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According to Jessica Montes, a spokeswoman for Davie Fire Rescue, firefighters responded to the 3900 block of Southwest 84^th Terrace at about 5:18 a.m. after receiving a report about a water main break.

“Upon arrival, firefighters were advised that an alligator was present in the water,” Montes said in an email to Local 10 News.

According to Montes, the gator tried to flee into a nearby yard, but firefighters and Davie police worked together to capture the gator before it could escape.

Davie Fire Capt. Chris Pelosi was among the first responders who helped wrangle the gator.

“When we tried getting it, it just got agitated and ran away,” he said.

Pelosi said police got to it first.

“PD was able to get the little K9 leash out. They kind of got it around the neck so it was kind of doing a little death roll -- it was rolling over here, so we corralled it against the wall,” Pelosi said. “I always see on TV, they just throw a towel over its head, so I just kind of walked up, just threw the towel.”

Montes confirmed that Davie police used a “catch pole” to secure the gator, while firefighters helped restrain it until FWC officers arrived.

Neighbors heard the commotion.

“I just heard all the trucks,” resident Linda Stover said. “I had no idea there was an alligator outside my house.”

Montes said the gator was turned over to the FWC and no injures were reported to first responders nor the gator.

El video, junto con una llamada desesperada al 911 realizada antes de la caída, fue presentado durante una audiencia judicial el jueves para Corey Hutterli, de 37 años, quien, según los investigadores, enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en segundo grado por la muerte de Justin Zelin, de 35 años.

La jueza Cristina Miranda finalmente le otorgó a Hutterli una fianza de $150,000 USD el jueves.

En las imágenes de la cámara corporal presentadas en el tribunal, Hutterli les dijo a los agentes que respondieron al incidente que Zelin lo había atacado repentinamente.

“¿Qué está pasando? De repente perdió el control y me atacó”, dijo Hutterli.

También se escuchó en la audiencia una llamada al 911 en la que Zelin le rogaba a una persona identificada como “Sasha” que abandonara su apartamento.

“Aléjate de mí, Sasha, basta. Por favor, vete ahora mismo”, dijo Zelin.

Los fiscales alegan que Hutterli empujó a Zelin desde un balcón de los condominios Akoya en Collins Avenue el 15 de febrero, tras una pelea entre ambos hombres.

Los abogados defensores argumentaron que el caso del estado es circunstancial y señalaron un informe toxicológico que mostró que Zelin tenía fentanilo, cocaína y ketamina en su organismo al momento de su muerte.

La defensa sostiene que las drogas pudieron haber provocado un estado mental alterado y afirmó que las pruebas no respaldan la teoría presentada por la fiscalía.

Al conceder la fianza, Miranda dijo que la llamada al 911 no establecía de manera concluyente que hubiera ocurrido un asesinato.

“Definitivamente podría tratarse de la víctima de un asesinato, pero la llamada al 911 no es prueba de eso”, dijo Miranda. “La llamada al 911 me lleva a creer que se trata de alguien que sufría una psicosis inducida por drogas”.

Fuera de la sala del tribunal, la madre de Hutterli dijo que cree que su hijo es inocente, mientras que los abogados defensores afirmaron que planean solicitar la desestimación de los cargos.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Hutterli también enfrenta cargos de allanamiento con agresión o violencia física, posesión de una sustancia controlada y posesión de parafernalia de drogas.

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The video, along with a frantic 911 call made before the fall, was presented during a court hearing on Thursday for 37-year-old Corey Hutterli, who investigators say faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of 35-year-old Justin Zelin.

“Some homeless guy just came over and killed me,” Zellin told 911 dispatchers shortly before his death. “He killed me.”

Judge Cristina Miranda on Thursday ultimately granted Hutterli a $150,000 bond.

In body camera footage shown in court, Hutterli told responding officers that Zelin had suddenly attacked him.

“What’s going on? Suddenly he freaked out and attacked me,” Hutterli said.

Jurors also heard a 911 call in which Zelin pleaded with someone identified as “Sasha” to leave his apartment.

“Get away from me Sasha, stop. Please leave right now,” Zelin said.

Prosecutors allege Hutterli pushed Zelin from a balcony at the Akoya Condominiums on Collins Avenue on Feb. 15 following a struggle between the two men.

Defense attorneys argued the state’s case is circumstantial and pointed to a toxicology report showing Zelin had fentanyl, cocaine and ketamine in his system at the time of his death.

The defense contends the drugs may have caused an altered mental state and said the evidence does not support the state’s theory of the case.

While granting bond, Miranda said the 911 call did not conclusively establish that a murder had occurred.

“Could definitely be the victim of a murder, but the 911 call is not evidence of that,” Miranda said. “The 911 call leads me to believe it’s someone suffering from a drug-induced psychosis.”

Outside the courtroom, Hutterli’s mother, Terri Hutterli Marino, said she believes her son is innocent, while defense attorneys said they plan to seek dismissal of the charges.

Jail records show Hutterli also faces charges of burglary with assault or battery, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

He has not yet posted bond and remains at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Friday evening.

Leonel Alejandro Laferte fue arrestado el jueves tras una investigación de homicidio de tránsito relacionada con el accidente que, según la policía de Hialeah, ocurrió alrededor de las 4:11 a.m. cerca de Southeast Fourth Avenue y East Okeechobee Road.

Según el informe, Laferte acudió a la sede del Departamento de Policía de Hialeah el 11 de junio y les dijo a los investigadores que él conducía el Kia Stinger 2022 involucrado en el accidente mortal.

El informe indica que Kenneth William Wimbley, de 37 años, circulaba en bicicleta hacia el norte e intentaba cruzar East Okeechobee Road cuando ingresó al carril central y fue impactado por Laferte.

La policía informó que Wimbley sufrió heridas críticas y fue trasladado al Hospital de Hialeah antes de ser transferido al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde murió.

Según el informe, Laferte, residente de Hialeah, admitió durante una entrevista posterior a la lectura de sus derechos Miranda que estuvo involucrado en el accidente. La policía también citó evidencias encontradas en la escena y videos de vigilancia obtenidos durante la investigación.

El informe señala que Laferte “no se detuvo de inmediato, no permaneció en la escena ni brindó ayuda según lo exige la ley de Florida”.

En cambio, los investigadores dijeron que abandonó el área y no reportó el accidente hasta que posteriormente se presentó en la sede policial.

La policía también descubrió que la licencia de conducir de Laferte estaba suspendida al momento del accidente.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Laferte enfrenta un cargo por abandonar la escena de un accidente con resultado de muerte y otro cargo por conducir con la licencia suspendida.

Hasta el viernes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight con una fianza de $50,000 USD.

Según la policía de Fort Lauderdale, los agentes fueron llamados aproximadamente a las 2:42 p.m. a un negocio cerca de la cuadra 800 de Northwest 10th Terrace después de recibir un reporte sobre un hombre que ingresó a un área restringida y comenzó a “actuar de manera errática”.

Agentes de patrulla, una unidad K-9 y miembros de la Unidad de Aviación de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward buscaron en el área circundante, pero no lograron localizar al hombre. Más tarde, los investigadores determinaron que todavía estaba dentro del negocio y que se encontraba solo.

La policía dijo que el sospechoso, identificado únicamente como un hombre por el momento, no estaba autorizado para estar dentro del edificio.

Las autoridades indicaron que policías, agentes SWAT y negociadores de crisis respondieron a la escena e intentaron comunicarse con el individuo.

Poco después, la policía anunció que el sospechoso “se entregó pacíficamente” y fue puesto bajo custodia. Hasta el momento no se han reportado heridos.

La policía no ha revelado información sobre por qué el sospechoso se atrincheró dentro del negocio, y los cargos en su contra aún no han sido anunciados.

Yatir Nitzany said he was hiking at Shark Valley in the heart of the Everglades National Park when he saw an opportunity to help protect the environment.

“I saw one crawling across the trail,” Nitzany said. “There were children around.”

Nitzany said he captured the constrictor and contacted park rangers. A video shows that as he held it, a tour guide driving a tramp praised him in front of visitors.

“It had a bulge in its belly,” Nitzany said about the python. “The upper part of its body, indicating it just killed something, and I couldn’t have it on my conscience just to leave it there and just let it go.”

The super predators, native to tropical regions in Africa, Asia, and Australia, have devastated Everglades wildlife since the exotic pet trade’s introduction.

Knowing he was doing the right thing, Nitzany said he didn’t expect a park ranger, who also thanked him for the catch, to then hand him a $180 citation.

“If I could have done things over again, I would have probably killed it and thrown it in the bushes,” Nitzany said.

Nitzany and Magill fought the citation, based on the federal Lacey Act and a state law that required prior authorization for capturing a python in a park.

“My goal now is to do whatever I can to change this law. To make sure there is a caveat in this law, so that people like [Nitzany] are not punished for doing the right thing in the environment,” Magill said.

The case against Nitzany was dismissed on Friday before his court hearing. Magill was glad, but it shouldn’t have happened.

“At the end of the day, for me, it’s common sense. Unfortunately, it’s not too common anymore,” Magill said.

Pino, de 55 años, enfrenta cargos de homicidio involuntario y homicidio por embarcación por la muerte de Lucy Fernández, de 17 años.

Los fiscales acusan a Pino, entonces de 52 años, de actuar de manera imprudente cuando perdió el control de una embarcación Robalo de 29 pies durante las primeras horas de la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2022 y se estrelló contra una baliza de canal cerca de Boca Chita Key, causando la muerte de Fernández. Otras dos jóvenes resultaron gravemente heridas, incluida Katerina Puig, de 17 años.

Su equipo de defensa sostiene que el choque fue simplemente un accidente y no el resultado de negligencia.

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El jueves, los miembros del jurado visitaron una instalación de la Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida (FWC) en North Miami. Fueron escoltados por agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade y observaron detalladamente la embarcación involucrada, incluso pudieron abordarla para comprender mejor las posiciones de las jóvenes pasajeras el día del accidente y el lugar donde se encontraba Pino.

Los miembros del jurado pudieron ver la ubicación exacta y la magnitud de los daños, lo que les brindó una perspectiva diferente a la de los videos y fotografías que habían visto en el tribunal.

La visita duró aproximadamente 40 minutos. Luego regresaron al tribunal después de una pausa para almorzar.

Allí, los jurados observaron un video de recreación aérea con dron, elaborado por la FWC y la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), así como imágenes submarinas de la escena del accidente, entre otras evidencias.

También escucharon el testimonio de agentes del orden.

“La embarcación estaba volcada en Cutter Bank”, declaró el teniente de la FWC Manuel Pomares. “Cutter Bank es un canal estrecho. La mejor forma de describirlo es como un embudo”.

Agregó: “Realmente hay que prestar atención cuando se navega hacia o a través de Cutter Bank”.

Pomares formó parte de un equipo de buceo que documentó evidencias con una cámara GoPro.

“Hay un par de vasos térmicos tipo Yeti, y algunas latas de Truly (bebida alcohólica tipo hard seltzer) y una lata de Bud Light”, testificó Pomares.

La audiencia concluyó la noche del jueves y se espera que se reanude la mañana del viernes.

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It started as a girls night out.

Murray, her friend Tiara and her husband’s sister, Akyra, were enjoying the evening.

“We were just having the best night,” Murray said. “All the way up until the very point where everything just changed.”

“It was the very end of the night, and we were getting ready to leave and Tiara started looking at her phone to order the Uber,” she added. “We were almost out of there and that’s when we heard the gunshots going off in the other room.”

Murray and Akyra managed to exit the club unharmed.

“The only person that wasn’t with us at the time was Tiara, so we had to go back inside,” Murray said. “The choice to go back in was out of pure love.”

They found their friend, but the chaos forced them into a bathroom stall.

“The gunman actually came into the bathroom. All you heard was his footsteps and then he started firing into the entire bathroom,” Murray said. “I looked down and I saw that I was bleeding.”

“Tiara and Akyra were both shot as well, and you could hear people just moaning in agony and pain,” she added.

The gunfire stopped, but the terror continued.

“His gun jammed so we didn’t know what he was going to do, and it was like that for the next three hours until the police actually intervened,” Murray said.

Murray made it out with Tiara.

Akyra, who had gone back inside with her to find their friend, became the youngest of the 49 victims killed. She was 18.

The massacre remains one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.

“This was an attack against a community of people who’ve only shown me love,” Murray said.

Today, Murray is still moved to share her story “to feel worthy of life.”

And at a time when support for LGBTQ+ Americans is reportedly on the decline, Murray says the message remains important.

“It’s sad that people are in such a divisive place, where it’s either my way or no way at all, and because I don’t understand you,” she said.

Murray’s message 10 years after the horror:

“To be an ally,” she said. “We all need to be that for each other.”

Todo comenzó como una salida de chicas.

Murray, su amiga Tiara y Akyra, la hermana de su esposo, estaban disfrutando de la noche.

“Simplemente estábamos pasando la mejor noche”, dijo Murray. “Hasta el momento exacto en que todo cambió”.

“Era el final de la noche y nos estábamos preparando para irnos cuando Tiara comenzó a mirar su teléfono para pedir un Uber”, agregó. “Estábamos a punto de salir de allí y fue entonces cuando escuchamos los disparos en la otra sala”.

Murray y Akyra lograron salir del club sin sufrir heridas.

“La única persona que no estaba con nosotras en ese momento era Tiara, así que tuvimos que regresar”, dijo Murray. “La decisión de volver fue por puro amor”.

Encontraron a su amiga, pero el caos las obligó a refugiarse en un cubículo del baño.

“El atacante realmente entró al baño. Lo único que se escuchaban eran sus pasos y luego comenzó a disparar por todo el baño”, dijo Murray. “Miré hacia abajo y vi que estaba sangrando”.

“Tiara y Akyra también habían recibido disparos, y se podía escuchar a las personas quejándose de agonía y dolor”, agregó.

Los disparos se detuvieron, pero el terror continuó.

“Su arma se encasquilló, así que no sabíamos qué iba a hacer, y fue así durante las siguientes tres horas hasta que la policía finalmente intervino”, dijo Murray.

Murray logró salir con Tiara.

Akyra, quien había regresado al interior con ella para buscar a su amiga, se convirtió en la más joven de las 49 víctimas mortales. Tenía 18 años.

La masacre sigue siendo una de las balaceras masivas más mortales en la historia de Estados Unidos.

“Este fue un ataque contra una comunidad de personas que solo me han demostrado amor”, dijo Murray.

Hoy, Murray sigue sintiendo la necesidad de compartir su historia “para sentir que merece la vida”.

Y en un momento en que, según informes, el apoyo a los estadounidenses LGBTQ+ está disminuyendo, Murray dice que el mensaje sigue siendo importante.

“Es triste que las personas estén en un lugar tan dividido, donde es a mi manera o de ninguna manera, y porque no te entiendo”, dijo.

El mensaje de Murray 10 años después del horror:

“Ser un aliado”, dijo. “Todos necesitamos ser eso los unos para los otros”.

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Pino, 55, is facing manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in the death of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.

Prosecutors accuse Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of a 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig.

His defense team counters that the crash was merely an accident and not the result of negligence.

On Friday, jurors heard testimony from a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission lieutenant and watched video from his body-worn camera.

On that body-worn camera footage, jurors heard Pino’s immediate recollection of the crash to FWC Lt. William Thompson.

“And then I stand up, I hit the wave, and, I tried to sway,” he said in the footage.“ ”The left side of the boat hit the piling.”

“I lost a little bit of control,” he added, saying a few minutes later on the footage, “I was freaking out.”

Prosecutor Laura Adams asked Thompson on the stand, “Did he tell you he was drinking alcohol?”

Thompson replied, “He tells me he had two beers.”

When asked if Pino had given him “any impression that he is impaired by alcohol,” Thompson testified, “No, ma’am.”

Jurors also learned that investigators found 61 bottles of alcohol while executing a search warrant.

They also saw more from a re-enactment video by FWC and the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, learning more about how speed and location data points recovered from the vessel’s GPS units were used to re-enact the path Pino took through the channel before hitting marker 15.

Prosecutors continued to try to convince jurors that Pino operated the boat in a reckless manner.

But during cross-examination, the defense worked to focus the jury on its point of view: that their client didn’t intend to hurt anyone and didn’t have too much to drink.

“You told him that it is legal to drink and operation a boat?” one of Pino’s attorneys asked Thompson, to which the lieutenant replied, “Yes I did.”

Tense moment after jurors leave

A tense moment occurred during proceedings after jurors were sent home from the day.

Adams raised a concern to Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez that Pino, whom she previously admonished for his “emotional behaviors” during proceedings on Monday, may have been muttering something as she questioned Thompson.

“I am told that the defendant may have been muttering something along the lines of, ‘It happens. It happens. It happens,’” Adams said. “I hope maybe somebody misunderstood what was taking place, but I did hear noise behind me, and so I just hope that the defendant is not doing something along those lines.”

Tinkler Mendez said she “did not hear anything.”

Then, Adams confronted Pino after she walked back to the prosecutors’ table.

She face Pino and said, “I’m sorry. Do you have something you want to say to me? Why are you staring at me?”

RAW: Prosecutor confronts Pino

Pino protested that assertion.

“I’m staring up there,” Pino said, gesturing at the ceiling. “I don’t want to say anything to you.”

Tinkler Mendez interrupted the exchange.

“Excuse me. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re not going to do this,” the judge said.

Tinkler Mendez added, " I’m reminding everyone that even gestures are inappropriate, so with any witness and with anyone in the courtroom, so not only verbal ― but any kind of gestures from anyone in this courtroom that could potentially be seen by the jury. And again, that includes Mr. Pino, that includes me, frankly."

She then spoke to Pino directly.

“Mr. Pino, I will remind you to please maintain composure and please no statements or whispering,” Tinkler Mendez said. “Again, I didn’t hear anything, and please refrain ― I haven’t seen anything, from any kind of gestures or anything that could potentially be seen by the jury."

“OK, your honor,” Pino replied. “For the record, I haven’t done any of those things.”

Proceedings in the case are set to resume on Monday.

“If Texas Tech will not do the right thing, the Big 12 should,” Drummond wrote Friday in a letter to the conference.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned the Big 12 on Thursday of potential legal action from Texas Tech as the conference considers its options. Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said the notice came shortly before the start of the league’s executive board meeting to discuss Sorsby's situation.

Drummond said claims that sanctions against Texas Tech would violate antitrust laws are meritless.

“By adopting and enforcing its bylaws, the Big 12 Conference is simply upholding integrity and fair play among membership," he said.

A Texas district court's temporary injunction that was issued Monday prevents the NCAA from enforcing its permanent ban of Sorsby, a decision that sent shock waves across college sports.

The transfer quarterback had been ruled ineligible after he acknowledged years of gambling that included more than $90,000 in wagers and at least 40 bets on his own team while he was a freshman at Indiana.

NCAA rules call for a permanent loss of eligibility for any player who wagered on his own team.

Texas Tech said Sorsby has completed a month-long inpatient treatment program and will continue to receive treatment and support while being monitored.

Big 12 athletic directors in a conference call Tuesday expressed strong opposition to Sorsby playing for the Red Raiders in what will be his final college season. Some of those athletic directors suggested not playing Texas Tech if he does.

Sorsby transferred to Texas Tech in January for a reported multimillion-dollar deal after playing the past two seasons at Cincinnati, another Big 12 school. The 22-year-old Texas native first spent two seasons with the Hoosiers.

The Red Raiders, with one of college football’s most expensive rosters, won their first Big 12 title last season, set a school record with 12 wins and made the 12-team College Football Playoff.

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And he's fine with that.

Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs — who just became the first team in NBA Finals history to lead a game by 29 points and still lose — need to win the next three games, or they'll watch the New York Knicks celebrate an NBA title at their expense. And when the Spurs gathered for practice on Friday, Wembanyama insisted the belief within the Spurs camp is still there.

“Everybody thinks, everybody knows, we’re going to do it,” Wembanyama said.

If he was nervous, he hid it well. The 7-foot-4 French star has helped the Spurs stave off elimination twice already in these playoffs, after San Antonio won Games 6 and 7 of the Western Conference finals against Oklahoma City and ended the Thunder's reign as NBA champions.

Now, the Spurs have to do it again on Saturday in Game 5 against the Knicks. And if they win Saturday, they'll have to do it again in Game 6 on Tuesday. And if they win Tuesday, a Game 7 awaits next Friday.

“I feel like we need to isolate that one game and take it one game at a time,” Wembanyama said. “I think it would be a mistake to waste our energy on multiple games. It’s one game at a time.”

The Spurs led Game 1 by 14 points and lost by 10. They led Game 2 by 12 points and lost by one. They won Game 3 by four, then had the 29-point lead in Game 4 and lost by one.

Clearly, they know how to get into position to beat the Knicks.

They just haven't finished it off in three of the four games. And now, they will try to be just the second team in NBA Finals history to successfully rally from a 3-1 series deficit; Cleveland did it against Golden State in 2016. The other 37 teams that have tried to do so all failed.

“It definitely matters," Spurs guard Stephon Castle said. “I feel like we’ve made history all year, and we’ve proven that with our backs against the wall that we can step up. So, I don’t really expect this to be any different.”

Neither does Wembanyama.

The Spurs know they're good enough. They've had the leads. They've won every first quarter, then frittered those advantages away. In Game 3, they recovered. In Games 1, 2 and 4, they didn't. In Game 5, they'll have to — or else.

“You said all of it,” Wembanyama said. “We’re very confident. I wouldn’t say it was so hard to shake off (Game 4). Harder than any other game before, by far, for sure. I mean, now we’re over it. It’s the playoffs. There’s no time to regret things for too long."

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The 80-year-old was named a “Companion of Honour,” one of the highest awards the king can bestow to citizens in the United Kingdom and across the Commonwealth, limited to only 65 people at any time.

Mirren's elevation to the group, which also includes British environmentalist David Attenborough, Canadian author Margaret Atwood and former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, was one of the highlights of Charles' latest award of honors.

The honors, which aim to reward individuals for their contributions to British life, are awarded twice a year to celebrities and public figures as well as ordinary people, once at New Year’s, and then in June, to mark the king’s birthday.

Nearly 1,200 people received honors in the king’s 2026 birthday list,

The award recognizes Mirren's services to drama

Mirren is no stranger to awards and has for decades been a star on stage and screen, as well as a powerful advocate for female actors.

She has tackled numerous classical parts in theater — both in the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company from the 1960s — before winning roles in movies such as “The Long Good Friday,” “Excalibur,” and “The Madness of King George.”

She also wowed British television audiences with her portrayal of Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison over seven seasons of “Prime Suspect.”

At the Oscars in 2007, she won best actress for her performance in “The Queen," a film that follows the late Queen Elizabeth II in the aftermath of the 1997 death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The awards recognize an array of achievements

Introduced in 1917 by King George V, the "Companion of Honour" recognizes people who have made “a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government" over an extended time period.

They remain members until they die, when a replacement is then added. A new member will likely be named at the next honors list in the new year following the death Thursday of David Hockney, one of the most popular and critically lauded British artists of the last century.

Others recognized on Friday include British author Julia Donaldson, who last year surpassed Harry Potter writer JK Rowling as U.K.’s all-time top author, with more than 50 million books sold worldwide. She was named a dame, the female equivalent of a knighthood, for services to literature, a title that Mirren herself was awarded in 2003.

“Receiving this honor has been a very happy surprise,” said the 77-year-old author of such books as “The Gruffalo, " and “The Highway Rat.”

“It’s really gratifying to have children’s books recognized in this way," she added.

Success in sports was also recognized on Friday, with Kevin Sinfield knighted for his glittering rugby league career and subsequent fundraising exploits to aid research and support families affected by motor neuron disease, a neurological disorder.

The 45-year-old has raised over 11 million pounds ($15 million) since being inspired by his friend and his teammate Rob Burrow, who died from the disease in 2024.

Golf's two-time Ryder Cup winning captain Luke Donald was handed the Order of the British Empire. He will attempt to become the first person in Ryder Cup history to lead a team to three consecutive wins against the United States next year in Ireland.

Chloe Kelly, who scored the winning penalty for England's women's soccer team in Euro 2025, became member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, along with six other teammates.

Other notable recipients were Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi for services to music and charity nearly a year after the death of the band's legendary lead singer Ozzy Osbourne. Broadcaster and the former lead singer of Catatonia Cerys Matthews was recognized for her services to music.

The awards are not just for the famous

The array of awards are chosen by civil servants’ committees based on nominations from the government and the public. They are usually given out by the king or a senior royal acting in his place, increasingly at Windsor Castle where Charles largely resides.

The honors don’t just reward people in the public eye.

Debbie Lewis, who set up the bereavement support group COVID-19 Families U.K. after her father died in 2020 of the coronavirus, just four months after her mother’s death.

Lewis first wrote on Facebook that her father had just died and she was on her own, hoping to connect with others going through something similar. Within a week, 40 people had contacted her.

Six years on, there are more than 4,500 people in Lewis’s support network.

“I’m still a little bit in shock,” the 56-year-old said of her honor on Friday. “I know it’s a huge achievement and I’m just a little bit overwhelmed at the moment.”

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It took more than two years after her father’s murder and months after her mother’s deportation for Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detectives to uncover what the girl had experienced and witnessed, records show.

With the support of MDSO detectives, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, and the Kristi House Children’s Advocacy Center, the girl faced her fear of her abuser and eventually spoke up, records show.

On June 10, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge William Altfield issued a warrant for the search of the house and the arrest of Christian Heras, the girl’s second cousin, who also lived at the house.

MDSO detectives reported their investigations uncovered Heras, then 28 and 29, sexually abused the girl for months in 2024 before killing her concerned father and threatening to kill her mother.

Here is the timeline of the girl’s suffering and the MDSO detectives’ investigations as described by Altfield’s warrant:

On Dec. 16, 2024, Homestead Police Department officers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to a report of a fatal fall in a house’s backyard near Northwest 10th Avenue and 12th Street.

Homeowner Angelica Medina, Heras’s mother and the girl’s great aunt, told police that the girl’s father had a drinking problem, and he would get so drunk that he “would climb up” the ladder to “have sexual intercourse with trees” in the yard.

MDFR personnel declared the girl’s father dead, HPD asked MDSO to take over the case, and a homicide investigator reported the girl’s father had suffered a “compound skull fracture, which exposed his brain.”

The homicide investigator, who was wearing a body camera and taking pictures, also reported finding what appeared to be blood on a ladder and on a cement garden brick that “had several strands of hair.”

The girl’s mother told detectives that her husband had vanished overnight before Heras showed her the body covered with palm fronds, facing upward on the ground near a tree, under a ladder.

The girl’s mother said Heras then started “screaming profanities” at her dead husband, and later said dogs were “licking the blood on the cement brick” that a detective was looking for after seizing the ladder.

Heras told the detective that the girl’s mother had used the cement brick that was near her dead husband to set up a memorial in the backyard, but the girl’s mother told the detective that wasn’t true.

Detectives learned that before the murder, the girl’s father was concerned about Heras “always trying to be alone” with her, so he asked the girl’s mother to “not let” him be with the girl “without supervision.”

Detectives also learned from relatives that after the girl’s father confronted Heras and asked him to avoid getting “too close” to his 11-year-old daughter, Heras showed him “a handgun to scare him.”

On Jan. 28, 2025, the medical examiner’s office reported the victim was “bludgeoned to death, and that it appeared that the homicide scene was staged.”

On Feb. 5, 2025, the medical examiner’s office released a toxicology report showing the victim “did not have any alcohol or drugs in his system at the time of his death.”

During the MDSO homicide investigation, the girl’s mother moved out of the house in Homestead and traveled to Dallas, Texas, with her kids to live with her husband’s family.

On Feb. 14, 2025, a detective who traveled to Dallas and interviewed the girl reported she “exhibited signs of possible sexual abuse” and recommended a specialized forensic interview.

On March 10, 2025, the medical examiner’s office reported that the girl’s father’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and determined that the manner of death was a homicide.

On May 26, 2025, the girl’s mother was detained in Dallas, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported her to Mexico.

On June 6, 2025, the girl was the subject of a “video-recorded forensic interview” at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center and said she had told her mother that Heras confessed to killing her father, and gifted her a cell phone that her mother then threw away.

The girl did not disclose the sexual abuse until 2026.

On Feb. 13, the girl’s relatives reported that she said Heras had molested her in Homestead, so a detective decided she needed to undergo a second forensic interview.

On May 13, the girl’s aunt told a detective, who was trying to schedule the second forensic interview, that on Jan. 22, the girl told her that she had been the victim of a sexual battery in Homestead.

On May 21, a detective with the special victims bureau and a homicide detective were with the girl when she participated in a “video-recorded forensic interview” at the Kristi House Children’s Advocacy Center in Miami-Dade County.

The girl described how Heras “didn’t care” if she was in pain when he sexually battered her more than five times, and she did not report his abuse or that she had seen her father dead after Heras killed him and covered it up, “because she was scared and did not trust anyone” — until then.

THE ARREST IN HOMESTEAD

On Thursday morning, MDSO deputies were searching the house in Homestead when they found Heras at a window “trying to flee,” and he “tensed his body” while they handcuffed him, according to the arrest report.

At 8 a.m., on Thursday, detectives arrested Heras at the office of the MDSO special victims’ bureau, at 1701 NW 87th Ave., according to the arrest report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Heras at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained without bond on Friday afternoon, according to county inmate records.

Heras faced charges of first-degree murder, five counts of sexual battery on a minor by an adult, and resisting arrest without violence, according to court records.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Marcus Bach was set to preside over the case.

This report doesn’t identify the girl’s parents to protect her identity.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

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According to Fort Lauderdale police, officers were called at approximately 2:42 p.m. to a business near the 800 block of Northwest 10th Terrace after receiving a report of a man who entered a restricted area and began “acting erratically.”

Patrol officers, a K-9 unit, and members of Broward Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit searched the surrounding area but were temporarily unable to locate the man. Investigators later determined he was inside the business alone.

Police said the suspect, who has only been identified as a male at this time, was not authorized to be inside the building.

Authorities said police, SWAT officers and crisis negotiators responded to the scene and attempted to communicate with the individual.

Shortly afterward, police announced that the suspect “surrendered peacefully” and was taken into custody. No injuries have been reported at this time.

Police have not released any information about why the suspect barricaded himself inside the business, and his charges have not yet been announced.

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Leonel Alejandro Laferte was arrested Thursday following a traffic homicide investigation into the crash that Hialeah police say occurred around 4:11 a.m. near Southeast Fourth Avenue and East Okeechobee Road.

According to the report, Laferte went to Hialeah Police Department headquarters on June 11 and told investigators he was driving the 2022 Kia Stinger involved in the deadly crash.

The report states that 37-year-old Kenneth William Wimbley Jr. was riding a bicycle northbound and attempting to cross East Okeechobee Road when he entered the center lane and was struck by Laferte.

Police said Wimbley suffered critical injuries and was taken to Hialeah Hospital before being transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he died.

Kenneth Wimbler Sr., the victim’s father, told Local 10’s Rosh Lowe on Friday that his son was delivering for Uber Eats on his way to another job when he was fatally struck.

“It’s like I lost my best friend,” he said. “Just imagine how my family is crying, especially his mother.”

According to the report, Laferte, of Hialeah, admitted during a post-Miranda interview that he was involved in the crash. Police also cited scene evidence and surveillance video obtained during the investigation.

The report states Laferte “failed to immediately stop, remain at the scene or provide aid as required by Florida law.”

Instead, investigators said he left the area and did not report the crash until he later appeared at police headquarters.

Police also learned Laferte’s driver’s license was suspended at the time of the crash.

Kenneth Wimbley is now “giving the justice system a chance” to make things right.

“I’m still in shock and I don’t know when I’m gonna get over it. He left my son out there like a piece of meat, like a dead carcass,” he said. “You just left him out there. You didn’t even call to say something.”

Jail records show Laferte is facing one count each of leaving the scene of a crash involving death and driving while his license is suspended.

As of Friday, he was being held on a $50,000 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Are Spurs fans worried? Maybe.

Do Spurs fans still believe? Absolutely.

Among the team's slogans is the phrase “Por Vida.” Translated, it means “For Life.” Generations of fans in San Antonio have held those words dear through the eras led by George Gervin to David Robinson to Tim Duncan to, now, Victor Wembanyama. And even now, with the Knicks on the brink of winning this championship, the words ring true among Spurs fans.

“With absolute certainty, always,” Joe Michael Benavides, the boys basketball coach at Hebbronville High School — some 150 miles from San Antonio — said when asked if he was still a Spurs fan.

Make no mistake, there are many like Benavides. Frost Bank Center will be electric when the Spurs take the floor on Saturday night, with the stands filled by those who wore San Antonio silver and black to the game.

Thing is, there will be a copious amount of New York blue and orange in there as well.

There are some fans who sold their tickets on secondary markets for Game 5. It's unclear how many, but with prices topping $1,500 apiece in the highest rows and reaching $5,000 or more in the lower level — big money for sure, yet a sliver of what Knicks fans paid for Games 3 and 4 — it's easy to see why some ticketholders are making business decisions instead of basketball ones.

