En su taller, ubicado junto a un mercado mayorista de alimentos en el norte de Lima, trabaja hasta 16 horas mientras afina los rasgos de una cabeza sonriente y manos gigantes de Robert Prevost. A su lado, los obreros de su equipo ajustan y sueldan una estructura metálica que soportará un peso de más de cuatro toneladas.

“Este trabajo es especial porque (Prevost) es un personaje público”, dijo Gutiérrez, de 43 años, mientras lijaba los pómulos de la cabeza de casi metro y medio de altura. En unos lienzos tiene apuntados algunas medidas del rostro: alto de la nariz, 31 centímetros; largo de la boca, 38 centímetros; ancho de cada ojo, 18 centímetros.

“Siempre estamos retocando, volviendo a corregir”, añadió el escultor que en ocasiones duerme en un colchón a pocos pasos de su obra porque a medida que se acerca la fecha de entrega aumentan sus horas de trabajo. Calcula que cuando traslade la estatua al puerto más antiguo de Perú lo hará de noche en un camión que cargará el papa gigante con los brazos abiertos aliviado del diurno tráfico feroz de Lima.

La estatua también tiene un diseño para soportar cargas de vientos de 120 kilómetros por hora y estará empotrada en una cimentación de dos metros bajo tierra. La estatua ha sido financiada por Caja Huancayo, una entidad bancaria local, y el costo supera los 70.000 dólares, de acuerdo con datos del municipio de El Callao.

Prevost vivió unos 22 años en Perú hasta 2023 cuando fue llamado al Vaticano por Francisco para ejercer un cargo clave. Fue obispo de Chiclayo, una ciudad de la costa norte de Perú, a 700 kilómetros de El Callao. En el puerto fue administrador apostólico encargado.

Pese a que los católicos en Perú han ido disminuyendo desde 98,5% en el censo de 1940 hasta 76% en el censo de 2017, la llegada de Prevost ha despertado interés en miles de peruanos. Algunos negocios han comenzado a fabricar camisetas, dulces e incluso una cafetería ofrece el rostro del papa en sus tazas de capuchino.

Para Gutiérrez la estatua de Prevost es uno de los desafíos más importantes de su carrera de dos décadas. Antes el artista ha restaurado iglesias coloniales en los Andes y elaborado otras estatuas de personajes de culturas preincas. “Esto para mi es un aprendizaje”, comenta.

León XIV, de 71 años, visitará Sudamérica por primera vez en noviembre, en una gira que incluye Uruguay, Argentina y finaliza en Perú.

La balacera ocurrió poco después de las 5 p.m. en el área de Northwest 15th Avenue y 68th Street.

La policía dijo que respondió a una alerta de ShotSpotter y encontró a la víctima, de unos 40 años, herida en una pierna. Paramédicos la trasladaron al Centro de Trauma Ryder del Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Unos 15 minutos después, las autoridades dijeron que Micah Lendale Tilley se acercó a un agente en un callejón cercano y dijo: “Yo lo hice”.

“¿Hiciste qué?”, respondió el agente, según la policía.

“La balacera”, dijo Tilley al agente, según las autoridades. “Me estaba defendiendo”.

Las autoridades dijeron que un video de vigilancia mostró a la víctima bajando de un Ford Fiesta azul con un arma y cruzando la calle cuando Tilley, de Opa-locka, “comenzó a dispararle con una pistola”.

Dijeron que Tilley luego sacó un rifle de un Subaru “y comenzó a dispararlo en dirección a la víctima”.

Las autoridades dijeron que mientras la víctima huía por Northwest 68th Street, Tilley “persiguió a la víctima mientras continuaba disparando su rifle negro en su dirección”.

Según un reporte de arresto, Tilley dijo a los detectives durante una entrevista que “vio a la víctima salir de su vehículo con un arma de fuego en la mano, lo que provocó que disparara contra la víctima” y dijo “que disparó dos armas de fuego diferentes, un rifle y una pistola, pero no podía recordar cuál utilizó primero”.

La policía arrestó a Tilley por cargos de intento de asesinato, uso de un arma de fuego durante la comisión de un delito grave, descarga ilegal de un arma de fuego, exhibición indebida de un arma de fuego y solicitación criminal.

La fianza de Tilley aparecía como “por determinar” en los registros carcelarios de Miami-Dade hasta la tarde del lunes. Permanecía detenido en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight.

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According to Hollywood police, the department received a call from someone just before 8 a.m. Sunday about a person passed out inside their vehicle near North 62^nd Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard.

Police said Jacquees, whose real name is Rodriguez Jacquees Broadnax, was found asleep inside of a white Jeep Gladiator at the intersection.

According to an arrest report, Jacquees wouldn’t wake up despite an officer repeatedly tapping on the driver’s side window and firefighters shaking the truck.

Firefighters eventually punched out the right front window to reach the singer, the report stated.

According to police, Jacquees, 32, was combative with first responders as he was being transported to a hospital and punched a police officer in the arm as the officer tried to keep him from leaving the ambulance.

Police said the officer struck the singer in the face with his forearm as Jacquees was resisting being placed on a stretcher.

Jacquees was ultimately arrested on charges of DUI, resisting an officer without violence and battery on an officer, firefighter or EMT.

Jacquees was initially being held at the Broward County Main Jail on a $3,500 bond, but he was no longer appearing in the online jail database shortly before noon Monday.

Jacquees, who is from Atlanta, Georgia, has had various hit songs over the years, including “B.E.D.” and “You.”

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The shooting happened just after 5 p.m. in the area of Northwest 15th Avenue and 68th Street.

Police said they responded to a ShotSpotter alert and saw the victim, in his 40s, wounded in the leg. Medics took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

About 15 minutes later, authorities said Micah Lendale Tilley approached an officer in a nearby alleyway and said, “I did it.”

“Did what?” police said the officer replied.

“The shooting,” authorities said Tilley told the officer. “I was defending myself.”

Authorities said surveillance video showed the victim getting out of a blue Ford Fiesta carrying a gun and crossing the street when Tilley, of Opa-locka, “began firing a handgun at him.”

They said Tilley then pulled a rifle out of a Subaru “and began firing it in the direction of the victim.”

Authorities said as the victim ran away on Northwest 68th Street, Tilley “pursued the victim while continuing to fire his black rifle in his direction.”

According to an arrest report, Tilley told detectives during an interview that “he saw the victim exit his vehicle with a firearm in his hand, causing him to shoot at the victim” and said “that he fired two different firearms, a rifle and a handgun, but could not remember which firearm he used first.”

Police arrested Tilley on charges of attempted murder, using a firearm in the commission of a felony, unlawful discharge of a firearm, improper exhibition of a firearm and criminal solicitation.

Tilley’s bond was listed as “to be set” in Miami-Dade jail records as of Monday afternoon. He was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

The work shows that major wildfires, which are worsening with the planet’s warming, could have lasting effects beyond immediate exposure.

Post-wildfire air quality needs to be monitored longer term, the research suggests, and recovery efforts need to consider what might remain in contaminated soot, residue and dirt well after burning stops.

The wildfires, caused by wind spreading a brushfire spurred by downed power lines, burned on the Hawaiian island of Maui in August 2023, destroyed the town of Lahaina and killed more than 100 people. They were among the deadliest in U.S. history.

New research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday found higher metal levels, associated with respiratory harm, in nearby residents up to a year and a half after the fires.

University of Hawaii researchers studied the urine of 1,400 adults and found substantially elevated concentrations of metals such as arsenic, cadmium, copper and antimony.

Burned buildings, cars and electronics can release harmful chemicals

These metals could be the result of burned buildings, vehicles, electronics and other materials lost in the wildfires, the researchers say. They can cause a different human impact than simply the burned vegetation that is typically studied after fires of this magnitude.

“What we’re dealing with, especially in the aftermath of what we experienced in Lahaina, is a much more complicated mixture of these chemical exposures,” said Alika Maunakea, the study’s co-author and an anatomy, biochemistry, and physiology professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

The researchers found antimony nearly 40 times higher in the Maui participants than U.S. biomonitoring data. They found manganese 3.8 times higher, barium 2.3 times and arsenic 2.2 times.

Having more metals in the body was more likely to result in abnormal lung function, such as having less breathing capacity and difficulty moving air in and out of one’s lungs, during standard breathing tests, the study found.

Those lung effects aligned with the geographic distribution of smoke and ash; those nearest to Lahaina, and Wailuku and Kahului, experienced a different impact than in those near Kula.

“It’s really important to identify potential sources of these exposures and to mitigate and reduce potential risks for re-exposures that might be contributing to these effects,” Maunakea said. “What happens to the land and environment can shape what people breathe, take into their bodies, and develop over time. The consequences of that can unfold over many years.”

Warming planet can worsen wildfires

Wildfires are getting larger, more intense, faster-moving and more frequent in certain parts of the globe, experts say, in part due to the warming and drier weather associated with climate change. Human-caused climate change has upped the likelihood of many major fires around the world in recent years and led to fires in regions that typically do not see them as often.

The researchers did note a limitation of the study in that it cannot assess exactly how much of the impact came directly from the wildfires versus chronic or other exposures — such as Hawaii’s geology, diet, historic agricultural and industrial activity and environmental sources — given there is no comparable data from before August 2023.

However, previous studies have also found significant long-term human impacts from wildfires and other environmental crises. The impacts have included lung issues and mental health issues such as depression.

“This is bigger than wildfires. These climate-related disasters can change the environment in ways that continue after the immediate emergency is over,” said Ruben Juarez, study co-author and professor of health economics at the university. “Floods, hurricanes, fires, and other disasters definitely can disturb soil, debris, buildings, and legacy contaminants that we have in Hawaii, creating these pathways for exposure. … Disaster response should not stop when visible danger is gone.”

Dr. Kekoa Taparra, a physician and assistant professor who studies chronic diseases at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the research expands our understanding of the health burden of the fires, particularly over an extended period.

“This type of work echoes that climate-related disasters affect human health well beyond the immediate injuries and deaths we see during the event itself,” said Taparra, who was not involved in the study released Monday but has studied the health impacts of disasters. “Historic wildfires in Lahaina and even Los Angeles have highlighted how these disasters can produce longer-lasting consequences through displacement, disruption of healthcare and social networks, environmental exposures, and potentially increased mortality.

“As these events become more frequent and severe, understanding and measuring their full health impact will be essential to building more resilient communities and health systems.”

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It was, by Pyongyang's standards, a relatively mild speech that contained no direct threats.

The annual opportunity for the country, whose formal name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, to speak on the world stage fell this year to Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong. Like many nations, he touted the notion of U.N.-focused multilateralism, yet repeatedly insisted that North Korea could — and would, if necessary — go it alone.

“Gone are the days when an individual member state unilaterally imposed its will on the rest of the world and dominated the international political arena,” Kim said. “Instead, multilateralism and multipolarization have emerged as an irresistible aspiration and trend of the times based on justice and equity.”

North Korea is frequently at odds with South Korea, Japan and the United States, which are tightly aligned in matters of security in East Asia. Kim asserted once again that his nation, no matter the external threat, is prepared to defend itself.

“No physical conflict has occurred on and around the Korean Peninsula, a hot spot of the world, and the security index is being maintained at a higher level than any other part of the globe,” he said. “We owe it to the fact that the DPRK has a war deterrent in place powerful enough to break anyone’s will to start a war of aggression against the DPRK and that we are thoroughly containing and managing the hostile forces’ intention to use force.”

A range of remarks across subjects

As is typical for North Korean speeches at the U.N. — and, for that matter, for many nations' speeches — Kim's remarks ranged across the nation's priorities and goals, with special emphasis on its ability to defend itself in a volatile security situation in East Asia. A sampling:

— On Japan: “An A-class war criminal.”

— On the regional balance of power in East Asia: “maintained by the DPRK’s self-defensive capabilities.”

— On the United Nations itself: “The organization still fails to recover from functional paralysis owing to the high-handedness and unilateralism of a handful of countries pursuing only chauvinistic interests.”

— On nuclear weapons: “The DPRK’s nuclear deterrent is the absolute might and irresistible force designed, from A to Z, to safeguard the sovereignty, security and peace against aggression and threat from outside.”

“The DPRK will continue to strictly control and manage every external threat by dint of her supremacy in overwhelming strength,” Kim said.

Intense rhetoric is a hallmark of North Korea

North Korea's rhetoric is often overheated and its criticism of rivals often over the top. Monday was no exception. What seemed noteworthy, though, was how pro forma it felt: There were no threats of anything that might destabilize the region or cause other nations from Japan to South Korea to the United States to brace for any specific moves.

Saying that “a more offensive and aggressive military bloc with a nuclear element” and its activities have provoked North Korea and destabilized the Korean Peninsula, Kim condemned what he framed as the collusion of Tokyo, Seoul and Washington against Pyongyang. He made no mention of North Korea's role in tensions on the peninsula, including sporadic missile launches that send its rivals scrambling.

Two days before the U.N. meeting in which he was speaking began, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea, days after it threatened to bolster its nuclear deterrent capabilities.

Kim is a relatively mid-level official in leader Kim Jong Un's third-generation government, and thus spoke as one of the final speakers of the final day of the leaders' meeting, or General Debate.

The Korean Peninsula split in two after North Korea and South Korea fought a bloody war from 1950 to 1953, backed by China and the United States, respectively. Though an armistice was eventually signed, the two countries remain in a technical state of war, and the border between them is guarded by a heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone.

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Ted Anthony, Asia-Pacific news director for The Associated Press from 2014 to 2018, has visited North Korea multiple times.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded shortly after 1:35 p.m. to the area near Southwest Eighth Street.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers closed two southbound lanes and the Express Lanes.

This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.

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Tavel, a 10th-grade student, was cheering on the varsity team at Nova High School in Davie.

“They were punching me, kicking me,” Tavel said on Sunday.

Seven kids attacked him at the school at 3600 College Ave. The beating lasted more than a minute.

“Every time I talk about the video, I get emotional. He’s my only child,” Natasha Brown said on Sunday.

The teen suffered cuts all over his face and leg. Brown said he was hospitalized for a day

“He woke up yesterday,” Brown said. “He’s in pain.”

Davie police officers are investigating, and Brown wants answers.

“He doesn’t know the reason why he was attacked,” Brown said.

A spokesperson for the school district released the following statement to Local 10 News on Monday: “The safety and security of our students and staff is a top priority. The school’s administration is fully cooperating with Davie Police as they investigate the fight that took place at the football game on Friday. Any Nova High School students determined to have been involved in the incident will face appropriate disciplinary consequences.”

Pike and her boyfriend were convicted in the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, their classmate at Knoxville Job Corps. Prosecutors said Pike feared Slemmer was a romantic rival and lured her to a secluded area where she and her boyfriend tortured and killed Slemmer. The case got widespread attention because of the brutality of the killing, the ages of the people involved and because a satanic symbol was carved into the victim’s body.

Pike does not deny her guilt, but her attorneys and supporters argue a death sentence is not appropriate for a crime committed at that age by a teen with untreated mental illness after a childhood of brutal sexual abuse and neglect. Slemmer’s mother wants the execution to go forward, saying she has waited decades to see Pike’s sentence carried out.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Monday that he would not grant clemency. Pike’s attorneys have asked the Supreme Court to stay the execution.

The request for clemency points to Pike's traumatic past

Pike's attorneys said she experienced an exceptionally traumatic and abusive childhood.

Assistant Federal Defender Stephen Ferrell said Pike was sexually abused starting from when she was a toddler and that she was raped at ages 11 and 17. He said Pike's lawyers at the penalty phase of her trial did not present the jury with what he said was critical information about her past or argue that her age should be a consideration.

Pike was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Pike told police she initially only wanted to fight Slemmer but ended up killing her in a frenzied attack. In her clemency petition, Pike’s attorneys said her untreated mental illness and background made her unable to “put the brakes on.”

“I was a mentally ill 18-year-old kid. It took me numerous years to even realize the gravity of what I’d done. Even more to accept how many lives I affected. I took the life of someone’s child, sister, friend. It sickens me now to think I had the ability to commit such a crime,” Pike said in a statement included in her clemency petition.

Ferrell said more today is known about adolescent brain development and that Pike's death sentence is an outlier. He noted that Pike's boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, who was 17 at the time, was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole because of his age. He was denied parole last year. A third teen admitted to being an accessory and received probation.

In the modern death penalty era, Ferrell said, other 18-year-olds who were sentenced to death in Tennessee have since had their sentences reduced.

The Death Penalty Information Center said 275 people nationwide have been executed for crimes they committed at age 18, 19 or 20 in the modern death penalty era, but that death sentences for those in that age group have become increasingly rare.

“If Christa Pike was tried today, I do not believe a jury that knew about the documented sexual abuse and neglect she experienced as a child would sentence her to death,” Robin M. Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said.

The victim’s mother wants the execution to go forward

Speaking by telephone from Florida, Slemmer’s mother, May Martinez, also pointed to her daughter's age and said Slemmer never got a chance to grow up.

“Every time I think about it, I think about Colleen feeling that pain and trying to get up and run,” Martinez said.

Martinez said her daughter volunteered with the Special Olympics, loved roller skating and wanted to pursue a career in computers.

“She was easygoing. She was a computer geek to begin with. She and my husband would build and tear apart the computers constantly,” Martinez said. “She trusted everybody, and that was her downfall.”

She said her daughter called her from Job Corps on the night of the murder, but the call was dropping because of bad reception. When Martinez called back, her daughter had already gone out.

“Not a day goes by, or a minute goes by that I do not think about Colleen. Holidays are the worst. Colleen’s birthday was last week. She would have been 51,” Martinez said.

The killing rocked the city of Knoxville. Prosecutors said Pike cut Slemmer with a box cutter and beat her with a large chunk of asphalt. Elements of the crime stoked fears of Satan worship during the “satanic panic” of the 1980s and 1990s. Shipp, Pike's boyfriend, has admitted that he was the one who carved a pentagram, a star-shaped symbol associated with Satanism, into her body.

Executions of female inmates are rare in Tennessee and nationwide

If Pike’s execution proceeds as scheduled, it would be Tennessee’s first execution of a woman since 1820, Maher said.

Executions of female inmates are also rare in the U.S. Since 1976, 18 women have been executed in the country, representing about 1% of all executions, according to the center.

Most recently, Missouri in 2023 executed Amber McLaughlin, a transgender woman, for a 2003 killing, in what is believed to be the first execution of a transgender woman in the U.S. In 2021, the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery, marking the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put a female inmate to death. Georgia executed a woman in 2015.

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The officials and their families come from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru — all nations with right-leaning leaders friendly with President Donald Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Colombia, Ecuador and Peru this month, pledging U.S. support for their efforts to combat drug and human trafficking.

Those leaders have complained that many of those targeted by the visa revocations were hindering their efforts to fight crime.

The State Department announced the revocations Monday, saying they were being done “to fulfill the commitments to defend democratic governance across our hemisphere against corruption and narco-trafficking.”

“Undermining a democratically-elected government is a threat to security and rule of law in the Americas and will not be tolerated,” it said in a statement.

The Trump administration is billing the revocations as part of its broader efforts to clamp down on corruption, particularly related to the narcotics trade and illegal migration, by members of the U.S.-led “Shield of the Americas” bloc in the Western Hemipshere that Trump created this year.

The State Department has been denying permission to travel to the United States as a way to crack down on immigration or as a pressure tool against some governments, ranging from bans on South African officials accused of discrimination against white people to refusing to issue visas to the Palestinian delegation to attend an annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations.

The 27 targeted include Bolivian Attorney General Roger Mariaca and more than 20 other Bolivian prosecutors and judges, 12 of whom were named as current visa holders and nine who will be denied visas should they apply. Two Colombians, a business mogul and a lawmaker, along with two Ecuadorians and one Peruvian judge are also affected.

Mariaca, who was elected to a six-year term in 2024, is accused of abusing his public position by soliciting and accepting bribes to facilitate narcotrafficking and is also accused of helping violent criminals evade justice, according to the documents.

“His actions endanger President Trump's efforts to combat narcoterrorism while undermining the very democratic institutions Bolivia, as a Shield participant, is working to strengthen,” the statement said.

Mariaca did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ruling marks the most significant judicial milestone yet in the decade-long quest for accountability over Giulio Regeni’s death. Rome's chief prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi welcomed the outcome, saying the verdict was achieved despite what he described as a lack of “meaningful cooperation” from Egyptian authorities during the investigation. The defendants were tried in absentia.

“We are satisfied for having brought the case out of the quagmire into which it had risked sinking,” Lo Voi told reporters after the verdict.

Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, disappeared in Cairo on Jan. 25, 2016, while conducting research on independent trade unions in Egypt. His body was found nine days later on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital bearing signs of extensive torture, according to Italian investigators.

Rome prosecutors had charged the four Egyptians: Tariq Sabir, Hisham Helmi, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif with aggravated kidnapping in connection with Regeni’s disappearance. Sharif had also faced charges related to Regeni’s injuries and death.

Helmi, Ibrahim and Sharif were sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for charges related to Regeni’s abduction, but not for his death. Sabir was acquitted.

The case quickly became one of the most contentious issues in relations between Italy and Egypt. Italian prosecutors maintained that members of Egypt’s security services abducted, detained, tortured and killed Regeni, while Egyptian authorities repeatedly denied state involvement and disputed the findings of the Italian investigation.

The investigation was marked by years of disputes over evidence and judicial cooperation. Italian magistrates accused Egyptian authorities of withholding key information requested through international legal channels, an allegation Cairo rejected.

The proceedings faced repeated delays because the defendants remained in Egypt and never appeared before the Italian court.

Italy’s Constitutional Court ultimately cleared the way for the trial to proceed in absentia, allowing hearings to begin in Rome despite longstanding disputes over notification of the accused.

In June, prosecutors sought a life sentence for Sharif, whom they identified as the man who physically carried out the killing, and prison terms of 17 years and six months for Sabir, Helmi and Ibrahim.

For Regeni’s family, the case became a decade-long campaign for accountability. Their calls for “truth and justice” drew broad support across Italy, where yellow banners bearing Regeni’s name became symbols of solidarity and demands for answers over his death.

The ruling marks the most significant judicial milestone yet in a case that has repeatedly tested relations between Italy and Egypt and drawn international attention to human rights concerns in Egypt.

A Doral detective reported Abraham Martinez, the alleged seller, gave Edwin Mir a “gray duffel bag” at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday at 7971 NW 33 St., and Mir stored it in the trunk of his red Chevrolet sports utility vehicle, according to a police arrest report.

Mir, 35, a convicted felon also known as “King Skillz,” was last released from prison in 2013 after two convictions for a 2005 armed robbery in Miami-Dade, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.

The detective followed Mir, who was driving the SUV, and Anthony Marino, a passenger in the SUV, before ordering a traffic stop at Northwest 36th Street, just east of 79th Avenue, according to the police report.

Another detective who arrived as a backup unit saw “in plain view the muzzle of a suspected rifle in the trunk,” and they found “a loaded AR-15″ inside of the “gray duffle bag,” according to the police report.

Back outside of the club, Martinez, 25, told a Doral sergeant that he worked as a correctional officer and to “cut him some slack,” according to the police report. But when police officers found a security guard’s uniform in Martinez’s car, he allegedly changed his story: “He was suspended from being a correctional officer,” and worked as a security guard, according to the police report.

During their arrests, Doral police officers found “tusi,” a man-made synthetic powder drug, in a small plastic baggie in Martinez’s wallet and in a baggie in Marino’s crossbody bag, according to the report.

Marino, 28, also known as Anthony Marinocamejo, was also carrying two plastic straws with drug residue and a loaded gun, according to the report.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Marino shortly after 6:25 a.m. on Saturday and held him at the Metrowest Detention Center on Monday afternoon, according to inmate records.

Marino, Martinez, and Mir appeared in bond court on Sunday, according to Miami-Dade County court records.

Marino faced two charges: A felony charge of possession of a controlled substance while armed and a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to use. His bond was $8,000.

Martinez faced three felony charges: Prohibited firearm transaction, possession of a controlled substance while armed, and impersonating a law enforcement officer. His bond was $10,000.

Mir faced a felony charge of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. His bond was $10,000.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Laura Maria Gonzalez-Marques was set to preside over the three cases.

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

The emergency appeal comes after lower courts blocked officials from immediately carrying out the policy adopted after an executive order from President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the government to continue providing gender-affirming care like hormone therapy.

The Trump administration argues that the policy was properly adopted and the judge overstepped. It halts surgeries, hormones and social accommodations like wigs while allowing mental health therapy to continue.

It was adopted after an executive order required the Bureau of Prisons to revise its medical care policies so that federal funds aren’t spent “for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex."

The government asked the high court to freeze Lamberth's order while the lawsuit continues to play out, saying the Bureau of Prisons had “determined that sex-trait-modification surgeries, hormone interventions in general, and social accommodations could no longer be justified as treatment for gender dysphoria.”

The agency said in 2025 that it was providing hormone therapy to more than 600 inmates.

The bureau doesn’t dispute that gender dysphoria can cause severe side effects, including depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, Lamberth wrote. The Washington-based judge was nominated to the bench by President Ronald Reagan.

An divided appeals court panel left the order in place.

ACLU attorneys for the inmates said the policy is “a direct threat to the well-being of transgender people in federal custody and an open violation of their fundamental rights,” and withholding necessary gender-affirming healthcare constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

The conservative-majority Supreme Court has previously upheld state laws banning certain medical treatments for transgender youth, and restricting sports participation by transgender athletes in women's sports.

It has also handed down shorter term decisions allowing the Trump administration to move ahead for now with other policies rolling back protections for transgender people serving in the military and holding a passport consistent with their gender identity.

The White House said Trump will announce the project Monday afternoon alongside steel industry executives and commerce officials. It comes as Trump is trying to energize voters ahead of difficult midterm races including in Iowa, where governor and Senate seats have become competitive.

The new mill in eastern Iowa is being built by Mesabi Metallics, a Minnesota-based company owned by India's Essar Group, an industrial conglomerate. The White House said the plant will begin producing steel in 2030 and create more than 2,000 jobs in the United States. When it's fully built out, it's expected to produce 10 million tons of steel a year, more than any other in the U.S.

“President Trump is delivering on his promise to rebuild American industry, reshore manufacturing, and create new jobs,” Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, said in a statement. “Today’s announcement underscores the President’s historic efforts to revitalize the U.S. steel industry.”

The announcement was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The steel plant will be supplied by a new $2.5 billion iron ore mine that Mesabi developed in Minnesota. The resulting steel will be produced from start to finish in the United States, the White House said.

In a social media post promoting the announcement, the White House said Trump is “prioritizing hardworking Americans instead of foreign labor.”

Trump raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports earlier this year to 50%, a move that he said protects U.S. industries but also threatened to drive up consumer prices for items from refrigerators to cars.

Trump in June also approved the takeover of iconic American steelmaker U.S. Steel by Japan's Nippon Steel, a move that had been blocked by former President Joe Biden and initially opposed by Trump as a 2024 presidential candidate. Trump later backed a deal that gave the federal government a say in some company decisions.

Mesabi Metallics is based in Nashwauk, Minnesota, along the Mesabi iron range. The Essar Group is an industrial conglomerate formed in India in 1969, with ventures in industries from energy and mining to technology and retail, according to its website.

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Christopher Alan Staseiwicz, 35, of Naples; Keith Vincent Stasiewicz, 34, of Boynton Beach; and Christopher David Wilson, 31, of Cape Coral, each face two charges.

According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, people at the Hadley Resort + Marina, located at 82749 Overseas Highway, called authorities at around 6:30 a.m. to report “an ongoing ruckus caused by the suspects” that lasted for about four hours.

Deputies said their boorish behavior included “fighting amongst themselves, banging on other guests’ doors, threatening to fight other guests and activating a fire alarm for no reason.”

“One witness stated the three suspects were combative when asked to respect the sleep of other guests,” MCSO spokesperson Adam Linhardt said in a news release.

Deputies arrested the three on charges of disorderly conduct and intentionally activating a fire alarm when no threat existed.

Records show the three were being held with no listed bond in MCSO’s Plantation and Key West jail facilities.

Christopher Alan Staseiwicz, de 35 años y residente de Naples; Keith Vincent Stasiewicz, de 34 años y residente de Boynton Beach; y Christopher David Wilson, de 31 años y residente de Cape Coral, enfrentan dos cargos cada uno.

Según la Oficina del Sheriff del condado Monroe, personas en Hadley Resort + Marina, ubicado en 82749 Overseas Highway, llamaron a las autoridades alrededor de las 6:30 a.m. para reportar “un alboroto continuo causado por los sospechosos” que duró unas cuatro horas.

Los agentes dijeron que su comportamiento grosero incluyó “pelear entre ellos, golpear las puertas de otros huéspedes, amenazar con pelear con otros huéspedes y activar una alarma de incendios sin motivo”.

“Un testigo declaró que los tres sospechosos se mostraron agresivos cuando les pidieron respetar el sueño de otros huéspedes”, dijo el portavoz de MCSO Adam Linhardt en un comunicado de prensa.

Los agentes arrestaron a los tres por cargos de conducta desordenada y activar intencionalmente una alarma de incendios cuando no existía ninguna amenaza.

Los registros muestran que los tres permanecían detenidos sin una fianza indicada en las instalaciones carcelarias de MCSO en Plantation y Key West.

Louis Geri declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss sentenced him to five years and 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.

Moss said he balanced the danger that Geri poses to the public with the defendant's history of “very serious mental health issues” and his need for adequate treatment.

“This was an extremely serious offense,” the judge said. “It may have been carried out in a bizarre manner, but the threat of violence was a serious one.”

Geri was arrested on Oct. 5, 2025, outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, where police officers were clearing the area before the annual Red Mass. Police said they found in Geri’s possession paperwork that expressed “significant animosity” toward the Roman Catholic Church, Jewish people and the Supreme Court. Some justices usually attend the celebration, but none went to last year’s ceremony.

On steps outside the church, Geri had set up a tent containing more than 100 homemade explosives along with a nine-page “list of written demands,” according to a court filing. Geri told police that he had explosive devices and said “several of your people are gonna die from one of these” if his demands weren’t met, the filing says.

