It’s the first victory in the race for top 3-year-old fillies for trainer Chad Brown. Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Always a Runner made a move around the final turn and needed every bit of the stretch to pass Bob Baffert’s Explora and and Michael McCarthy’s Meaning before the finish line of the 1 1/8-mile race.

Meaning was second and Counting Stars third.

Always a Runner has become a star after contracting pneumonia as a 2-year-old and undergoing treatment for it. She’s now 3 for 3 in her only races.

“What an unbelievable talent,” Brown said. “This filly is very resilient, very tough.”

Brown will try to pull off the Oaks-Kentucky Derby double on Saturday with Emerging Market. He has also never won the Derby.

The first night Kentucky Oaks was one for the history books, but also took place in front of large swaths of empty seats. Many of the fans who filled the grandstand and the track from the late morning through the afternoon had departed before sunset. The Oaks has typically been run before 6 p.m.

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The jet is currently being painted red, white and blue, the Air Force said in a news release.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accepted the luxury jet a year ago despite questions about the ethics and legality of accepting an expensive gift from a foreign nation, as well as concerns about security and cyber intelligence. Trump has defended the gift as a way to save tax dollars.

Trump has said he wouldn’t fly around in the aircraft when his term ends. Instead, he said, the plane would be donated to a future presidential library, similar to how the Boeing 707 used by President Ronald Reagan was decommissioned and put on display as a museum piece.

Air Force officials said the former Qatari jet will serve as a “bridge” until Boeing is ready to deliver a pair of new aircraft, which is now expected in 2028.

The two planes currently used as Air Force One have been flying for nearly four decades, and Trump is eager to replace them. During his first term, he displayed a model of a new jumbo jet in the Oval Office, complete with a revised paint scheme that echoed the red, white and dark blue design of his personal plane.

Boeing has been retrofitting 747s originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner. But the program has faced nearly a decade of delays from a series of issues, including a critical subcontractor’s bankruptcy and the difficulty of finding and retaining qualified staff who could be awarded high-level security clearances.

The new planes aren’t due to be finished until near the end of Trump’s term, and he’s out of patience. He has described the situation as “a total mess,” and he has complained that Air Force One isn’t as nice as the planes flown by some Arab leaders.

The $400 million Qatari plane has been described as a “palace in the sky,” complete with luxurious accommodations and top-of-the-line finishes.

But security is the primary concern when it comes to presidential travel. The current Air Force One planes were built from scratch near the end of the Cold War. They are hardened against the effects of a nuclear blast and include a range of security features, such as anti-missile countermeasures and an onboard operating room. They are also equipped with air-to-air refueling capabilities for contingencies, though they have never been used with a president on board.

It is not clear which capabilities were added to the former Qatari jet. The Air Force did not reveal the cost of the modifications, but lawmakers suggested last year that they could top $1 billion.

Air Force officials said they leased a 747-8 freighter from Atlas Air between October and February so pilots could get familiar with the latest variant. The U.S. has also purchased two jets from the German carrier Lufthansa for training and spare parts. Boeing stopped building 747s in 2023.

Saturday will feature plenty of sun, a south-southwest breeze and hot temperatures. If Miami achieves its forecast high of 93°, it will tie the record high for the date. One other note: heat index values could approach 100°F between 1pm and 4pm.

As a frontal boundary nudges closer to South Florida Sunday, clouds increase and soaking storms are likely to develop, particularly after 2pm. Temperatures are forecast to return near seasonable with highs reaching the mid 80s.

The Texans didn’t release terms of the deal when they announced it Friday, but it is reportedly worth $54 million.

“Truthfully, I just wanted to be authentically myself and I always felt like if I got the opportunity to be at a place and show everybody who I was, then things would go well for the team and myself,” he said. “I’m grateful for that.”

His deal comes on the heels of defensive end Will Anderson signing a three-year, $150 million contract extension with the Texans that makes him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history

Al-Shaair has spent the last two seasons with the Texans, appearing in 27 games with 173 tackles, eight tackles for losses, two sacks, 13 passes defensed, two interceptions and three forced fumbles.

Last season, he was selected for his first Pro Bowl after making 16 starts for a defense that allowed the fewest yards in the NFL (277.2 per game) and averaged the second-fewest points allowed (17.4) in the regular season.

Al-Shaair joined the Texans after spending the 2023 season with the Titans. He was an undrafted free agent who spent his first four seasons in San Francisco, where he appeared in 56 games and had 199 tackles and 11 tackles for losses.

Al-Shaair was honored for his off-field work last season when he was named Houston’s Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award recipient. He supports numerous charities that support homeless youth after experiencing homelessness growing up after his family’s home was destroyed in a fire.

Al-Shaair said Friday that his mother didn’t want him to play football as a child because she didn’t want him to get hurt. He begged her and made a promise that he has since fulfilled.

“We were staying in a motel at the time, (and I said) ‘I promise you, if you let me play football I’m going to make it to the NFL, I’ll take care of our family one day,’” he said. “I had no clue if I was ever actually going to be able to do it or not. I never saw it done. ... So, to sit here years and years later, to be actually living that out, is absolutely amazing.”

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Michel reported to prison Thursday, a spokesperson said, with federal records listing him as an inmate at a low-security correctional institution in Arizona.

“Today is a painful day for Pras, for his family, and for everyone who believes in a fair system of justice. Pras honors the legal process as he reports to begin his sentence,” said Erica Dumas, a spokesperson for Michel, adding that his legal team is still contesting his charges.

“This chapter is difficult, but it is not his final one,” Dumas said.

Michel, 53, was convicted in 2023 on 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. He was sentenced late last year.

Prosecutors said he obtained over $120 million from Malaysian billionaire Low Taek Jho — also known as Jho Low — and steered some of that money through straw donors to Obama’s campaign. Michel also tried to end a U.S. Justice Department investigation of Low, tampered with two witnesses and perjured himself at trial, prosecutors said. Low has maintained his innocence.

Michel was a founding member of the Fugees along with childhood friends Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, with the group going on to win two Grammy Awards and selling tens of millions of albums.

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According to an arrest report, Karl Heinz Mercier, of northeast Miami-Dade, broke into the victim’s apartment unit at the Park Towers on Northwest 155^th Lane at about 4 a.m., laid on the victim’s bed as he was asleep and then placed his hand inside the victim’s underwear and fondled his penis.

Deputies said the boy immediately screamed out to alert his parents who were sleeping in a separate room, but Mercier told him, “Nothing is going to happen. No one is going to come.”

According to the report, the boy’s parents confronted Mercier as he tried to flee the apartment and he was then detained by responding deputies.

The victim’s parents told deputies they do not know Mercier and he did not have permission to enter their home.

Deputies said Mercier confessed to entering the home without permission and touching the boy.

He was arrested on charges of burglary with assault or battery and attempted sexual battery on a minor.

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

Young shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to get to 13 under and take a five-shot lead at the midway point of the $20 million signature event at Trump International Doral.

Young's lone blemish: a bogey at the par-4 14th, where his chip from an awkward sidehill lie didn't reach the putting surface. Otherwise, he was flawless — just as he was Thursday when he had a bogey-free 64 to grab the lead.

He got the stroke he dropped at the 14th back two holes later, when he drove the green at the par-4 16th and coolly two-putted for his 14th birdie of the week.

“There's a lot of golf to be played on a difficult golf course," Young said. “But so far, I've played well.”

Young played with Scottie Scheffler; the world's No. 1 player had a bogey-free 67 but ended the day exactly where he started it — seven shots off the lead.

Nick Taylor (70), Alex Smalley (71) and Jordan Spieth (71) were tied for second. Gary Woodland (69) was alone in fifth at 7 under and Scheffler was in a logjam of players — Alex Fitzpatrick among them — at 6 under.

“I definitely need to not get further away,” Scheffler said. “No, it depends on how the golf course is playing. All I can do is go out there and be committed to what I need to do and that’s pretty much it.”

Young even had mistakes work out for him. He hated the birdie putt he hit on the par-4 13th, starting to walk toward the hole with the ball about halfway there.

Some guys do that when they know they've just made a putt.

Young wasn't in that mindset. He gave an almost-apologetic wave when the ball wound up dropping into the cup.

“I was absolutely disgusted about halfway there,” Young said. “I think my read netted out to be OK, but I just thought it was going to go a little bit left and then a little bit right and it ended up going six inches left and six inches right. ... When you’re putting well, some of those, they tend to wobble into the hole and that one did.”

Spieth rolled in a birdie at the par-4 18th, an absolute rarity through the first two rounds at Doral. The 18th on the Blue Monster course is a serious test, with water lining the left and seriously narrowing the fairway for all but the biggest hitters.

Spieth's birdie was the sixth on the 18th through the tournament's first two days.

“It’s just a really hard tee shot for most guys,” Taylor said.

The 18th even gave Young some trouble. Or tried to, anyway.

Young’s second shot at the finishing hole bounced off the base of the bleachers, coming to rest in the middle of a nest of cables on the ground well behind the green. He took a drop, didn’t get a great lie of out that, and still chipped to veritable tap-in range to save his par.

“I may have a two- or three- or four-shot lead starting tomorrow, but it just goes away so fast out here,” Young said. “There's no sense really playing like you have a four-shot lead. You might as well play like you’re four back.”

He took note of what happened to start the second round, using that as his proof that the leaderboard might be a whole lot tighter before he tees off in Round 3 on Saturday afternoon.

Kurt Kitayama and Sudarshan Yellamaraju — the first group off the tee Friday morning — took full advantage of very calm conditions. They both soared up the leaderboard; Kitayama had the round of the day with an 8-under 64 (which included a bogey on 18) and Yellamaraju was 9 under for the round through 16 before dropping three shots on his final two holes and finishing with a 66.

They're both at 4 under for the week.

“It definitely helps when you’re both playing,” Kitayama said. “The rhythm, being first off, helps. We didn’t have to wait for anyone, kind of going at our own pace, not worrying about being behind or waiting on a group. And so, when you’re both playing well, it’s nice to feed off each other’s energy.”

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Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, Congress must declare war or authorize the use of force within 60 days — a deadline that falls on Friday — or within 90 days if the president asks for an extension. But Congress made no attempt at enforcing that requirement, leaving town for a week on Thursday after the Senate rejected a Democratic attempt to halt the war for a sixth time.

The Trump administration has shown no interest in seeking congressional approval at all. It is arguing that the deadlines set by the law don’t apply because the war in Iran effectively ended when a ceasefire began in early April.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Thursday he doesn’t plan on a vote to authorize force in Iran or otherwise weigh in.

“I’m listening carefully to what the members of our conference are saying, and at this point I don’t see that,” Thune said.

The reluctance to defy Trump on the war comes at a politically perilous time for Republicans, with public frustration mounting both over the conflict and its impact on gas prices. Still, most GOP lawmakers say they are supportive of Trump’s wartime leadership, or are at least willing to give him more time amid the fragile ceasefire.

Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota says he’d vote for an authorization of war if Trump asked for it. But he questioned if the War Powers Resolution, passed during the Vietnam War era as a way for Congress to claw back its power, is even constitutional.

“Our founders created a really strong executive, like it or not like it,” Cramer said.

Still, some GOP senators made clear that they eventually want Congress to have a say. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in a floor speech Thursday that she will introduce a limited authorized use of military force when the Senate returns from the one-week recess if the administration has not yet presented what she called a “credible plan.”

“I do not believe we should engage in open-ended military action without clear accountability,” Murkowski said. “Congress has a role.”

Some Republicans signal they want a vote

A handful of GOP senators have said for weeks that Congress should assert its authority over the war at some point. One of those senators, Maine’s Susan Collins, voted for the first time with Democrats on Thursday to halt the war. She said in a statement she wants to see a defined strategy for bringing the conflict to a close.

“The president’s authority as commander-in-chief is not without limits,” Collins said, adding that the 60-day deadline is “not a suggestion, it is a requirement.”

In addition to Collins and Murkowski, Republican Sens. John Curtis of Utah, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Josh Hawley of Missouri, among others, have said in recent weeks that they would eventually like to see a vote.

Curtis said he would not support continued funding for the war until Congress votes to authorize it.

“It is time for decision-making from both the administration and from Congress — and that can happen in league with one another, not in conflict,” Curtis said.

Thune suggested the White House step up its outreach to lawmakers with briefings and hearings if it wants continued support from Capitol Hill.

“Obviously, getting readouts from our military leadership on a somewhat regular basis I think will be helpful in terms of shaping the views of our members about how comfortable they are with everything that’s happening there, and the direction headed forward,” Thune said.

Trump administration argues deadline doesn’t apply

The War Powers Resolution of 1973 states that a president has 60 calendar days after notifying Congress that the U.S. is engaged in military hostilities to either end the military campaign or gain approval from Congress. The White House can use a 30-day extension to safely withdraw forces, but Congress must be notified.

The 60-day window will expire Friday, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a hearing Thursday, “We are in a ceasefire right now, which our understanding means, the 60-day clock pauses or stops.”

Meanwhile, a senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the administration’s position, said for purposes of the war powers law, “the hostilities that began on Saturday, Feb. 28 have terminated.” The official said the U.S. military and Iran have not exchanged fire since the two-week ceasefire that began April 7.

The administration is making that argument even though Iran maintains its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. Navy is maintaining a blockade to prevent Iran’s oil tankers from getting out to sea.

Democrats scoffed at the suggestion that May 1 is not the real deadline. “I do not believe the statute would support that,” Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine told Hegseth in the hearing.

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., argued that the military is still operating warships and other military assets even though it has stopped bombing Iran during the ceasefire.

“Ceasing to use some forces while using others does not somehow stop the clock,” Schiff said.

Yet, the development came as little surprise to at least one House Democrat who oversees the military.

Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told The Associated Press: “Is the expectation that the Trump administration is going to follow the law? I do not have that expectation.”

Trump turned back the latest proposal almost as soon as it was delivered. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that Iran handed over its plan to mediators in Pakistan on Thursday night.

“They want to make a deal, I’m not satisfied with it, so we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House, without elaborating on what he saw as its shortcomings.

The shaky three-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears to still be holding though both countries have traded accusations of violations.

While the ceasefire has largely halted fighting in Iran, the U.S. and Iran are locked in a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas passes in peacetime. A U.S. Navy blockade stopping Iran’s tankers from getting out to sea has Iran’s economy reeling. The world economy is also under pressure as Iran maintains its chokehold on the strait.

Negotiations have continued by phone after Trump called off his envoys’ trip to Pakistan last week, the president said. Trump this week floated a new plan to reopen the critical passageway used by America’s Gulf allies to export their oil and gas.

On Friday, Trump expressed frustration with Iran’s leadership, describing it as fractured.

“It’s a very disjointed leadership,” Trump said. “They all want to make a deal, but they’re all messed up.”

Discussing a briefing he had Thursday with Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, the president said the U.S. has just two options in Iran.

“I mean, do we want to go and just blast the hell out of them and finish them forever? Or do we want to try and make a deal? I mean, those are the options,” Trump said.

Trump said he believes Iran’s leadership has made some progress toward unifying around a resolution.

“They’ve made strides, but I’m not sure if they ever get there,” he said. “There’s tremendous discord, they’re having a tremendous problem getting along with each other in Iran.”

Iran’s top diplomat sought support for plan

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a flurry of calls on Friday with many of his regional counterparts, including from Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Azerbaijan, to brief them on his country’s latest initiatives to end the war, according to his social media.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas also spoke over the phone Friday with Araghchi. They discussed ongoing diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and long-term security arrangements, Kallas’ office said in a statement. Kallas also has been in contact with the EU’s Gulf partners.

Pakistani officials have said efforts were continuing to ease tensions between Iran and the U.S.

Pakistan’s former ambassador to Washington, Masood Khan, said the continued exchange of proposals indicates that the U.S. and Iran remain engaged in seeking a diplomatic midpoint.

The proposals also come after leaders of the two countries had exchanged some of their harshest threats, Khan said, fueling fears that military hostilities could resume at any moment.

Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate moved to hospital

Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a “catastrophic deterioration” of her health, her foundation said Friday.

The Narges Mohammadi Foundation said she had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis. She was believed to have suffered a heart attack in late March, according to her lawyers who visited her a few days after the incident.

The hospital transfer comes “after 140 days of systematic medical neglect,” since her arrest, the foundation said.

Mohammadi, 53, a rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison, was arrested in December and sentenced to seven more years in prison.

Explosion of leftover bombs killed 14 in Iran

An explosion of leftover bombs from strikes during the war against Iran killed 14 Revolutionary Guard members, IRNA and other Iranian media reported Friday.

A report by the Nournews website, believed to be close to Iran’s security, said the explosion happened near the northern city of Zanjan, which is northwest of Tehran.

It was the largest number of Revolutionary Guard members reported to be killed since the ceasefire began on April 7. The report said the ammunition included cluster bombs and air mines dropped during the fighting.

Since the war began on Feb. 28, at least 3,375 people have been killed in Iran, and more than 2,600 people in Lebanon, where new fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah broke out two days after the war started, according to authorities.

Additionally, 24 people have died in Israel and more than 20 in Gulf Arab states. Seventeen Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and 13 U.S. service members throughout the region have been killed.

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Ezzidin reported from Cairo and Binkley from Washington. Associated Press writers Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Sarah El Deeb in Beirut contributed to this report.

But this year, delays in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that has shielded her and hundreds of thousands of others from deportation, led to her missing her renewal deadline, losing her job and fearing detention in the country she has called home since she was 6 years old.

She said that as an immigrant in the U.S., fear has become her “new baseline.” “But now, having a new level of vulnerability, it was a very quick increase in the fear,” said Candia.

Renewal wait times for the Obama-era program that allows people who were brought to the U.S. as children to temporarily remain in the country and work have increased to levels not seen since 2016 when there were significant technical issues.

Some of the program’s more than 500,000 beneficiaries, often referred to as “Dreamers,” have waited months for an answer only to see their deadline pass without a decision. Now they’re stuck in a type of limbo in which their work authorization disappears, oftentimes along with their driver’s license, and their ability to stay in the U.S. is at risk.

“It’s not just anecdotal; it’s happening at a larger scale than we’ve ever seen before,” said Greisa Martinez Rosas, executive director of United We Dream, an immigrant youth-led network.

No numbers were available on how many people have recently missed their renewal deadline despite applying 120 to 150 days before their DACA lapses, which is what U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recommends.

“Under the leadership of President Trump, USCIS is safeguarding the American people by more thoroughly screening and vetting all aliens, which can lengthen processing times,” Zach Kahler, an agency spokesperson, said in a statement.

Wait times nearly 5 times longer

DACA grants those who qualify two-year, renewable permits to live and work in the U.S. It does not confer legal status but is meant to offer protection from deportation.

From October 2025 to the end of February 2026, the median wait time for renewals was about 70 days, compared to about 15 days in fiscal year 2025, according to USCIS. This is the longest median wait time since 2016, when it was about 79 days, according to the agency’s data, which did not include 2020 because of the pandemic.

The Department of Homeland Security attributed the 2016 delays to technical issues that emerged as it transitioned to fully processing DACA renewals in its electronic immigration system.

At the end of April 2026, USCIS was reporting that the majority of renewal requests were being completed within about 122 days. That marked a two-week increase from the processing times listed earlier that month.

Federal lawmakers and immigrant groups say some applicants recently have had to wait 6 months — about 183 days — or longer.

“The delays that people are concerned about used to be sort of a matter of weeks at a time,” U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said in an interview. “Now it’s from a few months to many, many months.”

He is one of dozens of lawmakers behind letters sent to federal agencies that question the inflated wait times and whether people who have missed their renewal deadline are being targeted for arrest or deportation.

More than five months after Elsa Sanchez submitted her DACA renewal request, she is still waiting for an answer. When the deadline passed at the beginning of April, she was put on leave at her job at a healthcare IT company and now, as a single mother of a college freshman, has no income.

It’s made her worried about everything from traveling to spending money on pricier household products like shampoos and detergents.

“I’m like, ‘I don’t know, maybe I can cut down on that. Maybe I don’t need this,’” she said. “Because I’m saving every penny.”

Sanchez said something similar happened about a decade ago, but this time she’s scared of the possible repercussions amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda.

Since DACA’s introduction in 2012, it’s faced myriad legal battles, including two that made it to the Supreme Court. And now, while the government is still approving renewals, a 2025 federal court decision means it isn’t processing first-time applications and has left the door open for another possible trip to the Supreme Court.

Hundreds of DACA recipien

ts arrested

In the first 11 months of 2025, more than 250 DACA recipients were arrested and 86 deported, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said earlier this year. She said the majority of those arrested had “criminal histories,” without indicating the nature of the crimes or if they were arrests, charges or convictions. In a separate response to a Democratic congresswoman’s inquiry, DHS reported conflicting numbers saying that 270 were arrested and 174 DACA applicants were removed in the first nine months of 2025.

Their eligibility is dependent in part on not having a felony conviction, a significant misdemeanor or three misdemeanors. Previously, if their status was in jeopardy, they would get a warning and still have the chance to fight it before immigration officers detained them and began efforts to deport them.

Kahler, from USCIS, said that DACA recipients are not automatically protected from deportation.

“Any illegal alien who is a DACA recipient may be subject to arrest and deportation for a number of reasons — including if they committed a crime,” he said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to questions about whether DACA beneficiaries were being targeted after missing their renewal deadlines.

But federal lawmakers have recently noted people picked up by ICE after their DACA lapsed.

Their protections may have been further eroded with a precedent decision last week in which the Board of Immigration Appeals determined that DACA status alone is not enough to stop deportation.

People from certain countries may be most at risk

Experts have suggested the longer wait times could be related to the biometric appointments, which were paused during the pandemic, being restarted. Some may also not be getting approved by their deadline because they’re not sending it in by the recommended time.

Maria Fernanda Madrigal is an immigration attorney and DACA recipient who submitted her renewal application about a month and a half before the deadline because she said that’s all the processing time that’s been needed in the past. She said she was also waiting for her job to hold a DACA workshop so that she could get the more than $550 fee for renewal waived.

Earlier this month, her DACA lapsed and the mother of three was let go from her job.

“My first concern was my cases, to be honest, because I knew I was going to have to hand off everything, and my team is already overworked,” said Madrigal.

Immigration attorneys have also said that USCIS has paused processing renewals for people from dozens of countries the agency described in recent policy memorandums as “high-risk” following presidential proclamations. The National Immigration Law Center estimated that as many as 3,000 to 4,000 people could be impacted.

“This process that has no timeline is leading to people from certain countries experiencing a pause. And we don’t know how long that pause will be in place,” said Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, attorney at the National Immigration Law Center.

Every day, Candia checks on her renewal. She said she’s most afraid of being locked up in bad conditions in an ICE detention facility, but also thinks about what it would be like returning to Bolivia after more than 25 years.

“If God forbid that happened, it would break my heart because I’ve been in this country since I was 6,” she said. “My entire life is here.”

But prices are exorbitantly high, topping out at $4,105 for the United States’ opening game against Paraguay in Los Angeles, and many costing around $2,000.

Tickets are still available on FIFA’s official website through its “last-minute sales” section after batches had been released through various phases since September.

The cheapest tickets currently are $380 for seven different games, including World Cup debutant Curacao vs. Ivory Coast in Philadelphia.

Prices vary dependent on the category of ticket, with Front Category 1 the most expensive and Category 4 the cheapest. Yet a Category 3 ticket for USA vs. Paraguay is listed at $1,120 compared to a Category 2 ticket for Austria vs Jordan, which is $380.

Prices are also subject to change as FIFA adopts dynamic pricing for the first time at the World Cup.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in January the demand for tickets for this year’s tournament in the U.S., Canada and Mexico was the equivalent of “1,000 years of World Cups at once”, and all 104 matches would be sold out.

While only a handful of tickets remain for some games, fans willing and able to pay can still watch even the biggest nations such as defending champion Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France and England.

Tickets for Lionel Messi’s Argentina range from $2,475-$2,925. For Brazil it is $2,280-$2,310.

FIFA has been accused by fans of a “monumental betrayal” on ticket costs, but soccer’s governing body has repeatedly defended its pricing strategy.

“There are expensive tickets, yes, and there are also affordable tickets,” Infantino said Thursday in addressing the FIFA Congress in Vancouver, British Columbia. “And what is important is that all the revenues that we generate from the world go back to you, go back to the entire world and finance football in all of your countries, and you know it better than me, in big majority of our countries, we could not have organized football the way we know it without the grants and the revenues and the Forward program.”

Fans have been further angered by the addition of more expensive categories as the tournament approaches. Many of the tickets still on general sale are for the more expensive categories.

Tickets are also available via resale platforms including FIFA’s own marketplace and last month four seats for the World Cup final were listed at just under $2.3 million each. FIFA does not resell tickets or set prices on the platform, but can cash in for a second time by taking a 30% cut from any sale.

Cheapest group-stage tickets on general sale

Austria vs. Jordan, New Zealand vs. Egypt, Jordan vs. Algeria, Cape Verde vs. Saudi Arabia, Algeria vs. Austria, Congo DR vs. Uzbekistan and Curacao vs. Ivory Coast are all currently available for $380.

There are also a number of games with prices ranging from $400-$455.

Most expensive group-stage tickets on general sale

The USA’s opener against Paraguay on June 12 is the most expensive for the group games. While a number of tickets remain on general sale, the cheapest are $1,120 for Category 3.

Argentina vs. Austria ($2,925), Ecuador vs. Germany ($2,550), Uruguay vs. Spain ($2,520) and England vs. Croatia ($2,505) are also among the costliest.

Some games are sold out

A total of 17 group-stage games are sold out according to FIFA’s website, including the tournament opener between Mexico and South Africa in Mexico City on June 11.

Seven games staged in Mexico are sold out, including the co-host’s two other matches against South Korea in Guadalajara and Czech Republic in Mexico City.

Turkey vs. USA in Los Angeles, Brazil vs. Morocco in New York/New Jersey and Scotland vs. Brazil in Miami are among other games sold out.

Knockout stages

No tickets for the final are on general sale, but there is still the chance to book seats for semifinals if you have around $10,000 going spare.

A Front Category 1 ticket for the Atlanta semifinal is listed at $9,660. It’s even more for the Dallas semifinal, with an equivalent ticket priced at $11,130.

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AP Soccer Writer Anne M. Peterson contributed to this report.

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Livingston, 22, of Plantation, was celebrating on Friday at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale after surviving the TBI, bone fractures, and internal injuries.

“The first time I came here, I was wheeled in through the back door on a stretcher,” Livingston said about March 2025. “Walking up those stairs this morning, through the main entrance, just felt great.”

Their meeting at the auditorium marked the National Trauma Awareness Month. Steven had his chance to stand and say, “Thank you for all your love and support, and I love you guys too.”

After a car crash, Parra was the first on scene when Stephen was transferred as a Level 1 trauma patient. Kilnger took care of his brain, and Roth of his legs.

“Steven is an example of why we do this,” Parra said.

Livingston was in the intensive care unit in a coma with brain bleeding and swelling. About two weeks later, his condition suddenly worsened, according to BHMC.

Klinger performed emergency surgery due to pressure on the swelling brain. Livingston had a large portion of the right side of his skull removed and returned weeks later, as his condition improved.

“It was absolutely amazing to see him like that,” Roth said. “And every subsequent visit, I saw him, he was stronger and stronger.”

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“I know Andy well, and he is always a Vote we can count on because he knows what it takes to GET THINGS DONE,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

Barr is facing former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in the May 19 Republican primary, and would have faced entrepreneur Nate Morris. In a Truth Social post just before his endorsement of Barr, Trump announced that he'd asked Morris to “step aside” from the race to join his administration as an ambassador.

“Nate is a terrific businessman and strong MAGA Warrior,” Trump wrote, adding that he'll announce Morris' specific role soon. Shortly after, Morris posted on X that he was proud to be part of the Trump administration and, in another post, endorsed Barr.