“Of course I’m upset with Spurs fans selling their tickets, but if they can’t afford ‘em, nothing can be done,” said Rick Vela, known to Spurs fans as the “Masked Bandido Of San Antonio.” “Just sad these Knicks fans have to buy ’em, but their arena is way worse with those ticket prices.”

Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox understands.

“People are making money,” Fox said. “It’s the economy we live in. It’s the world we live in. Am I upset about it? No. Do I understand it? Sure. I don’t think that changes what happens on the court.”

It is not a frontrunning fan base in San Antonio. The city celebrated five NBA championships and had a record-setting run of 22 straight postseason appearances under Hall of Fame coach Gregg Popovich, but Spurs fans also suffered for decades.

There was the heartbreak of blowing a 3-1 lead to the then-Washington Bullets in the 1979 Eastern Conference finals. Mention Derek Fisher's game-winning jumper with 0.4 seconds in Game 5 that helped the Los Angeles Lakers win the 2004 NBA Western Conference semifinals at your own peril in this city; it'll go over as well as saying, “I dislike cowboy hats.” And the pain of Wednesday night has not subsided either, after the Spurs blew a 29-point lead in losing 107-106 to the Knicks in Game 4.

The Spurs are the only major pro team in town. There's no Yankees, no Mets, no Nets, no Rangers, no Islanders, no Devils, no Liberty, no NYCFC, no Red Bulls here. The Spurs are San Antonio's everything.

“They're still there for us," said Rene Gonzalez, still proudly flying a Spurs car flag on his truck. “They still bring this community together.”

Those who think trailing 3-1 in the NBA Finals is going to darken the spirits of Spurs fans might get a two-word answer in San Antonio.

¿Estas loco?

You're crazy.

“All year these boys have proven everyone wrong,” said Raylyn Boyson, a member of the Spurs superfan group, The Jackals, a group born from an idea by Wembanyama to have San Antonio fans mimic what happens at games in his native Europe. “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t keep believing. If anyone is going to defy all odds, it’s this group.”

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Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, ranking member of the House Committee of Homeland Security, said he and other legislators met with Puerto Rico mayors as part of a two-day trip to the U.S. territory and heard their concerns including delays in reimbursements and project approvals.

“We’ll move some of those concerns into corrective actions,” he said at a news conference. “The system should work better.”

Pablo José Hernández, Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress, said the island’s mayors flagged their concerns after former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem implemented a policy that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by that office.

The policy further delayed recovery efforts in Puerto Rico from hurricanes Maria and Fiona, and a series of strong quakes that struck in late 2019 and early 2020.

In April, new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin rescinded the rule, but challenges remain.

Thompson noted that about a third of the workforce of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency “has been done away with.”

He added: “Not a lot of people to answer the phones or look at the paperwork because they’re not there.”

Thompson said Mullin has promised that he’ll bring back employees, but it’s unclear when that might happen.

“FEMA’s role is to be here in a time of need when local resources have been overrun,” Thompson said. “Obviously, hurricanes that you’re dealing with over time have overrun local resources.”

Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm. It shredded the island’s power grid and caused an estimated $90 billion in damage. In the storm’s steamy aftermath, an estimated 2,982 people died.

Hurricane Fiona pummeled Puerto Rico in September 2022 as a Category 1 storm, lashing once more a power grid that hadn’t been rebuilt from Hurricane Maria.

Meanwhile, a series of earthquakes that shook southern Puerto Rico caused an estimated $3 billion in damage.

The island is trying to recover from the disasters, with some 30% of projects still pending.

So far, nearly $43 billion in federal funds have been allocated, nearly $40 billion obligated, and $12.7 billion disbursed, according to Puerto Rico’s Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency. The office receives and awards federal grant funds.

Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres said that a bottleneck of pending projects is driving up costs, which in turn causes more delays. He said there are many projects pending in his city.

In September 2025, a DHS report found that FEMA “did not ensure the timely rebuilding of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid” after Hurricane Maria and that FEMA officials “missed opportunities to provide more assistance to Puerto Rico."

Meanwhile, a February 2024 audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Puerto Rico’s government had spent less than 10% of the more than $23 billion in available federal funds at the time.

Challenges included rising costs, a lack of workers, significant reductions in insurance coverage and interruptions in the global supply chain. Many of those issues persist.

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“I saw one crawling across the trail. There were children around,” Nitzany said.

The animal was a python.

Knowing the invasive snakes can harm native wildlife, Nitzany decided to capture it and call a park ranger.

“It had a bulge in its belly. The upper part of its body indicating it just killed something and I couldn’t have it on my conscious just to leave it there and just let it go,” he said.

Nitzany said he waited about 30 minutes for a ranger to arrive.

After turning over the python, he said the ranger handed him a $180 ticket for illegally handling wildlife inside the park.

“I regret asking for help,” Nitzany added. “If I would have done things over again, I would have thrown it in the bushes.”

While pythons are an invasive species, federal rules generally prohibit visitors from capturing or handling wildlife inside Everglades National Park without authorization.

The case quickly caught the attention of Ron Magill, an ambassador/conservation liaison at Zoo Miami.

Magill said he understands the importance of following rules inside national parks but believes this case called for discretion.

“At the end of the day for me it’s common sense. Unfortunately, it’s not too common anymore,” Magill said.

But before the case could go before a judge, it was dismissed.

“My goal now is to do whatever I can to change this law,” Magill added. “To make sure there is a caveat in this law so that people like Nitzany are not punished for doing the right thing in the environment.”

For Nitzany, the dismissal brings relief.

For Magill, it is just the beginning of a push to clarify the rules surrounding invasive species inside national parks.

“Vi una cruzando el sendero. Había niños cerca”, dijo Nitzany.

El animal era una pitón.

Sabiendo que estas serpientes invasoras pueden dañar la vida silvestre nativa, Nitzany decidió capturarla y llamar a un guardabosques del parque.

“Tenía una protuberancia en el abdomen. La parte superior de su cuerpo indicaba que acababa de matar algo y no podía cargar con la conciencia de dejarla allí y simplemente dejarla ir”, dijo.

Nitzany dijo que esperó aproximadamente 30 minutos para que llegara un guardabosques.

Después de entregar la pitón, dijo que el guardabosques le entregó una multa de $180 USD por manipular ilegalmente vida silvestre dentro del parque.

“Lamento haber pedido ayuda”, agregó Nitzany. “Si pudiera hacerlo de nuevo, la habría lanzado entre los arbustos”.

Aunque las pitones son una especie invasora, las normas federales generalmente prohíben a los visitantes capturar o manipular vida silvestre dentro del Parque Nacional Everglades sin autorización.

El caso rápidamente llamó la atención de Ron Magill, embajador y enlace de conservación de Zoo Miami.

Magill dijo que entiende la importancia de seguir las reglas dentro de los parques nacionales, pero cree que este caso requería discreción.

“Al final del día, para mí es sentido común. Desafortunadamente, ya no es tan común”, dijo Magill.

Pero antes de que el caso pudiera llegar ante un juez, fue desestimado.

“Mi objetivo ahora es hacer todo lo posible para cambiar esta ley”, agregó Magill. “Asegurarme de que exista una excepción en esta ley para que personas como Nitzany no sean castigadas por hacer lo correcto para el medio ambiente”.

Para Nitzany, la desestimación del caso representa un alivio.

Para Magill, es solo el comienzo de un esfuerzo para aclarar las reglas relacionadas con las especies invasoras dentro de los parques nacionales.

Playing in the shadow of Toronto’s iconic CN Tower, and in front of a sea of red “Ca-na-da!” chanting fans that included hockey star Connor McDavid and actor Ryan Reynolds, Larin converted Promise David’s pass a mere two minutes after entering the game.

The goal was only the second in World Cup play scored by Canada after the team lost all three of its games at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and again four years ago at Qatar.

Injury fill-in Jovo Lukic headed in a corner kick in the 21st minute for Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is making its second World Cup appearance after failing to advance out of group play in 2014.

Starting in place of Edin Dzeko (shoulder) and Haris Tabakovic (undisclosed), Lukic was in a ideal position to cap a set piece with captain Sead Kolasinac flicking along a header off Ivan Basic’s corner kick. The goal was Lukic’s first in international play and coming in the 27-year-old attacker’s fourth international appearance.

Despite giving up the lead, the small Balkan nation of about 3 million people keeps coming up big on the international stage — including eliminating four-time champion Italy in the European playoffs.

Before Larin’s goal, Canada’s best scoring chance came in the 54th minute when captain Stephen Eustaquio fed the ball to Richie Laryea in front of a wide-open net. The ball deflected off Kolasinac’s foot and hit the crossbar.

Canada was playing without Alphonso Davies (hamstring), who scored the nation’s first World Cup goal four years ago in Qatar.

Canada now shifts to Vancouver for its final two group games, against Qatar on June 18 and Switzerland on June 24.

The Bosnians also head west, with games against Switzerland on June 18 in Los Angeles and Qatar on June 24 in Seattle.

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Cheng Li-wun told reporters during a trip to Washington that the Kuomintang Party she chairs shares common ground with President Donald Trump, who said after his May trip to Beijing that he was not “looking to have somebody go independent” or fight a war thousands of miles away.

“I think our basic stances are the same — that is peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and to avoid any unnecessary war,” Cheng said after a three-day visit to the nation's capital, where she met American lawmakers and scholars.

Cheng said she also met Trump administration representatives but would not offer more information.

The visit, as part of her two-week trip to the U.S. to promote her party's approach to the Taiwan Strait, has come at a time of rising uncertainty in U.S.-Taiwan relations. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has warned of a possible clash if the U.S. does not properly handle the issue of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing has vowed to seize by force if necessary to achieve what it considers reunification.

Congress has pledged to better arm Taiwan, giving preliminary approval to a $14 billion arms sales package. The Trump administration has yet to greenlight it.

Cheng, who met Xi in Beijing in April and whose party agrees that both sides of the strait belong to the same Chinese nation, has been promoting dialogue with Beijing. She said it is necessary for peace, stability and prosperity in the region.

Beijing has cut off official contact with Taipei's government for the past decade, because Taiwan’s ruling party does not recognize the “One China” principle.

“To initiate the dialogue cross-strait with Xi Jinping doesn’t mean that we will give up the deterrence strength in Taiwan, and, of course, it doesn’t mean that we will compromise or give up our democracy and freedom,” Cheng said, dismissing accusations that she was doing Beijing's bidding.

Asked about her meeting with Xi, Cheng described the Chinese leader as “very gentle and very nice and very real” and said she believed Xi wanted to address the Taiwan issue “with peaceful means and avoid war.”

But the Taiwanese government has pointed out Beijing’s increasingly bellicose behavior in the Taiwan Strait, including regular military operations around Taiwan in the past several years.

While the U.S. recognizes Beijing's position that Taiwan is part of China, it opposes any use of force in altering the status quo. It also is obligated by a U. S. law to provide the island with sufficient hardware to deter any invasion. In December, the Trump administration approved an $11 billion arms sales package to Taiwan.

Trump has indicated that he may still speak with Taiwan President Lai Ching-te even after China has publicly urged him not to do so.

Washington has been disappointed that Taiwan’s opposition-controlled legislature last month passed a $25 billion special defense budget to fund major U.S. arms purchases, down from the original $40 billion proposed by Lai.

On Friday, Cheng said her party objected to the initial proposal because it couldn't write a “blank check” for a proposal lacking details but put forward an interim measure to prioritize purchases of U.S. weapons.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, met Cheng on Thursday and wrote on social media that Cheng's party needs to join with Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party to “finish the defense budget and support the Alaska LNG project.”

Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., met her Wednesday and said in a statement that the opposition party's “resistance to a robust defense budget raises concerns for me that the party is drifting closer" to the ruling Chinese party and “weakening deterrence.”

Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., who met Cheng on Wednesday, said in a statement that he is willing to engage with leaders from all parties and pledged his commitment to “supporting Taiwan's sovereignty and expanding the U.S.-Taiwan relations."

These changes are part of the administration’s push to remove undocumented workers from the nation’s banking system without explicitly mandating that banks do so. In order to get banks to participate, the administration has framed these actions as a crackdown on fraud and crime, not explicitly about immigration.

“The information in your purview can help stop a cartel financier, disrupt a money laundering network, uncover labor exploitation, or protect taxpayers from fraud,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in prepared remarks at a banking conference in Houston.

Bessent's remarks and the Treasury Department's new guidelines come from an executive order signed in May by Trump that requires banks to take a closer look at the citizenship of their customers as well as directs bank regulators and government departments to look for signs that people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining loans or credit cards. But that executive order did not include an explicit mandate that banks collect citizenship information, which the industry for months lobbied against.

Banks have long been able to share information about their customers with other banks under the Patriot Act program when they suspect money laundering or fraud, part of the post-9/11 effort to combat terrorism and other crimes.

Friday’s actions widened that system on two fronts. Banks can now share such information with one another in real time and more freely, the Treasury Department said.

Secondly, the Trump Administration is giving banks a wider variety of reasons to share information, which now include flags historically tied to immigration status. One example is a customer having an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), which are disproportionally used by undocumented immigrants when applying for work.

Bessent told bankers that the new guidance is simply part of what the banking system needs to do as part of their routine operations.

“The advisory does not ask banks to become immigration officers,” Bessent said. “It asks banks to do what they do best: know their customers, identify risk, recognize suspicious patterns, and report illicit activity when they see it.”

Bankers have been wary about sharing customer information with the federal government as part of immigration enforcement. Bankers never collected citizenship information on their customers, so any effort to do so would require a massive effort by banks and significant amounts of paperwork. There's also the fact that banks send millions of what are known as Suspicious Activity Reports to the federal bank regulators under the Bank Secrecy Act. Last week, the Treasury Department expanded the reasons why a bank might file a SAR to include potential undocumented workers.

“The administration is saying they don't want banks to be immigration officials, but they are trying to get as close to the line as possible,” said Nicholas Anthony, who focuses on bank regulation issues at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.

At the time Trump signed the order, the White House framed the effort on the premise of combating fraud, but also it said undocumented workers introduce risk to the overall financial system by taking out loans that could potentially never be repaid because the borrowers could be deported. Since banks haven't historically collected citizenship data on their customers, it's hard to quantify how much of a risk undocumented workers are to banks. One study by the left-leaning Urban Institute estimated that between 5,000 and 6,000 mortgages were issued to customers with ITINs, which would be a tiny fraction of the millions of mortgages written each year.

Immigration advocates have previously said any order that would order banks to collect citizenship information would likely result in undocumented immigrants moving out of the financial system, increasing the number of “unbanked” individuals.

The White House has taken other measures to discourage undocumented workers from using the financial system. The Treasury last November announced that it would reclassify certain refundable tax credits as “federal public benefits,” which bars some immigrant taxpayers from receiving them, even if they file and pay taxes and would otherwise qualify.

It took more than two years, after her father’s murder and her mother’s deportation, for Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office detectives to uncover it, records show.

On June 10, Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge William Altfield issued a warrant for the search of the house and the arrest of Christian Heras, the girl’s second cousin, who also lived at the house. Here is the timeline of the girl’s suffering and the MDSO homicide and special victims bureau detectives’ investigation as described by the arrest warrant: MDSO detectives believe Heras, then 28 and 29, sexually abused the girl for months before killing her father and threatening to kill her mother in 2024.Detectives learned that before the murder, the girl’s father was concerned about Heras “always trying to be alone” with her, so he asked the girl’s mother to “not let” him be with her “without supervision.”Detectives learned that after the girl’s father confronted Heras and asked him to avoid getting “too close” to his 11-year-old daughter, Heras showed him “a handgun to scare him.” On Dec. 16, 2024, Homestead Police Department officers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to a report of a fatal fall in a house’s backyard near Northwest 10th Avenue and 12th Street. MDFR personnel declared the girl’s father dead, HPD asked MDSO to take over the case, and a homicide investigator reported the girl’s father had suffered a “compound skull fracture, which exposed his brain.”The homicide investigator, who was wearing a body camera and taking pictures, found what appeared to be blood on a ladder and on a cement garden brick that “had several strands of hair on a corner.” The girl’s mother told detectives that when Heras showed her the body covered with palm fronds, facing upward on the ground, with a ladder on top, he started “screaming profanities” at her dead husband, and later said dogs were “licking the blood on the cement brick.” Heras and the owner of the house, Heras’s mother, Angelica Medina, told police and detectives that the girl’s father had a drinking problem, and Medina said he would get so drunk that he “would climb up” the ladder to “have sexual intercourse with trees.” On Jan. 28, 2025, the medical examiner’s office reported the victim was “bludgeoned to death, and that it appeared that the homicide scene was staged.” On Feb. 5, 2025, the medical examiner’s office released a toxicology report showing the victim “did not have any alcohol or drugs in his system at the time of his death.” During the MDSO homicide investigation, the girl’s mother moved out of the house in Homestead and traveled to Dallas, Texas, with her kids to live with her husband’s family.On Feb. 14, 2025, a detective who traveled to Dallas and interviewed the girl reported she “exhibited signs of possible sexual abuse” and recommended a specialized forensic interview.

On March 10, 2025, the medical examiner’s office reported that the girl’s father’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and determined that the manner of death was a homicide.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported the girl’s mother to Mexico after she was detained on May 26, 2025, in Dallas.

On June 6, 2025, the girl was the subject of a “video-recorded forensic interview” at the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center and said she had told her mother that Heras confessed to killing her father, and gifted her a cell phone that her mother then threw away.

The girl did not disclose the sexual abuse until 2026.

On Feb. 13, the girl’s relatives reported that she said Heras had molested her in Homestead, so a MDSO detective decided she needed to undergo a second forensic interview.

On May 13, the girl’s aunt told a detective, who was trying to schedule the second forensic interview, that on Jan. 22, the girl told her that she had been the victim of a sexual battery in Homestead.

On May 21, a detective with the special victims bureau and a homicide detective were with the girl when she participated in a “video-recorded forensic interview” at the Kristi House Children’s Advocacy Center in Miami-Dade County.

The girl described how Heras “didn’t care” if she was in pain when he sexually battered her more than five times, and she did not report it “because she was scared and did not trust anyone.” On Thursday morning, MDSO deputies were searching the house in Homestead when they found Heras at a window “trying to flee,” and he “tensed his body” while they handcuffed him, according to the arrest report.At 8 a.m., on Thursday, detectives arrested Heras at the office of the MDSO special victims’ bureau, at 1701 NW 87th Ave., according to the arrest report. Miami-Dade corrections booked Heras at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained without bond on Friday afternoon, according to county inmate records. Heras faced charges of first-degree murder, five counts of sexual battery on a minor by an adult, and resisting arrest without violence, according to court records. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Marcus Bach was set to preside over the case.

Game 1, Knicks led by four with 58 seconds to go. Game 2, Knicks won by one when Victor Wembanyama's game-winning try just misses. Game 3, Spurs won by four. Game 4, Knicks won by one again after OG Anunoby got a miracle tip-in.

There hasn't been a finals like this, with a margin of four points or less in the final minute of each of the first four games, since 1973. New York won that series. The Knicks haven't been champions since.

That could change Saturday. New York — leading the series 3-1 — can close out the Spurs in San Antonio when the finals resume with Game 5.

“You have to be present,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said Friday. “You can’t think about the outcome. It’s about the process, the next play, the next play, the next play."

The series could easily be tied right now, after San Antonio wasted a 29-point lead in Game 4 in what became the biggest collapse in NBA Finals history.

The Spurs led 81-52 in the third quarter on Wednesday night and got outscored 55-25 the rest of the way, missing 29 of their final 35 shots and losing on OG Anunoby's tip-in with 1.2 seconds remaining. Taylor Swift was among the many who celebrated long after the final horn, and now the Spurs have to find a way to somehow regroup from absolute agony.

“There’s conviction in strength and confidence,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “That’s what it is. There’s no trick. There’s no avoiding what’s happened. There’s no avoiding all four games have been winnable games. There’s no avoiding we’re down 3-1. There’s not avoiding ways that we could be better. There’s nobody that’s going to be harder on ourselves and accountable to ourselves than the people in the locker room and each other.”

Entering Game 4, teams with leads of 29 or more points in a game were:

— 249-0 this season.

— 288-2 over the last 30 postseasons.

— 4,088-13 over the last 30 seasons, counting regular season and playoff games.

That means the Spurs — who have had double-digit leads in all four games — had about a 99.7% chance of winning Game 4, tying the series and coming home with all the momentum. They’re on the brink of elimination instead.

“We still have that belief that we have a chance to win,” said Spurs guard De'Aaron Fox, who has heard tons of criticism since Wednesday for his decision to try a layup instead of running down the clock when he had the ball and San Antonio leading by one in the final moments. “But we’re taking this one game at a time. We’re not looking at it as we need to win three games. We need to win tomorrow and then we give ourselves a chance to play another game.”

It will not be easy. When the Knicks have had a closeout opportunity this season, they've left no doubt.

New York is 3-0 in closeout games in these playoffs, winning them by the almost comical average of 39.3 points per game. The Knicks led by 61 points before winning 140-89 to close out Atlanta in Round 1, led by 44 points before winning 144-114 to close out Philadelphia in Round 2, then led by 45 points before winning 130-93 to close out Cleveland in the Eastern Conference finals.

All that happened on the road, too. And thousands of Knicks fans are expected in San Antonio on Saturday night, all ready to see New York end that long title drought.

“One possession at a time, one play at a time, one quarter at a time,” Knicks guard Jalen Brunson said. “You’re thinking about the now, how you can be better the next possession, how can you turn the page, positive or negative. Regardless of what’s going on, our mindset and approach has to stay the same. I think we’ve done a very good job of that. It’s something that has grown over the season. It’s really important, especially obviously now.”

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Appointed in late 2017 to replace Sen. Al Franken after fellow Democrats demanded his resignation amid allegations of unwanted touching and kissing, Smith entered Washington during the height of the #MeToo movement. Democrats were pushing members from office and contrasting their approach with Republicans’ willingness to stand by Donald Trump through scandal and controversy.

Nearly a decade later, Smith says Democrats are focused on something simpler.

“Democrats want to win,” she said.

As the party aims to flip both chambers of Congress in the midterms, Smith and other Democrats have backed Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner despite a growing list of controversies, including a tattoo recognized as a Nazi symbol, sexting with other women shortly after he married and allegations, which Platner denies, that he locked an ex-girlfriend in a room and forcefully twisted her arm. Platner cruised to victory in this week’s primary after Gov. Janet Mills suspended her campaign.

The support for Platner is about more than one candidate. It reflects a Democratic Party increasingly willing to overlook behavior it might once have deemed disqualifying, and instead judge candidates by whether they can energize voters and help the party regain power.

“Voters are looking for candidates that are speaking their language and talk about the things that matter to them,” said Smith. “That's the standard that we have to hit in order to win.”

Democrats grapple with the reality of a big tent

The support for Platner comes at a fraught moment for Democrats, who are in the minority in both chambers of Congress while Trump once again occupies the White House.

In the wake of their sweeping losses in 2024, many Democrats argued the party needed a bigger tent with fewer purity tests and more room for candidates and voters who don’t fit neatly within the party’s traditional coalition.

But expanding that tent has raised difficult questions about where Democrats should draw the line. In Virginia, Democrat Jay Jones won election as attorney general after reports surfaced during the campaign that he had texted a fellow delegate suggesting the then-House speaker should get “two bullets to the head.”

Some in the party also condemned Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for appearing with progressive streamer Hasan Piker for a campaign event. Piker, a 34-year-old streamer with 3.1 million followers on Twitch and 1.8 million on YouTube, has made many controversial remarks, including that “America deserved 9/11.”

Platner’s candidacy has become one of the clearest examples. While some Democrats view his controversies as disqualifying, others argue that voters made their choice.

“He won the nomination. That was the decision of Maine voters. And I respect that decision,” said Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, who has endorsed Platner, agreed the decision lies with voters.

“It’s not up to the politicians to decide,” he said.

For some Democrats, the shift reflects lessons learned during the Trump era. Republicans stood by Trump through scandals, impeachments and criminal convictions, often without paying a lasting political price at the ballot box. Many Democrats now argue voters care more about whether a candidate speaks to their concerns than whether they meet traditional expectations for personal conduct.

“I think what the people of this country and the people of Maine are interested in is how we're going to have a government that represents all of us and addresses the many crises we face. Not the marriage problems of a campaign,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, an early Platner supporter.

The voters decide

Progressives who have long argued that Democrats spend too much time policing candidates and not enough time channeling voter frustration see Platner’s victory as evidence that the party’s base is hungry for something different.

Maine voter Elizabeth Massey, a Platner supporter from Penobscot, said she took the allegations seriously and remains troubled by parts of Platner’s past. But she said his willingness to apologize and the issues facing the country ultimately mattered more to her vote.

“So do I care more about texts that he sent or the war in Iran and what that’s doing to gas prices?” Massey said. “Pretty clearly the latter.”

Massey said Platner’s appeal is that he speaks directly to voters’ concerns, not that he is without flaws.

“He owns them. He has apologized for them,” she said of the allegations.

Other supporters argue that Republicans are holding Platner to standards they have not applied to Trump.

“The Republicans don’t have much moral high ground to stand on when they’re criticizing him for what he’s done when Trump is a convicted felon,” said Annette Babcock, who is from Platner’s hometown of Sullivan.

The willingness to embrace candidates with baggage comes as many Democrats remain deeply dissatisfied with their party.

Only about two-thirds of Democrats had a “somewhat” or “very” favorable view of their party in an April AP-NORC poll, a decline from 85% in September 2024. In a separate AP-NORC poll in August 2025, many Democrats described their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

But while Platner may fire up the base, questions linger about whether that will translate to general election wins. Platner now faces Republican Sen. Susan Collins, one of the GOP’s most durable incumbents and a politician with a long history of attracting independents and crossover Democratic voters.

“The test is never going to be who wins the primary,” said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who led the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm in 2022 and 2024. “It's going to be who wins the general election.”

Not everyone is on board

Many Democrats have not given full throated support of Platner’s candidacy.

Among them is New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the chair of the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, who has primarily focused on defeating Collins rather than embracing Platner. Gillibrand helped lead the push for Franken’s resignation, saying “enough is enough” and that she believed the women who accused him.

Other Democrats have been more openly skeptical. Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman and New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer have spoken out against Platner, while some lawmakers have offered only qualified endorsements after his primary victory.

“Well, Maine supports him. So yes,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., responded when asked if he supports Platner.

Emily Cherniack, the executive director of New Politics, an organization that recruits military veterans and national service leaders to run for office, said she has been “stunned” by some Democrats’ willingness to downplay allegations of aggression and volatility against Platner.

“Democrats are saying, we think it’s actually more important to win the majority and protect democracy, regardless of what he did. That to me is what the message is,” Cherniack said.

“Just be honest and explicit about that choice.”

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Into Friday night, expect a few showers to develop in spots. Many will stay dry. Higher rain chances arrive for the weekend. It will be a typical rainy season pattern with a dry start to Saturday and Sunday, but showers and thunderstorms will develop in the afternoon. They will favor inland areas compared to the coast. Temperatures will be in the low 90s, just slightly higher than average.

Next week will have the hottest combination of heat and humidity so far this year and our first heat advisories are possible. The heat index could exceed 105° at times through much of the week.

The wounded man, identified as Benjamin Del Real, underwent surgery and is recovering from his injuries, his lawyer, Joseph Murphy, said in a press release.

Pam Menaker, communications partner at Clifford Law Offices, said Del Real is 25 and has been in the Army for three years. His rank is private first class. Menaker said via email that Del Real has been receiving therapy at an undisclosed location.

Del Real was near the White House May 23 when he was seriously wounded during an exchange of gunfire when a man approached Secret Service officers at a security checkpoint near the White House and began shooting. The gunman, identified as Nasire Best, 21, was killed.

According to District of Columbia court records, Best was arrested in July 2025 after he attempted to enter a different White House checkpoint without authorization, didn’t heed officers’ commands to stop, “claimed he was Jesus Christ” and said he wanted to be arrested.

Washington television station NBC4 quoted several sources in reporting that Del Real was wounded by Secret Service officers. The Metropolitan Police Department and the Secret Service both declined commenting on that report.

At a briefing on public safety in Washington, D.C., this summer, interim Police Chief Jeffery Carroll said the ballistics were not back to determine who had shot the bystander. He said Del Real was visiting the city as a tourist at the time of the shooting.

Metropolitan Police Internal Affairs is investigating the shooting and will turn its findings over to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Murphy, a former Army officer, said in the press release that the law firm was investigating the circumstances as well “and gathering all available facts. We will continue to work with the appropriate authorities to determine exactly what occurred and to ensure a full and accurate understanding of the events that led to our client’s severe injuries.”

Those were some of the UFOs described in documents released Friday by the Pentagon, the third release since President Donald Trump directed his administration to give the public full disclosure around what it knows about alien life and mysterious objects in the sky.

The 72 files released on Friday don’t include the kind of blockbuster revelation that Trump has teased. There’s no conclusive evidence of alien life or government cover-ups. But the files reveal new details about some recent sightings, along with the government's efforts to explain what many find inexplicable.

Take, for instance, the potato.

It happened in 2022, on a brisk February morning in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Five U.S. Army members at Fort Carson walked out of an office building and saw something strange hovering over Cheyenne Mountain, a few miles to the west.

“The object was ‘potato’ shaped with distinct edges and appeared to look painted in a creamy/whitish opalescent color,” according to an account in an FBI document. It was made up of “articulating fish scales or panels that were non-symmetrical, non-overlapping and irregular shaped.”

It stayed motionless, shimmering, for about two minutes, the men recounted to the FBI. Then it vanished in the blink of an eye. None of the men had phones on them. There's no video, no photos.

Report says ‘potato’ could have been a trick of light

Authorities tasked with investigating the episode said they couldn't explain it easily. Their report found — with “low confidence" — that it may have been “backscattering of sunlight." Low light from the rising sun could have reflected off the mountain's snow and illuminated low clouds above, it said.

The men insisted it was a clear, cloudless day. No aircraft or balloons were believed to be in the area. The four-page report, heavily redacted and attributed only to an “intelligence community partner,” said it didn't appear to be technology from a foreign adversary. An FBI rendering looks just like one might imagine — like a scaly, pale potato above a low mountain.

The case remains unsolved.

A similarly inclusive report examined a series of sightings in October 2023, this time by six federal law enforcement agents. Multiple times, the agents said, they saw a bright orange orb appear above a ridgeline and spawn two to four smaller red orbs.

The orbs disappeared quickly most of the time, but in one instance, the agents said an orb hovered motionless in the sky for several hours. There's no video or photo evidence of the sightings, the report said.

An analysis dated this month goes through a series of possible explanations. Military aircraft were conducting exercises in the area, and some deployed flares. There could have been other testing of developmental U.S. technology nearby, the report said. It listed those as “plausible” but not conclusive explanations.

Yet it didn't rule out the possibility that it was some “unrecognized technology." With relatively little evidence to work from, it called for more investigation into the case.

White House boosts video of red orb

The analysis was conducted by the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which Congress created in 2022 to investigate reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, also known as UAP. Previous reports from the agency say it has not found any evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Among the most recent files is an FBI report from February detailing a sighting in an undisclosed part of the Northeast United States. A person whose name is blacked out reported coming home and seeing an intense light hovering below the trees in their backyard. It was described as a sphere of a “brilliant and beautiful” red, which the person had never seen.

“Inside the red sphere, at the center, there appeared to be what (redacted) described as a ‘white plasma sun’ about the size of a basketball,” according to the FBI file.

A second sphere appeared, and both silently flew out of sight, the file says. Cellphone footage shows two glowing red orbs floating across the sky. The White House shared the video on social media on Friday with no message beyond the file’s name: “‘NORTHEASTERN ORB SIGHTING,’ 2025.”

Zimbabwe sighting included ‘beams’ from a disc

So far, the Trump administration's transparency campaign has led to the release of about 300 files dating to the 1940s, some brand-new to the public and some adding detail on previously known cases.

The newest batch includes a 2008 CIA report from Zimbabwe labeled as “never before released.” On a July day above the country’s main airport, observers reportedly saw something straight out of a Hollywood movie: It was “disc-like in shape with a hollow center, and had a series of rotating lights on the underside of the airframe.”

“At one point during observation, ‘beams’ were observed emanating from the object,” the CIA report said.

The lights changed colors, and the aircraft ascended high out of view, the report says. There was debate about where it came from, according to the report, with some suggesting a foreign government and some positing “extraterrestrial origins."

Cooper was arrested Thursday night on multiple charges that he violated a protection order filed against him after his initial arrest stemming from a domestic dispute with his girlfriend last week.

Cooper is now facing new charges of harassment from repeated phone calls and violation of a protection order, according to court records.

The protection order was put in place for Cooper's girlfriend after two additional charges, including a felony charge of second-degree assault by strangulation, were added Wednesday from his June 4 arrest in Parker.

Aside from his legal troubles, Cooper could face a lengthy suspension from the league.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told The Associated Press on Friday, “We continue to monitor all developments in the matter which remains under review of the personal conduct policy.”