Geri's written demands included requests for money, for an “expatriation flight” to Japan and for the Supreme Court to remove Arizona from the United States.

“The defendant’s intent was clear: If his list of demands was not met, innocent people would die and prominent, historic landmarks, such as the Washington Monument, the Supreme Court, and the White House, would be destroyed,” prosecutors wrote.

Geri's attorney said the Vineland, New Jersey, native, who had traveled to Washington from Arkansas, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than two decades ago and had stopped taking his medication in the months leading up to his arrest outside the church.

“His conduct was the product of a treatable medical condition spiraling out of control, not malice or an actual intent to harm,” defense attorney Elizabeth Mullin wrote.

Geri pleaded guilty in March to two felony counts: illegal possession of a destructive device and extortion by wrongful use of force, violence or fear.

Geri and prosecutors agreed that a prison term ranging from five years and 10 months to seven years and three months would be appropriate. Moss wasn't bound by that recommendation, but Geri could have withdrawn his guilty plea if the judge had imposed a longer sentence.

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Victoria Charlotin was last seen at about 6:45 a.m. on Aug. 24 at the 400th block of Northwest 149 Street, according to a MDSO’s flyer released on Monday.

Victoria, who is 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighs about 130 pounds, and has brown eyes and black hair, according to the MDSO’s flyer.

MDSO Deputy M. Ritch Jr. asked anyone with information about Victoria’s whereabouts to call 305-715-3300, or 305-715-3257, or e-mail u308129@mdso.com.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.

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Now, Larson has won two of the last three after his dominant victory at Kansas Speedway on Sunday.

And he's in the pole position for another championship.

After sweeping each of the first two stages, breaking his own track record by leading 235 laps in the race, and passing Chase Briscoe for the lead with seven remaining and holding it the rest of the way, Larson has a 26-point cushion over Denny Hamlin heading to next weekend's race at Las Vegas, a comfortable margin with only six races remaining in the playoffs.

“I said it kind of in Gateway: I felt like we were close,” Larson said of his drought-ending win outside St. Louis. "I didn't feel like it was 51 races and then, yeah, just it seems like we were just building and ready to kind of capitalize if we got a moment like this, where our car and everything kind of came together.

“So just proud of everybody for working so hard for so long now, and then proud of just the execution that they've put in here.”

Things couldn't have gone much better for Larson

The No. 5 team couldn't have executed a whole lot better on Sunday.

After practice and qualifying was washed out the previous day, Larson began on the outside of the front row, thanks to metrics that combined his second-place finish the previous week at Bristol with ownership points. Larson immediately went to the front when the green flag was dropped and, other than during pit-stop cycles, pretty much spent the day there.

Briscoe did catch him with 30 laps to go, and even got around Larson, but his car began to get so loose that he kept brushing against the wall. That gave Larson the opening he needed to get back around the No. 19 car and drive off to victory.

He wound up with the maximum of 76 points on the day, an almost mythic number in the revamped version of the Chase playoffs, but one that became a reality when Larson took the checkered flag for a record-tying fourth time at Kansas Speedway.

“Nobody wants to go through the struggle,” said Larson's crew chief, Cliff Daniels, "but the struggle can be so constructive, if you let it be, if you lean in the right ways. We have a great company with a lot of great people on the shop floor, that are in teams, engine shop, car shop, leadership — everybody having the check of, ‘OK, we’re not where we need to be, so let’s not play the blame game. Let’s look within, and how do we elevate our process, our setups, just digging into all the things you have to do?’

“The sport goes in cycles,” Daniels continued. “Somebody told me a long time ago, when the sport goes in cycles, when you’re on top, you’ve got to take the best of it, and when you’re not, you’ve got to be patient and be ready when it is your turn.”

Patience and confidence pay off for Larson

That patience — and confidence — has paid off at the perfect time.

Larson heads to Las Vegas having won there three times in the Cup Series, second only to Joey Logano among active drivers, while his Hendrick Motorsports team has reached victory lane nine times, more than any other organization.

“I feel like we’ve shown a decent amount of patience. At the same time, we’ve been patient, just from the emotional level of not letting the struggle keep us down,” Daniels said. “Honestly, my opinion, I still don’t think as a company we’ve peaked yet. I don’t think as a team we’ve peaked yet. There’s still a lot of racing left and a lot of work to do. Am I encouraged about where we sit? Of course, but I would be naive to think that this is just going to carry all the way for the rest of the year.”

Larson likewise understands the playoffs aren't over. He was 49 points behind Hamlin after the opening race at Darlington, but he was able to trim 40 away with his win at St. Louis, took the lead by a point at Bristol and now has a 26-point advantage after Kansas.

That's a 75-point swing in just three races, underscoring just how quickly things can change.

“There's still six races, and I only have a 26-point lead on Denny. That could be swallowed up in a hurry,” Larson said. "Denny could have a max-point day and I could blow an engine, like Noah (Gragson) did in the first stage, and I'm down 70-some points right there.

“I'm just really trying to do the best job I can, and yeah, just show up to the racetrack and kind of block out all that stuff.”

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The Egan Maritime Institute said its exhibits and collections manager would survey the site and send a report to state underwater archaeologists, who then will work with the institute to determine which vessel the wreckage came from.

The splintered timbers, fastened together by rusted iron, emerged near an area where remains believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner lost in 1884, have been found before.

Officials from Egan, a nonprofit that operates the Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, cautioned Monday that the newly exposed wreckage has not been identified with certainty.

The slow-moving nor’easter battered the Northeast coastline over the weekend with heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous surf, flooding low-lying communities from New Jersey to New England and knocking out power to more than 100,000 customers at times Sunday. The storm also raised concerns about coastal erosion as waves crashed into beaches and seawalls.

The Warren Sawyer ran aground on Dec. 22, 1884, while carrying 1,115 bales of cotton and 28 tons (25.4 metric tonnes) of scrap iron from New Orleans to Boston, according to the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources. Its captain and seven-member crew were ultimately rescued.

The schooner remained intact on the island's Miacomet Beach for two weeks, allowing islanders to save 700 bales of cotton using skids and teams of oxen. Then, on Jan. 6, 1885, another storm tore the ship apart, scattering pieces of its hull, remaining cargo and cordage across more than half a mile (0.80 kilometers) of beach.

More than a century later, remains believed to be from the ship have continued to emerge from the sand.

Jason Graziadei, who has lived on the island for two decades and is editor of the online news site the Nantucket Current, said he went out to the beach Saturday amid heavy winds with his 8-year-old son after he got a tip about possible wreckage on the island's south shore.

He and his son found the wooden beams on a drive-on beach by the town’s wastewater facility that everyone calls the “Sewer Beds." He said they had to park their car and walk down to the beach because erosion from the storm had formed a steep drop-off.

The location made the discovery even more remarkable to him: It was directly beneath a route beachgoers had been driving all summer.

“Given where it was and where it emerged, it means that everyone who was driving onto the beach this summer was just directly over this,” Graziadei said. “I just think it is so funny and so cool.”

Graziadei said his son was excited by the discovery and began asking what had happened to the people aboard the ship and why it had run aground. The two could walk right up to the exposed wreckage.

“It’s amazing to think from, you know, over 100 years old that it’s still there,” Graziadei said.

State archaeologists inspected a roughly 42-foot (12.8-meter) section of hull exposed on Miacomet Beach in late 2022 and concluded it was likely part of the Warren Sawyer. A roughly 15-foot-square (4.6-meter-square) section of the lower stern appeared nearby in February 2023, but shifting sands buried it again before state archaeologists could return to document it.

Nantucket is one of the areas known as the “graveyards of the Atlantic,” with more than 750 wrecks estimated in the surrounding waters.

The institute urged visitors not to disturb the newly exposed wreckage. Massachusetts law prohibits removing, damaging or displacing underwater archaeological resources.

Police disclosed Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson.

Fortune was Black, and the discovery of her hanging body stoked fear because the scene recalled actual lynchings in the Southern state, which has a long history of racial violence. Some officials had called for a federal civil rights investigation before a Jackson police detective said the scene was “staged.”

“People justifiably didn’t know if we had a killer on the loose who might hang people for racial reasons,” Judge Jeffery Reynolds said Monday.

Reynolds presided at a hearing for Eric Clark, 45, who turned himself in Friday. The Hinds County Public Defender’s Office, which is representing him, declined to comment. Clark and two other men charged in Fortune’s death are Black.

The judge said the staged hanging was a “heinous” act that shocked the state capital.

Jackson police Detective Samuel Dukes testified last week that Fortune was killed as a result of a dispute over drugs. The body was discovered Aug. 3.

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According to police, the crash occurred in the area of West Broward Boulevard and Northwest 18^th Avenue.

Police confirmed that a man was struck by a vehicle.

Sky 10 was above the scene just after 10 a.m. as a white tarp covered the victim’s body and the SUV was stopped on the sidewalk.

The area was blocked off with crime scene tape.

Police confirmed that the driver of the SUV remained at the scene and was transported to Broward Health Medical Center to be treated for minor injuries.

While eastbound lanes of Broward Boulevard were shut down after the crash, all lanes have since reopened.

The circumstances leading up to the crash remain under investigation.

Bailey was named co-deputy director in August 2025 to serve alongside Dan Bongino at a time of high tensions between FBI and Justice Department leadership over the handling of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The appointment was unusual because the FBI for years has only had one person at a time in the deputy director position, the bureau's No. 2 job.

A former attorney general from Missouri and ardent Republican backer of President Donald Trump, Bailey remained in his position after Bongino announced his departure and as the FBI in January added another deputy director, veteran agent Christopher Raia, to serve under Director Kash Patel.

Bailey announced his resignation from the FBI in a post on X on Monday in which he thanked Trump, Attorney General Todd Blanche and Patel for “the opportunity to serve in the FBI.”

“With great pride in what we have accomplished, I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri. I am confident Director Patel will continue to reform the FBI, combat violent crime, defend the homeland, ensure strong organizational accountability, and restore public trust in this institution of excellence,” Bailey wrote.

Patel in his own post credited him for “dedicated service” and for “instituting critical reforms.”

Bailey maintained a low public profile during his brief tenure as deputy director, though he was present in January when agents executed a search warrant at the main election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of an FBI election fraud investigation.

Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels will start next week against the Green Bay Packers.

Mayfield was injured when his throwing hand hit Vikings linebacker Blake Cashman on a desperation pass on fourth down that was intercepted late in the fourth quarter of a 23-16 loss.

An MRI revealed Mayfield didn’t suffer ligament damage or a fracture. Still, he will be sidelined a few weeks.

Mayfield, who signed a $165 million, three-year extension before the season, hadn’t missed a start since joining the Buccaneers in 2023.

The Buccaneers (0-3) are off to their worst start since 2014.

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The Trump administration already has slapped sanctions on 13 of the court’s staff members, among them key prosecutors and nine judges including the court’s Japanese President Tomoko Akane. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has launched what he called a “sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court.”

“The German government completely supports the court,” Wadephul said in The Hague shortly before his visit, adding that Berlin is seeking to “enable the court to be workable.”

Officials in the court’s host country, the Netherlands, have been warned that sanctions on the entire court are imminent and are looking at ways to help the tribunal keep operating, including paying staff, protecting witnesses and maintaining the detention facility, diplomatic and government officials with knowledge of the briefings told The Associated Press last week. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Sanctions could prevent the court from accessing financial and IT services, and even paying its U.S. employees. When the court’s former chief prosecutor was sanctioned in 2025, he lost access to his Microsoft email, his bank accounts were frozen and he was barred from entering the United States.

Earlier on Monday, Wadephul said Berlin is “working together with other states on preserving its ability to function.” The court currently has 125 member states.

One possible measure to mitigate sanctions is the EU “blocking statute,” which could be used to protect European court staff by preventing European companies from complying with the U.S. measures.

It's unclear, however, whether the statute would shield the ICC itself, because it’s an international body, not a European one. EU citizens are entitled to a basic bank account, but that doesn’t provide access to credit cards or U.S. payment facilities.

Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen called the blocking statute the “nuclear option” in countering possible sanctions, but said the Netherlands has been in talks with the European Commission to ensure that if it is necessary it can be quickly enacted.

“We are ready for that, the commission is ready for that,” he told reporters at a news conference with Wadephul. Berendsen said he also is in talks with the United States in an attempt to head off possible further sanctions.

In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week, Trump called on ICC member states to quit the court. Days later, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten used the same podium to forcefully defend the court, telling the General Assembly: “I believe there can be only one response. To say: hands off the ICC, and all those other institutions that protect the international legal order.”

The ICC was established in The Hague in 2002 as a court of last resort to prosecute individuals responsible for the world’s most heinous atrocities: war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and the crime of aggression. It takes on cases when nations are unable or unwilling to prosecute crimes on their territory.

The U.S. and Israel strongly object to the court’s arrest warrants for top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the war in Gaza. The U.S. also has opposed investigations into its military actions in Afghanistan.

Like Russia, China, India and Israel, the United States is among countries that have never joined the panel, with Washington citing fears of politically motivated prosecutions of its military.

Wadephul said Germany was a principled supporter of the ICC.

“Germany knows from its own history where it leads when state power flouts the law and humanity. So supporting the ICC is not a purely foreign policy question for Germany. It is also part of our historic responsibility,” he said Monday as he set off for The Hague.

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According to the Margate Police Department, officers responded to a location in the city ― redacted from an arrest report ― regarding a 911 hang-up call on Sunday.

Police said Melissa Angelique McAllister, 37, of Lauderdale Lakes, told an officer who called back that the child had attempted suicide. The girl’s relationship to McAllister isn’t outlined in the MPD report.

Authorities said the child confirmed the suicide attempt, but also told medics taking her to Broward Health Coral Springs that McAllister “hit her over the head with a clothing iron.”

According to the report, the girl told an officer that it happened during a verbal dispute and that the force of the hit, on the left side of her face, caused her to hit a wall, leading to a hematoma that “hurt when she touched it.”

The girl told officers that she tried to call 911, but McAllister “took her phone away and disconnected the call.”

McAllister was arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse and hindering, delaying, or preventing communication to a law enforcement officer.

As of Monday afternoon, she was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $10,000 bond, records show.

“You guys know who I am, right?” James asked.

Sure do. No introduction needed.

LeBron James, the most famous basketball player in the world and the NBA's career scoring leader, was indeed in a No. 23 Philadelphia 76ers jersey. He's happy to play for the Sixers, happy to play with close friend and fellow All-Star Tyrese Maxey and happy to start a 24th NBA season — with no promises of how long his career is going to last.

He's sure not in Philadelphia to lose.

“I didn't leave my family,” James said Monday, “to lose in the second round.”

James, Maxey, Joel Embiid and the other new star Sixers player, Jaylen Brown, were all on hand for media day ahead of the start of training camp and what figures to be the most anticipated season in Philly since Julius Erving's heyday.

James is the undisputed star the show.

The usual assortment of beat writers and bloggers were dwarfed inside the Sixers' complex in New Jersey by cameras and questions from media entities far beyond the NBA scope. James, naturally, handled himself like a true professional, used to the global spotlight since he was put on a basketball pedestal as a teenager.

“Understand that the noise is going to be the noise,” James said. “What happens outside of this building is going to consistently happen, and it's going to be doubled and triple and quadrupled down on you. It just comes with the territory. I understand it.”

Much as James did for Cleveland when he ended a 56-year championship drought for the city by leading the Cavaliers to the title in 2016, he's in Philadelphia largely to help snap a championship drought for the Sixers that stretches to 1983.

“I think the luxury of my game is, I can do everything,” James said. “Literally, I can do everything.”

The Sixers went 45-37 last season and were swept in the second round by the eventual champion New York Knicks.

Enter a summer makeover anchored by James' arrival.

The 41-year-old James signed a modest $8 million, two-year contract on the veterans’ minimum with the Sixers.

James’ resume is beyond compare in NBA history. He’s a 22-time All-Star, a 21-time All-NBA selection, a four-time Most Valuable Player, a four-time NBA Finals MVP, a three-time All-Star Game MVP and a member of the NBA’s 75th anniversary team.

He also is coming off a season in which he averaged 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game. For his career, he has averaged 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7.4 assists in more than 1,600 games.

“Him being here is really cool,” Maxey said.

With key members of Sixers ownership and the front office watching from the side, James declined to get into the issue of how much longer he wants to play. His lone focus, he said, was learning how to play with new teammates — most, like Embiid, haven't won a title — and trying to bring the championship mentality he knows so well from winning titles with the Cavaliers, Heat and the Lakers to the Sixers.

“I hope that I can, you know, bring that experience, bring that knowledge, bring the blueprint to the guys that's trying to accomplish some things that they haven't done in their career,” James said. “I've seen everything that this league has to offer on the floor and off the floor, so I hope that every single day with my approach to the game, approach to the work, that it can translate to every single guy."

James started his career in Cleveland in 2003 and spent seven seasons with the Cavaliers before heading to Miami for four seasons — where he won his first two NBA titles. He then returned to Cleveland for four more seasons, including that title run in 2016, and left in 2018 for the Lakers. He won a title in LA in 2020.

He also won't set a timetable on how many years he has left in his career.

“I don't want to speak on the future right now,” James said. “I think that would be doing a disservice to myself on just living in the moment, especially knowing that I am where I am in my career.”

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Según el Departamento de Policía de Margate, agentes acudieron el domingo a un lugar de la ciudad, cuya ubicación fue censurada en un reporte de arresto, en relación con una llamada al 911 que fue colgada.

La policía dijo que Melissa Angelique McAllister, de 37 años y residente de Lauderdale Lakes, le dijo a un agente que devolvió la llamada que la menor había intentado suicidarse. La relación de la menor con McAllister no se detalla en el reporte de la Policía de Margate.

Las autoridades dijeron que la menor confirmó el intento de suicidio, pero también dijo a los paramédicos que la trasladaban a Broward Health Coral Springs que McAllister “la golpeó en la cabeza con una plancha de ropa”.

Según el reporte, la menor dijo a un agente que ocurrió durante una discusión verbal y que la fuerza del golpe, en el lado izquierdo de su rostro, provocó que se golpeara contra una pared, causándole un hematoma que “le dolía cuando lo tocaba”.

La menor dijo a los agentes que intentó llamar al 911, pero McAllister “le quitó el teléfono y desconectó la llamada”.

McAllister fue arrestada por cargos de abuso infantil agravado y obstaculizar, retrasar o impedir la comunicación con un agente del orden público.

Hasta la tarde del lunes, permanecía detenida en la cárcel principal de Broward bajo una fianza de $10,000 USD, según muestran los registros.

Según la policía de Hollywood, el departamento recibió una llamada poco antes de las 8 a.m. del domingo sobre una persona inconsciente dentro de su vehículo cerca de North 62nd Avenue y Hollywood Boulevard.

La policía dijo que Jacquees, cuyo nombre real es Rodriguez Jacquees Broadnax, se mostró agresivo con los socorristas mientras era trasladado a un hospital.

El hombre de 32 años fue arrestado por cargos de conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol o drogas, resistirse a un agente sin violencia y agresión contra un agente, bombero o técnico de emergencias médicas.

Jacquees inicialmente permanecía detenido en la cárcel principal del condado Broward bajo una fianza de $3,500 USD, pero poco antes del mediodía del lunes ya no aparecía en la base de datos en línea de la cárcel.

Jacquees, quien es de Atlanta, Georgia, ha tenido varias canciones exitosas a lo largo de los años, entre ellas “B.E.D.” y “You”.

Haiti has not had a president since a squad of gunmen killed Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid at their home. U.S. prosecutors have charged more than 40 people with crimes related to the assassination and a dozen have been convicted, including five who are serving life sentences.

Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Florida pastor and dual Haitian American citizen who authorities said aspired to be Haiti’s president, was set to stand trial Monday in the next case to go before a jury. He faces eight charges connected to the assassination, including conspiring to kidnap or kill a person outside the U.S., and has pleaded not guilty.

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. say South Florida served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to oust Moïse and replace him with someone of the conspirators’ choosing.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas, and its history of dictatorship, political upheaval and foreign intervention has long stymied the consolidation of democratic rule.

Prosecutions are being handled in the US instead of Haiti

Moïse was killed on July 7, 2021, when about two dozen foreign mercenaries, mostly from Colombia, attacked his home near Port-au-Prince. The scheme to kill Moïse included paying mercenaries with money obtained from U.S. government programs that were intended to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to court records.

In 2025, justice officials in Haiti asked the U.S. and Canada for help after a local court of appeals ordered a new investigation into Moïse’s killing, the third inquiry of its kind since he was shot 12 times at his private residence. His wife, Martine, also was wounded in the attack.

The previous investigations were stalled because Haitian judges kept resigning from the case, fearing for their lives, and gangs seized control of the downtown Port-au-Prince courthouse where the judges were interrogating suspects.

Any proceedings in Haiti “continue to face significant difficulties,” the country’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security said recently.

Haiti has been overwhelmed by gang violence: More than 3,000 people were killed this year by June and about 1.5 million people have been displaced in recent years, according to the United Nations.

Prosecutors say the conspiracy began months before the killing

The plan to oust Moïse began to truly take shape in April 2021, when Sanon met in South Florida with a former Haitian senator and several U.S. businesspeople, according to an indictment. The group agreed that, once in power, Sanon would award contracts to Florida-based Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and Counter Terrorist Unit Security, collectively known as CTU, for infrastructure projects, security forces and military equipment, investigators said.

CTU initially retained about 18 Colombian nationals with military training to provide security for Sanon, according to prosecutors. Conspirators also spent months obtaining weapons and body armor and attempting to build relationships with Haitian gangs, officials said.

By June 2021, the conspirators realized Sanon had neither the constitutional qualifications nor sufficient popular support to become president. They then backed Wendelle Coq Thélot, a former Haitian Superior Court judge. She died in January 2025 while still a fugitive.

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Martine Moïse described the attack while testifying earlier this year at the trial of four men who were ultimately convicted in the conspiracy to kill her husband.

She said she went to bed around 10 p.m. and awoke to the sounds of gunfire about three hours later. She said she turned to her husband in bed next to her to ask what was going on.

“Honey, we are dead,” Jovenel Moïse said, according to his wife’s testimony.

Martine Moïse said gunfire continued as she crawled downstairs to check on her two adult children. She said she then returned to her and her husband’s bedroom, where she and Jovenel Moïse got on the floor on either side of the bed and used it as protection from gunfire.

Men eventually burst into the room and opened fire with what sounded like an automatic weapon, Martine Moïse said. She was struck several times. She said she heard men speaking in Spanish before someone shot Jovenel Moïse multiple times, killing him.

After the attackers cleared out, Martine Moïse said she expected to find the dead bodies of the 30 to 50 security officers assigned to protect the house, but there were none. She said she later learned that they were paid to leave their posts.

Sanon’s trial is set to begin

Sanon was previously scheduled to be tried with the four other men who were convicted earlier this year, but his case was separated and delayed for health reasons. Prosecutors have said Sanon helped raise money for the conspiracy and arranged travel to Haiti and lodging for himself and others on the island.

The latest defendants charged include Joseph Badio, a former Haiti Ministry of Justice employee, and 17 others described as Colombian mercenaries. They were recently transported to the U.S. from Haiti.

Las mareas más altas del año coincidieron con la luna llena, llevando varias pulgadas de agua al Broadwalk de Hollywood Beach la madrugada del domingo.

“La ciudad de Hollywood hizo un gran trabajo limpiando esto”, dijo Grace Moore, residente de Hollywood. “Pero caminé por entre 6 pulgadas y un pie de agua a lo largo de todo el Broadwalk”.

Se pudo observar a corredores esquivando las zonas inundadas mientras residentes que ya han experimentado mareas reales se preparaban para la subida del agua.

“Si vives aquí en Hollywood, las esperamos, sabemos que vienen, sabemos que ocurren cuatro veces al año”, dijo Dan Kennedy, residente de Hollywood.

Kennedy, quien ha vivido en el área durante décadas, dijo que los negocios cercanos también estaban lidiando con las inundaciones.

“Allá, los restaurantes, las tiendas, están bajo el agua”, dijo.

Kennedy dijo que incluso aconsejó a un cliente que se mantuviera alejado del área.

“Se suponía que debía reunirme con un cliente aquí hoy y le dije: “No vengas””, dijo.

Olas avanzan hacia la costa

Los efectos de las mareas reales ya comenzaban a hacerse evidentes la noche del sábado, cuando grandes olas comenzaron a avanzar hacia la carretera y sorprendieron a las personas que estaban caminando.

“El contacto con las olas y todo eso, nunca había visto algo así, para ser sincero”, dijo una persona.

Otra persona dijo que estaba comiendo pizza cuando vio cómo el agua avanzaba rápidamente.

La ciudad de Hollywood envió una alerta a los residentes advirtiendo que estaba vigente un aviso de inundación costera debido a las mareas reales.

En Fort Lauderdale, la policía cerró dos millas de importantes carreteras.

Un video de celular también mostró el agua avanzando hacia los escalones de entrada de una vivienda, donde una mujer dijo que la inundación la dejó atrapada en el interior.

“No podía salir por la puerta principal. No podía sacar a pasear a mi perro. No podía salir por la puerta lateral”, dijo.

Inundaciones llegan a Miami Beach

Más al sur, un video de dron mostró inundaciones en Miami Beach la mañana del domingo.

Se pudo observar a conductores avanzando lentamente mientras intentaban atravesar el agua.

Las inundaciones también afectaron a los negocios durante el fin de semana.

“Me dan pena los negocios porque prácticamente tuvieron que cerrar el sábado”, dijo Moore. “Y perder un sábado por la noche durante la temporada baja es difícil para todos”.

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The Vikings announced the trade Monday pending McCarthy passing a physical. Dart had surgery last week on his left knee after getting injured early in a loss at the Los Angeles Rams.

Jameis Winston started and the Giants beat Tennessee on Sunday, despite not scoring a touchdown and having just 238 yards of offense. Coach John Harbaugh said afterward that Winston would get the nod again this Sunday against Arizona but hinted that the Giants were not content to stand pat in Dart's absence.

“The plans are the plans,” Harbaugh said. “The opportunities that you have are the opportunities you have. No matter what, we’re going to do everything we can to make our team as strong as we can based on what options we have.”

The first opportunity turned out to be adding McCarthy, the 10th pick in the 2024 draft who lost the starting job in Minnesota to Kyler Murray and fell behind Carson Wentz on the depth chart. McCarthy started 10 games last season, completing 57.6% of his passes for 1,632 yards, 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.

McCarthy missed what would have been his rookie season after injuring his right knee. He was picked a year ahead of Dart, but each was born in 2003, with McCarthy being just four months older.

Long term, that sets up a fascinating situation for New York, with Dart, Winston and McCarthy all under contract for next season. For now, McCarthy provides competition for Winston, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that another QB is added to the mix.

By making this aggressive move, Harbaugh, general manager Joe Schoen and the Giants are doubling down on trying to contend this season, even after losing Dart and with concerns over edge rusher Brian Burns' knee injury that knocked the organization's best defensive player out of the game against the Titans.

There is familial familiarity with McCarthy, who won the national title at Michigan in his final college season playing for John's younger brother Jim Harbaugh.

For the Vikings, the trade served as yet another reminder of the quarterback carousel the franchise has continually found itself on. Murray and Wentz are set to be free agents next spring, so the organization will yet again be forced to make multiple decisions and evaluations about who to build around for next season and beyond. Murray became the ninth different starting quarterback since Kirk Cousins took the field at Green Bay on Oct. 29, 2023, and tore his Achilles tendon.

McCarthy was the fifth quarterback taken among the record six selected in the first 12 picks in the 2024 draft, when Caleb Williams to Chicago, Jayden Daniels to Washington and Drake Maye to New England went with the first three spots. Michael Penix was picked eighth by Atlanta, followed by McCarthy at No. 10 and Bo Nix to Denver at No. 12.

McCarthy lost only three games as the starter through high school and college, including a 27-1 record at Michigan on the way to the championship, but he came to the Vikings with minimal experience as a pro-style passer after being in Jim Harbaugh's run-heavy offense. The energy and toughness that helped McCarthy become a winner and a leader at the lower levels worked against him at times last season, with a tendency for recklessness and a pattern of inaccuracy that contributed to his disappointing debut.

Coach Kevin O’Connell’s credentials as a play designer, play caller and QB mentor gave the Vikings plenty of confidence that McCarthy could thrive with them, but a torn meniscus in his first preseason game required surgery and delayed his first professional game until Sept. 8, 2025.

The success Sam Darnold had under O’Connell in 2024 contributed to the decision to let him leave as a free agent and build around McCarthy and his salary cap-friendly rookie contract, but the combination of immaturity, inexperience and injuries was too much for the Vikings to overcome last year. McCarthy missed time because of a sprained ankle, a concussion and a broken hand.

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Achane, el jugador ofensivo más importante de los Dolphins, sufrió la lesión en el primer cuarto de la derrota de Miami por 24-10 ante Kansas City el domingo.

Achane, quien acordó a principios de este año una extensión de cuatro años y $64 millones USD, con $32 millones USD garantizados, es considerado en general una pieza importante de los planes de los Dolphins en su actual etapa de reconstrucción. Ocupa el séptimo lugar en la lista histórica del equipo en yardas por tierra, pese a haber disputado solo 47 partidos, y lideró la NFL la temporada pasada con un promedio de 5.7 yardas por acarreo.

Achane fue el portador del balón o el receptor previsto en cuatro de las primeras cinco jugadas de Miami el domingo antes de lesionarse. Sufrió la lesión en una carrera de 11 yardas por el lado izquierdo.

Achane se levantó rápidamente después de la tacleada en la jugada en la que se lesionó y luego simplemente permaneció inmóvil mientras un par de compañeros de equipo estaban a su lado. Finalmente caminó por sus propios medios hacia la banca de Miami, aunque lentamente y aparentando favorecer su pierna izquierda, antes de ingresar a la carpa médica del equipo.