All three Republicans coveted the president's endorsement — and boasted frequently of their Trump loyalty — in the conservative state, where Trump won 64% of the vote in the 2024 presidential race.

It isn’t the first Senate primary where Trump has endorsed or teased an endorsement, and he’s been using his influence to continue shaping the Republican Party.

In Louisiana, Trump backed Sen. Bill Cassidy’s challenger, Rep. Julia Letlow. Cassidy voted to convict the president during his 2021 impeachment trial after the Jan. 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In Texas, the president has dangled a possible endorsement in the primary between Sen. John Cornyn and challenger Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, but he hasn’t announced anything.

In Kentucky, Barr said he was honored to have Trump’s endorsement, adding in a statement that he’ll stand with Trump “100% to deliver for Kentucky and to keep Making America Great Again.”

A consultant for Cameron’s campaign, Brandon Moody, said in a texted statement, “Congrats to Mitch McConnell for getting his guy,” but did not explain further.

The Democratic field in Kentucky includes former state lawmaker Charles Booker and former Marine pilot Amy McGrath. Booker narrowly beat McGrath in the 2020 Democratic primary to face McConnell.

Democrats have not won a U.S. Senate race in Kentucky since 1992.

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, known for her hundreds of bold hats and mentorship programs, has served in Congress for 15 years.

Both Democrats have been reelected through years of Florida’s several rounds of redistricting maps. But that could change with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new Florida Congressional Districting map.

“The district I represent now is a pretty clean rectangle in South Broward. I represent 10 cities ... I will be running in a district where ... I will have an opportunity and the privilege to continue to represent my constituents in South Florida,” Wasserman Schultz, a former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, said about Florida’s 25th Congressional District.

Wilson, a Democrat from Miami’s Liberty City, represents Florida’s 24th Congressional District. After the 2010 U.S. Census, the district included North Miami, Miami Gardens, Opa-locka, and Miami Shores.

On Wednesday, Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a new congressional map that Gov. Ron DeSantis is preparing to sign. Florida’s 24th Congressional District still includes Miami Shores, but it now includes areas of Broward County.

The new map also changed District 20, which has been vacant since Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned on April 21, 2026, after an ethics inquiry.

President Donald Trump, who pushed for redistricting before the midterms, recently celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act provisions that had supported District 20.

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The airline, which has been operating under bankruptcy protection, had been in discussions over a potential $500 million rescue package backed by the federal government. However, negotiations reached an impasse, preventing a deal from moving forward, the Journal reported.

A court hearing tied to the proposed rescue, originally scheduled for Thursday did not take place following the breakdown in talks, Reuters reported.

President Donald Trump, however, says he’s still looking at a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines.

“We’re looking at it. If we could do it, we’ll do it. But only if it’s a good deal,” Trump told reporters on Friday as he prepared to leave the White House for a trip to Florida.

He didn’t offer any details about what proposal he was considering but said he’d like to save jobs at the airline, which has filed for bankruptcy twice in two years.

Trump said his administration gave Spirit “a final proposal” and would make an announcement Friday or Saturday.”

“We’re looking at Spirit and if we can help them, we will. But we have to come first,” he said.

A spokesperson for Spirit Airlines “declined to comment on ongoing discussions,” but said “Spirit is operating as usual.”

Los empleados de la Unión Eléctrica de Cuba están trabajando las 24 horas del día mientras la red eléctrica de la isla sigue desmoronándose, lo que provoca apagones en todo el país, agravados por la falta de gasolina derivada de un bloqueo energético de Estados Unidos.

“Estamos viviendo tiempos duros”, afirmó Yunier Meriño Reyes, contador de la Unión Eléctrica que se sumó a la marcha del viernes para celebrar a sus colegas. “Estamos llevando una labor muy dura, ardua, constante, día y noche por darle electricidad al pueblo que lo necesita”.

La crisis energética de Cuba se profundizó después de que Estados Unidos atacó a Venezuela a inicios de enero, lo que detuvo envíos críticos de petróleo desde el país sudamericano. Más tarde ese mes, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump amenazó con imponer aranceles a cualquier país que venda o suministre petróleo a Cuba.

Como resultado, la isla pasó más de tres meses sin un solo envío de petróleo hasta que, a finales de marzo, atracó en Cuba un petrolero ruso cargado con 730.000 barriles.

Antes de su llegada, Cuba dependía únicamente del gas natural, de una energía solar limitada y de centrales termoeléctricas en desintegración.

“Fue brutal”, declaró recientemente a los periodistas Vicente de la O Levy, ministro de Energía y Minas de Cuba.

Una vez que llegó el petróleo ruso, tuvo que refinarse, un proceso que tomó aproximadamente dos semanas.

“Hemos trabajado 8 horas al día sin parar”, señaló Rafael Martínez, un trabajador de refinería del Sindicato del Petróleo de Cuba.

Recordó su alegría cuando se enteró de que el petrolero ruso había atracado.

“El trabajo de nosotros es salir adelante. No hay más nada”, expresó mientras sus compañeros se congregaban a su alrededor el viernes, tocando cencerros y un gran tambor mientras celebraban su día.

El sindicato petrolero Cuba publicó recientemente un video en el que destaca a sus trabajadores, incluido el conductor José Antonio Báez.

“El trabajo de nosotros genera toda la economía del país. Nosotros movemos la economía del país”, sostuvo.

Pedro Luis López Manzano, ingeniero y director de mantenimiento de la refinería de Cienfuegos, dijo en el video que las cuadrillas tuvieron que dar varios pasos para garantizar la operatividad porque la refinería estuvo cerrada durante cuatro meses.

“Es un reto, pero siempre pensábamos que sí se podía”, manifestó.

Mientras tanto, Gustavo Rodríguez Cordero, ingeniero y director general del Sindicato del Petróleo de Cuba en Villa Clara, criticó el bloqueo energético de Estados Unidos en un video publicado por su empresa.

“Nadie tiene el derecho internacionalmente a oprimir así a un pueblo energéticamente”, afirmó.

Después de que se refinó el petróleo, de la O Levy indicó que el gobierno optó por priorizar sectores vitales, entre ellos la agricultura y la producción de alimentos.

“Eso permitió el riego del tabaco, el maíz y la soya”, señaló. “Hubo más horas de apagón de lo previsto porque destinamos parte de la energía a la producción; no podíamos continuar con fábricas paradas”.

Señaló que parte del petróleo se convirtió en aproximadamente 6.000 toneladas de diésel y fuel oil que se usaron para abastecer a hospitales, generadores y el transporte.

De la O Levy dijo que la situación de Cuba comenzó a mejorar a partir del 17 de abril: “no la deseada, pero significativa”.

Indicó que el gobierno distribuía 800 toneladas de combustible al día de las 1.600 toneladas necesarias.

“Si usáramos 1.600, habría menos apagón, pero el (combustible) duraría la mitad del tiempo”, explicó.

De la O Levy advirtió que se esperaba que el petróleo ruso alcanzara solo hasta finales de abril, y subrayó que la prioridad es sostener las plantas termoeléctricas de la isla usando crudo cubano.

“Sin ese combustible estaríamos en apagón total”, advirtió.

Cuba produce el 40% del combustible que requiere y depende en gran medida de las importaciones.

Mientras las crisis de la isla se prolongan, Katiusca Carreño, de 53 años, quien trabaja en el centro de mando de la Unión Eléctrica, dijo que está comprometida con satisfacer a la población cubana.

“No nos llega los recursos, pero ahí estamos todos los trabajadores”, declaró tras la concentración del viernes. “Es difícil, pero no es imposible. Se trabajan 24 horas”.

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Jurors found Republican David Rivera and an associate, Esther Nuhfer, guilty on all counts, including failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department and conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of their work for former President Nicolás Maduro’s government.

Much as he did throughout the trial, Rivera stood stone-faced as the jury delivered its verdict.

Rivera had been out on bond, but Judge Melissa Damian ordered him taken into custody, finding that he posed a flight risk because he has access to sizable funds, faces a potentially long prison sentence, and faces additional federal charges in Washington, D.C., in a related foreign lobbying case.

The seven-week trial offered a rare glimpse into Miami’s role as a crossroads for foreign influence campaigns aimed at shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America, one highlighting the city’s reputation as a magnet for corruption and anti-Communist crusaders among its sizable exile population.

It included testimony from Rubio, Texas Congressman Pete Sessions and a top Washington lobbyist — all of whom testified that they were shocked to learn belatedly of Rivera’s consulting contract with a U.S.-based affiliate of Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA.

In an 11-count indictment unsealed in 2022, prosecutors alleged that Rivera was tapped by then Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez — now Venezuela’s acting president — to work Republican connections from Rivera’s time in Congress to get the first Trump administration to abandon its hard-line stance and ease crippling sanctions on Venezuela.

As part of the charm offensive, prosecutors alleged, Rivera and Nuhfer, a political consultant, manipulated influential friends, including Rubio and Sessions, like “pawns on a chess board.” The goal: to try and normalize relations with the new Trump administration at a time when the Maduro government was buffeted by serious accusations of human rights violations.

“As long as the money kept coming in, they didn’t care from where,” prosecutor Roger Cruz said of the defendants during closing arguments.

After the verdict, defense attorney David Weinstein said in a statement, “While we respect the jury’s verdict, we do not agree with it, an appeal will be filed, and we will continue to fight on behalf of Mr. Rivera.”

The government also responded to the verdict in a statement.

“Today’s verdict sends a clear and powerful message: our democratic processes are not for sale to foreign adversaries,” FBI Miami Special Agent Brett Skiles said, in part. “Using coded messages and laundering millions of dollars to fund personal lifestyles and political campaigns, these defendants thought they could operate in the shadows.

“This conviction proves that no matter how much ‘coded language’ is used or how high-ranking the conspirators may be, the FBI and its partners will remain steadfast in identifying and investigating those who covertly serve foreign interests at the expense of the American public’s trust.”

‘Massive secret’ threatened to damage Rivera’s political career

But the two held onto the “massive secret” and didn’t disclose their lobbying work as required, for fear it would have ended Rivera’s political career as an anti-Communist stalwart, Cruz said.

To hide his work, prosecutors allege, Rivera also set up an encrypted chat group called MIA — for Miami — with his main conduit to the Maduro government: Venezuelan media tycoon Raúl Gorrín, who was subsequently charged in the U.S. with bribing top Venezuelan officials.

Members of the group used playful code words to discuss their activities: Maduro was the “bus driver,” Sessions “Sombrero,” Rodríguez “The Lady in Red,” and millions of dollars “melons,” according to copies of text messages presented to the jury.

“It was all about La Luz,” Cruz said, referring to the Spanish word for light, which Rivera and others repeatedly used to discuss payments from Caracas.

Attorneys for Rivera and Nuhfer said the two acted in good faith and believed they were under no requirement to disclose their work. The three-month, $50 million contract with Rivera’s one-man consulting firm, they say, was focused exclusively on luring oil giant ExxonMobil back to Venezuela — commercial work that is generally exempt from the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Wholly distinct from that consulting work, they say, were Rivera’s meetings with Rubio and Sessions, which occurred after the consulting contract had expired and was focused on ushering in leadership in Venezuela that would be less hostile to the U.S.

“He was working every possible angle to get Nicolás Maduro out,” defense attorney Ed Shohat said during closing arguments. “There was not a word in the chats about normalizing relations.”

Nuhfer’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, likened the government’s case to the 17th century Salem witch trials, presuming ill intent that was belied by the flimsiest of evidence.

“My client does not have a dark heart,” he said.

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Prosecutors said Rivera used the contract with New York-based PDV USA as cover for illegal lobbying.

Once exposed, the partners tried to hide the work — backdating documents and coming up with sham agreements like one to justify a wire transfer of $3.75 million to a South Florida company that maintained Gorrín’s luxury yacht.

The political activity included setting up meetings for Rodríguez in New York, Caracas, Washington and Dallas. As part of the effort, the two roped in Sessions, who later tried to broker a meeting for Rodríguez with the CEO of ExxonMobil that had succeeded Trump’s then-secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. After a secret meeting in Caracas with Maduro, Sessions also agreed to deliver a letter from the Venezuelan president to Trump.

The outreach quickly unraveled, however. Within six months of taking office, Trump sanctioned Maduro and labeled him a “dictator,” launching a “maximum pressure” campaign to unseat the president.

However, nearly a decade later, Rodríguez has emerged as the second Trump administration’s trusted partner after the U.S. military’s ousting of Maduro.

Before being elected to Congress in 2010, Rivera was a high-ranking Florida legislator. During that time, he shared a Tallahassee home with Rubio, who eventually became the Florida House speaker.

Rivera has previously faced controversy, including allegations that he secretly funded a Democratic spoiler candidate in a 2012 congressional race. Last year, federal prosecutors dropped the case after an appeals court threw out a sizable fine imposed by a lower court. Rivera was also investigated — but never charged — for alleged campaign finance violations and a $1 million contract with a gambling company while serving in the Florida legislature.

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The plane towed a banner with big red letters reading: “FIRE CRAIG! SELL THE TEAM!”

The banner was aimed at Craig Breslow, Boston's chief baseball officer, and Red Sox principal owner John Henry.

Boston enters Friday game against the Astros in last place in the AL East, with a 12-19 record.

Breslow fired manager Alex Cora on April 25 after a 17-1 road victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

The small plane circled the ballpark for over an hour. Fans outside the park were seen looking up and trying to read the banner.

With the Red Sox off to such a poor start this season, chants of “Sell the team!” have been heard at Fenway. Last week, those chants grew louder after the Red Sox were swept at home by their longtime rivals, the New York Yankees.

The 50-year-old Cora was the manager of Boston’s last World Series team in 2018, which won a club-record 108 regular-season games. And, Cora was a member of the team’s 2007 World Series-winning club. Cora was 620-541 as Red Sox manager, and the first manager to be fired this season.

Henry also owns the Liverpool soccer team. Last week, fans protested against rising ticket prices.

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The two-time All-Star left midway through the second quarter of Toronto's 125-120 loss at Cleveland on Wednesday night. He scored one point in 11 minutes before departing.

Guard Jamal Shead started in Ingram’s place in Game 6.

The Raptors are already without guard Immanuel Quickley, who has missed the entire series because of sore right hamstring.

After averaging 21.5 points per game in the regular season, his first with Toronto, Ingram has struggled in the playoffs, averaging 12 in the five games against the Cavaliers. He's shooting 19 for 58 overall and 5 for 13 from 3-point range.

Cleveland leads the series 3-2 and can advance with a win Friday. The home team has won each of the five games in the series.

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Trump had threatened to withdraw some troops from the NATO ally earlier this week after Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was being “humiliated” by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington’s lack of strategy in the war.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement that the “decision follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and conditions on the ground.”

Germany hosts several U.S. military facilities, including the headquarters of its European and Africa commands, Ramstein Air Base and a medical center in Landstuhl, where casualties from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were treated. U.S. nuclear missiles are also stationed in the country.

The number of troops leaving Germany would be 14% of the 36,000 American service members stationed there.

News of the troop withdrawal drew swift pushback from Democrats in Congress as well as a hawkish Washington think tank. They said the move will benefit Russian President Vladimir Putin and weaken U.S. security interests.

The withdrawal “suggests American commitments to our allies are dependent on the president’s mood," said Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"The president should immediately cease this reckless action before he causes irreversible consequences for our alliances and long-term national security,” Reed said.

Bradley Bowman, a scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the U.S. military's presence in Germany and elsewhere in Europe “not only strengthens deterrence against additional Kremlin aggression but also facilitates the projection of American military power into the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Africa.”

Trump ignored questions from reporters about the withdrawal on Friday as he boarded Air Force One in Ocala, Florida, following a rally to tout his economic agenda.

Trump made a similar threat in his first term, saying he would pull about 9,500 of the roughly 34,500 U.S. troops who were then stationed in Germany, but he didn’t start the process and Democratic President Joe Biden formally stopped the planned withdrawal soon after taking office in 2021.

The mercurial U.S. leader has mused for years about reducing the American military presence in Germany, and has railed against NATO for its refusal to assist Washington in the war, which began on Feb. 28 with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.

Trump wrote Wednesday on social media that the U.S. was reviewing possible troop reductions in Germany, with a “determination” to be made soon. On Thursday, he was still thinking about Merz, posting that the German leader should “spend more time on ending the war with Russia/Ukraine” and “fixing his broken Country” than concerning himself with Iran.

American allies in NATO have braced for a U.S. troop withdrawal since Trump took office, with Washington warning that Europe would have to look after its own security, including that of Ukraine, in the future.

Depending on operations, exercises and troop rotations, around 80,000-100,000 U.S. personnel are usually stationed in Europe. NATO allies have expected for more than a year that the U.S. troops deployed after Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine in February 2022 would be first to leave.

Ed Arnold, an expert in European security at the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, in London, said Europe is more concerned about issues like a U.S. redeployment of Patriot missile systems and ammunition from Germany to the Middle East.

In October, the U.S. confirmed that it would reduce its troop presence on NATO’s borders with Ukraine. The move to cut 1,500-3,000 troops came on short notice and unsettled NATO ally Romania, where the military organization runs an air base.

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According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, the discount carrier is preparing to cease operations after failing to secure agreement from key bondholders and the U.S. government on a proposed bailout plan.

The airline has its fair share of loyal customers. Local 10 News caught up with Spirit flyers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, one of the airline’s key operating bases.

“We’ve flown Spirit off-and-on for a long time,” flyer Sarah Burgett said. “I’ve never had a problem with Spirit.”

Flyers now say they fear higher fares.

“It’s gonna affect the economy itself and the people too, I don’t really know,” flyer Sunjoha Nyase said. “I wish there was a way out.”

Travel editor Peter Greenberg said if Spirit does pull the plug, passengers are protected.

“If you’re holding a Spirit ticket, chances are you paid for it with a credit card, you’re protected under federal credit law so that if Spirit doesn’t deliver the service, you get a refund or a credit on your statement,” Greenberg said. “You’re gonna be forced to pay a much higher fare on a competing carrier.”

At the Dania Beach headquarters, Spirit employees were hesitant to speak about the looming shutdown.

A Local 10 News crew saw people walking out Friday with computer monitors and boxes.

A pilot said he’s not sure what’s happening.

Another Spirit employee said a major fear is not knowing whether the airline’s employees will have a job in the coming weekend.

In a message on social media platform X, Association of Flight Attendants President Sara Nelson, whose union represents Spirit flight attendants, urged President Donald Trump to save the airline.

She said “(e)veryday Americans will hurt” with $1 billion annually from more expensive fares across the industry stemming from less competition.

A Business Insider analysis found “that airfares rose an average of about $19, or 14%, across the roughly 90 routes Spirit exited between 2024 and 2025, as consumers faced fewer options.”

Nelson said nearly 20,000 employees will lose their livelihoods if Trump doesn’t act.

“If you’re in charge @POTUS then make it happen now," she posted.

El titular de la fiscalía especializada de control competencial, Raúl Jiménez Vázquez, dijo a la prensa que “no hay ningún motivo, no hay ningún fundamento, no hay ninguna evidencia del porqué de la urgencia de la detención provisional” que solicitaron esta semana las autoridades estadounidenses como parte del proceso para la extradición.

La fiscalía de Nueva York hizo pública el miércoles una acusación por tráfico de drogas y tenencia ilícita de armas contra el gobernador de Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, y otros nueve funcionarios mexicanos entre los que se incluyen un alcalde y un congresista del partido gobernante Morena, un fiscal y policías activos y retirados.

En la acusación se señala a los diez funcionarios de desempeñar un papel fundamental a la hora de ayudar al Cártel de Sinaloa a introducir fentanilo, heroína, cocaína y metanfetamina desde México a Estados Unidos

Al abundar sobre la decisión, Jiménez Vázquez indicó que “no existen pruebas” en los documentos que enviaron las autoridades estadounidenses que acrediten un presunto delito para otorgar la medida de detención provisional. Tanto la presidenta mexicana Claudia Sheinbaum como la Fiscalía General han insistido en que Estados Unidos debe enviar pruebas que avalen las acusaciones.

En ese sentido, el funcionario anunció que la cancillería mexicana solicitará a Estados Unidos las pruebas, argumentos, informes y documentos que sean necesarios, por las vías que garanticen la confidencialidad, y fijar una nueva posición.

Alterno al proceso que llevan las autoridades estadounidenses, la Fiscalía General de México también adelantando una investigación del caso.

Tanto Rocha Moya, quien gobierna Sinaloa desde 2021, como otros funcionarios han rechazado las acusaciones y han aseguraron que el proceso busca atacar a Morena.

Según la acusación, algunas de las personas citadas han participado personalmente en la campaña de violencia y represalias del cártel de Sinaloa.

La acusación alega que estaban estrechamente vinculados a la facción de ese cártel conocida como “Los Chapitos”, dirigida por los hijos de Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, el antiguo líder del cártel que actualmente cumple cadena perpetua en una prisión estadounidense.

Durante su habitual conferencia matutina, Sheinbaum descartó el viernes que enfrente una crisis política ante el proceso judicial que se inició en Estados Unidos contra Rocha Moya y otros miembros de su partido y aseguró que está “fuerte, está sólida y muy segura”.

La mandataria reiteró que seguirá trabajando por la seguridad de México y cooperando con Estados Unidos e insistió en que “nunca nos vamos a subordinar porque esto es un asunto de dignidad del pueblo de México”.

Según un reporte de The Wall Street Journal, la aerolínea de bajo costo se prepara para cesar operaciones tras no lograr un acuerdo con tenedores clave de bonos y el gobierno de Estados Unidos sobre un plan de rescate propuesto.

La aerolínea cuenta con una base de clientes leales. Local 10 News conversó con pasajeros de Spirit en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, una de las principales bases de operación de la aerolínea.

“Hemos volado con Spirit de vez en cuando por mucho tiempo”, dijo la pasajera Sarah Burgett. “Nunca he tenido un problema con Spirit”.

Ahora los pasajeros dicen temer tarifas más altas.

“Va a afectar a la economía en sí y a la gente también, realmente no lo sé”, dijo el pasajero Sunjoha Nyase. “Ojalá hubiera una salida”.

El editor de viajes Peter Greenberg dijo que si Spirit cesa operaciones, los pasajeros están protegidos.

“Si tienes un boleto de Spirit, lo más probable es que lo hayas pagado con una tarjeta de crédito, estás protegido bajo la ley federal de crédito, por lo que si Spirit no presta el servicio, recibes un reembolso o un crédito en tu estado de cuenta”, dijo Greenberg. “Vas a verte obligado a pagar una tarifa mucho más alta en una aerolínea competidora”.

En la sede de Dania Beach, los empleados de Spirit se mostraron reacios a hablar sobre el posible cierre.

Empleados de Spirit:

Un equipo de Local 10 News vio a personas salir el viernes con monitores de computadora y cajas.

Un piloto dijo que no está seguro de lo que está ocurriendo.

Otro empleado de Spirit dijo que un gran temor es no saber si los empleados de la aerolínea tendrán trabajo el próximo fin de semana.

En un mensaje en la plataforma X, la presidenta de la Asociación de Auxiliares de Vuelo, Sara Nelson, cuyo sindicato representa a los auxiliares de vuelo de Spirit, instó al presidente Donald Trump a salvar la aerolínea.

Dijo que “los estadounidenses comunes sufrirán” con $1,000,000,000 USD anuales en tarifas más altas en toda la industria debido a la menor competencia.

Un análisis de Business Insider encontró “que las tarifas aéreas aumentaron en promedio alrededor de $19 USD, o 14%, en aproximadamente 90 rutas que Spirit abandonó entre 2024 y 2025, ya que los consumidores enfrentaron menos opciones”.

Nelson dijo que casi 20,000 empleados perderán su sustento si Trump no actúa.

“Si estás a cargo @POTUS entonces haz que ocurra ahora”, publicó.

Sirens could be heard as responders rushed in.

“It was a matter of seconds before the vehicle was underwater,” said Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Capt. Kevin Costa, who was off duty at the time but responded after hearing the call.

“I heard a call come in and turned on the lights in my vehicle and followed them to the call,” Costa said.

Costa, a diver with 14 years at Fire Rescue, joined two Broward County deputies, jumping into action as the vehicle sank in the canal.

“Broke the window and we were able to get the woman out of the vehicle, swam her back to shore,” he said.

The chaotic scene unfolded around 10:30 a.m. in the 2600 block of Southwest Palm Aire Drive, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. Costa said the elderly driver was still buckled in as the car was going under.

“We didn’t want to risk the chance of opening the door and her not being able to get out in time,“ Costa said. ”So the best option there was to make sure that we broke the window and we had her unclip her seatbelt and then we assisted her through that open window."

Authorities said no one else was inside the vehicle.

The vehicle was eventually pulled from the water -- a situation that could have ended much differently if not for the quick actions of first responders.

“As firefighters, whether we’re on duty or off duty, we act and there’s a level of pride all of us carry,” Costa said “We want to do the right thing.”

More than 40 search warrants have been issued, authorities in North Carolina say, focusing on a married couple who allegedly knew Biffle and his wife Cristina. The suspects did “a lot of planning in an attempt to make a financial gain” off their deaths, Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell said. The Associated Press is not naming the pair because no arrests have been made.

Biffle, his wife and his two children, along with three others, died in the Dec. 18 crash, which remains under investigation by the NTSB. Some survivors of those killed are suing the estates of Biffle and the pilot for millions of dollars.

According to a search warrant affidavit, the husband being investigated met Biffle when the former driver used his private helicopter to deliver aid after Hurricane Helene. The woman attended a Christmas party at the Biffles' home in Mooresville, North Carolina, weeks before the crash.

Authorities reported a break-in at the home on Jan. 8, saying $30,000 in cash, two Glock handguns and NASCAR memorabilia were stolen. Search warrants were later executed at two sites, one near the Biffles’ residence and another in a nearby county.

A person seen on surveillance video, identified as a woman, appeared to be familiar with the large home's layout, including the locations of cameras, closets and a safe room, a detective wrote in a search warrant affidavit. The intruder spent nearly six hours inside the house the night of Jan. 7 into the following morning.

Evidence showed a cellphone and multiple devices were active on the property during that time, according to the warrant. The only people allowed to be there would've been the administers of the estate, but they weren't present.

Authorities say they linked the woman to someone who attended Biffle’s celebration of life, and said license plate readers placed her husband’s truck near the home that night.

The warrants also describe alleged financial crimes. Investigators say that bank, Venmo and PayPal accounts tied to the Biffles were accessed online using personal information, with phone numbers and email addresses changed to gain control of funds. Money was then allegedly transferred to accounts not belonging to the family and used for purchases, according to the warrant.

At least one fraudulent check tied to Biffle’s business interests was cashed, and other attempts were made to access accounts. The activity occurred across multiple states. The sheriff would not say whether the same suspects in the break-in are being investigated for the financial crimes, saying the department is waiting for more evidence.

Meanwhile, the plane crash sparked lawsuits against the estates of Biffle and the pilot Dennis Dutton, who was killed along with his son.

On April 17, the estates of Dutton and his son sued Biffle’s estate for at least $15 million each, alleging Biffle failed to properly maintain the plane and operated it in a defective condition. The claims include lost income and “pre-death pain and suffering.”

In February, Biffle’s ex-wife, Nicole Biffle, filed a notice of claim against Dutton’s estate on behalf of the couple’s 14-year-old daughter’s estate, seeking at least $10 million for wrongful death.

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Casi 900 autobuses escolares tienen cámaras instaladas para capturar a conductores que no se detienen cuando los autobuses recogen o dejan estudiantes.

El programa de cámaras fue suspendido hace poco más de un año después de que conductores expresaran preocupaciones, incluyendo algunos que recibieron multas en situaciones en las que no era necesario detenerse.