The Broncos also issued a statement to AP, saying, “We are disappointed to learn of Jonathon Cooper's arrest on Thursday and continue to review this matter.”

Cooper is accused of sending 20 messages and making two unanswered phone calls to his girlfriend Thursday before going to her apartment and knocking on her door, according to the arrest affidavit. He left when she called 911. Cooper told officers who went to his residence later Thursday that he had not been served with a protection order.

Cooper was ordered during an appearance in the 23rd Judicial District Court in Douglas County on Friday to abide by a stricter protection order that prohibits any contact with his girlfriend. Also, he must have court approval to travel out of state. He was released on a personal recognizance bond.

Cooper originally faced misdemeanor domestic violence charges and pleaded not guilty Monday in a Douglas County courtroom. Additional charges were announced in court Wednesday, including felony assault by strangulation and third-degree assault of knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury.

The new charges stemmed from a forensic nurse's examination of Cooper's girlfriend at a hospital during which the nurse wrote that the woman experienced an injury from being choked that led to a “substantial risk of death” or substantial risk of injury, including the possibility of a traumatic brain injury, according to court records.

Cooper, 28, was originally arrested June 4 by Parker police along with his girlfriend, and both were booked into jail early that next morning. Cooper was held on suspicion of criminal mischief with a domestic violence enhancer. His girlfriend was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence and petty criminal mischief.

The arrests followed an argument and physical confrontation between Cooper and his girlfriend over cell phones that were damaged in the scuffle after she accused him of infidelity, according to a police affidavit.

Last weekend, Cooper posted a Bible verse about anger on his Instagram account and wrote, “I apologize to my family and my friends and my community. ... And so many others.” He added, “I realize positing a bible (verse) after something very serious happens does not just mean everything is okay.” In another post, Cooper wrote, “I apologize. This situation is not who I am.”

A seventh-round draft pick out of Ohio State in 2021, Cooper is entering his sixth season with the Broncos. He’s had at least eight sacks in each of the last three seasons, including a career-best 10 1/2 sacks in 2024 when he signed a four-year contract extension worth up to $60 million.

Cooper has a motions hearings set for July 6 on his original arrest and July 14 on his latest arrest, in addition to a trial set to begin July 22, just before the Broncos report to training camp.

Cooper has been participating in the Broncos' offseason training program and on Thursday coach Sean Payton said he had a talk with Cooper about his arrest. "We’ll follow the league’s guidelines, and I’m sure a lot of that will be led by the local authorities’ guidelines. We’ll pay attention to all of it,” Payton said.

The Broncos hold their mandatory minicamp next week before their summer break.

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“The league notified Stefon Diggs today that it concluded its investigation and there is insufficient evidence to support a finding of a personal conduct policy violation,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in statement to The Associated Press.

ESPN was first to report the league's finding.

Diggs was found not guilty last month of assaulting his personal chef. The charges stemmed from a Dec. 2 incident at his house in Massachusetts where Jamila Adams, a former live-in personal chef, testified that Diggs slapped and choked her during an argument. He had pleaded not guilty to a felony strangulation charge and a misdemeanor assault and battery charge. The jury deliberated for less than two hours before clearing Diggs of all charges.

Diggs spent last season with the New England Patriots, helping them reach the Super Bowl, where they lost to Seattle. He was released in March and remains unsigned.

Several NFL players, including Ben Roethlisberger, Jameis Winston and Ezekiel Elliott, have been suspended for violating the personal conduct policy despite not being arrested or charged with a crime.

Diggs led New England with 85 receptions and 1,013 yards receiving with four touchdowns in his only season with the team. He was the go-to option for Drake Maye, who finished runner-up to Matthew Stafford for the AP NFL MVP award.

Diggs, who turns 33 on Nov. 29, has played for three teams in the past three seasons. He began his career in Minnesota in 2015 and went from fifth-round pick to No. 1 receiver in five seasons with the Vikings.

He was traded to Buffalo for a first-round pick in 2020 and had an All-Pro season that year. Diggs spent four seasons with the Bills. He played for the Texans in 2024.

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The suspect arrested in the case was identified by North Miami police on Friday as 53-year-old James Mackenzie.

According to an arrest report obtained by Local 10, officers responded around 10:45 a.m. Thursday to the 500 block of Northeast 132nd Terrace in reference to a reported stabbing.

Police said they located Mackenzie with blood on his hands in the backyard near an efficiency at the back of his home.

Investigators conducted a safety sweep of the home and located the victim who they say was “suffering from multiple stab wounds to the chest.”

The report states that the victim was seated in a walker used as a wheelchair and was having difficulty breathing and speaking after he was stabbed.

Police said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics transported the victim to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital for treatment.

Hospital staff later told investigators the victim had been stabbed approximately seven times, with at least one wound piercing his heart, according to the report. Police said the victim, who has not yet been identified, remains in critical condition as of Friday afternoon.

Investigators said while inside the home, they found large amounts of blood in a bedroom where the victim was discovered.

They also confirmed that a small folding pocketknife with what appeared to be blood on it was also located inside Mackenzie’s home.

The report states other residents heard an argument between Mackenzie and the victim but did not witness the stabbing.

A surveillance camera inside the home captured audio of the victim saying, “I’m bleeding everywhere, please. I need to go to the hospital,” according to the report.

Police said Mackenzie made several statements that were redacted from the publicly released report before invoking his right to an attorney after being read his Miranda rights.

Jail records show he is facing one count of second-degree attempted murder.

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

A motive for the stabbing remains unclear at this time.

El sospechoso arrestado en el caso fue identificado por la policía de North Miami el viernes como James Mackenzie, de 53 años.

Según un informe de arresto obtenido por Local 10, los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 10:45 a.m. del jueves a la cuadra 500 de Northeast 132nd Terrace tras recibir un reporte de un apuñalamiento.

La policía dijo que encontró a Mackenzie con sangre en las manos en el patio trasero, cerca de una vivienda tipo eficiencia ubicada detrás de su casa.

Los investigadores realizaron una inspección de seguridad de la vivienda y encontraron a la víctima, quien, según dijeron, estaba “sufriendo múltiples heridas de arma blanca en el pecho”.

El informe indica que la víctima estaba sentada en un andador utilizado como silla de ruedas y tenía dificultades para respirar y hablar después de ser apuñalada.

La policía informó que paramédicos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue trasladaron a la víctima al Hospital HCA Florida Aventura para recibir tratamiento.

Posteriormente, personal del hospital informó a los investigadores que la víctima había sido apuñalada aproximadamente siete veces, y que al menos una de las heridas perforó su corazón, según el informe. La policía dijo que la víctima, cuya identidad aún no ha sido revelada, permanecía en estado crítico hasta la tarde del viernes.

Los investigadores dijeron que dentro de la vivienda encontraron grandes cantidades de sangre en un dormitorio donde fue localizada la víctima.

También confirmaron que dentro de la casa de Mackenzie hallaron una pequeña navaja plegable de bolsillo con lo que parecía ser sangre.

El informe señala que otros residentes escucharon una discusión entre Mackenzie y la víctima, pero no presenciaron el apuñalamiento.

Una cámara de vigilancia dentro de la vivienda captó el audio de la víctima diciendo: “Estoy sangrando por todas partes, por favor. Necesito ir al hospital”, según el informe.

La policía dijo que Mackenzie realizó varias declaraciones que fueron censuradas en la versión pública del informe antes de invocar su derecho a un abogado tras ser informado de sus derechos Miranda.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que enfrenta un cargo de intento de asesinato en segundo grado.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight, donde su fianza figuraba como “pendiente de establecer”.

Por el momento, el motivo del apuñalamiento sigue sin estar claro.

FIFA said Friday in a statement that the 32-year-old Partey won’t be able to travel from his team's base camp in Smithfield, Rhode Island, for Ghana's opening match with Panama in Toronto.

“His visa application has been refused by the Canadian government,” the governing body of world soccer said. “FIFA is not involved in the immigration processes of host countries, including the adjudication of visas. As with previous FIFA events, the host government ultimately determines who receives a visa and is admitted into the country.”

The Ghana soccer association did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said in a statement that every person wanting to come to Canada is assessed individually “based on the facts available and the law that applies.”

"Canada is proud to be a host country for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and is working to facilitate a successful event while maintaining the safety and security of Canadians," the IRCC said in the statement. “Canada has been consistent that hosting major events does not change Canada’s immigration laws.”

Partey was traveling back to Ghana's base camp in Rhode Island after his visa denial. He will be able to play June 23 when Ghana plays England in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Ghana concludes group play June 27 against Croatia in Philadelphia.

Partey is scheduled to stand trial in November or later on allegations dating to his time with English club Arsenal from 2020-25. Partey, who now plays in Spain for Villarreal, has pleaded not guilty.

A second World Cup player, Morocco defender Achraf Hakimi, is awaiting trial on similar charges in Paris.

Ghana is making its fifth appearance in the last six World Cups.

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Judge Lewis J. Liman said in a written decision that Lively can recover legal fees and costs related to her defense against a countersuit Baldoni brought against her after she sued him in December 2024.

In his written ruling Friday, Liman cited a California law designed to protect survivors of sexual harassment and discrimination from retaliatory lawsuits meant to intimidate and silence victims.

The judge said the law requires that the plaintiff must pay the defendant’s legal fees and costs if a defamation claim made in response to a lawsuit is dismissed, even if the facts of the case have not been developed through the gathering of evidence.

Liman said an exception would be if Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios LLC, could prove malice fueled Lively's claims, but that Baldoni and Wayfarer had produced no evidence to show that.

The judge rejected her claims to triple any damages and pursue punitive damages as well under the California law, saying that they did not fall within “carefully crafted federal procedural rules designed to protect the rights of the parties.”

Lively and Baldoni settled the bulk of their dispute last month just as a trial was about to start on Lively’s retaliation claims. She received no money from the deal but was permitted to pursue legal fees.

In their statements, both sides cast Liman's ruling as a victory.

Lively lawyers Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson said the award of legal fees “makes it clear that Ms. Lively brought her claims in good faith, that there was no evidence she acted with malice, and that she is the prevailing defendant.”

Bryan Freedman, Baldoni's lawyer, said Lively failed to get her demands for $300 million in fees and damages, with 10 or her 13 claims tossed out by the judge before the settlement was reached, and then “pivoted to exploit a California law” to get damages.

“Once again, she failed,” he said, noting that she was entitled now to limited attorney fees for a single claim in a portion of the litigation that existed for only a few months.

The lawyer said his clients were “threatened by one of the most famous movie stars, who tried to rip away their life’s work and pristine reputations.”

“Throughout this process, innocent people had their reputations unfairly tarnished. There was no sexual harassment. There was no retaliation. There was no smear campaign. The court recognized it, the record reflects it, and we have maintained it from the very beginning,” Freedman said.

Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and retaliation, along with his production company, in late 2024. She said the actor engineered an effort to damage her public reputation and credibility.

Baldoni, who directed the dark romantic drama and starred in it with Lively, denied harassing her or orchestrating a smear campaign. He claimed the complaints about his behavior were made up by Lively as part of an effort to seize creative control of the movie. He countersued, accusing Lively and her husband, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds, of defamation and extortion.

Liman threw out Baldoni's countersuit last year and then dismissed Lively's sexual harassment claims weeks ago, saying she could not bring them because she was an independent contractor rather than an employee on the movie set.

“It Ends With Us,” an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel about a relationship devolving into domestic violence, was released in August 2024 and exceeded box office expectations.

Lively appeared in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and the TV series “Gossip Girl” from 2007 to 2012 before starring in films including “The Town” and “The Shallows.”

Baldoni starred in the TV comedy “Jane the Virgin,” directed the 2019 film “Five Feet Apart” and wrote “Man Enough,” a book challenging traditional notions of masculinity.

But some of the key objectives Trump laid out for the conflict seem to remain unfulfilled. And while the Trump administration has said its objectives are clear and unchanging, the list has expanded and shifted as the president and his administration have spoken about the war since it started Feb. 28. All the while, the conflict has battered the global economy, tested alliances and raised unanswered questions about the planning for the conflict, its justification and its aftermath.

By most accounts, the strikes by the U.S. and Israel have significantly degraded Iran's military capabilities and killed scores of senior leaders. But those tactical successes don’t necessarily translate into achieving all the president’s strategic aims, even as the administration said Friday that it was meeting the goals it had laid out.

Here’s a look at the objectives laid out by Trump at various points since the outset of the war and what we know about where they stand:

1. Destroy Iran's ability to fire missiles

One of the prime objectives laid out by the administration was to “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground."

Trump said in late March that Iran's missiles “are mostly decimated" and that 90% of their missiles and launchers were knocked out.

By mid-May, that shifted to a more conservative estimate, with the president saying that 82% of Iran's missiles were gone.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, told lawmakers in mid-May that Iran maintains a “very moderate if not small capability to continue strikes” in the region.

Iran proved as recently as this week that it still had the ability to launch missiles when it attacked three Gulf allies of the U.S.

2. Destroy Iran's defense industrial base

Early in the war, the president and his administration sometimes listed this as a standalone objective. Other times, it has fallen off their list.

U.S. Central Command has said its targets for strikes in Iran have included weapons production and missile and drone manufacturing facilities.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers in early June that Iran has had “massive destruction” of its defense industrial base and “80 to 90% of attrition. It will take years for them to rebuild it.”

Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday: “Most of the drone factories have been knocked out, most of the launching pads have been knocked out and most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked out. But they still have capacity.”

3. Eliminate Iran's navy and air force

The U.S. and Israel quickly established air superiority in the skies above Iran, where they flew largely unchallenged.

Rubio told lawmakers that Iran still has drone capabilities, but it lacks the ability to use swarms of drones to attack targets, as it did at the start of the war.

He also said Iran does not have a navy but small crafts outfitted with machine guns that harass ships and sometimes drop mines in the water.

Iran has shown its ability to still launch attacks in the region, such as a deadly June 3 attack of drones and missiles at Kuwait that led to the brief closure of its main airport. The U.S. and Bahrain also said they intercepted missiles and drones fired at the Gulf kingdom by Iran.

And on Tuesday, Trump blamed Tehran for the downing of a U.S. Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz after it collided with an Iranian drone.

4. Obliterate Iran's nuclear program for good

Trump made a marked shift over the last year after declaring that the U.S. had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program in June, only for his aides to warn that Iran was just weeks away from a bomb to justify the current operations.

One of the most pressing questions is what will be done with about 970 pounds of enriched uranium that Tehran has that could potentially be used for a weapon. The material is believed to be buried under three nuclear sites bombed by the U.S. and Israel last year. Trump said in a May 29 social media post that it will be retrieved by the U.S. “in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran, plus the International Atomic Energy Agency, and DESTROYED.”

Iran has not said whether it would consent. Without permission from Iran, seizing it would be a dangerous mission, experts say, and would require a sizable deployment of U.S. troops into the country.

Trump told reporters on Thursday that there was an agreement “conceptually” on the uranium, but he did not offer details and Iran has not yet confirmed it.

A senior administration official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity on Friday to provide an update on negotiations, said that Iran has agreed that the uranium will be destroyed and removed, but details of what that looks like have not yet been hammered out.

5. Protect America's Middle Eastern allies

Trump, in a March social media post, added a fifth objective for the U.S: “Protecting, at the highest level, our Middle Eastern Allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others."

The U.S. maintains thousands of troops on bases and other installations in the region, but Trump has been unclear on how far he'd be willing to go to protect Middle East allies from threats.

As Trump said the U.S. was nearing a deal with Iran in recent weeks, he's said that any agreement should somehow bind many of the Gulf allies to join the Abraham Accords, agreements from Trump’s first term that seek to normalize relations with Israel. But that seems exceedingly unlikely as Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip have created a bigger distance from Gulf Arab states and the wider Muslim world.

As the U.S. and Iran traded back-and-forth strikes this week, Tehran’s targets included attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, prompting the U.S. to respond with a fresh round of strikes.

The Trump administration has begun exploring whether to let Gulf allies use Iran's frozen assets to pay for damages sustained in the war, but officials have not said whether they are moving forward with that plan.

The senior administration official said Friday that the memorandum of understanding would guarantee a long-term peace in the region, but did not offer details on what that would look like or how it would be achieved.

6. Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Keeping shipping traffic flowing through the vital waterway was not one of the reasons for launching the war, but after Iran leveraged its ability to effectively shut traffic through the strait, it has become a key problem to tackle in the conflict.

The Strait of Hormuz is a chokepoint for 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas and its effective closure since the war has spiked global energy prices, along with the costs of other goods. Iran had allowed ships seen as friendly to pass through, while charging considerable fees.

Trump has said that a proposed deal with Iran would include the reopening of the strait and the U.S. ending its blockade of Tehran's ports.

7. Cut off

support for Iranian proxy groups

In March, Trump and his administration repeatedly included degrading Iran's proxy terror networks as a key goal of the operation.

As time has gone on, administration officials have offered fewer updates about this objective, which the president described as ensuring that “the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces” and “ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.”

The U.S., early on, struck Iranian-aligned militia groups in Iraq. But the biggest question has been Israel's deepening war in Lebanon against Hezbollah, which Iran backs. Iran has insisted that the fighting in Lebanon must be stopped as part of any deal with the U.S., but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears intent on pursuing his goal of destroying the militant group.

Israel said Thursday that it was not a party to the agreement that the U.S. had reached with Iran.

The administration official said Friday that the U.S. was confident that broad regional peace terms in the memorandum of understanding would include both Hezbollah and Israel. If the Iranians hold up their end as it pertains to constraining Hezbollah, the Israelis would not feel a need to respond, the official said.

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Associated Press writer Konstantin Toropin contributed to this report.

Según Jessica Montes, portavoz de Davie Fire Rescue, los bomberos respondieron a la cuadra 3900 de Southwest 84th Terrace alrededor de las 5:18 a.m. tras recibir un reporte sobre una rotura de una tubería principal de agua.

“Al llegar, se informó a los bomberos que había un caimán en el agua”, dijo Montes en un correo electrónico enviado a Local 10 News.

Según Montes, el caimán intentó huir hacia un patio cercano, pero los bomberos y la policía de Davie trabajaron juntos para capturarlo antes de que pudiera escapar.

“La Policía de Davie utilizó un lazo de captura para asegurar al caimán, mientras que los bomberos ayudaron cubriéndole los ojos con una toalla y colaboraron para sujetarlo hasta que la Comisión de Conservación de Pesca y Vida Silvestre de Florida llegó al lugar”, dijo Montes.

Montes confirmó que el caimán fue entregado a la FWC y que no se reportaron lesiones ni entre los socorristas ni en el caimán.

"Son tiempos en que hay que cambiar y el país no puede seguir funcionando igual... Cada oportunidad en medio de una crisis hay que aprovecharla como un momento de despegue, como un momento de crecimiento. Entonces nosotros hemos establecido un grupo de prioridades para enfrentar toda esta situación”, dijo Díaz-Canel según una nota de la presidencia replicada por plataformas gubernamentales.

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.

Esto impactó dramáticamente en la vida cotidiana de población y obligó a recortar las jornadas laborales y limitar el transporte.

El mandatario dijo que se evalúa “un grupo de medidas orientadas al comercio exterior, a las exportaciones, a las cadenas de valor y logística”.

Sin dar detalles de los plazos de su implementación, Díaz-Canel indicó que se eliminará la intermediación estatal –hasta ahora obligatoria— en la importación y exportación, al tiempo que se darían beneficios arancelarios a quienes traigan al país materias primas para procesos productivos.

Además, se aprobarán más pequeñas y medianas empresas –que hasta esta década no tenían autorización— con amplios objetos sociales al tiempo que se quitarán limitaciones en las actividades permitidas para los particulares, aunque no especificó cuáles.

También se reorganizará la administración estatal, recordó el mandatario. Una ley impulsada en el Parlamento busca reducir de 27 a 21 los ministerios. También los municipios tendrán autonomía para trazar y ejecutar planes económicos —importar, exportar y autorizar negocios— y las empresas estatales van a diseñar su propio sistema de salarios.

La semana pasada durante una entrevista difundida por la televisión estatal Díaz-Canel había advertido sobre la posibilidad de entregar a cubanos la gestión de hoteles luego de que Estados Unidos amenazara con bloquear en su sistema financiero a las cadenas turísticas internacionales que operen con el conglomerado cubano militar GAESA.

Las firmas españolas Meliá e Iberostar y otras abandonaron decenas de contratos con hoteles a comienzos de este mes debido a esa medida estadounidense.

Las reformas forman parte de un programa económico que se presentará al Parlamento, dijo el mandatario.

“Las cuentas no cuadran y el gobierno quiere hacer ver que no es un problema de matemáticas sino de voluntad", aseguró el economista cubano residente en España, Pedro Montreal, en su cuenta de X.

"Que al gobierno no se le ocurra otra cosa que lo de quitar trabas y la contradicción centralización- descentralización o lo del municipio y la empresa estatal como piezas claves del engranaje-país, dice mucho de la fatiga intelectual del equipo económico del gobierno", agregó el experto.

Durante décadas, Cuba se caracterizó por un sistema centralizado y vertical con fuerte control estatal. La apertura comenzó paulatinamente en la década pasada con los permisos para que los ciudadanos pudieran trabajar de manera independiente del Estado y recién en esta se permitieron las primera empresas —pequeñas y medianas— privadas.

Trump y su secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, han acusado al gobierno de la isla de ser ineficiente y exigieron cambios económicos y políticos, incluso no descartaron “tomar” a la isla y avanzar en una intervención militar.

Pese a la tensión bilateral ambos gobiernos reconocieron que sostienen un diálogo, cuyo alcance se desconoce.

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Results are expected sometime next week, the secretary of state’s office said.

Maine and Alaska use ranked choice voting for some statewide elections. Voters in ranked choice elections are allowed to rank the candidates on their ballot in order of preference.

Under that scenario, if no candidate breaks 50% of the popular vote, the bottom finisher is eliminated, and voters’ second choices come into play. The tabulations continue until a candidate achieves a majority of the total votes.

No candidates exceeded 50% in Tuesday’s Republican and Democratic primaries for governor or the Democratic primary for the 2nd Congressional District. The Maine Secretary of State Department said Friday that the counting the ballots would begin that afternoon and would be open to the public and available on the secretary of state’s YouTube page.

A busy governor's race

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who has served since 2018, is termed out of office, and that created a wide-open field for both parties. Democrats had five candidates actively campaigning in the June 9 primary and the Republicans had seven. The Democratic race was especially close, with the top four candidates within a few percentage points of each other.

Democrats chose between Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows; former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson; former state House Speaker Hannah Pingree; energy executive Angus King III; and former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Nirav Shah.

Bellows, whose office is running the ranked counting, “has stepped aside from this part of the process and has delegated to her staff,” said Jana Spaulding, the deputy secretary of the office.

Republicans chose between former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Bobby Charles; healthcare executive Jonathan Bush; former Senate Majority Leader Garrett Mason; former Paris, Maine, selectman Robert Wessels; and businessmen Owen McCarthy, David Jones and Ben Midgley.

Mills ran in the primary for U.S. Senate in Maine this year, but suspended her campaign in April. That primary was won by oyster farmer Graham Platne r, who will run against longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Key House race

In the 2nd Congressional District, former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap, state Sen. Joe Baldacci, former U.S. Senate candidate Jordan Wood and social worker Paige Loud were on the ballot for the Democrats.

The winner faces Republican former Gov. Paul LePage, an ally of President Donald Trump who was unopposed in the Republican primary. LePage served as governor from 2010 to 2018, during which time he fashioned himself as a vocal critic of liberalism and a staunch defender of Trump.

The 2nd District seat has no incumbent in the November election because Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, who has held the seat since 2018, is stepping down.

The district has consistently voted for Trump but also elected Golden four times.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a legal advocacy group's request to block organizers from using the White House lawn as the venue for Sunday’s planned UFC mixed martial arts event.

Mehta concluded that the plaintiffs likely don’t have legal standing to challenge the event and have failed to prove that they would suffer irreparable harm by the event going forward as planned. The judge also cited the plaintiffs’ “unreasonable delay” in suing to challenge an event that’s been in the works for months.

“In the context of an emergency application — and coupled with the fact that the UFC fight date was long ago known — it is fair to say Plaintiffs unreasonably delayed bringing suit, undercutting their claims of irreparable harm,” Mehta wrote.

Attorneys from the nonprofit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trump’s “UFC Freedom 250” event on behalf of an activist and a Vietnam War veteran. The two plaintiffs also asked the court to block organizers from building anything for the event on White House grounds, including a 92-foot-tall, 600-ton steel structure called The Claw.

The plaintiffs’ alleged “aesthetic harms,” the judge noted, are temporary since The Claw will be disassembled starting Monday morning and staging equipment at the Lincoln Memorial must be removed before then. “The President’s musings about permanency of the Claw does not move the dial in the face of a White House official’s clear representation,” the judge wrote.

The White House called the lawsuit a baseless attempt to prevent Trump from hosting an event that’s no different from many others routinely hosted at public forums in the nation’s capital.

Trump's administration can’t issue permits for sporting events on the South Lawn or at the Lincoln Memorial, where UFC fighters planned to hold a press conference in front of fans on Friday, according to plaintiffs’ attorneys. They noted that the event is a privately organized, for-profit business venture, with VIP packages costing millions of dollars.

“The President’s administration is granting the UFC an extraordinary business opportunity it may not lawfully grant, and in exchange the UFC is throwing an event at which its leadership, fighters, advertisers, and various celebrities will all pay tribute to the President on his birthday,” plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote.

Public Integrity Project attorney Brendan Ballou said the plaintiffs were disappointed in the judge's decision but respect it and intend to "keep bringing cases to raise the cost of corruption in America.”

“This isn’t a case about a sporting event, it’s about corruption, as a handful of people and companies stand to profit from our public monuments," Ballou said in a statement.

The National Park Service and the Interior Department are named as defendants in the lawsuit.

In 2019, during his first term in office, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC show. Trump, a Republican, is a friend of UFC president and CEO Dana White.

Mehta was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Mehta has presided over other Trump-related cases, including civil litigation accusing Trump of inciting a mob of his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, a Democrat.

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The suspect, James Thompson, was arrested by the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and later charged in connection with the June 6 attack, according to his arrest report.

The report states that the incident began just after 4:30 p.m. at a market on Homestead Avenue in southwest Miami-Dade, where Thompson and the victim got into an argument over a “monetary debt” stemming from a previous narcotics transaction.

Investigators said the victim, who has not been identified, walked away from the store, but Thompson followed him on foot and continued to harass him.

The report states Thompson, who resides in the county’s West Perrine area, then trailed the victim to a bus stop at Southwest 173rd Street and the South Dade TransitWay, where the confrontation escalated.

At the bus stop, Thompson repeatedly punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall from a bus bench, according to the report. Investigators said the victim became unconscious, and Thompson continued kicking him in the face and upper body.

The report states Thompson then searched through the victim’s backpack while he was unconscious, removed an unidentified item and fled the scene on foot.

Deputies said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics responded and transported the victim to Jackson South Medical Center. Despite life-saving efforts, they said the victim was pronounced dead at 5:57 p.m.

The report states that an autopsy conducted by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the manner of death a homicide.

Investigators said Thompson was arrested on unrelated charges on June 6 and remains in custody at the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Pre-Trial Detention Center.

He was later transported to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Homicide Bureau for questioning on Friday, where he made a confession that was redacted in his publicly released arrest report.

Jail records show Thompson is facing one count of second-degree murder and armed robbery with a weapon. He also faces illegal possession of a firearm as a post-convicted felon, possession of cannabis with intent to sell while illegally armed, resisting an officer without violence to his person and violation of house arrest in an unrelated case, records show.

He remains at the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Pre-Trial Detention Center, where bond was listed as “to be set” as of Friday afternoon.

El sospechoso, James Thompson, fue arrestado por la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO) y posteriormente acusado en relación con el ataque del 6 de junio, según su informe de arresto.

El informe indica que el incidente comenzó poco después de las 4:30 p.m. en un mercado ubicado en Homestead Avenue, en el suroeste de Miami-Dade, donde Thompson y la víctima discutieron por una “deuda monetaria” derivada de una transacción previa relacionada con narcóticos.

Los investigadores dijeron que la víctima, cuya identidad no ha sido revelada, se alejó del establecimiento, pero Thompson la siguió a pie y continuó acosándola.

El informe señala que Thompson, residente del área de West Perrine, siguió a la víctima hasta una parada de autobús ubicada en Southwest 173rd Street y South Dade TransitWay, donde la confrontación se intensificó.

En la parada de autobús, Thompson golpeó repetidamente a la víctima en el rostro, provocando que cayera de una banca de espera, según el informe. Los investigadores dijeron que la víctima perdió el conocimiento y que Thompson continuó pateándola en el rostro y la parte superior del cuerpo.

El informe indica que Thompson luego revisó la mochila de la víctima mientras estaba inconsciente, sacó un objeto no identificado y huyó del lugar a pie.

Los agentes dijeron que paramédicos de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron a la escena y trasladaron a la víctima al Jackson South Medical Center. A pesar de los esfuerzos para salvarle la vida, la víctima fue declarada muerta a las 5:57 p.m.

El informe señala que una autopsia realizada por la Oficina del Médico Forense del Condado Miami-Dade determinó que la causa de muerte fue un homicidio.

Los investigadores dijeron que Thompson fue arrestado el 6 de junio por cargos no relacionados con este caso y permanece bajo custodia en el Centro de Detención Preventiva de Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Posteriormente fue trasladado el viernes a la Oficina de Homicidios de la MDSO para ser interrogado, donde realizó una confesión que fue censurada en la versión pública del informe de arresto.

Los registros de la cárcel muestran que Thompson enfrenta un cargo de asesinato en segundo grado y otro de robo a mano armada con un arma. También enfrenta cargos por posesión ilegal de arma de fuego por parte de un delincuente convicto, posesión de cannabis con intención de venta mientras portaba un arma ilegalmente, resistencia a un agente sin violencia y violación de arresto domiciliario en un caso no relacionado, según los registros.

Permanece detenido en el Centro de Detención Preventiva de Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation, donde hasta la tarde del viernes la fianza figuraba como “pendiente de establecer”.

With storms gathering near Washington before a court-ordered deadline to remove references to Trump, workers were seen building scaffolding around a section of the building that includes the president's name. A crowd gathered nearby and cheered their work as Trump's name moved closer to being taken down.

Yet the Kennedy Center's leadership didn't abandon its legal efforts to keep Trump's name in place. The institution appealed the ruling denying it request for a stay and requested action by the court by 7 pm ET.

“This appeal raises serious questions about Article III standing and about the powers of the Center’s Board," the filing read. "Major physical changes to the Center should await this Court’s resolution of those issues; as an equitable matter, it does not make sense to alter the Center’s name and signage now, only to potentially revert the name again after what should be a successful appeal.”

Last month, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled Trump’s name was illegally added to the iconic Washington performing arts facility and ordered it removed by Friday. Late Thursday, Trump’s handpicked board at the center mounted a last-minute effort to keep his name on the facade of the iconic performing arts facility, a request that Cooper denied.

A June 4 memo to staff from the Kennedy Center’s Office of General Counsel said email signatures, letterhead and other documents must reflect the name as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center.”

The Kennedy Center’s website has dropped Trump's name. And an earlier email sent to members offering ticket packages for the June 28 Mark Twain Award for American Humor ceremony came from the Kennedy Center without including Trump’s name.

After ignoring the Kennedy Center for much of his first term, Trump has wielded tremendous influence over the venue during his return to office. Just a month into his second term, he ousted the center’s previous leadership and replaced it with a board of trustees that named him chairman.

In his earlier ruling, Cooper also blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations that had been planned to start in July and last for two years.

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Associated Press journalists Mark Sherman and Emily Wang in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.

It's the latest action by the Trump administration connected to voting or election operations in the states, and it comes in a state that is expected to have hotly contested races this fall for governor and U.S. Senate.

Federal agents showed up at the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on Thursday and spent hours questioning staff, said Prentiss Haney, a board member of the grassroots organization. The organization was founded in 2007 and describes its mission as fighting for criminal justice reform, racial justice and an expansion of voting rights.

Federal agents also went to the homes of people who have worked with the organization, seeking interviews and information about alleged voter fraud, Haney said. He accused the agents of “intimidation tactics and harassment" and expressed concern that the investigation was designed to sow doubt in the coming elections.

The focus of the probe was unclear, but a person familiar with the matter said Friday that investigators were examining potential fraud violations. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The Justice Department declined to comment on Friday, and a spokesperson for the FBI in Cleveland did not respond to messages seeking comment.

To obtain a search warrant, federal authorities must convince a judge that probable cause of criminal activity exists. Though the information authorities presented was not immediately released, Democrats expressed skepticism about the basis of a search that unfolded against persistent concerns of a politicized FBI and Justice Department.

The party's nominees for the state's top races issued statements Friday saying they were troubled by the FBI raid.

“Any attempts by federal law enforcement to intimidate eligible Ohioans from registering to vote are unacceptable,” said Dr. Amy Acton, the state’s former public health director, who won the state’s Democratic primary for governor and is challenging Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.

