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Local 10 News habló con un hombre de 64 años de Massachusetts cuya madre fue recientemente blanco de estafadores.

Su historia fue compartida el martes mientras las autoridades advertían al público sobre intentos de estafa similares.

La mujer anciana creyó que había ganado un gran premio, pero su familia comenzó a preocuparse cuando notó retiros de dinero de su cuenta y luego se enteró de que iba a reunirse con alguien llevando efectivo.

“Ella dijo que eran $7 millones USD, pero en realidad eran $72 millones USD y un automóvil Mercedes que pensaba que había ganado”, dijo su hijo.

El hombre, que no quiso ser identificado para esta historia, viajó al sur de Florida desde Boston y siguió a su madre para asegurarse de que no regresara al banco.

“Me preocupé mucho porque le había dicho a mi hermana que se reuniría con alguien el martes al mediodía, así que decidí tomar un avión”, dijo. “Al mismo tiempo, mi esposa llamó a la policía de Coconut Creek”.

Dijo que quería asegurarse de que su madre no fuera al banco.

“Ella se sorprendió de verme allí”, dijo. “Tuvimos que lidiar con un poco de vergüenza y un poco de olvidos”.

Mientras tanto, dijo que los estafadores siguen intentando comunicarse con su madre, algo que, según los agentes, suele ocurrir en este tipo de casos.

“Continúan llegando múltiples llamadas diariamente desde el número asociado con la estafa”, dijo.

El hombre espera que compartir la historia de su madre ayude a evitar que otras personas sean víctimas de una estafa.

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Local 10 News spoke to a 64-year-old man from Massachusetts whose mother was recently targeted by scammers.

Her story was shared on Tuesday as authorities warned the public against similar scamming attempts.

That elderly woman thought she won a big prize, but her family became very concerned when they stated to see withdrawals from her account and then were told that she was going to meet someone with cash.

“She said it was $7 million, but it was actually $72 million and a Mercedes car (she thought she had won),” her son said.

That man, who did not wish to be identified for this story, flew to South Florida from Boston and followed his mother to make sure she wasn’t going back to the bank.

“I got really concerned because she had told my sister that she was meeting someone on Tuesday at noon, so I decided to hop on a plane,” he said. “And concurrent to that, my wife called the Coconut Creek police.”

He said he wanted to make sure that his mother wasn’t going to the bank.

“She was surprised I was there,” he said. “We did deal with a little bit of embarrassment and a little bit of forgetfulness.”

Meanwhile, he said the scammers are still trying to contact his mom, while officers said that is usually the case in these situations.

“There continue to be multiple calls on a daily basis from the number associated with the scamming,” he said.

That man is hoping that sharing his mother’s story will help keep the next person from being scammed.

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They’ve done whatever it’s taken to make it work. But they’re running into trouble paying for it.

“I was just grateful, so grateful, having the opportunity to go to Africa,” student Chase Harrell said. “I knew when I first entered the room and he was telling us that we’ll all have the chance. I just knew I had to make an impression. I was like, no matter what, I need this opportunity.“

To get a chance to go on the trip, students like Harrell had to write 200 to 300 words on why they wanted to go, maintain at least a B- average and have good attendance.

“Right now, it’s hectic, I just spent so much money yesterday, trying to get everything together,” student Nevah Jimenez said. “It’s really hitting me that, oh my god, I’m really going to Africa for two weeks. The farthest I’ve been is Las Vegas.”

Parents aren’t taking the opportunity lightly either.

Student Rayshad Derden’s mom, Sharina Williams, said she knows how invaluable of an experience traveling to Zimbabwe would be for her 11th-grader.

“Since birth, we haven’t been apart that long,” she said “When he travels, I travel. Yeah, he’s my youngest child.”

Edwin Sheppard, the director of the Blindfolded International Student Cultural Exchange Program ― or BISCEP ― which is organizing the trip, said he’s dealing with budget cuts and previous donors being unable to give.

He said he’s determined to make the trip happen.

“Funding has been challenging, because we were on the verge of cancelling and we really need it now, because we are 21 days out,” Sheppard said.

BISCEP has set up a GoFundMe page to help cover expenses.

Han hecho todo lo necesario para lograrlo. Pero están enfrentando dificultades para pagar el viaje.

“Simplemente estaba agradecido, muy agradecido, por tener la oportunidad de ir a África”, dijo el estudiante Chase Harrell. “Supe desde que entré al salón y él nos dijo que todos tendríamos la oportunidad. Sabía que tenía que causar una buena impresión. Pensé: pase lo que pase, necesito esta oportunidad”.

Para tener la oportunidad de participar en el viaje, estudiantes como Harrell tuvieron que escribir entre 200 y 300 palabras explicando por qué querían ir, mantener un promedio mínimo de B- y tener buena asistencia.

“Ahora mismo es una locura. Ayer gasté mucho dinero tratando de organizar todo”, dijo la estudiante Nevah Jimenez. “Realmente me está cayendo en cuenta que, Dios mío, de verdad voy a África por dos semanas. Lo más lejos que he estado es Las Vegas”.

Los padres tampoco toman esta oportunidad a la ligera.

La madre del estudiante Rayshad Derden, Sharina Williams, dijo que sabe lo invaluable que sería para su hijo de undécimo grado viajar a Zimbabue.

“Desde que nació, nunca hemos estado separados por tanto tiempo”, dijo. “Cuando él viaja, yo viajo. Sí, es mi hijo menor”.

Edwin Sheppard, director del Programa Internacional de Intercambio Cultural Estudiantil Blindfolded, conocido como BISCEP, que organiza el viaje, dijo que enfrenta recortes presupuestarios y que donantes anteriores no han podido contribuir.

Dijo que está decidido a hacer que el viaje se realice.

“El financiamiento ha sido un desafío porque estuvimos a punto de cancelarlo y realmente lo necesitamos ahora, porque faltan 21 días”, dijo Sheppard.

BISCEP ha creado una página de GoFundMe para ayudar a cubrir los gastos.

Los términos exactos del contrato no fueron divulgados de inmediato.

Proctor, de 21 años, jugó tres temporadas en Alabama, donde fue titular en 40 partidos como tackle izquierdo. Ayudó a Crimson Tide a ganar el campeonato de la SEC en 2023 y a llegar al College Football Playoff en 2023 y 2025.

Se espera que comience la temporada como guardia izquierdo junto al tackle ofensivo Patrick Paul.

Proctor fue seleccionado All-American por consenso y formó parte del primer equipo All-SEC en 2025, después de haber sido incluido en el equipo All-Freshman de la SEC en 2023 y en el segundo equipo All-SEC en 2024.

La firma se produce un día después de que los Dolphins anunciaran acuerdos con 10 miembros de su clase del draft de 2026: los receptores Chris Bell, Kevin Coleman Jr. y Caleb Douglas; el guardia DJ Campbell; el ala cerrada Will Kacmarek; los cazamariscales Max Llewellyn y Trey Moore; los apoyadores Kyle Louis y Jacob Rodriguez; y el profundo Michael Taaffe.

Los únicos integrantes de la clase del draft de 2026 de Miami que siguen sin firmar son el esquinero de primera ronda Chris Johnson, seleccionado en el puesto 27 global procedente de San Diego State, y el ala cerrada de quinta ronda Seydou Traore, seleccionado en la décima posición de esa ronda procedente de Mississippi State.

Since taking office on March 11, ultraconservative Kast has pledged to cut roughly $6 billion in public spending over 18 months in an effort to improve the country’s fiscal accounts. As part of this ambitious austerity plan, his government is forcing a nearly 3% budget cut across all ministries.

The measures have drawn criticism not only from opposition parties but also from some sectors within the governing coalition.

The march was organized by the Confederation of Chilean Students and supported by other organizations, including the Teachers’ Union, secondary school student associations, and feminist groups.

Although the march began peacefully, tensions escalated as clashes broke out between protesters and police. Officers used water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds, while some demonstrators threw rocks and other objects. Several streets were blocked and multiple subway stations were closed.

“The government sought to provoke this, to create this situation to justify repression,” Mario Aguilar, president of the Chilean Teachers’ Union, said.

Demonstrators also rallied against the government’s National Reconstruction bill, a sweeping package of measures aimed at reducing state spending, encouraging investment and boosting Chile's economy.

The project, known as the “mega-reform” bill, was approved by the Chamber of Deputies late May and is now set to be debated in the Senate.

“They want to silence us, but we are not going to stop,” said Magdalena Correa, a 21-year-old student. “They’re taking away our resources and rights, and we have to fight back.”

Police and government officials have not yet commented on the clashes. However, Associated Press journalists observed at least a dozen arrests and several injuries during the unrest.

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It happened around 10:30 p.m. Sunday aboard Frontier Flight 3345, which was traveling from Puerto Rico to Chicago when it was forced to make an emergency landing at MIA, according to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.

According to the report, Juan Gabriel Reyes, of Chicago, Illinois, became disruptive during the flight, prompting crew members and passengers to intervene.

Investigators said witnesses told them that Reyes first attempted to open an exit door while the plane was in flight and told others he wanted to leave the plane.

The report states flight attendants stopped him and instructed him to return to his seat.

Deputies said Reyes allegedly ignored those instructions and walked toward the front of the plane, where he attempted to access the cockpit by “placing his hand on the door handle and shoving his shoulder aggressively on the pilot’s door.”

A flight attendant prevented him from gaining access, according to the report.

Investigators said after being allowed to use the restroom, Reyes attempted to urinate on the lavatory floor before being directed to take a seat elsewhere on the plane.

They said an off-duty Frontier flight attendant volunteered to sit in the same row as Reyes after he was relocated.

The report states the off-duty flight attendant later confronted Reyes after being alerted that Reyes was handling his belongings. As the flight attendant reached for his bag, Reyes allegedly grabbed him by the head and began choking him, deputies said.

According to authorities, several passengers stepped in to help the victim and remove Reyes.

Cellphone video shows flight attendants and passengers working together to restrain him as he resisted, the report states.

The flight was then diverted to MIA, where MDSO deputies boarded the plane and took Reyes into custody.

Passenger Josh Longwood, who was on that flight, told Local 10 News that he stepped in when the man started to get violent with another traveler.

“The guy tried to attack him and choke him and I was already ready for something to happen, so I instantly restrained him, put him in his row, laid him down, (and) tied him up with his seatbelt,” he said. “I did what I had to do to make sure everyone else was safe.”

FBI agents responded to the scene and assumed the federal investigation, according to the report. Authorities said Reyes was advised of his Miranda rights, but invoked them and did not provide a statement.

According to the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, the case is being prosecuted at the federal level due to jurisdictional considerations.

Jail records show Reyes is facing one state charge of battery along with federal charges that include interference with flight crew members and attendants, and assault within maritime and territorial jurisdiction.

Authoritiries said a federal criminal complaint has already been filed, and authorities placed a federal hold on Reyes at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He is expected to be transferred to the Federal Detention Center in Miami to face the federal proceedings.

If convicted on all charges, he could face up to 20 years in prison. Records show his bond is currently set at $20,000.

The bear was spotted swimming in a lake before running through a resident’s yard in Tradition’s Town Park community. Video of the sighting quickly caught the attention of neighbors.

“I think it’s kind of cool because I’m like an adrenaline. I like that adrenaline. I like the chaos,” said resident Jeronimo Alonso.

For others, the encounter was a little more unsettling.

“It’s pretty crazy. It’s kind of close to home here,” said resident David Hoffman. “Seeing it swim through the lake and then go through the houses, you know, I’ve got a little pet at home. Kind of makes you think twice before you head outside.”

Officials say Florida black bears typically avoid people and usually move on if they can’t find an easy food source.

If you see a bear, officials advise giving it space, not approaching it and never trying to feed it. If you come face to face with a bear, stay calm, do not run and slowly back away while speaking in a calm, firm voice.

Police also recommend keeping pets on a short leash, as dogs can trigger defensive behavior from bears.

When asked how he would rank an alligator, panther and black bear from most frightening to least frightening, Hoffman put alligators at the top of the list.

“I’d say alligator. I’ve had experience with an alligator, so that definitely is scary there,” Hoffman said. “I live on the water and they come up there. The black bear, from what I hear, I don’t know much about them. From what I hear, they’re pretty docile.”

Officials say anyone who feels threatened by a bear, observes an injured or orphaned bear, or witnesses someone intentionally feeding or harming one should contact the Florida Fish and Wildlife alert hotline.

The company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said Wednesday it will sell 555.6 million shares at $135 a piece. The offering would give SpaceX a market value of $1.77 trillion. Only six companies in the S&P 500 are currently worth more, with Nvidia tops at $5.2 trillion.

Besides the size of the offering and the expected proceeds, SpaceX’s amended prospectus updates details about how much control of the company Musk will have. As SpaceX’s CEO, chief technical officer and chairman, Musk’s voting power will come primarily through his ownership of 5.22 billion Class B shares, which give the holder 10 votes for every share held. According to the filing, Musk would have 82.4% of the voting power in the company.

Forbes currently values Musk's net worth at $826 billion and his stake in SpaceX at $542 billion.

The estimated proceeds from the SpaceX IPO would easily top the $26 billion raised by oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2019.

Time will tell how SpaceX fares on the market. Musk’s plans for the company are as fantastical as the money he hopes raise in the sale.

Colorful, even frightening in parts, the IPO document strikes a contrast with the typically dry, technical prose in IPO documents, detailing plans to use proceeds from the sale to help put men on the moon again and perhaps even Mars. In one section, it talks of a need to build “a permanent human colony” on the red planet with “at least one million inhabitants” as existential threats loom that could consign man to “the same fate as the dinosaurs.”

And SpaceX isn’t the only colossal market debut investors are now bracing for. Earlier this week, Anthropic submitted a confidential filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to officially start its own IPO clock.

OpenAI has not yet reported filing the initial SEC paperwork, but an IPO from the ChatGPT maker is widely expected.

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Meliá will cease operations at 15 of the 34 hotels it manages on the island, according to state website Cubadebate, dealing a blow to Cuba’s vital tourism sector, which has plummeted since its 2018 peak.

The report on Wednesday stated that Meliá’s decision was based on “a sense of corporate responsibility and external factors that have significantly affected the operation, legality and security of these establishments.”

The decision was announced May 26, just weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order expanding sanctions against the island. Most of the sanctions targeted Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A., a business conglomerate operated by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, with the U.S. asserting it was a threat to its national security.

Meliá did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The executive order freezes the assets of foreign companies, seizes their accounts in the United States and prohibits travel by their shareholders, investors and employees— virtually eliminating their activity in the U.S. financial system.

GAESA, a Cuban conglomerate created in the 1990s, owns a wide range of businesses, from car rentals and retail stores to transportation companies. It is Meliá’s partner in hotel management through one of its subsidiaries, Gaviota.

Meliá deals new blow to Cuba's crumbling tourism sector

Meliá is one of Cuba’s most important partners in its vital tourism sector. Until its partial withdrawal, it operated some 14,000 rooms.

Spanish and Canadian firms are the biggest investors in Cuba’s hotel sector, noted Lee Schlenker, a research associate at the Quincy Institute’s Global South program, a Washington think tank.

“With the lack of international tourism, the fuel shortages, and just the broader decline since COVID…I’m sure that these companies will be rethinking their operations in Cuba with major implications for the people of Cuba, not just GAESA,” he said. “There are thousands of Cubans who work in these hotels.”

Several of the hotels that Meliá abandoned in idyllic destinations like the resorts of Varadero, Cayo Santa María and Jardines del Rey “were already closed and inactive due to energy problems and the drop in demand in Cuba,” according to Cubadebate.

Cuba’s government has blamed the U.S. energy blockade for prolonged blackouts, water shortages, supply problems, deficiencies in the healthcare system and disruptions in all aspects of daily life.

Those who work in Cuba’s crumbling tourism sector lamented Meliá’s announcement.

“It’s going to affect us, our families, and everyone involved in tourism. Our pay and income depend on this,” said Erich López, a driver of a green 1950s Dodge who has been driving for two decades to support his family.

For Carlos Luis Carbonel, a 62-year-old parking attendant who works in front of the giant Meliá Cohiba hotel in Havana, the situation “is going to be a blow.”

“This is terrible for everyone: for tour guides, for parking attendants, for hotel workers, for everyone," he said.

Other major hotel chains including Canadian-owned Royalton and Spain’s Iberostar have limited or suspended operations in Cuba in the past week.

Tourism in Cuba, which reached a peak of 4.3 million visitors in 2019, saw a significant drop in the number of tourists arriving in the first quarter of this year, 48% lower than in the same period in 2025.

Only 298,000 tourists arrived in Cuba in January, February and March, compared to 573,300 international visitors during the same period last year, according to government data.

Cuba struggles to breathe

On Wednesday, the enormous and iconic sign of the Royalton Paseo del Prado hotel at the entrance of Old Havana was removed, as confirmed by The Associated Press during a visit. Meanwhile, the 500-room Iberostar Selection — also known as Tower K — the most modern and luxurious of the hotels slated to open in 2025, standing over 150 meters (490 feet) tall, has remained closed for days.

Airlines including World2Fly, Air France and Iberia have canceled flights to and from Cuba.

Also on Wednesday, Cuba’s Central Bank announced that Visa and MasterCard operations on the island would be suspended following the termination of relationships between foreign entities and FINCIMEX S.A., a Cuba-based agency affiliated with GAESA.

Last month, Canadian miner Sherritt International Corp. signed a non-binding agreement with Gillon Capital LLC, a family office linked to a former Trump adviser, to sell its stake in a mining business in Cuba.

In late January, Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to Cuba, as his administration pressures for a change in its political system and government. The move has deepened a crisis caused by seven decades of U.S. sanctions.

While U.S. and Cuban officials held talks earlier this year, tensions have risen. In late May, former President Raúl Castro was charged in a U.S. indictment for his alleged role in the downing of two civilian aircraft operated by Miami-based exiles in 1996 in Cuban waters.

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A man reported that his debit card data had been used without his authorization to make five withdrawals from a Citibank ATM on May 22 at CVS at 1825 NE 185 St. in North Miami Beach, according to police.

Surveillance video at the CVS showed “a heavy-set white male suspect, wearing a blue shirt, black jeans, and gray shoes,” who used eight cards at the ATM and left in a “silver vehicle,” according to a North Miami Beach police officer’s arrest report.

NMB detectives identified the man — behaving as if he was “engaged in organized fraudulent financial crimes involving counterfeit or re-encoded debit and credit cards” — as Norvys Colmenares, records show.

Colmenares, 46, had a silver Hyundai Elantra and was living with Janckeily Guerra, and a minor in an apartment, at 175 NW 160 St., that NMB detectives searched on Tuesday, records show.

Detectives found Colmenares and Guerra, 29, had “accessories commonly utilized in sophisticated credit card fraud and identity theft operations,” according to a police officer’s arrest reports.

On top of their kitchen counter, there was a card-skimming device with an integrated pinhole camera used on ATMs or register terminals to steal account numbers and pins, according to police.

In a toolbox, there were components and tools, including tap-to-pay sensors and electronic programming boards, used in the “manufacture, installation, and operation of card-skimming equipment,” according to police.

Detectives also reported finding “a silver magnetic stripe card encoder/re-encoder,” 143 credit, gift, and prepaid cards, including 132 that had been re-encoded; a glass jar with marijuana, and a loaded Glock 42.

“Guerra also had two altered credit cards inside her wallet,” a police officer wrote, according to the arrest report.

Homeland Security Investigations agents responded and reported that Colmenares and Guerra, who were both born in Venezuela, “had entered” the U.S. unlawfully and were “prohibited from possessing or exercising control over a firearm.”

NMB police officers arrested Colmenares and Guerra on Tuesday morning at the apartment. Miami-Dade corrections booked them on Tuesday night at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where they remained on Wednesday afternoon.

Colmenares faced six charges: Grand theft, fraudulent use or possession of personal identification, possession of a skimming device, attempted unlawful use of a scanning or reencoder device, credit card forgery, and possession of marijuana.

Guerra faced four charges: Possession of a skimming device, credit card forgery, marijuana possession, and unauthorized possession of a firearm.

Colmenares and Guerra both had holds by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.

Un hombre denunció que los datos de su tarjeta de débito fueron utilizados sin autorización para realizar cinco retiros en un cajero automático de Citibank el 22 de mayo en el CVS ubicado en el 1825 de Northeast 185 Street, en North Miami Beach, según la policía.

Las imágenes de vigilancia del CVS mostraron a “un sospechoso masculino blanco de contextura robusta, vestido con una camisa azul, jeans negros y zapatos grises”, quien utilizó ocho tarjetas en el cajero automático y se marchó en un “vehículo plateado”, según un informe de arresto de un agente de North Miami Beach.

Los detectives de NMB identificaron al hombre, quien presuntamente actuaba como si estuviera “involucrado en delitos financieros organizados relacionados con tarjetas de débito y crédito falsificadas o recodificadas”, como Norvys Colmenares, muestran los registros.

Colmenares, de 46 años, tenía un Hyundai Elantra plateado y vivía con Janckeily Guerra y un menor de edad en un apartamento ubicado en el 175 de Northwest 160 Street, que los detectives de NMB registraron el martes, según los registros.

Los detectives encontraron que Colmenares y Guerra, de 29 años, tenían “accesorios comúnmente utilizados en sofisticadas operaciones de fraude con tarjetas de crédito y robo de identidad”, según informes de arresto policiales.

Sobre la encimera de la cocina había un dispositivo de clonación de tarjetas con una cámara integrada tipo pinhole utilizada en cajeros automáticos o terminales de pago para robar números de cuenta y códigos PIN, según la policía.

En una caja de herramientas había componentes y herramientas, incluidos sensores de pago sin contacto y placas electrónicas de programación, utilizados para la “fabricación, instalación y operación de equipos de clonación de tarjetas”, según la policía.

Los detectives también informaron haber encontrado “un codificador/recodificador de banda magnética plateado”, 143 tarjetas de crédito, regalo y prepagadas, incluidas 132 que habían sido recodificadas; un frasco de vidrio con marihuana y una pistola Glock 42 cargada.

“Guerra también tenía dos tarjetas de crédito alteradas dentro de su billetera”, escribió un agente en el informe de arresto.

Agentes de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional respondieron al lugar e informaron que Colmenares y Guerra, ambos nacidos en Venezuela, “habían ingresado” a Estados Unidos de manera ilegal y tenían prohibido poseer o controlar un arma de fuego.

Los agentes de policía de North Miami Beach arrestaron a Colmenares y Guerra el martes por la mañana en el apartamento. El Departamento Correccional de Miami-Dade los ingresó el martes por la noche en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde permanecían detenidos la tarde del miércoles.

Colmenares enfrenta seis cargos: hurto mayor, uso fraudulento o posesión de identificación personal, posesión de un dispositivo de clonación de tarjetas, intento de uso ilegal de un dispositivo de escaneo o recodificación, falsificación de tarjetas de crédito y posesión de marihuana.

Guerra enfrenta cuatro cargos: posesión de un dispositivo de clonación de tarjetas, falsificación de tarjetas de crédito, posesión de marihuana y posesión no autorizada de un arma de fuego.

Tanto Colmenares como Guerra tenían órdenes de retención emitidas por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE).

La editora sénior de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Frine Gomez, contribuyó a este informe.

Esta semana tenemos dos.

El restaurante Royal Palm Grill & Deli en Homestead ha sido inspeccionado 14 veces desde julio de 2023; seis de esas inspecciones requirieron una revisión posterior, y los registros muestran que se ordenó el cierre de Royal en 2024 por un problema de cucarachas.

Recientemente, se registraron 35 infracciones.

En Miami Beach, Coyote Taqueria, en Collins Avenue, también figura en la lista.

Los registros muestran que, desde noviembre de 2023, Coyote ha sido inspeccionado 7 veces y ha cumplido con los estándares de inspección en todas ellas hasta el momento.

31 infracciones en una inspección reciente.

Treinta o más infracciones no son mala suerte, son una decisión, y son inaceptables. Tienes que mejorar.

**ROYAL PALM GRILL & DELI

806 N. KROME AVE.

GRANJA

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 28/5

Se detectaron 35 infracciones.

TAMBIÉN SE ORDENÓ EL CIERRE (PROBLEMA DE CUCARACHAS)

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verdosa similar al moho en el interior de la máquina/contenedor de hielo. Infracción reiterada.”

“Acumulación de restos de comida/residuos de tierra en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Observado en la línea de cocción.”

“Falta una baldosa del techo. Se observó que faltaba una baldosa del techo encima de la mesa de preparación con el fregadero.”

“Los equipos, la vajilla y los utensilios limpios se almacenan junto al lavamanos/fregadero de preparación de alimentos y están expuestos a salpicaduras. Se observó una tostadora de pan almacenada junto al lavamanos en el mostrador principal, expuesta a salpicaduras.”

“Utensilios limpios guardados entre el equipo y la pared. Se observaron cuchillos guardados debajo de la rebanadora en la cocina con restos de comida vieja debajo.”

“Cucarachas muertas en las instalaciones. Se observó una cucaracha muerta en el suelo, frente al fregadero de preparación. Se observó una cucaracha muerta en el suelo, frente al refrigerador en el área de almacenamiento de productos secos.”

“Se observó un recipiente de bebida de un empleado sobre una mesa de preparación de alimentos o encima/al lado de equipos/utensilios limpios. También se observó una lata de Red Bull de un empleado sobre una tabla de cortar blanca al otro lado de la línea de cocción en la cocina trasera.”

“Empleado sin protector/sujeción de barba mientras prepara alimentos.”

“Equipos y utensilios sin secar al aire adecuadamente: apilamiento húmedo. Se observaron recipientes de plástico apilados sin secar al aire adecuadamente debajo de la mesa de preparación con el fregadero.”

“Zonas del suelo cubiertas de agua estancada. Observado en la cocina trasera.”

“El suelo está sucio/tiene acumulación de residuos. Se observó suciedad en el suelo debajo de los equipos de cocina y de las cámaras frigoríficas.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo. Se observó un caso de aceite almacenado en el suelo debajo del lavamanos, cerca del lavavajillas.”