Pero el 4 de mayo, las cámaras volverán a estar activas y emitirán advertencias durante un período de 14 días antes de comenzar a emitir multas nuevamente.

“Habrá más supervisión para garantizar que seamos consistentes con el proceso. Esa es una pieza crítica aquí”, dijo el superintendente de las Escuelas de Miami-Dade, Jose Dotres. “Todos estamos en la mesa y queremos asegurarnos de eso, como dijo el sheriff, se lo debemos a nuestra comunidad: claridad, consistencia, y por eso lo llamamos un relanzamiento”.

Los funcionarios dijeron que el relanzamiento busca cambiar el comportamiento de los conductores.

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Friday's unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is requiring that the abortion pill be distributed only in person and at clinics, overruling regulations set by the federal Food and Drug Administration.

The ruling, which is likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, is the biggest jolt to abortion policy in the U.S. since the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to enforce abortion bans.

In the ruling, Judge Kyle Duncan, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, agreed with the state of Louisiana's contention that allowing the drug to be mailed there makes moot the state's ban on abortion at all stages of pregnancy.

“Every abortion facilitated by FDA’s action cancels Louisiana’s ban on medical abortions and undermines its policy that ‘every unborn child is human being from the moment of conception and is, therefore, a legal person,’” the ruling states.

Mifepristone is involved in most abortions in the US

Mifepristone was approved in 2000 as a safe and effective way to end early pregnancies. It is typically used in combination with a second drug, misoprostol.

Surveys have found that the majority of abortions in the U.S. are provided via pills and that about 1 in 4 abortions nationally are prescribed via telehealth.

One survey of abortion providers last year estimated that more women in states where abortion is banned obtained abortions that way than by traveling to other states.

Some Democratic-led states have laws that seek to protect providers who prescribe via telehealth to patients in places with bans.

That rise in prominence is why abortion opponents have targeted the pills in legislation and litigation.

Ruling goes against how courts usually view FDA decisions

There is little precedent for a federal court overruling the scientific regulations of the FDA, and it wasn’t immediately clear how quickly or completely the decision would impact mailing of the drug throughout the country.

Judges have long deferred to the agency's judgments on the safety and appropriate regulation of drugs.

FDA officials under Trump have repeatedly stated that the agency is conducting a new review of mifepristone’s safety, at the direction of the president.

The judges, all nominated by Republican presidents, noted in their ruling that the FDA “could not say when that review might be complete and admitted it was still collecting data.”

Because of rare cases of excessive bleeding, the FDA initially imposed strict limits on who could prescribe and distribute the pill — only specially certified physicians and only after an in-person appointment where the person would receive the pill.

Both those requirements were dropped during the COVID-19 years. At the time, FDA officials under President Joe Biden said that after more than 20 years of monitoring mifepristone use, and reviewing dozens of studies involving thousands of women, it was clear that women could safely use the pill without direct supervision.

GenBioPro, which makes generic mifepristone, said in a statement the court’s decision “ignores the FDA’s rigorous science and decades of safe use of mifepristone in a case pursued by extremist abortion opponents.”

The impact isn't just in states with bans

In a court filing, Louisiana’s attorney general and a woman who said she was coerced into taking abortion pills requested that the FDA rules be rolled back to when the pills were allowed to be prescribed and dispensed only in person.

A Louisiana-based federal judge last month ruled that those allowances undermined the state’s abortion ban but stopped short of undoing the regulations immediately.

Friday's ruling is in effect as the case works its way through the courts and extends beyond Louisiana and states with abortion bans.

Telehealth prescriptions have become common even in states where abortion is allowed — and the ruling blocks them there, too.

“This is going to affect patients’ access to abortion and miscarriage care in every state in the nation,” said Julia Kaye, an ACLU lawyer. “When telemedicine is restricted, rural communities, people with low incomes, people with disabilities, survivors of intimate partner violence and communities of color suffer the most.”

The National Right to Life Committee said the ruling “restores a critical layer of oversight" in women’s health.

“Women deserve better than an abortion-by-mail system that prioritizes ideology over safety," said Carol Tobias, the group’s president.

Next step could be an appeal to the nation's top court

Friday's ruling sets up a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.

“I look forward to continuing to defend women and babies as this case continues,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican, said in a statement.

The conservative-majority high court overturned abortion as a nationwide right in 2022 but unanimously preserved access to mifepristone two years later.

That 2024 decision sidestepped the core issues, however, by ruling that the anti-abortion doctors behind the case didn’t have legal standing to sue.

Representatives for the FDA and the U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday evening.

In the meantime, anti-abortion groups are celebrating Friday's ruling. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, applauded the ruling as “a huge victory for victims and survivors of Biden’s reckless mail-order abortion drug regime.” She also criticized the Trump administration for taking time to conduct its own review of mifepristone, saying its slow movement has forced states to take action.

“Women and children suffer and state sovereignty is violated every day the FDA allows abortion drugs to flood the mail,” Dannenfelser said.

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The alarms began blaring in the arena during Magic coach Jamahl Mosley's pregame media availability in advance of Game 6 of the series on Friday night, doing so while he was being asked if injured forward Franz Wagner might be able to play in a Game 7.

And as that question was being asked, the horns started.

“That's not a good sign,” Mosley said.

Mosley went on to answer the question, explaining that it all hinges on how Wagner responds to treatment. He did that while a computerized voice gave instructions on what people who were in the building should have been doing at that moment.

The alarms returned again a few seconds later, and Mosley decided that was his cue to end the talk.

“All right, that's good, thank you, appreciate it,” Mosley said.

For the record, a team official confirmed that the alarms were false. And Detroit coach J.B. Bickerstaff's pregame media session, which started about 10 minutes after Mosley's ended, went off without any alarms.

The Magic took a 3-2 lead into Game 6 of the series on Friday.

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Nearly 900 school busses have cameras installed to capture drivers who don’t stop when buses are picking up or dropping off students.

The camera program was previously put on hold a little over a year ago after drivers raised concerns, including some being ticketed in situations not requiring them to stop.

But on Monday, the cameras will be active again and issuing warnings for a 14-day period before they start issuing tickets again.

“There will be more monitoring to ensure that we are consistent with the process. That’s a critical piece here,” Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres said. “We are all at the table, and want to make sure that that’s like the sheriff said, we owe it to our community, clarity, consistency ― and that’s why we call it a relaunch.”

Officials said the relaunch is about changing driver behavior.

Editor’s note: The original version of this article misstated the relaunch date. It is May 4 ― Monday ― not May 14. The article has been corrected.

In a Monday statement announcing his death, Marvel described Conway as a legendary comic book writer with a prolific career. He died of pancreatic cancer on Sunday in Thousand Oaks, California, his wife, Laura Conway, told The Associated Press.

“From Spider-Man to the Avengers, Iron Man to Captain Marvel, Gerry Conway has deftly written almost every character in the Marvel Universe,” Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski said. "Gerry Conway’s legacy has made an undeniable and indelible impact on the Super Hero stories we know and love. He will be dearly missed.”

Tributes were also shared on social media.

“While many know his Marvel accomplishments ... Gerry’s contributions to DC were equally impactful and significant: shaping Batman, Superman, the Justice League of America, and co-creating Firestorm, Jason Todd and Power Girl and so many more,” Jim Lee, chief creative officer and president of DC Comics, said in an Instagram post. “Thank you, Gerry, for the worlds imagined and the heroes created.”

Conway was born in Brooklyn on Sept. 10, 1952. A lifelong fan of comic books, he started writing comic book stories as a teenager, and by the age of 19 he landed work on “The Amazing Spider-Man" — which Marvel's statement described as "the job that would change his life — and the comic book industry at large — forever.”

Conway's writing featured "pivotal moments” that redefined the series, Marvel said, such as the death of Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's girlfriend. He also co-created the Punisher, a vigilante antihero known for the skull logo on his chest.

The skull imagery has been used by law enforcement in recent years, sparking controversy at times. Nearly a decade ago, Conway objected to police departments putting Punisher decals on their vehicles, saying in a social media post that the character was “a complex morally compromised anti-hero, not to be emulated by cops,” as reported the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Conway had a way of imbuing characters with nuance and emotional depth, Marvel said in its statement.

“Gerry Conway brought real stakes to his writing, able to weave together sensational super heroics with the human and relatable, and in doing so created some of the most memorable stories and characters of all time,” Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said.

Beyond the Spider-Man comics, Conway wrote for several other major Marvel titles, including “Fantastic Four,” “Thor” and “The Incredible Hulk.”

In a 1981 interview with The Comics Journal, Conway noted how comic books can appeal to both younger and older audiences.

"I'm writing for the youthful part of myself, the primitive part of myself,” he told the magazine. "If an adult likes the books it's because of a nostalgic feeling for that primitive, easy conceptualization of heroic purpose.”

He and his fans loved meeting each other, his wife Laura Conway said. At his last public comic book signing in February, “he was tired and in a lot of pain as the cancer was spreading, but he stayed an extra two hours to make sure every fan in line could get their book signed and have a moment to talk with him about comics,” she said.

“That’s the kind of person he was.”

Conway is survived by his wife and two daughters from previous marriages.

“Being separated from a soulmate is a unique kind of pain. But I’m grateful we found each other and for the time we had together, which changed both our lives,” his wife said.

Arkansas announced a week ago it would drop its men's and women's programs and Saint Louis followed Monday with the same announcement. Illinois State said Tuesday it would end its men's program, and North Dakota said Thursday it would shut down its men's and women's teams. Gardner-Webb announced in February this would be the last season for the men's and women's programs.

Arkansas and Gardner-Webb are among the 64 teams in the men's NCAA Tournament.

The number of Division I schools sponsoring tennis in 2024-25 was 237 for men and 304 for women. An NCAA spokeswoman said Friday that numbers for 2025-26 were unavailable.

Dozens of schools across all divisions shut down programs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since revenue sharing with athletes started last year, Division I schools have chosen to redirect resources to fund direct payments to athletes in football, basketball and a few other sports.

Brian Vahaly, chairman of the board and president and interim co-CEO of the U.S. Tennis Association, said in a statement to The Associated Press on Friday that visibility of the college game needs to be elevated, the pathway for players to continue competing beyond juniors needs to be strengthened and tennis leaders need to work more directly with athletic departments.

“A strong collegiate tennis landscape is fundamental to the future of our sport,” Vahaly said, “and we will continue to look for ways to support its growth and long-term sustainability.”

Arkansas' decision to drop the sport caught the tennis community off guard.

“We in the tennis world have sort of been battling this at the lower levels of college tennis, but not the big, bad SEC,” ESPN tennis analyst and former college and pro player Patrick McEnroe said on the WholeHogSports podcast. "The Division II schools and some of the smaller Division I programs over the years, you're always sort of on the lookout in the tennis community to fight and protect as many programs as possible."

Tennis has been targeted as youth participation for American boys and girls has declined and the ratio of international players at U.S. colleges has continued to grow.

In 2006, the number of boys and girls ages 12-17 playing tennis was equal, at 1.1 million, according to the National Sporting Goods Association. Over the last 20 years, participation has dropped 23% for boys in that age group (849,000) and 26% for girls (811,000).

The most recent NCAA data showed that among first-year college players in 2022, 64% of men and 61% of women were international students. At Arkansas, seven of the nine men and seven of the 11 women on the 2025-26 rosters are international students.

The math didn't work for the Razorbacks anymore. They spent a combined $2.35 million on the two teams in the 2025 fiscal year; the men's team generated $3,202 in revenue and the women $82.

Arkansas' operating expense per player in 2025 was $41,772 for the men and $41,582 for the women, among the highest in the athletic department.

Tennis also ranked among the most expensive sports per player at North Dakota and Gardner-Webb, and at Illinois State the $10,224 cost per men's player was more than football and baseball. At Saint Louis, cost per player ranked third out of six men's sports and sixth out of eight on the women's side.

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Langdon topped the previous record of 343.51 mph set by Brittany Force last year in Indianapolis. He covered the 1,000-foot track in 3.724 seconds, not far behind Force's record run of 3.623 during that same run in 2025.

Langdon's record-breaking pass came during the NHRA debut at South Georgia Motorsports Park, one of the newest stops on the drag-racing series' 20-event schedule.

The 2013 Top Fuel champion turned heads with several 340 mph runs during preseason testing and entered the weekend second in points, trailing only Doug Kalitta after four events.

“It was special for the guys," Langdon said. “I was happy for them, especially (crew chief) Brian (Husen). We were able to do that testing, and some people had different ideas on what they thought — if it was legit or not. We kind of talked about it and Brian was like, ‘Well, we’ll just do it in the season to prove it was legit.'”

Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart, racing his third full season in NHRA's top division, was second in qualifying with a 3.758-second run at 334.40 mph.

The NHRA added two new tracks to its 2026 schedule, marking the drag-racing series’ first expansion in more than a dozen years. After racing at South Georgia Motorsports Park near Valdosta, Georgia, the series will run in Mechanicsville, Maryland, for the first time later this month.

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Florida Republicans recently pushed for redistricting before the next U.S. Census in 2030.

The Florida legislature approved a map from the Executive Office of Gov. Ron DeSantis released in 2026 that will define the next elections.

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A week removed from teaming with his brother Matt and winning the Zurich Classic — a victory that earned him membership on the PGA Tour — Fitzpatrick remained hot Friday. He shot a bogey-free round of 6-under 66, getting to 6 under at the midpoint of the Cadillac Championship at Trump International Doral.

It's not something he expected a few months ago. Or even a few days ago, really.

“The text messages and stuff has slowed down, but the overwhelming feeling of like joy and happiness is yet to go away,” Fitzpatrick said. “I think for me, this year, it’s going to be a whirlwind and no matter what happens it will be a success. I can’t believe how many people have come up to me and congratulated me ... players and caddies and staff. It’s been incredible.”

Fitzpatrick had a ticket for a Sunday night flight that would have taken him from New Orleans to Turkey for this week's stop on the DP World Tour, then changed those arrangements in a hurry to get to Miami and begin prepping for his first $20 million signature event.

He's called this week “the first day of school” as he gets a real taste of life on the PGA Tour.

So far, the report card has been just fine. He got through a five-birdie, five-bogey roller-coaster to shoot an even-par 72 on Thursday, then had the six-birdie, no-bogey day on Friday.

“I think the nice thing is it feels like I’m doing the right things with my golf game. I’m working towards the right things,” Fitzpatrick said. “It's exciting. I feel like my game has been good for a while now. I think for a few months it didn’t really translate on the golf course how I would have liked, but it’s really taken a turn the past two months. I feel in control of my ball, which is nice. So, hopefully I keep hitting fairways and hitting greens and we’ll see what happens this weekend.”

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Pope Leo XIV announced Friday the appointment of the Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, an auxiliary bishop in Washington, D.C., as the new leader of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which comprises West Virginia, one of the nation’s least racially diverse states.

Menjivar-Ayala, 55, fled El Salvador's civil war as a teen in the late 1980s, eventually crossing illegally into the United States in 1990, he told The Associated Press in an interview last year. But within “a couple of weeks” he gained humanitarian protection, later was granted a visa as a religious worker, and became a U.S. citizen two decades ago.

Nonetheless, he feels close to immigrants who have been caught up by raids, including last year’s federal law enforcement surge in Washington, because “that could have been me,” he said in 2025.

The Catholic Church has long advocated for humane treatment of migrants and refugees in the United States and around the world. Menjivar-Ayala and other U.S. church leaders have strongly condemned the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies while also affirming a nation’s right to control its borders and urging reconciliation.

New bishop to prioritize those on the margins

Menjivar-Ayala did not mention immigration policies nor Trump is his speech Friday, instead focusing on his desire to be accepted by West Virginians and his willingness to listen to the community. A portion of his speech was in Spanish.

“I have much to learn, but my heart is ready and wide-open,” he said. “Above all, I want to listen to the poor. Those in the margins of the church and society. To workers, to the immigrants, because as Matthew 25 says, the way we treat the least is the way we treat Jesus.”

In the Washington archdiocese, which includes the District of Columbia and parts of Maryland, more than 40% of parishioners are Latino. In West Virginia — all of which is covered by the Wheeling-Charleston diocese — only 2.4% of the population is Latino and 92.6% of its 1.77 million residents identify as white, according to the U.S. Census.

Menjivar-Ayala replaces the Most Rev. Mark Brennan, 79, who has served as West Virginia’s bishop since 2019. Brennan had taken over after a scandal over a former bishop’s sexual harassment of adults and lavish spending of church money. In a shared news conference in Wheeling on Friday, Brennan reminded West Virginians that many in America come from somewhere else.

“But he loves all the people here. He’s not going to be bishop just for one group within the diocese. He’ll be bishop for all the people. I can assure you of that.”

The new bishop, who has spent his ministerial career in the nation's capital and surrounding communities, will work in a less Catholic and more rural region, overseeing the diocese’s 61,000 Catholics and 92 parishes throughout West Virginia.

While acknowledging the beauty of West Virginia mountains and natural resources, he said many people in one of the nation’s poorest states “continue to endure hardship, marginalization and inequality.”

Lauded for his immigration advocacy

Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington praised Menjivar-Ayala’s advocacy for migrants during his tenure in the capital, saying in a statement that “his passion for justice and sensitive care for the Hispanic and immigrant communities of our Archdiocese have planted seeds of grace that will yield a harvest here for decades to come.”

In an article he wrote last year for the Catholic Standard, the official newspaper of the Washington archdiocese, Menjivar-Ayala spoke out against the treatment of immigrants by Trump’s administration.

“Each day this situation is getting worse and more ominous,” Menjivar-Ayala wrote. “For weeks now, the federal government has pursued a ‘shock and awe’ campaign of aggressive threats and highly visible operations of questionable legality that go far beyond mere immigration ‘enforcement.’”

Menjivar-Ayala, whose appointment comes a few weeks after the pope’s disagreement with Trump over the U.S. war against Iran, will be installed as bishop at a ceremony on July 2. The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Menjivar-Ayala’s appointment.

Another Latin America-born priest was also named a U.S. bishop on Friday. The Rev. John Gomez will start his tenure in the Diocese of Laredo, Texas, on June 30. Gomez was born in Colombia, came to the United States on a student visa in 2002 and became a U.S. citizen in 2021, according to his current diocese in Tyler, Texas. In a statement, Bishop Gregory Kelly of Tyler praised his “commitment to Hispanic Ministry.”

Pope Leo’s first American bishop appointment, two weeks after his own election in May 2025, was a former refugee: Michael Pham, who was born in Vietnam and became bishop of San Diego, California.

The number of priestly ordinations in the United States has been declining for decades, making foreign-born clergy essential to many parishes nationwide.

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York's overtime goal beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 1-0 in Game 6 of their first-round series and helped the Flyers advance in the playoffs for the first time since 2020.

York was caught up in the moment — “definitely don’t want a lawsuit,” he cracked after the long toss — and hoped the Flyers fan who retrieved the valuable piece of equipment would return the souvenir.

“I figured even if it did hit him, that he was going to still enjoy the moment and be happy,” York said Friday.

Longtime Flyers fan Jack Brod, who grabbed the stick around Section 113 in the lower level, had planned to gift the stick to a family friend. Once he learned that York wanted the stick back, Brod graciously returned it. Wearing the same Flyers sweatshirt he did in Game 6, Brod was a guest Friday at Flyers practice and got to meet York.

York said right after the game he thought, “why did I do that?”

“When my career is done and over with, I want to have some things to look back on, remember and cherish,” York said on Friday. “This was obviously a special moment for me. Super nice guy. Just met him. For me to just give it back for kind of nothing, I really appreciate that. That's one of the best things about Philly fans is, they love their players and they want their players to perform at the highest level they can.”

Brod didn't go home empty-handed. He received a new stick and a signed York No. 8 jersey. York hoped to frame the stick.

The Flyers open their second-round series Saturday at Carolina.

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Progressive groups criticized the report, saying it fails to document a pattern of discrimination, focuses on causes favored by conservative Christians and amounts to “advocacy dressed up as investigation.”

The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, created within the Justice Department by President Donald Trump last year, issued its conclusions Thursday in a 200-page report.

“When Christian beliefs about morality and human nature conflicted with the Biden Administration’s views, religious rights often suffered," the report said.

Report alleges an unfair hard line against conservatives

The task force — which included numerous Cabinet secretaries — didn't accuse the Biden administration of any large pattern of suppressing churches themselves or the right to worship. But the report did accuse it of taking a hard line against those who advocated for conservative policies on the basis of their faith in such areas as abortion, gender, school curriculum and vaccine exemptions.

“The Biden Administration generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith," it said.

Critics said the report essentially equates one strand of conservative Christianity to be representative of Christians overall, then construes policy disagreements to be persecution.

The report is “advocacy dressed up as investigation,” said Jim Simpson, executive director of the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University.

He said the report falsely deems policy disagreements to be “evidence of anti-Christian bias rather than the normal functioning of a pluralistic democracy." He also said it falsely positions Christians — nearly two-thirds of Americans — as “a persecuted minority despite being the country’s largest and most politically influential religious group.”

The task force report contends that the Biden-era Justice Department sought severe penalties for anti-abortion activists who illegally blockaded clinics and took such protests more seriously than threats to pregnancy resource centers — often Christian-run facilities that seek to persuade women not to obtain abortions.

It cited a group of people convicted in federal court and sentenced to prison after invading and blockading a Washington abortion clinic. Trump pardoned them in 2025.

The report contended that the Biden administration “sidelined Christians in favor of their preferred constituencies.”

Alleged abuses related to Easter and LGBTQ+ rights

One section of the report accuses Biden of “replacing Easter" with Transgender Day of Visibility, which takes place every March 31. That event coincided with Easter on 2024. In fact, Biden issued proclamations honoring both occasions. The report accused Biden of “profound lack of consideration for the Christian faith.”

Christian groups have mixed views on LGBTQ+ issues, with some progressive churches flying Pride flags. Conservative denominations generally oppose same-sex marriage and transgender rights. The report chided the Biden administration for flying Pride flags at U.S. Embassies, including at the Vatican.

Melissa Rogers, who served as executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships under Biden, contrasted Trump's Easter messaging this year with his predecessor's.

“President Biden spent Easter and Orthodox Easter wishing Christians worldwide joyful Resurrection Sundays, not by pretending to be Jesus, by tweeting profanities, and by attacking the pope,” she said.

She also noted that Biden is a devout Catholic, and that his administration's officials routinely met with Christian and other faith leaders to cooperate on a wide range of concerns, from the security of sanctuaries to immigration to supporting COVID-19 clinics.

The task force’s report criticized a Biden-era Justice Department memo that discussed possible efforts to prevent violence and threats targeting school boards. The discussions never led to federal action, and then-Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the effort, saying it was to curtail violence, not inhibit debates over policy.

The report did not directly say how it considered this anti-Christian bias, though many school board meetings in that time period did draw conservative Christians and other critics denouncing school policies and lessons on such topics as gender and race.

The report also criticized denials in federal agencies for Christians seeking exemptions from such things as COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

It criticized federal regulators that had told a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma to snuff its chapel candle, deemed a safety hazard because of the risk of combustion to patients with oxygen equipment. The hospital was allowed to keep the candle while putting up a barrier and a warning notice.

The report also cited what it said were disproportionately heavy fines imposed by Biden's Department of Education on two Christian universities — Grand Canyon University for allegedly deceiving thousands of students over program costs, and Liberty University for failures to comply with required disclosures of crime statistics. The Trump administration cleared Grand Canyon University of the charges and rescinded the fine.

Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, criticized the report for “cherry-picked anecdotes” that don't add up to a pattern of persecution.

“To the extent that the government ever did overreach or violate the law in any of these examples, the courts of law, not a partisan political report, provide the right venue to settle any legal disputes,” she said. “Focusing government resources on this narrow issue while ignoring or discounting the much more widespread instances of anti-religious discrimination against other faith groups in the U.S. further harms religious freedom for all.”

The report comes even as the Religious Liberty Commission, another entity created by Trump, prepares a report on its findings; its hearings featured many of the same grievances cited by the task force.

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For the pork:

3 pounds boneless pork shoulder, cut into 4-inch pieces

2 bay leaves

2 teaspoons dried oregano

1 tablespoon chili powder

1 tablespoon kosher salt

2 teaspoons ground cumin

2 teaspoons freshly cracked black pepper

1 medium yellow onion, quartered

4 garlic cloves, smashed

2 jalapeños, sliced into 4 slices each

2 large oranges, quartered

2½-3 cups chicken stock

2 limes

Preheat the oven to 375°F with a rack in the center position.

In a large Dutch oven, combine the bay leaves, oregano, chili powder, kosher salt, cumin, pepper, onion, garlic, jalapeños, squeeze the oranges and place the orange quarters and juice and chicken stock into the pot, add the juice of the limes.

Place the pork into the ingredients and cover. Cook for 3 hours or until the pork is very tender and can be pulled apart easily with a fork. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the pork to a sheet pan with parchment paper, discarding any large pieces of fat. Use two forks to shred the pork into 1-inch pieces or use your hands. Strain and de-fat the sauce. Toss the shredded meat with the strained sauce before serving and heat through if needed.

For the tacos:

corn tortillas

your favorite salsa verde

quick pickled red onions, see recipe below

crumbled queso fresco

limes wedges, for garnish

To serve the tacos, top with some warm pork tossed with its cooking liquid. Garnish with your favorite salsa verde, pickled red onions and queso fresco. Serve with lime wedges on the side.

For quick pickled red onions:

1 small red onion, shaved thin on a Japanese mandolin

juice of 1-2 limes, freshly squeezed

heavy pinch kosher salt

Place the red onion in a bowl. Squeeze the lime juice over the onions and season with a heavy pinch of salt. Combine and marinate for 10 minutes before serving.

your favorite tortillas chips, purchased

2-3 cups grated jack cheese

4 ears of corn, kernels cut off the cobb

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 teaspoon smoked paprika

1 teaspoon Tajin

Kosher salt and black pepper, to taste

For topping:

¼ cup sour cream

2 tablespoon mayonnaise

water, as needed to thin the cream

pickled jalapenos

crumbled cotija cheese

¼ bunch cilantro leaves and tender stems, chopped

Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray lightly with nonstick cooking spray for easy cleanup. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. Arrange a layer of chips on your baking sheet. Top the nachos with as much jack cheese as desired and place in the oven until the cheese is melted.

While the nachos bake, sauté the corn. Heat the butter or oil in a sauté pan and cook the corn for 2-3 minutes until tender crisp. Season the corn with the smoked paprika and Tajin while cooking. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Once the cheese has melted over the chips, remove from the oven. Top with as much sauteed corn as desired. Stir together the sour cream and mayonnaise, add enough water to thin the mixture to a drizzling consistency. Drizzle over the nachos. Top with cotija cheese, pickled jalapenos and cilantro.

1½ ounces gin

⅓ ounce Campari

⅓ ounce grapefruit juice

4 to 5 ounce tonic water

garnish: supremed grapefruit wedge, grapefruit peel discarded

Combine the gin, Campari and grapefruit Juice in a highball glass filled with ice.

Top with tonic water.

Garnish with a supremed grapefruit wedge; express oil from the grapefruit peel then discard it.

Korda only took advantage on two of the four par 5s at El Camaleon, and she had to scramble on the par-5 18th coming out of the right rough. But she had the right touch on a gap wedge from just over 50 yards to 4 feet to close out her round with a birdie.

That allowed her to catch Do, who had a fairway metal for her second shot into the par-4 ninth and finished with a bogey for a 69.

They were at 9-under 135,having faced a stronger wind than the morning wave from the day before on the course along the coast of the Caribbean Sea.

“Drive it straight, hit it close and make putts,” Korda said of the key to playing El Camaleon, the rest course that previously hosted PGA Tour and LIV Golf events.

Melanie Green, who shared the 18-hole lead with Do, had a slow start until making three birdies over her last six holes for a 70. She was one shot behind.