Democrat Sherrod Brown, who is challenging Republican Sen. Jon Husted in the fall, called on the FBI to make public “any and all activities around these raids.”

He added, “Any attempt to intimidate Ohio voters is wrong, and will not work.”

Republicans have held the state's top elected seat for 20 years and hold both U.S. Senate seats but are concerned that Democratic momentum in this year's midterms could make them vulnerable.

The Justice Department during President Donald Trump's second term has launched several legal actions or investigations related to voting or state election operations.

The FBI has seized ballots and other records from the 2020 election for Georgia’s Fulton County and Arizona’s Maricopa County and from the 2024 election in Michigan’s Wayne County. It also has been questioning election workers in Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County. All four are in presidential battleground states.

The Justice Department has sued at least 30 states and the District of Columbia after they refused to hand over detailed voter data that includes dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers. It has said in court filings that it wants the information so it can run it through a Department of Homeland Security program that checks U.S. citizenship, although the program's accuracy has been questioned. The Justice Department has so far been on a losing streak in its lawsuits seeking to extract the data from the holdout states.

Early in his second term, Trump, a Republican, also ordered the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the top fundraising platform for the Democratic Party.

Allegations of fraud in voter registration efforts are typically investigated by states and usually involve people working for groups that pay for sign-ups. Earlier this year, California officials opened an investigation into whether signature-gatherers were offering to pay people for signing a ballot petition. In 2025, Pennsylvania officials brought criminal charges against seven people for submitting fraudulent voter registration forms.

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Lauer reported from Philadelphia, and Richer reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Eric Tucker contributed from Washington.

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For Carrera, the moment was more than a celebration of survival. It marked the beginning of a mission.

“I would say that I ended up exactly where I needed to be, but it took cancer to get me here,” Carrera said.

Today, the Miami-Dade mother, wife and licensed optometrist is channeling her experience into helping others through 305 Pink Pack, a nonprofit organization that provides free support services and essential items to cancer patients and their families.

A Life-Changing Diagnosis

In 2018, Carrera received news that would change her life. At age 40, after her first screening mammogram, she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer.

The diagnosis came at a particularly emotional time. Carrera and her husband, Oscar, had recently welcomed their daughter.

“She was 8 months old at the time I was diagnosed,” Carrera recalled.

Like many patients facing a cancer diagnosis, Carrera’s thoughts immediately turned to her family’s future.

“I feel like it takes you automatically to the worst-case scenario,” she said. “And then you wonder, am I going to be here for kindergarten?”

Carrera ultimately chose to undergo a double mastectomy, a physically and emotionally demanding procedure. One of the most difficult aspects was knowing she would temporarily lose the ability to care for her infant daughter the way she always had.

“I had her on me because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to carry her for six weeks,” Carrera said. “I also knew that I would lose sensation in my chest, so I would never feel what she felt like at that moment. So I wanted to hold on to that as much as possible.”

Finding Strength in Community

Throughout her treatment, Carrera was surrounded by a strong support network of family and friends who helped her navigate appointments, surgeries and recovery.

“If you looked at that waiting room on surgery day, there must have been 30 people there — just for me, just for us,” she said.

That experience left a lasting impression.

Carrera realized not every cancer patient has a large support system. She wanted to create one for those facing treatment alone.

Creating 305 Pink Pack

In 2020, Carrera founded 305 Pink Pack, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping cancer patients focus on healing rather than the logistical and financial challenges that often accompany treatment.

The organization provides free assistance ranging from groceries and transportation to childcare support and self-care products. Patients also receive specially curated care packages filled with practical items designed to make treatment more manageable.

“Everyone receives a pack from 305 Pink Pack,” Carrera said. “But we’re also that pack that has your back.”

The organization’s flamingo mascot symbolizes resilience and community — values that have helped fuel its rapid growth.

Since its founding, 305 Pink Pack has served more than 500 families throughout South Florida.

Paying It Forward

Photos of cancer patients and families helped by the organization line the walls of Carrera’s office, serving as daily reminders of the impact a supportive community can have during difficult times.

For Carrera, helping others is about creating a cycle of support that extends far beyond a single diagnosis.

“We’re here to help,” she said, “and you’ll be able to help the next person going through it, too.”

As demand for services continues to grow, 305 Pink Pack is looking ahead to new initiatives, including an expanded men’s program and the launch of a 954 Pink Pack to serve additional South Florida communities.

The nonprofit recently announced a bilingual survivor summit, which sold out ahead of the event.

For Carrera, each new milestone reinforces the lesson she learned during her own cancer journey: no one should have to face cancer alone.

To learn more about receiving assistance, volunteering or making a donation, visit 305pinkpack.org.

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According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred Saturday night in the area of Northwest 103^rd Street and 27^th Avenue.

Deputies said Osmany Castillo, 48, was making a left turn on Northwest 103^rd Street when he struck a motorcyclist, vaulting the victim in the air.

According to the report, Castillo continued driving north on 27^th Avenue, dragging the victim’s 2025 Yamaha YZF-R3 motorcycle under his vehicle before it eventually dislodged.

Deputies said Castillo never stopped to render aid to the victim and didn’t report the crash to law enforcement.

A witness, however, followed Castillo’s 2011 Toyota Tundra and was able to obtain its tag number, authorities said.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials responded to the scene and transported the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was listed in critical condition.

According to the report, Castillo provided a “full confession” to detectives, however his exact statement was redacted from the publicly released report.

His vehicle was impounded as evidence, detectives said.

Deputies did not confirm in the report whether Castillo was conducting a rideshare ride at the time of the crash.

Authorities said he surrendered to law enforcement Thursday and was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash resulting in serious bodily injury.

As of Friday afternoon, Castillo remained at TGK on a $15,000 bond.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), el accidente ocurrió la noche del sábado en el área de Northwest 103rd Street y 27th Avenue.

Los agentes dijeron que Osmany Castillo, de 48 años, realizaba un giro a la izquierda en Northwest 103rd Street cuando impactó a un motociclista, lanzando a la víctima por el aire.

Según el informe, Castillo continuó conduciendo hacia el norte por la 27th Avenue, arrastrando debajo de su vehículo la motocicleta Yamaha YZF-R3 modelo 2025 de la víctima hasta que finalmente se desprendió.

Los agentes dijeron que Castillo nunca se detuvo para brindar ayuda a la víctima ni reportó el accidente a las autoridades.

Sin embargo, un testigo siguió la camioneta Toyota Tundra 2011 de Castillo y logró obtener el número de matrícula, indicaron las autoridades.

Funcionarios de Miami-Dade Fire Rescue respondieron a la escena y trasladaron a la víctima al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital, donde fue reportada en estado crítico.

Según el informe, Castillo proporcionó una “confesión completa” a los detectives, aunque su declaración exacta fue censurada en la versión pública del informe.

Los detectives dijeron que su vehículo fue confiscado como evidencia.

Los agentes no confirmaron en el informe si Castillo estaba realizando un viaje de transporte por aplicación en el momento del accidente.

Las autoridades dijeron que se entregó a las autoridades el jueves y fue ingresado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight acusado de abandonar la escena de un accidente que causó lesiones corporales graves.

Hasta la tarde del viernes, Castillo permanecía en TGK con una fianza de $15,000 USD.

Para Carrera, ese momento fue más que una celebración de supervivencia. Marcó el inicio de una misión.

“Diría que terminé exactamente donde necesitaba estar, pero hizo falta el cáncer para traerme hasta aquí”, dijo Carrera.

Hoy, esta madre, esposa y optómetra licenciada de Miami-Dade está transformando su experiencia en ayuda para otros a través de 305 Pink Pack, una organización sin fines de lucro que ofrece servicios de apoyo gratuitos y artículos esenciales a pacientes con cáncer y sus familias.

Un diagnóstico que cambió su vida

En 2018, Carrera recibió una noticia que cambiaría su vida. A los 40 años, tras su primera mamografía de detección, fue diagnosticada con cáncer de mama en etapa 2.

El diagnóstico llegó en un momento especialmente emotivo. Carrera y su esposo, Oscar, acababan de dar la bienvenida a su hija.

“Tenía 8 meses cuando me diagnosticaron”, recordó Carrera.

Como ocurre con muchos pacientes que enfrentan un diagnóstico de cáncer, sus pensamientos se dirigieron de inmediato al futuro de su familia.

“Siento que automáticamente te lleva al peor escenario posible”, dijo. “Y entonces te preguntas: ¿voy a estar aquí para cuando entre al kínder?”

Carrera finalmente decidió someterse a una mastectomía doble, un procedimiento física y emocionalmente exigente. Uno de los aspectos más difíciles fue saber que temporalmente perdería la capacidad de cuidar a su hija bebé como siempre lo había hecho.

“La tenía sobre mí porque sabía que no podría cargarla durante seis semanas”, dijo Carrera. “También sabía que perdería sensibilidad en el pecho, así que nunca volvería a sentir cómo se sentía ella en ese momento. Quería aferrarme a eso todo lo posible”.

Encontrando fortaleza en la comunidad

Durante todo su tratamiento, Carrera estuvo rodeada por una sólida red de apoyo de familiares y amigos que la ayudaron a afrontar citas médicas, cirugías y la recuperación.

“Si hubieras visto esa sala de espera el día de la cirugía, habría unas 30 personas allí, solo por mí, solo por nosotros”, dijo.

Esa experiencia dejó una huella duradera.

Carrera se dio cuenta de que no todos los pacientes con cáncer cuentan con un gran sistema de apoyo. Quiso crear uno para quienes enfrentan el tratamiento en soledad.

Creación de 305 Pink Pack

En 2020, Carrera fundó 305 Pink Pack, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a ayudar a pacientes con cáncer para que puedan concentrarse en sanar en lugar de preocuparse por los desafíos logísticos y financieros que a menudo acompañan el tratamiento.

La organización brinda asistencia gratuita que incluye alimentos, transporte, apoyo para el cuidado infantil y productos de cuidado personal. Los pacientes también reciben paquetes especialmente preparados con artículos prácticos diseñados para hacer más llevadero el tratamiento.

“Todos reciben un paquete de 305 Pink Pack”, dijo Carrera. “Pero también somos ese grupo que siempre te respalda”.

La mascota de la organización, un flamenco, simboliza la resiliencia y la comunidad, valores que han impulsado su rápido crecimiento.

Desde su fundación, 305 Pink Pack ha ayudado a más de 500 familias en todo el sur de Florida.

Devolver la ayuda recibida

Fotografías de pacientes con cáncer y familias ayudadas por la organización cubren las paredes de la oficina de Carrera, sirviendo como recordatorios diarios del impacto que una comunidad solidaria puede tener durante momentos difíciles.

Para Carrera, ayudar a otros significa crear una cadena de apoyo que va mucho más allá de un solo diagnóstico.

“Estamos aquí para ayudar”, dijo, “y tú también podrás ayudar a la próxima persona que pase por esto”.

A medida que la demanda de servicios continúa creciendo, 305 Pink Pack trabaja en nuevas iniciativas, incluido un programa ampliado para hombres y el lanzamiento de 954 Pink Pack para atender a más comunidades del sur de Florida.

La organización sin fines de lucro anunció recientemente una cumbre bilingüe para sobrevivientes, cuyas entradas se agotaron antes del evento.

Para Carrera, cada nuevo logro reafirma la lección que aprendió durante su propia experiencia con el cáncer: nadie debería enfrentar el cáncer en soledad.

Para obtener más información sobre cómo recibir ayuda, ser voluntario o hacer una donación, visite 305pinkpack.org.

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Nicholas Perez was also accused of offering and giving the teens, aged 14 and 16, cocaine, according to a Hollywood Police Department officer’s report.

On Jan. 12, 2024, the teens “decided to go to a party” at Black Flamingo in Pompano Beach, “where they consumed alcohol,” the police officer wrote.

After leaving Black Flamingo, the teens went to a Denny’s on Jan. 13, 2024, and to the beach, where they “consumed more alcohol,” according to the report.

Police said Perez was 31 years old but claimed to be 24 before he met with the teens on Jan. 13, 2024, at the beach in Boca Raton.

According to the report, Perez drove the teens to the Breeze Inn, a motel in Hollywood, rented a room, and invited them in.

Perez and the teens started “making out” — “oral sex,” “sex,” and more cocaine use followed — before he drove them to one of their homes, according to the report.

The 14-year-old girl reported Perez’s abuse on Jan. 29, 2024, and the second victim reported the abuse on April 29, 2026, according to the police officer’s report.

Court records show Broward prosecutors filed a drug possession case against Perez, who was born in Homestead and lived in Plantation, on May 10, 2024, after his arrest on May 9, 2024, in Hollywood.

Court records also show Broward prosecutors filed a case on June 3, 2024, against Perez on two counts of lewd or lascivious battery of a minor, and contributing to the delinquency of a child.

Hollywood police officers arrested Perez on June 7, 2024, re-arrested him on Wednesday, and corrections booked him again in the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, records show.

Both 2024 cases remained pending when Broward prosecutors filed a case on Thursday against Perez for sexual assault by an adult of a minor, and for contributing to the delinquency of a child, records show.

In the most recent arrest report, a Hollywood police officer referred to Perez as Nicholas Alexander Rue Perez, records show.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases who wants to remain anonymous to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

Local 10 News Assignment Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.

Según el informe de un agente del Departamento de Policía de Hollywood, Nicholas Pérez también fue acusado de ofrecer y suministrar cocaína a los adolescentes, de 14 y 16 años.

El 12 de enero de 2024, los adolescentes “decidieron ir a una fiesta” en Black Flamingo en Pompano Beach, “donde consumieron alcohol”, escribió el agente de policía.

Tras abandonar Black Flamingo, los adolescentes fueron a un restaurante Denny’s el 13 de enero de 2024 y a la playa, donde “consumieron más alcohol”, según el informe.

La policía informó que Pérez tenía 31 años, pero afirmó tener 24 antes de reunirse con los adolescentes el 13 de enero de 2024 en la playa de Boca Ratón.

Según el informe, Pérez llevó a los adolescentes al Breeze Inn, un motel en Hollywood, alquiló una habitación y los invitó a entrar.

Según el informe, Pérez y los adolescentes comenzaron a tener relaciones sexuales, seguidas de sexo oral, sexo y más consumo de cocaína, antes de que él los llevara en coche a la casa de uno de ellos.

La niña de 14 años denunció los abusos de Pérez el 29 de enero de 2024, y la segunda víctima denunció los abusos el 29 de abril de 2026, según el informe del agente de policía.

Los registros judiciales muestran que los fiscales del condado de Broward presentaron una denuncia por posesión de drogas contra Pérez, quien nació en Homestead y vivía en Plantation, el 10 de mayo de 2024, después de su arresto el 9 de mayo de 2024 en Hollywood.

Los registros judiciales también muestran que los fiscales de Broward presentaron una denuncia el 3 de junio de 2024 contra Pérez por dos cargos de agresión lasciva o indecente a un menor y por contribuir a la delincuencia de un niño.

Según los registros, los agentes de policía de Hollywood arrestaron a Pérez el 7 de junio de 2024, lo volvieron a arrestar el miércoles y los servicios penitenciarios lo ingresaron de nuevo en la cárcel principal del condado de Broward en Fort Lauderdale.

Según consta en los registros, ambos casos de 2024 seguían pendientes cuando los fiscales de Broward presentaron el jueves una denuncia contra Pérez por agresión sexual de un adulto a un menor y por contribuir a la delincuencia de un niño.

En el informe de detención más reciente, un agente de policía de Hollywood se refirió a Pérez como Nicholas Alexander Rue Perez, según consta en los registros.

Los detectives pidieron a cualquier persona que tenga información sobre este u otros casos y que desee permanecer en el anonimato que llame a Broward County Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

Wilson Louis, editor de noticias de Local 10 News, contribuyó a este reportaje.

That won't change now, with the Golden Knights facing their first elimination game and dealing with an injury to center William Karlsson.

The Golden Knights lost 4-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes in Thursday's Game 5, moving the Hurricanes within a victory of claiming the Stanley Cup. The series shifts to Las Vegas for Sunday's Game 6, with the Golden Knights aiming to force a Game 7 back here Wednesday.

“They've been through it all," Tortorella said in a Zoom news conference Friday morning. "They know what's at stake here. We need to win one game. They'll be ready to play.”

Vegas — featuring numerous holdovers from the team that raised the Cup in 2023 — had only gained momentum since the abrupt firing of coach Bruce Cassidy in late March to hire Tortorella.

The Golden Knights won seven of eight to close the regular season. They faced 2-2 playoff series in Round 1 against Utah and Round 2 against Anaheim, and won Games 5 and 6 to close out each. They swept the Presidents' Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche. And they held a 2-1 lead on Carolina after a double-overtime victory in Game 3.

But the Hurricanes have gradually begun to turn the series.

Since trailing 4-0 entering the third period of Game 3, the Hurricanes have doubled up the Golden Knights (13-6) while finding a spark with Brandon Bussi taking over in net. In Game 5, the Hurricanes got two more power-play goals from a unit that had sputtered through the Eastern Conference playoffs while also reversing Vegas' second-period dominance.

Vegas had compounding mistakes like getting a kill only for Brayden McNabb to immediately go to the box for cross-checking Jackson Blake in the second period. Or there was Mark Stone's high stick on Jalen Chatfield in the third, leaving Chatfield bleeding from a cut above his right eye for a double-minor penalty.

Carolina's Andrei Svechnikov scored after both, coming amid a postseason of questions as to when he and fellow top-liner Sebastian Aho would get rolling.

“Anytime you give the other team’s best players the opportunity to be on the ice on the power play and feel good about themselves … you stack that up and it definitely can be challenging and tire guys out,” center Nic Dowd said afterward.

Svechnikov's scores pushed the Hurricanes to 6 of 16 (37.5%) on the power play this series, coming after they were at 12.5% (7 of 56) in a 12-1 push through the Eastern Conference playoffs.

“One of the areas that we've lost a little bit is special teams, a couple of power-play goals last night,” Tortorella said Friday. “Like I said after the game, I thought at times we were killing, we had some good times as far as moving, being aggressive with our penalty kill, and are doing the job. Other times, not so good.”

Then there's Karlsson, who missed nearly six months with a lower-body injury before returning for his playoff debut to start the Anaheim series. He had three goals and six assists through 14 playoff games to elevate the Golden Knights, including goals in Games 1 and 4 against Carolina.

But Karlsson appeared to injure his left arm or shoulder after getting knocked into the boards by Hurricanes defenseman Sean Walker midway through the second. He got medical attention on the bench briefly, skated off and never returned.

Tortorella said Thursday that Karlsson was “not going to be with us, probably” and Vegas needed a collective effort to replace him. He offered no additional details Friday morning.

Still, he has defiantly promised the series would “be back here” for a Game 7.

“We know what we have to do to beat this team," McNabb said Thursday night. "It's a matter of going home and winning one game. That's all it is, and hopefully we're back here for Game 7.”

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Maruchi Supermarket and Cafeteria in Hialeah tops the list with 43 violations following an inspection based on a complaint.

Inspectors found everything from dead roaches and mold-like buildup in an ice machine to food temperature violations, standing water, and multiple repeat violations.

Bocas House in Miami also makes the list with 34 violations.

Inspectors cited damaged and missing ceiling tiles, food temperature issues, an improperly sanitizing dish machine, employee training problems, and several repeat violations.

And over on Key Biscayne, Papercrane Thai & Sushi lands on the Dirty 30 list with exactly 30 violations. Among the issues: mold-like buildup inside the ice machine, food temperature violations, improperly sanitized food-contact surfaces, employee training deficiencies, and food safety concerns involving raw fish.

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

**MARUCHI SUPERMART AND CAFETERIA

92 EAST 8TH STREET

HIALEAH

INSPECTION BASED ON A COMPLAINT

INSPECTION DATE 6/9

43 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Observed ice machine interior soiled with black mold like substance at front counter.”

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Observed cup with no handle inside whole wheat container under preparation table at front counter.”

“Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Observed reach in freezer handle soiled outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Cardboard used on floor as anti-slip measure not replaced every day or when heavily soiled, whichever comes first. Observed at walk in freezer at kitchen area. Also observed all around kitchen area and outside walk in cooler. **Warning**

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair. Observed hole on ceiling tile at dry storage area. Also observed several ceiling tiles with water damage all around dry storage area at kitchen area.”

“Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Observed clean metal containers to inverted stored on top of shelf on preparation at cook line area at kitchen area. Employee inverted metal containers at the time of inspection.”

“Clean utensils stored between equipment and wall. Observed several utensils stored between wall and three compartment sink at kitchen area. Operator removed during inspection.”

“Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Observed on top of preparation table next to soups area at front counter.”

“Dead roaches on premises. Observed 1 dead roach on the floor outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area. Employee discarded during inspection. Also observed 1 dead roach under three compartment sink at kitchen area. Operator discarded dead roach during inspection.”

“Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Observed several personal items on top of preparation tables at cook line at kitchen area.”

“Employee wearing jewelry other than a plain ring on their hands/arms while preparing food. Observed several employees engaged in food preparation wearing jewelry all around front counter.”

“Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Observed 1 employee engaged in food preparation with no hair restraint at kitchen area. Employee put a hat during inspection.”

“Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Observed standing water on the floor all around dry storage area.”

“Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Observed accumulation of debris under dry storage shelves next to walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Food stored on floor. Observed taro root sacks stored on the floor at outside walk in cooler.”

“Hole in or other damage to wall. Observed hole on the wall next to mop sink at front counter.”

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer and/or walk-in freezer. Observed ice buildup inside reach in freezer outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. Observed tong stored on oven door handle at cook line at kitchen area. Employee removed tong from oven door handle at the time of inspection. Repeat Violation.”

“In-use wet wiping cloth/towel used under cutting board. Observed wet towel under cutting board on top of preparation table at kitchen area. Employee removed wet towel during inspection.”

“Insect control device installed over food preparation area. Observed bug zapper installed over food establishment at dry storage area.”

“Lights in food preparation, food storage or ware washing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. Observed all around kitchen area.”

“No Heimlich maneuver/choking sign posted. Provided to operator during inspection.”

“Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Observed reach in freezer gaskets soiled outside of walk in cooler at kitchen area. Also observed vent with soiled accumulation at kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Open dumpster lid.”

“Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. Observed 2 employees water bottles stored inside reach in freezer next to back walk in cooler at kitchen area.”

“Reuse of single-service or single-use articles. Observed several single service containers stored outside of walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine at kitchen area.”

“Standing water in bottom of reach-in-cooler. Observed standing water on reach in cooler at front counter.”

“Stored food not covered. Observed several food containers stored uncovered inside walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine at kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Unsealed concrete floor in food preparation, food storage, ware washing area or bathroom. Observed all around kitchen area.”

“Walk-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Observed walk in cooler shelves soiled at kitchen area.”

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed walk in cooler walls with accumulation of soiled at kitchen area. Also observed walls with soiled accumulation all around kitchen area.”

“Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Observed sugar and salt container not identified on top of preparation table at kitchen area. Employee identified during inspection. Observed sugar container not identified on top of preparation table next to coffee machine at front counter.”

“Cooked/heated time/temperature control for safety food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours. Observed Cooked black beans (48F - Cold Holding) stored inside pot at walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine. As per operator for more than 4 hours. Stop sale issued.”

“Raw animal food stored over or with unwashed produce. Observed raw shell eggs stored on top of a case of cucumber and a case of celery on shelf at walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine at kitchen area. Repeat Violation.”

“Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Observed Cooked black beans (48F - Cold Holding) stored inside pot at walk in cooler next to dishwasher machine. As per operator for more than 4 hours. Stop sale issued.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Observed Corn tamales (125F - Hot Holding) inside pot at kitchen area. Employee reheated during inspection. Corn tamales (183F - Reheating). Also observed Baked chicken (107F - Hot Holding); Cooked meat (110F - Hot Holding); Fried pork belly (96F - Hot Holding) inside steam table at front counter.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb. Observed no vacuum breaker at hose bibb under dishwasher machine at kitchen area.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet or on fitting/splitter added to mop sink faucet. Observed at clean supplies room at front counter.’

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed a plastic container inside hand wash sink at front counter.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Observed at kitchen entrance. Employee provided paper towel during inspection.”

“No probe thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products. Repeat Violation.”

“Raw/undercooked animal food offered and establishment has no written consumer advisory. Raw animal foods must be fully cooked prior to service. Provided to operator during inspection.”

“Sink compartments of three-compartment sink too small to accommodate utensils or equipment.”

**BOCAS HOUSE

10200 NW 25TH ST.

DORAL

INSPECTION DATE 6/2

34 VIOLATIONS FOUND

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

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food.”

“Ceiling tile missing.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair.”

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

“Cove molding at floor/wall juncture broken/missing.”

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

“Employee beverage container in ice machine/ice bin.”

“Equipment in poor repair.”

“Establishment did not report seating change that affects the license fee, Clean Indoor Air Act, sewage system approval or other related requirements. Repeat Violation.”

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.”

“Floor tiles missing and/or in disrepair Repeat Violation.”

“Floors not maintained smooth and durable.”

“Food stored on floor.”

“Ice buildup in reach-in freezer and/or walk-in freezer.”

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

“Light shield for lights in food preparation, food storage or ware washing are missing end caps.”

“No copy of latest inspection report available.”

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

“Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers.”

“Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Repeat Violation.”

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

“Time/temperature control for safety food thawed in an improper manner.”

“Unsealed concrete floor in food preparation, food storage, ware washing area or bathroom. Repeat Violation.”

“Walk-in cooler/freezer shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. Repeat Violation.”

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

“Dish machine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength.”

“Nonfood-grade bags used in direct contact with food.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Repeat Violation.”

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

“No measuring device available for measuring utensil surface temperature when using hot water as sanitizer in a dish machine.”

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

“No written procedures available for use of time as a public health control to hold time/temperature control for safety food.”

“Required employee training expired for some employees.”

**PAPERCRANE THAI & SUSHI

328 CRANDON BLVD.

KEY BISCAYNE

INSPECTION DATE 6/10

30 VIOLATIONS FOUND

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

“Bathroom located inside establishment not completely enclosed with tight-fitting, self-closing doors.”

“Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food.”

“Ceiling/ceiling tile shows damage or is in disrepair.”

“Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside.”

“Fly sticky tape hanging over food/food preparation area/food-contact equipment.”

“Food stored on floor.”

“In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses.”

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

“Interior of refrigerator or freezer in disrepair/has exposed insulation.”

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

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

“Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.”

“Dish machine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength.”

“Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use.”

“Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction.”

“Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food.”

“Shell eggs not stored at an ambient air temperature of 45 degrees Fahrenheit or less.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“Toxic substance/chemical improperly stored.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb.”

“Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet or on fitting/splitter added to mop sink faucet.”

“Employee has not received adequate training related to their assigned duties as evidenced by the inability to answer basic food safety questions.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”

“Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing.”

“Identity of food or food product misrepresented.”

“No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink.”

“Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked.”

“Water with a temperature of least 85 degrees Fahrenheit not provided/shut off at employee handwash sink.”

Esta semana tenemos tres.

El supermercado y cafetería Maruchi en Hialeah encabeza la lista con 43 infracciones tras una inspección realizada a raíz de una queja.

Los inspectores encontraron de todo, desde cucarachas muertas y acumulación de moho en una máquina de hielo hasta infracciones relacionadas con la temperatura de los alimentos, agua estancada y múltiples infracciones reiteradas.

Bocas House en Miami también figura en la lista con 34 infracciones.

Los inspectores señalaron daños y falta de baldosas en el techo, problemas con la temperatura de los alimentos, una máquina lavavajillas que no desinfectaba correctamente, problemas con la capacitación de los empleados y varias infracciones reiteradas.

En Key Biscayne, Papercrane Thai & Sushi figura en la lista de los 30 establecimientos con más infracciones, con exactamente 30. Entre los problemas se incluyen: acumulación de moho dentro de la máquina de hielo, incumplimiento de las normas de temperatura de los alimentos, superficies en contacto con los alimentos mal desinfectadas, deficiencias en la capacitación del personal y problemas de seguridad alimentaria relacionados con el pescado crudo.

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

**SUPERMERCADO Y CAFETERÍA MARUCHI**

92 CALLE 8 ESTE

HIALEAH

INSPECCIÓN BASADA EN UNA DENUNCIA

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 6/9

Se detectaron 43 infracciones.

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

“Taza u otro recipiente sin asa utilizado para servir comida. Se observó una taza sin asa dentro de un recipiente de trigo integral debajo de la mesa de preparación en el mostrador principal.”

“Acumulación de restos de comida/residuos de tierra en las manijas de las puertas de los equipos. Se observó suciedad en la manija del congelador exterior de la cámara frigorífica en el área de la cocina.”

El cartón utilizado en el suelo como medida antideslizante no se reemplaza diariamente ni cuando está muy sucio, lo que ocurra primero. Se observó en el congelador industrial de la zona de la cocina. También se observó en toda la zona de la cocina y en el exterior de la cámara frigorífica. **Advertencia**

“El techo/las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado. Se observó un agujero en una baldosa del techo en la zona de almacenamiento en seco. También se observaron varias baldosas del techo con daños por agua alrededor de la zona de almacenamiento en seco en el área de la cocina.”

“Vasos, tazas, cuencos, platos, ollas y sartenes limpios no se almacenaban boca abajo ni protegidos. Se observaron recipientes metálicos limpios almacenados boca abajo en la parte superior de un estante en la zona de preparación de alimentos en la línea de cocción de la cocina. Un empleado tenía los recipientes metálicos boca abajo en el momento de la inspección.”

“Utensilios limpios almacenados entre el equipo y la pared. Se observaron varios utensilios almacenados entre la pared y el fregadero de tres compartimentos en el área de la cocina. El operador los retiró durante la inspección.”

“La tabla de cortar tiene marcas de cortes y ya no se puede limpiar. Se observó sobre la mesa de preparación junto a la zona de sopas en el mostrador principal.”

“Cucarachas muertas en las instalaciones. Se observó una cucaracha muerta en el suelo, fuera de la cámara frigorífica en la zona de la cocina. El empleado la desechó durante la inspección. También se observó una cucaracha muerta debajo del fregadero de tres compartimentos en la zona de la cocina. El operario desechó la cucaracha muerta durante la inspección.”

“Artículos personales de los empleados almacenados en o encima de un área de preparación de alimentos, alimentos, equipos y utensilios limpios, o artículos de un solo uso. Se observaron varios artículos personales sobre las mesas de preparación en la línea de cocción en el área de la cocina.”

“Empleados que llevaban joyas distintas a un simple anillo en las manos o brazos mientras preparaban la comida. Se observó a varios empleados preparando comida con joyas alrededor del mostrador.”

“Empleado sin sujeción para el cabello mientras preparaba alimentos. Se observó a un empleado preparando alimentos sin sujeción para el cabello en el área de la cocina. El empleado se puso un sombrero durante la inspección.”

“Zonas del suelo cubiertas de agua estancada. Se observó agua estancada en el suelo alrededor de toda la zona de almacenamiento en seco.”

“El suelo está sucio/tiene acumulación de residuos. Se observó acumulación de residuos debajo de los estantes de almacenamiento en seco junto a la cámara frigorífica en el área de la cocina.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo. Se observaron sacos de raíz de taro almacenados en el suelo de la cámara frigorífica exterior.”

“Agujero u otro daño en la pared. Se observó un agujero en la pared junto al fregadero para fregar en el mostrador principal.”

“Acumulación de hielo en el congelador vertical y/o en el congelador industrial. Se observó acumulación de hielo dentro del congelador vertical, fuera del refrigerador industrial en el área de la cocina.”

“Pinzas en uso guardadas en la manija de la puerta del equipo entre usos. Se observó una pinza guardada en la manija de la puerta del horno en la línea de cocción en el área de la cocina. El empleado retiró la pinza de la manija de la puerta del horno al momento de la inspección. Infracción reiterada.”

“Se observó un paño/toalla húmeda debajo de la tabla de cortar, sobre la mesa de preparación en la zona de la cocina. El empleado retiró la toalla húmeda durante la inspección.”

“Dispositivo de control de insectos instalado sobre el área de preparación de alimentos. Se observó un dispositivo eléctrico para eliminar insectos instalado sobre el establecimiento de alimentos en el área de almacenamiento en seco.”

“Las luces en las áreas de preparación, almacenamiento o lavado de alimentos carecen de la protección, el revestimiento o las cubiertas adecuadas. Se observó este problema en toda la cocina.”

“No hay señal de maniobra de Heimlich/asfixia colocada. Se le proporcionó al operador durante la inspección.”

Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos sucia con grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo. Se observaron juntas sucias en el exterior del congelador de acceso directo, en la zona de la cocina. También se observó acumulación de suciedad en la rejilla de ventilación de la zona de la cocina. Infracción reiterada.

“Abre la tapa del contenedor de basura.”

“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 observaron dos botellas de agua de empleados almacenadas dentro de un congelador vertical junto a la cámara frigorífica trasera en el área de la cocina.”