Acumulación de hielo en el congelador vertical y/o en el congelador industrial. Observado en el congelador vertical cerca de la cámara frigorífica. Observado en el congelador vertical cerca del baño. Infracción reiterada.

“Pinzas en uso guardadas en la manija de la puerta del equipo entre usos. Observado en la puerta del horno en la cocina trasera.”

“Paño/toalla húmeda para limpiar debajo de la tabla de cortar.”

“El interior del horno/microondas presenta acumulación de una sustancia negra/grasa/restos de comida. Se observó que el interior del microondas estaba sucio con restos de comida vieja.”

“Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia de grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. Se observaron filtros interiores de la campana extractora sucios con polvo acumulado.”

“Se encontró un recipiente de bebida de un empleado abierto en una unidad de refrigeración con alimentos destinados a ser servidos a los clientes. Se observó a un empleado con una botella de agua abierta almacenada en un refrigerador cercano a la cámara frigorífica. Infracción reiterada.”

“Artículos de un solo uso almacenados incorrectamente. Se observó una caja de vasos almacenada en el suelo en el área de almacenamiento de productos secos.”

“Paño de limpieza húmedo no guardado en solución desinfectante entre usos. Observado en la línea de cocción. Infracción reiterada.”

“Los paños húmedos utilizados para limpiar derrames ocasionales en superficies de equipos que entran en contacto con alimentos y en superficies que no lo hacen no estaban limpios. Observado en la línea de cocción.”

“Solución desinfectante para paños de limpieza almacenada en el suelo. Observada debajo de la mesa de preparación, frente al fregadero triple.”

“El empleado comenzó a manipular alimentos, equipos o utensilios limpios, o a tocar artículos desechables sin envolver sin lavarse las manos previamente. Se observó que el empleado cobró al cliente y luego procedió a servir hielo. No se lavó las manos.”

“El empleado rompió huevos crudos con cáscara y luego manipuló alimentos listos para el consumo y/o equipos o utensilios limpios sin lavarse las manos.”

“El empleado se frotó las manos durante menos de 10-15 segundos mientras se las lavaba.”

“El empleado se lavó las manos con agua fría.”

“El empleado se lavó las manos sin jabón.”

Se encontraron insectos voladores pequeños y vivos. Se observaron aproximadamente 7 moscas vivas posándose sobre tomates sin lavar en el área de almacenamiento de productos secos. También se observaron aproximadamente 10 moscas vivas volando y posándose sobre cebollas sin lavar en el área de almacenamiento de productos secos.

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta para alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad debido a un manejo inadecuado de la temperatura. Los alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad se mantuvieron refrigerados a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron tomates en cubos (46 °F - Mantenimiento en frío) en el refrigerador ubicado frente al horno. Según el operador, permanecieron allí durante más de 6 horas. Se observó arroz (47 °F - Mantenimiento en frío) en el refrigerador ubicado frente al horno. Según el operador, permaneció allí durante más de 24 horas.

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos refrigerados seguros a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron tomates en cubos (46 °F - Refrigeración) en el refrigerador ubicado frente al horno. Según el operador, durante más de 6 horas. Se observó arroz (47 °F - Refrigeración) en el refrigerador ubicado frente al horno.”

“La solución desinfectante para paños de limpieza supera la concentración máxima permitida. Se observó en el cubo de desinfectante (cloro 200+ ppm).”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, una sustancia parecida al moho o una sustancia viscosa. Se observaron bandejas para hornear usadas para preparar pan de maíz muy sucias con grasa vieja.”

“El lavamanos se utiliza para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó que el lavamanos se utilizaba para guardar un vaso transparente en el mostrador.”

No se proporcionaron toallas de papel ni secadores de manos mecánicos en el lavamanos. Tampoco se observaron toallas de papel en el lavamanos cerca del lavavajillas.

“Alimentos listos para consumir, que requieren control de tiempo y temperatura para su seguridad, preparados en el establecimiento y conservados durante más de 24 horas, no estaban debidamente fechados. Se observó sopa de fideos en el refrigerador cercano a la cámara frigorífica sin fechar. Según el jefe de cocina, llevaban menos de 7 días en el mercado.”

**TAQUERÍA COYOTE

1351 COLLINS AVE.

Playa de Miami

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 27/5

31 VIOLACIONES

“Acumulación de una sustancia negra/verdosa similar al moho en el interior de la máquina/contenedor de hielo.”

“Acumulación de residuos en el exterior de la lavadora de vajilla.”

“Techo/baldosas/rejillas de ventilación sucias con restos de comida acumulados, grasa, polvo o una sustancia similar al moho. Se observaron rejillas de ventilación sucias.”

“Vasos, tazas, cuencos, platos, ollas y sartenes limpios, no almacenados boca abajo ni protegidos. Se observó una sartén sin colocar boca abajo en la línea de cocción.”

“El equipo de refrigeración no se encuentra en buen estado. No almacene alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad en esta unidad hasta que se repare. Se observó RIC en la línea de cocción y WIC a 50 °F.”

“La tabla de cortar tiene marcas de cortes y ya no se puede limpiar. Infracción reiterada.”

“Suelo sucio/con acumulación de residuos. Infracción reiterada.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo. Se observó un recipiente de pollo crudo en el suelo dentro del WIC.”

“Utensilio en uso almacenado en agua estancada a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Observado en la línea de cocción.”

“No hay cartel de ‘no se debe lavarse las manos’ en el lavamanos utilizado por los empleados de la cocina. Observado en la zona del bar.”

Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. Se observaron juntas sucias en el interior del RIC. Infracción reiterada.

“Agua estancada en el fondo del refrigerador.”

“Las pajitas que se proporcionan para el autoservicio del cliente no están envueltas individualmente ni se encuentran en un dispensador autorizado.”

“Pared sucia con grasa acumulada, restos de comida y/o polvo. Infracción reiterada.”

“No guardar el paño húmedo en solución desinfectante entre usos.”

“La separación entre la entrada de agua y el borde del fregadero/equipo es inferior a una pulgada. Observado en un fregadero de tres compartimentos.”

“El empleado no se lavó las manos antes de ponerse los guantes para comenzar una tarea que implicaba manipular alimentos.”

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta para alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura debido a un abuso de temperatura. Los alimentos que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura se mantuvieron refrigerados a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Se observó pollo cocido (46 °F - Conservación en frío) y queso (46 °F - Conservación en frío) en el refrigerador junto a la línea de cocina HWS. Según el chef del día anterior. Se observó carne de res cocida (50 °F - Conservación en frío), pollo cocido (52 °F - Conservación en frío), pollo crudo (52 °F - Conservación en frío) y pico de gallo (50 °F - Conservación en frío) dentro del refrigerador WIC, según el chef del día anterior.

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos refrigerados seguros a más de 5 grados Celsius (41 grados Fahrenheit). Se observó pollo cocido (8 °C - Refrigeración); queso (8 °C - Refrigeración) en el refrigerador junto a la línea de cocina HWS. Según lo informado por el chef el día anterior. Se observó carne de res cocida (10 °C - Refrigeración); pollo cocido (11 °C - Refrigeración); pollo crudo (11 °C - Refrigeración); pico de gallo (10 °C - Refrigeración) dentro del refrigerador WIC según lo informado por el chef el día anterior.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos seguros, excepto asados ​​de carne enteros, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron frijoles negros (119 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); salsa de queso (126 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); maíz cocido (120 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) en la mesa de vapor, según lo indicado por el chef una hora antes.”

“El empleado no ha recibido la capacitación adecuada para sus funciones, como lo demuestra su incapacidad para responder preguntas básicas sobre seguridad alimentaria. Se observó que el empleado desconocía la temperatura mínima de conservación en frío.”

“El desagüe del equipo desemboca en el lavamanos. Observado en la zona del bar.”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, una sustancia similar al moho o una sustancia viscosa. Se observó la cuchilla del abrelatas sucia. Se observó la rebanadora sucia. Infracción reiterada.”

“Se ha retirado el lavamanos de la zona de preparación de alimentos/lavado de vajilla. Debe reinstalarse en el mismo lugar. Se ha observado que se ha retirado el lavamanos al final de la línea de cocción.”

“No se proporciona ningún kit de prueba química al usar desinfectante en lavadoras de vajilla de tres compartimentos o paños de limpieza.”

“No hay ningún gerente de servicio de alimentos certificado vigente de servicio con cuatro o más empleados dedicados a la preparación/manipulación de alimentos. Infracción reiterada.”

“No se ha presentado ni aprobado ninguna revisión del plan; se han realizado o están en curso renovaciones.”

“Se observó que el fregadero para fregar había sido retirado y reemplazado por un horno.”

“No se presentó ninguna prueba de que los empleados de alimentos estén informados de su responsabilidad de reportar a la persona a cargo información sobre su salud y actividades relacionadas con enfermedades transmitidas por los alimentos. Se observó a los empleados Franco Peladez y Amanda Diaz, contratados tres meses antes.”

“No había jabón en el lavamanos. Se observó en la zona del bar.”

“Alimentos listos para consumir, que requieren control de tiempo y temperatura para su seguridad, preparados en el establecimiento y conservados durante más de 24 horas, no estaban debidamente fechados. Se observaron frijoles, pollo y cerdo cocidos dentro del WIC sin fechar, según informó un empleado el día anterior. Infracción reiterada.”

“Botella pulverizadora que contiene una sustancia tóxica sin etiquetar. Se observó un spray de limpieza sin etiquetar en la zona del bar.”

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This week, we have two.

Royal Palm Grill & Deli in Homestead has been inspected 14 times since July 2023, six of those required a follow-up, and records show Royal was ordered shut in 2024 for a roach issue.

Recently, 35 violations.

Over in Miami Beach, Coyote Taqueria on Collins Avenue also makes the list.

Records show since November 2023, Coyote has been inspected 7 times and “met inspection standards” for all of them until now.

31 violations on a recent inspection.

Thirty or more violations is not bad luck, it’s a choice, and it’s unacceptable. You have to do better.

**ROYAL PALM GRILL & DELI

806 N. KROME AVE.

HOMESTEAD

INSPECTION DATE 5/28

35 VIOLATIONS FOUND

ALSO ORDERED SHUT (ROACH ISSUE)

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Repeat Violation.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed at cook line.”

“Ceiling tile missing. Observed ceiling tile missing above prep table with prep sink.”

“Clean equipment/dishware/utensils stored next to handwash/food preparation sink exposed to splash. Observed bread toaster stored next to handwash sink at front counter exposes to splash.”

“Clean utensils stored between equipment and wall. Observed knives stored under slicer in the kitchen with old food debris under.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on floor across prep sink. Observed 1 dead roach on floor in front of reach in cooler at dry goods storage area.”

“Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Observed employee Red Bull stored on white cutting board across the cook line in the back kitchen.”

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

“Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. Observed plastic containers stacked together not properly air dried under prep table with prep sink.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed in the back kitchen.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed floor under cooking equipment and cold holding coolers soiled.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed 1 case of oil stored on floor under the handwash sink near the dishwasher.”

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer and/or walk-in freezer. Observed at reach in freezer near walk in cooler. Observed at reach in freezer near restroom. Repeat Violation.”

“In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. Observed at oven door in the back kitchen.”

“In-use wet wiping cloth/towel used under cutting board.”

“Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris. Observed interior of microwave soiled with old food debris.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed interior hood filters soiled with accumulated dust.”

“Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. Observed employee open water bottle stored at reach in cooler near walk in cooler. Repeat Violation.”

“Single-service articles improperly stored. Observed box of cups stored on floor at dry goods storage area.”

“Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. Observed at cook line. Repeat Violation.”

“Wet wiping cloths used for occasional spills on equipment food- and nonfood-contact surfaces not clean. Observed at cook line.”

“Wiping cloth sanitizing solution stored on the floor. Observed under prep table across the triple sink.”

“Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employee charged customer and then proceeded to scoop ice. No handwash.”

“Employee cracked raw shell eggs and then handled ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment or utensils without washing hands.”

“Employee rubbed hands together for less than 10-15 seconds while washing hands.”

“Employee washed hands with cold water.”

“Employee washed hands with no soap.”

“Live, small flying insects found. Observed approximately 7+ live flies landing on unwashed tomatoes at dry goods storage area. Observed approximately 10+ live flies flying and landing on unwashed onions at dry goods storage area.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed diced tomatoes (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven. As per operator for more than 6 hours. Observed rice (47F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven. As per operator for more than 24 hours.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed diced tomatoes (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven. As per operator for more than 6 hours. Observed rice (47F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler across oven.”

“Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed. Observed Sanitizer Bucket (Chlorine 200+ppm).”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed baking sheets used to bake corn bread heavily soiled with old grease.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed handwashing sink used to store clear cup at front counter.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Observed no paper towels at handwash sink near the dishwasher.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed noodle soup at reach in cooler near walk in cooler not date marked. As per kitchen manager for less than 7 days.”

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1351 COLLINS AVE.

MIAMI BEACH

INSPECTION DATE 5/27

31 VIOLATIONS

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin.”

“Accumulation of debris on exterior of ware washing machine.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Observed ceiling vents soiled.”

“Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Observed pan not inverted at cook line.”

“Cold holding equipment not maintained in good repair. Do not store time/temperature control for safety food in this unit until the unit is repaired. Observed RIC at cook line and WIC at 50F.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Repeat Violation.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Repeat Violation.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed raw chicken container on floor inside WIC.”

“In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed at cook line.”

“No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Observed at bar area.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed gaskets inside RIC soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Standing water in bottom of reach-in-cooler.”

“Straws provided for customer self-service not individually wrapped or in an approved dispenser.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Repeat Violation.”

“Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.”

“Air gap between water supply inlet and flood rim of equipment/sink is less than one inch. Observed at 3 compartment sink.”

“Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to initiate a task working with food.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked chicken (46F - Cold Holding); cheese (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler by cook line HWS. As per chef from previous day. Observed cooked beef (50F - Cold Holding); cooked chicken (52F - Cold Holding); raw chicken (52F - Cold Holding); pico de gallo (50F - Cold Holding) inside WIC as per chef from previous day.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed cooked chicken (46F - Cold Holding); cheese (46F - Cold Holding) at reach in cooler by cook line HWS. As per chef from previous day. Observed cooked beef (50F - Cold Holding); cooked chicken (52F - Cold Holding); raw chicken (52F - Cold Holding); pico de gallo (50F - Cold Holding) inside WIC as per chef from previous day.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed black beans (119F - Hot Holding); cheese sauce (126F - Hot Holding); cooked corn (120F - Hot Holding) at steam table, as per chef from an hour prior.”

“Employee has not received adequate training related to their assigned duties as evidenced by the inability to answer basic food safety questions. Observed employee unaware of minimum cold holding temperature.”

“Equipment drain line draining into handwash sink. Observed at bar area.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed can opener blade soiled. Observed slicer soiled. Repeat Violation.”

“Handwash sink removed from food preparation/dishwashing area. Must be reinstalled in the same location where removed. Observed HWS removed at end of cook line.”

“No chemical test kit provided when using sanitizer at three-compartment ware washing machine or wiping cloths.”

“No currently certified food service manager on duty with four or more employees engaged in food preparation/handling. Repeat Violation.”

“No plan review submitted and approved - renovations were made or are in progress.”

“Observed mop sink removed and replaced with oven.”

“No proof provided that food employees are informed of their responsibility to report to the person in charge information about their health and activities related to foodborne illnesses. Observed employees Franco Peladez , Amanda Diaz hired 3 months prior.”

“No soap provided at handwash sink. Observed at bar area.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Observed cooked beans, cooked chicken, cooked pork inside WIC with no date marked, as per employee from previous day. Repeat Violation.”

“Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Observed cleaning spray at bar area unlabeled.”

Según la MDSO, la policía de Doral respondió a una vivienda en la comunidad cerrada Doral Isles en el área de Northwest 111th Court y 72nd Terrace poco después de las 7:30 p.m. tras recibir una llamada para verificar el bienestar de las personas que viven en la casa.

Las autoridades dijeron que los agentes ingresaron a la vivienda y encontraron a un hombre, una mujer y dos niñas que no respondían.

El personal de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue también respondió a la vivienda y declaró a los cuatro muertos en la escena.

Detectives de la Oficina de Homicidios de la MDSO han asumido la investigación de las muertes.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles.

The ex-seminary student and father of two took out a loan against his home to pay for the $17,000 cost of filing the various forms to run for the seat. He received no other donations. He had no visible campaign and no staff.

Yet on Wednesday, the day after California's primary, Stansfield had done well enough with voters to be holding on to second place, potentially locking Democrats out of the November general election in a U.S. House race that the party had put at the center of its national redistricting strategy.

“I wanted to show Christianity and Judaism a God from the Bible who loves Muslims,” Stansfield said in a telephone interview before rushing to his son's sixth-grade graduation. “I wasn't necessarily going after it to win a race.”

It is too soon to know which two candidates will advance in the 6th Congressional District, but the early results are already serving as a cautionary tale about the assumptions both major parties make when they gerrymander political boundaries to expand their power. California Democrats won voter approval last year to redraw the state's congressional map as a way to counter Republican moves elsewhere before this year's midterm elections. Democrats had planned on gaining five seats in the state, and one was the 6th District, which stretches from Sacramento into Republican-leaning suburbs to the east.

Redistricting goal meets reality of campaign politics

Democrats assumed that one of the top two finishers would be a member of their party. But Stansfield's showing is evidence that the best-laid partisan mapmaking plans can go awry when they run into the unpredictable reality of campaign politics.

Kevin Kiley is the congressman whose conservative district was split in two and fused with a more Democratic area. Kiley, who left the Republican Party and filed to run as an independent and has nabbed the largest share of votes so far. That left Stansfield the only candidate on the ballot with an “R” next to his name, helping him land, for now, above the nine Democrats who split the majority of the votes recorded at this point.

Both Democratic and Republican strategists expect heavily Democratic-leaning mail ballots that comprise the tens of thousands and have yet to be counted to break for the party's candidates, making it likely one of them supplants Stansfield in the final tally.

“I would think there'd be an advantage to Democrats,” said Rob Stutzman, a GOP consultant in Sacramento.

The state allows mail ballots to count if they are postmarked by Election Day and received up to seven days afterward. Officials also must contact each mail voter whose signature does not match the one on file and offer that voter a chance of proving identity in other ways. Close races in the state often take weeks to resolve.

Stansfield intended to send a message to Republicans

Stansfield, who said he is married to a Muslim woman from the Middle East and was kicked out of seminary for arguing that Palestinians have a biblical right to the Holy Land, has made a quixotic run for Congress before. In 2018, he sought an Oregon congressional seat as a Democrat, a party he joined after the Iraq War.

He ended up losing badly in that primary, receiving about 4% of the vote in a district that included part of Portland, but a candidate survey he completed at the time offered more insight into his views. In a response to a question about his top priorities if elected, Stansfield said, among other things, that he was “against ignorance in all its forms.”

“If we are ever going to call ourselves a tolerant society we need to learn to embrace the diversity of our world with love,” he wrote.

In the questionnaire, he described himself as Jewish and said one of the public policies he was most passionate about was supplying water and medical equipment in Gaza.

Stansfield said he left the Democratic Party after the Israel-Hamas war broke out, during Democrat Joe Biden's presidency, and over what he described as the “genocide” in Gaza. After moving to California, he decided to run in the congressional district before last year's redrawing and when it was reliably conservative because he wanted his message to reach as many Republican voters as possible.

“I wanted to go to the Republican Party and say ‘Guys, I love you, but you’ve messed up,'” Stansfield said.

He had no idea he would end up in such a potentially pivotal role.

Democrats' concerns under new map had focused elsewhere

Democrats had fretted about being locked out of one of the five seats they expected to gain in their redistricting bid, but their concern was centered on a San Diego-area district where they had a similarly broad field of candidates. One of them, San Diego City Councilwoman Marni von Wilpert, surged ahead to secure a spot in the general election and will face Republican Jim Desmond, a San Diego County Supervisor, in November.

In another redrawn congressional district, Republican Rep. Ken Calvert secured a slot on the November ballot after a bruising campaign against fellow Republican Rep. Young Kim. The second slot in that race was still up for grabs on Wednesday.

Three veteran Democratic members of Congress who were challenged by younger upstarts from within their party seemed to have avoided upsets.

Reps. Brad Sherman and Mike Thompson emerged as the top voter-getters in their respective races and will move on to the general election. Rep. Doris Matsui was leading the tally Wednesday in her Sacramento district, although it remained uncertain which two candidates would move on to the general election.

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Associated Press writer Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon, contributed to this report.

The SETI Institute said Wednesday that extensive radio scans by its telescope in Northern California found no signs of otherworldly technology from our solar system’s latest interstellar visitor.

The object labeled 3I/Atlas was discovered last summer sweeping through our neck of the cosmic woods. Scientists quickly identified it as a comet that migrated from another star, although a few insisted without evidence it might be associated with intelligent life.

It’s only the third known object from a faraway star — all deemed of natural origin — to venture into the sun’s turf.

Several NASA spacecraft observed the celestial iceball as it swung past Mars last October, venturing within 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) of the red planet. The closest it ever got to Earth was in December at a whopping 167 million miles (269 million kilometers) away.

SETI said it conducted more than seven hours of observations in July soon after the comet was discovered, searching through a wide range of radio signals. The team identified nearly 74 million narrow-band radio signals.

After accounting for human interference or signals matching the object's movement, only slightly more than 200 signals remained, all of which “traced back to technology on the surface of the Earth or our own Earth-orbiting satellites,” according to SETI.

Results were published in the Astronomical Journal.

These results "show how realistic it is to detect a signal with the technology we have today,” co-author Valeria Garcia Lopez of Furman University said a statement. “That is why it is important to keep searching for technosignatures, even from objects we might not expect to have signals.”

SETI's Sofia Sheikh, the lead author, and her team pointed out that NASA's Voyager spacecraft will one day become extraterrestrial objects in neighboring star systems. Launched in the 1970s, the twin probes are the most distant spacecraft from Earth, drifting in the space between stars.

“Voyager and similar probes will eventually become interstellar objects in other stellar systems. We thus know that no extrapolation is needed for the idea of interstellar technological objects, as we have a proof by existence,” they wrote.

Almost 1 billion miles away now (1.3 billion kilometers) as it makes its way back to interstellar space — never to return — the comet is estimated to be within 1,444 feet (440 meters) and 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) in size. Scientists suspect it could be as old as 11 billion years, twice as old as the sun.

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Meliá dejará de operar 15 de los 34 hoteles que administra, informó el portal oficial Cubadebate y agregó que la firma justificó su decisión “en factores externos que han afectado de manera significativa la operativa, la legalidad y la seguridad de estos establecimientos”.

La decisión se enmarca en el impacto del cerco energético y financiero de Estados Unidos contra la nación caribeña y la consecuente caída del vital sector turístico.

Varios de los hoteles en destinos paradisíacos como los balnearios de Varadero, Cayo Santa María o Jardines del Rey “se encontraban cerrados y sin actividad debido a los problemas energéticos y a la caída de la demanda”, añadió Cubadebate.

Meliá es uno de los socios más importantes de la isla en el sector turístico y hasta su retiro parcial contaba con unas 14.000 habitaciones.

Otras compañías como la canadiense Royalton y la también española Iberostar limitaron o suspendieron operaciones en Cuba en la última semana.

El miércoles el cartel de la entrada del icónico Hotel Paseo del Prado en La Habana Vieja fue retirado, constató The Associated Press. Igualmente desde hace algunos días el Iberostar Selection –el más moderno y lujoso de los inaugurados por esa firma en 2025— permanece cerrado.

La limitación de operaciones o salida de estas compañías de la isla se suma a la de líneas áreas como World2Fly, Air France e Iberia.

Mientras, el Banco Central de Cuba informó el miércoles que debido a la suspensión de la relación de entidades extranjeras con la agencia financiera isleña Fincimex S.A, del conglomerado empresarial GAESA, se cancelaron las operaciones de las tarjetas Visa y Mastercard.

La entidad bancaria indicó en un comunicado que la medida está relacionada con una orden del 1 de mayo del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump que forma parte "de su estrategia de asfixia contra el pueblo de Cuba”.

Un sector en retroceso

Cuba, que llegó a recibir unos 4,3 millones de turistas en 2019, ha visto caer desde entonces el arribo de visitantes internacionales.

Según la Oficina Nacional de Estadística e Información, la cantidad de turistas que llegaron a la isla en el primer trimestre del año fue 48% menor que en el mismo periodo de 2025, apenas unos 298.000.

“Las empresas canadienses y españolas son las mayores inversoras en el sector hotelero de Cuba y, ante la falta de turismo internacional, la escasez de combustible y, en general, el declive más amplio desde la llegada del COVID, del cual el sector no se ha recuperado... estoy seguro de que estas compañías se replantearán sus operaciones en Cuba”, comentó a AP Lee Schlenker, investigador asociado del Instituto Quincy en Washington.

Estados Unidos impuso en enero un cerco petrolero a Cuba para presionar un cambio de modelo político que agravó la crisis que la isla padece desde hace un lustro, caracterizada por largos apagones y desabastecimiento de bienes básicos.

En mayo el Departamento de Estado sancionó a GAESA, lo que incluye el congelamiento de sus activos y la intervención de sus cuentas en Estados Unidos, además de la prohibición de viaje de sus accionistas, inversores y empleados.

GAESA, creada en la década de 1990 y que opera desde rentadoras de carros a tiendas minoristas y empresas de transporte, es socia de Meliá en la administración de hoteles.

Dadas las sanciones a GAESA, los expertos no descartan que empresas internacionales que operan con el conglomerado se sientan presionadas.

“Lo cual tendrá importantes repercusiones para el pueblo cubano y no sólo para GAESA. Hay miles de cubanos que trabajan en estos hoteles”, advirtió el académico Schlenker, quien resaltó que ni los hoteles, ni el turismo representan una amenaza para la seguridad nacional de los Estados Unidos.

Entre las personas que viven de los ingresos turísticos de la isla, la noticia generó preocupación.