Minami Katsu of Japan had a 69 and was two shots behind.

Korda hit only seven of the 14 fairways, though she was rarely out of position and at times went with a fairway metal off the tee to avoid the bunkers. But she putted for her birdie on all but two holes and was steady over a few 4-foot par putts.

She also had a big following, only partially related to being the No. 1 player in women's golf with her wire-to-wire victory last week in The Chevron Championship for her second win this year, and her third career major.

She was playing alongside Gaby Lopez of Mexico, who shot 71 and was four shots behind.

“Playing with Gaby the crowds have been amazing to see the local support for her, ” Korda said. “And not complaining about where I am on the leaderboard. Playing some solid golf and playing in front of fun crowds, hometown crowds for Gaby is fun to see. Hopefully I can continue playing well, good golf going into the weekend.”

Do, the 36-year-old American, managed her 69 without making birdie on the par 5s. But her iron game gave her plenty of good looks for birdie, and she converted four of them.

She tied for ninth at the Riviera Maya Open a year ago, her only top 10 on the LPGA Tour.

“I put myself in that position last year here and so I think I’m going to be a little more prepared for it this year,” Do said. “I don’t think you’re ever very comfortable being in contention and leading, and so I’m going accept it and kind of just play within myself and feel the feels and kind of see what happens — just accept what happens.”

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Judge Dale E. Ho in Manhattan extended the status temporarily while a lawsuit seeking to preserve the protections plays out. In an emergency order, he wrote that people granted the status are ordinary, law-abiding people who the U.S. government had determined could face threats to their safety if they were returned to a country facing an ongoing armed conflict.

Amid its immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has terminated Temporary Protected Status for people from nine countries, including Haiti, Venezuela and Ethiopia. Before Ho’s ruling, protections for Yemeni refugees were set to end on Monday, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

People with Temporary Protected Status are eligible to remain in the U.S., may not be removed from the country, and are able to receive work and travel authorization.

In his ruling, Ho criticized former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying Congress had established a process for Temporary Protected Status to be altered or rescinded, but she had not followed it.

He was particularly critical of a social media message she sent out in early December in which she said she had just met with President Donald Trump and was recommending a full travel ban “on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”

On Feb. 13, he noted, Noem announced in a news release that Temporary Protected Status would be terminated for Yemen, finding that letting them stay in the U.S. was “contrary to our national interest.”

“TPS holders from Yemen are not ‘killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies,’ ” Ho wrote at the start of his conclusion in his 36-page decision.

He noted that among 2,810 Yemenis who hold TPS status and another 425 who have applied were a pregnant 33-year-old Detroit woman due to give birth this month whose unborn child has a congenital heart condition that is not treatable in Yemen and a 50-year-old former human rights worker in Brooklyn who is a target of Houthi-aligned militias in Yemen.

“Temporary means temporary and the final word will not be from activist judges legislating from the bench," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

“Allowing TPS Yemen beneficiaries to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interest," the department’s statement said, emphasizing that the Trump administration is “returning TPS to its original temporary intent.”

Razeen Zaman, director of immigrant rights at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, applauded Ho's ruling, saying that “the court has made clear that humanitarian statutes like TPS cannot be used as a deportation pipeline."

Zaman said in a release that Homeland Security had determined that it was unsafe for Yemeni refugees to return to their country “but terminated their protection anyway.”

Zaman said Ho's ruling "affirms that protection must be based on facts and conditions on the ground, not on the political appetite to end it.”

Noem announced her decision to end Temporary Protected Status for Yemen in February. The Department of Homeland Security on Friday said she had reviewed conditions in the country and consulted with government agencies before determining that Yemen no longer met the legal requirements for temporary status.

Yemenis praise ruling

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund included comments from several lawsuit plaintiffs in its press release heralding Ho's ruling.

One plaintiff identified by a pseudonym to protect his safety wrote that the people fighting to preserve protections for Yemenis were “doctors, engineers, and pilots like myself, and also drivers, deli workers, and countless other people who contribute meaningfully every day, supporting not just our own families but the broader fabric of society.”

He added that their presence "represents resilience, skill, and dedication — values that strengthen the nation as a whole.”

A woman also identified by a pseudonym called Ho's decision “a lifeline for my family.” She added: "It is the moment we finally breathed a sigh of relief after months of existential anxiety,”

Yemen was initially designated for Temporary Protected Status in 2015, about a year after the country’s civil war began.

As the war persisted, the Obama and Biden administrations extended the designation multiple times, most recently in 2024, when officials estimated that 2,300 Yemenis were eligible to reregister for protected status and that 1,700 Yemenis were newly eligible.

Ho cited other instances in which courts have recently permitted those who have fled other countries under various circumstances to stay in the U.S.

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“I’m not doing too good right now, so I’m really trying to remember,” Jessica Mann said as a defense lawyer resumed scrutinizing her communications and get-togethers with the former movie magnate after the alleged 2013 rape. She added: “I feel like I said a lot, and I’m trying to get through this.”

But Mann went on to respond to hours of questions, at times seeming exhausted or asking for queries to be repeated. By the end of the day, as prosecutors took their second turn asking questions, she was slumped with her head propped on her left hand, weeping as she said she was being “as truthful and transparent as I can possibly be."

Mann, 40, and Weinstein, 73, are in the midst of the third trial about her accusation that he forced himself on her in a New York hotel room. Weinstein's lawyers say everything that happened between the two was consensual and part of a four-year, caring relationship.

He was initially convicted in 2020, but an appeals court overturned that verdict, and jurors at a retrial last year stopped deliberating on the rape charge when the foreperson refused to participate further. That left the case unresolved and led to the ongoing re-retrial.

The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to be named, as Mann has done.

Weinstein was a high-flying film producer until allegations about him fueled the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct in 2017. He has said he “acted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone.”

He and Mann met in early 2013, when he was a studio boss and she was a 27-year-old hairstylist and actor trying to build a movie career. She has testified that he soon started making advances, and although she was taken aback, she decided to embark on a relationship with the then-married Weinstein.

She alleges that in March 2013, he trapped her in a midtown Manhattan hotel room, angrily ordered her to undress as he loomed over her, ignored her protests and raped her.

Weinstein's lawyers have seized upon a reflective note she wrote to herself two days later. In it, she talked about her emotional attachment to a man she didn't name and her conflicted feelings about their nonexclusive relationship, asking herself: “Do I love him or the idea of him?” The note, which wasn't mentioned at Weinstein's previous trials, doesn't mention any alleged sexual assault.

Asked Friday why it didn't, Mann paused and said: “I don’t have to write that down.”

Her relationship with Weinstein continued, on and off, for years afterward. Mann has testified that she loved “a part of him” and “always tried to see the good in him,” and that she was wary of crossing a well-connected man who flexed his power. He boasted that his “enemies don’t step a foot in this town,” she said.

On Friday, Weinstein lawyer Teny Geragos took Mann back through various friendly and complimentary emails that she sent to or about Weinstein over the years. In one May 2013 text, she told a friend that “I like the Harvey we know. I feel some sense of protection.”

Mann told jurors he helped her navigate the movie industry, and “there was a time when I felt he did protect me.”

Through testimony that spanned five days and centered on events 13 years ago, Mann often said she couldn't recall various events and particulars, especially dates. As questioning came to a close, prosecutor Nicole Blumberg sought to cement that Mann had accurately remembered the alleged rape.

“Are those details clear in your mind as you sit here today?” Blumberg asked.

“I remember,” Mann said, and was told there were no more questions. She walked, sobbing, from the room.

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Investigators said the incident happened on April 14 and Ashley Briana Session, 32, of Fort Lauderdale, was taken into custody on Wednesday in the 5300 block of North Dixie Highway.

According to a BSO arrest report, Session threatened to slap the baby girl and then followed through, hitting her across the face. Deputies said it caused her to “scream out and cry in pain” and left her face “red and slightly puffy.”

The report indicates that she also slapped her ex as he held the girl ― and as she held the son they share together.

According to the report, “Session has a long-standing ill feeling towards” the baby, “who is from another relationship that (her ex) has with his present girlfriend.”

Investigators said that two people, whose identities were redacted, said that Session “often” calls the baby a “b----” and a “whore.”

Court records show Session now faces child abuse and battery charges and was given a $5,500 bond. She no longer appears in Broward jail records as of Friday.

Los investigadores dijeron que el incidente ocurrió el 14 de abril y que Ashley Briana Session, de 32 años, de Fort Lauderdale, fue detenida el miércoles en la cuadra 5300 de North Dixie Highway.

Según un informe de arresto de BSO, Session amenazó con abofetear a la bebé y luego lo hizo, golpeándola en la cara. Agentes dijeron que esto provocó que la menor “gritara y llorara de dolor” y dejó su rostro “rojo y ligeramente hinchado”.

El informe indica que también abofeteó a su ex mientras él sostenía a la niña, y mientras ella sostenía al hijo que ambos comparten.

Según el informe, “Session tiene un sentimiento negativo de larga data hacia” la bebé, “quien es producto de otra relación que (su ex) tiene con su actual novia”.

Los investigadores dijeron que dos personas, cuyas identidades fueron censuradas, afirmaron que Session “a menudo” llama a la bebé “b––” y “whore”.

Los registros judiciales muestran que Session ahora enfrenta cargos de abuso infantil y agresión y se le fijó una fianza de $5,500 USD. Ya no aparece en los registros de la cárcel de Broward hasta el viernes.

But back-to-back convincing wins by the 76ers in Game 5 and Game 6 have left a Boston team that once looked like a favorite to emerge from the Eastern Conference on the brink of an epic collapse.

A loss in Saturday’s Game 7 would be the No. 2 seed Celtics’ earliest exit from the playoffs since the 2020-21 season.

They may have to do it with star Jayson Tatum dealing with a new ailment after he briefly left Game 6 in the third quarter for unspecified treatment to an apparent left calf injury. Tatum, of course, is just 22 games into his return from the torn right Achilles tendon injury he suffered in last season’s playoffs.

The Celtics downplayed the current situation, with Tatum saying afterward that his leg was only feeling “a little stiff.” He said following a quick assessment and some time on the exercise bike he didn’t return because the game was out of hand and the starters had already been pulled.

Coach Joe Mazzulla said there was no injury at all and reiterated that in a conference call Friday.

“He’ll play,” Mazzulla said.

The recent history for winner-takes-all games for Philadelphia teams isn’t exactly on the 76ers side, though.

The Flyers’ return to the NHL playoffs served as a reminder they are the last Philadelphia sports team to win a Game 7, beating, yes, Boston, in the 2010 Eastern Conference semifinal.

Since then, the 76ers in 2012, 2019, 2021 and 2023 have all lost Game 7s; the Flyers lost one in 2014 and 2020; and the Phillies lost Game 7 of the NLCS in 2023.

The Phillies also lost a decisive Game 5 in the 2011 playoffs.

The Celtics have long had the Sixers’ number in the playoffs, winning the last six series. The 76ers last eliminated the Celtics in the 1982 Eastern Conference semis.

“I’ve been playing these guys for so long,” 76ers star Joel Embiid said. “I’m tired of losing to them. We have a chance to accomplish something special.”

Philadelphia 76ers at Boston Celtics

When/Where to watch: Game 7, 7:30 p.m. EDT (NBC/Peacock)

Series: Series tied 3-3

Betting line: Celtics by 7.5

What to Know: The Celtics are 27-10 all-time in Game 7s, the 76ers are 6-12 in such games and are 0-4 in them since 2001. It’ll be the ninth Game 7 between these two franchises, with Boston going 6-2 in the previous ones. Philadelphia is the 37th team in league history to force a Game 7 after trailing 3-1. Only 13 teams have overcome that deficit and won the series. If Boston is going to prevent the 76ers from becoming the 14th, its shooting must improve. The 76ers have held the NBA’s No. 2 rated offense during the regular season to under 100 points per game in back-to-back games. The Celtics also combined to shoot just 30.5% (22/72) from 3-point range, with 11 makes in each of those games. They led the league in the regular season, averaging 16 3s per game.

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The team has completed three races already but its biggest debut comes this weekend, on American soil, at the Miami Grand Prix. Cadillac F1 markets itself as the only true American team in the European-dominated series — Haas F1 is owned by California businessman Gene Haas — and represents the American dream.

The effort to enter F1 began with Michael Andretti, son of motorsports' most famous naturalized U.S. citizen, and its 2026 car is named after Mario Andretti. And for its first race in North America, Cadillac debuted a special livery presented by the team’s primary partner, TWG AI.

The design integrates a stars and stripes motif in Cadillac’s signature black and white color scheme, includes 50 stars on the front of the car and “USA” is emblazoned on the rear wing. There is also a splash of red inside the wheels to get red, white and blue on the car.

“Racing at home for the first time is a major milestone for this team and something we’ve been looking forward to for a long time,” said Dan Towriss, CEO of the team and a part-time Fort Lauderdale resident. “There’s a lot of pride in representing the United States as the American team, especially in front of our home fans. We understand what that means and we’re focused on showing up and delivering for them.”

Cadillac fields cars for Valtteri Bottas of Finland and Sergio Perez of Mexico, two veterans who have won in F1 for other teams. Through the first three races their best performance was Bottas finishing 13th and Perez 15th in the second round. Expected to be the worst performing team out of 11 based solely on this being its maiden year, Cadillac heads into Sunday’s race ranked 10th ahead of Aston Martin in the constructors’ standings.

Colton Herta, who left the Andretti Global IndyCar team to race in F2 this season to earn the super license needed to compete in F1, is expected to eventually move into one of the Cadillac seats. The Californian was fastest in Friday’s practice for the junior series and the plan now would eventually make him the only American driver on the F1 grid.

An unexpected five-week layoff because of the war in Iran forced F1 to cancel two events scheduled in the Middle East, and Cadillac used that time to put together “a fairly substantial upgrade package” for Miami.

“It’s spread over different parts of the car so probably the main area is the floor, but there are also changes on front and rear brakes, front wing as well,” team principal Graeme ⁠Lowdon said. “It’s a mixture of aero and a bit of weight saving as well. It’s reasonably sizeable. We’ll be watching the performance of the upgrade with great interest because there’s an awful lot that we need to verify that other teams will be well down the route of doing.”

Most of the teams came to Miami with upgrades, but because Cadillac is so new, it might not have had the bandwidth to make so many changes if not for the break.

“I hope that we can make a bigger step than some other teams,” Bottas said. “Because we should be able to do that in theory from where we started. So that’s the goal. In the first three races I felt like every ⁠race was getting smoother and smoother, less and less issues.”

Lowdon, however, acknowledged that Cadillac is still in its teething phase as it competes against long tenured teams.

”We’re racing against teams that have done literally thousands of grand prixs,” Lowdon said. “If there is a thing such as team muscle memory how you operate, other teams have that advantage. Everything for us is new.”

That includes the attention the team is receiving.

Interest and popularity in Cadillac began even before one of its cars hit the track. Jim Campbell, vice president of performance and motorsports commercial operations, said General Motors CEO Mary Barra and President Mark Reuss will be in Miami all weekend, alongside dealers, customers and invited guests.

“It’s our fourth race, but it’s our first time to race our Cadillac F1 on American soil, it’s super special,” Campbell said. “We’ve been looking forward to this day. We have been here the last three years, really trying to learn about the F1 platform and so to be here now racing is super exciting, as opposed to being here observing.”

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La aerolínea, que ha estado operando bajo protección por bancarrota, había estado en conversaciones sobre un posible paquete de rescate de $500,000,000 USD respaldado por el gobierno federal. Sin embargo, las negociaciones llegaron a un punto muerto, impidiendo que el acuerdo avanzara, reportó el Journal.

Una audiencia judicial vinculada al rescate propuesto, originalmente programada para el jueves, no se llevó a cabo tras el colapso de las conversaciones, reportó Reuters.

Spirit Airlines no respondió de inmediato a solicitudes de comentarios.

El colapso de las negociaciones representa un revés significativo para la aerolínea de ultra bajo costo, que ha enfrentado crecientes presiones financieras y esfuerzos por reestructurar su deuda.

However, they also agreed to continue discussing alternative proposals and entertain new ones, which could change the plan substantially.

Nations met this week at the International Maritime Organization headquarters in London in preparation for potentially voting in the late fall on new, global regulations to clean up shipping, or the “Net-zero Framework." Instead of finishing the discussions, the delegates scheduled more meetings for the fall to keep working ahead of a vote, keeping the framework as a foundation for their negotiations.

A number of countries submitted alternative proposals and suggested changes, and said those should still be on the table, for inclusive, constructive negotiations. The meeting chairman, Harry Conway of Liberia, assured the group on Friday that these options could still be considered at the forthcoming meetings, and new documents could still be submitted. The document that outlines the work for these meetings was modified to make that explicit.

Australia and others expressed concerns that continuing to discuss alternatives would set the process back, when the impacts of climate change are being felt worldwide and the shipping industry is calling for certainty now to make investments in green technologies.

As the meeting closed, IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said “we kind of are back on track,” while urging delegates to rebuild trust and continue talking to each another.

Em Fenton, of Opportunity Green, said the framework survived, with a majority of countries supporting it, but “survival is not a victory and we cannot end up in a cycle of open-ended negotiations.”

“We must now look forward to moving toward adoption of the framework later this year in a way that maintains urgency and ambition, and delivers justice and equity for countries on the front lines of climate impacts,” said Fenton, senior director for climate diplomacy at the U.K.-based climate change nonprofit.

The regulations would establish a pricing system which would impose fees for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above allowable limits, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. The United States and Saudi Arabia are among those that strongly oppose a fee.

Nations agreed on the Net-zero Framework last year. Delegates met in October to adopt it, a step that was widely expected to be a formality. The U.S., with trade threats from U.S. President Donald Trump, and support from Saudi Arabia and others, derailed the meeting. Delegates decided to postpone the decision by a year and adjourn.

Most ships today run on heavy fuel oil that releases carbon dioxide and other pollutants as it’s burned. Shipping emissions have grown over the past decade to about 3% of the global total as trade has grown and vessels use immense amounts of fossil fuels to transport cargo over long distances. There is a lot of interest in ammonia as an alternative fuel because the molecule doesn’t contain carbon.

The framework would set a marine fuel standard that decreases, over time, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed from using shipping fuels. The regulations also would establish the pricing mechanism. The fees collected would go into an IMO fund to invest in fuels and technologies needed to transition to green shipping, reward low-emission ships and support developing countries so they aren’t left behind with dirty fuels and old ships.

This will put the global shipping industry on more sustainable footing, both environmentally and economically, than where it is today, said Mark Brownstein, senior vice president, energy transition at Environmental Defense Fund. Oil prices keep going higher since the war with Iran began.

The IMO, which regulates international shipping, set a target for the sector to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by about 2050, and has committed to ensuring that fuels with zero or near-zero emissions are used more widely.

Large ships last about 25 years, so the industry would need to make changes and investments now to reach the goal around 2050. The International Chamber of Shipping, which represents over 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, has advocated for adoption of the regulations.

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Democratic Gov. Janet Mills was forced to abandon her U.S. Senate campaign on Thursday, unable to generate sufficient fundraising or enthusiasm to compete against Graham Platner, an oyster farmer who has never served in elected office. The announcement marked a stinging defeat for Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who recruited Mills to lead the party's decades-long quest to defeat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

The swift defenestration of a two-term governor by a political neophyte highlighted a stark reality that has begun to take hold at a pivotal moment — Democratic voters are rejecting their party’s establishment and embracing new risks, even as their confidence grows that a blue wave is coming in November's midterm elections.

Sometimes Democrats seem almost as angry at their own party's aging and entrenched leadership as they are at President Donald Trump.

“Rank-and-file Democrats don’t want the Democratic Party as we know it,” said Ezra Levin, co-founder of the Democratic resistance group Indivisible. “Rank-and-file Democrats want fighters.”

Local Indivisible chapters, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who's an independent but caucuses with Democrats, and other leaders from the party's progressive wing had already lined up behind Platner, who is now almost certain to be the Democratic nominee in one of the party’s best Senate pickup opportunities in the nation.

Platner on Friday insisted he would continue to speak out against his party's leadership, including Schumer, although he acknowledged that the two spoke privately the night before.

“The fact that we’ve been able to do all of this without the help of the establishment, it puts us in such an amazing position,” Platner said on MS NOW's “Morning Joe.” “My criticisms of the party leadership, my criticisms of the party, they have not changed, and I’ve been very vocal about that since the beginning. But we will absolutely take the help that we can get.”

Republicans, meanwhile, are giddy — and some moderate Democratic strategists are worried — that the anti-establishment shift may undermine the party’s effort to claw back control of Congress in November.

“Chuck Schumer has officially lost the first battle in his proxy war with Bernie Sanders,” said Bernadette Breslin, spokesperson for the Senate Republicans' campaign arm. “As Sanders hits the campaign trail to prop up progressives in messy Democrat primaries in Michigan and Minnesota, Schumer’s chances of getting his preferred candidates through look grim.”

The backlash is bigger than Maine

Maine is far from alone.

Prominent anti-establishment clashes are playing out in high-profile Senate races across Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa, along with House races in several states.

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, continues to promote Platner and other critics of the Democratic Party's national leadership. The Vermont senator will campaign this weekend in Detroit with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who is running in a three-way Senate primary against Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow.

“There’s a desire to turn the page on the old guard,” Sanders' political adviser Faiz Shakir said. “It’s not even just the Democratic electorate. There’s a populist mood in this country. You’d have to be blind not to see it.”

Indeed, McMorrow is actively working to remind voters that she would not support Schumer as Democrats’ Senate leader if given the chance.

“Frankly, I was the first person in this country to say no,” McMorrow said in a video she posted Thursday on social media. “It is a different moment. This is no longer a Republican Party we’re dealing with, it is a MAGA party that has been taken over by Trump loyalists. ... You need to respond in a very different way.”

Veteran Democratic strategists like Lis Smith, who works with candidates across the country, tied the anti-establishment shift to the party's painful losses in 2024, when President Joe Biden was forced to abandon his reelection bid and Vice President Kamala Harris went on to lose to Trump.

“After 2024, voters are sick of the gerontocracy, sick of the status quo, and Chuck Schumer has completely misread that,” Smith said.

Moderates push back

Privately, Schumer's allies downplay the impact of the anti-establishment backlash.

The Senate Democratic leader's preferred picks in North Carolina, Ohio and Alaska haven't faced the same challenges as Mills did in Maine. The four states represent the party's most likely path to a majority in the chamber, which has 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two independents who caucus with the Democrats.

Mills is the oldest of the candidates and, at 78, would have been the oldest freshman senator in history. She promised to serve one term if elected. Platner is only 41.

Schumer's team is unwilling to make any apologies for backing Mills over Platner.

“Leader Schumer’s North Star is taking back the Senate," Schumer spokesperson Allison Biasotti said. "When no one thought a Senate majority was possible just a year ago, he made it a reality by recruiting great candidates across the country and laying out an agenda for lower costs and better lives for Americans.”

Some in the Democratic Party’s moderate wing are worried.

Matt Bennett, co-founder of the center-left group Third Way, said that Platner’s emergence in Maine “without a doubt” will make it harder for Democrats to defeat Collins in November. He warns that it could be the same elsewhere if Democratic primary voters rally behind anti-establishment candidates.

“Our message is if you would like to beat Donald Trump’s Republicans, you better nominate people who can win,” Bennett said.

Los registros carcelarios en línea muestran que Nadine Hernandez enfrenta un cargo de cómplice después del hecho en un caso de delito grave capital.

Los fiscales dijeron en la corte que Hernandez supo que su novio y un amigo de este cometieron un asesinato en el condado Broward y luego condujo desde Texas hasta Florida para recogerlos y llevarlos de regreso a Texas.

Una vez en Texas, es acusada de ayudarlos a evadir a las autoridades, incluyendo aconsejarlos sobre qué decir a la policía acerca del vehículo utilizado en el crimen y cómo ocultarlo.

Según BSO, agentes que respondieron a la rampa para botes West Broward, ubicada en 3451 N. U.S. 27, la mañana del domingo 1 de febrero, encontraron a un hombre muerto dentro de un vehículo.

Ese hombre fue posteriormente identificado como Hunter Howell, de 22 años, y los detectives determinaron que su muerte fue un homicidio, indicando que creen que fue asesinado el día anterior, el 31 de enero.

Tras una extensa investigación, los detectives identificaron a Jayden DeJesus, de 19 años, de Miami, y a Trevon Quinones, de 19 años, de Forney, Texas, como sospechosos del asesinato.

Según los agentes, los investigadores descubrieron que Howell se ganaba la vida vendiendo marihuana y que DeJesus y Quinones lo transportaban mientras trabajaban debido a que Howell no tenía vehículo propio.

Además, los agentes dijeron que los tres solían visitar el área de la rampa para botes, principalmente los domingos, “para escuchar música a alto volumen desde vehículos equipados con bocinas”.

Ambos sospechosos fueron detenidos en febrero tras una parada de tráfico en el condado Kaufman, Texas. No está claro cuándo serán extraditados al sur de Florida.

No se ha divulgado un motivo para el asesinato.

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Online jail records show Nadine Hernandez is charged with accessory after the fact in the case of a capital felony.

Prosecutors said court that Hernandez learned that her boyfriend and his friend committed a murder in Broward County and then drove from Texas to Florida to pick them up and drive them back to Texas.

Once in Texas, she is accused of helping them evade law enforcement, including by advising them on what to tell police about the vehicle used in the crime and how to conceal it.

According to BSO, deputies responding to the West Broward Boat Ramp located at 3451 N. U.S. 27 on the morning on Sunday, Feb. 1, found a deceased man inside a vehicle.

That man was later identified as 22-year-old Hunter Howell, and detectives ruled his death a homicide, saying they believed he was killed the previous day on Jan. 31.

After an extensive investigation, detectives identified Jayden DeJesus, 19, of Miami and Trevon Quinones, 19, of Forney, Texas, as suspects in the murder.

According to deputies, investigators discovered that Howell made a living selling marijuana, and that DeJesus and Quinones had driven Howell around while working due to Howell not having a vehicle of his own.

Additionally, deputies said all three were known to visit the boat ramp area, primarily on Sunday’s, “to listen to loud music from vehicles equipped with speakers.”

Both suspects were taken into custody in February following a traffic stop in Kaufman County, Texas. It’s unclear when they will be extradited to South Florida.

A motive for the killing has not been released.

The new rules also include significant changes to the much-criticized international film category, expanding eligibility to include films that won top qualifying awards from prestigious film festivals like Cannes, Venice and Toronto.

“As we do every year, we made a lot of, we think, really smart and progressive changes,” film academy CEO Bill Kramer told The Associated Press. “Obviously, as the academy becomes more global, we need to think about how we are inviting international films into the Oscars conversation.”

AI and the Oscars

As part of its annual review of Oscar eligibility rules, the academy is tackling one of the global filmmaking community's biggest concerns: generative artificial intelligence.

The new rules state that “the tools neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination” and that the academy and each branch “will judge the achievement, taking into account the degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award.” They’re also reserving the right to request more information from the filmmaking team about the nature of the use of AI and “human authorship.”

“Humans have to be at the center of the creative process,” said academy president Lynette Howell Taylor. “As AI continues to evolve, our conversations around AI will do so along with that. But for the academy, we are always going to put human authorship at the center of our awards eligibility process.”

When it comes to the eligibility of performances, only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be considered. The organization declined to comment on whether the upcoming AI-rendered Val Kilmer performance would be eligible as the filmmakers have not yet submitted it for consideration.

A likeness is not an actor, for one, but it might also depend on how Kilmer is credited in the film: As Val Kilmer or something else? One could also take Andy Serkis as Gollum as an example of a human collaborating with technology for the final performance.

“We will review that on a case-by-case basis,” Kramer said. “We, like everybody in our industry and world, we will be assessing this every year.”