“Reutilización de artículos de un solo uso. Se observaron varios envases de un solo uso almacenados fuera de la cámara frigorífica, junto al lavavajillas, en la zona de la cocina.”

“Agua estancada en el fondo del refrigerador. Se observó agua estancada en el refrigerador del mostrador.”

“Alimentos almacenados sin tapar. Se observaron varios recipientes de alimentos sin tapar dentro de la cámara frigorífica, junto al lavavajillas en la zona de la cocina. Infracción reiterada.”

“Piso de concreto sin sellar en áreas de preparación y almacenamiento de alimentos, lavado de utensilios o baños. Se observó en toda la zona de la cocina.”

“El interior y los estantes de la cámara frigorífica presentan acumulación de residuos de suciedad. Se observaron estantes sucios en la zona de la cocina.”

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, restos de comida y/o polvo. Se observó acumulación de suciedad en las paredes de la cámara frigorífica en la zona de la cocina. También se observó acumulación de suciedad en las paredes alrededor de toda la zona de la cocina.”

“Se encontraron recipientes de alimentos sin identificar, retirados de sus envases originales. Se observó un recipiente de azúcar y sal sin identificar sobre la mesa de preparación en la zona de la cocina. El empleado fue identificado durante la inspección. Se observó un recipiente de azúcar sin identificar sobre la mesa de preparación junto a la cafetera en el mostrador.”

“Se observó que los alimentos cocinados/calentados, que requerían control de tiempo/temperatura para su seguridad, no se enfriaron de 135 grados Fahrenheit a 41 grados Fahrenheit en 6 horas. Se observaron frijoles negros cocidos (48 °F - Conservación en frío) almacenados dentro de una olla en la cámara frigorífica junto al lavavajillas. Según el operador, permanecieron allí durante más de 4 horas. Se emitió una orden de cese de venta.”

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados encima o junto a productos agrícolas sin lavar. Se observaron huevos crudos con cáscara almacenados encima de una caja de pepinos y una caja de apio en un estante de la cámara frigorífica junto al lavavajillas en la zona de la cocina. Infracción reiterada.”

Se emitió una orden de cese de venta por manipulación inadecuada de alimentos que requerían control de tiempo y temperatura. Se observaron frijoles negros cocidos (a 48 °F - refrigerados) almacenados en una olla en la cámara frigorífica junto al lavavajillas. Según el operador, llevaban allí más de 4 horas. Se emitió una orden de cese de venta.

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para alimentos seguros, excepto asado de carne entera, mantenido caliente a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit. Se observaron tamales de maíz (125 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) dentro de una olla en el área de la cocina. El empleado los recalentó durante la inspección. Tamales de maíz (183 °F - Recalentamiento). También se observó pollo al horno (107 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); carne cocida (110 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente); panceta de cerdo frita (96 °F - Mantenimiento en caliente) dentro de la mesa de vapor en el mostrador principal.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en la llave de paso o en el adaptador/divisor añadido a la misma. No se observó ningún interruptor de vacío en la llave de paso debajo del lavavajillas en la zona de la cocina.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en el grifo del fregadero de fregonas o en el adaptador/divisor añadido al grifo del fregadero de fregonas. Observado en el cuarto de suministros limpios, en el mostrador de recepción.”

“El lavamanos se utiliza para fines distintos al lavado de manos. Se observó un recipiente de plástico dentro del lavamanos en el mostrador principal.”

“No se proporcionaron toallas de papel ni secadores de manos mecánicos en el lavamanos. Se observó en la entrada de la cocina. Un empleado proporcionó toallas de papel durante la inspección.”

“No se proporcionó termómetro de sonda para medir la temperatura de los productos alimenticios. Infracción reiterada.”

“Se ofrecen alimentos de origen animal crudos o poco cocidos y el establecimiento no cuenta con un aviso escrito para el consumidor. Los alimentos de origen animal crudos deben cocinarse completamente antes de servirlos. Esta información se proporcionó al operador durante la inspección.”

“Los compartimentos del fregadero de tres compartimentos son demasiado pequeños para acomodar los utensilios o el equipo.”

**CASA BOCAS

10200 CALLE 25 NO.

DORAL

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 6/2

Se detectaron 34 infracciones.

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

“Recipiente u otro tipo de bol sin asa que se utiliza para servir comida.”

“Falta una baldosa del techo.”

“El techo o las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado.”

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

“La moldura de remate en la unión del suelo y la pared está rota o falta.”

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

“Recipiente para bebida de un empleado en la máquina de hielo/cubo de hielo.”

“Equipo en mal estado.”

“El establecimiento no informó sobre cambios en la distribución de los asientos que afectan la tarifa de la licencia, la Ley de Aire Limpio en Interiores, la aprobación del sistema de alcantarillado u otros requisitos relacionados. Infracción reiterada.”

“La puerta exterior tiene una abertura en el umbral que da al exterior.”

“Faltan baldosas en el suelo o están en mal estado. Infracción reiterada.”

“Los suelos no se mantienen lisos ni resistentes.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo.”

“Acumulación de hielo en el congelador vertical y/o en el congelador industrial.”

“Utensilio en uso almacenado en agua estancada a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit.”

“A las pantallas protectoras de las luces utilizadas en la preparación, almacenamiento o lavado de alimentos les faltan las tapas de los extremos.”

“No hay copia disponible del último informe de inspección.”

“Superficie que no entra en contacto con alimentos, sucia de grasa, restos de comida, suciedad, lodo o polvo.”

“Se encontró un recipiente abierto con la bebida de un empleado en una unidad de refrigeración que contenía alimentos destinados a ser servidos a los clientes.”

“El interior/estantes del refrigerador presentan acumulación de residuos de tierra. Infracción reiterada.”

“Agua estancada en el fondo del refrigerador.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para garantizar la seguridad de los alimentos descongelados de forma inadecuada.”

“Piso de concreto sin sellar en área de preparación de alimentos, almacenamiento de alimentos, área de lavado de utensilios o baño. Infracción reiterada.”

“Estantes de la cámara frigorífica/congelador con óxido que ha corroído la superficie. Infracción reiterada.”

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

“El desinfectante de cloro para lavavajillas no tiene la concentración mínima adecuada.”

“Bolsas no aptas para uso alimentario que se utilizan en contacto directo con alimentos.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria: alimentos refrigerados a más de 41 grados Fahrenheit. Infracción reiterada.”

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

“No existe ningún dispositivo para medir la temperatura de la superficie de los utensilios cuando se utiliza agua caliente como desinfectante en un lavavajillas.”

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

“No existen procedimientos escritos para el uso del tiempo como control de salud pública para mantener el control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria.”

“Para algunos empleados, la formación obligatoria para empleados ha caducado.”

**PAPERCRANE THAI & SUSHI

328 CRANDON BLVD.

KEY BISCAYNE

FECHA DE INSPECCIÓN 6/10

Se detectaron 30 infracciones.

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

“El baño, ubicado dentro del establecimiento, no está completamente cerrado con puertas que se cierran automáticamente y ajustan herméticamente.”

“Recipiente u otro tipo de bol sin asa que se utiliza para servir comida.”

“El techo o las baldosas del techo presentan daños o están en mal estado.”

“La puerta exterior tiene una abertura en el umbral que da al exterior.”

“Cinta adhesiva para moscas colgando sobre alimentos/área de preparación de alimentos/equipos en contacto con alimentos.”

“Alimentos almacenados en el suelo.”

“Las pinzas en uso se guardan en la manija de la puerta del equipo entre usos.”

“Utensilio en uso almacenado en agua estancada a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit.”

“El interior del refrigerador o congelador está en mal estado o tiene el aislamiento expuesto.”

“Se ha colocado un cartel que indica que no se debe lavar las manos en el lavamanos utilizado por los empleados de la cocina.”

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

“Envases de alimentos utilizados para su procesamiento, retirados del envase original, no identificados por su nombre común.”

“El desinfectante de cloro para lavavajillas no tiene la concentración mínima adecuada.”

“Las superficies en contacto con alimentos no se desinfectan después de la limpieza, antes de su uso.”

“El pescado no exento que se ofrece crudo o poco cocido no ha sido sometido a la destrucción adecuada de parásitos.”

“Alimentos crudos de origen animal almacenados encima de alimentos listos para el consumo o que no se hayan separado adecuadamente de ellos.”

“Huevos con cáscara que no se almacenen a una temperatura ambiente de 45 grados Fahrenheit o menos.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para garantizar la seguridad de los alimentos refrigerados a una temperatura superior a 41 grados Fahrenheit.”

“Control de tiempo/temperatura para la seguridad alimentaria, excepto asados ​​de carne enteros, mantenidos calientes a menos de 135 grados Fahrenheit.”

“Sustancia tóxica/producto químico almacenado incorrectamente.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en la llave de paso de la manguera o en el accesorio/divisor añadido a la llave de paso.”

“Falta el interruptor de vacío en el grifo del fregadero para fregar o en el accesorio/divisor añadido al grifo del fregadero para fregar.”

“El empleado no ha recibido la formación adecuada relacionada con las funciones que se le han asignado, como lo demuestra su incapacidad para responder a preguntas básicas sobre seguridad alimentaria.”

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, una sustancia similar al moho o una sustancia viscosa.”

“Lavabo para lavarse las manos utilizado para fines distintos al lavado de manos.”

“Identidad del alimento o producto alimenticio tergiversada.”

“No se proporcionan toallas de papel ni secadores de manos mecánicos en el lavamanos.”

“Alimentos listos para consumir, que requieren control de tiempo/temperatura para garantizar su seguridad, preparados en el establecimiento y conservados durante más de 24 horas sin la fecha de caducidad debidamente marcada.”

“No se suministra agua a una temperatura mínima de 85 grados Fahrenheit (29 grados Celsius) o el suministro está cortado en el lavamanos de los empleados.”

The suspect, 45-year-old Victor Mata Villarreal, already was being sought by authorities when he began firing at police and bystanders in Midland on Friday before barricading himself in an abandoned veterinary clinic, where he was eventually found dead, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Police have provided limited details about how the shooting unfolded. Police arrived in the area after receiving reports of an active shooter, and Mata Villarreal started firing at officers, said Midland Police Chief Greg Snow. Several officers were pinned down behind their patrol cars and had to be rescued by an armored vehicle, Snow said, but no officers were shot.

Police then got everyone out of the area. “We moved to deny more targets for this active shooter,” Snow said.

A few hours after the shooting began, authorities used robot and drone footage from inside the building to confirm the shooter was dead, Midland Mayor Lori Blong. Police did not say how he died.

Mata Villarreal, of nearby Odessa, was wanted for attempted capital murder of a peace officer after firing multiple times at a Midland police officer on Wednesday, the state’s public safety agency said.

The officer, who wasn't injured, fired back after initially trying to pull over Mata Villarreal, who drove away, investigators said. His vehicle was found empty a short distance away, they said. Police have not said why the officer tried to stop Mata Villarreal.

Friday’s standoff happened about a half-mile (1 kilometer) from where the shots were fired at the police officer Wednesday.

Police have not said why Mata Villarreal began shooting on Friday or provided any details about the victims, including who they were, how they were shot or the conditions of those still hospitalized.

Midland Memorial Hospital said four people who were brought there underwent surgery and that five had been treated and released.

Calls to numbers listed for some relatives of Mata Villarreal in Texas went unanswered Friday or appeared to be lines that had been disconnected.

Mata Villarreal had several previous encounters with law enforcement, including some arrests, records show.

He was convicted on a 2009 charge of unlawfully carrying a firearm in San Angelo, according to Texas criminal history records.

He was charged in 2003 and 2004 for unlawfully carrying a weapon and unlawful possession of a prohibited weapon, but both cases appear to have been dismissed as part of a plea. He also pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge in 2008 that was later dismissed.

As police responded to Friday's shooting, dozens of squad cars and law enforcement vehicles descended along what’s normally a busy roadway lined with hotels and auto businesses a few miles west of Midland’s downtown.

Andrea Mendias said she heard what sounded like a small explosion at the closed veterinary clinic next to the auto body shop where she works and saw a number of heavily armed police officers rush into the parking lot. Some appeared to go inside the building.

Mendias said she earlier heard what sounded like at least 40 gunshots.

Video from Mendias showed officers pouring out of the back of an armored police vehicle and police deploying robots into the area.

The city with about 140,000 residents sits in the heart of the state’s oil and gas region and was near the site of a deadly shooting rampage in 2019.

In that shooting, a gunman who had been fired from his oil services job killed seven people and wounded two dozen others while firing at random as he drove around the Odessa and Midland areas. The two cities are more than 300 miles (482 kilometers) west of Dallas.

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Associated Press reporters Claudia Lauer in Philadelphia and Valerie Gonzalez in McAllen, Texas, contributed.

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) says the crisis has exposed its heavy dependence on imported refined jet fuel, leaving airlines vulnerable to global shocks.

African carriers were already paying about 17% more for jet fuel than the global average before the Iran war, according to AFRAA. The new price pressures are adding to already thin margins across the sector.

“The impact is dire and a major shock for our members,” AFRAA Secretary-General Abderahmane Berthe told The Associated Press. “Fuel represents between 30% and 40% of airlines’ operating costs. Any increase directly affects their balance sheets.”

The aviation industry is closely watching the Strait of Hormuz, a key global energy corridor through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil and fuel flowed before Iran effectively closed it for shipping at the start of the war in February.

For African airlines, the effects are amplified by structural constraints, including higher procurement costs and a weaker ability to absorb shocks.

Berthe said some carriers have introduced fuel surcharges, but most cannot pass on the full increase to passengers, forcing them to absorb losses.

“They cannot pass these costs to passengers as this will affect demand,” he said.

Supply disruptions have also raised concerns at major hubs including Nairobi, Kenya, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where consistent jet fuel availability is critical to regional and international operations, Berthe said.

Some airlines have already begun adjusting networks, cutting frequencies and reviewing routes to manage rising costs and fuel uncertainty, he said.

The crisis has renewed calls for Africa to strengthen domestic refining capacity and reduce reliance on imported jet fuel.

“We need African solutions,” Berthe said. “Many African countries produce oil, but we still depend on non-African suppliers for refined jet fuel.”

Attention is increasingly turning to projects such as Nigeria’s Dangote Refinery, which is expected to play a growing role in supplying refined fuel across the region, including to countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa.

“We have seen hubs like Addis (Ababa) turning to Dangote for supply,” Berthe said. “This is expected to ease pressure on fuel supply chains during this period.”

Despite the pressures, demand for air travel in Africa remains strong. AFRAA projects passenger growth of about 6% annually, outpacing many global markets.

But Berthe warned that sustained shocks could weigh heavily on profitability and connectivity.

“If this continues, the impact on African airlines will be very severe,” he said. “If Africa wants a resilient aviation sector, it must secure its own fuel future.”

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he called off fresh strikes on Iran as he claimed a deal to end the war was imminent. Back-and-forth strikes earlier this week pushed a shaky ceasefire to the edge of collapse, which, if it happens, would inflict more havoc on Iran’s battered economy.

Strikes on steel and petrochemical industries and energy infrastructure earlier in the war have spurred a wave of business closures and job losses in Iran, where people now struggle to afford groceries in the face of triple-digit food inflation.

Many Iranians are desperate for peace

Along with the cratering economy, the specter of war has left many people desperate for an end to the turmoil and deeply anxious about the future. Huraz Ahmadi, a 19-year-old street vendor in the capital of Tehran, said he feared renewed fighting.

“I don’t think they will reach an agreement, given the way things are going. But I hope they make a deal. An agreement is much better than war,” Ahmadi said. “In wars, innocent and good people die. I personally lost a relative.”

In the past year, Iranians have faced two wars – first Israel’s 12-day war in 2025 against Iran followed by a joint assault with the U.S. that began on Feb. 28. Both attacks were launched in the middle of talks about Iran’s nuclear program.

Fresh U.S. strikes on Monday sowed confusion in Iran’s capital following growing optimism that Tehran and Washington were nearing a deal. One Tehran resident in his late 20s said the echo of explosions and air defenses in the capital triggered “maybe a half hour of panic." Long lines formed at gas stations, but people returned within hours to “living normally,” he said.

“War is also becoming normal. And that is very upsetting,” the resident said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of security fears.

“Everybody is stressed out for a thousand reasons,” he added. “Our lives are constantly in this political game where we can’t plan anything or know what’s going to happen.”

A country ‘tired of instability’

A critical demand in talks for Iranian negotiators is that the U.S. deliver some kind of sanctions or economic relief, besides lifting a naval blockade that has throttled Iran’s oil exports as well as imports of raw materials and other goods.

Many business owners are struggling to survive, a member of a council representing Iranian industrialists said.

“The main concern of many industrialists and entrepreneurs is the survival of their businesses and production. The concern is about the disruption of the supply chain of raw materials, parts and machinery due to the cruel U.S. blockade,” Mehdi Bostanchi said.

Tehran-based Bostanchi, who owns a company that makes ventilation systems, is part of a trade group for factory owners across Iran. Its members include textile, food and metal producers and printing firms.

Bostanchi said uncertainty over any deal to end the war is stifling the ability of businesses to plan ahead and look toward any kind of recovery.

“Society is tired of instability and does not want a wider war to break out,” he added.

Iran’s rial currency has also lost over half its value in the past year. Exchange rates have crashed to around 1.8 million rials to the dollar, compared with 41,600 rials 10 years ago.

Economic woes stoke unrest and fear

The deepening economic problems have stoked unrest in Iran. In January, security forces shot thousands of anti-government protesters in the streets. Arrests of protesters and those expressing support for them has continued through the war.

Alongside fear of their own leaders, Iranians who oppose the government also fear a return to open war, said a social media influencer and therapist who lives in central Tehran and has participated in past anti-government protests.

“The war isn’t anything but destruction for us. And in reality, the attacks that happened killed a number of ordinary people and destroyed a number of homes and residential buildings,” she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.

Residents contacted by The Associated Press also expressed worries that renewed conflict would lead Iranian authorities to cut internet service again. Repeated blackouts since the January protests have crippled what was a strong digital economy and stoked job losses. A partial restoration has seen a limited uptick in connectivity.

Next steps are unclear

A few hours after threatening to launch further attacks, Trump posted on social media that significant points in the negotiations “have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.” But a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said in a live phone call on state television that mediators were active and nothing had been finalized to end the conflict.

Iran’s ability to withstand U.S.-Israeli assaults and to close the globally strategic Strait of Hormuz has also rallied the Islamic Republic’s hard-liner base. Authorities have organized nightly rallies in past weeks as they try to project popular support for a tough stance in U.S. talks.

Hamid Reza Bani Ebrahimi, a 47-year-old merchant, said he opposed any agreement that would limit what he sees as Iran’s right to enrich uranium and develop nuclear technology. Israel and the U.S. have repeatedly struck sites and figures linked with the country’s atomic program.

“Our scientists worked so hard to acquire this technology, and then they came and martyred them,” Bani Ebrahimi said.

Abdullah Hosseini, a 45-year-old university professor in Tehran, said Iranian strikes on Gulf states and Jordan this past week were part of an effort to deter further attacks.

“I don’t like war. I am extremely worried about people and children being killed,” Hosseini said. “But sometimes war is necessary, and now is the time for Iran to stand against its enemy."

But Tehran-based analyst Rahman Ghahremanpour said the back-and-forth strikes this week had deepened concerns in Iran that the conflict “could turn into a crisis without end and in reality make running the country more difficult” in the face of economic pressures.

“Both America and Iran are looking for a way out of this situation with honor and claiming victory so they can strengthen their own domestic situation,” he said.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the U.S. and Iran have reached a “final, agreed upon text.” He said Pakistan, which has taken the lead in mediation efforts, was working with the warring countries on next steps.

“Peace has never been this close as it is now,” Sharif said in a post on X.

The apparent breakthrough in negotiations comes after Iran exchanged fire with the U.S. and Israel over three days this week, threatening to return the Middle East to full-scale war.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday an agreement “has never been closer” in a post on X. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said multiple times in recent weeks the countries are on the cusp of a deal, shared Araghchi's post on his own social media.

The war launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28 has rattled the Middle East and virtually shut down oil and natural gas shipments from the Persian Gulf. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 7.

Iranian official says nuclear details will follow an agreement to end the war

Araghchi told Iranian state TV on Friday that both sides were working toward signing an initial agreement declaring an end to the war “on all fronts, including Lebanon.”

Israel has been fighting the Iranian-allied militia Hezbollah in Lebanon since early March. Israel is not a party to the negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, and its leaders have said they don’t plan to withdraw from Lebanon.

Araghchi said terms dealing with Iran’s nuclear program would be finalized in the 60 days after the initial agreement is signed. He said the parties could agree to extend that period.

Iran’s nuclear program has been a key point of division. The U.S. and Israel fear it could lead to an atomic weapon — a main reason their leaders cited for going to war. Tehran has insisted its nuclear efforts are for peaceful purposes.

A senior U.S. administration official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said Friday that the emerging agreement would begin the process of destroying or removing Tehran’s highly enriched uranium.

The official said the 60-day period after both sides sign the deal would be used to work out technical details for removing Iran’s enriched uranium. The official did not detail who the U.S. envisions taking charge of removing the uranium, which is believed to entombed under three nuclear sites that were battered by U.S. strikes last year.

Also critical is Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for oil and natural gas. Disruption of transit through the strait has crimped global energy supplies, driven up fuel prices and made food and other basics more expensive well beyond the region.

The U.S. official said the emerging agreement includes provisions for reopening the strait.

Araghchi said Iran wants a deal that allows Tehran to charge ships “for services rendered” when they transit the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has imposed a toll system during the war, which the U.S. and other nations say violates international law.

“There will be costs involved,” Araghchi said, “and those costs must be paid.”

Officials say a deal could be signed in the coming days

Three regional officials said the emerging deal is also expected to include the phased lifting of sanctions on Iran and the release of frozen Iranian assets. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.

They said they expect a signing ceremony for the agreement in the coming days after officials in Washington and Tehran approve it.

Trump on Thursday claimed significant progress in the negotiations, just hours after he threatened to escalate attacks and seize Iran’s oil industry.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel is not a party to the deal being negotiated. He said in a statement Friday that he and Trump were in “full agreement” that Iran must not have nuclear weapons.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a separate statement that Israel also expects Trump to uphold key Israeli interests, including weakening Iran's missile program and proxy network.

Katz warned that Israel could still act independently toward Iran and that the country would not pull out of the zones it is occupying in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, nor would it withdraw from the northern refugee camps of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The deal was largely being brokered by Pakistan, led by its army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, the regional officials said, with backing from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar.

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Price reported from Washington and Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia. Associated Press journalists Sahar Ameri in Berlin, Julia Frankel in Jerusalem, and Collin Binkley and Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Friday the government's evidence against the once high-profile player in the cryptocurrency industry was “conservatively stated, robust.”

A jury found that Bankman-Fried defrauded customers and investors of billions of dollars while he operated FTX, once the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange.

The appeals court said the evidence proved that Bankman-Fried reassured FTX customers while also transferring billions of dollars for his own use and falsifying business records to conceal transactions.

“While he was publicly reassuring customers, investors, and regulators that FTX customer funds were safe, he was simultaneously using FTX as his own personal piggy bank, spending customer funds on real estate, political contributions, and investments,” the appeals court wrote.

The 2nd Circuit, which heard oral arguments in November 2025, rejected the defense’s argument that his trial was unfair because of a series of rulings by the judge that limited the evidence he could present. Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote the three-judge panel's opinion.

Bankman-Fried, 34, was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in 2023 after a meteoric rise and then dramatic fall in the cryptocurrency universe, where his company once advertised during the Super Bowl. Bankman-Fried testified before Congress and enjoyed celebrity endorsements from stars like quarterback Tom Brady, basketball point guard Stephen Curry and comedian Larry David.

FTX collapsed in November 2022, leaving customers, investors and lenders short over $11 billion.

At Bankman-Fried's sentencing, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan criticized the entrepreneur's trial testimony, saying he repeatedly committed perjury on the witness stand in testimony that was “often evasive, hair-splitting, dodging questions.”

Kaplan also said Bankman-Fried should not be credited because some investors and customers might recover some money. He noted that customers lost about $8 billion, investors lost $1.7 billion and lenders were shorted by $1.3 billion.

A request for comment was sent to Bankman-Fried's lawyer. A prosecutor’s spokesperson declined comment.

The 19-year-old Mboko, who is ranked No. 9, slipped and appeared to strain her knee during a match against Karolina Pliskova at the HSBC Championships. She retired from the match and later pulled out of the doubles event.

“Unfortunately, my fall on Wednesday caused an injury to the MCL on my left knee, which sadly means I will miss the remainder of the grass season. This unfortunately means Wimbledon too, a tournament I had been so looking forward to playing this year,” Mboko wrote on Instagram.

Williams and Mboko had won their opening doubles match Tuesday — in the 44-year-old Williams’ first professional match since the 2022 U.S. Open.

While trying to return a shot in the second set against Pliskova, Mboko slipped behind the baseline and immediately grabbed her left knee. She told a physiotherapist there was “no stability" in it.

In her Wimbledon debut last year, Mboko reached the second round where she lost to Hailey Baptiste.

Mboko gave a special thanks Friday to Williams “for giving me this incredible opportunity to play alongside you. I learnt so much from you and am so sorry our tournament came to an end prematurely, but I hope we can play together again soon and finish what we started.”

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As perfectly-timed as Morenatti's photo was, what happened after made it even more captivating. Its publication and a post by Morenatti on the social platform X set off a search by internet sleuths for the boy's parents, who believed they had witnessed a miracle and likewise were trying to find Morenatti.

A photo transcends a moment

The pope shares moments with individuals all the time, especially on trips abroad, but there was something about this particular instance that stirred emotion. Here's what Morenatti, a two-time Pulitzer-winning photographer, had to say about this extraordinary photo:

“In photojournalism, a photograph should do more than document an event. It should convey a feeling, evoke an emotion and hold the viewer’s attention long enough to spark a thought, even if only for a brief moment.”

“I have always believed that if a photograph moves me while I am making it, there is a good chance it will move others as well,” he added. “When that happens, the image transcends the simple recording of a moment and gains a deeper power.”

A family prays to Gaudí

When Montse Martínez, 36, and her husband first heard of Leo’s upcoming visit to the Sagrada Familia basilica, it felt like stars aligning. Such is their devotion to the Catalan architect who designed the church, Antoni Gaudí, that they named their newborn after him. For nine straight days they prayed before an image of Gaudí, who’s on the path to possible sainthood, asking him to grant them tickets to see the pope.

Their wish came true, and they were among the 40,000 faithful gathered for Leo’s prayer vigil on Tuesday. A security guard noticed their baby and handed him to the pope, who gave the crying infant a blessing. The guard came back for 7-year-old Joaquim.

“He was so moved that he could only smile, he couldn’t speak,” Martínez said of Joaquim’s few seconds with the pope in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday.

And it was at that precise moment that Morenatti snapped his photo.

How this photo was made

This photo was only possible because Morenatti felt compelled to seek out a unique angle.

“Covering a papal visit is often frustrating for photographers. We are usually confined to positions assigned by the organizers, with little freedom to move in search of better angles," he said. On this occasion, however, he managed to get past the security cordon and join a crowd gathered along one section of the route to watch the Popemobile pass by.

“Standing on a chair among the crowd, I could see the Popemobile approaching through a sea of waving hands and flags. Then I noticed a small gap in front of me — a narrow opening through which a photograph might be possible."

“My 50–150 mm f/2 lens was already zoomed to its maximum focal length and opened to its widest aperture. I quickly checked that both faces were sharp and that the frame was clean, with everything positioned neatly beneath the windshield of the Popemobile. I pressed the shutter for a few seconds and immediately sensed that I had the photograph I had been searching for,” he said. “A wave of emotion washed over me, followed by relief. The image I had imagined was finally there, safely stored on my memory card.”

The search for a family, and a photographer

Morenatti didn't just publish the photo for AP clients. He also posted the image to X, asking for help finding the boy's family so he could give them a printed copy.

“They had to see this photo. And I needed to tell them how moved I was by their son,” Morenatti said.

His post went viral, racking up more than half a million views and hundreds of comments. Even the Catholic Church in Barcelona chimed in, asking — in the local Catalan language — for people to assist. And one of the region's most-read newspapers wrote a story about the search.

Joaquim's parents were unaware of this campaign. But they had seen Morenatti's photo on the website of top local newspaper La Vanguardia and started working to track him down. They found his name with the help of ChatGPT and messaged him directly on Instagram. Morenatti responded and they spoke by phone, touched by the speed with which they found each other.

The family is thrilled they will soon obtain the printed image, which they will hang in their home in a village outside Barcelona.

“We haven’t figured out yet where to place it, but it will be in a very special place,” Martínez said, adding that she hopes it will help plant the seed of faith in her five children. Perhaps, she said, her son's short private audience with the pope could even be included in Gaudí's canonization dossier.

“For us, it’s a miracle of Antoni Gaudí. It’s a gift of God, who has these tender gestures of love for his children.”

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Earlier this month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress that the government is scrapping its plans for the fund in the face of a fierce bipartisan backlash, and government attorneys have argued that lawsuits challenging the fund are now moot. But plaintiffs’ attorneys aren’t satisfied by Blanche’s assurances that the fund won’t move forward.

Neither was U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, who ruled that the “Anti-Weaponization Fund” will remain blocked until further notice from the court.

“The (government's) mootness argument, in my view, doesn't go anywhere,” the judge said.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has not publicly and unequivocally endorsed the fund's cancellation. He has continued to express support for it in remarks to reporters.

Brinkema gave the parties a week to negotiate an agreement for Trump administration officials, including Blanche, to submit a sworn declaration that the administration won't revive the fund.

Brinkema previously agreed to temporarily block the administration from proceeding with the fund for at least two weeks. Her May 29 order was due to expire on Friday.

Trump's Republican administration created the fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.

Plaintiffs who sued to block fund payouts argue that the government can’t legally divert taxpayer money into what they argue is a slush fund for compensating Trump’s allies.

In a separate case on Wednesday, a different judge in Washington, D.C., rejected a government watchdog’s parallel request for a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from forging ahead with the fund. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said he accepts Blanche’s representation that the fund is now moot.

Leon had asked Justice Department attorney Andrew Block why Blanche doesn’t formally rescind his May 18 order establishing the fund. Block said he didn’t know. He still didn’t have an answer to that question when Brinkema posed it two days later.

“It’s a huge gap in the record that we don’t have an answer to that question,” said Brinkema, who was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

Block said he couldn't provide her with a “concrete answer” because he doesn't have direct access to Blanche.

“All I would be doing is speculating,” he told the judge.

In the Virginia case, attorneys from the legal advocacy group Democracy Forward asked for an order to temporarily suspend the fund’s implementation and stop the Trump administration from disbursing any payouts from it.

The plaintiffs include a fired prosecutor and a college professor acquitted of assaulting federal agents at a protest. Also named as plaintiffs are the government watchdog Common Cause; the city of New Haven, Connecticut; and the National Abortion Federation, an association of abortion providers.

Even before the Trump administration said it was dropping the fund, the Justice Department did not form the five-member commission that would decide on payout criteria, so no money was paid out nor claims accepted.

Many of the Republican president’s allies are opposed to compensating rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden. In May, however, Blanche wouldn’t rule out the possibility that Capitol rioters who engaged in violence could be eligible to apply for payments from the fund.

Trump issued mass pardons to Capitol rioters on his first day back in the White House last year. More than 1,500 people were charged in the Jan. 6 attack before Trump erased every case with his sweeping act of clemency.

Democracy Forward attorney Pooja Boisture said reviving the fund would irreparably harm the lawsuit's plaintiffs. A court order to block it wouldn't harm the government if the administration is truly abandoning it, as Blanche testified, Boisture told the judge, who agreed with that argument.

The president did not provide details about the measures or a timetable for their implementation but said during remarks to state media that it is now “time to change” and that the country “simply cannot continue on its current course.”

“Every opportunity in the midst of a crisis must be seized as a moment for takeoff, as a moment for growth,” Díaz-Canel said, according to a statement from the presidency that was republished by state-run media. “We have established a group of priorities to confront this situation,” he added without offering specifics.

The announcement comes as Cubans have struggled with fuel shortages as a result of the U.S. oil blockade and food insecurity. In January, the United States tightened restrictions on Cuba’s oil supplies in an effort to pressure the island’s government to change its political and economic model, exacerbating challenges that have persisted for about five years.

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Díaz-Canel said officials are evaluating measures related to foreign trade, exports, supply chains and logistics. Without elaborating, he suggested the government could eliminate mandatory state intermediaries in import and export operations and grant tariff benefits to those who bring raw materials into the country for production.

“The numbers don’t add up, and the government wants to make this look like a matter of will rather than a math problem,” Cuban economist Pedro Monreal wrote on X, in response to Díaz-Canel’s proposals.

The Spain-based former UNESCO official went on to criticize the collapse of a centralized planning model, for which he said “there are two respectable alternatives: assume the political price of failure, or self-critically rectify and drastically transform the model.”