Para Carlos Luis Carbonel, un parqueador autorizado de 62 años que trabaja frente al gigante hotel Meliá Cohiba, el efecto de estas decisiones empresarias “va a ser un golpe” para quienes trabajan con el turismo.

“Nos va a afectar a nosotros, a nuestras familias y a todos los que estamos vinculados al turismo. Nuestra remuneración y los ingresos dependen de esto”, dijo a AP Erich López, un chofer de un automóvil Dodge de los años 50 que desde hace dos décadas conduce para turistas.

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It’s not yet clear what could have prevented last week's crash because the National Transportation Safety Board investigation is just beginning. Still, it highlights the inherent dangers whenever a bus or semitruck crashes into other vehicles — even if riding a bus is much safer statistically than driving a car.

While collision-avoidance technology and emergency braking systems are standard on many new cars, commercial buses still lack them — even in the face of longtime NTSB recommendations and proposed regulations to require them.

Observers say the circumstances of the crash that happened early Friday also raise questions about driver fatigue. Court records, meanwhile, show that the E&P Travel Inc. bus driver, who now faces manslaughter charges, was previously ticketed for excessive speeding, along with other drivers for the same company.

While those tickets might not have been enough to automatically revoke the man's commercial driver's license, industry experts say even one similar violation would normally get a driver fired.

“The fact that there was one conviction and another citation and this driver is still on the road goes against industry norms and best practices in a pretty significant way,” said Fred Ferguson, who leads the American Bus Association trade group.

That NTSB crash investigators also have no power to enforce their recommendations factors into why so many have gone unfulfilled for years, as the industry and regulators often focus on the potential costs involved.

“Everybody walks a walk in talking safety at the industry level, at the congressional level. And then at the end of the day, it’s the same old excuses,” said Jim Hall, who was chairman of the NTSB during the 1990s. “And if it costs money, there’s going to be a strong resistance.”

A history of speeding

Federal rules say that a driver who is convicted twice within three years for driving more than 15 mph over the limit should be disqualified for 60 days.

The bus driver in last week's crash, Jing Sheng Dong, of New York City, was previously convicted of driving 73 mph (117 kph) in a 55 mph (89 kph) zone in Virginia in 2024, and received a second ticket in March in Annapolis, Maryland, that accused him of driving a motorcoach 72 mph (116 kph) in a 50 mph (80 kph) zone. The 48-year-old is now facing five charges of involuntary manslaughter and one count of reckless driving.

But Ned Einstein, an expert witness in some 700 transportation lawsuits, said he doubts the criminal charges filed after the crash will be effective at making roads safer because Dong didn’t create the conditions that likely contributed to it.

“They never hit the heart of the problem and never go after the person who’s responsible, and the person that’s responsible for these things is the person that runs the company,” Einstein said, explaining that drivers have to take the shifts they are given while company owners set the schedules and run the businesses.

Friday’s crash also happened around 2:30 a.m. ET — roughly five hours into a trip from New York to North Carolina. That makes former state trooper Jeremy Disbrow, who helps train law enforcement with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, wonder whether fatigue may have been a factor.

Bus drivers are prohibited under federal law from driving more than 10 hours or working more than 15 hours without taking at least eight hours off to rest. Electronic logs have helped better enforce those rules than paper logbooks, although there have been instances where the former have been tampered with.

Records show that another E&P Travel driver was involved in a similar crash in North Carolina in 2024 that injured nine people after the bus failed to slow down for a traffic control vehicle that was performing a moving lane closure. The bus hit that vehicle, and a third vehicle rear-ended the bus. The bus driver, Pei Jie Lu, later pleaded guilty to failure to reduce speed. That crash occurred three months after Lu was ticketed in Maryland for negligent driving and changing lanes unsafely, according to court records. He pleaded guilty in that case in September 2024.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said federal investigators are looking into Dong’s background as well as the company that hired him and the school that trained him. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is also trying to confirm that New York followed the rules when it awarded Dong a commercial driver’s license. Duffy has worked to strengthen and enforce standards for CDL holders, but that effort has focused on truck drivers.

A long list of unfulfilled recommendations

Even when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agrees that something is a good idea, like automatic braking, it often takes years to finalize a rule requiring it. Commercial buses, for example, have only been required to have seat belts since 2016.

Numerous NTSB recommendations for buses and other commercial vehicles have never been adopted, including stricter standards to reduce driver fatigue and ensure drivers get enough rest between trips. A rule to require collision-avoidance technology in commercial buses and trucks was proposed in 2023, but it remains pending.

Ultimately, it falls to regulators, Congress and the industry to adopt them. Unlike regulators who must conduct a cost-benefit analysis, the NTSB isn't required to consider how practical its recommendations are. It simply urges safety improvements to prevent future tragedies.

The Transportation Department didn’t immediately respond this week to questions about why so many recommendations go unfulfilled.

Many bus companies do invest in safety

The American Bus Association trade group works to promote safety measures and Ferguson said driver-monitoring technology, such as inward-facing video cameras and advanced telematics systems similar to those used by major auto insurers, has become common. Some of those systems can even send alerts about driver behavior to a bus company.

Ferguson also said some companies have installed collision-avoidance technology on their buses because “the difference between catastrophic accidents and not having catastrophic accidents is you keeping your company.”

But cost is a factor — a new motorcoach previously cost roughly $650,000, and the industry is now dealing with the impact of 10% tariffs. Ferguson said newer buses have the most safety features, but increasing costs will slow upgrades.

“Operating safely not only is morally and ethically what they believe in, but it’s good business,” said Ferguson, whose group represents about 40% of the 1,800 companies that operate about 50,000 motorcoaches across the United States and Canada.

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Ramer reported from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press writer Allen G. Breed contributed from Wake Forest, North Carolina.

House Speaker Mike Johnson had tried to prevent an outcome that would show the mounting opposition to the war, abruptly shutting down floor action two weeks ago when the resolution was on the verge of approval. But displeasure has only grown as the conflict drags on and as Trump struggles to negotiate a plan for peace.

The roll call Wednesday was 215-208, but next steps are uncertain. Trump would likely reject any measure from Congress to limit his commander-in-chief authority. Still, the tally, with four Republicans joining Democrats, was a rebuke of the president's war strategy, and cheers erupted in the House chamber.

“This reckless and costly war of choice needs to end today,” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said earlier in the week.

“All we need are a handful of Republicans to join us and we can end this reckless and costly war of choice — a war that has cost the American taxpayer over $100 billion — that’s extraordinary — and left our country in a weaker position relative to Iran.”

Opposition to war grows

It’s the fourth time the House has tried to curb the U.S. war against Iran. The Senate advanced its own war powers resolution last month when a handful of GOP senators broke ranks with the Republican president in a rare show of political pushback from his party.

Each time Democrats have pushed forward the war powers resolution, the vote tallies have inched higher as political unease with the U.S. war swells. Trump had campaigned for the White House on a promise to end U.S. entanglements abroad and focus more on domestic issues, but the war has shifted attention back to the Middle East.

Johnson insisted Trump is “laser focused” on the domestic front, particularly ahead of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

The speaker said he spent three hours at the White House with the president this week as Trump is calling on allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz for commerce, especially the flow of oil.

Since the U.S. joined Israel in launching the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran, Americans have seen gas prices spike at the pumps, adding to inflationary pressure on consumer spending.

Iran has been able to interrupt shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital channel for a large segment of the world’s oil, natural gas and related products such as fertilizer.

“We’re working on that final piece,” said Johnson, R-La. “The entire world has an interest in the Strait of Hormuz being reopen for commerce. That what he’s working on.”

While a ceasefire in the conflict was declared in April, it remains uneasy and uncertain. Talks for a more durable end to the fighting have dragged, increasingly complicated by Israel’s broadening war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Meanwhile, military strikes between the U.S and Iran continue to flare.

Congress exerts its war powers authority

The war powers resolution from the House would not immediately stop the war, but it would provide a symbolic if not legal step against further military action.

The resolution next goes to the Senate, where four Republican senators last month joined Democrats in advancing a similar measure to curtail the U.S. campaign against Iran. The Senate has yet to take a final vote to approve or reject its own war powers resolution.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Wednesday testifying at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing that the Iranians would think that the administration's “hands are going to be tied” if Congress approved a war powers resolution. He said they would think ”we won’t be able to do anything to them, so why make a deal?”

It's not the only action Congress is taking in the national security arena as Democrats, in the minority, work to peel off Republican support for measures beyond the war against Iran.

The House is also voting Wednesday on another Democratic-led effort that would authorize U.S. support for Ukraine's military operations as it battles Russia and to help reconstruct the war-torn country. The House this week is also expected to consider a war powers resolution to block U.S. action in Lebanon.

While Congress has the authority under the Constitution to declare war, the president also has power as the commander in chief to engage in military action, creating a legal dispute over which branch of government has ultimate say in matters of war and peace.

Under the war powers act, the White House has a 60-day window to seek approval from Congress for military action. The administration, however, has indicated that because a ceasefire has been declared in the current conflict in Iran, the hostilities have ceased.

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Associated Press writer Ben Finley contributed to this report.

Con gritos de “la educación pública se defiende”, miles de estudiantes, docentes y organizaciones sociales marcharon en protesta contra los recortes al presupuesto educativo y las reformas anunciadas recientemente por la administración de Kast, que prevé una reducción de los recursos para programas claves de diversos ministerios, en especial los de Educación, Salud, Vivienda y Trabajo.

Kast, un ultraconservador que llegó al poder el pasado 11 de marzo, asumió las riendas del país con la promesa de recortar unos 6.000 millones de dólares en 18 meses a fin de mejorar las cuentas fiscales. Para ello, ordenó un ambicioso plan de ajuste que incluye un recorte de cerca del 3% en los presupuestos de los ministerios.

La medida ha generado críticas no solo de la oposición sino también de sectores del propio gobierno.

La protesta fue convocada por la Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (Confech) y fue respaldada por el Colegio de Profesores, la Asamblea Coordinadora de Estudiantes Secundarios y la Coordinadora Feminista 8M, entre otras organizaciones.

Los manifestantes sostienen que, así implementadas, las medidas propuestas socavarán el acceso a la educación, ya que varias prevén la reducción de algunos beneficios destinados a la comunidad estudiantil, como el fin de la gratuidad de la educación superior para algunos grupos.

Aunque la protesta empezó de forma pacífica, con el transcurso de las horas se produjeron violentos choques entre manifestantes y la policía, que usó cañones de agua y gases lacrimógenos para dispersarlos. Los disturbios llevaron al corte de diversas calles y el cierre de estaciones de metro.

“El gobierno buscó provocar esto, buscó generar esta situación para justificar la represión”, denunció el presidente del Colegio de Profesoras y Profesores de Chile, Mario Aguilar, desde la marcha.

Ni la policía ni el gobierno se han manifestado hasta ahora sobre los enfrentamientos, pero según pudo observar The Associated Press al menos una decena de personas fueron detenidas, mientras diversas resultaron heridas.

Los manifestantes también alzaron la voz en contra de la controvertida propuesta de ley de Reconstrucción Nacional del gobierno, que prevé un austero y extenso programa de medidas para ajustar los gastos estatales, incentivar las inversiones y recuperar la economía.

También conocido como proyecto de “megarreforma”, la iniciativa recibió el visto bueno de la Cámara de Diputados a finales de mayo y deberá ser debatida por el Senado.

“Nos quieren callar, pero nosotros no vamos a parar”, dijo Magdalena Correa, estudiante de Pedagogía de 21 años. “Nos están quitando recursos y derechos, y tenemos que contraatacar”.

District attorney's spokesman Sean Webby confirmed Wednesday that the warrant has been issued in response to a video Aiyuk posted to social media last December that appeared to show him speeding on the road in front of Levi's Stadium.

The California Post first reported the arrest warrant.

Aiyuk posted an apology a few days after the video that appeared to show him driving well over the posted speed limit of 40 mph.

"Sorry ya’ll, my car content won’t come with speeding anymore,” Aiyuk wrote in a social media post. “Was praying with my son tonight and wouldn’t want anybody else to miss out on an opportunity to do the same with their loved ones! My apologies.”

Aiyuk is currently on the reserve/left squad list after he stopped showing up late last season as he rehabilitates a knee injury that has sidelined him since October 2024.

The issues with the 49ers and Aiyuk go back to last summer when the team previously voided $27 million guaranteed in his contract for next season for failing to participate in meetings and other team activities.

General manager John Lynch has said he doesn't expect Aiyuk to play again for the 49ers. The team has been waiting to see if another team is willing to trade for Aiyuk. The 49ers otherwise could either cut him or keep him on the reserve list.

Aiyuk has three years remaining on the four-year, $120 million extension he signed last year. But he now has no guaranteed money remaining.

The 28-year-old Aiyuk has 294 catches for 4,305 yards and 25 TDs since being drafted in the first round in 2020.

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“There’s continuing litigation, and I’m unable to comment on ongoing litigation,” Bessent told lawmakers at the Senate Finance Committee hearing.

It was a frustrating answer for Democratic lawmakers looking to get answers from Bessent at a hearing ostensibly focused on the Treasury Department’s budget and came a day after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche seemed to indicate that the portion of the settlement dealing with the IRS audit immunity would still be in effect for the Republican president.

After several failed attempts to get Bessent to answer, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., said, “It’s been very clear you’re dodging this and you’re trying to use it as an excuse. It’s just outrageous on behalf of the American republic.”

A White House representative did not respond to an Associated Press inquiry about the status of the settlement. In the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump did not confirm whether the compensation fund had been scrapped or was simply on hold. “I’d have to ask the lawyers, I don’t know," he told reporters. “As far as I’m concerned, it was a beautiful thing,” he said.

The administration decided to scrap plans for the compensation fund, which could have included payouts to participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, after bipartisan outrage and a fierce political backlash that threatened to stall key elements of the White House agenda. Still, the status of the IRS immunity deal as part of the controversial settlement crafted to resolve Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS remained unclear, though Blanche said Tuesday that “nothing has changed” in that regard.

Last week, a federal judge in Florida overseeing Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS, who had initially dismissed the case, reopened the case and ordered the president’s attorneys to respond to allegations that Trump abandoned his claims to avoid the court’s scrutiny of the deal.

When she initially dismissed the case, Kathleen Williams, the judge handling the lawsuit, admonished the Justice Department for a lack of transparency and said no agency “submitted any settlement documents nor filed any documents ensuring that the settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an actual case or controversy existed.”

Matt Platkin, a former New Jersey attorney general now at the law firm Platkin LLP, which is representing lawmakers and judges challenging the settlement agreement, called it “one of the greatest scams in American history.”

He told The Associated Press that Blanche’s testimony on Tuesday over plans to scrap the weaponization fund and grant Trump audit immunity “underscores the need for the court to continue its inquiry in Florida.”

Lawmakers on Wednesday tried to grill Bessent on the agreement without success.

“Secretary Bessent owes the committee an explanation of what the Treasury knows about the dirty settlement. That’s because his department was involved from beginning to end,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

Wyden asked Bessent: “Does the IRS audit immunity given to Trump, his family, and his businesses still stand?”

Bessent declined to answer, citing the unresolved legal dispute.

If audits and examinations into the president's taxes were thrown out under the settlement, an untold figure could be wiped from his bill to the federal tax collector.

Previous reporting from the New York Times and ProPublica shows that a long-standing audit of a technique Trump reportedly used to avoid paying taxes years ago could have resulted in an estimated $100 million bill if the IRS had found wrongdoing.

Even some Republicans expressed concern on Wednesday over the plan to shield Trump from the IRS.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., speaking to reporters outside the chambers, said, “I don’t think any American should have a deal like that.”

Nina Olson, founder of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, which has sued the Trump administration over IRS disclosures to immigration enforcement, called the settlement “the lowest point for the IRS since the 1970s and President Nixon’s efforts to help his friends by trying to stop IRS audits of them and hurting his enemies by urging IRS audits on them.”

Santos placed the bets on another prediction marketplace, Kalshi, after publicly announcing his intention to be at the Feb. 24 speech, according to a person familiar with the investigation. He later blamed a delayed flight for missing the event.

The suspicious trades were detected by Kalshi and referred to the Commodities Future Trading Commission, which has opened a probe into Santos for possible insider trading, according to a second person familiar with the investigation.

Both spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

By the time of the State of the Union address, Santos was already working in an influencer capacity for Polymarket, using his substantial online platform to promote the controversial brand. He was released from federal prison last October after Trump granted him clemency in a fraud case.

In response to an inquiry from the AP, a Polymarket spokesperson said the company was in the process of terminating the contract as a result of this week's revelations.

Santos did not respond to phone calls and text messages from the AP.

On his podcast, “Doing Time with George Santos,” the former congressman has spoken about his involvement in prediction markets, which he called “easily manipulable.”

“There’s definitely some space for speculation. There will be investigations. There will be scrutiny,” he said in March. “I just want to make sure that people understand: It is not straightforward. It is not a crime to do prediction market."

He continued: “I think it’s fun and you can make a little money and you can have fun with it, but just understand that there will always be advantaged players in this game and it’s very hard to understand who they are.”

Santos won election to Congress in 2022 after campaigning using a fake persona as a wealthy, self-made Wall Street dealmaker, when he actually had no background in finance and was struggling to pay his rent.

He was expelled from Congress and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and identify theft in a criminal case involving stealing money from donors, using some of it on personal expenses including designer clothing.

Sentenced to more than seven years in prison, Santos served 84 days before Trump commuted his sentence.

That was easier to swallow during the first three rounds, when others down the lineup picked up the slack. Now, it is a problem that could cost them the Stanley Cup.

The Hurricanes have met their match in the final against the Vegas Golden Knights, a seasoned opponent with no glaring weaknesses who won the opener 5-4. With Game 2 on Thursday night, the pressure is squarely on Carolina's best players to get it together before it is too late.

"I know we have a better in us, and we've got to show it," Aho said Wednesday. “It's on us to figure it out.”

Top-line scoring woes

Through 14 games this postseason, the trio of Jarvis, Aho and Svechnikov has scored just three times against a goaltender at even strength. The success of the second line of Taylor Hall, Logan Stankoven and Jackson Blake made getting past Ottawa, Philadelphia and Montreal a breeze with a single loss in the three series combiend.

Vegas is a different animal, and Game 1 showed the frustration seeping through for the first line.

“This league is weird: You grip your stick a little tight and you get into a weird matchup, and it can look worse than it is,” Hall said. "But things can change on a dime, especially this time of year.”

The Hurricanes have been waiting nearly two months for that change. Coach Rod Brind'Amour for several weeks has exhibited patience and praised Jarvis, Aho and Svechnikov for doing good things away from the puck that contribute to winning, even if they're not showing up on the scoresheet.

His tone has changed facing a deficit in the final.

“They got to play in the other team's end,” Brind'Amour said. “They’re too much one and done and not even one (scoring chance), and it’s not a lot of time. So, they got to get a little more offensive zone time. Kind of like that last shift they had. That was one of the shifts you could say: ‘OK, there you go. That’s how it needs to look.’ We need them to get going.”

Glimpse of what could be

That final shift came with the score tied late in the third period Tuesday night, hemming the Golden Knights in their own end and generating quality opportunities. Jarvis had one shot blocked, then two more stopped by Carter Hart, including a flashy glove save that set the table for Tomas Hertl to score the winning goal 21 seconds later.

It was a marked improvement from earlier in the game, when Jarvis passed up an open shot looking for a pass and later missing a wide-open net.

“The chances are there,” Jarvis said. “We’ve had our looks. We just have to capitalize now more than ever. We can’t dwell on the past, can’t dwell on the stuff we missed. It’s about the next shift, the next shot.”

Easier said than done because Vegas is going to adjust, too. Coach John Tortorella has preached a consistent approach, and there is a reason the team has won 20 of 25 games since he took over in late March.

“We have thoughts on how to play this team,” Tortorella said. “We need to be patient. In a number of things, how we have to play, I think, requires patience — and when you get a little antsy against that team, they can capitalize. They’re that good. I think we have an understanding of how we have to go.”

What the Hurricanes need

While Jarvis, Aho and Svechnikov have looked off at times, there is little evidence it comes from a lack of caring. Maybe it's trying too hard.

“It’s not about work ethic or trying harder, but it doesn’t matter at the same time,” Aho said. “There’s also a part that we almost sometimes try to do too much, instead of just letting the game happen and play the game, let the game come to you in a way."

Teammates are trying to keep those guys' heads up and focused as best as possible. Defenseman Jalen Chatfield is all about bringing the positivity.

“Everybody’s giving everything out there,” Chatfield said. “That’s not the question. Sometimes it’s bounces. Sometimes things happen in hockey, but I think as a group, (it is about) leaning on each other to help each other play our best.”

Hall, the No. 1 pick in 2010 and MVP in 2017-18 who has found a groove with his sixth NHL organization at age 34, doesn't feel the need to coach up other players who are struggling. He maintains the belief that Jarvis, Aho and Svechnikov will turn things around.

“Those guys are great players,” Hall said. “They had their chances and their looks (in Game 1). Some of the looks didn’t turn into chances. But we know how good they are, and we know how good they can be and it’s only a matter of time.”

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The Senate voted 53-46 on Wednesday to begin debate on the roughly $70 billion bill to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. The legislation was delayed for weeks as Republican senators navigated the various obstacles to passage created by President Donald Trump and the White House, but they are now moving quickly to pass it after paring it back to its original form.

“Right now, the goal is to get the base bill across the finish line,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.

Still, Republicans will need to find enough votes to beat back multiple amendments that Democrats — and potentially some Republicans — say they will offer. Republicans are using a process called budget reconciliation that enables them to pass the legislation without any Democratic votes, but they must first wade through a long series of amendment votes that could pose problems for the bill. That process could start as soon as Wednesday evening.

Democratic amendments will test GOP unity

The primary threat during amendment votes is a series of expected Democratic proposals to permanently ban Trump’s $1.776 billion settlement fund, which his administration scrapped on Tuesday after fierce Republican pushback. While acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that “we are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Democrats say they want it written into the law.

“It is only a matter of time before Blanche and Trump go back on their word,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Thune said Blanche’s comments were “extremely helpful” and he thinks most GOP senators were satisfied by the decision. “We’ll find out,” he added.

Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana said he was assured by Blanche's promises.

“I think that particular issue is dead,” he said.

Some Republicans still have concerns about settlement

Not everyone is satisfied. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., has said he will offer an amendment to block any attempt at resurrecting the fund, which was part of a settlement resolving Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns.

Tillis said he has plans to offer an amendment to put Blanche's promise into law.

“We’ve got a sufficient number of Republicans who have been very clear they’ve got concerns there,” said Tillis.

Thune said he is working with Tillis and others who have discussed amendments as he tries to ensure he has enough votes for a simple majority in the 53-47 Senate.

“Keep in mind, we’ve got to keep them all together, make sure we’ve got 50 votes for it,” Thune said.

Money dropped for Trump's ballroom

The legislation was also delayed by the opposition to $1 billion in security funding for the White House, including for Trump’s new ballroom, that was added to the original bill.

Democrats and some Republicans questioned using taxpayer money for the massive project in a time of economic hardship for many voters. Democrats had planned amendments to strip that language, as well.

As various side issues temporarily derailed the legislation, Republicans have said their top priority is passing the ICE and Border Patrol funding that Democrats have blocked for months in protest of the administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.

But success requires GOP unity in the Senate and the House before it can reach Trump.

Republican House leaders said Wednesday they would like to pass the bill before the end of the week, if the Senate can finish it. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., said they are having internal conversations now to make sure they have enough support.

“We just need to make sure everybody’s there,” Scalise said.

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Now, 11 years after the first Ni Una Menos protest created a collective consciousness about what would come to be known as femicide — the killing of women and girls because of their gender — the nation is convulsing with anger once again.

This time, it's over the killing of 14-year-old Agostina Vega, in the central city of Cordoba. She arrived at a family friend's home the night of May 23, expecting to pick up a gift for her mother. Instead, she was sexually assaulted and hanged, initial autopsy results indicate, her body dismembered with a kitchen knife.

Her remains were found in a drainage ditch Saturday, a week after her disappearance, as vigils in her home province erupted into clashes with police.

The outrage has reverberated across the country, and on Wednesday, thousands of protesters gathered for the annual Ni Una Menos demonstration in downtown Buenos Aires. Many held posters printed with the faces and names of women who've been killed or who disappeared in recent years, including Agostina. Her case brought renewed energy and purpose to the protest, amplifying demands for government action and intensifying criticism of President Javier Milei.

The libertarian ally of U.S. President Donald Trump has called the feminist movement “a ridiculous and unnatural fight," promoted scrapping femicide from the penal code, and defunded programs supporting victims of gender violence as part of his cultural war and cost-cutting campaign.

This year, lawyers at the Center for Legal and Social Studies, a leading Argentine human rights group, have counted 63 legally registered femicides. But they and other advocates say it can be an uphill battle against the government to get that classification. Some have compiled a list of more than 100 names of women killed this year, arguing that many aren’t properly labeled.

Reports of femicide in Argentina fell 12%, to 200 cases last year compared with 2024, according to statistics published by the Supreme Court. Victims' lawyers say the change doesn’t reflect a drop in gender-based violence, but instead a failure to properly classify crimes.

“To stop calling femicides by their name, to deny the existence of gender violence — it's an attempt to rewind the past 20 years,” said Natalia Gherardi, director of the Latin American Team for Justice and Gender, a Buenos Aires-based rights group. "I hope this reaction generated by Agostina’s case, what we show in the streets, will be enough to counter the desire to move backward.”

Questions plague the handling of 14-year-old Agostina's case

After Agostina's death, protesters directed anger at local law enforcement, setting tires alight in the streets of Cordoba. Her family filed a missing person’s report the morning after her disappearance, but over 80 hours passed before phones across the province buzzed with a child abduction alert, according to family lawyer Gustavo Vaca.

The day after her death, a taxi driver reported that he'd driven Agostina to the house of the family friend, 33-year-old Claudio Barrelier, which security camera footage confirmed.