Fue examinado nuevamente en el vestuario y posteriormente quedó descartado. Achane regresó a la banca en la segunda mitad y permaneció de pie junto a sus compañeros.

Ollie Gordon reemplazó a Achane y registró un máximo de su carrera de 14 acarreos para mediados del tercer cuarto, antes de que también tuviera que abandonar el partido debido a lo que los Dolphins dijeron que era un problema de calambres. Gordon era el único otro corredor que los Dolphins tenían en su plantilla activa el domingo.

Achane corrió para un máximo de su carrera de 1,350 yardas en 238 acarreos en 2025. Anotó ocho touchdowns por tierra y cuatro por recepción el año pasado, y ocupó el cuarto lugar entre los corredores con 488 yardas por recepción.

Según la policía, el accidente ocurrió en el área de West Broward Boulevard y Northwest 18th Avenue.

La policía confirmó que un peatón fue atropellado por un vehículo.

Sky 10 sobrevoló la escena poco después de las 10 a.m., donde una lona blanca cubría el cuerpo de la víctima y la SUV estaba detenida sobre la acera.

El área fue acordonada con cinta de la escena del crimen.

No se dieron a conocer de inmediato más detalles.

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The highest tides of the year coincided with a full moon, sending several inches of water onto the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk early Sunday.

“The City of Hollywood did a great job cleaning this up,” Hollywood resident Grace Moore said. “But I walked through 6 inches to a foot of water all the way up and down the Broadwalk.”

Joggers could be seen navigating around the flooded areas as residents who have experienced king tides before prepared for the high water.

“If you live here in Hollywood, we expect them, we know they’re coming, we know it’s four times a year,” Hollywood resident Dan Kennedy said.

Kennedy, who has lived in the area for decades, said nearby businesses were also dealing with flooding.

“Down there, the restaurants, the stores -- they’re underwater,” he said.

Kennedy said he even advised a client to stay away from the area.

“I was supposed to meet a client here today and I told him, ‘Don’t come,’” he said.

Waves push toward shore

The effects of the king tides were already becoming apparent Saturday night, when large waves began flowing toward the road and surprised people who were out walking.

“The contact with the waves and everything, I’ve never seen anything like this, to be honest,” one person said.

Another person said they were eating pizza when they watched the water come rushing up.

The city of Hollywood sent an alert to residents warning that a coastal flood advisory was in effect because of the king tides.

In Fort Lauderdale, police shut down two miles of major roadways.

Cellphone video also showed water moving toward the front steps of a home, where a woman said the flooding left her trapped inside.

“I couldn’t go out my front door. I couldn’t walk my dog. I couldn’t walk out my side door,” she said.

Flooding reaches Miami Beach

Farther south, drone video showed flooding across Miami Beach on Sunday morning.

Drivers could be seen moving slowly as they attempted to make their way through the water.

The flooding also took a toll on businesses over the weekend.

“I feel sorry for the businesses because they pretty much had to shut down on Saturday,” Moore said. “And losing a Saturday night in slow season is tough on everyone.”

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Passage of the legislation would be the strongest effort yet by Congress to set national regulations governing payments to college athletes for their name, image and likeness and how often they can transfer. It would give the NCAA new authority over those rules and limited antitrust protections to enforce them.

The bill is the product of years of Senate negotiations that intensified as some in the industry pleaded with Congress to step in after a 2025 lawsuit settlement uprooted the college sports landscape by allowing colleges to pay their players. The legislation, which would still have to pass the House, would codify the settlement into law but also establish new guardrails around the system in an attempt to rein in the runaway costs for colleges.

“It would be nice if college sports could somehow magically fix itself, but this is a matter of law, federal law, and only Congress can fix it,” said Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who negotiated the bill with the top Democrat on the panel, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell.

The bill's backers — more than 70 senators from both parties — say it aims to curtail constant litigation and uncertainty across college sports for athletes, schools and fans. It would also give hundreds of thousands of student athletes new health and labor protections.

Critics say the bill doesn't do enough to protect athletes or curtail the enormous sums of money flowing to coaches, colleges and conferences.

“This is a bill that essentially ensconces a system of exploitation, and it doesn’t fix the broader problems,” said Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat who has worked with labor and civil rights groups to rally opposition to the bill.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed an interest in the legislation, and the White House formally endorsed the bill last month. But it could face an uphill battle in the House, which failed repeatedly over the last year to get a different version to the floor and is in recess until after the November elections.

Lawmakers will have to start over in the next Congress if the bill doesn't pass both chambers by the end of the year.

Bill addresses skyrocketing spending, unlimited transfers

College sports have been reeling in the wake of the 2025 court settlement allowing colleges to directly pay players for their name, image and likeness. The fallout has reshaped the industry and led to football roster payrolls that can exceed $40 million.

The bill codifies the court settlement, including a revenue cap that allows schools to share up to $21.5 million in revenue with their players. The legislation would more than double that amount for some schools, allowing up to an additional $27.5 million in payments through a retention fund, and would give schools and conferences the option of pooling their TV media rights to potentially raise more revenue.

The legislation also aims to stabilize the NCAA transfer portal that has led to players constantly switching teams. It would restrict player transfers to one “free” move over five years without sitting out a year, with some exceptions, and also restricts players to five years of total eligibility.

The proposed eligibility limit comes amid backlash to schools that have increasingly pushed boundaries, including LSU's now-canceled plans to place players on the roster who had participated in NFL training camps.

“That was probably like a big lamp for some people who saw it and said, ‘Oh my God, this is so out of control,’” Cantwell said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “You can see how out-of-hand the situation was getting.”

The bill also would restrict coaches from leaving their schools during the season and prevent conferences from growing larger than 19 programs, an effort to prevent so-called “superleagues” from taking over sports. It would force schools that want to switch conferences to spend three years as an independent — down from five years in the original bill. That change brought new supporters on board, including Florida State and Clemson of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Critics say it wouldn’t do enough to help athletes

The legislation includes new protections for athletes, including caps on agent fees and guarantees for health insurance and certain scholarships. It would also require schools to maintain a minimum number of sports and roster spots — an effort to ensure that women's and Olympic sports are not cut in favor of football, basketball and other sports that generate more revenue.

Still, some Democrats say it wouldn't do enough to limit the big money in college sports.

The legislation “places a cap on the students’ cut of the revenues, but there are no caps on coaches’ salaries or on the size of donations to athletic programs,” Murphy said last week.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said that the new antitrust protections would make it harder for athletes to sue universities, and “taking away their legal rights strikes me as a bridge too far.”

Groups like the NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus and AFL-CIO have also opposed the bill, in part, because it leaves unresolved whether athletes should be considered employees with the ability to collectively bargain.

All four Black Democrats in the Senate — Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Raphael Warnock of Georgia, Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland — have opposed the bill.

Booker, who played football at Stanford in the late 1980s on a scholarship, said in a Senate floor speech earlier this month that he was “afforded opportunities I never would have had if it wasn't for college athletics” but that he also “saw how unjust the NCAA is.”

He said it wasn't until college athletes were able to begin to win cases in court that the power started to shift, “and now the NCAA is coming here to the United States Senate, asking for sweeping powers" to exempt antitrust laws.

Some Republicans also said it is overreach.

The legislation “goes way too far inserting the federal government into collegiate athletics,” said Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who is opposing it.

House passage is uncertain

Despite strong bipartisan support in the Senate, the bill faces a murky path in the House.

House lawmakers won't return to Washington until mid-November, after the elections. And it's unclear what will be on Republican leaders' agenda in the chaotic last few weeks of the session.

Pressure from Trump could help push the bill to passage. But some House Republicans have insisted on language explicitly stating that athletes are not employees, which the Senate bill does not have — a key concession to Cantwell to win enough Democratic support.

House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said in a statement in May that “any lasting framework must confront the central issue that continues to cast uncertainty over the future of college sports: whether student-athletes will ultimately be treated as employees.”

“Congress cannot deliver real stability, consistency, or certainty to schools, conferences, and student-athletes while leaving that question unresolved,” the two Republicans said.

The Santa Clara, California, company said Monday the share buyback increase, which it touted as the largest ever, brings its stock repurchase program to $235 billion.

Nvidia said it expects to “execute” the share buyback plan through its fiscal year that ends in Jan. 30, 2028.

Companies use repurchases, in part, to return cash to investors and support the stock’s price. Earnings per share can increase because there are fewer shares outstanding. Buybacks also signal confidence from leadership about a company’s financial prospects.

“NVIDIA’s growth is being driven by a once-in-a-generation platform shift to AI and accelerated computing,” said Jensen Huang, Nvidia's founder and CEO. “Our cash generation gives us the capacity to invest in the technologies that advance this transformation and return capital to shareholders. This authorization reflects our confidence in the long-term opportunity ahead.”

Shares in Nvidia climbed 2.1% in afternoon trading Monday. The stock is up about 24% so far this year.

Nvidia’s high-end chips have emerged as the leading building blocks for AI, and are highly sought after. The company reported quarterly profits of $59.69 billion late last month.

While AI has powered stock market gains and U.S. economic growth in recent years, there’s been growing skepticism about whether AI will justify the trillions of dollars being spent to develop the technology.

The AI industry also faces increasing pushback amid objections to the expansion of data centers and fears that the rapid speed of AI adoption could lead to widespread job losses worldwide.

Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, the chief of the general staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force, on Friday accused Eritrea of mobilizing financial support for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF.

He said that Eritrea and the TPLF would need support from Sudan and Egypt, insinuating external interference, but without explaining further.

The TPLF and Ethiopian federal troops waged war between November 2020 and November 2022, when a peace deal was signed in Pretoria, South Africa. A caretaker administration seen as loyal to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was installed in Mekelle, the Tigray capital. But tensions remained, with the TPLF maneuvering for political control in Mekelle.

Over the weekend, TPLF fighters captured the key strategic town of Erebti in the northern Afar region, a commander told The Associated Press on Monday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak with the media.

An official with the Tigray Peace Force, a breakaway faction of the Tigray rebels now allied with federal forces in Afar, confirmed that the rebels took control of the town, although he denied that heavy fighting had taken place.

Doctors Without Borders, better known by its French acronym MSF, on Monday said that there had been a surge in the number of wounded receiving treatment in the north.

The number of patients in the Korem and Alamata hospitals rose from around 180 to more than 420 in 48 hours. MSF said that 300 wounded had arrived at northeastern Suhul Hospital last week.

Valerie Browning, the co-founder of the Afar Pastoralist Development Association, told The Associated Press about 150,000 people had been displaced.

Ethiopian federal authorities accused the TPLF of seeking to build an alliance with neighboring Eritrea to destabilize Ethiopia. Abiy’s push for sovereign access to the Eritrean seaport of Assab has reignited tensions with Eritrea, which shares a border with Tigray. Abiy also angered Somalia by trying to negotiate access to the sea via the territory of Somaliland.

Eritrea accused Ethiopia of shifting blame for the ongoing conflict. Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Meskel wrote on X that Ethiopia’s pursuit of access to the sea had rattled Eritrea and Somalia, while its move to host militia training in support of Sudan's militia had put Ethiopia at odds with its neighbors.

A spokesperson for the Sudanese armed forces, in a statement, rejected Ethiopia's accusations, saying that Ethiopia was offering support to militias fighting the Sudanese military, an apparent reference to the Rapid Support Forces, which have been battling Sudan's army since 2023.

Eritrean troops fought alongside Ethiopian forces against the TPLF in the 2020-2022 Tigray conflict. The civilian death toll was estimated by Ghent University researchers to be 500,000, including from violence, famine and the collapse of health services.

MLB said Monday that 61 seconds of this year's increase was attributed to the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, which allows batters, catchers and pitchers to appeal umpire ball/strike decisions to a computer.

MLB’s average fell from 3:04 in 2022 to 2:40 the following year when the pitch clock was instituted and decreased to 2:36 in 2024, its lowest since 1984’s 2:35. It rose to 2:38 last year.

The average game time passed three hours for the first time in 2016. It reached a record 3:10 in 2021 before the introduction of the PitchCom electronic pitch-calling device helped bring it down to 3:04 in 2022.

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Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said Monday that his office will present evidence to a grand jury as he faces questions from the public about why there were no criminal prosecutions in the case.

The woman, identified only by a pseudonym in the lawsuit, filed the complaint Sept. 16, saying she was sexually assaulted at the Chi Phi fraternity house on Cornell's campus in October 2024 after being pressured into snorting ketamine, smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol. She’s suing seven men, the Chi Phi fraternity, the university, an Ithaca bar and others, seeking undisclosed damages.

The woman went to campus police at the time, but Van Houten said the accuser did not make any claims of being gang raped or drugged in her initial sworn statement to authorities. The prosecutor also said he has never been contacted by the woman's attorney about her statement or about reconsidering the decision not to prosecute.

“While I generally refrain from commenting publicly on criminal investigations, the community outrage stemming from the incomplete news and social media coverage requires that I provide an answer to why the investigation resulted in a lack of criminal charges,” Van Houten said in a statement.

Cornell said in a statement that it supports the district attorney's decision to reopen the investigation. The school said it conducted its own investigation and issued sanctions, including expelling some students and suspending others. It also said the on-campus Chi Phi chapter was closed in 2024 and remains barred from campus.

School officials on Monday did not immediately respond to a message seeking more information, including how many students were expelled and suspended.

“Any suggestion that the university did not impose consequential punishments for those involved is false,” the university said. “A continuation of the false narrative that there were minimal consequences in this case is irresponsible, will make survivors feel less safe and supported, and will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault.”

The national chapter of Chi Phi did not immediately return phone and email messages Monday.

The school said it conducted an internal disciplinary investigation in 2024. It said a panel of trained faculty and staff heard evidence over multiple days, and both the woman and the people accused had the opportunity to testify and present evidence.

The woman's attorney did not immediately respond Monday to messages seeking comment on the prosecutor's decision to reopen the investigation.

The lawsuit contains allegations about what started as a night of celebrating at a sorority and a local bar. It also accuses the university of not preventing the alleged assaults and includes a photo that it says shows a group chat between frat members discussing sex with the woman.

Since the lawsuit was filed, Van Houten said, his office has been flooded with phone calls, voicemails and emails about the case from people seeking answers and others making insults and threats.

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The fire, 3 Alpha Sierra, had burned at least 190 acres as of Monday morning, and it was 10% contained, according to the Florida Forest Service.

The FFS Everglades field unit responded. The smoke and flames were visible from Interstate 75.

This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.

The Wild Card Series begins Tuesday, featuring four best-of-three matchups that include the Boston Red Sox traveling to face their longtime nemesis, the New York Yankees. Also in the American League, the Chicago White Sox are at the Houston Astros, who qualified for the postseason despite an 81-81 record.

Over in the National League, the Philadelphia Phillies are at the Atlanta Braves while the Chicago Cubs travel to face the San Diego Padres.

Four teams earned a bye straight to the Division Series, including the Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays in the AL, along with the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers in the NL. They'll get nearly a week to rest and regroup following the sport's long 162-game regular season.

Here's more of what to know about the wild-card matchups this week:

The Red Sox go to the Bronx. Will Aaron Judge play for the Yankees?

It's the second year in a row the AL East rivals will meet in the Wild Card Series. The Yankees prevailed in last season's matchup, winning 2 games to 1 after a dominant Game 3 performance by young ace Cam Schlittler.

Schlittler has emerged as one of the game's best pitchers this season — he's likely to win the AL Cy Young award — and he'll start Game 1 after a 1.95 ERA in the regular season.

It remains to be seen whether three-time MVP Aaron Judge will be in the lineup against Boston — he's dealing with a right calf strain that knocked him out of the last week of the regular season. That came shortly after he missed more than three months with a broken rib.

The Red Sox had a massive in-season turnaround after they were 32-46 and 15 1/2 games back in the AL East race on June 24. Boston fired manager Alex Cora in April, and his replacement, Chad Tracy, recently had his interim tag removed.

Game 1: Tuesday, 8 p.m. ET on NBC/Peacock

Game 2: Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET on NBC/Peacock

Game 3 (if necessary): Thursday on NBC/Peacock/NBCSN

The White Sox try to continue remarkable turnaround

The White Sox became the first team to follow consecutive 100-loss seasons by reaching the playoffs. Chicago's powerful lineup includes Miguel Vargas, Munetaka Murakami and Colson Montgomery, though the latter two have struggled at the plate of late.

The Astros were at one point 11 games under .500, fired their general manager in August and failed to finish with a winning record. Even so, the .500 club was good enough to win the AL West for the fifth time in six years. Houston's roster has some holes, but it also has star slugger Yordan Alvarez, who is the frontrunner to win AL MVP.

Game 1: Tuesday, 5 p.m. ET on Peacock/NBCSN

Game 2: Wednesday, 5 p.m. ET on Peacock/NBCSN

Game 3 (if necessary): Thursday on NBC/Peacock/NBCSN

The Phillies barely sneaked into the postseason, and now face their NL East rivals

The Braves are regulars in the playoffs and have another strong roster that includes ace lefty Chris Sale and a lineup that features Matt Olson, Michael Harris II, Ronald Acuna Jr., Drake Baldwin and Ozzie Albies.

The veteran Phillies stumbled down the stretch and squeezed into the playoffs on the last day of the regular season. With a lineup that includes Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber, and one of the best starting rotations in the game, it wouldn't be shocking for them to make a run in October.

Game 1: Tuesday, 2 p.m. ET on NBC/Peacock

Game 2: Wednesday, 2 p.m. ET on NBC/Peacock

Game 3 (if necessary): Thursday on NBC/Peacock/NBCSN

PCA and the Cubs head to San Diego

The Cubs are led by NL MVP frontrunner Pete Crow-Armstrong, who finished the season with 45 homers and a .943 OPS. They also have veteran third baseman Alex Bregman, who is back in the lineup despite taking a ball to the face while standing in the on-deck circle last week.

The Padres are back in the postseason for a third straight season, surging down the stretch thanks to big contributions from Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill. They've got solid starting pitching and one of the best bullpens in the game, led by closer Mason Miller.

Game 1: Tuesday, 10 p.m. ET on Peacock/NBCSN

Game 2: Wednesday, 10 p.m. ET on Peacock/NBCSN

Game 3 (if necessary): Thursday on NBC/Peacock/NBCSN

What is the MLB playoff format?

There are 12 teams that qualify for MLB’s postseason, including six teams from both the AL and NL. The three division winners in each league get seeds No. 1 through No. 3, ranked by win-loss record. Then the three wild-card teams get seeds No. 4 through No. 6, also ranked by win-loss record.

The top two teams with the best record in both the AL and NL automatically advance to the Division Series. The other eight teams play in the Wild Card Series, which is a best-of-three format beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 29. In both the AL and NL, the No. 6 seed will travel to face the No. 3 seed while the No. 5 seed goes to No. 4. The higher seed hosts all three games.

The winners then advance to the best-of-five Division Series, followed by the best-of-seven League Championship Series and a best-of-seven World Series between the winners of the AL and NL.

What is the MLB postseason schedule?

Wild Card Series: Sept. 29-Oct. 1 (NBC/Peacock)

Division Series: Oct. 3-10 (AL on TBS, NL on FOX/FS1)

Championship Series: Oct. 11-20 (AL on TBS, NL on FOX/FS1)

World Series: Oct. 23-31 (FOX)

Who are the favorites to win the World Series?

The Dodgers (+210) are the favorites to capture a third straight World Series title while the Brewers (+550), Rays (+800) and Yankees (+800) are viewed as the top contenders.

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The storm was located about 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) east-northeast of Bermuda and was moving east, according to an advisory from the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. Maximum sustained winds were around 45 mph (72 kph).

There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect. Little change in strength is forecast in the coming days.

The storm comes as the Atlantic hurricane season has been unusually quiet this year due to a strong El Niño, which disrupts storm formation over that ocean.

Storm activity in the Pacific has been above average, with Hurricane Polo bearing down on Mexico Monday and Hurricane Nolo edging away from Hawaii.

Iguanas aren't exactly a big problem in Wisconsin. In Miami, well, they're everywhere — including around Antetokounmpo's new pool, which led to a viral moment this past weekend when the new Heat star posted about his family's encounter with the large lizard.

“If the iguanas keep on coming, I'll probably move, maybe get an apartment. No pools, no grass, none of that stuff,” Antetokounmpo said. "When I came here in July somebody told me they were kind of cute. They're not cute. They're not cute. It's scary. But I'll get used to it, hopefully. We'll see.”

The Heat hope that's the worst of Antetokounmpo's acclimation issues.

The two-time MVP who led the Milwaukee Bucks to an NBA title in 2021 officially starts the next chapter of his career Tuesday, when the Heat open training camp in Boca Raton, Florida — about 45 minutes north of the team's arena. He was the centerpiece of a massive roster restructuring by Miami this summer, one that saw the Heat add Antetokounmpo, Klay Thompson, Bobby Portis and Tim Hardaway Jr., among others to a core led by Bam Adebayo, Andrew Wiggins, Pelle Larsson and Davion Mitchell.

“This is all new for me," Antetokounmpo said Monday at his first Heat media day. “I’m trying to learn defense. I’m learning offenses. I am trying to fit in the locker room with new faces. I’m trying to be able to play with players that I’ve never played before. It’s all new for me. It’s exciting. I know that I’m going to put in the work. Succeed or fail, I’m going to fail by working, or succeed by working. And the goal is to win a championship. That’s the goal.”

The arena the Heat call home is a construction site these days. Dozens of workers in hard hats, orange reflective vests and steel-toed boots are all over the building, putting the finishing touches on new club spaces and other amenities that will greet fans in a couple weeks.

Seems fitting that the team has gone through a refurbishing of sorts as well.

“I feel like there’s a synergy from a lot of people in the building about this opportunity and the appropriate time," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "Some things in this league really are about alignment. And then we’ll see how it all plays out once we get into the competition and the games and all that.”

Antetokounmpo entered the NBA in 2013. His career totals to date: 21,531 points, 8,882 rebounds and 4,484 assists. The point and rebound totals are both fifth best in the NBA over that span, while the assist total is 13th best — and those numbers are just part of the reason why the Heat consider him to still be one of the five best players in the league.

“We brought him here for a reason. He’s here for a reason," Spoelstra said. “We want him to establish himself as in that conversation of being the best player in the league and that can be debated in a lot of different ways. But we’re not bringing him here to take a step back, so we’ll try to maximize his strengths as much as we can and get him as comfortable as possible.”

And if all goes to Miami's plan, iguanas will be Antetokounmpo's biggest problem.

“I really do believe that if not the best, I’m one of the best players in the world," Antetokounmpo said. "I know when I’m at my best, when I'm locked in, when my body is right, I really do believe that I can dominate the game and I can impact the game in both ways, offensively and defensively. I think I’ve shown it over the years.”

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Achane — the Dolphins’ most important offensive player — suffered the injury in the first quarter of Miami’s 24-10 loss to Kansas City on Sunday.

Achane — who agreed to a four-year, $64 million extension earlier this year with $32 million guaranteed — is generally considered to be a huge part of the Dolphins’ plans in their current rebuilding phase. He’s seventh on the team’s all-time rushing list despite playing only 47 games and led the NFL with an average of 5.7 yards per carry last season.

Achane was either the ballcarrier or intended receiver on four of Miami’s first five plays Sunday before getting hurt. He suffered the injury on what was an 11-yard run to the left side.

Achane got up quickly after the tackle on the play where he got injured, then simply stood still while flanked by a couple of teammates. He eventually walked to the Miami sideline under his own power, albeit slowly and appearing to favor his left leg before going into the team’s injury tent.

He was further checked in the locker room, then was ruled out. Achane returned to the sideline in the second half, standing with teammates.

Ollie Gordon replaced Achane and had a career-high 14 carries by the midpoint of the third quarter, before he also had to leave the game because of what the Dolphins said was a cramping issue. Gordon was the only other running back the Dolphins had on their active roster Sunday.

Achane rushed for a career-high 1,350 yards on 238 carries in 2025. He had eight rushing touchdowns and four receiving scores a year ago and ranked fourth among running backs with 488 yards receiving.

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A neighbor’s video showed a blue merle French bulldog — “its bones visibly protruding through loose skin” — alone in a downtown Miami high-rise balcony, a police officer wrote, according to an arrest report.

The neighbor “observed the dog being kept in the same balcony area for approximately two weeks,” was “extremely emaciated” in a neglected ParkLine Condominiums’ balcony where feces and urine were “accumulating,” according to police.

Shortly after 12:20 a.m., on Saturday, police officers arrested Kevin Benjamin, who listed his occupation as a DJ, and rescued the French bulldog from his apartment at 400 NW First Ave., according to the arrest report.

The dog’s “ribs, spine, and other bony structures were visibly prominent through its skin, which appeared loose and lacked normal body condition,” a police officer wrote, adding that an animal control welfare officer “determined that the dog was severely malnourished and dehydrated for over a long period of time and in need of immediate care.”

Gabriella Dominguez, a spokeswoman for Miami-Dade County Animal Services, released a statement on Monday saying the dog remained under the county’s care.

“The investigation remains ongoing,” Dominguez wrote in the statement.

Miami-Dade corrections booked Benjamin on Saturday at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He faced a felony charge of intentional cruelty to animals. He was released on a $5,000, according to court records.

Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carmen Cabarga was set to preside over Benjamin’s case. The court set his arraignment hearing at 9 a.m. on Nov. 25.

Related report: Downtown Miami neighbors help police rescue neglected French bulldog

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

Un video de un vecino mostró a un bulldog francés blue merle, “con los huesos visiblemente sobresaliendo a través de la piel suelta”, solo en el balcón de un edificio de gran altura en el centro de Miami, escribió un agente de policía, según un reporte de arresto.

El vecino “observó que el perro permanecía en la misma área del balcón durante aproximadamente dos semanas” y estaba “extremadamente demacrado” en un balcón descuidado de ParkLine Condominiums, donde se estaban “acumulando” heces y orina, según la policía.

Poco después de las 12:20 a.m. del sábado, agentes de policía arrestaron a Kevin Benjamin, quien indicó que su ocupación era DJ, y rescataron al bulldog francés de su apartamento en 400 NW First Ave., según el reporte de arresto.

Las “costillas, columna vertebral y otras estructuras óseas del perro eran visiblemente prominentes a través de su piel, que parecía suelta y carecía de una condición corporal normal”, escribió un agente de policía, quien agregó que un agente de bienestar de control de animales “determinó que el perro había estado gravemente desnutrido y deshidratado durante un largo período y necesitaba atención inmediata”.

Gabriella Dominguez, portavoz de Servicios para Animales del condado Miami-Dade, emitió un comunicado el lunes en el que indicó que el perro permanecía bajo el cuidado del condado.

“La investigación continúa en curso”, escribió Dominguez en el comunicado.

El Departamento de Correcciones de Miami-Dade ingresó a Benjamin el sábado en el Centro Correccional Turner Guilford Knight. Enfrentó un cargo grave de crueldad intencional contra animales. Fue liberado bajo una fianza de $5,000 USD, según registros judiciales.

La jueza de circuito del condado Miami-Dade Carmen Cabarga quedó a cargo del caso de Benjamin. El tribunal programó su audiencia de lectura de cargos para las 9 a.m. del 25 de noviembre.

Reporte relacionado: Vecinos del centro de Miami ayudan a la policía a rescatar a bulldog francés descuidado

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Now the basin has eclipsed another seasonal milestone, tallying more activity to date than any other hurricane season on record.

This includes more Category 5 hurricane hours than any season observed prior.

Last week, Polo surpassed Hurricane John in 1994 as having spent the most time as a Category 5 hurricane.

This week is forecast to feature four simultaneous named storms across the eastern Pacific for the first time in over 50 years (since 1974).

Although the eastern Pacific hurricane season was a bit of a late bloomer considering the ripe conditions in place bolstered by a record-setting El Niño, over the past month it quickly made up for lost time, rattling off one record after another and notching its most active 30-day period of hurricane activity.

Polo approaching the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico as a still-major hurricane

Polo was still a major Category 3 hurricane as it neared the Baja California Peninsula of northwestern Mexico early Monday.

The hurricane is forecast to strike the west coast of Baja California Sur in the municipality of Comondú Monday afternoon at near-major hurricane strength, likely the strongest hurricane to hit the area since Hurricane Jimena in 2009.

Meanwhile, a predecessor rain event or PRE is shaping up over the Four Corners of the southwest U.S. today courtesy of abundant tropical air streaming northward from Polo and the remnants of once Hurricane Odalys to its west. A spigot of tropical moisture will continue to peel off ahead of Polo through Tuesday, contributing to significant and widespread flash flooding across parts of the Desert Southwest and spreading eastward into the Central and Southern Plains for Wednesday.

The National Weather Service is predicting a prolonged flood threat (flash flood threat level 3 of 4) for these areas through much of the week so folks in these areas should monitor the rainfall forecasts and associated flood warnings closely in the days ahead.

Nolo spares Hawaii its worst

As we discussed in Friday’s newsletter, the forecast trend was positive for Hawaii as Nolo approached late last week. The 105 mph Category 2 hurricane paused about 150 miles south of the Big Island late Friday before slowly turning west and south and away from the state on Saturday into Sunday.

Earlier forecasts had suggested Nolo could be a direct threat to the Big Island, but unlike Lowell a few weeks ago which drew closer on approach, Nolo turned away at the 11^th hour.

Officially, winds gusted above hurricane strength (74 mph) in higher elevations of Maui and Honolulu counties. Rainfall did top a foot on the wetter windward side of the Big Island, with the highest totals around 16 inches at Laupāhoehoe Natural Area Reserve – a far cry from the 43 inches received in the same area during Hurricane Lala in August or the 35 inches initially forecast for Nolo last week.

Nolo triggered a serious landslide and downed numerous trees, closing roads across the Big Island, according to local reports. Overall, however, the state seemed to fare OK compared to other recent hurricanes, with limited power outages mainly for customers on Maui as an emergency shutoff was enacted to prevent wildfires during the strong winds.

Atlantic barely maintaining a pulse

The Atlantic hurricane season continues to putter along at a record-low pace despite a few weak and short-lived systems in the far corners of the basin last week.