For decades, Cuba maintained a centralized, vertical system under strict state control. This structure began to shift gradually over the last decade when the government introduced permits for independent workers. More recently, the state authorized the operation of the country’s first small- and medium-sized private enterprises.

Earlier Friday, a ship carrying nearly 100 tons of food and essential goods arrived from Colombia as part of the humanitarian aid that several countries have sent to Cuba in recent months as a U.S. energy embargo persists.

The ship, which departed Cartagena in early June, crossed the Havana Bay channel early in the morning flying the Colombian flag and escorted by a small Cuban auxiliary vessel, The Associated Press confirmed.

The Colombian Presidential Agency for International Cooperation said that, on orders of President Gustavo Petro, the shipment included nonperishable food, medicine, hospital supplies, electrical materials, solar panels and other items.

The ship also carried seven tons of goods collected by solidarity groups.

Last weekend, another ship carrying 1,700 tons of essential goods from Mexico and Belize arrived in Havana.

In late January, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. The move has deepened a preexisting crisis caused by U.S. sanctions. Washington is pressing the Cuban government to release political prisoners and move toward political and economic liberalization in return for a lifting of sanctions.

Cuba produces only 40% of its oil, leaving the island semiparalyzed and subjected to severe power outages.

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El accidente ocurrió cerca de la intersección de Southeast Eighth Avenue y Okeechobee Road.

Según la Policía de Hialeah, un hombre de 37 años que viajaba en bicicleta fue atropellado por el conductor de un vehículo negro de cuatro puertas. La policía indicó que el conductor huyó de la escena después del accidente.

Según los investigadores, el ciclista murió a causa de sus heridas.

La policía no ha divulgado información adicional sobre el vehículo, la víctima ni el conductor involucrado.

Cualquier persona con información sobre el caso debe comunicarse con el Departamento de Policía de Hialeah al 305-687-2525.

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In a statement provided to Local 10 News on Friday, the family of Cardal Wyche III said they are seeking answers about the events that led to his death on April 10 at CW Thomas Park, located in the 800 block of Northwest Second Street.

“Cardal was a beloved son, family member, and friend whose loss has deeply impacted everyone who knew him,” the statement said.

The family urged anyone who was at the park that night, witnessed any part of the incident, or has photos, videos or other information to contact law enforcement.

“No piece of information is too small. Even details that may seem insignificant could help investigators establish a complete understanding of what occurred,” the statement continued.

Investigators said the preliminary investigation revealed Wyche was shot following an altercation with several people.

They said deputies with the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene and found Wyche suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

Authorities said paramedics transported him to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:44 p.m.

Wyche’s family they appreciate the efforts of investigators and remain hopeful that all facts surrounding the shooting will be uncovered. They also requested privacy as they continue to grieve.

Detectives say a reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the case.

Detectives are asking anyone with information about the shooting or those involved to contact BSO Homicide Detective Kevin White at 954-321-4215 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

En un comunicado proporcionado a Local 10 News el viernes, la familia de Cardal Wyche III indicó que busca respuestas sobre los hechos que llevaron a su muerte el 10 de abril en CW Thomas Park, ubicado en la cuadra 800 de Northwest Second Street.

“Cardal era un hijo, familiar y amigo muy querido, cuya pérdida ha impactado profundamente a todos los que lo conocieron”, señala el comunicado.

La familia instó a cualquier persona que estuviera en el parque esa noche, que haya presenciado alguna parte del incidente o que tenga fotografías, videos u otra información, a comunicarse con las autoridades.

“Ningún dato es demasiado pequeño. Incluso detalles que puedan parecer insignificantes podrían ayudar a los investigadores a establecer una comprensión completa de lo ocurrido”, continúa el comunicado.

Los investigadores dijeron que la investigación preliminar reveló que Wyche recibió disparos tras un altercado con varias personas.

Indicaron que agentes de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward y equipos de Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue respondieron al lugar y encontraron a Wyche con una aparente herida de bala.

Las autoridades dijeron que los paramédicos lo trasladaron al Broward Health Medical Center, donde fue declarado muerto a las 9:44 p.m.

La familia de Wyche expresó que aprecia los esfuerzos de los investigadores y mantiene la esperanza de que se esclarezcan todos los hechos relacionados con la balacera. También solicitó privacidad mientras continúa su proceso de duelo.

Los detectives informaron que se ofrece una recompensa de hasta $5,000 USD por información que conduzca a un arresto en el caso.

Los detectives solicitan a cualquier persona con información sobre la balacera o sobre los involucrados que se comunique con el detective de homicidios de la BSO Kevin White al 954-321-4215 o que envíe información a través de la aplicación SaferWatch o a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-8477.

El buque, que había salido de Cartagena de Indias a comienzos de mes, atravesó el canal de la bahía habanera a primera hora flameando la bandera colombiana y escoltado por una pequeña nave auxiliar cubana, constató The Associated Press.

La Agencia Presidencial de Cooperación Internacional de Colombia indicó que por orden del presidente Gustavo Petro se realizó el envío de alimentos no perecederos, medicamentos, insumos hospitalarios, materiales eléctricos y paneles solares, entre otros.

Además de los productos donados por el gobierno colombiano para la población en la isla, también se cargaron en la nave siete toneladas de mercancías recolectadas por grupos solidarios, dijeron las autoridades colombianas.

El fin de semana Cuba recibió otro barco con 1.700 toneladas de artículos de primera necesidad procedente de México y Belice que se sumaron a las ayudas enviadas por China, Rusia, algunas naciones europeas y Uruguay.

Cuba atraviesa desde hace cinco años una severa crisis económica que se agravó luego de que en enero el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump amenazó con aplicar aranceles a los países que envíen crudo a la isla.

La nación caribeña sólo produce un 40% del combustible que consume, por lo que lleva meses semiparalizada en casi todos los sectores y sometida a largos apagones.

Las labores de limpieza estaban en marcha, y las compañías de servicios públicos informaron que los esfuerzos para restablecer la electricidad podrían extenderse hasta la próxima semana.

Las tormentas del jueves arrancaron techos de edificios, derribaron viviendas, tumbaron decenas de árboles y líneas eléctricas y provocaron cientos de miles de cortes de electricidad y grandes interrupciones del tráfico aéreo. Las autoridades indicaron que no se han reportado muertes ni lesiones que pusieran en peligro la vida, aunque varias personas recibieron atención por heridas leves.

Se reportaron daños por tornados en varias localidades, entre ellas Merrillville y Hebron en Indiana y Streator, Illinois. Las autoridades evaluaban los daños el viernes y se preparaban para emitir declaraciones de emergencia necesarias para obtener fondos de recuperación.

Marsha Smith estaba en su edificio de apartamentos en Merrillville, a unos 53 kilómetros (33 millas) al sureste de Chicago, cuando el tornado golpeó el complejo, arrancando los techos de tres edificios, derribando árboles y rompiendo parabrisas de autos antes de que la intensa lluvia causara más daños a las viviendas. Ella y algunos vecinos se refugiaron bajo una escalera interior, tomados de la mano y rezando.

“Cuanto más fuerte se ponía el tornado, más fuerte empecé a rezar”, relató Smith, de 54 años e instructora de reanimación cardiopulmonar (RCP). “Dije: ‘Oh Dios, ya está aquí’. Dije: ‘Señor Jesús, haz que pase, que pase, que pase por encima’. Dije: ‘Dios, danos la fuerza para salir adelante’. Y simplemente empezó a destrozarlo todo”.

Smith relató que se produjo una tensa calma justo antes que el tornado impactara. Luego sonó como un tren de carga estrellándose contra su edificio, afirmó. Agradeció a Dios que nadie resultara herido. La mañana del viernes, recorrió su vecindario y lo describió como una catástrofe.

Las autoridades de Merrillville detallaron que más de 200 edificios resultaron dañados, incluidos algunos que quedaron destruidos. Árboles y líneas eléctricas caídos bloquearon calles, y el viento arrancó parte del techo de una escuela secundaria. Las cuadrillas de limpieza estaban trabajando el viernes.

Varias agencias de la región ayudaron a los equipos locales de primera respuesta a realizar búsquedas y a evaluar las zonas dañadas, indicaron autoridades municipales en redes sociales. Las cuadrillas trabajaron hasta entrada la noche para despejar las vías. La Cruz Roja instaló un refugio con capacidad para 700 camas.

En y alrededor de Streator y Hebron, fotos y videos publicados en redes sociales mostraron daños en esas zonas similares a los de Merrillville. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional indicó que tornados también azotaron esas áreas, y que inspeccionará los daños para determinar exactamente cuántos tornados tocaron tierra.

En Streator, una ciudad manufacturera y agrícola a unos 160 kilómetros (100 millas) al suroeste de Chicago, los equipos de emergencia también inspeccionaban los daños. Las autoridades informaron que casi una docena de viviendas resultaron dañadas, incluidas algunas que quedaron destruidas. Se instaló un centro de reunificación para residentes desplazados en el ayuntamiento, y la Cruz Roja abrió un refugio.

La alcaldesa de Streator, Tara Bedei, señaló que no se reportaron muertes.

“Estamos increíblemente agradecidos por la seguridad de nuestros residentes y la rápida acción del personal de emergencia”, dijo en un comunicado. Las autoridades informaron que cuatro personas fueron atendidas en un hospital por lesiones leves.

Los equipos de primera respuesta también trabajaron durante la noche en Hebron, un pequeño pueblo a unos 80 kilómetros (50 millas) al sureste de Chicago, indicaron las autoridades en una publicación de Facebook. Se estaban realizando evaluaciones de daños.

Jennifer Hall estaba en su garaje en Elkhart, Indiana, cuando el viento y la lluvia se intensificaron la noche del jueves. De repente, dijo, escuchó un fuerte estruendo y descubrió que una rama de árbol había atravesado el techo de la casa que alquila. Usó cubetas para recoger el agua de lluvia que entraba por el agujero.

“Estoy nerviosa porque ha sido una cosa tras otra”, señaló Hall, explicando que acababa de someterse a una cirugía y que su esposo está fuera de la ciudad.

Los tornados se produjeron después que fuertes tormentas barrieran el miércoles la región centro-norte de Estados Unidos, causando cortes de electricidad, dañando edificios y cancelando vuelos.

El viernes por la tarde había casi 180.000 cortes de electricidad en Illinois, menos que los más de 200.000 de más temprano en el día. Alrededor de 115.000 hogares y negocios en Indiana estaban sin electricidad, unos pocos miles menos que más temprano el viernes, según poweroutage.us.

Commonwealth Edison, un importante proveedor de electricidad en Illinois, indicó que esperaba restablecer el 80% de los cortes de electricidad por las tormentas del miércoles para la noche del sábado, y el 80% de los cortes por las tormentas del jueves para la noche del domingo. En Indiana, NIPSCO dijo que estaba trabajando para restablecer la electricidad lo más rápido posible, pero no proporcionó un cronograma.

El jueves, las tormentas retrasaron o detuvieron vuelos en aeropuertos de algunas ciudades, entre ellas, Chicago, Filadelfia y Nueva York. Varias partes del noreste y del Atlántico medio también enfrentaron el intenso calor y la humedad. Decenas de vuelos fueron cancelados o retrasados el viernes en los aeropuertos internacionales O’Hare y Midway de Chicago, según FlightAware, un sitio web de seguimiento de vuelos.

En Des Moines, Iowa, un hombre de 54 años murió el miércoles en un campamento de personas sin hogar en un parque después de ser golpeado por un árbol que “se partió y cayó durante las fuertes tormentas”, informó la policía en un comunicado. No se reportaron otras muertes o lesiones por esas tormentas.

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Los periodistas de The Associated Press Hannah Fingerhut en Des Moines, Iowa, y Gene Johnson en Seattle contribuyeron a este despacho.

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

That level of wealth, all owned by just one person, was once unfathomable. Before Friday, the trillion-dollar mark was reserved for measures like the GDP (or staggering debt ) of a handful of major economies — and, in the last decade alone, the value of some of the biggest companies to ever trade on the stock market.

Musk's new title arrives amid a wider acceleration for the richest of the rich. Year after year, his former (although now very distant) billionaires club has reaped a growing number of members — from tech titans to celebrities. All the while, more and more people worldwide are struggling to pay their everyday bills. Many have decried the arrival of the first trillionaire as the latest and most alarming example of that wealth gap.

The number “one trillion” is hard in itself for the human mind to comprehend. One trillion dollars is a thousand times greater than $1 billion. And a million times more than $1 million.

According to Forbes, Musk’s net worth actually hit $1.1 trillion on Friday, after SpaceX soared in its market debut. Most of that money is in stock. Still, here are some ways to think about how far one trillion could go.

To the moon and back, over 200 times

Thinking about what $1 trillion looks like is almost as astronomical as the interplanetary — and at this point, still far from realized — goals SpaceX has laid out for itself.

In terms of physical cash, one trillion U.S. dollar bills laid end to end would stretch nearly 97 million miles (or almost 156 million kilometers). That would account for the distance of more than 200 round-trip journeys to the moon — which NASA says sits an average of 238,855 miles (nearly 384,400 kilometers) away from Earth. It would also surpass the roughly 93 million miles (about 150 million kilometers) between Earth and the sun.

$122 for every person on Earth

There are nearly 8.2 billion people living on Earth today, per the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. If $1 trillion was divided among the entire population, each person would receive almost $122.

Double the GDP of South Africa

One trillion dollars is more than double the annual GDP of South Africa, the country where Musk was born. According 2026 numbers from International Monetary Fund, the nation’s output of goods and services stands at nearly $480 billion.

Only about 21 countries in the world have a GDP over the trillion-dollar mark today. The U.S. and China lead the pack at more than $32.38 trillion and $20.85 trillion, respectively, but that is far ahead of most other economies.

2.5 million homes in the US

Houses sold in the U.S. have a median sales price of about $403,200, per the latest numbers from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. With $1 trillion, you could buy nearly 2.5 million homes at that cost.

243 billion gallons of gas

At current U.S. gas prices — which averaged at nearly $4.11 a gallon Friday per AAA — $1 trillion could buy more than 243 billion gallons of regular fuel.

To help put that in context, that far surpasses the nearly 137 billion gallons Americans used on finished motor gasoline all last year. And prices at the pump were much less expensive in 2025. Steep oil prices, spanning from the U.S. and Israel's ongoing war against Iran, propelled the national average above $4 a gallon for the first time in four years.

Over $700 billion ahead the world's second richest person

According to Forbes, the second-richest person in the world today is Google co-founder Larry Page — who carried a net worth of nearly $294 billion as of midday Friday. That's $706 billion under the trillion dollar mark.

In fact, the combined net worth, as of Friday, of the four men following Musk on Forbes' richest list — which, beyond Page, includes fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin ($271 billion), Amazon's Jeff Bezos ($249 billion) and Oracle’s Larry Ellison ($232 billion) — amounted to about $1.05 trillion.

Those fortunes can oscillate by tens of billions of dollars by the day, or even a matter of hours. Musk's own net worth has rapidly ballooned in value. Just last year, his net worth sat at $342 billion per Forbes — up from $195 billion in 2024.

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For the next month, you won’t need a passport to take a trip around the world — just an appetite.

At the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, the FIFA World Cup is showing up on the menu.

“We have some globally inspired food options here at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, as well as some cocktails that are also globally inspired,” said entertainment expert Paul Zahn.

The hotel’s “Culinary Cup Series” pairs matchups on the field with flavors from around the globe.

From smoky cocktails inspired by Mexico and Germany to dishes celebrating countries like Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and beyond, the idea is simple.

In Coconut Grove, the World Cup is coming with a side of waterfront views.

At Bayshore Club Bar & Grill, fans can watch matches on the big screen while overlooking Biscayne Bay.

Over on South Beach, Queen Miami Beach is leaning into the international spirit of the tournament.

With special watch parties for matchups like Brazil vs. Scotland and Colombia vs. Portugal, along with cocktails designed to celebrate the pursuit of gold, the venue is embracing the excitement of the competition.

And if your ideal match day looks more like a night out, E11EVEN plans to keep the celebration going around the clock, with match viewings, DJs and performances turning every game into an all-day, all-night event.

The World Cup isn’t just taking over hotels and nightlife.

It’s popping up in some pretty unexpected places, too.

On Miami Beach, Reefline’s “Big Goals” installation is using soccer as a way to talk about art, ocean conservation and community engagement.

In Broward County, Amerant Bank Arena is hosting free watch parties throughout the tournament, offering fans a chance to cheer together without heading to Hard Rock Stadium.

Durante el próximo mes, no necesitará un pasaporte para dar una vuelta al mundo, solo apetito.

En el hotel Loews Miami Beach, la Copa Mundial de la FIFA también está presente en el menú.

“Tenemos algunas opciones gastronómicas inspiradas globalmente aquí en el Loews Miami Beach Hotel, así como algunos cócteles que también están inspirados en distintas partes del mundo”, dijo el experto en entretenimiento Paul Zahn.

La “Serie Copa Culinaria” del hotel combina los enfrentamientos en la cancha con sabores de todo el mundo.

Desde cócteles ahumados inspirados en México y Alemania hasta platillos que celebran a países como Arabia Saudita, Uruguay y otros más, la idea es simple.

En Coconut Grove, la Copa del Mundo llega acompañada de vistas frente al mar.

En Bayshore Club Bar & Grill, los aficionados pueden ver los partidos en pantalla gigante mientras disfrutan de la vista de la bahía de Biscayne.

En South Beach, Queen Miami Beach está adoptando el espíritu internacional del torneo.

Con fiestas especiales para ver partidos como Brasil contra Escocia y Colombia contra Portugal, además de cócteles diseñados para celebrar la búsqueda del oro, el lugar está aprovechando al máximo la emoción de la competencia.

Y si para usted el día perfecto de partido se parece más a una noche de fiesta, E11EVEN planea mantener la celebración activa las 24 horas, con transmisiones de partidos, DJ y espectáculos que convierten cada encuentro en un evento de día y de noche.

La Copa del Mundo no solo está tomando protagonismo en hoteles y centros de vida nocturna.

También está apareciendo en algunos lugares bastante inesperados.

En Miami Beach, la instalación “Big Goals” de ReefLine utiliza el fútbol como una forma de hablar sobre arte, conservación oceánica y participación comunitaria.

En el condado Broward, Amerant Bank Arena está organizando fiestas gratuitas para ver los partidos durante todo el torneo, ofreciendo a los aficionados la oportunidad de apoyar juntos a sus equipos sin tener que ir al Hard Rock Stadium.

Starmer has seen the departure of several junior and senior ministers in recent weeks, as Labour Party lawmakers revolt and rivals plot, in despair at the government’s relentless unpopularity.

But the sudden resignation of Defense Secretary John Healey is a heavy blow. Healey quit Thursday, warning that the government is not spending enough on the military to keep Britain safe “at this time of rising threats.”

His departure hits Starmer in the one place the often embattled prime minister has won consistent praise: the world stage.

Since taking office after a landslide election victory in July 2024, Starmer has bolstered support for Ukraine, working with French President Emmanuel Macron on a multinational “coalition of the willing” to help guarantee the country’s security if a ceasefire is reached.

France and the U.K. also have put together a maritime security force that would help keep the Strait of Hormuz open to shipping if the Iran war ends.

Starmer has also argued strongly that European nations must do more to fund their own defense in response to President Donald Trump ’s criticism of the United States’ NATO allies.

“Starmer has been consistently staunch about warning of the security risk from Russia,” said Olivia O’Sullivan, head of the U.K. in the World program at the Chatham House think tank. “He’s been given quite a bit of credit by the public for having to deal with Trump and doing so with a level of steadiness and calm. And he has been, in line with previous U.K. governments, a close and consistent ally of Ukraine.”

At issue is money for defense

At issue is the government’s long-awaited Defense Investment Plan, a road map for how the U.K. will increase military spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2035. The U.K. military is also seeking to reverse years of decline in the face of an increasingly assertive Russia, which invaded its neighbor Ukraine in 2022 and increasingly tests the defenses of European nations with overt and covert activity.

Healey says defense spending must reach 3% of GDP by 2030. He quit in frustration after Treasury chief Rachel Reeves refused to budge on a plan that falls short of that.

He cited a British intelligence assessment that Russia could attack a NATO member country as soon as 2030 and said a lower-than-needed spending plan “could make the country less safe.”

Critics argue that military spending can be a bottomless pit, and point out that procurement projects regularly run over time and over budget.

Former Armed Forces Minister Al Carns, who quit on Thursday a few hours after Healey, said it is not just a question of spending more money, but spending it wisely. He said the investment plan was not “transformative enough.”

“I want to see a higher percentage for uncrewed systems, AI, data — data is the new gunpowder — and we’ve got to move that forward if we are going to win the next war,” he told the BBC.

Resignations could hasten Starmer’s exit from office

Healey is not the first government minister to resign. Last month Starmer lost several junior ministers and then Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who quit so that he can run for party leader if a contest is triggered.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is widely expected to challenge Starmer for the leadership if he is elected to Parliament in a special election on Thursday.

But the departure of Healey, long seen as a loyal minister without personal leadership ambitions, “suggests that Starmer’s credibility, even with his inner circle of ministers, is perhaps draining away,” O’Sullivan said.

Starmer insisted Friday he is staying put, saying it’s his job to make “hard-edged decisions.”

He told the BBC that defense is “my number one priority. And I have taken the difficult decisions to make sure that we are safe as a country.”

“I’m not going to go away. I don’t think we should plunge the country into the chaos of a leadership election,” he said. “I don’t think it should happen, but if it does, then I will fight.”

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Associated Press writer Danica Kirka contributed to this story.

Los registros de la cárcel en línea muestran que Ashley Marie Hosendove, de 32 años, enfrenta un cargo de alteración del orden público/quebrantamiento de la paz.

Según documentos judiciales, una orden de arresto judicial fue emitida el 1 de junio contra Hosendove por un incidente ocurrido el 12 de marzo.

Un informe de arresto indica que Hosendove fue víctima de una agresión presuntamente cometida por su novio ese día.

Pero mientras su novio era puesto bajo custodia por la policía, Hosendove comenzó a “gritar y proferir obscenidades” contra los agentes presentes en la escena y se negó a proporcionar una identificación, señala el informe.

La policía dijo que las acciones de Hosendove, que fueron captadas por cámaras corporales, provocaron que vecinos se reunieran afuera.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade (MDSO), la balacera fue reportada alrededor de las 2 a.m. del miércoles en una vivienda ubicada en Northwest First Court cerca de la calle 16.

Las autoridades dijeron que la niña, identificada por un familiar como Janova Park, sufrió heridas de bala en el estómago y el torso y fue trasladada de emergencia al HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, donde posteriormente murió.

“Sabemos que al momento de la balacera había tres adultos y dos niños: la víctima, que tenía 5 años, y su hermano de 4 años”, dijo el detective de la MDSO Angel Rodriguez el miércoles.

Los detectives confirmaron que Hosendove estaba entre los adultos que se encontraban dentro de la vivienda al momento de la balacera.

Los detectives dijeron que todavía intentan determinar cómo Janova recibió el disparo, incluyendo si pudo haber tenido acceso al arma por sí misma o si otra persona le disparó.

Hannah Yechivi, de Local 10, habló el miércoles con Laticha Ellison, abuela de Janova, quien dijo que la balacera pudo haberse evitado.

“Mi nietecita tiene 5 años”, dijo Ellison entre lágrimas. “Solo tiene 5 años. Me da rabia porque algo así no debería poder ocurrir, especialmente en tu propia casa, por descuido”.

Ellison describió a su nieta como “inteligente y atrevida”.

Los investigadores dijeron que recuperaron un arma dentro de la vivienda y que “no están buscando a ninguna persona que pueda representar una amenaza para la comunidad”.

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Now, the 21-year-old defender is on the verge of making that dream a reality.

Freeman is expected to make his World Cup debut with the U.S. Men’s National Team, marking a major milestone in a journey that began in South Florida.

Despite his age, Freeman said he’s embracing the pressure that comes with competing at the highest level.

“I think, yeah, for me it’s my first World Cup and I’m the young guy,” Freeman said in an exclusive interview with Local 10 News. “I think as well for me it’s always going to be a lot of pressure, but for me, it’s how can I deal with the pressure and make it into something great when I play.”

For Freeman, the moment is about more than personal achievement. It’s an opportunity to represent the people who helped him reach this point.

“I think for me it’s to realize that I’m not only doing it for the fans and for myself,” Freeman said. “I’m doing it for the people that helped me get to this point. From Fort Lauderdale, from where I’m from, and it just means so much that I’m able to have that kind of support back home.”

Freeman said taking the leap to pursue a professional soccer career came with uncertainty, but the encouragement he received from family, friends and his South Florida community helped fuel his confidence.

“Knowing that I took a risk and I had so many people backing me, encouraging me to do this,” he said.

Representing the United States on the international stage is something Freeman said he does not take lightly.

“For me it’s such an honor,” Freeman said. “But I know honor comes with privilege, knowing that you have the privilege and the confidence and desire to be able to wear the shirt and perform when you’re in it.”

As he prepares to step onto the field, Freeman said he remains focused on carrying that responsibility with gratitude and pride.

“Always having that honor and grateful energy that you don’t get to wear this every day,” he said. “And when you do get to wear it, it’s to wear with pride.”

For the former Broward County standout, the upcoming match represents the latest chapter in a remarkable rise from local soccer fields to the global stage — one that South Florida will be watching closely.

Ahora, el defensor de 21 años está a punto de convertir ese sueño en realidad.

Se espera que Freeman haga su debut en la Copa del Mundo con la Selección Masculina de Estados Unidos, marcando un importante hito en una trayectoria que comenzó en el sur de Florida.

A pesar de su edad, Freeman dijo que está aceptando la presión que conlleva competir al más alto nivel.

“Creo que sí, para mí es mi primera Copa del Mundo y soy el joven del grupo”, dijo Freeman en una entrevista exclusiva con Local 10 News. “También creo que para mí siempre habrá mucha presión, pero la cuestión es cómo puedo manejar esa presión y convertirla en algo grandioso cuando juego”.

Para Freeman, este momento es mucho más que un logro personal. Es una oportunidad para representar a las personas que lo ayudaron a llegar hasta este punto.

“Creo que para mí es darme cuenta de que no solo lo hago por los fanáticos y por mí mismo”, dijo Freeman. “Lo hago por las personas que me ayudaron a llegar hasta aquí. Desde Fort Lauderdale, de donde soy, y significa muchísimo poder contar con ese tipo de apoyo en casa”.

Freeman dijo que dar el salto para perseguir una carrera profesional en el fútbol estuvo acompañado de incertidumbre, pero el respaldo que recibió de su familia, amigos y de su comunidad en el sur de Florida fortaleció su confianza.

“Saber que asumí un riesgo y que tenía a tantas personas apoyándome y alentándome a hacer esto”, dijo.

Representar a Estados Unidos en el escenario internacional es algo que Freeman asegura no toma a la ligera.

“Para mí es un gran honor”, dijo Freeman. “Pero sé que el honor viene con privilegios, saber que tienes el privilegio, la confianza y el deseo de poder vestir esta camiseta y rendir cuando la llevas puesta”.

Mientras se prepara para salir al campo, Freeman dijo que sigue enfocado en asumir esa responsabilidad con gratitud y orgullo.

“Siempre tener ese honor y esa energía de gratitud, porque no puedes vestir esto todos los días”, dijo. “Y cuando tienes la oportunidad de vestirlo, es para hacerlo con orgullo”.

Para el ex destacado jugador del condado Broward, el próximo partido representa el capítulo más reciente de un ascenso extraordinario desde las canchas locales hasta el escenario mundial, uno que el sur de Florida seguirá muy de cerca.

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The low-pressure area is an amalgamation of the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristina that crossed Central America from the eastern Pacific over the past few days and a westward-moving tropical disturbance. As of Friday morning, the low-pressure area remained broad and thunderstorm activity was disorganized.

Because the disturbance is situated so far south in the lower reaches of the Gulf and Bay of Campeche, there’s a small window today and Saturday for it to overperform and become a short-lived tropical depression or storm (Arthur, in the off-chance it’s named), but odds are stacked against it given the presence of dry, continental air to the west and a curtain of wind shear to the north.

Regardless, significant development isn’t expected before the system moves inland over northeastern Mexico late Saturday into early Sunday.

But wait, there’s more…

As we discussed in yesterday’s newsletter, the newcomer AI models suggest residual spin from the disturbance could re-emerge back over the northern Gulf south of Texas come the early to middle part of next week, where a stalled front could help to energize it and deflect the low-pressure area eastward toward the north-central Gulf Coast.

This is reflected in a handful of scenarios in both Google’s DeepMind machine learning-based model and the European Centre’s AI ensemble system.

It’s worth noting that development is only shown in about 10% of the scenarios from both AI modeling camps and for now none of the conventional physics-based models like the European model or American GFS show any development next week. Additionally, the handful of development scenarios shown by the AI models maintain a weak system.

Given the track record (pun intended) of the AI models last season, we’ll keep an eye on the trends as the disturbance loiters near or over Gulf waters.

Tropical air aggravates Deep South rains early next week

The upshot will be an infusion of tropical air into the Deep South and Southern Plains beginning this weekend and into next week, which will enhance the heavy rainfall threat associated with the approaching cold front and along the stalled frontal zone.

The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center is indicating a slight risk of excessive rainfall for these areas starting on Sunday and bleeding into the northern Gulf Coast for the middle part of next week. This could lead to scattered, localized flash flooding from parts of eastern Texas to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.

On the eve of Friday's match between Bosnia and Canada, members of the genre-bending rock group met The Associated Press in the Sarajevo neighborhood where they filmed the new music video for the accordion-heavy earworm, now titled “I Am From Bosnia, Take Me to America.” In less than three weeks, the video celebrating soccer's working-class roots has notched nearly 2 million views on YouTube — on top of the 26 million views the original “USA,” released in 2011, has amassed over the years.

“It’s an interesting story how this song got its second and third and fourth incarnation in these 15 years,” muses Vedran Mujagić, bassist for the band that has woven political and social causes into its identity. “It evolved from this satirical take on immigration and (the) American Dream and it was translated into (an) American football dream for the entire nation.”

Bosnia-Herzegovina is making only its second appearance at a World Cup, a goal that once seemed improbable as more traditional soccer powers stood in the way of qualification. At the end of April, though, Bosnia's late goal against Wales propelled the team to a victorious penalty shootout, a feat it would replicate days later against Italy. The band members were surprised when fans unfurled a banner emblazoned with their lyrics, singing them as a rallying cry.

“First, it was working as a joke, but what I like the most is the supporters kind of loaded completely new meaning to the old song, and this is the best thing for the band or for the song: when people take over and load new meaning and then it becomes theirs,” keyboardist Brano Jakubović says. “It’s not ours anymore.”

An own goal lament turns joyous

The original “USA” is as up-tempo and catchy — it's hard not to wander around muttering, “I can no longer wait, take me to United States / Take me to Golden Gate, I will assimilate” — but its protagonist's eagerness to flee slides quickly to disenchantment with life outside the Balkans.

The band decided to deliver an updated version of what Jakubović describes as a “typical immigrant song,” writing new lyrics befitting a soccer anthem. While “USA” is in English, this version is mostly in Bosnian — “so people will understand,” he says — and mostly about the sport. The language switch has done nothing to lessen its global appeal, as a quick perusal of the YouTube comments suggests, though there are some jokes Jakubović acknowledges would be inscrutable outside Bosnia. (See: burek without cheese.)

Jakubović’s favorite new line is a chance to excise something that has haunted the country since the 2014 World Cup: “And that goal against Nigeria, that was never offside.”

“So this is like a big national trauma in Bosnia, so I used the song and lyrics to kind of release this trauma,” he says.

He's being wry there, but trauma has been a mainstay since Bosnia's independence amid the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992. Interethnic war almost immediately broke out, leading to genocide. More than 30 years after the Srebrenica massacre, deep division between Bosnian Serbs and Bosniak Muslims persist.

“Football in this moment is much more than just a game, it's a hope and it’s very basically (a) political thing because it brought all the people from Bosnia together, which is usually not the case,” Jakubović says.

I am from Bosnia, take me to ... Canada?

Bosnia's first match is in Canada, but the team will indeed be taken to America. Their base camp is in Sandy, Utah, and the other group stage matches — against Switzerland and Qatar — are in the States. And, as Mujagić points out, many of the players were born in the U.S. or elsewhere in the diaspora.

“They are children of those people who went outside in search of a better life or as refugees or whatever their story was. And they kind of see and hear these lyrics and this song entirely differently from us,” he says.

Mujagić thinks the original message of “USA” endures as Bosnians still emigrate. Once they leave, he finds, “they encounter this hostility of the locals, right-wingers, and they just don’t want them there.”

“So it’s this schizophrenic situation in which you want to go there, but you somehow know that you won’t have it good on the other side as well,” he concludes. “So in that sense, this song still works perfectly well as it worked before.”

In St. Louis, home to a thriving Bosnian community, Admir Hodzic is one of the founders of the supporter group BH Loyals. The 40-year-old business owner was born in Bosnia and has moved back and forth between his homeland and the U.S., not unlike the protagonist of “USA.”