Agostina’s family has complained that security forces were consumed by concerns of fan violence during a major soccer game in the city of Cordoba that day. Three days later, police raided the house of Barrelier, an ex-boyfriend of Agostina's mother.

Barrelier is in custody as the main suspect in the case and denies killing Agostina. Investigators say his criminal history shows he had been arrested for abducting a young woman a year ago but was released on bail of $3,500 after 20 days.

When peppered with accusations of foot-dragging, lead prosecutor Raúl Garzón said last week that authorities “are not engaging in any self-criticism.”

Calls grew to characterize Agostina’s killing as a femicide. Security Minister Alejandra Monteoliva has refused to do so.

“A homicide, whatever its nature, is not solely defined by what happens during one hour, two hours, or three hours, where the act itself occurs,” Monteoliva told reporters Monday in her only public comments on the case.

Advocates insist using the term femicide — which carries harsher penalties than other forms of homicide, with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment in Argentina — is crucial for effective prosecution and victim protection.

“If we don't name the specific form of violence, if we don't recognize it, then we can't understand the problem in all its dimensions, and we can't create policies to prevent and combat it," said Lucila Galkin, director of the gender and diversity program for the Argentina chapter of Amnesty International.

Milei has waged his culture war against policies on gender

Milei has waged a cultural war against gender-based policies — what he sees as a dangerous consequence of socialism.

After Milei railed against the crime of femicide as “legally making a woman’s life worth more than a man’s” at the Davos summit last year, his justice minister announced plans to strip the category from the legal code.

Nothing came of that, but his government now is working to stiffen penalties for women who falsely report cases of gender-based violence. It is awaiting congressional debate.

In the last two and a half years, Milei has dissolved Argentina’s women’s ministry, shut down its anti-discrimination institute, gutted support programs for victims of gender violence, banned the use of gender-inclusive language in official documents, and defunded training in gender issues for public school students and state employees.

Among the affected programs is Acompañar, which assisted 350,000 women with aid equivalent to six months’ minimum wage before it was defunded. A 24-hour hotline to help victims lost two-thirds of its budget and half its staff last year. A government-sponsored program providing free legal assistance to people experiencing domestic violence or sexual abuse has also been dismantled.

With the latest case, an annual protest has gained urgency

On Wednesday, protesters gathered at Plaza Congreso, opposite the seat of the National Congress, as they have every year since Chiara Páez's death in 2015.

Laura Lenaza, 41, said she hadn’t attended a street protest in almost a decade. But the shock of recent cases moved her to bring her 17-year-old daughter, Milena.

“I’m fighting for myself, for my 11-year-old sister, and for all the women I know," the young woman said, squeezing her mother’s hand.

María Cacharo, 54, said she came with her 18-year-old daughter in honor of her sister, killed by her husband several years ago.

“Whenever resources are reduced, somehow we’re the ones who have to bear the cost,” she said of the impact of Milei’s cost-cutting on women, adding that the way police handled Agostina's case makes her sick.

Carrying “Justice for Agostina” signs, her family led a march in Cordoba on Wednesday to push for accountability in her killing under the banner of the movement that once made Argentina a regional beacon for social and legal action on gender equality.

“I think this femicide, which caused so much pain, so much shock, also mobilized us, reminded us that this is a problem concerning all of society,” Galkin said of Agostina's case.

“We are being forced to have conversations about issues we thought we had agreed on, a topic that we thought had been settled."

Congo's soccer federation said it was in discussions with the Spanish soccer federation and relevant international bodies to find solutions.

Government authorities in the southern city of La Linea de la Concepcion announced the decision to not authorize next Tuesday's friendly citing possible health risks linked to the Ebola crisis.

Congo was playing a warmup against Denmark in Liege, Belgium, on Wednesday.

An outbreak of a rare type of Ebola virus has plagued Congo and Uganda. The World Health Organization has declared it a public health emergency of international concern.

Congo had already canceled a three-day World Cup preparation training camp and a planned farewell to fans in the capital Kinshasa because of the outbreak the eastern part of the country.

All of the Congo players and the team’s French coach, Sébastien Desabre, are based outside of the central African country with most of them playing in France.

Soccer's governing body FIFA previously issued a statement saying it was aware of and monitoring the situation regarding an Ebola outbreak and was in close communication with Congo soccer officials to ensure the team was made aware of all medical and security guidance.

Congo will play in Group K at the World Cup. It faces Portugal for its opening game in Houston on June 17.

The Leopards then face Colombia in Guadalajara on June 23 before playing Uzbekistan in Atlanta for their final group game on June 27.

Congo's first World Cup qualification since 1974, when it was called Zaire, sparked scenes of jubilation across the nation, which has been battered by decades of conflict.

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Agentes del Departamento de Policía Escolar de Miami-Dade arrestaron a Apolonia Crumpton el martes en Miami Northwestern Senior High School, ubicada en el 1100 de Northwest 71st Street, en el vecindario Liberty City de Miami.

Un informe de arresto indica que Crumpton, residente del noroeste de Miami-Dade, estaba en la escuela debido a que su hija estuvo involucrada en una pelea.

La policía dijo que Crumpton, descrita como una “madre furiosa”, comentó que “tenía esa m—– en su bolso”, lo que llevó a los oficiales de seguridad escolar a creer que posiblemente estaba armada. Según el informe, también le dijo a un oficial de seguridad: “Tengo puños y balas. Lo que quieran”.

Tras revisar su bolso, los agentes dijeron que encontraron una pistola negra de 9 milímetros y municiones en su interior.

Crumpton fue acusada de un cargo grave por posesión de un arma de fuego en propiedad escolar.

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, con una fianza “pendiente de ser fijada”.

La policía de Miami informó que Sulayman Zacchery Njie robó la tienda Cricket Wireless ubicada en el 5742 de Northwest Second Avenue, en el vecindario Little Haiti de la ciudad, el 9 de marzo. Los agentes detuvieron al hombre de 39 años el martes por cuatro cargos graves.

Según una orden de arresto, Njie entró a la tienda alrededor de las 10:20 a.m. y le dijo a la única empleada presente que “quería hacer un pago de su cuenta inalámbrica”.

Las autoridades dijeron que luego se acercó a la mujer y la agarró por la chaqueta, diciéndole: “Dame los teléfonos”.

Posteriormente, la empleada dijo a la policía que Njie “mantenía una mano dentro del bolsillo de su chaqueta como si tuviera un arma”, indica la orden.

La policía señaló que le ordenó “ir a la parte trasera de la tienda, donde se encuentra la caja fuerte que contiene los teléfonos celulares”, y que “la agarró por la chaqueta y la empujó hacia la caja fuerte”, donde ella la abrió. Según la orden, Njie “tomó varios iPhone y teléfonos Android” del interior.

Las autoridades dijeron que Njie le ordenó a la empleada que abriera la puerta trasera y luego le exigió las llaves de su camioneta, pero ella le respondió que no las tenía.

Según la policía, Njie le dijo: “Te he visto, vámonos”. La empleada le respondió: “No, simplemente vete”, dijeron los detectives.

La policía indicó que Njie volvió a agarrar a la mujer “por la chaqueta e intentó arrastrarla hacia afuera, pero ella se resistió y logró cerrar y asegurar la puerta cuando él se fue”.

Según la orden judicial, los videos de vigilancia mostraron el robo dentro de la tienda, así como “un teléfono en una funda beige” en el bolsillo trasero de Njie. También señala que videos captados cerca de la escena mostraron a Njie huyendo después del robo, pero ya sin el teléfono en el bolsillo.

Un detective encontró “un teléfono Motorola en una funda beige cerca de la salida trasera de la tienda, en la dirección por la que huyó (Njie)”, y los datos obtenidos mediante una orden de registro revelaron que el teléfono estaba registrado a nombre de Njie.

La policía dijo que las selfies y otras fotografías encontradas en el teléfono también vincularon a Njie con el delito.

Las autoridades indicaron que posteriormente la víctima identificó a Njie en una rueda fotográfica, afirmando que estaba “85% segura de que era el sospechoso que robó la tienda, pero no podía estar 100% segura porque llevaba gafas de sol”.

No quedó claro de inmediato dónde o cómo la policía de Miami localizó a Njie, pero fue detenido el martes por cargos de secuestro, robo con allanamiento y agresión o violencia, robo por la fuerza e intento de robo de vehículo.

Njie, también conocido por alias como “Sulayman Bethel” y “Zacchery Sulayman”, tiene antecedentes penales en el sur de Florida. Los registros judiciales muestran múltiples arrestos previos en el condado Miami-Dade, y registros judiciales del condado Broward lo describen como un “delincuente habitual”.

Cumplió tiempo en prisión en 2007 por condenas en Broward relacionadas con huir de las autoridades, robo con allanamiento y falsificación.

Regresó a una prisión estatal en 2017 tras un arresto realizado por la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Brevard por manipular un monitor electrónico de tobillo. En ese momento residía en Cocoa.

Su condena más reciente parece haber sido por un caso grave de daños criminales derivado de un arresto en 2024 realizado por lo que entonces era el Departamento de Policía de Miami-Dade. Los registros muestran que recibió una sentencia de tres días de cárcel tras declararse culpable y se le ordenó pagar restitución.

Ahora está nuevamente en la cárcel y podría no salir pronto. Los registros muestran que Njie permanece detenido sin derecho a fianza en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

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Miami police said Sulayman Zacchery Njie robbed the Cricket Wireless at 5742 NW Second Ave. ― in the city’s Little Haiti neighborhood ― on March 9. Officers took the 39-year-old into custody on four felony charges Tuesday.

According to an arrest warrant, Njie walked into the store at around 10:20 a.m. and told the lone employee that he “wanted to make a payment for his wireless account.”

Authorities said he then approached the woman and grabbed her by the jacket, telling her, “Give me the phones.”

The worker would later tell police that Njie “was holding one hand in his jacket pocket as if he had a gun,” the warrant states.

He told her “to go to the back of the store, where the safe that contains the cellphones is located,” police said, and “grabbed (her) by her jacket and pushed her towards the safe,” where she opened the safe. Njie “took several iPhones and Android phones from it,” the warrant states.

Authorities said Njie told the employee to open the back door and then demanded her truck keys, which she told him she didn’t have.

Njie told her, “I’ve seen you, let’s go,” according to police. The worker told him, “No, just go,” detectives said.

Police said Njie grabbed the woman “by her jacket again and tried to pull her outside, but (she) resisted and was able to close and lock the door when (he) left.”

According to the warrant, surveillance video showed the robbery inside the store, as well as “a phone in a beige case” in Njie’s back pocket. It states that video from near the scene as Njie fled showed him fleeing after the robbery, but without the phone in his pocket.

A detective found “a Motorola phone in a beige case close to the rear exit of the store in the direction that (Njie) fled” and data obtained through a search warrant revealed that the phone was registered in Njie’s name.

Selfies and other photos found on the phone also tied Njie to the crime, police said.

Authorities said the victim later picked Njie out of a photo lineup, saying “she was 85% sure he is the (suspect who) robbed the store but could not be 100% sure because (he) was wearing sunglasses.”

It wasn’t immediately clear where or how Miami police located Njie, but he was taken into custody Tuesday on charges of kidnapping, burglary with assault or battery, strong-armed robbery and attempted carjacking.

Njie, also known by aliases including “Sulayman Bethel“ and ”Zacchery Sulayman," has a criminal history in South Florida; court records show multiple past arrests in Miami-Dade County and Broward County court records call him a “career criminal.”

He spent time in prison in 2007 for Broward convictions on for fleeing and eluding, burglary and forgery.

He went back to state prison in 2017 after an arrest by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for tampering with an ankle monitor. He was living in Cocoa at the time.

His most recent conviction appears to have been for felony criminal mischief case stemming from a 2024 arrest by what was then the Miami-Dade Police Department. Records show he received a three-day jail sentence after pleading guilty and was ordered to pay restitution.

He’s now back in jail and he may not be getting out any time soon. Records show Njie is being held without bond in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional enter.

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Smith, 38, also known as Kerri Pierre, promised her customers 24-hour care support, transportation, and meals, but some of them complained of crowded and dirty houses, according to deputies.

A Snatched ‘n Curved customer reported she “had to stay in a house with 11 other women ... had to urinate in a cup,” and another reported that she was in a house with “a rodent problem” and “bugs crawling,” a deputy wrote, according to an arrest report.

MDSO deputies reported the assisted living facilities were not licensed by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, as state law requires, records show.

Deputies had been searching for Smith for months when they arrested her shortly after 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday at 16010 SW 151 Terrace in Miami-Dade County’s Country Walk neighborhood, according to an arrest report.

“I received a call from an anonymous source that [Smith] was currently taking care of patients,” a deputy wrote, according to an arrest report.

On Wednesday, prosecutors filed five cases against Smith, who faced 15 charges. A judge ordered her to show that the source of her bail was not from the proceeds of her crimes, according to court records.

SMITH’S CO-DEFENDANT

During their investigation, MDSO deputies found eight patients and two employees on March 27 at a house that operated as an ALF at 21480 SW 132 Court, records show.

Smith, who was born in Texas, also worked with Crystal White, at Miami-based SNG Concierge, according to deputies who cited state corporate records.

“I have been in contact with [Smith’s] attorney multiple times regarding her surrender and was advised that [Smith] was upset because I arrested [White],” a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

Deputies arrested White, 38, on April 7. Smith and White “were previously arrested two separate times in 2023 for the unlicensed operation” of two ALFs, a deputy wrote, according to the arrest report.

While Smith and White had received more than $200,000 in payments from customers since October, patients paid $300 per night, an ALF employee earned $500 weekly, and a driver earned $45 per ride, according to deputies.

Detectives believe there may be more victims and asked anyone with information to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

SMITH’S 15 CHARGES

Miami-Dade County corrections booked Smith shortly before 7:10 p.m. on Tuesday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where she remained on Wednesday afternoon.

In the first case, Smith faced two charges: Organized fraud and operating an ALF without a license, according to county court records.

In the second case, Smith faced four charges: Florida litter law, illegal disposal of hazardous waste, nuisances injurious to health, health-safety failure to track biomedical waste.

In the third case, Smith also faced the same four charges: Florida litter law, illegal disposal of hazardous waste, nuisances injurious to health, health-safety failure to track biomedical waste.

In a fourth case, Smith faced four charges: Florida litter law, hazardous waste violation, nuisances injurious to health, health-safety failure to track biomedical waste.

In a fifth case, Smith faced a charge of operating an ALF without a license or failing to cease operations. She also had a warrant case for knowingly driving with a suspended license.

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Smith, de 38 años, también conocida como Kerri Pierre, prometía a sus clientes atención las 24 horas, transporte y comidas, pero algunos de ellos se quejaron de casas abarrotadas y sucias, según los agentes.

Una clienta de Snatched ‘n Curved denunció que “tuvo que quedarse en una casa con otras 11 mujeres … tuvo que orinar en un vaso”, mientras que otra informó que estaba en una vivienda con “problemas de roedores” y “insectos arrastrándose”, escribió un agente en un informe de arresto.

Los agentes de la MDSO informaron que los centros de vivienda asistida no contaban con licencia de la Agencia para la Administración del Cuidado de la Salud de Florida, como exige la ley estatal, muestran los registros.

Los agentes habían estado buscando a Smith durante meses cuando la arrestaron poco después de las 2:40 p.m. del martes en el 16010 de Southwest 151 Terrace, en el vecindario Country Walk de Miami-Dade, según un informe de arresto.

“Recibí una llamada de una fuente anónima que informó que [Smith] estaba atendiendo pacientes en ese momento”, escribió un agente en el informe.

El miércoles, los fiscales presentaron cinco casos contra Smith, quien enfrentaba 15 cargos. Un juez le ordenó demostrar que el origen de su fianza no provenía de las ganancias de sus presuntos delitos, según los registros judiciales.

LA COACUSADA DE SMITH

Durante su investigación, los agentes de la MDSO encontraron a ocho pacientes y dos empleados el 27 de marzo en una casa que operaba como un centro de vivienda asistida en el 21480 de Southwest 132 Court, muestran los registros.

Smith, nacida en Texas, también trabajaba con Crystal White en SNG Concierge, con sede en Miami, según los agentes, quienes citaron registros corporativos estatales.

“He estado en contacto con el abogado de [Smith] en múltiples ocasiones respecto a su entrega y me informó que [Smith] estaba molesta porque arresté a [White]”, escribió un agente en el informe.

Los agentes arrestaron a White, de 38 años, el 7 de abril. Smith y White “fueron arrestadas previamente en dos ocasiones separadas en 2023 por operar” dos centros de vivienda asistida sin licencia, escribió un agente en el informe.

Mientras Smith y White habían recibido más de $200,000 USD en pagos de clientes desde octubre, los pacientes pagaban $300 USD por noche, un empleado del centro ganaba $500 USD semanales y un conductor recibía $45 USD por viaje, según los agentes.

LOS 15 CARGOS CONTRA SMITH

El Departamento Correccional de Miami-Dade registró el ingreso de Smith poco antes de las 7:10 p.m. del martes en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde permanecía detenida la tarde del miércoles.

En el primer caso, Smith enfrentaba dos cargos: fraude organizado y operar un centro de vivienda asistida sin licencia, según los registros judiciales.

En el segundo caso, enfrentaba cuatro cargos: violación de la ley estatal sobre desechos, eliminación ilegal de residuos peligrosos, generar condiciones perjudiciales para la salud y falta de control de residuos biomédicos.

En el tercer caso, también enfrentaba esos mismos cuatro cargos: violación de la ley estatal sobre desechos, eliminación ilegal de residuos peligrosos, generar condiciones perjudiciales para la salud y falta de control de residuos biomédicos.

En un cuarto caso, Smith enfrentaba otros cuatro cargos: violación de la ley estatal sobre desechos, infracción relacionada con residuos peligrosos, generar condiciones perjudiciales para la salud y falta de control de residuos biomédicos.

En un quinto caso, Smith enfrentaba un cargo por operar un centro de vivienda asistida sin licencia o no cesar sus operaciones. También tenía un caso por orden de arresto relacionado con conducir deliberadamente con la licencia suspendida.

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Ramiro Perez was arrested by the Homestead Police Department and faces one count of animal cruelty with intent to injure or kill with a deadly weapon, jail records show.

According to police, the shooting happened around 3:45 p.m. on May 14 in an area that was redacted in Perez’s arrest report.

Officers said they responded to a report of an injured cat and met with the owner, who said Perez fired a BB gun at the animal while it was in Perez’s yard.

The owner told investigators he “heard the subject pump the BB gun three times” and then saw him fire toward the cat two to three times, striking it once in the eye, according to the report.

The report states that the cat was taken to a veterinary clinic, where its eye had to be surgically removed. Veterinary costs totaled $848.50.

Police said officers later went to Perez’s home and also visited his residence again on Tuesday before he later came to the HPD station, where he was read his Miranda rights in the presence of investigators.

As of Wednesday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”

Un hombre de 66 años de Homestead fue arrestado el martes después de que la policía dijera que le disparó al gato de un vecino en un ojo con una pistola de balines el mes pasado.

Ramiro Pérez fue arrestado por el Departamento de Policía de Homestead y enfrenta un cargo de crueldad animal con intención de herir o matar utilizando un arma mortal, según muestran los registros carcelarios.

Según la policía, el incidente ocurrió alrededor de las 3:45 p.m. del 14 de mayo en un área cuyo nombre fue censurado en el informe de arresto de Pérez.

Los agentes dijeron que respondieron a un reporte sobre un gato herido y se reunieron con el dueño, quien afirmó que Pérez disparó una pistola de balines contra el animal mientras este se encontraba en el patio de Pérez.

El propietario dijo a los investigadores que “escuchó al sujeto bombear la pistola de balines tres veces” y luego lo vio disparar hacia el gato entre dos y tres veces, impactándolo una vez en el ojo, según el informe.

El informe indica que el gato fue llevado a una clínica veterinaria, donde tuvieron que extirparle quirúrgicamente el ojo. Los gastos veterinarios ascendieron a $848.50 USD.

La policía informó que posteriormente los agentes acudieron a la vivienda de Pérez y regresaron nuevamente el martes antes de que él se presentara en la estación de HPD, donde le leyeron sus derechos Miranda en presencia de los investigadores.

Hasta el miércoles, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “pendiente de ser fijada”.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Christian Quintero was taken into custody Tuesday at the MDSO Kendall District Station and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

The investigation began after an incident on Feb. 10 near Southwest 48th Street and Southwest 107th Avenue.

Investigators said a teenage witness told detectives that he was riding an electric bicycle with a friend around 3:30 p.m. when he blew a kiss toward a woman sitting inside a white Toyota Camry.

The teen said the male driver of the vehicle, later identified as Quintero, became enraged and began following and harassing both teens while cursing at them.

The teen who blew the kiss told investigators he was able to evade the vehicle, but his friend was not.

During the encounter, the teen recorded video footage that captured the vehicle and its Florida license plate, according to the report.

When detectives later interviewed the other teen, he corroborated his friend’s account and provided additional details.

According to the arrest report, the second teen said the driver followed closely behind him before he stopped his electric bicycle.

The report states the driver then approached him in the vehicle, rolled down a window, pointed a handgun at him and asked, “Where’s your boy?”

The teen told investigators he feared for his life during the confrontation.

According to the report, the teen also said the driver exited the vehicle at one point and claimed, “I’m a cop.”

Investigators traced the license plate captured in the video to a vehicle registered to another man, but further investigation revealed that Quintero lives at the same address as the vehicle owner and matched the physical description provided by the victim, authorities said.

According to the report, the victim identified Quintero in a photo lineup on April 15.

Detectives also reviewed the video provided by the victim’s friend, which reportedly showed the Toyota Camry following both teenagers. Investigators said the footage also showed two occupants inside the vehicle, including a driver who appeared to be Quintero and a white female passenger.

Quintero was taken into custody Tuesday on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm and falsely impersonating a police officer.

According to the arrest report, he declined to speak with detectives following his arrest.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Quintero remained at TGK on a $7,500 bond.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), Christian Quintero fue detenido el martes en la estación del distrito Kendall de la MDSO y trasladado al Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

La investigación comenzó tras un incidente ocurrido el 10 de febrero cerca de Southwest 48th Street y Southwest 107th Avenue.

Los investigadores dijeron que un testigo adolescente informó a los detectives que viajaba en una bicicleta eléctrica con un amigo alrededor de las 3:30 p.m. cuando lanzó un beso hacia una mujer que estaba sentada dentro de un Toyota Camry blanco.

El adolescente dijo que el conductor del vehículo, posteriormente identificado como Quintero, se enfureció y comenzó a seguir y acosar a ambos menores mientras les gritaba insultos.

El adolescente que lanzó el beso dijo a los investigadores que logró escapar del vehículo, pero su amigo no.

Durante el incidente, el adolescente grabó un video que captó el vehículo y su matrícula de Florida, según el informe.

Cuando los detectives entrevistaron posteriormente al otro adolescente, este corroboró la versión de su amigo y proporcionó detalles adicionales.

Según el informe de arresto, el segundo adolescente dijo que el conductor lo siguió de cerca hasta que detuvo su bicicleta eléctrica.

El informe indica que el conductor se le acercó en el vehículo, bajó una ventana, le apuntó con una pistola y le preguntó: “¿Dónde está tu amigo?”.

El adolescente dijo a los investigadores que temió por su vida durante el enfrentamiento.

Según el informe, el adolescente también dijo que el conductor salió del vehículo en un momento y afirmó: “Soy policía”.

Los investigadores rastrearon la matrícula captada en el video hasta un vehículo registrado a nombre de otro hombre, pero una investigación posterior reveló que Quintero vive en la misma dirección que el propietario del vehículo y coincide con la descripción física proporcionada por la víctima, dijeron las autoridades.

Según el informe, la víctima identificó a Quintero en una rueda fotográfica el 15 de abril.

Los detectives también revisaron el video proporcionado por el amigo de la víctima, el cual supuestamente mostraba al Toyota Camry siguiendo a ambos adolescentes. Los investigadores dijeron que las imágenes también mostraban a dos ocupantes dentro del vehículo, incluido un conductor que parecía ser Quintero y una pasajera blanca.

Quintero fue detenido el martes por cargos de agresión agravada con arma de fuego y por hacerse pasar falsamente por un agente de policía.

Según el informe de arresto, se negó a hablar con los detectives después de su arresto.

Hasta la tarde del miércoles, Quintero permanecía en TGK con una fianza de $7,500 USD.

Ye has drawn widespread controversy in recent years for a series of antisemitic remarks, leaving Dutch authorities under mounting pressure to cancel the gigs on June 6 and 8.

The Central Jewish Council filed the emergency lawsuit on Tuesday, arguing that Ye should be banned from the country for voicing admiration for Adolf Hilter and selling T-shirts featuring swastikas.

According to the Amsterdam District Court, there were no grounds to bar Ye from performing. “There are no indications that West’s presence in the coming days will lead to concrete public order dangers,” the court said in a statement.

The Central Jewish Council expressed disappointment with the ruling. “The feeling we are getting is that it is okay if you are antisemitic,” Chanan Hertzberger, the organization’s chair, told The Associated Press.

Lawmakers in the Netherlands supported a motion to bar Ye from entering the country but the country's immigration minister said there was no legal basis for such a move. Ye's remarks were “reprehensible” but there was “no reason to bar him," Bart van den Brink told journalists last week.

The 48-year-old was set to perform his first European dates in more than a decade. In April, he was barred from entering the U.K. over his remarks, setting off a series of cancellations. Shows in Italy and Poland have been scrapped.

More than 100,000 fans turned out in Istanbul on Saturday evening to watch Ye’s first performance in Turkey.

Concert organizers say 70,000 tickets have been sold for the two upcoming shows at the Gelredome in the eastern Dutch city of Arnhem.

Ye apologized in January through a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal, stating that his bipolar disorder led him to fall into “a four-month long, manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life.”

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The crash happened at around 3:15 p.m. at Angels of Paradise Mortuary, located at 2796 NW 46th St. in the county’s unincorporated Brownsville area.

Video from Sky 10 showed the crumpled brown dirt bike on the ground with the driver’s side window of the Cadillac hearse shattered.