There is less ambiguity in the screenplay categories, where the rules state that “screenplays must be human-authored to be eligible.”

The film academy has often had to review its standards to meet the technological advances of the moment, whether it be sound, color or computer generated imagery (CGI).

Sweeping changes to international film eligibility

As its membership has grown much more international, there have been increasing calls for an overhaul to the international film category, which had been continually criticized as unjust, outdated and subject to political interference. That's led to independent and dissident filmmakers often pointedly not being submitted to represent the country they’re from.

Last year’s Palme d’Or-winner at Cannes, for instance, was “It Was Just an Accident,” from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, was not submitted as Iran’s official entry for the 98th Academy Awards, but France’s.

Under the new rules, “It Was Just an Accident” could be considered eligible because it won the top Cannes prize and not because a country chose to submit it. In addition to the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the Golden Lion at Venice and the Platform award at Toronto, other festivals with eligible qualifying awards will also include the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear, the Busan International Film Festival’s best film award and the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

All the international films will also be credited as the nominee, not the country or region, and the award will be accepted by the filmmaker. The director’s name will also be listed on the Oscar plaque, “after the film title and country if applicable.”

“That really reflects our desire to honor the film’s creative team. That is how we approach other categories,” Kramer said. “And as we become more global, as the filmmaking community becomes more global. I think it’s really about a focus on the filmmakers and less a focus of the country.”

Actors can now be nominated for more than one award in a category

The acting branch is catching up with the rest of the academy in allowing an actor to be nominated for more than one performance in a single category. If, say, this year’s best actor winner Michael B. Jordan has two extraordinary leading performances in two different films in 2026, he could possibly get two best actor nominations.

This is standard practice in the other categories. In 2001, at the 73rd Oscars, Steven Soderbergh was nominated for best director for both “Traffic” and “Erin Brockovich,” winning the prize for the former.

And about those original songs in the end credits

The organization also clarified the eligibility of original songs used during a film’s end credits. For songs in which the first music cue plays over the end credits, that song must overlap with at least the film’s last 15 seconds before the credits roll in order to be considered eligible. This year’s original song winner, “Golden” was a key part of “KPop Demon Hunters” and used several times throughout the film.

“We never stop looking at ways to improve our eligibility process,” Taylor said.

Far more have a hand in making the opening jewel of the Triple Crown happen.

As Cherie DeVaux looks to become the first woman to train a Derby winner, she is surrounded at Churchill Downs by hundreds of influential women at the track, on the air and behind the scenes on the first Saturday in May.

“I often hear about women being involved with a male-dominated sport, but for me it feels like it’s my sport,” jockey-turned-NBC broadcaster Donna Brothers said. “Women are an integral part of it. You see a lot of exercise riders out there who are women, a lot of female grooms, hotwalkers. Unfortunately, you still don’t see a lot of women in the top names — the top jockeys and the top trainers — but I think we’re getting there.”

Brothers is joined on NBC's broadcast by Britney Eurton, who has been in horse racing her entire life as the daughter of trainer Peter Eurton. Lindsay Schanzer four years ago became the first woman to produce the Kentucky Derby, and the 152th running will be her fifth in charge.

"It’s not just a male-dominated sport but also a male-dominated industry, sports TV, so I feel great pride," said Schanzer, who is one of more than 30 women involved in the production, operation and marketing of the race for NBC Sports. “I feel honored to be in this position and to represent the team that I have as best I can.”

DeVaux, who trains Golden Tempo, earlier this week seemed to downplay her chance at history. Seeing a young girl on the backstretch near her barn made her realize in the moment just how monumental it would be if Golden Tempo puts her in the record books.

“It would be irresponsible of me to not acknowledge that what I’m doing does inadvertently make a difference, even if it’s not my intent,” said DeVaux, who grew up with seven brothers and two sisters. “My brothers are a lot bigger than me, so I think that’s what shaped me. I’ve had to fight and scrap and be heard so that I could survive growing up. And I understand that’s not the same for everybody.”

Brothers, whose mother was a jockey, started thinking about the ramifications for DeVaux after watching Golden Tempo on the track and realizing how good a chance he has. Jena Antonucci with Arcangelo in the Belmont Stakes in 2022 is the only woman to train the winner of a Triple Crown race.

The Derby adds another layer.

"Take gender out of it: She’s a phenomenal trainer," Eurton said of DeVaux. “For her, this is her life. Male or female, this is what she’s wanted to do and she’s very, very good at it. It’s just a matter of time whether it’s Cherie or another talented female trainer.”

An exercise rider for Brad Cox, Katie Tolbert would have a huge hand in the success if Commandment gets the job done on Saturday. And there are countless other women at the barns and around all the horses in the race.

“My dad has a lot of female grooms, assistants,” Eurton said. “It can always be greater, but to have that representation is where the start is. And to have so much female support, I think, is huge.”

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In Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday that she is calling a special legislative session to begin Monday in hopes that the Supreme Court allows the state to change its U.S. House map ahead of the November midterm elections. In Tennessee, Republican Gov. Bill Lee also announced a special session for the GOP-controlled Legislature to break up the state's one Democratic-held House district, centered on the majority-Black city of Memphis.

Louisiana already has suspended its May 16 congressional primary to allow time for lawmakers to approve new U.S. House districts, though that is being challenged in court. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is pressuring other states such as Tennessee to also redistrict ahead of the midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of the closely divided House.

Trump urged Texas Republicans last year to redraw U.S. House districts to give the party an advantage. Democrats in California responded by doing the same. Then other states joined the battle. Lawmakers, commissions or courts have adopted new House districts in eight states.

That total could grow following the Supreme Court’s decision that significantly weakened a provision in the federal Voting Rights Act.

Here’s a look at how some states are responding to the Supreme Court ruling:

Louisiana

Current House map: two Democrats, four Republicans

Early in-person voting was to begin Saturday for Louisiana’s primaries. But Republican Gov. Jeff Landry moved quickly Thursday to postpone the congressional primary while allowing elections for other offices to go forward.

A federal lawsuit filed later Thursday, on behalf of a Democratic congressional candidate and voter, asked a court to block Landry’s order and allow the House primary to occur as originally scheduled. Two more lawsuits asserting that the congressional primary should go forward were filed Friday in state court on behalf of voters who already had cast absentee ballots and several civil rights organizations.

Among other things, the lawsuits contend that Landry lacked authority to suspend the primary and that thousands of absentee ballots already have been mailed to people, with a substantial number filled out and returned.

District court judges in Baton Rouge late Friday denied requests in two of those cases to temporarily block Landry’s executive order.

Separately, a three-judge federal court panel that heard the case that was appealed to the Supreme Court also issued an order Thursday suspending Louisiana’s congressional primary.

Republican state House and Senate leaders said they are prepared to pass new U.S. House districts — and set a new primary election date — before their legislative session ends in a month.

Alabama

Current House map: two Democrats, five Republicans

The state’s primaries are set for May 19. But Alabama officials on Thursday filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court seeking an expedited review of a pending appeal in a redistricting case that could affect the election.

A federal court in 2023 ordered the creation of a new near majority-Black district in Alabama, resulting in the election of a second Black representative to the U.S. House. Alabama is under a court order to use the new map until after the next census in 2030.

An appeal pending before the Supreme Court argues that the map is an illegal racial gerrymander, a claim similar to that made in Louisiana.

The state is seeking to lift an injunction blocking the use of a 2023 map drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature that did not include the new district. The state is making a similar request for two state Senate districts impacted by a separate redistricting case.

Ivey said the special legislative session will focus on a contingency plan to have special primary elections in case the Supreme Court acts quickly enough to allow Alabama’s previously drawn districts to be used this year.

Florida

Current House map: eight Democrats, 20 Republicans

Hours after the Supreme Court’s decision, Florida’s Republican-led Legislature approved new U.S. House districts that could help the GOP win up to four additional seats in November.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called a special legislative session without knowing when the Supreme Court would issue its opinion in the Louisiana case. But DeSantis expressed confidence that the court would rule as it did. Among other things, the new map reshapes a southeastern Florida district that DeSantis said was created to help elect a Black representative in an attempt to comply with the federal Voting Rights Act.

A Florida constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2010 prohibits districts from being drawn to deny or diminish the ability of racial or language minorities to elect the representatives of their choice. DeSantis said he considers that amendment a violation of the U.S. Constitution. That question is expected to be decided by the courts.

Tennessee

Lee announced the special session in a statement late Friday afternoon, saying, “We owe it to Tennesseans to ensure our congressional districts accurately reflect the will of Tennessee voters.”

That came after a pressure campaign by Trump and other Republicans to reconfigure the state's 9th Congressional District. Republicans have always been checkmated by the Voting Rights Act in their desire to spread the district's Democratic voters around neighboring conservative districts and make it winnable, but the law may no longer be an impediment.

The candidate qualifying period ended in March, and the primary election is scheduled for Aug. 6. Democrats noted that in 2022 the state supreme court checked additional redistricting because it was too close to an election. They argued that the court is their best hope this time around too.

“We cannot keep doing things like this and calling ourselves a democracy, Democratic State Sen. Ramesh Akbari said at a news conference outside the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which includes the structure of the motel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

Mississippi

Current House map: one Democrat, three Republicans

Mississippi held its U.S. House primaries in March. But the Supreme Court’s decision could affect elections for other offices.

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves announced previously that he would call a special legislative session to redraw voting districts for the state Supreme Court that would begin 21 days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Louisiana case. That would put the special session's start at around May 20.

A federal judge last year ordered Mississippi to redraw its Supreme Court voting districts after finding that they violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters. Mississippi lawmakers had been waiting on a decision in the Louisiana case before moving forward, but their legislative session ended in April.

Reeves said in his proclamation that the Supreme Court’s decision would provide guidance to lawmakers on whether “race-conscious redistricting” violates the U.S. Constitution.

Georgia

Current House map: five Democrats, nine Republicans

Early in-person voting began April 27 and continues for the next few weeks ahead of Georgia’s primary elections on May 19.

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said it’s too late for Georgia officials to try to change congressional districts for this year’s elections, because voting already is underway. But he said the rationale in the Supreme Court’s decision “requires Georgia to adopt new electoral maps before the 2028 election cycle.”

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Associated Press writers Jeff Amy, Jack Brook, Travis Loller, Nicholas Riccardi and Kim Chandler contributed to this report.

Employees of Cuba’s Electric Union are working 24 hours a day as the island’s power grid continues to crumble, provoking islandwide outages worsened by a lack of gasoline stemming from a U.S. energy blockade.

“We are living through difficult times,” said Yunier Meriño Reyes, an accountant with the Electric Union who joined Friday’s march to celebrate his colleagues. “We are carrying out a very tough, arduous and relentless effort — day and night — to provide electricity to the people who need it.”

Cuba’s power crisis deepened after the U.S. attacked Venezuela in early January, halting critical oil shipments from the South American country. Later that month, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba.

As a result, the island spent more than three months without a single oil shipment until a Russian tanker laden with 730,000 barrels docked in Cuba in late March.

Before it arrived, Cuba was relying solely on natural gas, limited solar power and disintegrating thermoelectric plants.

“It was brutal,” Vicente de la O Levy, Cuba’s energy and mines minister, recently told reporters.

Once the Russian oil arrived, it had to be refined, a process that took roughly two weeks.

“We have been working eight hours a day without stopping,” said Rafael Martínez, a refinery worker at Cuba’s Petroleum Union.

He recalled his joy when he heard that the Russian tanker had docked.

“Our job is to push ahead, that’s all you can do,” he said as his colleagues rallied around him on Friday, playing on cowbells and a large drum as they celebrated their day.

Cuba’s Petroleum Union posted a recent video highlighting its workers, including driver José Antonio Báez.

“Our work generates the entire economy of the country. We drive the country’s economy,” he said.

Pedro Luis López Manzano, an engineer and the director of maintenance at the Cienfuegos refinery, said in the video that crews had to take several steps to ensure operability because the refinery was shut down for four months.

“It’s a challenge, but we always thought it was possible,” he said.

Meanwhile, Gustavo Rodríguez Cordero, an engineer and a director general at Cuba’s Petroleum Union in Villa Clara, criticized the U.S. energy blockade in a video posted by his company.

“No one has the international right to oppress a people in this manner,” he said.

After the oil was refined, de la O Levy said the government chose to prioritize vital sectors including agriculture and food production.

“This enabled the irrigation of tobacco, corn and soybeans,” he said. “There were more hours of power outages than anticipated because we diverted a portion of the energy supply toward production; we could not allow factories to remain idle.”

He said some of the petroleum was converted into approximately 6,000 tons of diesel and fuel oil that was used to power hospitals, generators and transportation.

De la O Levy said Cuba’s situation began to improve starting April 17: “not the desired one, but significant.”

He said the government distributed 800 tons of fuel a day out of the 1,600 tons needed.

“If we used 1,600 tons, there would be fewer blackouts, but the (fuel) would last half as long,” he said.

De la O Levy warned the Russian oil was expected to last only until the end of April, noting that the priority is to sustain the island’s thermoelectric plants using Cuban crude oil.

“Without this fuel, we would face a total, systemwide blackout,” he said.

Cuba produces 40% of its required fuel and depends heavily on imports.

As the island’s crises grind on, Katiusca Carreño, 53, who works at the Electric Union’s command center, said she is committed to satisfying Cuba’s people.

“Resources aren’t reaching us, but all of us workers are still here,” she said after Friday’s rally. “It’s hard, but not impossible. We work 24 hours a day.”

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Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor, has promoted several aspects of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again agenda, including removing food additives, cutting ultraprocessed foods from diets and encouraging exercise.

But she has been a more vocal advocate for vaccination than Kennedy, and at times she has criticized the Trump administration's handling of health issues as “embarrassing.”

If confirmed as the nation's doctor, Saphier would be empowered to issue advisories that warn of public health threats. Surgeons general also have used the office to advocate on vaccination issues — though the office doesn't create vaccine policy.

Means, a Stanford University-educated physician and MAHA influencer who didn’t complete her surgical residency in Oregon and has an inactive medical license, faced grueling questioning from senators of both major political parties over her experience and stance on vaccination. She told The Associated Press her failed nomination was the result of a “yearlong smear campaign."

Saphier is a mom, radiologist and former Fox News contributor

Trump's new surgeon general pick is the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth, according to her profile on the institution’s website. She has a medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine in Barbados, along with fellowships at the Mayo Clinic, according to her profile.

She has earned the approval of institutions including the American College of Radiology, whose president, Dr. Dana Smetherman, on Thursday called her a “tireless advocate for women's health.” Kennedy said in a social media post that her experience with breast cancer patients and early detection will help the Republican administration take on the chronic disease epidemic.

Saphier was also a longtime Fox News Channel contributor until this week — one of several of the channel's personalities Trump has brought into his administration. Trump's first surgeon general pick, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, was also a contributor at the network, but her nomination fell apart last year after questions arose about her academic credentials.

An author and podcaster with her own show, “Wellness Unmasked with Dr. Nicole Saphier,” Saphier frequently comments on the Trump administration's approach to health, often positively. She also used the phrase “Make America Healthy Again” years before Kennedy popularized it. It was the title of a 2020 book she wrote that criticized the government’s handling of healthcare and the Affordable Care Act.

Saphier also has dipped into the wellness product industry, creating a line of herbal supplements called Drop Rx, according to her LinkedIn profile.

A mom of three boys, Saphier has often said she is thankful she decided to keep her first son after becoming unexpectedly pregnant at age 17. She has advocated for more resources for mothers who make the same choice.

Advocating for vaccination while criticizing COVID-era mandates

Like Means, Saphier has questioned some aspects of the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, including the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, a longtime recommendation that the Trump administration has been trying to weaken.

She also has aligned with Kennedy's disdain toward COVID-19 vaccination requirements in schools, saying on her podcast in September that they were “a complete disaster" and one of the reasons for declining trust in vaccination.

Saphier says she supports immunization while arguing patients should be free to make their own medical decisions. In March, she praised acting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for posting a message encouraging Americans to get vaccinated against measles.

“The more vaccine confusion we create, the more preventable disease we will see,” she said in September, urging the administration to get itself in order "because it’s really upsetting.”

She's called the health department's mistakes ‘embarrassing’

While being supportive of the Trump administration at large, Saphier has publicly cringed at some of its health mishaps. Last summer, she decried its long-anticipated first attempt at a MAHA report, which cited some studies that didn't exist.

"There were a lot of flaws in this report," she said on her podcast. “In fact, it was pretty embarrassing."

She said Kennedy's firing of his first CDC director, Susan Monarez, after less than a month on the job was “a mess.”

"When we keep hearing radical transparency and we’re going to regain trust, I can tell you these shenanigans are taking us farther away from that mission,” Saphier said on her podcast.

In an email to the AP last year, Saphier said Trump's advice to pregnant women not to take Tylenol, which promoted unproven ties between the medication and autism, was overly simplistic. She said equally important, and missing from Trump's message, was the fact that untreated fever or severe pain can also pose serious risks to mothers and babies.

After Means' confirmation hearings earlier this year, Saphier said on her podcast that she expected Means would do a good job as surgeon general but wished she were “a little bit less involved with MAHA.”

“I’d really like to see a little bit more reaching across the aisle when it comes to public health,” Saphier said. “That doesn’t mean it has to be some Democratic nominee for surgeon general, maybe just someone a little less aligned with the MAHA movement who, I don’t know, finished their residency and has an active medical license.”

At least a few prominent MAHA influencers have suggested Saphier is no ally. Turning Point USA podcaster and anti-pesticide campaigner Alex Clark said in a post on Friday that Saphier “gets an F when it comes to all things MAHA.”

Trump emphasized that a deal to rescue the financially strapped airline remained under review. The president did not provide details but said an announcement could come later Friday or Saturday.

“We’re looking at it. If we could do it, we’ll do it. But only if it’s a good deal,” he said, speaking to reporters before departing the White House for Florida.

The possibility of a bailout first emerged publicly last week, when Trump floated the idea of the U.S. government offering Spirit a financial lifeline to help keep the airline from going bust and out of business. Separately, a lawyer for the airline told a U.S. Bankruptcy Court that Spirit was in advanced talks with the government over financing that could allow it to exit Chapter 11 protection.

The president suggested the government would be able to resell the airline known for its bright yellow planes and “no frills” service for a profit once oil prices driven up by the Iran war come down.

Lawmakers from both parties and some members of the Trump administration have criticized the idea of using taxpayer funds to keep the ultra-low cost airline afloat. Speculation around Spirit's future and the likelihood of a deal emerging has mounted with every day that passes without a resolution as the airline's operating expenses and debts mount.

A spokesperson for Spirit, which has its headquarters in Dania Beach, Florida, declined to comment on ongoing discussions Friday and said “Spirit is operating as usual.”

Although travelers still could book flights on the airline's website Friday afternoon, people who said they had existing reservations or credits flooded Spirit's X feed with questions about upcoming flights and demands for refunds. Some U.S. airlines, meanwhile, said they would step in to support Spirit customers if the airline goes under.

American Airlines said in a statement that it was capping main cabin fares for flights on Spirit routes where American also offers nonstop service. Budget carrier Frontier said in an X post that was “ready to support customers who may be impacted if Spirit Airlines ceases operations."

Earlier in the day, Trump said his administration delivered what he described as a “final proposal” to the airline. He framed the possible federal intervention as an effort to preserve jobs but stressed that any financial arrangement worked out would have to benefit the government.

“If we can help them, we will," Trump said. “But we have to come first.”

Supporters of a rescue — including labor unions representing Spirit's pilots and flight attendants — say that a collapse would cost jobs, reduce competition and push fares higher. About 17,000 jobs could be impacted, according to Spirit lawyer Marshall Huebner.

Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants, said Friday in a post on X that if Trump wanted to help the airline, “it's in his hands.”

“Everyday Americans will hurt,” Nelson wrote, saying that consumers would ill be impacted in addition to the employees who stand to lose their jobs if Spirit shuts down.

Miami resident Caleb Euzebe, 27, who works at an insurance company, said he flies Spirit “all the time" and compared the low-cost carrier to “that reliable car that you have. It always gets you from point A to point B safely.”

Euzebe, who was at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport after his Spirit flight to Houston was canceled Friday, said he supported the government stepping in if it meant saving jobs.

Spirit's employees have to “put food on the table, keep the lights on for their homes,” he said. "So if that means that bailing them out keeps these people working, I support 100%.”

Spirit has struggled financially since the COVID-19 pandemic, weighed down by rising operating costs and growing debt. By the time it filed for Chapter 11 protection in November 2024, Spirit had lost more than $2.5 billion since the start of 2020.

The budget carrier sought bankruptcy protection again in August 2025, when it reported having $8.1 billion in debts and $8.6 billion in assets, according to court filings.

Shortly before, its parent company revealed in a quarterly report that it had “substantial doubt” about Spirit’s ability to stay in business over the next year, citing “adverse market conditions” — including weak leisure domestic travel demand and ongoing “uncertainties in its business operations.”

The company, Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc., gave a more optimistic assessment earlier this year, saying in February that it had reached a preliminary deal with creditors and expected to exit Chapter 11 in late spring or early summer. The reorganization would result in “a new Spirit” — a smaller, leaner carrier still focused on low fares but offering premium economy options and a version of first-class seating with more legroom for customers willing to pay more.

Instead, the war that started days later when the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran intensified the airline's cash flow problems. With rising jet fuel costs tied to the war generating unexpected costs across the industry, Spirit's creditors last month expressed doubts about whether it could continue operating, raising the possibility of the airline being forced to sell off assets and shut down.

If Spirit were to cease operations, budget-conscious and leisure travelers would likely feel it the most — especially where the airline has a big footprint, such as Las Vegas and the Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.

The carrier flew about 1.7 million domestic passengers in February, roughly half a million fewer than it did during the same month a year earlier, Cirium said. Spirit has also sharply reduced its capacity. According to Cirium data, there are about half the number of seats available this month on Spirit flights than in May 2024: 1,646,878 compared to 3,399,378.

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Yamat reported from Las Vegas. Associated Press video journalist Daniel Kozin contributed from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX will provide their resources to help “augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments,” the Defense Department said.

Notably absent from the list is AI company Anthropic, after its public dispute and legal fight with the Trump administration over the ethics and safety of AI usage in war.

The Defense Department has been rapidly accelerating its use of AI in recent years. The technology can help the military reduce the time it takes to identify and strike targets on the battlefield, while aiding in the organization of weapons maintenance and supply lines, according to a report in March from the Brennan Center for Justice.

But AI has already raised concerns that its use could invade Americans' privacy or allow machines to choose targets on the battlefield. One of the companies contracting with the Pentagon said its agreement required human oversight in certain situations.

Concerns about military use of AI arose during Israel’s war against militants in Gaza and Lebanon, with U.S. tech giants quietly empowering Israel to track targets. But the number of civilians killed also soared, fueling fears that these tools contributed to the deaths of innocent people.

Questions about military use of AI still being worked out

The Pentagon's latest contracts come at a time of anxiety about the potential for over-reliance on the technology on the battlefield, said Helen Toner, interim executive director at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology.

“A lot of modern warfare is based on people sitting in command centers behind monitors, making complicated decisions about confusing, fast-moving situations,” said Toner, a former board member of OpenAI. “AI systems can be helpful in terms of summarizing information or looking at surveillance feeds and trying to identify potential targets.”

But questions about the appropriate levels of human involvement, risk and training are still being worked out, she said.

“How do you roll out these tools rapidly for them to be effective and provide strategic advantage?” Toner asked, “While also recognizing that you need to train the operators and make sure they know how to use them and don’t over trust them?”

Such concerns were raised by Anthropic. The tech company said it wanted assurances in its contract that the military would not use its technology in fully autonomous weapons and the surveillance of Americans. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the company must allow for any uses the Pentagon deemed lawful.

Anthropic sued after President Donald Trump, a Republican, tried to stop all federal agencies from using the company’s chatbot Claude and Hegseth sought to label the company a supply chain risk, a designation meant to protect against sabotage of national security systems by foreign adversaries.

OpenAI had announced a deal with the Pentagon in March to effectively replace Anthropic with ChatGPT in classified environments. OpenAI confirmed in a statement Friday that it was the same agreement it announced in early March.

“As we said when we first announced our agreement several months ago, we believe the people defending the United States should have the best tools in the world,” the company said.

One company's agreement with the Pentagon included language that said there should be human oversight over any missions in which the AI systems act autonomously or semiautonomously, according to a person familiar with the agreement who was not authorized to speak about it publicly. The language also said the AI tools must be used in ways that are consistent with constitutional rights and civil liberties.

Those resemble sticking points for Anthropic, though OpenAI has previously said that it secured similar assurances when it made its own deal with the Pentagon.

The Pentagon's point of view

Emil Michael, the Pentagon's chief technology officer, told CNBC on Friday that it would have been irresponsible to rely on only one company, an acknowledgment of the friction with Anthropic.

“And when we learned that one partner didn’t really want to work with us in the way we wanted to work with them, we went out and made sure that we had multiple different providers,” Michael said.

Some of the companies, including Amazon and Microsoft, have long worked with the military in classified environments, and it was not immediately clear if the new agreements significantly altered their government partnerships. Others, such as chipmaker Nvidia and the startup Reflection, are new to such work. Both companies make open-source AI models, which Michael has described as a priority to provide an “American alternative” to China's rapid development of AI systems in which some key components are publicly accessible for others to build upon.

The Pentagon said Friday that military personnel are already using its AI capabilities through its official platform, GenAI.mil.

“Warfighters, civilians and contractors are putting these capabilities to practical use right now, cutting many tasks from months to days,” the Pentagon said, adding that the military's growing AI capabilities will “give warfighters the tools they need to act with confidence and safeguard the nation against any threat.”

In many cases, the military uses artificial intelligence the same way civilians do: to take on rote tasks that would take humans hours or days to complete, said Toner, of Georgetown University.

AI can be used to better predict when a helicopter needs maintenance or figure out how to efficiently move large amounts of troops and gear, she said. It can also help determine whether vehicles on a drone's surveillance feeds are civilian or military.

But people shouldn't become overly dependent on it.

“There's a phenomenon called automation bias, where people can be prone to assume that machines work better than they actually do,” Toner said.

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Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Miami-Dade, el choque ocurrió poco después de las 2:30 a.m. en el área de la avenida 107 del noroeste y la calle 33.

Agentes dijeron que un hombre que conducía el vehículo se dirigía hacia el norte por la avenida 107 cuando perdió el control de su auto y se estrelló contra un árbol.

Policía de Doral y personal de Rescate de Bomberos de Miami-Dade acudieron a la escena.

Funcionarios de MDFR declararon al conductor muerto en el lugar.

Un equipo de Local 10 News estuvo en el área más tarde en la mañana mientras una grúa retiraba lo que quedaba del auto de la vía. El daño era tan severo que era difícil identificar la marca o el modelo del vehículo.

La Unidad de Homicidios de Tránsito de MDSO se ha hecho cargo de la investigación del choque fatal.

No se divulgaron de inmediato más detalles.

Según el informe de detención, Karl Heinz Mercier, del noreste de Miami-Dade, irrumpió en el apartamento de la víctima en Park Towers, en Northwest 155th ^Lane , alrededor de las 4 de la mañana, se acostó en la cama de la víctima mientras dormía y luego metió la mano dentro de la ropa interior de la víctima y le tocó el pene.

Según los agentes, el niño gritó inmediatamente para alertar a sus padres, que dormían en una habitación aparte, pero Mercier le dijo: “No va a pasar nada. Nadie va a venir”.

Según el informe, los padres del niño se enfrentaron a Mercier cuando este intentaba huir del apartamento, y posteriormente fue detenido por los agentes que acudieron al lugar.

Los padres de la víctima dijeron a los agentes que no conocían a Mercier y que este no tenía permiso para entrar en su casa.