“I think every Bosnian that lives here and understands how the system works and everything else, I think they will find the truth in that song, and that song is honestly nothing but the truth,” he says. There are more opportunities in the U.S. than elsewhere, he says, but “it's a matter of biting your teeth and pulling through the worst times possible.”

He and his fellow supporters are big fans of Dubioza Kolektiv and sing their anthem at matches and watch parties. More often than not, though, it's the original “USA.”

“It’s engraved in their brain and their hearts,” he says, “and no matter what, they just go back to the old lyrics, you know?”

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Sen reported from New York.

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La zona de baja presión es una fusión de los remanentes de la tormenta tropical Cristina, que cruzó Centroamérica desde el Pacífico oriental en los últimos días, y una perturbación tropical que se desplaza hacia el oeste. Hasta la mañana del viernes, la zona de baja presión seguía siendo extensa y la actividad de tormentas eléctricas estaba desorganizada.

Debido a que la perturbación se sitúa tan al sur, en la parte baja del Golfo y la Bahía de Campeche, existe una pequeña ventana de tiempo hoy y mañana para que se intensifique y se convierta en una depresión o tormenta tropical de corta duración (Arthur, en el improbable caso de que reciba un nombre), pero las probabilidades están en su contra dada la presencia de aire continental seco al oeste y una cortina de cizalladura del viento al norte.

En cualquier caso, no se prevé un desarrollo significativo antes de que el sistema se adentre en el interior del noreste de México entre la noche del sábado y la madrugada del domingo.

Pero espera, aún hay más…

Como comentamos en el boletín de ayer, los nuevos modelos de IA sugieren que el giro residual de la perturbación podría reaparecer sobre el norte del Golfo, al sur de Texas, a principios o mediados de la próxima semana, donde un frente estancado podría ayudar a energizarlo y desviar la zona de baja presión hacia el este, hacia la costa centro-norte del Golfo.

Esto se refleja en un puñado de escenarios tanto en el modelo de aprendizaje automático DeepMind de Google como en el sistema de conjunto de IA del Centro Europeo.

Cabe destacar que el desarrollo solo se observa en aproximadamente el 10 % de los escenarios de ambos grupos de modelos de IA, y por ahora ninguno de los modelos convencionales basados ​​en la física, como el modelo europeo o el GFS estadounidense, muestra desarrollo alguno para la próxima semana. Además, los pocos escenarios de desarrollo mostrados por los modelos de IA mantienen un sistema débil.

Dado el historial (valga la redundancia) de los modelos de IA la temporada pasada, estaremos atentos a las tendencias mientras la perturbación permanezca cerca o sobre las aguas del Golfo.

El aire tropical agravará las lluvias en el sur profundo a principios de la próxima semana.

El resultado será una infusión de aire tropical en el sur profundo y las llanuras del sur a partir de este fin de semana y durante la próxima semana, lo que aumentará la amenaza de fuertes lluvias asociadas con el frente frío que se aproxima y a lo largo de la zona frontal estacionaria.

El Centro de Predicción Meteorológica del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional indica un riesgo leve de lluvias torrenciales en estas zonas a partir del domingo, que se extenderán hacia la costa norte del Golfo de México a mediados de la próxima semana. Esto podría provocar inundaciones repentinas localizadas y dispersas desde partes del este de Texas hasta Luisiana, Misisipi y Alabama.

Según una orden de arresto, un detective de la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade informó que los videos de vigilancia muestran a Julian Jimenez en la escena del crimen y su automóvil de huida después del tiroteo ocurrido el 27 de agosto de 2019 en Kendale Lakes.

Según la orden judicial, un video de vigilancia muestra a Jiménez con una máscara y guantes, y sosteniendo una pistola calibre .40, después de que Alex Vega llegara en su auto al camino de entrada de su casa en Southwest 118 Avenue, cerca de Killian Parkway.

Jiménez, que entonces tenía 23 años, disparó, y los agentes encontraron a Vega, que entonces tenía 50 años, con heridas en la espalda, según la orden de arresto. Los bomberos trasladaron a Vega al Centro Médico Regional de Kendall, que ahora funciona como Hospital HCA Florida Kendall, según consta en los registros.

Hace más de 15 años, Vega y Rolando Ramírez tuvieron un conflicto por deudas, según fiscales federales que trabajaron en un caso relacionado.

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En 2012, según los fiscales, Ramírez, propietario del Doral Collision Center, se hizo cargo de Vega’s Exclusive Motoring Worldwide en Doral como parte de un acuerdo.

Según los fiscales, Rasheed Ali, amigo de Ramírez y exjugador de fútbol americano de la Universidad de Miami, ayudó a organizar el complot para cometer un asesinato por encargo en 2018.

Según los fiscales, Ali, también conocido como “Fresh”, y su amigo Tamrat Mason, más conocido como el artista de reggae “Shifta”, reclutaron a Jaime Serrano, un “distribuidor de marihuana” con una deuda pendiente.

Según los agentes, el 21 de agosto de 2019, Serrano voló con Jiménez de Nueva York a Miami y alquiló un Nissan Rogue de 2018 en Enterprise Rental Car.

Pocos minutos después de que Vega resultara herido el 27 de agosto de 2019, un video de vigilancia muestra a Jiménez caminando hacia el sur por la Avenida 117 Suroeste y “hacia una parada de autobús que contenía un bote de basura donde posteriormente se encontró el arma de fuego”, según la orden judicial.

Otro video de vigilancia muestra el Nissan Rogue, “unos cinco minutos después, en la plaza de peaje de Bird Road en la autopista Florida Turnpike en dirección norte”, según la orden judicial, que no menciona cuánto se le pagó supuestamente a Jiménez.

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“Las fuerzas del orden encontraron una máscara y un par de guantes”, escribió un agente, según la orden judicial.

Jiménez, originario del Bronx, accedió a una orden judicial para proporcionar su ADN a los detectives el 26 de junio de 2022, y el laboratorio de la Oficina de Servicios Forenses del MDSO lo analizó, según consta en la orden.

Según los registros de reclusos, el departamento penitenciario del condado de Miami-Dade ingresó en el centro penitenciario Turner Guilford Knight poco antes de las 23:40 del miércoles.

Jiménez tenía dos órdenes de arresto pendientes: una por intento de asesinato con arma mortal y conspiración para cometer asesinato con arma mortal, y la otra por una orden de detención emitida por otra agencia, según consta en los registros.

Lea un fragmento de la orden judicial.

La editora de la mesa de asignaciones de Local 10 News, Mercedes Cevallos, contribuyó a este reportaje.

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Her actions in the backseat of a deputy’s cruiser after she was taken into custody were captured on multiple body cameras and an in-car camera, authorities confirmed.

According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded around 2 p.m. Tuesday to a Texaco gas station after receiving reports about a disorderly person causing a disturbance outside the business.

Employees told deputies that the woman, identified as Iesha Field, 33, of Brooksville, had been yelling at customers, behaving erratically and disrupting business operations. Workers requested that she be trespassed from the property, and deputies issued a trespass warning.

Investigators said Field then left the gas station and walked to a nearby mobile home park, where deputies observed her continuing to behave disruptively.

According to the sheriff’s office, Field removed her clothing and was wearing only underwear while yelling, acting belligerently and disturbing residents. Deputies said her behavior alarmed several residents, including a mother with young children, who requested that Field be trespassed from her property.

Deputies reported that Field appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and/or narcotics and attempted to de-escalate the situation by instructing her to return home. Authorities said Field, who had visible injuries to her right knee and left eye, refused commands and became increasingly combative.

Field was taken into custody, but deputies said she resisted efforts to place her into a patrol vehicle and repeatedly attempted to hit and kick deputies during the arrest.

Once inside the patrol vehicle, Field allegedly continued acting aggressively by repeatedly striking her head and feet against the vehicle’s windows. Deputies said that when they opened the patrol car door to address her behavior, she fell out of the vehicle due to her movements.

The sheriff’s office said Deputy M. LaPalme assisted Field back into the patrol vehicle, at which time she spit on the left side of his face. Authorities said Field spit at the deputy a second time while he was attempting to secure her with a seat belt.

Video shows the deputy slapping Field in the face before closing the vehicle door.

Deputies reported that even after the slap, Field continued resisting and attempting to damage the patrol vehicle as she was transported to the Hernando County Detention Center.

“Due to her continued combative behavior, additional restraints and a spit hood were utilized for the safety of both Field and responding personnel,” a press release from the sheriff’s office stated.

Field was arrested on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and breach of the peace/disorderly intoxication. She was booked into the Hernando County Detention Center, where she was being held on a $3,000 bond.

HCSO officials confirmed that LaPalme’s actions during the encounter are under administrative review.

Sus acciones en el asiento trasero de una patrulla de un agente después de ser puesta bajo custodia fueron captadas por múltiples cámaras corporales y una cámara instalada en el vehículo, confirmaron las autoridades.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Hernando, los agentes respondieron alrededor de las 2 p.m. del martes a una gasolinera Texaco tras recibir reportes sobre una persona alterando el orden y causando disturbios fuera del negocio.

Los empleados dijeron a los agentes que la mujer, identificada como Iesha Field, de 33 años y residente de Brooksville, había estado gritándole a los clientes, comportándose de manera errática e interrumpiendo las operaciones del negocio. Los trabajadores solicitaron que se le prohibiera el acceso a la propiedad, y los agentes emitieron una advertencia de invasión de propiedad privada.

Los investigadores dijeron que Field luego abandonó la gasolinera y caminó hacia un parque de casas móviles cercano, donde los agentes observaron que continuaba comportándose de manera perturbadora.

Según la oficina del sheriff, Field se quitó la ropa y vestía únicamente ropa interior mientras gritaba, actuaba de forma agresiva y alteraba la tranquilidad de los residentes. Los agentes dijeron que su comportamiento alarmó a varios residentes, incluida una madre con niños pequeños, quien solicitó que se le prohibiera el acceso a su propiedad.

Los agentes informaron que Field parecía estar bajo la influencia de alcohol y/o narcóticos e intentaron reducir la tensión de la situación indicándole que regresara a su casa. Las autoridades dijeron que Field, quien tenía lesiones visibles en la rodilla derecha y el ojo izquierdo, se negó a obedecer las órdenes y se volvió cada vez más combativa.

Field fue puesta bajo custodia, pero los agentes dijeron que se resistió a los intentos de introducirla en un vehículo de patrulla y que repetidamente intentó golpear y patear a los agentes durante el arresto.

Una vez dentro del vehículo de patrulla, Field presuntamente continuó actuando de manera agresiva al golpear repetidamente su cabeza y sus pies contra las ventanas del vehículo. Los agentes dijeron que cuando abrieron la puerta de la patrulla para atender su comportamiento, ella cayó fuera del vehículo debido a sus movimientos.

La oficina del sheriff indicó que el agente M. LaPalme ayudó a Field a regresar al vehículo de patrulla, momento en el que ella le escupió el lado izquierdo del rostro. Las autoridades dijeron que Field escupió al agente una segunda vez mientras él intentaba asegurarla con el cinturón de seguridad.

El video muestra al agente dándole una bofetada a Field en el rostro antes de cerrar la puerta del vehículo.

Los agentes informaron que incluso después de la bofetada, Field continuó resistiéndose e intentando dañar el vehículo de patrulla mientras era trasladada al Centro de Detención del Condado Hernando.

“Debido a su continuo comportamiento combativo, se utilizaron restricciones adicionales y una capucha antisaliva para la seguridad tanto de Field como del personal que respondió al incidente”, indicó un comunicado de prensa de la oficina del sheriff.

Field fue arrestada por cargos de agresión contra un agente del orden público y alteración del orden público/intoxicación escandalosa. Fue ingresada en el Centro de Detención del Condado Hernando, donde permanecía detenida con una fianza de $3,000 USD.

Funcionarios de la HCSO confirmaron que las acciones de LaPalme durante el incidente están bajo revisión administrativa.

Pino defeated attorney Tiffany Burress in the northern New Jersey district, where Pou is seeking a second term. The Associated Press called the race for Pino on Friday.

The district is being watched closely in this year's hotly contested midterm elections, with Republicans in particular drawing a target on the longtime Democratic-held seat.

The GOP saw an opportunity there after the 2024 election was closer than expected and Donald Trump won in places where his party hadn’t been victorious for decades.

Pino, a former Democrat, said she left the party for the GOP and criticized Democrats in the campaign for their longtime control in the region.

In a statement, Pino emphasized that she would work for those who disagree with her sometimes.

“I extend a hand to everyone across our district — Republicans, Independents, and Democrats, as well as those who have never voted before,” she said.

Pino had been critical of the slow pace of vote counting in her district, where the election ended June 2, and across the country.

“In Congress, I will help lead the fight to secure our elections,” Pino said in a statement this week. “We need mandatory Voter ID nationwide and strict limits on late mail-in voting."

In a statement Friday, Burress said she was grateful to her supporters but stopped short of backing Pino.

Pou is in her first term in the House, where she was elected after years in the state Legislature, succeeding longtime Democrat Bill Pascrell Jr., who died in 2024.

The West African nation is the latest to criminalize homosexuality, following similar measures earlier this year in Senegal.

The new penal code punishes anyone who “commits or attempts to commit an immodest or unnatural act or practices lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, Queer, intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA+) acts” with between five and 10 years in prison and a fine, according to the text of the new penal code.

“This same penalty is applicable to persons who officiated the marriage, to the witnesses of the alleged spouses, as well as to persons who have given their consent for the celebration of the marriage and to the organizers,” the new penal code said.

Hamidou Julien, an adviser to the justice minister, confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that the law took effect on Thursday.

Previously, homosexuality wasn't illegal in Niger, but has been heavily stigmatized.

Laws prohibiting homosexuality are common across Africa: more than 30 of the 54 countries criminalize same-sex sexual acts. Niger has joined countries like Senegal, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Tanzania, where penalties can include 10 or more years of imprisonment. In Somalia, Uganda and Mauritania, the offense can carry the death penalty.

Three regional officials say the emerging deal is expected to pave the way for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the phased lifting of sanctions on Iran, and the release of frozen Iranian assets. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.

A senior U.S. administration official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said that technical details on how to remove Iran’s enriched uranium, according to the emerging memorandum of understanding, would be worked out during a 60-day period following the two sides signing off on the agreement.

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Treasury expands bank data-sharing rules tied to Trump immigration crackdown

The Treasury Department has moved to involve banks more deeply in the administration’s immigration crackdown.

The department issued new guidance Friday allowing banks to share information about suspected customers more freely.

The changes are framed as a crackdown on fraud and crime. In May, Trump signed an executive order requiring banks to scrutinize customer citizenship. The new guidance expands banks’ ability to share information, including flags tied to immigration status.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told bankers that the new guidance is part of what the banking system needs to do as part of their routine operations.

“The advisory does not ask banks to become immigration officers,” Bessent said. “It asks banks to do what they do best: know their customers, identify risk, recognize suspicious patterns, and report illicit activity when they see it.”

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Platner’s nomination reflects Democrats’ desire for a bigger tent to gain seats

Support for Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner despite a growing list of controversies reflects a Democratic Party increasingly willing to overlook behavior it might once have deemed disqualifying.

For some Democrats, the shift reflects lessons learned during the Trump era. Republicans stood by Trump through scandals, impeachments and criminal convictions, often without paying a lasting political price at the ballot box.

“I think what the people of this country and the people of Maine are interested in is how we’re going to have a government that represents all of us and addresses the many crises we face. Not the marriage problems of a campaign,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Among the controversies concerning Platner are a tattoo recognized as a Nazi symbol, sexting with other women shortly after he married and allegations, which Platner denies, that he locked an ex-girlfriend in a room and forcefully twisted her arm.

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Take a peek inside more new UFO files

One was a rotating disc that sent out beams of light. Another was a shining red orb of a hue the observer had never seen before. Then there was the one compared to a potato, and also a bean, but with a coat of shimmering, fish-like scales.

Those were some of the UFOs described in documents released Friday by the Pentagon, the third release since Trump directed his administration to give the public full disclosure around what it knows about alien life and mysterious objects in the sky.

The 72 files released on Friday don’t include the kind of blockbuster revelation that Trump has teased. There’s no conclusive evidence of alien life or government cover-ups. But the files reveal new details about some recent sightings, along with the government’s efforts to explain what many find inexplicable.

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As Trump again says the Iran war could soon end, some objectives are unfulfilled

The Trump administration has said its war aims are clear and unchanging. However, the list has expanded and shifted as the president and his administration have spoken about the conflict, now in its fourth month.

All the while, the war has battered the global economy, tested alliances and raised unanswered questions about the planning for the conflict, its justification and its aftermath.

By most accounts, the strikes by the U.S. and Israel have significantly degraded Iran’s military capabilities and killed scores of senior leaders. But those tactical successes don’t necessarily translate into achieving all the president’s strategic aims, even as the administration said Friday that it was meeting the goals it had laid out.

Here’s a look at the objectives laid out by Trump at various points during the war, and what we know about where they stand:

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The rise of UFC: Dana White’s path from ‘human cockfighting’ to the White House starts with Trump

Dana White and the UFC’s journey to the White House began 25 years ago with a modest event in Atlantic City called “Battle on the Boardwalk.”

At the time, White was a new UFC president who said his goal was to make the fledging promotion “the Super Bowl of mixed martial arts.”

The site of this seemingly absurd proclamation: Trump Taj Mahal.

After larger fights outside the cage for legitimacy and legalization, UFC is back at Trump’s home this weekend, though both the promotion and the businessman have long since leveled up in status and stature.

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White House is trying to assure Netanyahu about emerging deal

Trump spoke on Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the latest efforts to reach an agreement with Iran, according to a senior U.S. administration official.

The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said that the U.S. administration is stressing to Israeli officials that any deal will require Iran to begin delivering on concessions in the deal before Tehran receives any potential benefits from the settlement.

— By Aamer Madhani in Washington

Cuban president announces economic reforms amid tensions

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday announced a package of economic reforms aimed at attracting investment, expanding participation by Cubans living abroad in the economy and decentralizing parts of the country’s administration.

The president did not provide details during remarks to state media.

“Every opportunity in the midst of a crisis must be seized as a moment for takeoff, as a moment for growth,” Díaz-Canel said, according to a statement from the presidency that was republished by state-run media.

The reforms come amid heightened tensions in U.S.-Cuba relations. The U.S. has pressed for economic reforms since launching a blockade that has deprived Cuba of fuel since February.

Technical details are still in flux for emerging Iran deal, US official says

A senior U.S. administration official said that a deal with Iran was 80% to 85% done, and the U.S. side believes “most of the people who have authority” in the Iranian government want to sign on to the deal “but not everybody.”

The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, said that technical details on how to go about removing Iran’s enriched uranium, according to the emerging memorandum of understanding, would be worked out during a 60-day period following the two sides signing off on the agreement.

The official did not detail who the U.S. envisions taking charge of removing the uranium, which is believed to be entombed under three nuclear sites that were battered by U.S. strikes last year.

— By Aamer Madhani in Washington

Judge rules Trump can stage UFC fights at the White House this weekend

A federal judge has refused to stop the White House from staging a UFC mixed martial arts event this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary — on Trump’s 80th birthday.

The nonprofit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event.

The White House calls the lawsuit baseless, saying it’s no different from many other events hosted at public forums in the capital.

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Judge denies Kennedy Center request for pause in ruling ordering Trump’s name removed from building

That denial came Friday. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled last month Trump’s name was illegally added to the iconic Washington performing arts facility. Cooper ruled only Congress could institute a change to the Kennedy Center’s name and ordered references to Trump to be removed by Friday.

A June 4 memo to staff from the Kennedy Center’s Office of General Counsel said email signatures, letterhead and other documents must reflect the name as “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” or “Kennedy Center.”

The Kennedy Center’s website has dropped Trump’s name. And an email earlier this week sent to members offering ticket packages for the June 28 Mark Twain Award for American Humor ceremony came from the Kennedy Center without including Trump’s name.

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Pakistan says US and Iran agree on ‘final’ text of a peace deal

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Friday that a “final, agreed upon text of the peace deal” between the United States and Iran has been reached and that Pakistan is now working with both sides to finalize the next steps.

“Peace has never been this close as it is now,” he added.

In a post on X, Sharif said Pakistan was engaged in “ongoing intense mediation efforts” and accused unnamed actors of spreading “incessant misinformation” aimed at undermining the process.

The U.S. and Iran did not immediately comment on Sharif’s statement.

Thunderbirds and Blue Angels fly over White House before Sunday’s UFC matches

Dana White, president and CEO of UFC, was on hand to watch as the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and U.S. Navy Blue Angels did a practice run over the White House, where the lawn is set up for Sunday’s matches.

White is a big Trump supporter. Sunday is also Trump’s 80th birthday.

Trump’s name remains on Kennedy Center as removal deadline approaches

Yet there were signs of activity on this steamy summer afternoon, as workers put up scaffolding around a section of the performing arts venue that includes Trump’s name.

Workers have appeared in the area before so it’s unclear whether they were preparing to immediately take down his name.

Much of the attention is on U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who must decide whether to grant a last-minute pause for his earlier ruling to remove Trump’s name. The judge ruled in May that only Congress could make such changes.

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, a Democrat from Ohio, made a filing earlier Friday opposing the request. An ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center’s board, she filed the lawsuit seeking to remove Trump’s name from the institution.

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Iran’s top diplomat says a deal with the US is close

Striking an unusually optimistic tone, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that a Pakistan-brokered agreement between the U.S. and Iran to end their war “has never been closer.”

He added that the media should not speculate about the deal’s content, apparently in reference to reports circulating with lists of points purportedly included in the agreement.

“All details will be shared with the public in due course,” Araghchi said in a post on X.

Trump shared Araghchi’s post on his own social media account.

Official details US reductions to NATO resources in Europe

The U.S. notified NATO in early June that it’s reducing the American military assets that would be available to Europe in case of attack, according to a NATO official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The reduction included an aircraft carrier strike group as well as a number of submarines, fighter jets, maritime patrol aircraft, air refueling planes and drones, the official said. However, U.S. space capabilities that help with targeting are not being drawn down.

The official said details are still being worked out on exactly when those assets are being reduced and when other NATO countries will step in to fill gaps left by the U.S. The timeline will be discussed further at the NATO summit in Turkey in July.

German news outlet Die Welt earlier reported some details of the cuts.

— Ben Finley

Vice President JD Vance pushes back on critics of in-the-works Iran deal

Vance in a social media post appeared to be chiding some of the president’s supporters who “said Donald Trump was a historic president a month ago” were now “criticizing a deal based on unconfirmed media reports.”

“The president is going to get us a good outcome, one way or the other,” Vance said.

The vice president in his post said the Iranians “are not receiving any cash,” but that Iran would receive “economic benefits” if it meets obligations.

“This deal has the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace,” he said, without releasing details.

Judge extends block on Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund

The federal judge agreed Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration’s creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government.

Earlier this month, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress the government is scrapping its plans for the fund in the face of a fierce bipartisan backlash. Government attorneys have argued that lawsuits challenging the fund are now moot, but plaintiffs’ attorneys aren’t satisfied by Blanche’s assurances that the fund won’t move forward.

President Trump, meanwhile, has not publicly and unequivocally endorsed its cancellation.

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US official says Iran deal has five key terms that include destroying and removing nuclear material

A senior U.S. official said there are five key terms in the agreement: Iran’s nuclear material will be destroyed and removed, its nuclear program will be dismantled, none of its frozen money will be released until it meets certain demands, the Strait of Hormuz will be open, and Iran must not fund terrorist groups.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the sensitive talks.

Trump on Friday lashed out at Iranian officials on social media and said, “They better get their act together, and FAST!”

— Collin Binkley

NATO weighs options to defend Europe as the US plans for conflict elsewhere

NATO’s top military officer is weighing alternative plans to defend Europe should it come under attack from Russia, after the United States announced it’s cutting the number of aircraft and warships it would provide in a security crisis.

The so-called NATO Force Model is Plan A for making forces from the 32 member nations available in times of peace, crisis or war. It sets out the military assets commanders can call on in phases over the first six months of any conflict.

But last month, the Pentagon warned its NATO allies it would be scaling down its commitment to focus on potential threats elsewhere, notably from China in the Indo-Pacific region.

European countries and Canada had waited impatiently for over a year for the Trump administration to detail its plans after it warned that Europe is no longer a top U.S. security priority. They knew cuts were coming, but not how big, fast or what kind.

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Tensions between Trump and Macron could be on full display at next week’s G7 summit in France

The relationship between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron started simply enough, with a handshake, nearly a decade ago.

But even then, there were signs of strain in their relationship — tensions that could be on full display during next week’s G7 summit in France.

Back in 2017, Trump was a brash businessman just elected to America’s most powerful office, and Macron was an upstart politician who had won his race in a landslide. At a NATO summit in Brussels, they clinched hands far longer than most people do when they meet for the first time. Neither seemed to want to be the first to break a grip so tight that it exposed white knuckles.

Nevertheless, a friendship was born. And early on, Macron seemed to be the one European leader with a knack for managing his mercurial, three-decades-older counterpart.

But by the end of Trump’s first term, the bromance had faded. And in his second term, the leaders now openly trade barbs, disagreeing over tariffs, Ukraine and the Iran war.

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A key US government surveillance program is set to expire

The surveillance tool seen as vital in preventing terror attacks and catching foreign spies is set to expire Friday after congressional efforts to temporarily extend it failed in bipartisan fashion.

It’s a significant lapse for the program known as Section 702, and even as President Donald Trump nominates a new national intelligence director more palatable to both Republicans and Democrats than his initial pick, it’s unclear how soon lawmakers — set for recess — would be able to revive the spy program.

Still, there may not be an immediate drop-off given that a court order from March authorized these government surveillance powers to remain in effect for another year.

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Canada’s afternoon opener against Bosnia for Group B is at 3 p.m.

The United States’ night opener against Paraguay for Group D is at 9 p.m.

Group A progress on Thursday: Mexico and South Korea each get 3 points after openers

The rest of the schedule

June 13: There are three matches: The Group B, Qatar vs. Switzerland, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Haiti vs. Scotland, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch party: Fan Festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight on June 13 at Bayfront Park

June 14: There are five matches: The Group D, Australia vs. Turkey, game is at Midnight. The Group E, Germany vs. Curaçao, game is at 1 p.m. The Group F, The Netherlands vs. Japan, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Sweden vs. Tunisia, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 15: There are four matches: The Group H, Spain vs. Cape Verde, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Egypt, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, Iran vs. New Zealand, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 16: There are three matches: The Group I, France vs. Senegal, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Iraq vs. Norway, game is at 6 p.m. The Group J, Argentina vs. Algeria, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 17: There are five matches: The Group J, Austria vs. Jordan, game is at Midnight. The Group K, Portugal vs. Congo, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Croatia, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Ghana vs. Panama, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Uzbekistan vs. Colombia, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 18: There are four matches: The Group A match, The Czech Republic vs. South Africa, is at Noon. The Group B, Switzerland vs. Bosnia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Canada vs. Qatar, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A match, Mexico vs. South Korea, is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 19: There are four matches: The Group D, U.S. vs. Australia, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Morocco, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Brazil vs. Haiti, game is at 8:30 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. Paraguay, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 20: There are three matches: The Group F, Netherlands vs. Sweden, game is at 1 p.m. The Group E, Germany vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Curaçao, game is at 8 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach fan party: Doors open at 6 p.m. on June 20 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for an event for Uruguayan fans co-hosted by the Consulate General of Uruguay.

June 21: There are five matches: The Group F, Tunisia vs. Japan, game is at Midnight. The Group H, Spain vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at Noon. The Group G, Belgium vs. Iran, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Cape Verde, game is at 6 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Egypt, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 22: There are four matches: The Group J, Argentina vs. Austria, game is at 1 p.m. The Group I, France vs. Iraq, game is at 5 p.m. The Group I, Norway vs. Senegal, game is at 8 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Algeria, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 8 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 11 a.m. on June 22 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 1 p.m. Argentina vs. Austria match.

June 23: There are four matches: The Group K, Portugal vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 1 p.m. The Group L, England vs. Ghana, game is at 4 p.m. The Group L, Panama vs. Croatia, game is at 7 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Congo, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 24: There are six matches: The Group B, Switzerland vs. Canada, game is at 3 p.m. The Group B, Bosnia vs. Qatar, game is at 3 p.m. The Group C, Morocco vs. Haiti, game is at 6 p.m. The Group C, Scotland vs. Brazil, game is at 6 p.m. The Group A, South Africa vs. South Korea, game is at 9 p.m. The Group A, Czech Republic vs. Mexico, game is at 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 4 p.m. on June 24 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 6 p.m. Scotland vs. Brazil match.

June 25: There are six matches: The Group E, Curaçao vs. Ivory Coast, game is at 4 p.m. The Group E, Ecuador vs. Germany, game is at 4 p.m. The Group F, Tunisia vs. Netherlands, game is at 7 p.m. The Group F, Japan vs. Sweden, game is at 7 p.m. The Group D, Turkey vs. U.S., game is at 10 p.m. The Group D, Paraguay vs. Australia, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 3 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 26: There are six matches: The Group I, Norway vs. France, game is at 3 p.m. The Group I, Senegal vs. Iraq, game is at 3 p.m. The Group H, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, game is at 8 p.m. The Group H, Uruguay vs. Spain, game is at 8 p.m. The Group G, New Zealand vs. Belgium, game is at 11 p.m. The Group G, Egypt vs. Iran, game is at 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 27: There are six matches: The Group L, Panama vs. England, game is at 5 p.m. The Group L, Croatia vs. Ghana, game is at 5 p.m. The Group K, Colombia vs. Portugal, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group K, Congo vs. Uzbekistan, game is at 7:30 p.m. The Group J, Algeria vs. Austria, game is at 10 p.m. The Group J, Jordan vs. Argentina, game is at 10 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 28: There is a match at 3 p.m.

Miami watch party: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 29: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

June 30: There are three matches at 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 1: There are three matches at noon, 4 p.m., and 9 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 2: There are three matches at 3 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 3: There are three matches at 2 p.m., 6 p.m., and 9:30 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from 1 p.m to 9 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 4: There are two matches at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens from noon to midnight at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 5: There are two matches at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Miami watch parties: The fan festival opens for the last day from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Bayfront Park, at 301 Biscayne Boulevard.

July 6: There are two matches at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

July 7: There are two matches at Noon and 4 p.m.

July 9: There is a quarter-final match at 4 p.m.

July 10: There is a quarter-final match at 3 p.m.

July 11: There are two quarter-final matches at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

July 14: The fan festival is closed. There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 14 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

July 15: There is a semi-final match at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 15 at The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the semifinal match.

July 18: The third-place play-off match is at 5 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 3 p.m. on July 18 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 5 p.m. bronze final.

July 19: The final match is at 3 p.m.

Miami Beach watch party: Doors open at 1 p.m. on July 19 at The Sandbowl, behind The Bandshell, at 7275 Collins Ave., for the 3 p.m. final.

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And Ira Parker, showrunner of “A Knight of the Seven Kingdom,” HBO's latest entry to the “Game of Thrones” universe that has charmed and disarmed viewers with its humble story of big, raw, aspiring knight Dunk and his tiny, cue ball-bald squire Egg, says it's going to stay that way.

“If anything, I’d say Season 2 might feel even smaller,” Parker said. “It’s not at all busy and everything. There’s almost some loneliness creeping into this.”

Parker spoke to The Associated Press from the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, where he's making the second season of the show based on George R.R. Martin's series of novellas about the journeys and adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and his sidekick whose nickname obscures his true identity.

After eight sprawling seasons of “Game of Thrones” and two seasons of the almost-as-epic “House of the Dragon,” some worried about Westeros fatigue when “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” arrived in January. Instead, it was enthusiastically embraced by fans and plenty of newcomers. People seemed to want a world with no dragons or clashing kings, just an overgrown orphan without a last name trying to become somebody.

Everything about the show is scaled down. Season 1 had just six episodes averaging about 35 minutes, all of them centered entirely on Dunk and Egg.

“It is 100% a function of the underlying material,” Parker said. “We don’t want to have to stretch the story. We like building out the world and hanging out with our characters and having some fun in Westeros. But we don’t want to have odd little side quests.”

Smaller stories may be having a moment in elite TV. “The Pitt,” last year’s best-drama Emmy winner and a favorite to repeat the win, is set almost entirely in one part of one hospital. “Pluribus,” the acclaimed Apple TV+ show that will give it Emmy competition this year, has a single main character.

“Game of Thrones” was also the mother of all Emmy contenders, getting more nominations during its full run than any drama ever.

This little brother of a show could get a little Emmy attention too when nominations are announced next month after a voting period that started Thursday. Its two stars, each as unlikely to find themselves in the spotlight as the characters they play, could both get acting nominations.

Peter Claffey, who plays Duncan, is a 6-foot-5, 29-year-old former professional rugby player who has had a steady stream of supporting roles since switching to acting in 2019 but nothing remotely like the title role in a franchise series.