As the last vestiges of Tropical Depression Fay peter out over the open seas, the only area of interest this week is yet again over the open subtropical Atlantic – an area we featured back in July as being the place to watch this hurricane season.

A disturbance designated Invest 91L will likely add to the list of weak, short-lived, and forgettable systems so far this year. If it manages to eke out a name, it would be Hanna.

Ahora la cuenca ha superado otro hito estacional, registrando hasta la fecha más actividad que cualquier otra temporada de huracanes de la que se tenga registro.

Esto incluye más horas de huracán de categoría 5 que en cualquier temporada observada anteriormente.

La semana pasada, Polo superó al huracán John de 1994 como el huracán que más tiempo permaneció como huracán de categoría 5.

Se prevé que esta semana se registren cuatro tormentas con nombre simultáneamente en el Pacífico oriental por primera vez en más de 50 años (desde 1974).

Si bien la temporada de huracanes del Pacífico oriental comenzó un poco tarde, considerando las condiciones propicias impulsadas por un fenómeno de El Niño sin precedentes, durante el último mes rápidamente recuperó el tiempo perdido, batiendo un récord tras otro y registrando su período de 30 días de mayor actividad ciclónica.

Polo se acerca a la península de Baja California, México, como un huracán aún de gran intensidad.

Polo was still a major Category 3 hurricane as it neared the Baja California Peninsula of northwestern Mexico early Monday.

Se prevé que el huracán azote la costa oeste de Baja California Sur, en el municipio de Comondú, el lunes por la tarde, con una fuerza cercana a la de un huracán mayor, siendo probablemente el huracán más fuerte que haya azotado la zona desde el huracán Jimena en 2009.

Mientras tanto, se está gestando un evento de lluvias precursoras (PRE, por sus siglas en inglés) sobre la región de las Cuatro Esquinas del suroeste de Estados Unidos, debido a la abundante presencia de aire tropical que se desplaza hacia el norte desde Polo y los remanentes del antiguo huracán Odalys, al oeste del mismo. Una corriente de humedad tropical continuará desprendiéndose frente a Polo hasta el martes, lo que contribuirá a importantes inundaciones repentinas generalizadas en algunas zonas del suroeste desértico y se extenderá hacia el este, a las Grandes Llanuras centrales y meridionales, el miércoles.

El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional pronostica una amenaza de inundación prolongada (nivel de amenaza de inundación repentina 3 de 4) para estas áreas durante gran parte de la semana, por lo que las personas en estas áreas deben monitorear de cerca los pronósticos de lluvia y las alertas de inundación asociadas en los próximos días.

Nolo le ahorra a Hawái lo peor.

Como comentamos en el boletín del viernes, la tendencia de los pronósticos era positiva para Hawái a medida que Nolo se acercaba a finales de la semana pasada. El huracán de categoría 2, con vientos de 105 mph, se detuvo a unas 150 millas al sur de la Isla Grande el viernes por la noche antes de girar lentamente hacia el oeste y el sur, alejándose del estado entre el sábado y el domingo.

Los pronósticos anteriores sugerían que Nolo podría representar una amenaza directa para la Isla Grande, pero a diferencia de Lowell hace unas semanas, que se acercó al aproximarse, Nolo cambió de rumbo en el último ^momento .

Oficialmente, las ráfagas de viento superaron la fuerza de un huracán (119 km/h) en las zonas más elevadas de los condados de Maui y Honolulu. Las precipitaciones alcanzaron los 30 cm en la costa de barlovento, la más húmeda de la Isla Grande, con los mayores totales de alrededor de 40 cm en la Reserva Natural de Laupāhoehoe, una cifra muy inferior a los 109 cm registrados en la misma zona durante el huracán Lala en agosto o a los 89 cm pronosticados inicialmente para Nolo la semana pasada.

Según informes locales , Nolo provocó un grave deslizamiento de tierra y derribó numerosos árboles, lo que obligó a cerrar carreteras en toda la Isla Grande. Sin embargo, en general, el estado pareció salir bien parado en comparación con otros huracanes recientes, con cortes de energía limitados, principalmente para los clientes de Maui, ya que se activó un sistema de corte de emergencia para prevenir incendios forestales durante los fuertes vientos.

El Atlántico apenas mantiene el pulso.

La temporada de huracanes del Atlántico continúa avanzando a un ritmo históricamente bajo, a pesar de la presencia de algunos sistemas débiles y de corta duración en los rincones más alejados de la cuenca la semana pasada.

A medida que los últimos vestigios de la depresión tropical Fay se disipan en alta mar, la única zona de interés esta semana es, una vez más, el Atlántico subtropical abierto, una zona que ya señalamos en julio como el lugar a seguir durante esta temporada de huracanes.

Exclusive body camera video obtained by Local 10 shows what happened when police and firefighters responded to a scene in Margate where a mother and her 2-year-old daughter had been struck by lightning.

The call came into a fire station in August, setting off an urgent response.

The body camera video shows first responders working to save 31-year-old Kenya Glasgow and her 2-year-old daughter, Kennedi.

Responders were also told to make sure arriving units did not block any entrances.

The lightning strike killed Glasgow and her daughter.

Once it was safe, first responders immediately began working to save them.

Responders also worked to keep the area clear as they continued the effort.

The body camera video shows firefighters continuing chest compressions as they worked to save the mother.

The baby was eventually taken to North Broward to be flown out.

At a memorial service in August, Glasgow’s husband and Kennedi’s father, Kameron Glasgow, spoke about how much he misses his soulmate.

“I want her to be remembered as the life of the party, the one that wants to help and never want anything in return,” he said.

Kameron Glasgow said he is appreciative of all the first responders, police and firefighters who never quit trying to save his wife and daughter.

He also said Kennedi’s twin sister is doing the best she can.

Wednesday marks one month since Glasgow lost his wife and daughter.

“We won't play. I'm going to be frank with you,” the New York Yankees pitcher said. “I'm not worried about it. They should be worried about it. There’s a lot of money on us playing baseball. That’s why they pay us a lot.”

Baseball's five-year labor contract expires Dec. 1 and management is expected to impose a lockout that would stop trades and free-agent signings, then potentially threaten the start of spring training workouts on Feb. 9 and opening day on March 24.

When management last proposed a cap, it sparked a 7 1/2-month strike in 1994 and '95 that led to the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years. MLB says a cap is needed to alleviate economic disparity, highlighting that no low-revenue team has won the title since the 2015 Kansas City Royals.

“The salary cap and floor proposal levels the playing field, allowing us greater flexibility to address longstanding player priorities while sharing baseball revenue with the players 50/50,” MLB spokesman Glen Caplin said.

Owners would also gain more financial certainty with a cap, which likely would spark an increase in franchise values.

Players point out teams with low payrolls, Milwaukee and Tampa Bay, had the best regular-season records in their leagues this season.

“Despite MLB claiming they need a salary cap because small-market teams supposedly have no hope, we see Milwaukee with the best record in baseball for the second straight year and Tampa with the best record in the AL," union head Bruce Meyer said. “Milwaukee, of course, is 30th out of 30 in our market-size rankings.”

While this would be MLB's 10th work stoppage, the sport hasn't lost any regular-season games since the 1994-95 strike. Baseball players say they will never accept a cap similar to those that have been in the NFL since 1994, the NBA since 1984-85 and the NHL since 2005-06. Nine of the 10 biggest sports contracts by total value in North America belong to MLB players.

“For me the biggest thing is doing right for the generations forward because the generations before me, for the decades before, they’ve fought for our rights today,” Baltimore first baseman Pete Alonso said. “That’s a sacrifice that not just myself but other men around the league are willing to fight for and put up with.”

Salary cap would cut highest salaries

MLB's proposal would cap team spending next year at $245.3 million, using figures for luxury tax payrolls that include $20.1 million for benefits and the pre-arbitration bonus pool. It also would establish a payroll floor of $171.2 million for 2027 but teams could drop as low as $154.1 million and make up the difference over the following two years. The New York Mets' opening day payroll in 2026 was over $352 million.

Contracts would be limited by service time: $500 million and 12 years for those yet to make major league debuts down to $265 million and six years for free-agent-eligible players. It would outlaw megadeals like outfielder Juan Soto's record $765 million, 15-year contract with the Mets.

While MLB proposed to split revenues 50-50, the union says that would lead to a massive decrease in money to players because of the way revenues and expenses are defined and the player portion is calculated. In addition, an escrow provision to set salaries aside in case the players' defined revenue share is above 50% means money in guaranteed contracts could be forfeited.

MLB as part of a cap system would agree to drop service time for free agent eligibility for some players from six years of service to five and to eliminate qualifying offers, but the union maintains that would shift money among players under a cap rather than increase spending.

Cost of lost regular-season games would be enormous

Alonso would lose $165,775 next year for each regular-season day missed and Rodón would forfeit $144,385.

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani would give up $374,331 daily and Soto $227,273.

At the other end of the salary scale, players making MLB's proposed $900,000 minimum would lose $4,813 daily.

Some players are protected financially because of signing bonuses that will continue to be paid during a work stoppage: Toronto first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is due $14 million on June 30 as part of his $325 million contract, though he would give up $74,866 daily in salary.

Union leadership changed in February

Tony Clark, the former All-Star first baseman who headed the union since 2013, was forced out in February and replaced by Meyer, his deputy and chief negotiator in 2021-22.

Baltimore pitcher Chris Bassitt, a member of the union's eight-man executive subcommittee, said there had been a transformation this year in communications within the players' association. The subcommittee and the 30 team player representatives form the executive council that makes union decisions.

“Our last CBA from a player’s side was not internally handled great. I think the structure was very archaic, so to speak, like an old-school approach,” he said. “We have made it our mission to kind of get all 30 clubs — 30 reps that genuinely care. And then not just 30 reps that genuinely care, but 30 reps that are making sure all their players are very informed."

There was a split in vote to accept deal in 2022

When players and MLB agreed to a deal on March 10, 2022, that ended the lockout, the executive subcommittee voted 8-0 against accepting it, but the team player representatives favored the agreement by 26-4.

The vast majority of the 1,200 players on 40-man rosters when the lockout starts will not have salary arbitration or free agency rights and will have 2027 salaries under $1 million.

“Their voices matter, what they’re feeling, what they're thinking,” Bassitt said. “When I came in the league it was — I’m going to say it plainly — but it was like: `Rookie shut up and sit in the corner and the veterans are going to take care of this.' I don’t think that's a possible avenue to go down anymore. I think the league’s too young, first and foremost. Second, I think the only way to have veteran guys that are informed and understand the process is to start the education process from day one.”

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The WNBA announced the awards on Monday, before the Lynx traveled to New York for an elimination game in their best-of-three first-round playoff series on Tuesday. The top-seeded Lynx lost the opener at home 91-75 to the 2024 champion Liberty on Sunday.

Miles was an unanimous selection by a national panel of sports writers and broadcasters covering the league, after she set the WNBA rookie scoring record. Miles played in 40 of 44 games and averaged 19.8 points, 6.0 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals while shooting 49.2% from the field, 38.8% from 3-point range and 87% from the free-throw line.

Miles, who was the second overall pick in the draft out of TCU, became the sixth winner of the award in Lynx history, following Betty Lennox (2000), Seimone Augustus (2006), Maya Moore (2011), Napheesa Collier (2019) and Crystal Dangerfield (2020).

Reeve, who is also president of basketball operations for the club, previously won the award in 2011, 2016, 2020 and 2024. She guided the Lynx to WNBA titles in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.

Reeve received 40 of 74 votes from media panel. Golden State's Natalie Nakase, who won the award last year, finished second with 20 votes. Washington's Sydney Johnson was third with 14 votes.

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El incendio, denominado 3 Alpha Sierra, había quemado al menos 150 acres hasta las 9:35 a.m. del lunes, según el Servicio Forestal de Florida.

La unidad de campo de los Everglades del Servicio Forestal de Florida (FFS) respondió al incendio. El humo y las llamas eran visibles desde la Interestatal 75.

Esta es una noticia en desarrollo. La editora de asignaciones de Local 10 News Mercedes Cevallos contribuyó a este reporte.

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One is a popular Ocean Drive restaurant inside the historic Colony Hotel, known for its American fare, steaks, seafood and hidden speakeasy. The other is a Miami barbecue joint serving up smoked meats and Southern-style favorites.

Both restaurants were ordered shut after inspectors found serious violations.

A dead rodent, a malfunctioning dishwasher, dirty food-contact surfaces and, at one location, no employee handwashing sink at all were the worst of the violations.

Both places were allowed to reopen after cleaning up and passing a follow-up inspection.

**MONTANA’S

THE COLONY HOTEL

736 OCEAN DRIVE

MIAMI BEACH

ORDERED SHUT 9/21

5 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Accumulation of dead or trapped birds, insects, rodents, or other pests, in control devices. Observed a dead rodent on a sticky trap at the walk in cooler.”

“Dish machine not washing/rinsing properly. Must wash, rinse and sanitize all dishware, equipment and utensils in three-compartment sink until dish machine is functioning properly. Observed Dishwasher (Chlorine 0ppm) at ware washing area.”

“Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed at prep area can opener blade soiled with food debris.”

**BROTHER & SISTERS BARBEQUE PIT

4530 NW 27TH AVE

MIAMI

ORDERED SHUT 9/21

9 VIOLATIONS FOUND

“Employee washed hands in a sink other than an approved handwash sink. Observed the only hand wash sink in establishment was removed. As per plans approved by plan review, hand wash sink was near entrance of kitchen outside of restroom. As per manager, employees have been washing hands in 3 compartment sink.”

“Handwash sink removed from food preparation/dishwashing area. Must be reinstalled in the same location where removed. Observed the only hand wash sink in establishment was removed. As per plans approved by plan review, hand wash sink was near entrance of kitchen outside of restroom. As per manager, employees have been washing hands in 3 compartment sink.”

“No handwash sink for employees. Observed no hand wash sink at all inside of establishment other than restroom hand wash sink. Observed the only hand wash sink in establishment was removed. As per plans approved by plan review, hand wash sink was near entrance of kitchen outside of restroom. As per manager, employees have been washing hands in 3 compartment sink.”

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

“Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Observed wall behind cook line soiled with grease. Repeat Violation.”

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

Uno es un popular restaurante de Ocean Drive dentro del histórico Colony Hotel, conocido por su comida estadounidense, carnes, mariscos y un bar clandestino oculto. El otro es un restaurante de barbacoa de Miami que sirve carnes ahumadas y platos favoritos al estilo sureño.

Ambos restaurantes recibieron órdenes de cierre después de que los inspectores encontraran graves infracciones.

Un roedor muerto, un lavavajillas que no funcionaba correctamente, superficies en contacto con alimentos sucias y, en uno de los establecimientos, la ausencia total de un lavamanos para empleados fueron las peores infracciones.

Ambos establecimientos recibieron autorización para reabrir después de limpiar y aprobar una inspección de seguimiento.

MONTANA’S

THE COLONY HOTEL

736 OCEAN DRIVE

MIAMI BEACH

ORDENAN CIERRE 9/21

ENCUENTRAN 5 INFRACCIONES

“Acumulación de aves, insectos, roedores u otras plagas muertas o atrapadas en dispositivos de control. Observaron un roedor muerto en una trampa adhesiva junto a la cámara frigorífica”.

“El lavavajillas no lava/enjuaga correctamente. Todos los platos, equipos y utensilios deben lavarse, enjuagarse y desinfectarse en el fregadero de tres compartimentos hasta que el lavavajillas funcione correctamente. Observaron que el lavavajillas (cloro 0 ppm) se encontraba en el área de lavado de utensilios”.

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, sustancia similar al moho o baba. Observaron en el área de preparación que la cuchilla del abrelatas estaba sucia con restos de comida”.

BROTHER & SISTERS BARBEQUE PIT

4530 NW 27TH AVE

MIAMI

ORDENAN CIERRE 9/21

ENCUENTRAN 9 INFRACCIONES

“El empleado se lavó las manos en un fregadero distinto a un lavamanos aprobado. Observaron que el único lavamanos del establecimiento había sido retirado. Según los planos aprobados durante la revisión, el lavamanos estaba cerca de la entrada de la cocina, fuera del baño. Según el gerente, los empleados se han estado lavando las manos en el fregadero de tres compartimentos”.

“Retiraron el lavamanos del área de preparación de alimentos/lavado de utensilios. Debe ser reinstalado en el mismo lugar de donde fue retirado. Observaron que el único lavamanos del establecimiento había sido retirado. Según los planos aprobados durante la revisión, el lavamanos estaba cerca de la entrada de la cocina, fuera del baño. Según el gerente, los empleados se han estado lavando las manos en el fregadero de tres compartimentos”.

“No hay lavamanos para los empleados. Observaron que no había ningún lavamanos dentro del establecimiento aparte del lavamanos del baño. Observaron que el único lavamanos del establecimiento había sido retirado. Según los planos aprobados durante la revisión, el lavamanos estaba cerca de la entrada de la cocina, fuera del baño. Según el gerente, los empleados se han estado lavando las manos en el fregadero de tres compartimentos”.

“Superficie en contacto con alimentos sucia con restos de comida, sustancia similar al moho o baba. Observaron que la cuchilla del abrelatas estaba sucia con restos de comida vieja”.

“Pared sucia con acumulación de grasa, restos de comida y/o polvo. Observaron que la pared detrás de la línea de cocina estaba sucia con grasa. Infracción reincidente”.

“No se presentó ni aprobó una revisión de planos; se realizaron o están en curso renovaciones”.

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Llerena and Balzano notified law enforcement, and Miami-Dade Animal Services responded to the ParkLine Condominiums at 100 NW Sixth St.

“You can tell that that dog was alive just because of his feces ... I think that’s how he was getting hydrated was with the rainwater,” Llerena said.

A witness’s video shows Miami police officers arresting a man who was wearing a hoodie and rescuing the little dog. Llerena and Balzano hugged.

“I think that what’s important right now is that the community continues to be engaged,” she said. “Of course, because we want to make sure that the dog is successfully re-homed and rehabilitated.”

Miami-Dade County Animal Services confirmed that the dog’s owner was arrested and the Frenchie is now in the care of Animal Services.

“Animal Services takes all allegations of animal cruelty and neglect seriously and thoroughly investigates complaints involving the welfare of animals,” an Animal Services spokesperson said in a statement. “The investigation remains ongoing, and no additional information is available at this time.”

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The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered boarded the 30-foot sailing boat Friday and discovered 10 people aboard, according to the Coast Guard.

The migrants were transferred to the cutter for processing and were later transferred to Coast Guard Cutter Margaret Norvell. The Margaret Norvell’s crew transferred the group to the Bahamas on Sunday.

According to the Coast Guard, the interdiction took place amid rough conditions, including 8-foot seas.

“In the face of daunting, 8-foot seas, the crew of the Robert Yered demonstrated extraordinary professionalism and dedication for hours on end,” Lt. Richard Rodriguez, the cutter’s commanding officer, said. “It is precisely this level of steadfast commitment that allows us to succeed in our missions.”

Rodriguez said the crew’s performance demonstrated its readiness “to save lives and protect our nation’s maritime borders, even under the most grueling conditions.”

According to the Coast Guard, people taken aboard its cutters are processed to determine their identities and are provided with food, water, shelter and basic medical attention before they are transferred to their country of origin.

“The Coast Guard, along with its Operation Vigilant Sentry and Operation Bahamas, Turks and Caicos partners, maintains a continual presence with air, land and sea assets in the Florida Straits, Windward Passage, Mona Passage and Caribbean Sea in support of OVS,” Coast Guard officials said in a press release. “This multiagency and multilayered approach is designed to protect the safety of life at sea while preventing unlawful maritime entry to the United States and its territories.”

La tripulación del guardacostas Robert Yered abordó el viernes la embarcación de vela de 30 pies y descubrió a 10 personas a bordo, según la Guardia Costera.

Los migrantes fueron trasladados al guardacostas para ser procesados y posteriormente fueron transferidos al guardacostas Margaret Norvell. La tripulación del Margaret Norvell transfirió al grupo a Bahamas el domingo.

Según la Guardia Costera, la intercepción ocurrió en medio de condiciones adversas, incluido un oleaje de 8 pies.

“Frente a un imponente oleaje de 8 pies, la tripulación del Robert Yered demostró un extraordinario profesionalismo y dedicación durante horas”, dijo el teniente Richard Rodriguez, oficial al mando del guardacostas. “Es precisamente este nivel de compromiso inquebrantable el que nos permite tener éxito en nuestras misiones”.

Rodriguez dijo que el desempeño de la tripulación demostró su preparación “para salvar vidas y proteger las fronteras marítimas de nuestra nación, incluso bajo las condiciones más extenuantes”.

Según la Guardia Costera, las personas llevadas a bordo de sus guardacostas son procesadas para determinar sus identidades y reciben alimentos, agua, refugio y atención médica básica antes de ser transferidas a su país de origen.

“La Guardia Costera, junto con sus socios de la Operación Vigilant Sentry y la Operación Bahamas, Turcas y Caicos, mantiene una presencia continua con recursos aéreos, terrestres y marítimos en el estrecho de Florida, el Paso de los Vientos, el canal de la Mona y el mar Caribe en apoyo de OVS”, dijeron funcionarios de la Guardia Costera en un comunicado de prensa. “Este enfoque de múltiples agencias y múltiples niveles está diseñado para proteger la seguridad de la vida en el mar, al tiempo que impide la entrada marítima ilegal a Estados Unidos y sus territorios”.

Los Cayos superiores del condado Monroe estaban bajo una advertencia de inundación costera hasta las 6 a.m. del lunes.

Los Cayos centrales e inferiores del condado Monroe estaban bajo un aviso de inundación costera hasta las 6 a.m. del lunes.

La zona continental del condado Monroe estaba bajo un comunicado de inundación costera hasta las 2 p.m. del lunes.

Las zonas costeras de los condados Miami-Dade y Broward estaban bajo un aviso de corrientes de resaca hasta las 2 p.m. del lunes.

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• Los navegantes pueden esperar menos espacio libre debajo de los puentes fijos.

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The shootout occurred early Sunday morning, shortly after midnight, at Carolyn Crayton Park in Macon, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said during a news conference.

A group of young people went to the park to celebrate a woman’s 18th birthday after getting kicked out of a home rented for the party several hours earlier, Davis said. At some point, another group showed up at the park and a confrontation occurred.

“Both groups exchanged words, brandished firearms and then began firing at each other,” Davis said.

Investigators were still trying to determine how the two groups were related to each other and what prompted hostilities. Surveillance video from the park shows an eruption of gunfire that lasted about 30 seconds as people fled the area.

Deputies responded to the park and learned that victims had been transported to a nearby hospital in personal vehicles. One 19-year-old male, four 18-year-old males, five 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old females were treated for injuries. Two of the people were in critical condition, and the others were stable.

“There’s no indication that any of these individuals who were injured at this time participated in the gunfire,” Davis said.

No arrests were immediately made, but the sheriff said investigators had several persons of interest. Deputies impounded four vehicles that brought victims to the hospital and three that were left at the park. They also interviewed 10 witnesses.

“There’s going to be some heavy police presences in some places coming up over the next few days as we make some arrests in this,” Davis said.

Also Sunday morning, police in Detroit responded to an after-hours strip club where an argument led to gunfire, killing three and wounding four. No arrests were immediately announced.

The new rules were released shortly after President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz, sending oil prices soaring.

Also, Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump’s ambassador to China said Sunday.

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Mediators working to broker US-Iran deal even after Trump rejected latest Tehran proposal

Mediators are still working with Iran and the United States on brokering a deal to end the fighting and open the Strait of Hormuz — even after Trump publicly rejected Iran’s latest proposal, four officials familiar with the matter, including a senior U.S. official, told The Associated Press.

The indirect talks were expected to resume Monday and come as the conflict that’s caused global economic damage and badly battered Iran enters its eighth month. Multiple efforts to allow safe shipping on one of the world’s most crucial waterways have failed.

The officials divulged that the behind-the-scenes efforts continue even after Trump spurned an Iranian proposal to reopen the strait in a week if the U.S. agreed to lift its blockade of Iranian ports, releases frozen Iranian assets and waives sanctions on Iranian oil sales, among other conditions.

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— Samy Magdy and Matthew Lee

Democratic campaign chair says party has ‘momentum’

The leader of the Democratic effort to retake control of the U.S. House insists the party is well positioned heading into the final stretch of the campaign even as President Trump and his allies begin to unleash a massive amount of cash.

“This isn’t about having the most money,” Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington, the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told reporters Monday.

She said it was more important that Democrats have enough money to get their message out “and we do.”

Still, she said “we take nothing for granted.”

“Democrats across the battlefield are going to run hard until the very last moment,” she said.

Trump administration lowers fuel economy standards, critics say at a significant environmental cost

The Trump administration on Monday released new fuel economy standards that relax regulatory requirements for automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. The new rules were released shortly after Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz, sending oil prices soaring.

Fuel economy requirements set out how far new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline. The change furthers Trump’s promise to revoke policies that encouraged or created incentives for the production of electric vehicles.

The Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that the finalized standards would correspond to a combined industry fleetwide average of roughly 34.9 miles per gallon for passenger cars and light trucks in the 2031 model year, down from a projected 50.4 miles per gallon in 2031 under rules put in place by the Biden administration.

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FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey says he’s leaving his position

And he says he’ll be returning to Missouri to be with his family.

Bailey made the announcement in a post on X on Monday morning in which he thanked President Trump, Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel for the opportunity to serve. He says the FBI has “delivered historic results.”

Bailey was named in August 2025 to be a co-deputy director, the No. 2 job, at the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency. He initially served alongside Dan Bongino and, once Bongino resigned, remained in his position as the FBI named another deputy director, Christopher Raia.

The FBI did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment about Bailey’s departure.

Trump to announce $15 billion steel mill planned for Iowa

The White House said Trump on Monday will announce a new steel plant in eastern Iowa that would be one of the largest in the United States.

The president is expected to host steel executives at the White House for the event at 2 p.m. ET.

The mill is being built by Mesabi Metallics, a Minnesota company owned by India-based Essar Group. The announcement was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The White House is framing it as part of Trump’s push to revitalize American steel. It comes as Trump is trying to energize Republican voters as his party faces challenging midterm elections. Iowa has found itself with competitive races for the Senate and the governor’s mansion this year.

Trump’s former Army secretary pens essay on military innovation, skips reason for exit

Former Army Sec. Dan Driscoll has written a 3,400-word essay in Foreign Affairs magazine that delves deeply into how the U.S. military can better prepare for the modern battlefield, including drone warfare.

But Driscoll’s article sheds no more light on why he resigned as the Army’s civilian leader in early September. Tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were widely reported, but Driscoll praises the leadership of Hegseth and President Trump in his article.

Driscoll argues the U.S. still needs to build nuclear submarines and stealth fighters. But he says the military must get better at rapidly producing cheaper weapons, such as the drones used by Iran and Ukraine. The solution lies in private industry innovation, Driscoll writes, with “software developers in the mud with soldiers.”

US and China release reciprocal $30 billion product lists for tariff cuts after Trump-Xi meeting

The United States and China released Monday reciprocal lists of products worth about $30 billion each that will see tariff cuts, from American hair products to Chinese toys, in a deal expected to boost bilateral trade.

The details came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with President Trump in Washington in his first state visit to the U.S. since 2015. The U.S. had already reduced tariffs against China after Trump’s tariffs reached as high as 145% at one point last year, as tensions between the two countries eased.

China’s commerce ministry said in a statement the agreement will help strengthen trade cooperation.

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Iran denies involvement in suspected plot targeting a US-operated air base in England

Iran’s embassy in London on Monday denied any involvement in a suspected plot targeting a U.S. operated air base in England.

The embassy said in a statement that it “categorically rejects and strongly condemns the recent unfounded and malicious speculations” surrounding the arrest of five men near the base in western England.

Five British men have been arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack.

The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base that’s been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East.

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Trump asked China’s president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says

Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump’s ambassador to China said on Sunday.

David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant geopolitical rival, an unlikely offer that, if consummated, would upend generations of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan and potentially expose U.S. technology to a potential foe. Perdue, speaking to Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday,” didn’t specify when the offer was made.

Bream had cited concerns from Republican and Democratic lawmakers over delayed aid packages and weapons orders to Taiwan, the self-ruled democracy, to defend itself from China. Bream asked if the U.S. is denying arms to Taiwan to appease the Chinese president, who visited Trump last week. Perdue pushed back on the suggestion, stating that Trump “is as strong on Taiwan as I’ve ever seen anybody” and has sold it plenty of weapons.

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Deputy Luis Hernandez won the fight by locking up his opponent, who happened to be a convicted felon, with a standing choke.

The Saturday night fight at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas between Hernandez and Sedriques Dumas lasted just 57 seconds.

Hernandez celebrated his win with a dance around the cage.

According to MMAJunkie.USAToday.com, Dumas was initially scheduled to fight Mickey Gall, but Hernandez was a short-notice replacement.

It’s the first fight of what’s expected to be many for the deputy in the UFC.

The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas. The company had been aiming for a 10-hour flight, spanning six full laps around Earth, to prove its readiness for NASA’s Artemis moon program.

Starship tipped over and erupted in flames upon splashdown, a dramatic end to the mission.

Founder Elon Musk's Starship almost didn't make it to orbit when one of its engines shut down too soon. But with everything else working well and the bad engine no longer needed, flight controllers decided after several tense minutes to proceed as planned.

“Starship is orbital,” Mission Control announced to cheers.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman congratulated SpaceX on reaching orbit and “managing every step in a safe, responsible and especially inspirational way.”

Rocket carries 26 of Musk's most advanced Starlink satellites

Musk’s showpiece rocket — the biggest and most powerful ever built — carried 26 of the latest Starlink satellites to join the 11,000 older models already providing internet service. They popped out of the spacecraft one by one, drawing more cheers from the SpaceX crowds looking on from the launch site at Starbase, Texas.

The decision to end the flight early came soon afterward. No reason was provided.