Según los agentes, Mercier confesó haber entrado en la casa sin permiso y haber tocado al niño.

Fue arrestado bajo cargos de robo con agresión y agresión sexual, e intento de agresión sexual a un menor.

Hasta el viernes por la mañana, permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Los registros penitenciarios en línea indicaban que su fianza estaba “por determinar”.

Según la policía, el ataque de perro fue reportado en una vivienda en la cuadra 1100 de West 70th Place.

La policía dijo que los oficiales llegaron a la escena y encontraron a la víctima, Ana Leyva, de 58 años, con múltiples mordeduras de perro en los brazos y las piernas.

Luego fue trasladada en helicóptero por Hialeah Fire Rescue al Ryder Trauma Center del Jackson Memorial Hospital.

“Durante la investigación, los oficiales identificaron al perro involucrado en el ataque y observaron múltiples perros en la propiedad en malas condiciones, incluyendo señales de desnutrición, falta de agua limpia y condiciones de vida insalubres”, dijo un portavoz de HPD en un correo electrónico a Local 10.

La policía confirmó que el dueño de los perros, Jairon Alvarez, de 22 años, quien es hijo de Leyva, fue detenido por cargos de crueldad animal y resistirse al arresto sin violencia.

Servicios de Animales de Miami-Dade retiró 10 perros de la propiedad como parte de la investigación en curso, dijeron las autoridades.

Las autoridades dijeron que Guillaume Sebastien Roger Mattler, de 48 años, enfrenta un cargo de contacto sexual abusivo en relación con el incidente del martes a bordo del vuelo LX64 de Swiss International Air Lines.

Según una denuncia penal federal, Mattler y la mujer de 29 años, a quien no conocía, estaban “sentados uno al lado del otro en la cabina de primera clase” durante el vuelo de Zúrich al Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami.

Un agente del FBI escribió que otros dos pasajeros notaron que Mattler tocaba a la mujer mientras ella dormía. Uno “tomó varios videos en su teléfono celular” mientras su amigo se mostró “muy preocupado y fue a buscar a un asistente de vuelo”.

“El testigo 2 observó a Mattler moviendo la mano en un movimiento de ‘submarino’, como si intentara meter su mano debajo de la ropa de la víctima y/o entre sus piernas”, escribió en la denuncia el agente especial del FBI Peter Ganzert.

Las autoridades dijeron que el asistente de vuelo se acercó a Mattler y a la mujer y lo vio “con su mano en la entrepierna de ella, sobre sus jeans, haciendo un movimiento de recoger o frotar en su vagina”.

Según la denuncia, Mattler no pudo proporcionar información que indicara que conocía a la mujer y la tripulación lo trasladó a clase económica para separarlo de ella.

Los investigadores dijeron que cuando el asistente de vuelo despertó a la mujer para informarle lo ocurrido, ella quedó “en shock” y “comenzó a temblar y llorar”.

Las autoridades dijeron que cuando la tripulación llevó a Mattler de regreso a su asiento para recoger sus pertenencias, intentó entregarle a la víctima una nota que decía: “Te ves hermosa cuando estás durmiendo”.

Los investigadores dijeron que entrevistaron a Mattler y él rechazó asistencia del consulado francés en Miami. Indicaron que primero afirmó que “no pasó nada en el vuelo”, pero luego, cuando le dijeron que había testigos y videos, “admitió que tocó a la mujer sentada a su lado y que no pensó que fuera gran cosa”.

Ganzert escribió que Mattler inicialmente afirmó que tocó “su parte baja de la espalda y la parte superior de los glúteos”, pero después de que le dijeron que testigos lo vieron tocando el área genital, Mattler dijo que “tocó lo que pudo alcanzar a través del reposabrazos”.

“Mattler indicó que su intención inicial era obtener el número de teléfono de la mujer y darle el suyo”, escribió el agente. “Luego proporcionó la nota de su bolsillo que estaba escrita en su tarjeta de presentación y que decía ‘te ves linda cuando duermes’, junto con la información del vuelo y su número de asiento”.

Mattler dijo a los agentes que “había tomado fotografías con su teléfono pero las borró antes de que las autoridades pudieran revisarlas”, indica la denuncia.

Los registros muestran que Mattler compareció por primera vez en un tribunal federal de Miami el miércoles y debe regresar para una audiencia de detención previa al juicio el lunes. Los fiscales dijeron que buscan mantenerlo detenido “por riesgo de fuga y peligro para la comunidad”.

Hasta el viernes, los registros indican que permanecía detenido en el Centro de Detención Federal en el centro de Miami. Su foto de arresto no estaba disponible.

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Authorities said Guillaume Sebastien Roger Mattler, 48, is facing a count of abusive sexual contact in connection with Tuesday’s incident aboard Swiss International Air Lines Flight LX64.

According to a federal criminal complaint, Mattler and the 29-year-old woman, whom he did not know, were “seated next to each other in the first-class cabin” during the flight from Zurich to Miami International Airport.

An FBI agent wrote that two other passengers noticed Mattler touching the woman as she slept. One “took several videos on his cell phone” while his friend became “very concerned and went to find a flight attendant.”

“Witness 2 observed Mattler moving his hand in a ‘submarine’ motion, as if trying to get his hand under the Victim’s clothing and/or between her legs,“ FBI Special Agent Peter Ganzert wrote in the complaint.

Authorities said the flight attendant walked up to Mattler and the woman and saw him “with his hand on (her) crotch, over her jeans, making a scooping or rubbing motion on her vagina.”

According to the complaint, Mattler couldn’t provide any information indicating he knew the woman and the flight crew moved him to coach to separate him from her.

Investigators said when the flight attendant awoke the woman to let her know what happened, she was “shocked” and “began shaking and crying.”

Authorities said when the flight crew brought Mattler back to his seat to get his belongings, he tried to hand the victim a note saying, “You look beautiful when you are sleeping.”

Investigators said they interviewed Mattler and he declined assistance from the French consulate in Miami. They said he first claimed that “nothing happened on the flight,” but then, when told that witnesses had come forward and took video of him, “admitted that he touched the woman sitting next to him and that he did not think it was such a big deal.”

Ganzert wrote that Mattler first claimed he touched “her lower back and upper buttocks,” but after telling him that witnesses saw him touching her genital area, Mattler said “he touched whatever he could reach from across the arm-rest.”

“Mattler advised his initial intention was to get the woman’s phone number and give her his,” the agent wrote. “He then provided the note from his pocket that was written in his business card that read ‘you look cute when you sleep,’ along with the flight information and his seat number.”

Mattler told agents “he had taken photographs with his phone but had deleted them before law enforcement could look at them,” the complaint states.

Records show Mattler made an initial appearance in Miami federal court on Wednesday and is due back for a pre-trial detention hearing on Monday. Prosecutors said they’re seeking to keep him behind bars “based on (a) risk of flight and danger to (the) community.”

As of Friday, records show he was being held in the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami. His booking photo was not available.

Nahida Bristy’s remains were found Sunday in a garbage bag discovered by a kayaker whose fishing line got snagged, said Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister. The positive identification on the badly decomposed body was eventually made using DNA and dental records, he said.

The body of her friend, fellow USF doctoral student Zamil Limon, was in another garbage bag that was found two days before that on a bridge over the bay. Limon’s roommate, Hisham Saleh Abugharbeih, 26, was taken into custody the same day and faces two charges of first-degree murder. He’s been held in jail since then on no bond.

Chronister said the suspect showed no emotion when investigators presented him with details of the killings.

“He was nonreactive,” Chronister said. “He was callous and showed no emotion when we showed him the information we had.”

The two students were murdered around the same time and place, though detectives need to investigate further before they can decide that conclusively, the sheriff said.

The sheriff said detectives didn’t yet know a motive for the killings.

“I hope we find that out,” Chronister said.

Chronister said content on Abugharbieh’s phone had been erased, but a forensic examination revealed disturbing searches in the days before April 16, when Bristy and Limon went missing. The searches included phrases like, “Can a knife penetrate a skull?” and “Can a neighbor hear a gunshot?”

The suspect had also purchased Lysol wipes and heavy duty contractor-grade trash bags and other equipment, he said.

“This was calculating. That’s what makes this so premeditated,” Chronister said.

A search of the apartment that Abugharbieh and Limon shared with a third roommate showed large traces of blood in the kitchen, leading down the hall to Abugharbieh’s room and inside his room, the sheriff said.

The luminol-based spray even revealed blood in the shape of a human body curled up in the fetal position, next to Abugharbieh’s bed, he said.

Limon was last seen at the off-campus apartment complex where he lived with Abugharbieh, and Bristy at a campus science building on that same day. Limon was studying geography, environmental science and policy, and Bristy was studying chemical engineering. Abugharbieh had dropped out of the university.

Reached by email earlier this week, Jennifer Spradley, an attorney in the public defender’s office in Tampa, said the office wouldn’t comment on Abugharbieh’s case.

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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the crash occurred just after 2:30 a.m. in the area of Northwest 107^th Avenue and 33^rd Street.

Deputies said a man who was driving the vehicle was heading north on 107^th Avenue when he lost control of his car and struck a tree.

Surveillance video captured the car zooming by before shattering upon impact.

The driver was throttled out of the car.

Doral police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the area after the crash.

MDFR officials pronounced the driver dead at the scene.

A Local 10 News crew was in the area later in the morning as a tow truck was removing what was left of the car from the roadway. The damage was so severe that it was difficult to make out what make or model the vehicle was.

MDSO’s Traffic Homicide Unit has taken over the investigation into the fatal crash.

No other details were immediately released.

Trump said in a social media post that the EU “is not complying with our fully agreed to Trade Deal,” though he did not flesh out his objections in the post.

Asked by reporters on Friday about the increase in import taxes as he departed the White House for Florida, Trump said the EU was not “as usual” adhering to last year's trade framework, without detailing the source of the tension. He added that he believed the shift to higher tariffs “forces them to move their factory production much faster” to the U.S.

Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had agreed to the trade deal last July. It set a tariff ceiling of 15% on most goods, though the Supreme Court this year ruled against the legal authority that Trump had used to charge that tax. This left Trump looking for substitute authorities, and his administration has imposed a 10% tax while investigating trade imbalances and national security issues to put in new tariffs to make up for lost revenues.

Tariffs could hit a global economy already hurt by the Iran war

The tariffs hit at a moment when the Iran war has crushed the world economy with expectations of slower growth and higher inflation, as oil and natural gas prices have risen due to the effective closure of the critical Strait of Hormuz after strikes by the U.S. and Israel began at the end of February.

At the same time, Trump faces political pressure in the U.S. going into November's midterm elections because of rising levels of inflation. Trump, a Republican, returned to the White House last year on the explicit promise that he could quickly tame prices that jumped in the aftermath of the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, but higher energy costs pushed annual inflation in March to 3.3%, which was higher than what he had inherited.

Just 30% of U.S. adults approved of Trump's handling of the economy, according to the latest poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Europe wants last year's trade deal to hold

The European Parliament has been moving slowly on finalizing last year's trade agreement but was expected to finish work on the deal next month. The EU said in a statement that it was implementing its “commitments in line with standard legislative practice” and should the U.S. “take measures inconsistent with" that agreement "we will keep our options open to protect EU interests.”

Trump administration officials have not responded to questions about the tariff increase and why Trump said the agreement had been violated. But Trump has had a testy relationship with Europe, having threatened earlier this year to take control of Greenland and later blasting NATO allies for not providing more support to the U.S. for the Iran war.

Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament trade committee, posted on social media that Trump's tariff hike on autos was “unacceptable” and that the Trump administration “keeps breaking its commitments,” including on import taxes for steel and aluminum products.

Jennifer Safavian, CEO of Autos Drive America, which represents the American operations of foreign auto manufacturers, said the tariff increase “would threaten the progress that has already been made to open EU markets and grow the U.S. auto industry.”

Both the U.S. and the EU had previously confirmed their commitment to preserving the trade framework, known as the Turnberry Agreement, which was named after Trump’s golf course in Scotland.

Trump's tariff plans were already upended by the Supreme Court

The status of the 2025 deal was first cast into doubt after the Supreme Court this year ruled that the president lacked the legal authority to declare an economic emergency and charge tariffs on goods from the members of the EU and other states.

The Trump administration has opened up trade investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to replace the tariffs struck down by the court. One of the investigations is looking into whether those trading partners have been lax in cracking down on forced labor. And the other is pursuing allegations that they’ve overproduced goods, driving down prices and putting American manufacturers at a disadvantage.

The alternative tariffs being explored by the Trump administration could ultimately put the agreement with the EU in risk of violation, though European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič told reporters last week that the relationship with the U.S. had become more positive over the past year.

To raise tariff rates, Scott Lincicome of the libertarian Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies said, the president would likely use Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which allows for duties on national security grounds.

Trump imposed 25% Section 232 tariffs on foreign autos in March 2025, but those tariffs were then lowered as part of the trade framework with the EU.

Lincicome also said Trump’s threats are “just another example of why these trade deals are vaporware. They all rely on handshakes and winks and hopes that Trump doesn’t get mad about something.’’

The EU had said it expected the bilateral deal would save European automakers about 500 million to 600 million euros ($585 million to $700 million) a month.

The value of EU-U.S. trade in goods and services amounted to 1.7 trillion euros ($2 trillion) in 2024, or an average of 4.6 billion euros a day, according to EU statistics agency Eurostat.

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AP writers Paul Wiseman in Washington and Alexa St. John in Detroit contributed to this report.

Buckle up for a few seismic changes. Shania Twain will host for the first time ever, taking over for Reba McEntire. The awards ceremony will also take place May 17 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, leaving the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, just north of Dallas, after three years. And women lead the nominations.

But where will the 2026 ACM Awards stream? Who is nominated? What else is noteworthy this year and who will perform?

Read on for those answers and more.

How to watch the ACMs

The 2026 ACM Awards will stream on Prime Video and the Amazon Music channel on Twitch as well as the Amazon Music app on May 17 at 8 p.m. EDT.

Who is nominated?

It's the emo cowgirl herself. Megan Moroney leads the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards with nine nominations.

She's followed by Miranda Lambert, the most-decorated artist in ACM Awards history, with eight, as well as Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson with seven.

Then it is Chris Stapleton with six, Zach Top with five and Cody Johnson with four.

In addition to Moroney, those competing for entertainer of the year are Wilson, Stapleton, Johnson, Luke Combs, Jelly Roll and Morgan Wallen.

In 2025, Wilson took home the top prize — for a second year in a row.

In the album of the year category, Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” faces off against Top’s “Ain’t In It For My Health,” Riley Green’s “Don’t Mind If I Do,” Parker McCollum’s “Parker McCollum” and first-time nominee Carter Faith’s “Cherry Valley.”

Other first-time nominees include 49 Winchester, Avery Anna, Mackenzie Carpenter, Hudson Westbrook, Stephen Wilson Jr. and more.

What's noteworthy?

A lot! Beyond the move to Las Vegas and Twain's first-time taking a turn at hosting, it's clear that women are ruling the nominations, with Moroney, Lambert, Langley and Lainey Wilson leading the pack.

But is it a sign that the country music business is making room for more female talent?

“I think it is so cool,” country singer Ashley McBryde told The Associated Press about women leading the nods.

But the music industry pitting women against one another? She says she's not sure that will ever stop. “But I think we've managed — me, Miranda (Lambert), Carly (Pearce), Kelsey (Ballerini), we’ve been trying to build a table, and we’ve been trying for years to make the table bigger, and now it is. And I’m looking forward to operating in the environment that we built.”

Additionally, unlike last year, there isn't just one song dominating. Who could forget the year of Langley and Riley Green's “You Look Like You Love Me,” which accounted for six of her eight nods last year?

This time around, in the single of the year category, Lambert and Stapleton’s “A Song to Sing” will go head-to-head with Moroney’s “Am I Okay?,” Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” Top’s “I Never Lie” and Wilson’s “Somewhere Over Laredo.” And that's just scratching the surface.

Who is performing?

Performers will include Lambert, Langley, Top, Faith, Wilson, Johnson, Green, Kacey Musgraves, Little Big Town, Blake Shelton, Dan + Shay, Jordan Davis, Kane Brown, The Red Clay Strays, Thomas Rhett, Avery Anna and Tucker Wetmore.

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According to police, the dog attack was reported at a home in the 1100 block of West 70^th Place.

Police said officers arrived at the scene and found the victim, Ana Leyva, 58, suffering from multiple dog bites to her arms and legs.

She was the airlifted by Hialeah Fire Rescue to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

“During the investigation, officers identified the dog involved in the attack and observed multiple dogs on the property in poor condition, including signs of malnourishment, lack of clean water, and unsanitary living conditions,” an HPD spokesperson said in an email to Local 10.

Police confirmed that the dogs’ owner, Jairon Alvarez-Leyva, 22, who is Leyva’s son, was taken into custody on charges of animal cruelty and resisting arrest without violence.

Miami-Dade Animal Services removed 10 dogs from the property as part of the ongoing investigation, authorities said.

Jurors found Republican David Rivera and an associate, Esther Nuhfer, guilty on all counts, including failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department and conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of their work for former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government.

Much as he did throughout the trial, Rivera looked stone-faced as the jury delivered its verdict.

Rivera, 60, had been out on bond, but Judge Melissa Damian ordered him taken into custody, finding that he posed a flight risk because he has access to sizable funds, faces a potentially long prison sentence, and faces additional federal charges in Washington, D.C., in a related foreign lobbying case.

The seven-week trial offered a rare glimpse into Miami's role as a crossroads for foreign influence campaigns aimed at shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America, one highlighting the city's reputation as a magnet for corruption and anti-communist crusaders among its sizable exile population.

It included testimony from Rubio, Texas Congressman Pete Sessions and a top Washington lobbyist — all of whom testified that they were shocked to learn belatedly of Rivera’s consulting contract with a U.S.-based affiliate of Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA.

“These convictions expose a simple truth: the defendants sold access and influence to a hostile foreign regime for money,” said U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones. “In South Florida, where so many families fled communist oppression, that kind of betrayal carries real weight.”

Attorneys for Rivera said they plan to appeal.

In an indictment unsealed in 2022, prosecutors alleged that Rivera was tapped by then Foreign Minister Delcy Rodríguez — now Venezuela’s acting president — to work Republican connections from Rivera's time in Congress to get the first Trump administration to abandon its hard-line stance and ease crippling sanctions on Venezuela.

As part of the charm offensive, prosecutors alleged, Rivera and Nuhfer, a political consultant, manipulated influential friends, including Rubio and Sessions, like “pawns on a chess board." The goal: to try and normalize relations with the new Trump administration at a time when the Maduro government was buffeted by serious accusations of human rights violations.

“As long as the money kept coming in, they didn’t care from where,” prosecutor Roger Cruz said of the defendants during closing arguments.

‘Massive secret’ threatened to damage Rivera's political career

But the two held onto the “massive secret” and didn't disclose their lobbying work as required, for fear it would have ended Rivera's political career as an anti-communist stalwart, Cruz said.

To hide his work, prosecutors allege, Rivera also set up an encrypted chat group called MIA — for Miami — with his main conduit to the Maduro government: Venezuelan media tycoon Raúl Gorrín, who was subsequently charged in the U.S. with bribing top Venezuelan officials.

Members of the group used playful code words to discuss their activities: Maduro was the “bus driver,” Sessions “Sombrero,” Rodríguez “The Lady in Red,” and millions of dollars “melons,” according to copies of text messages presented to the jury.

“It was all about La Luz,” Cruz said, referring to the Spanish word for light, which Rivera and others repeatedly used to discuss payments from Caracas.

Attorneys for Rivera and Nuhfer said the two acted in good faith and believed they were under no requirement to disclose their work. The three-month, $50 million contract with Rivera's one-man consulting firm, they say, was focused exclusively on luring oil giant ExxonMobil back to Venezuela — commercial work that is generally exempt from the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Wholly distinct from that consulting work, they say, were Rivera's meetings with Rubio and Sessions, which occurred after the consulting contract had expired and was focused on ushering in leadership in Venezuela that would be less hostile to the U.S.

“He was working every possible angle to get Nicolás Maduro out,” defense attorney Ed Shohat said during closing arguments. “There was not a word in the chats about normalizing relations.”

Nuhfer's attorney, David Oscar Markus, likened the government's case to the 17th century Salem witch trials, presuming ill intent that was belied by the flimsiest of evidence.

“My client does not have a dark heart,” he said.

Exxon meetings for Rodríguez

Prosecutors said Rivera used the contract with New York-based PDV USA as cover for illegal lobbying.

Once exposed, the partners tried to hide the work — backdating documents and coming up with sham agreements like one to justify a wire transfer of $3.75 million to a South Florida company that maintained Gorrín’s luxury yacht.

The political activity included setting up meetings for Rodríguez in New York, Caracas, Washington and Dallas. As part of the effort, the two roped in Sessions, who later tried to broker a meeting for Rodríguez with the CEO of ExxonMobil that had succeeded Trump’s then-secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. After a secret meeting in Caracas with Maduro, Sessions also agreed to deliver a letter from the Venezuelan president to Trump.

The outreach quickly unraveled, however. Within six months of taking office, Trump sanctioned Maduro and labeled him a “dictator,” launching a “maximum pressure” campaign to unseat the president.

However, nearly a decade later, Rodríguez has emerged as the second Trump administration's trusted partner after the U.S. military's ousting of Maduro.

Before being elected to Congress in 2010, Rivera was a high-ranking Florida legislator. During that time, he shared a Tallahassee home with Rubio, who eventually became the Florida House speaker.

Rivera has previously faced controversy, including allegations that he secretly funded a Democratic spoiler candidate in a 2012 congressional race. Last year, federal prosecutors dropped the case after an appeals court threw out a sizable fine imposed by a lower court. Rivera was also investigated — but never charged — for alleged campaign finance violations and a $1 million contract with a gambling company while serving in the Florida Legislature.

One of dozens of AI cameras installed for the utility Arizona Public Service had spotted early signs of what came to be known as the Diamond Fire. Firefighters raced to the scene and contained the blaze before it grew past 7 acres (2.8 hectares).

As record-breaking heat and an abysmal snowpack raise concerns about severe wildfires, states across the fire-prone West are adding AI to their wildfire detection toolbox, banking on the technology to help save lives and property.

Arizona Public Service has nearly 40 active AI smoke-detection cameras and plans to have 71 by summer's end, and the state’s fire agency has deployed seven of its own. Another utility, Xcel Energy in Colorado, has installed 126 and aims to have cameras in seven of the eight states it serves by year's end.

“Earlier detection means we can launch aircraft and personnel to it and keep those fires as small as we can,” said John Truett, fire management officer for the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.

Where there are fewer eyes, AI looks for fires

ALERTCalifornia is a network of some 1,240 AI-enabled cameras across the Golden State that work similar to the system in Arizona.

Human intervention keeps the risk of false positives low and trains the technology to become more accurate, said Neal Driscoll, geology and geophysics professor at the University of California, San Diego, and founder of ALERTCalifornia.

“The AI that’s being run on the cameras is actually beating 911 calls," he said.

In Arizona, California and beyond, the technology is mostly used in high-risk areas that are sparsely populated, rural or remote, where a blaze might not be quickly spotted by human eyes.

“It’s just the ones where we won’t get a 911 call for a long time, it is extremely helpful to have that AI always monitoring that camera,” said Brent Pascua, battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. “In many cases, we’ve started a response before 911 was even called, and in a few cases, we’ve actually started a response, went there, put the fire out, and never received a 911 call.”

A technology driven by worsening blazes

Pano AI, whose technology combines high-definition camera feeds, satellite data and AI monitoring, has seen a growing interest in its cameras since launching in 2020. They've been deployed in Australia, Canada and 17 U.S. states, including Oregon, Washington and Texas. Its customers include forestry operations, government agencies and utilities, including Arizona Public Service.

Last year, its technology detected 725 wildfires in the U.S., the company said.

“In many of these situations, we hear from stakeholders that the visual intelligence, the time, really, really gives them a head start and some of these could have taken off into hundreds if not thousands of acres," said Arvind Satyam, the company’s co-founder and chief commercial officer.

Cindy Kobold, an Arizona Public Service meteorologist, said the technology notifies them about 45 minutes faster on average than the first 911 call.

Satyam said development of the technology was driven by the lack of hardened solutions to combat worsening wildfires. Climate change — caused by burning oil, gas and coal — is warming the planet and fueling dry conditions that supercharge infernos, making them burn hotter, faster and more frequently. The technology helps firefighters to safely and effectively respond while protecting communities and infrastructure, he said.

Challenges and limitations

One of the biggest obstacles to implementation is the price tag; Pano AI, for instance, charges around $50,000 annually per camera. The cost also includes fire risk analysis and 24/7 intelligence center.

False alarms present a challenge, which can be costly in terms of time and attention, said Patrick Roberts, a senior researcher with the nonprofit research group RAND who recently finished a project on accelerating innovation in wildfire management.

And when the AI accurately detects a fire, it doesn’t tell stakeholders the best course of action.

“Do you send help right away? Do you monitor? Should you worry about it? Where do you send help? Do you think about evacuation? All this still requires people and decision support systems,” said Roberts.

In highly populated areas, people tend to spot and call in fires pretty quickly, and the tech is not so useful when extreme weather events, such as hurricane-force winds, intensify and rapidly shift the flames, as happened in Los Angeles last year.

Pascua says the technology complements Cal Fire’s work.

“As the fire moves and shifts around, that’s where the human factor comes in and decides which tactics are best in fighting the fire. AI can only do so much," he said. "It just provides that real time information where we can make better decisions on the fire ground.”

AI firefighting assistance is not limited to detection

AI can also be employed to identify the best places to thin vegetation and burn cool fires, and even to monitor air quality for signs of smoke, just like your home's carbon monoxide sensor, said Roberts, but “1,000 times more sensitive.”

At George Mason University in Virginia, professor Chaowei “Phil” Yang is working with researchers from California State University of Los Angeles, the city of LA and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create a system that forecasts where a fire will burn and which communities will be hardest hit by smoke pollution.

The idea is to give agencies real-time maps so they can make quick, life-saving decisions about evacuations, school and road closures, and send out early air quality warnings. Yang said they hope the technology will be operational in three years.

"AI in wildfires, it’s no longer just speculative. It’s really being used," said Roberts, and it's use will only continue to grow.

“The future is AI everywhere," he said, "and the lines will blur between AI wildfire detection and just wildfire detection as the lines will blur in other areas of our life.”

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There’s more than a few up-and-coming talents to get excited about in the movies this summer. The Associated Press spoke to 11 ones to watch.

Catherine Lagaʻaia, “Moana”

Catherine Lagaʻaia (“lung-uh-aye-uh”) found out she got “Moana” on a school day. It was around 8:15 a.m. and she’d just heard the best news of her life after a very stressful year of auditioning. But the celebration would have to wait: It was swimming carnival day and she was on deck for the 400-meter backstroke.

“I guess, like, the water vibes carried through,” said Lagaʻaia, 20, laughing.

Lagaʻaia, who is one of eight children, grew up around acting in Sydney, Australia. Her father played Captain Typho in the “Star Wars” prequels, she went to a performing arts high school and a lot of her siblings are in theater. Two of her sisters even auditioned for “Moana” alongside her, but she was just the right age at the right time, she said.

The animated film meant the world to Lagaʻaia, who is of Samoan heritage, and she’s acutely aware of the big expectations for the live action film (out July 10) — she has them for herself too.

“I felt a fair bit of impostor syndrome stepping into it,” she said. “I think we’ve made some great changes, and we’ve kept a lot of the stuff that holds the heart of the film the same.”

Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen, “Leviticus”

Teenage boys Ryan (Stacy Clausen, 21) and Naim (Joe Bird, 19) are drawn to one another in their backwater Australian community in “Leviticus,” the “conversion therapy” horror that broke out at the Sundance Film Festival. It hits theaters on June 19.