Medics rushed the dirt bike rider to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition.

Officials with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday morning that the man later died. They identified him Wednesday afternoon as 38-year-old Terrell Ray.

They said they are looking into whether speed was a factor in the crash.

The 10 rotating seats on the 15-member Security Council are earmarked for different regions of the world. The assembly elects five countries by secret ballot every year to serve two-year terms alongside the council’s five permanent veto-wielding members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France.

In the other contested race, after four rounds of voting in the 193-member General Assembly, Kyrgyzstan defeated the Philippines by a vote of 143-49 and will join the council for the first time.

Zimbabwe, the African candidate, and Caribbean candidate Trinidad and Tobago had no opponents and both were elected with more than 180 votes.

The Security Council is mandated under the U.N. Charter with ensuring international peace and security, but it has failed in the three major current conflicts because of the veto power of Russia on Ukraine and of the United States, Israel’s closest ally, often on Gaza and on Iran.

There have been decades of efforts to reform the Security Council to reflect the geopolitical realities of the current world, not of the post-World War II era 80 years ago, when the United Nations was established. But they have all failed, though a new attempt is underway.

In the race for the two seats for the group of mainly Western nations, Portugal received 134 votes and Austria 131 votes, while Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse which had served six previous terms on the council, received 104 votes.

“Obviously, the result is a real disappointment,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told reporters. He said Russia campaigned against Germany because of its strong support for Ukraine. “It also may have cost us votes that Germany must always assume a special responsibility for Israel with regard to the Middle East conflict," he said.

Austria’s foreign ministry said its election capped a 15-year campaign and is a “strong international sign of confidence” in the country.

Kyrgyzstan’s Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev told reporters “we understand now is a turbulent time” and said Kyrgyzstan will work together with other council members.

The five new members will take up their seats on Jan. 1. They will replace Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia.

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Associated Press writer Stephanie Liechtenstein in Vienna, Austria contributed to this report.

New York Judge Gregory Carro said he sealed the virtual proceeding at the request of the defense but provided no other details, raising questions about transparency in the closely watched case.

Court hearings in the U.S. are presumptively open to the public, but judges are permitted to close them in certain circumstances, such as to protect sensitive or confidential information.

Carro held the hearing in his chambers at the Manhattan courthouse where Mangione is set to go to trial on Sept. 8. Mangione, his lawyers and prosecutors all appeared via video conference. A lawyer representing news organizations sent a letter to Carro asking his reasons for sealing the hearing but was ignored by the judge and rebuffed by his staff.

When the lawyer, Jeremy Chase, called Carro's chambers Wednesday morning, he said the judge's clerk told him: “We don't read emails or letters at night. We go home.” She then hung up on him, he said in an email to news organizations obtained by The Associated Press.

After Wednesday's hearing, Carro returned to the courtroom and announced it's "sealed at the moment.” He scheduled an in-person hearing for June 16. That one, he said, will be open to the public.

Spokespeople for Mangione’s defense team and for the Manhattan district attorney's office, which is prosecuting the case, declined to comment. A message seeking comment was left for a spokesperson for New York’s state court system.

Laura Italiano, a veteran New York City courts reporter who was in Carro's courtroom on Wednesday, said this is the third time in six months that the judge and court staff have silenced or ignored journalists seeking access to evidence or proceedings in Mangione's case.

At a pretrial hearing in December, court officers ejected a reporter from the courtroom after she tried objecting to Carro's decision to seal certain evidence. In February, Carro held a 27-minute, off-the-record bench conference during an otherwise public hearing. Reporters emailed the judge to no avail and asked a court officer to relay a note to him, but the officer refused.

“We’re seeing serious transparency problems and the trial hasn’t even begun,” Italiano said. “There's huge public interest in this case and the judge is carrying on as if that were not the case.”

Carro scheduled Wednesday’s hearing at the end of Mangione’s last court appearance on May 18.

After meeting briefly with prosecutors and Mangione’s lawyers at the bench at that prior proceeding, Carro said he’d hold a virtual hearing to discuss scheduling and jury selection issues. He gave no indication that it would be sealed, nor has anyone said how, why or when Mangione’s lawyers asked for it to be.

Typically when virtual hearings are scheduled in New York courts, the press and public are able to follow along by watching on TV monitors in the judge's courtroom. When a party requests that a proceeding be sealed, a judge will often solicit input from the other side and allow third parties, such as the public and news media, to also provide input.

An AP reporter emailed Carro directly on Tuesday, asking him to share, even broadly, his reasoning for sealing Wednesday's hearing, and whether a transcript or recording would be provided. The judge didn’t respond and, instead, forwarded the email to the court’s press office.

Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges in the Dec. 4, 2024, killing. His federal trial, which involves stalking charges, is set to begin on Oct. 13. He could spend his life in prison if convicted in either case.

Thompson, 50, was killed as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for UnitedHealth Group’s annual investor conference. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind. Police say “delay,” “deny” and “depose” were written on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims.

Mangione, an Ivy League graduate from a wealthy Maryland family, was arrested five days later at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of Manhattan. At the May 18 hearing, Carro ruled that a gun and notebook that prosecutors say link Mangione to the killing can be used as evidence against him.

The gun, a 3D-printed pistol, matches the one used to kill Thompson, prosecutors said. The notebook describes wanting to “wack” a health insurance executive and rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel.”

Ernesto Justiniano asumió en reemplazo de Marcelo Salinas y en su primer discurso dijo que su misión será retornar el país a la normalidad. También destacó la labor de las Fuerzas Armadas y sostuvo que "no venimos a actuar por impulso, venimos a actuar con prudencia, firmeza y responsabilidad. Bolivia no necesita más violencia. Necesita paz, presencia del Estado, abastecimiento, seguridad y convivencia democrática”.

Hasta ahora Justiniano se desempeñaba como viceministro de Defensa Social y Sustancias Controladas, cargo desde el que lideró en marzo la captura del presunto narcotraficante uruguayo Sebastián Marset, luego entregado a Estados Unidos.

A su turno, Paz convocó nuevamente al diálogo a los sindicatos que protestan con bloqueos viales que han causado millonarias pérdidas al sector productivo y provocado escasez de alimentos, oxigeno medicinal y combustibles a La Paz. Según el gobierno, siete personas murieron por falta de atención médica por los cortes de carreteras y vías.

A su vez el mandatario anunció que envió un proyecto de ley a la Asamblea Legislativa para regular el Estado de excepción. “Nuestra Policía Nacional y nuestras Fuerzas Armadas y el gobierno van a ser acción humanitaria para cambiar esta situación. Nosotros no venimos del concepto de la violencia”, señaló.

El mandatario —que el mes pasado había cambiado a su ministro de Trabajo— expresó que habrá otras modificaciones en su administración luego de las críticas de que su gabinete no tenía representación de todos los sectores. “Agradezco a aquellos servidores que han estado, pero serán cambios también en un proceso de inclusión”, mencionó.

La ciudad de La Paz, sede de los poderes Ejecutivo y Legislativo, es la más castigada por las protestas y la víspera se declaró en emergencia sanitaria y humanitaria por 90 días.

Los cortes de ruta se han extendido a siete de las nueve regiones del país, según un informe de la Administradora Boliviana de Carreteras.

Las protestas han polarizado al país entre quienes piden una pronta solución del conflicto y la Central Obrera Boliviana, que lidera las manifestaciones junto a sindicatos campesinos, juntas vecinales y seguidores del expresidente Evo Morales (2006-2019) y que piden la renuncia de Paz y han rechazado dialogar con el gobierno. Alegan que sus reclamos sectoriales y de un aumento salarial no fueron atendidos a tiempo.

Los empresarios estimaron las pérdidas en cerca de 2.000 millones de dólares.

He said Wednesday the finished product probably won't be ready until 2028 and would be a system "that outlives any player.”

The tour is moving toward a model of two tracks that Rolapp first mentioned in March. The top track for the top performers would be roughly 16 tournaments, not including the majors or postseason. Track 1 would have around 120 to 130 players.

Track 2 would be for those aspiring to get to Track 1. The purses would be smaller and the title sponsors would pay less, though Rolapp sounded confident there would be sponsors willing to spend less for such tournaments. Still under discussion is whether players could move up to Track 1 in the middle of the season depending on their performance, such as winning multiple times.

Key to a new model, Rolapp said, was bringing back the 36-hole cut, which would make sense if the fields are going from 72 players to 120 players or more. The tour now has “signature events” with 72 players and a 36-hole cut at only three such events hosted by golf greats.

“At the end of the day, sports is about how good the athletes are and what the competitive consequences are,” he said. “I think you’ll see that in Track 2. And I think you’ll see people fighting to stay on Track 1. And I think we have lost a lot of that with the smaller field, no-cut events.”

He said the tour wants to get back to the competitive meritocracy that makes golf unique.

Rolapp has leaned on the pillars of scarcity, simplicity and parity since he first appointed a Future Competition Committee in August, leading to speculation that tour would go to a smaller, more streamlined schedule that would create fewer opportunities.

Rolapp painted a different picture Wednesday while meeting with a small group of reporters.

“I think when you see where we land, you’re not going to see that,” he said. "But what you are going to see is an elevation of tournaments. And you’re going to have a collection of Track 1 that are special, that are bigger. I think what we have found as we’ve talked to sponsors both for Track 1 and Track 2, there’s a lot of demand for both. And the price points will be different.

“The bigger events ... not everyone can afford and may not be sort of consistent with their business goals,” he said. “That's great. There’s other price points too for it, and I think there’s plenty of demand for both Track 1 and Track 2 in that regard because there’s definitely people who want to invest different amounts in these events.”

The postseason format also is being revamped. Rolapp said he invited all the PGA Tour's broadcast partners and even those with whom the PGA Tour does not have contracts, such as streaming services, to provide insight into the tour's thinking toward a new media rights deal.

Rolapp has pointed toward June 23 — a day after the next board meeting — for a full update.

“I feel good where we are, but I also had expectations that it wasn’t going to be easy,” Rolapp said. “You don't have a good process if there’s not tension. That means you’re not asking the right questions.”

Still under discussion are details that include which tournaments are going on Track 1 and Track 2, the courses they play and perhaps going to bigger markets the tour is not in, such as New York, Chicago, Boston, Denver and Philadelphia, for example.

There also is the issue of players who defected to LIV Golf, a rival league that has its own set of issues now that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia will stop paying for it after this year.

Brooks Koepka ended his LIV contract and took advantage of a program the PGA Tour created that allowed him to return immediately with financial stipulations, such as a $5 million charity donation and no access to PGA Tour equity for five years.

Patrick Reed also is on his way back through his play on the European tour, though he is not eligible for PGA Tour events for one year since his last LIV appearance.

Bryson DeChambeau is a little more complicated, mainly because DeChambeau was among those who kept his name on an antitrust lawsuit against the tour.

Rolapp repeated his view that he would not concern himself with LIV players until it was time.

“All fans want the best golfers in the world together. I think we have most of them, pretty close to all of them. And we're building a tour that attracts the best players in the world,” Rolapp said. "I think this new model will even improve upon that.

“But we do have to account for whatever lingering discipline is left, or rules that have been broken,” he said. “There’s scar tissue, and that has to be accounted for. That’s not to say we’re going to be punitive, it’s just that we’re a membership organization of rules.”

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Workers carefully hoisted the big guns one-by-one from the back of a truck and wheeled them inside their new home at the Savannah History Museum, which will put them on display just in time for the Fourth of July celebration of America's 250th birthday.

“They look brand new,” said Andrea Farmer, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers archaeologist who was part of the team that researched and preserved the cannons. "They could pretty much be fired if someone wanted to.”

The artifacts were discovered in 2021 when a dredge scooping sediment from the riverbed as part of an Army Corps project to deepen Savannah's shipping channel pulled up a cannon in its metal jaws. The crew soon dug up two more.

In the course of just over a year, a total of 19 cannons were hoisted from the location just downstream from Savannah, which is where Georgia was founded in 1733 as the last of Britain's 13 American colonies.

After being pulled from the river, most of the cannons left Georgia for several years to undergo cleaning and preservation work at a Texas lab.

One of the Revolution's bloodiest battles was fought in Savannah

Archaeologists initially assumed the cannons likely dated to the Civil War. But further research indicated they’re likely almost a century older and sank during the buildup to the American Revolution’s bloody siege of Savannah.

Savannah was under British occupation in the fall of 1779, when colonists planned an attack to retake the city with help from French allies.

When French ships carrying troops were spotted off the Georgia coast, British forces scuttled at least six ships in the Savannah River downstream from the city to block the French vessels.

The land battle that followed was one of the bloodiest of the war. British forces killed nearly 300 colonial fighters and their allies, and wounded hundreds more.

The Savannah History Museum sits right next to the battlefield. Its staff on Wednesday hoisted the cannons, weighing up to 1500 pounds (680 kilograms) apiece, onto custom display mounts that staffers likened to giant wine racks.

The cannons will be part of a new exhibit on Savannah's role in the American Revolution, which is scheduled to open Fourth of July weekend, said Samantha Moss, the museum's curator.

"Our great team has been prepping for months -- building mounts and planning how we can safely display these very large, very special artifacts,” she said.

Cleaning the crusty cannons took years

Each of the iron cannons emerged from the river covered by a thick crust of mud and minerals.

Two were left in that raw state and put on display at the museum. The other 17 were sent to Texas A&M University, which has a lab that specializes in preserving underwater artifacts. Its staff spent years painstakingly cleaning the big guns and coating them in paint and wax to prevent rusting and corrosion.

“A lot of them have scour marks on the side from anchors or dredging, so there’s some scarring on the cannons," said Chris Dostal, a professor of nautical archaeology who leads Texas A&M's Conservation Research Lab. "But most of them look pretty exceptional.”

Most of the cannons arrived with wooden plugs still sealing their bores, which remained packed with cannonballs and gunpowder charges.

Dostal said radiocarbon dating of the wooden stoppers placed them roughly in the late 1700s. His team shared the cannons' measurements and other details with experts in London, who concluded three of them were very likely forged by the British military.

The rest appeared to be of French design but bore no telltale markings. Dostal said he suspects those guns may have been cast in America around the time of the war.

Other artifacts found with the cannons included pieces of anchors and a portion of a ship's bronze bell. Like the cannons, none of them bore engravings indicating which ship they came from.

That means many details of the cannons' origins remain a mystery.

“You don't have all of the information,” Farmer said. “You're trying to piece it together as best as you can.”

LaBeouf must attend an alcohol treatment program under the sentence handed down by an Orleans Parish judge, according to Sarah Chervinsky, an attorney for the actor.

LeBeouf, most widely known for his starring roles in 2007’s “Transformers” and in 2008’s “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull,” had been released on bail following his arrest near the city's historic French Quarter. Video of the Feb. 17 encounter shows a shirtless LaBeouf outside a bar shoving one person to the ground and hitting another person in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate,” according to a New Orleans police report. Police said LaBeouf repeatedly used homophobic slurs, including while he was arrested.

LeBeouf pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery. Orleans Parish Judge Juana Marine-Lombard handed the actor a six month suspended sentence and two years of probation. LaBeouf also must stay away from the victims and the bar.

Chervinsky said LaBeouf wanted “to take accountability for his part in what happened" and called it a “minor Mardi Gras bar tussle.” Chervinsky said there was “no evidence it was about bias or prejudice.”

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams said in a statement that his office consulted with the victims to ensure their support before offering LaBeouf the plea deal.

Jeffrey Damnit, a local entertainer whom police identified as Jeffrey Klein, said he was one of the people attacked by LaBeouf. He has said LaBeouf had pushed him from behind at the bar earlier in the night, shouting homophobic slurs and threatening his life.

Damnit's attorney said his client hopes LaBeouf's behavior improves after the actor undergoes substance abuse treatment.

"In New Orleans we are all equal, we should all feel safe, and we don’t treat people different based upon relative fame,” attorney Michael Kennedy said.

After LaBeouf was charged in February, a judge ordered him to return to drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

Days later, LaBeouf denied having a “drinking problem” in an interview with journalist and YouTuber Andrew Callaghan. LaBeouf said he doubted rehab would help him. He told Callaghan that the issues leading led to his aggressive behavior during Mardi Gras were more rooted in “anger and ego” than alcohol.

LaBeouf also said that “big gay people are scary to me.”

“When I’m standing by myself and three gay dudes are next to me touching my leg, I get scared,” he told Callaghan. “I’m sorry. If that’s homophobic, then I’m that.”

LaBeouf, who converted to Catholicism a few years ago, has had several run-ins with the law during his career, including a 2017 New York City arrest on suspicion of assault that happened during a livestream.

While on location in Georgia filming “The Peanut Butter Falcon” later that year, he was arrested for public drunkenness and accused of disorderly conduct and obstruction and sentenced to probation.

In 2020, he was charged with misdemeanor battery and petty theft in Los Angeles.

That year, the English singer and actor FKA Twigs, whose legal name is Tahliah Barnett, also filed a lawsuit alleging LaBeouf was physically and emotionally abusive to her during their relationship, which they settled in July.

The actor first gained acclaim as a child for his role on the Disney Channel series “Even Stevens.”

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While talks are in early stages, expanding U.S. nuclear deterrence in Europe could reassure continental allies of continued U.S. military support at a time when President Donald Trump has led an effort to reduce his country's conventional defense involvement in Europe.

“We are talking, in order to create better conditions for nuclear deterrence and for Poland to play an important role in that,” Polish Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Zalewski told Polish Radio on Wednesday.

Poland, however, has denied any plans to host nuclear weapons. That would be “an extremely serious matter, which is serious in terms of political consequences,” he said.

“Discussions are indeed taking place. I do not want to go into details at this point as they are classified, but discussions are ongoing, and Lithuania is certainly not standing on the sidelines,” Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas said Tuesday, according to press agency BNS.

Both ministers were replying after anonymous sources cited Tuesday by the Financial Times said the United States had signaled openness to deploying elements of its nuclear arsenal in new European countries, in addition to the six currently thought to host nuclear weapons.

The FT reported that Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the NATO members located closest to Ukraine, were interested in potentially hosting bases for U.S. dual-capable aircraft, which can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads.

The Pentagon declined to comment, but a Defense Department official said the U.S. and NATO “continuously assess the security environment” and work to keep effective deterrents. The official was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The US has had nuclear weapons in Europe for decades

The United States has stationed nuclear weapons in several European countries for decades as part of its security guarantees to NATO allies.

In recent years, Russia’s war against Ukraine and the broader threat Moscow poses to NATO have prompted discussions about the possibility of expanding the U.S. nuclear cooperation with Europe.

“Work to assess and potentially adapt NATO’s nuclear deterrence posture has been ongoing for several years and is not linked to any decision taken by the U.S. to adjust its conventional posture in Europe,” an official tasked with communicating for NATO but not authorized to be publicly named told the AP.

The NATO nuclear sharing program includes U.S. nuclear weapons deployed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Britain, as well as dual-capable aircraft owned by both the U.S. and its allies. The U.S. maintains full control over the nuclear weapons.

Poland has expressed its willingness to participate in the U.S. nuclear deterrence program since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with former president Andrzej Duda even welcoming the hosting of nuclear weapons. The current government led by Donald Tusk has been more cautious, speaking only about a bigger role in nuclear deterrence.

The U.S., however, has repeatedly indicated that placing nuclear weapons in eastern countries of NATO would be too provocative for Russia, Artur Kacprzyk, a nuclear deterrence analyst with the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw, told the AP.

“There might be a middle ground there, which could be called ‘nuclear sharing light'. You would have, for example, Polish planes, certified for carrying U.S. nuclear weapons, but the weapons won’t be deployed in Poland. This aircraft from the east could be a sort of backup if, let’s say, German or Dutch aircraft are destroyed before they can use those nuclear weapons.”

U.S. and French deterrence efforts are complementary

Earlier this year, Poland said it would be one of several European countries to join France’s initiative of coordinating its nuclear deterrence efforts with European allies. France has been the only nuclear power in the European Union since Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2020.

The French-initiated cooperation is “complementary” to the U.S. deterrence, Kacprzyk said, but it has a different nature.

Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark and Norway also have said they were interested in the French initiative, which allows for the temporary deployment of France’s nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries. It also allows partners to participate in France’s deterrence exercises and allows allies’ non-nuclear forces to participate in France’s nuclear activities.

Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz told Polish broadcaster TVP on Tuesday that nuclear deterrence would be discussed during a NATO meeting in Brussels on June 18. He said both the French initiative and the U.S. program are part of those efforts.

Increasing nuclear cooperation in Europe might help the U.S. offset conventional reductions but it cannot fully substitute the forward presence of conventional troops, especially in countries bordering Russia, Kacprzyk said.

“Communicating ‘I might risk nuclear war to defend an ally but I don’t want to send my soldiers into the fight’ is a conflicting signal,” he said. “You need coherent signals at all levels of deterrence.”

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McNeil reported from Brussels and Toropin from Washington. Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.

Kinski, now 65, has urged Wenders to reedit the film. Last month, she told the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung: “That was my first film, he was my first director and he didn't protect me.”

Wenders, the acclaimed director behind “Paris, Texas” and “Wings of Desire,” issued a statement apologizing to Kinski.

“I recognize that Nastassja Kinski should have been better protected back then,” Wenders said. “For that, I apologize to you, Nastassja, unreservedly, no ifs and buts.”

“The Wrong Move” marked the film debut of Kinski, the daughter of actor Klaus Kinski. It stars Rüdiger Vogler as an aspiring writer wandering through Germany. His encounters include an apparently mute teen acrobat played by Kinski, who appears topless in a scene.

Wenders said he was “withdrawing it from all current forms of distribution and exhibition,” including streaming services and broadcast television. His nonprofit Wim Wenders Foundation owns “The Wrong Move.”

The film will remain unavailable, Wenders said, until a mutually agreed upon solution can be found. He said he will seek “a broad dialogue” that includes Kinksi, the German Film Academy and other film groups.

“It is necessary for our society to find appropriate ways of dealing with controversial film works from the 20th Century and to face new learning processes and inclusive perspectives regarding cinema,” said Wenders.

Representatives for Kinski did not immediately respond to The Associated Press' request for comment Wednesday.

At the German Film Awards last week, Wenders spoke about his quandary over the film. Speaking to the audience at Germany's equivalent of the Oscars, Wenders said retroactively editing it “sets a precedent that affects you all, and then it becomes possible with all your films later on.”

Kinski would go on to co-star in Wenders' 1984 film “Paris, Texas,” but long maintained misgivings about her introduction to the film business. At the ages of 14 and 17, she also appeared nude in the films “To the Devil a Daughter” and “Stay As You Are.”

“If I had had somebody to protect me or if I had felt more secure about myself, I would not have accepted certain things. Nudity things,” Kinski told W Magazine in 1997. "And inside it was just tearing me apart.”

Writing on the Truth Social platform the previous day, Trump offered his “complete and total endorsement” for de la Espriella, calling him an “intelligent, strong and tough leader” who will take on a “radical leftist Marxist,” referring to progressive Iván Cepeda, in the June 21 runoff election.

He emphasized the importance of the elections for the two countries' relationship.

“With my head held high and a heart full of patriotic gratitude, I receive your words and your steadfast support," de la Espriella, known as “El Tigre” or “The Tiger,” wrote on X. "Thank you, Mr. President!”

This is not the first time Trump has backed candidates in foreign elections, a practice that has drawn criticism from opponents who say the U.S. should not meddle in other countries’ domestic politics. Last year, Trump endorsed Honduras’ National Party presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura, who went on to win. He also backed libertarian President Javier Milei in Argentina during legislative elections that proved critical to the leader’s political agenda.

Cepeda in comments to the press Wednesday denounced Trump's remarks as having an “interventionist tone” and called on him to respect Colombia's sovereignty.

Trump’s support in the Colombian presidential campaign underscores the current tension between Washington and Bogota as relations between the countries have grown strained under Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Sharp disagreements have emerged over migration, Israel’s military actions in Gaza and anti-narcotics strategies, particularly regarding the bombing of drug boats in the Caribbean.

Petro rejected Trump’s support for the conservative candidate and urged citizens to vote freely so as to “not become anyone’s slaves or colony.”

“When a country intervenes in the decisions of another country, freedom dies,” Petro wrote on X.

While the U.S. remains Colombia’s largest export market and was long considered Washington’s primary ally in the hemisphere, relations have cooled significantly under the current administration.

De la Espriella, who holds dual Colombian and U.S. citizenship, is a Trump supporter and a member of the Republican Party. With no prior experience in elected office, he secured 43.74% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election, followed by Sen. Cepeda — an ally of Petro — with 40.90%, according to preliminary counts.

The candidate has said his views align with U.S. policies, particularly regarding the fight against narcotics. He has promised to eradicate thousands of hectares of coca leaf crops — the raw material for cocaine — and to halt the trafficking bound for the United States.

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The U.S. Open returns to Shinnecock Hills for the first time since 2018, when Brooks Koepka won during a tough, dry week in which no one finished under par.

Scheffler had never been to the fabled course on New York's Long Island, which held the second edition of the U.S. Open in 1896. This major is bigger than usual for the world's No. 1 player because a victory would make him only the seventh player to complete the career Grand Slam.

“It was kind of what I expected,” Scheffler said. “I had heard some rumors about how difficult the greens were. I was a little surprised at the width of the fairways, but the green complexes there are extremely difficult, and I think that’s where the greatest challenge comes from.”

He also said the rough was thick and penal. That's typical of a U.S. Open. A vintage U.S. Open has firm greens, and that looks to be the case, provided the weather cooperates.

Narrow fairways? Not so much.

“The fairways are very generous,” said McIlroy, who missed the cut with rounds of 80-70 when he first played a U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills. "They’re more generous than they were in 2018. But the first cut of rough is 5 inches long. So it’s like the first cut is maybe three paces wide and then it gets into the fescue.

“So if you miss the fairway even by a yard ... but you shouldn’t. The fairways are very, very generous. So if you miss the fairway, I feel like you deserve a bad lie.”