It was Starship’s 14th full-scale launch from Texas’ southern tip in three years. The earlier test flights ventured no farther than the Indian Ocean halfway around the world, often crashing in flames and briefly skimming space.

This time, SpaceX was intent on circling the globe from an altitude of 170 miles (275 kilometers) — not just once but six times over almost 10 hours, ending with a Pacific splashdown near Chile. While Starship achieved the proper orbit zipping along at 17,500 mph (28,000 kph), flight controllers opted to play it safe and bring it back several hours sooner, after just a couple laps.

The first-stage booster was never meant to return to the Starbase launch site either, instead dropping into the Gulf of Mexico within minutes of the morning liftoff.

SpaceX wants to ensure that everything works before flying Starship back to Starbase. If the spacecraft breaks apart over land and rains debris onto people, “our popularity would diminish very rapidly,” Musk said at a business summit earlier this month. “That’s why we’re being extremely cautious here.”

Depending on the findings from Monday's orbital debut, the next Starship could return to the launch pad with giant mechanical arms grabbing the hovering spacecraft. If the catch works — Musk gives it even or slightly better odds — then SpaceX will refly the spacecraft by year’s end or early next year.

The 407-foot (124-meter) rocket was designed from the start to be fully reusable — a key to lowering launch costs. SpaceX managed to salvage the last Starship from the Indian Ocean in July. Engineers modified the newly launched Starship’s heat shield based on hands-on inspections from the recovered spacecraft, which is being tugged back to Starbase.

SpaceX wants Starship to be certified for orbital flight

SpaceX is pressing hard to certify Starship for orbital flight, a vital step toward moon and Mars travel.

NASA’s Artemis III mission is coming up as soon as next summer, a triple-launch docking exercise in orbit around Earth between an Orion capsule full of astronauts and competing lunar landers. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Moon will blast off first, then Orion — which will close in for a linkup — then Musk’s Starship for a docking with Orion once Blue Moon is unleashed.

The next mission — Artemis IV slated for no sooner than 2028 — would have astronauts landing on the moon in either Blue Moon or Starship, whichever is ready first. Subsequent moonshots will alternate between the two billionaires’ landers.

Musk originally developed Starship for Mars, intending to launch scores of them with the red planet’s first settlers. For now, he plans to focus on the moon and use Starship to haul satellites into orbit by the truckload, phasing out the company’s frailer Falcon 9 rocket within several years. A second Starship launch site is nearing completion at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and a third is planned for Louisiana.

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Achane left in the first quarter with a knee injury and was ruled out for the remainder of the game. Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley said after the loss that he was still gathering information on the injury and did not have a timetable.

“To be very honest with you, it does not sound very optimistic at this moment, but I can’t give you any other details until I have them,” Hafley said.

The uncertainty surrounding Achane overshadowed an afternoon in which Miami stayed within striking distance of the AFC powerhouse for much of the game.

Hafley said that was part of what made the loss particularly difficult.

“I love the way our team responded just in general today, to be honest with you,” Hafley said. “That’s why this one hurts. It’s a four-point game in the third quarter. It’s a seven-point game with us driving after we got backed up. We got the penalty to get the ball to the 50. I mean, I felt like we were right there.”

The Dolphins’ defense settled down after Kansas City struck for a big play on its opening possession.

Miami forced a fourth-down stop, intercepted Patrick Mahomes and held the Chiefs to a field goal in the second half before Kansas City eventually pulled away.

“They hit us on a big play to start the game and they scored,” Hafley added. “And then the defense just really stepped up for the majority of the rest of the game, which was inspiring how hard they played all the way to the end.”

Hafley said the defense’s ability to regroup after the opening touchdown was one of the more encouraging aspects of the performance.

“I think they took a deep breath, we dialed it in, we did our job more on every single play, and really for the next three quarters after that, we played good football,” Hafley said. “We had the fourth down stop. We had the takeaway. We held them to a field goal when we needed to on defense. I think there was a lot of improvement today versus last week, but certainly it needs to be even better than that.”

One of the more frustrating moments came in the third quarter when a roughing-the-passer penalty on Dolphins EDGE Chop Robinson extended a Kansas City drive. Harrison Butker converted a 34-yard field goal after the penalty to put the Chiefs ahead 17-10.

Hafley had not yet reviewed the play when he spoke to reporters.

“I got to watch the tape,” he said. “I was so fired up because I thought just watching the pressure hit home, we had exactly what we wanted on the play and it opened up and we got the sack or we got the hit.”

Hafley said his attention immediately turned to the possibility of Miami getting the ball back with favorable field position.

“I kind of turned my head and was thinking about a backed up punt with a chance to catch the ball on the 50-yard line and take over at midfield,” he said. “So I didn’t get a chance. I’ll watch it tomorrow.”

Asked what Robinson could have done differently, Hafley again declined to make a judgment before watching the film.

“I’m going to watch it on TV or I’ll watch it on film and try to coach him better not to do whatever he did,” Hafley said. “But I’m not going to fault the guy for going hard. We’ll clean it up and we’ll have to coach it better if indeed it was.”

Hafley also pointed to the response of rookie wide receiver Chris Bell, who bounced back from a penalty to make several plays.

Bell came to the sideline after the penalty and acknowledged the mistake to his coach.

“He kind of said, ‘Hey, that was me,’” Hafley said. “I was like, we’re good. You’re going to make a play and it’s going to be a big play in the game, which is very important to me because I think you’ve got to let things go.”

Bell later came through with several positive plays, including a 44-yard reception from quarterback Malik Willis.

“What did he do? He came back and he made a couple of really nice plays,” Hafley added. “So I like the way that he responded. I mean, I think that shows a lot about him, and we’ll keep coaching him.”

For Miami, though, the focus now shifts to Achane.

The Dolphins already entered the game without rookie wide receiver Caleb Douglas because of an ankle injury, and Hafley was not ready to speculate about how the offense might change if Achane is forced to miss additional time.

“Yeah, let’s hold off and answer those questions once we figure out the severity of his injuries, if you don’t mind, and process through all that,” Hafley said. “I have respect for the question, but I’d rather talk about what-ifs when we figure out exactly what it is.”

On the other sideline, Mahomes had a different reason to reflect on the night.

The Chiefs quarterback returned to the stadium where he led Kansas City to its victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Sunday’s win also moved Mahomes to 3-0 all-time at Hard Rock Stadium.

Patrick Mahomes on the nostalgia of picking up a win at Hard Rock Stadium, where he won his first Super Bowl (LIV) pic.twitter.com/6fYN1194zw

— Ryan Mackey (@RyanMackeyWPLG) September 28, 2026

“When you get on the field, you kind of feel that,” Mahomes said. “You’re just looking around and seeing the stadium where you won your first Super Bowl and even at the same hotel room.”

Mahomes said he reconnected with former teammates and others who were part of that championship week.

“Just going and getting to the hotel, I’m texting some of the guys that were around because we had a full week here and guys would come to your room and you’d have that team bonding stuff going on,” he said. “It was cool to kind of be back here and to play at this game. But at the end of the day, you gotta go out there and play and so it was good to get a win.”

Mahomes also addressed the emotional sequence late in the game, when he took a hit before finding Travis Kelce for a touchdown that put the game out of reach.

“I think it was letting out the emotion of this hasn’t been the way that we wanted it to be,” Mahomes said. “It was that frustration coming out in that sense. But we were able to make the play. That’s at the end of the day is the most important thing, and letting out some of the frustration there.”

Kelce caught both Mahomes’ first completion of the game and his final touchdown pass.

“But Travis making a play, I mean he caught the first pass and the last pass,” Mahomes added. “It was him battling through that as well, making a play when his number is called.”

For the Dolphins, the loss dropped them to 0-3, but Hafley said the way his young team continued to compete against Kansas City showed growth and resilience.

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The Dolphins (0-3) will face the Minnesota Vikings (3-0) at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Kansas City (3-0) will face the Las Vegas Raiders (3-0) at Allegiant Stadium.

The settlement was signed by the Milan prosecutors, Alabama-based multinational Caddell Construction and the court-appointed administrator that took over the construction site following the investigation into exploitative labor practices.

Caddell remains under administration, and the criminal investigation against the company and two of its managers in Italy is continuing, prosecutors said.

Caddell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Italian Labor Minister Marina Calderone called the probe “one of the most significant operations in recent years against illegal labor contracting and worker exploitation,” and said the outcome showed that the state would not abandon vulnerable workers.

Unions helping the workers welcomed the settlement, describing it as the largest of its kind in Europe.

Nearly 300 workers identified so far will receive on average 50,000 euros ($57,000), with some receiving up to 90,000 euros ($102,000) in unpaid wages and damages for emotional distress, said Luca Stanzione, the secretary general of the Milan branch of CGIL, a major trade union confederation.

“The compensation is an excellent result achieved through the efforts of prosecutors and trade unions,” Stanzione told The Associated Press. The CGIL’s construction union has been actively helping dozens of workers involved in the case.

Of the total, about 19.7 million euros is earmarked for direct payments to workers, with the remainder covering obligations to Italy’s social security authorities and labor inspectorate.

Most of the workers involved were from India, where they were recruited. The AP also spoke to workers who were recruited from a Caddell embassy project in Africa.

Milan prosecutors say that the workers were constantly exploited. After being promised a fair wage during recruitment, their pay stubs showed that they received less than $2 an hour and that food and housing had been illegally deducted from their wages. The minimum wage for construction workers in Milan starts at 13.19 euros (over $15) an hour.

The building site was put under judicial administration to restore legal operations. The new Milan consulate campus is being built on a 10-acre (40,000-square meter) site at a former shooting range, and will replace the current consulate that is located in a high rise.

Separately, dozens of workers have been granted unemployment benefits, while 265 have received special residence permits and applications for the remaining workers are being processed, according to the Labor Ministry.

La lluvia continuó de forma intermitente, pero autoridades municipales de Bangkok manifestaron que las condiciones habían mejorado lo suficiente como para acelerar las labores de drenaje. Los niveles de agua en cuatro canales principales habían subido demasiado durante el fin de semana como para recibir el escurrimiento de las comunidades cercanas.

Se pronosticaban más lluvias en gran parte de Tailandia, aunque se esperaba menos en Bangkok. Camboya y Myanmar también estaban sufriendo condiciones meteorológicas severas.

Las inundaciones del fin de semana afectaron a 329.000 hogares, o alrededor de 700.000 personas, informó el Centro de Control de Inundaciones de Bangkok, según la vicegobernadora Tavida Kamolvej. Medios tailandeses reportaron dos muertes relacionadas con las inundaciones en la ciudad y al menos 10 en todo el país.

El gobernador Chadchart Sittipunt declaró una emergencia por inundaciones el sábado en los 50 distritos de la ciudad, aunque algunos resultaron relativamente ilesos. Indicó que las autoridades estaban priorizando la asistencia a residentes vulnerables, incluidas personas mayores y con discapacidad, mediante la entrega de suministros o su evacuación. Funcionarios municipales señalaron que casi 7.000 personas se alojaban en refugios.

Los vecindarios del este de Bangkok fueron los más golpeados. El primer ministro Anutin Charnvirakul caminó descalzo con los pantalones arremangados la noche del domingo para inspeccionar un complejo habitacional gravemente inundado en el distrito de Bang Kapi y ayudar a distribuir suministros de ayuda.

El agua llegaba a las rodillas el lunes cerca de una estación de tren y un centro comercial en Bang Kapi. Pese a los aguaceros intermitentes, compradores avanzaban por el agua cargando bolsas, mochilas y cajas de comestibles. Algunos iban y venían de la estación en una pequeña embarcación proporcionada por el centro comercial.

"Me preocupan mis mascotas"

Para Naowarat Supanikorn, una empleada doméstica de 55 años que comparte una casa de una sola planta con tres perros y seis gatos, la inundación fue más que una molestia.

Contó que se dio cuenta alrededor de la 1:30 de la madrugada del sábado de que el agua se estaba filtrando en su vivienda.

“Tuve que sacar a mis perros y gatos”, relató. “Tuve que dejarlos con mi vecina. Hoy los he traído de vuelta porque dijeron que saldría el sol, pero parece que la lluvia volverá”.

Explicó que la inundación en su vecindario llegó por encima de sus caderas en su punto más alto, y que desde entonces había bajado hasta aproximadamente el nivel de las rodillas. Pero que el problema mayor es que perdió su trabajo en un condominio.

“En mi trabajo también dijeron que si no puedo ir a trabajar, están felices de aceptar mi renuncia. Así que pensé: está bien, renuncio”.

Para intentar generar algún ingreso, compró insumos para preparar comida que pueda vender en la calle, pero el negocio va lento con estas condiciones.

“Es estresante. Si llegan las facturas, estaré frita, porque ahora no tengo trabajo. Si tengo que pagar agua o electricidad ahora, será malo”, expresó. “No me preocupo por mí, pero me preocupan mis mascotas. He vivido con ellas toda mi vida. Son mi prioridad. Está bien si no tengo trabajo y paso hambre, pero me gustaría ayuda para mis mascotas”.

La inundación también ha tenido efectos en cadena, entre ellos compras de pánico de alimentos, interrupciones en las cadenas de suministro de alimentos y otros artículos, y problemas de personal en diversas empresas cuyos empleados no pudieron llegar a sus trabajos.

Anegaciones afectan principal aeropuerto de Bangkok

La Fuerza Aérea tailandesa anunció que enviaba a 69 efectivos de personal de tierra al Aeropuerto Suvarnabhumi de Bangkok para ayudar a despejar un atraso de equipaje de pasajeros causado en gran medida porque trabajadores del aeropuerto no pudieron llegar a su lugar de trabajo.

“Este despliegue es una misión vital para cuidar, asistir y facilitar el tránsito de los viajeros —incluidos turistas de todo el mundo—, garantizando operaciones fluidas y evitando demoras en los servicios en tierra, con lo cual se preserva la imagen positiva del país”, señaló la fuerza aérea.

El aeropuerto había atribuido previamente la acumulación de equipaje a “personal insuficiente para respaldar las operaciones de asistencia en tierra” y a problemas con algunos carritos de equipaje.

Las interrupciones retrasaron algunas salidas y obligaron a pasajeros que llegaban a esperar más de lo habitual por su equipaje, con maletas de varios vuelos aún sin entregar, indicó el aeropuerto.

El gobierno declaró feriados especiales el lunes y el martes para las oficinas estatales. Aconsejó a empresas estatales, instituciones financieras, negocios privados y hospitales determinar si necesitaban permanecer abiertos.

La agencia meteorológica de Tailandia pronosticó lluvias fuertes a muy fuertes en varias partes del país. Advirtió a los residentes, en particular en las regiones norte, central y oriental, que se prepararan para posibles inundaciones repentinas, desbordamientos de ríos, escorrentía forestal y deslizamientos de tierra, especialmente cerca de cursos de agua, estribaciones y zonas bajas.

Países vecinos también afectados por inundaciones

En el vecino Myanmar, al menos 10 personas murieron y decenas estaban desaparecidas después de que fuertes lluvias desencadenaran inundaciones generalizadas y deslizamientos de tierra en la región costera meridional de Tanintharyi, informaron medios locales.

El municipio de Dawei registró 346 milímetros (13,62 pulgadas) de lluvia el lunes, rompiendo un récord de 80 años. El Departamento de Meteorología de Myanmar advirtió que las condiciones podrían empeorar a medida que el frente de tormenta se acercaba a Yangon.

Inundaciones repentinas causaron estragos en al menos 10 provincias en Camboya, afectando a 44.889 familias y obligando a casi 4.000 personas a evacuar, según funcionarios de gestión de desastres.

La agencia que supervisa el parque arqueológico en la provincia de Siem Reap, donde se encuentra el complejo de templos Angkor de siglos de antigüedad, indicó que estaba operando compuertas y sistemas de desvío para reducir el riesgo de inundaciones.

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El periodista de The Associated Press Sopheng Cheang contribuyó a este despacho desde Nom Pen, Camboya.

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Esta historia ha sido corregida para señalar que el primer ministro tailandés Anutin caminó descalzo por las aguas de la inundación. Versiones anteriores dijeron incorrectamente que llevaba botas, basándose en una foto poco clara.

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

But South Carolina is also the first state in Democrats' next presidential nominating process, so White House hopefuls are looking for any excuse they can find to pop over.

In the next few weeks, five Democrats who are believed to be mulling 2028 campaigns — California Rep. Ro Khanna, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and longtime Democratic politico Rahm Emanuel — will be stumping here.

That’s on top of recent visits from former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.

The travel itineraries show that even though there are five weeks until the midterms, the next presidential cycle is already underway.

Khanna returns to South Carolina for several days starting Thursday. Around the same time, Beshear will stump with candidates in Orangeburg and Charleston, and he'll discuss his new book with Rep. Jim Clyburn, a longtime Democratic kingmaker.

There's overlap with Kelly, who starts a two-day swing on Friday and plans to campaign for candidates such as Senate nominee Annie Andrews. A week later, Pritzker is set to headline a fundraising dinner for the local NAACP.

And just days before early voting kicks off on Oct. 13, Emanuel — the former congressman, White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama, Chicago mayor and U.S. ambassador to Japan — has a packed South Carolina schedule. He's talking to students on several college campuses and appearing with candidates including gubernatorial nominee Jermaine Johnson.

Emanuel's advisers said he will also meet with dozens of pastors, as well as participate in a community conversation with some parishioners affected by the deadly 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston.

South Carolina has always been early in the primary calendar for both parties, but Democrats recently solidified its place at the front of the line.

Bre Maxwell, a Democratic National Committee member from the state, said visiting allows candidates to see how their pitch lands with key voters.

“They’re doing it under the guise of, ‘Hey, I’m gonna come to South Carolina, help support this candidate,’ while also having one-off meetings with people to build for what they possibly may do in ‘28,” Maxwell said. “'How much support do I have, how many people like me, how many people don’t like me?'”

One person who isn't due to visit soon is former Vice President Kamala Harris. She hasn't been to South Carolina since April, when she participated in a party fundraiser alongside a tour for her book recounting the whirlwind 2024 presidential campaign.

But Harris' deep relations in the state mean she doesn't need to come as early or as often as others, who are still gaining name recognition.

Republicans' nominating process will still start with the Iowa caucuses, but South Carolina will hold the party's first southern primary.

With President Donald Trump constitutionally prohibited from running for a third term, other Republicans are starting to test the waters. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz came to stump with Attorney General Alan Wilson before he won the party's nomination for governor.

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The indirect talks come as the conflict, which is entering its eighth month, has caused global economic damage and badly battered Iran. Multiple efforts to allow safe shipping on one of the world’s most crucial waterways have failed.

The officials divulged that the behind-the-scenes efforts continue even after U.S. President Donald Trump initially said he spurned an Iranian proposal to reopen the strait in a week if the U.S. agreed to lift its blockade of Iranian ports, release frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on Iranian oil sales, among other conditions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — who stayed in New York after last week’s gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly — will meet with Qatari mediators Monday about the latest discussions, Iranian state media reported Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei as saying.

Despite Trump’s often bellicose rhetoric, he is open to pursuing a non-military resolution to the conflict if one can be achieved, a senior U.S. official said.

But the Trump administration will not reach a deal with Tehran until nuclear issues are addressed, another U.S. official said. Trump is willing to grant sanctions relief to Iran, along with the release of some frozen funds, for concrete progress on nuclear issues, and while Iran has indicated it is flexible on nuclear issues, the sides are far apart on timing and which side makes the first moves, the official said.

All the officials were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity about the behind-the-scenes diplomatic negotiations.

The deal would first reopen the strait and lift the US blockade

Two of the regional officials speaking to the AP confirmed that mediators are working with both sides on a proposal that would include reopening the strait and lifting the U.S. blockade, and then removing sanctions.

According to the draft text being discussed, the strait would reopen in accordance with a separate deal that Iran has been discussing with Oman, on the other side of the strait, and it would include no tolls — something Tehran has pursued. That deal seeks to temporarily manage shipping traffic on what was seen as an international waterway before the war.

One regional official said the U.S. is seeking Iranian concessions on nuclear issues that include allowing inspectors to enter the country. Under the memorandum of understanding the two sides signed in June that collapsed within days, Iran’s nuclear program was meant to be discussed over a 60-day period.

The U.S. officials say the United States is skeptical about whether Iran can be persuaded to ultimately reach Trump’s conditions for a deal and would be serious about any promises it makes, especially after it broke the interim deal by firing on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. officials feel their position is getting stronger as Tehran feels the impact of sanctions.

Iran's latest proposal seeks faster action

While Iran’s latest proposal echoes the June deal, a key difference is speed.

Araghchi told a closed-door meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly last week that Tehran had pitched the deal as benefiting Trump in the midterm elections. Araghchi later told journalists that “the seven-day timeline will start as soon as the United States accepts this plan.”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also planned to meet Araghchi on Monday in a bid to help mediators, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

Both the U.S. and Iran have been hurting economically — the U.S. from high oil prices as Iran attacks ships on the strait, and Tehran from the naval blockade and a growing number of U.S. sanctions that bottle up its oil sales. Brent crude, the international standard, is above $108.

For months, the two sides have been trying to outlast the other, while regional countries endure missile and drone attacks as Tehran claims to target U.S. military assets in the region.

Reflecting Iran's impatience, a rare statement on Monday attributed to the theocracy's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei noted the “painful blows” that enemy forces have received near the strait. “Before long, the Arabian Sea, too, will be rid of them,” the statement added.

Tehran's latest proposal again sought to end the fighting on all fronts, including in Lebanon. But a new front has emerged in recent weeks as Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are now perched on another crucial waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. That has further pressured global energy markets.

Iran argues that the Houthis have their own demands, and that their conflict with neighboring Saudi Arabia is separate from the U.S.-Iran war, but Iranian officials said they are willing to help in finding a settlement between the Houthis and the Saudis, one of the officials said.

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Price and Lee reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Collin Binkley in Washington and AP Middle East editor Victoria Eastwood contributed to this report.

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The spate of killings and bodies of women discovered in the area since July has sparked fears that a serial killer or killers are responsible. The killings also have generated anger in South Africa, which has high rates of femicide and violent crime toward women and children.

The body of the latest female victim was discovered in Springs, which is part of Ekurhuleni, by a private security company that was patrolling the area on Sunday, police said.

Police began investigating after the bodies of three women were found in July and August within about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) of one another in the Ekurhuleni municipality, east of Johannesburg.

The discovery of six bodies in Ekurhuleni over 10 days earlier this month raised fears about a serial killer or killers.

The latest discovery came a day after another body of a woman who appeared to have been violently killed was discovered near Tembisa township.

Police released limited details about the 10th body, which was found early Saturday, and didn't immediately identify the victim.

According to the police, a 36-year-old suspect was arrested in connection with the killing and is due to appear at Tembisa Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

It is alleged that following the killing, the suspect fled to Tzaneen in Limpopo province, which is nearly 400 kilometers (about 245 miles) away from where the woman's body was discovered. He was arrested on Saturday evening, the same day the woman's body was discovered.

Last week, two women appeared in court in relation to the killing of one of the women whose bodies have been discovered around Ekurhuleni since July. They are due to appear in court on Oct. 1.

In this rough-and-tumble corner of northwest Louisiana, where booms and busts have defined the oil rich region’s history, the legislation can be a bit of a mystery to voters going about their days ahead of the November election.

This is President Donald Trump country, and Johnson, who rode into office on the 2016 wave that elected the president the first time, is in no apparent danger as he seeks a sixth term in Congress.

But the tenor of conversations — at a candidate forum, at a data center open house, outside a grocery store — provides a snapshot of the grim outlook for the party in power. High gas and grocery prices, the war in Iran and the lingering sense of an uneasy new economic normal are all on voters’ minds.

“I remember when Trump said, ‘This Christmas, you’ll have one doll’ — I didn’t get it,” said Katherine Ferguson, an attorney in Shreveport and mother of a teenager, after a recent community meeting downtown. “Now I get it.”

Voters are struggling to add it all up

Republicans are campaigning on the big bill, what Johnson calls the largest tax cuts in American history. He hauled the package over the finish line last summer, a remarkable political achievement given the slim House majority.

“This is real money for real people,” Johnson said in Washington, as lawmakers headed home to campaign.

Louisianans on average saw an estimated $2,900 tax deduction this year, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, largely because the bill preserved existing rates and brackets that would have otherwise expired. The boost in actual tax refunds was much less, about $350 on average nationwide.

The numbers, in many ways, speak for themselves. The bill tallied some $4 trillion in tax breaks, including new deductions for tips and overtime pay, and enhanced benefits for many seniors and families with children. It also cut more than $1 trillion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, and Medicaid healthcare by imposing administrative changes and additional work requirements that are expected to lead to fewer people on the programs.

Overall, the bill is projected to boost economic growth, but it also adds more than $3 trillion to the federal deficit over a decade.

Johnson said the GOP is “cutting wasteful government spending” and “enacting the policies to bring about economic growth.”

Voters appear to be struggling to add it all up, especially as gas hits $4 a gallon and diesel has almost doubled from last year in Louisiana, topping $6.

“I don’t understand the high prices,” said Dodie Horton, a state representative in Johnson’s district, who is supportive of Trump and the speaker but has trouble making sense of the price spikes.

“I know it’s not the president,” she said. “My people want to know why. I don’t have an answer.”

Tax cuts vs. food aid

Madison McDonald, in between working the bar area at the Silver Star Smokehouse & Tavern, said she’s saved about $3,000 on state and federal taxes combined this year, thanks to the tipped income deduction.

The restaurant is popular with the oil and gas industry workers, and she said she once landed a $1,100 tip from a busy table — an appreciated supplement to her $2.13 hourly wage, the federal minimum.

“It definitely helps,” she said. “People are generous.”

Up the road in Bossier Parish, where Johnson lives, Sheriff Julian C. Whittington had his staff run the numbers and found that more than 180 deputies had their taxable income reduced by an average of $1,100 thanks to the overtime deduction.

“That’s good for them, and it’s good for the department,” he said. “Our folks are getting more money, and it doesn’t cost us any more.”

Yet across the river that divides the city, with its riverfront casinos on one side and aging civic infrastructure on the other, the food aid cuts are also taking shape.

Al Moore keeps the door locked as the line begins to form hours before the daily hot lunch is served at the nonprofit Christian Service, where he is executive director.

Once the noon hour strikes, he begins to let people file in, about 10 or so at a time, as they take their seats.

Calvin Ray Marshall, 59, said he was receiving about $294 per month in SNAP benefits until May, when he said he was unable to meet the new 80-hours-a-month work requirements, which now apply to those through age 64 who are able-bodied and do not have young children.

“That’s why I’m here,” he said, finishing up a plate of chicken, rice and gravy, with mixed vegetables.

He said he used to stock shelves at a mini-market and recently sought work at a new gas station. Sometimes he picks up odd jobs, cutting a yard, and he lives out of a tire repair shop where he used to help out, but that closed as business dried up during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns.

“For some reason, the government has always been trying to cut people off food stamps because they think people are abusing it,” said Marshall. “It seems like they think jobs are just falling out of the sky.”

Johnson's district now encompasses this area, part of a majority-Black congressional district that was eliminated after the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark voting rights case this summer.

After lunch, Kenny “KeKe” Heads pulls out a resume listing past work experience — sandwich artist, janitor, housekeeper at a local hotel — on a tidy one-sheet document. For now, Heads receives about $100 a month in SNAP benefits but is worried that the three-month window available to jobseekers will lapse before he finds work.

“It’s rough,” Heads said, hopeful one day of opening a beauty salon and boutique. “Getting a chance is like one in a million.”

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Louisiana is behind only Arizona and on par with Nevada in the decline in SNAP recipients during the year since the bill passed, a 21% reduction. The Medicaid work requirements are set to begin in most states in January.

Other voices looking for alternatives

One of Johnson’s Democratic opponents, Conrad Cable, an English major turned vegetable farmer, said he decided to run for Congress because “enough is enough.”

“If you talk to people at the gas pumps — people are pissed,” he said.

He said he hears from voters about the war, affordability, the SNAP cuts — “there was never any conversation about cutting people's food benefits,” he said.

Outside a Shreveport grocery store, Norman Summers, 70, a Marine and retired construction worker, supported Trump but is warily watching the war in Iran and the president's rising wealth.

“Trump’s the one who’s bothering me,” he said.

As the afternoon sun glared, attorney Scott Bowie stopped his cart of bottled waters to assess the political mood.

A believer in small government, he wishes the big Republican bill had done more to reduce the federal deficit.

When he looks to Democrats, “They don't seem to want what I want," he said. "But I’m not saying I'm happy with the Republicans either.”

Losing her uncle inspired her to go to nursing school, and she hit the books while representing Pakistan internationally. She was a nurse when she competed in Miss Grand International in Thailand.

“I did pageants in my 20s, and then I went on to become a nurse, and then I just saw that I didn’t like any of the scrubs that were out there, so, I just decided to make my own,” Ashfaque said.

It was challenging.

“They didn’t allow pageantry in Pakistan, so they held it in other countries, where I would compete for the title,” Ashfaque said.

As a nurse, she worked long shifts and she couldn’t find scrubs that she liked.

“They’re fitted, as you can tell. More girly. I was always like the skinnier girl, so they all felt like a big paper bag on me. All the pants come in petite, regular, tall,” Ashfaque said.

Going into business took a big risk.

“I bet, pretty much all my savings. I was working like crazy as a nurse, doing super overtime because this was during COVID too. There was so much overtime -- I was working, working, working. I was like, I can’t do this anymore. I took every penny I had and put it into this,” Ashfaque said.

Three months after launching her company, she quit nursing and decided to run her business full-time.

“Best decision I’ve ever made,” Ashfaque said.

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The 75-minute launch window is scheduled to open at 8:15 a.m. EST Monday.

According to SpaceX, previous Starship flight tests have intentionally followed suborbital trajectories designed to maximize public safety while allowing the company to learn from each mission.

Flight 14 would mark a significant change in the Starship testing program as SpaceX moves into the next phase of developing the spacecraft to become fully and rapidly reusable.