“It is about growing up queer and how the fear of growing up queer can block someone mentally from acting on their desires, and physically,” Clausen said. “But I think that there is something in it for everyone, like whether you’re LGBTQIA or not, it’s about love.”

They knew they had made something special, but it’s been affirming to see it resonate with audiences. When the trailer posted on YouTube, Bird noticed one commenter who wrote that they wished they’d had this film when they were younger.

“It just takes one person to be inspired, or you know say, ‘Oh, I wish I had a film like this’ to know that you’ve kind of done your job,” Bird said. “It’s all about connecting.”

Kara Young and Mallori Johnson, “Is God Is”

Aleshea Harris chose a two-time Tony-winner, Kara Young, and a relative newcomer, Mallori Johnson, to anchor the big screen adaptation of her Obie-winning play “Is God Is.” The story is centered on twin sisters searching for their abusive father, who burned and scarred them as babies.

Young plays Racine the Rough One; Johnson is Anaia the Quiet One. After fending for themselves their entire lives are set on an epic road trip and a journey of revenge and reckoning. It’s in theaters on May 15.

“Anaia depends a lot on Racine to protect her,” Johnson said. “I think that they’ve set up a dynamic since they were children … they have this kind of codependent relationship.”

And although both Young and Johnson are in different phases of their careers, their enthusiasm for the material, and getting to be part of it, is identical.

“Getting into the world of ‘Is God Is’ feels like an ancestral calling in some wild, beautiful, almost like indescribable way,” Young said. “It’s an epic road trip. It’s a Greek tragedy. It’s a love story between two sisters …. I lost my train of thought because I just got so hyped.”

Kane Parsons, “Backrooms”

Kane Parsons was a teenager when he was signed to direct his first feature, based on his viral YouTube series “Backrooms.”

The concept was inspired by an internet creepypasta that imagined never-ending expanse rooms and hallways full of fluorescent lights, old carpet and monotonous yellow paint; He took that idea and ran with it, creating unnerving videos from his bedroom with the help of the open-source 3D graphics software Blender. Soon both James Wan and Shawn Levy’s companies were interested in taking it to the next level.

In the film, out May 29, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a struggling furniture store owner who seemingly slips out of reality. Renate Reinsve co-stars.

“I don’t think of this as inherently horror-driven; it’s definitely not a building full of monsters,” Parsons, 20, said. “I’ve always been more interested in the sort of man looking in the mirror version.”

The bachelors, “72 Hours”

“SNL” cast members Kam Patterson, 27, and Ben Marshall, 30, play a couple of Gen Z guys on a bachelor trip, with Marcello Hernández, groom-to-be Mason Gooding and a middle-aged ad exec (Kevin Hart) who was accidentally added to the group chat in the new Netflix comedy “72 Hours” (streaming July 24).

“It was the most fun you could possibly have shooting a movie,” Marshall said.

Between goofing around in a mansion in New Jersey and hanging in Miami with Hernández, it was, Patterson said, like summer camp. And Hart was their de facto counselor. They teased Gooding about never having his shirt on, Marshall for being so uniquely bad at jet skiing and Patterson for that time someone left him with one of the production assistant’s walkie talkies and for 5 minutes he had an open mic to the entire crew. That energy continued when the cameras were on too.

“I don’t think we said one word that’s actually in the script,” Marshall laughed.

Patterson chimed in: “Not at all. We take that script and threw it out the window.”

The new assistants in “The Devil Wears Prada 2”

Call them the new Emilys. Or, maybe don’t. But there’s a new batch of smart, young things manning the desks at “Runway” in “The Devil Wears Prada 2” (now in theaters).

Simone Ashley, of “Bridgerton” fame, is Miranda Priestly’s first assistant Amari, who screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna didn’t want to be Emily 2.0.

“With Amari the comedy comes from, like, flick of the wrist kind of sassiness and her quiet confidence,” Ashley, 31, said. “Me and Aline kind of had this inside joke that Amari is like secretly the next Miranda.”

Comedian Caleb Hearon, 31, is Miranda’s second assistant, Charlie, who is not allowed to leave his desk. Ever. But he’s not mad about it: This is literally the dream.

“I really thought a lot about a guy like Charlie and what it would mean to him to be in this office and why he wouldn’t mind staying at the desk all day,” Hearon said.

And finally, there is Helen J Shen, 26, who after breaking out on stage in “Maybe Happy Ending” makes her big screen debut as Andy’s assistant, Jin.

Shen said she “was excited to see that the dialogue was so silly to me, but Jin doesn’t find it silly.”

“I felt like that was a fresh take on someone who knows exactly what they’re trying to do,” Shen added. “She has a lot of wonderful things under her belts, intelligence wise, and she’s just trying to like, show that and be as helpful to Andy as possible.”

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Talankin, who co-directed the best documentary winner “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” didn't expect to have to check his statuette for a flight from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport bound for Frankfurt, Germany, on Wednesday. But a Transportation Security Administration agent said it couldn't go on board.

“At the airport, a TSA agent stopped him and said the Oscar could be used as a weapon,” Talankin's co-director, David Borenstein, said Thursday night in a post on Instagram.

“Pavel didn’t have a bag to check it in, so the TSA put the Oscar in a box and sent it to the bottom of the plane,” added Borenstein. “It never arrived in Frankfurt.”

After Borenstein's announcement prompted an international outcry, the airline Lufthansa on Friday said it had found the lost Oscar.

“We can confirm that the Oscar statue has now been located and is safely in our care in Frankfurt,” the airline said in statement. “We are in direct contact with the guest to arrange its personal return as quickly as possible. We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused and have apologized to the owner.”

Lufthansa added that an “internal review of the circumstances is ongoing.”

In March, “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” won the Academy Award for best documentary, and Talankin and Borenstein's acceptance speech supplied one of the most memorable moments of the ceremony.

Talankin — the “Mr. Nobody” of the film — was a teacher and activities director in a small-town school in Russia who captured on video his students’ lessons, chants and songs promoting Putin's war in Ukraine. He smuggled his hard drives out of the country to collaborate with Borenstein, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Talankin, speaking in Russian through a translator, said from the stage: “In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now.”

The TSA didn't immediately respond to queries Friday.

La serie comenzó con la historia de Edward Knox, un ex maestro de escuela y pilar de su comunidad cuya casa de 46 años había caído en deterioro.

Pero gracias a su ferviente fe y la generosidad de los televidentes de Local 10, Knox está mucho más cerca de ver su casa restaurada.

“No se queja de nada. No pide nada”, dijo Robert McKay.

McKay es un amigo cercano de la familia de Knox, de 75 años, quien dijo es conocido por su actitud de servicio a los demás.

“Lo que sea que pueda hacer, me hace sentir bien. Pero no se trata de cómo me siento. Es la expresión en los rostros de los niños”, dijo Knox.

Knox organizaba eventos para beneficiar a los niños de su vecindario en Richmond Heights, mientras sufría en silencio por la condición de su casa.

“Good News South Florida” compartió su historia, y personas como Betania Vergel, quien lidera el proceso de permisos, se ofrecieron a ayudar.

De hecho, casi una docena de contratistas de varios oficios ya se han sumado.

Jaime Naranjo, de Allied Hurricane Solutions, está donando las ventanas de impacto para la casa y lidera como contratista general.

“Es algo grande para él. Para mí no lo es en ese sentido, porque para mí es algo obvio. No puedes decir que no”, dijo Naranjo.

Hector Rodriguez, de Level Up Roofing, instalará el nuevo techo.

“La parte más difícil es quitar ese techo y colocar las nuevas vigas. Después de eso, es bastante rápido”, explicó Rodriguez.

“Vi su rostro y dije: ‘Este hombre necesita ayuda’”, agregó Sarah KC Holmes, de Bedrock Renovations.

Holmes y su esposo, Max, son expertos en todo, desde estructuras y paneles de yeso hasta baldosas y renovaciones completas de baños.

“Lo que queremos hacer es asegurarnos de que tenga una casa que sea segura para él y funcional para vivir el resto de su vida”, dijo Holmes.

Christian Pena quiere lo mismo. Él está proporcionando toda la ingeniería eléctrica.

“Creo que cuando la comunidad y nosotros como seres humanos nos unimos, todo es posible”, dijo.

Y fue Joe Puentes quien primero se sumó a la visión. Su organización sin fines de lucro, Wikivoice, está gestionando a todos los voluntarios.

“¿Qué vamos a hacer con nuestras bendiciones si no es ayudar a otros?”, dijo.

Un agradecido Knox abrazó y estrechó la mano de todos los que llegaron a ayudar, pero fue cuando los voluntarios tomaron sus manos para orar que Knox sintió que la voluntad de Dios para su hogar y su vida se había cumplido en la Tierra como en el cielo.

“Ángeles saliendo de la nada viniendo hacia mí. No puedo evitar sentirme bien después de eso”, dijo.

Ahora los voluntarios esperan la aprobación final de los permisos para comenzar el trabajo. El primer punto en la lista será demoler el techo viejo y retirar los escombros. Se busca una empresa que done esos servicios. Si desea ayudar, envíe un correo a goodnews@local10.com. Si desea hacer una donación monetaria, haga clic aquí.

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We kicked off the series with the story of Edward Knox, a former school teacher and pillar of his community whose home of 46 years had fallen into disrepair.

But thanks to his fervent faith and the generosity of Local 10 viewers, Knox is a lot closer to seeing his home restored.

“He doesn’t complain about anything. He doesn’t ask for anything,” Robert McKay said.

McKay is a longtime family friend of 75-year-old Knox, who he said is known for his service-over-self attitude.

“Whatever I can do, I feel great. But, it’s not about how I feel. It’s the look on the kids’ face(s),” Knox said.

Knox hosted events to benefit the kids of his Richmond Heights neighborhood, all while he suffered in silence over the condition of his home.

“Good News South Florida” shared his story, and people like Betania Vergel, who’s running point on the permitting process, offered to help.

In fact, nearly one dozen contractors from various trades have stepped up so far.

Jaime Naranjo, of Allied Hurricane Solutions, is donating the impact windows for the home and is taking the lead as the general contractor.

“It’s a big deal to him. It’s not a big deal to me in the sense, because to me, it’s a no brainer. You can’t say no,” Naranjo said.

Hector Rodriguez, of Level Up Roofing, will be installing the new roof.

“The hardest part is getting that roof off and putting the new trusses. After that, it’s pretty fast,” Rodriguez explained.

“I saw his face and I said, ‘This man needs help,’” Sarah KC Holmes, of Bedrock Renovations, added.

Holmes and her husband, Max, are experts in everything from framing and drywall to floor tiles and complete bathroom overhauls.

“What we want to do is make sure that he has a home that is safe for him, and functional for him to live out the rest of his life,” Holmes said.

Christian Pena wants the same thing. He’s providing all of the electrical engineering.

“I think when the community and we as humans come together in unity, everything is possible,” he said.

And it was Joe Puentes who first signed on to the vision. His nonprofit, Wikivoice, is managing all of the volunteers.

“What are we going to do with our blessings if not help others,” he said.

A grateful Knox hugged and shook hands with everyone who came out to help, but it was when the volunteers took his hands to pray that Knox realized God’s will for his home and his life had been done on Earth as it is in heaven.

“Angels out of nowhere coming to me. Can’t help but feel good after that,” he said.

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Israel’s military and Hezbollah kept up their attacks despite a ceasefire in place since April 17.

Israel’s military on Friday afternoon urged residents of the Lebanese village of Habboush near the southern city of Nabatiyeh to evacuate, warning that those close to Hezbollah’s facilities would be in danger. An airstrike on Habboush that occurred around the time of the warning killed six people, including a woman and a child, and wounded eight, the Health Ministry said.

The state-run National News Agency reported that four people were killed in strikes on three other southern villages.

By Friday afternoon, Hezbollah had issued six statements saying it launched drones and rockets at Israeli military positions.

The Israeli military confirmed that Hezbollah launched an explosive drone that fell in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon. Israeli media reported that a drone strike near Margaliot in northern Israel caused a fire, and that two soldiers were lightly wounded in a separate Hezbollah drone impact in the area.

Friday’s exchanges came after paramedics in southern Lebanon recovered the bodies of five people, including a man and his three sons, from under rubble in the village of Kfar Rumman, also near Nabatiyeh, a day after they were killed.

National News Agency reported that the five were killed in an airstrike late Thursday on Kfar Rumman. The agency identified those whose bodies were recovered as Malek Hamza and his sons, Ali, Fadel and Hamza. It said the strike also killed a Lebanese soldier. The Lebanese army confirmed that a soldier, Ali Jaber, was killed in the strike.

Damaged homes and overburdened hospitals

Despite the war, residents have continued to return to homes in southern Lebanon after being displaced for weeks because of the hostilities.

One of them was Umm Ali Khodor, whose apartment in the southern port city of Tyre was damaged during the previous Israel-Hezbollah war in 2024 and again in the current conflict.

“We were displaced, we rented a house, but as you know the situation is very difficult,” the woman said. “We could not continue so we returned to our home.”

At Jabal Aamel hospital in Tyre, one of the few in the area that are still functioning, director Wael Mroueh said many of the wounded they are treating are people who initially fled but decided to return and take their chances in areas facing periodic bombardment.

The dynamic was “different from all the previous wars,” he said. Many residents left the villages surrounding Tyre in the early days of the war, "but a large number did not find places and came back.”

Many of the hospital’s staff are also displaced, and the medical facility is hosting them and their families to ensure that it can continue to operate. The hospital has enough food and supplies to last for a month, Mroueh said, and is relying on international organizations to maintain its supply chain.

Official condemns targeting of Red Cross

Also Friday, a senior official with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies condemned the targeting of Red Cross volunteers during the Israel-Hezbollah war.

IFRC Under Secretary General for National Society Development and Coordination Xavier Castellanos Mosquera, who was visiting Lebanon, said that two Lebanese Red Cross volunteers have been killed and 18 others wounded by Israeli strikes. More than 100 health workers in total have been killed in Lebanon during the war, according to the country’s health ministry.

Mosquera told The Associate Press that Red Cross volunteers in southern Lebanon have described hugging each other before departing on a call “because they don’t know if they will return.”

He added that he had seen video showing “ambulances that were hit by bullets” while trying to rescue journalist Amal Khalil, who was buried in rubble when an Israeli strike hit a building where she was sheltering in southern Lebanon last month. Her body was pulled from the rubble hours later when rescuers were able to reach the scene.

The IFRC official also recently visited Iran, where he said key facilities of the Iranian Red Crescent Society had been targeted. Two chemical plants that had been their main providers of raw materials to produce plastic syringes and dialysis components were struck and destroyed. Another strike hit close to a Red Crescent rehabilitation center in Tehran that served children, elderly people and people with disabilities, causing damage.

Israel has denied that it deliberately targets health facilities and emergency workers.

The latest war between Israel and Hezbollah began on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel two days after the United States and Israel launched a war on its main backer, Iran. Israel has since carried out hundreds of airstrikes and launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, capturing dozens of towns and villages along the border.

Since then Lebanon and Israel have held their first direct talks in more than three decades. The two countries have formally been in a state of war since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.

A 10-day ceasefire declared in Washington went into effect on April 17. The ceasefire was later extended by three weeks.

The Health Ministry said Friday that the war’s death toll reached 2,618 while 8,094 were wounded.

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Mroue reported from Beirut. Associated Press journalist Koral Said in Abu Snan, Israel, and Abby Sewell in Beirut contributed to this report.

El jefe de Gabinete de ministros, Manuel Adorni, dijo durante una entrevista radial que “está todo en proceso para que el lunes se reabra y se vuelva a la normalidad”.

Hace una semana el gobierno cerró la sala de prensa del palacio gubernamental y bloqueó el acceso de los periodistas acreditados por orden de la Casa Militar, a cargo de la seguridad presidencial, luego de presentar una denuncia penal contra dos periodistas de la señal televisiva Todo Noticias (TN) que habían difundido imágenes supuestamente grabadas sin autorización en el interior de la Casa Rosada.

La medida, inédita en democracia, generó el repudio de entidades de prensa, partidos de la oposición y de la propia Iglesia católica que reclamó en un comunicado “erradicar discursos de odio y dejar de lado expresiones hirientes”.

El mandatario ultraliberal mantiene una postura abiertamente agresiva con la mayoría de los medios de comunicación, por lo general a través de sus redes sociales, y únicamente da entrevistas a los que son más afines a su gestión. “No odiamos lo suficiente a los periodistas" es la consigna que replica casi a diario en X.

En febrero creó la Oficina de Respuesta Oficial para “desenmascarar mentiras y operaciones de los medios”, según él mismo afirmó. La nueva dependencia tiene similitudes con la cuenta Rapid Response 47 (Respuesta Rápida 47) creada por el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump —su principal aliado en la región —para responder a supuestas “fake news” en su contra.

El último miércoles en el Congreso, Milei les gritó “corruptos” a los periodistas que cubrían el informe de gestión del jefe de Gabinete, sospechado de presunto enriquecimiento ilícito. El mandatario acompañó al funcionario al Parlamento como gesto de apoyo.

Adorni, quien además oficia de portavoz gubernamental, adelantó este viernes a radio El Observador de Buenos Aires que habrá modificaciones en los protocolos de seguridad que deberán cumplir los periodistas acreditados en la casa de gobierno, lo cual augura que el acceso a fuentes de información será más dificultoso por las nuevas restricciones.

“Modificaciones va a haber seguro”, reveló Adorni. “Está claro que no se puede permitir que nadie, no sólo periodistas, filme en lugares que no están permitidos. Está prohibido taxativamente en la normativa”.

El jefe de Gabinete dijo además que en su calidad de portavoz dará una conferencia de prensa “lunes o martes” después de más de un mes de su última comparecencia.

The death of Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart, 48, of St. George, last year shocked the community around Crawford Pond in rural Union, Maine. Authorities charged Deven Young of Frankfort, Maine, with murder in Stewart's death in July, about two weeks after Stewart's body was discovered.

The court system has thus far treated Young as a juvenile. Prosecutors in the state want to charge Young, who was 17 at the time of Stewart's death and is 18 now, as an adult. First, he needed to be deemed competent to stand trial, and a judge ruled this week that he is.

"The court finds that the defendant is competent to proceed based on the court’s finding that the juvenile has a rational, as well as a factual, understanding of the proceedings and a sufficient present ability to consult with legal counsel with a reasonable degree of rational understanding," wrote Maine District Court Judge Eric J. Walker on Wednesday.

Young is due back in court on May 7. Police have said a medical examiner determined Stewart's cause of death was strangulation and blunt force trauma.

Jeremy Pratt, an attorney for Young, declined to comment on Thursday. Prosecutors in the case also declined to comment Thursday.

Authorities have not publicly stated a possible motive in the case. Court documents about the case, which were briefly made public before being removed from the state's courts website, contained little detail other than stating that Young “did intentionally or knowingly cause the death of another human being, namely Sunshine Stewart.”

Audio recordings by the Waldo County Sheriff's Office that were obtained by news agencies earlier this year provided details about Young's history of violent behavior and mental health challenges prior to Stewart's death. The Portland Press Herald reported that Young had been waiting for behavioral health services from the state.

Stewart went missing at Crawford Pond, where she was paddleboarding, on July 2 and her body was found the next day. The pond is a popular summertime attraction for swimming, boating and fishing. Stewart lived about 21 miles (34 kilometers) from the pond in the Tenants Harbor neighborhood in St. George.

Stewart's friends and family celebrated her life with a maritime service last August. The memorial included a procession of boats, some decked out with flowers, in Tenants Harbor.

On the boats were pictures of Stewart smiling and a large sign that read, “Shine On.” Over the years, Stewart worked as a fisherman, boat captain, biologist, carpenter and bartender, friends have said.

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According to MDSO, that burglary victim lives on the same North Miami Beach street as suspect Elvin Baltazar ― only about five houses down. The victim had been burglarized while out of town from Dec. 16, 2025, and Jan. 28, 2026.

Investigators said Baltazar, 44, made more than $28,000 selling his neighbor’s items at A New Hocke Shoppe, about two blocks away from both of their homes.

The shop, located at 754 NE 167th St., just outside of the North Miami Beach city limits, reported that Baltazar represented the items ― including two Rolex watches ― as his own, the MDSO report states.

Deputies said he sold the items between Jan. 13 and Feb. 23. They said by the time detectives from MDSO and the North Miami Beach Police Department were able to track them to the pawn shop, “a lot” of them had already been sold or scrapped.

Authorities said when they took Baltazar into custody on Thursday and interviewed him, he claimed that his neighbor’s property had been given to him by a friend named “William” to sell and he got $500 from him in return.

Deputies arrested Baltazar, a Dominican national, on nine counts of giving false information to a pawnbroker and 23 counts of dealing in stolen property.

His bond is listed as “to be set” in Miami-Dade jail records.

Según MDSO, la víctima de robo vive en la misma calle de North Miami Beach que el sospechoso Elvin Baltazar, a solo unas cinco casas de distancia. La vivienda fue robada mientras la víctima estaba fuera de la ciudad entre el 16 de diciembre de 2025 y el 28 de enero de 2026.

Los investigadores dijeron que Baltazar, de 44 años, obtuvo más de $28,000 USD al vender artículos de su vecino en A New Hocke Shoppe, a unas dos cuadras de ambas residencias.

La tienda, ubicada en 754 NE 167th St., justo fuera de los límites de la ciudad de North Miami Beach, informó que Baltazar presentó los artículos, incluidos dos relojes Rolex, como propios, según el informe de MDSO.

Agentes dijeron que vendió los artículos entre el 13 de enero y el 23 de febrero. Indicaron que para cuando detectives de MDSO y del Departamento de Policía de North Miami Beach lograron rastrearlos hasta la casa de empeño, “muchos” ya habían sido vendidos o desechados.

Las autoridades dijeron que cuando detuvieron a Baltazar el jueves y lo entrevistaron, él afirmó que la propiedad de su vecino le fue entregada por un amigo llamado “William” para venderla y que recibió $500 USD a cambio.

Agentes arrestaron a Baltazar, de nacionalidad dominicana, por nueve cargos de proporcionar información falsa a un prestamista prendario y 23 cargos de tráfico de propiedad robada.

Su fianza figura como “por establecer” en los registros carcelarios de Miami-Dade.

Según la portavoz de BSO, Gerdy St. Louis, agentes acudieron al Weston Hills Golf Course, ubicado en 2600 Country Club Way, a las 7:17 p.m. del 18 de abril por un grupo de niños que conducían motocicletas motorizadas y un carrito de golf en el campo.

“En la escena, los agentes se reunieron con un testigo que indicó que los menores fueron vistos deteniéndose abruptamente y derrapando sobre los greens”, dijo St. Louis en un comunicado de prensa. “Un video tomado por el testigo muestra a varios menores en el campo de golf participando en travesuras criminales”.

Según St. Louis, cuatro adolescentes fueron vistos conduciendo motocicletas motorizadas a través del campo de golf, mientras que varios otros estaban dentro del carrito de golf, conduciendo sobre el green.

El personal de la instalación estimó que el grupo causó aproximadamente $3,000 USD en daños al campo de golf.

Cualquier persona con información sobre las identidades de los que aparecen en el video debe llamar a la detective de BSO Weston, Maria Ropain, al 954-626-4005 o enviar una pista a través de la aplicación SaferWatch.

Quienes deseen permanecer en el anonimato pueden llamar a Broward Crime Stoppers al 954-493-TIPS (8477), o enviar una pista en línea en browardcrimestoppers.org.

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According to BSO spokeswoman Gerdy St. Louis, deputies were called to the Weston Hills Golf Course, located at 2600 Country Club Way, at 7:17 p.m. on April 18 about a group of kids riding motorized bikes and a golf cart on the course.

“On scene, deputies met with a witness who stated the juveniles were seen stopping abruptly and skidding across the greens,” St. Louis said in a news release. “Video footage taken by the witness shows several juveniles on the golf course engaging in criminal mischief.”

According to St. Louis, four teens were spotted riding motorized bikes through the golf course, while several others were inside the golf cart, driving on the green.

Staff at the facility estimated that the group caused about $3,000 in damage to the golf course.

Anyone with information about the identities of those seen in the video is asked to call BSO Weston Detective Maria Ropain at 954-626-4005 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch app.

Those who wish to remain anonymous may call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477), or submit a tip online at browardcrimestoppers.org.

Libros con las rúbricas y un cuadro simbólico con el conteo de las mismas fue entregado durante un acto que culminó con una marcha de decenas de miles de personas en conmemoración del Día Internacional del Trabajador.

El mitin central se desarrolló en la llamada Tribuna Antiimperialista frente a la embajada de Estados Unidos en La Habana. La televisión nacional mostró imágenes de manifestaciones similares en las principales provincias del país.

Las tensiones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos escalaron luego de que el presidente Donald Trump atacara Venezuela para capturar al presidente Nicolás Maduro en enero e impusiera un bloqueo petrolero contra Cuba.

En las últimas semanas Trump incluso amenazó varias veces con “tomar” la isla.

“No somos un pueblo que agrede, aue siembra el odio, el fanatismo o la confrontación. Somos un pueblo noble, de buenos sentimientos, dispuesto a defender sus conquistas”, dijo en el discurso central del mitin Osnay Miguel Colina, miembro del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba.

El secretario de Estado norteamericano Marco Rubio —hijo de emigrantes cubanos residentes en Florida— acusó a la isla de ser un Estado inoperante, al punto del colapso y base para enemigos de su país como China. Cuba rechazó las acusaciones.

Debido al cerco energético la isla recibió apenas un barco de petróleo ruso en cuatro meses. La nación caribeña produce sólo el 40% del crudo que necesita su economía por lo que esta se encuentra semiparalizada y con largos apagones.

En primera fila del mitin estuvieron el líder revolucionario y expresidente Raúl Castro y el actual mandatario Miguel Díaz-Canel. Los manifestantes portaban banderas cubanas y rojas, carteles en defensa de la revolución y en contra de las sanciones de Estados Unidos.

Según indicó el locutor del acto, se registraron 6,2 millones de firmas de cubanos mayores de 16 años en respaldo a la campaña “Mi firma por la patria” que comenzó el 19 de abril. La recolección de las rúbricas se desarrolló en centros de trabajo y estudio, organizaciones no gubernamentales y sindicatos.

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A woman, identified as Saian Aquila Civil, 28, was shot in the chest, according to deputies who found her shortly after 1:35 p.m. on Wednesday near Northwest 22 Avenue and 90 Street.

“As I was watching TV, I heard two gunshots, ‘POW! POW!’ Then, I heard someone hollering, screaming,” said the earwitness, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took Aquila Civil to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where she died, according to deputies.

Deputies detained a man and a woman and closed Northwest 90th Street from 22nd to 21st avenues.

Within the area enclosed by crime scene tape, a yellow evidence marker was on the ground near a resin plastic high-back chair.

Residents said people had complained about crime in the area and asked for MDSO deputies to “shut the corner down.” On Thursday afternoon, deputies kept orange barricades to block the area.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

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

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La capital mexicana y las ciudades aledañas, que constituyen una de las zonas urbanas más extensas y pobladas del mundo, con unos 7.800 kilómetros cuadrados (3.000 millas cuadradas) y cerca de 22 millones de habitantes, se construyeron sobre el lecho de un antiguo lago. Muchas calles del centro fueron alguna vez canales, una tradición que continúa en las zonas rurales periféricas.

El bombeo intensivo de agua subterránea y el desarrollo urbano han reducido drásticamente el manto acuífero, lo que significa que la Ciudad de México se ha estado hundiendo durante más de un siglo, dejando muchos monumentos y edificios antiguos, como la Catedral Metropolitana, cuya construcción comenzó en 1573, visiblemente inclinados. La contracción del acuífero también ha contribuido a una crisis crónica de agua que, según previsiones, no hará más que empeorar.