It will be a big week for the USGA to get it right. In 2004, the par-3 seventh green was so dead on Sunday that players couldn't keep the golf ball on the putting surface and USGA officials wound up watering the green between groups.

Then in 2018, some of the greens became so severe that it was thought to be borderline unplayable. Phil Mickelson swatted a moving golf ball on the 13th green out of frustration. Officials softened the course so much for the final day that Tommy Fleetwood shot 63.

The course has a reputation of being tough, and Scheffler felt it lived up to that.

“The rough, also, was a really good penalty for the width,” he said. "Once you start missing fairways out there, you have no chance. But the fairways are generous enough to where it provides you some opportunity, and that way it’s just that the green complexes are extraordinarily difficult.

“They can put the pins wherever they want and make the scores as high as they could possibly want them to be.”

McIlroy said the greens were around 11 on the Stimpmeter when he played on Monday and he doesn't see a need for them to get much faster.

“I think if they can keep them at that green speed, they can get them firm, and they can use the hole locations that they want to use without having some of the struggles that they have had the last couple of U.S. Opens. ... If it’s set up the right way, I think it’s one of the best championship tests in the country. It’s an amazing golf course.”

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Republicans could net about 10 additional U.S. House seats in the November elections if redrawn voting districts perform as they were intended. The question is whether that's enough for the GOP to hold on to a majority in the chamber, where Democrats need to gain only a few seats to take control.

Political trends and historic patterns favor Democrats. President Donald Trump's approval ratings are negative. And the incumbent's party has lost House seats in every midterm election over the past two decades.

This election season already has been unusual. Voting districts typically are redrawn only after a census at the start of each decade. But Trump urged Republicans last summer to redraw congressional districts to their advantage to try to prevent losses in the 2026 midterms.

Since then, Republicans think they could win as many as 16 additional seats from new House maps enacted in eight states — Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama. Democrats, whose counterattack faced several setbacks, think they could win up to six additional seats from new districts in California and Utah.

Nearly 145 million people — about two of every five U.S. residents — live in states with new congressional districts for this election.

Yet the mid-decade redistricting battle didn't go as far as it could have.

Republicans in Kansas and Democrats in Illinois both rebuffed party pushes to take up redistricting. In Republican-led Indiana and South Carolina and Democratic-led Maryland, new congressional districts passed the state House but ultimately died in the state Senate. The Virginia Supreme Court invalidated new voter-approved districts that could have helped Democrats win up to four additional seats. And the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a lower court order that could have helped Democrats gain a congressional seat in New York.

Here's a look at the states with new U.S. House maps:

Texas

Current map: 13 Democrats, 25 Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a revised House map into law last August that could help Republicans win five additional seats. Democrats think they could still win some of those seats.

Missouri

Current map: two Democrats, six Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a revised House map into law last September that could help Republicans win an additional seat by reshaping a Democratic-held district based in Kansas City. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has until Aug. 4 — the date of Missouri's primaries — to decide whether to reject an initiative petition seeking a statewide vote on the map.

North Carolina

Current map: four Democrats, 10 Republicans

New map: The Republican-led General Assembly gave final approval in October to revised districts that could help Republicans win an additional seat.

Ohio

Current map: five Democrats, 10 Republicans

New map: A bipartisan panel composed primarily of Republicans voted in October to approve revised House districts that improve Republicans’ chances of winning two additional seats. Democrats think they could still win those seats.

California

Current map: 43 Democrats, nine Republicans

New map: Voters in November approved revised House districts drawn by the Democratic-led Legislature that could help Democrats win five additional seats.

Utah

Current map: no Democrats, four Republicans

New map: A judge in November imposed revised House districts that could help Democrats win a seat in the Salt Lake City area.

Florida

Current map: eight Democrats, 20 Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed revised House districts in May that improve the GOP’s chances of winning four additional seats. Legal challenges are pending.

Tennessee

Current map: one Democrat, eight Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed new House districts in May that improve the GOP’s chances of winning an additional seat by carving up the lone Democratic-held seat, a majority-Black district based in Memphis. Legal challenges are pending.

Louisiana

Current map: two Democrats, four Republicans

New map: Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed off on new House districts in May that improve Republican chances of winning an additional seat by eliminating a majority-Black district held by a Democrat that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as an illegal racial gerrymander.

Alabama

Current map: two Democrats, five Republicans

New map: The U.S. Supreme Court in June allowed the state to use a congressional map approved by Republican state lawmakers that improves the GOP's chances of winning an additional seat by reshaping a Democratic-held district that has a large number of Black voters.

The Swiss soccer federation at the team's training camp in San Diego confirmed why Embolo’s travel approval to the U.S. had been put under review Tuesday. He has a conviction that became binding this year.

Embolo was charged after an altercation in Basel city center in 2018 and his guilty verdict was upheld at appeal last September. The verdict was finalized in April, just weeks before Embolo was due to travel to the U.S. for the third World Cup of his career.

“The embassy’s inquiries focused specifically on whether any physical violence had been involved. This was not the case,” the Swiss soccer body said. “Breel and the team are now awaiting approval so that he can travel to San Diego and join the squad as soon as possible.”

Switzerland starts its World Cup campaign on June 13 against Qatar at the San Francisco 49ers’ stadium in Santa Clara.

The Swiss then play Bosnia-Herzegovina in Inglewood, California and finish Group B against tournament co-host Canada in Vancouver on June 24.

The 29-year-old Embolo is set to be Switzerland’s first-choice striker and has scored 24 goals in 86 internationals.

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Es en parte un club de lectura y en parte un club social, y una prueba de que una historia compartida puede unir a desconocidos.

El fundador Maalik Nelson lanzó el club de lectura Maalik Meets en Instagram, invitando a amigos a leer y discutir libros juntos. Lo inició de manera orgánica, impulsado por su propio amor por la literatura.

“Cuando comenzó, realmente eran mis cinco, seis o siete amigos más cercanos. Empecé a elegir libros cada vez más intencionales que pensaba que la comunidad querría leer”, dijo Nelson. “El grupo pasó de unas 10 personas a 20, luego al mes siguiente pasó de 20 a 30, después de 30 a 50 y continuó creciendo a medida que pasaban los meses”.

Actualmente, el club se reúne mensualmente en Dale’ Zine, en el Design District de Miami, una librería y galería independiente especializada en libros de arte que organiza encuentros y también tiene su propia página de Instagram.

Los miembros leen el mismo libro y luego se reúnen para compartir perspectivas, reacciones e interpretaciones. El formato es intencionalmente simple y los libros reflejan los tiempos actuales.

“Todos leemos un libro. Todos leemos el mismo libro. Tienen cosas que decir. No me necesitan a mí”, dijo Nelson. “Los dejo hablar y hacer lo suyo, y luego, a mitad de la reunión, tenemos una discusión más estructurada”.

La selección de este mes fue “Piranesi”, de Susanna Clarke.

Tanto para los miembros de larga trayectoria como para quienes asistían por primera vez, la discusión reveló una verdad central del club: no hay dos lectores que experimenten una misma historia de la misma manera.

“Podemos leer el mismo libro y cada persona obtendrá algo completamente único de él, y es increíble cada vez porque ven algo que tú nunca habías visto antes”, dijo Andrew Mendez, miembro del club.

No hay un profesor al frente de la sala. No hay panelistas. No hay conferencia. Solo conversación.

Aunque los libros pueden ser la razón por la que las personas asisten cada mes, a menudo no son la razón por la que regresan.

Maalik Meets se ha convertido en mucho más que un simple club de lectura. El grupo organiza parrilladas, paneles de discusión y encuentros sociales diseñados para que las conexiones continúen creciendo más allá de las páginas.

En una época impulsada por los “me gusta”, los seguidores y los algoritmos, los miembros afirman que están construyendo algo más personal. Muchos llegan por los libros, pero se quedan por las personas.

La selección del próximo mes es “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, de James Baldwin.

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It’s part book club, part social club — and proof that a shared story can bring strangers together.

Founder Maalik Nelson launched Maalik Meets book club on Instagram, inviting friends to read and discuss books together. He started it organically, through his own love of literature.

“When it started, it just legitimately was like my closest five, six, seven friends. I started to choose more and more intentional books that I thought the community would want,” said Nelson. “The group went from like 10 to 20, then the next month it went from 20 to 30, then 30 to 50 and it continued to grow as the months went on.”

Currently, the club gathers monthly at Dale’ Zine in Miami’s design district, an independent art bookshop and gallery hosting meetups that also has its own Instagram page.

Members read the same book, then come together to share perspectives, reactions and interpretations. The format is intentionally simple and the books reflect the times.

“We all read a book. We all read the same book. You have stuff to say. You don’t need me,” said Nelson. “I let them talk and let them do their thing and then in the middle we have more of a structured discussion.”

This month’s selection was “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke.

For longtime members and first-time visitors alike, the discussion revealed a central truth of the club: no two readers experience the same story the same way.

“We can read the same book and everybody will get something completely unique out of it and it’s incredible every time cause they will see something that you’ve never seen before,” said club member, Andrew Mendez.

There’s no professor at the front of the room. No panel. No lecture. Just conversation.

While books may be the reason people show up every month, they’re often not the reason people come back.

Maalik Meets has become much more than just a book club. The group hosts cookouts, panel discussions and social gatherings designed to keep connections growing beyond the page.

In an age driven by likes, followers and algorithms — members say they’re building something more personal. Many show up for the books, but stay for the people.

Next month’s selection is “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by James Baldwin.

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Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, turns 95 years old Wednesday under the shadow of a criminal indictment from the U.S. and an uncertain future for Cuba with the legacy of his brother, Fidel Castro, on his shoulders.

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June 1 update: Looking to the future: Should Cuban Americans invest in Cuba?

A few months ago, Cuba’s Vice Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, who is the grand-nephew of Raúl Castro, invited Cuban Americans in exile to invest in Cuba.

In 2019, the Cuban government amended their constitution to allow foreign investment. However, they did not change their laws to protect the investments.

Therefore, the risks to invest in Cuba remain greater than the opportunities.

Dr. Andy S. Gomez is Local 10’s Cuba Analyst. Gomez is considered one of the leading scholars on Cuba. He worked in higher education for 32 years before retiring from the University of Miami in 2012.

Raúl Castro, ex presidente de Cuba, cumple 95 años este miércoles bajo la sombra de una acusación penal de Estados Unidos y un futuro incierto para Cuba, cargando sobre sus hombros el legado de su hermano, Fidel Castro.

Actualización del 1 de junio: Mirando al futuro: ¿Deberían los cubanoamericanos invertir en Cuba?

Hace algunos meses, el viceministro de Cuba, Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, sobrino nieto de Raúl Castro, invitó a los cubanoamericanos en el exilio a invertir en Cuba.

En 2019, el gobierno cubano modificó su Constitución para permitir la inversión extranjera. Sin embargo, no cambió sus leyes para proteger esas inversiones.

Por lo tanto, los riesgos de invertir en Cuba siguen siendo mayores que las oportunidades.

El Dr. Andy S. Gómez es el analista sobre Cuba de Local 10. Gómez es considerado uno de los principales expertos sobre Cuba. Trabajó en la educación superior durante 32 años antes de retirarse de la Universidad de Miami en 2012.

El director financiero de Florida y jefe estatal de bomberos, Blaise Ingoglia, ofreció una conferencia de prensa el miércoles en el Centro de Entrenamiento de Búsqueda y Rescate Urbano de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Ingoglia aprovechó el evento para exhortar a los floridanos a abastecerse de inmediato de suministros esenciales, revisar su cobertura de seguro y elaborar un plan antes de que una tormenta amenace al estado.

Los funcionarios también recordaron a los residentes que deben conocer su zona de evacuación, evitar conducir por calles inundadas y estar atentos a posibles estafas después de una tormenta.

“El momento de prepararnos para los huracanes que se dirigen hacia nuestra área es ahora”, dijo Ingoglia. “No es cuando ya estamos dentro del cono, es ahora. No esperemos a que haya una tormenta con nombre, preparémonos desde ahora. Con solo tomar algunas medidas proactivas hoy, podemos marcar una gran diferencia mañana”.

Ingoglia también anunció una nueva iniciativa de preparación que enviará a agentes estatales de seguros a comunidades propensas a huracanes para compartir directamente con los residentes información sobre preparación ante tormentas.

Hasta ahora, dijo, ya han tocado las puertas de más de 6,000 viviendas.

La iniciativa continuará durante el resto de la temporada de huracanes de este año.

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Florida Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Blaise Ingoglia held a news conference Wednesday at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Urban Search and Rescue Training Facility.

Ingoglia used the event to encourage Floridians to immediately stock up on essential supplies, review their insurance coverage and make a plan before a storm threatens the state.

Officials also reminded residents to know their evacuation zone, to avoid driving through flooded streets, and to be on the lookout for scams after a storm.

“The time to prepare for hurricanes that are headed our direction is now,” said Ingoglia. “It’s not right when we are in the cone, it is now. Let’s not wait for a named storm, let’s prepare now. And by simply taking a few proactive steps today, we can make all the difference in tomorrow.”

Ingoglia also announced a new preparedness initiative that will send state insurance agents into hurricane-prone communities to share storm preparedness information directly with residents.

So far, he said they’ve already knocked on doors at more than 6,000 homes.

The initiative will continue through the rest of this year’s hurricane season.

A stream of the news conference can be seen below:

The case was an early test of how the courts would respond to President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

Dugan had been scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday, but U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman postponed the proceedings indefinitely to instead hear arguments about whether to overturn her conviction.

Adelman did not rule from the bench and did not indicate when he might issue a decision. Dugan and attorneys for both sides left the courtroom without commenting to reporters.

Former judge's attorney points to a Virginia case

Dugan’s attorney Steven Biskupic argued that her conviction was invalid and should be overturned. He said that was necessary because a federal appeals court in April overturned a key Virginia immigration case that the judge and prosecutors had cited in the Dugan case.

Biskupic argued that based on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturning that ruling, Dugan was improperly convicted, procedurally, under a certain federal law.

“Our primary argument is this was an invalid theory of conviction," Biskupic said.

In the Virginia case, an immigrant who was in the country illegally was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and later escaped. He was recaptured and indicted on a charge of obstructing a pending immigration proceeding.

The federal appeals court found that the ICE action did not constitute a “pending proceeding,” as is required under the federal obstruction law.

Dugan’s attorneys argue that she should not have been charged because there was no “pending proceeding” against the immigrant in her courtroom being sought by ICE agents, only a warrant filed for his arrest. The filing of a warrant does not constitute a “proceeding” under the law, Biskupic argued.

Prosecutors countered that the facts in the Virginia case are different and don’t apply to Dugan's. They also argued that other cases support Dugan's conviction.

“The court should stick with its ruling,” said Richard Frohling, acting U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin.

In response to a question from the judge, he contended that the appeals court was wrong to overturn the Virginia case. The judge also quizzed Frohling on what constitutes a proceeding under the law and how long it lasts.

“It could be a couple minutes, it could be a couple years," Frohling said. "It all depends on the context.”

Dugan's sentencing was postponed so the court can hear new arguments

Dugan, 67, faces up to five years in prison after a jury convicted her on Dec. 19. But it is unlikely that Dugan would be sentenced to prison. Federal sentencing guidelines generally call for probation for defendants like her who have no criminal history and are convicted of a nonviolent crime.

She resigned from her position as a Milwaukee County circuit judge two weeks after her conviction amid threats of impeachment from Republican state lawmakers. She had been a judge for nine years.

Dugan was present for Wednesday's arguments but did not speak.

The Trump administration brought the case against Dugan as the president pressed ahead with his sweeping immigration crackdown. Trump’s administration and his allies branded Dugan as an activist judge, while Dugan’s attorneys said she was being unfairly targeted and argued, unsuccessfully, that she was immune from being charged because she was a judge.

Dugan’s case marked the first time that a state judge in Wisconsin went to trial on charges of obstructing immigration agents. She was acquitted of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor.

Dugan helped an immigrant wanted by ICE agents

On April 18, 2025, immigration officers went to the Milwaukee County courthouse after learning Eduardo Flores-Ruiz had reentered the country illegally and was scheduled to appear before Dugan for a hearing in a state battery case.

Dugan confronted agents outside her courtroom and directed them to the chief judge’s office because she told them their administrative warrant wasn’t sufficient grounds to arrest Flores-Ruiz.

After the agents left, she led Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a private jury door. Agents spotted Flores-Ruiz in the corridor, followed him outside and arrested him after a foot chase. A week later, FBI agents arrested Dugan in the courthouse, leading her outside in handcuffs.

Flores-Ruiz was deported in November.

El hecho ocurrió alrededor de las 10:30 p.m. del domingo a bordo del vuelo 3345 de Frontier, que viajaba de Puerto Rico a Chicago cuando se vio obligado a realizar un aterrizaje de emergencia en MIA, según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade.

Según el informe, Juan Gabriel Reyes, de Pahokee, Florida, se tornó conflictivo durante el vuelo, lo que llevó a miembros de la tripulación y pasajeros a intervenir.

Los investigadores dijeron que testigos les informaron que Reyes primero intentó abrir una puerta de salida mientras el avión estaba en vuelo y les dijo a otras personas que quería abandonar la aeronave.

El informe indica que las azafatas lo detuvieron y le ordenaron regresar a su asiento.

Los agentes dijeron que Reyes presuntamente ignoró esas instrucciones y caminó hacia la parte delantera del avión, donde intentó acceder a la cabina de mando al “poner la mano en la manija de la puerta y empujar agresivamente con el hombro la puerta del piloto”.

Según el informe, una azafata le impidió el acceso.

Los investigadores dijeron que, después de que se le permitió usar el baño, Reyes intentó orinar en el piso del sanitario antes de que le indicaran que tomara asiento en otra parte del avión.

Indicaron que una azafata de Frontier fuera de servicio se ofreció voluntariamente para sentarse en la misma fila que Reyes después de que este fue reubicado.

El informe señala que la azafata fuera de servicio posteriormente confrontó a Reyes después de ser alertada de que estaba manipulando sus pertenencias. Cuando la azafata intentó tomar su bolso, Reyes presuntamente la agarró por la cabeza y comenzó a estrangularla, dijeron los agentes.

Según las autoridades, varios pasajeros intervinieron para ayudar a la víctima y apartar a Reyes. Posteriormente, azafatas y pasajeros trabajaron juntos para inmovilizarlo mientras este se resistía, indica el informe.

El vuelo fue desviado a MIA, donde agentes de la MDSO abordaron el avión y tomaron a Reyes bajo custodia.

Agentes del FBI acudieros al lugar y asumieron la investigación federal, según el informe. Las autoridades dijeron que Reyes fue informado de sus derechos Miranda, pero decidió ejercerlos y no ofreció ninguna declaración.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Reyes enfrenta un cargo de agresión.

Hasta el miércoles, permanecía detenido con una fianza de $20,000 USD en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

Around it, everything else is brand new.

The racetrack that straddles the border of Queens and Long Island is smack in the middle of a massive $550 million reconstruction project that included knocking down the gargantuan brick grandstand and rebuilding a smaller, modern facility suited for horse racing in the 21st century. A year from now, the Belmont Stakes will return to its traditional home at Belmont Park after a three-year hiatus upstate at Saratoga Race Course to allow for the work to get done.

“It’s hugely important to get it back to Belmont,” Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher said. “The opening of a new facility is something that can really give the industry a shot in the arm.”

Belmont Park 2.0

Aqueduct Racetrack will close to consolidate racing in New York to two locations after shiny new Belmont Park reopens on a limited basis Sept. 18. It is scheduled to be fully complete by next spring, ahead of the 159th Belmont Stakes and then the Breeders' Cup World Championships in the fall of 2027.

“Once you’re in the paddock and you get towards the building, you start to really see how it’s going to feel on a big day here,” said New York Racing Association president and CEO David O’Rourke, who has been with the organization since 2008.

“This consolidation was always discussed from Day 1. It was always on paper. To finally get to that point, we’re really excited."

The Associated Press took a hard hat tour of the construction site last month, where tarps and ladders are everywhere and tools strewn about the building, which is significantly smaller than the structure that reopened in 1968 after the last demolition and rebuild and held 100,000 people.

Roughly 300 construction workers plus 100 more support staff have put in more than 2 million hours, installing 1,728 tons of structural steel and pouring 40,000 cubic yards of concrete.

Building for horses and people

All the perks are there, including 31 suites — the old Belmont Park had none — along with a sports bar, a giant infield video screen and all the amenities of a stadium or arena. Lone Star Park in Texas was the last new racetrack to open in the U.S., back in 1997.

“This is a modern facility,” O'Rourke said. “It’s state of the art.”

That includes the racing surfaces because unlike stadiums and arenas for all-human sports, a ton of effort goes into making sure conditions are as good as possible for the horses. While the building is still a work in progress, the surfaces are done and ready: the dirt track known as “Big Sandy," two turf courses with grass that look straight out of European racing, and a synthetic track designed to race through the winter.

Updated technology allowed NYRA executive VP of operations and capital projects Glen Kozak and his team to install new drainage systems, along with track mats and bases designed to make the surfaces as safe as possible. Each marker pole has a robotic camera, and a 15-million gallon pond in the infield should hold enough water to irrigate without needing outside hydration.

“We’ve been given the opportunity here to start from the ground up and put all best practices in place,” Kozak said. “The quality of the irrigation, the health of the grass — all those components that go into better racing and better for the horse and rider, we were able to implement here.”

Back to Belmont

While the Belmont has been up at Saratoga, the third leg of the Triple Crown was shortened to 1 1/4 miles from the “test of the champion” 1 1/2-mile distance that was its hallmark. O'Rourke confirmed the plan is to go back to normal next year.

“The Belmont being a mile and a half with their big racetrack, I really kind of think that’s a unique opportunity as a lot of these horses won’t ever have to do that again in their career,” Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Cherie DeVaux said.

When American Pharoah ended the sport's 37-year Triple Crown drought in 2015 and Justify swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont in 2018, each won the final race at 1 1/2 miles in front of a huge crowd. Pletcher wondered if it would have been the same the past three years at Saratoga and is glad the future includes the traditional distance.

“It’s such a unique race, and you don’t get the opportunity to run that far very often,” Pletcher said. “And to do it at a facility like Belmont, where it’s a once around mile and a half oval that's, to me, the ultimate race, especially when there’s a Triple Crown on the line.”

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According to investigators, Georchel Cephas was last seen on Saturday wearing a multicolored dress near the 3200 block of West Oakland Park Boulevard in Lauderdale Lakes.

Deputies said she is approximately 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs about 110 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on her whereaboutsis urged to contact BSO Missing Persons Detective Chris Blankenship at 954-321-4268 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-4357.

Detectives de la Unidad de Personas Desaparecidas de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward solicitaron la ayuda del público el miércoles para localizar a una adolescente de 14 años que, según indican, desapareció durante el fin de semana.

Según los investigadores, Georchel Cephas fue vista por última vez el sábado vistiendo un vestido multicolor cerca de la cuadra 3200 de West Oakland Park Boulevard, en Lauderdale Lakes.

Los agentes informaron que mide aproximadamente 5 pies y 6 pulgadas de estatura, pesa alrededor de 110 libras y tiene cabello negro y ojos marrones.

Cualquier persona con información sobre su paradero debe comunicarse con el detective de personas desaparecidas de BSO, Chris Blankenship, al 954-321-4268 o con la línea de no emergencias de BSO al 954-764-4357.

“Those were Froot Loops,” Spielberg says, smiling. “My favorite.”

Spielberg’s latest, like some of his earliest and most beloved films, again concerns what might fall from above. “Disclosure Day,” which Universal Pictures releases June 11, returns Hollywood’s preeminent big-screen craftsman to one of his most abiding questions: Are we alone?

Coming nearly half a century after “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Disclosure Day” is a grand bookend for one of the most cosmically-minded moviemakers of our time, whose dreams of extraterrestrial life have shaped all of ours. It’s a distant answer to the final notes of “Close Encounters.” But while Spielberg grants his 1977 film was “speculative,” “Disclosure Day,” he insists, is the real deal.

“It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction,” Spielberg said in a recent interview. “It’s much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak.”

Spielberg, at 79, is trying to revive and reconsider the alien wonder that’s long lingered in his mind, from “E.T.” to “War of the Worlds.” “Disclosure Day,” Spielberg’s first summer movie in a decade, is already being hailed as one of his best in years. But this time, Spielberg is testing whether he can conjure some of his trademark movie magic less with imagination than with conviction.

“I’ve been a believer since I made ‘Close Encounters’ 50 years ago,” Spielberg says. “But I would always say: Until I’ve seen a UAP or a UFO with my own eyes, I’m not going to categorically state that life from out there has come here.

“But I’ve changed that,” he adds. “I’m now willing to change my mind because of the circumstantial evidence which is overwhelming.”

Aliens again, but different

“Disclosure Day” stars Josh O’Connor as a cybersecurity whistleblower with government evidence, long suppressed, chronicling a history of alien encounters. Guiding him in his escape from a corporate executive (Colin Firth) trying to keep it all under wraps is the disclosure movement’s leader (Colman Domingo). Meanwhile, a meteorologist named Margaret Fairchild (Emily Blunt) begins having a mysterious epiphany.

When he first began thinking about the movie, Spielberg called up the screenwriter David Koepp, a longtime collaborator who wrote “Jurassic Park” and “War of the Worlds.”

“I said, ‘Sure, what’s it about?’” recalls Koepp. “And he said, ‘Oh, you know, aliens again. But different this time.’”

Spielberg was coming off an unusually long break by his breakneck standards. His 2022 film “The Fabelmans” pulled from his own childhood, dramatizing his parents’ painful divorce and his own origins as a filmmaker. Spielberg’s first gut-wrenchingly autobiographical movie left him unsure of what was next.

“It was the hardest question I ever had to ask myself because there was such completion in resolving so many personal issues that I had never aired in public before ‘The Fabelmans,’” Spielberg says.

“I didn’t care whether people thought ‘The Fabelmans’ was just a tale, a yarn, or if they cared that it was all true. I didn’t care about that. It was something I did for myself. I always used to say it was $40 million of therapy that I didn’t have to pay for. Universal did,” he says, laughing.