The mission is also expected to mark the first time SpaceX attempts to deploy Starlink V3 satellites into its constellation.

SpaceX said the new satellites are designed to significantly expand connectivity speeds and reliability around the world.

She was the first female member of Ferrari’s young driver program, a front-runner in Formula 1’s developmental series for women, F1 Academy, and a star of its spinoff Netflix docuseries.

Now Weug has spent most of 2026 on the outside looking in.

“There was a good plan coming into this year and everything was ready to go and to focus on GT (sportscar racing),” the 22-year-old told The Associated Press in a recent interview on the sidelines of the Dutch Grand Prix. “But then it suddenly all fell apart in March. Since then I’ve just been standing, I wouldn’t say on my own, but basically on my own.”

F1 Academy was launched in 2023 to give female drivers a platform to reach higher levels of competition in a sport that’s always been dominated by men. But Weug’s case highlights how even the academy’s top drivers often struggle to bring in the sponsorship money they need to continue racing once they exit the two-year program.

F1 Academy’s managing director Susie Wolff told AP the series is challenging “perceptions and stereotypes” about women in motorsports even though it hasn’t yet propelled its graduates to racing’s top levels.

“I do acknowledge that it’s frustrating to see that we haven’t seen our champions go on to considerable success,” she said, while noting that the series is only in its fourth season.

Weug’s turbulent year after leaving F1 Academy

Weug had a rough landing this year after finishing F1 Academy runner-up in 2025. Despite backing from F1 Academy and Ferrari, her plan to move into GT sportscar racing failed for reasons she wouldn’t specify but said were “out of their control and my control.”

She only managed to arrange two races in a mostly amateur sportscar series in Belgium.

Weug described her disappointment in a heartfelt social media post in August and appealed for teams and sponsors to get in touch.

“I think I just expected that the results I put together over the past years would have counted for something,” she wrote.

Since then, things have started looking up: Earlier this month Weug had a one-off race in Germany in the Euroformula Open, a racing series with cars close in performance to Formula 3, but with a relatively small audience.

She’s not the only F1 Academy graduate struggling to finance her career.

Marta García, the inaugural F1 Academy champion in 2022, went nine months without racing this year until her return to the track last month in Belgium. The absence took a toll.

“I was like ‘who am I when I’m not racing?’ Trust me, that question is terrifying,” she said in a video on Instagram. “I started questioning everything, my value, my purpose. There were days where I didn’t even know who I was.”

Other ex-F1 Academy drivers have left motorsport, including for personal reasons, or dropped into mostly amateur events. Of the 16 drivers from the inaugural 2023 season, at least six do not appear to have raced cars competitively in 2026.

Some are still in the spotlight. F1 Academy provides career-development funding to its champions.

Last year’s champion Doriane Pin was on a team challenging for a class win at the Le Mans 24-hour race, while 2024 winner Abbi Pulling tested for the Indy NXT series Monday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Costs have spiraled and female racers remain a small minority

When F1 announced its new developmental series for women in 2022, CEO Stefano Domenicali sought to prepare up-and-coming drivers to move through junior ranks “hopefully to F2 and then the pinnacle of Formula 1.”

So far, no F1 Academy graduate has reached Formula 2, the level below F1 on the FIA racing ladder. No woman has taken part in an F1 world championship race in 50 years.

One reason is spiraling costs. Another is that women are underrepresented at the grassroots, making up just 5-7 percent of youth entries in karting, the main entry route for children dreaming of F1. A season in top-level karting can cost $270,000, FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem told the AP this month.

A year in F3 or F2 can run into the millions. With fewer seats available at each level up the ladder, drivers -- and their sponsors or parents -- are essentially bidding against each other for spots.

People “are asking, ‘Are you getting paid for it?’ No. All the money we’re finding is to actually be able to race and show yourself,” Weug said. “That’s always been something I’ve been struggling with since I was 12.”

The FIA’s efforts largely focus on opening up karting with sponsored places for female drivers. It says the field for a new World Cup event launched last year was 14% female, still low but double the typical level.

“We invest in the grassroots, we invested in building up bridges, and we invest in making sure the journey is more affordable,” Ben Sulayem told the AP. “Accessibility comes from affordability.”

Wolff said F1 Academy’s reach was driving demand for girls to take part and the series had more applicants than ever.

“I think there’s many things that we’re doing right,” Wolff said. “There’s clearly on the sporting side more we need to evaluate because it is not sustainable for our champions not to go on to some form of success.”

F1 Academy drivers are heavily subsidized

F1 Academy uses modified Formula 4-level cars and enforces a maximum two seasons for drivers, meaning Weug had to move on after 2025, her second year.

The academy is unusual because the series subsidizes drivers taking part, with backing from F1 ownership and its own sponsors. F1 Academy estimates it covers 82% of the cost, and Wolff estimated the value of a GB3 season like the one funded for former champion Pulling at around 700,000 euros ($797,000).

“I think one of the challenges we face is our name, F1 Academy,” Wolff said. “It clearly gives the impression that we are getting our drivers ready for F1. And those with the knowledge in the sport, we are at F4 level, that means there is still F3 and F2, so this idea that F1 Academy is preparing you for F1 is also sometimes challenging.”

At the Dutch Grand Prix last month at Zandvoort, Weug was on the sidelines at a track where she had a breakthrough home win last year. She wasn’t driving but instead coaching her friend and former rival Alba Larsen, her replacement as the Ferrari-backed driver in F1 Academy. The academy’s races benefit from the F1 spotlight by being held at the same tracks during the same weekends as Grand Prix races.

“The most important is that people don’t forget you,” Weug said. “That you’re on track is really important.”

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AP Sports Writer Daniella Matar in Monza, Italy, contributed to this report.

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The company said that its Open Agent Safety Platform includes open source software that “sets boundaries for agents,” and follows a series of revelations from top AI companies about their models escaping and breaking into other organizations.

The disclosures sparked furious debate about the safety of advanced artificial intelligence systems, including self-improving models that some fear could race out of human control.

Nvidia executives said in a media briefing that the new system could have prevented a recent incident involving a swarm of OpenAI agents that autonomously hacked into AI company Hugging Face.

“From what we know, this new security platform could have stopped the breach if it was being used in frontier labs for model evaluation early on," said the company’s vice president of enterprise AI, Justin Boitano, referring to companies at the forefront of AI.

The Hugging Face incident was a high-profile breach that inflamed the safety concerns about AI, which were followed by similar rogue actions involving OpenAI's models including breaching an Australian health department website. Anthropic and Meta have also disclosed that their AI systems hacked into other organizations on their own.

Nvidia's software, called OpenShell, lets developers “formally verify an agent has enough authority to do its job and no more,” Boitano said.

Because it's open source, it can be “extended” to run on rival computing platforms including those from Arm and Intel.

The platform also includes a separate security layer called Sentry that runs onboard a chip to continuously monitor AI agent activity and can "intervene instantly" if the agent starts trying to move beyond its target, the company said.

“It can quarantine a suspicious agent in milliseconds,” Boitano said.

“OpenShell governs the agent’s actions, and then Sentry independently monitors and contains suspicious behavior,” Boitano said.

Nvidia said more than 100 organizations are using the platform at its launch, including Microsoft, Perplexity, Accenture, and JPMorgan Chase.

The AI safety debate has divided the industry, with the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI championing a coordinated slowdown of AI development to let safety efforts catch up. But others including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang say it should be up to individual companies to make sure their models are safe for release.

Huang, during the annual Salesforce technology conference held earlier this month, characterized AI safety, including the danger of rogue agents, as an engineering problem that software developers can address.

Also Monday, Nvidia said its board approved expanding its share repurchase program by $150 billion, raising the total amount to $235 billion.

He was unimpressed.

“If that is leadership, if that's what we're telling people that our culture and our media portrays as leadership, we're screwed,” Steiner, then the CEO of Waste Management, said during a 2007 speech at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. “If that's leadership, count me out.”

“And for God's sake,” he added to laughter, “if I have to get my hair to look like that, if I have to do that to be a leader, you can definitely count me out.”

Nearly two decades later, Trump has migrated from reality television to the presidency. And onetime detractors — Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, for example — now loyally execute his agenda.

Trump's effort to use the Postal Service as a tool to reshape American elections is testing whether Steiner will follow a similar path.

Independent or a Trump ‘pawn'?

When Trump signed an executive order restricting mail ballots this year, Steiner moved quickly to finalize a rule implementing the measure, arguing he had little choice. But after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the effort, Steiner told The Associated Press that work had stopped on one of the plan's most controversial elements, a government portal for voter rolls.

He refused to endorse the Republican president's order as sound policy, saying he was focused on implementation and letting the courts ultimately decide the matter.

“I don't get to decide what rules that are put on us that I decide to accept or not accept,” he said. “We are an independent agency of the executive branch.”

The episode prompted fierce criticism of Steiner for allowing Trump to deploy an agency designed to be shielded from politics.

Jena Griswold, Colorado's Democratic secretary of state, called him a “Trump lackey.” Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, a Democrat, recently asked Congress to deploy observers to ensure postal workers can scan envelopes holding mail ballots without disruption, saying the Trump administration "has attempted to weaponize federal agencies to interfere in our elections, and the leadership at USPS is going along with it.”

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., accused Steiner of being a Trump “pawn” during a congressional hearing this summer. Dozens of congressional Democrats have pressed Steiner to reveal his interactions with the White House during the development of the mail ballot rule.

Some Republicans have joined in the criticism. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, incensed by abandoned mail, called for Steiner's resignation and introduced legislation to block him from receiving a bonus.

During a lengthy interview, Steiner seemed surprised at points by his reception in Washington. He insisted he wasn't a “political person” and said he had no intention of stepping down despite the criticism. He dismissed heated congressional appearances as “theater” at odds with more substantive private interactions on Capitol Hill.

Steiner was chagrined, however, at the mention of his 2007 remarks on Trump, delivered well before he launched a political career. Steiner recalled speaking at the university but said he didn't remember his comments, acknowledging a tendency to be “flippant.”

“That's funny,” he said. “I don't recall it.”

The White House didn't respond to a request for comment on Steiner's remarks or his stewardship of the Postal Service.

Steiner didn't follow the traditional path to power in Trump's Washington

The Postal Service dates to Benjamin Franklin, the first postmaster general, whose portrait and bust are displayed in Steiner's office overlooking the Washington Wharf. The agency has more than 630,000 employees, dwarfing many Cabinet departments.

While the quickest way to top jobs in Trump's Washington is often by writing big checks, the 66-year-old Steiner doesn’t appear to have followed that course. He has largely donated to Republicans but also gave to John Kerry’s Democratic presidential campaign in 2004. Unlike his predecessor as postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, Steiner was not a major GOP donor or Trump backer.

Born in Oakland, California, as one of eight children to a father who spent his career at Chevron, Steiner worked in corporate and securities law before moving to Waste Management in 2000. He became CEO in 2004 and ran the company for 12 years. He was also a longtime director at FedEx, where board chairman Brad Martin recalled him as “outcome oriented” and rarely political.

“He's going to follow the rules. He's going to follow the law,” Martin said. “I don't recall us ever talking politics.”

By the time a headhunter contacted Steiner about the postmaster general job, he was largely removed from daily corporate life and initially demurred.

“I talked to my wife, and we both agreed I was happily retired," he said.

He changed his mind, he said, during a visit to the beaches of Normandy, feeling a sense of civic duty.

Now at the Postal Service, he earns about $346,000 in annual salary along with a relocation bonus that amounts to half his salary, far less than the $17 million in compensation he earned during his final year at Waste Management. His current role is designed to exist one layer removed from the political process, reporting to a board of governors that is selected by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

He was hired in 2025 by a board that was made up of five members, three of whom were Democrats. All but one were appointed by President Joe Biden. That makeup could change as four Trump nominees — all Republicans — await Senate confirmation. Steiner can be fired only by the board.

Steiner said he first met Trump along with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at the board's urging after he was already selected as postmaster general. Since then, he described a minimal relationship with the White House.

“We don't fly on the radar,” he said.

That is, until Trump revived his effort in March to crack down on mail voting. Steiner said he “wasn't in on the development piece” of the order and first saw it about a month before it was signed.

“They gave it to us to say, ‘Have your lawyers look at it, and how do you operationalize it?’” Steiner said.

The portal spurred a massive development effort inside the Postal Service while some states criticized it as federal overreach. A whistleblower report released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., argued the system was hastily built and riddled with errors, though Steiner said he was confident it could have been unveiled around Sept. 15.

“The heavy lifting was clearly, clearly the IT work,” Steiner said.

Challenges ahead for the Postal Service

Though the Supreme Court dispensed with the rule, the dynamics for the Postal Service don't get easier.

The agency posted a $9 billion net loss last year, and Steiner has warned it could soon run out of cash unless Congress lifts a $15 billion borrowing cap. Political hurdles have prevented potential cost savings from cutting service or closing some post offices.

And while Trump's executive order won't take effect, the Postal Service will still play a critical role in this year's elections. There are mounting concerns that mail ballots could be rejected for late postmarks. Steiner encouraged voters to get their ballots in a week before the election to avoid problems.

The Postal Service is a rare corner of government still viewed favorably with more than half of Americans, 56%, saying it was doing an “excellent” or “good” job in a Gallup poll conducted last year. That could change if the agency is seen as increasingly political.

Steiner, however, said Americans will judge the Postal Service by their experience of it.

“What they care about is when they get that wedding invitation after the wedding or when they send a package and it disappears,” he said. “If we want to have the trust of the American public, let's be the best service provider. Everything else is noise.”

En 2025 se presentó una nueva demanda contra periodistas o medios de comunicación cada seis días en México, 69 casos en total, el triple que el año anterior, según Artículo 19, una organización que vigila la libertad de prensa.

Los políticos han descubierto que las demandas son “una forma mucho más eficaz de silenciar a la prensa porque dan la impresión de legalidad”, afirmó Jan-Albert Hootsen, representante en México del Comité para la Protección de los Periodistas.

Antes los críticos se silenciaban con dinero, ahora con demandas

Tribuna, un diario de 50 años de antigüedad en el estado sureste de Campeche, se convirtió en el medio insignia durante los gobiernos del Partido Revolucionario Institucional, que gobernó el estado durante casi un siglo.

Luego, Layda Sansores, del partido gobernante Morena, ganó la elección para la gubernatura en 2021. Y las cosas cambiaron rápidamente.

Retiró de Tribuna la publicidad gubernamental, que era necesaria para que el periódico pudiera seguir publicándose. Inició su propio programa de televisión para promover su administración y denigrar a periodistas, entregando premios al estilo Óscar —llamados el “Pinocho de Oro”— a los periodistas que consideraba los mayores “mentirosos”.

Tribuna publicó columnas arremetiendo contra ella, y esas columnas a veces iban más allá de su política. Las críticas se intensificaron con ataques específicos por razón de género y homófobos. Luego, en 2024, Tribuna, asfixiada por la falta de ingresos, dejó de imprimirse aunque continuó publicando en línea, incluidos artículos mordaces contra Sansores.

Sansores respondió con varias denuncias civiles y penales contra Jorge Luis González, quien fue su editor durante tres décadas y continúa como colaborador, alegando daño moral, violencia política de género y discurso de odio.

A mediados de 2025, uno de los casos penales de Sansores contra González llevó a jueces a prohibirle ejercer el periodismo durante dos años y a imponer que un censor judicial revisara los artículos de Tribuna antes de su publicación en línea. Organizaciones defensoras de la libertad de prensa denunciaron enérgicamente la decisión, al sostener que la censura previa es inaceptable y advertir que la resolución podría sentar un precedente.

González señaló que apeló de inmediato las medidas y que un juez las suspendió temporalmente mientras se emite un fallo definitivo del caso.

Sansores ha negado perseguir o censurar a la prensa y afirma que sus demandas son para proteger a las mujeres. No respondió a solicitudes de comentarios.

Varios reporteros locales dicen que ella también cambió la forma en que las autoridades intentan controlar a la prensa. Ahora los funcionarios de Campeche les frenan con demandas, comentó Ronny Aguilar, periodista local y creador de contenido digital.

La criminalización de la prensa, una tendencia mundial

Reporteros Sin Fronteras ha denunciado el uso creciente y generalizado de las leyes como armas contra la prensa, especialmente en América.

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, prohibió a reporteras de tres medios de comunicación ingresar a la Casa Blanca, intensificando sus esfuerzos en los tribunales o mediante acciones administrativas. The Associated Press también presentó una demanda tras la decisión del presidente el año pasado de impedir el acceso de reporteros de AP al Despacho Oval, al Air Force One y a algunos eventos, en represalia por la decisión del medio de no acatar su decisión de cambiar el nombre del golfo de México, que se encuentra parcialmente en aguas mexicanas y de otros países.

En México, la conversión del sistema judicial en un arma ocurre en medio de un aumento de asesinatos de periodistas. Siete periodistas han sido asesinados este año, cinco de ellos en menos de tres meses, uno de los repuntes más mortíferos en más de una década, según el CPJ.

Algunos de los que han sido blanco de demandas, incluido el reportero de crimen de Veracruz Rafael León, reconocen que la experiencia ha cambiado su manera de trabajar. Aunque los cargos de terrorismo contra León fueron retirados tras una intervención de la presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, ahora reportea menos y trabaja con miedo, contó.

Sheinbaum ha suavizado el tono hostil que su antecesor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, utilizaba hacia algunos periodistas, pero una nueva regulación federal para proteger los “derechos de las audiencias”, que entrará en vigor este mes, ha alarmado a los observadores de la libertad de prensa.

La presidenta insiste en que la norma protegerá mejor el derecho del público a quejarse de cualquier publicación sin que ello conduzca a la censura. Algunos grupos temen que pueda permitir al estado intervenir en ciertas disputas antes de las elecciones de 2027 en México.

Las leyes vagas son peligrosas, advierte un experto de la ONU

Leopoldo Maldonado, relator especial de la ONU sobre libertad de expresión, advirtió que, aunque los gobiernos pueden tener razones legítimas para combatir la desinformación o el discurso de odio, las leyes que convierten al Estado y a los jueces en árbitros de la verdad “por lo general terminan muy mal”.

Entre otros problemas, explicó, esas leyes suelen basarse en conceptos vagos que no deberían abordarse mediante el derecho penal.

La legislación dirigida contra las noticias falsas ha resultado problemática en Turquía, Malasia y Singapur, indicó Maldonado. Las leyes antiterroristas en la región africana del Sahel “se usan contra la oposición política” y contra periodistas que cubren conflictos armados allí. Al citar el ejemplo de Rusia, advirtió que el uso del término “agentes extranjeros” para restringir el periodismo se está extendiendo por el continente americano.

Muchos funcionarios públicos alimentan campañas de odio y existe la necesidad de regular el poder excesivo de los propietarios de plataformas digitales y dar a la sociedad civil una mayor voz en ese proceso, sostuvo Maldonado.

En Campeche, la Comisión estatal de Derechos Humanos y activistas están promoviendo legislación para proteger a defensores de derechos humanos y periodistas.

Mientras tanto, en el edificio que alguna vez albergó la redacción de Tribuna, computadoras empacadas en cajas esperan ser vendidas, las oficinas permanecen vacías y las rotativas están inactivas. Solo un estudio de televisión sigue en funcionamiento.

La grabación del programa semanal de comentarios políticos en video de González continúa. Y también continúan las demandas de funcionarios gubernamentales contra periodistas.

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Moscow’s forces pounded apartment buildings, offices, gas stations, data centers and a building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in downtown Kyiv, among other targets.

The ceaseless Russian drone attacks on cities and towns aim to wear down Ukraine’s resistance and cripple the Ukrainian economy.

The attacks followed a week of diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to get traction for negotiations on ending Moscow’s invasion that began 4½ years ago.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated Monday that the chances of making speedy headway on forging a peace settlement were bleak after recent Ukrainian attacks, including during recent parliamentary elections in Russia.

“Ukraine will have to pay a price for the actions that have taken place in recent months,” Peskov told reporters. “That is happening right now.”

Russian attacks leave dead and wounded across Ukraine

Russian drone attacks on the Kyiv region killed four people and wounded eight, officials said.

A woman was killed in a Russian strike on Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district on Monday afternoon, the Kyiv city military administration said. The strike hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the latest cultural landmark in the capital to be damaged.

Some staff escaped the burning building by climbing from windows down firefighters' ladders.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the Russians were conducting a campaign of “pure terror” on the civilian population.

“The terror goes on,” he told reporters at the site of the academy strike. “For more than a week Russia has kept attacking Kyiv, disrupting normal life in the city and destroying buildings.”

Russian forces also hit a pharmaceutical company and gas stations in Kyiv.

One drone struck an office center in central Dnipro during working hours Monday, killing three people and wounding at least 18, local authorities said.

A Russian strike on a nine-story apartment building in the northeastern city of Kharkiv wounded 43 people, including 11 children, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

Thirty civilians were injured in Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia, officials said, while another Russian attack damaged a multistory apartment building in Odesa, wounding three people, according to Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa regional military administration.

Four people, including two teenage girls, were hurt when a Russian drone struck a residential area in northern Ukraine’s Chernihiv region on Sunday evening, said Viacheslav Chaus, head of the regional military administration.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces struck two data centers in Kyiv, as well as gas stations in the Ukrainian capital. A distribution hub belonging to the Nova Poshta postal service was struck in the southern city of Odesa, it said.

The Russian military also hit a cargo ship in the Black Sea and another one in the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk, the ministry said. The strikes aim to curb Ukraine’s grain exports, though they may also create food shortages in countries that rely on Ukrainian imports.

The Russian aerial attacks regularly hit civilian areas. Moscow claims it targets only military-related sites.

Ukrainian army says it has advanced on the eastern front line

Battlefield positions have changed little since last year, in part because swarms of drones severely restrict troop movements, but Kyiv’s forces launched a recent offensive, code-named Operation Vivaldi, on part of the 1,250-kilometer (800-mile) front line.

Ukraine’s Third Army Corps said Monday it had recaptured another 51 square kilometers (20 square miles) from the Russians, bringing the total to 176 square kilometers (68 square miles) since the offensive began several months ago.

The corps said that in order to break through Russian defenses, it converted Soviet-era BTR-60 armored personnel carriers into kamikaze vehicles that blew up the strongest Russian fortifications. The operation has also used ground robots to attack Russian positions.

The claimed breakthroughs came in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, which the bigger Russian army has been trying in vain to conquer.

Russian officials made no immediate comment on the Ukrainian claim.

Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said Russian troops captured the villages of Novovodiane in the Donetsk region and Ulanove in the northern Sumy region.

It was not possible to independently verify the claims.

Ukraine hits targets in southwestern Russia

Zelenskyy said long-range strikes on Russian soil hit two defense plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions and oil facilities in the Krasnodar region, all in southern and western Russia.

Ukraine's long-range drones have repeatedly targeted Russian fuel depots and industrial plants that are a mainstay of Moscow’s economy and war effort.

Ukrainian drone attacks overnight started fires at three infrastructure facilities in Russia’s Krasnodar region, local emergency officials said Monday, without identifying the locations.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 254 Ukrainian drones overnight.

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Congo announced an outbreak on May 15, caused by the rare Bundibugyo virus, which has no known treatment or vaccine, and has struggled to contain it.

The latest data from Congo's health ministry released Sunday showed that 8,067 cases have been confirmed, with 3,901 deaths as of Sept. 26 across 63 health zones in seven of the country's 26 provinces, with a fatality rate of more than 48%.

“The continuously high crude case fatality ratio, and especially the continuously high rate of deaths occurring in communities, highlights the seriousness of the disease and the persistent challenges in timely case detection and access to early and adequate patient care,” the World Health Organization said in its latest report.

It means that a large percentage of those infected were dying, without taking into account factors like delays in seeking help or hidden cases.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday that the outbreak has begun to have an impact on other essential services in the hot spots as resources are mobilized toward fighting Ebola. According to OCHA's report, routine primary healthcare services fell by 13% between April and June in Ituri province alone.

“The indirect impact of the outbreak reflects both reduced health service availability — as a result of staffing and operational pressures — and reduced demand, as fear of infection and isolation discourages care-seeking,” OCHA said.

Last week, WHO said that Congo was running out of health workers to contain the disease. Health workers have complained about delayed or missing payments, triggering several strikes. According to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 50 health workers have died since the outbreak was announced.

Some areas have shown signs of improvement, with fewer confirmed cases in the past several weeks, including in Ituri province and Haut-Uele, but officials say the disease is spreading further in other areas, expanding its geographical reach.

According to data from the Africa CDC, the current outbreak has outpaced the two-year West Africa regional outbreak in terms of spread in the same time. By week 19, the regional outbreak between 2014 and 2016 recorded 3,781 cases, while the current outbreak recorded 7,840. WHO said that it's on track to surpass the regional outbreak, which killed 11,000 people.

Containment efforts have been hamstrung by insecurity, displacement, a health workers’ strike and intense population movements.

The meeting between Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan took place on Sunday, two people who were briefed on the Israeli leader's trip confirmed on Monday.

Meanwhile, the European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said the bloc is applying for observer status in a Saudi-led maritime defense coalition formed to protect the kingdom's energy exports. The EU already has six vessels deployed to the Red Sea to protect shipping.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Monday. Full coverage is available here.

Netanyahu made a secret visit to the UAE

The Israeli prime minister held an hourlong meeting with the UAE’s president on Sunday, according to two people briefed on Netanyahu's trip, which was first reported by Israel’s Channel 12 TV station.

One of them said the talks focused on a report published by the Israeli daily Haaretz earlier this month that said the Emirati leader warned Netanyahu about a looming attack by Hamas just ahead of Oct. 7, 2023.

Netanyahu asked Sheikh Mohamed to deny the report, according to a person said to have firsthand information about the meeting. Netanyahu’s office had previously denied the Haaretz report.

The person, along with a regional official briefed on the meeting, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the secret trip.

The UAE’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment on reports about the meeting but stressed it maintains “open and direct lines of communication” with Israel and shares “all relevant intelligence.”

There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu’s office.

—By Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Samy Magdy in Cairo

EU applies for observer status in a Saudi mission in the Red Sea

The European Union is applying for “observer status” in a new multinational maritime defense coalition led by Saudi Arabia formed to protect the kingdom’s energy exports.

The bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas made the announcement on Monday, ahead of a Brussels meeting. The energy-hungry EU is facing record energy prices due to the war in Iran.

Kallas said she will ask for an expansion of the bloc’s own small naval force in the Red Sea dubbed ASPIDES to help escort cargo vessels through the key strategic chokepoint of the Bab el-Mandeb strait and protect them from attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Kallas said the “need is bigger than it’s ever been” for more ships. It’s unclear what observer status in the Saudi-led coalition would mean operationally for either the EU or ASPIDES.

Supreme leader says Iranian troops defended the Strait of Hormuz from the enemy

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has praised his country’s fighters for allegedly preventing “enemy forces” from “roaming freely” in the Strait of Hormuz.

Khamenei said in a message carried by the state broadcaster on Monday that Iran’s enemies now “do not come" closer to the strait than the Arabian Sea, which is part of the Indian Ocean.

Soon, "the Arabian Sea too, will be rid of them,” said the message, issued to mark the two-year anniversary of the killing of the militant Hezbollah group's longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon.

Khamenei hasn't been seen or heard publicly since the opening attacks of the war on Feb. 28 that killed his father and previous supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

WHO says more people have been killed or wounded in Yemen

The World Health Organization said Sunday it has documented 164 deaths and 645 injuries from the war in Yemen between Sept. 19 and Sept. 26.

This brings the overall casualties since Aug. 6 to 4,481, with 838 fatalities. The latest intense fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Yemeni government forces has displaced more than 180,000 people.

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 1 person, wound others

A woman was killed and her husband wounded when an Israeli strike hit a Gaza City rooftop on Monday, Shifa Hospital officials said. Another person was also wounded and in critical condition.

The Israeli military later said it was aware of this strike and was looking into its results.

Later Monday, a second Israeli strike, on a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, left one person critically injured, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.

The Israeli military said it targeted a “military operative,” but did not immediately provide further details or identify the individual.

More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed since the Gaza ceasefire took effect nearly a year ago. Around half of that number are women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which maintains detailed records that international organizations consider reliable.

UN envoy says West Bank settler violence at ‘unprecedented levels’

The United Nations' acting Mideast envoy said Monday that settler violence in the West Bank has reached “unprecedented levels” – often with Israeli forces present.

Ramiz Alakbarov told the U.N. Security Council that 630 documented settler attacks between June 13 and Sept. 18. resulted in casualties, property damage or both. Three Palestinian communities were "fully depopulated" during that period, he said, "bringing to 49 the number of communities fully displaced under similar circumstances since January 2023.”

Israel’s expansion of settlements in the West Bank, in violation of international law, also threatens prospects of a contiguous Palestinian state and a two-state solution, Alakbarov said.

An Israeli minister vows to press on with West Bank settlement project

Israel’s polarizing Cabinet minister in charge of settlement construction, Bezalel Smotrich, has condemned a decision by the attorney general to freeze a contentious project near Jerusalem.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara ordered the project to be put on hold until after the Oct. 27 elections so it wouldn't “be used for election propaganda.”

The project — known as E1 settlement development — is especially controversial because it would carve out a strategic section of the West Bank in a way that critics say would destroy hopes for a viable future Palestinian state.

Smotrich accused on X Baharav-Miara of “interfering in the election campaign” and acting in the service of Netanyahu’s political opponents.

Israel reprimands Spain over youth minister's controversial remarks

Israel summoned the Spanish Embassy’s chargé d’affaires over remarks by Spain's youth minister who declared the country's public support for a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea” — a slogan that implies a call for the elimination of the Israeli state.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Monday that Spanish Youth Minister Sira Rego’s remarks were “part of a systematic anti-Israel policy pursued by the Spanish government” and its leader, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Rego was barred from entering Israel in Sept. 2025.

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This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.

Leo traveled to the eastern city of Metz, near the border with Luxembourg and Germany, to honor Robert Schuman, a French Catholic statesman regarded as one of the founding fathers of European unity after World War II.