“Esto daña parte de la infraestructura crítica de Ciudad de México, como el metro, el sistema de drenaje, el agua, el sistema de agua potable, la vivienda y las calles”, afirmó Enrique Cabral, investigador que estudia geofísica en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. “Es un problema muy grande”.

La Ciudad de México se hunde tan rápido que el proceso puede observarse desde el espacio.

En algunas zonas, el hundimiento ocurre a una tasa promedio de 0,78 pulgadas (2 centímetros) al mes, según el informe recién publicado por la NASA, como en el aeropuerto principal y en el emblemático monumento conocido comúnmente como el Ángel de la Independencia.

En conjunto, eso significa una tasa anual de hundimiento de alrededor de 24 centímetros (9,5 pulgadas). En menos de un siglo, la caída ha sido de más de 12 metros (39 pies), según Cabral.

“Tenemos una de las velocidades de hundimiento del terreno más rápidas en todo el mundo”, señaló.

Los cálculos de la NASA se basan en mediciones tomadas entre octubre de 2025 y enero de 2026 por un potente satélite conocido como NISAR, que puede rastrear cambios en tiempo real en la superficie terrestre y es una iniciativa conjunta entre la NASA y la Organización India de Investigación Espacial.

El científico de NISAR Paul Rosen señaló que, al captar detalles de la Tierra desde el espacio, el proyecto también “nos dice algo sobre lo que realmente ocurre debajo de la superficie”.

“Básicamente, es documentación de todos estos cambios dentro de una ciudad”, explicó. “Se puede ver la magnitud total del problema”.

Con el tiempo, el equipo espera poder acercarse aún más a zonas específicas y algún día obtener mediciones edificio por edificio.

De manera más amplia, los investigadores esperan aplicar la tecnología en todo el mundo para monitorear cosas como desastres naturales, cambios en líneas de falla, los efectos del cambio climático en regiones como la Antártida y más.

Rosen indicó que dicha tecnología podría usarse para reforzar los sistemas de alerta, permitiendo que los científicos adviertan a los gobiernos sobre la necesidad de evacuaciones en casos de erupciones volcánicas, por ejemplo.

Para la Ciudad de México, la tecnología representa un gran avance para estudiar el problema del hundimiento y mitigar sus peores efectos, según Cabral.

Durante décadas, el gobierno ha ignorado en gran medida el problema, salvo por estabilizar cimientos bajo monumentos como la catedral. Pero tras recientes recrudecimientos de la crisis del agua, Cabral señaló que las autoridades han comenzado a financiar más investigación.

Las imágenes del satélite NISAR y los datos que las acompañan serán clave para que científicos y autoridades planifiquen cómo abordar el problema.

“Para hacer una mitigación de largo plazo de la situación”, sostuvo Cabral, “el primer paso es simplemente entender”.

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The China deal covers Africa's 20 largest economies, including South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria and Kenya. China had already dropped tariffs on 33 poorer African countries, meaning 53 of the continent's 54 nations are now eligible for “tariff-free treatment” for their goods, according to China.

The country not eligible is the small nation of Eswatini because it is the only one in Africa that maintains formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

China says it'll help mutual development

The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council in China said the agreement would promote the common development of China and Africa. China's official Xinhua News Agency said a shipment of 24 metric tons of apples from South Africa that cleared customs in Shenzhen in the early hours of Friday was the first batch of goods to enter under the new zero-tariff policy.

According to Xinhua, China's Commerce Ministry said it would especially benefit African products like cocoa from Ivory Coast and Ghana, coffee and avocados from Kenya, and citrus fruits and wine from South Africa, which used to face tariffs of between 8% and 30%.

Ivory Coast is by far the world's biggest cocoa producer and it and Ghana account for more than 50% of the global supply. South Africa is a major citrus fruit exporter.

African nations looking away from the US

Several of Africa's top economies said they would look for new markets for some of their U.S.-bound products after the Trump administration imposed reciprocal tariffs a year ago — at one point with rates of 30% for Africa's leading economy, South Africa, and higher than 40% for some other African countries.

“South Africa looks forward to working with China in a friendly, pragmatic and flexible manner,” South African Trade Minister Parks Tau said in February during bilateral talks in China.

While the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Trump's far-reaching global tariffs as unconstitutional in February, the Republican president said his administration had "very powerful alternatives” and promptly rolled out temporary import taxes to replace them.

China is already the biggest trade partner for Africa, a continent of 1.5 billion people that's expected to nearly double to 2.5 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations, when it would have more than a quarter of the world's people.

China dominates a large trade imbalance with Africa

China hailed its tariff-free deal as promoting common development, but there is a large trade imbalance between it and Africa, while African nations owe Beijing billions in debt repayments.

China-Africa trade reached a record $348 billion in 2025, though China's exports to Africa increased by around 25% to $225 billion, while its imports from Africa increased by only around 5% to $123 billion, widening the trade deficit for Africa.

China has long imported raw materials from Africa and sent back manufactured goods. Thierry Pairault, a China-Africa expert at France's National Center for Scientific Research, said that while the new policy might have some benefits for agricultural products, most African raw material exports like oil and minerals already had tariff-free access to China.

“(Chinese leader) Xi Jinping is positioning China as the antithesis of Western protectionism. This gesture is intended to appeal to both African public opinion and global markets,” Pairault wrote in an assessment published by the China Global South Project, which analyzes China's relationship with poor countries.

But the policy “only applies where it costs (China) almost nothing,” Pairault wrote.

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Los abogados del rapero, cuyo nombre real es Jamell Demons, destacaron que el joven de 26 años ha estado en la cárcel durante siete años y no ha sido condenado.

Demons está acusado de asesinar a sus amigos de la infancia Christopher Thomas y Anthony Williams en octubre de 2018 tras una sesión de grabación nocturna y luego hacerlo parecer como una balacera desde un vehículo.

Su primer juicio terminó en un juicio nulo en 2023 después de que el jurado no lograra un veredicto unánime. Ese juicio incluyó acusaciones de manipulación de testigos.

La audiencia del jueves incluyó el testimonio de familiares del rapero y de un oficial de detención de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward sobre las condiciones de vida del rapero bajo custodia, que incluyen no tener acceso a un teléfono.

El oficial de detención de la BSO testificó sobre las oportunidades recreativas de Demons, indicando que sale a hacer ejercicio tres veces por semana.

Un juez determinará si puede ser liberado bajo fianza o permanecer bajo custodia mientras espera el nuevo juicio.

The king delivered a diplomatic master-class on the trip, mixing praise for his host with subtle criticism. It’s unclear, though, whether it will make a major difference to a trans-Atlantic relationship troubled by divisions over issues including the Iran war.

“In the short term probably yes, in the long term probably no,” said Kristofer Allerfeldt, a University of Exeter professor specializing in American history. But he said Charles had “definitely clawed back some of the prestige of the monarchy” in his homeland with his assured performance.

“He’s done us proud,” Allerfeldt said.

Like all royal visits, the four-day trip to Washington, New York and Virginia by the king and Queen Camilla was a carefully choreographed diplomatic event carried out at the request of the U.K. government. Timed to help mark the United States’ 250th birthday, it was a chance to heal rifts between the U.K. government and the Trump administration.

Trump has criticized Keir Starmer

The president has lambasted Prime Minister Keir Starmer –- whom he once praised –- over his unwillingness to join U.S. military attacks on Iran, dismissing Britain’s leader as “not Winston Churchill,” the World War II prime minister who coined the phrase “special relationship” for the U.K.-U.S. bond.

It’s part of a wider split between Trump and the United States’ NATO allies, whom he has called “cowards” and “useless” for not joining action against Iran.

None of that has soured Trump’s fondness for the British monarchy, which seems to have been deepened by the president’s unprecedented second state visit to the U.K. in September.

Some U.K. opposition politicians had called for the king's reciprocal trip to be canceled, lest the president do or say something to embarrass the monarch.

In the end, there was much warmth and few awkward moments –- though Trump did not always adhere to the convention that conversations with the monarch should remain private.

At a white-tie state dinner on Tuesday, Trump said “Charles agrees with me, even more than I do” that Iran must never have nuclear weapons.

Trump also said that “if that were up to him,” the king “would have followed the suggestions we made with respect to Ukraine.”

Buckingham Palace appeared relaxed about Trump’s Iran comment, noting that “the king is naturally mindful of his government’s longstanding and well-known position on the prevention of nuclear proliferation.”

The king’s speech chided Trump policies

On Ukraine, however, differences were clear. The U.K. has been one of Kyiv's strongest supporters in its fight against Russia’s invasion, and in a speech to Congress the king underscored the importance of the need for “unyielding resolve” to support Ukraine.

It was one of several implicit rebukes to the “America first” U.S. administration in the speech, the centerpiece moment of the trip.

With regal understatement and in a cut-glass accent, Charles stressed the essential role of NATO, the importance of checks on executive power, the threat posed by climate change and the strength drawn from “vibrant, diverse and free societies.” He spoke of his pride at having served in the Royal Navy, a force Trump has disparaged.

“It’s difficult to imagine he could have gone much further in what he said and what he didn’t say,” historian Anthony Seldon told The Guardian. “He judged it incredibly well: very brave, very smart, very clever.”

Allerfeldt noted the “extraordinary” reception from both sides of the political aisle to the speech, which drew multiple standing ovations.

“Apart from the section on the natural world and the environment, both Republicans and Democrats stood up and applauded,” he said.

In a less formal speech at the state banquet, the king even drew laughs when he joked about British troops burning down the White House in 1814.

The king alluded to Epstein's victims

The trip was judged a success despite the shadow of the king’s younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who has been stripped of his royal title of Prince Andrew, exiled from public life and put under police investigation over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. He has denied committing any crimes.

Epstein victims had urged the king to meet with them and other sexual abuse survivors. He didn’t, but he did refer obliquely to the issue in his speech to Congress, mentioning the need to “support victims of some of the ills that, so tragically, exist in both our societies today.”

Andrew Lownie, author of a biography of the former Prince Andrew called “Entitled,” praised the speech as “the best defense of the monarchy in years.”

After the royal couple left the U.S., Trump announced he was lifting certain tariffs on Scotch “in honor of the King and Queen of the United Kingdom.”

Buckingham Palace toasted the announcement, saying the king “sends his sincere gratitude for a decision that will make an important difference to the British whisky industry and the livelihoods it supports.”

Trump called the king “a phenomenal representative” for his country, before turning back to a familiar theme: criticizing Starmer.

The president told Sky News that Charles is “a much different person than your prime minister.

“Your prime minister has to learn to deal the way he deals, and he’ll do a lot better,” he said.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will cool us down somewhat on Sunday. These storms could become widespread with heavy rain, gusty winds, and frequent lightning. Some of this will linger into Monday as temperatures return to normal in the middle 80s.

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Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said she “believe(s) that this is the longest prison sentence ever for an HOA board president in the United States” as part of one of the largest known HOA frauds in U.S. history.

Marglli Gallego could have spent a lot longer behind bars: She was facing up to 195 years in prison. Instead, after taking responsibility, she received a seven-year prison sentence and seven years of probation. Her husband, Jose Gonzalez, agreed to seven years probation and handing over a $1.2 million property.

The two were part of eight arrested in connection with the HOA theft case.

Prosecutors laid out allegations of grand theft, racketeering and money laundering.

Authorities said the co-conspirators took millions from residents of the southwest Miami-Dade community.

Gallego, 44, was accused of using HOA money for personal expenses. Prosecutors said Gonzalez, 49, received more than $1 million in funds for over-billed work or work never performed

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office shared video showing hundreds of documents hidden in a spa business.

“A spa, really?” Fernandez Rundle said. “Those are the records. Some of the records.”

Gallego has already spent three-and-a-half years behind bars, so she “has a few more years to go,” her attorney said.

Meanwhile, four other cases remained pending as of Thursday afternoon.

The Hammocks ordeal led to a new law protecting homeowners.

La fiscal estatal de Miami-Dade, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, dijo que “cree que esta es la sentencia de prisión más larga para un presidente de junta de HOA en Estados Unidos” como parte de uno de los mayores fraudes de HOA conocidos en la historia del país.

Marglli Gallego pudo haber pasado mucho más tiempo tras las rejas: enfrentaba hasta 195 años de prisión. En cambio, tras asumir responsabilidad, recibió una sentencia de siete años de prisión y siete años de libertad condicional. Su esposo, Jose Gonzalez, aceptó siete años de libertad condicional y entregar una propiedad de $1,200,000 USD.

Ambos formaban parte de ocho personas arrestadas en relación con el caso de robo en la HOA.

Los fiscales presentaron acusaciones de hurto mayor, crimen organizado y lavado de dinero.

Las autoridades dijeron que los co-conspiradores tomaron millones de residentes de la comunidad del suroeste de Miami-Dade.

Gallego, de 44 años, fue acusada de usar dinero de la HOA para gastos personales. Los fiscales dijeron que Gonzalez, de 49 años, recibió más de $1,000,000 USD en fondos por trabajos sobrefacturados o trabajos nunca realizados.

La Oficina de la Fiscalía Estatal de Miami-Dade compartió un video que muestra cientos de documentos ocultos en un negocio de spa.

“¿Un spa, en serio?”, dijo Fernandez Rundle. “Esos son los registros. Algunos de los registros”.

Gallego ya ha pasado tres años y medio tras las rejas, por lo que “le quedan algunos años más”, dijo su abogado.

Mientras tanto, otros cuatro casos permanecían pendientes hasta la tarde del jueves.

El caso de Hammocks llevó a una nueva ley que protege a los propietarios de viviendas.

For that, Palou has earned a multi-year contract extension on his current deal that ran through the 2027 season. The extension was finalized following this week's two-day Indianapolis 500 test. Ganassi never publicly discloses contract terms.

The reward capped a celebratory week for Palou, who drove into Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the defending Indy 500 winner for testing and saw a larger-than-life banner of himself chugging the traditional winner’s milk. It’s the main banner as you enter the speedway — key placement he’d seen reserved for rival drivers the previous six years.

“I took a picture when I was driving by and sent it to my parents,” Palou said.

Palou has won four IndyCar championships in five years, including the last three consecutive titles. He won eight times last season, including the 500, as he's blossomed in IndyCar since joining Ganassi in 2021.

Ahead of the Long Beach Grand Prix two weeks ago, former Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi was asked if anything had surprised him through the first quarter of the season. His response was immediate: “Yeah, that Alex has only won two races. And isn’t the points leader.”

Palou responded by winning Long Beach to give him three wins through five races this year and reclaim the top spot in the championship standings.

“It’s incredible, actually amazing,” said rival driver Will Power, a two-time IndyCar champion and Indianapolis 500 winner. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about the last week or so because once again, he’s gone out and won three out of five races. I mean (Kyle) Kirkwood's average finish is like three-point-something and he’s not leading the championship, which is insane.

"So it’s something I’m absolutely, like, how is he doing that week in, week out? Well, it’s one, he’s qualifying well. Two is he executes in the race and three is the pit stops, you know, top notch, there’s no mistakes in there. And he’s fast. So that’s what it takes when you’re driving out there.”

His 22 career victories through 103 starts ranks fifth in 121 years of IndyCar history. Sebastien Bourdais won 31 times in that span in the diluted Champ Car era, A.J. Foyt won 30, Mario Andretti 27 and Ralph DePalma 26.

Palou’s four titles already match Andretti and Bourdais, and in the post-World War II era, Palou’s 61 top-five finishes in his 103 starts trails only Andretti, who had 64.

Dario Franchitti, a four-time IndyCar champion and three-time Indy 500 winner, is now a driver coach and consultant for Ganassi. He believes there hasn’t been a driver this dominant in the series since Alex Zanardi, who won 12 races and back-to-back titles for Ganassi in 1997 and 1998.

“Winning one championship is one thing, but then the subsequent ones, it gets progressively more difficult,” Franchitti said. "Just watching what he's done, and at this early stage in his career, it's something very special. And the level of domination, that's the icing on the cake.

“You feel sorry for the others. I've said to him a number of times, ‘I would have hated racing against you.’ He is the complete package.”

At Long Beach last month, rival driver Pato O'Ward conceded his McLaren team has not closed the gap at all on Palou and the No. 10 Ganassi team.

“The guy goes into every weekend being able to win. Honestly, it's impressive to see,” O'Ward said. “The gap is as big as its been and we're working hard to try to be at the level he is of being able to win every race, but we don't have that.”

Connor Daly believes the domination is a combination of Palou's flawless performances and the strength of his race team.

“Alex is very good, but that team when they’re called upon, they don’t make mistakes and that is what is so important about this game,” Daly said. “Everything has to be, everyone has to be on the same page and he is, like without a doubt, one of the best drivers in the world right now.”

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Explosions and a fire were recorded at the terminal, the statement from the General Staff said. Local officials in Russia said a Ukrainian drone attack sparked the blaze and that no casualties were reported.

The facility had been hit previously on April 16, April 20 and April 28. Regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev said a fire at the city’s oil refinery had also been extinguished Thursday, less than 24 hours before the latest strike.

Meanwhile, Russian attacks continued to strike Ukraine.

Russia attacked the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil with over 50 drones on Friday, Mayor Serhii Nadal said.

Hits were recorded in industrial facilities and infrastructure, he said. At least 10 people were wounded, he added, while some neighborhoods remain without electricity as a result of the mass attack.

Two multi-story residential buildings and port infrastructure in Odesa were damaged after Russian forces launched another overnight drone attack on the southern region, local authorities said.

As a result of the strikes, an apartment in a 16-story building was destroyed and the roof caught fire. In another high-rise residential building, a fire engulfed the 12th floor, according to Ukraine's Emergency Service.

In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at least five people were wounded in the region. He said damage from overnight attacks was also recorded in the central city of Kryvyi Rih and the northeastern Kharkiv region, where railway infrastructure was hit.

“Russia continues to attack our energy infrastructure, critical infrastructure, and civilian objects. Tonight, there were 210 drone strikes, and about 140 of them were “Shahed” drones,” Zelenskyy wrote.

Según un informe de arresto de la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, el 13 de noviembre de 2024, una víctima de Montana envió por correo al sospechoso, Salvatore De Rosa, de Deerfield Beach, monedas valoradas en $246,599 USD.

Los detectives dijeron que la víctima creía que enviaba las monedas a un comerciante legítimo de oro y plata llamado AMG Rarities, con la intención de venderlas.

De acuerdo con el informe, De Rosa pagó para que la víctima enviara las monedas a través de FedEx en cuatro cajas, pero después de recibirlas, dejó de toda comunicación con la víctima.

Los detectives dijeron que la víctima luego recibió de vuelta cuatro cajas llenas de papel de impresora.

Según el informe, los investigadores descubrieron que De Rosa firmó por las cajas.

Pero cuando los detectives fueron a su casa el 6 de enero de 2025, dijeron que él afirmó que su “negocio de mercadeo” había sido disuelto seis meses antes y que, aunque firmó por las cajas, nunca las abrió y las envió de regreso al remitente “desconocido” al día siguiente a su propio costo de $300 USD.

Los detectives dijeron que De Rosa repitió “una y otra vez” que proporcionaría el recibo de rastreo de devolución de FedEx, pero luego entró a la casa y cerró la puerta.

Según el informe, De Rosa sí proporcionó una copia del recibo a las autoridades al día siguiente, pero una investigación adicional reveló que las cajas pesaban 81 libras al momento de la entrega y solo 31.30 libras cuando fueron enviadas de regreso a Montana.

Desde el año pasado, los detectives dijeron que han hecho múltiples intentos para localizar a De Rosa, con “resultados negativos”.

Los registros carcelarios en línea muestran que fue arrestado el jueves por un cargo de hurto mayor en primer grado.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward sin derecho a fianza.

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According to an arrest report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, on Nov. 13, 2024, a victim from Montana mailed the suspect, Salvatore De Rosa, of Deerfield Beach, $246,599 worth of coins.

Detectives said the victim believed he was sending the coins to a legitimate gold and silver dealer named AMG Rarities, with the intent to sell the coins.

According to the report, De Rosa paid for the victim to ship the coins via FedEx in four boxes, but after receiving the boxes, De Rosa stopped all communication with the victim.

Detectives said the victim later received four boxes back filled with printer paper.

According to the report, investigators discovered that De Rosa had signed for the boxes.

But when detectives went to his home on Jan. 6. 2025, they said he claimed that his “marketing business” had been dissolved six months ago and that while he signed for the boxes, he never opened them and shipped them back to the “unknown” sender the following day at his own expense of $300.

Detectives said De Rosa repeated “over and over” that he would provide the FedEx return tracking receipt, but then went inside and closed the door.

According to the report, De Rosa did provide a copy of the receipt to law enforcement the following day, but further investigation revealed that the boxes weighed 81 pounds on delivery and just 31.30 pounds when they were sent back to Montana.

Since last year, detectives said they have made multiple attempts to locate De Rosa, with “negative results.”

Online jail records show he was arrested Thursday on a first- degree grand theft charge.

As of Friday morning, he was being held at the Broward County Main Jail without bond.

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According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the carjacking was reported at about 12:30 p.m. at a Chevron gas station located at 1277 W. Hillsboro Blvd.

Deputies said the agency’s V.I.P.E.R. (Violence Intervention Proactive Enforcement Response) Unit and Aviation Unit located the stolen vehicle a short time later and conducted a “PIT maneuver” on the vehicle in the area of 3400 W. Sunrise Blvd.

The driver, identified as Antonio Laazaro Dominguez, was then taken into custody,

He faces charges of carjacking, aggravated fleeing with injury or damage and probation violation.

As of Friday morning, he was being held at the Broward County Main Jail without bond.

The Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, which represented Baselitz, said the artist died on Thursday, citing his family. It said he died “peacefully,” but did not give a cause of death.

Born Hans-Georg Kern, Baselitz took his artistic name from the village of Deutschbaselitz in the eastern Saxony region, where he was born on Jan. 23, 1938, in Nazi-ruled Germany before the outbreak of World War II. After growing up in the ruins of the war, he left the then-East Germany in 1957 at a time of rising political pressure, and emigrated to the West.

“I was born into a destroyed order, into a destroyed landscape, into a destroyed people, into a destroyed society,” he told German news agency dpa before his 85th birthday.

The gallery called him “a titan of contemporary painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking" and “one of the most important artists of our time," who influenced fellow artists and the international art world.

His first exhibition in 1963 reportedly caused a stir, with a vice squad identifying pornography in at least two of his paintings, and confiscating them.

He was often described as an “artist of rage,” and had a motto of "contradiction," according to dpa.

His works hang in some of the world's top galleries and have fetched millions at auction. In 2017, German police announced they had recovered 15 stolen paintings and drawings by Baselitz worth around 2.5 million euros ($2.9 million).

Baselitz recalled that some of his earliest recognition came in the 1960s through his series of golden-colored “Hero” paintings, based on fictional characters from Russian civil war novels. The works depicted broken figures staggering toward the viewer in ragged uniforms — in distorted sizes, giant hands and small heads. His battle-weary hero, “Der Hirte (The Shepherd)” from 1966 won international acclaim.

In 1969, Baselitz created “Der Wald auf dem Kopf,” (The Forest on its Head), his first “inverted” painting — featuring trees upside down, a theme that would become one of his trademarks.

“Georg Baselitz did not just turn his paintings upside down; he also turned our thinking routines upside down,” German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. “Having experienced the destruction and suffering of the Second World War as a child, the collapse of all order forced him to question everything around him.”

Baselitz mused about his long career in a recent video, commenting that “typical painting has never appealed to me.”

“I actually wanted to be more of a black-and-white painter, and above all, I didn’t want to work spatially, perspectively, with shadows and light and such things that arise with the imitation of nature," he said while seated in a wheelchair in a paint-smudged jacket.

“I must say that throughout my life, I was not aware that I was a painter of color, even though I am constantly told that I have such wonderful colors,” Baselitz said.

Baselitz said he sought to “construct my connection to the world, to myself and to my wife,” using the most “simple and ordinary" means possible. He spoke in a video from the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, which is hosting an exhibition of Baselitz's “Golden Heroes” works from May 6 to Sept. 27.

A “Naked Masters” exhibit at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 2023 spanned his half-century career and dealt with controversial themes of nudity — notably of the painter and his wife, Elke — displayed alongside oil paintings by old masters also evoking nudity.

He is survived by his wife and sons, Daniel Blau and Anton Kern, the gallery said.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff de Broward, el robo de auto fue reportado alrededor de las 12:30 p.m. en una gasolinera Chevron ubicada en 1277 W. Hillsboro Blvd.

Agentes dijeron que la Unidad V.I.P.E.R. (Respuesta de Aplicación Proactiva de Intervención contra la Violencia) y la Unidad de Aviación de la agencia localizaron el vehículo robado poco tiempo después y realizaron una “maniobra PIT” al vehículo en el área de 3400 W. Sunrise Blvd.

El conductor, identificado como Antonio Laazaro Dominguez, fue puesto bajo custodia.

Enfrenta cargos de robo de auto, fuga agravada con lesiones o daños y violación de libertad condicional.

Hasta la mañana del viernes, permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward sin derecho a fianza.

La fiscal estatal Alexcia Cox confirmó en un comunicado de prensa obtenido por Local 10 el jueves que Corrinne Blue enfrenta tres cargos de homicidio vehicular por el accidente del 21 de noviembre de 2024 que cobró la vida del cabo Luis Paez Jr., el agente Ignacio “Dan” Diaz y el agente Ralph “Butch” Waller.

Según el sheriff de PBSO, Ric Bradshaw, el accidente ocurrió alrededor de las 9 a.m. en la cuadra 18000 de Southern Boulevard, justo al oeste de Seminole Pratt Whitney Road, cerca de Lion Country Safari.

Bradshaw dijo que los agentes se habían detenido a un lado de la carretera en una franja de césped esperando cables de batería cuando un SUV impactó sus motocicletas mientras esperaban asistencia.

También confirmó que Blue se dirigía hacia el este en el carril central en un Jeep Grand Cherokee e intentó rebasar a un vehículo más lento por la derecha cuando, según los investigadores, sobrecorrigió, desviándose hacia los agentes y “lanzando a los tres por el aire en diferentes direcciones”.

Los agentes dijeron que los hallazgos preliminares sugieren que Blue no estaba bajo los efectos de sustancias. Sin embargo, sí confirmaron que sufrió heridas menores en el accidente.

Según la Patrulla de Carreteras de Florida, Blue conducía el SUV de manera “insegura” y a una velocidad muy por encima del límite establecido de 55 mph cuando impactó a los agentes.

“Estos cargos siguen a una revisión exhaustiva de la evidencia y marcan un paso importante en la búsqueda de justicia para las familias del cabo Paez, el agente Diaz y el agente Waller”, escribió Cox en el comunicado. “Estos agentes estaban sirviendo a esta comunidad cuando sus vidas fueron trágicamente arrebatadas por una conductora imprudente”.

Dave Kerner, director ejecutivo del Departamento de Seguridad Vial y Vehículos Motorizados de Florida, dijo que las autoridades apoyan la decisión de presentar cargos.

“Estamos agradecidos por la decisión de la fiscal estatal Alexcia Cox y su oficina de solicitar y obtener esta orden de arresto por delito grave”, dijo Kerner. “Ahora centramos nuestra atención en el proceso judicial, donde un jurado de los pares de la acusada decidirá el resultado final”.

Kerner agregó que, independientemente del resultado, los tres agentes “son recordados como héroes de nuestra comunidad”, reconociendo la pérdida que sienten sus familias, la oficina del sheriff y la comunidad en general.

Los investigadores dijeron que el caso será manejado por la Unidad de Homicidios de Tráfico de la Fiscalía Estatal.

La información sobre la fianza de Blue y su foto policial no estuvieron disponibles de inmediato.