But Spielberg, having long followed reports of alleged alien encounters, was inspired by the 2023 House Subcommittee on National Security hearing on UAPs: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Among the witnesses was whistleblower and former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, who testified that the government concealed a program investigating UAPs.

The Pentagon then denied it. Yet in April, President Donald Trump said the Pentagon is preparing to release some “very interesting” UFO files.

Those 2023 testimonies and others so fueled Spielberg that he produced a 50-page treatment on what would become “Disclosure Day." During the writing process with Koepp, he texted him more notes, he says, “than I’ve ever sent to anyone in my life.”

“There was a period in there where I believe he re-read the script every single day for a year,” Koepp says. “We’d be in different time zones and I would wake up to 30 or 35 texts from his most current reading of the script. When the leader of the project has that level of commitment, it tends to bring along everyone. You up your game.”

Extraterrestrial empathy

Spielberg has long considered his filmography split in two, between the filmmaker who made “Jaws” and “E.T.” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and the one who, after 1985’s “The Color Purple,” was increasingly drawn to darker and more serious material with films like “Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan” and “Munich.”

“Disclosure Day” is a kind of bridge between both modes of Spielberg — a thrilling chase movie filled with wonderment that’s nevertheless grounded in reality and recent history. And its most ardent message is quite earthbound. Blunt’s character’s clarity comes from looking people in the eye. As much as it’s about aliens, “Disclosure Day” is about empathy.

“I think every movie should have a great emphasis on empathy because empathy sometimes feels like it’s in short supply,” Spielberg says. “We have it, sometimes we can’t use it. Sometimes it’s not allowed to be used if you want to stay aligned with your friends and your belief systems. But I think empathy is there for all of us.”

“Disclosure Day” opens in a much different movie world than Spielberg's earlier alien adventures. It's one of few big, original studio movies this summer — a moviegoing season that the “Jaws” filmmaker pioneered. But neither franchise domination, AI nor streaming make Spielberg fret for the future of movies.

“The audience gives me faith in the movies," says Spielberg. "Even though the numbers are still not pre-COVID level numbers for any films being released now, it’s more robust than it has been for many years. The audience gives me belief that people still want to congregate in a dark space in the company of strangers to share an experience of a film made by storytellers. And that gives me faith to continue making films.”

Spielberg will turn 80 this December. Around the same age, Martin Scorsese began to frankly ponder how many movies he had left. Spielberg doesn’t think the same way.

“I never think about how many more I have,” he says. “I’m just hopeful that I will be inspired when something comes along, as I was with ‘Disclosure Day,’ as I was with ‘Fabelmans,’ as I was with ‘West Side Story.’”

More inspiration is already on the way. Spielberg hopes that his next movie will be a Western. Despite his deep fondness for the genre and an indelible encounter with John Ford, it’s one genre that’s eluded him.

“I always feel like parts of the ‘Raiders’ adventure movies are like Westerns,” he says. “Whenever Harrison (Ford) was on a horse, it made me wistful for wanting to direct a full Western, a real Western.”

Margaret Fairchild in “Disclosure Day” has some echoes with another Spielberg protagonist: Richard Dreyfuss’ Roy Neary in “Close Encounters.” Both are compelled by a strange force beyond their control. It’s a character type that Spielberg, a compulsive movie maker, grants he connects with. “Disclosure Day” is his 35th feature film.

“I identify with characters who aren’t afraid of mysterious things happening to them,” Spielberg says, “and who are fighting for their survival by trying to discover what they don’t know.”

Congo's military said an attack late on Tuesday by an Islamic State affiliate — a group known as the Allied Democratic Forces — killed 16 people in the Beni territory in North Kivu province.

The militants struck in response for a joint operation of Congolese and Ugandan armies, which have been battling the group that operates in the border regions of the two countries. Last month, the group attacked Congolese villages near the Ugandan border, killing at least 40 people and burning and looting homes.

The violence has hampered efforts to combat the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo type of Ebola, which was announced in mid-May in eastern Congo's provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu.

Since then, Congolese authorities have confirmed 60 deaths in the outbreak out of 344 cases. The number of suspected cases has gone down from 906 to 116. Neighboring Uganda has 15 confirmed cases, including one death, its health ministry said Tuesday.

WHO chief offers some hope for the outbreak

The agency's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that testing is improving in the struggle against Ebola, with scaled-up laboratory and diagnostic capacity though contact tracing in Congo “is not yet where it needs to be.”

"The outbreak had a big head start, and we’re still behind,” he said. But “we are catching up.”

Tedros spoke a day after returning to Geneva from Congo, where he visited the epicenter of the outbreak. "What I saw gave me hope, although challenges remain.”

He also said that blanket travel restrictions imposed by some countries “are disrupting supply chains and hindering the response,” and asked for them to be lifted. He stressed that WHO recommends exit screening at airports, ports and border crossings.

He avoided a reporter's question about a U.S. quarantine center in Kenya where American Ebola patients would be quarantined, which has drawn protests.

“I think based on their risk assessment … they (the United States) can do whatever they think is right for them,” the WHO chief said.

The outbreak struck in an extremely vulnerable region

Experts have said the virus spread for weeks in one of the world's most vulnerable regions before lab testing confirmed it. Resources, including protective gear, have been rushed to the outbreak for a type of Ebola with no approved medicine or vaccine.

At least five people have recovered from the virus, rare signs of hope.

“The true extent of the outbreak remains difficult to assess. Extremely limited testing capacity and difficulties accessing certain areas necessitate interpreting these figures with caution,” Doctors Without Borders, said Monday about the case numbers.

Getting a potential vaccine to the region could take months.

“It’s difficult to have an effective vaccine that adheres to the scientific protocol available quickly," Dr. Aruna Abedi, a Congolese epidemiologist who has managed previous outbreaks in the country, told The Associated Press.

While laboratory and diagnostic resources improve for the outbreak, Tedros said the tracing of people who had contact with infected people in Congo is still behind.

"Only about 45% of contacts have been followed up, and to get ahead of the outbreak we need to get that number up to above 90%,” he said. “Insecurity, displacement and mobile populations make contact tracing especially difficult.”

Congo has long struggled with a multitude of security crises and insecurity has over the years created a huge and vulnerable displaced population. Eastern Congo, where the latest Ebola outbreak is taking place, has several active armed groups, including the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group that seized key cities Goma and Bukavu over a year ago, and the IS affiliate.

Wary residents have attacked health centers in the outbreak, at times demanding the bodies of loved ones. Health workers also have been battling mistaken beliefs among some residents that Ebola isn't real, which has kept some from seeking care.

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Moulson reported from Berlin. Associated Press writer Jean Yves Kamale in Kinshasa, Congo, contributed to this report.

The leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee held the hearing as they push legislation unveiled last week that supporters hope can break the congressional gridlock over how to regulate college athletics. But it's already facing criticism from some senators and the two most influential conferences in college sports.

The bill, introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would regulate payments to athletes, limit them to one “free” transfer during their careers and create a “Lane Kiffin Rule” restricting coaches from leaving programs during the season. Cruz touted the proposal as “the last, best hope we have to save college sports.”

“If you had the biggest, baddest Ferrari that you could ever have and it was going 150 miles an hour toward the Grand Canyon, somebody needs to tap the brakes. And I think that’s what we all need to do here,” Saban said in his opening remarks.

Notably absent from the the witness list, which included Notre Dame’s athletic director and the commissioner of the newly reconstructed Pac-12 conference, were any representatives from either the Big Ten or Southeastern Conferences. Saban won seven national championships at SEC schools Alabama and LSU but said he was not in Washington to represent any conference or team.

The SEC and the Big Ten, the two most powerful conferences in college sports, oppose the bill, arguing it “leaves critical issues unresolved.”

Asked after the hearing about opposition from the SEC and Big Ten, Cruz told the Associated Press he remains confident the bill can pass Congress.

“We're going to get the votes," Cruz said. “If we do nothing, there is no alternative. As every witness testified, college sports is facing a crisis.”

Cantwell said at Wednesday's hearing that the legislation is intended to restore competition to college athletics by ensuring success is determined by how universities “build a team, and not because they have a billionaire in their back pocket.”

She also addressed the conferences’ opposition directly, suggesting they fear a more level playing field and the idea “that somebody’s going to come in and rearrange the deck chairs of those conferences, steal the eyeball schools, and then basically leave everybody with everything else.”

While Cruz and Cantwell, the two top-ranked lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee, support the bill, passage through the Senate is far from certain. President Donald Trump has yet to comment on the bill publicly.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, an ally of Trump's, said he had “grave concerns” about the bill. He said his most important concern was “it does nothing about protecting, biological women from competing with men and sports" — an issue that Trump has dealt with via executive orders but that has not come up in any version of these bills.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., a former college football coach at Auburn, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that “there’s going to have to be some changes” to the bill in order for him to support it.

House Republican leadership had been working toward a vote on its own college sports bill, known as the SCORE Act, before the Congressional Black Caucus announced its unanimous opposition.

The CBC said the legislation should not move forward in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling that effectively disabled a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. They say athletic leaders are failing to address concerns about the decision’s impact on Black political representation.

On Wednesday, the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter to Cruz and Cantwell urging the committee to pause consideration of their bill as well.

“Meaningful engagement and action by college athletics leadership should be viewed as a necessary first step,” the letter stated.

Amanda se encontraba a unos 2.420 kilómetros (1.505 millas) al oeste-suroeste del extremo sur de la península de Baja California, en México, según el centro meteorológico con sede en Miami. El vórtice de la tormenta se ubica sobre el mar y no representaba una amenaza inmediata para tierra.

Amanda tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 65 kph (40 mph), dijeron los meteorólogos. Se pronostica que la tormenta se fortalezca durante los próximos dos días, antes de debilitarse durante el fin de semana.

La temporada de huracanes del Pacífico comenzó el 15 de mayo. La temporada de huracanes del Atlántico comenzó el lunes, y aún no se han formado ciclones en esa región este año.

It's the Knicks' ninth time in the title series, and the eighth time they've played Game 1 on the road. It's the Spurs' seventh time in the title series, and the sixth time they've played Game 1 at home.

Granted, a good amount of time has passed for both teams since they've been on this stage: The Knicks haven't played in the finals since losing to the Spurs in 1999, and the Spurs haven't been there since beating the Miami Heat in 2014.

“I think we’re just locked in and focused on the task at hand,” Knicks forward Josh Hart said. “Then we can look back when everything is all said and done and really embrace this process and this run. It’s an honor, but can’t focus too much on the outside world and the run so far.”

The run the Knicks are on coming into this series is without compare: 11 straight wins by a total of 262 points, the most lopsided 11-game run — regular season or playoffs — in NBA history.

The Spurs have a different kind of streak going into Wednesday night. They've never lost Game 1 of the NBA Finals, going 6-0 in openers when they make the title round.

Most players on both teams are making their finals debuts in this series. Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox said it's still going to be important for his team to remember how they got to the finals in the first place.

“This is a hard thing to do. It’s hard to get back to these places,” Fox said. “Don’t change anything that we’re doing. There’s a reason that we’re in the finals. There’s a reason that we won (62) games. There’s a reason we didn’t lose three games in a row the whole year. So, we don’t want to get to this place and then start changing the way we play.”

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A court in the town of Naivasha ruled that the girls will be remanded at a children’s home to allow investigators to complete their inquiries and determine whether to bring charges.

The fire on May 28 ripped through the Utumishi Girls School dormitory that houses 202 students. Investigators said the school matron failed to open an emergency door, forcing all students to scamper through a single doorway.

The accused girls have been in police custody for six days, during which interrogations revealed the fire was started by lighting a mattress at the dormitory’s exit using a matchstick and paraffin. No motive has been revealed so far.

Police arrested nine girls after questioning students and reviewing CCTV footage that investigators say shows some students setting a fire inside the dormitory.

Hezron Mogire, a lawyer representing the nine girls, told the court there were “no compelling reasons” to detain the girls for 30 days, as requested by investigators.

“Nonetheless, the court has taken a different view. We have already briefed our clients, and they are well informed,” he said.

Mbogo Macharia, the lawyer representing the families of the 16 girls who died in the fire, called for a thorough investigation within 21 days.

“During that time, it is expected by the courts, by the nation, and also by us as the victims that the investigations will have concluded, we will have gotten the answers that we very much want to hear, and we will have found a way forward in respect to finding justice for the victims,” he said.

The results of DNA tests to determine the identities of some of the bodies that were charred beyond recognition are expected later Wednesday.

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The government says the development on the Adriatic coast would be transformational for the former communist nation as it seeks to enter the high-end tourism market and pushes for European Union membership.

But the venture, spanning an abandoned island and a nearby stretch of seafront on Albania’s southern coast, has drawn opposition from environmental campaigners and critics of long-time Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Kushner and Ivanka Trump found the site on a barefoot hike

The luxury project has two components: a coastal development in the Narta Lagoon area, which is a wildlife reserve, and a smaller resort on the nearby uninhabited island of Sazan, a communist-era military base.

The planned development of hotels, apartments, villas and a marina is linked to Kushner and Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump.

In an interview this week with U.S. podcaster David Senra, Ivanka Trump said they discovered the site by accident.

“We were on a friend’s boat, and we stopped for a swim. Effectively, that’s how we found it,” she said. “We swam to the island. We went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated.”

An investment firm linked to Kushner has been granted special investor status by Albanian authorities.

Harsh rule, pristine beaches

Albania has 450 kilometers (280 miles) of coast that remained largely underdeveloped during decades of harsh communist rule.

Protest groups fear the sections of that pristine coastline could be snapped up by powerful investors. And public anger grew after video showed an activist being dragged by a private security guard while demonstrating at the site.

The development is planned within a nature reserve and one of Albania’s most valuable biodiversity areas, a key stopover for migratory birds along the Adriatic coast.

Protesters have carried cardboard cut-outs of pink flamingos, one of the protected migratory bird species, at rallies in the capital Tirana.

Since late May, excavators and other heavy machinery have entered the area, opening access routes, digging into the sand, clearing land among pine trees and installing fencing.

Environmental groups from Albania and elsewhere in Europe condemned the work, with one prominent local group charging that long-protected habitats are being "irreversibly destroyed.”

A multi-billion dollar bonanza?

Albania’s state anti-corruption agency has confirmed it opened an investigation related to the project but has not disclosed details.

The government says the land earmarked for the project is privately owned. But competing claims have emerged questioning the privatization — a common type of legal dispute.

Rama has committed to the venture, saying it would align with Albania’s ambition to become a major global tourism destination.

“Albania should not be a country that fears an extraordinary project like this one, where exceptional partners have come together to invest 4 billion euros ($4.6 billion),” Rama said.

He added: “There is no chance for this investment to stop as long as I am here.”

However, the demise of a similar project in Serbia offers a cautionary tale. In November, Serbia's Parliament passed a special law to enable the building of a luxury complex in the capital, Belgrade, to be financed by an investment company linked to Kushner.

The following month, Serbia's prosecutor for organized crime charged four people, including a government minister, with abuse of office and falsifying of documents to help pave the way for the development.

Kushner later withdrew from the planned multi-million investment that would have replaced a sprawling bombed-out military complex, a designated heritage zone whose legal protection was lifted by the former officials now on trial.

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Grier, 56, spent 10 seasons as Miami’s general manager before he was dismissed during the 2025 season on Halloween after the Dolphins opened the year 2-7.

His departure marked the end of a 25-year tenure with the organization, where he worked his way up through the scouting department before taking over as general manager.

Prior to joining Miami, Grier worked as a scout for New England.

During his time leading the Dolphins’ football operations, Grier hired head coaches Brian Flores in 2019 and Mike McDaniel in 2022.

Flores was fired in 2022 and now serves as defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings. McDaniel was fired in January and has since joined the Los Angeles Chargers as offensive coordinator.

While in Miami, Grier oversaw several first-round draft selections, including tackle Laremy Tunsil, defensive end Charles Harris, safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, wide receiver Jaylen Waddle, EDGE Chop Robinson and defensive tackle Kenneth Grant.

He also used first-round draft capital to acquire veteran players wide receiver Tyreek Hill and linebacker Bradley Chubb through trades. Of the players selected or acquired with those first-round assets, only Robinson and Grant remain on Miami’s roster.

Grier will now work under Lions general manager Brad Holmes, who is entering his sixth season leading Detroit’s front office, and reunite with head coach Dan Campbell, who served as the Dolphins’ interim head coach in 2015.

Grier, de 56 años, pasó 10 temporadas como gerente general de Miami antes de ser despedido durante la temporada 2025 en Halloween, después de que los Dolphins comenzaran el año con marca de 2-7.

Su salida marcó el final de una trayectoria de 25 años con la organización, donde ascendió a través del departamento de cazatalentos antes de asumir el cargo de gerente general.

Antes de unirse a Miami, Grier trabajó como cazatalentos para New England.

Durante su tiempo al frente de las operaciones de fútbol americano de los Dolphins, Grier contrató a los entrenadores en jefe Brian Flores en 2019 y Mike McDaniel en 2022.

Flores fue despedido en 2022 y actualmente se desempeña como coordinador defensivo de los Minnesota Vikings. McDaniel fue despedido en enero y desde entonces se unió a Los Angeles Chargers como coordinador ofensivo.

Mientras estuvo en Miami, Grier supervisó varias selecciones de primera ronda del draft, incluidos el tackle Laremy Tunsil, el ala defensiva Charles Harris, el profundo Minkah Fitzpatrick, el tackle defensivo Christian Wilkins, el mariscal de campo Tua Tagovailoa, el receptor abierto Jaylen Waddle, el EDGE Chop Robinson y el tackle defensivo Kenneth Grant.

También utilizó selecciones de primera ronda para adquirir mediante canjes a jugadores veteranos como el receptor abierto Tyreek Hill y el apoyador Bradley Chubb. De los jugadores seleccionados o adquiridos con esos activos de primera ronda, solo Robinson y Grant permanecen en la plantilla de Miami.

Ahora, Grier trabajará bajo las órdenes del gerente general de los Lions, Brad Holmes, quien entra en su sexta temporada al frente de la oficina principal de Detroit, y se reunirá nuevamente con el entrenador en jefe Dan Campbell, quien se desempeñó como entrenador interino de los Dolphins en 2015.

No se puede decir lo mismo del Pacífico oriental, donde la temporada de huracanes comenzó oficialmente el 15 de mayo, ¹⁵ días antes que la del Atlántico. En el Pacífico oriental, los huracanes suelen empezar a formarse en junio, a diferencia del Atlántico, donde no son frecuentes hasta agosto.

Este año, en particular, se espera una temporada de huracanes muy activa en el Pacífico oriental, con la NOAA pronosticando una actividad muy superior a la media , principalmente por las mismas razones por las que pronostican una menor actividad tropical en el Atlántico. No solo las temperaturas del agua son mucho más cálidas que el promedio en la región cercana al ecuador, donde se buscan las condiciones de El Niño, sino que también alcanzan temperaturas récord o casi récord para esta época del año al norte del ecuador, en el Pacífico oriental y cerca de México, donde las tormentas tienden a formarse.

Por lo tanto, no es de extrañar que ya tengamos nuestra primera depresión tropical y la próxima tormenta que recibirá nombre en la temporada de huracanes del Pacífico oriental, con otras dos áreas a vigilar frente a las costas del Pacífico de México y Centroamérica.

Si bien se espera que Amanda, que pronto se convertirá en tormenta tropical, permanezca sobre el Pacífico abierto, las dos perturbaciones más cercanas a tierra podrían amenazar la costa del Pacífico como Boris y/o Cristina a mediados de la próxima semana.

Primera semana tranquila para el Atlántico.

El Atlántico permanecerá inactivo durante la primera semana de la temporada de huracanes.

Como detallamos en el boletín de ayer, estaremos atentos al Caribe occidental y al sur del Golfo a partir de finales de la próxima semana y hasta mediados de junio, a medida que la parte tormentosa de la Oscilación Madden-Julian (OMJ) se adentre en la cuenca. Observamos algunas señales en los modelos a largo plazo (más allá de los 10 días) de que el Giro Centroamericano podría intensificarse a mediados de mes, pero por ahora las señales siguen siendo débiles e inconsistentes.

Así que, por el momento, disfrutaremos del tranquilo comienzo de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico.

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The same can’t be said on the eastern Pacific side where the hurricane season officially started May 15^th – 15 days before the Atlantic hurricane season. The eastern Pacific typically begins churning out hurricanes by June, unlike in the Atlantic where hurricanes aren’t a common sight until August.

This year especially, the eastern Pacific is expected to have a lively hurricane season, with NOAA predicting well above average activity, primarily for the very same reasons they’re predicting lower overall tropical activity in the Atlantic. Not only are water temperatures much warmer than average in the region around the equator where we look for El Niño conditions, but they’re at record or near-record warmth for the time of year north of the equator in the eastern Pacific and near Mexico where storms prefer to form.

So it’s no surprise we already have our first tropical depression and soon-to-be named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season, with two other areas to watch off the Pacific coasts of Mexico and Central America.

While soon-to-be Amanda is expected to stay over the open Pacific, the two disturbances closer to land could threaten the Pacific coastline as Boris and/or Cristina by the middle part of next week.

Quiet first week for the Atlantic

The Atlantic will stay dormant through the first week of the hurricane season.

As we detailed in yesterday’s newsletter, we’ll keep an eye to the western Caribbean and southern Gulf starting late next week and into mid-June as the stormy side of the MJO makes its way into the basin. We’re seeing some signals in the long-range models (beyond 10 days) that the Central American Gyre may crank up come mid-month, but for now the signals remain weak and inconsistent.

So for the time being we’ll enjoy the quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season.

Amanda was located about 1,475 miles (2,375 kilometers) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, according to the Miami-based weather center. With the center of the storm at sea, the cyclone posed no immediate threat to land.

Amanda had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph), meteorologists said. The storm was forecast to strengthen over the next couple of days and then weaken over the weekend.

The Pacific hurricane season started May 15. The Atlantic hurricane season began Monday, and no cyclones have formed in that basin yet this year.

Worker bees perform a myriad of jobs to keep up the hive, including collecting food, nurturing young bees and caring for the queen, who lays all the eggs. New research reveals that the honeybees responsible for crafting the queen's home effectively run a fever to help melt and blend special chemicals into the wax.

“No one had ever thought that there might be a specialized group of workers that were building these queen cells,” said bee researcher Julia Bowsher with North Dakota State University, who had no role in the study.

These newly identified bees were younger and also had patterns of expression in their genes that made them uniquely suited to the task. The resulting peanut-shaped home was also distinct in its makeup, as it was made of softer wax with a higher melting point than the kind used to build worker bees' homes.

Queens are raised eating royal jelly secreted from the glands of worker bees and scientists have long believed diet was the main key to making a monarch. The new findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, suggest that the queen's environment might also play a role.

To test that theory, researchers raised baby queens in cups capped with either queen or worker wax. Despite eating royal jelly, the queens raised in worker wax were smaller and didn’t survive as well.

“For centuries, we believed ‘you are what you eat’ was the only rule for making a queen bee. Our study rewrites that rule to say ‘you are where you live, too,'" Kai Wang, a study co-author with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said in an email.

The findings offer a rare look inside the hive, but questions remain.

Honeybees pollinate and ensure the survival of crops such as blueberries, squash, watermelon and almonds. Further research is needed to learn more about the secret lives of queen cell-building bees and the exact combination of factors that produce the hive's head honcho.

“I would really like to know more about the specific chemical composition of this wax and which active ingredients are directly affecting the growth of the queens,” Bowsher said.

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Según las autoridades, una residente de Coconut Creek de 85 años recibió una llamada telefónica en la que le decían que había ganado un premio.

“Se suponía que iba a recibir $7 millones y un auto”, dijo la víctima a los agentes.

La policía dijo que familiares de la víctima los contactaron después de que ella enviara dos cheques, uno por $2,500 USD y otro por $1,000 USD, a presuntos estafadores en el estado de Washington.

Luego, el viernes, los agentes tuvieron que intervenir cuando la mujer estaba a punto de enviar más dinero a los presuntos estafadores. La encontraron en una clase de cerámica y la detuvieron antes de que pudiera enviarlo.

“En este caso en particular, la residente de la tercera edad ya había completado una serie de transacciones financieras cuando su familia descubrió que se estaba preparando para enviar más dinero”, dijo el detective del Departamento de Policía de Coconut Creek, Clint Corey.

Corey dio consejos para los residentes que sean contactados por estafadores.

“Simplemente no conteste el teléfono, obligue a quien llama a dejar un mensaje”, dijo. “Y luego usted puede decidir cómo quiere responder, y puede quedarse con más dinero en su bolsillo al final del día”.

Authorities stormed the building in downtown Bakersfield overnight, ending a nearly 16-hour standoff during which the suspect tied up half the hostages, police said.

The hostages — employees of the Kern County Superintendent of Schools — were found unharmed inside the building that also houses a bank, said Bakersfield Assistant Police Chief Jeremy Blakemore.

“Throughout the night, their families questioned whether or not they would be seen again but we are very grateful for the outcome,” Blakemore said during a news conference Wednesday.

Anthony Scott Searles-Harris, 41, was shot and killed around 4:20 a.m., according to Sid Patel, special agent in charge in the FBI’s Sacramento office. Authorities said he was an Army veteran who was dishonorably discharged, had a history of trouble with law enforcement and was a registered sex offender.

Searles-Harris told police he had a bomb after barricading himself within the second floor of the building, Blakemore said. Authorities were testing the devices Wednesday that Searles-Harris said were explosives, but Patel said they do not appear to be a concern.

One of the hostages was able to communicate with law enforcement using her phone until her battery died, Patel said. She was diabetic and didn’t have her medicine so officials knew she was at risk, he said.

“I’m sure there’ll be mental scars that they’re living with, and we’ll have our victim specialist to help them,” Patel said.

While authorities declined to discuss details about how they ended the standoff or the motive behind it, Blakemore said some of the demands Searles-Harris made involved asking for materials from an earlier case.

"He had concerns related to how his previous case had been handled and what the aftermath of that was, the sentencing and those kinds of things,” Blakemore said, without specifying details.