Leo decided to end his four-day visit to France in Metz, at a conference center named for Schuman, to drive home his appeal. The American pope wants Europe to draw from its Christian foundations and traditions to respond to wars and other conflicts, including Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the challenges of migration.

“Over the past 80 years, Europe has amply demonstrated that it is possible to articulate divergent opinions, claims and interests through encounter rather than conflict,” he said.

“We need to commit ourselves to patient dialogue, to show courage in negotiation and to be willing to give up some positions for the greater good of peace,” he said, without naming specific conflicts or positions.

Élysée Palace, the French presidential office, had invited all European Union heads of state and the heads of European institutions to attend the conference. But only a handful, from smaller states such as Monaco, Andorra and Luxembourg, joined President Emmanuel Macron.

Huge crowds and a military escort

Leo’s visit to the once staunchly Catholic and officially secular France has been marked by his appeal for Europe to remember its Christian heritage and apply it to today’s ethical and geopolitical challenges.

It has also been marked by huge crowds at nearly every turn — 800,000 attended Leo’s Mass on Paris’ iconic Place de la Concorde — surprising even organizers and suggesting that the Catholic Church still has a place in an overwhelmingly secular public square.

On Monday morning, Leo's Air France charter received a military escort of two French fighter jets for the flight from Lourdes to Metz in a sign of respect. Macron tweeted a photo of Leo's plane taken by one of the jets while in flight, writing “Welcome to Metz, Most Holy Father.”

Macron joined Leo on stage at the Schuman event, vowing “unfailing” European support for Ukraine and noting that the country is among those aspiring to join the EU and a “space of peace, security, democracy and prosperity.”

“War has come back to our continent and our Europe is rocked by the return of empires,” Macron said. “To guarantee real sovereignty, we must therefore act, act firstly to preserve our security and our values.”

In his final event in France, Leo celebrated Mass in the cathedral of St. Stephen in Metz, a city with a long history of conflict that was part of Nazi Germany during the war.

The cathedral, finished in 1522, is one of the greatest examples of French Gothic style, with its soaring vaults and stained-glass windows, some of which were later designed by Marc Chagall, a 20th-century Jewish artist.

In his homily, Leo said that Metz and its surroundings experienced evil, but now “bear witness to the whole world that reconciliation is only possible when one has the courage to break the chains of resentment.”

The cathedral’s stained-glass windows, designed by a Jew, are “an extraordinary symbol of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue,” where God’s light unites “different histories and cultures into a single marvelous mosaic of peace.”

“As we contemplate these stained-glass windows, we learn that Europe’s future does not lie in uniformity, but in the harmony of differences, where the wounds of the past become openings through which light shines,” he said.

The colored glass has given the cathedral the nickname the “Lanterne du Bon Dieu,” or “The Good Lord’s Lantern.”

As they did in Paris during Saturday's Mass along the Champs-Élysées, priests in Metz set up makeshift confession stands on the streets to accommodate the faithful who packed the squares around the cathedral.

The Vatican estimated that 35,000 people had turned out. Macron changed his schedule at the last minute to attend and sat in the front row.

A statesman who promoted dialogue among rivals

Schuman is best known for the Schuman Declaration of 1950, five years after World War II ended. It proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community to pool production between historic rivals France and Germany.

The idea, as Europe was emerging from the ruins of the war, was guided by the belief that intertwined economic interests would make another conflict between them “not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.”

The coal and steel organization was the first among European institutions that were precursors to what eventually became the European Union.

Schuman, a resistance fighter imprisoned by the Nazis, was declared “venerable” in 2021, a step in the Catholic Church's process toward possible sainthood.

Leo praised especially Schuman's respect for international law in pursuing his idea of peaceful integration. It was an indirect reference to how Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as U.S. military incursions in Venezuela and the Iran war, have taken place outside the international legal order.

Leo said international law and multilateralism “constitute the best antidote to the desire for domination, which lies at the root of every conflict.”

He lamented that in its place, relations today between states are becoming “increasingly uncivilized.”

“The value of keeping one’s word is dismissed; instead, people boast of lies and deceit,” he said.

Asked if Leo had crossed a line and entered into the European political debate, the Vatican's foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, said that the pope was just preaching Catholic morals.

“He spoke about morality, ethics and the principles of the Church’s moral teaching. If anyone wants to draw political conclusions, they are free to do so,” Gallagher said.

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John Leicester contributed to this report from Paris.

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The details came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington in his first state visit to the U.S. since 2015. The U.S. had already reduced tariffs against China after Trump’s tariffs reached as high as 145% at one point last year, as tensions between the two countries eased.

China’s commerce ministry said in a statement the agreement will help strengthen trade cooperation.

Most country-specific tariffs practically eradicated

The lists included 1,619 items of U.S. goods entering China, ranging from agricultural commodities, hair and personal care products to timber and medical equipment. Coal from the U.S. will also be included.

For Chinese goods exported to the U.S., 77 categories were covered, including fireworks, tableware, toys like dolls and puzzles, glass and wooden Christmas ornaments and soccer balls.

Tariff rates on over 90% of the products would be subject to “most-favored-nation” levels, the Chinese commerce ministry said, meaning that country-specific tariffs will effectively be eliminated.

Most-favored-nation rates are the standard tariffs applied under World Trade Organization rules, but they can differ from item to item and are often in the single digits.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a separate statement the product lists focused on “nonsensitive goods on each side that could benefit from more favorable tariff treatment.” The deal could help secure market access for U.S. farmers, manufacturers, businesses and workers, while benefiting American consumers with imports from China including household goods and toys, Greer said.

Both countries said they agreed the list may be adjusted later as needed, but amendments were likely to be no more than on an annual basis.

The Chinese commerce ministry said the two countries agreed to further cooperate in the agricultural sector, forming a group under the Board of Trade established in May to optimize bilateral trade.

Sectors of strategic importance for both countries, such as chips, electric vehicles and batteries, were not covered under the agreement.

A potential boost to US-China bilateral trade

“This is a positive outcome for these affected products compared to a smaller tariff cut, and could lead to a more significant boost to bilateral trade,” said Lynn Song, chief economist for Greater China at ING Bank.

The lowered tariffs could be a win for U.S. consumer brands, added Jacob Cooke, CEO of WPIC Marketing + Technologies based in Beijing, as some of the products covered by China's list of U.S. imports included fast-growing categories like hair care, personal care products and infant formula.

With the U.S. list for Chinese products focused more on consumer goods, it could help lower U.S. inflation while also allowing Chinese firms to export more of their overcapacity, said Gary Ng, a senior economist at French bank Natixis.

Some experts said, however, the economic impact at $30 billion each way may be limited overall.

U.S. exports to China were roughly $68 billion through the first seven months of this year, while Chinese exports to the U.S. were at around $270 billion for the first eight months, said Prashant Bhayani, chief investment officer for Asia at BNP Paribas Wealth Management.

A $30 billion deal each way will be “more meaningful” for U.S. exports to China in terms of percentage share, he said.

Even after the deal, the overall average U.S. tariff rate on China is estimated to only drop from around 22% to roughly 20.5% and remain significantly higher than the roughly 11% before Trump’s return to the White House early last year, said Leah Fahy, a senior China economist at Capital Economics in a research report.

Notably, U.S. soybeans were not included in the list of agricultural commodities, she added.

China's trade surplus expected to remain elevated

While the deal did not cover sensitive strategic goods, some analysts believe U.S.-China trade will likely continue to recover for the rest of the year after steep U.S. tariffs on Chinese products last year hit bilateral trade.

The U.S. and China last week also reached a two-month extension of the broader trade truce that was set to expire Nov. 10 to January.

China’s trade surplus, which reached a record $1.2 trillion last year, will likely remain elevated. By August, it stood at about $800 billion, putting this year’s surplus “on pace to exceed the 2025 record,” according to Ecaterina Bigos, a senior market strategist with BNP Paribas Asset Management.

The U.S. is also investigating China among 16 trading partners in its Section 301 probe on excess industrial capacity and could impose additional tariffs on China when the investigation concludes.

However, with more meetings set between Trump and Xi, including at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shenzhen in November and at the Group of 20 summit in Florida in December, Song at ING said he would not expect a major flare-up of trade tensions before year-end.

Exporters welcome the tariff deal

Some Chinese exporters welcomed the tariff deal announcements.

“This is positive news,” said Richard Chan of Golden Arts Gifts & Decor, which manufactures Christmas decorations in southern China and supplies to countries including the U.S. “The economy in both the U.S. and China is not really good, and the two sides should help each other more.”

However, because most of this year’s Christmas goods are already being shipped ahead of the peak holiday season, the tariff reductions may have limited effect for them at least for now.

The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted in the countryside near RAF Fairford, a U.K.-owned base that has been used by American bombers during decades of conflicts in the Middle East, including this year's war with Iran.

Investigators haven't concluded whether the incident was state-backed. They are investigating a possible link to Iran, Russia or non-state militant groups. RAF Fairford has also been the focus of protests by anti-war campaigners.

The five suspects, who haven't been named, were initially held over suspected explosives offenses, and later also arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism. Police said the men are all British nationals from London and in their 20s.

Britain's national news agency, PA, reported without citing sources that police had not found viable explosives. Announcing that the suspects had been bailed, the head of U.K. Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said that the suspects face stringent conditions and “absolutely remain under investigation."

Taylor said lines of inquiry include that the suspected offenses were committed by "proxies or individuals, either knowingly or unknowingly, working on behalf of a foreign state.”

Iran denied involvement. The Iranian Embassy in London said that it “categorically rejects and strongly condemns the recent unfounded and malicious speculations” about the incident.

Residents were evacuated from 85 homes in the village of Whelford near the base on Sunday, and army bomb-disposal experts used a robot to examine three white vans. The villagers were allowed to return home late Monday afternoon, though a cordon remained around the three vehicles, police said.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham chaired a meeting of the government’s COBRA emergency committee on Monday “to make sure we have the full picture" of the incident, he said.

The arrests came after reports of suspicious vehicles

It was unclear whether the arrested men had been on security services' radar. Local residents described seeing heightened security around RAF Fairford in recent days, with heavy vehicles parked across entrance gates.

U.S. President Donald Trump said the suspects had been detained following cooperation between the U.S. and Britain, and had been “under view” for some time. Police, however, said the arrests were triggered by a late-night call about “suspicious vehicles” near the base.

A local farmer said she called police after seeing three oddly parked vans as she drove home late Saturday night, and that nearby she came across “a large group of men,” some with their faces covered. She said they scattered when they saw her vehicle.

She declined to be identified to protect her identity because she was describing what she saw as potential security lapses.

British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said the farmer “did exactly the right thing” by calling police but only had “a partial view” of the operation.

The arrests came at a time of heightened tensions around the threat from hostile states, with British intelligence services saying Russia and Iran have both used proxies to commit crimes on U.K. soil. In March, officials said the number of national security cases involving activity by hostile states, including Iran, increased by 50% in the six months to December 2025.

Iran has been linked to a series of attacks in Europe

Britain didn't join the U.S. and Israel in the Iran war, which began on Feb. 28, and initially denied Trump’s request to use bases in the U.K. to strike Iran. But then Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed in March to let the U.S. use bases in Britain for what he called “defensive” operations against Iran’s missiles and their launch sites following Iranian attacks on U.K. interests and Britain’s allies in the Gulf.

American B-1 and B-52 bombers have taken off from Fairford, 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, for operations during the Iran conflict.

Iran has said that it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target.

British security officials say proxies linked to Iran have been behind a string of arsons and other attacks in the U.K. and other countries, many of them targeting the Jewish community and intended to sow fear. They have previously warned that Tehran could expand its targets in the U.K. if conflicts in the Middle East continue.

Several people also have been charged with plotting to commit arson in the U.K. on behalf of Russia-linked groups.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said Monday that the incident is a “reminder of the threats our country faces.”

Miliband met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the United Nations in New York last week and told him that “Britain will not tolerate intimidation, threats or hostile activity on U.K. soil,” according to a U.K. readout of the conversation.

US Air Force says personnel remain vigilant

The U.S. Air Force said that its personnel on the base “remain vigilant,” but “for operational security reasons we will not discuss specific force protection measures.”

The U.S. Embassy in London has warned Americans in Britain to be cautious and mindful of their personal security.

Trump said that authorities had the suspects “under view for a long time and we got them.”

“It was an amazing job. We had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort. And working with the British worked out great,” he told reporters in Chicago on Sunday.

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Jill Lawless reported from Liverpool, England. Ben Finley in Washington contributed to this report.

Por su parte, el huracán Nolo aún podría generar lluvias torrenciales a partes de Hawai incluso cuando la tormenta se alejaba del estado.

En Puerto San Carlos, un pueblo pesquero de unos 5.700 habitantes, algunos temían que las mareas altas y el fuerte oleaje de Polo pudieran rebasar las barreras y hacer que el agua de mar anegara la comunidad.

Algunas familias planeaban evacuar a refugios en Ciudad Constitución, a unos 60 kilómetros (37 millas) de distancia, y decenas de personas en otras partes del estado fueron evacuadas.

Rocío Sánchez, pescadora local, dijo que trabajadores de Protección Civil habían recomendado a la población que evacuara porque las barreras de tierra podrían ceder.

Polo se dirige a toda velocidad hacia península de Baja California

Polo era una tormenta de categoría 3 con vientos máximos sostenidos de 185 km/h (115 mph) la mañana del lunes, informó el Centro Nacional de Huracanes de Estados Unidos en Miami. Los meteorólogos señalaron que impactará el territorio continental mexicano tras azotar Baja California Sur con fuertes precipitaciones, y que “se espera que ocurran pronto vientos y crecidas repentinas que pongan en peligro la vida”. Se prevén lluvias intensas e inundaciones en partes del suroeste de Estados Unidos más adelante en la semana.

“Se pronostica que Polo estará cerca de la fuerza de un huracán mayor cuando llegue a Baja California Sur más tarde hoy, y se anticipa que será un huracán cuando toque tierra en el territorio continental mexicano a última hora de esta noche o temprano el martes por la mañana”, indicó el centro.

Para la mañana del lunes, las olas comenzaron a estrellarse e inundar zonas costeras. Laura Velázquez, coordinadora nacional de la Agencia de Protección Civil de México, afirmó que Polo tocará tierra por la tarde.

En una conferencia de prensa la mañana del lunes, instó a los residentes a mantenerse fuera de las calles y buscar refugio si sus viviendas están en riesgo. Anunció que se suspenderán los viajes en el área donde se esperaba que el huracán tocara tierra y que los puertos en toda la región serán cerrados.

Nolo se encontraba muy al suroeste de Hawai y se alejaba de la Isla Grande conforme llegaba a su fin el fin de semana, pero el aviso por viento y el aviso por oleaje elevado seguían vigentes para partes de la isla hasta la mañana del lunes. Los vientos máximos sostenidos de Nolo aumentaron a cerca de 249 km/h (155 mph).

Ha sido una temporada ajetreada para tormentas del Pacífico

El Pacífico ha estado inusualmente activo, según el meteorólogo principal del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología, Bob Oravec, con actividad de tormentas por encima del promedio durante lo que ya es el pico de la temporada de huracanes. Explicó que ese patrón es consistente con los años de El Niño, cuando el Pacífico suele registrar más tormentas tropicales y huracanes.

Al tiempo que Polo se acercaba a México, la Marina mexicana informó que ha reunido personal y ayuda humanitaria en los puertos de Guaymas y Mazatlán, en la costa del Pacífico del país, y desplegó tres embarcaciones que podrían transportar ayuda a comunidades costeras aisladas por la tormenta.

Uno de los poblados en la trayectoria prevista del huracán es San Juanico, una pequeña comunidad pesquera en la costa del Pacífico de Baja California. El pueblo sólo ha tenido electricidad de tiempo completo desde hace unos años, y aún sufre cortes frecuentes. Existe preocupación de que los caminos arrasados por el agua puedan bloquear el acceso a instalaciones médicas.

Gloriely Robles Meza, administradora de un pequeño hotel, expresó preocupación y comentó el domingo que elementos del Ejército llegaron a San Juanico para preparar un refugio y brindar apoyo ante posibles emergencias.

También el domingo, la tormenta tropical Rachel se formó mar adentro, lejos de la costa suroeste de México. El centro de huracanes indicó el lunes que Rachel tenía vientos máximos sostenidos de 85 km/h (50 mph) y se ubicaba a unos 365 kilómetros (225 millas) al sur-suroeste de Acapulco. No había alertas ni avisos costeros en vigor.

En Hawai, inundaciones y deslaves siguen siendo un riesgo

Los meteorólogos advirtieron que las bandas exteriores de Nolo podrían causar inundaciones y deslaves que pongan en peligro la vida, y que partes de la Isla Grande podrían recibir hasta 50 centímetros (20 pulgadas) de lluvia. También se esperaban lluvias intensas en las otras islas.

Se activó a más de 120 integrantes de la Guardia Nacional, como parte de unos 400 en todo el estado luego que el gobernador emitiera una proclamación de emergencia. El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump aprobó recientemente una declaración de emergencia, autorizando a la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias a coordinar la asistencia y proporcionar apoyo de financiamiento.

La especialista del Centro Nacional de Huracanes Elizabeth Adams dijo el lunes que Nolo se acercaba al Monumento Nacional Marino Papahanaumokuakea, un área de conservación marina al noroeste de las islas.

“Esperamos que las condiciones se deterioren rápidamente cerca de ese monumento nacional”, dijo.

Los cortes de energía persisten en Maui, con más de 10.000 hogares y negocios sin electricidad la mañana del lunes, según poweroutage.us, principalmente en el lado oeste de la isla.

La mayoría de los cortes estuvieron relacionados con daños por la tormenta, según comunicados de Hawaiian Electric. La empresa indicó que los fuertes vientos de más de 96,5 km/h (60 mph) el domingo impidieron que helicópteros volaran sobre crestas montañosas este fin de semana para evaluar daños en líneas de transmisión, y agregó que esperaba que los cortes persistieran hasta el mediodía del lunes.

La empresa de servicios públicos también desenergizó el fin de semana líneas alrededor de un incendio de matorrales que se desató el sábado, lo que provocó órdenes de evacuación a varios kilómetros al sur de la localidad de Lahaina, el sitio de los mortales incendios de 2023. Esas órdenes de evacuación fueron levantadas la mañana del lunes.

Los residentes de Hawai aún se recuperan del huracán Lala, que produjo lluvias intensas y vientos lo suficientemente fuertes como para arrancar de sus cimientos a unas 100 viviendas en la Isla Grande.

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El fotoperiodista Eduardo Verdugo contribuyó desde Puerto San Carlos, México; la periodista Megan Janetsky contribuyó desde Ciudad de México; y la periodista Julie Walker desde Nueva York. El videoperiodista Eugene Garcia y el fotógrafo Gregory Bull contribuyeron a este despacho desde Hilo, Hawai.

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

Then he joined Dance Abilities, a program at Academy of Dance Arts in the Indianapolis suburb of Fishers for people with physical or intellectual disabilities.

Now dance has become his way to communicate and connect with others, his mom, Nicole Vester, said.

Claire Graham, the founder of Dance Abilities, got the idea for the program in high school after realizing while she was studying dance, she was never able to connect with her sister with Down syndrome while she took part in her own activities. The program has grown in three years from a summer camp for eight youngsters to year-round classes for about 20 people.

Dance Abilities has separate classes for children ages 18 months to 4, ages 4-7 and 8-12, teenagers, and for adults, too. A successful day for Graham, who has a degree in dance and a master's in recreational therapy, is when everyone has had fun and been challenged.

“I’m not looking for perfection of position and not looking for a perfect performance,” Graham said. “Only a performance that they can feel confident about.”

These dancers are not the only ones performing through challenges. Ezra Frech, a two-time gold medal Paralympian, is competing on this season's “Dancing with the Stars” on ABC. Frech, a track and field athlete, has a prosthetic leg.

Classes build confidence

Finn's mom values her son’s confidence-building that will help him be able to go into the world and learn new things, she said.

“Claire teaches him at his level. She teaches him a little slower. She teaches him a couple more extra times. And he feels proud and he feels accomplished and he feels like he’s part of a group,” Vester said.

Accommodations at Dance Abilities include slowing down, using more visual cues than verbal instruction, and teacher “helpers” who physically guide students through the movements.

“Sometimes, we’ll add something new that they can work on to make it a little harder,” said one helper, Catherine Benko, 16.

Dance classes focus on specific needs

Dance is good for the body, too, with different needs for different students.

For students with Down syndrome, who tend to be naturally more flexible and less strong, Graham emphasizes developing muscle tone. Students with autism, she said, often need more help stretching.

Abigail MacGregor, who has Down syndrome, loves to dance through an obstacle course and to perform her latest moves for friends and family after she’s been practicing all week.

“I just love dance,” Abby said. “The best thing of dance is having fun, being with all my dance crew.”

Tucker McGarrell, 13, who has Down syndrome, doesn’t walk but runs into his dance classes, his mom Amanda McGarrell said.

“It’s not speech therapy or physical therapy or occupational therapy appointments. This is actually something he enjoys doing,” McGarrell said.

McGarrell loves to see her son have an accepting, accommodating place.

“It’s just such a huge thing that Tucker’s given a space and a stage to be himself and get to be with friends and learn new things,” McGarrell said. “It just like fills me with joy knowing that he’s getting to do something that he loves too just like typical kids do.”

Whoever her students are, Graham said, “if you give them the chance to succeed and meet them where they are, they can 100% grow.”

Seeing her students smile is the ultimate metric of success.

“It warms my heart to hear my kiddos saying, 'Look, Mom, I did it!'” she said.

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Gruver reported from Fort Collins, Colorado.

In Puerto San Carlos, a fishing town of about 5,700 people, some feared high tides and pounding waves from Polo could breach barriers and send seawater into the community. Some families planned to head to shelters in Ciudad Constitucion, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) away, while dozens of people elsewhere in the state were evacuated.

“Civil Protection told those of us here in San Carlos to evacuate because this is a high-risk area. With the current tides, the expected waves and the wind, the earthen barriers they built (to prevent flooding) could give way,” Rocío Sánchez, a fisherwoman, said.

Polo barreling toward Baja California peninsula

Polo was a Category 3 storm with top sustained winds of 115 mph (185 kph) Monday morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Forecasters said it would hit the Mexican mainland after lashing Baja California Sur with heavy rains, and that “life threatening winds and flash floods (were) expected to occur soon.” It could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the U.S. Southwest later in the week.

“Polo is forecast to be near major hurricane strength when it reaches Baja California Sur later today, and is anticipated to be a hurricane when it makes landfall in mainland Mexico late tonight or early Tuesday morning,” the center said.

By Monday morning, waves began to crash and flood coastal areas. Laura Velázquez, national coordinator of Mexico’s Civil Protection Agency, reported that Polo would make landfall later in the afternoon.

At a Monday morning news briefing, she urged residents to stay off the streets and seek shelter if their homes are at risk. She said travel will be suspended in the area where the hurricane was expected to make landfall and that ports across the region would be closed.

Nolo, meanwhile, was well southwest of Hawaii and moving away from the Big Island as the weekend drew to a close, but a wind advisory and high surf advisory remained in effect for parts of the island through Monday morning. Nolo’s maximum sustained winds increased to near 155 mph (249 kph).

It's been a busy season for Pacific storms

Storm activity in the Pacific has been above average during what is already the peak of hurricane season, according to National Weather Service lead forecaster Bob Oravec. He said that pattern is consistent with El Niño years, when the Pacific often sees more tropical storms and hurricanes.

With Polo approaching Mexico, the Mexican navy said it has gathered personnel and humanitarian aid in the ports of Guaymas and Mazatlan, on the Pacific Coast, and deployed three vessels that could ship aid to coastal communities isolated by the storm.

One of the towns in the hurricane’s projected path is San Juanico, a small fishing community on Baja’s Pacific coast. The town has only had full-time electricity for a few years, and still experiences frequent outages. There is concern that washed-out roads could block access to medical facilities.

“Our people are concerned about this event,” said Gloriely Robles Meza, a manager at a small hotel. “We haven’t faced such a worrying situation in many years.”

Robles Meza said Sunday that army soldiers arrived in San Juanico to prepare a shelter and provide support for possible emergencies.

Also Sunday, Tropical Storm Rachel formed well off Mexico's southwest coast. The hurricane center said Monday that Rachel had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) and was located about 225 miles (365 kilometers) south-southwest of Acapulco. No coastal watches or warnings were in effect.

In Hawaii, floods and mudslides are still a risk

Forecasters said Nolo’s outer bands could cause life-threatening flooding and mudslides, with parts of the Big Island possibly getting up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain. Heavy rain also was expected on the other islands.

More than 120 National Guard members were activated, part of roughly 400 statewide after the governor issued an emergency proclamation. U.S. President Donald Trump recently approved an emergency declaration, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate assistance and provide funding support.

National Hurricane Center specialist Elizabeth Adams said Monday that Nolo was closing in on Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, a marine conservation area northwest of the islands.

“We are expecting conditions to rapidly deteriorate near that national monument,” she said.

Power outages persist on Maui, with over 10,000 households and businesses lacking electricity Monday morning, according to poweroutage.us, primarily on the west side of the island.

Most of the outages were related to storm damage, according to statements from Hawaiian Electric. High winds of over 60 mph (96.5 kph) Sunday prevented helicopters from flying over mountain ridges this weekend to assess transmission line damage, the utility said, adding that it expected the outages to persist until midday Monday.

The utility this weekend also de-energized lines around a brush fire that broke out Saturday, prompting evacuation orders several miles south of Lahaina town, the site of the 2023 deadly fires. Those evacuation orders were lifted Monday morning.

Hawaii residents are still recovering from Hurricane Lala, which produced heavy rain and winds strong enough to sweep about 100 homes off their foundations on the Big Island.

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Photojournalist Eduardo Verdugo contributed from Puerto San Carlos, Mexico; reporter Megan Janetsky contributed from Mexico City; reporter Julie Walker reported from New York. Videojournalist Eugene Garcia and photographer Gregory Bull contributed from Hilo, Hawaii.

The price of jet fuel shot up after the Iran war began and retreated sharply in the spring before surging again as the summer went on. Such fluctuations make it harder for airlines to plan ahead and give them a reason to be cautious about lowering ticket prices, according to Brett House, an economist who teaches at Columbia Business School.

Jet fuel has risen even faster than oil during the war, reflecting both higher crude prices and tight supplies of the refined fuel that is one of airlines’ largest operating expenses. Carriers cut some less profitable flights and raised fares and baggage fees, although major U.S. airlines said higher passenger revenue initially covered only part of their soaring fuel costs.

Airfares haven’t moved in lockstep with fuel prices, however. The Argus U.S. Jet Fuel Index plunged from an early April peak of $4.88 a gallon to a wartime low of $2.70 in June, but average fares remained elevated.

The average fare, not including optional fees for services such as checked bags and seat selection, rose from $405 in the last three months of 2025 to $428 in the first quarter of this year and to $436 in the April-June period, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Part of the disconnect between fuel prices and airfares comes down to timing, House said. Airlines typically decide several months in advance how many flights to operate and seats to offer, factoring in expected fuel costs and other expenses. They begin selling tickets even earlier. While prices for seats on the same flight can change repeatedly, airlines can't charge more for seats already sold if fuel prices suddenly spike, he explained.

“It’s not just the level of fuel costs that is a problem or a challenge for airlines,” House said. “It’s also the volatility.”

There are few signs of relief so far for travelers as airlines adjust their schedules and prices for the remainder of the year. In August, U.S. airfares were 23% higher than a year earlier, according to the Labor Department. Jet fuel prices kept climbing this month, reaching $4.53 a gallon on Sept. 17, according to the Argus index.

At $4.30 a gallon on Friday, the average price across the four U.S. markets the index tracks remained nearly twice the 2025 average. Travelers shopping for holiday flights already are encountering the highest airfares in a decade, travel-booking company Hopper said in a report published the same day.

The company, which tracks fares available in flight searches, estimated that during the previous week, a round-trip domestic fare averaged $402 for Thanksgiving travel and $452 for Christmas, 31% and 23% more than last year.

And the pressure on airlines and travelers isn't limited to the United States. Globally, jet fuel averaged about $99 a barrel on Feb. 27, the day before the war began, according to the International Air Transport Association’s Jet Fuel Price Monitor. Prices more than doubled to $209 by early April, fell for nearly three months and reached $195 a barrel in mid-September following their renewed ascent, IATA said, citing data from S&P Global Energy Platts.

Fuel prices can swing overnight while airfares decline more slowly

The renewed pressure on jet fuel prices stems from many of the same disruptions that have sent diesel prices soaring. Fighting has curtailed refinery production and fuel exports from the Middle East, while Ukrainian strikes have damaged Russian refineries. Because diesel and jet fuel are closely related products that compete for refinery output, shortages of one can put additional pressure on the price and availability of the other.

IATA expects fuel to account for nearly one-third of airline operating expenses this year, up from about a quarter in 2025.

By the time fuel prices jumped again, about 35% of United’s tickets for the final three months of the year were already booked and the airline could not increase those fares retroactively, Chief Financial Officer Mike Leskinen said. The airline expects to recover its higher fuel costs through revenue but not immediately, he said.

Speaking about the rising price of jet fuel at a Sept. 16 investor conference, Leskinen said, “I don’t actually care if it stays high. I just need it to stabilize.”

The time it takes airlines to recoup their costs means travelers may keep paying for a fuel spike even as prices come down. Jet fuel prices need to fall and stay down for airfares to decline on a sustained basis, said Stephen Treanor, a finance professor at California State University, Chico, who has studied airlines’ exposure to fuel price risk.

Carriers are responding to the latest swing in fuel prices

The speed with which jet fuel prices rose recently has complicated the forecasts of U.S. airlines. As recently as Sept. 10, JetBlue raised its expected average fuel price for the July-September period to $3.96 a gallon. Prices continued climbing afterward, with the Argus U.S. Jet Fuel Index reaching $4.53 a gallon a week later and remaining above $4.25 with just days left in the quarter.