When he got the Egg gig, Dexter Sol Ansell was plenty experienced for a 9-year-old. (He’s 11 now.) But now he’s become a memeable charmer as the little hairless scamp who’s devoted to Dunk but sitting on big secrets.

They were both big, and lucky, finds for Parker and his team. Dexter was the first kid they looked at for Egg. And he and Claffey have established an off-screen rapport that translates to the screen.

“They’ve just been growing up together and they’re coming up together and they really do talk to each other like brothers now,” Parker said. “There’s an aspect of that that you just can’t create.”

Parker himself has a humble background and isn't used to being the center of such attention. He wrote for shows including “The Last Ship,” “Better Things” and, crucially, “House of the Dragon” before having this gig, and a sort of stardom, fall into his lap.

The sophomore year, however, is going a little roughly.

“Worst experience of my life,” Parker said, smiling but not entirely joking.

Season 2, based on Martin's 2003 novella “The Sworn Sword,” is set in a drought that they’re supposed to be recreating in Spain. But Gran Canaria is getting historic downpours.

“The whole story is about the drought,” he said. “The whole story is somebody damming the water to keep it from someone else.”

But he spoke to AP after a day of sun, with hope for more.

“If we can somehow manage to corral this thing back into its box of sunshiny-ness,” he said, “I think we’re going to have something special.”

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The request was the focus of a Broward County budget workshop Thursday.

Sheriff Gregory Tony was absent from the meeting but was watching via livestream.

“I think Sheriff Tony is watching. I think we should pull the plug and drive him crazy,” Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen joked during the workshop.

Undersheriff Steve Robson addressed commissioners about the department’s need for additional funding.

“Of course the elephant is our unresolved issue, money of this current year rolled into next year’s budget,” Robson said.

Robson also highlighted deputy starting salaries, saying they are the lowest among Broward law enforcement agencies and that deputies are leaving in large numbers.

BSO is requesting 50 additional positions, with much of the proposed budget tied to employee costs and staffing.

“Here’s a pie chart showing within the agency the different categories where the funds flow to. Personnel is 80%,” Robson said.

The budget discussion comes amid an ongoing dispute between BSO and Deerfield Beach as the city moves toward operating its own police department.

“October is when October 1 takes over -- they have their own force. What happens to the 150 officers? So we plan to absorb them through our transition plan that we’ve given to the city, and the city has refuted the plan that we put forward, so we’re kind of in that position right now,” Robson said. “Before October 1st of ’27, I plan to absorb all of those officers into the BSO.”

Commissioners raised concerns about the size of the budget request, including Commissioner Steven Geller.

“Tony asks us for more money than is available,” Geller said.

Geller said public safety remains a top priority but noted that other county services also require funding.

“It is a top priority, but it is not our only priority,” Geller said.

“Currently, out of our general revenue budget, we’re spending approximately 54% on public safety. But there’s a lot of other things we have to pay for,” he added.

Bogen agreed that the request may be difficult to accommodate.

“Based on our budget constraints right now, it isn’t realistic,” Bogen said.

The final county budget is scheduled to be approved in September.

BSO declined a request for an interview with the undersheriff and referred questions to remarks made during the meeting.

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Seanna Martinez didn’t realize it at the time, but she was being groomed online. By 14, she had connected with a man on a hookup app called HUD, an app she chose specifically because it didn’t have an 18-plus age restriction.

“It’s supposed to be an app where you have FWB, which is friends with benefits,” she said. “I kind of just looked for something that was not necessarily for adults.”

She remembered specifically seeking it out.

“I remember specifically back then I didn’t want to get on an adult dating site because the age restriction was like, ‘Oh, 18 plus,’ she recalled. ”But I remember that that app, HUD, at least back then, I believe it wasn’t 18 plus.”

The man went by the alias “Adam0041.” But detectives said he was actually Osher Mamion, a 30-year-old who allegedly wasted little time. His first message asked her age. When she told him she wasn’t 18, he responded, “Sexy,” she said.

Detectives said within minutes, they moved from HUD to Snapchat, then to Instagram, where they video-chatted between 11 p.m. and midnight. Over two days, according to a court affidavit, Mamion convinced Seanna to send him explicit photos of herself.

Seanna said older men had been pulling her in for years before Mamion:

“At that time, I was honestly speaking to so many guys online who were older than me, who would genuinely just control me,” she said. “We would be on the phone for hours at night, and that was part of the grooming process. I feel like that’s kind of where I got this idea — ‘I’m just into older men’ — but the reality was I was really just into the affection that I was receiving, and I just kind of made that my identity.”

Police said the two eventually agreed to meet in person. Seanna tried to back out, texting that they should meet another day. Mamion pushed back, telling her he had taken off work, authorities said.

“I wanted to back out, and I remember making up a bunch of excuses, just being like, ‘No, I can’t do it,’” she said. “And he was very adamant, saying, ‘Oh, I took off of work — how could you do this to me?’ And so on and so forth. I eventually — I didn’t really know how to say no — just said, ‘OK, we’ll meet up.’”

Police said Mamion picked Seanna up from her middle school in North Miami in a blue SUV and took her back to his apartment.

“I kind of just remember feeling icky, because even though online it was one thing, in person it was just kind of having someone who was ready to take advantage of you. It was very weird,” she said.

Seanna said the relationship ended after she casually mentioned Mamion to her sister, who was a year older. Her older sister took her phone and drove her straight to the police department.

North Miami Beach police contacted the FBI. Authorities said Mamion admitted to investigators that he had exchanged explicit photos with Seanna but claimed he didn’t know she was 14.

Seanna now wants parents to understand what she didn’t have: boundaries around cellphone use.

“Having boundaries with my cellphone, definitely placed by your parents. I would say they unfortunately placed too much trust in me and my cellphone, but my cellphone had predators on it,” she said.

Her message to parents is direct:

“I would say to set clear boundaries with your kids and their cellphone usage — whether that’s literally physically removing it from them at a certain time, checking it frequently, checking who they’re talking to, checking the apps that they have. That’s what’s going to help prevent things like this from happening.”

And even when kids push back, she says parents need to hold firm.

“I believe that it is the parents’ responsibility to do everything in their power to make sure their kid is safe,” she said. “So even if there’s pushback, they need to step up and be a parent and make sure that their child is not in danger, because at the end of the day, if it’s not you, it’s going to be the predator who’s looking after your kids.”

Thursday's storms ripped roofs off of buildings, flattened homes, brought down scores of trees and power lines and caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and major air traffic disruptions. Officials said there were no reports of deaths or life-threatening injuries, though there were several people treated for minor injuries.

Tornado damage was reported in several towns including Merrillville and Hebron in Indiana and Streator, Illinois. Authorities were surveying the damage Friday and preparing to issue emergency declarations needed to get recovery funding.

Marsha Smith was in her apartment building in Merrillville, about 33 miles (53 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, when the tornado struck the complex, tearing roofs off three buildings, knocking down trees and breaking car windshields before heavy rain caused more damage to the homes. She and some neighbors huddled under an indoor stairwell holding hands and praying.

“The louder the tornado got, the louder I started praying,” said Smith, 54, a CPR instructor. “I said, ’Oh God it’s here.′ I said, ’Lord Jesus make it pass, let it pass, let it pass over. I said, ’God give us the strength to make it through this.’ And it just started wrecking.”

Smith said there was an eerie calm just before the tornado struck. Then it sounded like a freight train smashing into her building, she said. She thanked God no one was hurt. Friday morning, she surveyed her neighborhood and described it as a catastrophe.

Officials in Merrillville said more than 200 buildings were damaged, including some that were destroyed. Downed trees and power lines blocked streets, and part of a high school's roof was ripped off. Cleanup crews were out working Friday.

Multiple agencies from the region helped local first responders search and assessed damaged areas, town officials said on social media. Crews worked into the night clearing roads. The American Red Cross set up a 700-bed shelter.

In and around Streator and Hebron, photos and videos posted on social media showed damage in those areas similar to that in Merrillville. The National Weather Service said tornadoes hit those areas as well, and it was surveying the damage to determined exactly how many tornadoes touched down.

In Streator, a manufacturing and farm city about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Chicago, emergency crews were inspecting the damage. Officials said nearly a dozen homes were damaged, including some that were destroyed. A reunification center for displaced residents was set up in its city hall and the Red Cross opened a shelter.

Streator Mayor Tara Bedei said there were no reported deaths. “We are incredibly grateful for the safety of our residents and the quick action of emergency personnel,” she said in a statement. Officials said four people were treated at a hospital for minor injuries.

First responders also worked through the night in Hebron, a small town about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Chicago, officials said in a Facebook post. Damage assessments were underway.

Jennifer Hall was in her garage in Elkhart, Indiana, as the winds and rain picked up Thursday evening. Suddenly, she said, she heard a loud crash and discovered a tree limb had gone through the roof of her rental home. She used buckets to catch the rain coming in from the hole.

“I’m just nervous because it’s just been one thing after another,” said Hall, explaining she just had surgery and her husband is out of town.

The tornadoes came after severe storms swept through the Midwest on Wednesday, knocking out power, damaging buildings and canceling flights.

There were nearly 180,000 power outages in Illinois on Friday afternoon, down from more than 200,000 earlier in the day. Nearly 115,000 homes and businesses in Indiana were in the dark, down a few thousand from earlier Friday, according to poweroutage.us.

Commonwealth Edison, a major electricity provider in Illinois, said it expected to restore 80% of the power outages from Wednesday's storms by Saturday night, and 80% of outages from Thursday's storms by Sunday night. In Indiana, NIPSCO said it was working to restore power as fast as possible but did not provide a timeline.

The storms delayed or halted flights at airports in some cities, including Chicago, Philadelphia and New York on Thursday. Parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic also strained under high heat and humidity. Dozens of flights were canceled or delayed Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International and Midway International airports, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking website.

Police in Des Moines, Iowa, said a 54-year-old man was found critically injured Thursday morning at a homeless encampment in a park after being hit by a tree that “broke apart and fell during strong storms." He died at the scene.

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This story was updated to correct that police said a man in Des Moines hit by a fallen tree was found Thursday, not Wednesday.

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Associated Press writers Hannah Fingerhut in Des Moines, Iowa, and Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed.

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Officials say an unknown problem caused a diver to panic.

That woman went underwater, and when she didn’t resurface, she was pulled back onto the boat unconscious and rushed to shore.

The woman was taken to a local hospital, where she later died.

Foul play is not suspected.

Daniel Lomas was out on the water that day and saw the emergency response from a distance.

“Whether you’re free diving or if you’re scuba, they all come with their pros and cons,” he said. “They all come with different levels of risk for different things.”

As an experienced diver and shark safety guide, Lomas said every dive requires careful planning and an honest assessment of a person’s health.

“As you get deeper and deeper, certain things change about the dive, especially gas laws and how your body is dealing with those gases,” he said. “And that’s when you have to really make sure that that person is physically fit to do that dive.”

He added that equipment must be thoroughly checked before entering the water.

“Assembling the equipment, making sure that your regulators work, making sure that there’s no sticking or corrosion or anything that might be affecting those systems,” said Lomas.

He says, like with any sport, diving carries risks, but proper training and safety procedures can reduce them.

“If you do everything by the book, I don’t think there’s anything that can really go wrong, especially when you’re down there with over divers, other educated divers,” said Lomas.

Shares in SpaceX jumped more than 19% after opening for trading Friday, a sign that investors are looking past the billions the company is losing and instead betting that its massive investments in satellites, orbital data centers and artificial intelligence will pay off in the future.

SpaceX opened around midday at $150 a share, then rose to around $168, before finishing the day just below $161. That price gave the company a market value of $2.1 trillion, making it the sixth largest public U.S. company — larger even than its founder and CEO's other big business, the electric vehicle maker Tesla.

Between his holdings in SpaceX and Tesla, where he is also CEO, Musk is now worth an estimated $1.1 trillion, according to Forbes.

Why SpaceX is going public now

Musk says SpaceX, founded in 2002, is going public now because it needs money to fund its ambitions of putting satellites and data centers in space and eventually establishing a colony of people on Mars.

He marked the opening of trading on Nasdaq by joining a ceremonial bell ringing from Starbase, the South Texas home of SpaceX.

He reiterated his lofty goals “to make life multiplanetary.”

“Not just a few astronauts, I mean literally you,” Musk said. “Whoever you are watching this, SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars and ultimately beyond.”

Known for his technological breakthroughs, as well as wild claims and missed deadlines, Musk was able to whip up enthusiasm for the IPO. The typical company going public has seen a 7% jump in its first day of trading, from 1980 through 2025, according to Jay Ritter, a professor at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business.

Institutional and retail investors alike jumped at the opportunity to buy a piece of the company at $135 per share before trading began. The $75 billion in proceeds SpaceX raised easily topped the previous record IPO from oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2019.

In addition to establishing a one-million person Martian colony, the company has promised to save humanity by establishing other outposts in space, launch data centers the size of football fields into orbit and outdo rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in the race to make money from artificial intelligence.

To reach its goals, SpaceX needs billions more than it currently takes in from its rocket and satellite business. Between the start of 2025 and March 31, 2026, the company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., lost $8.7 billion.

Pros and cons for investors

Betting on SpaceX is in many ways a bet on Musk himself. In an unusual arrangement that has drawn criticism from shareholder watchdogs, he holds 82% interest in a special B class of shares, giving him sweeping power to control the company even though his ownership stake is about half that.

“There’s a lot of hype, but I see the faith that investors have in Musk,” said Yordys Coro, an IT support contractor in Miami as he watched his $14,000 investment in SpaceX shoot up to $17,000 in just a few hours. “I’m going to hold on.”

Wall Street bankers that helped take SpaceX public are also enthusiastic about the company — and the big fees they will earn — but not everyone thinks the stock price is justified.

Analysts at research firm Morningstar, which doesn't earn any investment banking fees, wrote that the IPO is “significantly overvalued."

Citing SpaceX’s technology challenges, including shielding its orbiting datacenters from radiation damage and catching up to leaders in AI such as Anthropic and OpenAI, they estimated the company is only worth $780 billion — less than half its IPO value.

SpaceX itself has hinted at the challenges, conceding in regulatory documents that some of its business plans rest on “unproven technologies.” It also indicated that another part of the company, its artificial intelligence business called xAI, has no clear path to profitability and is burning cash to catch up with rivals.

On a livestreamed conference Thursday with the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, one of the investment banks making big money off the IPO, Musk offered few details.

He entertained the crowd with talk of “moon hotels,” a future Martian colony and a network of Earth-orbiting data centers powered by the sun. But when asked about plans for his flagship chatbot offering Grok, he pivoted to talking about his satellites.

How Elon made his fortune

Still, Musk has pulled off the seemingly impossible before.

The now-trillionaire — on paper at least — made his initial fortune by creating two companies, Zip2 and PayPal, that netted him about $200 million at sale. He used that money to start SpaceX and invest in Tesla, and defied the odds by creating a space company that figured out how to reuse rockets and a car company that made electric vehicles cool.

Musk has realized vast sums of wealth for himself, much of it in stock he has yet to cash in or grants for shares he’ll only receive if Tesla or SpaceX hit ambitious performance targets.

His recent pay package from Tesla was so large it even drew criticism from the Vatican. At Tesla, he’s worried shareholders by fighting with regulators or dividing his attention between multiple companies and last year by taking a role in the Trump administration.

But a rising stock price has cured all ills: Since it went public in 2010, Tesla has returned 20,000% for shareholders, or more than $1.2 trillion in investor wealth.

SpaceX is the first of three “megacap” companies expected to go public this year, with Anthropic and OpenAI to follow. Nasdaq even revised its rules to allow SpaceX to gain entry into funds tied to its indexes in 15 days, which means investors will end up buying the rocket maker's shares much earlier.

Not all investors are thrilled about SpaceX potentially showing up in their holdings of index funds.

Officials from pension funds for firefighters, teachers and other workers in California and New York sent a letter to SpaceX last month decrying some of the provisions in its IPO, including mandatory arbitration of shareholder claims and how much power Musk will hold over the company.

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“It was our last dive of the day - it was almost 7 o’clock,” recalled lead diver Blake Baker.

Baker said the captain of the salvage vessel DARE, Drake Nicholas, was the one underwater with a crew. They are part of Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions.

“We were in an area with a lot of metal detector hits,” Nicholas said. “This one was deeper.”

After hitting the object with a knife and examining the surface, Nicholas said he saw telltale markings that were consistent with a silver bar.

“I didn’t believe it at the moment,” he said.

The silver bar was covered in more than 400 years of marine encrustations and will be taken to a lab for examination.

Sean Browne, with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions, said the bar is worth an estimated $100,000. It will likely be kept intact as a historical object.

Discovered treasures like the bar are divided among investors and then the Fisher family, Browne said.

The Atocha was a ship packed with treasures and bound for Spain in 1622, but a powerful hurricane sunk it between Key West and the Dry Tortugas.

It was never seen again, until more than 300 years later when explorer Mel Fisher started finding its sunken treasure in the 1970s.

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Attorneys for Corey Hutterli, 37, of Parkland, continued with their argument that the state’s case is purely circumstantial against their client.

Ultimately, a judge granted Hutterli a bond of $150,000.

He is accused of pushing Justin Zelin, 35, off a 25th-floor balcony at the Akoya Condominiums, located at 6365 Collins Ave. on Mid-Beach on Feb. 15.

According to investigators, Zelin was heard on a 911 call telling Hutterli to get out of his apartment, and then a struggle could be heard.

A toxicology report revealed Zelin had fentanyl, cocaine, and ketamine in his system at the time of the incident, something Hutterli’s team pointed to while questioning a detective on the case.

The defense alleged those drugs possibly put Zelin in an altered state.

Last week, Zelin’s father testified about the final time he spoke to his son.

Hutterli is facing charges of second-degree murder, burglary with assault or battery, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Online jail records show Ashley Marie Hosendove, 32, faces a charge of disorderly conduct/breach of the peace.

According to court documents, a bench warrant was issued June 1 for Hosendove for an incident that occurred on March 12.

An arrest report states that Hosendove was the victim of a battery allegedly committed by her boyfriend that day.

But as her boyfriend was being taken into custody by police, Hosendove began to “shout and scream profanities” towards officers at the scene and refused to provide them with a form of ID, the report stated.

Police said Hosendove’s actions, which were captured on bodycam video, caused neighbors to gather outside.

In Miami-Dade bond court Thursday, Hosendove appeared before Judge Betty Capote-Erben, a day after her daughter’s death.

“You have an open case of disorderly conduct. You were supposed to appear in court June 2,” Capote-Erben said.

“Yeah, I was late for the Zoom,” Hosendove replied.

In bond court, Capote-Erben noted Hosendove had failed to appear twice.

“Well, you didn’t appear twice. You were supposed to appear April 28th, and that one said you didn’t show and they reset your case last week for June 2nd, so you are telling me last week you logged into Zoom late?” Capote-Erben asked Hosendove.

“I was going to log in,” Hosendove replied.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Wednesday’s shooting was reported at about 2 a.m. at a home off Northwest First Court near 16^th Street.

Authorities said the girl, who was identified by a family member as Janova Park, suffered gunshot wounds to her stomach and torso and was rushed to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where she later died.

“We know that at the time of the shooting, there were three adults and two children -- the victim who’s 5 years old and her 4-year-old brother,” MDSO Detective Angel Rodriguez said Wednesday.

Detectives confirmed that Hosendove was among the adults inside the home at the time of the shooting.

Detectives said they’re still trying to determine how Janova was shot, including whether she may have accessed the gun herself or whether someone else shot her.

Local 10’s Hannah Yechivi spoke to Laticha Ellison, Janova’s grandmother, on Wednesday, who said the shooting could’ve been prevented.

“My grandbaby is 5 years old,” Ellison said through tears. “She’s only 5. It makes me angry because nothing like this should be able to happen, especially in your home — carelessness.”

Ellison described her granddaughter as “smart and sassy.”

Investigators said a gun was recovered inside the home and that they “are not looking for any individuals that may pose a threat to the community.”

Hosendove’s bond was set at $1,500. She bonded out of jail Thursday night, ignoring questions from reporters.

For the second day in a row in the Canary Islands, the American pope insisted on the inherent dignity and rights of migrants and demanded they be welcomed and integrated into society, in some of his strongest comments on the politically divisive issue.

“Break those chains and free those you hold in bondage,” Leo said in a message to human traffickers that he delivered during a meeting with humanitarian aid organizations that help migrants on the island of Tenerife.

Leo was wrapping up his weeklong trip to Spain in the Spanish archipelago, which is closer to Africa than the Iberian Peninsula and is a key point of entry for migrants who make the perilous Atlantic crossing from West Africa.

His return to Rome was delayed when his Iberia charter flight developed a technical problem. King Felipe VI offered his private plane instead, and Leo accepted. The problem couldn't be fixed, so Iberia said it was sending a separate aircraft from Madrid to fetch the journalists and Vatican officials left behind in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

It was the first time in decades that a papal flight had experienced a problem so serious that it required the pope to deplane and change his travel plans.

The pope had been fulfilling a wish of Pope Francis to visit the islands to commemorate the thousands of lives lost at sea. He is also drawing attention to the Catholic Church’s biblically-mandated mantra to “welcome the stranger,” amid anti-migrant sentiment in Europe and the Trump administration's mass deportation program in his native United States.

During the encounter with aid groups in Tenerife, Leo implored receiving communities to integrate people fleeing war, poverty and climate change and spare them from the “silent shipwreck” of abandonment when they are left on the streets with nothing after surviving perilous crossings.

“A human conscience, and even more so a Christian conscience, cannot remain indifferent in the face of these graveyards of the sea, to the victims of shipwrecks and the lack of aid,” Leo said. “Every life lost on these routes is a failure for the human family.”

A deadly passage and a warning to traffickers

The Canary Islands have long been a stepping stone for migrants trying to reach Europe from West Africa and Morocco.

While people smugglers and human traffickers operate the Atlantic route, there are also many self-organized boats of migrants, including many former fishermen from Senegal who were left without income due to overfishing in recent years.

Migrant arrivals in the Canary Islands peaked in 2024 at nearly 47,000. They have fallen dramatically, with over 3,000 people landing there in the first five months of 2026.

Because of the vastness of the ocean and scarcity of rescue ships or monitoring, some experts consider the Atlantic route more deadly than the more well-known central Mediterranean smuggling route from Libya and Tunisia to Italy. Since 2020, several West African boats have been found in the Caribbean and Latin America with only dead bodies on board after drifting across the Atlantic, pushed by trade winds and currents.

Leo directed his remarks Friday to the criminal organizations and individual smugglers who organize these “death routes” to Europe. Such smugglers charge thousands of euros a person and often force their passengers into prostitution or other forms of black market labor by withholding their documents to pay off the debt.

“Stop. Repent,” Leo said in his message to traffickers, emphasizing each word in Spanish and drawing a sustained applause from the crowd. “For every life lost, every family deceived, every body subjugated, every woman threatened, every worker exploited, you will have to appear before divine justice.”

“Repent while there is still time, for God’s mercy can reach even the most hardened sinner, but it enters only through the narrow gate of truth, justice and conversion,” he said.

With his two-day visit to the Canary Islands, Leo has confirmed himself as the heir of Francis’ migration preaching, which was a priority of Francis' 12-year pontificate and often caused friction with U.S. and European powers.

History’s first U.S.-born pope has not only echoed Francis’ message and gestures, he has expanded and amplified them during a deeply symbolic visit. Upon arrival on Thursday, Leo threw a bouquet of flowers into the sea from a port nicknamed the “Dock of Shame” in 2020, when migrants were forced to live in squalor during a spike in their arrivals.

Leo’s gesture mimicked the one Francis made in 2013 when he visited Lampedusa, Sicily, another flashpoint in Europe’s migration drama, and denounced the “globalization of indifference” that the world showed asylum seekers.

But in a sign Leo is making the papacy his own, the 70-year-old pope has added a new gesture to his repertoire: After a onetime migrant offered his testimony during Leo's encounter Friday, the pope did the viral “6-7” hand gesture that's popular with young people as he joked alongside him. That earned the pope cheers and applause from the crowd.

Leo meets with migrants at reception center

In the Canary Islands and in remarks on the Spanish mainland, Leo reaffirmed the right of migrants to flee but also to stay home, demanding their countries of origin provide the necessary economic and security conditions. He shamed European countries that turn their back on migrants' plights, and said Christian cannot remain indifferent.

On Friday, he noted that for the Catholic Church, the process of integrating migrants into a community can become a chance at spreading the faith, “without imposing” it and in respect of the migrants’ own beliefs.

Leo opened the final day of his trip by visiting the Las Raíces migrant camp. Leo drew a round of applause when he went off-script to tell migrants that he would speak in French and English, the language spoken by many of the people living in the camp.

One woman told him of the desperation that drove her to leave her homeland and family, the trauma of the crossings, and her gratitude at finding safety and a new life.

“We aren't asking for privileges. We aren't asking for compassion. We just want respect, humanity and the chance to live with dignity,” said the woman, identified as Bousso Diouf.

Next month, on July 4, the American pope will spend U.S. Independence Day on the island of Lampedusa, where Francis in 2013 first denounced the “globalization of indifference” the world shows migrants.

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But Spielberg is hardly the only one making headlines of late about UFOs and the possibility of life on other planets.

What was once considered fringe or conspiratorial has in recent months popped up everywhere from the White House to the Catholic Church, as public fascination with unidentified anomalous phenomena — or UAPs, as the government calls them — becomes more mainstream.

The Pentagon in May made public large swaths of UFO files with very little context, leaving curious sleuths to piece together their own interpretations. The dump came just weeks after former President Barack Obama set off a media frenzy for stating unambiguously in an interview that aliens are real, though he later tempered that take.

“Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there,” the former president, who made a surprise visit to the “Disclosure Day” set, posted on social media. “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!”

Some religious adherents, as well as some nonbelievers, maintain that the existence of life on other planets might undermine many faiths because it would complicate assertions that humans are unique. But others argue the opposite.

“Belief in UFOs is really one of the best things that’s happened to religion in a long time,” said Diana Walsh Pasulka, a religion scholar at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. “It’s a blow to the secular, materialist worldview.”

An intersection of aliens, demons and Catholics

Even if broad interest in UAPs bolsters the case for an enchanted universe, some believers in religions such as Christianity think they are something to be wary of.

“I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons,” Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, said in a recent podcast interview.

That sentiment was echoed by Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, formerly an exorcist with the Archdiocese of Washington. He was removed last week by the archbishop, who said statements by Rossetti “gravely undermine” Catholic teaching on demons and the devil.

“It’s my personal belief that probably many, if not most, of these UFO sightings are in fact demons,” Rossetti said in a May 29 video posted on his Facebook page. “Aliens, if there are aliens, don’t possess people.”

Christopher Baglow, who heads a science and religion initiative at the University of Notre Dame, was surprised by the firing given that Rosetti made clear in the video he was expressing his own opinion. Baglow speculated that there may be other factors behind the decision.

“I ask forgiveness for any ways that I have not been faithful to the teachings of the Church’s Magisterium,” Rosetti said in a statement online.

Despite the assertions by Vance and Rossetti about demons, Baglow maintains the Catholic Church has long been open to the possibility of extraterrestrial life. “Theologians have been speculating about this for centuries and the church has never ever taught one way or the other,” he said.

While meeting with astronomy students last year at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the “ancient light of distant galaxies” and the “mysterious joy” provoked by the study of outer space. Some interpreted these remarks as tacit speculation about the possibility of life on other planets.

Extraterrestrials, old and new

In one sense, the idea of otherworldly beings coming to Earth can be traced back millennia.

“People would call it the plurality of worlds. So even back in the time of Socrates and Aristotle, there were Greek philosophers who talked about beings on other planets and other stars,” Walsh Pasulka said.

But it wasn’t until after 1945 that modern conceptions of UFOs began to develop, according to Jeffrey Kripal, a historian of religions at Rice University. “The flying saucer and the alien and the UFO — it’s definitely a Cold War invasion narrative,” he said.

That narrative explains why UAPs are often perceived as hostile to humans. But it’s also evolved over time and led to the formation of some religions — like Scientology, which counts many a Hollywood celebrity among its adherents — that see extraterrestrials as good or even part of a divine plan. Some adherents to the Nation of Islam, for example, believe that its founder will inaugurate an apocalyptic return to Earth on a spaceship.

The International Raëlian Movement, also know as Raëlism, is a UFO religion that was founded in France in the 1970s. It is still practiced today, with its strongest followings in parts of Asia, Africa and Canada, according to Susan Palmer, a sociologist who studies new religious movements at Concordia University in Montreal.

Its founder, Raël, claims he is a direct descendant of Yahweh, whom Raël visited on the planet of Elohim in 1975. Raëlism claims the Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad are all hybrids of humans and extraterrestrials, as well as Raël’s half brothers.

Of the groups she has studied, Palmer argued Raëlism is the most sympathetic toward UFOs. “They’re not interested in extraterrestrial wars,” she said.

But some think that sentiment might be growing.

Kripal, who heads Rice’s archival collection of reported paranormal experiences called the Center for the Impossible, perceives an increasing openness to these kinds of conversations about the existence of UFOs — and the possibility that they are not hostile.

“People are reporting these experiences or these encounters with entities and they’re religious through and through,” he said. “My colleagues in the academy, they’re really starting to listen in a different way.”

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It's a significant lapse for the program known as Section 702, and even as President Donald Trump nominates a new national intelligence director more palatable to both Republicans and Democrats than his initial pick, it’s unclear how soon lawmakers — set for recess — would be able to revive the spy program.

Still, there is not expected to be an immediate drop-off in intelligence collection given that a court order from March certified that government surveillance powers under the law could remain in effect for another year.

Section 702 allows for sweeping powers to sift through foreign communications

The provision is a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, and grants American spy agencies sweeping powers to collect and examine the communications of foreigners located outside the United States without first getting a warrant.

U.S. officials see the law as an invaluable national security tool that has helped disrupt potential acts of terrorism, yielded valuable insight into ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure and contributed to the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a 2022 drone strike.

The law was passed in 2008 as an effort to codify key aspects of a predecessor spy program created by President George W. Bush's Republican administration.

Since then, officials across administrations of both major political parties have warned that without the law the government won't be able to collect crucial intelligence overseas.

The program's renewal historically has been contentious

The periodic need to reauthorize the law has prompted protracted debate in Congress well before this year, including discussion over whether additional guardrails are needed to protect the privacy of Americans and their personal data.

That's because when the government eavesdrops on foreigners abroad, it also sweeps up the communications of American citizens and others in the U.S. who are in contact with those surveillance targets.

Civil liberties advocates have raised concerns over revelations that FBI analysts over the years have improperly queried the vast repository of intelligence collected through the program for information about Americans, including related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters and the racial justice protests of 2020, as well as about state and federal political figures.

Some of those advocates have said the government should be required to have a warrant before examining communications collected from Americans. U.S. officials have said that a warrant would be legally unnecessary and overly cumbersome and that corrective measures have been implemented to reduce the number of improper queries.

Complicating the debate is the unlikely political alliances it has produced, uniting a coalition of lawmakers skeptical of government surveillance that includes both privacy-minded liberal Democrats and Republicans who still regard the intelligence community with suspicion over the investigation of ties between Russia and Trump's 2016 Republican presidential campaign.

The holdup this time is tied to pushback over acting intelligence pick Bill Pulte

Democrats balked when Trump picked Bill Pulte to serve as acting national intelligence director and refused to support a FISA extension until the selection was withdrawn. Pulte, a Trump loyalist with no known national security experience, has set off alarms by using his perch as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to facilitate dubious mortgage fraud investigations of perceived Trump adversaries.

A House vote this week that would have temporarily extended the program collapsed, with 19 Republicans and nearly all Democrats rejecting the temporary measure, 198-218. A Senate effort to approve its own versions also failed.

After those votes, Trump announced he was tapping Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan who previously served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, as his permanent pick for director of national intelligence, or DNI. The pick was warmly received on Capitol Hill, but it was not enough to break the impasse before Friday's scheduled expiration.

Connecticut Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he has “known and respected” Clayton for decades and that had he been tapped a week ago, “lots of pain might have been avoided.”

“His intelligence, temperament and deep commitment to public service will make him a terrific DNI,” Himes said.

The next steps for the spy powers provision

Before the congressional votes, Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had warned the Trump administration to prepare “for a potential significant gap in foreign intelligence collection." Other lawmakers since then have voiced similarly dire concerns.

The expiration is likely to be the first meaningful lapse of Section 702 since the law was created more than 15 years ago. In 2024, the Senate barely missed its midnight deadline before voting to approve a bill that was then signed by President Joe Biden, a Democrat, creating a brief lapse.

Despite this year's sunset of the statute, there's no expectation of any immediate halt to intelligence collection as the U.S. hosts a series of events this summer with potential national security concerns, including the World Cup and festivities surrounding the 250th birthday of the United States.

A March opinion from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court certified the program's renewal for another 12 months, meaning that Section 702's authority is expected to remain intact through then. Even so, it's conceivable that without congressional reauthorization, communications companies forced to provide data to the government under the law could try to cease that compliance and argue that they cannot be compelled to cooperate.

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Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Lisa Mascaro and Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.