California Department of Justice and court records show Searles-Harris was on the state’s sex offender registry due to convictions in 2014 for sexual crimes related to a child under 14 years of age. Those records show he was released from prison in 2018.

FBI officials said Searles-Harris served about a year in the Army before being dishonorably discharged in 2007 for going AWOL.

Court records in Kern County, California, show Searles-Harris filed a petition to prevent domestic violence, and was involved in divorce proceedings that began in 2009 and note a young child, as well as a fight for guardianship years later in which he was listed as an objector.

During the news conference, Blakemore said he was aware of videos Searles-Harris had apparently posted criticizing the sheriff’s office and claiming he was innocent of his previous sex crimes convictions. He said the videos were being reviewed but the department had no plans to investigate the claims of innocence.

It wasn't clear why Searles-Harris targeted the school district office.

"What unfolded was undoubtedly a terribly frightening and unsettling experience, and the composure our employees demonstrated throughout the 16-hour ordeal was extraordinary, John Mendiburu, the county schools superintendent, said in a statement.

The standoff began early Tuesday afternoon, when officers responded to a call of a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building, a four-story office building with dark-tinted glass windows in Bakersfield, a city of about 380,000 residents about 100 miles (160 kms) northeast of Los Angeles.

The police department’s crisis negotiation team talked with Searles-Harris by phone and he released two hostages Tuesday.

Authorities evacuated buildings nearby, including City Hall and the police headquarters that are just a block away.

More than 100 FBI personnel assisted, including two SWAT teams, bomb technicians and crisis negotiation teams, Patel said. A hostage rescue team was deployed from its headquarters on the East Coast, he said.

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Según la resolución, estas medidas incluyen la contratación de “abogados externos” y la presentación de una demanda contra la BSO.

Los funcionarios municipales han estado trabajando para establecer sus propios departamentos de policía y bomberos antes de septiembre de 2027, fecha en que la BSO dejará de prestar servicios a la ciudad.

La ciudad ha estado reduciendo su dependencia de la BSO, tras más de tres décadas de servicio.

La ciudad planea transmitir la reunión de la comisión a las 7 p.m. por YouTube.

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The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations.

“The team really did experience the loss of a loved one with the end of the mission here,” said NASA project manager Mike Moreau.

Launched in 2013 to study the red planet’s atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in early December after passing behind Mars. Data indicated the spacecraft went into a fast spin, which disrupted its orbit and drained the onboard batteries.

A review board convened by NASA earlier this year concluded that the spacecraft is useless and unable to be recovered. It's expected to remain in orbit for another 50 to 100 years before crashing into the planet, posing no issue to other spacecraft until then. An investigation continues into what caused the problem.

Besides studying Martian weather and observing a stray interstellar comet last year, Maven helped relay information from NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on the surface. NASA officials said four other spacecraft around Mars — two U.S. and two European satellites — will pick up the slack, with no rover science lost.

"The team is certainly broken up about this, but at the same time we are incredibly proud of the science we've accomplished over the last decade,” said Maven's lead scientist, Shannon Curry of the University of Colorado Boulder.

The spacecraft advanced scientists' understanding of the Martian atmosphere and evolution, Curry said.

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“Con la frente en alto y el corazón palpitante de gratitud patriótica, recibo sus palabras y su firme apoyo. ¡Gracias, señor presidente!”, publicó De la Espriella en la red social X.

Trump manifestó la víspera desde Truth Social su “completo y total respaldo” a De la Espriella, a quien calificó como un “líder Inteligente, fuerte y duro” que se enfrentará a un “marxista de izquierda radical” en la segunda vuelta del 21 de junio.

“Como presidente, Abelardo tendría un éxito tremendo liderando a Colombia”, indicó Trump, anticipando que haría crecer la economía, promovería el comercio, combatiría el crimen y las drogas y detendría la “inmigración ilegal”.

El respaldo de Trump realza en la campaña presidencial la relación entre Colombia y Estados Unidos, que se ha tensado con el gobierno de Gustavo Petro por discrepancias sobre la lucha contra el narcotráfico —especialmente los bombardeos a lanchas en el Caribe—, la migración y las acciones bélicas de Israel en la Franja de Gaza.

“Los resultados de esta elección son muy importantes para el futuro de Colombia y su relación con Estados Unidos”, recalcó Trump.

Esta no es la primera vez que Trump expresa su apoyo a candidatos en Latinoamérica y de otras regiones, lo que le ha valido críticas de sus oponentes por romper con la tradición estadounidense de evitar la injerencia directa en la política interna de otros países. El año pasado, respaldó al conservador Nasry “Tito” Asfura, del Partido Nacional, quien resultó ganador en las elecciones de Honduras. También apoyó a Javier Milei en Argentina durante las elecciones legislativas de 2025, cruciales para su proyecto político.

Petro rechazó el apoyo de Trump al candidato conservador e instó a la ciudadanía a votar con libertad para “no volvernos ni esclavos ni colonia de nadie”.

“Cuando un país interviene en las decisiones de otro país muere la libertad”, aseguró Petro en X la víspera.

Cepeda también rechazó el apoyo explícito de Trump a su contrincante por considerarlo de “tinte injerencista” y abogó por la soberanía de Colombia.

“No puede ocurrir que se hagan acciones de carácter apátrida por parte del señor De la Espriella para buscar que, a través de la intervención de gobiernos extranjeros, definamos nuestra contienda electoral”, aseguró el oficialista el miércoles a la prensa.

Estados Unidos es el mayor mercado de exportación de Colombia y, antes de las tensiones con Petro, solía resaltar a ese país sudamericano como su principal aliado en el hemisferio.

Las asperezas entre Petro y Trump se limaron tras una reunión en la Casa Blanca. Sin embargo, el Departamento del Tesoro estadounidense no ha retirado las sanciones impuestas a Petro por acusaciones de participar en el tráfico global de drogas, de las que no ha mostrado pruebas.

De la Espriella, con doble nacionalidad colombiana y estadounidense, es simpatizante de Trump y miembro del Partido Republicano. Sin experiencia en cargos de elección popular, obtuvo 43,74 % de los votos en la primera vuelta presidencial seguido del senador Cepeda —aliado de Petro— con 40,90 %, según el conteo preliminar.

El candidato ha dicho que está alineado con las políticas estadounidenses, especialmente en la lucha antinarcóticos, prometiendo erradicar miles de hectáreas de cultivos de hoja de coca —materia prima de la cocaína— y detener el tráfico que va hacia Estados Unidos.

“Yo adhiero a la política de lucha antidrogas, que es la nueva doctrina del presidente Trump”, dijo De la Espriella en una reciente entrevista con The Associated Press. También aseguró que apoya los bombardeos a lanchas presuntamente cargadas de droga: “voy a dar la orden de que las hundan con la gente que vaya adentro”.

El choque ocurrió alrededor de las 3:15 p.m. en Angels of Paradise Mortuary, ubicada en el 2796 de la calle 46 del noroeste, en el área no incorporada de Brownsville, en el condado.

Video de Sky 10 mostró la motocicleta todoterreno marrón destrozada en el suelo, mientras que la ventana del lado del conductor del carro fúnebre Cadillac quedó hecha añicos.

Paramédicos trasladaron al motociclista a Jackson Memorial Hospital en condición crítica.

Funcionarios de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade confirmaron la mañana del miércoles que el hombre murió posteriormente. Las autoridades aún no han revelado públicamente su identidad.

Indicaron que investigan si la velocidad fue un factor en el choque.

Video de Sky 10 muestra que el motociclista se estrelló contra una carroza fúnebre aparentemente estacionada en Angels of Paradise Mortuary, ubicada en 2796 NW 46th St. en el área no incorporada de Brownsville.

Los registros de despacho mostraron que el choque ocurrió alrededor de las 3:15 p.m.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, una investigación preliminar mostró que el motociclista perdió el control de su moto y chocó contra el Cadillac.

Las autoridades indicaron que los médicos lo trasladaron al Hospital Jackson Memorial en estado crítico.

Agentes de la MDSO permanecieron en la escena el martes por la tarde investigando el accidente.

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The teacher, Michael Enriquez, 53, was not in court Wednesday, but his attorney and prosecutors came to an agreement for him to be released on house arrest.

As part of the conditions of his release, he will not be permitted to leave his home except to meet with his attorney and he must stay away from the victim, American Senior High School, and all minors.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Enriquez had a “sexual relationship” with the victim, who is a student at American Senior High, that began in May 2025 when she was 17 years old.

Deputies said Enriquez and the student went out after school twice last year -- once in May and once in June – at which time they engaged in sex acts together.

“He’s disgusting,” a student at the school told Local 10 News on Tuesday. “The girl knew what she was doing, but he is a grown man. He knew what he was doing 20 times more -- he’s been there, done that -- it’s all wrong.”

According to authorities, Enriquez and the victim did not communicate over summer break, but when the new school year began in August 2025, the two resumed their “sexual relationship.”

Authorities said their final encounter occurred on May 14, 2026, which was the only time they had sexual intercourse.

The victim was 18 at the time of their final sexual encounter, according to Enriquez’s arrest report.

Authorities did not disclose how they were alerted to the alleged crimes or how they discovered the dates and details.

“It’s scary that someone who deals with so many students could be talking to a girl maybe my age or maybe a little older, because we usually trust teachers, we talk to them a lot. We don’t know if the girl was going through something, if she thought that was the only way,” Samira Gonzalez, who is a freshman at the school, said.

“Definitely as an adult, you should know where to draw the line,” a student named Christopher told Local 10. “You have these young ladies -- they’re probably fearing right now.”

A spokesperson for Miami-Dade County Public Schools confirmed that Enriquez will be fired.

“Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is aware of the arrest of an employee from American Senior High School. Upon learning of the suspected behavior, the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department initiated an investigation, which resulted in his removal from the school site and his subsequent arrest by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office. The type of behavior this individual is accused of will not be tolerated, as it runs contrary to the professional conduct we expect from all employees. The District has initiated employment termination proceedings and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with the District. At M-DCPS, the safety and well-being of all students remains our top priority.”

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El profesor, Michael Enriquez, de 53 años, no estuvo presente en el tribunal el miércoles, pero su abogado y los fiscales llegaron a un acuerdo para que fuera puesto bajo arresto domiciliario.

Como parte de las condiciones de su liberación, no se le permitirá salir de su casa excepto para reunirse con su abogado y deberá mantenerse alejado de la víctima, de la escuela secundaria American Senior High School y de todos los menores de edad.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, Enriquez mantuvo una “relación sexual” con la víctima, estudiante de American Senior High, que comenzó en mayo de 2025 cuando ella tenía 17 años.

Según los agentes, Enriquez y el estudiante salieron después de clase dos veces el año pasado, una en mayo y otra en junio, y en ambas ocasiones mantuvieron relaciones sexuales.

“Es repugnante”, dijo un estudiante de la escuela a Local 10 News el martes. “La chica sabía lo que hacía, pero él es un hombre adulto. Sabía perfectamente lo que hacía; ya ha pasado por eso, está completamente mal”.

Según las autoridades, Enriquez y la víctima no se comunicaron durante las vacaciones de verano, pero cuando comenzó el nuevo año escolar en agosto de 2025, ambos reanudaron su “relación sexual”.

Las autoridades indicaron que su último encuentro tuvo lugar el 14 de mayo de 2026, y que fue la única vez que mantuvieron relaciones sexuales.

Según el informe de detención de Enriquez, la víctima tenía 18 años en el momento de su último encuentro sexual.

Las autoridades no revelaron cómo fueron alertadas de los presuntos delitos ni cómo descubrieron las fechas y los detalles.

“Da miedo que alguien que trata con tantos estudiantes pueda estar hablando con una chica de mi edad o un poco mayor, porque solemos confiar en los profesores, hablamos mucho con ellos. No sabemos si la chica estaba pasando por un mal momento, si pensaba que esa era la única salida”, dijo Samira González, estudiante de primer año en la escuela.

“Sin duda, como adulto, uno debe saber dónde poner el límite”, dijo un estudiante llamado Christopher a Local 10. “Estas jovencitas probablemente estén teniendo miedo ahora mismo”.

Un portavoz de las Escuelas Públicas del Condado de Miami-Dade confirmó que Enriquez será despedido.

“Las Escuelas Públicas del Condado Miami-Dade (M-DCPS) están al tanto del arresto de un empleado de American Senior High School. Al tener conocimiento de la presunta conducta, el Departamento de Policía Escolar de Miami-Dade inició una investigación, que resultó en su retiro del plantel escolar y su posterior arresto por parte de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade. El tipo de conducta del que se acusa a este individuo no será tolerado, ya que va en contra de la conducta profesional que esperamos de todos los empleados. El Distrito ha iniciado los procedimientos para poner fin a su empleo y garantizará que el individuo quede impedido de buscar empleo en el futuro con el Distrito. En M-DCPS, la seguridad y el bienestar de todos los estudiantes siguen siendo nuestra máxima prioridad”.

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Reagor, 26, joins Miami after spending time with the Los Angeles Chargers organization last season.

He was promoted from the Chargers’ practice squad late in the 2024 campaign but moved on and off the practice squad after being waived during training camp. He has been a free agent since October.

A former first-round draft pick, Reagor was selected 21st overall by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2020 NFL Draft.

He has appeared in 64 regular-season games and made 27 starts during his NFL career, with most of those starts coming during his first two seasons in Philadelphia.

Reagor’s most productive season came in 2021, when he recorded a career-high 33 receptions. He was traded to the Minnesota Vikings before the 2022 season and has also spent time with the New England Patriots and Chargers.

Over five NFL seasons, Reagor has totaled 86 receptions for 1,037 yards and four touchdowns while contributing on special teams as a returner.

The move adds more veteran depth to Miami’s receiving corps, which was bolstered this offseason by the additions of Tutu Atwell and Jalen Tolbert as the Dolphins continue preparing their roster for the 2026 season.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Patricia Barberena, 62, picked the boy up Tuesday morning from his daycare and then headed toward his school to drop him off.

But deputies said the boy fell asleep on the bus and didn’t get off once they arrived at his school.

According to the report, Barberena then drove the bus to her home and parked along the county swale.

Deputies said the boy woke up after Barberena had already entered her home and exited the bus.

A passerby found him a short time later walking along Southwest 298^th Terrace and 157^th Avenue and called MDSO, authorities said.

According to the report, the boy’s school called Barberena to inform her that the boy never arrived and she then went outside to look for him.

Instead, she was greeted by deputies who transported her to the South District Station in Cutler Bay for questioning, authorities said.

According to the report, Barberena admitted to not inspecting the bus to see if any students were still on it before she drove home.

She was arrested on a charge of child neglect without great bodily harm.

The name of the school the boy attends was not disclosed in the arrest report.

As of Wednesday morning, Barberena was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Online jail records listed her bond as “to be set.”

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), Patricia Barberena, de 62 años, recogió al niño el martes por la mañana en su guardería y luego se dirigió a su escuela para dejarlo.

Sin embargo, los agentes dijeron que el niño se quedó dormido en el autobús y no se bajó cuando llegaron a la escuela.

Según el informe, Barberena condujo el autobús hasta su casa y lo estacionó junto a una franja de terreno del condado.

Los agentes dijeron que el niño despertó después de que Barberena ya había entrado a su vivienda y salió del autobús.

Poco después, un transeúnte lo encontró caminando por Southwest 298th Terrace y la avenida 157 y llamó a la MDSO, informaron las autoridades.

Según el informe, la escuela del niño llamó a Barberena para informarle que el menor nunca llegó y ella salió a buscarlo.

En cambio, fue recibida por agentes que la trasladaron a la estación del Distrito Sur en Cutler Bay para ser interrogada, informaron las autoridades.

Según el informe, Barberena admitió que no inspeccionó el autobús para verificar si todavía había estudiantes a bordo antes de conducir hasta su casa.

Fue arrestada por un cargo de negligencia infantil sin causar lesiones corporales graves.

El nombre de la escuela a la que asiste el niño no fue revelado en el informe de arresto.

Hasta la mañana del miércoles, Barberena permanecía detenida en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Los registros carcelarios en línea indicaban que su fianza estaba “pendiente de ser fijada”.

Answer: Your situation is pretty common. Most couples I know develop a division of labor over time, where one person is in charge of financial matters and the other person is less involved. That’s definitely the case for my husband and me. He’s in charge of paying all the monthly bills and preparing our tax returns, but the financial planning and investment decisions are up to me. This type of arrangement might work well for a long time, but can become less sustainable with age, particularly if the “finance person” in the relationship dies or develops a major health issue.

Online tools and mind maps

Illustrating your financial situation with charts and graphs is a great idea that might help your spouse become a little more involved. Morningstar’s  Portfolio X-Ray  tool includes a variety of images that help illustrate your financial situation. Websites for most major brokerage firms also include some visual tools. Schwab, for example, offers a Portfolio Checkup and a bar graph illustrating your account’s monthly income from dividends and interest income. Vanguard has a Portfolio Watch tool and a variety of performance illustrations, tools, and calculators.

A  mind map, which we used with clients when I worked for a financial advisory firm, can be another way to picture your entire financial situation on one page. There are various  softwaretemplates  for drawing a mind map, or you can simply sketch it out with a large sheet of paper and a pencil. Start with your names at the center of the page. Then draw spokes connecting to various categories, such as names of other family members; investment accounts; real estate and other assets, insurance policies, estate plans, key goals and values, and contact information for accountants, estate planners, and other professionals. It can be helpful to go through the mind map together and make any updates needed at least once a year.

Other ways to communicate about money

A few other ideas—though not related to charts and graphs—might also be useful.

I like the idea of putting together a  net worth statement  that itemizes cash, taxable accounts, real estate, retirement accounts, and debt for each member of the couple as well as items owned jointly. It’s a good idea to update this document at least once a year and  discuss it as a couple. If you set up the document as a spreadsheet, you can include columns with additional information such as account numbers, what each account is used for, which accounts are subject to required minimum distributions, or tax issues like potential capital gains.

Many couples also put together a  binder  (sometimes humorously called a “Doomsday Book”) that contains information about where to find important paperwork, insurance policies, how bills are paid, what each account is for, steps the surviving spouse will need to take, final wishes, and any other critical information.

A well-qualified financial adviser can bridge the information gap

Finally, you could consider working with a good  financial adviser,  who can help involve your spouse in financial matters while you’re still living and step in to fully manage investments and personal finance decisions if you pass away before your spouse. Make sure the adviser holds the Certified Financial Planner designation and charges fees that are reasonable. Although a 1% fee is still the industry standard for accounts of $1 million or less, it’s possible to find advisers who charge significantly less, including a few who price their services based on hours worked instead of a percentage of assets under management.

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This article was provided to The Associated Press by Morningstar. For more personal finance content, go to https://www.morningstar.com/personal-finance.

Amy C. Arnott, CFA, is a portfolio strategist for Morningstar and co-host of The Long View podcast.

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The 27-nation bloc unveiled a “tech sovereignty” package on Wednesday with measures to promote homegrown European alternatives to Big Tech services and hardware.

The efforts by Brussels have gained urgency as leaders worry about dependence on technologies from foreign providers, which they say could be “weaponized” against Europeans. Those fears crystallized after the International Criminal Court's top prosecutor was sanctioned by the Trump administration, which led to Microsoft canceling his email account, sparking fears of a “kill switch” hidden in U.S. tech services.

“Europe wants to be in the position to make its own choices, avoiding risky dependencies on single dominant suppliers, one company or one third country,” European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees tech sovereignty, told reporters in Brussels.

“Because we live in a world where geopolitics and technology go hand in hand. Those who champion technological innovation will shape the future, and we must ensure that Europe plays a leading role in this.”

A cornerstone of the package is a sequel to the EU's 2023 Chips Act to further boost local production of semiconductors by cutting red tape for chip fabs and fostering a European chipmaking ecosystem.

Europe's vulnerability to the global chip supply chain centered in East Asia was highlighted last year in a power struggle at the Chinese-owned, Netherlands-based chipmaker Nexperia.

Another key part of the package is supporting local cloud and AI development, with plans to triple Europe's data center capacity by over the next five to seven years. The EU is pushing to expand data centers to keep up with the AI boom, which is driving demand for cloud computing services.

The proposals from the EU's executive arm still need to be debated by the EU's two other main institutions, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.

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The dismissal comes a day after Pelley slammed the show’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, during a staff meeting Monday, accusing her of trying to “kill” “60 minutes.”

The show’s new executive producer Nick Bilton sent a note to Pelley on Tuesday saying he was terminated for cause, effective immediately.

Pelley reportedly took aim at Weiss after the network fired the program’s veteran executive producer and replaced her with Bilton.

The New York Times reports that it obtained audio of the meeting, saying Pelley accused Weiss of having no qualifications for her job and called Bilton’s qualifications “slender.”

Bilton is a documentarian and former tech reporter for the New York Times and Vanity Fair.

Sources say Pelley’s comments received mixed responses from staff members.

A CBS news spokesperson declined to comment, and Pelley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

El despido se produce un día después de que Pelley criticara a la editora en jefe del programa, Bari Weiss, durante una reunión de personal el lunes, acusándola de intentar “matar” a “60 Minutes”.

El nuevo productor ejecutivo del programa, Nick Bilton, envió una nota a Pelley el martes informándole que había sido despedido con causa, con efecto inmediato.

Según informes, Pelley arremetió contra Weiss después de que la cadena despidiera a la veterana productora ejecutiva del programa y la reemplazara por Bilton.

The New York Times informa que obtuvo audio de la reunión y señala que Pelley acusó a Weiss de no tener ninguna calificación para su cargo y calificó las credenciales de Bilton como “limitadas”.

Bilton es documentalista y ex reportero de tecnología de The New York Times y Vanity Fair.

Fuentes afirman que los comentarios de Pelley recibieron respuestas mixtas entre los miembros del personal.

Un portavoz de CBS News se negó a comentar y Pelley no respondió de inmediato a una solicitud de comentarios.

Last year, global data centers used 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity, more than all but 10 countries of the world, said the report issued Wednesday. That electricity use produced about 208 million tons (189 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide, about the same amount as Argentina, and producing that much energy consumed about 1.2 trillion gallons (4.5 trillion liters) of water, according to the report on the environmental consequences of AI's energy use.

By 2030, data centers will account for nearly 3% of the world's projected electricity use, with 935 trillion watt-hours. If data centers were a country, the country would be projected to rank sixth-highest in power use in 2030. That would produce nearly 440 million tons (399 million metric tons) of carbon dioxide, the report said. The study focused on energy use and didn’t examine the massive amount of water used to cool data centers.

“If you look at these numbers, we're seeing scales comparable to nations,” said study co-author Kaveh Madani, a water scientist and director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Canada. “The demand is enormous.”

Much of the growth of data centers is being driven by AI. About 20% of data centers’ energy is currently due to AI, but that should grow to 40% by 2030, the report said.

First global look at ecological impact

The report is significant because of the credibility and authority of the U.N., not just because of any one set of eye-popping numbers, said Fengqi You, a Cornell University energy engineering professor who directs the college’s AI sustainability issues.

“Its value is that a U.N. institution is putting carbon, water, land, life-cycle impacts and environmental justice into one frame” for an issue that is often shrouded in secrecy and partial disclosures, said You, who was not part of the report.

“The general public should be concerned, but not panicked,” he added.

Jean Su, director of the Energy Justice Program at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the report is important because it is the first U.N., or even global, report “that shines a light on the environmental harms of AI.”

National Artificial Intelligence Association President Caleb Max emphasized how his industry is becoming more efficient and how it benefits the public: “AI is rapidly becoming part of our everyday lives and adding benefits that improve safety, live longer, work more efficiently, enhance food production, and reduce poverty. The evidence is growing daily that the energy return on investment of AI development is transformative for our world and therefore more than worth it.”

Josh Levi, president the Data Center Coalition, said the industry takes its environmental impact seriously.

“We remain committed to working with policymakers, local communities, and industry partners to ensure that as data centers grow, they do so responsibly, transparently, and in ways that reflect the best available practices,” he said in a statement.

How much energy your query uses and how to trim it

Madani, also the winner of the most recent of the Stockholm Water Prize, said the numbers show the environmental cost of AI, which may seem cleaner at first glance than other mechanical devices, such as cars and furnaces, that have visible pollution.

"AI is not just a virtual thing. We’re talking about something that has physics, something that has real impacts. There is infrastructure there. There is energy that is being used,” Madani said. “A lot of hardware is behind all these operations that to us seem very, very clean because we don’t see smoke out of our devices. On our cellphone, there is no visible smoke or out of our computer or something. But somewhere else someone is suffering.”

People can reduce AI’s massive energy appetite by being less polite and more concise in their queries, Madani said. The report found that cutting word use in requests by 30% can reduce energy used by AI by 25%. That would save about the same amount of electricity as what about 700,000 people in Africa use in a year, the report said.

“If you’re too polite, then that extra ‘please’ you put there can make a huge difference,” Madani said. “You’ve got to be very precise and be short.”

A typical ChatGPT-style query is about 200 times more energy-intensive than the type of basic text classification used in an email spam filter, for example. AI-generated images or video require much more energy.

And the more complicated the AI, the more energy it takes to train or learn. The report said GPT-3 used about 1.3 billion watt-hours to train, but the next version used 50 to 70 billion watt-hours.

But it's not training that really feasts on power, said study co-author Miriam Aczel, a United National University environmental policy researcher. About 90% of the power use of AI comes from operational requests, she said. GPT alone accounts for 2.5 billion prompts a day, she said.

Efficiency still means more power use

Even though tech advocates can argue that their machines are becoming more efficient, there's a common paradox that finds when things get more efficient, they are used more often and total energy use soars even if individual uses are more efficient, Madani said. While some companies tout the use of renewable energy for data centers, Madani said that means the supply of clean electricity is depleted and thus dirtier energy is used elsewhere.

One of the problems in conducting this study is that many companies and places are not transparent about what data centers and AI are consuming or even where and how big they are, Aczel and Madani said.

“We cannot manage what companies do not disclose,” Cornell's You said.

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