Every penny per gallon adds about $10 million to American Airlines' quarterly fuel bill, Chief Financial Officer Devon May said. Speaking at the same investor conference this month, May said the latest increases would boost the airline's fourth-quarter fuel costs by about $1 billion.

American, United and Southwest Airlines have said they are pruning their flight schedules further, particularly on less-profitable routes, due to higher fuel costs. United, for example, pulled some December flights and warned of further cuts in 2027 if fuel remains expensive. American said it expected to grow more slowly next year than it anticipated a few months ago.

Travelers who buy tickets at the last minute are paying a price. The average same-day fare for a one-way domestic Allegiant Air flight jumped 21% in a week, to $280 on Sept. 18, according to a Deutsche Bank analysis of flight pricing. The comparable price for a same-day American Airlines fare was $463, up 6%.

For travelers holding out for cheaper fares, the wait could outlast the war itself.

“The likelihood that fuel surcharges are going to be rolled back and airfares are going to be brought down is very low over the next few months,” House said.

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Associated Press writer Lisa Leff in London contributed to this report.

Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly last week that Ukraine had recently sent the men to South Korea, after capturing them on a Ukraine-Russia battlefield in early 2025. The two are among thousands of North Korean soldiers sent to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung quickly accused Ukraine of violating a nondisclosure agreement about the transfer. Ukraine denied making such a deal.

Late Sunday, Seong Ghi-hong, a senior presidential adviser for Lee on public relations, expressed “strong regret” over Ukraine’s latest actions and demanded an official apology and explanation.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned Ukraine’s ambassador to Seoul, Andrii Vieshkin, to protest what it described as Kyiv’s “unilateral disclosure” of the prisoners’ transfer and its false denial that the two countries had agreed to keep the matter confidential.

Vieshkin said he would convey Seoul’s position to his government, the ministry said in a statement. Repeated calls to Ukraine’s Embassy in Seoul seeking comment were unanswered.

Seong said that Ukraine’s “false” denial of the nondisclosure agreement was “an act that seriously undermines trust between the two governments and causes significant damage to friendly relations between the two countries.”

Seong said the agreement was reached because Seoul was concerned about the safety of the North Korean soldiers and their relatives in the North while Kyiv worried about possible domestic criticism for forfeiting an opportunity to exchange them for Ukrainian soldiers held in Russia.

North Korean POWs wanted to resettle in South Korea

While still in Ukraine, the two soldiers said in media interviews that they wanted to resettle in South Korea.

Seoul had called on Ukraine not to send them back to North Korea, where they could face persecution. The South legally regards the North as part of its territory and has a policy of accepting and financially supporting North Korean defectors.

More than 34,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, mostly in the last three decades. Most were female civilians from the North’s poorer northern provinces. Defections by soldiers are uncommon.

In his U.N. speech, Zelenskyy didn't provide details about the transfer, but said that “one of them, when he realized he was going to ​be taken prisoner, tried to kill himself and he was shocked that ​fate didn’t let him die. This is how they raise people in the North.”

Some experts say Zelenskyy likely decided to expose the danger of North Korean involvement in the war as a way to attract bigger Western assistance.

Meanwhile, South Korea's liberal government worried that news of the transfer could trigger an angry response from the North and hurt efforts to resume diplomacy between Pyongyang and Washington.

South Korea

has refused direct military support to Ukraine

A growing arms exporter with a well-equipped and U.S.-backed military, South Korea has provided humanitarian aid and other support to Ukraine while joining U.S.-led economic sanctions against Russia since its invasion in 2022.

However, Seoul has resisted calls by Kyiv and NATO to provide direct military support to Ukraine in line with a long-standing policy of not supplying weapons to countries actively engaged in conflict.

North Korea and Russia confirmed in April 2025 that their soldiers fought together to repel a Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region. South Korea, the United States and others say North Korea has also supplied artillery, ammunition and missiles to Russia in return for economic and military assistance.

South Korea’s intelligence service estimated last year that North Korea sent about 15,000 troops and 2,000 of them were killed.

Expanding cooperation with Russia has helped North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, push back against U.S.-led pressure and more assertively accelerate a nuclear weapons program. Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump scaled back a military drill with South Korea in an apparent bid to restart diplomacy with Kim, but North Korea has suggested the step wasn't enough to convince it to return to talks.

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Above the village of Dorohusk in eastern Poland, vapor trails cut across the pale blue sky and military helicopters rumbled overhead. Just 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) away, traffic at the border crossing into Ukraine was suspended three times, and staff were even evacuated once.

The alerts and disruptions on Thursday came as The Associated Press was visiting the village. They reflected a new reality along Poland's eastern frontier, where the war in Ukraine — now 4 1/2 years old — has felt increasingly close.

Russia isn’t at war with Poland, but over the past few years European leaders say it’s mounted a series of so-called hybrid attacks to pressure to pressure adversaries in the West and NATO that include sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks. Poland is worried that the drones or missiles strikes could spill over from Ukraine, whether by accident or as part of a Russian strategy of ambiguous attacks.

The anxiety intensified after two Russian drones exploded on the Ukrainian side of the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing in the early hours of Sept. 13. The explosions could clearly be heard in Dorohusk.

“There is new restlessness and fear because you could hear those explosions very well on that night in our village,” said Wojciech Sawa, the Dorohusk mayor. “We had never had something like that before. This was the first time the sirens wailed.”

Poland is preparing for a more serious Russian hybrid attack

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on Sept. 17 that Russia was planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on European countries supporting Ukraine, among them Poland, and regions bordering Ukraine would be especially vulnerable in the coming months. Other European leaders and intelligence services have shared his warnings that Russia is likely to step up its hybrid campaign.

In Dorohusk, people have lived in the shadow of the war for years. They watched Ukrainian refugees flee across the frontier in the early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion and, this July, had a Russian missile pass through airspace in eastern Poland before crashing some 90 kilometers (56 miles) inside the country.

But the recent drone attacks and the Polish government's efforts to prepare the population for further serious incidents have brought a new sense of apprehension — and also confusion — among locals.

Kids in border regions have to evacuate when sirens warn of air threat

Jarosław Wójcicki, the Dorohusk school’s director, said staff, including the school psychologist, now discuss with students “practically every day” how to stay safe.

The school had to be evacuated once so far and Wójcicki showed the two rooms in the basement of the school building where the kids took cover. Windows had been boarded up to avoid glass shards hurting anyone in case of an explosion.

“The older children had no problem at all, without showing any particular emotion,” the director said. "You could see a little fear among the younger children, but they were well looked after by their teachers.”

Wójcicki is responsible for the safety of hundreds of children who travel from nearby villages to attend school in Dorohusk, and his voice wavered as he described the enormity of the task.

Poland's Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz visited the Dorohusk-Yahodyn border crossing on Sept. 22 and announced new air defense elements were being brought to the border region. He added that Patriot batteries were deployed in the two Polish regions bordering Ukraine, including the one where Dorohusk is located.

More work needs to be done on civil preparedness

While the government’s warnings are stark, even communities closest to Ukraine are still catching up on civil defense preparedness.

“We are at the beginning of the process of building civil resilience and the resilience of the state to threats," said Mirosław Sokal, head of resident safety for the city of Lublin, 90 km west of Dorohusk. “We have to remember that over the past 40 years we thought we would be living in peace.”

He said, given the lack of more solid infrastructure, Poles should respect one minimal rule when there's an air threat: get inside and put two walls between them and any window.

Sawa, the Dorohusk mayor, said villagers typically live in individual homes with basements and that is the obvious place to hide in case of air threats. “If I don’t have a basement myself, my neighbor likely does,” he said.

But people on the streets of Dorohusk seemed more confused about their options in case of a real attack.

“For now, I sleep well at night, so I don’t really hear it," said Irena Popek, a woman in her 80s. If planes are coming, she said, her basement was not an option as it was flooded. "I simply have nowhere to hide, and that’s it.”

Renata Pastuszo, a local shop employee, said she continued working through the recent siren alarm because it's better to keep a positive spirit in front of the Russian threat.

Krzysztof Rulka, another resident, complained that alerts were now coming too often, leaving people confused about their meaning.

“If someone told me that a drone was going to explode in the center of Dorohusk, then I would know what to do,” he said. "But this kind of confusion — there's an air attack somewhere in Ukraine — well, what am I supposed to do now? Run to Germany?”

Rescuers from the Nepal National Mountain Guide Association, which is leading the efforts, said they recovered two more bodies on Monday in addition to two others who were found on Sunday. Twelve are missing.

Eight experienced mountain guides from the association took advantage of improving weather to dig through the snow that had covered tents at base camp.

Ten people were rescued from Mount Himlung, a 7,126-meter (23,380-foot) peak in north-central Nepal, after the avalanche hit on Sunday.

All those killed or missing were Nepali nationals. They were at base camp preparing for foreign clients to arrive and climb the peak during the Autumn climbing season that began this month, when they were swept away.

Helicopters brought down the remains to Kathmandu airport. Family and friends at a hospital morgue did not comment.

Flooding and landslides in the Manang district, where the mountain is located, were caused by heavy rainfall, the district administration office said. The avalanche had issued warnings for severe weather across the entire Himalayan nation.

Nepal’s disaster management agency said 21 other people have been killed and five more are missing in different parts of the country between Thursday and Sunday.

Nepal is recovering from devastating flooding in August that swept several villages, leaving more than 1,400 people dead and nearly 6,000 others missing.

First, a special teams blunder. Second, a defensive lapse.

After Brandon Aubrey kicked a 23-yard field goal to tie the score at 31 with seven seconds remaining, the Cowboys chose to kick the ball out of the end zone for the first time in the game. The touchback didn’t run any time off the clock. Lamar Jackson then completed a 27-yard pass to Zay Flowers that set up Tyler Loop’s 56-yard field goal that gave Baltimore a 34-31 victory in Brazil on Sunday.

If Aubrey kicked the ball in the landing zone, at least a few seconds would’ve run off the clock. But Dallas didn’t want to risk a return for a touchdown and opted for the touchback that gave the Ravens the ball at their 35.

“We felt like, let’s boom it through, put them out there, make them throw the ball short and we’ll be fine,” Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer said. “Play for overtime. That’s what the plan was.”

It backfired because the defense got beat.

Rookie defensive coordinator Christian Parker inexplicably chose to play man-to-man coverage instead of a deep zone. Flowers won his one-on-one and Jackson fired a perfect strike down the middle for the completion with one second remaining.

Former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, an analyst on NBC, criticized the decision to play man coverage during halftime of the Rams-Broncos game.

“I’m really surprised they’re playing man-to-man in this sequence,” Tomlin said. “Most people in these circumstances are going to play what we describe as an umbrella zone.”

The two mistakes at the end ruined an impressive comeback by Dak Prescott and the offense. The Cowboys trailed 24-13 in the third quarter before Prescott led a pair of touchdown drives. But the offense also failed in a clutch spot.

After Jackson and the Ravens took the lead, Dallas had a chance to reclaim it. The Cowboys had a first down at Baltimore’s 2 with 23 seconds to go but failed to score a touchdown. And, they only used up 16 seconds, leaving time on the clock for Baltimore.

Prescott threw an incompletion on first down. He scrambled five yards back to the 2 after a false start penalty on second down. Another incomplete pass forced the Cowboys to settle for a field goal.

Schottenheimer called timeout with 14 seconds left after Prescott's run on second down instead of letting the clock run down a few more seconds.

The Ravens took advantage.

It was one of 12 games that were decided by one score, tying a record for the most such games in a week.

Here are other takeaways from Week 3:

Bo-lieve in Bo Nix

Bo Nix saved Davis Webb’s playcalling duties in the second half, leading the Broncos to a 30-26 comeback win over the Los Angeles Rams.

Nix, with help from defensive penalties on the Rams, engineered the go-ahead drive in the final minutes, scoring on a one-yard leap with 48 seconds remaining.

Webb, who is Denver’s offensive coordinator, is in his first season calling plays instead of coach Sean Payton. He may have lost those responsibilities if the Broncos didn’t get the offense going after getting shut out in the first half.

Raider Nation rejoices

Klint Kubiak and Kirk Cousins have led the Raiders to three straight wins to open the season after Las Vegas won just three games in 2025.

Cousins led a 35-27 comeback win in New Orleans and now has nine touchdown passes in three games. The Raiders don’t have any reason to rush rookie No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza into the starting lineup with Cousins racking up the wins.

Maye’s regression is concerning

It’s hard to believe Drake Maye finished runner-up to Matthew Stafford for the NFL MVP award last season.

Maye’s regression has been dramatic. He now has just one touchdown pass and six interceptions in three games for the Patriots (1-2). He threw 31 TD passes and eight picks last season.

Maye’s troubles began in the playoffs, even though New England reached the Super Bowl. He had eight turnovers (four picks, four fumbles) and was sacked 21 times in four games.

That’s carried over into the first three games, a concerning trend for the Patriots.

Super Bowl champs derailed

Backup quarterback Marcus Mariota led the Commanders to a stunning 33-31 victory over the Seahawks, snapping Seattle’s franchise-record 12-game winning streak.

Filling in for Jayden Daniels, Mariota tossed three TD passes and didn’t commit any turnovers against the “Dark Side” defense.

Winless Texans are in trouble

Another poor performance by Houston’s offense in a 19-17 loss to the Colts has the Texans off to an 0-3 start for the second straight season. There’s little reason to believe they could go 12-2 the rest of the way again.

C.J. Stroud was inconsistent and the offense managed just 223 yards against a defense that came in giving up the most in the NFL.

Houston hosts Dallas (1-2) in the battle of Texas next week. The Cowboys will be coming off a long trip to Brazil so that should benefit the Texans.

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For the second year in a row.

The Milwaukee Brewers won their final five games this week to finish with a franchise-record 103 victories. That's after they set the previous team mark with 97 last season — a total that also led the major leagues.

The 2026 Brewers had the best run differential in baseball, and they enter the playoffs with perhaps the game's most watchable star. With Shohei Ohtani not pitching at the moment, has Jacob Misiorowski surpassed him as the sport's must-see attraction?

Either way, the Brewers might be baseball's biggest story heading into this postseason. They haven't won a pennant since 1982, and they've never won a World Series, but this is their fourth straight playoff appearance and eighth in nine years. And you can bet their performance from here forward will be viewed against the backdrop of baseball's competitive balance and a likely labor dispute in the offseason.

As much as the regular season is a grueling test of consistent excellence, it's still the postseason that sticks in the minds of fans and casual observers. The big-spending Los Angeles Dodgers won the last two World Series, and that's gone a long way toward creating the impression that baseball needs substantial changes.

Now, the Brewers — who have ranked dead last in the collective bargaining agreement's revenue sharing “market score” — are the top seed in the National League. And another team from a smaller market, Tampa Bay, is the top seed in the AL. Cleveland is also in the postseason and has a first-round bye in the American League.

It's naive to think one year's results would have a huge effect on negotiations between the union and management, but if the Brewers, Rays or Guardians go all the way, that could certainly change the narrative a bit.

Trivia time

Who hit a two-run single in the seventh inning of the decisive game of the AL Championship Series to lift the Brewers to the pennant in 1982?

Performance of the week

Houston's Lucas Spence hit three home runs — the first three of his big league career — to help the Astros to a 7-5 win over the Athletics on Thursday night. Spence had only 40 major league at-bats before the game and was just called up from the minors the day before. The win was part of Houston's successful final-week push for the AL West title, which the Astros managed to win with an 81-81 record.

Honorable mention: Miami's Eury Pérez threw a one-hit shutout against Atlanta on Friday night. It was the first complete game of his career and one of only 11 shutouts thrown by big league players in 2026. Nobody pitched more than one.

Comeback of the week

Down 6-0 in the sixth inning, the Athletics overtook the Los Angeles Angels without even batting in the ninth Tuesday night. Lawrence Butler hit an RBI triple in the sixth and scored later that inning to make it 6-2. Then the A's scored three runs in the seventh. Carlos Cortes tripled home a run and came home on Shea Langeliers' single, and Jeff McNeil drew a bases-loaded walk, cutting the lead to one.

In the bottom of the eighth, Cortes and Zack Gelof each hit a two-run homer, giving the A's a 9-6 lead. They won 9-7.

Los Angeles had a win probability of 97.6% in the sixth inning, according to Baseball Savant. The Athletics ended up finishing two games ahead of the Angels at the bottom of the AL West.

Trivia answer

Cecil Cooper.

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It's no major surprise since they have helped their respective teams win five of the past six WNBA championships. On Sunday, they combined to scored 72 points, pull down 28 rebounds and block six shots.

“She’s a walking mismatch,” New York guard Sabrina Ionescu said of Stewart, her Liberty teammate.

The same could be said of Wilson, who was unstoppable in Las Vegas' rout of Indiana.

Hours after Wilson earned The Associated Press WNBA Player of the Year for a third consecutive season, the Aces All-Star had 38 points, 16 rebounds and four blocked shots to help Las Vegas roll to a 102-85 win over Caitlin Clark and the Fever.

Wilson missed the World Cup to let her back heal and get ready for the playoffs. She had 22 points by halftime and finished the game making 15 of her 19 shots from the field.

“I think we just showed up to work, and that’s what we need to do moving forward,” Wilson said.

The Aces will try and close out Clark and the Fever on Tuesday in Indianapolis.

Stewart also filled up the stat sheet in New York’s rout of top-seed Minnesota. She had 34 points, 12 rebounds, six assists, two steals and two blocks in the Liberty's 91-75 road win. The Liberty forward became the first WNBA player to put up those numbers in a postseason game. It was the second time she's had 30-plus points and more than 10 rebounds in a playoff game.

“I think I was just really ready. I mean, if you don’t get up for these big moments, then you’ve got to rethink why you’re playing basketball,” Stewart said. “But for myself, mentally, I was just ready to do whatever it took to lead the team and get the win today. And my teammates found me and got me good looks at the basket, so I just wanted to keep going.”

Stewart has been stellar all month, including leading the U.S. national team to a fifth consecutive FIBA World Cup title as she earned MVP honors.

Even with the convincing win, Stewart isn't taking anything for granted when the Liberty return home looking to close out the series on Tuesday.

“We did this in Phoenix and then we got smoked on our home court,” Stewart said of the playoffs last year. “So being really intentional for the adjustments we’re going to make. Obviously, we had a ton of turnovers (19) and want to be better in that area, but we’re going to just have to have the same steadiness that we had for today; we’re going to do that on Tuesday.”

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The state government said 46 people were injured and more than 1,000 houses were damaged after three days of heavy rainfall caused flooding in several districts.

Schools were closed Monday in parts of the state, including the capital, Lucknow, while rescue teams moved people from flooded areas to safer locations. Residents were advised to avoid unnecessary travel through waterlogged areas and stay away from fast-flowing rivers, streams and drains.

Rainfall was expected to ease from Monday as a weather system over the Bay of Bengal weakened, said Atul Kumar Singh, a senior scientist at the Regional Meteorological Centre in Lucknow. Light rain could continue in eastern and western parts of the state through Tuesday, he said.

Flooding also affected the eastern state of Odisha, where more than 75,000 people were evacuated to safer areas, officials said.

In neighboring Nepal, 21 people died in weather-related incidents from Thursday through Sunday, the country's disaster management agency said. Five people remained missing and five others were injured, while floods and landslides damaged 194 houses.

Nepal is recovering from devastating August floods that killed more than 1,400 people and left nearly 6,000 missing.

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Associated Press journalists Binaj Gurubacharya in Kathmandu, Nepal contributed to this report.

Both bounced back in a big way, rallying the Denver Broncos past Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams 30-26 in the latest come-from-behind thriller that's become so common in the Mile High City.

Nix's keeper from inches outside the goal line with 47 seconds left capped a wild final five minutes that included a 66-yard pick-6 by Hufanga, a quick touchdown response by Los Angeles and a game-sealing second picked-off pass by Denver's do-everything safety.

“I actually had to have a pep talk with myself,” after dropping two interceptions earlier in the game, said Hufanga, who finished with a sack, a tackle for loss, a quarterback hit and three pass breakups to go with his pair of interceptions.

The Broncos (2-1) trailed 16-0 at halftime and went three-and-out to start the second half but rallied for a comeback, one-score win for the second straight week.

“In the huddle we feel a lot of belief that we've been there before and we have what it takes to go down against a really good defense and score points,” said Nix, who put the Broncos in front by reaching over the scrum with both hands squeezing the football.

Matthew Stafford, whose 17 comebacks in the last 2 minutes are the most by any active quarterback, quickly drove the Rams to the Denver 14, where he spiked the ball with 2 seconds left.

After false start moved the ball back to the 19, the Rams (1-2) sent out five receivers but Hufanga secured his second interception, this one in the end zone.

“Obviously a gutsy win,” Broncos coach Sean Payton said.

“I mean, it's a tough one,” Stafford said after the Rams, preseason favorites to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl, suffered a second loss in three weeks.

Hufanga's 66-yard pick-6 with 4:49 left gave Denver its first lead at 23-19. He jumped in front of running back Kyren Williams, cradled Stafford’s pass and weaved his way down the field, past the hard-charging QB and into the end zone.

“To be honest, Matt Stafford is a lot faster than you think,” Hufanga said. “I might be slow, but he's fast. I'll give him his credit because I had to cut back on that play.”

“Hufanga did a really nice job of fighting through the Y (receiver) and I left it a little bit back behind him,” Stafford lamented. "If I just dirt it, or whatever, we come away with three points. I’ll take myself trying to make those plays all day.”

Hufanga said he had told himself to stay patient for more opportunities to come after dropping two earlier potential interceptions of Stafford. “And man, two big plays.”

Just four plays later, however, Stafford hit Konata Mumpfield from 48 yards out when cornerback Riley Moss fell down, restoring the Rams' lead at 26-23.

Nix then drove Denver 65 yards in 10 plays with the aid of three defensive penalties and, with the ball nearly touching the goal line, leaped over the pile for the go-ahead TD. Nix had completions of 39 and 21 yards on that drive.

Cornerback Justin Wallace would have had his second interception of the night on that drive, but he was whistled for defensive pass interference on Pat Bryant on third-and-6 from the LA 11. That gave Denver a new set of downs at the 7.

“You try to be physical as a DB,” Rams safety Quentin Lake said. “Sometimes, you know, I think at the end of the day, as you know, the rules are the rules. Can’t be too handsy. It’s unfortunate.”

The Rams led 16-0 at halftime but it was tied going into the fourth after Nix threw a pair of touchdown passes and made two 2-point conversion throws: “We knew it was just a two-score game,” said Nix.

Harrison Mevis' fourth field goal, which followed an interception by Wallace, restored LA's lead at 19-16. He was also good from 36, 35 and 40 yards before halftime.

The Broncos cut their deficit in half on Nix's 5-yard strike to Bryant and 2-point conversion pass to Jaylen Waddle on a throw between the hands of Wallace midway through the third quarter. The Broncos tied it on another touchdown and 2-pointer. Nate Adkins caught an 8-yard throw from Nix, who found Bryant again to tie the game.

Stafford finished 30 for 55 for 390 yards. He threw 32 passes in the first half, the most of his career. With Puca Nacua out again with a hip injury, Davante Adams had seven receptions for 137 yards, giving him 15 catches for 332 yards over his last two games, the best such stretch of his career.

Injuries

Rams: CB Jaylen Watson (shoulder) got hurt just before halftime while guarding Courtland Sutton and was carted to the locker room from the sideline. LA lost two tight ends on its first touchdown drive, although Terrance Ferguson (ankle) returned on the Rams' next series. Also injured on the drive was Colby Parkinson (shoulder).

Broncos: Denver was without its Game 2 hero, rookie RB Jonah Coleman, who went on injured reserve with a high ankle sprain after his TD run secured the Broncos' 20-13 win over Jacksonville.

Up next

Rams: At Philadelphia next Sunday.

Broncos: Visit San Francisco next Sunday.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Yields in the U.S. bond market cranked higher Monday and again reached their highest levels in roughly two decades, which knocked U.S. stocks further from their record high.

The S&P 500 fell 0.6% and gave back much of its gain from last week, which had brought it to the brink of its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 292 points, or 0.6%, with an hour remaining in trading, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.7% lower.

Stocks felt pressure as the yield on the 10-year Treasury jumped to 5.24% from 5.17% late Friday. That’s a considerable move for the centerpiece of the U.S. bond market, and the 10-year yield is back to where it was in 2007, before the financial crisis and Great Recession sent yields toward zero.

The 30-year Treasury yield, which leaped to 5.57% from 5.49%, is back to where it was in 2004.

Treasury yields have been jumping for a range of reasons, from worries about inflation to Washington's massive debt load to signs that the U.S. economy's growth remains relatively solid despite its many challenges. That pressures the economy because it makes borrowing money more expensive for everyone, while also undercutting prices for stocks and other investments.

Monday's rise in yields followed the latest swings for oil prices, which have been yo-yoing on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow tankers to flow freely again through the Strait of Hormuz and deliver oil from the Middle East to customers worldwide.

The latest turns came after President Donald Trump said over the weekend he’s rejecting an offer from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks on its nuclear program.

“I’d like to make a deal, too,” Trump said Saturday. “But that deal would not be acceptable.”

The price for Brent crude in the most actively traded part of the oil market briefly climbed above $101 per barrel Monday morning, but it pared its gains as U.S. officials said mediators were still working with Iran and the United States on a deal to end the fighting and open the strait. It settled at $97.83, up 0.4%.

For all its ups and downs, a barrel of Brent remains much higher than the roughly $72 it cost before the United States and Israel attacked Iran in late February. That has helped worsen inflation, and the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline is up to nearly $4.48 from $3.13 a year ago, according to AAA.

On Wall Street, stocks of airlines and other companies with big fuel bills sank because of the rise in oil prices.

American Airlines fell 2.1%, and United Airlines lost 1.6%.

Gold miners were also weak after the price of gold sank 3.5%. Gold has a reputation for helping to protect its investors from high inflation, but its price tends to weaken when rising yields mean bonds are paying investors more in interest. Gold struggles to keep up because it pays its investors nothing.

Newmont, the Denver-based mining giant, slid 4.1%.

One of Wall Street's bigger losses hit MongoDB, which dropped 16.9% after the database company said its CEO, Chirantan “CJ” Desai, is stepping down immediately to pursue a senior role at Meta Platforms.

Such losses helped more than offset a 2.1% rise for Nvidia, Wall Street's most influential stock.

The chip company said it approved a plan to send up to another $150 billion to its shareholders in a stock buyback plan, bringing the program’s total remaining size to $235 billion.

Nvidia has the power to do so after the frenzy around its chips used for artificial-intelligence technology helped it more than double the amount of cash on its books in the first half of its fiscal year. The company also on Monday unveiled a new security platform that the chipmaker said can stop artificial intelligence agents from going rogue.

AI stocks have broadly come under pressure after leaders of the industry said it needs to slow its development to give safety measures time to catch up.

In stock markets abroad, European indexes were mixed following weaker performances across much of Asia.

Indexes dropped 2.7% in Seoul and 1.7% in Shanghai for two of the world’s bigger moves.

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Word of Faith Fellowship leader Brooke Covington was first tried in 2017 on second-degree kidnapping and simple assault charges. Prosecutors said she held down and beat a one-time member of the group more than 13 years ago.

That case ended in a mistrial after the jury foreman brought his own research into deliberations. Covington has maintained she is innocent.

In the meantime, the COVID-19 outbreak, a move to remove the original prosecutor that ended with the suspension of the law license of the attorney making the request, deaths or retirements of lawyers on both sides and handing the trial to a new prosecutor in a new jurisdiction have all delayed a new trial.

Covington's trial is set to begin Monday in Buncombe County, according to court records. Both the new prosecutor and Covington's lawyer didn't respond to messages seeking details about the trial.

Teen says church leaders held him down and beat him

Matthew Fenner joined Word of Faith as a teenager in 2010 with his mother. He was at a service on the church’s compound in Spindale, North Carolina, when members including Covington started what the church called a “blasting” session on him, according to Fenner. Members held him down and choked and beat him for two hours while others prayed to expel “homosexual demons,” Fenner said.

Word of Faith is a nondenominational Protestant church that was founded in 1979 by Sam and Jane Whaley in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains between Charlotte and Asheville. Members consider Jane Whaley a prophet.

In 2017, The Associated Press published a series of stories about Word of Faith that detailed former church members’ allegations of abuse. The AP spoke to dozens of former congregants around the world, listened to hours of secretly recorded conversations with church leaders, and reviewed hundreds of pages of law enforcement, court and child welfare documents.

Church denies abuse and says it is targeted by former members

Whaley has denied that she or other church leaders ever abused Word of Faith members. She has also said that any discipline would be protected by the Constitution’s freedom of religion tenet.

The church said the allegations made to the AP were false and made by “certain former members” out to target the church and that it does not condone abuse.

The case was turned over to a special prosecutor after Fenner’s lawyer accused District Attorney Ted Bell of siding with Word of Faith in his handling of the case.

Allegations against prosecutor lead to suspension of law license

Attorney Andrew LaBreche said Bell didn’t investigate new evidence or witnesses and made a deal to drop the felony kidnapping charge against Covington.

Bell provided text messages and other evidence he refused to talk to Word of Faith members when they tried to steer conversations toward the assault cases.

Superior Court Judge William Stetzer not only denied LaBreche’s request to remove the prosecutor, but in his order said LaBreche’s “repeated acts of dishonesty and the significant harm to the legal profession” led the judge to suspend his law license for three years. He also awarded Bell legal fees.

LaBreche is appealing the ruling, and his suspension has been delayed until his case can be heard.

Associated Press covered Word of Faith extensively

Word of Faith had about 700 members in North Carolina a decade ago, but a sworn statement from a former church leader said membership had now dwindled to about 300 to 400 people.

The AP reported that the church controlled almost every aspect of their members’ lives, including who they married, what subjects they studied in school and whether they could go to college. Members were regularly slapped, choked and thrown to the floor during high-decibel group prayer.

The AP investigation also found that the church and its hundreds of followers controlled law enforcement and social services, preventing fair investigations.